ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 11th September 2023

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletchforn and Hayley Big Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Good morning, welcome to the show. Fletchforn and Hayley, three minutes past six. Hello. Morning. The Taylor tickets are gone, guys.

No more. Yeah, all gone. Gone burgers. Today though. What about on the Instagram? Well, yeah, okay, on the Instagram. When's that one done? When's that one done and dusted?

Oh, look now. I'm going to have to answer this one. I've been told to look at this. Huh? Read your sheet. Yeah, but it doesn't say when it's going. It doesn't say when it's finishing, does it? Winner drawn Friday the 15th of September.

Well, I apologise. It does. It does say, doesn't it? You go to ZM online. Well, there you go. So you've got time. On Instagram. You've got time there to register.

But today on the show, we're going to start the draw. The draws that are happening for the flights. Thanks to Air New Zealand's Graviseat. So for those winners that did win Taylor Swift tickets, could be calling you back from today. That'd be pretty sweet, I reckon. But we do have cash replacing our Taylor Swift tickets for the next few weeks.

Zedib's $25,000 cash catch up. So we're going to do it at the same times at eight o'clock, midday and four. So make sure you're listening at eight for the activator. Loads of cash to give away. Wouldn't it be nice? It'd be bloody nice. It'd be lovely.

Now, Hayley broadcasting from New Plymouth this morning, my hometown. I'm in the beautiful Naki. Oh, my God. You've had the whole weekend there for the seven days tour? I have. I had a day off yesterday. I had absolute, you know, huge lofty plans, but I polished off the best end of a bottle of vodka the night before.

So they sort of went out the window. But I did do the coastal walkway and I tell you what. Oh, lovely. Lovely. Stunning. It's beautiful. So, you did New Plymouth on Saturday night and Sunday, where

are you going today? Today, after the show, we're off to Palmy North. Okay, so that was your option. That was your option as to go and spend the Sunday in Palmerston North on New Plymouth. Jeez, that's rocking a hard place, isn't it? That's bloody frying pan and fire. I'm just looking at the Apple Watch,

my friends on Apple Watch. You did the coastal walkway but didn't close your rings. I didn't wear my watch. Why are you ring-shaming her? I'm not saying anything. Don't you ring-shame her. I'm sorry for shaming your ring. I know. Look, I didn't wear my watch yesterday because

I didn't charge it, so it was dead. Are you getting my ring updates? I'm smashing rings lately. I know Hayley's getting the ring updates. I don't know if we've synced rings. Have we touched rings? We haven't synced our rings. I've tried so many times to touch your ring. I don't know why

but it won't let us ring touch. I'm touching both of your rings. I know tried so many times to touch your ring. I don't know why, but it won't let us ring touch. There's something wrong. I'm touching both of your rings. I know you're touching my ring. I'm really pushing my ring on you. Good, so you forgot your charger for your Apple Watch and for the... Oh, no. You forgot a few chargers. Oh, look, I'm absolutely

I would 100% have asked reception if they had a spare charger for the release. Stop it. They didn't have one. They didn't have any chargers left behind. For an iPhone. Are they like a USB-C? Can't you just say it's for a Samsung? No, they're not.

They're specific. Oh, okay. They get you with the chargers, don't they? They are specific. The top six is on the way. I'm going to add you to my ring again. I'm going to... Because I tried to add you 230 the charges, don't they? Yeah, they're specific. The top six is on the way. I'm going to add you to my ring again. Because I tried to add you 230 days ago, Hom. Yeah, okay.

And now I've tried to do it again, but I don't know. Is it your Gmail or your MeMail? No, I've accepted you. Now we can be friends. Are you guys touching rings? We're touching rings now, yeah. Oh, good for you. Okay.

Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, a charity football game. When delivered a yellow card, a player said, uh-uh, and pulled his own card out of his pocket. It was an Uno reverse card. Now, that's cute. This was like a chat. This was like set up, though, right?

Of course it was. It was a charity match. Very funny, though. Give us good stuff. So, I've got the top six real-life situations where you could play a reverse card. Love this. Next on the show.

Something really gross out of Kmart. Now, look, I love Kmart. I don't want to drag them in the mud here, but... This is manky. Now, this is a story out of a Kmart in Australia, not New Zealand. I don't think this would happen here. No, I'd hope we'd have higher standards. We're classier people, you know.

Just in general. I don't know, man. In some ways, yes. In other ways, absolutely not. Yeah. Now, a customer shared online that they'd gone into Kmart and there was a discount rack and they found a pair of pyjama pants that they've described as disgusting because they had a huge brownish,

reddy brown crotch stain on them. And it's not like someone tried them on and left a stain and then put them back on the rack Kmart had actually labelled them with one of those yellow discount cards from $6 down to $3, 50% off Oh, okay and marked as the reason

for the discount big stain on front and everyone was like hang on, that's definitely not, you know, like sometimes you get those discounted things and it's like, oh, rip and seam or. Because this would have been something returned by a customer, right? This had all the hallmarks of a return.

Because, you know, they always chuck this, a lot of stores chuck the return stuff on the shelves and they'll put a sticker. They'll be like, reason for return, little fault here. Yeah, fault. Crack here. And they'll, you know, hope that be like, reason for return, little fault here, or crack here, and they'll, you know, hope that someone buys it

for like 50% off. But this is like, literally looks like someone has had a leaky anus into these pants, and then when they shared it online,

everyone was like, hey Kmart, do you really need that $3, or do you reckon those could have gone in the bin? In the bin.

Like a burn. Also, who was returning those? Oh, there's something wrong with these. Yeah, that or like it was coming from the factory and it had a stain on it. You know, like it's not a bodily fluid. But no one knows.

Like they're not going to check. They're in the bin now. But like no one knows what the stain is. It could have been some, you know, factory oil or some crap. I don't know. But it just looks yuck. And it's so funny that they've just still gone, like some employee has gone, well, we'll just discount it.

Yeah. Who's buying that? It's wild. Yeah, a $6 pair of pyjama pants warranted that. But you hear about clothing companies that find, like, a dropped stitch or a little thing and they're like, we've got to burn that. That can't even be sold as seconds.

Or they cut it up and put it in the bin because they don't want anyone having it. Anyone wearing it, I know. Well, Kmart responded. There was a spokesperson who said, we're looking into how this took place because it shouldn't have been made for sale, regardless of any discounts.

Yeah. Also, can we get a final, I need a final reading on what the stain was as part of this Kmart investigation. It doesn't look good from the picture. It definitely looks... You don't think it's bodily? Dude, I think it's bodily.

It's bodily. It's in the crotch. Yeah. It's either... Yeah, it's in the crotch. It's bodily. Let's just leave it at that. It's the stain on the front centre.

People are eating breakfast. Let's leave it at that. Yeah, I beg your pardon. You're saying it's bodily. It's bodily. Let's just leave it at that. It's a stain on the front centre. People are eating breakfast. Let's leave it at that. Yeah, I beg your pardon. You're saying it's bodily. It's bodily. Last night on the Sunday program, there was a news article, a story about Gen Z.

Yep. And what they like to have in the workplace. Oh, yeah. But we've got one, haven't we? I think we've got more than one. No one's Gen Z. No, she's elder. She's cusp.

No, she's... Is she? Is she cusp? Cohen, are you a Gen Z? I thought you were an... Are you an elder Gen Z? I think I'm the, like, zillennial or whatever's in the middle, technically.

Yeah, yeah. Right. I'm a cusper as well. I kind of... No, I am. I definitely am. So you're a zennial. I'm a zennial. I definitely am. So you're a Xenial. I'm a Xenial.

You're a sub... You're a sub... What? A sub... You're a sub-man. You're a sub-man. Good for you, Matt. You're a sub-gen.

Yeah. Good for you. It's good to know. You'd be dominated. Like I'm a bit of the both. Yeah. Yeah. Gen X and then I'm into the millennials.

When this was on last night, Indy, my 11-year-old daughter, was like, what am I? So I looked it up and I said, well, actually, you are like the last of Gen Z. Oh, really? Gen Z from 1995 to 2012. That seems like too big a window. I think she's going to feel like an alpha.

Well, that's what I said. I think you've definitely got alpha energy. That window's way too big for one generation. Way too big. Yeah. Way too big. It's, yeah. So this documentary last night, this news article. What it was like to have Gen Z's working for you

in the workplace. There was a lady who said she fits into Generation X. Did they all say it's horrible as well? Yeah, because it God, it's awful, eh? It's awful, isn't it? Oh, what? Well, what she basically described was people paid to do a job who were just doing the job and then going home.

And she was like, back in my day, you know, we did all this extra stuff. And the lady was like, did it get you anywhere? And she was like, no. No. And she was like, basically all it boiled down to was they're just not putting up with the bullshit that previous generations have and then previous generations get shitty because

they're not, they didn't work as hard but we did all this extra stuff did it help? we suffered did you get paid for it? no well I'm not going to do that but this is just the way it is but that was the basic breakdown of it.

Yeah, right. But then this isn't nearly as serious. It's just basically you can spot Gen Z because they are more likely to be wearing their sunglasses further down their nose. Is this a thing? Yeah, absolutely. What, like you're peering over your glasses because they're steamy?

No. Like you're an old man who can't read the text on his phone. No, it's not that far down. It's just a little bit further down, so you don't look like a bug with them all the way pushed back. But sunglasses are supposed to protect... I don't look like a bug. Don't call me a bug.

They're supposed to protect the eye from the sun. Yeah, yeah. They're still in the line of sight, but they're just not pushed all the way back flat against you. You'd be getting too much frame in your peripheral. I've got some sunnies on. Is that it? Like that. No, my glasses.

My retinas are getting burnt. Yeah, I think that's too far. No, you've got to go halfway up. They're nearly covering my mouth, for God's sake. You look like Dumbledore. Like that. No, a little bit further up, I'd say. But then Gen Z dudes. That's on my face.

No, you're too far. Halfway. Gen Z. Oh my god. I hate you, Gen Z. You're so stupid. I literally It's not going to sit there naturally, is it? No, it's not. It's pinching my snout and now I've got more of a nasally That's why they sound like this.

And those do because their noses are getting pinched. Those Pit Viper glasses. You know how they're back in US, turning them up with a mullet? Yep. Oh, yeah. And a bourbon. They're always like snug on the face.

Yeah. So is this not- Wrap around. Is this not men? This is just Gen Z woman. I don't know. I'm not doing it. I just, I kind of like it. I like that everyone's I'm not doing it. I just

kind of like it. I like that everyone's getting wound up at them. Nope. I'm going for it. I'm leaving a bar of it. The top six is next. Yeah, the top six real life scenarios to play a reverse Uno card in. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the Top Six. Hello there. A charity football game took place at the weekend and a football player played a reverse card, an Uno reverse card from his own pocket when given a yellow card. It was very funny.

That's good stuff. It was definitely set up. Oh, 100%. And it was a charity football match. But it was very, very well done. Yeah, I like that. Funny stuff. But what if it worked?

What if you could play in a reverse card in real life? In everyday life. So what, it would just undo something? Well, I mean, yeah. It would undo it or put it back on them or, I mean, however you want to interpret it. It's a magical card.

Yeah. I know I need to just know the logistics of how I'm using this card. Well, there's absolutely no continuity between the six you're about to hear. Number six on the list of the top six signs to play Uno reverse card in real life is during tax season. The IRD sends

a little message. Check your MyIR. Oh, you owe me $1,500. Actually, play the reverse card, you owe me $1,500. Actually, play the reverse card. You owe me $1,500. I don't know if I would have done that last week because I finally did my tax them late, late. Did you get a penalty?

I don't know because I did it and I owed them 11 cents and then I had to set up an automatic debit authority. What, for one cent a month for the next 11 months? No, I did all 11 cents at once. I know, just, yeah. Generosity. Generous. So do you months. No, I did all 11 cents at once. I know, just, yeah. Generosity. Generous. So do you reckon

they'll ping me interest on 11 cents? I hope so. Hardly seems worth anyone's time. Oh, it hardly seems. It's crippling. It's going to cripple you. It's going to absolutely

financially cripple you. Write it off. Number five on the list of the top six times to play Uno reverse card in real life when your mum says there's no pudding.

Reverse card. Now there's pudding. There's pudding, mum. Make it happen. Oh, now she's going to make it happen. Lovely bit of pud. Number four on the list

of the top six times to play a Uno reverse card in real life when you need good weather but it's a terrible weather day. Reverse card. Now it's not terrible weather. God, we're getting that.

Is it R? Nino. L. El Nino. El Nino. Nino. La Nino. We're getting the, is it R-Niño, L-Niño? L-Niño. Niño. La Niña. We're getting the hot one within like weeks.

Within two weeks, they say. We're going to be hot and drought and complaining about that instead. And it could be one of the hottest in a long time. I was talking to a lady over the fence. Of course you were. I said, I honestly think We're Me personally Our Little farmlet Is so wet

Yeah We could probably Have a dry summer And you probably Wouldn't You know Yeah I feel like We can handle it too

But I know also That's only my situation And there's some people Who didn't get as As much rain as Auckland's had So At least those lakes are full

What you mean Other people Have other experiences Other than our own I'm just Purely selfishly Want some beach time. So that's absolutely fine.

You're entitled to it. After last summer, you're entitled to it. Yes. And we can find some water somewhere. Well, a couple of weeks. It's here. We'll see. Number three on the list of the top six times to plan

and earn a reverse cut in real life. When your rent or mortgage repayments are due. Oh, yeah. And then you just reverse it and they're not due. They owe you money. Oh, yeah. Great idea. It's a you just reverse it and they're not due. They owe you money. Oh, yeah, great idea. It's a full reverse. Every month they owe you money.

Yeah. Oh, lovely. Only if you've got a reverse card in your hand. Yeah. Yeah. But if you've got like a multicoloured wild card or whatever it's called, who knows what's going to happen.

You can play it. Number two on the list of the top six times to plan to earn a reverse card in real life are when your alarm goes off but you want more sleep. Oh, that'd be nice. And it goes reverse back through the night. But then you've got to have another reverse to turn the entire clock back around to go forward again. Otherwise, you're just going to be stuck going backwards in time.

You're just going to get younger and younger. Also, two weeks until daylight savings. Yeah. How good is that? Well, no, this is the not good one for the alarms because we've got to get up an hour earlier. Still, we love the extra light at the end of the day. Yeah, because people who like to go to bed early

can't go to bed early because it's light. I don't know why you're so excited for this part of daylight savings. I've got blackout curtains. I don't care. Oh, do you? Yeah. And you already go to bed at 4.30, so that helps. I go to bed at 8.

And number one on the list of the top six times to plan to earn a reverse card in real life. When your doctor tells you you've put on a bit of weight since you were last there. Reverse card. Now they've put on the weight. Yeah. Take that, doctor. Oh, wow.

Suck it. Take that. I mean, you could have just lost the weight in the reverse card. But no, the way they said that, they deserve to wear the weight because that's how the reverse card works. That is today's top six. Play. ZM. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play. ZM. works that is today's top six there is a some research that's been done about readers people who like to read books um lots of stats out of it but i like this one which is that the average

person the average person takes 29 pages to really get into a book you know sometimes when you're like i'm gonna read a book and you're like it's a bit of a punish for a while. Yeah, or you've got to read the book. The person who wrote the book has a very different way of structuring sentences and paragraphs, and it takes you a while to get into their way of doing it. Tune in. Yeah. Yeah, totally.

29 pages. So what I did is I looked up the PDF of my favourite book of all time. What's your favourite book of all time? It's a book called World Without End by Ken Fullett. Oh, we've got a book club on our hands. We've got a book club. World Without End. World Without End.

It's part of a series, but it was the second in the series. And now there's a few books surrounding it. Is it a Hunger Games book? No, absolutely not. I love those Hunger Games books. Not for me. So I open up the PDF and they give you like a preview. I think they've got 114 pages that you can read.

And I went to page 29 to see what was happening. I'll tell you what just happened. And spoiler alert. Okay. Spoiler alert. Yeah. But Mervyn, who is our hero, he just watched a knight be murdered in the bush. And I've got to say, I'm already hooked.

Murdered a couple of knights in the bush at one time. What kind of book is this? Is your favourite book of all? Is it a fantasy? Is it? Did you like the Televizian Adaption? I did. But, you know, I love this book so much.

I've read it so many times. The characters didn't look like how I'd imagined them. I hate when that happens. When there's your favourite book. You've established it. I don't think I've ever read one book more than once. Really? I would say my top three books I've read multiple times. No, but you know what happens.

Just go read something else. Literally, just during those songs, I was like, oh, what I'll do is I'll open up my book and see what's happening on page 29. And did you notice I didn't talk to you for about six minutes? Yeah. Because I just started reading the book. So for those people that listen to audiobooks, which is me, because I'm done with Kindle now and reading books,

I'll just listen. Because it's like a podcast. It's a podcast. It's like a really long podcast. What would the minute equivalent be to get into an audiobook? I don't know. How at 29 pages? Would that almost be 20 minutes?

29 minutes? A minute a page? Nah, it'd be less, like 15. How big are your pages? How many words? I always do like... Well, Ken Fuller writes quite dense. I do 1.1 times 4 or 3.

Oh, do you? Yeah, because you get through it faster. Yeah, I listen to a podcast at 1.2. Every read is different. You've got to listen and kind of give it a bit of an experiment for how fast you're going to listen to the audiobook. No, I can't do it. You can't do it?

Especially if it's read by an American. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I like a British voice. Not like Merthyn. Merthyn sprang out of the bush. No, that's because... But you could hear an American accent read a story about the Wild West or the pioneering West.

Yeah, maybe if it was Sam Elliott. Yeah, Sam Elliott rules. Well, 29 pages to get into a book. And may I recommend Ken Fuller's World Without End. It's got everything. It's got history. It's got wars. It's got sex.

It's got knights. It's got cathedrals. Brid wars, it's got sex, it's got knights, it's got cathedrals. Bridges? I'm going to say bridges. Well, the people that know the Kingsbridge series will laugh because the bridge is very integral. I mean, you don't know. It's got engineering. He's Welsh, isn't he, Ken?

He's Welsh. He is Welsh. Welsh. From Welsh. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Silly little pole.

Silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly. That silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Just before silly little pole, I've actually just noticed on the text machine people coming in hot about the Ken Follett book.

Have they now? Pillars of the Earth is the best one. No. That's what everybody's saying. No, World Without End is the sequel. Save that for your book club. The book club. Silly Little Pole today at a complete opposite end,

although Ken does dabble in sex. What would you want a one-night stand to do? Option A, stay the night. Option B, leave ASAP. Leave ASAP, 64%. Stay the night, 36%. More people would like you to skedaddle. Whereas you just ended up staying, didn't you, Hayley?

Yeah, well, my head is cold flat. Yeah. My head is cold flat. Oh, yeah, if you're hooking up with someone who's got insulation and thermal curtains. Oh, stay. Yeah, 100%. Let's get into some feedback. Lauren says, depends on the person and the circumstance.

Great shag and a nice person gets to stay. Rubber shag or any situation that doesn't feel completely comfortable, then GTFO. Yeah. Atta girl. Kate says, if my one night stand has asked me to leave, I wouldn't now have three kids, a dog and a husband. So I'm kind of glad I stayed. Aww. Yeah.

So there you go. Didn't get Kate out and now they're married. Sam says, very literally can't sleep in a shared bed. Have herbed home while the guy was asleep multiple times. My unread messages are littered with, wait, where did you go? Sammy. It's a one night stand, not a one night lie down.

So they're saying don't stay because that involves a lie down. Yeah. Johnny says I had to lie about going on a hike to get them to leave. By the time I'd gotten dressed like I was actually going to do a hike, I probably should have just gone and done a hike. What, did they get their tramping boots on? Yeah.

Sounds like they got all get up. Got their poles out. You got to get out of here, buddy. Brianna says depends on the person. Normally I love a snuggle, but I had to do a big dramatic cry to try to get rid of a guy once I even squeezed out some tears it didn't work though

as the guy refused to leave and the poor dude was doing everything he could to try to console me because he thought I was sad

oh my god that sounds like a nightmare just be honest just say leave situation sounds like a nightmare you're a nightmare

Jessica from experience my ex was meant to be a one night stand Should have kept it that way I had another in Fiji And leaving ASAP is better Means no ties etc

Yeah Stephanie says It's tacky to leave ASAP I mean hang around For a quick chat Give it 10 minutes What? Give it 10 minutes

Give it 10 minutes Have a little snuggle afterwards Maybe try to Find out their name Yeah but if you've forgotten That's the worst bit You need them to leave Because you're like

They're going to find out Yeah You've got to search around their room Looking for like certificates Or something Yeah I've opened a phone or two In my time

Yeah Bridget says We ain't having a slumber party here, sweetie Please move on Yeah, good stuff Bridget That's it That's it

That's the little poll Australian couple have had a number play You distracted me with 10 seconds to go before the song ended You said, who are the Warriors playing? When are they playing? And so I was immediately like, up the Waz. Not the greatest game of the weekend. Not the weekend.

The All Blacks, the Waz. Israel Adesanya lost. We've lost the cricket this morning. I know, but we won the cricket on Saturday morning. We just suck at everything. No, we won the cricket on Saturday morning. Wasn't a great sporting weekend. No.

The Warriors are playing Saturday the 16th of September, 6.05pm. Okay. So that's New Zealand time. So it's not that super late game. And that's happening this Saturday. Where do I get my tickets? Anyway, we're here to talk about an Australian couple who over 15 years ago, Chris, Christine, Christina,

but only referred to as Chris, bought her husband Steve a personalized plate for his business, which is concrete grinding. Oh, I see where this is going. It offers a variety of grind-based services, concrete grinding, precision grinding. Stump grinding? No, I don't think he goes into stump grinding.

Right. But, you know. Bumping and grinding. Wait, what is concrete grinding? What do you do? Well, concrete grinding is if you want like a polished concrete. Oh, but that's polishing, isn't it? Oh, you've got to grind it.

You've got to grind it down. You've got to grind it before you polish it. Keep up, Fletch. So he's got a van he drives around, and she got in the number plates ages ago, 15 years ago. G-R-I-N-D-R. Grinder without the E on the end. Now, if you're familiar. Because there wasn't enough letters.

Yeah, yeah. Six, right? So if you're not familiar, that is gay dating app, Grinder. News to me. How does this app work? Much like Tinder, except purely penis driven. And then you've got to plug your penis in to activate it. Right.

And then it's all go. I think you've got a couple of details there, right? What year? Literal smorgasbord of penises. You said 15 years ago. That's what they're saying. When was Grindr? Grindr was March 2009.

So that's 14 years ago. So they had it before the app. They had it just before the app but to promote his grinding services his grind is huge now like everyone whether you're homosexual or not knows what the app is

it's in pop culture right yeah totally even straight people know even straight guys with girlfriends know what it is eh yeah plenty of those on there. Are there? Yeah, there's a couple.

I think they need to re-evaluate straightness. Their straightness. Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. Because it's fine if you're not. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's absolutely fine. You can be both.

You can be both. It's a scale, isn't it? You can be anything. You can be whatever you want, Han. Yeah. It's absolutely fine. You can be both. You can be both. It's a scale, isn't it? You can be anything. You can be whatever you want, Han. Yeah. It's up to you. It's 2023. So, Steve's been driving around with Grindr for 15 years.

And, of course, as Grindr, the app, became more popular. Yes. And no one. He said he's been getting more and more unusual. So, this was the project in Australia that kind of brought this to everybody's attention last week? Yeah, so it got put up for sale. Oh, right.

And the project had an interview with them, and he was just like, look, I had no idea. What? Even now? No, they found out more recently. Yeah, right. So they said, we were driving down Hoddle Street in Melbourne one afternoon when a friend of mine who's a line dancer who's gay and gorgeous,

Steven is his name, he pulled up alongside us. And he was like, oh, my gosh. I didn't know who it was. But it was them. And he's like, you know that that's a gay dating app. So he's just like, oh, well, we'll roll with it. We'll roll with it. It's pretty funny.

Get a bit of attention. But, you know, they're selling the plates. Well, surely another concrete grinding business must buy this. You'd buy this. Or just a rich homosexual. I think a big rich homosexual would be good. Yeah.

Or single. Single. I know. I mean, yeah, I'm there. You don't have to be. Let's see if it's already gone in New Zealand. I'm on car jam. Oh, okay.

Yeah, who's got it here? So, grinder was on a 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser. A cruiser. So, I think that might be the same... You reckon? ...situation because it has since been replaced with a new number plate. Oh, okay.

And it looks like this Land Cruiser is now just cruising around with a standard bog, standard plate. So, who's got Grinder now, then? Grinder may have been stolen, you know what? The plates might have been stolen. Yeah, probably. By gay thieves. By some rambunctious gay thieves. A flamboyant gang

of gay thieves. Yeah. Wow. So it was last seen on a 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser. Brilliant. Wow. Brilliant. Next on the show, we have had a lot of reports of Christmas penetration. Christmas seen all over.

We are 104 days away. Another, can I just say, I was like, how else could you spell grinder? So I spelled G-R-N-D-E-R. Yeah. That was on a 1990 Ford Courier. Like a ute. Yeah.

And that has also been replaced. Do you reckon these are these tradies driving around, a Land Cruiser and a Ford Courier. Someone's like, hi, sweetie. He's like, I'm getting a lot of gay attention lately. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Ho, ho, ho, ho. Today, 104 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes until Christmas. Not long. Well, I think we're going to see a big jump. Yeah, we've had a lot of messages in. We are spotting Christmas. So if you see anything when you're out and about, you think, oh, that's a bit early. Take a pic,

screenshot, whatever, send it to us on our socials, FVHZM. Somebody messaged me over the weekend saying, oh my gosh,

I can't believe I'm seeing Christmas already. I said, I can't believe you've dodged it this far. Yeah. It's definitely like around, you'll remember we were

at about 9% last time we looked into it. Yes. Well, now we're at 104 days away from Christmas, I can tell you, we're going to have a big jump because the Christmas Wonderland

store is open. Melissa said, look at this. And it's a specific Christmas store. Yeah. Now you're getting excited because you're going to do your very first ever Christmas treat, Hayley, this Christmas. That's right. Come hell or high water, I said I wanted a Christmas treat because I've never had one myself. It's always been my parents or Aaron's

parents who put them up. So this year I'm going to get one. I'm going to get a little small one, I think, to start. If it is hell, of the hell or high water, it'd be very hard to keep a tree from bursting into flames. In hell, absolutely. And sufficiently watered. Yeah, bugger. Melanie said H&J Smith and Invercargill's got all the Christmas decorations out.

Trees. Santa. Those cute little elves where you can't see anything apart from their nose and their beard and they've got their hat on. Those are cute. Those are cute. I'm going to give those a cute tick.

New Zealand's top liquor. Hold on, what's this one? Hold on, okay, okay. Hold on, we've been sent this way to Lucy. Powerless, New Zealand's top liquor retailers. With AF Drinks founder Lisa King now opening a permanent Ponsonby location following the success of her pop-up, New Zealand Herald's Cherie Kinnear puts the range of alcohol-free

drinks to the taste test as the festive season kicks off. They're saying the festive season's kicked off. No, they haven't. No, we haven't even done Halloween yet. I don't think it's official kick-off. No. I don't think it's official kick-off. It's on the horizon.

But let's pump the brakes on this official kickoff. No. I don't think it's official kickoff. It's on the horizon. But let's pump the brakes on this kickoff. Sam sent us this from the UK. Is it too soon to say the C word? Because Christmas is coming. Heart, a 24-hour television channel, will be playing nothing but festive films from September 7th, which was the end of last week. So they've launched in the UK their all Christmas TV channel.

Too soon. This one's a massive one. Okay. This one's a massive one. Sonia has sent in that it is time to book a visit with Santa at Smith and Co. He's in Auckland. That's the posh.

This is your premium Santa. Yeah, that's posh Santa. Rich people Santa. Posh, posh, posh. And Daniel said Christmas at Bunnings. It feels like Whakatane alone may be lifting this to about 50% penetration. Look at all these Christmas goodies. And, you know, Bunnings goes hard on Christmas.

They do, yeah. The lights and the outdoor decorations and stuff. So, I mean, that is just – and keep them coming. Yeah. Because they've even had some more over the weekend since that's been compiled. So, with all that in mind, and 104 days away from Christmas. Mrs. Claus, my coat and hat please. Christmas penetration is at...

22%! 22%! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. ZM's $25,000 cash catch up. So listen up for the activator. Get through.

It's your chance to win cash. We'll just explain it as we go. It's easy. Yeah, I reckon. It's easy. Guys, it's so easy. We're going to play it 8, 12, and 4. $25,000 cash to give away.

Now, let me tell you a story about a man who never took a sick day. He loved his workplace. I don't take sick days. You don't take sick days. At that time, I got adult chicken pox. I had to take two weeks. Yeah. But if technology... You took one day.

Yeah, true. If technology then is like it was now, you would have been like, drop me off a kettle broadcast from home. You would. Well, I would have been able to

because I just had the pox, didn't I? Yeah. It was fine. Yeah. So... I took a day off because I had a sore throat,

remember? Yeah. I think if you're sick, you're absolutely fine to take a day off, especially when you have to wake up so early. You got nothing else.

Smithy over here is quiet. He takes a sick every year he gets some hand flu. Oh, 100%. I'm not dragging myself into work for that for two reasons. I don't feel like it. I don't want to get anybody else sick, and you're entitled to sick days. Don't put yourself on the ground early for the place you need them. Yeah, you're giving them for a reason.

You might as well use them. So a man just never used a sick day, worked, never took it off. And after five years, which I'm guessing would save the company a lot of money, they rewarded him. Oh, that's nice. It was fantastic. With a $25 fuel voucher. Get out of my way.

Why even bother? That's a slap in the face. Yeah, that's, wow. That's... Whachack. Wow. An absolute slap in the face. $25 petrol voucher.

Yeah, probably would have never bothered. It's not even going to touch the sides. No, not these days. Not these days. It wouldn't at all. So it got me to thinking about we could take some calls about when... The worst is where you would be told that you're going to get something. We've got you a little something.

It's on your mind. You're like, what's it going to be? I love it when someone gets a leaving gift and it's rubbish and you can just see it on their face. Do you remember when we, somewhere else we worked, you do the maths. Oh, when we left after all those years and they didn't give us anything?

Oh, no, no, no, I didn't care about that. Did you get nothing? No. Lame. It was contentious. It was a contentious leaving. But not about that. Not about someone else left well before we left

and on the way to the leaving party, which I was Ubering with somebody who had a work credit card. Not Ubering. It was before that. We were taxiing. However we were getting there, Vaughan, it's not important details. You're aging yourself.

Shut up, Vaughan. Let me tell the story. Stop. Stop. Oh, God. Is he going on about taxi chits again? Gary had a taxi chit. That's who I was with.

Gary, if you want to know why a company got rid of taxi chits, blame a guy called Gary Rosewater. And he's out there. That guy abused the system. And we lost taxi chits, which were basically blank checks for taxis, kids. Yeah, they were great. Gather around. Granddad's going to tell you.

And the taxi was a wholesome cart. And that was nice as well. Yeah. And you get all your friends and you just drop them all off. It was great. It was like a shuttle. Squeeze as many as you can in. And then just let your friends and you just drop them all off. It was great. It's like a shuttle. Squeeze as many as you can in and then just let the taxi driver

fill out the chit himself. What can go wrong? And then put somebody else's name on the chit. We were on the way to someone's leaving party and got a call and said,

can you please stop and buy them a leaving gift? What? They had worked there for ages and no one had thought to give them a leaving gift. What's open

on like a Saturday night at 7 o'clock? Nothing. What'd you get? A bottle of whiskey? No, no, no, no. We were, because they were like, they don't drink. They didn't drink. They weren't big drinkers.

So don't get them a bottle. And then, so we stopped at like the only electronic store open and walked in and we were just like, and they were like, we're actually closing. And we're like, oh, we're going to leave. And they're like, we're actually closing and we're like, oh, we're gonna leave it. And they're like, oh, we've got this little portable one speaker awful stereo. Portable speaker. Yeah. Oh my God.

That's the gift you get someone. Everyone's face when they opened it. Oh my God. Good times. So awkward. So horrible. Good stuff. So, my question this morning is what was the worst gift your workplaces got you? Workplaces love a branded bit of merchandise. Like here's a drink bottle with the work's logo on it.

Yeah, with the company's logo. It's like, cool, okay. Like at least an umbrella is practical. Yeah. Don't give me a drink bottle. Yeah. Please don't give me a drink bottle. So maybe it was a leaving gift from work.

Maybe it was a work Christmas gift for all your hard work. Or maybe even just birthdays, you know, celebrating your birthday. Maybe you won an award and work's like, we've got a little something for you. God, there are some lame gifts coming through. Some of these messages, we're talking about your worst gift. A guy didn't take a sick day for five years. And you think about the last five years. Yeah.

Didn't take a sick day. He's gone to work every day that was asked of him. Yep. And he got a $25 fuel voucher for his troubles. At the end of what? They just literally drive you from one pump to the next. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

The perfect attendance record. And they made a big deal about it. Don't make a big deal about that. We want to know the crappy gifts that you got from work. Anonymous joins us. Anonymous, what was the crappy gift? Hi, is it me? Yes.

We got $15. I'm a teacher by the way. We got $15 each from the board for saying thank you for working so hard over COVID. $15? They didn't even round it to a $20. No, $15. And we could go out for lunch with that $15 if we wanted to They didn't even round it to a $20. No, $15. And we could go out for lunch with that $15 if we wanted to as well.

Oh, my goodness. Was that a cash $15 or did it just get added to your wages? Oh, no, it was cash. Okay. But it was pointless. That's not even going to get an entree, though, is it, for lunch? It's so embarrassing having to get out a $5 a $5 note from the they had to go to the dairy and be like can I get

split this? Yeah, it was they may as well have just given us nothing really. Yeah, just don't bother. I'd just rather they don't bother. It's less insulting. How else are we going to say thank you for how hard it was for teachers during lockdown? You know, how else are we going to do it? Yeah. $15.

Yeah, maybe an extra day or two off would be nice. Yeah, an extra day. What are you, bloody teachers don't hardly work, as... No, I'm not. Hey, all bloody summer... Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in. Someone said, I want to know what you think,

what's worse, no gift or shit gift? I'd go... No gift. Shit gift's worse. I'd rather have no gift. Same. I'd rather have no gift. Same. I'd rather have no gift. The best ones we're getting into,

the people who are working for companies that are reporting massive profits. Oh, yes. Somebody said, I left a workplace after being there for six years, and two weeks before I was due to leave, they announced a massive profit. So I was like, here we go. This is going to be good stuff. I'm getting a coffee machine. Yeah.

They gave me a clock and then I... You don't give a clock anymore. Who wants a clock? No one wants a clock. A clock that I found on the Kmart website

for $19. Oh, that's... No. Someone else said, I left a job after 19 years, got a $120 voucher. You might be thinking

That's not too bad But that's $6.37 a year Despite the company Announcing a $115 million profit In six months Okay yeah that hurts You're really putting Their workers first there

Yeah I won an Emerging Leader Award at work Oh And I was like Oh goodness me Emerging Leader Here we go

They'll be nurturing me Yeah I am the future And the prize Was a 12 month mentorship From the CEO Goodness me, emerging leader. Here we go. They'll be nurturing me. Yeah. I am the future. And the prize was a 12-month mentorship from the CEO. Ooh, lame. Never heard from her once. Which is better.

Better, that's better. That's better. A stink prize, but at least you didn't have to go through with it. Yeah. That's so lame, though. Somebody said, for Christmas one year, they wrapped up a company branded tote bags and gave one to each employee. Oh, don't even wrap them.

I worked at a cafe for three and a half years. On my last day, I got 10 avocados as a leaving gift and I feel like they just got the 10 avocados from the pile of avocados at the back. I feel like they did too, yeah. Yeah. I worked at a local grocery store over COVID.

Involved a lot of challenges and doing things differently as you know everybody's worked it over COVID. And abuse from customers. Yeah. And the Christmas gift

we got was a head of lettuce. Oh for God's sake. Head of lettuce. What? Head of lettuce. Those can be quite expensive now though. No, no, no.

But that was at Christmas. So that's peak lettuce season. Peak lettuce season, yeah. You're getting a head of lettuce. Those can be quite expensive now. No, no, no, but that was at Christmas. So that's peak lettuce season. Peak lettuce season, yeah. You're getting a head of lettuce for 99 cents. You know, that time of the year. I love the person who messaged in saying, I used to work for a pharmaceutical company. They used to package up hundreds of bottles of expired products as a thank you.

Just expired, like old stuff. Put that on your skin. Oh. But what, is it expire or is it just sort of like? Yeah, skin products. Gun key. Products expire. I'd use it.

I'd use expired skin products. No, no, no. Look at this leathery old purse. Look at this crocodile face. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Taylor Swift, the Eros tour, live in Sydney. Well, we've spent four weeks giving away tickets to Taylor Swift's sold-out Eros show in Sydney.

Mandy was one of our winners. Mandy! We're going to Taylor Swift! Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God.

I can't even explain to you how amazing this is. You've actually just made her dreams come true. Thank you so much. Now, Mandy is on the phone with us. Mandy, you had won the tickets for your daughter. Yes, I did. My beautiful Scarlett. You were my wife's favourite winner.

She just said that was my favourite winner, the lady that was winning it for her teenage daughter. Is that because Sade's mum wouldn't have done that for her? No, probably not. Probably not. Oh, my God. That is just so sweet. I feel emotional.

What's it been like since winning the tickets? Can you believe it? No, not even a tiny bit. I'm not going to lie I've screenshot any text messages I've got and any emails just in case somebody took them away I will sue you Have you used the tickets as a bargaining chip

with your daughter? How are those dishes they're doing? I'm not gonna lie maybe one time yes you do do you want to go to sydney or not now do you want to tell us what was your mum take someone else mandy we're calling you today because we've got some great news uh thanks to in new zealand's graver seed we've got flights for you. Oh my god. I'm so here right now. I guess you're all mine.

All of the swears I can't say on the radio. It's so amazing. Oh my god. I love you. That's so great. Yeah. Well, now it's the whole package. It's a way bigger bargaining chip. You'll be going to be able to get that kid to do anything you want.

Cleaning, weekly, daily. Oh, yeah. Dishes, daily. Massages, foot rubs. Yeah, yeah. How old's your teenager, Mandy? She's 17. Oh, that's no good.

She's coming out of being a dick. Looking back on my own teenage years. I'm 14 to 16. We've been incredibly lucky. Well, Mandy, congratulations. All thanks to Air New Zealand's Grab a Seat. Grab life by the seat. You can check out grabaseat.co.nz

for amazing deals on flights now. Grab a Seat are going to hook you and your daughter up with some flights to Taylor Swift. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

You're so welcome. We've got draws happening all week. We've got a bunch of flights to give away so make some more people's day. But next on the show, we're going to kick off the $25,000 cash catch up. We're going to do this when we did

the Taylor Swift songs, 8, 12 and 4 every day until the $25,000 is gone up. Yes, please. We're going to do this. When we did the Taylor Swift songs, 8, 12 and 4 every day until the $25,000 is gone. Can we just give some to Mandy? I mean, I really like, you know. Mandy's got flights. Mandy's got flights. No, I know, but I just like Mandy. Let's just give her all the $25,000. No.

Well, you think Mandy should just win everything? Yeah. Can I put it in my contract? When are we going to get the good feelings every time? Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. ZM's 25K Cash Catcher. We've done four weeks of Taylor Swift tickets

and now it's four weeks of Cash Catcher. $25,000 is up for grabs. Vaughan, would you like to... Well, we're treading a fine line of infringement on a Nintendo property with this, aren't we? It sounds very Mario, but we'll do it. It's different enough. It's not.

This has pretty much beat the bomb, this competition. It's a classic radio competition with a new skin. Hayley loves these competitions. I bloody love it. Yeah, she's relatively new to the industry. Now, how would you explain this works, Vaughn? Well, Cashy is, we've been, this is, you left us in charge of naming the promotions department said, don't make it dumb.

Yeah. We had to name him and give him a bit of a personality. This is the character that counts up the cash amount. He is, but Cashy is wrapped in an explosive device that the evil IRD will set off at any moment. Because the IRD don't want you doing Cashys. Yeah. Now, Cashy's running towards a grand total,

but the IRD will stop him. Now, you've got to say stop before he explodes. Before he explodes. And then you win all that cash. You win the Cashy. I would love to see producer Jared use his AI art thing to make a character. Cashie. That has like a bomb device on him.

Yeah. I feel like that might go a bit wrong, guys. Yeah. Jared doesn't have to share his first. He's a bit of a. He can refine it. He can refine it. He's certainly not going to be sharing his works in progress.

Kimberly, welcome to the $25,000 cash catch-up. Good morning. Good morning. Are you all on board with how this works? Yep, I think so. Yeah. It couldn't be simpler. It couldn't be simpler.

So you yell out, stop. Forget the cashy, forget the IID. That was all flavouring. That was all a little bit of pizzazz. You say stop, and whatever dollar amount you stop at, you win. Are you ready? Here we go. Ready.

Go. 36. 55. Enjoy the ride. 87. 124. 168. 213.

Wow. 299. Stop. Oh, 299. That's where I would have stopped it. That's where I would have stopped it. So we're locking that dollar amount in. $299 locked in with cashy.

$299, Kimberly. Let's see how high. Hypothetically, let's see what would have happened to cashy. Someone's living on the edge. $452. This is a weird time to say, but I have a crush on you. 480. Oh, too bad.

So, 482. You did well. I think you did really well there. Kimberly, congratulations. Thank you very much. $299. Thanks to Kashi. Well done.

Thank you so much. And we're going to play again at midday And at 4 every day Until we give away $25,000 With our $25,000 cash catch up Super easy You going to tell everybody about your Miley Cyrus dream last night? Yeah, the dream I was just hanging out with her. It was real casual.

And then right at the end, she's like, I'll see you later. I was like, all right, see ya. And then she kissed me on the mouth. Cute. Not like tongue or anything, but she took liberties. Right. She'd be a mouth kisser. Yeah, I think she'd be a mouth kisser too.

Right. And then why were you hanging out with her? We were just walking down the street. It was one of those ones where she walked across the street and she was like, hey man. I was like, hey, how are you? Like, we knew each other. What street was this? It was the main street of Morrinsville and her parents lived there. Her parents had just bought a house. I didn't know that she'd

go to Morrinsville, bro. No, I don't. This was a dream, Hayley. I don't know her either nor would she kiss me on the mouth. What a wild dream. But where she's like, oh, mum and dad have just bought this place up here. I was like, oh, that's a nice spot. They'd bought, and if you're asking what they bought, they'd bought the Cosby Club and they'd turned it into just accommodation. No, I don't think that that's – I don't think – this is very much.

And then, yeah. It's never going to happen. No, it's never going to happen. Yeah, and Georgia asked me more about the kiss, and I said the kiss was moist, like tacky, like a lot of lip gloss. You know when you kiss someone who's got a lot of lip gloss on and it's kind of a little bit of a, like a,

hard to describe. So a little string when you pull out, when you pull away, there's a string connected to it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like that. No, no, no, no, no. A little dribble string.

That's not kissing an old lady. All right. Dribbly. No dribbly. Right. Well, good for you, man. Good, good dream. Thanks, man.

Good for you. Now, there is some research. research, a survey that was done Asking people between the ages of 25 and 45 how they feel about Themselves now In relation to things like their body shape Their hairstyle, their smile Their blah blah blahs, a lot of like

Appearance stuff But also how they feel within themselves And two thirds of the respondents say they feel as awkward as they did in their teens. Despite a lot of them claiming that they definitely had a glow-up, you know, that they were like hotter now, better teeth, you know, a bit more money so they can afford things, they still felt awkward.

Now, when I think of it as they did when they were teenagers, when I think about being a teenager, it's just all awkward. Yeah. It's supposed to be, though, because you don't know who you are. If you peaked in your teenage years, you peaked in the wrong period. Yeah. But to feel that way now between the age of 25 and 45, I'm like, what are you feeling awkward about?

It's just, it is what it is. You just accept life. Yeah, baby. You know? Have another pud. Yeah. Have another pud. Have another pud.

Have a few more wines. Have another wine. I was a hot teenager, though. I was definitely a hot teenager. But I don't... I wouldn't go back to it because it was more awkward. And now, like, no matter if you think you're as hot or not, I'm definitely more confident.

I'm still floating that idea for a social occasion where you come dressed as your 17-year-old self. You did say that. Yeah, like, you have to find what you're wearing at 17. I'd have to put more holes in my face. You check a couple of holes in your face. I'm going to need some baggy jeans. Yeah, you'll need holes in your face. I'm going to need some baggy jeans. Yeah, you'll need some baggy jeans.

I'm going to need some baggy jeans, but they've got to be cheap. Because my mum was buying my clothes and she wasn't. I mean, I'm still in cheap jeans. Don't get me wrong. It would be a Planet 8. Yeah. Would have been a Planet 8 or whatever the equivalent was before. No, it was Planet 8.

That was a Hallenstein's label, wasn't it? Yeah, the Hallenstein's brand. That would have been me. Yeah. Yeah, the Palinsteins. Yeah. Palinsteins brand. That would have been me. Yeah. Yeah, why? That's sad. I think that's sad that people are still as awkward as they were in their teenage years. Just don't give a shit anymore.

You wouldn't say that you guys are, would you? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm a very awkward teenager. Very, like, very, not anxious, but very worried that what I had wasn't what people wanted. Oh, funny. Well, now that's a teenage, like, that's a general sort of teenage anxiety, isn't it? You're like, oh, hold on. You are enough.

You are wanted. No, I know. Well, I don't give a shit now. Someone once asked me, someone once legitimately asked me, someone once legitimately asked me, someone once legitimately asked me, how do you go to work and work with Vaughn every day? Wow, look at that. And I said, what do you mean?

They said, because he is so hot. I was like, what? That person's got a warped taste in men. And probably daddy issues. I feel like I have missed a trick. I could really have cashed in on some people with daddy issues, but, you know, such is life. But it makes me sad that someone, you said 25 to 45.

Yeah, man. There's someone who's 45 who feels as awkward as they did when they were a teenager. That makes me sad for them. I hope that they stop caring. I reckon some affirmations into the mirror. Maybe you need to bring back your, I don't know what you're trying to. No, what did you used to do some quotes?

You want the motivator to come back? Yeah, the motivator. Motivational quotes. The motivator, Vaughan Smith motivator. It's been so long. I can't motivate. I can't improv motivate though. A lot of thoughtan Smith Motivator. It's been so long. I can't improv motivate, though. A lot of thought goes into the motivator.

Didn't there used to be an app that would leave a quote? A day and you could just feel good about yourself. Yeah. Was that the one the universe would send you an email? How did the universe do that? It's the universe, man. It's huge. I've got an app I'm using at the moment.

I wonder if it will... What is this app? It's the universe, man. It's huge. I've got an app I'm using at the moment. I wonder if it will... What is this app? I can't say, but... What? Why can't you say? It's for private. What have you signed up for? You are notorious...

It's private. But every day gives a daily motivation. Okay. I need to know what this is. Here it is. This is a quote from Wayne Dyer. Okay. You cannot always control what a minute, I've got music You can't do this without the appropriate background music

I've found some perfect Yes This is a quote I'd like to read From Wayne Dyer You cannot always control what goes on Outside But you can always control what goes on Inside, but you can always control what goes on inside. I don't know what happened to my music.

Just to really stop. There we go. Excuse me, I paid for YouTube Premium and I changed windows and it stopped playing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, sir. Did that quote though, did that bring... No, that didn't trigger me at all. Should we read yesterday's quote?

I got one. Okay, hang on. Oh, no,. Should we read yesterday's quote? I've got one. Okay, hang on. Vaughan's got one. Oh, no, because I can't. Hold on, I've got to click it. Oh, I've got one. From Maya Angelou. Oh, yeah, people love a bit of Maya Angelou.

Didn't know who she was until she died, but then everyone was a huge fan. Now we're obsessed. Now, this one is very on topic for what we were just talking about. Have you got any play in the music? Yeah. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through

to achieve that beauty. Thank you, Maya. That was average. It goes full gunk. It's about a butterfly. In the cocoon. It goes full gunk. Yeah.

Exactly. We don't acknowledge that. We just say, well, look at that beautiful butterfly. It's been through a lot. Okay. Success is not final. Failure

is not fatal. It is the courage to Oh, no, mate. You've stuffed me. It's the what? It is the courage to continue that counts. Yeah. God, imagine if you

were doing the I have a dream speech, you'd be stuttering your way through that. It wouldn't have been historical at all, would it? No, it wouldn't have been. Next on the show. Also, it would have been weird for a white guy to do a little bit. Yeah. Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Million Man March. My name's Vaughn. You may have noticed I'm white, but I've got a little something to say. I have a dream. And you'll all listen if you know what's good for you. Pretty big dream, guys. Listen up. to say. I have a dream. And you'll all listen if you know what's good for you. Pretty big dream, guys. Listen up.

I wrote something. Pretty big dream. Listen up. Pretty big dream next on the show. Now, Jump Jam was a little after my time at primary and intermediate school. It was invented in like 1991 and then took a little while to spread around. But for the younger people who work here, they jump jammed.

Georgie, you jump jammed. All the producers, did all the producers jump jam? All the producers. Everybody's jump jammed. Yeah. We had jump rope for heart. Yeah, we had jump rope for heart. We had jump rope for heart.

We could have never installed the skipping rope, so we didn't have any because I went to a decile. What's the lowest? Ten. One? One. One. One. Yeah. And same with padded tennis bats.

Why did that? What purpose did that? We just used our hands. Did you use your hands? Yeah. I know. Shame. Shame.

Oh, poor soul. I had everything I ever wanted. Don't. Privacy. Don't every single stuff along the way. You went on lunch break and there were tennis coaches with the tennis rackets.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Freshly with the tennis rackets. Yeah. Freshly strung Wilsons. Yeah. Absolutely. And they got to pop open a three-pack of tennis balls every time and give that tube a bit of a sniff. So nice. Mr. Agassi was a great coach.

Yeah. That was good. That was really good. Really good. Well, Jump Jam was invented by a New Zealander called Brett. And Brett is still like the forefront of Jump Jam was invented by a New Zealander called Brett, and Brett is still like the forefront of Jump Jam. He has been jumping the jam since 1991. Is this Brett guy loaded?

Well, I don't know how loaded he is. He choreographs the dancers and then sells a digital package to the school, and they chuck on Jump Jam, and they do like an aerobic sort of work. It's not just like a dance routine. It's a bit more aerobic-sy. It's got a big aerobic scene and you do it. I reckon he'll be loaded.

Do you reckon he's loaded? There's some money in this. He's been doing it for a long time. All the schools are buying it. All the schools are buying it. Well, then there's Jump Jam competitions

and this is what I attended yesterday. Oh my God. On a Sunday. A Jump Jam competition. This, honestly, kids, eh? Having kids sounds horrible. Yeah, really stuffing up

my schedule. That's a rest day. That's fine. That's a rest day. The day of the Lord's Day. But also do this's a rest day. That's fine. That's a rest day. The Lord's Day. But also do this on a school day. I did the whole day off and do it on a school day. That sounds like a great idea for school.

So then the kids pay to enter. The teams pay to enter. You pay to enter. You pay to enter. And you go along and Brett's there and there's some judges and then he gets them all jazzed up for Jump Jam and then they come out and do a Jump Jam. Now my thought when we were going, because the kids have beened up for Jump Jam, and then they come out and do a Jump Jam. Now, my thought when we were going,

because the kids have been practising the Jump Jam, they've been doing the routine, Indy's been practising the Jump Jam routine, and they did it to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Jitterbug. I call it the Jitterbug song. Wham. Wham by Wham.

Do they know about his public toilet cruising? Look, forgive and forget. Forgive and forget. I haven't delved into it with my children. That's something we'll talk about when they're a little bit older. Okay. Now, I was of the opinion that these kids had choreographed the dance. Yeah.

And so the kids go out and Indy's team was second. And then two later, the next team comes out and Jitterbug starts again. And I'm like, they stole our song. Do they know about his public toilet cruising? No, I don't know if those kids, they don't like kids. That's not my kids. Someone needs to tell some of these kids. About George Michael.

Maybe later. What, are we just ignoring it? Maybe later. We are going to bench it for a moment. Okay. That we can talk about later where they're a bit older. But I was like, oh, my God, they're doing the same song, these cheats.

And then the dance starts. It's the same dance. And I have a step up moment. You remember Step Up, the iconic cheerleading movie? Absolutely. The coach was just going around selling the same dancers. Oh, is that Bring It On? Well, Step Up, the dancing on the Step Up to the streets.

Yes. Step Up. I'm confused. It was Bring It On. Yeah, Bring It On. I thought we'd had a Bring It On? Was Step Up the dancing on the Step Up to the Streets? Yes. Step Up. I'm confused. It was Bring It On. Yeah, Bring It On at once. I thought we'd had a Bring It On moment. Right. And someone had been spying and then gone back to their school

and copied the dance. Yeah. I lean over to some other mums and dads and I'm like, they've stolen our dance. And one of the other dads is like, they've stolen our dance. And the mums are like, no, no, no, these are Brett's dances. Oh, right. So Brett's dances. Oh, right there.

So Brett's choreographed. Yeah, and then everybody does the dances that Brett's choreographed. Oh, so you don't even write. And in that moment, you just realise your kids aren't special. So then, so after seeing the jitterbug dance twice, I was like, oh, that's too many for me. Brett goes around the country watching child after child after child after child do the dance that he invented. Oh, my God. That is like the definition of insanity.

Torture. He's torturing himself. What has he done wrong that he feels like he needs to put himself through this? Yeah. But I was like, he's watching. He knows how the dance goes. Yeah. Better than anyone else.

So I'm proposing we launch our own Jump Jam. Jam Jump. Jam Jump. Jam Jumpers. Yep. And they have to invent their own dance. I don't want no kid coming in and showing me the dance that I've already danced. Yeah, we used to make up our own dances and have to perform them. Yeah.

How lame. I don't want anything to do with this torture. It sounds horrible. How many times an afternoon would you like to hear Bruno Mars magic? Might I suggest three. Zero would be my answer. I'd say 0.3, 0.5. I'll say three, three, and they'll dance every time.

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inside different gift card amounts thanks to Flight Centre to give away. So listen out for that activator. But next, it's fact of the day. Are we doing a week this week or just random facts? I hadn't thought of doing a week this week, but... We have a week off doing a week. Well, why don't you do the one you were going to do

and then we'll see if it's worthy of a week. Okay. Oh, yeah. Good idea. It's about salt. No, maybe not. It can't be salt week. No.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, today's fact of the day is about the salty ocean. The salty ocean. The salty ocean. And where does the salt come from in the ocean? From a salt mine From the shaker

Yes, from the giant, giant shaker A grinder, a big massive salt grinder Yep, yep In the sky Yep And God, when he was creating the earth, was just like Yep A little bit more

Jesus said, tell me when And God got distracted and then came back and he's like, what have you done? He's like, oh, I've over-salted the water. Classic. Tip it out and start again. There's not enough. And so they just left it as it was. No, it's... Today's fact of the day, I want to tell you, give you an indication of how much salt is in the water.

400 bags. Depending on how big the bags are, sure, that can totally work. So, it is estimated from some of the best estimations, given that 3.5% of the weight of seawater comes from dissolved salts. So it's only around about 3.5%. Okay.

Percent. Weight-wise. What about in the Black Sea where you can... That's higher. That's higher. That's a flowing sea. I'm talking about the worlds, the conjoined ocean. If you were to take all of the salt out of the sea and put it on the land,

40 foot of salt everywhere. Over the whole land of all the world's land. Correct. Wait, so all the land is covered, but it's 40 feet deep. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong.

It's 266 meters thick. It's a 40-storey office building. That's over the entire... I had my notes wrong. I was like, no, it was more than that. It's a 40-storey office building over the land. That is insane. It would cover the land.

It's very salty. Very salty. 500 feet, 166 metres thick salt crust if we were to take all the salt out of the ocean and put it on the land. Goodness me. Isn't that a lot of salt? So then I was like, where does it all come from?

The salt. So rain that falls on the land has dissolved carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. It's falling. It brings a bit of carbon dioxide, giving it a slightly acidic nature. Okay. Right. And then it falls and it slowly, as it does,

rain erodes over thousands and thousands and thousands of years. You're not going to be able to just next time it's raining. If you look outside next time and the rain is dissolving a rock in front of your eyes. Yeah, wild. And the rocks are made of candy floss. I would stay indoors as long as you can and try to seek shelter. Slowly, and then it gets into the rivers and it runs into the sea. Yeah.

And there it kind of stagnates and sits there. And as the evaporation and everything happens in the sea, the salt gets left behind and it concentrates. That's what salt is. So, yeah, it's run off off the land. So the ocean is only getting saltier. Oh, no. I can tell she's got a real attitude. Yeah, real sassy number.

So, yeah, that's an amazing fact about the 40 stories high of salt everywhere. Yeah. Fortisaurus office building on all land. Because you the 40 storeys high of salt everywhere. Yeah. 40 storeys office building on all land. Because you know how most of the world is ocean. Yeah. And incredibly deep and an incomprehensibly large amount of water. Yeah. Oh, don't.

I hate it. Oh, that just seemed to shiver up my spine. Yeah. And those fish with light bulb. Yeah, when they go real deep and they're like, oh, we've found a new fish. And you look at it and you're just like, yuck, because it's all just a blob and eyes. And then it's $8 for a fillet at the supermarket. You're like, that seems steep.

Yeah. I'll just have a tetekehi, thanks, mate. So today's fact of the day is if you took all the salt out of the ocean and popped it on the land, it would be a 500-foot or 166-meter thick crust of salt. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. I reckon, Vaughan, you're going to hate this. I'm always happy when someone's pregnant

and if they want the baby and they're having the baby. No, no, no, no, that's not the part. So basically it's been revealed that Elon Musk and Grimes with their on and off again relationship share a third child that no one knew about. Ah. So is this coming out because he, Walter Isaacson, has done a biography on Elon Musk.

He did the, he's famous for doing the Steve Jobs one. Yeah. Some of the big autobiographies in the, you know, the world. Yeah. He's done them all. And apparently Elon Musk has come out, no surprises, looking like a big man baby. Oh, absolutely.

Do you know he's a father of 11? Elon Musk has 11 kids. No. Yeah, so he's got a bunch of other kids. It's a bunch of other kids. And three with grimes. And so we had no idea they had a third one. Yeah. Yeah, so they're not together anymore. I didn no idea they had a third one. Yeah.

So they're not together anymore. I didn't know they had a second one. But is this third one called XYZ PQRT? So there was XAA12, who's three now. And then there's Exadark Side Rail. Now that kid's 20 months. Don't touch the Exadark Side Rail. Now, that kid's 20 months. Don't touch the Exodark Side Rail. They're always dirty.

You're going to need to wash your hands afterwards. So at one point, and they don't even know when, they welcomed a third child named Technomechanicus. That's the bit I thought you'd hate more. I feel sorry for the kids. Yeah. You do that dogs. Give a dog a wacky name because it's a dog. I feel sorry for the kids Yeah Like Giving them You do that dogs

Give a dog a wacky name Because it's a dog And it's just like I'm just stoked to be here Yeah But if you name your kid Technomechanicus Like what do you think

It's going to be Smooth sailing at school Yeah My name rhymes with Porn and corn and lawn And like that was a lot For kids to be like Oh your name rhymes

With so many things We're going to make fun of you for But Yeah Side rail Side car and Side rail and ex techno mechanicus yeah but just wild that they got it that nobody leaked that and nobody talked about it i know so grime said in an article like recently or that they're not together anymore but you know he's the love of her life and their best friends and all this kind of stuff and you know. And obviously at some point they've had a bloody baby.

And they've kept it secret. The pregnancy is a secret and everything. I want to know how long you kept your pregnancy secret for. Because this happens. Lots of celebrities are doing it now where they don't want to be bloody harangued. Yeah, totally. The minute they say we're expecting a child, that's just like, what are they called?

Paparazzi bait. Well, yeah, and you can't go on Instagram with a glass of wine. Yeah, so, I mean, Kylie Jenner did it, remember, for her first baby,

Stormi. Everyone was like, where's she? And then she just came out and was like, I had a baby. People were like, oh, cool.

But it would be interesting to know just like everyday people that aren't like Kylie Jenner, why you kept a pregnancy secret. Did you not want to tell the family? Yeah, did you not want to tell the family? Did you not want your work to know? So you were just bloody loosening up the T-shirts and wearing a baggy one?

Maybe, yeah. Who were you hiding it from and why? Maybe you found out somebody had a pregnancy from you. Maybe you were hiding it from your husband because you knew that that baby was not his. Or your ex, you know when an ex doesn't want kids and then they get a new partner and they have a kid within like three months?

And two days they don't want kids with you. Yeah. So 0800DARLS.AM, let's take some calls. You can text as well, 9696. How long did you keep the pregnancy a secret? Give us a call. So apparently Grimes and Elon Musk have had another bloody baby. And nobody knew. Give us a call. Of course it is.

Oh, for God's sake. Which is also my favourite transformer. We want to know if you've ever kept a pregnancy secret and why. Anonymous, good morning. Why did you keep a pregnancy secret? Anonymous. That's you. This happens every time with anonymous callers because they don't know that it's them.

We're calling them by a name that they're not familiar with. Anonymous. Yeah, so I ended up keeping my fourth pregnancy a secret from my family for six months. Wow. It was six months after you found out you were pregnant or from birth? Oh, and you didn't want to take their attention? And I was like, oh, so the whole Wednesday wedding, I was just drinking like zero alcohol wine, not showing, thank God.

And then it wasn't until my little sister came out and said she was pregnant that I was like, oh, don't I? Oh, my God. My brother would know straight away. He'd be like, why aren't you drinking? After the first little bit, I was like, oh, it's gone a bit far now to, like, bring it up now. Yeah, right. You're in too deep.

Yeah, so then it wasn't until, like, my sister was like, oh, I'm pregnant. And I'm like, yeah, don't I? Wow. So you wait further along than her, though, because you kept it secret? Yes, yeah. Oh, right. Okay. Amazing. All right, Anonymous, thank you, Rochelle. So you wait further along than her though Because you kept it secret Yes Alright okay Amazing Alright Anonymous Thank you Rochelle

Why did you keep a pregnancy secret? So it was actually my older sister She kept her whole entire pregnancy a secret from all of us After until a month after birth A month after birth? What? Yes Why?

I think she was just scared if I was judging her. She was following her mum. It was baby number four. Yeah, maybe just a bit scared there. So, but this happened. But, yeah, I found out through, because she ghosted us all over social media, said she was taking a break.

And then March, I decided to have all we know Zia to profile and there was a public post saying I hope you're recovering well congrats on the new cutie and I was like wait what? You found out

on a post? Yeah I did not from her yeah so I messaged her like is there a miss or miss you want to know about? and she sent a question mark

and then I screenshotted the post like I know come come on, just spill the beans. She tried to deny it. Yeah, question mark, yeah. That is wild. That's really wild.

Yeah, it kind of makes it worse because I was pregnant as well, so I was trying to pull a Kylie, obviously she had one up on me and did it way better than what I did. Yes. So I kept my pregnancy a secret until I was 33 weeks pregnant, but not from my family,

just from social media. Right. But then once I found out she had pulled a Kylie way better than me, I'm going to announce mine because I don't want other people to think that we're both up for something.

We're all keeping secret pregnancies. Yeah. This is wild. Unrelated. Unrelated. We'll get distracted if I go down that track. Tell the nation. I'm just watching old Jump Jam videos.

We talked about that before. He's having a laugh. Now, we're talking about how you kept your pregnancy secret and how long for. Yes. Who from? Because Grimes and Elon Musk have had a baby at some point. And he's got twins with somebody else that is about the same age. Like 11 kids.

The guy loves breeding. What's your child support? He said, you know why? Because he said that smart people need to have more kids. Funny, eh? Right. He's something else. He really is.

So some messages in. Why or how long did you keep a pregnancy secret for? My daughter was pregnant. She found out herself at 34 weeks. You hear about this, don't you? Oh, my God, yeah. People are getting so fast through their pregnancy. And she kept it to herself, and then I found out,

and then we kept it from everyone until the baby was born at 41 weeks. She just never showed. Wow. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. We've spoken to people, haven't we, on the show? Yes. We've sort of found out when they were giving birth.

Yeah. It's wild. I'm pregnant currently, says somebody. And I'm not telling anybody until Christmas Day. I'm just going to rock up with, hey, Nana, hey, Dad, hey, everybody, I'm pregnant. It's not about you. And I'll probably be about 32 weeks by then. It everybody, I'm pregnant. It's not about you. And I'll probably be about 32 weeks by then. It's about Jesus' birthday.

It's not about you. Well, Jesus was a baby too, you know what. And by the sounds of it, this could be a Christmas baby. This could be Jesus 2.0. At least Jesus is doing a patch update overnight and it's Jesus 1.35. Yeah, it could be. I'm always waking up to my phone saying, well, you updated your Jesus overnight.

And then he's a bit glitchy. While you were sleeping. Yeah. Got a couple of things that need to be ironed out there. I had my third pregnancy from my family and friends until he was born. Someone who saw me in person at the time knew. But only because I had an 18-month gap. And then this next one was a year gap.

Right. So it was happening a lot and so I was just out of there telling everybody every time. A lot of these seem to be a bit of shame telling the family. Yeah, a lot of them, like young people not telling their families or like, oh, it was a one night stand and I didn't want them to know and judge me.

Yeah, it's you, do you. I was 16 when I got pregnant and stayed in school and hid my pregnancy until term three when I told the teachers that I was leaving and they were like why are you leaving and I said because I'm having a baby in less than five weeks my mum was a superstar she'd just keep

taking out my clothes more and more throughout the pregnancy so it never really showed my sister's friend kept her pregnancy secret the entire time it was a little bit of a surprise pregnancy, so she just didn't tell anybody until the baby was already there. Right.

At least they're not going on about it on Facebook. You love maternity shoots. You love seeing someone with a beer belly at the beach holding their belly. I had to hide someone the other day with baby stuff. I'm just like, no, duh. So rude.

Is it? So rude. Is it? Oh, I just realised I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards.

Well, that means the show's backwards then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse. Well, should we speak in reverse

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