ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 12th December 2024
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Thank you, Bryn.
Good morning. Welcome to the show. Flesh,, Fawn and Hayley. Thank you Bryn, good morning.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
identifications.
I love when people
do this.
But yeah,
they've actually
upheld it
and he's failed
to win the race.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
and needed some me time.
Yeah.
Pete says,
I was in compulsory
military service.
I had no choice.
Oh yeah.
What are you,
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.
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.
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.
I've just Googled countries with compulsory military service.
Korea?
There's heaps.
Korea, right?
Yeah.
Korea?
Oh, no, sorry.
Not New Zealand.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
doesn't deliver bad news
nah
not really
she's
I reckon she's
like a PA
oh okay
do you
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Give it a crack.
Yeah!
That was good.
That was good.
I like that.
Oh, my God.
Thank you, Gemma.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
It's like
Some kind of accounting level
Multiple
Look at the purple
It looks like
A gaming
A gaming convention
A gaming competition
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?
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,
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
see Oos's new
gold too
check out Vaughn's
Instagram
because it'll be up
for a little bit more
yeah
and yeah
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
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?
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.
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
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
how embarrassing
that's called
budgeting boys
play
ZM's
Fletch Vaughan and 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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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%.
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?
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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?
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,
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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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