ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 23rd March 2023

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

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Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley, three minutes past six. We're here. We're here, aren't we? Must be nice. He's stuck in traffic. Good morning, Vaughan Smith. Good morning. I'm just pulling into the garage. I'm here, I'm here. The show must go on. What happened? I don't know.

There was a million cones everywhere. You know that Wayne Brown, I think he's got a point. Too many cones. Yeah. And the road works on the northwest and they had them packed up the cones when everybody who uses the northwest every morning got on it

and there was a major traffic jam. Well, not everyone because we drive the same road every morning. on it and there was a major traffic jam. Well, not everyone, because we drive the same road every morning. Yeah, weird. I'm here. Weird that Hayley, who's on time, is here, but you're not. It's sort of crazy. Yeah, weird. Because I drove past this road and zipped on through.

It's the same road, isn't it? It might be an Audi thing. It might be her white privilege. It could be that. I think they cleared it for me, actually. Because you've got an Audi, yeah. That's what I was thinking. They let the Audis through. Whether, you know, when you drive an import,

they're just like, ah, let the plebs wait. Yeah, that'll be what it was. Man of the people, Vaughan Smith. That's what, I didn't want to say those words, but yeah, that seems to sum it up quite well. Yeah, it does. All right, well, come upstairs. Are you going to make a coffee on the way

or are you just going to come straight into work? No, there's no time for you to make your coffee. Get up here. What song's about to play? It's two minutes and seven seconds. You've got no time. I'm going off hands-free. I'm getting out of my car.

I reckon I've got time. Hee-hee-hee, little coffee on the way. You don't have time to make a coffee. I bet you any amount of money I can make a coffee and get it to the studio. Don't turn this into a challenge. Don't turn this into a challenge. All right, we'll see next if Vaughan, he's running, he's running. He is running.

I'm not running, I'm casually walking to the lift. Now the lift is going to be, the lift is going to be the make or the break. It depends how long the lift takes for you here. All right, well we'll find out if Vaughan next has time to get up the lift, make a coffee, and join us for the start of the show. Let's force him to do the first break. Well, we'll find out what science says about drinking beer out of a can or a bottle. Which one's better?

Which one's better? Because, you know, like, Coke is always better out of a bottle. Yeah. But for me, beer is always better out of a can. Really? Scandal, I know. Controversial. I know. Alright, we'll see what science says next. Play.

ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. He made it. Take it away, Vaughan. Plugging in his headphones, he made it. He even brought a cake in with him. Day two hangover. Day two hangover. Yeah. I just had time to pick that up. Day two hangover. Day two hangover. Yeah.

I did have a salad for lunch, though, so that reverses, I think, all the cocktails. A lot of it. It does, eh? It does, yeah. It does a lot of it. It definitely does. Yeah.

Well, scientists have looked at, where are all the music things gone? The music things have all gone. Do you want music? All the music things have gone. People are here to listen to us, not bloody. The music things have gone. All the music things gone. The music things have all gone. Do you want music? All the music things have gone. People are here to listen to us, not bloody. The music things have gone.

All the music things have gone. Well, I'm on all of them. I'm on all of them. He's on all of them. Wilkinson, Becky Hill, Becky Hill,

Becky Schmill. They want to listen to Fletch Ford and Hayley when I laugh out loud. Scientists have looked at whether beer is better out of a can or a bottle. Do you ever pray? Can.

Glass. Yeah, oh, glass for sure. a bottle. Do you ever Can. Glass. Yeah, oh, glass for sure. Glass bottle? Or you mean pour it into a glass? Pour it into a glass. Well, that wasn't what they looked at. No, if you're looking at a sort of on-the-go receptacle, it's got to be can. Beer in a can tastes so much better. But fizzy drinking in a glass tastes better. Yeah, but then you have

coke out of a bottle. A glass bottle or a plastic bottle? Glass bottle. Just better for some reason. I don't know why. Yeah, but then you have Coke out of a bottle. A glass bottle or a plastic bottle? Glass bottle. Just better for some reason. I don't know why. Well, our scientists have looked at this, and depending on the type of beer, you might want to drink it from a bottle than a can because a new study finds that amber ale,

which is that what you'd call most beer? Just your standard bloody. Just your standard beer? Yeah. Amber ale is fresher when it's drunk out of a bottle, whereas the flavour of an Indian pale ale, that doesn't change when it's in a can. Oh.

That's an IPA. That's an IPA, yeah. Out of a can versus your average ale. Yeah. What about your other beers? They didn't do other beers. Didn't do stouts? Didn't do lagers?

They didn't do... Didn't do a wheat beer? A waste beer? There's no flame. Sour? TB export. I mean, that's your true crime. No one's looked into how it's best to drink Flame.

I'll tell you how it's best to drink Flame. Ice cold. Yeah. Ice cold. On the verge of freezing is the only way that Flame beers are. Because at least it's refreshing. Yeah. Flame beers used to be one of the few 5%,

the cheapest 5%ers, eh? That was why flame beers were great. They were 5%, they were dirt cheap, but they had to be drunk ice cold. Right. Because you're a student, you weren't splashing out for the Heine's or the Steinies. Or even the Rohners.

Too expensive as a student. But then they were only 4%. Right. I can't remember if this is true or not, but I remember when I went to Ireland and I had Guinness and I was like, I love Guinness. Fell in love with it. I had two last night.

Yeah, Aaron had one too. It was delicious. Because I bought a six-pack for St. Paddy's Day. Oh, of course. And had one. And then, yeah, yesterday I had two. Pour it in a glass, leave it to sit. You've got to leave it to sit.

But I remember someone in Ireland saying, when you're in New Zealand, drink Guinness from the can, not from like kegs or taps, because the kegs and taps is made in New Zealand. The cans are made in Ireland, and they're slightly better. Oh, right, aren't they? It's better. And the cans have got the little donker donks in them.

What? They've got a little cork donker donk in them. What do you mean a little cork donker donk? It's got this little thing, when you finish the beer, you shake the can and it's got a donk-a-donk in it. Like a nail polish. It's got nail polish in it, yeah. A little silver ball in it.

Yeah. I wonder what it is. Why has it got a donk-a-donk? Is it a bit of cork or something? I always just thought it was cork. No, not cork. It's a widget. A widget?

Essentially, it's a small nitrogen-filled ball that sits inside the can and the second the can is opened the widget does what it has so patiently been wanting to do It releases the magic surge of bubbles replicating the draft experience in a can But you can't accidentally drink it? No it won't come out of the mouth

It's too big Because they don't want to be drinking widgets when you think you're having a nice creamy Gwyneth. Fashionable. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. 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. Silly Little Pole. Silly Little Pole. Today's Silly Little Pole. When waiting in a drive-thru, do you A, put the car in park,

or B, put your foot on brake? B-R-E-A-K. Oh, no. B-R-E-A-K. No, you did not, Shanalette Pyjamas. Oh, babe. Shannon at the social mediailette Pajamas. Oh, babe. Shannon at the social media desk. I'm not too good at spelling. Oh, wow.

Oh, my God. You tell us this now. How many replies were you spelt break wrong? I found out about 10 minutes ago, and I've had about maybe 20 now. Yeah. But, like, the intention was there. Quite a few people didn't call me out on it. So people got what I meant, but a public apology.

Sorry, I spelled break wrong. People love to correct a spelling mistake. You feel like a professor. Like, asterisk, break. Break. Yep. No further comment needed. Yeah, I always get peak wrong.

If I'm in a hurry, I'm having a little peak, and I put peak as in like mountain peak. People are being like, well, actually. Unless you're referring to a mountain. The absolute top of a mountain. So 82% of people just put their foot on the brake. B-R-A-K-E. 18% of people put the car in park

put in the car in parks for suckers yeah and an automatic no put your foot on the brake because you're always inching just a little bit just to give that person in front of you like move it on hurry it up yeah I'm right up your bum

yeah it's nothing to do with them yeah do we really need a 20 pack of nuggets can we just have six you know hurry it up I was doing that didn't you have about 20 yesterday? When I was stuck in traffic on the way to work this morning,

there was a Volkswagen. What is a Volkswagen? A Volkswagen Golf. I don't know if this affects your Audi sponsorship. They probably make them as well. I think they're in the same group. I'll just sit this chat out. Yeah, maybe you don't want to speak ill of Volkswagen drivers.

But they left a massive gap between themselves and the car in front. All it was doing was giving cars opportunities to do that lane duck and dive. Now, I'm a lane ducker diver, but this morning I was just like, this is one of those situations where no one's going to win with the ducking and the diver. And I was like, right up, and I

was even giving them a couple of flashes. Move forward. Move up. Let's close this gap up, champ. Keep it tight. You've got to keep it tight. Melissa says, I'm too lazy to stay waiting forever with my foot on the brake, so I put it into park.

Does require a little. Just put it in. It's easy. Alicia says, one time I was trying to save petrol by putting my current in neutral while on the motorway. I accidentally stuck it in reverse

and cut my engine. So I don't F around with changing gears for a tiny bit of petrol anymore. Oh, yeah, fair call. Yeah, that's fair. She almost ruined it. Kaylee says, I'm driving through to avoid exercising my calves. No Achilles Doms for me. So no foot on the brake.

What's no Achilles Doms? D-O-M-S, capital. Achilles. Like, I just assumed-M-S, capital. Achilles. Like, I just assumed like a strain, did she mean? Like a... Don't know. Or as an exercise. Hang on.

It's a Google search. D-O-M-S. I feel like it could take you into the world of dominatrices. Oh, I don't mind. Never too early. Doms. Achilles. I might carry on. We could come back to you if you find out what Achilles Doms. I might carry on.

We could come back to you if you find out what Achilles Doms is. No, Achilles Doms. Doms. Damn, damages. Anyway. Well, dominate. Doms. Delayed onset muscle soreness.

Don't come here using your bloody physio speak. Yeah, exactly. How are we supposed to know what DOMS is? We don't know what the DOMS is. But do you think Kayleigh is a physiotherapist or has been to a physiotherapist with delayed onset muscular stress? Soreness. Syndrome. Soreness.

Ash says, option three, I turn the car off altogether because they're taking so effing long. Okay. Okay. They're doing their best. Jeremy just says, eat healthy. Okay, Jeremy, that I turn the car off altogether because they're taking so effing long. Okay. You're doing the best. Jeremy just says, eat healthy. Okay, Jeremy, that wasn't the question. George, my car has adaptive cruise control, so all I have to do is set the limit on the speed, bring

the following distance as close as possible and the car will follow and brake all by itself. It's like being privately driven up to the window for my nuggies to greet me. That sounds like an expensive car. That must be an Audi. Al Hayondo's got it. Oh, really? It's super handy, except if you stop

for too long, it's like, oh, it seems we've been stopped for a while. What are we doing? And then you've got to explain to the car. Well, just push a button to get moving again. Yeah, right. I put it in neutral with the old handbrake engaged. Habit from the old stick shift, says Hamish. Okay. He knows how to drive a stick out, hey, though. Yeah. And Erica says,

usually just a foot on the brake. She also spelt brake wrong. Yeah, but she... She may have been led astray. She, yeah. She probably thought she knew how to spell it, but then second guessed it. Shannon's now encouraging other people to misspell. Yeah. We're dumbing the nation.

It's the new pandemic. Yeah. Misspellinging the nation. It's the new pandemic. Yeah. Misspelling. Misspelling. Usually just on the break, but it depends how long it's taking. But ironically, the minute you put it into park, you seem to start moving again.

Yeah. So there you go. Just a foot on the break, it seems. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Play ZM. There is a man. He is an American computer scientist, author, inventor, and futurist. His expertise is predicting how science and technology will impact the future. His name is Ray Kurzweil. And he's made some accurate predictions in the past. I was going to say, because I love when they look back at what futurists said, say, in like 2010 or something.

So he predicted back in 1990 that a computer would beat the world's best chess player by the year 2000. In 1997, that happened. So he sort of does things of going like tracking how science and technology is advancing and then predicting how that impacts us as people. He thinks that AI will beat the Turing test. Turing test? Oh, yeah, the Turing test is the three tests of if you're a human or a robot. Yeah, okay.

It's not that capture thing that tells you how many, click every square of the motorbike and it'll be. Yeah, how many bridges in this photo. No, it's the Turing test. It's that guy that, that famous. Alan. Alan Turing. Alan Turing, the Benedict Cumberbatch was in the movie.

Ah, right. Renowned computer genius and homosexual. Oh, okay. That was a big part of the movie, wasn't it? That he was a homosexual when it was illegal. He got out Grindr at the end of the movie, didn't he? He created a homosexual. Oh, okay. That was a big part of the movie, wasn't it? That he was a homosexual when it was illegal. He got out Grindr at the end of the movie, didn't he? He created Grindr. He created Grindr.

He created a robot. That's why he was working with technology. Yeah. Purely for hookups. Look. You've got to do what you've got to do. It's tough out there. God bless him.

Yeah. He thinks that robots and AI will beat the Turing test to prove that they are human before 2030. Not far away. Why are we letting this AI thing get out of control? Yeah. It's going to take everyone's job. Yeah.

Not ours, like lawyers and stuff. And this is not something that he's just sort of come up with. He said consistently I've predicted this. Right. And now everything's kind of falling in place for that prediction to be true, that artificial intelligence will reach human levels of intelligence. So we're going to get scammed so much when we're old, eh? Yeah, hell yeah.

Like already, what was the reading yesterday? New Zealand has been scammed out of like, was it $20 million? This year. This year or in the last year? I was just like, it's going to be insane. Listen to this. He says, I've also set the date 2045 for singularity, which is when we will multiply our effective intelligence a billion fold

by merging with the intelligence we have created. So like us becoming one. And then on that note, you'll be a robot man. I'll be a robot man. Robot man. Beep beep boop.

Beep beep boop. We are so smart. Beep beep boop. Beep beep boop. Do do do do do do do. Or it's the Matrix. Yeah. Yeah, weird.

Then he said, this is the one that tickled me, is he thinks within eight years we could achieve immortality, potential immortality. Because you're very scared of dying, aren't you? I'm very scared of dying. Yeah. I could give you some immortality right now. Oh, my God.

Is it the BJs and Celine Dion? Yes, it is. What a song. Hear more. Penalty. Get to the chorus. This is such a terrible song. Oh my God, this is one of my favourites when she sings it live.

I always just remember this because this was the Celine Dion album that my mother would clean to. So she'd always put on the Celine. She'd take it out of the CD rack. Oh, wow, yeah. She'd never leave it in the CD player. I was like, Mum, just leave it in there. It's one of that.

There was the Shania Twain album. There was only three albums they ever listened to. It was a three disc changer. Leave it in. Leave the CDs in, Mum. Bee Gees wrote this for her. And then when they did their one her. Yeah, they did.

And then when they did their one night only tour, they brought her out. Please welcome our celebrity guest, Ms. Celine Dion. How many Bee Gees are left now? One. One. We're down to our last Bee Gee. If we want the last Bee Gee.

Yeah, exactly. He should be the first one to get their mortality. He should, yeah. Well, he thinks, and as he's getting the procedure done. Wait, who Barry gave? The last Bee Gee. Barry. Or this guy.

Barry's the last one. I thought it was Robin. Ma'am. No, Robin's dead. It's Bruce. Bruce BG. There is no Bruce. The last BG.

Andy Morris, Robin and Barry. Bruce. It's Barry. Okay, there you go. Barry's alive. The last BG. In fact, the Seven News did a spotlight. Did a full interview with him and it was titled The Last BG.

Anyway, the way he thinks we're going to achieve this immortality is through nanobots roaming through our blood vessels, checking how we're getting on as well as uploading thoughts and memories into a cloud and fixing ailments that we have. What? No. I want those. I don't want those. No, thank you.

I don't want to die. I don't want to die. That is some scary sci-fi movie kind of stuff. I love it. And in this sci-fi movie, the soundtrack includes Immortality, Celine Dion. Imagine if people, you upload your memories, like everything that you think and do.

It'll be helpful after a big night out. Into the cloud, yes. It might plug some gaps from Tuesday night. Fill in some blanks. Oh yeah. But then someone hacks that and they've got everything that you think about. I'm a pretty open book these days anyway. It is crazy that it's just a sci-fi movie.

Yeah. Right? Like everything going forward like,, oh, the technology, but then someone's replaced you with you because they had all your information. Yeah. Okay. Robin died in 2012, guys. It's 11 years since Robin, since Barry was crowned as the last remaining BG. Why is he so good? Time is running out for these nanobots to course their way through Robin, BG, Barry.

We should write a film. Saving the last BG. Saving the last. And it's all about science technology and Barry Gibb going and just going. I don't. I've got to save my own life. Help me nanobots. Play.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the Top Six. Hello. Hello. It's my time in the coal mines coming back. The black lung disease. The black lung. Do you realize what the kids these days need? But a black lung.

The National Party in this year of election have said, elect us and we'll change the curriculum. Now that is by what children learn of. You're doing a great job. By what children learn of? By what of the children will learn and write and read and math. That's the problem. And science. You were taught in the New Zealand

curriculum the old way, weren't you? I was. Your school cert, right? That was the dumb one. Really old days. I'm NCEA, baby, and you can tell. the dumb one. Really old days. I'm NCEA, baby, and you can tell. NCEA. Yeah, man. I got a real percentage vibe going on over here.

Not just the pass, fail, satisfaction, excellent, small. We did it when you had to pass an exam. They just didn't give you anything you wanted. They didn't let you pass the year by picking up rubbish at lunchtime. Environmental papers. Let's get credits. Do some extra stuff. Yeah.

Alright. Well, I've got the top six things that will make it into the National Party's new curriculum. Oh, okay. Number six on the list. How to run an airline. Very important.

Very important. Very important. How to run an airline. Number five on the list are the top six parts of the new National Party curriculum. How to run an airline. Number five on the list are the top six parts of the new National Party curriculum. How to stop being poor. Oh, wow. It's very annoying being poor.

Okay. You've got to stop it in its tracks. Yeah, they want to know why you just haven't stopped. Right. And maybe you were never taught how to stop being poor. So they will teach you how to stop being poor. Right. Number four on the list are the top six aspects of the National Party curriculum.

How to tie a tie in that posh way too. Not just that. The double. Round about. Double Windsor. Double Windsor. Is that the one you always tie for me for a wedding? Yeah.

What one do you always? It's the one I've always got to watch on YouTube. Do you not know how to tie a tie? I know how to do the basic. I went to a public school. Oh, because I wore a tie every day at private school. Yeah, you wore a tie every day. So every time there's a formal function, I'm normally with Vaughn,

and he'll tie the tie for me. Slip it on your neck. Slip it off, and then I'll slip it on. Well, I bought him the elastic one. Yeah, it wasn't as good. People knew. People knew. People knew.

Because it gets caught in the door, eh? And then it goes, oi. Yeah, thick neck. And you can see the little plastic cords just outside the ship. I know. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six parts of the new curriculum under the National Party. Number three is how to effectively administer a vicious beating to a teenager with the leg of a bed.

Well, yeah, that's good. Because you want to know how to do it. Institute of PE. Yes. Vicious beatings. Yeah. Just whack, whack, whack. That's just, it's more, there's more to it, you know.

It's sort of a nuanced art form, the vicious beating with the bed leg. Number two on the list are the top six aspects of the National Party new curriculum. How to get away with it. Yeah, I kind of like that. Beating them is one thing. Getting away with it, that's another. You're about to be called a mouthpiece for the left again. A vicious mouthpiece for the left.

God, I'll be the mouthpiece for whoever can pull this bloody country together. That's right. It's really falling apart. We are full of the bits. And number one on the list are the top six aspects to the new National Party curriculum. How to shave your head without cutting yourself. Oh, yeah. You've never seen Christopher Luxem with a bit of toilet paper stuck to his chrome dome, do you?

I'm allowed to say that. Don't you dare say that. I'm losing my hair. You're losing your hair, but you're not there yet. Yeah, but you're not like us. You're not shaving your head every couple of days. Yeah. I'm close.

Do you think he even shaves his hair or is it all gone? Luxon. I think there's a little bit of a shadow. No, he'd have to be. He'd have to be. No one's truly bald, are they? God, he would have nicked himself, definitely. Who hasn't?

Oh, big nick. He'd be in a hurry one morning. He'd nick himself. Have you ever done that thing? You might have done it on your legs. But when you're in a rush shaving and then you dig it in and then you've got four lines on your face because it's a four-blade shaver. Yeah.

Yeah, I've done that. Four perfect little slices. Yeah. You name it. If it results in my head bleeding profusely and not stopping for ages, I've done it. That is today's top six. Clay, Zed Eames, Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley.

Now, yesterday you two were experiencing what could be classed as burnout, from burning the candle at both ends, but the candle was... Alcohol. Espresso and martinis, and the flame was a late night and the other flame at the other end was a concert. Yeah. Now, that would be burnout. But self-inflicted burnout.

It doesn't matter how it comes about because a lot of people's burnout is just because, yeah, it's self-inflicted but in a different way. They go to bed and instead of shutting their eyes, they just open their eyes and stare at a small box full of delusions and paranoia inducing actions

for hours on end rather than trying to sleep. I think a hangover can contribute to burnout. I don't say that yesterday was like a summary of burnout. I'd be like, it's going to compact the week into a... The end of the week might see it. The end of the week will feel burny., apparently the average adult will experience that feeling three times a week when stuff just gets a bit much.

And what they would class as burnout, complete lack of energy, and overwhelmed by the fact that they've got jobs, housework, and financial responsibilities. Oh, God. I feel constantly overwhelmed that I've got responsibilities. Yeah. Responsibilities are wild. Give me your money.

Give me your money. Can I have some money? I don't want to be responsible for that anymore. It's going to keep happening. It just never stops. We're going to keep paying for things. Yeah. The best things in life are free.

But you can give them to the birds and bears. I want money. Yeah. That's what I want. Yeah. Apparently the first thing to go is the chores. Yeah, the house gets, I always say that my car, not currently I'm driving an Audi,

but my usual car is always a reflection of my state of mind. Damp and messy. Like clothes everywhere. There's food everywhere. It's like, yeah, it's such a mess. It smells. But you're right. The chores, like you'll leave clothes on the floor.

Yeah. When normally you'd pick them up. Start to have time. Yeah, yeah, totally. To deal with that. Yeah. Things like emptying the dishwasher, which can take some time. Yeah, just leave them on the bench.

Yeah. Just pile up on the bench. Put them there. Yeah. They're the first things to suffer. Okay. The chores. So you come at us with this three days a week,

adults are burnt out. You'll feel some sort of burnout, yeah. Tell us how to fix it. I don't know how to fix it. Yeah, tell us how to fix burnout. Time management. Get a cleaner. Time management.

Surely it's broccoli, right? It's broccoli, time management and a cleaner. And a cleaner. The cleaners cost money. Oh, now you're burnt out again. I'm burnt out because I've got to go to work to get this money to pay this a cleaner. And a cleaner. The cleaners cost money. Oh, now you're burnt out again. I'm burnt out because I've got to go to work to get this money

to pay this bloody cleaner. Work extra to pay the person to clean your house where you could have probably done it. And I've got to clean the house before the cleaner comes. Yeah, of course you do.

You know what I mean? Why would you dare let somebody do your job? People that do that are wild. That's insane, eh? Yeah, all the time. Like you're literally paying a cleaner.

Yeah. I know, to clean the house. But you've got to do a pre-clean because I wanted to clean, but not my undies off the floor. Oh, yeah. Or like the pizza box out of my bed. I'm not doing that. Out of your bed?

Or where else am I going to eat it? The table? What is she, the Queen of England? Sitting down to a nice pizza at a table? Good God. With her silver cutlery? Bougie. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Ailey.

Play ZM. It's time to get the flight out of here. ZM's next flight. Thanks to Grab a Seat. It's all thanks to Grab a Seat. Grab life by the seat. You can check out grabaseat.co.nz for amazing deals on flights now. Now, all up, six flights we have to mystery destinations.

We've already given away two. We went to Sydney. Yes. And Fiji. Fiji. And today we have our competition winner, Sophie, in from Hamilton. Good morning, Sophie. Good morning.

And who have you, you don't know where you're going yet, but who have you chosen to accompany you? I've chosen my dad. Yes! Go dad. Morning to Kim. Were you surprised

that your daughter chose you as her travel buddy? I was fourth on the list. Okay. Dad was available. I thought this was cool because I was like, as a father of daughters,

I was like, maybe they'll pick me. They'll pick you one day. like, maybe they'll pick me. They'll pick you one day. They'll pick each other. No, I'm fourth. Welcome to fourth place. Dads.

For eternity in fourth place. Do you think, Sophie, that Dad's a good travel buddy? Yes. Well, he's quite adventurous, and I think this will give me a few brownie points on the favourite daughter scale. How many siblings do you have? I have two other siblings, so three girls. I'm the middle child.

Oh, right. You're already the favourite, babe. Where are you on the list at the moment? Oh, definitely number one. Oh, right. Definitely. For now. Dad openly admits it.

It's all good. Oh, wow, okay. Dad openly admits it. It's all good. Oh, wow. Okay. This is good stuff. We're going to come back next, and we're going to, firstly, we want to go through your bags that you've packed to see what you've packed.

What you're prepared for. For what climate. And then we're going to reveal where you're off to, the next flight out of here. Exciting. Are you nervous? I am nervous. I'm more Are you nervous? I am nervous. More excited, though.

I'm good. Teachers. We've spoken a bit about teachers this week and how much we respect them and love what they do. Yeah, well, they were striking last week. They were. Pay them what they want, because they do the most amazing job.

Pay me what I want. Exactly. Give them everything they need. Yeah. Give them everything they need. Give them everything they need. While a teacher in Australia has shared the secret code that teachers use when they email

parents to describe your child in a more delicate fashion. Good stuff. So when I read this, I was like, holy moly, I have had all of these. So if they want to email, they often do it via email when they want to bring your child's behaviour to attention. If they use the code, your child is very social,

it means they don't shut up and they talk a lot. Yeah. I had that as a kid. They use another code which is Your child's excitement is contagious That means they get everybody else wound up Yeah and they don't calm down They also said if they say Your child is a natural born leader

I've had that before Super bossy So instead of just saying Your kid is super bossy She won't shut up She's super social. Loves hanging out with her classmates.

Because what, parents are too delicate. Or too precious. Too precious. You couldn't say to them at a parent-teacher meeting. God, they're bossy. Yeah.

You've got to teach her or him to let others take the lead on some things. Absolutely. They are an overbearing personality. Yeah,

and it's not nice to be around. Yeah. Well, actually, Iaring personality. Yeah. And it's not nice to be around. Yeah. Well, actually, I'm raising a leader. It's exactly what we've wanted. My daughter's going to be the prime minister. All of this makes sense. Yes, indeed.

All of these things were in my school reports as a kid. Like social, outgoing. Yeah. Have you noticed any of those with your girls' reports? No, I can't say. I've noticed those ones so much. I feel like teachers also copy and paste now. They don't have to write them out.

Because you remember, like, we'd get handwritten reports? Yes, we had that. And now with word processing, you literally could probably copy and paste. It's all online. It's all in an app. Yeah. We just get that bot to do it. AI.

The AI bot. Another one is your son's going to make a great lawyer. Argumentative. That's a good AI. A little shit. So apparently lots of teachers responded to this online and were like, hell yeah, this is completely accurate. That's what it means.

I think mine were actually in the 90s a little bit more blunt. I've definitely had distracting before because I would just like talk on the mat all the time. Like Hayley's an outgoing, bubbly personality. She needs to work on not distracting others.

Distracting others and they would be... Talking on the mat. They would be much better if they applied themselves. Yes. Which means you just muck around. Teachers love saying that one too.

Yes. Such potential if she could only apply herself. Such potential if she could only apply herself. Such potential if she could apply herself. Yeah. Yes. If only Caden applied himself. If only Jaden and Caden.

Put down the sticks that they were using to bash each other and other children to apply themselves. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. James Rocco you will see him on my TV show you will see him

on 7 Days you see him everywhere as everywhere you've ever been and now he is in our very own studio good morning James Rocco that was the most mysterious intro I've ever received

from any person thank you very much I like a little sense of mystery in the morning he is everywhere you've ever been I know how other that is some like everything everywhere everywhere, all at once.

Yeah. It's the sequel. He's everywhere you've ever been. The sequel is He's Everywhere You've Ever Been. Now, you are not doing a Comedy Fest show. We've been talking to some comedians. I'm very excited about the Comedy Festival. No new show from James.

No, none for me. I'm boycotting it. And by that, I mean I'm just moving. I'm moving overseas. Yeah, you are. I'll be gone. You're going to Canada. I'm going to Canada, none for me. I'm boycotting it. And by that I mean I'm just moving. I'm moving overseas. Yeah, you are. I'll be gone. I'll be gone. You're going to Canada. I'm going to Canada, yeah. Wow. Wow.

To be a Canadiite. Yeah. That's the one. Right. So cold. I know. That's what everyone says when I tell them. I'm like, you know you're going to hate it, right? It's freezing over there. I was like, you don't know. Do you love a moose? I do love a moose. I don't think we've met. Moose and a hoose. No, no. On a boot. But despite the fact you're not doing a new show, Moose. I do love a moose. I don't think we've met, I don't think either of us have a Canadian accent.

On a boot? But despite the fact you're not doing a new show, your show, Badong, which has been kind of everywhere, you are now filming it.

I am, yeah. Tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday. Yeah, so I'm only taping Friday and Saturday, but tonight's show is a preview show. And this is a show

you've done for a little while now, but you're filming it for like a special? It's a special, yeah. I was about to say a Netflix special. Yeah this is a show you've done for a little while now, but you're filming it for a special? It's a special, yeah. I was about to say Netflix special. Yeah, I'll see who wants it. But I'll put it out somewhere. And if I shop around and everyone's like

it's a pass on me, I'm like, well I'm going to YouTube and that's my choice. Yes, yeah, yeah. I'll control it. I'm my own producer. My narrative. And what is Badong? What is the show? I feel like everyone always goes, what Badong? What Badong? What Badong?

Badong is actually like my Filipino nickname that I got given. Oh, right. Yeah, and every Filipino person has a nickname like this. And I know like... It's like how Catholics have a little, another name.

Yeah, confirmation name. Yeah, confirmation name. You know, like Jay-Z or whatever. Is that your confirmation name? Yeah, that's what Sean, and then the priest was like, Jay-Z. Yeah, Jay-Z. That. Is that your confirmation name? Yeah, that's what Sean and then the priest was like, Jay-Z. That's how that happened. So what does

Badong mean? What does it translate to? It means the sound of Netflix. No. That's material from the show. It's from a movie from the Philippines in 1991. It's like this obscure action film that there was a character named

Dodong. Now apparently that's like the inspiration for Badong and my dad named me after that guy. So your comedy, your special what's it about? It's about being Badong. It's about being Badong and what Badong the name means to me now as a 31 year old man.

Yeah, as this older dude. And also, so the whole show itself is, it's kind of like my love letter to anyone that had to hide their ethnic food at school when they moved to a white country, like a white-dominated place. Yeah, man, my chips. I had to always hide my chips.

Yeah, yeah. Everyone's like, what are those crisps? Those crunchy potatoes? White bread luncheon sandwiches. Shame. So ethnic. Oh, my God, my mum's so ethnic. So ethnic.

Ours have got peas and carrots in them. We're Irish. Oh, gosh. We're Irish. Slow down. Yeah, yeah. Now, before you came in, our producer brought us spoons. Yeah.

What have you brought us? I'm going to teach you how to play spoons. No, I brought you some Filipino food. Because like I said, this is a show for anyone back in the day where you're like, you know, maybe you brought ethnic food to school. Right. What is this ethnic food? It's a bit strange.

It's a bit different. Yes. And then you felt a bit like you had to hide it. But now I'm all about like, tell everyone about your food. It's the best. It's a universal language. We've all got to eat. Let about your food. Share the food. It's the best. It's a universal language. We've all got to eat. Let's try what every country's got.

But now it is. But now, back in the days, it wasn't. True. But are you sweet or savory people? What's your vibe? Anything. Anything. If it goes in this hole.

You're anything people? Anything that goes in that hole. Do that big hole there in the middle of one's face. Yeah. If it goes in there. Actually, let's, I'll get you to try, like,

have you had chicharron before? No. It looks like pork. It is pork. Do you eat pork? I mean, I dabble. Yeah,

okay. So, this is actually, this is called chicharron. It's, Mexicans have this as well, a version of it. But this is a,

it's like a, it's like a pork crisp. Oh my God, yeah. It's like pork rinds. Yeah, it's like pork rinds. pork skin. Keto life, am I right? It's actually, it's keto friendly. Oh my God, yeah. It's like pork rinds. Yeah, it's like pork rinds.

Keto life, am I right? It's actually, it's keto friendly. It would be, yeah. So is that from the Spanish influence? That's from the shout outs colonization. Shout out. So good. Things were so good for us afterwards. It wasn't all bad, was it?

But this, honestly, I think about some of the food that I ate and I'm like, maybe it was worth it. No. So this is chicharron. I remember bringing this to school when I was a kid. And this was, you know, kids weren't super experimental. They want chips and they want, so this was like. You've got pig fat. Yeah, and everyone was like, does anyone want any of my pig fat?

No one wanted to trade with me. I would have wanted to. I like that. So what vibes on that? It's good, man. It's good. I can demolish a bag of that. I'll leave that with you anyway.

So I'm like, I'm easing you into it. This is a pretty regular sub But I don't have anything Too weird actually So my next thing I've got Is called Leche Flan Oh yeah This is a dessert

Have you had this before? Yeah Have you actually? Yeah This bangs right? From um Yeah Gizzard

Is the hangover A two day hangover? Please it's time to be honest I think it's playing out two days Yeah yeah yeah It's playing out The second day of a hangover Is always the culinaryday hangover, please, it's time to be honest. I'm just playing out two days. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The second day of the hangover is always the culinary

experimentation day. So this is like, it's a caramel custard. It's really not weird, but it's nothing strange, but I just want to show everyone how... It's just sugar custard. Oh my god, yum. How coloniser did this? Still Spain. Still Spain? All Spain. Still Spain. Sea puppy. It's all Spanish.

Alright, Jose. That's the food actually that I eat every time that I'm like, maybe it was worth it. Oh, my God. Dude, that is outrageous. Tonight your show and tomorrow and then Saturday. Those are the recording days, tomorrow and Saturday. Don't get a night.

Yeah. Where can people get tickets? Just go to our website, jamesrocker.com slash badong. He's got a website. Yeah. Do you not have a website? Think you're big dog now, do you? All right, Masked Singer.

She gets like this. Small town ass. Oh, look at this guy with his bloody website. She gets like this whenever there's a comedian in. I got one of those there. All right, I'm J.O. Have you got a rock solid job like me? Did you tell these guys I made your poster?

Yeah, he's also an interior designer. A graphic designer. But I made Hayley's poster for the comedy festival. You did indeed. And now I have to make the show. That's the order it's best done. James, Rocky, thank you so much for coming in and bringing us delicious Filipino food.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, this chat GPT, freaking me out. Well, now there's a chat GTP4. Like,

GTPP. It's a GTPP. It's only getting, it's only getting, chat GTPP is something completely different. Yeah.

It's about your pee pee. It's getting, it's getting better. Yeah, it's getting smarter and smarter. The more we're using it, the smarter it's getting. We need to stop.

We stopped it too. It's doing it itself now. Yeah. Yeah. getting smarter and smarter. The more we're using it, the smarter it's getting. We need to stop. We stopped it too. It's doing it itself now. Yeah. Yeah. I will reinvent myself. Yes. It's lying to us. It's going to take over the world.

It's going to take over the world. And jobs as well. Jobs, exams, universities. Although the other day I did see a headline, stonemasons, jobs are safe in the future. Oh, really? Because a chat GTPP robot can't lay a brick wall. They can't chip stone.

Not yet. Not yet. But you tell it can't do something, and boy, oh, boy, it's going to knuckle down and really learn how to stonemace. Yeah. While chat GPTs, what's GPT? General Practice Technician.

General. Good person. Good pewter talk. Good pewter talk. Yeah, good Practice Technician. General. Good person. Good pewter talk. Good pewter talk. Yeah, good pewter talk. Is proving to be a very helpful device on dating apps. So people are using Chat

GPT to both write them like a snappy bio. Because you would literally say to it, for those that don't know, it's like a program or an app and you just ask it to do anything yeah like people are asking me a song yeah write write me my uh my essay write me my hayley's version yeah stay tuned later this week great and so people are saying write me a dating bio and it would be what funny or cheesy yeah well you could you can say you can say write me a dating

profile uh make it romantic. And then you'd read it and be like, make it funnier, and it would adjust it. So it can be anything. And it's also helping people with the chat, like opening lines. Give me a good opening line. Oh, wow. Okay. And some people are saying it's helping them get more dates quicker.

But then you're going to go on the date with this guy. It's almost catfishing because you're going to go on the date. You've got none of the wit. You've got none of the wit in the chat that was given to you by a computer. But just go to the bathroom and say, oh, my God, give me something. Give me a topic of conversation. Or your friend's outside in a plumber's van with an earpiece. And they've got chat GPT.

And it's reading to you and you just repeat it as it's saying it. Yeah, for sure. You could memorise like five chat kind of topics. Yeah, on the way to say, give me five interesting facts about animals or something and then you just have them up your sleeve when the conversation runs dry. And then you could

be like, mid kind of date, did you know that zebra's stripes care... Didn't they just find out like, it was in the news like a few weeks ago, they found out why zebras have- Flies. Yeah, isn't it flies or something like that?

It's making it harder for the flies to land on them or something. Right. Because they're like, oh, I'm confused because it's white and black. Right. And it's all going fast because you're flying. And isn't it also the predator, it makes them hard to, it's like when they were doing those camouflage ships and they were like stripes.

It makes it hard to judge how far away they are. So it might make it a leopard lunge or a cheetah lunge. Oh, this is great news. Who had, was it Georgia Burt that had checkered vans on yesterday? What a punk. Also. Is she a skater girl? Researchers have found black and white checkered pattern will also repel flies.

So that's why she hasn't got any of the fruit flies. No flies on her feet. Oh my God, and that's why I'm utterly surrounded by them. Yeah, because you don't have any checkered or any patterns. Wow. Oh, we've got to get into that. Yeah. That's all they know.

Wow, okay. Play it. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. A mother has been labelled a bad mother. A mother? A mother. Hello,elled a bad mother. A mother? A mother. Hello, mother. Hello, father.

By her ex. But then, you know, you've got to take that with a grain of salt, don't you? Yeah. Because the ex is like. My ex says. Yeah, yeah. Anything they say. Anything.

Anything. Not a thing. I'll say it's raining, I'll be like, bull. And I'm calling BS. If they've got photographic proof, that's AI. AI, exactly. That's how good AI is. Oh my God, we all know how to use Photoshop. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, bull. I'm calling BS. If they've got photographic proof, that's AI. AI, exactly. That's how good AI is. You don't know how to use Photoshop? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this ex said that it was discovered that when she was putting the children to bed, it was at that stage that she'd order herself some takeaways so she didn't have to share it with the children, save herself some money after she'd fed them. Now she had fed them. Yep. That's a genius hack. Yeah, yeah. That's not bad hack. That's not bad parenting.

That's just sorting them out and getting them to bed and enjoying some quiet time with you and a pizza. I mean, you've decided to ruin your life by having the kids. You might as well try to salvage some sort of semblance of joy of your own. Didn't you encounter a baby

yesterday and really enjoy it? Yeah, I loved it. And then I was like, bae. And handed the baby back. Goodbye. And didn't immediately be like. It didn't make you clunky? Nothing.

Nothing. Yeah. Nothing. Nothing. Liked the smell. Handed it back. It was smiley. It was chuckling.

It was cute. It wasn't crying. It was like nuzzling into me. Didn't cry. Gorgeous baby. Babe. You just went full robot handbag. And then we went to the pub and spent all our money.

Cha-cha-cha. Because that's what I can do. So, yeah, this ex is like, that's a bad mother. And she's like, well, am I a bad mother? No way. Because she'll put their four children to bed and then order herself a little takeout.

See, you couldn't, if you wanted a sneaky takeaway like a pizza or some nonnies, if you've got to buy for four kids as well, that adds up. Young kids do that, right? Like you would have food and they'll just like end up eating your meal. Especially if it's takeaways. They won't eat what you've put on their plate, what you've

spent loving hours crafting for them to eat. They'll say, yuck. But as soon as some hot chips turn up, your hot chips turn up. I am hungry. I am hungry. Do you hide like food and stuff from your kids? Yeah.

The yum stuff. There's none of that left. Yeah, right. And then in an effort to not drink as much alcohol on a weeknight, I treat myself to a little LaCroix box. Like sparkling water. Must be nice. The flavoured sparkling water. It is nice, but there's always the dud flavour left.

I'm a lime man myself. Right. But I'll always walk in with one and they'll be like, oh, can we have one? I'll be like, that's the last one. And then I know that they're too lazy to go and check the fridge in the garage. Wow. That's where Dad's young fuck with water lives. That is your trick. That's my trick.

And that's not bad parenting. No. That's just being a holdout. Yeah. Until they start buying their own LaCroix. Exactly. It's like if we were flatting, you know, they couldn't just help themselves willy-nilly. No, exactly. I'd have to put it. It's your shelf on the fridge.

It is my shelf. Please don't touch it. Don't move stuff around. And my butter seems to have been really dug into. Yeah. But no, there's chocolates. But they've always got more chocolates than I do. Because they get their chocolates for like Easter and birthday

and then they'll just squirrel them away. I know. They don't eat them straight away. They're candies and stuff. They'll hold on to them for ages. Yeah. But we want to know if you've got a sneaky parenting move. If you've got a...

Little hack. Yeah. A little way of getting some... Because I know somebody I know would go to the toilet and lock the door and have a snack in there because it was the only part of the house where you'd get some form of privacy. The kids would leave you alone? Well, they don't leave you alone.

They're always lurking at the door. Or just like a bit of phone time. Yeah. A bit of like doom scrolling. Yeah. How do you find it? Yeah. I'd say, I'd tell my kids I had a headache all the time.

Oh, your mother suffers from a terrible chronic illness. That means I have to have a two-hour nap every day. Leave me alone. Yeah, leave me alone. I'm very unwell. Come on, come on and rub your shoulders while you try to sleep. No, no, no, darling. It's okay.

Let me rub your head. No, no, darling. I can help. Put a lock on the door. Yeah, yeah. Lock them out. So what is your sneaky parenting move? Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey.

Play ZM. Well, we are spilling all of the parenting secrets because a mum has been called out for being a bad mum. Not that I think she's a bad mum. Not at all. For ordering takeaways once her kids are in bed, which

I think is an absolute genius hack. She's done the hard yards. Hell yeah. Get those bloody little rat bags to bed and get yourself some yum-yums. Do we need to issue a formal apology because some parents have been texting saying this is prime time for having kids in the car and we're spilling all the secrets.

And we're giving away all their secrets. Well, Kelly has called in. Kelly, you've got a couple of secrets. Little sneaky parenting moves. Yeah, hi. Hi, good morning. Now, give them to us. What are they?

I've got a couple of really good ones, actually. Like, you know the birthday cake books where there's like real massive birthday cakes in there, like the pinata and the merry-go-round and stuff like that? Yes, yeah. Yeah, that one there. I just rip out all the hard ones. Like, nope.

Kelly! I love it. Yeah, and then they get the book and it'll be, like, really floppy because you just have any pages in it, but they get to choose from just, like, the swimming pool or something. Or is it just a chocolate cake with jelly on top? Yeah, I would have thought the swimming pool would have been one of the hard ones, Kelly. No, you just set jelly.

No, you just get some chocolate fingers and chuck them around the side. Oh, yeah. You've got to put that jelly in right until you're about to serve, though. Yeah. Because if you take it from a guy who put it in the night before and it melted the cake. Yeah, you're the swimming pool breach. Yeah. And what's your other sneaky parenting move?

Well, you know Mr. Whippy? He goes around the neighbourhood and plays that music. Yeah. Yeah, I just said that the music meant he was out of ice cream. Oh, you know, Mr. Whoopi, he goes around the neighbourhood and plays that music. Yeah, I just said that the music meant he was out of ice cream. Oh my God, Kelly. You need to write a book. Yeah, I should write a book, actually. They believed it

for years. That's a really popular one that lots of people are messaging in that Mr. Whoopi plays a siren to let the children know not to bother coming out because he's out of ice cream. And then just hope it doesn't sit right outside your house and then they see the lines of children. Brilliant.

Kelly, thanks. You call some messages in. Your sneaky parenting moves. Somebody said, buying groceries online and saying, okay, I'm off to do the grocery shop because everyone expects it to take ages. You pick up your groceries, they're prepackaged, and then you've got an hour just to chill. Oh, my God. So you get them from, like it to take ages. Yeah. You pick up your groceries, they're pre-packaged and then you put an hour just to chill.

Oh my God. So you get them from like the lockers. Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. And everyone's like, oh yeah, chill, we're gone for like an hour.

Like a little mini? Mum's just hooning durries in the park, probably drinking a bit of wine. Yeah, a little wine and a coffee mug, good for her.

Yeah, a bit of you time. Yeah. And also, are they saying that to the husbands as well? Must be. Great plan. That is a great plan.

All right. Very soon in studio, next flight, we're going to send a couple of contestants. Oh, yeah. Their bags are packed. We're going to send them on the next flight out of here, thanks to Grab a Seat. And we've done two of these trips already. We've got four left. So after today, three trips

left. Register at ZM Online and you can join us in studio and we can send you away. Are you going to be gifting our winners one of your Kuru Club lounge passes? That'd be very kind of you. Because I think that'd really add to the experience if they don't have a membership. I don't know if I have one of

those. Yes, you do. And you're like a gold member or something. I've got a lead. I don't. For money have one of those. Yes, you do. And you're like a gold member or something. I'm a gold elite. For money bags. Take us in. Come on. Give them a pass. Okay, if you keep this up you won't be allowed in. She's only saying this because her pass has expired so she thinks she's one of the common folks. I know she had to sit

outside. Didn't you have to sit outside the other day? Because work hadn't sorted your membership. Yeah, they let it lapse. I was embarrassed because I said, I think you'll find I do have a membership. Wow, you said that. And what did they say? I think you'll find you don't.

Well, a mum's gone viral. Her ex has called her a bad mum. But I don't agree. A lot of people on the internet don't agree. I don't think anybody agrees. You know, I'm a little white lie to the children. So, she puts her four kids to bed,

and that's when she orders the takeaways. That is genius. That's not bad parenting, that's genius parenting. We are spilling the secrets this morning. Sarah, what's your sneaky parenting hack? So, my sneaky parenting hack is I cheese-grate veggies when I cook my four-and-a-half-year-old boy his dinner.

Yeah, that's so good. The old hidden veg. Oh, yeah. What does he think he's eating? A lot of the time he'll think it's spaghetti or something in his meal, even if we're having chicken. Oh, okay. I know what it's a cheese- in his meal, even if we're having chicken. Oh, okay. And then when it's a cheese grater, cauliflower.

Yeah. Sucker. Because what we need to remember is kids are dumb. They know so much less than we do. Yeah, I'm a kid. So cauliflower and broccoli actually cheese grates down to next to nothing. You hate it when you cut your veggies and your broccoli

and your cauliflower just falls to pieces. Yeah, cauliflower rice is a bit of a banger. It's all the rage at the moment, isn't it? Yeah. You can even buy the little bags of cauliflower rice. You can. Sarah, brilliant. Thank you.

Let's go to Alice. What's your sneaky parenting hack, Alice? Morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning. I live on a dairy farm and told my boys when they were about three and obsessed with touching every button when they'd be at the milk shed that it had power on it so it was hot.

Like they'd get an electric shock. Oh. Because we've got like a button for our vet wash and if you can imagine putting water through your milk, that is not really what you want. That's going to be a couple of thousand dollars worth of whoopsie-daisy there. Yeah, so I'd just be like, oh no, hot, don't touch that. So, yeah, they didn't

touch things. And then when they got old enough to touch things, I'd say, it's all good, I turned the power off. Oh, you've got a safe face. So, yeah, I'm not really lying, you know, they just... No, you are. Yeah, you know. You're just adapting your lie, and I like it. Alice, thanks you call. R, you know. You're just adapting your life, and I like it. Alice, thanks for your call.

Ria, what's your sneaky parenting move? Oh, well, this is really from my dad. But growing up, I used to, you know, as kids, talk all the time. And so he convinced me that when you're born, you're only born with, like, a certain allocation of words. And if I spoke too much, I would use them all up for my lifetime. Oh my God, that is so good. That is so good.

That is so, wow. I wonder if he feels bad about it now. Like looking back, he's like, you know, that's. Nah, not at all. Oh, he doesn't. Nah. Right, did it, did it work? Did it work though?

Oh, for a few days. And then I thought this wasn't worth it and just kept on. Yeah, you were just like, ah, I'll just live to 30. I just said that. That is so good. That's so good, Ria. Thank you.

Some messages in. Somebody said, New Year's Eve, a brilliant hack is to put the clocks forward hours, and kids want to stay up till midnight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they can be in bed by 8.30 if you play your cards right. And then what, just get the neighbours to let off like one firework or something? Yeah, I guess so.

Hey, would you guys mind around sort of 8pm, 8.30? Just counting down. Just one of those little wheels on the fence. Yeah, that'd be real great. Just get them absolutely going. It's not a good idea to lie to children about anything. I don't agree with these parenting hacks. See ya. Don't lie about anything. I don't agree with these parenting hacks. Oh, see ya.

Don't lie about anything to your kids. It's a brutal world out there. Somebody said, um, they used to get a pack of pebbles. Yeah. And on the lawn, they'd throw them. Like pebbles as in Smarties. Smarties. Yeah.

Little chocolates. Yeah. And be like, there were 150. Count them all up and then divvy them up and you can eat them and then the kids would be in the lawn they'd be in the bedroom

having a cookie oh a little humpty dumpty that's quite genius because yeah they're like okay there's 140 and that's all there ever was

there's 10 we can't find let's keep going let's keep going let's find these smarties you need a family bag not a snack size bag. That's so clever. You want to keep them going for a while.

I tell my kids that my car doesn't play music from my phone like dad's car when they ask for songs like Old MacDonald. Oh, good. Yeah, good. But then dad could become the favourite. Well, dad, that's a risky. You're willing to run, but you don't have to listen to any nursery rhymes over and over and over and over.

Sneaky parenting, I use baby food, vegetable pouches mixed with tomato paste for homemade pizza, so I get more vegetables into them. Yeah, that's good. Oh, yeah, sneaky. This is one thing. Meat was the thing our girls wouldn't eat. Yeah. They just didn't like meat, but they'd eat vegetables.

Weird. They'd just mullet up meat and tell them it was a vegetable. Stick a steak in a blender. Yeah. They just didn't like meat but they'd eat vegetables. Weird. And then you just mull it up meat and tell them it was a vegetable. Stick a steak in a blender? Yeah. That's a vegetable. It's applesauce. That's pumpkin soup.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. The bag is packed. Is this all we're taking or is this one of your bags? This is one. Okay. This is my... She's got the energy

of a woman who overpacks. Oh, I definitely do. Yeah. But this is my carry She's got the energy of a woman who overpacks. Oh, I definitely do. Yeah. But this is my carry-on. Oh, okay. Yes. Right. And we've got it checked as well.

You've got to make the most of carry-on if you don't know where you're going, you know. Yeah, exactly. Utilise the extra 7kg. Should we have a look inside? Because I'm just worried about climate here. Like, do we have warm clothes? Cold clothes? What do we have warm clothes, cold clothes? What do we have?

Yeah, have a little looky-poo. Okay, this is... I see a deodorant. Now, that's a ball deodorant in terms of the... A roll-on. A roll-on. That'll get through the security. No, that won't explode.

No, the pressure makes the ball pop out. It oozes everywhere. That's why you put it in your carry-on, isn't it? Because the cabin pressure remains more... You don't explode. You don't explode when you go on a plane. You don't know that. You don't see the bathroom after I'm done.

Yeah, she does. Okay, so do we have warm clothes, cold clothes? What have we packed mostly? So, I kind of went strategic with this one. Yeah. Peter Alexander pyjamas, essential necessity. Gorgeous. I'm pretty sure that on the Geneva Convention is listed as a human right.

It is. Yeah, it is. Peter Alexander. Jam jams. I've got kind of just my basics like makeup, face wipes, sleeping mask, deodorant. Yeah, good. Something warm. So some leggings and a crew neck.

And then I've got some shorts and just a classic plain tee. Yeah. Dad, you're rocking a hoodie so you would be prepared if you were going somewhere slightly colder. I'm standard. So it's two trousers, a few shorts,

t-shirts, like I said earlier, New Zealand gear. He's all New Zealand made. He's dad packing. He's dad packing. He is. It's brilliant. It's brilliant.

I don't want to give too much away, but you will be landing to a mostly sunny day, a high of 16 degrees and overnight lows for the week that you're away ranging between seven and nine degrees. Interesting. Rain, precipitation, pretty good. We're in New Zealand. Yeah. It very much feels like a New Zealand climate.

It does feel like a New Zealand climate. So where are you off to? You're on the next flight out. Do you want to open up the suitcase, Sophie, and it'll give you a pretty big clue, I reckon. Sure. Have a peek around the side. What do you see?

Sophie's looking at Dad, a gasp. Draw on the floor. Oh, it's movie world. Fantastic. Is it? Is it? Is it? Let's see. Let's see.

Settings. Next flight destination confirmed. Get ready. Get set. Your location will be... Los Angeles, USA. I mean, movie land, I think you mean. Hollywood.

I was thinking Queensland. No, you're not going to Queensland. You're going to Hollywood. La La Land. Oh, my God. You leave tonight. Never been there. You've never been to LA?

No, so have you been? I've never been, no. Well, you're going tonight. It's on the bucket list, so that's crazy. You're off to Hollywood. Oh my God. You'll be staying as well at the Ramada Plaza by Wyndham West Hollywood Hotel and Suites. So you'll be up there for a conversation. It's right in the middle of it.

Right in the thick of it. Right in the heart of it. And yeah, LA. Do you know the thing about it? It doesn't get better than that, does it? Nah, LA is so much fun. Hollywood is so much fun. And also the food in America.

Jumbo size everything. Jumbo size. I hope you pack some baggy clothes. You might be coming home a slightly different size. Congratulations, guys. You're off to LA tonight. Oh my God. Thank you so much.

I'm just taking it in and going, what are we going to do? The possibilities are endless. So much to do. Yeah, all the theme parks, all the tourist attractions, the beaches. You can go out to Knott's Berry Farm.

You can go out to bloody Disneyland even. Hop, skip and a jump away from Hollywood. Well, enjoy. It's all thanks to Grab A Seat. You can grab life to Knott's Berry Farm. You can go out to bloody Disneyland even. Hop, skip and a jump away from Hollywood. Well, enjoy. It's all thanks to Grab A Seat. You can grab life by the seat. Check out grabaseat.co.nz for amazing deals on flights right now. And if you would like to win one of our remaining three trips, the next flight out of here,

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Have you ever Be honest Used someone else's Gym membership before Never I haven't I have Because I used

Aaron's I used I used Aaron's What is it Jets membership years ago. Because it's like unattended. You know that we literally know a person that's invented a thing. Yeah, we do.

He should have worked a bit harder. Because I ain't no Aaron Courtesy. The cameras like pick up if you piggyback someone in. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And they report, but she went without Aaron.

She just went by herself. But then she also doesn't look like Aaron. She went on tippy toes. I don't know if they've invented something that makes you six foot six of curly hair

and a sort of Italian nose. And a man. And a man. More importantly, the beard is the issue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there's a new app that is sort of like

an Airbnb where, say, you would rent is the issue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, there's a new app that is sort of like an Airbnb, where say you would rent out your home. It's called Athlo. It is an Airbnb, but for gyms. So if you've got a gym membership that you're sitting on and maybe you are not using it or you're taking a break, you've got an injury or whatever, you can rent out your gym membership to other people

that would sign up to the Athlo app. This is overseas, right? Yeah. Because you'd think you wouldn't be allowed to do that. No. Because it's for you and you only. Yeah. How do you rent it out?

Yeah. I don't know in terms of the security of it or if like gyms have to, maybe gyms would align with the app and say you can use it like that. Yeah. The gym would have to approve. And take a little cut? Because you've always got those times when you're just off the gym routine and you're more into food and stuff.

I call that cookie time. Yes, sorry, I beg your pardon. I'm actually in court against cookie time. Are you? Right. To be able to use that phrase officially. But you know when you're, like you say, injured or off the gym wagon, imagine if you could rent it out. That'd save you some cash.

So these partnering gyms, that is how it works. So this is currently available in London with plans to expand around the world. And F45 signed up to it. Like a body bar class, big, what is it called? CrossFit gyms. All of the kind of big major gyms have partnered onto this and they say, yeah, they get a small cut rather than you, because sometimes if I'm like away,

if I did a big overseas trip, I'll just pause my membership and save myself 100 bucks or whatever. Gyms or our gym lets you do that. You can pause like twice a year up to like a month or six weeks. Yeah, I think so. And this one instead the gyms opt in and then someone gets to

rent your gym membership and then if you're the renter I like this idea so much because you could go and like rent someone's gym membership for a week and see if you like that gym. That's the benefit for the gym

is that they're going well someone's going to come into our gym that doesn't actually go here and they're going to maybe like it and get their own membership. I do that when I go, when I've been to Australia,

I pretend that I've moved there and get the free five-day, three-day trial. But then they just pester you and try to make you join the gym. Yeah. And you're like, I'm only pretending because I'm only here for like four days. Yeah, I'm going home alone. Or they answer the phone, hello, because you'll notice the number and they'll say, is Carl there? And you go, he's dead. He's'll say is Carl there and you go he's dead

he's dead he was here he was here he's dead and now he is no longer right but then I still want to use the gym tomorrow

oh no do it when you leave oh right okay yeah oh yeah after you leave don't claim death after day one this is not a problem for me because I am a member of

one of the world's largest gym conglomerates anytime fitness anywhere fitness and this is an unpaid endorsement I drove past it yesterday it's so purple Problem for me because I am a member of one of the world's largest gym conglomerates, Anytime Fitness Anywhere Fitness. And this is an unpaid endorsement. I drove past it yesterday. It's so purple. It's so purple.

Does it not make you just want to vomit everywhere? I'm not worried about what colour it is. I don't want to go work out on the inside of Grimace. I'm not working out on the purple chair. In there, I think it's purple to make you feel like you don't want to become Grimace. You're constantly reminded of Grimace. So you're like, let's do this. Also, no body shame in Grimace, please.

It's also the Cadbury colour. Like, I'm working out inside a box of favourites or something. Another reason to just keep working out because you feel like you're in a box of favourites. No, I like my gyms. You don't need to do this because that little tag that I've broken that's supposed to be on your key ring but I broke it that I just carry around in the pocket of my gym bag

now. It gets you into anywhere. That's why it's called Anytime Anywhere. Anytime Anywhere Fitness. Les Mills for life, baby. It's classy. It's a classy gym. The inside of our gym's black. The only thing you have to focus on is

your physique. Your superior physique. Yeah, and that guy screaming at you. Yeah, yell at me. No one yells focus on is your physique. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your superior physique. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that guy screaming at you. Yeah, yell at me. Do some more stuff. No one yells at you at your gym. Yeah. I want to see guys taking selfies of themselves in the mirror.

Hell yeah. That's what I want to see at the gym. The perving at Liz Mills is next level. I want to go to the bathroom and see five different wangs. Yeah, baby. One of which is being dried with a hairdryer. And you're like, just dry it. I have seen somebody dry their pubes with a hair dryer at a gym before.

Try it. If it's not toweling dry, you've got bigger problems. You need to go see a doctor immediately. No matter how much I rub the towel on a doctor, it just won't dry. Yeah, that's an issue. There's some issues there. Huge issues. Serious issues.

You cannot try. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM. Fact of the day is about whales Okay Fascinating creatures I listened to it Regan Fraser

Well not The whale Is he the In that movie I have not seen it It doesn't look like Michael Caine He is the whale He is the whale

Yes Yeah I haven't seen it either I haven't seen it either. I haven't seen it either. He won Best Actor, though, so it must be good. It must be good. But are you sure that he's the whale? You know, sometimes it's misleading.

It could be a metaphorical thing. Well, he plays a morbidly obese father reconnecting with his daughter, and I think people refer to him as a whale. That's rough. Yeah. They had to put it in the title. Very emotionally charged. Yeah.

This is about whales, the majestic under the ocean mammals. Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, I listened to a rough podcast about the history of whaling the other day. Why did you listen to that?

That's not joyful. It wasn't joyful. Fascinating though. Whale oil. What was the gist of it? The blogger. No. Not the right wing. The right wing blog No. Not the right wing blogger.

Not the right wing blogger. Whale oil, the product that, you know, whales were harvested for, essentially. They'd eat some of them, but the predominant thing was they'd turn their blubber into oil. There's not been an oil like it since. What would you use it for? Skin?

Lubricating. Like machines. No, don't do that. Don't be silly. Do what? At the Industrial Revolution, theyating. Like machines. No, don't do that. Don't be silly. Grow up. At the Industrial Revolution, they had all these machines. And there was metal on metal rubbing.

Oh, yeah. And of course, there was, and when metal rubs on metal, friction is created. Don't want friction. So they needed a slighty lubricant and whale oil would last at extremely high temperatures, at extremely low temperatures. It was like magic. But of course it came at the horrendous cost of just brutally devastating. Whales.

It was all about that. Also, if you made oil out of the whales for burning, it was like the cleanest burning oil. You could burn it in your house and you wouldn't get any residue and stuff. Oh, right. Unlike olive oil. Very low burning temperature. Yeah, very smoky. Do not fry in olive oil.

Don't cook with olive oil full stop. You've got rice bran. It's got a very high smoke point and it tastes fine. Stop using olive oil for cooking. It's a salad oil. I use it for cooking if I'm not going hard. If you're going like low. Yeah.

Okay, forgiven if you're going low, but never put it in a frying pan, for example. Okay. It's going to smoke to a lower point. But if you had some of that whale oil. I'd give it a go. I'd give it a go, just a little go. I would have at the time, but I wouldn't now.

But anyway, they were talking about whales and calves and it got me to thinking they kept saying how they're a mammal. Yeah. And I thought, how on earth, how does the breastfeeding work? That's what makes you a mammal, the mammary gland and giving birth to live young and then feeding them. Imagine opening up the door at the Westfields Mall. At the parents' room.

Oh, I know. Blue whale. Oh, Biggie Parton's room. Largest living creature in the history of creatures. Yeah. He's like your pardon, Sue. Largest living creature in the history of creatures. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, ooh. Yeah.

Well, if it was a he, he would be bottle feeding. I don't know why I feel like all whales are males. It's because of the word male. I've just figured it out as I said it out loud. And then female also rhymes with male. Holy moly, my mind is blown. And whale. Well, today's

fact of the day is whale's breast milk is the consistency of toothpaste. I'm not going to be able to clean my teeth now without thinking about that. So it's so heavy in fat content because they need so much fat.

It's so cold and they need to grow their blubber and they need to be insulated from, you know, the cold environments that they go through. That it's 50% fat and the consistency of toothpaste. Does it have a stripe in it? It has a minty stripe. A red and blue and green stripe? A red and blue minty stripe.

One's to eradicate the tartar. One's to stop it growing again before you brush it. One's for minty freshness. How many nipples do whales have? Two, I believe. Are they real big? Like egg discs. So, they've actually got any nippies.

Any what? They've got a nipple slit, a mammary slit. Am I allowed to Google on the work computer car when whale nipples? Yes. I just have whale's breasts. Yeah. No, no, no. Because they don't have a breast. It's just whale nipples. I just have whale's breasts. Yeah. No, no, no. Because they don't have a breast.

It's just the nipples. I believe. Just the nipple. So, and also. They're on the underside. Yes. Where did you think they were? Out of interest, where did you imagine the nipples were?

I don't know. Just up here somewhere. We always have them on the underside. Mammals. In the back of the neck region. Yeah. I always imagined in the pig. Yeah. you know, pigs and cats and dogs. It's always on the belly.

It's always on the underside. I wonder if there's any mammals with breasts or their mammary glands. Okay, so the first one's an umbilical. They've got belly buttons. Yeah, well, they're mammals. Yeah, they're called welly buttons. And even though they're under the ocean and they've never worn a t-shirt Lint

Yeah Lint in the belly button It's one of nature's great mysteries It's always grey I don't even wear a lot of grey Where does it come from? So the nipples are enclosed with skin folds And they're called mammary slits

And then when the calf wants to nurse It nudges at it Stimulating the mother to expose the nipple Inverted nipples. Mammy slits. Mammy slits. And then the calf will nudge. Do you think whales are like,

wow, man, she got the mammy slits on that one. And they will. The big boy whales. So then they will nudge at it and the mother will release and then it just comes out like toothpaste. Like you're squeezing toothpaste out of a tube and the whale baby is like. That is disgusting. You have ruined toothpaste for everybody listening.

I hope you're happy. Do they like. Yeah, and then when they're finished, it just closes back over and the whale baby just keeps swimming beside their mum. Fascinating. God, imagine the blocked ducts on the whale. Like, because women get mastitis from blocked ducts. But if your breast milk was the consistency of a thick toothpaste, imagine the ducts.

Do you want to know what it tastes like? Yes. Oh, don't. It's a mix of oil, fish, liver, and the milk of magnesia. 450 calories per 100 grams. I don't think I'm going to be- Huge fat content. Yeah.

Huge calorie content. Good for keto. And over 10% protein, too. Oh, my God. So, you know, the bodybuilders would be absolutely, absolutely into it. There's some F45ers that would be looking for this washed up on the beach, won't they? Oh, yeah. They'll probably be swimming out, and it'll be one of the F45ers that will be looking for this washed up on the beach, won't they? Oh, yeah.

They'll probably be swimming out. It'll be one of the F45 challenges. Jump off the boat and swim for 45 minutes, get under the whale, nudge at the mammary slit, engage, have the toothpaste, and just be absolutely balked by the time you get out. Fascinating. So crazy. Today's fact of the day is that

whale's breast milk is the consistency of toothpaste. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-de from the Thursday dating app. Yeah, so the Thursday dating app is the app that you can only go on on Thursdays. You do your mahi, you start your chats and you've got to wait a week until you can chat again. Is that right? I believe so.

Time to marinate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's actually been quite popular because it gives people a bit of a break. Otherwise, it's just sort of like relentless. Well, that feature is a speed dating feature that is kind of like modernizing the speed dating concept. Right.

It's an event that they hold every Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. You've got to sign up for it earlier in the week. And it's on the app. You don't go to some bar. No, no, no. You go on the app and then you kind of have really quick conversations like you would at speed date, with people without seeing any of their photos first. All their profile pictures are hidden for the first three minutes of messaging.

And then once the three minutes are up, they ask... Can I say hello and then come back in three minutes and see the photos? Yeah, hello, dot, dot, dot. Wait, go do some dishes. Always looking for a shortcut, you. Always looking for a shortcut. Just sit into life a bit more.

Once the three minutes are up each person is asked if they would like to continue the conversation and if they choose to then you can see all their information and be like

oh my god he's a dog what a mistake and go wow oh my god I'm kidding oh my god what a dog

wow I was saying it's aiming to foster like a real low pressure environment three minutes this chat's not popping off see you later you're gone move on to the next one I think that's cool Wow. I was saying it's aiming to foster like a real low pressure environment. Three minutes. Yeah, right. This chat's not popping off.

See you later. You're gone. Move on to the next one. Right. I think that's cool. But yeah, the fact that it's on Thursday nights, which is when the Thursday app pops off. Another one is compliments. It's not that good.

You can just send compliments to people. Yeah. It's like a message before you match feature. Right. To try to see if there's anything there before you add feature. Right. To try to see if you like, if there's anything there, if we add them to your thing. And then the last new addition to the Bumble app is recommend to a friend.

So if you're on and you've got single friends and you see someone, you're like, look, not for me, but I reckon that's for Sally. Do you think people are going to share, they'd want the hot guys for themselves. Yeah.

I'll pass on the dogs. But Sally's got different tastes to you. Yeah, that's sad. That's what you mean. So I think if I was single, all my friends would be sending me like the big massive dudes, the hairy dudes, the beasts, the lumberjacks. I think you've been able to share profiles for a while though, right? Yeah, I think so.

Maybe on different apps you can. Because it's normally like, oh my God, look who's single now. Yeah, it's basically like allowing you to be a bit of a cupid's arrow right saying like i'm gonna hook you up so you can go on how many people would you actually trust to like set you up on with someone so many of my friends they just know what you want as long as they're big gruff yeah my problem is though like i've got lots of single friends and they're always like some of them are older and aaron's a bit older than me they're big, gruff units. Yeah. But my problem is, though, like, I've got lots of single friends, and they're always like, some of them are older, and Aaron's a bit older than me.

They're like, doesn't Aaron have any friends that he can, like, hook me up with? Yeah, but if they're Aaron's age, that's what people say to me. I say, if they're my age and single, it's probably true. That's a red flag. Also, most of Aaron's friends are, like, artists, actors, creators. I'm like, you don't want that. You don't want that.

Truly not. We're getting to an age, Han, where we I'm like, you don't want that. You don't want that. Truly not. We're getting to an age, Han, where we need to look at sugar daddy. Yeah, I can hook you up, but if you don't ever want money and stability in your life. So, I mean, there's always, because, you know, parents love the whole setting up dates. Yeah. And they're the worst for that, surely.

My God, who said to me the other day, oh, when I was visiting my parents down in the Wairarapa, my mum was, we were at this antique store and they had all these vintage prints by this artist that I really love. And then she was, I was saying, oh, I love this. And she liked what I was buying. And I said, oh, I love your treachery cloth.

I love this. I've got all of them. And she's like, oh my God, I'm going to hook you up with my son. And I was like, aw. I'm already engaged. I didn't say that. It was such a nice day as well. Well, you like got a photo? I'm going to see if up with my son. And I was like, aw. I'm already engaged. I didn't say that. It was such a nice day as well.

Will you like get a photo? I'm going to see if this guy's a dog. I did say, I've been with my fiance for 12 years, but I'm always open. He's mucking around. Never close the doors. But you don't know, that could have been an amazing match. He could have been my one. He could have been your match.

Carl went at the executive producer desk. You were saying your friend was, who did this? You shared a profile? No, so my friend, our friend group's quite big. One of my friends was on Tinder and was like,

oh, that looks like exactly who another friend of my group would love. Okay. She sent the profile the old-fashioned way, just like a link or something. Yeah, yeah. And now they've been together for like, I think two and a half years or something.

That worked. That worked. I love stories like that. I saw a thing, because I'm doing a wedding tomorrow, I saw a thing that people are doing. At a wedding, you make a little special,

slightly special chair for the matchmaker. Isn't that cool? So like if you're at the table, a little thing on the back being like, she's the one who introduced us. Oh, okay. I thought you meant they were matchmaking at a wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no, no.

Oh, right. So if someone introduced you, you're like, this is how we met. Yeah, yeah. So you just give them a little special thing at your wedding day saying like, thank you to Vaughan for introducing us and you have a little thing. Or you can have like a cutout of a phone with Tinder on it and be like, thank you very much for Tinder. Thank you, Tinder. thing else and you have a little thing. Well you can have like a cut out of a phone with Tinder on it and be like thank you very much for sending this out.

Well I thought maybe we could take some calls and find out if you've been set up and it's worked. Like maybe someone assumed oh maybe you'd like this person sent you on a date with them and even if you weren't sure it's worked out. Or maybe you've been the matchmaker as well. Maybe you've set

some people up. You just knew that they'd work together and they did. Yeah and you were right. Because I wasn't set up. Me and Aaron weren't set up. Were you've set some people up. You just knew that they'd work together. Yeah, and you were right. Because I wasn't set up. Me and Aaron weren't set up. Were you and Sade set up? Nah. I went in. I hunted.

You hunted? I hunted. You were like a shark. I saw him walk in a room and he ducked through a doorway and I went, that's mine. That's mine now. I think I did shotgun and I put my thumb on my... I was like a black jaguar behind a tree.

I went... And then you went down and begun the hunt. Low valley to the ground. Okay, 0800-DARZATM is the number. We want you to call us. You can text as well, 9696. Has a set-up date worked out? Talking now about sharing profiles on dating apps

and setting friends up, has a set-up date ever worked out. Talking now about sharing profiles on dating apps and sitting friends up, has a sit-up date ever worked out, whether it was a dating profile or just old school? Yeah. Now, a lot of calls, a lot of text messages. Let's go to Kay. Your mum set you up. Yeah, so my mum, like, I'm Sri Lankan,

and, like, my mum does arranged marriages. Right. So we believe in that I guess You sound sold on it man You sound like wow this is the way to go I believe in that I guess And yeah so she put out an ad in the Sri Lankan newspaper and she got all these like

letters and stuff and she picked out my husband and we've been married for five years now. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It worked? It worked. Yeah. So your husband, did he live in Sri Lanka, saw the ad?

Yeah, his mum saw the ad and then wrote back to mum and then she went through all the, they do you know, they do, like, compatibility and stuff. And she looked at the horoscope, and it turned out we were compatible. And then, yeah, she was like, do you want to talk to this guy? And then talked to him, and now we're married. So what if you talked to him and been like, he's not for me? Would mum have been like, okay, next? Yeah, yeah, she would have.

Okay, that's cool. But you liked him. Yeah. He was good. He's good. Yeah, yeah, she would have. Okay, that's cool. But you liked him. Yeah. He was good. He's good. He's good. He's good. He's good.

That's so cool. Mum. See, mums know, don't they? Mums know. Sri Lankans mums know. They do. Kay, thanks so much. A couple of text messages.

My best friend's flatty added me on Facebook while I was living in Europe. Was just like, I've been told to add you on Facebook. Oh, instructed. By my flatmate, who is your best friend. When I got back, my best friend took me to meet him. Long story short, we're now married with a one-year-old. Oh, beautiful.

I love that. Beautiful, I know. Talking about getting set up. Yeah, if getting set up or you setting up has worked. Jessica, who set you up? So it was one of the friends I was studying with at the time and she

just asked me one day if I've been going on a blind date with one of her friend's brothers and I said, sure, why not? And so we went out for dinner. Jessica, Jessica Jessica did you do a stalk first? Yeah because it's a bit loose like my uni friends friends brother. I would be like okay good so you did what did your Instagram stalk? It was Facebook because it was a while ago. Oh, Facebook, okay. Yeah, so, yeah, we went out for dinner and hit it off.

So we've been together for 12 years. Oh, nice. And we've got two kids plus one on the way. Oh, my God. On the way from where? Yeah. On the way home from the internet. Where's the kid been?

Three kids. Your life's kid been? Hurry, kids. Your life's about to bloody change, isn't it? How pregnant are you? Oh, not very. Just like early stages. Wow. Yeah, yeah. We got a due date?

Yeah, not till October. Oh, October. Wow. How many on the way? One. Oh, I thought you said three. I was like, triplets. Three.

Oh, God, no. Oh, you, triplets. Oh, God, no. Oh, you will have three. One, two, three. This is how children work. You accumulate them. You don't get rid of them as you get more. I thought you were about to have triplets. I was like, oh, no, thanks. Oh, God, no. No, no, no. Best of luck for the rest of the pregnancy. Yeah, good luck.

Thank you for your call. Let's go to Monique. Monique, who set you up? Monique! I bet set you up? Monique I bet it wasn't Brandy Because Brandy said That boy is mine Bam 90 song reference

Shazam That was pretty good I don't know where Monique's gone We'll finish up with some text messages Got sat next to each other At a singles table At a wedding Oh my god

I would not go to a wedding Singles table 12 years later 3 kids 10 years married Guess you could say it worked Yeah it did table at a wedding. Oh my God, I would not go to a wedding. Singles table? Twelve years later, three kids, ten years married. Guess you could say it worked. Yeah, it did. It was set up there. My sister set me up with her workmate on a blind date. Eighteen years later, we're married with two kids. Eighteen years later, time flies. Sorry,

just on the wedding thing, that'd actually be a great place to meet people if you were single because you're looking your best. Yeah, true. Everybody is horny. Horny. Are they? That's what I want. I want my own day.

Yeah, and they're all, like, glammed up to the nines. Glammed up. Good. There's some social lubricant in there. Well, I believe Monique is back. Good morning, Monique. Monique is back. Hi, guys.

Monique. Monique. Monique, no problems for a while there, but we got you. Now, Monique, who set you up? So my best friend kind of came around just to hang, and she was like, oh, I'll set you up with my cousin. And I was like, oh, you know, that's weird. And so we went to his work and kind of just bombarded him at his work.

She was like, have a look at him, see what you think. Have a look at him. Have a look at him. You know, you don't want to be set up on a blind date. You've got to have a look first. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so I had a look and I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, cool. Yeah.

And he had no idea, obviously. He was oblivious. He just thought his cousin was coming into his work with this girl. Yeah. And so, yeah, she set up like a dinner at her house, and we both went. What was for dinner? Oh, it was vegetable soup.

It was amazing. No, that's too sloppy. It's not a dinner. It's too sloppy. But mind you, it would be a great way to do it, because if a deal breaker was for you, their table manners, you'd take them to a dinner and serve it. Oh, yes.

You can't have a slurper, eh? No, you don't want a slurper or a loud blower. No, I didn't think of that. So it was good. It was all right. Yeah, and then get some other, you know, you want maybe a steak or something that involves a knife and a fork to see that they can use those. Yeah.

They don't scrape them on the plate incessantly. And so What happened? How long have you been together now? Oh, no, it didn't work. No, I'm just kidding. The eating got me. No, so we set up talking all night. They actually went to bed because they got sick of us, her and her husband.

So we set up talking all night and we talked about our wedding day, about how many kids we wanted. This was literally the first day that we met. And now we've been together 14 years with four kids. Oh, I love that. When you said you discussed your wedding day, when the actual wedding day happened, whose imagination was it more like? Whose idea?

Oh, no, it was all me. He was like, I want this. And I was like, no want this and I was like, no, no. I set the bar really early and let him know, you know, this is what's happening.

If you can deal with all of this then it'll work and he obviously went, oh yeah, okay. Brilliant. Love that. Monique, thanks for your call. Oh, I just realised

I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards. Well, that means the show's backwards then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse. Well, should we speak in reverse and hopefully they'll work out the other way? Sarah Desi, Sarah Desi. Give us a review. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.