ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 20th September 2022

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

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The ZM Podcast Network. It's a pop-down time! Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to MacCafe. Download, scan and play the Monopoly game at Macca's to be in to win. And somebody's been to the mail room. What do we have here? Oh, it's the podcast post office.

I opened this one early because it just had my name on it, but I feel like it gets in the podcast post office. Oh, yeah. Now, this is, imagine the name Trev, short for Trevor, but it's got an E on the end. Trev-ee. Trev-ee. Trev-ay?

Does it have an accent on it? No. No, Treve. Treve. Treve. Treve. Or Treve-ee. Is that the feminine Trev?

Well, Trev isn't a name. Like Trevy Fountain? Yeah, like the Trevy Fountain. There's a big typo on your signature here, Trevy. It says Lachounce Payable. Oh, right. So it's a UK boy's name, an origin, Cornish. Possibly derived from the omnipresent tray, meaning farm, something.

Travy. The omnipresent farm. Trave. The omnipresent farm. Do you know how the Google definition stops? Yeah. Possibly derived from the omnipresent tray, meaning farm. That's what it says here.

Omnipresent? Yeah, this name does not feature in the UK baby name statistics. Well, no, I think I've done a Google. Yeah. And I've Facebook searched and I found Treve. This is female Treve. Oh, well, that explains everything. It's got to be Treve as in Neve.

Treve. Female Treve. Could be if it's Cornish. Trevor. Okay. Cornish. And they Okay. Cornish. And they've sent in some builder's pencils. Do you guys have a builder's pencil in your life?

Man, builder's pencils are the best pencils ever. Wow. Yes. You've just got to sharpen them with a very sharp craft knife. Oh, they're lovely, aren't they? Oh. Here we go. What colour do you want?

I like the plain one. You want the plain one? Yeah, look at that. There you are. What do you want, plain or red? I'll just take what you don't want. J and L. I'm building at the one. Yeah, look at that. There you are. What do you want, plain or red? I'll just take what you don't want. JNL. I'm building at the moment.

Yeah, you are building. Well, you need the red one because if you drop it, you want to be able to find it. Oh, yeah, because I won't be able to find this if I drop this into my... What do you mean the lead breaks? That's what happens with me whenever I start sharpening them. I get too aggressive and you get a whole lot of cracks. Yeah, but you're an aggressive sharpener. I know.

Thank you to Treve. JNL.co.nz. What is that? Is it a building? Building something? Building. Juken, New Zealand. J- to Treve. JNL.co.nz. What is that? Is it a building? Building something? Building. Joinery. Juken, New Zealand.

J-U-K-E-N. They might do windows. You're buying windows, aren't you? I don't think they are. I don't think they are. No. I mean, if they want to give me some free bloody windows, I'll take it. No.

Yeah. This segment isn't for you to get free windows. Well, I'm not getting free anything. You guys got sent two boxes, a bottle of wine each today. Oh, yeah. That's in the, that was in the post office. That's worth a mention. Happy Organic Wine Week, everybody.

I think that's a made-up holiday. I love wine. They've heard you go on about your journey to health that so often is derailed. I'm on a journey to health. By temptation. By temptation, so that's why they haven't sent you wine. No, my journey to health includes wine this time around. I've got to be realistic.

Yes, that's good. That's good to be realistic. Okay, that's good. That's good to be realistic. Okay, so now we've got another box. Let me tell you, this came all the way from South Island hotspot, Gore. Oh, Gore. Goodness me. And that's lovely writing on the box. It's in a Marley box.

It's an exciting sized box. The spouting people, aren't they? The duck and the spout. Do you remember those answers? I need spouting. The duck and the... The duck on the spout. Do you remember those answers? I need spouting. The duck and the... The duck on the jet ski. Yeah.

And the marley. Not to be confused with the toilet duck who never drove a jet ski in the toilet. Shedden. It's shedden. This is... If I hadn't had my knife on me, this would have been a hell of a package to open.

One day I hope it's just a big shed in there, eh? It's Bar Keeper's Friend. It's some cleaning supplies. We were talking about Bar Keepers. Hi, guys. Love the show. You mentioned Bar Keeper's just a big shit in there, eh? It's Bar Keeper's Friend. It's some cleaning supplies. We were talking about Bar Keepers. Hi, guys. Love the show. You mentioned Bar Keeper's Friend a while ago, and I thought I'd send you some to try.

It's amazing stuff. Sharon, S-H-A-R-R-O-N. Sharon. Sharon. I've never met a Sharon with two R's. She's a Sharon. And they do the Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy.

Oh, we talked about the Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy is one of the greatest the Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy. Oh, we talked about the Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy is one of the greatest. Do you think they'd be good on a rough heel? They probably would. It's quite hard, aren't they? They are. Thank you so much, Sharon. Bill.

Sharon. Bill Shedden Plumbing. So Sharon must be Bill's other half or daughter or niece or feminine relation. Or works there. Yeah. Why don't you say they've got the same last name you see? Oh, they do. Oh, right.

Yeah, of course. That's where the conclusion was drawn. Oh, look at that. Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy. Should we clean the studio? With a Scrub Daddy. And there's the powder.

Oh, I didn't know. You put your utensils in the mouth of the Scrub Daddy. Because it's a smiley face. Look at the thing. You put your spoon in the mouth. Make Scrub Daddy gag. I wonder how far you can... Oh, they've even sent us some pens.

Oh, I love a pen. Yeah, it's a pen to go with your pencil. That's lovely. Won't we be able to write a lot today? Oh, my gosh. Bill Shedden Plumbing. Thank's lovely. Won't we be able to write a lot today? Oh, my gosh. Bill Shedden Plumbing. Thank you so much.

Writing and cleaning to be done. Oh, my gosh. So much cleaning. I can't believe I've got a scrub daddy. This just changed my life. I'm going to do a lot of cleaning. And it really is. It's a scrub daddy. Ooh.

Ooh. Scrub daddy, ooh. Well, thank you very much, Sharon. Sharon. It's very lovely. Sharon. Thank you for taking part in the mail. You didn't mention she put

lollies in there. Oh yeah, there are lollies in there. But they're milkshake lollies? I didn't think that. No, but you're on a journey to health. Yeah, that's why I didn't mention it. Now, do you want to be derailed on your journey to health? It's literally day 0.5 so no. But thank you Sharon for the thought and the

scrub daddies. Amazing. Should we all go home And clean Can we clean the studio though It's so skanky Yeah it's a skanky studio Yeah It needs a Actually it needs a demolition

To start again I think it's a rebuild It's a rebuild It's a bowl and rebuild It's a bowl and rebuild The end Thank you, Sam. Good morning.

Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Who stayed up late to watch the funeral? I did. I didn't. I was in bed. I went to sleep. I wasn't going to, but then it started and I was like, okay, you got me.

The slowest thing in the world got me. Drew me in. Any major moments for you that tickled you? There was, at one stage I saw, because there was people from the Navy pulling the gun carriage. Oh, yeah. And then there was a whole lot of people from the Navy on the side of the roads. Now, they had loaded guns.

Ooh. They had, like, not old guns either, not, like, guns for the looks. Like, new guns. Like, Bond guns. Oh, okay. And one of them, like, as the procession was coming down the street, realised he was a bit too far out on the street,

so he tried to step back and he kind of, like, wobbled. And I was like, and he had the gun under his, like, and I was like, imagine if he fell and, like, and just blew his head off. On live television. That's how slow it was. I was running through a whole bunch of disastrous scenarios. There was a really tall guy.

There was a seven foot two guy. And he just stood head and shoulders about everybody. And it looked like that guy off The Simpsons. It was like, are you loving me because I saw my automobile? Was he one of the Queen's guards? No, he was walking in the procession. He was like the Queen's assistant's assistant or something. Oh, okay.

And had been in service to the Queen for a very long time. Was he hot? You know I love a tall man. No, not your cup of tea. He's no Jason Momoa. You were like clean shaven. Yeah, very clean shaven. And Sandra Oh was there.

That kind of blew everybody's mind a bit. From Killing Eve, Sandra Oh. Yeah. I don't know how she got the invite. Oh, okay. It was definitely her because I saw her afterwards that people were like, weird to see Sandra Oh there. Elton? Elton there? I didn't see Elton.

Brittany? No, Brittany. Just because they were hanging out at the moment Good friends? One of the members of the church was welcoming people on the way in Oh yeah And this guy was like good to see you and shook his hand And then his wife or female partner was like hi

And went to put her hand out to shake it And the guy had like skipped her And she was like god damn it You can see it On the way into the church On the way into a church She mouths god way into a church, she mouths, God damn it. I'm just Googling who was there. Bear Grylls.

Bear Grylls? Bear Grylls was there. Oh. Sandra Oh. Yeah, Sandra Oh was the most surprising for me. I was like, what's the connection there? Like, not even British. No, but Canadian?

Maybe the Queen was a big Killing Eve or early Grey's Anatomy fan. Huge early Grey's Anatomy fan. There really wasn't a lot of celebs there, for sure. David Beckham? Sunder Owen Beer Grills is the talk of the town. I don't know if Beckham was. Because he queued up. He didn't get a VIP entry.

Nah, well he chose not to, you know. He didn't want to push his luck. Alright, coming up on the show this morning, more chances to win the $100,000 Because he queued up. He didn't get a VIP entry. No. Well, he chose not to, you know. He didn't want to push his luck. All right. Coming up on the show this morning, more chances to win the $100,000 Secret Sound thanks to Neon. We'll give you chances at seven and eight. And there's a queue jumper as well

with the iHeartRadio app at nine. The top six is on the way. Yeah, Barley's really put its hand up to say, hey, do work from home and live in Barley. And, well, that's not your home, is it? Digital nomads are going after the digital nomads. And that's going to be Bali's new, like, go. Right, okay.

You know, as tourism builds back up. But I've got the top six signs your workmate is currently in Bali. Working from home. It was the New World Wine Awards recently. It was. Ooh. It was my invitation. Invitation.

They know better than to invite you. It's like welcoming a wolf to the Bloody Hens house, isn't it? Well, one of the categories that was absolutely the talk of the town was the zero alcohol wine category. And it's the new thing. I don't think I've ever, like you, zero alcohol beer and low carb beer has been a thing forever, right?

Yes. I've had low, like light, like light wine, you know, that's lower in alcohol and lower in carbs. I don't think I've ever heard of a zero alcohol wine. Yeah. Yeah, but what are the pregnant ladies? I thought they just drank like ever heard of a zero alcohol wine. The pregnant ladies. I thought they just drank like LMP. And a champagne float.

No, you can get zero alcohol wine, yeah. When I think of zero alcohol wine, I think of sparkling grape juice at Christmas. What's it called? Grape teas. Apple teaser. What's it called? Grape teaser. Yeah, there was apple teaser.

It was like appetiser, wasn't it? And they still check your, there was apple teaser. Something like that. It was like appetizer, wasn't it? Yeah, and they still check your ID at the supermarket and everyone's like, why? That stuff was yum at Christmas. So sweet. Your parents used to be drinking bubbles and you'd be like, yes, please.

Get a little zero alcohol. It's a gateway into maybe your alcoholism and wine addiction. Perhaps it was. Just saying. Well, apparently, according to a recent study, alcohol consumption in New Zealand is lower than it's ever been in the last 30 years.

And they think it's because of the millennial kind of Gen Zers, 26 to 40, paving the way. Yeah, giving up the booze. Yeah, giving up, doing more. What do they call it? Sober curious? Yeah. That's the movement.

Sober curious. Yeah, we're not sort of announcing like, I'm no longer drinking. Not as exciting as bi curious, which is, that sounds a lot more fun, doesn't it? Yeah, it's way more fun. Because you can be drunk while you do it. Yeah. Probably best to actually have a couple to get a bit of Dutch courage, you know? Yeah, especially the first time.

You know, what am I doing? It's all different down there. But yeah, so they're saying that, they're saying that, They're saying that. Colleen, don't look at me like that. It's ten past six. But yeah, but when it first started, when people were making zero alcohol wines,

they were like rubbish. Yeah. They were terrible. But now it's like a whole thing. You swirl it, you smell it, you taste it, you gargle it, you blah, blah, blah. It's all the same. It's good stuff.

And it's good stuff. Okay. You're right. This would be a good little option for someone who enjoys a Friday wine and maybe they can't drink at the moment or they're prego. Prego. Oh, prego. Pregas.

I was thinking the restaurant. Bun in the oven. Yeah, yeah. Oh, beautiful restaurant. I don't know if they serve a zero alcohol. Well, you want to drive but you still want some wines? Yeah, you want to, beautiful restaurant. I don't know if they serve a zero alcohol. Well, you want to drive, but you still want some wines? Yeah, you want to join the party. I don't know.

I'll give it a try. Okay. Maybe it would be a good one if you were having a long day. Have a wine. Yep. Have a zero alcohol wine. Yeah. A wine.

Like the water and wine. Yeah, but pfft. Or you could just have water. Yeah. Oh, yuck. Water, ew. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Well, people are pushing back on Airbnb

and particularly the cleaning fees that Airbnb charge. They're huge sometimes. I was looking at some for over summer and I think there was one that had a cleaning fee for a few nights, two or three nights, of like $200. What are they cleaning? You haven't been there for that long.

It's already clean. So this started on TikTok. Somebody posted saying, look, here I'm staying in a place that's $700 for two nights. And I'm guessing there's a few of them, so that makes it worth it. Like a house?

Okay. But then the cleaning fee worked out to be $200 New Zealand dollars. And they're like, if I'm paying a cleaning fee and I'm also paying $700 for two nights, it should be either nothing or very minimal. Yeah. Because you're charging $700 a night. And then so everybody's just piled on since this TikTok and since this has hit the news saying, yeah, it's getting a bit ridiculous.

And some people even making the case that it's not, Airbnb used to be the cheaper option. I think, yeah. And now it's not. Definitely not in New Zealand. I've been looking at Airbnb over the summer break for a couple of things. But definitely like when we were planning our big trip for 2020

and then something interrupted that. Yeah, yeah. We had booked everything on Airbnb around Europe and stuff because you can still get those super cute little Italian houses that are small and simple. And a cute little Italian seaside village. Just like we want the authentic Italian experience, you know. Rome, no thanks.

I'm heading to La Fringa. Where is that? Just north of Milan. Oh, yeah, of course it is. But you could still get cheap places then. Right, but then were you ever stung with the cleaning fees that were out of whack? Yeah, but you'd go like, oh, my God, it's $112 a night.

That's great. Let's book that. And it'll be like, plus booking fee, plus cleaning fee, plus service fee. And you're like, what's a service?

And then you may as well stay in a hotel by the time you've added that up. Because at a hotel, you can leave everything on the floor and walk out. Yeah. Because there was an Airbnb article about how, yeah,

you're paying a cleaning fee, but also, like, you've been left a list of chores. Like, you're their kids, and they're like, okay. Can you do this? Before your kids go out for the weekend, you need to take the rubbish to the curb. You need to wipe down the bath. Yep.

And you're recycling in the recycle bin. Some people say they've been asked to mow lawns and do washing. Get out. At Airbnbs. While they're paying a cleaning fee. Mowing the lawns. Washing what? Like the sheets.

No, that's part of the cleaning fee. See, I've been in the Airbnbs and they're like, mow the lawns. They're like, you must put the dishwasher on and then put it away. Oh, no, I've had put the dishwasher on, but not put it away. But if you're doing the cleaning fee, you put it on as you're leaving. I totally understand that, but you don't have to hang around to unstack it. No, no.

That's the cleaner. That's cleaning. And 90% of the time that you're checking out of an Airbnb, you've got a little bit of a hangover. You don't want to be hanging around, unpacking a dishwasher. That jingle jangle of the bottles as you're dragging the thing up, the recycling bin up to put it beside the road. I think Airbnbs are good, like you say,

if you want an authentic little, like an Italian village feel, or you're in Croatia and you want a cute little, you know, stone kind of, you know, cottage or something. 400-year-old house. Yeah, exactly. Or, you know what they're really good for is when you need a washing stop, because they've got, you know, washing machines and stuff. Oh, yeah.

So you can do hotels or motels the other time. And they're like I just need a little house. And then every like three or four days do your washing at an Airbnb. I know.

I'm looking at. What's your New Zealand version? Batch care? Yeah there's batch care. That's one of them. Book a batch. The Trade Me have one as well. Oh five great New Zealand

Airbnb alternatives. Okay so that's this year from this year as well. I mean if you've alternatives. Okay, so that's from this year as well. I mean, if you've got a massive group of people, it's obviously going to be cheaper at an Airbnb. Yeah, a house with like four rooms in it, divided by eight people, four couples, makes sense. But when it's just you and your

partner. You're not mowing the lawns, that's for sure. Oh my god! Mow the lawns! Or do you want to water blast the house and the gutters? If you could. Clean the gutters out, yeah, because it's been autumn here. I can't get up there. But also because of the pandemic and, you know,

the staff shortages that are affecting, like, everywhere around the world, a lot of hotels aren't doing room service now. And when you book, they're like, this room doesn't come with, like, fresh towels or room service for your stay. Yes. And you have to pay extra for that. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, that's why when we were travelling recently and you checked into your hotel and it smelled like a fresh butter chicken, like someone had just eaten it. It smelled like the butter chicken was under the bed. It wasn't. It wasn't. Did you check? Yeah. Did you check? I did, yes. I did't. Did you check? Yeah. Did you check?

I did, yes. I did check. But you couldn't get any service because there was no staff. No, literally, people were leaving rubbish in the hallway, and they weren't cleaning the rooms, and they didn't even tell us. And that's a freebie if you find a butter chicken under the bed. You can eat that one. If it's still hot.

If it's warm. If it's not. If it's warm. Oh, no, but you don't know how long it's been there. It's not the butter chicken. It's the rice. If it's got the skin on the top, maybe give it a zap in the microwave. See, I'd probably eat a naan dipped in the sauce,

but I wouldn't touch the rice or the chicken. Go sauce on land. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. From the yummy ZM think tank, this is the top six. In fact, cockroaches are just prawns of the earth. Yeah. A land prawn. Yeah, you just whip the head off. Yeah fact, cockroaches are just prawns of the earth. Yeah. A land prawn. Yeah, you just whip the head off.

Yeah. Straight out of the mouth. Oh, yummy, yummy. Having eaten a giant one in Cambodia, I would say they're not anything at all like prawns. Bloody good for you. Yuck. All right.

The renewed B211A visa will allow people to work in Indonesia for up to six months. No questions asked. Describing this as a digital nomad. If you can work from home, why not work from Bali? I know so many people still working from home for like a vast majority of the week. So why not go do it in Bali? Yeah. Yeah, totally. Probably cheaper than Auckland and Wellington and most rents of the week. So why not go do it in Bali? Yeah. Yeah, totally.

Probably cheaper than Auckland and Wellington and most rents around the country. Totally. If you work in Bali, but for, say, an Australian company, you still pay your Australian tax. So this is the deal of it. People are like,

well, these people will be living in Bali and not paying any tax, but they're also spending their money in Bali, which is better for the economy than not having no one there. And they're still low on tourists, like it hasn't bounced back to where it was. There's a whole lot of accommodation and everything that's, you know, ready to go for people. And then in the news article I was reading,

top picture is a girl with a Mac laptop with some travel stickers on it. She's in a singlet. She's very well tanned. She's got a messy top knot. The next one is a guy in an open button shirt, but it's like open three buttons down, and he's got a moustache, long hair, and he's wearing a travel fedora.

A travel fedora. They know their people, you know. Yeah, yeah. They know their people. Yeah. I've got the top six signs your workmate's currently working from Bali, even though they said they were working from home. Number six, they're wet.

And it's that kind of, I just swam in a pool that was in the same room as the kitchen, kind of wet. Yeah. Not like, yeah, not like I just had a shower. I haven't dried my hair wet. Like, wet, wet. Yeah. Wet and warm.

God, how great are Bali villas, eh? Oh, gosh. Yeah, so good. Except at night time when you want to have a light on and all the bugs are just like, hey, what you doing in there? And they're a bit bigger over there because it's tropical. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six signs your workmate said they were working from home, but they're working from

Bali. They're wearing a different tailored suit to work every day. Before taking it off five minutes into the work day because it's too hot for a stupid suit. What were they thinking? Wayday because it's too hot for a stupid suit. What were they thinking? Way too hot. Way too hot for a suit.

But you're popping down. I would just get a special front-only shirt. Like a vest. Like a vest that I clip on and tie around like an apron. Like a stripper. Like a bikini. Like a stripper. Yeah, and you get up and walk out of the Zoom meeting

and everyone sees you're wearing board shorts or you're naked. Or Speedos. Yeah. Yeah. But that'd cool you down. Oh, absolutely. Just saying.

Number four on the list of the top six signs your workmate who said they're working from home is working from Bali. It's very, very dark when they start work at 9am. 3am Bali time. Yeah. Very dark. I'd fake some LED lights in the background. You know, like they do on TV shows? You can always tell.

Fake windows with lights. Or just do your Zoom backdrop thing. But you can always tell. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The difference in lighting. It's a great game. I like to play when someone pops up a fake background.

I'm like, what? They hiding. Yeah. What's going on here? Number three on the list of the top six signs your workmate said they're working from home, but they're working from Bali. They've got a tan, and we all know it's been a long winter. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six signs your workmate said they're working from home, but they're working from Bali. They've got a tan, and we all know it's been a long winter. Yeah.

It's not been a cold winter, but it's been a long winter. It's been a wet winter. It's not from a bottle either. You can tell. You can tell. Yeah. It's popping off. It's really popping off.

Number two on the list of the top six signs your workmate's working from Bali when they said they're working from home. They get in that holiday chunk. You know when you go on holiday and you eat and drink a little freely. But you also get a tan, so it always evens out. You get a bit more of a tan, but you get a bit more of a chunk. So no one notices the chunk because of the tan. Tans hide a chunk.

Unless you get the Bali belly, that takes a little bit of the chunk away. Oh, yeah. You'd almost be hoping for it three weeks in, wouldn't you? Yeah. You come back tanned and post-squirts. Yeah, post-squirts. Everything's blowing right the way through. A dream.

Perfect. That's a good balance. That's Bali balance, baby. And number one on the list of the top six signs your workmate is working from Bali when they said they're working from home. They're not actually doing any work at all. They've hired a Balinese personal assistant who answers all their Zooms. And you think at this stage is probably also doing all their work. Oh yeah.

Great idea. For $10 a day. Exactly. For a far cheaper hourly rate. So basically they're subletting out their job. That's how they stop sex. There has been a survey conducted here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, by TRA, the research agency.

Right agency. They said leading independent research and insights agency, but they also work for people who want to sell you products. So I feel like the fact that Christmas is New Zealand's favourite holiday, we were probably led there as well. But also there's no holiday like Christmas. No. It's summer.

It's universally agreed upon that we're all getting a bit of time off. We get longer time off. Yeah. And people get presents. There's presents. There's lots of time off. Yeah, I think that would be New Zealand's favourite holiday. I don't think that's...

If it was in the middle of winter, do you reckon it still would be? Probably, eh? But even in like the States, right, they take their summer holidays and their Christmas break is shorter. Yes. Whereas we rock, like, a seven week when you're at high school or whatever. Yeah, that's when they have their big break is over summer. Whereas they just, like, pause for Christmas and then come back.

You could argue Easter would be better because a lot of people, you know, take a few days off either side. If Easter cuddles up to Anzac. Yeah it's better weather sometimes. Oh controversial call there.

In April. In March. When you have a March Easter. Oh. Can be better weather. Well. Because how many times during December

is in start of Jan is it tropical cyclones. It's always raining on Christmas yeah it's always grey oh don't be like

don't well I'm from Wellington I spend most of my Christmas in Wellington yeah yeah yeah so apparently yeah Christmas just

leagues ahead two thirds two thirds of Kiwis said it's their no seven out of ten New Zealanders said it's their favourite holiday

okay but then two thirds you're right it's their No 7 out of 10 New Zealanders said it's their favourite holiday But then You're right it's not 66.6% It's 70% 66.6% of people said they like Christmas ads on TV because it adds to the spirit Here's retail Here's big retail coming in

Running a focus group 95 days away from Christmas today. Wow. Are you going to have a magical Christmas with Criscos? No, no, no, no. I've been paying for years. Where did the Criscos people move to after they moved out of the Crisco mansion? I don't know.

Oh, God, I don't know. Have we asked a big question? So they moved out and sold it to Kim.com? Yes. And then the Zuru people have it now. Right. Yeah, where are the Crisco people? I'd buy an island if I had that much money.

Yeah. Or did people like wise up to Crisco? Well, I think people just love having the hampers, don't they? I don't know. No, Crisco's still a thing, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's still a thing, but maybe it's not as popular as it used to be. Oh, it's more about the hampers, don't they? I don't know. No, Crisco's still a thing, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's still a thing, but maybe it's not as popular as it used to be. Oh, it's more about the hampers

rather than actual, we'll give you everything you need for Christmas Day. Right. Because they, yeah, the idea was you paid it off throughout the year, but when people did the maths on it, they were like, well, if I just did this myself, I could do it for cheaper.

But then the hardest thing is doing it for yourself because if you've got a little bit of money and savings, it's been in a hole in your pocket, isn't it? Yeah. Especially that time of the year. Lots of supermarkets do them anyway. Yeah, they do.

You can do like a Christmas plan and start paying them off and then you get your groceries just before Christmas. What, a fixed price? Fixed price? Am I getting a fixed price contract here?

Well, if you were buying your Christmas, yeah, if you were buying your Christmas, because what do you buy? Vouchers. You just bank up vouchers, do you?

Yeah, if you were buying those earlier this year, you would have had a better price than now. Oh, God, no. The Crisco website. Oh, does it need a zhoosh? It needs a zhoosh. It was very much in the 90s, wasn't it, Crisco?

Probably done on Geo. Is it a GeoCities? Can I say it? Yeah. What? That mansion's ugly. Well, you're allowed to say it. I sound like I'm coming from a point of jealousy.

It does sound very, yeah. You sound jealous. It's a very 90s mansion. So if I gave you that mansion, if I said you can have this mansion. Well, I wouldn't want too much to clean. You could probably have a cleaner. That's what blows my mind. I don't want someone ferreting around my goodies.

I've just given you a house. Get a cleaner. Honestly, if Sade's like, well, we talked about it once, what kind of house would you have if you could have any, like, endless money? I said it wouldn't be big. No, I don't know. I wouldn't want people thinking that they could come and stay the whole time.

Your father-in-law would move in, wouldn't he? Oh, my God. I'd actually move into a one-bedroom batch. That's all I need, baby. Yeah. A batch with a beautiful view. Yeah. Not too close to the water because, you know, sea level's coming up hot.

Oh, yeah. Coming in hot. Maybe up a hill. Slight incline. No, but land slides. No, slight incline. Slight. Oh, right. I spend all my money on earthworks. Play. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.

Fletchvorn and Hayley. Silly little po. Silly little po. It is so silly, silly, silly, that the silly little po. Silly, silly little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Hooray, silly little pole. Facial piercings.

How do we feel? Yay or nay? Now, this doesn't include ear piercings, right? No. I imagined it was everything other include ear piercings, right? No. I imagined it was everything other than ear piercings. Libret. The ear is property of the head. As is the face, but I would put them in two different categories.

Yeah. So you're talking about like nose rings. Nose rings, eyebrow piercings, libretts. Which is libret? Snakebite, libret's there. That's your septum. Septum through the nose. The libret's under the middle lip.

They're used to call snake bites. I had those. What about people that had a bar across their neck? Yeah. When I was, you know, because obviously I was an emo girl for a long time. I had quite a few. And all of my friends had stretched ears and bars and scaffolding. Who's getting the tats?

Who's getting the piercings these days? Because the goths, the goths were big on the thing. And then it got past the punks and then the punks, the emos. The ear piercings are so trendy at the moment. You'll see girls with seven holes in each ear. But face piercings, I don't know. The nose ring's still big. I took mine out five years ago.

There was a story earlier this week about Sunday, Monday, where a guy, he went to the doctor, had an X-ray, and they found his nose piercing in his lung. Oh. That's not where it goes. Five years later. He must have sniffed it up. Doctor piercing.

Okay, doctor piercing. The top three best piercing trends for 2022. Okay. If we could just wait one moment while the Wi-Fi decides to... Mine was a bit skew-iff as well. A little slow, a little slow. We're analog here. I'm just going to go back to the display.

A snake bite. Yeah. So that's either side of your lip. Constellation piercing. Couldn't tell you. Conch piercing. Oh, the conch is this, like the little big cartilage bit.

My mum got that. At the top of the ear. Yeah. Your mum's got one. Yeah, she got it. I got one with her. We went and got them together a couple of years ago. Because apparently if you pierce it, it can stop migraines. It didn't. It didn't. It didn't work. It didn't heal either. A constellation piercing is a group of multiple piercings, usually

three or four, but possibly more that create a unique pattern on your ear so it looks like a constellation of stars. That's huge at the moment. I've seen so many girls with those. Yeah. Okay, how do we feel, New Zealand, about facial piercings? 78% of people said nah. Wow, isn't that, that's a lot.

22%. Because I thought New Zealanders were really cool with tattoos and piercings. I think we're cool with them. It's probably like you just don't want to get one. I loved having a nose piercing. When I took it out, I had a full mental breakdown. I didn't know who I was. I was like, how are people going to know that I'm a cool girl?

Right, all of you are. Everything is just linked entirely to that small piece of jewellery. Some feedback. Ashley says facial piercings are like bold tattoos. I like them just on other people. Yeah. There you go. Ashley doesn facial piercings are like bold tattoos. I like them just on other people. Yeah. There you go. Ashley doesn't want one. Holly, I voted no, but then I realised that I have a nose piercing.

So maybe I'm a hypocrite. Yeah. She's like, ooh, yeah. Oh wait, I've got one. Yeah. Amazing. Brittany says yes because I like to piss off old people that walk past me to give me the, mm, your family must be disappointed because I am. Look, with my snake bite, septum and nose ring.

Calm down, Karen. Yeah. You're an individual. Does juice come out? Like, does Raro come out of the hole under your lip? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. When I had that piss.

Did you dribble like Ribena? Yeah, yeah. A little like bleed. Yeah. Alicia says, excuse me. Oh, awkward. I just got my nose pissed at 31. You do you. Yeah, do, a little, like, bleed. Yeah. Alicia says, excuse me, all awkward. I just got my nose pierced at 31. You do you.

Yeah, do what you want. Oh, dear. Vicky said, I love them, but I'm a butcher, and I'd be worried that my piercing would end up in the mints. Well, it's like you said, the guy with the piercing in his lung, that just went the wrong way, didn't it? It could have fallen into the mints. Well, imagine doing your stir fry, you get your mints out for some nachos or something. Yeah.

Tink, tink, tink. And then you see a tink, tink, tink. There's a little ball in there. There's a scratch in the bottom of your hand. Are people still getting their belly button pierced? Oh, I wouldn't have thought so. I don't know. Not after like two years of pandemic weight.

Nipples? Oh, yeah. Nipples? Yeah, yeah. Nipples? I've got a few friends of nipple piercings. They're kind of back. Are they getting them done now, though, or is it like a throwback to the early 2000s? Well, you know I love to wear mesh singlets,

and I don't want to pull off a mesh singlet and get it caught in my nip ring. And Kat says, certain ones look really cool, others are not to my taste, but hey, I'm not here to yuck someone else's yum. Yeah, that's somewhat of that. Fair call.

Fair call. We're all different. But we all agree that I'm eyebrow piercing it. Don't do that. No, don't do that. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Vaughn, you love a bit of Reddit. I do, actually.

Yeah, I'll go on there and have a read. Kind of take the pulse of the nation Yeah It's normally There's a bit of But the good thing about it It's got quite a clever Algorithm as well

So it won't Show you Subreddits That really rock you up You can be like Oh this isn't my These aren't my people Yeah

It feels like the wild west Out there It is It is a little bit There's no 4chan Or 8chan though Those places were the bloody Right Those were the wildest of wests Yeah Well there's a little bit west out there. It is a little bit, yeah. There's no 4chan or 8chan though. Those places were the bloody... Right.

Those were the wildest of wests. Yeah. Well, there's a post that's been popping off on Reddit where people are sharing basically like what they would tell their teenage self now and they're giving it as advice to teenagers today to go like, listen to me, this is what I wish I knew. Invest in Apple shares. Teenagers famously listen.

And they're so good at listening. They love listening to the advice from people who were teenagers 20 years ago. Yeah, thank you, older lady, for that. I'll change the way that I'm behaving. Society is exactly the same as it was when you were a teenager in the 1990s. Thank you. I would say don't waste all that student loan money on beer and pizza and parties. Invest in property.

Mine would be like, yeah, don't get a student loan. Just go travel the world because it's going to, in 2020, you're not going to be able to for a while. Kiss a boy. Kiss a girl. Yep. Yeah, sure. Kiss everyone.

No, well, I actually, you know, pandemic-wise, maybe not. Give them a rat test, then give them a patch test. Wait, would you tell your younger self to live it up for 20 years because in 20 years there's going to be a world-ending pandemic? Yeah, probably. You don't want to tell your past self that because then you won't live your full life. I also didn't need to.

Past me lived it up. Yeah, that's a worrying thing too. I was living it up. If you've got the chance to tell your past self something, you might tell them something that changes who you are in the present day. We're back to the future paradox.

We've seen enough time-travelling movies to know that's what happens. You don't tango with the past. You know, one of the things... Unless it's killing baby Hitler, then I probably would. Yeah, I'd kill baby Hitler too.

But then who knows what repercussions that would have. Oh, no, can I kill like Tina? It'd probably be easy to kill a teenage Hitler rather than a baby. Oh, no, because teenagers are spright, Tina? It'd probably be easy to kill a teenager, but not living a baby. Oh, no, because teenagers are sprightly.

Oh, yeah. It's got to be the baby. He would have been fit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You could have castrated his father because that's less murdery.

Oh, that's what a great idea. Less murdery. Yes. But was that ever established who his father was? I don't know. You got yourself a real detective time hunt. We'll castrate the mother then. Could make a great theatre.

All right, you heard me. Do you know what's funny? As you said before, you don't want to tell your younger self something that will change who you are. One of the posts on this Reddit thread is you actually don't feel different when you're older. You're just you, but it's weird. That's totally right.

That is it. I'm 19. Was it you that I was talking to about this? Like in your mind, don't even think about it, but be like, how old are you? And I'm 19. Yeah. And I'm like 24. Yeah.

The minute you're someone's like 23, someone's like, in your mind, you're like, how old do you feel? You're 23. Like, just try to do it without thinking. 19. Yeah. I've always felt 19. Ever since I was 19 and then every birthday after, I was like, no, this is me.

This still feels like I'm 19, but I've done more stuff now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How old are you, Fletch? 64. Yeah, he's quite rich to hear. I like it. I like it. I like it.

I haven't even been there, but he's like, I know it's going to be good. You always do feel like you're in your 20s or something, eh? Yeah. It doesn't change. And then when you were younger, you'd look up at someone who was like late 20s and be like, oh, well, they're an adult now. And then now that you are that age or older, you're going like, no, I'm not an adult. Like, even if you get a mortgage or you do adult things.

It all just feels fake. You feel like a kid. Yeah, it just feels fun. And sometimes you look around for an adult and you realize that you or you do adult things. Yeah, it all just feels fake. You feel like a kid. Yeah, it just feels fun. And sometimes you look around for an adult and you realise that you are the oldest person there. Oh my God, the first time, eh? Someone's like, should we better find a grown-up? Uh-oh.

It's me. Another one I really love from this thread is, today's eyebrows are yesterday's clown make-up. So like... Like 2000s eyebrows. Oh my God, mine were so thin. It's taken me years. It's taken me to this day.

The average eyebrows now are good. Yeah, but we're going to look... But there will be those ones when you look back, you know, the people that brush their eyebrows up so it looks like they're like an old man with like long eyebrow hairs going up their head. I think that's going to be the one that people look back at and be like, oh, that was a bit ridiculous.

Or even now with like TikTok and that, I'm like, oh, I am that person going, oh, that was a bit ridiculous. Or even now with like TikTok and that, I'm like, oh, I am that person going, oh, I don't get it. Even though I've committed to doing a TikTok a day and I've done one in the last five days. Yeah, but you're not dancing. Yeah. You're drawing the line at dancing.

Being controversial isn't the same as being interesting. That's a really good call. That's so good. That one hurts. Just, I can't say that, swear words. But anyway, they're so amazing and you read them and you're like, oh, yeah, like, what would you tell your younger self? And that's what we want to ask now.

Indeed. What would you, what's the advice or just the little, I don't know, tidbit or the little fashion advice, whatever, that you would tell your younger self? Whether it's serious or whether it's, you know, don't do those eyebrows. Don't do those eyebrows. Or don't fake tan so much. One day you're going to meet a guy called Kyle. Yeah. Don't sleep with him. True story? Yeah.

Yeah. True story. No. Or fictional. I haven't had a Kyle. You haven't had a Kyle. I'm not saying I won't have a Kyle. Yeah, I can't imagine you with a Kyle. No. To be honest, you don't start me as someone that would go for a Kyle. Kyles don't deserve anybody, do they? I didn't say that. Kyle's are alone.

Yeah, Kyle's need to be in a rest home just full of Kyle's. No, but it's not an old rest home name. No, when the time rolls around. When the time rolls around. Lots of Kyle's. 0800 dials at Emma's number. Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696.

What would you tell your younger self? We're wanting to know the advice you would give to your younger self. It's a Reddit thread that's popping off. Is that what we call it? It's popping off? Yeah, we would say that. We would, but we're older and we'd probably tell our younger selves, don't use popping off. It's not off. Yeah, we would say that. We would, but we're older and we'd probably tell our younger selves, don't use popping off.

It's not that cool. But what would you, yeah, people sharing the advice they'd give their younger selves. Some amazing messages and calls coming through. If only we could. Don't dye your hair brown. Hannah's on the phone with that very advice. Hello, Hannah.

Hi, how are you guys? Was it never the same again? Never the same again. the same again you know natural blonde nice hair and it was sort of when tape extensions were coming in and full what oh yeah and hold on sorry tape extensions they're like semi-permanent semi-permanent long luscious lengths and never the same um yeah big mistake do Ruined it forever. Yeah, because once you dye your hair, I dyed my hair black for 10 years out of a box. I used to get the box sometimes from like a, you know.

Hannah's disgusted. Oh, I know. Did you hear that? Hannah feels me. And then when I wanted to go brunette and then eventually blonde, good Lord. I regretted that. What a rigmarole.

Yeah, right. Okay. All right, so you can say that. What colour hair do you have now? I'm that awkward in between sort of like, I would say like a dirty blonde, which is just not ideal. How long ago did you dye your hair brown? A good six months ago. Okay, so you're younger self, you're only looking back.

Only six months, alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's some fresh regret. It might come right then. Sage advice. Will it grow out? No, it won't. It takes years.

You're stuffed. Hannah, you're absolutely stuffed. Good luck with that, Hannah. Elise, what would you tell your younger self? Don't be so lazy. Like, seriously, wash your face properly so you don't get acne scars. Yes, wash your face. Oh, you're talking real lazy.

Like, I thought you were like, don't be lazy. Get out there, chase your dreams, run the marathon. You're like Yes, wash your face. Oh, you're talking real lazy. Like, I thought you were like, don't be lazy. Get out there, chase your dreams, run the marathon. You're like, just wash your face. Yeah, and put on sunblock. And drink water so you're, like, not a haggard old lady. Don't be a haggard old lady. How old are you, Elise? I'm 29.

You're not a haggard old lady. Yeah, you are. You're a haggard old gal. You're not a haggard old lady. Put her out to pasture. No, you're not. But great advice, though. you are You're a haggard old gal You're not a haggard old lady Put her out to pasture No you're not But great advice though Sunscreen especially Yeah wash your face

I wish I did that as a teenager Because I had great skin as a teenager So I didn't wash my face that much Oh yeah Neck minnow adult Grubby bugger How do you wash your face properly We just used a hot flannel growing up

Yeah I just Use a face wash Am I doing that right Yeah you can take it a bit further Right Okay Use a toner A toner just use a face wash. Am I doing that right? Yeah, you can take it a bit further. Right. Okay. Use a toner. A toner.

Yeah, use a toner. And moisturise every day. And now you're old, you need to moisturise every night. What are you talking about? Why are you talking to yourself still? Because I want to take offence at that. I do moisturise. Lee, sexy, you call some messages in.

I'm to quote Little Mix someone's quoting ancient British philosophy philosophy group Little Mix yeah yeah British yeah British

sure I'd tell her to speak up tell her to shout out tell her she's beautiful wonderful everything she doesn't see oh yeah that's lovely

they were poetic wise words they were poetic I'd tell my younger self people aren't against you they're just for themselves. That's another. Is that a little mix as well?

Against, yeah. That's poetic, isn't it? That's sage. Put yourself forward. Look after yourself. Yeah, don't worry about other people. I tell my younger self to hug my mum more and make her go to the doctor earlier. Sounds like someone's lost their mum there.

That's horrible. That's really sad. That's tough to hear. Probably tougher to even look back on. If you live without expectations, you can never be let down. This is what I've always said, managing expectations.

Don't expect anything from anyone. Yeah. And then when you get like just a little bit, you'll be really happy. And the first step to failure is trying. Yeah, exactly. No, don't listen to these two. Never trust anyone.

Oh my gosh. Never trust anyone ever. Full stop ever. This is why, don't listen to these two. Never trust anyone. Oh, my gosh. Never trust anyone ever. Full stop, ever. This is why we don't get invited often to talk to students. Motivational, yeah. The first step to failure is trying. Vaughan's like, it's very unlikely you'll get a job in radio. Yeah, I'm like, look how many of you are in this class.

Do you know how many job vacancies were in our industry last year? Yeah. Three. It is a battle to the death out there. You're young. Run. We don't get invited back. I would say to everybody, it's okay, school wasn't, oh, so I'd say to myself, it's

okay, school wasn't for everybody. Some find it harder than others. It's not what the rest of your life will be like. And to be honest, if you drop out of school early and you don't go to uni, you can get a trade and have no student loan and be earning great money. That's what Aaron would say to his younger self. They really talked us out of trades in the 90s.

They did. They really talked us out of going into trades. And then all the dudes that got into trades in the mid-2000s owned houses 10 years before everybody else. And they could do them up themselves. Or they had other mates in the trade that had helped them out. Then they rode that property wave. All because I tried bloody English then.

I listened. I'd tell myself, don't try so hard for family. They're not worth it. Brutal. Brutal. I'd say life. Again, never trust anyone ever. Anyone.

Not even whanau. Not even family. I'd get the braces. It's only a couple of years. Again, never trust anyone ever. Anyone. Not even whanau. Not even family. Get the braces. It's only a couple of years. Yeah, do it. Yeah. But no, tell your younger self as well, after you get your braces off,

wear your retainer. Otherwise, like me, you have to do it all over again. Yeah. Oh, this one's got a swear word halfway through it. So I'm just going to just, the swear word popped out to me. Yeah, right there.

Just skip over it. I would tell my younger self to not put up being treated like crap from the first love. Oh, yeah, good. She's worth more than that and she'll be happier without them. Few of those, actually. Don't waste your time on a 10-year relationship and your teens and 20s are only going to sleep with your friend.

Hoish-da. But you learn from it, don't you? Yeah, you do. I'd tell young me you're gay and that's okay and go easy on the weed. Yeah, right. Only if they mean somebody else around to tell them you're gay and that's okay.

Go easy on the weed. The weed, you would have gone easier on the weed as it was. All right, 7.26 next on the show. A big day at the Reno yesterday and I tried to get involved. The joists, the joists are down. There's a hole in the wall.

The lounge is ready to jib. It's been a big day. The lounge is ready to jib? Dude. Already? My builders are fast. The Renos are underway. The Renos are underway. The renos are underway.

I tell you what, it's a lot of fun. Our builder yesterday called it a puzzle because the house is 144 years old. Nothing makes sense. You know what I mean? Nothing makes sense. Nothing's straight. Nothing fits. Why do they always chuck a toilet?

You had to go out onto the porch and go around the back to get to the toilet and the wash house. There's no internal access to toilets and wash house back in the day. They didn't have Glade. No. They didn't have lavender sprays. Stunk in there. It Glade. No. They didn't have lavender sprays. Stunk in there. It was outside.

Yeah. But anyway, I got home yesterday and the house was, whew, my God. Torn apart, as per usual. Were all the tradies talking about Georgia? No, but I know she's a hit with the tradies. She's a hit with the tradies. They won't stop going on about Georgia. No, I'll actually say they got home and they were listening to The Rock.

Sons of bitches, they love the bloody rock. I came out, walked in the house and I was like, this is a good song. I mean, you know I like rock music. Do they know about Georgia? I'll have to tell them. Yeah. I'll have to tell them. Make sure you do, yeah.

And then I heard Aaron say, oh, the boss is here. Georgia JJ Burt on Instagram there for any tradies on their way to work. Yeah, have a look at her. Because there's some sort of unspoken treaty where the minute you turn on the bloody Makita radio that runs off the same battery as the drill. That's exactly what it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bloody...

Georgia... I know the tradies on the way to work, they listen to ZM and they get their fill of pop music and such. I don't want to... Is there anything for the gay tradies? Because I don't know if you're doing it for the gay tradies. I'm doing it for all. Good.

Right. Oh, well, just hop on Instagram and give a geezer to her. Have a geez. Oh, look, Vaughn's scrolling. I'm just thinking how far back they have to scroll for a couple of classic George Burt thirst traps. Oh, yeah, give us some fun. Oh, yeah, there's a few back here.

Don't go too far here don't go too far there was a wee chubby period oh georgia bird no the tradies will like it i don't know hard day on the work site they've got to get home something with a bit of cushioning for the end of their work and their elbows they're hard on the joints being a trainer cushion well i there's an option there for the Tradies today. I'll vary on Georgia after nine. Get in there, Tradies. Love it.

Well, they're listening to The Rock, aren't they? Yes, they're listening. Anyway, I got them to change the station. Oh, good. Yeah. I will say after they said, oh, what do you do for a living? And I said, I work in radio. And he said, oh, like behind the scenes.

And I went, oh. You've got a very behind the scenes look. I scream behind the scenes oh, like behind the scenes. And I went, oh. You've got a very behind the scenes look. I scream behind the scenes. You scream behind the scenes. And anyway, but I did, I felt left out. I turned up and I was like fresh in my, you know, normal clothes wearing a dress or whatever I was wearing. And Aaron's there in his, you know, five day old unwashed jeans

and dirty shirt and the tradies are there in their steel caps and stuff and I felt a little bit left out. I felt embarrassed. So I thought maybe they wouldn't notice if I snuck out and I chucked on some dirty clothes and some hiking boots. I don't even like them seeing me in clean clothes. In a dress shoe. I mean, I don't dress fantastically to come to work.

That's literally what I would wear at home. But that's a vibe, you know? But I run. I don't let them see me. I run into the house. I skirt into the wardrobe and I'm like, put on my dirty pants

and my farmer's socks and find an old T-shirt and put another shirt over top and then get an old beanie on and I walk out and I'm like, G'day fellas. It's a bit of a hard morning,

isn't it? Bloody what we're working on today, eh? You put on your tradie voice. Yeah. God, Aaron does that. I love it. I come home and he is masked.

Aaron, Aaron's very chameleon. He can kind of be whoever he's around. He was an actor. He called that Pacific Island bouncer, Oos, that time we were out. And I was like, Did he? He said, I quote,

all G, Oos. And I went, Aaron! My head turned slowly and it was like a creaking door. I was like, Aaron! It is so funny to see Aaron around tradies because he becomes this, I mean, Aaron used to work as a landscaper and an auto electrician,

but he also went to clown school in France. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like he sort of transcends. I was so into it. Once I got the shoes on, I was like, this is me for the day. And Aaron said, I'm off to Mitre 10. And I said, boy, chuck me in that UD always.

Oh, yeah. Well, if you've got your dirty clothes on, you might as well go. You see the people, you can go down to Mitre 10. Go straight into the trade end. We went in. We drove to the trade end. I don't park in the car park anymore. Even if I'm going in the shop, I drive into the trade end in a Suzuki Jimny.

So there's something to work on there. But that thing can carry some posts. But you don't park in the car park anymore even if I'm going in the shop. I drive into the trade end in a Suzuki Jimny so there's something to work on there but that thing can carry some posts but you don't park in the car park. God no.

I said to Aaron, why are you parking so far from the door? He said, babe, I'm not going to the car park. And he'd go to the

trade entrance and I felt so cool. And then a guy came up to us and was like, do you need a hand? And I was like, no, we're all good,

mate. Yeah, we're all good, mate. No, we're all good, mate. Did you use that voice? When you start

picking wood, you go like this, you pick up a bit of wood and you look at the side and you flip it over. I remember going with my dad to the hardware store growing up. He always did this. No, not that one. Yeah, that one. That one I'll do because I'm cutting the end off.

And you give a running commentary on what you like about the bits of wood. What did you buy then? Yeah, we got some insulation, mate. Top notch, though. We went top notch. We went eco-friendly. The grain stuff. We had polyester, not glass. Oh, yeah. We went top notch. We went eco-friendly. The grain stuff. We had polyester, not glass.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, because I'm an itchy gal. I didn't tell them that was why. No, I didn't tell them I'm an itchy gal. I didn't tell them the tradies were an itchy gal. They've got sensitive skin. Right.

Oh, leathery boys. So you're a tradie now, are you? Yeah, I'm a tradie. I'm going to go home today and put my hiking boots on. Yeah, tranny tradie. I don't know what they're about. So you just watch in your hiking boots? Watch them?

I look up and I sort of assess and go, training, training. I don't know what they're about. So you just watch in your hiking boots? Watch them? I look up and I sort of assess and go, oh yeah, what's happening here? I like to do this thing when you're paying a builder by an hour, you get him to teach you how to do something and then you realise it's taken them an hour and it's cost you $85. Yeah. Aaron likes to do that too.

Yeah, really slows down the process of having a me on site. Great, just an update. Georgia has been inundated with followers, tradies, a lot of tradies on Instagram. How's it going there, Georgia? I'm just about to post a cute photo because I just realised the last couple. Hit a first. Hit a first.

Strap up there. You need to have you and a pair of daisy jerks, get a pair of hiking boots on and a shirt tied. Turn back Tuesday, I reckon. Just go into the archives. I don't even follow Georgia on Instagram. Excuse me, Hayley. Follow back. She's a tradie, though. She's Tuesday, I reckon. Just go into the archives. Oh my god, Georgia. I don't even follow Georgia on Instagram. Excuse me, Hayley. Follow back. She's a tradie

though. She's flooding in. Georgia JJ Burt. Look. All the tradies on the way to the work site today. I've got to say, the last couple of photos aren't that enticing so I might need a... Get a first trip up. Oh, you've got to delete that one of you celebrating eight years with your partner. Yeah.

That's going to turn the tradies off. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. The current jackpot. Fletcher couldn't think of a more fitting song to transition us into talking about the Queen's funeral yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have some respect. My God. But we couldn't be there.

We couldn't get there. We weren't invited. But who was there is Al. We're claiming him. Europe correspondent Daniel Fai-Powell, Europe correspondent, Daniel Faipawa. Good morning, Daniel. Good morning. Well, good evening from Westminster here in London.

Yeah, of course. Big day, big day. Yeah, a long, long day. So I was stationed at Hyde Park and just watched the thousands, tens of thousands pour into the Central Park in London and just secure their spots and were glued to the four giant screens as they watched the funeral procession unfold. And boy, oh boy, you just could hear a pin drop.

There was just silence right across the park. I was just going to say, because usually, I mean, London, right, is a bustling, loud city that never sleeps. But yesterday, what was the mood, obviously outside of the funeral, watching those screens? Even now in Westminster, where it's always busy and you've got cars driving past loudly and double-decker, it's just quiet.

Like, honestly, people are just, it's sombre here. I think people are still reflecting. People are still coming to terms that this is it. The Queen has gone. She's now six feet under in Windsor, and everyone's just walking around thinking, my gosh, you know? Just 10 days ago, we saw a photo of her with the new Prime Minister shaking hands. I mean, two days, everyone's walking around going, what happened after that?

She died, and we're all just walking around thinking, crikey, it's so hard to believe and fathom. And I think the nation will continue to mourn for the next few days, if not weeks and months. How is the pomp and ceremony received in a country where not everybody's flush with cash at the moment? Some people experiencing economic hard times and watching it on television, thousands and thousands

of uniformed people involved in that entire ceremony. Yeah, I think we were told 3,000 of the militaries were involved in it alone. But the pageantry and the scale of this all has just overwhelmed many. I mean, there's no talk or mention of the rising cost of living here. That is all being put to the side at the moment because I guess Britain itself doesn't want to put that juxtaposition with what's going on at the moment.

The focus right now is a remarkable woman who has given service for more than 70 years. And that's what the big focus is here. Probably come the next few days, we'll get back into politics and diplomacy and then we'll start getting families on board just saying, yeah, we don't have money, we can't survive. It's tough times at the moment.

But right now, everyone's just talking about the spectacle, about this pageantry, which was just incredible. Now, speaking of the pomp of the ceremony, I've got to ask you, Daniel, I know you weren't inside the funeral. What were you wearing on your feet? Because we have seen a photo of certainly a New Zealand journalist rocking a pair of Vajas sneakers. White, white, comfortable sneakers.

Yeah, they are my Lacoste comfortable sneakers. So I wear those because when you're a foreign correspondent, and especially anyone who's lived in London, knows that you walk a lot, that all you're doing is walking, catching trains, running. People in London, they don't really walk, they run, and you've got to run with them, otherwise you're left behind. And so I've probably gone through about 10 pairs of shoes

since my secondment here over the last three years. And I just thought, right, I'm going to be spending a lot of time on my feet. Forget the dress shoes. I'm going with what's comfortable and what's easy. And it's worked. It's really helped me just to be able to pick up the camera gear and help the cameraman or cameraman and just run with it wherever we can to get our spots. But my feet are aching.

A little peek behind the curtain, seeing the journalist's shoes for the first time. I love it because everyone, I mean, obviously you're wearing a lovely black suit and for the formal occasion, I just love seeing you and other New Zealand journalists. We've got to keep it practical. I know, I mean, my mum texts me saying, oh, that's not how I raised you,

but hey, that's your mum, you know? She's your biggest fan, but your harshest critic. Yeah, I would have worn my formal Crocs, you know, my black Crocs. Yes, comfortable. You know, pay your respects. Because your Europe's a comment has ended, hasn't it, after this? Yeah, it has. It ended a couple of weeks ago.

And so we had planned, my wife and three kids, to visit Italy for a whole month. And so we arrived in Venice and we were meant to go down to Sicily. The first day we arrived in Venice, that's when the Queen passed. And so, you know, I got the call up saying, you need to come back to London. So I tried to pretend like, this is a voice message. Sorry, I need to call her. They're like, stop it, stop it, you've got to come back.

So I've left the family. They're still tiki-toring in Italy at the moment. They've been to Venice and Tuscany, Florence, Cinque Terre, sending me all these photos chasing the sun. And I'm just like, stop it. Daniel, that's one of the most romantic places in the world and you've left your lovely wife alone to be scooped off her feet by some Italian gentleman you're a part of.

I know, I know. To be fair, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, isn't it, to be there as a journalist in this moment? Yeah. Absolutely, and that's, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, isn't it? To be there as a journalist in this moment. Yeah, absolutely. And that's what it's all about. It's just those historic moments. I mean, I've covered many here in my three years. Brexit, Prince Philip's funeral, the pandemic, Ukraine, and now the Queen's funeral. So yeah, my time is done here and it's time to hang up the microphone and pass that on. Incredible three years.

Daniel, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us this morning. Enjoy your holiday. Yeah, then we'll see you back home maybe. Yeah, you might do. Yeah, you might do. Welcome to Community Notices, a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand according to local Facebook pages. Sarah and Whitby on the Whitby NZ community page is the first cab out of the rank today.

She's got some craft projects underway. Oh, that's good. New art project underway. Thanks to the kind people who donated to my last one, but now I'm after something a little less fragrant. Apologies in advance for the sensitive types, but I'm now looking for deceased pukeko skulls. A what?

Specifically ones without any damage to the skull. A pukeko. Pukeko love a jump in front of a car. Oh, they love a casual cross of the road Being like Didn't you see that electricity ad Where I turned the lights on and off You won't dare run me

No Don't brake Don't brake Because if the road's wet And you slam on your brakes For a silly little animal Yeah You're gonna slide off

And then you're gonna be in trouble What if it's a cow Well that's not a silly little animal That's a big ass animal That's really gonna do some damage Yeah That's good If-ass animal that's really going to do some damage. If anyone comes across any roadkill and isn't squeamish, could you just pop them in a container and drop them off to me, thanks? Unfortunately, I'm not

up early enough to stop for roadkill, otherwise I'd do it myself. This sounds like the start of a serial killer. Just get up earlier if you want your own roadkill, Siri. You can't be asking people to collect your roadkill, can you? There's plenty out my way. I'll drop her off a box. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's in there, but she's in Whitby. She's in Wellington. Just courier it. Post it. Yeah, post it. Are you going to pop it in a post? Are you going to pop it in a jiffy bag here at work or put it in a box and...

Yeah, I'll bring them into work. I'll leave them in the studio, and then after work I'll post them. Right. Great. Okay, let's pop down to the Bedworth community page. Sharon writes, I've just taken my son to the park by Woodlands Road

and somebody has covered the playground in beans. Like baked beans? No. And then she puts pictures up of the kids swing with beans and then the slide's got beans down it. I've cleared as much as I can, but I only had one sheet of kitchen roll. Please be careful. There's beans everywhere.

Baked beans. What a waste. I love baked beans. Slippery, skitty beans. Oh, beans. Slippery, skitty beans. Oh, dear. Slippery, skitty beans. And this is the one I was talking about before on the East Auckland Grapevine. Mum.

Hayley writes, hi, everyone. If you see this tag anywhere, please message me and let me know. My son is the artist. And he will be going around cleaning up every single one of them. Oh, you're in trouble. If he's done any on your private property

or business or anywhere publicly, he will also be going to knock on the door to formally apologise. Is it Bloom's mum? No, it's

something O-S-A-R. Okay. By the looks of things. Oh my, I love that. Also, any tips For graffiti removal

Will be much appreciated Bleach only works on some You don't go to people's house And bleach their blimmin' walls You don't bleach their fence Do you Because that'll take The paint off the wall

You've got to paint over it That's got to be a scrub Yeah You can get that graffiti Because often if you paint Straight over graffiti It's sealed the wood Where the graffiti was

So you can get a thing That you paint Give them to paint The whole fence Yeah good And the undercoat And then paint over The top of it as well But mum's dragging him around graffiti, it sealed the wood where the graffiti was, so you can get a thing that you paint. Give them the paint of the whole fence. Yeah, good. And the undercoat, and then paint over the top of it as well. But mum's dragging them around making them apologise for their wrongdoings.

Love that. I mean, that's the sort of mums we need more of, I think. Yes, totally great. We need more mums dragging their kids around, making them apologise for their wrongdoings. Those are today's community notices. If you see anything on your local Facebook page that makes you go, ooh, ooh, ooh, screencap it and send it to ours. F-E-H-Z-M.

Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Hey, you on the phone, I bet I can guess your mum's name. Bet I can guess your mum's name. Was it last time you failed miserably? The post-it note debacle. Yeah, the post-it note situation. Where I had like a list of names that I was shuffling through my post-it notes and it was two names away when the time ran out.

Yeah. Well, Vaughn now has five questions to ask Sharon about her mum and then 15 seconds to guess her name. Good morning, Sharon. Good morning. Good morning. All right. Did you stay up and watch any of the Queen's funeral?

No, I watched a little bit and then I decided I needed to go to bed because I had to get up early. Yeah, good girl. Okay, all right. Tim Vaughan was just saying his wife went to bed at one o'clock. I think she went to bed very late. All right, well. I went to bed late. I watched a lot of it.

Well, you were 11, were you? I didn't know any of the songs, you know? You want a couple of bangers in there. Just get your Bible out. That would have been in there. Oh, I don't know. Some of the readings from the Bible are a bit grim. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a grim old book. But then they didn't even sing it like, How Great Thou Art while I was watching. I thought that was a funeral classic. Yeah, okay. That's why my funeral's just going to be a party at the outback. Yeah.

Whoa. Oh, it's going to be fun. Yeah, something like that. Shots on the casket. Yeah. But going to be a party at the Outback. Yeah, whoa. Oh, that's going to be fun. Yeah, something like that. Shots on the casket. But we'll still sing How Great Thou Art. Yeah, sure. The Avicii remix. Yeah.

Sharon, I've got some questions for you about your mother. Okay. How's mum been with the Queen's death? Well, my mum's no longer with us, but I believe she would be probably quite upset as well. Okay, now that's throwing Vaughan's

psychic connection now. But you should still be able to psychically connect with the vibes of Sharon's dearly departed mother. Deceased mother. Yeah.

That's my thing. I had my vibes tuned to the living, though. Oh, right. I have to do a retune. I don't know how long it takes to do a retune of the vibes. Yeah. That's my thing. I had my vibes tuned to the living, though. Oh, right. You know how long it takes to do a retune of the vibes. Yeah. Why are you touching your knuckles?

Sorry, I was just tuning in. Thank you so much for sharing about your loss. I'm hoping this is helping. Okay, retuned. Thank you so much for sharing about your loss. I'm hoping this is helping. Okay, retuned. Thank you. Mum would have been upset. She would be. Okay, mum would have been upset.

So she was a royalist? Oh, not full-on royalist, but I think she would, you know, well, she would have had the respect for the Queen. Well, I mean, she respected the, she did it for 70 years, didn't she? Yeah, absolutely.

Did she have any, like, commemorative plates from, like, when Charles and Diana got married? Oh, um... Not that I can remember. I don't think so. Okay. So respect, but not a huge royalist. Okay.

No, no. Who does that remind you of? Marge. Marge. A Marge, a Margery. A Marge. A Marge. Okay, yep. A Marge. Marge. A Marge. A Margery. Margery. A Marge.

Okay, yep. A Marge. Diane. Maybe an Iris. Yep. An Iris. An Iris. I'm thinking older.

Oh, okay. Older ladies. I'm thinking an Edith. Carol. Carol. Yep. Carol. Carol.

I'm thinking, okay, Carol. I'm thinking ladies ofith. Carol. Yep. Carol. Carol. I'm thinking, okay, Carol. I'm thinking ladies of the same... Ilk. Ilk. Yeah, okay. The same period. Liz. A Joan.

Liz, a Joan. Put a Liz down. Yep. A Joan. A Maria. Marie. Yeah, Marie. Yeah, Marie. Not Maria. Don't be insane. I might do both then. Because if I, Marie. Yeah, Marie, not Maria.

Don't be insane. I might do both then. Because if I don't do one, I'm just going to put Karen on the list. You always got to put a Karen on the list. Always put a Karen on the list. Okay, so I'm still on the older lady buzz. Did mum get into a bit of gardening? Oh, yes, she loved to garden.

Yes, she did. Maggie. Phyllis. Phyllis, yeah. God, Phyllis loves to garden. Phyllis. Phyllis's. My nana Maggie. Phyllis. Phyllis, yeah. God, Phyllis loves to garden. Phyllis. Phyllis is. My nana was a Phyllis.

Sub-question, but not a different question, is what kind of garden? What was her main vibe? What kind of flowers did she like and stuff? Oh, she had a good mix of things. She was in charge of the flower garden and Dad was always in the veggie garden. Oh, my God. That's what my grandparents were like, too. Yeah.

Oh, blessings. Helen, put down a Helen. I'm getting a Helen Vine. You wouldn't be wrong. I'm getting a Daphne. I've got a Daphne coming through. What are you going with these left field names? I've got a Daphne coming through. You're insane. You've lost your mind. Yeah, that's wrong.

Daphne. I've got a Daphne coming through. I've got a Norma knocking. I've got a Norma knocking. I think you're going too old here. You're the same. You're going too old. I've got a Norma knocking. I've got a Norma knocking. I think you're going too old here. Yeah, same. You're going too old. I've got a Norma knocking. I've got a... He's got the powers. Hello?

Who's... Audrey. Audrey's here. I've got an Audrey that wants to speak. Okay. If you're listening and your mum has passed and her name is Audrey, she wants you to know that she's okay and she's very proud of you. Wow, I didn't know you had that ability.

Vaughn, you're taking advantage of people like psychic mediums do. I know, but see how nice that would have felt if you had lost an Audrey. I'm just an Ethel. Why are you going to left field? No, I'm not. It's old. Winifred. Oh, my God.

Get a grip. Winifred. Vaughn, you're making the list too long. You're going to get to the other questions and none of these names are going to count. Okay. It's too much. What were mum's siblings' names?

Excuse me. She had Raymond, Frank and Marion. Okay, actually, am I going too old? You are going too old. You still think I'm going too old after Frank, Marion, and Raymond. Why wouldn't it be Ethel? Because he's not.

Well, look, if you want to lose, go for it. He'll be a Ruth. Ruth, okay. Yeah, I think you're coming back now. You think I'm coming back? I think you need some classic names in there. Doris. They always ended their names Doris.

Not when there's a Raymond. No, it's two. You've got a Wendy. Wendy. Yeah, go on, Wendy. Francis. Gladys. Wendy, you're going too old.

You are going too old. You don't have that long to read all these silly names. What was mum's idea of her favourite sort of holiday? Well, we didn't really do a lot. Dad wasn't big on holidays, so we didn't really go anywhere. That's a tell, that's a tell. That's a tell. Is it?

Old mate's never liked holidays. My papa was the same. He'd go for a long drive, but hated a holiday. Yeah, we didn't do a lot of that sort of stuff. It's quite difficult. I don't know. Sometimes we'd go to see my auntie. She lived on Oamaru, so we'd go there.

You're telling me old Nola didn't get a holiday? Nola! Vaughan, you are just out of control tonight. You're telling me June didn't get a break? Jude. I'll put a Jude in there. Put a Jude down. Yeah, that'll be a good one.

Okay. And what was mum's favourite animal? What did she have a lot of time for in the animal department? I never had any pets growing up. Jesus! No holidays and no pets! Dad wasn't a fan of animals in the house. Oh, Dad!

Was Dad a sheep and beef farmer? No. I hope you get this right. Grumpy old sheep and beef farmer? No. I hope you get this right. Grumpy old sheep and beef farmer vibes coming through. Yeah, I don't know, actually. I believe before I was born, we might have had a bird, but apparently it died because Mum vanished the kitchen and forgot to take it out.

I don't wish to laugh at Hazel's recently deceased, but that's pretty good. She gassed a bird with varnish. Wow. Hey, the bird would have enjoyed it for a time. Before he slipped away. For a very small moment. Wow.

She's not recently deceased either. It's been a long time. Oh, has it? Yeah. Well, not recently deceased either. It's been a long time. Oh, has it? Yeah. Well, that'll be Olive. Olive. Jesus. That'll be Lorna.

You need to go with some classic names. I don't think you've got enough classics. That'll be Beryl. Can you ask your five questions? Yeah. It's Barbara. All right. I'm going to put Barbara as my last name.

Sharon, Vaughan now has 15 seconds to say your mum's name. If you hear it, yell out, stop. That's my mum's name. Vaughan now has 15 seconds to say your mum's name. If you hear it, yell out, stop. That's my mum's name. Vaughan, your time starts now. Marge, Iris, Edith, Carol, Liz, Joan, Maria, Marie, Karen, Phyllis, Betty, Edna, Helen, Daphne, Norma, Audrey, Ethel,

Winfred, Ruth, Doris, Mavis, Francis, Gladys. Stop. That's my mum's name. Wait, which one? Mavis. No! Told me I was going too old.. Told me I was going too old. He told me I was going too old. He said it was too left field. He said it was too old.

How old would your mum be if she was alive today, Sharon? She'd be 80. Oh, there you go. Yeah, right. Mavis. Mavis. A classic mum's name. Poor old Mavis.

She would have thought this was so funny. She would have had a good sense of humour and she absolutely hated her name. She hated Mavis. I love a Mavis. Quite left field compared to her. You wouldn't call a baby Mavis now, by the way.

No, you wouldn't. And left field compared to her siblings as well. Yeah. Well, you have triggered the bonus round. The bonus round. While you're on the phone, I'll have a go at round. The bonus round. While you're on the phone, I'll have a go at guessing your dad's name. So assuming that dad was around the same age, Mavis and... Old mate.

Old mate. Old mate. Trev. Doug. Robert. Barry. Do we know if dad's still with? Is dad still with us?

Is dad still with us? Right. Dad's gone too? Is Dad still with us? Dad's gone too. Jeez, the old hard bastard. He hated a holiday and didn't want any animals inside. She didn't get in with the varnish, did she? No. Fuel.

Okay. Who's like old mate? Mum died first, actually. Mum, sorry. Oh, she did. Okay. So Mavis and... Old mate. Old mate. Mum, sorry. Oh, she did. Okay. So Mavis and... Old mate. Old mate.

Like an Ed, like Gary. What are some of Ed's words? What are your grandad's names? What are your great grandad's names? Mine were Gary and Matthew. Like, it's going to be a Peter, a Matthew, a John, a Paul. Robert. Um, like I'm...

Hector. I keep picturing Edmund Hillary. Edmund. I don't know if it would be Edmund. It might be Ed. Edward. Edward could be Edward. But then also, like, who's a grumpy old, like, I'm not saying your dad was grumpy,

but I'm, like, trying to paint a picture of, like, no animals and no holidays. He sounds like a grumpy old mate. He just wanted to do the gardens. He had a pretty tough, he was, like, the youngest of nine, so he had a grumpy old mate. He just wanted to do the gardens. He had a pretty tough, he was like the youngest of nine, so he had a pretty minimal tough life. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah, he didn't know any different, I don't think.

Yeah. Okay. Well, Vaughn, you've guessed the mum's name. Can you guess the dad's name? It could be a Peter. You get one guess. Also, by the time you've had nine kids, you're running out of names. Yeah.

You're running out of your stock standard names. So maybe, yeah, they blew the Peters and the Johns early. Yeah. So second tier. Harold? Kenneth? Kenneth. Too young.

Nah, it could be a Ken. It could be a Ken. You can meet some old Kens, and they shorten it to Ken, don't they, from Kenneth? Henry? Like, you know, that's kind of a... Sid? Nah. Oh, maybe. No, that's insane. Maybe, but after nine.. Like, you know, that's kind of a... Sid? Sid? Sydney? Oh, maybe.

No, that's insane. Maybe, but after nine. All right, Vaughn, lock a name in. One guess. What is... Ken. I just feel Ken. Ken.

Ken. You're going for Ken? I think it's too young, but you do you. Okay. Is your dad's name Ken? No. My dad's name was Colin. Colin!

That was a sitter. Colin, of course. Colin Meads! Mavis and Colin. Colin Meads! Old mate. Old mate! All old mates are called Colin.

Yeah! Oh, hey, well, Sharon, we didn't get you the double whammy there, but you have won $100 because Vaughan did correctly guess. Woo-hoo. Amazing. Hey, Mavis, well done. Thank you for playing this morning. That was great fun.

Thank you very much. We've been trying for a very long time to get through. Oh, thanks for playing. Sorry to hear about the bird as well. Wouldn't I show us that it was before her time? It's still sad news, so either way. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Today's fact of the day is how the Queen had four children, but there's no photos of her pregnant. What? Ever thought about that? I have never seen the Queen pregnant.

Lots of photos of Diana pregnant. Yep. Lots of photos of Kate and Megan pregnant. Was she just like, get away, I look fat? She didn't have them, did she? That's the conspiracy. Have you seen the conspiracy about the fake hands? Oh, my God, the fake hands are so funny.

The bodyguard fake hands? They think that they're sitting up there with guns in their hands and that they're holding fake hands. The fake hands are there, but the guns are behind the fake hands, so they can shoot through the fake hands. Is that what they're saying? Yeah, and then there's like videos on TikTok and then they zoom in. And I think there's a real hand on a fake hand.

That King's bodyguard. Yeah. The older Indian dude with the white beard. He's killed people. Don't forget. I saw him and they're like, this is the King's bodyguard. I was like oh shit like

because he doesn't look like a tough guy and they're the ones you gotta watch well he's got fake hands so watch out he's wearing fake little hands like the SNL sketch

where it's like the little scissors from the finger lakes yeah fake hands but hey I wanna know more about that guy

I think he's got some stories to tell right so why are there no photos of the Queen Priggs? Well, yeah, she's had four kids, each of them there at the funeral last night walking behind the procession, behind the gun. By the way, do you know why the sailors,

this is a little sub-fact of the day fact. Okay. The sailors, the Navy gents pulled the gun carriage, the same gun carriage that carried her father to his funeral, the same carriage that carried Queen Victoria to hers. Wow. Because Queen Victoria's was the last one to get pulled by horses and something spooked the horses when it was pulling it

and it jerked and the coffin slid. Imagine if it slid out. The coffin slid a little bit. Oh, so that's why humans wouldn't. So the next time they were like, well, you know, the horses, there's gonna be more people here this time. The horses might get spooked. Yeah. We don't want the coffin coming loose. We'll get it pulled. And then it just

become a tradition. It's always the same amount of the members of the Navy that pull the carriage. So anyway, she did have the babies and there are like a couple of pregnancy photos that got released in that recent batch, but apparently it was simply announced, but the same way her death was announced,

a notice was hung on the gates of the palace, and then she went about her pregnancies in private. So she never did public appearances. She didn't do public appearances. She didn't do any public engagements during her time of pregnancy. The minute she announced it, she made it all about the pregnancy and stayed in the castle and even gave birth

inside the castle. What does the Queen wear when she's pregnant? What does the Queen wear around? Here is the one photo that I could find and she's wearing like what she'd normally wear. Yeah, like a classy lady's long coat and such. Huh.

Yeah. What does she kick about in? Trackies. Surely trackies. I'm so like curious about the casual queen. But then what do like most, you know, older grannies kick around in? They don't really be comfortable slacks. Yeah, my gran was a, my nana was a slacks gal.

Slacks, a t-shirt and a cardi. Yeah, but she rarely wore pants and like out. Always a skirt. Always a skirt. Always a skirt with stockings. Yeah, yeah, classic. Always a skirt with stockings. So today's fact of the day is try as you might.

You just cannot find many pictures of the Queen pregnant, although she did have four children. She just stayed in the castle when she was pregnant. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley Pretty exciting purchase for us yesterday Maybe not for everybody But for me I was like

Ooh well purchased And I usually get too jazzed about Sade's Unannounced non pre-planned purchases Well normally it's one of those Panini Bing hoodies Panini Bing Panini Bing That cost a small bloody arm and a leg No this one's needed Because we keep this bowl on the bench of those Panini Bing hoodies, isn't it? Panini Bing. It costs a bloody arm and a leg.

No, this one's needed because we keep this bowl on the bench and you put all your food scraps in it and then I'll take the food scraps out and chuck them to the piggies and the piggies

will just... Oh, yeah, Mum and Dad have got one of those little bins under the sink and I get told off when I go home if I put my apple core into the main bin.

Oh, yeah, that's the scraps bin. Yeah. Do they have a collection? Like food collection? I think New Plymouth District Council have like a separate

scraps bin. Progressive, man. Progressive. No meat. No, I don't think you're allowed to. No meat because they compost it, right?

Yeah, they compost it. Some places in Auckland have them, eh? Is there one out in the North Shore or somewhere like that that has a little scrap bin you can put out

and it gets picked up differently? That's right. Or like little communities have little gardens and a compost. Yeah. It's a good idea. No meats in your compost though. So we go out and...

What about salmon scraps? No salmon scraps. No salmon scraps. Bones maybe. Any salmon bone if you put on the bones, if you tweezer in the bones out of the salmon. Here's what I do. You don't waste your time tweezer in the bones out of salmon.

You swallow them down. You teeth them up. No, you don't. Chew. I think it's cool. You do. You don't waste your time tweezing the bones out of salmon. You teeth them up! No, you don't. What are you doing? I'm teething up my food. Kids, are you teething before swallowing? Wow. So I'm teething up salmon bones over here. But you can probably put them in the compost.

But anyway, that bloody little cat we got. This little bugger, this cheeto, he's up on the bench and you come out in the morning and he's dragged everything out. He'll have a chew on an old bread roll, have a chew on an apple corn, he'll drag them out of the bowl and then there's a mess everywhere. Right. So I just said to Sade, we need a bucket with a lid on it. But then I said that and then did nothing about it.

Right. It's just I announced. Dads do this a lot. They'll announce it. Yeah, but not do anything. No, absolutely not. Something needs to be done about that. Insert thing here, but do nothing about it situation.

I'm too bloody busy. Anyway, Sade said, look what I got. And she got a little bucket. And she's like, I know you're going to tell me it's too small. I said, Sade, my love, it's perfect. It's absolutely perfect. And she's like, look at you. And I was like, look, it clips up, clips down.

The handle is also the lock. The cat won't be able to get into it. Well, here's the thing. It fits perfectly. You know how when you've got an under sink cupboard, but the sink's this big bugger in the middle and nothing really. It fits perfectly beside the sink. Oh, she's done well.

She's done very well. She's done very well. I said, oh, you've done well. She's like, you're so excited about the bucket. And I was like, look how it swings. Oh, my Lord. There's a little hole in the top. So you can leave the lid sealed and just pop the top and put a little thing in there.

Oh, that's a good idea. That's handy. Like an apple core. Yeah, like an apple core or maybe just a few mandarin peels or something. Yeah, lovely. Pop those in the top there. They get manky though. You've got to wash them.

Well, that's the thing. She said, shall I put a liner in it? I said, no, because there's a hose out there and I'll feed the pigs and I'll give it a squirt. Yeah, good. Give it a squirt out and gosh, she's done well. And I got very excited about it and I kept saying to her, I'll give it a squirt. Yeah, good. Give it a squirt out and, oh, she's done well. And I got very excited about it and I kept saying to her, I was like, where did you find this? I love when you buy

a little something like that. Just a dumb little something. It's like $5 but it just makes you so much better. You keep opening up the cupboard and look at it and be like, oh, that's good. That's good. Yeah. And last night the kids had some scraps on their plate and be like, God, that's good. That's good. Yeah. And last night, the kids had some scraps on their plate,

and I said, hey, those don't live there. Oh, yeah, nice. I was like, grab out the little bucket and scrape it into there, and away we go. Is this how boomers feel

when they buy a squeegee for the shower? It is, isn't it? They do. They love it. Or take a real gamble on trying a new cleaning product. Oh, yeah.

And his TDF. Yeah. Too damn fine. You bet. I would like to know this morning, what's the lamest thing you've been excited about lately? Like this silly little thing. Do you mean purchases or just anything?

Purchases. Maybe you just saw something little. Yeah. And you're like, that's a bit neat. And it just kind of made your day. Because, I don't know, maybe you weren't expecting this little thing to really tick so many boxes.

Yeah. But it did. A little silly, yay, I'm excited now. Okay. Yeah, it really turned my day out because I woke up from a nap and I woke up from one of those daytime naps, yeah, but dizzy, hot, dehydrated,

a little disorientated. And a new scraps bucket and you're a new man. A new scraps bucket and I'm just ping, ping, pinging. Wow. Adult life is so exciting. But I just can't wait to get home and do it. It's so fun. And teeth some food, you know.

We've been doing all this late night talking. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. We're talking about little purchases that got you excited, got you real jazzed. Somebody messaged in saying my mother-in-law bought me a torpedo hoe. A what?

I looked it up. That's just like, we had them. I've got one. I've never known it was called a torpedo hoe. It's one of these ones with this end on it. You know this one? Oh, yeah. It's like a traditional hoe. The mounds between your rows in the garden.

No, no, no. You just like put it into the soil and pull it backwards and it naturally sort of digs in and then it like loosens up the weeds and stuff. You get the top a little bit of it. Okay. Yeah. And they're excited about their hoe. I'm glad they're excited about that.

Yeah. It just sounds like horrible. It sounds like weeding. Can I return it for store credit? That would be mine. That would be mine. That would be mine. Oh, my God, this is so cool. Do you have the receipt?

No, no, go use it in the garden. I'll do it later. Yeah. I don't want to get it. Judy. Free gas. Yeah. Dan, what silly little purchase were you excited about?

Oh, did you say Dan? Yeah, Dan the man. Good morning, Dan. Sorry, good luck. puts me to sleep. I was sitting on the loo the other day and I wasn't sure what to do with my phone, so I thought I'll buy a replacement brush for my Roomba vacuum cleaner, and it arrived in the post when I got home from work last night, so I tipped it upside down and got stuck in with the screwdriver

and replaced the side brush, and then while I was waiting for my pizza to cook, drinking wine, I followed the now working Roomba all the way around the house, watching it like a little dolphin. Yeah, yeah, because if the side brush goes, it can't flick things into its sucky hole, can it? Exactly. And if anybody owns a Roomba, they'll think Dyson.

Rubbish. Oh, wow. See, I've got a couple of steps at my house, Dan. The Roomba's not getting up the steps unless I build a ramp. I did think about building a ramp. You could do a ramp. You need to buy more. You have several Roombas.

You've got two. You have one for upstairs and one for downstairs. But then do I have a Roomba for the upstairs, a Roomba for the downstairs, and then a Roomba for the one step? Yes. Yes, you need a Roomba just going back and forth on the step. The Roomba won't drive itself off a cliff.

Right. You buy one for the lawn outside as well. I was at London Tower a couple of years ago looking at the Steptree's old castle, and then there's this outdoor Roomba cutting the lawn quite orange. I want one of those so badly. On the Husqvarna. Four-wheel drive Husqvarna lawnmowers. I love my lawn, but I also would love watching a robot do it.

Yeah, but then also, imagine like that's how you die. You're in the sun just reading a book, you fall asleep, and then the robot lawnmower eats you and slices you to bits. It could not be a one. Dan's got a great point there. Dan knows. Alright, Dan, thanks for your call.

Tess, what's the silly little purchase you got super excited about? Okay. I have a game changer. A game changer. Okay. It's this tiny little craft desk, and it sits just above your knees, and it's this beautiful desk, and it's got side pockets.

Okay? As a girl, pockets. Yeah. Anything with pockets. Oh, God, I love a pocket. I. As a girl, pockets. Yeah. Anything with pockets. Oh, God, I love a pocket. I'm wearing a dress today without pockets. I want to rip it off. This is what you put when you're watching something on the couch.

It's like a little table. Yes. But it's got, like, these perfectly designed pockets. You've got a round one for your bed brush, you know. You've got a little side foot that holds your remote. And then you've got another one for your books, your journal, your pens, whatever. And then this beautiful just flat surface for your

snack. How is the retirement village, Tess? Hey! Is it everything you owned or would be? Your book. I mean, it's so content. So you put your Reader's Digest in one of those pockets? Yeah. And you can put your Werther's, a pouch for your lollies. And a little cup holder for where you can put your Werther's, a pouch for your wallet.

And a little cup holder for where you can put your dentures in when you're eating. And your mobile, and you put your phone in for the grandkids' ring. Yeah. And your glasses. Now, this couch caddy, how much did it cost? $10, the warehouse. Oh. All right.

What a bargain. Amazing. Tess, thanks for your call. Hunter, what little purchase. Amazing. Tess, thanks for your call. Hunter, what little purchase were you excited about? I recently got a new driver's licence because I lost my wallet, so I'm very excited to take my new

picture. Oh my god, yes! I need to do this because mine's about to expire and my picture is me at whatever age, looking terrible. I'm excited to do it too. Did you get dressed up? Oh no, I only had my work clothes which is the sad part. Oh no, I'm going to do it too. Did you get dressed up? Oh, no. I only had my work clothes, which is the sad part.

Oh, no. I'm going to go full glam. It is exciting. And then you get a brand new crispy license and you just pull it out and you're like, here, it's new. Oh, yeah.

I can't wait. Yeah, that's exciting. That's exciting. Hunter, thanks. You call some messages in. Somebody said, I got a magic sponge from Mitre 10.

It's in the cleaning aisle, which is the best aisle, in my opinion. Best $3 ever spent. Yeah. Are they the magic wall erasers? Yes. Yeah, they're good.

Yeah, magic sponge. Yeah, they clean. They've got white ones in it. Oh, so good. You can only rub them so much before they start. Well, yeah, because you've got to bear in mind they are erasing your wall and your paint every time you use them. Are they?

Yeah. Yeah, they are. I've got new jars for my pantry to organise all my food. Somebody else says that's good. Love a pantry organised. My wife and I recently adjusted the pantry shelf heights, so now all the tall things and short things fit better on their own shelves. Wonderful to look like every time we open the pantry.

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