ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 24th August 2022

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

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The ZM Podcast Network. Hello, welcome to the Fletch Vaughan and Hayley show. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the McDonald's app and earn rewards on your coffee. Now, I don't know if it's because we're drunk on Nostalgia and the Wiggles concert that we went to on Saturday night, but Hayley and I are going to take another trip down nostalgia lane. Vaughan, maybe. He doesn't like to commit this far to things.

This far out. My Chemical Romance tickets. March, they're playing. Now, are we GA? Yeah, it's in Outer Fields, Western Springs. So it's all GA. Well, you've got some time. Is this the one that was supposed to happen and then COVID got a cancer?

Yes. Green Day, Jimmy Ear World, My Chemical Romance. Yes, but. I had tickets to that one. Yeah, but this, I don't think they've announced anyone else. It's just My Chemical Romance. Well, they don't want to commit too soon. It is a wee while away.

It's March. You don't want to commit? No, I won't commit at this stage. You're lying. When are you going to commit? In February. But then I don't even... It'll be all sold out, maybe.

But you had so much joy on on your face I was just intimidated By some I know that was because It was wholesome family fun But I used to get intimidated By the emos outside BK on Queen Street No no no

We're good people We're good people I just wanted to go To the borders you know Read some books and shit Why was it always BK It was BK Menace Mall In Wellington as well

Yeah right We used to call them Mall rats Yeah They hang out there I don't know why It was a BK. I was more of a private school emo.

You know what I mean? We didn't hit the mall rat. I was sort of an upper crust emo. Yeah, rich emo. Too well for yourself emo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like actual black nail polish, not just vivids. No, no, yeah, actual, actual.

Like I'd go get them done, you know. Nice, nice. Good for you. You'd go get them done. Nah. No. Go and do a nail salon black. What about this one?

Black. Black. Thumb? Black. Black. All of them black. All of them black. Are we going to get a little bit, because this is what we regretted last weekend with the

Wiggles, is that we didn't get dressed up. I know. Yeah, I'm thinking we need to do all black. Do a bit of email. Yeah. Eyeliner. Some eyeliner. You can have some guyliner.

Yep. I'm going to go all out. You can dye your beard black. No, you're not selling me on it. You're not selling me on it anymore. You'll love it. You'll love it. We'll get him there.

I'll do a smudge. I'll do a little Kat Von D smudge. You remember that emo party we had that all the photos always pop up? We looked great in it. I bet you're not. But it was too close to the actual time of emo to be really well known that it was an ironic party. It just looked like we're a pack of fucking dicks, really. Pack of fucking dicks.

Broadcasting the show today from our lovely Palmerston North studios. Yes. I don't think we've, have we ever done a show from Palmerston North? I feel like we have. One. Many years ago. Moons ago. Moons ago. Many years ago. Moons ago. Moons ago.

Many moons ago. Yeah. But thanks to everybody that came to Banger's Bingo. Ended with a big bang. With a big bang. Quite literally. Not our fault, though. No, no, no.

An intersection outside. There was a traffic accident. Yeah, somebody ran a red, didn't they? Somebody did. I don't know. I was doing some amateur police crash investigation on the scene. I offered my thoughts to the local law enforcement when they arrived. Oh, did you?

I bet they love drunk people on the side of the road. I wasn't drunk. I was more or less sober. Right, okay. And I offered them my thoughts on the matter. Right, okay. And, you know, just tasing everybody involved. Of course, that's precautionary.

Me, I tase now, questions later. Yeah. Jesus. Yeah, there's a bit of debris to clear up from that. She was all go. Yeah, but a fantastic night at Banger's Bingo. Two more to go in Auckland. We've got another central one and one out west,

so you can register for that at ZM Online or just text BINGO to 9696, and we'll fire you back the link. Hayley's sick today, so she's not with us today. RIP. Oh, that sounds like a death notice. Yeah, she is. It sounds like she's dead. Yeah, no, she's not dead.

She's fine. Hayley's no longer with us. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, Western Australia are trying to steal our hospo workers. Bloody Australia. Bloody Australia offering you bloody great wages and all year round beautiful weather. But sharks.

Oh, sharks. Go to Western Australia. Oh, sharks. Sharks everywhere. Well, sharks might make the list because it's the top six reasons why hospo in Western Australia is a bad idea. If you're thinking about it, just don't.

Play it. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. The temperatures across the country. Timaru, currently the coldest place, 0.7 degrees. Okay. The warmest, Banks Peninsula, 16.9. It's actually not a bad... 16.9?

Not a bad city, yeah. Banks Peninsula? Banks Peninsula. Banks Peninsula. It is 16.9 degrees. So if I was to be waking up in the French-inspired settlement of Hakaroa, I would be balmy warm this morning. Well, yeah, but it's only 11 in Christchurch.

I don't know how that works. Microclimate. It's a microclimate. You said classic microclimate. As we look at our MetService, that's our government's, that's the government's department. Is it the government's? I think they own it, don't they?

Well, then it's our weather. We own it. I don't know. Well, there's a bit of a weather. I wanted to talk about a weather scandal that is gripping Hungary at the moment because they had a public holiday just a day or two ago. James St. Stephen's Day. One of those white people names.

Yeah, right. St. Stephen's Day. One of those white people names. Yeah, right. St. Stephen's Day. And they have a massive fireworks display along the Danube River that flows through Hungary. Which at the moment is insanely low, I've heard. Yeah, well. One of the many European rivers. Thanks, global warming. Very low.

But yeah, it's a beautiful city. If you've ever been, like Budapest, you know, you have the parliament there, the old parliament building, and they had planned 40,000 fireworks to be shot from 240 points along a 5 kilometre stretch. Wow. But their weather service, their Met service, the meteorological service, said

guys, there's a big storm coming. And so they cancelled the fireworks, which are normally watched by about 2 million people. Okay. And then the storm didn't come. Oh. And then so...

I tell you what, if they hadn't warned them, that storm would have come. That's Murphy's Law. Yeah, that always happens. Well, they fired the head of their meteorological service and the deputy just because of the fireworks, because they wanted to see the fireworks. So they got the weather calculation so wrong it cost them their job. Yeah.

Whereas I feel like if people at the Met Service were losing their job for the wrong weather forecast, that would happen like they'd be firing people every day, right? Yeah, farmers would be demanding heads. Who is the head of NZ Met Service? Who's the head? Do you want someone on the chopping block next time it rains on a barbecue?

We're familiar. Here we go. Stephen Hunt, Chief Executive Officer of Met Service. He's on LinkedIn. I'm not going to request a friendship. Unendorses skills. It's not his fault it rains. He could have given me a bit more of a heads up.

I feel like it's impossible in New Zealand to be that accurate. He was in the Defence Force. Oh, okay. Yeah, this guy's got quite the history. Right. He was a pilot in the Defence Force. Wow. Okay.

He knows how to fly a plane. Okay, great. Wing Commander. Does he know about carrier operations in the UK? Right. Does he know about cumulus, numulus? Oh, he'd know what clouds you can fly through. Showers and stuff.

Does he know about showers? Yeah, yeah, he knows. Okay, I trust him more now. Okay, great. Trust him while he's behind. Been on both sides of the clouds, you know. I wouldn't trust someone that's only been on, like, underneath the clouds. Yeah, right.

Well, you've been on both sides of the clouds. We flew above the clouds yesterday, literally. But I'm totally in somebody else's hands. Oh, right. Yeah, right. So you're saying he's been in control on both sides of the clouds. We flew above the clouds yesterday, literally. But I'm totally in somebody else's hands. Oh, right. Yeah. Right. So you're saying he's been in control on both sides of the clouds. Well, yeah, he has.

He knows what it's like. Well, good morning to Stephen Hunt. Good morning to all of our weather forecasters, too. Do a fine job. He's the Ashley Bloomfield of clouds. Is he? Right. When you think about it, he's the top dog in that position.

Great. 14 past six. Next on the show. The shocking number of Kiwis wanting to change jobs who are, you know, on this... I'm not going to say this side. I don't hear... It's not over, is it? The pandemic.

Oh, you were about to say this side of the pandemic. No, it's not. Yeah, but people may be just pleased to have had a job, but how many people actually want to change that job now? All right, it's next. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. If you are thinking you want to change jobs,

you're certainly not in the minority. No. A quarter of Kiwis, according to a recent survey, that looked at sort of like well-being and how you're feeling and how work impacts that, one in four Kiwis said they're looking to change their job in the next year. Being stressed, tired, overworked, and seeking validation in new jobs are the main reasons. Right.

And is that just, they don't mean they're going to go to Australia. They just mean they just want a new job here in New Zealand. Yeah, no, they just want a new job. But then, yeah, some people will be, no doubt, heading overseas for the higher wages because that plays one part of it, but certainly isn't the only thing. 91% of people who were surveyed said the increased workload had impacted them physically. And 87% said psychological and emotional impact of an increased workload. Oh, right.

Yeah. And that might be because some people have already left. Yeah. I mean, no one ever really wants to work, though, do they? Not ideally. Not ideally. I mean, ideally, it would be great just to not. Draw me out the perfect day, like four or five hours in the office isn't part of it, you know?

No, it's not, no. In case you're wondering, sleeping. Yep. Hot breakfast. Yep. Eating. Eating, a lot of eating. A bit more eating.

A bit more relaxing. Probably some video games. Yep. Maybe a movie. Yep. Eating. Eating. A lot of eating. A bit more eating. A bit more relaxing. Probably some video games. Yep. Maybe a movie. Yep. A bit of screen time there. So what you're saying is a lockdown. That does sound what I'm describing could be my perfect.

Yeah, not leaving the house. That would be a great start. Do you think that's ruined it for us? Like the pandemic and the lockdown has made us like resentful of leaving the house. Leaving maybe. Well, some people wanted to leave the house more than anything, didn't they? Yeah. They probably loved getting back to the office.

But the main group affected 18 to 30-year-olds. And it's just the challenge of getting that right work-life balance. Right. That we talk so much about. And I'm sure there's some old mates that are like, you can't make it to work and blah, blah, blah. But let's remember that's the generation that's also just like dropping dead of heart attacks and stress-related illnesses. So probably not best to follow their lead on a work ethic.

Yeah. If you want to live a long and fruitful life. Well, maybe if somebody's listening now, Vaughan, and they're on their way to work, could you give them a motivational pick-me-up for today? Probably just head home. I was expecting something you'd see on a coffee mug. Oh, what does it say on my coffee mug?

I didn't bring my coffee mug in. Somebody's actually put a label maker on this one. Don't overthink shit. That's really good, but I mean, that's also easier said than done, isn't it? Yeah. No, something, you know, like, gives you wings.

I'm just looking at Jared's coffee cup, but it's not a coffee cup. It's just a can of Red Bull. That's a Red Bull, and that's what gets Jared through work every day. All right, it's 20 past six. Next on the show, our silly little poll. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Fletch, Vaughan 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 today.illy little poll. Silly little poll today.

Do you prefer, dear listener, Instagram follower, person, summer or winter? Now, I think we might have had slightly different results if we'd asked this in summer. Because you know how, like, we're getting towards the end of winter now, so you're sick of winter. You're sick of it, yeah. It's cold, it's damp. But then some people love it because of the roaring fires in the Fascian. Yeah. I'm not saying the entire change, but it might have, you know,

might have seen, I think, a 5% to 10% change. Okay. The swing voters, if you will. Yeah. Summer or winter. But, you know, when you're in summer and it's been hot and you're sweaty and everything, you're like, man, I'm craving a little winter right now. Yeah.

When spring and autumn are your ideal, you know, are your ideal seasons. Yeah. A little in between there. So do you prefer summer or winter? Summer, overwhelmingly decimating winter, 82% in favour of summer, 18% in favour of winter. Right. Do you think we should ask again when it's one of those real humid, yuck. February nights.

Heat wave, yeah. And, you know, the fans have all sold out at the warehouse. Yep, fanning it in. Yep, we'll ask then and see what people say. Christine says, beaches, barbecues, concerts, holidays, swimming outdoors, tans, evenings outside, love it, can't wait. What more could you want? Look at her.

She's like an ambassador for summer. She'll be happy. She'll have those letters on her mantelpiece. Live, life, love. Yeah. Laugh, love. Live, life, love. Yeah. Laugh, laugh. Live, laugh, love. Lounge.

Lounge. Yeah. Libido. She makes the most of life. Yeah, she sure does. Apart from in winter, she hibernates. Yeah. Alex says, winter purely for those sexy, rural, frosty mornings that turn into beautiful, still, sunny days.

Oh, people are very poetic here, aren't they? Yeah, very poetic. Painting a nice picture. Yeah, that's actually a very good call. Those intensely still mornings. Oopsie, clicked out of the window. Heather says, summer because I'm a teacher, and that means I get six weeks kid free.

Oh, yeah, good stuff. Yeah, that's a good call there, Heather. You work hard during the year, though. Yeah, they photocopy all the lessons, all the sheets and stuff. Oh, I'm sure there's more to it than that. I mean, I don't know. And I certainly don't care to know. I love my two children and that's it.

Yeah, yeah. I've got no time for anybody else's children. They're all horrible little monsters. Jackie voted for summer, longer days. Yeah. They used a horrible little monsters. Jackie voted for summer longer days. Yeah. They used a lot of letters there. What did we say at the start of the week? Because we noticed it was getting a bit lighter at this time of the morning. It'll be

five weekends and then it'll be daylight savings end of September. That'll be here before you know it. Emma says it's got to be about the three B's. Beach, booze and barbecues. Yeah. What were you going to... Because you made the hand gesture for boobies but you were holding it like that.

Beach balls. Most people when they go boobies they go front on boobies. You went underneath. That's not what I would say. Like some big hangers. Yeah, no. That's beach balls.

Which also starts with B. Teeho says, I love summer but I love skiing more. Oh, yeah. So there you go. They've got their little what they love about winter. That's sitting on the fence. Yeah, it's an absolute fence sitter.

Lynn says, kind of both. I function better when it's cooler. Plus, there's something about snuggling up in a scarf, gloves, and a warm coat on a cold winter's morning, but how good is a summer evening? Again, that's a fence sitter. Yeah, you've got a big fence-sitting energy there, Lynne. Big fence-sitting energy.

That silly little poem. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hi there. We there. Bloody Western Australia. Bloody, bloody tourism Western Australia.

Launching a $4 million campaign to lure hospitality workers from New Zealand. $4 million. $4 million. Like lots of ads like come over and yeah, I'm guessing it's going to be targeted advertising. Right. On social media pages. Well, that's no good. Yeah. Oh, radio's no good. Yeah.

Oh, radio, TV and online. Promotional campaign, which will run on the East Coast and in New Zealand to encourage people here to reconsider Western Australia as a place they could really get blah, blah, blah. So domestic arrivals into Western Australia from July at 77 pre-pandemic levels, which is about the same as Sydney. Melbourne lacking behind at 70%. What do you mean when you say 70%?

You mean it's of people who were going to Western Australia. Right. But, of course, alongside getting the tourists back, they need to get people working in hospital again. Yeah, yeah. Well, same here. Your cafes, your bars, your restaurants. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. This. Well, same here. Your cafes, your bars, your restaurants. Exactly. Exactly.

Yeah. This is a problem around the world. So, that really making a play for New Zealanders. So, I've got the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia

to do hospo. Yeah, stay here because we need you. We need you. Number six on the list. They call drink, trim milk, skinny milk.

Yeah, they do. We don't like the S word. Because you've got to say, I need a skinny mocha. Yeah, I'll have a skinny mocha. Skinny mocha butt. Yeah. And not a trim mocha. They won't even know what you're talking about.

No, they've got no idea. And they drink beers from those little glasses. Oh, you're silly. You're silly. One's a duvet, a doona is a duvet, and a schooner is a little beer glass. Yeah, they call a duvet a doona. Why don't they get a big one? Yeah, I don't know.

They get a jug and then they drink it out of those tiny little glasses? So annoying. So much pouring. Number five on the list of the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia to do hospo. Redback spiders live in the coffee beans. Yeah, they love nestling in them, don't they? Yeah, so when you go to pour them into the grinder, the spider will jump out. And eat you.

And eat your face. Yeah. And then your face. Yeah. And then you're going to have an eye patch, which could look cool and really has sort of a pirate aesthetic, which is hot at the moment. Just stay here. Don't go. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia

to do hospo. Remember all the worst people that you went to school with? They live in Perth. They do. They're making insane money in the mines, so now they're as obnoxious as they were, but now they're rich and obnoxious and probably have an Aussie

twang to their accent and won't treat you very nicely when it's taking a little bit longer because the milk froth won't milk froth up the skinny milk. Okay? So don't go. Just stay here. Stay here. Number three on the list of the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia to do hospo. Have you seen the weird-ass hours that the shops are open over there?

They don't open on Sundays. They don't open on Sundays. It's weird. So each, and you're only allowed to open one late night a week. Oh, okay. Yeah, you guys are working hard in hospo. You've got some unusual shopping hours for your retail and your supermarket shop. And they're all open all wiggledy-piggledy hours.

Just stay here. Much easier. Just stay here. Stay here. Number two on the list of the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia to do a hospital. It's another milk-related one. Okay. They don't have oat milk over there.

They have snake milk. Oh, right. They milk the snakes. And you've got to milk them in your job in a hospital. Yeah. Right. They've just got a cage of snakes out the back. They have little nipples?

Yeah, it's their teeth. Oh, okay. You milk the teeth. Yeah. Right. Have you seen those ones where they get the venom out of the snakes? Yeah. And they put them against the cup.

You just do that straight into the cup. Oh, right. Okay. It froths quite nicely, though. Right. But still. Is that still a dollar extra? Because sometimes they get an oat milk mocker and it's like a dollar extra.

It's four dollar extra. Four dollars extra. It should be cheaper than milk. What? Snake venom? Well, no, I was just meaning oat milk. Oat milk should be. Oat milk should be.

Yeah. Well, you don't have to pay the farmers, do you? No, exactly. You can get up at any time of the day and milk an oat. Not like a cow. You've got to get up with a crack of dawn. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six reasons not to go to Western Australia to do hospo,

you're actually further from the best parts of Australia than you are if you just stay here. Like, that's actually so true. Like, you think you're moving to Australia. You're moving closer to India, basically. Because a flight to, like, Perth, a flight to Bali is two hours. And to Sydney, it would be five or six, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. Perth to Sydney is four hours ten. And to Sydney, it would be five or six, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. Perth to Sydney is four hours ten.

Auckland to Sydney, three hours forty. Right. So you're going to save yourself half an hour on a trip to Sydney. Yeah. Something to consider. There you go. Time is money after all. That is today's top six. I've just been reading about the modern family's dining habits.

Okay. The modern family's dining habits. The modern family's dining habits. Okay, the modern family's dining habits. The modern family's dining habits. And it seems that eating with your family might be, well, not on the way out, but not as popular as it used to be. Because I was, when growing up, I would always be amazed at friends

that it would be dinner time and they could just go and take their plate and sit it on this lounge suite or wherever they wanted to watch TV. What about the people that took their dinner to their room? Yeah. That was wild. But we were always like, everyone sits at the table, you eat and then

you do what you want. In summer you'd eat outside, but you'd all sit at an outside table. Most of the time you'd just sit at the dinner table. We watched TV. We always watched the news. You'd all sit at an outside table, but most of the time you'd just sit at the dinner table. Yeah. We watched TV. We always watched the news.

Yeah, because eating dinner in silence is weird. Yeah. That's a weird one. Yeah, and my parents didn't really want to talk to us. They were sick of you. That had enough. Yeah, same. That had enough.

But apparently the average person that was surveyed in this spends three meals a week with loved ones. Three meals. But does that mean- I think we would have had at least six meals as a family a week. Yeah, we would have eaten every meal. Yeah. Like together.

Yeah. Unless you went out. I just allowed for one. I just allowed for one rogue one. Like if you were at a friend's place or something. Oh, obviously. Yeah. But yeah, if we were at home, we ate every meal at the table.

So does this mean that families are not eating meals at tables? So it means families are eating meals at different times. Someone might be working late. Right. So they don't get home, so everybody else just eats dinner and dinner's in the oven. When they get home, there's a little bit of foil over the top of the assume. And you've got to microwave it for a minute and your meat goes rubber. Yeah. Yeah.

So there's that situation or a family will eat without the kids because the kids might have had sport practice or something that saw them home late or half of the family might be out doing things so the other half just kind of eat at home or just have some bloody spaghetti out of a tin and some scrambled eggs.

That would have been the dream. Then I could have got away with not eating peas. Because I hated eating peas. I'd always try and get rid of the peas. But, yeah, apparently compared to 50 years ago, the number has just dwindled right off. Right. But what about you and your house now with the girls? Well, I mean, last night's a terrible example

because I was in Palmerston North and they were in Auckland. So they ate without you. Very hard to eat when you're multiple hundreds of kilometres away. But we eat dinner together every night. Right. Even if they're having something different. Do you still do that thing where you, like, tell Dad one thing you like about him? No, no, no.

No, it was, what was your favourite part of the day? Yeah, oh, that's it. Not tell Dad one thing you like about him. God, I just, look, kids, it was, what was your favourite part of the day? Yeah, that's it. Don't tell Dan one thing you like about him. God, I just, look, it was a hard day. Tell Dan one thing you like about him, please. No, we don't do that. Right, okay. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

HBO's House of the Dragon, which is out now on Neon. It premiered on Monday. I saw the In America Alone on HBO. The premiere had just nearly 10 million. It's the biggest, right? The finale of Game of Thrones had 13. Oh, yeah, but it's the biggest premiere. Premiere, yeah, yeah, yeah.

100%. The first episode of a series. Yeah, great start as well. Great first episode. After the first episode, I've read multiple articles that are like, here are 85 things I noticed in the... And I'm just like, okay, I've caught up about 20 or 30 of those

and I thought I was doing pretty well. Might need a rewatch. But yeah, so your chance to win thanks to HBO's House of the Dragon. Coming up at 8 o'clock this morning, if you can dodge our fire-breathing dragon, we've had reports of Christmas. More reports of Christmas. Our Christmas penetration level coming up.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. More reports of Christmas. Our Christmas penetration level coming up. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In four months it will be Christmas Eve. Oh yeah, it's the 24th today. Oh what? That is nuts. Community notices on the way as well. The weird and wonderful things that you see on your

local Facebook pages. We'll get to some of those but next on the show there was some flirting yesterday. Oh my gosh, some flirting. And I tell you what, it got us a $5 discount. It wasn't me. Because my flirting's worth at least $20. Would you not flirt for $5?

You'd just pay that, would you? I don't flirt for $5. All right, it's next. Do it like... I'm trying to more. We're hurting. Do it feature. Play.

ZM's Fletch Vaughan Ailey. Play. ZM. We're joined through a feature. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan Ailey. Play ZM. We're joined in studio by the seductress herself. Oh my God, thank you. If you want to know what her flirt is valued at, $5. $5 on her flirt value. You were very proud of this in the group chat yesterday. I was, I was.

Because, you know, I've been in a relationship for a long time. It's good to know that you still got it. Yeah. We've been together for like six and a half years, so I've been out of the flirting game

a little bit. Yeah. But I'll tell you what, I'm back, baby. Now, what did you tell the people? No finer place to get back into it, by the way,

than regional New Zealand. Yeah. No finer place to test out your big smoke seductressness. Do you not think this would have happened in, say, a Wellington, a Christchurch, or an Auckland? No finer place to test out your big smoke seductressness. Do you not think this would have happened in, say, a Wellington, a Christchurch or an Auckland?

Oh, I'm sure it would have. Or even a Hamilton. Thank you. I'm not judging. I'm just saying that it's good to put the training wheels back on, hit your regional spots around New Zealand for a little flirting. Yeah, right. My boyfriend's going to be stoked to hear this chat.

But tell us what happened. So I don't have a work credit card. I only have my own credit card, but I am the tour manager. I get everyone A to B. I make sure we're here on time. And there was a shortfall between the parking situation at the hotel. And I, stingy, didn't want to pay for it. Yeah yeah because if you have to claim anything back through work on your credit card it takes like eight eight months or something it's ridiculous yeah in the back couldn't be bothered so I sweet talked flirt you flirted

she told us she flirted I said hello oh what do you? I'll just give it to you now. Yeah, as long as it doesn't exceed the financial value of $5. Yeah, no, and I flirted my way into a free overnight charge. So we were able to, that park that we drove out of this morning at 5 a.m., that was free. Yeah, you're welcome. Right at the door. You're welcome. So that would have cost us $5 to park that car there. Yeah. But we could have parked on the side of the road. Shut up

Vaughn. Which might have been closer to the front door actually now that I think about the setup of the Yeah, there were literally like a hundred parks out front for free. Hey, hey, hey, shh. Why did it cost to park in there? There was as many parks as there were rooms. Do you think he just

does this to everyone to make them feel good? Maybe he does. Hey, don't you say that to yourself. He knew what you needed. Yeah. And gave it to you. But we wanted to ask the question this morning, have you flirted to get something, maybe a discount? An upgrade?

Or an upgrade? Because that's the classic, you know the whole at the check-in counter? For a flight? Although it doesn't work. Nah. It doesn't work. I mean, maybe if you're a 10, it works. I wouldn't know. I'm sick of 10s getting everything.

Give it to a 2. Yeah, but then are you going to upgrade a 2? If you worked at a checkout for an airline, would you upgrade a 10 or a 2? A 2. You're absolutely lying. For two reasons. Okay. They need it.

Yeah. And there's no way people in business or premium economy deserve a 10 to look at. They're already there. Yeah, they're there for sleep. They're there for business to land refreshed. If there's a 10, they'll be putting them off. They'll not go to sleep as early. I'm doing them a favor in the scheme of things. Right.

I'm helping them out. Right. Okay. So they're not going to be distracted by the 10. I'm doing them a favour in the scheme of things. Right, okay. I'm helping them out. Right, okay. So they're not going to be distracted by the 10. I'm going to chuck them a 2. Right. Yeah. Okay. I mean, you always do back yourself to charm the older lady.

Oh, absolutely. So has this ever worked in your favour before? But it's a charm. It's a charm more than a flirt. Right, okay. Yeah. Well, we could say when have you charmed or flirted your way into something. Oh, with the old girls. To something free.

The old girls love me. I don't even know why. Okay, but what have you got out of these old girls that love you? Well, it's more what I'm giving them. You know, just a bit of a thrill. Yeah, right. Making them feel young again. Yeah, a bit of a flashback to their glory days sort of situation.

Yeah. All right, well, 0800 DALSATM is the number. You can text as well. 9696. What have you got with your flirt or your charm? Have you got a discount? Have you got something for free? Maybe you're one of those tens that can get a free condiment

sauce rather than paying. Like at the fish and chip shop, you don't have to pay the dollar for the ripped tin waddies. A dollar? More than that. They're a dollar for those little squeezy ones now. How much are the tins?

I think at least $3.50. What? Are you kidding me? Nip next door and get a miniature bottle. Yeah, but could you do you reckon you could back yourself to charm

or flirt? No, no, no. They're hard ass people the people that run the fish and chip shop. They've seen it all. Alright, well 0800 Dials at Emerson

number 9696. What did you get for free with your flirt or your charm? Maybe you got a discount. Can I just say this is the second time that we have stayed in the same accommodation as the Wiggles. Yeah. Because yesterday, who saw the purple Wiggle checking out? Lockie, you can't wait on the social media desk. Purple Wiggles. Yeah. Because yesterday, who saw the purple Wiggle checking out? Lockie, you can't wait

on the social media desk. Purple Wiggle. Yeah, they love a quest, don't they? They love a quest. I don't know. I think they love

a service department. I think they love a service department. I think they love having a washing machine. Yes, you've got to wash your purple skimmy.

Oh, by the way, do you have a washing machine that's also a dryer? What, at home? No, in the service department. No, there was one on top of the other oh no i had a jewel i was like how does it go from really wet to really dry i've

seen the washer dryer is it magic i think it's a space-saving thing it's not as effective as a two separate machines oh right okay so i was like that's pretty amazing of an invention yeah and then did you wonder if one of the wiggles was in your room the night before? When I went into my room, I had a lingering scent of deep heat, like a liniment muscle rub. That sounds like Lockie. Well, yeah. Or Anthony. Could be Anthony.

Well, Anthony's the older of the wiggles. He might need a rub down after a big wiggle. A deep heat rub down. Yeah, he might need to just rub down the bits and pieces, the joints, maybe some anti-flam. Well, especially after back-to-back shows. Well, producer Anna yesterday was sorting out parking and according to her,

flirted her way into a free $5 overnight parking charge and then also just told us that you tried to flirt at the dairy for a free plastic bag and they weren't having it and then wanted to charge you 80 cents. Yeah, so I went from the lofty heights for free $5 to trying to get 80 cents and being harshly rejected. What kind of plastic bag was this for 80 cents. Yeah, so I went from the lofty heights for free $5 to trying to get 80 cents and being harshly rejected. What kind of plastic

bag was this for 80 cents? I don't know. I'm hoping it was an eco-friendly paper compostable jar. It doesn't sound like it. So we want to know from you this morning what you've got from Charming or Flirting. Whether it was a discount or something for free. Jasmine has called up.

Jasmine, what did you get after flirting or charming? Hi, good morning. So I am one of five kids. So my father and my papa taught all of us kids how to change a tyre, check oil, check your water, all that kind of stuff in a car. We are self-sufficient that way, right? Yeah.

But every time I go to a VTNZ, I actually have to go to a mechanic because it's something I can't fix. fix, I play the damsel in distress. So if the oil's slightly low or they come to me and they're like, actually, your bulb's broken or something like that, I go, oh, that's a bummer. I'm really excited about that. Could you just fix it for me? That would be absolutely amazing.

And do they normally do it yeah absolutely oh wait so this is like a place where they're not actually doing repairs it's where they do the warrant of fitnesses and you might have one little thing wrong so you get them to yeah i get them to do it so they'll change a bulb or they'll pop up my oil and they'll they'll charge me a little bit for it but it's at like a discounted rate because I'm out there for a warrant. But, yeah, they'll do it every time. I just, oh, that's amazing. I appreciate that so much.

Thank you so much. Do they have the bulbs on hand, or do you have to nip off and find a bulb? No, sometimes they've got, a lot of the times they've got the bulb, but they always have the oil and, like, the top-up fluids and stuff like that. Yeah, right. So they just grab it off the shelf and do it again and again. Jasmine, dare I say you're being played for the fool here? I'm not charging you for something you could probably do for cheaper at home. No, it's hard to...

I've charged the bulb many times, but it's okay. It's sort of a case of like, do I really want to do that myself? Oh, same stuff like this. Or can I just do it while the car's up and takes five minutes? Okay. While they're underneath it. All right. Jasmine, thanks.

You called some messages in when you flirted or charmed your way into something free. Someone said, I'm not sure of the modern equivalent but 30 years ago my brother used to say at the checkout counter, did anybody ever tell you you look like Meg Ryan? Worked every time. Really? There was always a discount in it for him.

So, I don't know what the modern equivalent of, do you look equivalent of does anybody ever tell you you look like Meg Ryan? Do you look, anyone ever tell you you look like Kendall Jenner? Sure, yeah, sure. Nobody looks like Kendall Jenner, do they? Meg Ryan was an everyday gal.

Yeah, yeah. Alex is called. Alex, what did you charm or flirt your way out of? Hey, so I went to join a new gym the other day, and there was this really cute girl standing behind the counter, so I just started chatting her up and wandering around the gym, showing me where everything is. And then she said, so the joining fee for the gym is $80-odd,

and your key tag to get in is $20. Yeah. I just went on talking for a little bit, and I asked her, oh, do you reckon you can just drop that fee for me? Like, I'll be in here every other day. We can have a chat. Like, do you reckon we could just wait for it?

Oh, yeah, okay. Oh. This is the joining fee to Jim's bullshit. Like, never pay it. Never pay it. Oh, Vaughan, give Alex this. No, like, one of these handsome listeners, you can hear the handsomeness coming through., never pay it. Never pay it. Oh, Vaughan, give Alex this. No, like... Give Alex this. One of those easy...

Handsome, listen, you can hear the handsomeness coming through. We can hear the handsomeness coming through, Alex. I can feel it. But never... If you're thinking of joining a gym, I'll tell you right now, don't pay a joining fee. Because one week they can afford to do it, and then the next week it's not there. It's not a fee that exists. Tell them that the other gym down the road was going to let you join.

No joining fee. Yeah, right. Yeah, but I mean, if Alex was a two and not a ten, it might not have worked. Yeah, I know, but this is just a general sort of a PSA for anybody listening. Never pay a gym's joining fee. It's a dumb... They're going to get money from you henceforth for eternity. You're quite passionate about this, aren't you?

Yeah, well, I've never paid one. Yeah, right, okay. I don't pay a joining fee. Alex, thanks for your call. Some messages through. Somebody said, this one's just for Vaughan. Every time I go and do a trade order at Mitre 10, I give the ladies on the trade desk a little bit of a flirt,

and I'll get myself builder's pencils. Ooh. Ooh, yeah, good. Beanies. Ooh. Maybe a trade T-shirt. Yeah, a trade T-shirt. It's the pencils for me.

You had me. Yeah, absolutely had me. Because they're really square. Big pencils. You've got to be careful sharpening them, though, because you'll crack the lid. Yeah, right. And then it cracks all the way down.

I'm like, yeah, nightmare. Tradies know what I'm talking about. Tradies know what I'm talking about. I flirted so hard at the gas station when I realised I forgot my card. The cashier ended up paying for my petrol. Surely only on a temporary basis. Yeah, you're going back to repay this cashier.

That's cash out of their pocket. That's not just like giving them a discount. Yeah, that's a move from a hot 10, though. Yeah. Someone said, charmed my way with a customer to take me on his boat for the weekend. Greatest fishing trip ever. Okay. There you go.

I sweet-talked my friend into a club six years ago for cocktails when it had no food booking, no entry policy. Oh, okay. So I didn't have a booking, but really got a go in there. Yeah, right. Got a go in there for the free drinks. Maybe they just had the room, you know. It's better to have someone in the seat than no one at all.

Someone said, does crying count? I cry to get myself out of all sorts of trouble. Yes, like a speeding ticket or a parking fine? Yeah. Yeah, okay. They turn the tears on. Not quite. Yeah.

That's quite the opposite to flirting, isn't it? Yeah. Still works though, doesn't it? Yeah. Well, nobody wants to deal with that awkwardness. No, no. Get rid of it. Alright, the latest community notices of weird and wonderful things that you see on your local pages are next on the show.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. The community's most interesting people. Often quite prolific on these sorts of pages with their thoughts and little bits and pieces they might be selling or they've lost something or they just want everybody to know something.

Let's pop down to Huntley. Often bypassed now. Well, that's the thing I haven't been through Huntley for eons. I missed the mural of the top twins. I do too. That was absolute artistic. Ten out of ten. And some classic New Zealand league players who found themselves coming from Huntley.

And then lying on the picnic table pretending that the chimneys are your penis. Yeah, that's a pretty good one too. That's a good one too. It's a great time in Huntley. It is, yeah. I'm just saying if you've got the time, why are you in such a hurry? Yeah. Bypass through Huntley.

Yeah. Sarah, however, in Huntley is missing a red brown chicken. Okay. Gavin Place area, maybe around Russell Road properties that back onto Gavin Place. Also, please keep an eye out for my beloved chicken. God, no wonder we bypassed Huntly with just chickens roaming around the streets. Well, they are dinosaurs. Yeah.

They are sort of a dinosaur, but everybody just chimes in on how her chicken has probably been eaten. Yeah. But, you know, there's a massive difference between how her chicken has probably been eaten. Yeah. But, you know, there's a massive difference between a laying chicken and an eating chicken. I'll tell you, because people often say about my chickens, or would you eat them? I was like, there just wouldn't be any eating on them. Plus you name them. They're a laying chicken.

You name them after the Kardashians. Yeah, that's true. And also you're down to two now? Three. Three. Who's left? I worked this out the other day. Caitlin.

Yep. Rob. And Kim. Okay, right. I believe those are the three. Yeah, right. You've had a couple of deaths, haven't you, recently? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'd always want that. Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. I appreciate that. Sorry, I'm sorry.

I appreciate that. From the Waikuku Beach General Store, they shared a post. Help, can someone in the community go to New World and grab six to eight bags of cheap fries from any place? I ordered everything else except the fries. Now, that's a store that buys from another store and then puts it in their freezer. You know, my wife didn't know that dairies and small super-eats and stuff did this. If they were short on something, they'd go to a supermarket. I mean, they probably do their monthly orders, but then if they run out of something, they always go and do, like,

if you see someone, like, at Pack and Save with, like, eight trolleys and they're all filled with the same thing. Yeah, they've got a dairy. They've got a dairy. Yeah. Because, yeah, we saw one and I said to Sade, oh, that's someone buying for a dairy. And she's like, what do you mean? I was like, yeah, well, they're going to go and sell that at the dairy. And she's like, they can't do that.

There's absolutely nothing stopping them doing that. They paid for it. From the Cambridge, New Zealand Grapevine, your online community information page. Today I went to the hospice op shop in town, came out 15 minutes later, and they had sold my son's scooter and my daughter's had a $4 price tag on it. So these people scooted down to the op shop.

And they left them there. They parked up their scooters outside. $4? And they sold her son's scooter, and her daughter's had a $4 price tag on it. This is great hospice op shopping, though. As soon as something turns up, they've got a price tag on it. This is great hospice shop shopping though. As soon as something turns up, they've got a price tag on it. Yeah, that's great.

My son's beside himself. It only had it for a month. It was his fifth birthday present. It was personalized with his name on it. How much would it have been worth? If it only had it for a month? I don't know. It's brand new.

They're selling it too cheap. And would you buy a scooter with another man's name on it? Although it might have just looked like a brand name. Yeah, true. If you were the person who bought it, could you please message me because we'd really want it back. And would you buy a scooter with another man's name on it? Although it might have just looked like a brand name. Yeah, true. If you were the person who bought it, could you please message me because we'd really want it back. It wasn't cheap and he absolutely loves it. I'm so bloody mad at the ladies in the shop.

They didn't ask anyone in the store before putting a price on it. I get people leave junk outside all the time, but not brand new things. And my kids were in there wearing their helmets. It's all very strange. They said that they were sorry and they would look out for a second-hand scooter for him to replace it. No, they're going to buy him another one. I reckon they steal it off

the next kid that comes around. It's a cycle. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody, this is from the Kmart and a warehouse hacks in Daycore, New Zealand page.

Oh, okay. It's Timothy sharing a little bit of a hack for Kmart. Yeah. If you're looking to meet a woman, don't go to a bar, go to Kmart. I've just been in the female to male ratios at least 10 to 1.

Okay. And they're already looking for things they don't need. So, it's a little bit of life advice. Yeah, right. I was waiting for a, you know, take the chair legs from this bedside table and glue them onto like a Swiss ball or something and then you've got a Swiss ball holder.

No, no, he was just how to find a forever person. Right. At Kmart. And finally from the Dunedin Buy, Sell and Trade page, Ria is selling a massaging chair attachment. Okay. Now this is one of the ones you put on the back of your chair. It's got an elastic band that goes over the back.

So you lean into it and it's got those two things that go. Oh, yeah. Nice. Ria writes, I bought this from the warehouse. Still in excellent working order. I'm finally selling it due to getting a fella. Oh, so he's on back massages. Or she wasn't using it as a back massage.

Oh, my innocence came through there, didn't it? It really did. Your naivete. My naivete. Yeah, your naivete really showed through there. But Jesus, she's perfect. Oh, God. You want to watch yourself on that.

That's not gentle. That's thumping it. I hope the people at the returns desk at the warehouse wear latex gloves and a mask. Yeah, but then... That's filthy. Yeah. Disgusting, some people. You'd know.

Would you? I don't know. Those are today's community notices. If you see anything on your local Facebook page, screen cap it. Crisp cap it. Screen cap it. Not screen camp it.

Yeah. Screen cap it and send it to ours, FEHZM. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan Ailey. Well, listeners to the show will know that we've talked, Vaughan and I, at length about our body pillows that we've talked, Vaughn and I, at length about our body pillows that we've ordered online. Yeah, mine's waiting for me at work when I get back.

Because mine came from their Petone Briscoe space. Yours was shipped from Christchurch, even though you ordered yours before me. Oh, I knew when I read that story about the inter-islander having a breakdown. I was like, better not be my pillow. Yeah. It sounds like it's

my pillow because i don't think my pillow is here until tomorrow now how did you get your pillow before me and i ordered before you i i wow i guess they respect anyway anyway we're excited about our our body pillows that's not what i need help with what i need help with is because you know when we stayed at this hotel in crash itch with the body pillows weeks ago, I Googled body pillows. And I'm assuming you did the same. And we were looking for different pillows. And all my targeted advertising has been lately, ever since, is pillows. Yes.

King-size pillows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Normal-size pillows. Memory foam pillows. Google something once. Yep. And then, yeah, that's your targeted advertising for eternity. Triangle pillows, every kind of pillow

you can imagine all the time when I'm scrolling. So here's my question. Does anybody listening know? I mean maybe there's no answer to this, but how do you stop like I've bought it. Like leave me alone internet. How do I tell the internet I've bought what I googled?

Like can you do that? Do I have to what I Googled? Like, can you do that? Yeah. Do I have to email Google or something and say, stop, is there a setting somewhere? It's very annoying. I mean, maybe they just stop, when I ignore them, maybe they just die off after another week or so, do they? Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I'm just looking at what I've got for targeted advertising at the moment.

And I've been getting this for months, but I don't know. I'm just looking at what I've got for targeted advertising at the moment. And I've been getting this for months, but I don't know. It's Monday. It's get your team organized and efficient with monday.com plan, track, manage. Is this an attack on my time management? It certainly sounds like it is. I have been getting that targeted advertising for ages. Also, trust me, I've never Googled how to be on time because I simply don't care. You don't care. You don't care.

I think it knows. The party won't start until I drop in. Maybe it's synced up to your work calendar and it just sees you missing events. It sees that it's empty. It's like, why aren't you adding any events to your work calendar? I don't know. So somebody's message saying apparently if you click the three dots, you can hide similar ads. Yeah, I don't want to see this anymore.

Well, that's life changing, isn't it? Yeah. And then so you click that and you're like, I'm hide similar ads. Yeah, I don't want to see this anymore. Well, that's life-changing, isn't it? Yeah. And then so you collect that and you're like, I'm done with this. Yes. Don't show me pillows. Yeah. And then it'll just be whatever else you've Googled. Gotcha. I've done that before, but it kept showing me like ads. Yeah, right. Okay.

Well, that could be a little life hack there. Yeah, okay. Bloody annoying. We've had reports of Christmas creeping in. Yeah, sneaky. Sneaky little Christmas. Well, it's Christmas Eve in four months today. It's Christmas Eve. Next on the Show at South segment,

it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We'll give you the current Christmas penetration level. You ain't nothing but a dog player. I get it. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden H give. Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley. Play ZM. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Ho, ho, ho, ho. Yeah, I don't want to panic anybody, but it's been a pretty busy week for reports of Christmas. A lot of reports creeping in. This is a segment of the show where we take a look at the Christmas penetration level leading up to Christmas. 122 days, 16 hours and 6 minutes away. Four months away from Christmas Eve.

Yep, and here we go. Alistair got some targeted advertising on Instagram for a Christmas tree shop. What? Real authentic pine trees. Is this something you've got to book? Do you have to book a tree? Well, I don't know. We've got a place just up the road from us.

You've got a place? Yeah, I've got a place. You've got a cobbler and a tree place? I've got a place. I've got a place. I've got a cobbler and a place. Okay. A tree place.

You go, you go for a little walk around. You wave your big flag on the stick. Yeah, right. Pookie Road in Kumu, if anybody's keen. Yeah tree place. You go for a little walk around. You wave your big flag on the stick. Yeah, right. Pookie Road in Kumu, if anybody's keen. Yeah, right. So they grow them, and then Christmas they cut them all down, and then they start again. Yep.

There's a whole process to it. You've got to trim them and shape them throughout their growth. It's kind of weird. It's like if you went to the supermarket and you picked your chicken. It's just weird. Or picked your cray. Yeah, yeah. You go to some restaurants and you pick out the cray,

the shellfish you want to, or the crayfish you want to eat. I find it weird. I prefer to just buy mine pre-cut on the side of the road where I don't have to think about the murder, you know? No, you don't know if those are free-range. Oh, they could have been caged? They could say they're free-range Christmas trees, but they could have been caged Christmas trees.

Oh, yeah. Sort of binded into a small cage of that shape so they grew into that perfect shape. I prefer mine of free-range organic. Well, this year I'll certainly be looking out for the SPca tick on my christmas tree yeah absolutely caged one but uh yeah uh targeted advertising saying uh don't forget to get it get a christmas tree from us wow christmas season and there's a christmas tree on someone's front porch sitting in a bucket of water so maybe they do drop offs as well right. Right. For that one. Also, this is massive news.

The Farmers Santa Parade Auckland Facebook page 13 hours ago said, it's the most wonderful time of the year with even more special, and it's going to be even more special, Sunday the 27th of November is the return of the much-loved annual Farmers Santa Parade. Fletch looks miserable. He's putting it on his calendar. He's going to be out of town that weekend. Give me that date again, Chris.

It's so noisy. God, I want to get the water cannon out. They finished right outside my house. Yeah. And it is unacceptable. 27. So much joy and loudness. I do not like it.

If everybody could just keep their joy to a minimum. What date again? 27th of November. It's the return of the Santa parade. Don't be home. That's what I'm putting. Don't be home today. Don't be around.

Let's go to some more local spotting. Nicola said for Christmas penetration, count them seven, seven, I repeat, seven shelves of Christmas fabric at Spotlight. Oh, they're getting in early. And it's already on sale. Yeah, but if Mum's got to get some Christmas attire ready, you've got to get the patterns.

You know, you've got to start sewing now, don't you? Yeah, if Mum wants a special Christmas dress or a family Christmas tree, a family Christmas outfit rather. Cameron. Just on that, does Spotlight do, because, you know, a lot of Mums go to Spotlight and Boomers, do they, Spotlight, do a lot of cat prints?

Fabrics with cats on them? They've got so many fabrics it's not even funny. Yeah, right. Wouldn't even know where to start. Okay. With the fabrics at Spotlight. Cameron says, my mother just bought these. Christmas mince pies that expire before October.

What? These look like a really yum, fresh. Oh. Freshly made Christmas mince pie. Are they not left over from last year? No, no, no. They are freshly made this season. Master Gingerbread is the brand.

They look delicious. Six Christmas mince pies. And yeah, they did right. Their best before date is the 29th of September. Right. So that means, you know. They're cashing in on the early eaters. Yeah, exactly.

You're not buying them to keep them for Christmas. Absolutely not. Also, just a report from the capital city in Wellington. Thanks to Anna, who said the Christmas pop-up shop opened again a few weeks ago. Oh, right. So they've popped up well out from Christmas. Someone said, this is absolutely bloody cheeky for a mighty ape. Popping into my inbox, advertising advent calendars.

You know, your Marvel advent calendars, your Lego advent calendars, your Harry Potter. Your more bougie advent calendars. We've got to be weeks away from supermarkets stocking those. They love to get in so early with those. Yeah, I think they kind of get them out there so you can do all three months. Nicole says, our local lawyer's three months leading up to Christmas. Yeah. Nicole says, our local lawyer's office have a countdown for Christmas.

What, to get you off your DUI after the work function? 130 days till Christmas, 130 days till Christmas. No, no mention. They're just saying who else is looking forward to Christmas.

Oh, right. I thought they were, yeah, trying to get you off something. Get you off your Christmas charges, whatever they might be, while Santa breaking and entering. Am I right that guys in and out of houses

on Christmas Eve? He doesn't have a key. So plentiful. Well, with all that in mind and 122 days away from Christmas. Elves, get busy. Right now, Christmas penetration is at

8.5%. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, coming up on the show, a lady was sending out a wedding invite and it was one of those online wedding invitations. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You get an email, you click a link, you say, yes, I'm coming.

No, I have no dietary requirements. You don't need to find a stamp to send a thing back? No, sir. And then you are RSVP'd. A lot of them have links in them. She copy and pasted the wrong link in. Uh-oh. Yeah.

I can see where this is going. The link was to something you're not sending to your auntie to invite her to your wedding. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. A lady doing her wedding invites wants everyone to be there for a special day. She has admitted that she has put the incorrect link in her wedding invites. Right.

It's all the rage now, the online. And like you said before, they're so easy. Because you just click RSVP and done. It's all done. So I believe she was setting up, she found this wedding invite she liked, and you had to fill in all of the name, date, website address, and they didn't have a website address set up for their wedding. Right. So she, as a joke, put in Pornhub.com.

Okay. As a joke. And then at the end of it, when they're like, okay, done, publish. Yep. She doesn't go through and do the very important proofread. Right, yeah. Always do a proofread. Always, especially on an invite. Yeah.

Do a proofread. So then clicks done. Yep. And ladies and gentlemen, the link in her wedding invite, as it goes out to everybody, is Pornhub.com. Right. Now, if you don't know what that is. It's recipes. No, it's where you go along, you take something you already own, and you porn it for money.

Oh, yeah, right. Okay, yeah. P-A-W-H-U-B. Okay, sure. Yeah. That's what that is. Did she not think, was she under the impression that it wouldn't be in the invite, the link? She was just...

No, no, no. She was going to, but it was one of those things where she was doing the invite and it got to a mandatory, have a website in. Oh, right. Because I'm imagining if you took out the website, you'd have to reformat the invite. Right. She just wanted it simple as that. And I'm imagining that we're going to set up some sort of website short link situation

where you could go along, maybe find out more details about the wedding. But no. And then she wasn't at that moment thinking about who that invite would go to, was she? No, she was literally just using a random pretty, I mean, if that's the first website that pops into your head. But grandparents get this. Mum and dads, aunties and uncles.

Yeah. Like your friends would find it funny. Yeah. But maybe not your parents. Nah. No. Not so much. So wrong link, wrong place, very wrong time.

And very embarrassing and it's gone viral. That's what we wanted to know this morning. If you've ever popped the wrong link somewhere. Because it's very easy if you're multitasking at your desk and you've got lots of windows open and you've previously copied and pasted something, and then you're just saying, oh, well, I'll just paste that now, and sometimes it doesn't work.

Or you know when you make a tiny URL, you take a big, long URL and you take it to one of those websites that changes it into a short one so it takes up less space, and you just copy-paste, and it processes you and you never see what you've copied again. I always check. I always paste it into a browser and you never see what you've copied again. I always check. I always paste it into a browser and check. But not everybody always checks. People could be in a big hurry.

We'd love to know when you put the wrong link somewhere. Yes. The more unprofessional in a professional spot, the better. The better, yeah. I mean, I don't think anybody's going to be sending adult sites out to clients. You don't know that. But also, who's copying and pasting those sites? Who are just bookmarking for later? I don't think anybody's going to be sending adult sites out to clients. You don't know that. But also, who's copying and pasting those sites? Who are just bookmarking for later?

I don't know. An email going with yourself where you bookmark your favorites, send yourself the links. But so much working from home, people are like, oh, I'll send you the link. Yeah. And it's the link they were sending their friend group chat previously, which could have been way worse. Very inappropriate.

Well, yeah, we wanted to see if this has ever happened to you this morning. 0800 dials at Emma's number. Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696. When did you attach the wrong link? Let's go to Estelle. Estelle, when did you send the wrong link? Hi, I sent the

wrong link when I was a prefect at my Christian boarding school in year 13. Wow. You ticked all the boxes. I wonder what that link is. What did you send? I was trying to send an email to all the years 12 and 13

and staff would have tended our ball. We had hired a company that was doing photo booths. So instead of putting the bar out and then.co.nz, I wrote.com because I was just typing it up real quickly

without password for it and didn't really think much about the link and just clicked send. I didn't think it would make it into a link. I kind of just said, oh, you've just got to put this site.com. And anyway, thought nothing of it, went back to class he would make it into a link. I kind of just said, oh, you've just got to visit this site.com. Yeah. And anyway, thought nothing of it, went back to class,

and all of a sudden had everyone in fits of laughter trying to see their photos. And I was like, oh, my goodness, what is this link? And it wasn't like a popular adult site. It was a non-popular site, so it wasn't blocked on our school server. So, yeah. Wow. Whatever the photo booth company was called in New Zealand, .co.nz, if you got it wrong and put

.com, it took you to adult material. Yes. Wow. And because it wasn't a well-recognised one, your school filter hadn't filtered it out. Yeah. And I'll reiterate again, this was when you were a prefect at a Christian school. Yeah,

a small boarding school and I was in the office and I was like, my issue is more important than any of your issues. Move out the way. Oh my god, that is so brilliant. We're never going to beat that. That's just absolutely forward day. You've got to see that. I may have

had to have seen the funny side of it though, right? Absolutely hilarious. And I was so nervous and everyone was just laughing at it because they knew it was something that I'd never do on purpose. But all the boys got a bit of smack for a long time saying, we've been watching. Yeah. And did you get in trouble from the school?

No, they laughed. They thought it was hilarious. And so I was very grateful because that could have gone bad real quick. Yeah. I just heard from a friend of mine, Jenna, who had the same thing happen with the dot-com situation. She worked at Vic Uni

and you made cards to hand out to the kids who were possibly going to be going to Vic Uni in Wellington. Oh, yeah, yeah. Spell check, made sure the card was all good, but she put the website address as victoria.com, not victoria.ac.nz. Oh, yeah, yeah. Spell check, made sure the card was all good, but she put the website address as victoria.com,

not victoria.ac.nz. Oh, no. And victoria.com is Victoria's secret knickers and panties and bras. Yes. I mean, I reckon they got some good sign-ups, some good enrolments. Oh, yeah, great enrolments. For uni that year. Hey, Estelle, thanks for your call.

Let's go to Panika. Am I saying that right, Panika? Hi. Hi. When did you send the wrong link? So it was actually my gran. Oh, no. She had sent me a message on Facebook,

and she put the word family.xxx for kisses. Oh, no, but that's a website thing, isn't it? Instead of.com, you can get.xxx. Yeah, it came up blue, so I clicked on it because I wasn't sure what it was. And I was like, what is my gran sending me? Has she been hacked? Like, what is going on? Oh, no, she was just sending you innocent kisses.

So if you're going to end a sentence with the word family and then a full stop, make sure you've got a space before XXX. Yeah. Yes, because the space was not very family-friendly. No, we don't need to go into that. We can imagine what that was like. Yeah. Amazing.

Hey, thanks for your call. Some messages in. Oh, my God. So many. I'm going to have to unlock my computer again. I'm still, like, absolutely reveling in the fact that a single former at a Christian boarding school sent an erotic linker out Yeah, so good I was 44 years old when I learned about the control V

Oh, really? Click the Windows button and V Oh no, sorry, Windows button and V On a Windows computer, click the Windows button and V And all your recent copies come up So you can select the one you want, not just the last one. Oh, that's good. Also, that's led to a couple of whoopsies.

Yeah, I bet it has. Because you click one and click and then it changes it back to that and then you control-paste send. Right. Some other stories about the wrong link at the wrong time. I like pens. I collect pens, commemorative pens. Okay. And someone said to me, you want to go and. Commemorative pens. Okay.

And someone said to me, you want to go and check out penisland.com. Oh, yeah. Okay. But that's penisland.com. And I just met with... Yep. Met with something not commemorative pens. But wait, is there a penisland?

Is it.co.nz or something? I-O-A-dot-orgie. Dot-orgie? Orge. Oh,.org..org. Org. Maybe. Pen Island. I don't know if you're going to be able to go there. Penisland.

No, it's penisland.net. It's Pen Island Pens. So they must have put.com, but there is a penisland.net. Oh, okay. So.net is what you're after. Literally, look at that. It just looks like Penis Island. An island?

Oh, my God. I don't think those are real. I think those are fake. Well, I'm certainly not clicking on it. No, don't click on that. Somebody said, I accidentally sent a link to a website. I was the HR manager at a big company at the time, and I accidentally included a link to a website in a company-wide email.

The link wasn't supposed to be the best ways to resign, but that's what I actually put in there, which coming from HR, I suppose, is slightly more acceptable than someone who would actually be resigning. Some other links. Somebody said that they sent an online shopping link and a court letter to a perfect stranger, but they had to have official communications with them.

Oh, okay. So they had to send them a letter, and they copy and pasted a link in, but the actual thing was a shopping link. Mine was the tiny URL dilemma. I went and copy and pasted what I believed a URL that I had just found into tiny URL. It popped me out the tiny URL. I clicked the copy button, went back to my CV and pasted

it in. It was a link that my partner had copied on the computer to a specific adult video. And I sent that to 20 job applications. Oh no. No, no, no. I've had a link come through.

The pen island on Urban Dictionary is a thing. You say to people, if they like your pen, they say, where did you get that from? Because, you know, sometimes you get a really nice pen from, like, Warehouse Stationery with the flowing ink. Yeah, yeah. And if somebody ever says to you, where did you get that from? You're like, oh, I got it from Pen Island on the website.

And they go to it, and then they're confronted with naughty things. Or you say, what did you get up to this weekend? They're like, I went to Penn Island. It's so great. You should try it. You should go stay there one weekend. Right. So it's a bit of a joke website.

Yeah, gotcha. Yeah. Somebody else said on the links in the wrong places, my family sent me a funeral link because I was unfortunately overseas when my grandma passed. Oh, yeah. I started watching the funeral and I was like, I don't recognise any of these people.

I had been sent a link to a perfect stranger's funeral. Oh, thoughts and prayers, though. Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. I hope someone was recording that so you could watch it later. Okay.

So, I mean, you're not alone if you've done that. You're not alone. Yeah, Fact of the Day is next on the show. We've been doing all this late night talking. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Ailey.

Play ZM. Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. Today's Fact of the Day is about long straight roads. Okay. Long straight roads. We wouldn't have many of those in New Zealand. Let me tell you about the longest straight on the State Highway Network. It'll be in Canterbury. State Highway 7 through Colverdon in the South Island

has the longest straight section of New Zealand Highway. Can you be a little bit bent in South Canterbury or North Canterbury? Like have a little bit of bent in your road? Everyone's a little bit bent. Yeah, everyone's a little bit bent. A little bit of a twist, a little bit of a turn. But like, you know, sometimes there's a little railway crossing and you jutter over that

to the left. Do they count that as a straight road? Or is that a break in the straight road? I don't know. Okay. You don't know the rules of what as a straight road? Or is that a break in the straight road? I don't know. Okay, you don't know the rules of what is a straight road. It just has to be straight, right? I'm looking at it now. It looks like, oh yeah, I mean, this is insanely straight.

And long. And long. I'd say it starts at the intersection of Rotherham Road South. Yeah, you're saying that right. Rotherham Road South. Yeah. Mouse Point right. Yeah, you're saying that right. Rothfm Road South. Yeah. Mouse Point Road is the... How many k's is it?

It's 13.7 kilometres long. And that's New Zealand's longest. It goes straight through Colverdon. It crosses the Pahoe River. It goes past Long Plantation Road. On it goes through Balmoral And just down there at the Balmoral Recreational Reserve Right

That's where I reckon it finishes By the Hurunui River So that's the longest in New Zealand Now they do admit on the government website Four roads Some local roads on the Canterbury Plains Have longer straight roads But they're not part of the state highway network.

They're under the local road network. What's the longest local then? I don't have a stat for you there. But then I can compare it to America, because this was the fact I saw that led me on to research New Zealand's longest straightest road. The longest stretch of the interstate, this is interstate I-80 in America.

It's a big road. The longest stretch of the interstate that is perfectly straight is 116 kilometers. Oh, wow. That's long. Which is a very long way. And it's straight as an arrow. Doesn't kink at all. It is the road doesn't vary from an ideally straight line for more than a few yards,

which is enough, they say, to fall into the perfectly straight road category. the road doesn't vary from an ideally straight line for more than a few yards, which is enough, they say, to fall into the perfectly straight road category. So I was like, well, 116 kilometres is a phenomenal length. What about the world? Okay. And there is a Guinness World Record. For the longest, straightest road. For the longest, straightest road.

It is in Saudi Arabia and it is 240 kilometres long. It was built originally as a private road for the king. It connected two things, but he was the only one that used it. It has now been paved. It cuts through a desert. It has no left or right turns and no appreciable gradient up or down. So it's also very flat. That one, if you need to do your full driver's test or you're restricted,

that would be a good one. Yeah, because you wouldn't have to do any of those hill starts. You wouldn't have to do any turns. There'd be no cars in your way. You'd use a whole tank of gas finding a hill. It'd be great, yeah, but they'd just say... And then they'd do a three-point turn, and you're like, where do I pull over?

They'd be like, let's just go back to the testing station. That was great. And they'd be like, identify hazards. You're like, I don't know, the fact that I'm not turning for 240 kilometres an hour, I might fall asleep because I'm so bored driving. We might die in this harsh desert sun. Yeah.

If we break down. But yeah, so the longest straight road in the world is 240 kilometres. The longest straight piece of state highway in New Zealand, a measly, I'll say it. A measly poultry. A measly poultry. A pathetic 13.7 kilometres. And that is today's...

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. Play it. ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. I just want you to click the link out of this story, but I think I stopped it. But at any stage, this story that I've been reading could disappear. Oh, right. One of those websites.

Really well-written, cool piece on Pedestrian, which is a website by Chantal Schmidt. No relation. She's a Schmidt. You're a Schmidt. She's a Schmidt. I mean, that's... She could be my German cousin. That's no relation at You're a Schmidt. She's a Schmidt. She could be my German cousin. That's no relation at all, even close.

Zero. It's not even the same name. You did write about that. She has written an article about romantic feelings on holiday. Okay. Falling in love or maybe hooking up with someone that you probably wouldn't at home, that you would on holiday, or how when you're on holiday, you're just a bit more open to it maybe.

Right. Because I've seen, I had to have it explained to me, but I've seen on TikTok, Karwen ran me through this thing of when you see someone the same age as you somewhere, like at an airport. Yeah. And that's like where you just see someone your age at a place where there's not too many other people your age.

There is a connection that you wouldn't think, you probably wouldn't get with that person if you were in a room full of people the same age as you. Yeah, true, true. And the same thing kind of applies when you're on holiday. Also, when you're on holiday, you kind of don't care as much as when you're at home, right? So living in the moment and not caring are the two factors.

Right. In the 1970s, there was a psychological study done by these two dudes, Arthur and Donald, very 1970s psychologist names. They worked out that people were more attracted to someone or more likely to be attracted to someone on a scary suspension bridge as opposed to meeting on a bridge where it's a safe, well-constructed bridge. So they ran a test on a safe, well-constructed bridge. Yes. And then they did the same test on a dangly suspension bridge. Suspension bridge. And you're more likely to feel attracted to the person on the dangly suspension bridge.

You're living in the moment. Yeah. Maybe it's that feeling of your own mortality. You're reminded of it. You're like, maybe I should just take a chance. And so what? Similar feelings when you're in a different country. You don't know anyone and you're just like, oh.

Yeah. You're out of your comfort zone. Right. You're out there putting yourself out there a little bit more, willing to take a few more risks, living in the moment, having some chance. Now, I don't want to be a negative Nelly with your, you know, love. I have not said

love. I have said romantic interest. I've not gone as far to say the album. Okay, fair call. But TripAdvisor Did a study And they found that Holiday romances 93% of them End in failure

Yeah Yeah And with those 50 35% Said the relationship Did last at least Until they arrived home

Yeah But then I guess They got home And they're just like This is never going to happen She's in Spain I'm in Britain. Oh, yeah.

Or whatever. You're in Bali and you fall in love with a long-haired man who you see in nothing but board shorts and Birkenstocks. And then you get home and that's all he ever wears, board shorts and Birkenstocks. And he needs $10 for some ciggies because he's out of money. Is this why you came home from... You want to get a job?

This is why I came home from Bali. Sad. Yeah. My Bali bomb turned out to be a Bali bomb. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Well, a study's been released by a British digital marketing firm, and it's based on analysis of celebrities and their private jets.

Because I don't know if you know this, but there are plane tracking websites. It's the app that you love, Vaughan, if you see a plane flying. Oh, yeah, yeah. I tried to do it yesterday when we were on a plane. Oh. Because it must be the flight to Napier from Auckland that flies over mum and dad's house.

Right. But I thought it was Palmerston North, so I messaged my dad saying, I think we're about to fly over your house and then opened up the app and I was like, oh, no, we're not going in the right direction. And plus, of course, you're on flight mode, so you couldn't have checked. No, no, I had we're about to fly over your house, and then opened up the app, and I was like, oh, no, we're not going in the right direction. And plus, of course, you're on flight mode, so you couldn't have checked.

No, no, I had cell phone connection. It was 3G all the way, but sometimes it was even 4G. I was like, this is nuts. We're up in the sky. Wow, okay. Well, maybe don't say that on the radio. But you can, and celebrities, especially Elon Musk, has had a hard time with this because people have been posting

on Twitter where he's flying. There was a guy who got obsessed with, yeah, and then that kind of alerted everybody else that this is a thing. And so a lot of people have been kind of watching celebrities more closely and where they're taking their jets. And recently, Kylie Jenner taking like a 12-minute flight

just across LA. Yeah, Taylor Swift was called out for having the most hours on her jet, but apparently she lets poor people borrow it. It's poor people's fault. So it's poor people's fault. So they've come up with a list of Hollywood's biggest private jet hypocrites. Now, some of these stats, I think these must be overall from the last few years

because I've got the top ten. Travis Scott, who I didn't... Yeah, Kylie Jenner's... So is he on Kylie Jenner's plane or is he taking... No, no, he's got his own plane because this is what kick-started the controversy. She was walking between two private jets,

yours or mine, with him and the baby. Oh, yeah. And he was like, you absolute piece of shit. Like, take one. Just... It's a prime example of people promoting, like, showing off this life on Instagram that's completely unobtainable and ridiculous, but also so extravagantly uncalled for. Right, well, Oprah is next on the list.

She's super wealthy. She's been logged at 68 private flights in the last year or so. Okay. Mark Wahlberg. Yeah, forget it, because he's super rich from just all the movies he's done. Yeah, yeah. But he's a big private jetter, 101 flights. All those different Wahlbergers outlets

are still making those great burgers. So it's kind of like, it's not an order of flights because it's actually an order of the tons of CO2 that have been emitted. Because Kim Kardashian's done half the flights of Mark Wahlberg, but she's done like a thousand more tonnes of CO2. Because she's got a bigger plane.

Yeah, right. Because he might have a smaller private jet. And also, like, if you're taking off and doing shorter trips, that's more fuel, right? Yeah, that's the fuel-heavy part of the journey. Steven Spielberg, who's been criticised a lot because he's a bit of an eco-warrior, 61 flights.

Blake Shelton, 111. Alex Rodriguez, 106. Jay-Z is third on the list with 136 private jet flights. Floyd Mayweather, the boxer, 177. Oh, that'll burn through the mind. And Taylor Swift with 170 flights is number one

on Hollywood's biggest private jet hypocrites with 8,000, just over 8,000 tons of CO2. What about Leonardo DiCaprio? He's not on the list. Because he's an environmental dude, but I know he also takes private jets a lot of places. Yeah. He's not on the list.

He's not in the top 10. Yeah, okay. So he might be maybe... He escapes the day. Oh, Jay-Z's private jet's real sexy. Is that? It looks like a Puma ad, though. Is that a Puma logo?

Yeah, it's got a big Puma logo on it. It looks like a Puma logo. It's black. It's all black, though. Yeah, very sexy. Very sexy. I mean, but let's be honest. If you were like a, you know, Grammy award winning or a sports star or whatever, a movie star,

and you had like a billion dollars or half a billion dollars, and would you go take your shoes off at the airport and line up and everyone's taking photos or would you just get on a private jet? You had me until

I was going to be no I'd just go first class. Yeah. You'd have to do a lot of first class flights to make it to a private jet. It was the shoes wasn't it? It was the shoes.

Yeah. When you said take your shoes off that was the one thing I was like screw the planet. Yeah and you also like I'm sick of taking my shoes off. You the one thing I was like You know what Screw the planet I'm sick of taking my shoes off Yeah you like taking

A big toothpaste as well You won't be told About small toothpaste And my laces are on Their last legs And my boots right now So if I undo them Too many more times

Than necessary The laces are going to break Okay well let's hope You don't win Lotto then I still don't think I'd take it if I won Lotto It'd have to be Substantially richer than that

I thought the show Was pretty good but the fact of the day jingle guy's a bit pitchy tomorrow eh oh my god would you just

leave it with your private high school and music training you were the pitchiest give us a sexy little review though ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley