ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 12th December 2024

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:27 or wherever you get your podcasts. The ZM Podcast Network. The Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. Thank you, Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Flesh,, Fawn and Hayley. Thank you Bryn, good morning.
Starting point is 00:00:45 Welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Hayley. The top six is coming up. Fawn, bloody warm me up first. Usually you give us a little bit of morning and we say morning. No, no, he's right into it today. We're right into it today, no nonsense. She's spit on it at least. Word economy.
Starting point is 00:01:01 Today's top six is the top six. He didn't like that. Today's top six. A top six. He didn't like that. Today's top six. A Russian man. Duh. That was terrible. Is trying to get Santa listed as sort of like an enemy of the state. Right.
Starting point is 00:01:16 But he's the jolliest man of all. Yeah, but he's well loved by Western countries and countries that don't love. Countries that Russia does not align with. So Santa doesn't go to Russia? This is this man's hope. Santa outlawed. I've got the top six signs that Santa was an international spy
Starting point is 00:01:32 all along. Well, he's got access to all of our lounges. Shut up. He sees us. He sees us while we're sleeping. Shut up. Shut up.
Starting point is 00:01:40 I love doing this. Shut up. Both of you, shut up. I love this. Let's brainstorm a few more ideas. Let's just bandy a few about. By all means, help a brother out. But, like, don't do this to him on here.
Starting point is 00:01:52 Jeez Louise. That's just made it harder for Vaughan to come up with this top six list, hasn't it? Brilliant. Cilla Littlepole is on the way with Christmas clothes. Have you ever spent Christmas alone? Yes. I read a great article.
Starting point is 00:02:06 You have? Or you're saying you're agreeing with it? I'm agreeing with the fact that we're going to talk about it. I've never spent Christmas alone. Someone spent Christmas alone in my house with my cat. What, like a house sitter? Yeah. We had a friend who had nowhere to go for Christmas and we were away. We were like, we can spend it with our cat if you want. He was like, great.
Starting point is 00:02:21 Well, that's technically not alone, is it? I think we won't count pets in this. We're not counting pets.. He was like, great. Well, that's technically not a loan, is it? Well, I think we won't count pets in this. We're not counting pets. But he was of great company. Well, we'll delve into that soon and the poll results soon and silly.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Play Zed-Ems, Fleshborn and Hayley. Hayley, do we need to take a break because you found that your favourite undies are on sale? Yeah, I just saw that Farmers is at my jockey, just this smooth.
Starting point is 00:02:43 Turn into the jockey sale full stop. I don't know, but the granny panties that I like, the big boys. They're like half price at the moment. So I shall be distracted for, I would say, 31 minutes. Have you been going through them? Well, I'm trying to.
Starting point is 00:02:58 I've got so many pairs of underwear, and I'm trying to just like, as I wear them and I don't enjoy them, get rid of them. If they're too big or too loose or too tight, make you feel fat and I'm like, you're gone. You'll last the day because you're on. But what if you need them later? Another time. Nah, no. You just not.
Starting point is 00:03:13 I think you get to an age in life. Yeah. I said age in life not an Asian life. I don't know, I think you said an agent life. An agent life. I heard agent life as well. I heard agent life. You get to an age in life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Where a day in uncomfortable undies is a day lost. Yeah, totally. And we've only got so many days left. I said this yesterday, didn't I? And I don't think that's the best use of anyone's time. No. I had a horrible pair of undies on yesterday. It spoiled my entire day.
Starting point is 00:03:40 You did? It'll ruin it. I imagine it's the same with bras too. Oh my God. If you're digging in bra, you're just like, I don't have time for that. If I could get four more pairs
Starting point is 00:03:48 of the undies I like, I reckon I could have a total purge of undies that are only there in the case of an emergency. Well, I'll add to my cart and then I'll pass you the laptop
Starting point is 00:03:57 and then you can just pay me because we'll save on shipping. Oh, you want my farmer's points. No, we don't. She does. He's bloody got me. I know what woman's farmer's points mean to them. He got you, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:04:09 He got you. I tell you what, you can have my farmer's points. Well, thank you then. Thank you. What a friend. Fletch, will you be adding any undies to our car? No, I've got plenty. We're genuine friends.
Starting point is 00:04:17 We just undie shopping together. Calvin Klein's? Yeah. Dude rocks a posh knicker. Yeah, he does. I'm happy with a basic chocolate. We've got an upper class knicker over here. Yeah, he does. I'm happy with a basic chocolate. Yeah, we do, we do. We go to the Czech Republic now,
Starting point is 00:04:30 where a man loves to smile. Don't we all? He's a smiley man. He loves to smile. And he wants to smile in his ID, in his driver's license. We're allowed to. Or I imagine it's,
Starting point is 00:04:42 maybe they have an ID. You know, like a lot of countries have national IDs that aren't passports. Oh my God, I've got to get my real me. My real me, I've been getting those notifications that it's expiring. I haven't done it since like. And you've got to go to like a post shop or a dairy and they take a photo. Yeah, do a photo.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Yeah, well, he, for the national ID in the Czech Republic, he wanted to smile and they were like, no. It's a passport situation. It's a passport situation. It's a passport situation. You've got to have a neutral expression. So he has tried to defend his case by stating that he's a member of the Church of Laughter. Oh, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:05:16 I love this guy. Bring in the Church of Laughter. And that smiling was a manifestation of his religion. It's like when the guy wanted to... The pastafari and he could wear a colander on his head because you're allowed to wear a religious hairdress in your
Starting point is 00:05:27 identifications. I love when people do this. But yeah, they've actually upheld it and he's failed to win the race.
Starting point is 00:05:33 I thought he'd won but he'd actually failed and they've said no. It's been upheld by the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land
Starting point is 00:05:43 in the Czech Republic. He needs to do what I did in my passport photo and get away with the slightest little smile. You do. You've got a little... I know. Would you call it a smize? Yeah, a smize.
Starting point is 00:05:52 A smize? It's like this slight upturning, and I got away with it. And it's honestly the most perfect thing. Because other people, when they say, you're not allowed to smile, instead they almost look aggressive yeah like whereas i tried to keep the fire bright yeah like aaron looks like up like he would f you up yeah yeah i know if you saw him in a gang patch you'd be like you look yeah i look so serious in my
Starting point is 00:06:18 passport photo i managed to not look serious amazing well a win for you but yeah i lost sadly for the um church of laughter. Look at this. Okay, here's my, look, I'm just going to show you the bottom half of my face and my passport. I mean, that's just a soft little smile. That's a soft smile. Very lucky. Stunning.
Starting point is 00:06:35 Stunning photo. You're going to be so devastated. Devastated. When does that passport expire? 2029. Oh, okay. It's fine. You've got some good years ahead of you.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Yeah, I do. And by then I'll have so much plastic surgery, I'll just have to get one anyway. Yeah. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. So, the other day I watched Love Actually, which I just, I know it's got bad bits, but I love it.
Starting point is 00:06:56 What are the problematic bits? The fat shaming. Who are they fat shaming? Of Hugh Grant's secretary. They always call her the chubby girl, and I'd say she's a 14. You know, like, Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:05 And they call, the whole time they refer and I'd say she's a 14. You know, like, and they call, the whole time they refer to her as the sort of fat character. I don't know. There's a few sort of elements. One of them is the Keira Knightley scene. It's the subject of- At the door.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Large discourse. That the guy's best friend comes to the door and is like, I love you on Christmas Eve. Yeah. with these sort of stalker placards. Yeah. And she runs after him and kisses him, but then goes back to the house. You're like, that's a betrayal.
Starting point is 00:07:34 You just got married. Bitch. What are you doing, bitch? God. Well, Keira Knightley did an interview with the LA Times and they obviously like, it's a great film. In fact, I would encourage men to take this opportunity. If you are watching Love Actually with your partner
Starting point is 00:07:49 and that scene pops up, look at your partner and if they aren't like, oh. Be like, why aren't you upset that she's done that? So you want people to start picking a fight in this season. Start a fight. It's happened to us for decades. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember that movie, He's Just Not That Into You?
Starting point is 00:08:04 Yeah. Yeah! Me You? Yeah. Yeah! Me too! Yeah. Well, she was talking, they were asking about this scene and they mentioned the fact that at the time of filming this,
Starting point is 00:08:14 she was 17 years old. Oh, wow, okay. So her character in this gets married. Yeah. And I guess she's playing older, but she was 17 when she filmed this. 2003, this film came out.
Starting point is 00:08:26 So film 2002, maybe 2001. She was 17. Wild. Wild, eh? So she was like, people talk about this. She's 39 now. Yeah, exactly. She's only just a bit older than me.
Starting point is 00:08:38 Yeah. I know. I mean, she's extremely much older than me. Anyway, so just relating to her for a second. Yeah. We were close in age. So in this interview, they were talking about the fact that people always talk about that and the fact
Starting point is 00:08:51 that that scene has a bit of a sinister and coercive kind of nature. And she was like, do you know what makes it worse is the fact that at the time I was 17 and the director kept saying to her like, Kira, like cut, cut, cut. Kira, your face is telling me that you think he's creepy. And she kept being like, it is creepy that he's doing this.
Starting point is 00:09:08 It is, it is. So they filmed it all and then they had to go back and re-film it to sort of fix her face into being more like, oh, tickled by it. You know, being like, oh, you've got to look quite pretty, don't I? Like sort of be a bit more like into the idea of it. Even though it was super creepy. She was like, that was a big creep factor.
Starting point is 00:09:27 You know, I was 17. She's still being asked about it all these years later. Like that's how much, how big the film is. Yeah. Well, it's like Mariah Carey's Christmas song. Like people still ask her about it, especially at this time of year. It would be my nightmare to have been in love actually
Starting point is 00:09:40 and have to do a press tour before Christmas because everybody's like, we had the Lord of the Rings people in the other day. We didn't say at the time, but one of them is the daughter of, she's a Nepo baby. Hey, that's not what I meant.
Starting point is 00:09:58 They probably said in the country, they probably were like, let's listen to that radio show that Trina does so fantastic. Weren't they lovely? Nepo. Guy Wise, her mum is Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson, who's in the movie, who got betrayed by Snape. Well, that's what I put up on my socials, Never Forgive. And we all bit our tongue because we wanted to say, must be hard seeing your mum getting betrayed time and time again this time of year.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Yeah, I know. But we didn't. She's not even in the movie. We wanted to talk to her about the movie because it's that time of the year. How dare he buy that necklace? Do you see like, this happens all the time. Like Kate Winslet
Starting point is 00:10:28 did an amazing interview recently because she's doing this film called Lee and the interviewer was like, can we talk about Titanic? And she was like, of course. She's like,
Starting point is 00:10:38 well, of course. You'd expect it, right? And then I think the interviewer was like, do you ever get tired of people talking about Titanic? She's like,
Starting point is 00:10:44 no, why would I? And you're like, well would i you're like well you would eventually you would i reckon there was a period after titanic where she was trying to get other roles and would occasionally get one and people still wanted to talk about titanic that she didn't but now i mean if something's lasted and the zeitgeist that long yeah she's probably stoked to talk about i think the interviewer said something like um something like I'm sure you can't have an interview without talking about Titanic. And I think she kind of goes like, well, I could.
Starting point is 00:11:10 But can we? She's like, no, it's fine. I will say, talking about Keira Knightley, she's doing a lot of press at the moment talking about this because of Black Doves, which is out on Netflix. It's a spy thriller. Oh yeah, I've seen this. I just finished it last night, night before last. Really good. Six eps, I've seen this. I just finished it last night,
Starting point is 00:11:25 night before last. Really good. Six eps. I feel like Keira Knightley is one of the actresses who's just going to, like, as she gets older, is just going to have
Starting point is 00:11:32 a sort of second career. Much older than you, though, obviously. I just said as she gets older. She's four years older than me. Aww. It's nice that one of you will have an acting career
Starting point is 00:11:42 as you go at all. That's so nice. Do you know what I mean? We can't both have it nice We can't both have it You were like nah acting's done I'm a radio gal This is me I love the radio
Starting point is 00:11:52 I'm here for it 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. Silly Little Pole today is have you ever spent Christmas alone? Fletch, I was just thinking about you. You probably have overseas, right? Because you always, if we finish before Christmas, we'll do an early family Christmas and then the actual day you'll be like overseas. Yeah, there's a couple of times when I haven't been with friends in places. So I read this article. So my friend Sam Brooks wrote this article for Ensemble about a solo Christmas.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Is Sam related to Garth? No. Or Meredith? No, none of the Brooks's, you know. None of the Brooks's. No. But about how a solo Christmas is great. He loves it. Yeah. And often finds how a solid Christmas is great. He loves it.
Starting point is 00:12:45 Yeah. And often finds himself alone on Christmas and is just like, it's a lovely day. Make yourself a nice meal, have a couple of wines, play some games. It's just another day, isn't it? Have a little sleep. And for a lot of people, it is just another day.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Especially if you can, like, get in some family time around it. Yeah. Whatever, it's just a day. I'd be so sad not to spend Christmas, like, I just do the same thing every Christmas and have every Christmas. He's a creature of habit. I'm a Christmas creature of habit.
Starting point is 00:13:12 Yeah. Yeah. Never alone. Never alone. No. But you'll be the kind, what are you going to be like? Because say for like me and Aaron,
Starting point is 00:13:21 we do his family, my family, year on, year off. So for one Christmas a year, every couple of years, I don't see my family. What are you going to be like when the girls are like, we're with Martin's family this Christmas? I'll punch Martin in the face. Martin.
Starting point is 00:13:33 Martin. Your girls are not going to marry a Martin. No. Absolutely not. Well, Dad, I can't. We were with you guys last year. Maybe one of them might marry a Martina. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Martina. Hello, Martina. Yeah. Hello. We're fingers crossed, Martina. Yeah. Hello. We're fingers crossed for at least one lesbian. I better go to South America for this family Christmas. Yeah. We're going back to Martina's.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Why don't you take your papi with you to Martina's Christmas? Come on, please. Come on, please. Look after your papi. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. A Colombian Christmas.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Your beautiful daughter, either one of them, will have a beautiful Colombian lesbian wife. Salute. Daddy reporting for Judy. Silly little poll. Wild. What a world. Silly little poll.
Starting point is 00:14:24 Have you ever spent Christmas alone? 77% of people said no. Yeah. 23% of people have spent Christmas alone. Okay. Let's find out. Do you think COVID would have been the first time for a lot of people with their lockdowns over Christmas?
Starting point is 00:14:35 I'm just trying to remember. No. No, never on Christmas. Because I always got. Never. We did. Everyone did the big snossy rub before we went because of my nan still around. But no.
Starting point is 00:14:48 And also, I think you were always allowed to at least be with a friend, right? Yeah, no, I don't think there was any Christmas lockdowns. Remember, they lifted one just before. And then there was this weird summer wave. Anyway, Sarah said, I hate people. That's all she said. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:02 I hate people. Sarah? We can't hate them all. We can't hate them all. We can't hate them all. There are some good ones out there. Flutely says, I could do and see whatever I wanted with no expectations. It was just another day when I travelled solo. I was travelling solo around Europe.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Oh, yeah. Yeah. When it was Christmas. Europe and Christmas by yourself. Hello. We've got the start of a Netflix Christmas romance. It's so beautiful. Eating pasta in some kind of square.
Starting point is 00:15:26 And all the squares have the bull vine. I wasn't in a pastery square. I was in a pasta square. I was in a snow market. A Christmas market. I was in a pasta square. They all do markets with all the Christmas stalls and mulled wine. She's sitting alone with her mulled wine.
Starting point is 00:15:44 She looks across and there's a guy with a mulled wine. Or she's walking and the snow starts getting a bit much and she's just like, whoa, and gets a bit disorientated and opens some doors for safety and it's a church and there's a hot, hot priest. Anyway. And Keira Knightley's here with her big smile. I think I might be a bit lost.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Yeah. Except she's going to need to try to do a Kiwi accent because this is the story of Susie. Oh, I think I might be a bit lost. That's how they all do it. And then the press is like, well, you've come to the right place. Why is he German in New Zealand?
Starting point is 00:16:18 No, no, he's in Europe because it's snowing. Why is Keira doing a New Zealand accent? Because she's playing Susie, who's a New Zealander travelling in Europe. Ah. Yeah. Okay. Get on board with, travelling in Europe. Ah. Yeah. Okay. Get on board with this.
Starting point is 00:16:27 Sorry, sorry. It's just developing so quickly. You're never going to be able to write a movie. Never. Useless. Never. Michaela said, I was in Beijing and it was freezing and I was lonely
Starting point is 00:16:38 and I couldn't speak Mandarin, so even harder to communicate with those around me. Too hard, Baskin. That doesn't sound like a Netflix romantic comedy to me as much. Yeah, she falls in love through soul connection
Starting point is 00:16:48 and energy, not language and words. Right. And finds out then. He's talking Mandarin to her. She's talking English to him. They don't understand, but they understand.
Starting point is 00:16:57 She finally gets up, open Google Translate and finds out what he's been saying has been horrendously racist towards Koreans. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, real bad.
Starting point is 00:17:07 And she's like, oh God. Vicky says, I have and it was lovely. I love my family but working in retail right up till Christmas I was done socialising
Starting point is 00:17:14 and needed some me time. Yeah. Pete says, I was in compulsory military service. I had no choice. Oh yeah. What are you,
Starting point is 00:17:24 Norway? What country is Pete from? Yeah, a. What are you, Norway? I wonder what country that is. Where do you speak from? Yeah, a lot of those places, like Norway does it, doesn't it? Norway does it, yeah. And the Norwegian Guard for a year. You've got to do it before you're like 21 or something.
Starting point is 00:17:35 Lisa said she did. It's a prime year. Yeah, I know. It's a prime. That's why, have you ever seen the compulsory army photos? They are so hot. Oh, dude, I know. But yeah, basically everybody uses it for an excuse to update their Tinder profile.
Starting point is 00:17:49 To get a rad uniform pic. When I was doing all the military tattoos, I used to travel around with the Norwegian guard. And every year you were like, fresh badge. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Okay. Oh my goodness me. Well, I mean, there's still a long list of countries.
Starting point is 00:18:04 I've just Googled countries with compulsory military service. Korea? There's heaps. Korea, right? Yeah. Korea? Oh, no, sorry. Not New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:18:13 That's the main thing. Yeah, clicked the wrong link somehow. We didn't have to do it. Now I've got porn? How does the internet work? One, not on the work Wi-Fi. How does the internet work? Some more feedback.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Lisa said, I had COVID, so I had to spend it by myself. Oh, dumb. Miserable. Did someone at least drop you off a lovely plate? A little slice of beef. You don't feel like A to A when COVID was like that. Yeah. I'm a flight attendant, says Danielle,
Starting point is 00:18:39 and my Christmas this year will be at a hotel and in another city with a handful of pilots and various strangers in a big metal tube. Cheap flying on Christmas Day too. That's why your brother's coming back. Yeah. On Christmas Day. On Christmas.
Starting point is 00:18:50 Yeah. Let's pop over the hill and get him. I never thought about people who had to fly on Christmas. Yeah. And it's not like the flight and there's still a lot of flights. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:00 Yeah. I have friends that do Christmas with her family in the morning, drive to the airport, fly back and have Christmas dinner with his family in the night. Every year they do that. What cities are we flying between? Auckland and Wellington.
Starting point is 00:19:10 Wow. Just to on off. Yeah, it was like we're wasting at least three hours, one in the sky, one in each airport, you know? Oh, God. Molly says, I'm going to volunteer at the community Christmas lunch this year so I'm not alone on Christmas again. That's nice. My family's overseas
Starting point is 00:19:26 and my boyfriend is working at sea so it's just me. Friends have invited me over though. The pirate. Is he a pirate? He sounds like he could be a pirate. He could have a gold tooth and a pig leg. A parrot on his shoulder. And Amy says yes and it was awful when I was alone. I cried. It was my first Christmas
Starting point is 00:19:43 overseas in a country where the holiday isn't a holiday. Oh, like the Middle East or something. Not a Christian. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. China? Did China do Christmas?
Starting point is 00:19:54 I thought China did. Probably just for like the retail side of things rather than the spiritual side of things, of course, which means so much to all of us here at the show. It does. Huge Christians. God bless. Huge Christians. God bless. God bless. Chubbless.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Love God and that. That's a little poll. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Buffets are back. Yeah, buffets are back. Buffets never left, baby, in my mind. Because COVID kind of put a bit of a
Starting point is 00:20:24 sharing. Yeah, the sharing, the open food. Well, no, because COVID kind of put a bit of a... Shearing. Yeah, the shearing, the open food. It put a sharpened toothbrush handle into the kidney of Buffet. It did. It shanked it. And Buffet was like, but... Sneeze guards.
Starting point is 00:20:36 You can eat as much as you want. Your sneeze guard needs nothing to me. But, like, I don't think they left, but they weren't, like, the hot thing to do. Nah, because every illustration when they showed how COVID spread, they used shared food as like the example. But I also think just in general, they weren't like fashionable. It wasn't seen as like a glamorous way to eat.
Starting point is 00:20:57 It's like now we go and we get tapas and we share, you know, and we share three small plates that each have one morsel of food and we say, I'm full, right? Whereas, yeah, as you say, like gluttony is the thing that we think of with buffets. Are you telling me gluttony's back? Gluttony's back in fashion, babes. But the reason why is quite interesting.
Starting point is 00:21:14 Apparently one of the main reasons why people are like hitting the buffets hard and more buffets are coming out in Australia, for example, cost of living. They're like, it's actually economical. Are they though? I was thinking the same thing. Because if you go to a buffet, like a posh one and it's 60, 70 bucks for dinner,
Starting point is 00:21:32 that's not a cheap night out. And also my thing is my stomach can only eat as much as my stomach can eat and it's never as much as I want it to be. No. Do you know what I mean? If I went to a pub and I got a burger and chips, I'll eat the burger and chips and I'll be full.
Starting point is 00:21:45 Yep. And I'll pay $30 for that. But then you go to a buffet and I'll pay $40. I'm still only going to be able to eat the same amount of food. But it's a mental state you've got to get in the game. But then does it also stop like if you're just ordering a whole bunch of stuff that before you know it, it adds up and you've spent more than you would at a buffet? Yeah, I suppose so.
Starting point is 00:22:05 Yeah, whereas once you're in the buffet, you've paid. Also, I, with buffets, worry about the waste left at the end. Don't worry about it. No, I'm not a huge fan of food waste. That's why you never go to a buffet first thing when it opens. Why? Because it could be yesterday's. Oh, no, see, I don't think that these days
Starting point is 00:22:23 we'd be able to get away with that. I always just wait for a fresh tray. But then what if a fresh tray only comes out half an hour before the
Starting point is 00:22:29 Dunskies? Yeah. That's my concern is that what's going to happen to that if it's not? Of course they do. I don't like that one.
Starting point is 00:22:38 But people have been sharing online as well like Hinton Barthay has been like, it's such good value for money. I don't know, I mean,
Starting point is 00:22:43 maybe it's less popular in New Zealand. I mean, we talked about this the other day, Gingy. Gingy can't. Yeah. Love a Gingus can't. But like the fancy buffets that have your seafood bar and then your meat bar and then your this thing. That's an expensive night out. That's an expensive night out.
Starting point is 00:22:58 And then I was like, we're not talking about drinks. No. Right, buffets? That was how the buffets always got you, right? Yeah, yeah. You're here, sure, you can pay $30 and eat as much as you want, but the drinks are $20 each. As soon as you start eating, you're going to want them more. Yeah. Yeah, but this is
Starting point is 00:23:13 in Australia that I was reading this article about the absolute hot return of them. Right. That they're just, they're more and more and more and people are like, it's volume. If you were going for a night out, though, and you found a buffet that was like 30 bucks, that would be good value. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Yeah. Because you can easily spend that much at a restaurant with friends. Do you know what would be amazing? Buffet BYO. Yes. Imagine. Yes. Messy.
Starting point is 00:23:39 We're turning up with our own wine and we can eat all we want. That's got ancient Rome vibes. Yeah, yeah, gluttony. Gluttony. Yeah, yeah. And you'd need a vomitorium. Yes, a vomitorium. Have you ever heard about the ancient Roman vomitoriums?
Starting point is 00:23:55 Did they actually have overindulgence? They'd eat themselves so full that they'd go and be sick. So it was like a challenge of indulgence. Like gluttony times 10. But all the Roman sculptures, they all had abs. Yeah, dude. If you were getting a sculpture made and they made you look fat, would you be like, hey, Michelangelo,
Starting point is 00:24:12 I'm going to throw you in the Colosseum to fight a lion and three baboons unless you make me look like a hot piece of ass. You don't sculpt my love handles, you a-hole. Chisel them right off. Play ZM's F fleshborn and hayley storage is not something i'm good at i there is no storage in our house currently it's all just like jam things and cupboards and like come up with a solution later. Yep. So this is good because, you know, you go around your house and you always find odd bits,
Starting point is 00:24:49 odd bits and pieces. A screw. Chuck them in the basket on the bench. Or chuck them in that second drawer down that's got birthday candles in it. Yeah, this is kind of like that, but a little bit more dedicated. This is a hack. Because my problem is, this is a storage hack of sorts. No, I don't want to encroach on Shannon's space here, but here we are.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Okay. Because I do this all the time. We find like a screw or, you know, a little plastic cap. And you're like, where's that from? What's that for? Yeah. Don't chuck it. You'll find it one day.
Starting point is 00:25:16 And you always think to yourself, I always think to myself, the little plastic cap and I'll go, I'll just put that in a safe spot. It all goes in the junk drawer. What is this a cap for? TBC. Oh, but it's not like a cap off a bottle.
Starting point is 00:25:30 No, no. It's not identifiable. It would be like a little bit, a bit of a something or a bit off a vacuum or a tool or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I'm on board. Some sort of dome cover. Some weird rubber bung.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Rubber bung. What's that rubber bung for? What's the rubber bung for? And my instinct has always been like, I'll put that somewhere where I'll find it. My instinct is like, I'll throw this out, and then months later I'm like, no, that's what that was for.
Starting point is 00:25:52 That's what that was for. I need that now, don't I? So they say you do need, because I don't want it on the bench, because that's not aesthetically pleasing. Yeah. But this hack is to have an actual dedicated, if you've got like a cupboard or a storage cupboard
Starting point is 00:26:06 or a linen cupboard or something, to have a don't know bin. And you put it in there and you know when you go to look for something or you're trying to find something, you'd be like, oh, I think I put that in the don't know bin. And then it's all going to be in that one spot.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Whereas I always say, oh, okay, I'll put that in the junk drawer. And then this one looks important, so I'll put that somewhere safe so I remember. That's my worst one. I'll put this somewhere safe so I remember. That's my worst one. I'll put this somewhere safe so I remember where it is. And then you put it somewhere so safe that your brain doesn't even know where it is. That's how safe
Starting point is 00:26:31 it is. Safe from your brain never finding it again. Whereas if you had this don't know bin, and it's little bits like someone's shown a photo of theirs and it's a couple of bits of paper with some things written on it. An empty sort of plastic sleeve that looks like it's supposed to slip over something. You don't know what it's for anymore.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Little plastic bits, screws, a tape measure, da-da-da. And you're like, I don't know where this belongs. It doesn't have a home in the house. I kind of like this idea. Yeah, it is good. I kind of like this idea. It is good. Just having a big bin.
Starting point is 00:27:01 As opposed to a junk drawer, which just becomes so important and unimportant. This is just like, I do this all the time. I always find screws and nails and stuff around because of Aaron. He takes them out of his pockets and stuff. Now, I don't know if this is a screw that's come out of something, so we're not going to use it anymore,
Starting point is 00:27:17 or if it's a screw for a specific thing. Yeah, yeah. Or he needs to buy 20 more of them one day, and that's his last one of that kind so it can't be thrown out. And then he'll say to me, hey did you move those screws that I had beautifully displayed on my bedside table? And I'll say, yes I did. Where'd you put
Starting point is 00:27:34 them? I'm always like, I don't know. I don't know. It would be in the don't know bin. And then you just find it there. It's a great hack. It's a great hack. See that's a five star hack. That's a five star hack. Imagine if Shannon had bought this at the table, she'd have a-star hack. That's a five-star hack. Imagine if Shannon had brought this to the table, she'd have a jingle right now. Shannon, this could have been your hack
Starting point is 00:27:48 and you would have nailed it. That's a five-star. Yeah, it's hurting. Someone did text in two stars and I see how that would hurt your soul. Yeah, I'm experiencing what it's like to receive two stars. I don't think that's a two. I think that's really sensible.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I think it's so good. Two stars? Yeah. I think't think that's a two. I think that's really sensible. I think it's so good. Two stars. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think this might be Shannon messaging in though because they all
Starting point is 00:28:10 just the same number sent in. I think if you're giving hacks, you need to cancel Shannon's segment but don't because I love it. Just give her the jingle. You run far worse segments
Starting point is 00:28:21 that have jingles. Yeah, wow. It sounds like Shannon. No, it's not me. I'll tell you a number. He said John. He said, don't argue withingles. Yeah, wow. It sounds like Shannon. No, it's not me. I'll tell you a number. He said John. He said, don't argue with my rating. I'm John.
Starting point is 00:28:30 That sounds like something Shannon would say. That sounds like something Shannon would say. John is the most obvious name you can think of. I would spell John with an H, though. No, you wouldn't. You would make us think that. I'm Shannon's boyfriend. We know his name's not John.
Starting point is 00:28:44 We've got a joker on our hands this morning. Well, really good hack from you, Hayley. Thank you so much. That's how it's boyfriend. We know his name's not John. I'm Shannon's boyfriend. We've got a joker on our hands this morning. Well, really good hack from you, Hayley. Thank you so much. That's how it's done. Shannon's boyfriend's name is Mysterio the Great. Yeah, yeah. We all know that. It's not John.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Mr. Mysterio the Great. Mr. Mysterio the Great. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Hayley. What's your job, Hayley? What a DJ mix that was. What's your job, Hayley? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby?
Starting point is 00:29:06 We welcome to the DJ remix. We welcome to What's Your Jobby. Ella, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Okay. Do you work in an office?
Starting point is 00:29:21 Yes. She's not giving much away. No, she's got a poker face on I think she's a boss of some kind Or a manager at least Oh you reckon Yeah she's got a sharpness to her That I like Ella
Starting point is 00:29:34 This is not a date But also this is the voice of someone That could be telling you That the company's just got to make redundancies Because the Oh you reckon HR Upper management need their Christmas bonus And the way they're going to do it is screwing everyone below them.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Ella, as part of your job, do you have to deliver bad news? No, not really. Okay. Well, that runs out. HR. Let's put a spanner in the work. HR, yeah. They deliver the worst of news.
Starting point is 00:30:01 No, not really. Office job, not really delivering bad news. Okay, we've got one question remaining. Vaughan, this really hangs on you to get some kind of terrible question from you, Hayley. Actually, it was one of the worst I've ever done. It's actually one of the worst questions you can ask. But then it kind of does rule out like an accountant because they'd have to deliver bad news of someone with an unexpectedly high tax bill. Yeah, or a medical admin.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Yeah, or a doctor. Doctors admin. Or a nurse. Like, oh no, you're dying. Yeah, or a medical admin. Yeah, or a doctor. Doctors admin. Or a nurse. Like, oh no, you're dying. Your test results have come through. I wouldn't say doctors or nurses work in offices, though. They work in clinics. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Okay. So they were already off the books for me. Well, technically it's an office with curtains. No. And machines. It's a clinic. Yeah. This is an office with microphones.
Starting point is 00:30:40 It's not a studio. This is a studio. We do have an office. Yeah. We're stitched here Vaughn over to you my friend Ella works in an office
Starting point is 00:30:50 doesn't deliver bad news nah not really she's I reckon she's like a PA oh okay do you
Starting point is 00:30:58 what okay well you've got to make a a question out of that and then we can guess if read readjust ourselves. Do you take care of other people's business?
Starting point is 00:31:12 Yep. She takes care of other people's business. Okay. Well, that's just... I think she's a person. That's what you do at a job. Secretary. Yeah, like a secretary.
Starting point is 00:31:23 Legal secretary. Yep. She ain't taking no shit. But then will she have to deliver bad news? Like, it is illegal to kill someone. No, no, no, because she's just running, she's just doing the admin. Right. Why don't you just say secretary and that would cover everything.
Starting point is 00:31:35 It would. Okay. Ella. But wait a minute, because we don't say secretary anymore. No, it's an assistant. It's a PA or an EA, right? An executive assistant or a personal assistant. Okay, personal assistant. Ella, are's an old term. It's a PA or an EA, right? An executive assistant or a... Personal assistant. Okay, personal assistant.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Ella, are you an assistant? No. Was that painful for you listening? It was a terrible question from Hayley. Yeah, I bought that. Ella, what is your job? I work in health and safety. Health and safety.
Starting point is 00:32:03 You have to deliver bad news. It's like, John, you can't wear jandals onto the work site. That's bad news because John loves jandals. Ella, unfortunately, you missed out on a $100 prize, but we do have for you a Fletchbourne and Hayley 2025 motivational quotes next to horse's calendar. Sweet. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:20 Sweet. I mean, it's not cash. Ella seems like she doesn't have time to play this game despite the fact that she caught up. I'm in my high-vis. So I don't have time for your malarkey. Good morning. Welcome to What's Your Jobby.
Starting point is 00:32:33 Gemma? Oh, hi. Good morning. Good morning, Gemma. Good morning, Gemma. Has she had a little check down there with the end of the year? Maybe a bit stressed?
Starting point is 00:32:42 She's a painter. What could she be? Too many fumes. Doesn't recognise her own name. No, I reckon this is the voice of someone who works with children. Gemma, do you work with children? Sometimes. Okay. Okay, do you wear a uniform for work?
Starting point is 00:32:58 Yes, I do. She's a nurse. Sometimes. Sometimes children. We've got a doctor or nurse or a dentist, say, to medical. Do you work in... Yes. And would you say you work under the medical umbrella?
Starting point is 00:33:11 Yes. Okay. Bullshit. It's almost like next year when we return. With four questions. By the way, Gemma, I'm not saying nurse just because you're female. I don't want people saying that. But do doctors wear uniforms?
Starting point is 00:33:24 I don't think they wear uniforms as much as the nursing staff. Yeah, they wear scrubs. That's not a uniform. And sometimes you get they wear shirts and pants and that kind of stuff. Yeah, they have to wear a nice outfit. We've got a G- She could be dentist. She could be air.
Starting point is 00:33:37 She could be air nose and throat. Do you know what I mean? N-E-N-T. Yeah. Could be a sandwich artist as well. In the medical profession. Yeah. She makes be a sandwich artist as well. In the medical profession. Yeah. She makes a sandwich for the hotel cafe.
Starting point is 00:33:49 They have those in the hospitals. Do they have subways? Yeah. I'm just saying, don't rule anything out. Do you work in the medical profession? Gemma, are you a sandwich artist? Don't answer that question. Okay, I think If she does work at a hospital subway and we lose because of this,
Starting point is 00:34:05 I'll give you $100. Could we be vague enough, because I really want to give away $100 today, to say, are you a medical specialist? Do you know what I mean? It's a job, because that's ENT, that's Cairo, that's... Oh, that's too vague for me. That's a bending of the rules.
Starting point is 00:34:18 I'm just trying to give away some money to Gemma. Gemma, are you a nurse? I'm just going to grab the ball by the horns. Gemma? No. Are you just going to grab the ball by the horns. Gemma? No. Are you an ENT? Are you a sandwich artist in a hospital? No, I wish.
Starting point is 00:34:32 That sounds pretty cool. Okay, what do you do for a job, Gemma? I'm a patient transfer officer. We would have literally never got that. We would have never have got that. So what do you do? You take them from one hospital to another or just different parts
Starting point is 00:34:45 of the hospital? Yeah, so lots of different mental hospital transfers, ICU transfers, NICU transfers. You drive them. Oh my God, so you do an incredible job.
Starting point is 00:34:53 When Indy was a baby and she was getting transferred from one NICU to another, we, well, shut-aided I had to drive the car. It's weird because I thought you would have just bunged them in an Uber.
Starting point is 00:35:03 But you obviously don't. The way our health system's going, probably bloody on the cards. Am I right, Gemma? Yeah, exactly. God damn government. Gemma, sorry that we couldn't hook you up with $100, but we do have a Fletch morning, Hayley. 2025 motivational quotes next to horse's calendar for you.
Starting point is 00:35:19 That was an RT in the background. Are you in your medical vehicle now? Yeah, I'm in my ambulance. You're in the ambulance. Can you give us a siren? Is it possible to give us a little siren? Yeah, hang on a minute. Yeah, there she is.
Starting point is 00:35:33 Give it a crack. Yeah! That was good. That was good. I like that. Oh, my God. Thank you, Gemma. Thank you, Gemma.
Starting point is 00:35:41 Made my day. Paige, good morning. Welcome to What's Your Jobby. How are you, Paige? Good morning. I'm good, thank you. Okay, all right. Thank you, Gemma. Made my day. Paige, good morning. Welcome to What's Your Jobby. How are you, Paige? Good morning. I'm good, thank you. Okay, all right. So chipper, so cheery.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Do you have a job that's a little bit out of the box? No. Okay, great. This is good. I was just wondering. Wait, was that your question? Yeah. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Do you work in a female-dominated industry? Like most of your co-workers female? Yes. It's early childhood. Oh, you reckon a teacher or early childhood? Yeah, because I just went into it, but I'd say that's a little out of the box. She deals with young kids.
Starting point is 00:36:13 She doesn't deal with high schoolers. If you deal with high schoolers at this time of the year, you wouldn't be so happy. I reckon you're already finished for the year, but you're still broken. Yeah. They're broken. They're assholes.
Starting point is 00:36:23 They're a lot of the right approach. Do you work with children? Sometimes. Oh, Yeah. They're broken. They're assholes. Paige, do you work with children? Sometimes. Oh, God. Oh, okay. Okay, so a quite normal job, female dominated, and works sometimes with children. We've got a nurse.
Starting point is 00:36:37 Nurse. Yeah. Or a sandwich artist in a hospital. God damn it. I'm going to throw something at you. And it's not going to be a sandwich. I'm going to say we have to lock a nurse. Yeah, let's.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Are we having to lock a nurse? I'm just hoping it's another patient transfer specialist. I'll be like, you guys should hook up, give us a siren. Yeah, give us another siren. Okay, let's do it. Paige, are you a nurse? Yes, I am. Yay!
Starting point is 00:37:03 Help! That's your job. That's your How? That's your job. That's your job. That's your job. Yes, yes. Well, you sound so happy for a nurse. How, with the current situation of the health industry, do you sound such a, but God bless you.
Starting point is 00:37:17 I don't even believe in him, but bless you. I hope he blesses you anyway. I hope he, but whoever you believe in blesses you. God, the nurses in this country. I can't, can't stand up about them. Fantastic job, Paige. Congratulations. We've guessed you, Jobby.
Starting point is 00:37:29 $100 is yours. And we'll give you motivational quotes next to horses calendar as well. They're really fun. All right. Congratulations. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Kay Bray.
Starting point is 00:37:46 That's someone's name. Kay, first name. Bray, surname. K-A-Y. B-R-A-Y. Kay Bray. I love that. I thought it might have been K-A-Y Bray, like Brayburn.
Starting point is 00:37:58 B-R-A-E. No, Kay Bray. She is a career coach who has been sharing to hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok. No more courtesy phrases, babes, when it comes to emailing. Something that women in particular are very guilty of. But Fletch, you say you do this as well. I didn't know this was a problem. Here it is.
Starting point is 00:38:18 What is a courtesy phrase? I didn't know this was a problem. Hey, morning Ross. Just double checking to see if you received my last email. Come, get back to me. No rush. Yep. No rush.
Starting point is 00:38:29 No rush. I hate the meaning, comedians. Apologies. Just want to, just ask you to stay in the loop. How are you going with things like that? Let me know in time. No rush. Not a hurry.
Starting point is 00:38:39 Just, I'm just trying to, you know, just we do, fill these emails. Thanks so much. Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark. That's me. I'm an exc to, you know, it just, we do fill these emails. Thanks so much. Exclamation mark. Exclamation mark. That's me. I'm an exclamation marker. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Hey! Exclamation mark. I don't know if I fill up with these phrases, but I'll just short and sweet emails, but I'll always use it. And I don't use an exclamation mark like I'm like yelling or I'm angry. It's more just like, hey. Yeah. Hey.
Starting point is 00:39:01 So good to see you. Exclamation mark. You know, it's not. Which I think depending on who you're emailing is fine. But a lot of people are doing this in a very apologetic way when they're actually asking for something in the workplace that they are entitled to know. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:39:15 Saying things like, hey, I would love to have a discussion with you about my pay rate, for example, as opposed to being like, hey, hey, exclamation mark, hope you're well. I loved seeing you the other day with your daughter. So cute. Oh my God, time goes so fast. Hey, just wondering if you had a moment before the end of the year,
Starting point is 00:39:32 but all good if not. Yeah. Can we talk about my pay? Are we able to have that discussion that you mentioned about six months ago about pay? Just something I'd love to get on top of it. You just feel, feel, feel, feel. I haven't seen a work email.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I was just looking in three months. Other than every morning. So every day we send like, oh, this is what we could talk about. To each other, but outside to anyone else. I was looking for anything that wasn't that or just replying if like, Carwin sends us an appointment thing for the calendar
Starting point is 00:40:01 and I'll click accept and it's like, Dawn has accepted and sends her an email. I haven't seen a work email in three months. Carwin, our producer's face, who sends probably hundreds of emails a day. Three months. This is why you don't send
Starting point is 00:40:13 any because I send them all for you. Thank you for your service, ma'am. I'm looking to go the whole of 2025 without sending a work email. Is this what you were talking about the other day, Carwin, when you were saying women are sending emails like men? Yeah, because when I started at ZM, it was my first job,
Starting point is 00:40:30 like first proper corporate gig. I got ruthlessly bullied for how many exclamation marks I put. Yeah. Sorry, I'm excited to be here. Well, they call it overly polite and padded emailing, which is what we're, Shannon's laughing, because we all do this.
Starting point is 00:40:47 Oh, yeah, I love it. I always balance out a smiley face and an exclamation point. So I'll say, hey, exclamation point, hope you're well, smiley face. Same, same, same. Then to mix it up, I'll flip it. So sometimes it's, hey, smiley face, hope you're well. I like that, I like that. I know, but sometimes it's in order to sort of soften
Starting point is 00:41:04 what we're actually asking. And so this cabret was like, edit out the fluff. And what you'll sound like is a man emailing. But I like being a woman. I want to sound like a woman. Sometimes I like to be like, hey, chick, how you doing? Wait, but do I sound like a woman when I email? You do.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Whenever I get an email from you, I think, what a pansy boy. That's why I've really been encouraging you to put your pronouns in your email signature. So that it's clear. Very confusing. We also work in quite a light-hearted creative space. Whereas if you were in a corporate
Starting point is 00:41:38 environment and things were a little bit more serious. I imagine the insurance world. I imagine the world of insurance. Totally. Or you don't have this genuine friendship that we all share as a show. I think you can hear it. I think you can hear it. I think it's coming through. I think it's coming through.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Yeah, I think you can hear it. But, you know, it's padding. It's unnecessary. I'm sort of into this. I mean, I think it depends on who you're emailing. But every now and then, if you find yourself apologising and padding and fluffing with things like exclamation marks and apologies, no worries. No worries if you can't. A Canadian has been crowned the best in the world at spreadsheets.
Starting point is 00:42:18 Oh, yeah. I knew that they did champs. There are championships for the Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. I'm pretty good. And they held this in Las Vegas. Oh, yeah. I watched this last year. Didn't we watch it?
Starting point is 00:42:33 Yeah, I feel like I've looked at it. This is insane. It's really, they've got timers and things that you need to achieve. They get insane with the sums and the coding. It came down to the final 30 seconds in Las Vegas. Canadian Michael Jarman was in the lead. His eyes. Jarman.
Starting point is 00:42:52 He's Jarman. I hope you like Jarman Sells. Jarman Sells. I hope you like Jarman Sells. Michael Jarman. And this whole arena erupted in chairs when he won because it came down to him and Australia's
Starting point is 00:43:10 three time winner Andrew in brackets the annihilator NGI is that his name? Maldi maybe a Kiwi that's living in Australia who knows anyway the Canadian has beat this three-time Australian World Championships.
Starting point is 00:43:26 Feels good, doesn't it? And the Excel World Championships, it was like streaming on YouTube. 60,000 people watching it live. You can watch, you can just go on YouTube and watch it. It's bizarre. I mean, I get it though. When you watch a maestro of Excel, like I'm not great. I'm so bad at it.
Starting point is 00:43:43 I can do general budgets and sums and that kind of, make the cells all add up this and that kind of stuff. When Aaron watches me, he's like, you're so clever. Yeah. Oh, my God. How do you know how to do that? You can, like, when I added up some cells, and I had to YouTube how to do it, and I was like, oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:43:58 And then I was so proud of myself. I was like. And every time you add something, you're just auto-sum. You put it in there, And it adds up all the columns You're like This is amazing I'm just going to have A little quick little watch
Starting point is 00:44:08 To see how thrilling it is Yeah Oh yeah What do they have to do What kind of things Oh my god Wow It's very complicated
Starting point is 00:44:15 It's like Some kind of accounting level Multiple Look at the purple It looks like A gaming A gaming convention A gaming competition
Starting point is 00:44:24 Like the world champs Of Call of Duty or whatever. People in the front row are like throwing fists, like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's wild. I love it, very niche. This is what we wanted to ask this morning. On the back of the world Microsoft Excel spreadsheet champions, chips, are you really good at something niche?
Starting point is 00:44:40 Oh, yeah, great. Today we celebrate your nicheness. Maybe it's an industry thing, an award that you're really good at. Or something just like specific to your work. And everyone's like, this is the guy you got to go to. When you hear about industry like awards, I never thought about it. Friend of the show, Jesse Mulligan,
Starting point is 00:44:57 presented the Concrete Awards one year. And I was just talking to him afterwards. He's like, did you know that they give an award for like the- Smoothest edge. Yeah, it is effectively, right? The smoothest driveway? Do they do a smoothest driveway? Yeah, but the innovations
Starting point is 00:45:09 in concrete troughs. Gross. I was like, what is there to change about a concrete trough? What innovation? Maybe you're the trough king. So, are you good at something neat?
Starting point is 00:45:19 Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Prayers to everybody battling are the problems with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook. Right now, some messages not going through. It's tough. Thank you. Thank you for drawing attention to that.
Starting point is 00:45:35 You just tried to send through a meme. Yeah, I stumbled on a meme, Vaughan and Fletch. Don't tell me about it. Just save it. No, I've sent it, but you can't receive it. Okay. So I'm going to have to stand over your shoulder and show you. It's really funny and I know you me about it. Just save it. No, I've sent it, but you can't receive it. Okay. So I'm going to have to stand over your shoulder and show you. It's really funny and I know you'll love it.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Right now, though, we're talking about the niche things that you're really good at because there is a new champion of the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets Championships that were held in Las Vegas. Do you know they win a belt, like a heavyweight, like a boxing belt? Yeah, it's wild. That's so good, eh? Wild. We should go one year.
Starting point is 00:46:04 We should go one year. We should go one year. So many messages coming in. I'm a pediatric nurse, and I'm really good at putting NG tubes in. That's nasogastric. I had to look that up. It goes in through the nose, down into the stomach for babies and stuff. Oh, my goodness. I'm really good.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Everybody's always like, oh, get her to do it. You wouldn't want to have a bad one. No. How do they know the way? They must just know the way of the nose. Yeah, they'll know the nose. Down in't want to have a bad one. No. How do they know the way? They must just know the way of the noose. Yeah, they'll know the noose. Down in there. I'm a vet nurse.
Starting point is 00:46:29 My skill is looking at a cat and being able to accurately guess how much it weighs. Oh, no. I reckon they'd have trouble with my cat because it's a lot of fluff. He's actually not that fat.
Starting point is 00:46:38 No, but he's also fat. You touch him, he's fat. This weight-guessing expert, she'll know, she'll be like, aha, she'll take into account his breed. The breed, yeah. Yeah, his length is eight. You just touch him, he's fat. There's a way to guess the next bit. She'll know, she'll be like, aha, she'll take into account his breed. The breed,
Starting point is 00:46:45 yeah. Yeah, as length as a hand. If you just touch him, he is fat. I'll send a photo. I think you're denying that he can't be fat.
Starting point is 00:46:51 A lot of it's fluff. A lot of it's fluff. I know, but when you touch him, you feel the fat. A lot of it's fluff. Fran, why is it wobbly fluff?
Starting point is 00:46:57 Wobbly fluff. Fran, what is the niche thing that you're really good at? I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm amazing at crackling. Oh, poor Christ. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Toot, toot, toot, toot, toot. Can you share with us? What's your secret? I don't actually know. I just rub it with oil and put it under the grill, but my husband sucks at it, and I am. I'm a bad cook.
Starting point is 00:47:25 Yeah, but you're really good at that. Give me a crackling. Yeah. I am now. It seems like you're accidentally doing that well. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:47:31 yeah, I love that. This week is the first time I've nailed a pork crackling. Really nailed it. It's hard to do. It's really hard. It's hard to do.
Starting point is 00:47:38 You've got to watch that. You've got to cover it in salt and oil and then you cook it for that, 160 for like two and a half hours and then you turn it up.
Starting point is 00:47:46 Two and a half hours. Okay, yeah, right. Thank you, Fran. Some messages. I want to go to Fran's for a pork roast. I can wax a penis or a vagina in about seven minutes. Is that regardless of penis or vagina?
Starting point is 00:48:01 That's top time. Yeah, okay. Just get in there. Great. Don't stuff around. I'm not enjoying this. I'd love to take a monster penis in there and see if she could get it done.
Starting point is 00:48:10 If it's a size thing or if it's just... Yeah, but it's not about the schlong. It's about the pubis, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the pubis.
Starting point is 00:48:15 I'd love to see the Brazilian world champs in Vegas. I would also love to see that. Anyway. We all would love to attend the Brazilian waxing championships in Las Vegas.
Starting point is 00:48:26 Especially if it's Brazilians. What did you just say? Leave me out of this. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. This is great. I love this. People getting a little bit, and it's not even bragging because we asked,
Starting point is 00:48:40 what are you good at that's like a niche thing? I love this. Toot, toot, toot that horn. Ray says, I'm the best shower installer in the Hawke's Bay. Oh, man. People know about it too. You've got to get Ray. Not to brag, but I'm pretty good with silicon out of a caulking gun.
Starting point is 00:48:54 Oh, yeah. Because that can be messy. Yeah, very. I always, you've got to wet your finger, eh? Yeah, wet your finger. Wet your finger. Wet your finger. I trail off and then you go back with a fresh one. Too much. You don't want to see the join. No, you your finger. Wet your finger. Wet your finger. I trail off and then you go back with a fresh one.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Too much. You don't want to see the join. No, you don't. Oh, I know. When you get a fresh log of it, you're like, oh, no. Here's the join. I'm a pro at poaching the perfect egg. Anytime anyone in their household wants an egg poached,
Starting point is 00:49:19 they come to this guy. My mum said I'm the best out of her three sons At making a cup of tea That's a wild move for mum too Yeah, they don't normally admit that No I'm friggin amazing at smear tests I've been told by people I don't know how I would describe an amazing smear test
Starting point is 00:49:39 Painless Don't jab you in the cervix Gentle wiping Last week I genuinely won an award At my company's annual prize giving For a spreadsheet I put together Earlier in the year Nice
Starting point is 00:49:52 Well it sounds like you need to Investigate the spreadsheet world We need to send you the chance We'll send you off You're beautiful I'm really good at detangling necklaces When I worked in jewellery retail Everyone would give me
Starting point is 00:50:00 Their tangled necklaces Because I was the best At just being able to undo them I don't have the patience To untangle anything. Headphones, chains, whatever.
Starting point is 00:50:07 Sometimes it's like, and then you end up pulling it tighter and you're just like, the knot. The knot is impenetrable. You're like, push,
Starting point is 00:50:15 it's weirdly how well it works. Take the tension out of it. Push the two ends and just wiggle them. Yeah, or like with necklaces, you put them between your finger and you just roll them around a bit,
Starting point is 00:50:23 loosen it up. Yeah, I'm very good at naming a Katy Perry song within a quarter of a second of hearing what song it is. That's good. That's niche. That's great. That is niche.
Starting point is 00:50:33 I'm a doctor and I can accurately guess. You didn't do. Firework. No. No, it's not firework. Teenage dream. You're hot and you're cold. Hot and cold.
Starting point is 00:50:43 See, I'm really good at that. That took me like seven seconds I think that was more on Hayley than it was on me Hayley no finger with silicone Putting bacteria straight on a fresh seal Well my house is full of bacteria bro Have you been fingering the silicone? Always finger the silicone
Starting point is 00:50:54 I thought that you fingered it with a wet finger And that's how you smooth it You put a glove on and finger the silicone You used to do like a rag Like a wet rag and stuff It kind of works The finger's the best All the builders do it
Starting point is 00:51:04 Yeah it's smooth The rag would leave fibres. Yeah, little bits. You don't want bits on your silicone. I'm a raw dog in my silicone. I'm really good at managing grumpy, stranded pilot whales. People not so much, but a determined, frustrated
Starting point is 00:51:17 pilot whale, no problem. Okay, wow. Which is great because we are in the pilot whale beaching season. Yeah, there's people Like you out there Someone said hot and cold They knew They messaged him It was the person
Starting point is 00:51:30 Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley I told you guys yesterday I got a gold tooth I'd known I was getting A gold tooth for A couple of weeks Because I went in And
Starting point is 00:51:39 Long story Ages ago I got this temporary crown In 2010 When you say ages ago like literally 14 years ago yeah yeah yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:51:48 temporary temporary crown it broke in half in 2015 but it didn't hurt so I was like that's fine then at a friend's wedding
Starting point is 00:51:56 I was getting off a bus and it was there was residue on the stairs yeah that sounds dodgy and gross but it was wet yeah
Starting point is 00:52:04 it had been raining. Don't ever use that word residue again. When you mean rain. There was some rain on the stairs. Residue on the stairs. Yeah. And then I mean moisture. What are we, in court?
Starting point is 00:52:14 Yeah. Are you presenting some evidence? Well, he stepped upon some residue. And as I slipped down these stairs, I put my hand out and I ended up punching myself in the face. Now, this was before the wedding. I hadn't touched a single drop.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Yeah. It feels like a drunken move, but it wasn't. It wasn't. It was completely sober. Punched myself. And then a couple of days later, it really hurt. And I'd cracked a tooth. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:36 And so I got this. So finally went to the dentist after all this time. I was very nervous. The dentist made me very comfortable and it was all good. And they did a fix up on it. And they're like, we kind of need to leave it for a bit
Starting point is 00:52:47 it's another temporary situation but they said don't you be a scallywag you come back in a year in a bit and we'll make sure it's all settled and we'll get a real
Starting point is 00:52:55 top on it so I was like a crown so I went back a couple of weeks ago you are so lucky this is ACC because I've had a crown
Starting point is 00:53:02 and it is thousands of dollars it's thousands eh It's a couple of grand. For an enamel, for a proper enamel. And because I think I spoke about this at the start of the year or last year, they print it out now. There's like a 3D printer at my
Starting point is 00:53:15 dentist. So, 10 days, two weeks ago I went in and there was a mould taken. Yeah. And that was when they asked me what I wanted my tooth to look like. And one of the options was gold. And I was like, lock it in. And then I've been sitting on it.
Starting point is 00:53:30 I've been really excited. That's so crazy. We don't keep secrets. I know. But I was like, I think the unveilings. And I got exactly because I didn't. The moment of unveiling, I was really excited. And I saw the video on our Instagram last night.
Starting point is 00:53:42 And your face is exactly what I was hoping for. I just genuinely do not anticipate this. So ACC doesn't pay for the gold tooth? No. I had to top, I had to pay the difference between the white and the gold. So the Accident Compensation Corporation Company, Alternative
Starting point is 00:53:57 Commentary Collective, didn't pay for the gold. I don't want anyone thinking that. So they paid for the crown replacement. They paid for the what was caused by punching myself in the face. Yeah. Which is covered by ACC. But you just added a little gold topper. But then I added myself a little treat.
Starting point is 00:54:10 Daddy needs a treat. Daddy needs a little gold treat. Daddy needs a treat. Right. Which is, can I ask how much is that? No, you can't. No.
Starting point is 00:54:17 It's my treat to myself. I don't think he, he said before it wasn't exorbitant. No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't. No, no, it was well under like, like a couple of hundred dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Oh, okay, right. Yeah. Well, that's, if you were only paying that, that's all good. And I've always wanted a gold tooth. I see my nan had one, so I always wanted one. But it's like you're just not a gold tooth person. So many people texting as well being like, this is big Tongan vibes. Yeah, and as I said, maloos.
Starting point is 00:54:39 Yeah. Absolutely. Oh, no, and that's why we say we've got an oos in the studio now. That's great. It's great. It's great. It's great. Great branching out. And last night on your Instagram, you actually put up a photo.
Starting point is 00:54:50 A photo of the tooth before it went in and the photo now that it's in my mouth. And I tell you what, 99% positive feedback. And no one ever – What was the 1%? Ooh, yuck. Someone said ooh, yuck. A woman said ooh, yuck, and I said you are, because that's how a mature man responds to a woman when she says ooh yuck about his mouth.
Starting point is 00:55:10 I just went on our Instagram post of the video of you revealing the tooth to us. And it's generally extremely positive or pirate related. Which is positive. We got a pirate on our hands. Any pirate reference I will take as positive whether or not you meant it to be or not. Right, is this the main reason you did it?
Starting point is 00:55:27 For the pirate aspect? Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Great yarn. It's just good yarn. Someone said, this is a great way of summing this up. Vaughn is out here translating the intrusive thoughts
Starting point is 00:55:35 we all have into awesome real life things. Should I get a gold too? But that's what- And then everyone goes, don't be silly. Yeah. And Vaughn goes, yes. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:55:44 My dark passenger yeah the guy that tells me this morning he said toss this cup of coffee at carwin and see what happens like throw the whole cup coffee and all of me like hey carwin just to see who'd be like ah and give her enough time to get out of the way it's like please don't do that but that was i had to say hey no that's not appropriate now he's there the whole time you do he's telling me to do all sorts of things yeah yeah but when he tells me to do something like The gold tooth And people like if I'd said to you should I get a gold tooth
Starting point is 00:56:10 What would you have said Absolutely not don't be silly It's probably a bit silly You've got to live with that for your whole life Shade's the same when I'm like I didn't even tell her because I was like She'll be like don't do that What did the family say
Starting point is 00:56:22 The kids are like that's pretty bling. That's pretty cool. Dad got Riz. Yeah, Dad's got Sigma Riz. There's no doubt about it. But whenever I let my dark guy make his decisions about these sorts of things, it's always good. Because if I'd said to Shana, I should have got a go at her, she's like, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:56:40 I'm going to ask people. She'll be like, no one's going to agree with you. And people will all the time. They like the dark passenger decisions. Do you remember? Not tossing cups of scalding hot coffee at producers. There was the day that the intrusive thought told you after finishing your porridge to just smash the bowl on the ground.
Starting point is 00:56:54 Yeah. That was fun. It was fun. And everyone was like, what's he losing his mind? And I was like, I better go get a vacuum because I have to clean up his mess. Yeah, this guy's mess. But it was fun.
Starting point is 00:57:03 It really shocked the room. That's the best part about it energy's great yeah well if you want to see the gold yeah if you want to
Starting point is 00:57:10 see Oos's new gold too check out Vaughn's Instagram because it'll be up for a little bit more yeah and yeah
Starting point is 00:57:17 we work with a pirate now oh yeah fantastic don't don't you know that book The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F
Starting point is 00:57:24 yeah and everybody who bought it never finished it because halfway through they were like I've learnt to make this, don't, don't, like, you know that book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F? Yeah. And everybody who bought it never finished it because halfway through they were like, I've learnt to not give enough of an F to finish this book. Which is exactly what the dude set out to do, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. You've got to live life more like that. Fletch, you need an impulsive decision. I got tattoos, remember?
Starting point is 00:57:39 I was like, I'm going to get a tattoo. Oh, no, I'm not getting tattoos. I did that and then you got a gold tooth. I think too much about things. You do. I'm like, no. Air piercing. This is a guy'm like, no. Air piercing. This is a guy who... Carwin says air piercing.
Starting point is 00:57:47 This is a guy who at the start of the week, his lime scooter minutes expired. Oh my God. And he was doing the maths on whether or not he buys two week long passes or the more cost effective one that's for a month. Yeah, but he's going to be here for the whole month. And I also don't know if I'm going to be here for the whole month and I also
Starting point is 00:58:05 don't know if I'm going to be able to use all those minutes and I was like what are you working out and he's like which is the more I just transferred him ten bucks into his bank account
Starting point is 00:58:13 how embarrassing that's called budgeting boys play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley what are you looking at
Starting point is 00:58:23 you are in a silly mood I think it's silly till Christmas there's a day where it turns for us and it goes silly till Christmas each one in Hayley. What are you looking at? You are in a silly mood. I think it's silly till Christmas. There's a day where it turns for us and it goes silly till Christmas. I think that's today. I just ran from the toilet and my pants are too big. I just got a drawstring.
Starting point is 00:58:35 I didn't have time to do them up. So I ran and my phone was in my pocket and I didn't realise. I know, thank you. Pause for applause. I didn't realise that my, my phone was dragging my entire pants down, that you could actually see the sort of top of my thigh.
Starting point is 00:58:48 Like it had gone down so low below my undies. Silly. Now, despite the fact that relationships that are formed via dating apps, like your Hinge, your Bumbles, your Tinders, generally in a social context seen as less meaningful or genuine. Do you think that's the case? I don't think so anymore. I always thought the stigma was gone on that.
Starting point is 00:59:09 Yeah, I know. This is sort of like, it's kind of a hangover stigma, I guess, that people are like, oh, God, you've been on a dating app. Like, how cringey. Yeah. Apparently now it has been long enough with these apps being around that the data shows that people who meet on dating apps and people who meet in real life or in your more traditional context, relationships are just as strong and just
Starting point is 00:59:29 as likely to succeed. So that kind of stigma is old. We can officially say it's done, that stigma. Because I guess they go like, oh, but you're only going, you're not leaving anything up to chance, you're going through a small pool and it's the swipe thing, it's not really a meaningful connection. They haven't. Someone did a PhD on it.
Starting point is 00:59:50 Oh, wow. They were saying social sciences, which I suppose would be human behaviour, right? Yep. Yeah, they did a PhD on it. Social sciences are very interesting sciences. What's not an interesting science? Oh, I don't want to know everything,
Starting point is 01:00:02 but human behaviour is fascinating, right? Because you're like, what is wrong with these weirdos? I know, then you think you understand it and then a group of weirdos are like, what? Like, what? But yeah, they were saying that for years that people have carried this negative stigma around dating apps and the success of the relationship.
Starting point is 01:00:19 But they did a huge study through multiple colleges in the States, which is, I guess, weird. You know, a lot of young people on the dating apps. People who met through traditional forms, like at a bar or being connected through friends or at a party, and then people who were meeting through the apps, and they had the same kind of longevity and success rates. You're trying to find love in the apps, right, Fletch?
Starting point is 01:00:39 No. Try, try, try. No. You're not on Bumble, where the woman starts the conversation first? Is that why it's not working? Yeah. Yeah. I think you're just, you're on the wrong end.
Starting point is 01:00:50 He's trying. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Fact of the Day on Coin Week Is the Honington Hot Penny Day The what? Honington, Honington is the place It's in Devon in England Hot Penny Day
Starting point is 01:01:23 Hot Penny Day Which I, do they have? This is what I'm confused about It's in Devon in England. Hot Penny Day. Hot Penny Day. Which I, do they have? This is what I'm confused about. It's called Hot Penny Day but I don't think they have pennies in Britain. I don't think so. Oh wait. Sterlings. Pennies and dimes. Pounds. That's American though, isn't it? They've got pounds. Pounds.
Starting point is 01:01:38 Sterling silver. British decimal coin. They do have a penny. A P. Oh they call it one P. Yeah, one P. P, pence, pence. A pence. Three pence. Three pence. Yeah. That's just like British slang for a penny. A P. Oh, they call it one P. Yeah, one P. P, pence, pence. A pence. Three pence. Three pence. Yeah. That's just like British slang for a thruppence.
Starting point is 01:01:50 Yeah. Three pennies. Three pence. Okay, so the P in, okay, it was a tuppence. We call it pences. Yeah. Pences. Okay, so the Honington Hot Penny Day happens.
Starting point is 01:01:59 It is the first Tuesday after July 19 every year. Okay. So it floats, floats around like Crate Day. Just like Crate Day. Somehow it's still going. The Huntington Hot Penny Day. It is 800 years old, this tradition. Beginning at 12 noon in the old Pentium Market,
Starting point is 01:02:21 the town crier along with the mayor and the local dignitaries hoist a garland pole with a gloved hand at the top and proclaim that no man may be arrested as long as the glove is up. It was an idea that, regardless of if people were wanted or not, they'd come to Honington for the fair because it was like this massive day. July's kind of summer months. Yeah, summer market. Times are good. You have a big market in the British countryside and there's attractions. Why did they feel sorry for the criminals?
Starting point is 01:02:46 Well, because they couldn't come to the market and spend the money they stole. Well, yeah, they're still criminals who had money, so they just wanted them to spend the money. Right. And so while I was up there. So then there's a procession. And then the hot pennies are thrown on the ground. Now, you might be thinking, why a hot penny?
Starting point is 01:03:03 Because it's so hot. And nowadays, they just warm the penny and throw it. Right. But the origins- Well, they should call it Lukewarm Penny Festival. Of the hot penny was that rich people used to heat up coins over a fire and throw them on the ground so that children who were so poor would pick them up and burn their hands.
Starting point is 01:03:22 And what they'd learn was a laughing game for the ultra-wealthy lords and ladies of the time. The landowners would come into town for the fair and see these kids doing it tough, no money, and the peasant class working, and they'd be like, here's a fun game. Let's get our coins and heat them up in this fire and throw them outside and the children will just see money
Starting point is 01:03:44 and they'll grab them and pick them up and burn their hands. And now it's just like, hooray! No man will be arrested. Ta-da! We laugh! Tilly-tilly! Pick up the hot pennies, children! But in the day, the origins of it was heating them up to the point where they would burn you if you touched them and then throwing them
Starting point is 01:03:59 into the street. So the poor people... Outrageous. And because they'd be like, I have to pick it up because if I don't pick it up and get to the point of calling where somebody else can pick it up, that's a penny lost. Yeah. Jokes on them. I would have worn some ice gloves. Ice gloves. Of course. Crazy. The peasant
Starting point is 01:04:15 class in England in the middle of summer hundreds of years ago had ice gloves. It's been going for 803 years. It's really old tradition. But now they don't throw the coins. They throw coins but they're just like a lolly scramble more
Starting point is 01:04:30 than the hot enough to burn the fingers of the children. I want to know how much money they're throwing because I'm reading an article here from 2021
Starting point is 01:04:37 because I like to keep up with current affairs. Now it says that they throw these warm pennies and stuff and all the people are there with their
Starting point is 01:04:44 buckets picking it up and they say there'll be plenty of money up for grabs. Where's the money coming from? Put a penny at a time. You've got to get 100 pennies to get a pound. Oh, yeah, that's crap. That's rubbish, eh? That's rubbish.
Starting point is 01:04:53 So today's Coinbase Fact of the Day is there is a tradition in Honington to throw hot pennies, but the origins of it are pretty gross. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Let me share with you a story that someone online shared of a first date.
Starting point is 01:05:28 Okay, here's how it goes. Back in 2012, I agreed to go on a date with a guy from uni. Everyone, including my best friend, was convinced we'd be perfect together. On the day of the date, I get to the agreed meeting spot at the agreed time. Five minutes goes by, no sign of him. Ten minutes, still nothing. No text, no calls. Half an hour goes by and I'm on the verge of tears. I call my best friend
Starting point is 01:05:45 trying not to cry because I feel like I've been stood up. She tells me to call him. He's not that kind of guy, she says. I figure she's right. I call him. He says he's missed the train, even though trains come every ten minutes. But promises he's on his way and will be there shortly. This guy sounds useless. Almost like Vaughan. Another, yeah, 100%.
Starting point is 01:06:01 Hey, I'm right here! I missed a train! Another 40 minutes passes after he says he'll be there almost an hour and a half at this point since our original meeting time still nothing i've had enough yeah i head to the station to go home this has officially been a waste of my time i'm about to go into the station he shows up i'm annoyed but i'm relieved i wasn't stood up he asked if we would still want to go on the date I didn't want to waste a good outfit, so I stayed. Okay. Then he says, so what are we doing today?
Starting point is 01:06:28 He hadn't planned anything. Nothing. Okay. We wander around aimlessly. Why is it up to him to plan? You could have had some suggestions. Shut up, Form. What do I want for dinner?
Starting point is 01:06:40 I don't know. I haven't been thinking about it. She's about to do all the heavy lifting. We wander around aimlessly for about 30 minutes while I scramble to think of something to do. I suggest we take a ferry to the beach. Maybe walk along the shore. We'll salvage this disaster
Starting point is 01:06:50 and it will be a nice ride on the ferry at least. We arrive at the beach. I'm starving. He suggests we grab food at a nearby takeaway shop. We order the cashier gives us the total amount. Silence. All three of us are stuck in the world's most awkward staring contest.
Starting point is 01:07:01 I release he doesn't know how to pay so we awkwardly hand over my card. Fine. We eat in complete silence. I'm too mad to even talk. He senses my mood. He suggests we get ice cream. He'll pay. We head to the ice cream shop and pick out our flavours. He orders and pays for his own
Starting point is 01:07:13 ice cream and then walks outside. He meant he'll pay for his. Right, okay. I've officially had enough. I call my sister desperate for an escape. She suggests I lie about a family emergency and leave to meet her in the city. I leave, relieved the encounter is over. Fast forward 12 years and somehow I've married this guy.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Now we have a house, a dog and a kid together. No other explanation. So is she- This is why the story's gone viral because everyone's like, you married that guy? The first date was so bad. But somehow, obviously, in the space of 12 years, he got another one, had another chance.
Starting point is 01:07:51 And now they've got house, dog, kids, the works. It's not a great start, though. Like, the guy's obviously not good with timekeeping. The messages on the TikTok are so good. Someone's saying, thank you so much for taking him off the market. It's so good. Yeah. Anyway, I want much for taking him off the market. It's so good. Yeah. Anyway, I want to know if the partner that you were currently with,
Starting point is 01:08:09 did you have a terrible first date? And somehow, miraculously, you've ended up together. Or maybe you might not be with him now, but you gave it a good, like, crack. You gave it some good time. Yeah, it was a terrible first date, but you ended up with someone for a decent amount of time. Yeah, I mean, because most of the time you go on a date this bad and you just be like,
Starting point is 01:08:26 oh, thank God, next. Yeah, next one. At least he wasn't the guy that was like, it's got to be worse that the first date isn't who you're going to end up with.
Starting point is 01:08:33 Like, the guy that comes in and he's done and then two months in, he's like, got it, done. Yeah, bye. Now he's late. Yeah, now you're going
Starting point is 01:08:41 to see the real me. He's grown into the right partner. This guy was the real person from the start. All along. Yeah. She knew what she was going to get. Despite the. He's grown into the right partner. This guy was the real person from the start. All along. She knew what she was going to get. Despite the fact that he was an hour and a half late, paid for nothing, then paid for his own ice cream, not hers.
Starting point is 01:08:51 He hadn't suggested a single thing to do, no conversation. They sat in silence. Yeah. And then she made a bullshit response to get out of the date and left him. Yeah. Somehow they've ended up together. Yeah. That is wild.
Starting point is 01:09:02 That's what I want to know this morning. Has this happened to you? Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I want to know if you went on a terrible first date and somehow still ended up with them. Nikki, this happened to you? Yeah, so I went on a date with a guy from Bumble
Starting point is 01:09:17 and by the end of the date he had friendzoned me. So we continued to hang out for about a year and now we're engaged with a house and a baby. Wow! You've done the impossible. You made it out of the friend zone. What did he say that put you in the friend
Starting point is 01:09:33 zone at the end of the first date? He was just like, oh, hey, look, you're not my type, but it'd be really cool if we keep hanging out. And I was like, oh, okay. Sweet. I thought this guy was alright. So, yeah. During the year where you guys were friends,
Starting point is 01:09:50 were you still a bit like, you know, pining for him a little bit? So, we would date other people and then when we were single, we would kind of have some fun. Yeah, right. And now you are, what, you are his type now? You are the one.
Starting point is 01:10:06 Yeah, yeah. And then we're engaged, so hopefully. When was the last time you threw that in his face? It was two days ago. Yeah. When he had finally confessed his feelings to me five years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right on the anniversary.
Starting point is 01:10:22 Yeah, good to see you. I knew it would have been within the last couple of months. I feel like any time there's a mild inconvenience that's the sort of thing that can be flexed straight in this space. Exactly, you can use this. I mean, you could be watching a TV show and if an attractive woman comes on, you could probably just be like, oh, is she your type? Is she? Because I'm not.
Starting point is 01:10:38 Yeah, you should go back to being friends. That sort of thing, just if you're in a bad mood. Just like ruin a good day. Congrats on your engagement, Nikki. Thanks. Yeah, congratulations. engagement, Nikki. Thanks. Yeah, congratulations. Thanks, Nikki. Some messages.
Starting point is 01:10:50 I had a first date, went to a party here, got in a fight with a family friend. We got a ride back into town with his brother and ran out of petrol. This was pre-cell phone day, so we had to sleep in the car. I spent the night with my feet in my handbag because they were so cold. That was 32 years ago. We've been married for 28 years. Oh, my God. A handbag's thermally insulating. Therm was 32 years ago when we've been married for 28 years. Oh, my God. A handbag's thermally insulated.
Starting point is 01:11:07 Thermally insulated handbag. Leather, babe. It's leather. It's an animal. So four years after that first date, they got together. Wow. No, that's when they got married. Okay.
Starting point is 01:11:16 Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. When did you go on a terrible first date and then you ended up with them? There are some incredible stories. I know. First date, got lost in the Waitakere's and I also ended up with them. There are some incredible stories. I know. First date, got lost in the Waitakere's and I also got pregnant. Oops. On the first date? How badly
Starting point is 01:11:32 lost in the Waitakere's were you that you made love? It's cold. You can cuddle without. 13 years, 4 kids, many houses, a business and a golden retriever later. We good. That's cool. First date, lost in the bush. I went on a date with a guy who told me he was a a business and a golden retriever later. We good. That's cool. First date lost in the bush.
Starting point is 01:11:49 I went on a date with a guy who told me he was a raging communist and a supporter of the Soviet Union within the first 10 minutes of our date. I was lonely and 19, so we stayed together for a year. I did discover I was actually gay through that relationship, though, so that was a slay at least. Yeah. Okay, great. Some other ones. I was in the same class in third form as my now husband what a dick he was bullied me the entire third form didn't talk in fourth and fifth form
Starting point is 01:12:12 then finally got together in sixth form been together for 20 years married two kids later wow so it was like your bully on our first date i saw some cleansing wipes i had stinky feet so i cleaned my feet with the wipes in the middle of a restaurant. And then on the second date we went to a restaurant with literally seven kinds of wallpaper on the walls. We dated for two years. Why did you clean your feet?
Starting point is 01:12:34 Why are you cleaning your feet with wipes at that time in the restaurant? I'm so upset. He picked me up, took me to Macca's, show sponsor, great place.
Starting point is 01:12:42 Yeah, great. And said he didn't want anything so I can buy whatever I want. And I paid. Well, that's fair enough. He wasn't getting anything. Yeah. He already gave you a ride there.
Starting point is 01:12:50 He didn't ask you for gas money. We were 17. We just bought our first house and a dog together. Oh, cute. Now we're 21. Right. So sort of like that's pretty fresh. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:59 That he did that. Had a first. So go on. No, please, you go on. I don't have anything. Fletch, you can shut up. First date, went to the movies and pizza with him and his mates. He paid for our movie tickets, then at Pizza Hut
Starting point is 01:13:14 none of them had any money left, so I paid for everyone. On the way home, his car ran out of gas. We walked into town in the pouring rain. Married 26 years now, four kids, he's the absolute best husband and father. Well, it's like, what do they say?
Starting point is 01:13:27 You're creating memories together? You're creating those moments? Yeah, I suppose so. Even if they're bad, it's also good? Yeah. So I love these short stories. A friend of mine went on a kayaking date
Starting point is 01:13:39 for a first date. She knocked his phone into the lake. Married now. Good. Get the phone out. He's not going to be able to get it back on the apps. Got together with a guy after he jumped in the boot of my Fiat Bambina. Oh, those are small.
Starting point is 01:13:51 Oh, my God, those are real small. His friend after a local gig. Forget he must be flexible. That was enough. It's important to, yeah, have a flexible man. Yeah. On our first date, we went for a mountain bike ride. And we were riding along the side of the road.
Starting point is 01:14:05 He swerved to make room for a car coming towards us but actually swerved into me and knocked me off my bike. I had grazes all down my arm and side and scars to show for it. Four years later, we're engaged.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Oh, that's nice. I bet she still rubs that in his face though. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Here's a big one. I haven't pre-read it. There's a couple of really long ones
Starting point is 01:14:23 and I'm like, I don't know how wild it can get in that paragraph. Let's go. We talked on Tinder, met to hang out at a bowling alley. I walked in, he walked in behind me, shook my hand, said, hi, my name's Justin, and then went to the toilet. I thought, great, he's left. My first ever date and the man's already left.
Starting point is 01:14:36 He comes back out, we play a game of bowling, can't really speak, so went to the playground. Can't really speak? Went to the playground to talk more. Oh, because the bowling alley is round. Yeah, right. Couldn't really speak, so went to the playground, can't really speak, went to the playground to talk more, oh, because the bowling alley is round. Yeah, right, yeah. Couldn't really speak, so went to the playground to talk more,
Starting point is 01:14:48 was very awkward, left after 30 minutes, went to Burger King. This man offered me something. I said, no, I wasn't hungry, which was true. He then continued to shove chicken chips in my face, then asked, are you vegan or something? Which I replied with, well, I'm vegetarian, yes, even more awkward, chicken chips.
Starting point is 01:15:03 We went out to leave. I sat in my car and this man pulls out a cigarette. I hate vegetarian. Yes, even more awkward. Chicken chips. We went out to leave. I sat in my car and this man pulls out a cigarette. I hate smoking. I told him how I felt. Is that, and thought, who cares, right?
Starting point is 01:15:10 Like, I'll just tell him how I feel. Told him I'd throw his darts out. He got upset about that. Went back and forth about sport as that was the only thing we had in common. Anywho, been together for nine years,
Starting point is 01:15:19 married for two years, have two dogs, a business together and just brought our second home. Who would have thought? did she get him off the darts, do you reckon? Yeah, 874, is he still on the darts? I reckon she would have pressured him out
Starting point is 01:15:30 of the darts. Oh, nine years? Yeah. Yeah, 100% he's off the darts. Maybe not though, maybe she just got used to the darts. He picked me up, told me he was super hungover, that's not a great start. Went for dinner, he ordered the weirdest thing on the menu like he was trying to impress me. He quit straight away. Oh, wow, there you go. He's a weirdest thing on the menu like he was trying to impress me. He quit straight away. He quit straight away.
Starting point is 01:15:45 Oh, wow. There you go. He's a good boy. Then asked for the chicken liver's takeaway afterwards. We were going to a movie. Within 10 minutes of the movie, he fell asleep, woke up halfway through, ate all the chicken livers, went back to sleep in the movie.
Starting point is 01:15:55 At the end of the movie, he was suddenly very eager to get out of there, dropped me off at the door without barely saying goodbye. Turns out the chicken livers had given him the shits. Disaster date. Stayed together for four years. Oh, wow. First date, he was so Stay together for four years. Oh, wow. First date,
Starting point is 01:16:06 he was so nervous he got super drunk. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah. And me being slightly judgy, I thought he looked homeless. And then he asked me if I wanted to go
Starting point is 01:16:15 smoke a doobie in his car. I was not impressed and thought, hard no. He called me out for being judgy. Anyway, stop smoking. We live together
Starting point is 01:16:22 and we're trying for a baby. I think he's delicious. Oh, that's nice. So cute. So great story. I, stop smoking weed. We live together and we're trying for a baby. I think he's delicious. Oh, that's nice. It's a great story. I know, so good. So there you go. If you have a bad first date, it doesn't mean it's the end. It doesn't mean it's the end. Although it may just have been a great judgment
Starting point is 01:16:36 call on your behalf, really. Either or. You just can't win, really. Oh. Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Oh, not just heard your tummy hurt. Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Ah, not for me. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 01:16:51 Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't. No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun, why don't you give us a little review and a rating?
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