ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 10th March, 2025

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod Half of kiwis think road rage is getting worse Gen Z are organising restivals SLP - Do you meal plan for the week Wobbly chair interview Top 6 - CEO's for Air NZ Pop news you missed over the weekend The scents women love Hayley's Jam packed gig Did you get influenced by an influencer Kumeu Show Ways to spot Millennial's VS Gen Z in da club Fact of the Day What did you have to work for as a kid See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you, Bryn Rudkin. Good morning. Welcome to the show. He's a good boy. And Hayley, it's two minutes past six. A fresh week, a fresh opportunity to seize the day. Wow, okay. I think my period's coming today. Oh, right.

I was going to say, have you been reading some motivational quotes? Yeah, Tony Robbins. Okay, yeah, great. Tony and Mel Robbins. Just see Monday as a chance to start again. Let them. Yeah, let them. No, they're not related, Tony Robbins and Mel Robbins, right? I thought they were married.

Are they? Are they? Mel Robbins is the let them woman. I don't know. I don't follow motivational people. I thought she was the Sky Sport lady. No, that's Melanie Robbins. Oh, right.

Close, though's Melanie Robinson. Oh, right. That's close, though. Very close. No, Melanie Robbins isn't married to Tim. He's an anti-vaxxer, isn't he? I don't know. Her husband is Christopher Robbins. Okay. You know, he's

Winnie the Pooh's pal. Winnie the Pooh's best mate. Fantastic. Well, seize the day. Guys, can't be damned. Seize the day. And another week, another chance for you to win with ZM's $50,000 secret sound. All thanks to Super Liquor.

$50,000 is the jackpot. So, next chance is this morning on the show at 7 o'clock and 8. The top six is coming up. You bet it is. Top six CEOs for Air New Zealand. I don't know if you heard this, but Greg Foran. Foran. Foran. Foran. Foran.

Foran. Has stepped out. This was all the rage because he'd done Walmart, hey? He did. He came home. Yeah. Yeah. It hasn't, I don't know, it hasn't worked out?

No, I think he's just, he got a bit of a bad, you know, because he started the job and then COVID happened. Yeah. Oh, has he been doing it that long? Yeah. I think it's four years. Fair enough. Or however long it was. Yeah. Shit, that, eh? No that long? Yeah. I think it's four years. Fair enough. Or however long it was. Yeah.

Shit, that A. No way. You'd just be like, no. Dumb out. How much did he get paid? I can't be bothered. I reckon I could do one year and live off that income for the rest of my life. Dudo.

I'll do one year as CEO of a big company. In fact, this is my offer. I'll put it out right now. I'll do one year as CEO of a big company. I'm thinking a bank. And then retire. Okay. Bank. And if it goes well, I'll do two years. And if it goes well, I'll put it out right now. I'll do one year as CEO of a big company. And then retire. Okay. Bank. And if it goes well, I'll do two years. And if it goes well, I'll do three. But the minute I'm not

enjoying myself, you'll get out. He's sort of worth almost $100 million. Do you know what I mean? I don't know why people work when they're worth $100 million. Just go and live on an island somewhere. Like, I'm done. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And if I get fan lazy, I'll suck it out.

You don't need to be going to the supermarket and people are whinging about their airfares, the price of flying. Like, who needs that? We don't need that. Well, they're on the hunt for a new CEO and you've got six ideas coming up. Yeah, for the top six CEOs for in New Zealand.

Play ZM's, Flashborn and Hayley. Oh dear. Okay, so a nationwide survey that AA... Survey? Survey. That AA Insurance did found that half of Kiwis believe that road rage has become worse in the last year and that number increases to 60% of Aucklanders.

Yeah. And they say it's widely held that Aucklanders are some of the worst drivers in the world. Tailgating being the number one move we do That's Vaughan Smith's forte Oh my god Some people would have felt me breathing on the nape of their neck this weekend Right up the ass

Let's go I don't tailgate as much anymore Don't you? In the gym Nah What's changed? Can't keep up Can't go faster

When I had the Honda I could keep up Lower ANCAP safety rating can't go faster. When I had the Honda, I could keep up. Lower and kept safety rating. Safety rating will really make you take that two second rule into account a bit more, you know what I mean? I'm definitely guilty of tailgating. If you're in the right lane and you're going really slow, let's move it along. No, no, no, it's Sunday, but

we've all got lots to do. I don't have a car, but when I do drive one, oh my God. I could almost nudge. You know what I mean? I could almost boop. You just get so wound. I don't have a car, but when I do drive one, oh my God. I could almost nudge. You know what I mean? I could almost boop. You just get so wound up, don't you? So wound up. So people are saying like there's lots of reasons for it,

and especially increased congestion around the country. Yep. And do you know that this is Auckland alone where $2.6 billion a year is wasted. And that's what congestion, just in Auckland, not the whole country, costs based on things like lost time and reduced consumer spending because we're in our cars, we're not shopping.

Or like goods are on the road being held up. Yeah, totally, all of that kind of stuff. Time wasted. Yeah, okay. So the general vibe on the road. Great for us though. Great for what, radio? The radio. Yeah, listening in their cars. Time wasted. Yeah, okay. So the general vibe on the road. Great for us, though. Great for what? Radio?

The radio. Yeah, listening in their cars. People are listening in their cars. Ha ha, trapped. Trapped. Got you. Listen up. No, don't say that because it'll go somewhere else.

Don't go somewhere else. Do it. What, do you want us to be unemployed? You've got to neg them. How dare you? Oh, you're going to neg them. Off you go, then. What if you neg them and I simp them?

Okay, great. Please listen. Oh, no, that's not a track. But also, just feel free to get lost. you oh you're gonna go then what if you neg them and i simp them okay great please listen oh no that's not if you want but also just like feel free to like get lost well what else are you gonna do just sitting in traffic well my actually don't even care you can just do what you want please stay don't go anywhere i'm definitely a road rager like it's definitely a part of where my rage exists i'm just a hoonie i'm a, it's definitely a part of where my rage exists. I'm just a hoonie. I'm a hoonie Gonzales, you know?

Well, you can't call him that anymore. Oh, no. Okay, well, I've just Googled some. Slap a bloody hat on and do the voice word at you. I mean, a ripper. I've just Googled some tips for avoiding road rage. Okay, great. Don't drive.

Take a bus. Don't take other drivers' actions personally. But that was a, they have a vendetta out against me. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Their intention is not to enjoy the scenery and have a leisurely drive. It's to spoil my weekend. Right.

You think that they even know who you are? Yeah, I think they're looking in the back. They're like, oh, my God. There's New Zealand elite celebrity Hayley Sproul. Let's ruin her day. There's a New Zealand A-list celebrity Hayley Sprout. Let's ruin her day. Ignore aggressive drivers.

You can't ignore me. I'm beeping and flashing my lights at you. That's my advice to my daughters when they're winding each other up. Just ignore them. Just ignore them. If someone's angry and like raising a fist or ripping their fingers, just a nice wave and a smile. It's the best thing to do.

When they drive past and they flip the birdie and I always be like, blow a little kiss. Bye darling. Have a good weekend. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. This story now comes off the back of the Glastonbury line-up being revealed. Hit us with the most exciting acts. Well, people have called it the worst lineup ever.

Yeah. Oh, no. But we've got some good music. I mean, you've got your classic Neil Young. He's the, what do they call it, the geriatric stage? Oh, yeah. They have one of those every year. I saw Neil Young at the Big Day Out in 2009.

And he was pushing it then. And he was an old fella. They're great. Like, hell of a performer. but I would have thought. Because Rob Stewart's on the geriatric stage

on the last night. Okay, that's good. But then Olivia Rodrigo heads up Sunday, which is, you know, great.

Everyone loves Olivia Rodrigo. My birthday, birthday twin. They're just kind of saying, like, and they've got Charlie XCX on the line at the 1975,

but Alanis Morissette, she's doing a few festivals in Europe. Yeah. I'd love to see Alanis sing. Do you know why? Or Alana, as my mum keeps saying. Let me guess, let me guess. 30 years this year since Jagged Little Pill. Yeah, it is.

So that's why she's touring. But like, I mean, look at this line up, Hayley. It's just nothing that kind of. It's sort of like when you want something this big to be like, holy moly, like who's Biffy Clyro? You know? It's Biffy. I'm going to say, who's Biffy Clyro up so high on the Friday?

I don't even know who, but I know it's Biffy. Dochi. Yeah. I'd say Dochi. That's exciting. I love this line-up. On the Saturday, we've got Neil Young. We've got Dochi.

Yeah, Prodigy's there. Rod Stewart. Keith's not alive anymore, so it's. Yeah, Prodigy's there. Rod Stewart. No, Keith's not alive anymore, so it's not really full Prodigy, is it? No, it's not. Yeah, the rest of them underneath are a little bit just underwhelming. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's some good artists here, but you're just like, oh. How much? It's very expensive.

Oh, it's expensive. And it's Glastonbury. It's like legendary. People bought tickets already, you know. It sells out in like 30 seconds. No one's saying, oh, my God, I'm off to see Lucy Duckis and Biffy Cairo or whatever. You know what I mean?

No one's like, oh, my God, Biffy. Who's Biffy? There must be so many people listening. You are so irrelevant. Yeah, they're quite big. Biffy Cairo. So apparently, rather than going to festivals, Gen Z are organising restivals.

So only 19% of Gen Z are planning to attend fewer or no festivals in 2025. So they're like, I'm going to go to less now. Okay. Which is down massively from 2019. You relate to this. I do. I totally do. I totally get it.

Many prefer to stream concerts from home rather than attending large crowded events. Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. Stream it. It's all the same. It's not the stream. Live music is the best thing in the world.

That's right. So great. I mean, you're frothing for Slipknot tomorrow night, aren't you, Fletch? Aren't I? He is frothing. Wait, are we going to have a hungover Hayley Sproul on Wednesday? You might have a sleepless

Hayley Sproul. I've got tickets to the after party. I'll be here. I'll be here. Are you staying in the city? I'll be on. I'll be fresh.

Have you got accommodation in the city? No, no, no. I'm going to go home but Vaughan's going to drive me into work so I'm nice and safe. Vaughan's going to

knock on her door, knock on her door again, see a light go on. I might just leave the bedroom door open. Do you leave the back door open? Go ahead on I might just leave The bedroom door open Do you leave the Leave the back door I'll just carry you

You might have to Physically peel me From the bed But I'll be here So overcrowding Expensive tickets And discomfort Couldn't agree more

Yeah Couldn't agree more Music streaming services Offering more control Over the music choices And often having live versions Are great Alright dad

Wellness and immersive festivals Now you've lost me Yeah Wellness and immersive festivals. Now you've lost me. Yeah. Wellness and immersive festivals are on the rise, but any music with activities like yoga and rock climbing. Yoga? I want a festival of rock climbing and yoga. I do want to try rock climbing, though.

I know, you keep mentioning it. I'm trying to. It's the shoes that give me the ick. We could go to the boiler room and do a float tank. Yeah. Heck yeah. No, I'll panic. Let me out.

Do you know how to float a tank? I would absolutely panic. I could never do it. You've done one, haven't you? Yeah, I've done a couple of them. No, that is horrible. Get the lid off. I was in a good frame of mind.

I don't know if I'd go in there in a dark space, though. No, no, no, no, no. The growing number of Gen Z are non-drinkers, so there's not the drinking culture involved with, you know, when people go to festivals. How's the festival going to smell off ice? Yeah. Warm, I guess, and overpriced.

Double black. Delicious. So sweet. Producer Shannon, would you rather go to a festival or have a restival? I'm kind of embarrassed to admit that I'm down for a restival. If I said to you, flights and tickets to Coachella, yours. I couldn't do the overnight thing.

If it was a one-day thing, like I enjoyed Laneway. Well, they're three-day festivals, Shannon. I couldn't, because I've never camped before. I couldn't fathom. Do you ever get a camping tour? We should pop you up a little tent in the studio. It's too dangerous, isn't it?

No, I just... Would you like to come for a camping experience in my backyard? I could serve sort of a beginner's course. That'd be great. A foam mattress. Yeah, I've got an air mattress. Would you like to come for a camping experience in my backyard? I could serve sort of a beginner's course. That'd be great. A foam mattress. I've got an air mattress.

Yeah, I can run a power cord out there too, so you could charge your phone. Yeah, I just think I'm a bit too soft for a multiple day thing. That's fair enough. It's good to recognise that within yourself. Yeah. Carwin, are you rest of all or festival? Festival.

Festival, yeah. I couldn't think of anything worse than a rest of all. I'll sleep when I'm dead. Festival, yeah. I couldn't think of anything worse than a restival. I'll sleep when I'm dead. Yeah, exactly. Which, based on the number of festivals available, could be quite soon. You've never been camping? No. What?

Our school camps and stuff were like cabins, and then growing up we would go to campgrounds, but we'd always stay in the cabin. We need to pitch a tent. Yeah. No, I don't know how. Very simple. Quite straightforward.

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Oh, right, yeah. That is like Mars. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. So, little pole, do you have a meal plan for the entire week? You do, don't you? I do.

At the moment, I'm on a shred for the... Wed? Gala. Shred for the gala. Shred for the comedy for the gala. Most of us shred for a wedding or summer or whatever. I just want to look hot while I do comedy on television. Okay, good, yeah.

Yeah, but also with Aaron away, it's so easy. Not cooking for someone else and being able to do all the portions and stuff. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's nice. I like it. North. North. Meal plan.

We really just have started saying what we want for dinner each night rather than getting to 4 o'clock and being like, what are we going to have for dinner tonight? What are we going to do? Yeah, we've got a plan. So is that a meal plan? Kind of, yeah. You plan the meals. It's not fully prepping. People do it to do this night. What are we going to do? Yeah, we've got to plan. So is that a meal plan? Kind of, yeah. You plan the meals.

It's not preppy. It's not fully preppy. You know, people do it on the Sunday night. Oh, they do. They make their meals for the week and they're eating the same sloppy brown rice and chicken by Friday. And oh.

Yeah. Yeah, that's Hayley. So you're making a week's worth of slop. No, I'm doing three days because I did five days a couple of weeks ago. And then, yeah, by day four or five, you're like, I would rather eat anything else than that.

Yeah. So three days at a time. But it's a good economy, though, isn't it? An economy of scale. Yeah. A lot of people save so much money doing this. Yeah, definitely I do. It's way cheaper than going to the supermarket all the time on a whim.

Yeah. And then when you get hungry, you're less inclined to go, oh, just grab something out. Because you're like, I've just got something ready to go in a microwave. Heat it. And it's ready. Heat it and eat it. Well, 64% of people said no. No meal plan.

36% of people said, yeah, I've got a meal plan. Okay. By meal plan, do you mean hyperfixate on one meal because it tastes so good after trying it once and eating nothing else for a couple of months until you grow to hate it? Then yes, says Steph, I do have a meal plan. I like that.

I want to know what Steph's one meal is. I would like to know what her latest hyperfixation on a meal was. I want to know what Steph's one meal is. I would like to know what her latest hyper fixation on a meal was. I want to eat that. Rebecca said, we meal plan every week and do our food shop to that. Should it just be too expensive to wing it these days? Yeah. So true. Agreed. Claire said, because they paid my PT to make me

one, so why would I? But they plan it, but then you've got to execute it. Yeah. The PT would be more boring. Yeah, the PT would be like. Egg white omelette. Oh, but what about the yolk? What can I do with the yolk? I don't waste the yolk.

What did the yolk do to anyone? Yeah, totally. Heart attacks. Oh. No. No, I like the whole egg. I don't care. Oh, my God.

Always. What if I change my mind, said Lou? What if I get home late? What if Deliveroo calls out to me and says, Lou, Lou. Your excuses. Hang on, hang on, hang on. I've literally got it open. Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you

ever wanted if you let them. Yeah, Lou. Fire emoji, fire emoji. Lou doesn't know how she's going to be feeling. Jack said no because sometimes you want a spontaneous steak night. Agreed, Jack. It's all right. Agreed, but if the steak is frozen in the freezer

because it's home-killed steak at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, one must not decide it's now time to defrost the steak. The steak must defrost to room temperature. It simply must... Bryce said... Defrosting a steak in the microwave. I will kill you. I will kill you.

And I'll go before a high court and they'll say, Mr. Smith, how do you plead? I'll say, not guilty because I killed them because they defrosted a steak in a microwave and then proceeded to cook it in a frying pan. And they'll say, free to go. I reckon that if you've got an old mate jury, you could win that one. Yeah, totally. Single life, just get home and figure it out as it goes, said Bryce.

Then have toast, unlike Fletch, who has mints. But what together? Hugh and Fletch could be mints and toast. Yeah, mints on toast. What about someone bringing their late night carbs around? Yeah, actually, he's into his mints. But what together? Hugh and Fletch could be mints and toast. Yeah, mints on toast. What about someone bringing their late night carbs around? Yeah, actually,

he's like, what's this? Very late. And also, sourdough is the only toast. Yeah, yeah. So it's happy, bougie toast.

Gut health. God, and I said, Mason, I fly by the seat of my pants and the crumbs in my cupboard. Some days it's a proper meal and some days it's like being back at uni again.

Ah, Sonia, I go into the week with a semi meal plan. Oh. Entering with a semi. I also go into the week with a semi, Sonia, I go into the week with a semi-meal plan. Oh. Entering with a semi. I also go into the week with a semi, Sonia, but a semi-truck, of course.

A semi-meal plan, but it never seems to make it through until the end of the week. Ah, you got to try these things. Lisa. Grumpy Lisa. Grumpy Lisa's back. She's back.

Grumpy Lisa reported for duty. I pretty much have the same thing every day because I'm a bit of a basic bitch sad but makes my life easy and it's all prepped every morning ready to go from a shift thumbs up

she's busy working busy being grumpy Hayley says I have one for the entire month I hate supermarkets shopping so much so I do a month's worth at a time

it's a total game changer and you would save so much money if you only went to a supermarket once but you'd have to be so organised. Yeah, and I just get bored. Yeah. That's the thing.

But it's when you go in for those one or two things and you're like, I need that, I'll grab that. Oh, that's on special. It's bad. That is a little tall. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. This actually feels a little bit borderline manipulative

From this interviewer Okay So there is a CEO of a nuclear power thing A nuclear power power? Nuclear power institute The school Are you okay? In South Carolina

I can't say nuclear power Do you know what's terrible? Nuclear power. But do you know why? I once did an audition for a production and it was I had to say nuclear power in an American accent. Nuclear power. Nuclear. Nuclear.

Nuclear power. And the whole time before the audition I was just like nuclear power. Nuclear power. And now I can't say it in any accent. Nuclear. Nuclear power. Easier British. Okay, right.

Okay, so he is the CEO of a nuclear power company. Yeah. Is there any way? Is there any way you can say it? This is me for life now. Okay. Who revealed that when he is interviewing someone, a candidate for a job at his company, he runs a test.

Okay. It's called the he runs a test. Okay. It's called the wobbly chair test. Okay. And what he does is the seat that he sits, you know, facing him at the desk. Yeah. Where they're going to sit, he has hacked off a little bit of leg of the chair. Yeah. It's so full on this.

Making one of the legs shorter than the other. And then he has a similar chair in the office. Yeah. It's so full on this. Making one of the legs shorter than the other. And then he has a similar chair in the office. Yeah. In the room that he's interviewing them in. And so he gets, his test is, do they have enough sort of chutzpah and confidence and nous to change the chair when they sit down and discover that the chair is wobbly.

I don't know. I'm too much of a paper placer. I'd be just like, well, I'm just going to put up with the chair. It's only like 10 minutes, right? I'd probably just try to balance the chair. Yeah. Like I might jam something under the shorter leg.

But when I'm saying, welcome, Vaughan, lovely to have you here and you sit down. I'd be like, do you have a post-it note or something? Just so I can fold it multiple times into a small square and use it to balance this chair. See, that's initiative.

He might like that. But is it stupidity when just another chair is right by you? Do you know what I mean? That's the test, how they're using their brain. Social media has, like, it's full of these tests that bosses do. So there was another one. So that's the wobbly chair test. Are they bold enough to say, oh, do you mind if I swap chairs?

This one's a little bit wobbly. And they go, oh, I like that. You know, they've got confidence. Yeah, but on the other side of things, you're just going to get an employee that shuts up about problems. Yeah. You know, if they put up with the wobbly chair. Yeah, that's.

Like that's another way of looking at it, right? Yeah. Steve Jobs famously used the beer test. Applicants are asked to accompany hiring managers on a walk for a drink so that their true personalities are revealed. Yeah. So they offer, like, oh, do you fancy a beer or something?

Yeah, was there one with the receptionist? And if the people were rude to the receptionist, they were like instantly not fired? Was that when they made you wait? Yeah, they made you wait, and then the receptionist would kind of be prodding you and stuff. Yeah, right. There was another person who used a method for hiring.

They put a jug of water with a cup out to see if anyone would drink it while being interviewed. And at what pace they were drinking it at. I don't know. What do you see in this? What does that matter? If they drink it too fast they're showing that they're not confident, they're too nervous, they're like trying to

distract. Another one I heard was the cup test which was, before we go into the interview room I'm just going to, I'm going to grab a cup of coffee do you want one or do you want a cup of tea or a cup of water or something? And then at the end of the interview, do they offer to like, oh, hey, do you want me to chuck that cup?

Or do they just walk away and leave it and assume that you're going to deal with it? Oh, okay. Everything's a test. Thank God I've never had a job interview. Well, if you do have a job interview, we've probably just put the fear of God into you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And don't ask like, are you testing me? Are you testing me? Don't do that. Good luck. Oh, and good luck. Oh, and good luck. Good luck. Just know that you've got Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley behind you.

We believe in you. Switch out the chair. Throw the chair out the window. No, don't do that. I'm on to you. Yeah, yeah. This is the chair test. And they're like, no, we've just got really bad chairs at this workplace. I don't want to work

here anyway. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. From your local community Facebook page, this is the Top 6. Hello there. Greg Foran has stepped down as the CEO of Air New Zealand,

our national airline. And this is Fletch's idea for a top six. The top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand. Great. I love it when Fletch has an idea. Why are you saying it like that? It's Fletch's idea. Most of the top six ideas are my ideas.

Actually, that's fair. Yeah. But this one's not very good, so I don't want to take the trick. Okay, so you haven't put the effort in. But what's not good? The idea or the execution? Both. Okay.

Okay. I just feel like I'm being unfairly roasted. I don't deserve to be roasted on a Monday. Maybe you do. Let's hear it. For your lack of work. Number six on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand. That flight attendant that's in all the videos.

You know the one. That fellow. Handsome. Great jawline. Yeah. Handsome fellow, wonderful. Polynesian? Yes, wonderful pronunciation of today.

Glorious. Yeah, okay. Okay. Done the hard yards. And that flight attendant. They should let some of the minger ones have a go in the video. I would never put a minger in that video. Oh, okay.

No. We need to believe that they're all hot. I don't believe there are any mingers. Oh, we've all seen a Mingus flight attendant Oh come on Oh come on They're everywhere

Mingus And then Singapore Airlines walk past you when you're at an international and you're just like All the Emirates Far out Yeah

Holy moly Yeah that's because they get to a certain age and they put them in the chute They gas them I know Yeah

Number five on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand. AI. Well, that's not good. They're not going to help us. It could be our first AI CEO. Oh, the CEO. Yeah, yeah, because I said they're not going to help us. Yeah, yeah.

Probably all the questions they ask the CEO, just put it to AI. Right, yeah. Yeah, because it shouldn't just be all the workers that are, you know, worried about their jobs. Should it? Yeah. Let the big dogs howl at the moon. Number four on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand. At this stage, we could just let Elon Musk have a go.

He's kind of just doing whatever he wants, really. Yeah, maybe not. Just put it on his list of doge things. I've just put into AI how to run an airline, and it's given me a very comprehensive rundown. Here you go. I've got 13 bullet points here. Okay.

So. Perfect. We could run an airline via AI. But you have to have someone typing in to AI. Yeah, we could do that. I'm happy to. So technically, would they be the CEO? I'll do it for gold elite level.

Koru. I'll do it for 100,000 Koru. I'll do it for 100,000 airports. You're a lifelong Jade. Just know your place. The day he becomes silver is going to be a horrible day. It will never happen. I love it. Because you don't leave your house.

Exactly. Number three on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand. Again, I will remind you that halfway through the list, this was Fletch's idea for a top six. Yeah, but you're the one that seemed to put in the funny effort. Wait, but are you going to include the one that he suggested? Yes, that's where I'm leading up to.

Because he likes to kickstart you when he makes a suggestion. Because I said don't suggest the top six unless you can think of some ideas because it's harder than it seems. Number three on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand, number three, Rodney Wayne. And we could call it Hair New Zealand. That was the worst one yet. And you could get on board haircuts.

Don't worry, Fletcher's one's coming. I'm sure it'll be worse. No, I'm going to say so far that was all execution why that was bad. Number two on the list of the top six new CEOs of Air New Zealand. This Christopher Luxon's doing a wonderful job running the country. Maybe he could give it another red hot go. Yeah.

Get back to his roots at Air New Zealand. Just don't put David Seymour in charge of onboard meals. Butter chicken again? You just land and you get up and you get your bags

and they're like, where are you guys going? The food's just arrived. It's either piping hot or stone cold, but it's slop regardless. And number one on the list of the top six new CEOs for Air New Zealand, Fletcher's idea for the list, and also here's Fletcher's idea for the new CEO,

the green lolly they give you on landing. That's a good one, right? That's good. That's the pips. And what, like where? So you're going to back me up on this one. It's consistent at least. I can't even stand by that.

I can't stand by that A green lolly being CEO It's the best one It's the best one But it's incapable Of making business decisions It's not even clever Oh I'm sorry

It's better than Rodney Wayne Are you kidding me Rodney Wayne established One of New Zealand's Most successful Chains of I was going to say The whole thing was shit

Yeah dude I know I'm just amazed If anybody's still listening Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley Yeah, dude, I know. I'm just amazed if anybody's still listening. Big music news over the weekend. This is great news for pop music, which I would say continues to go from strength to strength. Yes. To strength.

Ed Sheeharam. He has a new album. Apparently, he's revealed the title of it, and he did a listening party over the weekend. For record company execs at a pub, apparently. Like a small little thing. This is what the British press are publishing or saying over the weekend. What did they say is the title of it?

Could be called Play. Now that I know anything. Could be called Play. Could be called play. Now that I know anything. Could be called play. Could be called play because they're always, no, they're maths ones. No, they're always maths. No, but he's finished

the equations. He's finished maths because he did plus, minus, division. And then equals. Did he do equals? Did he do equals? Next he's going to move on

to brackets. Brackets. Yeah, algebra. Brackets to the power of, what do they call that? Exponent. Is that what it's called? Don't know. He's done equals.

He's done equals. It's bed mass, remember? Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction, equals. He did plus first, then times, then division, then equals, then minus. So he said no more math-related albums.

He's moving on to English now. It's going to be play and then verb and then noun and then adjective. No, they're thinking that it could be play, pause, stop, rewind. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, yeah, apparently it's done and it's been plain to record execs. What'd they say? Well, it's all...

What'd they say? Under wraps, isn't it? I know you know. I know you've been working on Radio Ages. You know all those record execs. Yeah, what'd they say? You tell me what they say. Let's get them on the phone.

I don't know any record execs. CEO of... What'd they say? Warner. Tower Records. Warners. Warner Records. Well, no, so I mean, that's imminent.

New album and singles, you'd imagine. Imminent. Also news from Harry Styles that, well, rumours that he will do a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere. 35 shows at the Las Vegas Sphere. At the Sphere. I want to go to a, I don't care who I see. I'll see anything.

It could be crappy U2. I just want to see a show there. You know, I'm no U2 fan. I'm no U2 fan, but U2 at the Sphere would be amazing. I know. Because their stage shows are always, like, next level. Just anything at the Sphere. It looks incredible.

I know, but I just looked up flights to Las Vegas, and I can't do that. It's very expensive. Very expensive. And then what is a ticket to the Sphere cost? Well, I don't know. And if he's only doing 35 shows, you'd imagine it'd be pretty expensive, right? Yeah, that's not a huge residency in terms of Vegas residencies. Like, sometimes last years. Well, and it's probably, it might just be weekends. shows you'd imagine would be pretty expensive, right? Yeah, that's not a huge residency in terms of Vegas residencies.

Sometimes last years. And it's probably, it might just be weekends, you know, how a lot of them just do like maybe a Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then come back. They say it's in final talks, like the deal's progressing and he might do that for, yeah, but only a short-term residency. Oh, right, so just get it done in kind of a month or something.

So U2's residency at the Sphere, they kind of launched it, right? Everybody knows the Sphere, right? The giant LED dome. It's amazing. If you don't know it, look it up. Any concert. They got $170 million, earning the band $4 million per show. That is insane.

And then the final bit of news is that Lady Gaga's new album is out and they are calling it a masterpiece. She's done a bunch of Australian radio show interviews and she said she's coming to Aussie. We didn't get offered one. We didn't get offered. New Zealand snubbed again. Snubbed again.

The young cousin. But she also was the performer and musical guest. On Saturday Night Live. I haven't seen any of it yet, but you have, Vornay. I've seen some very good clips. Her monologue was good. Her singing and performances, I mean, no surprise, were amazing. The fact, I think it would be the most daunting thing in the world

to be on Saturday Night Live full stop, but to host and to be the musical guest. And she did Abracadabra, which was like really hard out. She did the full dance, Paris Go Bill. Full dance, mid-show, and then went back to do more musical guest. And she did Abracadabra, which was like really hard out. She did the full dance, Paris Gobel. Full dance, mid-show, and then went back to do more skits. But I have seen this skit and I loved it. It's Lady Gaga playing herself as an old sort of like down and out version of Lady Gaga in a retirement home, having to explain to the young person who works there who she is.

I was very populous back in the day. Maybe this will refresh your memory. and who works there, who she is. I was very popular singing back in the day. Maybe this will refresh your memory. Can't read my, can't read my, no, you can't read my poker face. P-p-p-poker face. And she's got lipstick smit all around her face and her glasses are on skew up and her hair's all a mess. How is it though she...

I can tell that you were bad at poker. She sings in the voice she's doing, but it still sounds really good. And she only touches that piano about five times in that entire thing, but it sounds like a full... Yeah. She is a hell of a performer. And she won a Razzie for

her role in Joker 2. I saw that bit of the monologue where she was like, I'm an actress now. I've been in movies like Joker 2 which I hear everybody loves. You were single and looking for a mingle and you're heading out on a date with

a pringle with a 10 heading out on a date with a pringle with a 10 out of 10 hottie, lover sexy boy lass or them they, whatever what smell are you hoping to waft from that date?

Siggy's and David Off Coolwater. It's beautiful. It's such an iconic combo. There is something about a ciggy little smell. It might be menthols too, I don't know. Yuck, no. Yeah, minty menthols. Disgusting.

I know it's disgusting, but also on the right person. You know like sometimes you'll get in the elevator at work and someone's been out for a durry? Yeah, for a durry. It is disgusting. Standing beside someone for a durry at home. It is disgusting. I was standing beside someone having a durry at the weekend and I was just like, unbelievable. Oh my God, yeah. I would never.

Like, grow up and vape like a 14-year-old. Grow up and vape. Okay, so here are, apparently, there was a Reddit thread. Yeah. And people were asking, hey hey single women, when you go out on a date, what kind of wafts get you going like, I like the smell of him.

And hey single men, what kind of wafts do you like when you smell a lady? Okay, which one do you want first? I want to know what a woman want men to smell like first. Okay, four. Ask and you shall receive. Women want men to smell like first. Okay. Four. Ask and you shall receive. Women want men to smell like leather. Leather.

We want you to smell like leather, musk, citrus, vanilla, sandalwood, amber, vetiver, which I looked up, and it's part of a lot of very expensive perfumes, which I can see. It's a grass. You love your musky scents. I do love my musky scents. You've got a lot of those. We like the kind of heavier, smokier smell on men. Yeah.

It's a manly smell. Yeah, it is. And tobacco is one of them. Now, tobacco leaf is a different smell to, hey, I just had a fresh durry. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. That tobacco leaf smell.

I have a friend who grows tobacco leaves, and the smell of them is so lovely. Yeah, I like the smell of a cigar. I love the smell of them is so lovely. Yeah, I like the smell of a cigar. I love the smell of an unlit cigar. Yeah. Yeah,

not when someone's smoking it. It's thick, it's thick when someone smokes it. But a lot of fragrances are like, like candles and fragrances

are like that. Tobacco vanilla. Yeah, tobacco vanilla. I loaded up on the, going through Judy Free recently,

I sent you guys the pictures. I just really gassed myself with Tom Ford. You showed us. Because I can't afford to gas myself with Tom Ford. No, that's the only time I ever wear Tom Ford, Tutti Free. I would love to buy Tom Ford, but I'm not, I ain't. Are you kidding me? Gassed.

Three squirts each arm. Did you do three? Three squirts each arm and one on each side of the knee. Which one did you go for? With the tobacco vanilla? Yeah, tobacco vanilla. We got the dupe, eh? Yeah.

Oh, that wasn't available? Yeah. Yeah. You put on so much, you sent us a photo of you and you were wet. He was wet. I was wet. I was dripping wet. We were like, why are you sweating?

You're like, no, that's Tom Ford. That's Tom Ford. I sweat Tom Ford. He was asked to leave duty free. I was like, sir, can I help you? I was like, I need a towel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am wet.

And also, you need to replace this bottle of Tom Ford. need a towel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am wet. And also, you need to replace this bottle of Tom Ford. It's empty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For God's sake. So those are the smells that attract women. Leathery, earthy, deep, dark tones. This is why I'm not getting any women, is my citrusy floral perfume.

Your, um... Eros. Eros. My Eros flame. Yeah, your, Eros. Eros. My Eros flame. Yeah, exactly. Twink bait by Versace. Yeah.

Okay, and so the other way around, it was, it's very gender normative. Okay. Lavender. No, I don't even smell like lavender.

No, my man is bloody. Like the Glade plug-in or the Glade toilet spray that they have. Lavender, vanilla, floral scents like lilies. Sweet scents, including cinnamon.

But sweetie kind of light, fresh florals. So you, Siggy's and David are full of water. So men want to smell women that smell like cinnamon scrolls, basically. Yum. Somebody said I want my men to smell like CRC. CRC. I love that. Gasoline.

And they smell like CRC. You're like straight from the workshop. That's a manly man. Yeah, but a sweat and stock cars. Straight from the CRC. Yeah, sweat and grease. And my pop are always just like diesel and grease. Yeah.

Yeah, I feel like my pops sort of smell like dust. It's probably the mothballs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to smell like mothballs and thrush medication. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I'm in the lead up to a comedy festival. If you want to see my show, The Baroness, new show, comedyfestival.co.nz

or just go to hayleysprout.com. Okay, that's a free plug. Sum it in. Getting a free plug there. That's right. But here's how I make my show. You may have seen this on my social media. What I do is I lock myself in a windowless building and that inside has a microphone

and an amp and I talk into it on my own until I think something is worthy enough to try in front of an audience and then they tell me whether or not it works and then that makes it to the show. So that's why you do all these little comedy shows. like little gigs at night.

Seven minutes here, five minutes here, 15 minutes here, 30 minutes here. But then what if you get a dud crowd or there's like, I don't know,

only a few people at one gig and they don't really laugh but then another crowd would laugh. Yeah, it's confusing. Yeah. What I like to do

as a comedian is I like to yell at the audience, what's wrong with you? This is funny. Okay. And I find that really turns them around and gets them on my page. It's a Rhys Mathewson approach. Yeah, I love that.

I've seen Rhys do a gig where he did a joke and he was like, you're wrong on that. That was funny. And I actually know that and I think, you're wrong. And I was like, good for you. I've seen him scream at an audience, why did you come to watch a comedy TV show if you're not going to laugh? That's brilliant.

That's good. He's so good. Was it Larry David when he did comedy would just sometimes get out and just be like, Get it, the vibe's off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then just walk off stage. And before he'd even told a joke, he'd be like, look at you. Brilliant.

I mean, yeah, sometimes it's not your crowd, but you've got to try it in front of everyone because you don't know Who's going to turn up To the real deal The real deal being The Baroness My one hour comedy show Coming to the Comedy Festival

Go to Comedy Festival To buy tickets Now I did five gigs last week Wow Four over the weekend Two on Friday Two on Saturday I did a little one on Wednesday

Yeah And I had Booked it a little too tight On Saturday night, I did a gig on a rooftop in Mount Eden and then I was... I saw your photos. Were there safety railings? It didn't look like a...

The safety railings. I leaned on the safety railing and it was very flexible. It was a floppy... Very malleable. No, I wouldn't have leaned on that. It didn't look like a roof people should be on. Is it a roof people are normally on? Yeah, it felt not to code.

Okay. Okay, right. And we had definitely sold too many tickets. Okay, right. So there were too many people on the roof. But, you know, it's great. The more the merrier to come and laugh at my jokes. But I literally had to go on.

I said, I need to be first. So the emcee goes up, gets the crowd going, and then he introduced the first act. I was like, I need to be first, because technically I'm also supposed to be at my next gig, which was like in town, a little bit further away. And when you do a gig on a rooftop, there's no green room. So we were hanging out the back of the roof by the dodgy railings.

So if anyone fell, it would be the comedians rather than the punters, which I think is fair. That's fair. And I was like, I'm going to need to leave immediately. So I got a good car park down the bottom. But I was like, do you think it would be rude if I just did the gig with my handbag on, ready to go? Because I don't have time to be.

What way? Was it across the? Yeah, just my deadly ponies, my handbag., ready to go. Because I don't have time to be. What way? Was it across the? Yeah, just my deadly ponies. It's my handbag. I just put it on. I saw the photo of you on this rooftop. I was like, what are you trying, in a rush to go somewhere? Genuinely in a rush.

Or were you worried that the crowd could steal your handbag? No, no, no. I wasn't worried about that because there were other comedians down the back. But I did. I just put it on so that when I could leave. And then instead of everyone else, I think, during the night, they would do their bit at the front, and then they would leave via the crowd the normal way.

I left, and they had to watch me sort of go down the stairs down to the main street, and I just had my handbag on the whole time. It was quite nice. It was something to sort of rest on. Yeah, okay. Just to do that, you know, rest my hands on the handbag. It did feel like maybe, I did ask, I said,

does this feel like I'm not really committed to the gig? I've literally got one foot out the door. You couldn't have left it on the ground and then picked it up? No, I needed to be on. I didn't have any time. And I made it just in time to my second gig. Literally like walked into the comedy club in town and then like down the stairs onto the stage.

And I was like, wait, what am I doing now? What's happening now? I like the idea of just being ready to go. Ready to go? I've definitely seen, I can't remember what other comedian would do comedy with a backpack on. No, I think they'd forgotten.

Yep. The only other equivalent of- Shea Fu. I've done, no, it wasn't Shea Fu, but he loves a backpack. He loves a backpack. The only other thing I've done is I did a 30-minute set in the evening

and I didn't realise I had my sunglasses on my head and that felt unprofessional. Do you know what I mean? That just felt like- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I flipped them up. You just up on the top of the head there. Yeah, up on the top of myessional. Do you know what I mean? That just felt like I flipped them up. You just up on the top of the head there.

Yeah, up on the top of my head. Okay, I'm ready to go. Or you'd been boozing from two o'clock when it was sunny and forgot that they were on top of your head.

That may have been a factor. Yeah. Anyway, look. You're ready to go. I'm ready to go. Busy weekend. And how did the crowd react? I think they laughed.

But were there some of you scrapping? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of it was shite. Okay. Some of it was crap. That's good to know. Yeah, it's good to know.

The Nazi stuff. Was it the Nazi stuff? Yeah, that didn't fly. Because I said to her, go anti. If you're going to tell George about Nazis, you go anti. Well, you challenged me first. You said, I reckon you've got it in you, Sproul, to have a hot take on World War II.

Right. And I was like, okay. And I wrote it. And you were like, no, no, no, go anti, go anti. And I was like, well, I'm out of time. Yeah, and it didn't work. It didn't work. Okay, well, yeah, keep working on that, I guess.

So if you see my show in the Comedy Festival this year, it will be free of Nazi gear. Good. Next on the show, when did you buy something because an influencer influenced you, but it was bad? Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn

and Hayley. A Reddit post on the subreddit New Zealand caught my attention because I've got the same jars. Name a product you were duped into buying from a New Zealand influencer. I'll go first. And the person said, major regret. These containers are fragile, need to be hang cleaned. They also never make a decent seal.

It's not food tight. It's not food-tight. It's not airtight, rather, so things spoil quicker. Stupid home-organising influences. I got the same jars. The same jars are in our house. Did you buy them because an influencer posted them? This has been woman-buy. Yeah.

I don't know what influence that are by the jars, but the jars, they're these cylindrical ones, and there's really long ones for spaghetti. Yeah. I don't know what influence that are by the jars, but the jars, they're these cylindrical ones, and there's really long ones for spaghetti. Yeah. You can get them from Kmart. Yeah. As the person in the comments rightly points out, terrible shape for storage because they don't stack.

You can't stack them on top of each other because they're too wobbly. Like if they were squatty, you could stack them. If they were hexagonal, bees know best. Most space-efficient way to stack things, right? Like a hive. A pantry hive. Yeah, a pantry hive. Yeah.

Perfect. But this person... Oh my God, that's a business idea. We should start a business, guys. Pantry hive. Fletch, Vaughan, and Hayley's pantry hive. Pantry hive. We do hexagonal storage solutions.

Are you sure they're not already a thing? Of course they are. Hexagonal storage? Yeah, of course they are. Okay a thing? Of course they are. Hexagonal storage? Yeah, of course they are. Okay, right. But we just, our branding. And we zhuzh it. Yeah, right.

Our slogan would be like, honey, comma, let us be your. Two E's. Busies. Nah, lost it at the end. Busies. Let us be your busies. Busies. Honey.

Busies. Stackers. What about honey, I'm organized. Honey, I'm organized. Simple. Besties. Stackers. What about honey I'm organised? Honey I'm organised. Simple. No, it needs more. It needs another bee pun. It doesn't need any more bee puns.

It needs another bee pun. I think honey I'm organised has a sense of play, has a sense of fun. That would encapsulate the brand. We're in the business of selling organised stackable pantry. Hexagonal shaped. Yeah. Pantry hive. Fletch, Fawn and Hayley's pantry hive.

Honey, I'm organised. I mean, it's perfect. It's perfect. I mean, that's marketing. That's marketing 101. That's marketing 101. We've just done it. Yeah.

And we'll have a discount code. Oh, my God. Fletch 10. Yeah. Vaughan 15 for no reason. And our regular email out can be the buzz. Yeah. What's the buzz this week?

What's the buzz? We've got extra large hive containers, guys. They've finally arrived at the warehouse. We're so excited. We'll do Fletch 10, Hayley 15. We'll do Vaughan 50 because no one knows how to spell his name. Perfect. So we'll never write it down.

I'll just say it out loud. Yeah, $4.50 for 50% off. Love it. Oh my God, stay tuned. Spell it wrong and it charges them double. Yep. But this is... 50% more.

That's the catch on my go. You actually need to do more. Celebrities and influencers hawking stuff on Instagram is just the new infomercials, right? Or the new celebrity in a magazine. Yeah, I've definitely been influenced, but I've never been disappointed with a product, because this person's like, these suck,

and I got influenced, and now I'm stuck with these jars. I feel like anything I've been influenced by, like sleep masks, or the ear plugs, or... You've liked. Yeah. Who influenced me? There was an influencer that used that lip plumper thing, and I tried it the other day, didn't I?

In studio. And we were trying to have a meeting and I was like in tears. It was like one of those tingly chilli powder smooch lip plumper. Oh, honey, let's be organised. Somebody just messaged in. That's better. That's better. Or just honey, be organised.

Exclamation mark. No, but that's making it sound like she has to be organised. Yeah. Oh, better, that's better. Or just, honey, be organised! Exclamation mark. No, but that's making it sound like she has to be organised. Oh yeah, it's gender, that's gender roles. Honey, let's, like, I'm gonna help you. Let's be organised. Honey, let's be organised.

Love it, this is great. Far out. We've got a great slogan. But then what if we sell our containers and influence people and their shit? No, they won't be. We're getting them from the best factory in China. Okay. Oh then what if we sell our containers and influence people and their shit? No, there won't be. There won't be. We're getting them from the best factory in China. Okay. Oh my God,

we will find the best Chinese factory to make these. Okay, great. For nothing. We're not even going to touch them too. The orders go through the factory. Oh, we're literally just the face of the brand. Yeah. We do F.A.

This is going to be great. Don't you dare look on Teemu and find them cheaper. We'll give you a smack. Until our plastic containers leak, I don't know, some kind of bad plastic. What are they? Into the food. People start dying.

And then Vaughan 50 has to take the blame. I'll take the blame. I'll take the fall. I'll do a real heartfelt apology because you know I've got it in me. Could you run that heartfelt apology past us? It's recently come to my attention that honey, let's be organised

was using a very bad factory in China. This was something that I left to the organisational skills of one Carl Peterfletcher I actually had Hayley's help on that She told me it was the best factory in China. Hey everyone, I just

want to jump on here and say there's a lot of talk around what's happened with Honey. Let's be organised. And Vaughn never communicated clearly that I was in charge of checking that the factory was ethical. Well, if I may just jump back in

and say she was told multiple times, but women don't listen. Wow. In fact, I would like now to make an apology to women for saying they don't listen. Hey guys, just jumping on, it's Vaughan again. Just need to apologise for my statements made about women. This whole thing's just turned into a mess.

Guys, you know what I'm saying, right? They don't listen. But yeah, do you know what I mean? Like, I'm sorry, but I'm not wrong. They're a nightmare. Well, we're a little sidetracked by our fake company and fake apology there. Yeah, sorry. But we wanted to take some calls and some text messages.

I know a lot of people are already calling through for secret. Sound very naughty. Stop it. What did you buy off an influencer or because a celebrity was associated with it? What did you buy? And maybe you just ended up not using it or it was crap. Yeah. I mean, how many girls bought corsets because Kylie Jenner wore the corsets and then was like, this helps you lose weight.

Doesn't. Just squishes you. Just squishes it all down. Squishes it all in. We're talking about being influenced by influencers to purchase things. Perhaps it wasn't as good Somebody was having a whinge about some jars Yeah

They just get carried away Life's pretty good when you're whinging about jars Yeah You know? Somebody said Stanley Cups They're good but Are they that good? Says the guy currently drinking out of a $20 dupe from Kmart

Yeah well you love the dupe The dupe doesn't let you down I think it does exactly the same thing. But if they have influence, was it just influenced by the craze? Maybe influenced by the craze. Were there any actual influences influencing? Maybe just celebrities.

But all the influencers had them. Yeah, true. Hey, guys, welcome down for the, sitting down for the tea. Here's the tea. That's me. What was that? It's my influencer character I'm working on. That's a really good character. Hey, guys, it's Hallie. Join me for the tea. That's me. What was that? That's my influencer character I'm working on.

That's a really good character. Hey guys, it's Hallie. Join me for the tea. He's always having tea. Speaking of tea, someone said when I lived in the UK, Victoria Beckham used to promote skinny tea as her secret weapon. Here we go. As a secret weapon, I bought a huge box of it. It tasted like dirty socks and did

not make me skinny. Gave me the shits, that's about all. Yeah, skinny tea has laxatives in it, but laxatives don't make you lose weight. No. It just moves through what will already move through. Yep. So someone said, I refuse to be influenced by smaller New Zealand influencers now. As a semi-popular local Christchurch girl will post something and then a few weeks later sell it on Instagram.

She has, sell it on another Instagram she has for selling her unwanted clothes. Oh, okay. She gets given something, right? This is how I'm deciphering this. She gets given something. She's like, this is great. I love this. This is great.

And you guys should all get them too. And then a few weeks later, we'll sell it. It's on Marketplace or something. No, you're not supposed to do that. You're definitely not supposed to do that. No. I mean, I guess there's no rules, right?

But it's not a good look if you're... But we're assuming tax is being paid. Isn't that the thing? That if you get sent something and then you're able to profit from it, you have to pay tax on it? Oh, maybe. As an influencer.

God, listen to that old IRD over here. I'm just letting IRD know that I have paid my tax. You pay tax on the things that I have been gifted. I actually love paying tax. I can't wait till it's March 31st and I get to sit down and do my GST and my yearly tax return all at once

I'm excited too because my GST is definitely all still sitting there waiting to be handed over and definitely not spent On shoes? On jackets Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley There's a QMI show at the weekend this is a great show and I know they have them all around the country, and I think the agricultural shows, I think if you lose them,

what a damn shame in this beautiful country of ours. My favourite is when they crack an egg onto a plate and they go, good egg, that's the first place egg. First place. What they do, oh my God, I'm so glad I missed this. There's eggs, cakes, jams. I loved that. That was good, eh?

The sand displays where the kids had made sand, put a saucer of sand and put flowers in it for mum's garden. How good were the floral arrangements? The floral arrangements were some of those dahlias. Bev, your mum would have loved it, Fletch, because there were some beautiful flowers there. And people go to this. Oh, thousands.

It was crowds. Do you know, so I went with, I took my parents there, but I, there is, I posted a few bits of content over the weekend from the show, the band. My dad was loving the band. The family band. What was their name? They were amazing.

Rumpus Machine. Shout out. Oh my God. Extraordinary. Teenagers. What did you do with your brother growing up? Fight, no doubt. Yeah.

Fight and make a bloody scrappy mess. And eat too much. These siblings were up there rocking on the stage. My dad was loving that but the thing I loved most was seeing seeing our boy Vaughan Smith in the parade.

A moment of pride. My parents looked on as such pride. A tractor parade. But there's a bit of everything in the parade. They had Clydesdales what magnificent beasts

the Clydesdale horses are and then old vintage tractors and I was driving on Saturday I drove two different tractors No wonder these things are dying They're not dying That's the thing

they're not dying On Saturday I drove a very big John Deere tractor and then yesterday I drove a much smaller John Deere tractor It was pretty similar to the Disney parade I think

We were sort of lining the streets Yeah, yeah Me and Patsy and Craig my parents we were standing right at the front and we saw Vaughan coming.

And my parents, hi, Vaughan. Big waves. And then Patsy pulled the fingers at me as I went past. Yeah, she flipped him the bird. Love that. A lot of kids around. Yeah. No idea.

Yeah. But I saw Vaughan and I found him at the end of the tractor parade. And I was like, oh, get a picture. I'll get a picture of you coming out of the tractor. Innocently, I uploaded this to my Instagram saying, proud of my Vornay

in the parade. I do have to now request that people stop DMing me about Vorn's arms. I was just trying to say, all I was trying to do was celebrate the fine art

of a John Deere tractor. Yeah. But you accidentally posted a thirst trap, it turns out. Apparently the thirst, yeah. I will say, when I post it, because if I take a photo of myself,

I'm like, I'm looking banging. I'll upload it. I get nothing like this. My DMs look nothing like they did over the weekend in which it was just far out. Daddy, daddy's on a strip. Far out. The kids can't play.

Kimmy's show or the Kimmy again show. Thirsty. Thirsty. Thirsty horndogs are my... Vaughan, you wouldn't even have any idea. Inundated with these. Sweat emojis, fire emojis. Wow. I don't get this when I post my own content.

But Vaughan, I posted one photo. I mean, it's gone now. Should I upload it? Do you think it's worth it or no? No, it doesn't. No, I need to avoid. It's not grid. It's not grid-worthy.

But it was just, you were just getting out of the tractor. I was getting out of the tractor. I was stoked. I was happy because I got to drive the big tractor. I had a horn and I tooted and kids were like, wow, that's the big tractor. My problem, the issue I did was I said, give us a thumbs up.

So he cranks the thumbs up and what? Accidental, not accidental flex. Oh, right, the gun, then the biceps popped. Yeah. You do a lot of pull-ups. Don't know if you guys are picking up. I'm loving this conversation. Maybe we'll talk about something else now.

He's literally folded his arms. He's covering his biceps. He's like, no, okay, it was fine. Well, anyway, everyone can stop it now. They can go back into DMs and hit me with the compliments. Not just... Oh, so that's the problem here. Oh, I'm just saying,

here's me on the weekend. Surely, scroll, scroll, surely there's going to be something nice about Sproul in here. Daddy Smith from Daddy Smith on the track. Calm down. You want me to say calm down? They're just arms. They're functional limbs that he used to drive the tractor.

Good show, though. Great show. Great show. Can't wait for next year. Yeah, and Fletch, you must come and check out the eggs. See, what they do is they get a ramekin. Everyone who enters the egg comp gets a ramekin, and they crack in the egg, and they look at the quality of the yolk.

Yeah, yeah, size of the yolk. Size. Yeah, all that sort of thing. So, somebody has messaged in saying, it may be gone from your story but it lives forever in my screenshots. That's how thirsty people were at the weekend for this. Dude, she won't be the only one. I said she, but there were some, there were men,

there were quite a lot of men in my DMs as well. Glad I cut off your egg story there as well with that text. Oh, the eggs though. I think that the champion egg deserved to be the champion as well. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. When was the last time we all, just because we're three millennials here, when was the last time we all hit like a club to have a good dance? Mine would be a couple of months ago.

A lot. I can't even remember. I've retired from clubbing. I wouldn't even remember. I've retired from clubbing. I wouldn't even say I had a good dance last time. And last time was December 2023. Yeah. For producer Jared's birthday. That's right.

And I just stood in the corner. Yeah, that's right. Just kind of like, what the hell? And I was just like, one, how did I used to enjoy this? Two, how did I used to afford this? I don't know. And I was just kind of like, just watching, just being like, this is wild. This is literally going to be you on Tuesday night after Slipknot.

Tuesday night I'm going to a club for the after party and all I'll do is dance till the early hours. Whenever I go to Wellington Wellington I often hit the clubs because they've still got quite a good like club scene in Wellington. So when you see me

in the club, you know, I'm having a good time. But apparently, so the people, Gen Z in particular are going to TikTok to say how obvious

it is that we are millennials when we're into clubs and the signs that we're given offline that we're millennials. Yeah, we've got our own, also you're a bit of a nana Gen Z, Shannon. We are millennials when we're into clerbs and the signs that we're given offline that we're millennials. Yeah, we've got our own. Also, you're a bit of a nana Gen Z, Shannon.

Are you a clubber? She's a crocheter. I'm a crocheter. I think this job has kind of tainted me because I'll go out, but it gets to about 11 whenever I want to go to the club. Nannies. And I'm like, oh, it's bedtime. It's nannies time. Yeah. It's nannies time.

And I think that's also like lemonade induced, you know what I mean? But I love clubbing and I was a club promoter back in the day. It's in my blood. Carwin, do you hit the clubs? I couldn't tell you the last time I was in the clubs. I tried to drag Carwin one time but we had to pay entry and we both left.

I'm not paying entry. I'm not paying entry. I know. I'm not paying entry. I kind of like it because it sifts out people that won't pay entry. Oh my gosh, yeah. I'm not paying entry. I'm paying entry. Unless the drinks are free. Unless the drinks, I'm not paying entry. Yeah, they had $3 drinks. I kind of like it because it sifts out people that won't pay entry. Do you know what I mean?

Oh my God. And I'm talking like five bucks. Oh wow, that was, yeah, that was so private school of you. You know, it sifts out the poor people. It's a $50 entry fee and if you can't afford it, you should leave.

Anyway, here's what Gen Z is saying that gives us away, Indie Caribs. I mean, surely it's like, we're old. My wrinkles, I guess, am I like lower than your boobs? Is that it? Yeah, and the shocked look on my face. Yeah, and I go, oh, my God, that's so short.

What she's wearing is so short. I mean, she's got the body for it, but my God. No, okay, there's three things. I'm not bad at any of these actually, I think. Okay. On our phones the whole time is one thing. Right. And I was like, Gen Z's on their phone more than we are.

Yeah, but they can't afford data plans. That's right, they've only got five bags of toxic texts. I think it's more that you can spot millennials because they have to film every drink they have and they have to be like, this is our song, so I'm going to film that. We're doing a boomerang cheers thing. I mean, you're going to know what cocktails we're having if we're not boomeranging

the cheers. Yeah, you're going to boomerang the espresso martinis. And what you're going to do is you start in and then you pull out. See? That's how you get the boomerang. Wow, okay, so that's not good. Yeah, I think it's just like a lot more posting and like oh, here I'm in the bathroom, look at my outfit, look at my jeans and a cute top. I also think

it's because it is a novelty that we're in the clubs that we're like ahhh we're in the club with our phone yeah like all the hens do like they're like oh my goodness

crazy we're all my hens do Steph's wasted yeah okay so on our phones we've got heavier makeup on I do wear a lot of makeup depending on where I'm going

like tomorrow night I'm gonna I'm gonna hit the heavy eye. Well, you've got to hide the wrinkles. I've got to hide the wrinkles with eyeshadow. I think it's about the eyeshadow. Yeah. Gen Z love a full face of makeup,

but it's the eyeshadow is where you can tell if someone's in their 20s or 30s. We've gone under, we've gone all around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just heavier. A cut crease is a real telltale sign. The 2016 makeup. Just like when it's really like, see the socket there?

Like it's really like a clear line. A clear line on the socket. As opposed to a sort of blurry, soft thing. We're on our phones wearing too much makeup and we're wearing high heels instead of trainers. I've seen this. Trainers in the club? We didn't ever used to be able to get into the club wearing trainers.

You needed your club shoes. We needed our town shoes. This is a very Christchurch thing. Like, you have to be wearing nice shoes in Christchurch to get into town. But in Auckland, nah, sneakers. Yeah, and Wellington wasn't bad when I was growing up. But I would wear dressy shoes, probably boots. I've never been a heels girl.

I'm a month, you know, I'm tall. You know, I wouldn't be towering over the guy being like, those are cuss. Those are cuss down there. Those being like, give us a cuss. Give us a cuss. Give us a cuss down there. Give us a cuss. Cuss, cuss. Anyway, apparently that's how we're being spotted out in the wild

when we've left our lairs. Rude. Very rude. For the rogue night out of the year that we're hitting the curbs. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. It is time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day.

Yeah. I was listening to one of my favourite podcasts. I was doing the lawns yesterday and that gave me the idea for this week's theme. Which one of Hayley? Is that out? No. A little bit of pod? Both of those were done.

I listened to all of them. Okay, well I'll see your second favourite. Went on to my secondary podcast. I said one of my favourites. One of my main favourites. 99% Invisible, which looks at design things and things that you don't notice and how things work. And yesterday they looked into, they did a story about a beetle, a beetle discovered in a Slovenian cave in 1933. And its name is Anothophilumus Hitleri.

Named after, you got it, Adolf Hitler. Adolf. So, Oskar Scheibel, who was the- Great name, Oskar Scheibel. Oskar Scheibel. Great name, not a great man. Okay, I take it back. Huge Nazi guy.

Oh, no. Loved the Nazis. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't realise. So, when he discovered this beetle, he named it after Adolf Hitler. Right. Who had just become Chancellor of Germany, but you know, it was well on track and was spouting all the stuff that made it terrible

and led to World War. And Hitler sent him a lovely letter saying, thank you very much for naming the beetle after me, an honour, sir. And so now, all these years later, this beetle still has this name and it's led to this whole situation of should things be named after people because they might do bad things. Or they might be bad people, but when you discover it, you get to name it.

So you might be like this guy. You might be a bit of a legend in the area of finding beetles that haven't been found before, but you might have a bit skewer political political thing that in, you know, 80 years later completely changed. So this article, this podcast is all about things named after her because Beyonce's got something named after her. She hasn't done anything too bad yet. Yep.

Surely there's stars after Taylor Swift. Yeah, that was you. Do you know what I mean? Taylor Swift's got an insect named after her as well. Oh, you've made it if you've got an insect named after you. Yeah, I sort of feel like that's now a goal in life. Right. Or a star or a planet or something.

Right. Or a condition. A condition. You know what I mean? Like Alzheimer's or whatever, like a lot of those conditions. So that's what we're going to get. Parkinson's. Later in the week.

But they're not named after bad people. Yeah. The guy that discovered Parkinson's wasn't a bad person, as far as I've, his name hasn't come up in my research so far, but there are some conditions named after some really terrible people. Really? Yeah. And that's, so that's a theme all this week. Yeah, things named after bad people. So there's the beetle,

there's the beetle named after Adolf Hitler, but also in, and I looked through, and obviously in Germany at the time, lots of things are named after Adolf Hitler. Cities had streets named after him. There was even subdivisions and suburbs and stuff named after him that all got renamed post-World War II.

But also it wasn't just in... God, imagine buying a three-bedroom family home in Hitlerise. Well, that changed pretty quickly. In New York, in the United States, there was an area that was getting built at the time, and all the people there were like, I think he's got some good points. Adolf Hitler Street.

Adolf Hitler Street. Goodness me. What's your address so I can send that to you? The 1930s, and it was renamed to Park Boulevard, and you thank New York, you can look it up. And it used to be called Adolf Hitler Street because the people on the street who kind of built it and stuff influenced and it was renamed to Park Boulevard and you thank New York, you can look it up. Wow. And it used to be called Adolf Hitler Street

because the people on the street who kind of like built it and stuff influenced. And now history's repeating itself. Like we've learned nothing from it. It is repeating. So today's fact of the day is there is a beetle named after Adolf Hitler. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. We want to know, what is the thing that you had to save up for as a kid? That your parents didn't get you? They were like, no. No, maybe you... If you want it. You had to mow lawns. You had to do odd jobs.

You had to really, really save. You had to hustle, save. Save all your paper run money and all that. All your allowance. Save it all up and you can buy it. You can spend your money how you want. Because there was a big, like, sneaker event. I keep seeing these on Instagram now.

People, like, trading sneakers and selling sneakers, secondhand sneakers, collectors items. I know that the shoe collectors are crazy. And they leave them in the boxes and it's so, it's nuts. And I see them lining up like when I come to work sometimes outside the shoe shops downtown. I don't get it. They camp outside shops to like be the first in to buy the latest releases.

That's right. It's crazy. I like to buy my shoes from Trade Me most of the time, I'll be honest. Much cheaper. And with some additional foot fungus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got fungus galore on these ones. Worn in.

Yeah, yeah, worn in. Yeah, worn in. Falling apart almost. They've pre-done it. So the reason we're talking about this is because Ben Affleck and his son with Jennifer Garnier, Garnier Fructus, he was there with his son and his son is looking at a pair of shoes. They're like Nike

collector's edition. They're his size. And the guy selling is like, they're six grand, $6,000. For a pair of shoes? What, just because they're rare? Yeah, they're really rare shoes. And Ben Affleck's there and he kind of comes in

and he's like, um, oh my God, what the hell? And he's like, no, I've always wanted these, I've told you.

Also, you can kind of see Ben Affleck is fully aware of the situation. He's being filmed. Yeah. He knows this is going to go somewhere.

And he's not just going to say, of course I'll buy those for you. Yeah, or, but even the fact that he has a kid that thinks $6,000 is like... On shoes, that would be my biggest issue.

I'd be like, that's ridiculous. You're out of touch. Yeah, a little bit of touch. You could buy this, this and this with that money. Yeah. Well, instead Ben Affleck's response is, that's a lot of lawns. Like you got to mow a lot of lawns. And you're like,

come on, Ben Affleck's worth like a bajillion dollars. Surely he could just buy the shoes. How much has he got? But it would be hard if you were so wealthy to not have your kids

as shit bags, right? Oh, so hard. Because you would want to buy them everything, right? But I love, my mum used to say that, well, if you want it, there's plenty of things

you can do around the house. And I'd be like, oh, I don't want to work for it. I just want the shoes. But did you have to work for everything? We didn't, yeah. Yeah, not, it was never really that direct. We didn't get, because I had a paper run, so I kind of earned my own money for a little bit.

I saved up. And then we had allowances and we spent that kind of stuff. Yeah. But there was never really anything I like desperately wanted to save up for. Like, you know, like games. I think my brother saved up to buy his, the Sega I think he got, but the Nintendo 64. Yeah.

Oh, flash. He wanted that. Yeah, because we saved up. We had jars, mum's preserving jars, and each jar was for a different denomination. So you had the $5 note jar and then the $1 and $2 coin jar and then the 50 cents. And so it made it easier to count them when you needed to count them.

And we would count it after every time we did anything. Let's see where we're at. To see how much closer we're at. And it's like, what? Feels like we should be closer. And what were you saving for? A Sega. And then I got the Sega Master System 2

built in Alex Kidd and Miracle World. Yeah. People who know, if you know, as they say, if you know, you know. Yeah. No, that's Mario.

Which one's Alex Kidd? She doesn't know, you know. I don't know. Yeah. No, you don't know. He played Paper Scissors as well. No, I know Alex Kidd. I just can't remember the song.

Anyway, that'll go back to me. So we saved it and then I got it for my birthday and they were like, what do we do with this money? And then mum's like, well, we thought you could buy games, more games, and we were like, there's a Grand O'Day, mum! That's sick! And then my brother started saving up for a Mega Drive without me and he bought his own Mega Drive.

And he had it, okay. And then I was stuck with the Master System, 8-bit system. He had a 16. I had Mortal Kombat. Fights. Fights. And that's why I'm so bad at saving money. Yeah. Because of the trauma. It didn't work.

Yeah, I got what I wanted. But there were lots of things that parents just go, I'm not buying that. Well, this is what we wanted to ask this morning. 0800 DARS at M. You can text her in 9696. What did you personally have to save up for as a kid?

You really wanted and you had to work for it. So we wanted to know what is the thing that you had to save up for as a kid?

Maybe it was mowing lawns, doing the paper run, whatever it was. Somebody messaged you on my first cell phone, I milked eight

weekends to get an Alcatel OneTouch. Just did some quick maths in my head. Yeah. Each weekend would be four different milkings if you're only doing Saturday and Sunday. eight weekends to get an Alcatel one touch just did some quick maths in my head yeah each weekend would be four different milkings

if you're only doing Saturday and Sunday they're on twice a day so that's four times eight quick maths on that one four times eight thirty two

thirty two I got freaked out and thought it was going to be in the twenties thirty two so they did thirty two milkings

how much was that I don't know how much they said those phones were $320 back in the day so $10 a milking they were getting they were ripping you off and if your parents

bought it and they were dairy farmers they probably wrote it off as a tax expense because it's a business business necessity yeah oh you got

you got ripped off um Stephanie what did you save up for as a kid um I saved up by cleaning a childcare centre. I saved up for a girl guide jamboree.

Wow. And so it was like months and months of working one hour a day just to go to jamboree. Wow. Was it worth it in the end? Yeah, it actually was. Yeah, okay. Look what it taught you too.

Get stuck in, do the hard mahi And then you get the treats With the jamboree Are you good with money now? Yes, massively Thankfully my new husband and I Are saving up for a house now Thanks mum and dad That's your new girl guy jamboree, a house

Yeah, that's the modern equivalent Stephanie, thank you. Dana, oh, sorry, Dania, what did you save up for as a kid? For a Tamagotchi. Oh, man. How much were they even back in the day? I don't know. I had one.

I think they were like $40. Yeah. Which was heaps of money, right? They were banned at my school because they kept beeping at us or reminding us to feed them. Oh, mutiny. So they got banned. I, yeah,

I constantly, constantly killed that little thing. And what did you do to raise the money? I had to mow lawns and wash my grandma's car. Oh. That's not bad. That's not bad.

It's not bad. And has it taught you like a good work ethic and good money skills? Not at all. Not at all. Because the time we got you done, we got bored of it real quick, right? Yeah, okay. I did.

Daniel, thank you. Some messages in. I had to pay up half for the desktop computer. My parents would pay the other half. It was the late 90s, so it was a $2,000 setup. I had to raise $1,000. My parents paid the other half, but that somehow meant all of my siblings,

who had done nothing towards it, had the same rights of use. You always get priority use. I would flip a table. Hey guys, apparently being the company's most successful podcast isn't enough. They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends. So people are

clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it. I would concentrate more on the shitter podcasts that the company makes. Yeah, same. You know, the real losers out there. Same.

No, no, no, we'll just... Yeah. Maybe we won't say nice. Maybe we should even encourage people to listen to other podcasts that the company makes. Yeah.

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