ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 11th December 2024

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yesterday it was announced, and I mean, it might not surprise you.

It might surprise you. I might have a real Greyhound racing fan vibe about me. Yeah. Do I? No, I don't think so. Do I have the vibe of someone who bets on the dogs? No. Do you know what put me off Greyhound racing?

And I can honestly say I can remember it, the episode of The Simpsons where they get Santa's little helper. I know. 100% how the guy kicked it and I know that's not how every greyhound owner treats the dogs that they race I know I know I know but have you ever met a confident rescue greyhound have you ever met a confident rescue greyhound who's like happy and loving and it's like hey hey men hey women New Zealand hello going to... Hey, hello, man that looks like my old owner. Pleased to meet you.

Hi, roller. New Zealand are going to ban greyhound racing. And I have made the awful mistake of wading into the comments of a New Zealand Herald post about it. Why'd you do that? You never read the comments on anything. You don't read that. I know.

I don't know why I did it. Were you sort of itching for an urchin? Yeah, yeah. I think I had this sick sort of want to. Sadomasochistic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. You know, some people, you know, tie themselves up.

Some people cut circulation off to their genitals. And I read the Herald comments. Right. We all have our vices. That's how I get off. It's my kink. Yeah I read the Herald comments. Right. We all have our vices. That's how I get off. It's my kink. It's my kink. Okay.

I have, and I'm going to make up for yesterday's top six. Remember yesterday's top six? Oh, it was appalling. Lazy and appalling. Just the height of laziness. Today's top six, I'm going from six to one back to six. What? I could not decide on the six favourite comments,

so I have 12 comments. Oh, wait, you're bringing these comments from this post on here? The weirdest takes. Not the angry ones, not the happy ones. The weirdest takes that I could find. Because that's the other thing. It makes you angry, but man,

it's funny laughing at some people's opinions. Yeah, it is. Okay, that's coming up. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley's. How long's your commute, Flesh, to work? On a scooter, it's about five minutes. Gorgeous. Gorgeous.

Not bad. What's ours? 30 minutes, 30, 20. Wow, my speed, 30, yours, 18. Kilometres-wise, though? 29 kilometres. 20, 29 kilometres. Yeahometres wise though. 29 kilometres. Nice. Nice.

So there is a student his name is Guangli Zhu he lives in China and has worked out that it was more cost effective to fly to Melbourne once a week to attend classes at university there.

What? Then living in Melbourne and being there full time. Yeah, Melbourne's expensive. Yeah. But where does he stay when he's there? I'm assuming he's not a fly-in, fly-out. He's not a FIFO student. He's not doing the whole week in Melbourne.

I think there's like maybe one or two classes he can do maybe in a day or two. Yeah. And then he leaves. He goes home. That's dumb. Sorry man, I know you're saving money but you're dumb. How much time are you spending travelling? What's the carbon footprint of that? Hours. It takes 10 to 13 hours on the

plane. A round trip is 72 hours though with all the kind of like filler. So that includes classes and flights. Yeah. Okay. So then he, it costs around $1,500,

which he worked out. So he did 11 commutes between August and October. So it's not exactly every single week, but most of the time. Enough to kind of tick off. 11 times.

Right. August, September, October. In two months. Yeah, no, no, that's heaps. That's heaps, yeah. Costing around $ Yeah, no, no, that's heaps. That's heaps, yeah. Costing around $1,500 a trip, which he says is typical to a monthly living cost of Melbourne. So it just works out for him to be able to just stay

where he wants to live and commute all that way. That is insane. Yeah. Surely you can get something. I hate commuting. Yeah. My brother-in-law's been doing like, based here and then doing week between here and Australia. And I'm just like, how do you do intimidating. Yeah. My brother-in-law's been doing like, based here and then doing week between here and Australia.

And I'm just like, how do you do it? Yeah. Like airports, like the excitement of an airport is, yay, I'm about to go on holiday. The worst part about coming back from a holiday is that airport back. Yeah. It's horrible.

That's the worst. Airport on the way there, hooray. Yeah. 8 a.m. beer. Why not? Airport on the way home sucks. Now imagine doing that all the time, but it's 8am beer why not? airport on the way home, sucks, now imagine doing that all the time but it's just constantly work, yeah totally

he just said because the routes between China and Australia are so frequent that he could always find a good flight, an affordable flight, and cheap cheap, at a time that works for him, so he was like I'll just give it a try because he likes the environment and convenience of living in China he didn't want it, he's lived abroad before and he was like,

I just miss my family the whole time. But he wants to study in Australia. And I guess now a lot of classes could be online. Yeah, so you do most of it. It's just that he goes and does the classes that he needs to do in person when he has to. And then now they're talking,

I was just reading this article, they're talking about like maybe this could become more mainstream, the better flights get and the more that people can be doing things remotely. It's insane. Oh you couldn't pay me to do this. Nah. That's a long way it's not like you're commuting New Zealand to Australia. You're like oh there's

a great university in Melbourne and I want to go but I don't want to leave New Zealand so I'll go once away. Not with the price of flights. You might as well live in Melbourne. I know him saying 1500 him saying $1,500 to get from China to Melbourne, I was like, that's how much it costs to get to New Zealand. To Queenstown. My brother's coming home from Melbourne for Christmas, and that was $1,200 each for him and his partner.

Wow. Crazy, eh? And he's coming on Christmas Day. What? He's coming on Christmas, and it's still costing him that much money. Yeah, $1,200. Return. When did he book this, though? Like, last that much money. Yeah, $1,200. Return. When did he book this though?

Like last week? Yeah. Well, that's your problem. Oh, Samuel. Oh, I'll say Samuel. That's on him. Oh, Samuel. You can't book three weeks out or two and a half weeks out.

No, we're a whimsical family. We're a whimsical bunch. Play ZM's. Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. Okay, so two days ago I took some time because everybody is talking about this CEO of United Healthcare that was gunned down in the streets of New York. And I didn't know what the hell was going on.

It took me a while. That was December 4. Yes. That that happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was talked about and I was like, well, it's America. I can't keep up with every shooting. I just simply don't have the time. This one was wild because it was like well it's america i can't keep up with every shooting i just simply don't have the time this one this one endured it was like an assassination

it was a broad day yeah dude it was a while it was at night it was in the middle of the street though it was in populated new york city yeah like this was a tv show so he was the how the ceo of brian thompson ceo of he, again, I didn't know anything about him, so I did some reading. He was kind of being investigated for insider trading, right? He knew that healthcare was about to get bad news, sold some of his shares when they were worth heaps. Then the news came out, it dipped,

and people are like, ooh, CEOs don't do that. That's naughty, naughty. That's insider trading, that's trading do that. That's naughty, naughty. That's not trading. That's trading on knowledge not yet known to everybody else. Then it came out that the health provider was declining heaps of claims. Yeah. Just not great stuff. Yeah.

But it's America. That's how it works, right? The shell casing, they tested that and saw that it was engraved with the words, was it deny and delay? Yeah. Which is like a tactic from, and in America, it's crazy. Like, you know, getting sick can cause you to be bankrupt. Oh, I know.

They don't have the healthcare system that we have. Not that ours is amazing. Do you see people posting the bills they get after they give birth? You do. In America? Yeah, it's insane. And you're like, what? It's like one of the only Western

Where am I supposed to pop this baby out? Like one of the only countries in the world where It charges for babies. That you don't get like universal healthcare. Yeah. It's insane. In New Zealand you'd just be like, hey I'm in baby. It's, yeah, one of the big ones and the money that these insurance companies make.

Well they are just profit companies. So, and this, this is what's happened now. So, they're hunting for this guy.

Yeah. They're like, this is him and then more pictures start coming out and we're like, this is him and then before

they caught him, they caught him yesterday, the day before. yesterday. Before they caught him, someone's like, this guy is,

excuse me, but he kills him but he is a cutie. Now that, and that, and the eyes, they were like, look at the, excuse me, but he kills someone, but he is a cutie. And the eyes, they were like, look at the brows. And then the dam was there holding back all the thirst. And then somebody pulled a lever. I want to say somebody, the gays. The gays pulled the lever.

And then all the gays grabbed the lever and they pulled it down. And then the dam just. Yeah. And the internet is just full of memes and you're reading them and then like you're laughing because some of them are so well constructed jokes and then you're like but this guy has killed someone but you're like but the guy was a bad guy but you're like but he still killed someone's dad and the i'm but he's become a bit of a folk legend yeah like a robin or like a Pablo Escobar, because, you know, these greedy health insurance companies in America,

screwing everybody. And so now it's insane. Like the healthcare company had to take down the post announcing the CEO's death because they had 75,000 laugh emoji reactions. Horrendous behaviour. But some of the tweets are quite funny. Some of the messages are quite funny. Fire sent through a bunch of memes last night.

It's insane. Do you know the jacket he was wearing also sold out? Yep. Because it was a Macy's jacket and everyone was like, the style of this guy. I love it. Sort of a shacket with a hood. It's insane.

New workout goal is to have a body where I commit a crime. The media post my shirt was pic and everyone's like, wow. Hot as shit, you must acquit. Yeah. Y'all just ever look at someone and just know their D is big? Good luck finding 12 jury members that don't immediately want to F him. Yeah. I mean, yeah, he's...

You should get one Instagram story in addition to your one phone call when you get arrested, please. Put me on the jury, says someone. Most attractive male hobbies to women. There's woodworking, crafting cocktails and ideologically motivated assassinations in the street in New York.

Yeah, it's... You were saying, like, how would you describe this kind of pop culture and this reaction to, like like one of your grandparents? I have one remaining grandparent and I do not believe I could tell her a man was gunned down in the street in New York. Immediately the world knew about it. And there's this way of making a joke about something dark

and putting it somewhere that within 24 hours, 90% of the world's population could see. Yeah. I just don't believe our grandparents would have the capability our generation's grandparents, if you're young and listening, your grandparents probably aren't even that old would have the capability to understand that that's

something that we have access to daily. That's our response as a planet. A shared united dark universe. The way this used to happen would have been a well-crafted political cartoon in a newspaper. Yeah. That would have been printed at two o'clock in the morning and people started reading at six. And then at the end of the day, someone would have seen it for the last time before it became newspaper.

Yeah. Fish and chip wrapper. Yeah. And they'd be like, did you see that? Did you see that cartoon? Well, mama. But I would say to you, did you see it? Not be easily like, I'm going to forward you it to the thing that's in your pocket.

I don't know, it's such a... I cannot stop reading these internet responses. Yeah. Wild times. It's such a bizarre response to this. Hot privilege. You can literally murder someone and everyone's like, yeah, but Hot privilege. Elon Musk never spends... You can literally murder someone and everyone's like, yeah, but he cute.

Elon Musk never spends time with his kids, but the day after a CEO gets shot in the streets, he's father of the year hanging with his little human shield and he's got his kid in front of him. Oh, gosh. Yeah, the internet has responded. Oh, my God. It's wild.

Play. ZM. Fletchvorn and Hayley. Awards season is coming. Yes. Starting off with the Golden Globesughan and Hayley. Awards season is coming. Yes. Starting off with the Golden Globes. What I love most about awards season is it's just a big- No, it's just a big list of movies and TV shows

that you should watch if you haven't already because they're probably great. It is, eh? I love that when you're like, oh, God, I hadn't heard of that one. Like, for example, Amelia Perez. I've heard of this. Selena Gomez is in that, eh?

Yeah, and it's leading the Golden Globe nominations with 10 under it's about. Wow. It's a audacious musical about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery. It's got the most 10 nods.

That is like everything. It's a musical. It's a musical. It's about Mexican drug lords. It's about gender affirming surgery. There is perhaps not a more crafted 2024 show. Well, it was a Cannes Film Festival fave.

That's where it came out. And then I think it's Netflix has acquired it to come on. So we'll get to watch that easy peasy. All I've heard about it is that Selena Gomez's accent is really bad in it. Oh, okay. I think a Spanish person was coming along being like, her accent's terrible for a Gomez. How dare she?

And she was like, leave me alone. Anyway. Is Selena, and I ask this, is she Latina Gomez or Filipino Gomez? Latina. Okay. Because you know how you assume, like Olivia Rodrigo, I was like, that's a Latino name,

but it wasn't. It's because of the Spanish colonizing of the Philippines. You always got to ask. Mexican descent. Mexican descent. Okay, that's cool. She was adopted by Italians. I was like, Vanessa Hutchins, she's Latino. She's not, she Mexican descent. Okay, that's cool. She was adopted by Italians. I was like, Vanessa Hudgens, she's Latino.

She's not, she's Filipino. No, she's not. Anyway, so. Shout out to our Filipino listeners. Yeah, good morning. I know they're morning. Heaps of you. Hundreds.

Hundreds of you and I said good morning to you. Yeah, a lot of South Africans, a lot of Filipinos. Good morning, good morning. And Sri Lankans. And of course, and lesbians. We've ticked them all. Anyway, so best film, there's, I mean like,

best film drama, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown. I saw the trailer for that. That looks insane, that movie. It was four hours long. Give it an edit. It's got Adrian Brody in it. I love Adrian Brody.

That's a miniseries. And Guy Pearce. Apparently it's an incredible movie. I always really liked Guy Pearce. A Complete Unknown is another one. Right. Conclave, June Part movie. I always really liked Guy Pearce. A Complete Unknown is another one. Con Clay, June Part 2. That was so good. Nickel Boys in September 5. Those are

the best movies that have been nominated. That's best film drama, best film musical comedy. Anora, Challengers, which is the tennis one. Amelia Perez, A Real Pain, The Substance, which I watched recently. That's Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, all about beauty standards,

and it warps into this really bizarre avant-garde film. It's amazing. And Wicked. Yeah. But, so Wicked, right, Cynthia and her name is Ariana Grande, have both been nominated for their performances, which feels right, given the feedback.

The director, completely snubbed. Oh, wow. But it's nominated for their performances, which feels right given the feedback. The director completely snubbed. Oh wow. But it's nominated for best. I never understand that. You can have a best film. How your film is nominated for best film. And you directed it. And you directed it. Yeah. And it's got lots of nominations. Here's my favourite one. Best female actor in a film drama.

Pamela Anderson. Wow. Who would have thought we'd see the day. I just love her at the moment. She's so like interesting and cool. And look at her. She's here amongst Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton, Kate Winslet, Fernanda Torr and Pamela Anderson. She's having a moment.

Who everyone just mocked relentlessly for decades for being like. A bimbo. A bimbo. Yeah. A Baywatch bimbo. And being a Baywatch bimbo. A bimbo. Yeah. And being a Baywatch bimbo and having a sex tape with Tommy Lee and now she's just here. You just don't recognise her when you see her now because she's just natural and she doesn't do makeup.

Yeah, because her makeup artist died and so as like a little sort of tip of the hat to her makeup artist she stopped wearing makeup. She wears a little bit now. But this film, The Last Showgirl, is all about being a Las Vegas showgirl who's been there for decades and the show's wrapping up

and she's like, who am I, what am I? What do I do now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow, okay. Amazing. Adrian Brody is nominated for that film as well as Timothee Chalamet is nominated, Daniel Craig for Queer.

This is a good, do you know, this is an interesting one, Sebastian Stan's nominated for The Apprentice, which is his performance as Donald Trump. That's right, yeah.

Apparently that was really good. Is that out? Well, I kind of, I think it, yeah, I think it had a limited release, yeah. Well, there you go. There you go.

A list of like, what movies, a lot of these movies aren't out yet though as well can i just say something crazy hugh grant's nominated for heretic a film that we all saw and loved i got to interview him best male actor musical or comedy that's not remember they've done this with the martian before and everyone was like with. It's not a comedy. It's not a comedy or a musical. I mean it was kind of darkly funny. Yeah but it's not a comedy. Heretic. Yeah. You know it was a thriller. Yeah I don't know.

Well there's no thriller. You can go through the list it's a great list of what to watch and what's coming out soon. Exactly. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Bl ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the top six.

Well, to make up for yesterday's top six that you guys were all disappointed in, prepare to be top sixed. And I've got to be quick with it because Fletch said don't muck around. Yeah, he did. All he wants to do, 12. I know.

They banned greyhound racing yesterday. The announcement over the next 20 months, it's being phased out. And when this was shared on the New Zealand Herald, I accidentally clicked on the comments. The first one I saw made me laugh, so I was like, I'm going to find some more funny ones. Before I knew it, I was just finding so many good ones.

Here we go. Number six on the list of the top six wildest reactions to the greyhound ban that I saw. G MacDonald wrote, great, just another reason for people to move to Australia. I'm sorry, but if you move to a country because you can do things there that are to animals that's illegal in all but four countries in the world,

Australia can have you. Is that one of the other places it's legal? Yeah. Right. Number five on the list of the top six wildest reactions to the Greyhound racing ban that I saw online yesterday. Scott S said, yay, now

the only thing they need to ban is eating animals, cutting down trees, eating vegetables, driving cars, works, playing sport and soon enough breathing. Because it's the same. It's the same.

Yeah. It's the same. Top six wildest reactions to the Greyhound ban I saw on a New Zealand Herald post yesterday. Number four, S. Wilson writes, next will be horse racing and then farm animals

and then even owning pets. These safe people think animals should be wild only, but yeah, dogs get injured. Number three on the list of the top six wildest reactions to the Greyhound ban that I saw yesterday, C. Backer writes, next will be zoos getting shut down. At least then we'll have room

to put bloody government officials in there. Oh back our rights. Next will be zoos getting shut down. At least then we'll have room to put bloody government officials in there. Oh, far apart. Number two on the wildest reactions to the Greyhound band that I saw yesterday online.

Ah, Denton wrote, I like when they get the fake rabbit thing. It makes me really happy knowing that they are happy that they got the rabbit. It makes me happy

that they're happy too. It makes me knowing. And I tell you what I'm not even because I'm stretched for time I'm not even covering the spelling mistakes in these comments

Oh don't worry about it I think I can picture them Happy knowing knowing N-O-I-N-G knowing knowing knowing

I'm happy knowing knowing Number one on the list of the top six and I'm not finished this isn't the last one The wildest reactions

to the Greyhound banner I saw yesterday K-Word riots Why do people think this is cruel? Do we stop people from running when they get injured too? the list of the top six, and I'm not finished. This isn't the last one. The wildest reactions to the Greyhound ban I saw yesterday. K Word writes, why do people think this is cruel? Do we stop people from running when they get injured too? Or any kind of sport that leads to injury? Don't know if you get beaten when you train to run a marathon though.

I don't know. Is there a big person like four times your size? Well, you choose to run a marathon for your own health, right? You know, just kind of been born into this idea that you're going to run and then when you can't run anymore, you're useless. Scott V writes, this is zero, by the way. Yeah. Zero on today's top six. Scott V writes.

Are we going negatives? Yeah, we're going negatives. No, we're going zero. Yep, we're going negatives. Scott V writes, better ban throwing balls for dogs as well. It might cause them to do some running. I think we should just ban balls altogether so nobody can throw a ball just in case.

Kind of missing the point of the whole cruelty thing. Yeah. That's at negative one. Wuramu R writes, where's the cruelty exactly? Those dogs are getting treated with all the love, plus they get to do, they love it just as much as we watch, we love watching them do it. Right.

They love doing it just as much as we love watching them do it. I'm glad he went and asked all the greyhounds. He talked to all the dogs. That's so good. Negative two on today's top six of the wildest reactions to the greyhound ban that I saw online. Greg W. writes, walking to the letterbox will be classed as extreme danger soon. Risk at first, woke people are going to ruin everything. Number three, number negative three on the list of the top six wildest reactions to the greyhound band that I saw yesterday.

B. Rennie writes, Could have a massive behavioural issue on our hands now. Take away the opportunity for the breed to express their natural behaviour in a controlled setting. One of the five freedoms is the freedom to express our natural behaviour after all. Just take them to the park, I reckon. They could run free. I reckon just these heaps of dog parks.

Can you stop reading the comments, please? You've got to stop this behaviour. Number negative four on today's Top 6 Wildest Reactions to the Greyhound Band that I saw. G Milne posts, Is it all dog racing or just a Greyhound Band? Because our local show has a dash hound race that was awesome. Oh, my God. I've seen the little dog ones.

They seem really happy about it. At an AMP show and they just, like, release the dogs. Yeah. Oh, my've seen the little dog ones. They seem really happy about it. At an A&P show and they just like release the dogs. Oh, yeah. Corgi race. Yeah, that's so cute. That's funny. Number five on the list at the top. Number negative five.

Yep. On the top six wildest reactions to the Greyhound band that I saw online. N.M. writes, glad to see Winston working on the important issues. What's he going to do about the plight of the poor hedgehog? They get killed in greater numbers than greyhounds and they're raced across the road.

Actually, that's a great point. Hedgehogs are a pest. They're an invasive pest and any of our ground base birds, they eat the eggs. We should ban cars.

Hedgehogs, I think we should ban cars. And number negative six, the final on today's top six wildest reactions to the greyhound ban that I saw yesterday on a New Zealand Herald post. Al Jackson

writes, this by the way is just neither here nor there, it's just a weird comment. Wouldn't it be weird if they turned the Greyhounds into horse food for a bit of a role reversal? God! It's dark man. It's a dark take. Dark.

Game from nowhere Al Jackson. That's today's top six and negative six. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Haley. What I'm about to say feels timely, given the fact that I've got some breaking news. Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox, dunce skis. Isn't she pregnant? No, wait.

She is. That's the 10th of December in America. Yeah, well, it's close enough. So Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox were reportedly split just weeks after announcing her pregnancy after she found some content on his phone that was upsetting. Oh, okay. Made her want to leave the trip early.

So they're having a baby, but they're apparently not together. That's the breaking news. Why is December 11th an important date? Apparently, according to analysis and many studies, December 11th is the most common day for people to call it quits on their relationship.

Is that because you're like, okay, Christmas present shopping. My partner. Two weeks, right? Two weeks till Christmas. It's not directly linked to, I don't know what to get them so I'll just flick isn't shopping. My partner. Two weeks, right? Two weeks till Christmas? Two weeks till Christmas. It's not directly linked to, I don't know what to get them, so I'll just flick them. Or I don't want to go to their parents for Christmas or I don't want to spend Christmas with them.

It's more about the fact that this time of year puts a lot of added pressure on couples. Right. Right, like busy time, kind of wrapping everything up, financial struggles do come into it. But a lot of it is due to the fact that this time of year is when we start reflecting on the year that we've had.

We start looking back and being like, what were my goals? I'm starting to think about what my goals for next year are. What were my goals? Did I achieve them? How was the year? You know, a lot of couples looking back and being like, we didn't really. What was my word of the year? Yeah.

What was mine? Game two. what was my word of the year yeah what was mine but you know like looking back and being like did we achieve what we set out to achieve as a relationship and often the answer is no and they go well before christmas you know two weeks is enough time to be like you make other plans for christmas yep you can go to your family i'll go to mine it's enough time to just sort of leave a bit of space before the big day and then start the year afresh. Okay. So if you're not to give three weeks notice on a place though. No. You'd want to be breaking up at least in November. Yeah, totally. I'd be interested to talk again tomorrow

and be like, did anybody get broken up with today? Oh yeah. Just kind of get a bit of a yesterday. Oh, yeah, we all put that up. Yeah, I reckon if tomorrow we just say, hey, yesterday's the day where they- A bonus little poll. Yeah, we did mention. I don't know if anybody's going to want to admit to that or talk about it. It might be a bit more.

Hey, it could be fresh. That's actually true. Maybe just a text. It was a bit like our kind of, when is it? Kind of maybe October, November, people start getting single for summer. Yeah, yeah, totally. A bit like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you see the same in Northern Hemisphere, like American and

Europe and that? We've been brewing a hot bod over winter. Yeah. We're going to flick the guy that we're with now, so we can have a nice hot summer with someone new. A lot of places, like a lot of dating websites and stuff, as you mentioned, like Tinder and Bumble and stuff,

they say they see a huge peak around this time. Wow, okay. People going like, right, summer season, let's have a little bit of fun in this hemisphere. But yeah, so if you're getting dumped, if you are thinking that you might get dumped, today could be the day. And we send to you our thoughts, our prayers, our love.

Well, just don't go home. They can't do it. Avoid the phone calls. Avoid them today. If you don't see them or answer them. do it. Avoid the phone calls. Avoid them today. If you don't see them or answer the text. Throw your phone in the ocean. Try dump me now. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Look, Vaughn, that's a great beard. That's a great beard you've got there. You know what I was just contemplating yesterday? Going to, like, keeping the beard, trimming it right short, and just keeping a very prominent moustache. Do it. I don't know. I saw a photo of you the other day, actually.

You know how- Yeah, because it was during one of the lockdowns I had a moment, and I was just like, I'm losing my mind. You know how iPhones, they're doing- Memories. Memories and stuff? One popped up of you when you cut my tree down.

Your very short beard. Very short. It was taut to the chin. Yeah, you need to go short for summer. Yeah, you should. Now, Fletch, you've shaved overnight because I did notice yesterday. Bit of gruff.

Yeah, that was three days. I normally go two. Yeah. But you, I don't know. I can't picture you with a full beard. It would look good. I think it would look good too. I think with a full beard. It would look good. I think it would look good too. I think it would look good.

It would look good. So the reason I'm complimenting these gentlemen before me today is because Jacob Elordi from Euphoria, from Elvis. Saltburn. Yeah, from Saltburn. He was the bath guy in Saltburn, right? Yes. Yeah.

He has grown a beard and he's jumped on this sort of trend of when men, particularly in Hollywood, men particularly in Hollywood, as opposed to the women, are in between roles. They're all just growing out these beards and having a nice relaxing time. The only thing is it just doesn't work. Is it for a movie role?

No, apparently people were saying he's sort of marking the end of euphoria, like marking the end of the sort of teenage, young roles. Right. Is it when he goes out in public he doesn't get recognised as much maybe? Yeah, maybe. As well? But it just doesn't work.

It doesn't work. Now, it's a good beard. It's half decent. Have you seen the photo? I'm just looking at a photo now. It's a very different colour to his hair colour. Yeah. Is he dyeing his hair?

Because I'd imagine you'd have to dye your hair to match your beard. I know Aaron's brother's got dark, dark brown hair and an orange beard. But is there a natural like balayage? No, it's almost like ear. Really? I saw a meme that was like the rare occasion when a guy grows a beard and it doesn't work. I know. With a photo of him and I was like, oh my God, they're right, it doesn't work.

So many people are looking and be like, could he groom it differently? Is there a shape issue? It's just not working. It's not working. I'm glad Henry Cavill got rid of the beard. We need the chin. No, no, no, just because he was too hot with a beard.

Oh, right, okay. He was too hot with a beard. That man is punishingly good looking. I know. And a nerd too. Oh my right. Okay. He was too hot with a beard. That man is punishingly good looking. I know. And a nerd too. Oh my god, I know. Anyway, this is, this got me thinking, like, he's jumped on a trend and it hasn't worked. Yeah. I want to know when this happened to you. Maybe you saw something

that was like, in the zeitgeist, everyone's doing it and you were like, let's do it! Doesn't have to be like a look, it could be fashion as well. Could be fashion. Maybe you were like, oh my god, the girlies are all getting septum piercings and somehow you look like a bull. You look like a bull in a lawn. Because people are so quick to commit to these things

and maybe it just didn't work for you. Well, at least a beard, you can shave it off and you're back to normal, right? Yeah. Yeah. Whereas if you get a haircut or you style your hair a certain way,

that can be, especially for women, that can take a while. We're going to hear from a lot of people who thought a pixie cut was going to be a good idea. I remember wanting a pixie cut. Around 2003, 2004? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And being like, everyone's getting that like, share your little pixie cut, I'm going to do it. And like, thank God, I just would not have thrived. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Jacob Elordi from Saltburn and Euphoria has grown a beard. Right? A lot of men in Hollywood at the moment grow beards.

It's not working though. It doesn't work. It doesn't look good. No one can put their finger on why. Hot man, good beard. It's full. It's a full beard. It's great.

It's decent. It just doesn't work. It's full. It's a full beard. It's great. It's decent. It just doesn't work. It does not work. We want to know when you jumped on a trend and it just didn't work for you. Whether it was clothing, fashion, or, I don't know, a change to your hair. Someone said, and I remember I was at a party once. A couple of drinks were had beyond moderation. Yep.

And I considered doing this. I tried the shaved side hair trend, you know, for the girls. Yeah. The swoop and the shave. Let's just say I got hit on by a lot of women. I'm straight and it took a year to grow back. And you've got to go through this awkward stage

where it's like, you know, 10 centimetres long. What was the movie? The blonde girl, was it the Divergent movie where the blonde girl that was also in Game of Thrones? Yes, yes, yes. Yes. She had it. That was a Hunger Games.

Natalie Dormer. It was Hunger Games. And she had the shave thing and then like these plaits and everyone was like, cool. I remember being at a party and being like, when I was maybe 19, 20 years old, being like, let's do it. And a guy coming out with a clipper and me be like partying the thing. And then one of my friends having the mind to go, don't do this. Not today. But I've seen kids, like little girls, rock it.

I've seen eight-year-olds with it and you're like, I wouldn't mess with that eight-year-old. She's got tactical training, I bet. I know. I didn't tell us. She's carrying a knife in that cool way that they hold a knife 100%. Some other messages in. Remember the dewy makeup look?

Yeah. I just looked sweaty and people always asked me if I was hot. Always trying to add shine. Do you need the air con turned down, they'd say to me. Kim Kardashian's short bob era was not for me. That was months of growing that out. Yeah. Well, she's got a whole hair and makeup team that styles it every day.

Yeah. When you've got a limp bob, it's not so cute. Somebody said to me, you'd really suit a mullet. I was like, all right then. Grew my hair a little bit long, shaved in the mullet, looked at myself in the mirror and was just like, no, I don't. And immediately just ended up shaving my whole head. Surely there are apps now before you drastically change your hair

that can show you what it looks like, right? There are. Yeah. Snapchat's missing a trick if they've not got Snapchat filters to do that. I tried the, somebody else said, I tried the shaved hair trend thing. Yeah. And it wasn't for me. I thought I'd look tough and I just looked so un-tough.

I know a lot of people that did this one. I jumped on the no poo, the no shampoo trend. You know, everyone was like, if you stop washing your hair after a couple of months, it starts self-cleansing. Everyone had these luscious locks after about eight weeks and I, after the greasy phase, I did get luscious locks but also

the worst case of dandruff for a whole year, even after I started using head and shoulders religiously. Because your scalp isn't getting the cleanse either. This was a huge thing for women that was like, stop washing your hair. You're killing it by washing it.

And people think dandruff is from a dry scalp, but it's often from a greasy scalp. Yeah, because it's build up. Yeah. That's disgusting. What boy millennial remembers when everyone had the slim, shady haircut? Yes.

It was short and bleach blonde. Yes. As a brown boy, I didn't rock it that well, but what a time. What a time. Yeah, no one's believing that that's your natural hair colour, babes. What a time. I tried the low rise jean with the whale tail. Still cringe thinking about the fact I went out in public with my G-string pulled up so

people could see it above my pants. I was like too young because when that was trending, I was too young for my mum to ever buy me a G-string. Ah, yeah. So I... Yeah, because you would have been a young teen. Like tweeny, yeah, like intermediate. It was prime Vaughan Smith Outback days. Yeah.

Well, me and my best friend used to like pull our jeans down and just wedge our like full undies up our butts. Actually, in those days, you used to check at the Outback before you went in that you were showing your whale tail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there were white pants with a black G underneath. Black G.

And in a UV light, you could just see the whole thing. Yeah. Someone wanted to point out. What a time! Someone wanted to point out that Jacob Elordi looks like young Kenny Rogers. So I'm low-key digging it because young Kenny Rogers was hot. It just looks wrong.

The whole thing looks wrong. It's almost like his face is too short. Yeah. So maybe if he grew the beard long to add length. True. Long? I like it when someone who's, you know, textbook handsome. Stuff's up.

Can't make something work for them. Yeah, totally. Makes us mingers feel good. Shannon has a hack for us. This is producer Shannon who's been pitching us hacks for a while. Yes, she has

and she's hoping for five stars in which we will provide her own jingle to formalise this segment. However, five stars has not been met, Shannon.

It's so elusive. Maybe it could be my Christmas present. No, no. It must be earned. It's got to be earned. It's not a gift. I think if you're not going to deliver us five stars,

we might have to cancel the segment for next year. Absolutely cancelled. Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, I've got a Christmas-themed hack today. Well, to help you with Christmas baking specifically. Is it to preheat the oven? Because that's what you should always do.

Wait for the light to turn on. That's why it's the first instruction on any recipe. I think the seal on my oven may be a bit loose. Really? Yeah, it's taking a long time to heat. In fact, I reckon if you're looking at a recipe online and you need to preheat the oven, turn the oven on and then read the really long story

that the person who posted the recipe tells you about the recipe and their uncle who went to Egypt and was- In 1997. And a jazz band. Yeah. And fell into the Nile and there was a crocodile and the crocodile told him the recipe. And now you need two cups of flour. Jump to recipe.

Yeah. Jump to recipe. The greatest button ever invented. Yeah. Okay. Christmas hack. Yeah. Jump to recipe, the greatest button ever invented Okay, Christmas hack Yeah, so you know how when you're baking One of the messiest and tiring steps Is sifting flour

And cocoa powder Sometimes I don't bother I'll run a fork through it Would you like to know how to make it easier? That's why when she brings in muffins Lumpy muffins Lumpy and dense And you buy it in and you get a, you know,

kind of a pocket of flour. I thought you liked my flour pockets. I love your flour pockets, not your lumpy muffins. Right. Which coincidentally was my Rock Quest band name. Oh my gosh. So was flour pockets. We're lumpy muffins.

And we're flour pockets. So no one likes a flour pocket. I'm sorry, Hayley. This hack is going to help you be more efficient and make less of a mess when sifting. Because it can take ages, especially a big chocolate cake or something like that. So you get your sieve,

and instead of awkwardly like da-da-da-da-da, you grab a massage gun or a personal massager, whatever's easier accessible in your house, and hold it against your sieve, and very quickly, it'll all pass through straight down. You're not going to get any extras over the bowl. Because, you know, when you sieve it...

Oh, because, like, a hand sieve, it can, like, go over the edge. Yeah, yeah. Whereas the concise vibration of a electric toothbrush... A massager. Personal massager. Satisfying pro.

Lady massager. No, no, no. Oh, my God. We're dealing with an amateur over here,ager. Satisfier Pro. Lady massager. No, Morgan Penn would do it. Oh my God, we're dealing with amateur over here, ladies. Oh my God. Morgan Penn's wand would do the trick. Yeah, Morgan Penn's wand would do great. So this would just help it sieve straight down a lot faster,

a lot cleaner, and a lot more efficient. Then I've got flour on my personal massager. You're just touching the edge of the sieve. You're not putting it in flour or anything. Oh, I was dipping it in the centre of the flour. Just on the plastic on the edge of the sieve. You're not putting it in flour or anything. Oh, I was dipping it in the centre of the flour. Just on the plastic on the edge. Yeah, right. And I've seen lots of videos and it is so

fast and efficient that I think it's actually a really good hack. Do you know, I've just never really thought when I am, when I have taken the time to sieve flour, God, this is taking a long time. Yeah, I've never thought. Especially cocoa powder. I'm exhausted. Cocoa powder is real clumpy. Yeah, you can then get the spoon at the end and you push it through. That's just more work. Push it through. Cocoa powder is real clumpy. You get the spoon at the end and you push it through.

That's just more work. Push it through. Because I don't think that the massage gun would break down a cocoa lump. No. It wouldn't. You'd need a spoon. Chuck it on three or a pulse. I think if you're chucking it on three, then it's too much, right? It could break a little cloud system.

It's this. I don't know if I want to be bigger. I just want to walk into Fletcher's kitchen and see him with a Satisfyer Pro 2 against this sieve and it's like... It's not working. It's not the action you're looking for, Han. Slow it down.

He's like, click, click. Shannon promised this would work. I spent $80 on this thing. What good is it to me now? It serves no purpose to me. Out the apartment window. Okay. Okay, it's not your worst.

It's not your worst. It's certainly not your worst. It's a three for me. Yeah, it's a three. Which is perhaps the highest I've ever given and ever will. Yeah, I think it's a three for me. I've given a couple of threes before. Because if I was like,

oh, because I would pour the flour or the cocoa into the sieve and then be like, shit, now I've got to go get the thing. Yeah.

Now I've got to go get the massage gun. Well, maybe if I make a recipe where I talk about my uncle going to Egypt, I'll do step one, preheat, step two,

grab personal massager, step three, clean the massager. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have to be clean. Yeah, it definitely does, I reckon. If you're bringing it into the kitchen, give it a courtesy wipe, you know. 100%.

Yeah. Okay, I'm giving it a three. It's a three all round. It's a three. Not bad. Not bad, Shannon Hatch. It's no tans on the bottom of your feet, but it's not bad. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I think I did mention on air that I burnt some warts off, right? Yesterday. Yeah. And then I had filmed it and I had asked the people if they wanted to see this content. It's wild that you can do this at home by yourself. Because normally you'd have to go to your doctor and he'd get the... That's how you used to do it when you were a kid, eh? Your parents would take you there. Yeah.

Yeah, the wart gun. It was Wart Wednesdays in Eastbourne. I never had warts. Yeah. Because did the doctor, Cedric... Because I wasn't a gross, grubby little man. Yeah. I remember I had one once.

And yeah, the doctors would have the wart gun. Like, did they share it around or something? Yeah, like one day of the week. That's probably why there was a wart problem. Well, Wednesday. Yeah. And on Wednesdays, you'd go and if you had warts, and I don't think you needed to make an appointment,

and you'd all walk in and get your warts burnt off. Just line up and get your warts. How did it work? It was a... Your gun, did it... Yeah, it was like a dry ice type situation. Liquid nitrogen? Yeah, liquid nitrogen.

Yeah. Which is essentially the kit that I bought. I bought this thing, and you put a little, almost like a cotton tip on the thing and you put it in a tube, you push it down for five seconds, you bring it out, it'll be smoking, you wait, and then you put it on. And I filmed it all. It's so weird that we're not doing a promotion like we are doing

with Chemist Warehouse for their fragrances. That's where I got it from. Like, come on in for Wart Wednesdays. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go in for Wart Wednesdays. Do your own warts. It's not sexy stuff, is it? Okay, if people want to get it,

it was the shoal, you know, that do all the feet stuff. Veruca and wart remover. I don't have any verucas. I had a veruca on the bottom of my foot once and I just grabbed it and pulled it out. Like a weed. You know when you forget a potato

and it's in the cupboard and it's like, I'm alive. That's what I look like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was gross. Look at me growing without soil in your pantry. I know, yeah. Soil who?

You know all those houseplants of yours that die because you look at them funny? Not me. I've been in a dark cupboard and I'm alive. Don't forget me. I'm an onion over here. I'm an onion. I'm also growing.

They do it too, yeah. Garlic does it too. Kermit-a. God, funky in there. Yeah, garlic does it too. Kermit. God, funky in there. Anyway, so I asked the people, do you want to see it? And out of 10,000 people that saw it, enough people voted for me to upload the content. An overwhelming majority wanted to see your wart percentage.

87% of people said, wart content, please. 13% ooh, you so manky. Yeah. Is this up there with like watching people pop pimples? Yeah. And also, it wasn't super grim. It doesn't have the immediate payoff that a pimple pop has. No, it doesn't.

So I uploaded the content of it and great response. A lot of people have been like, oh my God, yeah, I've got some warts on the go. I'm going to give this. Yeah, because what's happened is you burn them with this pen and they kind of swell up like a pussy. Well, yeah, you're supposed to just get the tip of the thing on the wart, hold it on for 40 seconds and then you remove it. And then eventually over a week or two,

it turns white and it falls off. However, the one on my knee, I've stuffed up big time, haven't I? That's massive. I used the fat tip on this wart. Oh, do they have a skinny tip one as well? They had a tapered tip. Oh, okay.

Precision tip, they called it. I used that for some of my smaller warts. I think I did like five. I got like five on the go. And I found a couple yesterday that I hadn't got. But the one on my knee, I burnt the surrounding area with the liquid nitrogen.

And what that's done is it's kind of created a large puss sack. Liquid filled. Like a pee.uss sack. Liquid filled. Like a pee. Yeah, like a pee. Yeah, like a blister. And it is.

Like almost like, you know, if you're watching some kind of contagion movie and there was an Ebola outbreak. Yeah, and one of the symptoms was blistering. Blistering. That's what your knee looks like. That's what I've got. Yeah.

And it's what it's done is as it's raised from underneath, filled with liquid, it's the is as it's raised from underneath, filled with liquid, the top of the wart is now set on top. Like it's quite brim. Just doing a quick look on how the wart gun worked, was that was how it worked. It created a blister that would kill the tissue and pull the wart up off the surface. Yeah, I just did, I think, too big of a surrounding area. Too much.

Too much skin. Yeah. So then yesterday I said, do you want to see the aftermath of the big wart? And I put that up, filled with liquid, and people were like pop it, pop it, pop it. I don't think that's recommended. And what did I say to you yesterday? Pop it, pop it, pop it. And you wouldn't.

And I was like, I'll do it, I'll heat up a needle, I'll keep it clean, I'll do it good. Then I said to Aaron quickly, I said, should I pop my puss sack? Because love is alive. Romance is alive. Did he say that is the sexiest thing you've ever said? No, he said, take your clothes off. Let's go.

You know, you've got me in the mood. I'll pop your puss sack. That's what he said. Yuck. He said, I just think you should leave her. I think that's pretty grim. And so I did, of course, send a video to Dr. Shawnee. Yes.

Resident show doctor. Yep. And I said, what do you think I should do? Should I pop this? And his advice was no. He was like, don't do it. Yeah, he's no fun because it's like when my toenail was hanging off and I just wanted to pull it off.

He's like, no. And I was like, you're no fun. Yeah, he's no fun. Like, no fun. I wanted to squeeze it and have some sort of, may I say, a squirting motion. Because that would be no fun. Yeah, he's no fun. Like, no fun. I wanted to squeeze it and have some sort of, may I say, a squirting motion. Because that would be so fun. And would you have videoed that and put it off?

Yeah, oh my God, well I can't share half the process with the people. But he said not to because that's kind of doing its own healing underneath of the wart. And if I reveal it, I might get infected or something. I know. But now I'm left with quite a bulbous pus sack on my neck.

And I need the liquid to come out I just somebody said they've just tipped their porridge in the sink sorry all I can imagine

is that the porridge is going to be what comes out of the way you've described your pussy ball I love that at the end of their text it says

my goodness girl my goodness girl see someone said white farmer dad I don't know what his race has got to do with it But white farmer dad wouldn't take us to the doctor for a wart Dandelion juice Remember I told you guys about the dandelion juice

When I first said I needed to burn off some warts You said dandelion juice You were going to save me one I've still got a couple of warts on the go I reckon I've got like seven You're grim I can't believe this That is grim Well stay tuned for the pussy sack I reckon I've got like seven. You're grim. I can't believe this. That is grim.

Well, stay tuned for the Pussy Sack developments because I will be sharing them on my socials because this is the content that people... Have you noticed... I was going to say want, nay, demand it. Have you noticed a drop off in followers after these posts? I lost a couple of hundred, yeah. Yeah.

Jesus. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. The most Googled slang. I'm just going to do the top five because to be honest, six, seven, eight, nine, ten never ever heard this word said. Not to age us, we're very hip and cool. Very hip and cool.

But this is why they've been googled is because people are like, why is my child saying that? Yeah. But your kids would say all of these things, wouldn't they? Really? I've never heard them say schmaltz, sen, katz, orvera, or preen. What?

Preen is what a bird does to remove excess feathers and make themselves aerodynamic for flight. Or slang for a child who likes to be a teenager, so like a preteen, a preen. Oh, preen. Yeah. That's a tween. In between. Yeah.

Okay. We're already changing the words on us, you know? Number five, sobriquet, which is an actual word of French origin. I looked it up. Sobriquet. To make sure the original meaning matches what it means in slang. It's a descriptive nickname,

sometimes assumed but often given by another. It's different to a pseudonym. For example, they use the examples Genghis Khan. His name was not Genghis Khan. His name was not Genghis Khan. His name was Temujin. But Genghis Khan meant universal ruler in the Mongolian language. But everybody who doesn't speak Mongolian just thinks it's his name. Genghis.

And that's why it's a fantastic barbecue. Hello, Mr. Khan. And a big wok. And Mahatma Gandhi because Mahatma meant great soul in Sanskrit. But I thought that was his name. But why is this? What's that got to do with sobriquet? I don't know.

They're googling it because it's a name or descriptive name given to a personal thing. Okay. It's nice. It's French. The top five

googled slang terms for the year. That's nice. That's French. That's classy. It's a real word. It's got its origin. Number four

Harteur. And we lost all that classiness. We just burned up a bit with that French word. What do you think when like a boomer heard that and then they Googled it, do you think they were still left puzzled by the whole thing? Yeah, totally.

Absolutely. So it's a girl, yes. On the street was asked a question, yes. And her answer was hauteur. Spit on that thing. Yeah. And she became everybody's favourite person? Correct.

Yeah. What does she do now? Well, she just started and then immediately failed on a digital currency launch that she'll probably end up going to prison for. And how long has she been famous? Six months tops. Yeah, it's been a wild six months for her. Haqtour.

It's been a crazy time. Remember when she was hiding and no one knew who she was and a wild six months for her. It's been a crazy time. Remember when she was hiding and no one knew who she was and a little town was protecting her? Yeah. Haag tour was four. Number three, skibbity. Refers to a viral internet trend featuring animated videos of singing toilets. Skibbity toilet.

Skibbity toilet. Oh, thank you. It makes sense now. I now know in which context to use that. Sigma. A lone wolf who operates outside traditional social hierarchy. You would have known this one. I now know in which context to use that. Sigma. A lone wolf who operates outside traditional social hierarchy. You would have known this one.

I know this one. Because your girls use this one. Because you think of the alpha dog, like the alpha of the pack, and then, you know, like betas and stuff. And Sigma's way down the list. So it's way down there. They operate outside of the normal hierarchy of things. But then it just gets used all the time now.

Like, I think I hear, what the Sigma? About 50 times a day. Oh, my God. Go to your room. Yeah, go to your room. Actually, you're being rude. You're being really rude. I'm banning the iPads.

Yeah, and I'm banning Sigma. Yeah. Sigma's gone. And number one on the most Googled slang words of 2024, demure. Because of the clip where, you know. Whose word of the year was that? One of the dictionaries. One of the dictionaries. Yeah, fact where Whose word of the year was that? One of the dictionaries. Yeah, it was the word of the year.

Of course demure isn't a slang term. It's an actual word that made its way into the zeitgeist. Reserved modest or shy in manner or appearance. Demure. Most searched sort of internet slang of 2024.

Well, thank you for shedding light on that. It's actually really helped me to keep up with the kids. Yeah. And skibbity-toilet that button, Fletch. Skibbity-toilet to everybody. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I want to talk about no-strings-attached relationships because they're complicated little beasts.

There's a great article from the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom. It's a woman who has, she's in her 60s. She's got two grown children. She's had a trio of long-term relationships throughout her entire life. She's no longer in search

of a full-blown romantic partnership. So she has found herself in a situation ship, a no strings attached relationship with someone and is having the time of her life she's like this is me yeah this is all I want now she's like it's the best of all the things you leave I get my space you know she's oh you don't have to share the beard don't have to

share the beard if they annoy you you can be like cool thank you your services are no longer needed for my afternoon you may take off my friend mmm well. Thank you for the service and I'll see you in a couple of days. Yeah, like whenever I, on a Friday night, might be out and about and be like, okay, this is what I'm in the mood for. I'll hit up my friend.

We've got an agreement. But, you know, you hear about these things. They either turn into a full-blown relationship. Your feelings get involved and we fall in love. Yeah.

Or it gets super messy and complicated. One person's feeling stronger and the other person's not or you end up meeting people. And this is what I want to know this morning. Are you in a no-strings-attached relationship and how does it work? Or have you been and how did it all wind up?

I've done this before. When I was at university, before I met Aaron, obviously, me and my friend, we were just like, this was our agreement. We would just hook up because it works when you're busy and you don't have time

for all that and you're like I'm not going to be a good girlfriend to you you're not going to be a great boyfriend to me so we can just hang out

we can do more and then all good and then I think I eventually ended up seeing someone and then

so that just naturally ended it but we're you end? But we're still friends. We're still friends to this day. We've just shagged a lot, you know. But not for a long time. No, God, no, no, no, no. But it was just an agreement. I'm not alone. Shannon, you had

no strings attached. This was before you found love with a magician. Yes. This was also back before I mentalised it. Guess where the love was? Behind. Yes. This is also back before we mentalised it. Guess where the love was? Behind her ear. Yeah, it was. Under this hat.

And I'll cherish it forever. Yeah. Yeah, no, I had one and we had a few rules in place just to make sure no one got hurt. It was very respectful so we couldn't see each other more than a day in a row.

I feel like if you see them every day that's when they become a partner. Was that a hard rule though? No more than, okay. Yeah, so we'd only see each other, you know, every few often days and then... Every few often days? Yeah.

Every so often you meant? It's a common measurement of time. Every few often. Yeah. But yeah, we just, and then we would be open and I'm like, oh, I'm starting to see someone else and then we'd kind of stop it for a while and then be like, well, that didn't work out. Back we go. Would they message, say if you were seeing someone, would they message you'm like, oh, I'm starting to see someone else and then we'd kind of stop it for a while and then be like, well, that didn't work out.

Back we go. Would they message, say if you were seeing someone, would they message you being like, hey, you're still seeing that person? Yeah. Okay, and you'd be like, yes, I am, thank you. Yeah, it was really open and just, you know, respectful and neither of us got hurt, neither of us caught feelings.

All right, that's something I'd catch. I would always catch the feelings. Oh, your day two porn's like, I love you. No, wait. He's moving in. I think we should just do something casual, you know? Help each other out. I love you so much.

This is what I want to know. Are you in a... Have you been or are you in a no-strings-attached relationship? Did it all turn to caca and just absolutely fall apart? Or was it incredibly successful and rewarding? Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. A woman has shared a story of how she is engaged in a no-strings-attached relationship after years of marriage and grown children.

She's like, it is the best. So we're asking you to share your no-strings-attached relationship situations, whether you're in one now or you've been in one in the past. Anonymous joins us. Good morning, Anonymous. Good morning. Sheonymous. Good morning. She's got a wink. Now, is this a current thing

or is this a past No Strings relationship? A past, sort of five or six years ago. Okay, break it down for us. Humdinger. Humdinger. I haven't heard the word humdinger for a long time. Okay, go, go. We were best mates at work.

Like, worked together every day. A little sling started after both of us finished relationships. Pretty casual. Like, definitely no strings attached. And then both caught the feels. Me more than him. Lasted like a year. People kept going, oh, you're with him, right?

To like in front of him. And we're like, oh, kind of. And then a girl came up to me, asked me if we were together. I said, yep, kind of. And then she went for him and he cheated on me in front of me. Oh, no, I'm not. I mean, you did say kind of. You did say kind of.

She went for him and he cheated on you in front of you. Did he kiss her? No, they went off and did the dirty. Why? Right in front of you. Well, figuratively. Right in front of me. Why?

What kind of workplace is this? Oh, my God. That is very complicated and anonymous. Well, the best part is I then, like, obviously called it. I moved to the UK and six weeks later he also moved to the UK. Oh, my God. And did we reconnect?

Oh, no, I avoided him at the plague. Oh, okay, okay. I would have thought you would have been like, okay, well, just one more time. One more time for old times. In foggy old London town. Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in.

I love that someone messaged in saying, hey guys, lesbians can't have no strings attached relationships. We're loved by day three, moved in by day five. See what I'm saying? What does a lesbian bring to their second date? A U-Haul. A U-Haul. Yeah.

We could probably change it to like BP hire trailer. Yeah. Because we don't have U-Haul here. So after divorce at 34, I found a 24-year-old. No strings attached. Was amazing. Got all the benefits. Snuggles. Dinner's out. Going away. No attachments. Yeah, good. No, wait.

Dinner's out. That's a date. Yeah, that's not no strings. Going away? That's a date. Nah, I don't think that it is. I think there's variations of it. You can like, we're just hanging out. We're just hanging out. We get on. It's fine. We get it on, and then we see you later. Go away.

I had a friend with benefits, but he fell in love hard, so I had to end it. Oh, yeah. I tried being friends, but he kept trying to get romantic. A couple of months of sending long texts of love, then sending me angry texts for letting him on. Got very messy. Yeah.

Wouldn't do it again. You've got to have that communication and the rules. Yeah. Are the rules don't get them pregnant and then ghost them because that's a message we just received. Oh, has that happened to somebody? My no-string attached relationship got me pregnant and then ghosted me.

Oh, no. There's a big string there. I reckon the baby's a big string. That's a huge string. That's a huge rope. That's a really cool cord. A rope of sorts. Yeah.

I've been in a no-strings relationship for 15 years now. That's a relationship, isn't it? That is a relationship. It's a relationship, but it's just how you shape it, I guess. You're not going to move in. I'm not going to put up with your crap. We're not joining our finances. We're not doing this.

My time's my time. Do you think they get half their stuff? You don't get... Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. If it's no-strings. It legally is a relationship. Do you think they get half their stuff? You don't get, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. If it's no strings. Legally. It is a relationship. Your Honour, I say this was no strings all along.

I have got text messages that confirm that this was no strings. She's not entitled to anything. I had one of these, met the first year of uni, were casual up-tos for six or seven years. In between we had relationships, travelled, now married with two kids. They are big strings. Big strings.

Big strings. Big strings attached. Two big strings. No strings relationship for 15 years. That's crazy. Oh my God, I'm in one now and I want to pull my hair out. I've quickly realised

I actually don't do casual for a reason. Now I'm in a pickle. I've got feelings for someone who can only do casual. Why can they only do casual? Because they've got a wife probably. Or a girlfriend. I've had a lover for 11 years. Never wanted a husband. I get all the

good parts and none of the bad parts. Hello there! I'm in my 60s and I've had a friend With the benefits of the guy 20 years younger than me And we made it work Oh Okay

Go you It's me Yeah Messaging in support of the person Who got pregnant Then ghosted Boo Same

Boo I'm a guy And I'm in a No strings attached Relationship with This is wild, Carwin What Is this on the text machine

This message What The no strings attached To the straight male Yeah I'm a guy I What? The no strings attached to the straight male? Yeah. I'm a guy. I'm in a no strings attached relationship with a quote straight male. He just wants fun. No, you missed out the bit in brackets.

Who is the bottom? He just wants fun. That's wild. Till he finds a girlfriend. He is hot though, so I'm good with it. That is wild. Oh my God. Something tells me he's not that straight. Maybe he's bi. Messaging in support

of the person who got pregnant by their no-strings-attached relationship, then got ghosted. Same boo, same. Oh no. Currently in a no-strings-attached relationship. I mean, yay if you like that. With my kid's principal. Could end badly, they say. That's hot. How could it end badly you break his heart

and so he like and then the kids get bad reports does that thing where he picks on your kid yeah these are so good had a friends of benefit

for two years worked at his local bar if he didn't pull that night I'd just go home with him for a good stress release didn't speak any other time no feelings ended when I met

my now partner oh easy just like at the end of the night, be like, you found anyone? Nah. All right, come home with me. Met a cute Kiwi guy in Tokyo and had casual fun on her OE. 18 years later, we're married, have a kid, a car,

and an Auckland mortgage. Lots of string. Lots of strings. Strings, strings, strings. Strings galore. Strings attached. Yeah, another one. Had no strings attached relationship.

Now we've been married for 20 years, so I guess it worked out well. Yeah, another one. Had no strings attached relationship. Now we've been married for 20 years, so I guess it worked out well. Oh. I've never been in a relationship, so I guess I'll just pretend I can relate to any of this. Buddy. Oh. Buddy.

Oh, gosh. Buddy. Had a situation ship split up when our own when our own ways had relationships with other people over 10 years well when our own ways we had other relationships with other people over 10 years got back together, got married with two children married for 25 years and we divorced

because he's cheated, oh god that was a journey that whole text was a journey that was a wild journey play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley it's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Hello. It's Coin Week at, of the day.

And I would like to tell you the origins of the rigid rim of a coin. Oh, yeah, yeah, the grooves. So I, in my mind, always just thought they were for vending machines. Yeah, same. Which is dumb, right? Because vending machines would be more on the size of the coin? Yeah, and the weight. You think it's a weight-based? You know what? I've got no idea how the vending machine would be more on the size of the coin? Yeah, and the weight. You think it's a weight-based?

You know what? I've got no idea how the vending machine works. Yeah. That should be tomorrow's fact of the day. I thought the ridges were for when it went and rolled down the vending machine. Why does it need ridges to do it? Because you could just put in like a laundry coin

that's the same size without the ridges. Yeah, I remember we tried washers when we were kids. Yeah, rolling down. They would never work. I remember we tried washers when we were kids. Yeah, right. They would never work. I thought it was weight-based. If you were listening and you were, I don't want just any Tom, Dick or Harry's opinion on this. I need someone who works in the vending machine industry. You want a vending machine industry expert.

Okay. A leader. A leader. A forefront. Front footer from the vending machine industry. I mean, I'm sure you could find out online. You just keep doing your facts. So I thought they were

ridged for that reason. Yep. The coins originally, the original ridges on coins date back well before vending machines and they had ridges on them to prevent people from shaving down the edges to keep the shavings of the coins when they were still made of a valuable metal. Oh, right.

Because otherwise you'd keep shaving and keep shaving. You'd shave a little bit, little bit off, and you'd be like, I'm just going to keep the shavings of this, but I can still use this for its intended purpose. Right. Because they wouldn't know because it wasn't ridged. Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay.

So they put the ridges on so that if there was any shaving... They wouldn't accept the coin. And then, no, they wouldn't accept the coin on any shaving. Wow. And it was the original... People just, at the time, didn't have the ability to put a clean cut ridge in it. Because we're talking about the olden days. Yeah, right.

The proper olden days. You're Roman times. How did they put the ridge in it, then? The people that made the coins? They had a special machine. It was like a minting. A ridgy, they called it. Yeah, yeah. They called it the ridgy. Okay, the people that made the coins? They had a special machine. A ridge making. A ridgy, they called it. Yeah, yeah, they called it the ridgy.

Okay, great. They called it the ridgy. What have you found? Have you found anything about it? Someone texted, and I don't work in vending machines, but I do process the cash from them, and I can tell you that they don't buy it on the way most of the time, but our machines definitely go, oh, wait, sorry. Wait.

Because it cancels out a bunch of coins that are the right size but the wrong weight. Yeah, so it's size and weight. I always thought it had something to do with the ridges. Because I was reading, I was trying to find it out, but it's a very complicated question to ask. Yeah, it is. So yeah, because if they got them

and they were coins without ridges in the end, people would shave it off and just keep a little collection. Right, and then either make off and just keep a little collection. Right, and then either make another coin or... It's just scrap metal. Yeah, scrap metal. That's sell it for scrappy, so they get a little bit off each coin, but the ridges were designed to stop them doing that.

Well, I'm actually finding coin week quite enjoyable. I'm waiting for the fact about chocolate coins. Same. Which is coming, I'm sure, any day now. I think that's really going to make the week. Yeah. But I'm loving it. Well, if you're very good boys and girls, maybe Friday.

Good. Thank you. But it's not just going to be some, it's going to be an interesting chocolate coin fact. Okay. We're here for you. Why are they so big in comparison to the actual coins? That's big. Because I told you that.

Why? Because I told you that they could print chocolate could print chocolate with any finger smaller than that and it wouldn't be cost effective. You're going to tell me that the coin print isn't printed on the aluminum. I'm going to punch you in the face. So today's fact of the day is coins originally made from precious metals had the ridges around them originally to prevent people from shaving down the coin and using the devalued coin for their original value while effectively keeping a little bit.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. I have a surprise. It's not a huge surprise. I'm not leaving. I can't afford to do that. I can't afford to leave. Don't find me yet. I also would suspect that if you were to leave, you'd probably tell at least Fletch before.

This is exactly how I'd tell both of you. Oh my God, just now? How much fun would that be? So this break might be repeating tomorrow. Should I win lotto? Yeah, because you just won't turn up. Yeah, I'll call in. Yeah.

But not early, please. I don't need to sleep in. No, I went back to the dentist. Remember last time I went, I had the tongue issue. Just remember, for those that missed that whole thing. I said to my lovely dentist, what do you want me to do with my tongue? And she said,

you can do anything you like. Because you had it flopped out to the side. Well, I was pushing it out to the side and I could see they were finding that very amusing. And then my wife was at the gym and because we live in like a small town, effectively, the lady she goes to the gym with, it was her daughter that was the dental assistant, and so she said to my wife,

your husband apparently has a large tongue and he's got no idea what to do with it. Now, they meant that from a dental point of view, but she said, yeah, she was like, tell me about it. Very well aware of that situation. Okay. So that was a thing. And I said to them yesterday, words apparently got around about this big tongue of mine,

and I'm not sure what to do with it. Why are you still saying more bad things? And then I said, what shall I do with it today? And she said, same as last time. But then my dentist told me the day after, they had to clamp someone's tongue. Mover. They had to clamp it to the other side of their mouth

because they said the tongue was just like all up in their business. It's when you think about the tongue when you're at the dentist, then you start panicking. You're like, is it in the way? Is it too big? Mine just sits down. It's just down, Flat down against the bottom. It just stays there. Out of the way. I don't think about

it too much. Although once I did lick the sucky machine. Yeah. When your tongue hits it. Sorry. But my surprise is after 14 years of a temporary solution I got a new tooth.

And guess what? It's gold. What? I got a gold tooth! I got a gold tooth! I got a new tooth. And guess what? It's gold. What? I got a gold tooth. What? I got a gold tooth. Oh, my God. I got a gold tooth. I mean, not made with gold. I've always wanted one.

I got one. Like, not made with actual gold. Yeah, dude. It's a proper gold tooth. What? I got a gold tooth. I've always wanted one. What?

It is so far in the back of your mouth that you can't see it. No, it's not. It's 240. Oh, no. What are you doing? Why have you done this? Why have you done this? I've always wanted one.

When I was a kid, my dad's mum and dad, who I called Nana and Papa, both had full suck-out false teeth, pop of bottom. Yeah, same. Why have you done this? My granddad, my mum's dad, had full suck-out teeth top and bottom. Why have you done this? My granddad, my mum's dad had full suck out top and bottom teeth.

The one grandparent I had, Marlene, who's still with us, has, I'm sure she had gold teeth growing up and I was always like, Nan,

your gold teeth are so cool. And she said, when I die, you can have them. Fine. Yuck. Fine. But that was the bloody

olden days, mate. We've got like fresh white teeth when they said you can have your tooth like replaced and the dentist she knows my vibe

like I said I hadn't been to the dentist for so long I was scared of being told off she didn't tell me off she was very gentle she's very understanding she like

deals with this awkward thing when I say about the tongue stuff she just laughs about it great dentist what have you done and she read my vibe and when she said so we're gonna put a like awkward thing when I say about the tongue stuff, she just laughs about it. Great dentist. What have you done? And she read my vibe and when she said, so we're going to put a, we're going to solve this,

it's going to be permanent. Do you want like a standard white one or like a gold one? And I looked at her and she's like, that's never an option. It's an option and I never have a gold tooth. Is it the same price as a white one? Just a little bit more. That is so stupid.

Why would you do that? Why have you done this? Because I won't wear my gold tooth. I'm going to do it. Were you like a gangster? Yeah, dude. This is wild. I am.

And you know what? If I get a, if I, if there's something, if there's my eye tooth, I'm going to get gold from it. Isn't this popular in some cultures where. Tongan, Tongan. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Tongan Samoa, I believe. You inherit the gold from like your grandparents

like with my nan yeah yeah or it could be like a family wedding ring it's a brown thing well wow okay so now

you're very white no I don't think getting a gold tooth is appropriate it's just so bizarre that you've done this I've got a gold tooth so weird

what did Sade say I don't know it's just your tooth I guess the kids are pretty cool. All of us are like, that's shiny. I was like, yeah. It's too shiny.

So how do you look after it? Just normal. Just brush it. I've got a gold tooth. What are you doing? Why are you doing this? That's permanently there. Dude, look at that.

It's gold. That's so bizarre that you've done that. It's so weird. It rules. I mean, you can't see it when you smile normally, right? No, but when you laugh rambunctiously, as you would want to do. Wow.

I'm a dentist, someone texts in. I've just finished a case on a 30-year-old, and I did five gold veneers. Okay, I'm sorry. That's not cool. I also have a gold tooth, someone texts in. I've had it since my early 20s. It's my third big molar.

Yeah, yours is like your third or fourth. I love it so much. I've never regretted it. My dentist was really proud of himself when he did it. I've got one too. Someone just,

so many people texting him being like, we pirates. We pirates. We are pirates. We are pirates. Someone just texted him, pimp.

I love it. This is wild. This is a crazy move from you, Vaughn. I know. Yeah. Wow, this is really crazy. I really like that. This is a crazy move from you, Vaughan. I know. Yeah. Wow, this is really crazy. I really like that.

I've known about it for ages, but I... Wow. You didn't mention anything. I went to the last appointment because they took the cast of it and everything. They have to see a way to get it all done. My oos has a gold tooth. Yeah, oos. Marlo.

Marlo. Marlo to all mooses. Wow, oos. This is crazy. Yeah, I took a photo of it before it went in. Like, that's in its little setting. That's the, like. It looks like, no, this is so weird.

It's just straight up gold. What are you doing? It's so shiny. What are you doing? Can you just floss between it like normal? Like, it just. Yeah. The glue had to, she said, no chewing gum for a couple of hours.

Yeah. But I never chew gum. Yeah. And now I'm just ready to. But I never chew gum. Yeah. And now I'm just ready to go. I had an apple this morning. I ate Fletcher's sliced apple before. I'm gold tooth, baby. Wow.

We know a pirate. This is crazy. Shout out to my pirate oost, man. Welcome. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little foe. 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. Today's, if you'll excuse me. Oh, got a little froggy in your throat. Have you been naughty or nice this year is today's silly little poll.

Because Sandy Claus is coming to town. He is. And he's seen everything you've been doing your whole life. He's been watching. Yeah, he's like. He installed a webcam. Early. Yes.

In every room in the house. In your PC. Every room. Every room. Yeah. And he's got access to the front facing camera on your phone. He's Google Earth. He is. PC. Every room. Every room. And he's got access to the front-facing camera on your phone. He's Google Earth. He is.

Google Earth meets God. That's Santa. Did you guys answer this? Yes, I put nice. I put nice as well. Have I been nice? What did you put? I put naughty. Did you? I think I've been a bit naughty this year. A bit of a naughty? Yeah, in some ways. I'm nice, but I'm naughty. Yeah, naughty but nice. Well, 78% of people think I've been a bit naughty this year. Been a bit naughty? Yeah, in some ways. I'm nice, but I'm naughty.

Yeah, naughty but nice. Yeah. Okay. Well, 78% of people think they've been nice. And 22% of people think they've been naughty. Oh, I can't wait to hear from the people as to why they've been naughty. Yeah, I hope we've got some naughty kids. Daniel's the first naughty taxi out of the rank.

Daniel. Daniel says always naughty because that's way more fun. Agreed. Renee says, I'm nice, but I'm a mum. Daniel says always naughty because that's way more fun. Agreed. Renee says I'm nice, but I'm a mum. So I'm nice with a side of occasional rage. Rage is fine. That's fine.

Despite all her rage. She's still just a mum in a cage. Yeah. But she's mostly nice. I read 52 books this year, says Jez. It was my year of reading. I guess I'm a nice, wholesome girlie. Well, that depends on your reading, because it could be SMUT. It is like a book a week.

Yeah. That is literally a book a week. How does she not fall asleep? Yeah, that's what I love about reading, though, when your eyes are like... And then you've got to go back a few pages. Fluttering back, and you keep going back, reading the same sentence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's way better

and seems way more wholesome than doing the same thing just scrolling Instagram reels. To a screen, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's way more wholesome. Okay, she's nice. I'm both, says Caitlin. My emotions get the better of me.

My anger and my sadness. Okay, she's all over the place. It's nice to feel though. It means you're alive. Yeah. Unlike Fletch. Doesn't feel a lot of emotions. No.

Quite dead inside. Yeah, quite dead inside. This next one was quite a long response. I thought it could do with a pre-read. Okay. This is perhaps one of the most serious responses we've ever received for Silly Little Pole. Well, we can laugh out loud and pause for seriousness.

This will be paused for seriousness. Yeah, but it's not Serious Little Pole, is it? It's Silly Little Pole. We could do a separate serious little pole. Serious little pole? I want a serious. Lech, Morn and Hayley, serious little pole. Serious little pole.

Alana said, I was dying. Serious, serious, serious. Oh, I was dying. Okay. Not time for one of your silly jingles now, is it? Sorry, yeah, stupid. I was dying of liver failure from an undiagnosed autoimmune disease and the doctors couldn't figure out what was happening.

So they doctor housed a bunch of different medications and I randomly recovered. Some type of God must think I'm nice enough to live. Oh my God. Wow. A miracle of sorts. And only nice people get miracles. Yeah.

And rich people. And rich people that can pay for miracles. Yeah, they pay for their miracles. Oh my God, congratulations. That's great news. Well done on being alive. Congrats. Hayley says, too nice.

I feel I've got some naughty-ing to do, but I just can't pull the plug. Maybe 2025 can, oh, then she swears, so she's well on the way to. Well, she's just diving head first. Yeah, straight into naughtiness for 2025. And Gianna says, not naughty or nice, just very stressed. That wasn't the third option. Naughty, nice, or stressed. Now I'm worried about...

Yeah. I'm very worried about her. Oh. We need to check in with Gianna. If you know her, check in with her, please. Yeah, she's stressed. That is silly and sometimes serious. Little pie. Oh, another one in the bag. please. That is silly and sometimes serious.

Little pie. Oh, another one in the bag. It's a Versace bag as well. If you enjoyed that, give us a rating and a review and be sure to tell your mates. You don't sound sincere there, boy. I'm just reading what's written here. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.