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

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletch, Fawn and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning, welcome to the show. Fletch, Fawn and Hayley, it's two minutes past six. Guys, this is exciting because, you know, Georgie yesterday started five on time.

The current jackpot, $28,000. It's getting real spicy at this point. Oh, that was so much money. If you want to win that, 8 o'clock, listen out for the activator. If you get through and you don't know how the game works, you've just got to say time

at exactly five seconds. And we've been so close. So close. There have been some close stops. Yeah, I know. Some close stops. Some close calls. Some close calls. Yeah. Some guesses. But it's not really guesses. I know. Some close stops. Some close calls. Some close calls. Some guesses.

But it's not really guesses. I guess it is an attempt. Yes. Some close attempts. That's a word we should use. Henceforth. Attemptatis. I really like to hit the P in attempts. I want to give away that cash. I want it so bad. I want it so bad.

You want it personally? Yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah, contractually not allowed. You can't enter. But if the winner did want to give me a little bit. No one's giving you anything. The top six is coming up. Thieves in Spain have stolen a lot of olive oil.

A heist, if you will. Right. I mean, it's not cheap. It's not cheap. No. But do you think my thoughts were they were probably after oil, like crude oil, which is worth a lot. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'd add a few drinks and I wrote the top six. It's the top six things that he's targeted at. You will always say, we were chatting in multiple different platforms with Vaughn last night. He's getting lippy. He was lippy.

He was a little slip. Yeah. I can always tell when Vaughn's drunk when he's messaging. A. He was lippy. He was a little slip. Yeah, I can always tell when Vaughn's drunk when he's messaging. A couple of whisks. Same. Yeah, a couple of afternoon drinks.

Top six things the thieves targeted after misreading the label. Right. It's going to be a stretch. I'm looking forward to reading it and remembering what happened. I'm looking forward to hearing it. Still a little poll coming up.

How often are you using Do Not Disturb? Because some people, according to new research, are using it like all day. Yeah. Soilly little poll coming up. How often are you using Do Not Disturb? Because some people, according to new research, are using it like all day. Yeah. So they're not annoyed by... So you have to actively go check your phone. Which I kind of like.

I'll sometimes just turn mine on. I do it sometimes when things are popping off more than I would like. Yeah, I'm just like, ah, I'm out. You know I silence my chats. We'll get into our silly little poll results soon, but next... Generation Z, I believe, are turning down jobs for a very peculiar, very silly reason that I think we will be able to audibly hear Vaughan's eyes roll. So apparently Generation Z, Gen Zss are going to job interviews

you know, so they could lift a finger and get off their lazy asses to a podcast with Melinda Gates oh yeah fascinating, I didn't know too much about her I knew Bill and Melinda Gates, like the Gates Foundation and stuff was doing stuff around the world

and I know people were convinced that they were like trying to microchip them or something phenomenal woman oh I know people were convinced that they were like trying to microchip them or something. Yeah, yeah. Are they still on that bus? Phenomenal woman. I know. She's amazing. She was talking about how when she had kids and they were born into extreme wealth, how

you convince your kids they've still got to work one day. I can't even imagine. No. She said it was like their biggest parenting challenge. But why? Or telling like if kids, you know, when we were kids, if you wanted something, your parents were like, we can't even imagine. No. She said it was like their biggest parenting challenge. But why? Or telling, like, if kids, you know, when we were kids, if you wanted something, your parents would be like, we can't afford it.

Yeah. What do you do? What do you say to your kids? What do you say? If you literally can't afford anything and they want something. I don't even know. She said that you. Tell them why they don't get to have it.

Why they don't need it. And why they don't need it. Why, just because you can buy something doesn't mean you should buy something, which I thought was actually something you should take on board, Sproul. Shut up. It's on its way. eBay shipping update on its way. It's the latest episode of Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend.

Oh, okay. I don't even know how. I'm going to listen to that. How would you convince someone that they need to work? And also, how would you convince yourself? She told them, you remember there was a big thing that their kids weren't getting any money. When they died, the money was gone.

Yeah. Lots of millionaires do that. Celebrities too, like a few actors and stuff. Yeah, didn't Richard Branson do that? Didn't he say that as well? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. But that's what she said.

People call you harsh and horrible, but otherwise, how would you convince a kid to work? And what are you raising? If they don't need to. When you're a billionaire as well, it's like, yeah. They don't need to work. Yeah, and they teach their kids to work within charities and stuff. Yeah, and that's what she said.

As soon as they turned 10, she took them to Africa and was like, you know how you wanted that diamond bracelet or something? Her daughter wanted some insane handbag At like the age of 12 Yeah What's those Is it Merkin bags? Birkins

A Merkin is a pubic wag Gotcha Yep But Birkins are the most expensive handbags in the world They range from like 20,000 to 200,000 That's so ridiculous And they hold their value right

They hold their value They're investment pieces And she was just like, no. And then she was like, so we started taking them to places and being like, look, these people have nothing. And look how happy they are. They want for nothing. All of the Kardashians' children have little baby Birkins.

That is sick. And that's why Northwest, I'm going to say, she's kind of a bitch. Yeah. You know what I mean? The way she speaks to her mother. It is unacceptable. I don't even watch Kardashians. know what I mean? The way she speaks to her mother. It is unacceptable. I don't even watch Kardashians.

I've seen clips of the way she speaks to her mother. I would have been whacked. And probably a face whack. Yeah. Very rarely get a face whack. It would have been a bit of a smack. Sorry, I absolutely derail you. No, I love this robust debate.

I love it. I love it. Well, this is about Gen Z, and they're going to these job interviews because they need a job, you know, and I don't think they've got billionaire parents and they're actually asking the star signs

cue audible eye roll the star signs of the people that they'll be working with, be it their manager or their co-worker or their boss and if it doesn't align astrologically with their star sign they'll consider not taking the gig.

Give me strength. What? Lord, give me strength. Give me strength because What star signs don't click? Well, there's like, you know, compatibility. Oh my God.

What star sign does I work with? Let's talk to the Gen Z on the team. Yeah, Shannon, are you astrologically minded? Or aspergically? Do you have Asperger's syndrome? I definitely subscribe to some of it. I'd never date a Scorpio again.

Right. I had three exes in a row who were Scorpios, and I've learnt my lesson. Oh, yeah, they're wild, aren't they? Yeah. So if you were in a job interview and the boss said, I'm a Scorpio. I probably wouldn't sleep with him.

No, but would you take the job? I'd have a few drinks. Well, you want to sleep with the boss. Now that's a storyline. I probably would actually think about maybe we're not compatible because I'm quite, I'm such a Gemini.

Like I really am very Gemini, like two-faced. I was going to say actually, Shannon is one, like, two-faced. I was going to say, actually, Shannon is one of the most two-faced people. I've not seen a single part of you that's two-faced. Oh, I think it's just, I don't know. Unless we don't see the other side of you. Yeah, because she's two-faced.

We're only getting one of the two faces. Yeah. No, I think it's just, like, the energetic side and then you go home and you're just like that. Well, let's do us in terms of compatibility. I've got a compatibility thing. Libra, Cancer and... You're a Libra.

Cancer, Pisces. Cancer compatibility, Scorpios, Taurus, Virgos and Pisces. So that's why we've got a 20-year anniversary coming up. And that's why we've got beef. Pisces share your emotional complexity so they understand your many mood swings. That's right. Oh my God, if this isn't true.

Oh God, here we go. Moody Tootie over here. As another water sign, it's very common for Pisces and Cancers to fall in love at first sight. Oh, yep. Well, that's, you know, 20 years. Pisces help you embrace tenderness

through their unwavering love and support. Wavering. Your values might differ, but as long as love is there, your relationship will be strong. So I'm not even factoring in there. You're not factored in. You won't work well with Aries or Leos.

Okay. Because they're fire signs. Do we have any Aries and Leos? No. No, we're all right. That's good. I've got an Aries Leo. Two for a bit of a touch up.

What one are you? Libra. I have to... Libra compatibility. You work well bit of a touch up. What one are you? Libra. I have to... Libra compatibility. You work well... Everyone, socialites. You work well with Leos, Toroi, Aquarius. You don't work well with Pancers.

Oh. Oh. Weird. Some people just don't understand that you're a social butterfly. Sensitive cancer wants more from you than you can provide. You thrive when you can go out and talk to tons of people. I would not say that Fletch wants more from me than you can provide. You thrive when you can go out and talk to tons of people. I would not say that Fletch wants more from me than I can provide. But also, I'm one of those on the cusp of Gemini.

Yeah, I don't think. You're not an authentic Cancer. Also, it is all just a load of BS. It's a fat load of bullshit. It's a fat load of rubbish. It's so funny how you immediately start reading it out, though, and I'm like, aw. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can't even believe it. Oh, you pull what you want from it. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole. Silly little pole.

Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. It's an early silly little pole today, isn't it? Should we repeat it later on in the show? I reckon. We could do it each hour. We'll record this and we'll just play it back. Just save some time, yeah. Do you use Do Not Disturb on your phone?

Yes, I do. have a coffee or something. Do you use Do Not Disturb on your phone? Yes, I do. I was asking you guys. Absolutely when I'm sleeping and then sometimes if I'm busy because I don't want the annoying notifications. We went to a movie yesterday. I put it on. Yes. Same.

Because it stops the light and you put it face down and you're not distracted. I'll put it on if I'm having a nap or a little bit of private time, personal time. So that my wrist isn't buzzing the whole time. Nothing puts me off like looking at my wrist and it's warm smart. You leave a watch on during private time. Oh, you want to clock the steps?

But that is the thing, when you've got the watch, it does become annoying if you don't, you still get the buzzers. Do not disturb. Yeah, if I have a nap for sure, because I'll leave my watch on. I'll turn it off because it buzzes you awake. Well, a lot of under 30s are using, because this is from the Huffington Post, a lot of under 30s are using Do Not Disturb 24-7. Wow. Because they just don't want to.

I like it. You're a slave to your phone. You look when you look. And you can put on that emergency thing where if someone calls twice it'll go through or you can choose people that can call through. If your contacts

are your friend. They can always get through with a call. It's so funny, eh? That feeling of needing to always be available to people. So you can actually

just be like, it's fine. I know years ago turned off all the notifications for apps apart from like Messenger but everything else like Facebook, everything's just off.

And so if you want you just go into the app and you can see. 33% of respondees use it all the time. Sometimes 20% and no one don't use it. 46%! So many more people would have been using it It blows my mind people don't use it overnight

And you'll send them a message And they'll be like oh they've responded Or they've seen it and they've gone back to sleep Oh god no Bronte messaged in saying From 12am to 9am I'm on D&D Now this is the other thing about it

If you play Dungeons and Dragons Every time you see someone write do not disturb it's D&D Sorry I was on D&D. Now, this is the other thing about it. If you play Dungeons & Dragons, every time you see someone write, do not disturb, it's D&D. Sorry, I was on D&D. You're like, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a shared acronym. Triggered a nerd there. Yeah.

Shared acronym. It's a nerd trigger. I've told my work multiple times that they have to call me more than three times for me to get the call. Protect your peace. That's a good saying. Put that on a bloody coffee cup.

Protect your peace. Yeah. You're onto a winner there, Bronte. Also, I would go to a TED Talk by someone called Bronte. Yes. Bronte with an umlaut on the E. Are you kidding me? Oh, yeah.

It feels very Bronte sisters. Yeah. TED Talk is protect the peace. Yeah. Love that. It's all about protecting your peace. If you're listening, front row seats at your TED Talk when we've inspired you. Yeah.

Hannah says, when you don't want to associate with greater society in general. Oh, we'll put it on. Sometimes it's nice just to have a people break. Yeah. Put that on a cup. Sometimes it's nice to have a people break. Yeah. Love that.

Time for a people break. Ken. I'm just Ken. Anywhere else I'd be a 10. I'm sure he's not sick of that. I'm forever on silent vibrate mode. Oh, yeah. I think I'm on silent vibrate 99% of the time.

Oh, you're the same? Yeah, always. I'll get the message when the time is right or I feel the vibe. I'll only switch to sound mode if I'm expecting something important. So he's running a vibe check. He's running a vibe check. I love this. Literal vibrations and just a general vibe check.

Yeah. Sarah said, just hit the silent. She hit silent. I do on my emails app for work emails, says Laura. Yeah. Get those off the phone. You can delete your work emails. Get those off the phone.

If it's not a work phone, delete them. Get that off the phone. Louise, no, because people know better than to contact me at all, so I don't need a do not disturb. Feels like a bit of a grumpy Louise. She's a grumpy bitch. Yeah. Chantel says to help stop the endless scrolling when going to bed.

No sound and do not disturb on. So if you put down your phone, you know you put your phone in and it goes, and then you pick it up. You're like, oh yes. Now I'm on it. But now I'm on it again. And I'll probably be here for 20 minutes. Devin, no, question mark.

What's that silent? That's what silent mode is for, right? No vibrate, no nothing, just silent. It still lights up. Yeah. It lights up. Well, that's it. Do not disturb won't light up, will it?

No, yeah. Everything sort of turns off. I'm a shift worker and it's a godsend for sleeping at weird hours, says Sarah. It also helps me weed out the a-holes who decide to use notify anyway when sending me a message about nothing. Oh, yeah, when it says so-and-so's got their notifications off. In silent mode, would you like to notify them anyway? I've never done that.

How audacious. How audacious. Alice says, no, I just ignore things I don't want to deal with. Love that. Not everybody can done that. How audacious. How audacious. Alice says, no, I just ignore things I don't want to deal with. Love that. Not everybody can do that. 6.22. Next on the show,

should we have a little bit of an Oscars recap? It was a fun one. Well, I just sung Ken. Yeah. I'm just Ken. That was a highlight. That was a highlight.

Oscars yesterday. Oscars yesterday. Tewa Oppenheimer absolutely swept the floor. Oppenheimer, everything. Yeah. Barbie won, and it was Billie Eilish. Yes.

The song. Yeah. One Oscar for Barbie. Seems absurd. Does this make you want to finish watching Oppenheimer now? No. Because you stopped at the explosion. It was pick a path, and I picked my own ending.

I'm happy with where I dropped out of Oppenheimer. Okay. So yeah, Billy and Phineas won for their song. What was I made for? And that makes them the youngest people in history to win two Oscars. Really? Which is exciting. Wow.

Because they won for, did they win for Bond? Yes, yeah, Bond. Their song. Oh, jeez Louise. Something Way to Die. And then this one. That was actually the last Bond movie, Something Way to Die. There's something way to die.

I think it was hell of a way to die. Oh, yeah. Really? Oof. Was it oof? Hell of a way to die. Hell of a way to die. Anyway, speaking of Barbie Hymer, Emily Blunt from Oppenheimer and Ryan Gosling from Barbie

presented an award. But you know, I think I kind of figured out why they call it Barbenheimer and they didn't call it Oppenbarbie. Why? Well, I think you guys are at the tail end of that

because you were riding Barbie's coattails all summer. Thanks for kinsplaining that to me. They actually did a really funny bit, those two. You know, sometimes those interactions are really forced and it's like, yeah, that was really funny. They ended up fighting with the mic and like broke the mic and stuff.

John Cena came out. Nude. To, yep, to read the nominees for best costume. And he comes out like, he is chiselled from marble, this dude. Like he's been prepping for the Oscars. Was that pre-filmed on a closed stage? No

so I saw it behind the scenes so he comes out and he's got the like a big version of the envelope in front of his groin and I imagine he's wearing like a modesty sock or something and he like side shuffles on the audience is loving it and then he just goes costumes loving it and then he just goes,

costumes are important and then he says like, here are the nominees, right? Then it goes to black and it plays the video. I saw behind the scenes of the quick change and this whole crew comes on and like wraps him in a dress

and then the lights come back on and he's in the TV where they cut back to him and he's in this gown. It's so funny. It was really good. Emma Stone won and she got so excited during Ryan Gosling's performance of I'm Just Ken that she danced her dress broken.

Like she burst the back of her dress, then won an Oscar and she's up there in like a busted dress. What did she win for? What's that movie called? Poor Things. Poor Things. Where she kind of plays like Frankenstein's creature basically. She's been made.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen it. I've heard good things. I've heard great things. And then she was out. I just saw a video. She was out talking to somebody in the foyer. Foyer.

I know. Poor Things won for like makeup or costume or something. And she ran back in and her dress was just like. In tatters. No give. Yeah. Some of those dresses look so uncomfortable. So I saw Florence Pugh just put up a photo of her

lying flat on her back across the back seat in her dress because she couldn't sit in it. Yeah. On the way to the Oscars. In the Prius. Yeah. She got an Uber. I think she got an Uber.

She didn't even shout for a comfort. Uber comfort. She just went Uber X. Olivia Munn on the way was in like a people mover and John Mulaney, her husband's sitting in there. They both apparently have the same designer, but she said something's gone wrong because I can't sit down. And she's like standing in the back of a people mover

with her back arch so she can fit in, leaning over the chair. Oh, yeah. She literally can't sit down. Yeah. How did she sit down during the ceremony? I don't know. Or once you're there, if it breaks, it breaks.

You could see Margot Robbie also having the same issue. She was like slicked, like, because you can't bend. I'm a little bit like, I get the red carpet thing, especially with the Oscars, right? People go hard. But wouldn't you slip into something a bit more stretch? But you're still, then they cut to you. Yeah, I know.

And then if you were nominated for an award, you gotta go up and stuff. Also, just Ryan Gosling's performance in general. I mean, everyone's like, isn't it, you know, very, what's the word? Telling that Barbie got not as many nominations as it should have.

It only won for best song. Yeah. And they got keen to perform. But it was such a good performance. It was a for best song. Yeah. And they got Ken to perform. But it was such a good performance. It was a good Oscars. A few awkward moments. Kimmel made a few sort of poor jokes. Yeah. You know, that always happens. Yeah, you need that. Robert Downey Jr. wasn't happy

with him. He got made fun of about, you know, being an old drug addict and he's like, well, not anymore. Robert Downey Jr. also, um, not anymore. Robert Downey Jr. also, Ki Hwan, who was in Indiana Jones and the Goonies and then disappeared and came back and was in everything everywhere all at once and has been in Loki and that guy.

He was presenting the award and Robert Downey Jr., I don't think he knew who he was when he got to the stage. He shook like all the other people's hands that were out there presenting except him. Oh. Many rules. Do you know what my favourite presenter is? My last highlight.

Did you see this? Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger came out together and then ripped into Michael Keaton about Batman. It was so good. Anyway, that's my little Oscars recap. Play ZM's Fletch Vordernaley. Play ZM. Blah,ford and Hayley play ZM blah blah blah

blah blah blah blah this is the top six hi there hi olive oil theft is soaring in Spain what's up now slippery slippery getaways

do you ever find you might know because you're a bit more like Hmm. Slippery getaways. I don't know. I don't... Do you ever find... I mean, you might know because you're a bit more like, I don't know, private school girl and culture. Thank you. But I always don't know the difference between all the different olive oils. Oh, like extra virgin, cold pressed.

Cold pressed. Like, what's the best one? Stop using olive oil to cook with. No, you can't. I don't know who I'm talking to here. It's got a low smoke point and it's got too much of its own flavour.

It's not a cooking oil. I do sometimes hit a pinch if I don't have anything else. I like the good oil, which I think is like rapeseed oil. I like that one.

That's to cook with? Yeah. Rice bran. Oh. Very high smoke point. Need to borrow some money, hon. Very high smoke point, no flavour.

Great for cooking. Yeah, but olive oil's good for you. Yeah, but don't cook with it. It actually does something to the chemical, like... Burns and it tastes yuck. Yeah, it does something. Apparently it goes bad if you cook it too hard. Yeah, right.

That's why they cold press it. It's meant for salads and dipping bread in when it's got... What's that black stuff in that? Balsamic vinegar. Yeah. Those two separate. Looks like it's got, what's that black stuff in that? Balsamic vinegar. Yeah. Those two separate. Looks like a funny egg. What's that black stuff?

Looks like an egg from a different planet. Yeah. And you can dip your breads in there. But apparently, liquid gold. Yeah. That's what it's been called. And prices have surged in the Mediterranean. Shame it's not getting down to Turkey.

Very dry. Very dry culinary palette down there. Anyway, I don't know if this is going to make any sense because today's top six is the top six things that thieves targeted after misreading the label. Because in my head, I was like, were they after crude oil when they stole the truck of oil, but they got olive oil.

Olive oil's worth heaps, so ignore that part. We don't need facts messing with this. Maybe next time, though, we don't write the top six and we're drunk. Yeah. Well, when do you want me to write it then? When you're so...

It just won't get done. It just won't get done. You'll have to take it over. What are you planning? Number six on the list. They stole a truckload of Morrow Golds because they thought it was a truck of gold. Yeah, they stole the gold and they just... But it of Morrow Golds because they thought it was a truck of gold. Yeah, they stole the gold and they just...

But are they Morrow Gold? They just jumped. Do they still make Morrow Gold? I don't know. No one does a Morrow. If you're having a Morrow, have a Snickers like a real man. What if I've got a nut allergy? I saw those at the supermarket.

Tough pickings. Have they been shrink-flated or have they just got a new wrapper? Everything's been shrink-flated. Oh, yeah, there's a Morrow Gold here. Yeah, now we're still go for the Morrow Gold, according to the Cadbury website. Well, I'm glad. So far, so good.

Number five on the list of the top six things that thieves targeted after misreading the label. They stole a container load of diamond pasta because they thought they were getting diamonds. They probably thought it said pasta diamonds. And they were like, I'll take the diamonds. You don't need to pass them to me. You want to pass the diamonds?

How drunk were you when you made this list? Pretty. Number four on the list. On a Monday. That's the bad news. The top six things that thieves target after misreading the label. A box of suits from that place in the mall that I always call taro cash. Taro cash.

Because there's cash. Why do I say that? Oh, my God. Taro cash. Taro cash. Taro cash. Taro cash. Is it one word or is it?

So they thought that it was just cash. They thought it was just cash. Oh, right. Because my old flatmate who was Tongan told me that's how he got money back to Tonga. And I just was just like, well, that makes sense. And I never questioned that. I must have walked past that store in a mall a bunch of times and never looked at it and was just like, it's clothing.

How's he sending cash back to Tonga? And he was stitching up the party. Yeah, you got stitched, baby. I got stitched up. Got to ask some more questions next time. Number three on the list of the top six things that thieves targeted after misreading the label. Jewel's 1995 album, Pieces of You. Because they thought they were getting actual jewels.

But to be fair, they got something pretty good there because that is a great album. My hand's small, I know. Did you manage to get six for this list? I'm pushing. I feel like we're going to get to six. Number two on the list of the top six things that thieves targeted after misreading the label. A shipment of bed rugs. Bed rugs?

Bed rugs. Did you know that's one word? Bed rugs. When you put a rug on your bed, you know those things that go across your bed? Oh, yeah. A throw blanket? Apparently also called bed rugs,

and they become one word because they thought it said bed rugs, and they'd be wanting them drugs. They want the drugs. Give me the drugs. Bed rugs. Sure, I'll steal them. And number one on the list of the top six things

that thieves targeted after misreading the label, they stole Kevin Bacon. Bacon is so expensive. Bacon's expensive. Bacon's very expensive. And they grabbed, they kidnapped Kevin Bacon. Just write it in the morning next time. Just write it in the morning when you're sober.

Maybe we could make it a collaborative thing. We all chip in or something, you know? Yeah, that's today's subsix. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. in or something, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's today's subsix. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Okay. There is someone looking for a flatmate, and when I read this,

I thought that this would be the perfect person for you, Fletch, because you can't just live on your own. I can absolutely live on my own. No, you're going to get lonely. I've got Major Murray Fluffington. Yeah, that's fine. I get enough people interaction throughout the day. I'm absolutely fine.

Well, listen to this, okay. There is a gentleman, his name is John McGill, and he has previously advertised in the newspaper looking for a flatmate, and then anyone who applied, it wasn't suitable for him. So he has spoken to the NZ Herald and just given a little bit of information about himself, and I want you to just hear it out. Okay.

Okay? He has a room available in his house. Now, you could sell your apartment, you know, and now you've got money in the bank, and you could go to Mount Maunganui. Now, that's a beautiful place. Beautiful. Beautiful spot.

Up the monger every day. Yeah. You know, cafes. Swimming. Swimming. The lifestyle, the culture. I mean, you could beam in remotely for radio so you keep your job. That's all sorted.

Mount Maunganui. Happy. Goes to the swimming pool every day. Oh, my God. I go to the swimming pool all the time. You love swimming. Goes every morning. Happy. Goes to the swimming pool every day. Oh, my God. I go to the swimming pool all the time. You love swimming. Goes every morning. Enjoys a beer or a sherry before dinner.

Now, you don't drink during the week, but that's fine. He can have his beer, John. He's seeking a like-minded flatmate to share costs and company. Okay. Want some company. You're a social guy. What else can I tell you? He has a spare room.

It's the bigger room of the house. The house he describes as modest, but Yeah, perfect. Great. You don't want a big giant house to look after. He loves getting fresh fish from the supermarket. He's very health conscious, as he would. What he doesn't eat,

he feeds to the birds. He loves animals. You love animals? I wouldn't be encouragingouraging That's an encouraging Mess Unless they're chickens You can talk about this And you're getting Eggs out of it

Maybe you should Get him some chickens Some urban chickens He used to be a skipper And he would Skipper people Passenger boats And take people fishing

He says he's very Easy going You're an easy going guy Hobbies include Keeping fit and healthy He does his Aqua jog jogging every morning. Yeah. Walks up and down, you know, like absolutely loves it.

He loves to drive. Every single day, he never, ever, ever misses the chase, 4.45. Okay, great. Before he enjoys one drink. Yeah. Be it the dark beer or the sherry. He likes to be in bed at eight. Oh my God, that's when I go to bed.

That's when you go to bed. Oh my God, this is perfect. As a rule, housework for him gets done when it's done, but he lives alone, so not a lot of mess, he says. The flatmate will get the larger room, very close to Bayfair Shopping Centre

for all of your needs. Why is he in the paper? There's a swimming pool down there, very close to this. Looking for good company, especially in winter. Open to someone younger than himself, but not a young person. I'll put you in that category. Okay.

He's 82 years old. He's 82 years old. I did not expect him to be that old. No, he's doing his aqua jogging. That's a great lifestyle for an 82-year-old. Aqua jogging every day. He just seems like the loveliest person looking for someone to fill the spare room in his unit. Is this why he's in the news?

Because no one wants to live with him? Well, he's in the news because he just hasn't quite met the right person to live with him. And when I read all these things, I was like, God, Fletch would make just the right deal. Are you saying I'm an 82-year-old? No, no, no. He wants a younger person, but you're very like-minded. Well, I just have rest-time hours, don't I? Yeah, God, Fletch would make just the ideal. Are you saying I'm an 82-year-old? No, no, no. He wants a younger person, but you're very like-minded. Well, I just have rest-time hours, don't I? Yeah, exactly.

I have rest-time dinner time, rest-time sleep time. If you were hearing this description of beautiful John and you want to go live with him in his unit in Mount Maunganui, you get the bigger room. You get the bigger room. There are people who, you know, look after old people, vulnerable old people. Although, let's be honest, probably smells like fish by the sounds of it.

And there's a lot of, probably a lot of birds and rats in the backyard. No, it's fresh, fresh fish. No, it's fresh as anything. He keeps feeding the birds. Anyway, John's looking for a flat back. I hope he's not feeding the fish frames to the birds. They will get smelly in the sun at the moment. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Oh, yuck. So there is a woman who shared a video on TikTok and she's making cookies. I haven't made cookies for a long time. Do you know, I saw a big fat cookie recently. Out in the wild? Out in the wild. Wow. I stalked it for a little while, but it got away on me.

Man, and ever since, I didn't get it and I knew I was going to regret it. And ever since, I've just had a hankering for like a big pie-sized cookie. Yeah, chocolate chip. Fat chocolate chips in it. And big pie-sized cookie. Yeah, chocolate chip. With like fat chocolate chips in it. And gooey. Gooey. The biscuit, you kind of like rip it apart. You don't bite it and it crunches it.

You can like rip it apart. We're talking your Mahigans. When you make them, they've got to be like, you've got to use brown sugar and lots of butter, right? That's what makes them gooey. And underbake them slightly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then let them cool.

And then they goo. Yeah. Oh no, why are we talking about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then let them cool. And then they goo. Yeah. Oh, no. Why are we talking about this? Yeah, I know. See, you're trying to be good. You're on keto. I'm not.

I'm horrible. You're leaning in the other way. I'm the slob diet. I'm going to get me a pair of dungarees. Yes. I'm going to have big fat guts, but I'm also going to have a barrel chest. That's my plan. Yeah, I like that.

I love a big boy. Big boy. Love a big boy. Big boy. Downing cookies a couple of times a day. Beer, cookies. We got a big boy. Hey there, big boy.

Hey there, big boy. Anyway, so this woman's making choc chip cookies with big chunky choc chips. So we're talking up a cut up block, not a bag. Then she's going like this and it's the text says, I was kneading cookie dough and I guess one of my fake nails came off. Her fake nails are chocolate brown.

Oh. Literally, like here's her hand. You can see it. She's got a dark chocolate brown fingernail. It is literally the same colour as chocolate. Yeah. That is manky. Now, no update on whether or not.

How big a batch was it? That looks like a standard single batch. I'd say it makes 12. I reckon you could find it. I'm glad she noticed it. Acrylic nails are so yuck. So this is pre-going into the oven, eh? Pre-in the oven.

Okay, you'd fish it out, right? You'd find it. You'd spoon around. What would 180 degrees do to an acrylic nail? Would it melt it? I think it would be all right. No, I think it would be okay, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it want to melt?

Acrylic? Melting temperature of acrylic nail. There you go. You look that up. Everyone's saying like, oh my God, update, update. My dad ended up biting into it in one of the chocolate chips. She knew that it was in the batter, in the cookie dough, and she didn't fish it out.

Come on. So she had, that's a half batch I'm looking at there. I'm just reading because people are commenting and she's replied. That's a half batch. One batch is in the oven. Oh, okay. So it was in the oven. It's in the oven. So she's replied, that's a half batch. One batch is in the oven. Oh, okay. So it was in the oven. It's in the oven.

So she's had a fish. Acrylic has a melting point of approximately 130 to 140 degrees. So that means it would have melted. But then it would have cooled again maybe? Yeah, so it would have been some kind of. Because acrylic is like liquidy and then it sets. Ugh. Yuck.

Ugh, yuck. Anyway, let's talk about the thing that went into the food that wasn't supposed to be into the food because we've all dropped something I've definitely when I've had longer

fingernails and I've been grating cheese I've definitely like a bit of the fingernail down the grater and been like

it's keratin isn't it it's a flake it's good for you it's but a flake yeah exactly but with like gel nail polish on it and stuff. Yuck.

I don't think I've dropped anything terrible in. But it's better when it's just you or your partner or your family eating the food. But it would be worse if you worked in like a food service industry and then you're like, oh, where's my nail gone? Yeah. Or, oh, where's my plaster gone? Where's my plaster? I think your plaster's gone straight into a one-star review.

Yeah, it is. It's gone straight onto the reviews. And that's why they have the blue plasters. Maybe you were making something and you lost an earring. You know, like things just drop into food. Yuck. Like this brown thing. Okay, let's take some calls.

0800 DALES at Amazon number. Call now. Text through 9696. What ended up in the food? Bonus points if you work somewhere as well. Yeah, well, we're not here to judge. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

You're all ooh and ooh. And we don't want to eat any food ever again, ooh. Because someone dropped their false chocolate brown coloured fingernail into a batch of chocolate chip cookies and daddy bit into it. So we wanted to know what went into the food. What ended up in the food? Xanthi, good morning. Good morning.

How are you guys? Good. This is a similar story. Somebody lost a nail in food. Yeah, I work in the luxury yachting industry and the chef I was working with at the time lost a shellac nail straight into someone's dinner. Now those are like pretty ooh-la-la

clients, aren't they? They wouldn't like a nail in the food? Yeah, luckily to this day, and this was about two years ago, we still have no idea where it ended up or who ingested it. So someone's perhaps swallowed it whole then by the sound of this. Yeah, that thing has gone and passed. Were you like looking at the plates to see if anybody had noticed it and just put it on the side? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it was in like a big veggie bake thing. So it was like luck of the draw who was going to get it. Oh, yeah. I would have just been like, oh, that's a bit of hard like onion. Yeah, it's probably a bit of gristle. Gristle. I think the baby pink color might have given it away. But yeah.

I don't know what food is baby pink with a bit of glitter on it. Oh, no. I love that. And to this day, no one knows. Amazing. Xanthi, thank you. Jalen, what went in the food? I was working at Daycare Centre,

and then I was whipping up some scones for the kids, and then they were playing around behind the counter, and then I didn't realise that they threw a Lego piece inside my batch, and I put it into the oven, cooked it. When it came out, it was like a kinder surprise for the kids, but it was just a Lego piece in one of my scones, and I was like, oh, my God. When it came out, it was like a kinder surprise for the kids, but it was just a Lego piece in one of my scones, and I was like, oh my God! Did it melt?

No, it was still a whole piece. Oh my God, amazing! That's literally a choking hazard, isn't it? It is, so I was freaking out. I was like, oh my God, I can't let my boss see this. And then they were like, the kids were like, where's my one?

Aww! They were like, I want a let my boss see this. And then they were like, the kids were like, where's my one? Aww. They were like, I want a scone with a Lego bit. That's gross. Jalen, amazing, thank you. Marshall, what ended up in the food? Went and got a real fruit ice cream when I was a young kid with my parents. Yum, yum, they're so good. Yeah, I can happily say I haven't had one since

because I started eating it and a whole fingernail came out with it. Lots of fingernails. I mean, that would be, in most of the texts, a fingernail related. I feel like if you've got fake nails, they pop off, you know.

This wasn't a fake nail. Wait, wait, was it a little crescent chew of a nail? Yes, it was. I pulled it out and I was like, what's this? Yep. That is disgusting. So someone would have been like...

Did you go back and say, can I have a free ice cream or can I have my money back? I haven't touched real fruit ice cream since. Yeah, he's just boycotted the whole industry. What part of the strawberry process that entered the system? Was it like people picking strawberries and someone was like, oh, yeah. No. Marshall, thank you.

Traumatised for life. Marcus, what ended up in the food? Yeah, we had a wedding ring turn up in the food. Oh, wow. In what? What kind of food? It was an ice cream, actually. I worked at an ice cream company at the time quite a few years ago now and one of the customers

rang up and said, hey I've got a gold wedding ring here. So we went and picked it up and it definitely was a gold wedding ring. Wow. We asked the staff and we finally found its owner. So somebody on the production line somewhere, it had just fallen off and gone into... They just didn't say anything until obviously we found it and gave it back. Did they get into trouble in the end or were they just reunited with it and told off? Yeah, of course there was a little bit of trouble, a little bit of strife, because at

the end of the day, what's the harm in saying, hey, I lost this, can we come and look for it, right? Oh, God. Yeah, I'm not a fan over it, because as far as I know, nothing else is magnetic in an ice cream. Yeah. Yeah, true. Because I guess if you're working, do you have to take your rings off at the start of

the day and leave them in your locker or something? Different factories have different policies, but our policy was at the time that as long as it didn't have any diamonds or anything in it, it was okay to stay off. Like a plain band, yeah, because what are the chances it's going to slip off? A great promo, though, for tub ice cream. Yeah. Free ring on every 50th tub.

Marcus, thank you. Some messages in. Sorry. Somebody said I'm just driving to work, eating my breakfast. Oh, it's all good. What are you eating? Oh, you're sorry. Now I can't stop looking every time I bite that there's going to be a fingernail in it.

Yeah. Oh, yuck. I made a bacon and egg pie. Decided to fancy up with some spinach from the garden. My partner took a bite into it and bit through a snail. Ew. I'm sorry. If you're getting it You've got to wash it You have to, especially if it's fresh from your own garden

Spinach Somebody else said My old retail job, we got given a cake From one of our very good customers And probably ate half of it One of the guys went to eat another slice And when he put the knife through, he heard tink And it was a bit of glass from Pyrex jug.

And he's like, what's going on here? And my workmate, who had eaten about half the cake, went away and came back, looked like he'd been crying and glassy. I've just been in the bathroom throwing up for 20 minutes. I don't want glass in my system. Oh, my God. Having dropped a Pyrex cup, it's that safety glass. So it like shatters like windscreen

glass. Oh it is too, eh? Rather than big jaggedy bits. Although our friend Morgan, a sexologist, she once had glass in her dumpling. Oh my God. Yeah. That's a delicacy in some parts of China. It's actually

completely sensitive. You say it like that. I'm so sorry. Yes, I'm sorry. It is actually. I'm sorry to China. I'm sorry that it's not your Pakeha food that you're used to. You like things chewable, do you? Soft.

Oh, it's got to be soft. So the white man can enjoy it. Not dry enough for you. It's like a honey soy glass and dumplings. Yes. Yum, yum, yum. All the rage. Ooh, yuck.

I was working at a local cafe at high school and my nose piercing fell out into a batch of granola and yogurt. Never heard anything about it. No, what do you mean? Assumed that someone ate it, made it worse. My nose piercing was infected at the time, so it would have been stinking. Oh, why do we read that? Why would we read that?

Why did you read that, Vaughan? Why did you read that? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Why did you read that, Vaughan? Why did you read that? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Why did you read that? Now I've got to boycott granola. Wait. I think I need to

overtake the rest of the day off. Boycotting granola and China? Big political statements from you this break. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. But we are, what, three,

tonight is the night that three become four because Lily Rohan, entertainment reporter, is in studio with us. Wild spy skills are in print. Making us four. Hi, guys. Hi, welcome.

Thank you so much for coming down and chatting to us about this whole Kate Middleton situation. Drama. Drama. The tea is hot. Thank you for pouring it. Yesterday was the first time I, because I noticed these news stories. Everyone's like, she's dead.

She's not even alive. She's hiding. It's a body double. Yesterday was when I got on board because, you know, actual news organizations were pulling the photo of her with her kids. A kill notice is what it was called. Isn't that terrifying? Just seeing the kill notice in writing

and you're like, oh wow, this is serious. Yeah, because she released like, it was for Mother's Day. Yeah, it's been like, where is she? Where is she? Where is she? She's unwell, right? And then released a photo for Mother's Day

where like one of her kids like fingers were missing and stuff. Yeah, there was a lot going on in that photo. Yeah. Yeah, I don't lot going on in that photo. I don't really know how to break it down because there is so much going on in that photo. Also, she was wearing skinny jeans and if you'd just undergone planned abdominal surgery... Oh my god,

you've gone deep. Why would you be wearing skinny jeans? Oh my god, she has fish in the air. That's track pants to her. That's stretchy skirt at best. I want my leggings. So what do you think that is? That photo was like an old photo or like a badly photoshopped photo?

So many theories about it. I think the biggest thing on why they pulled it was because Princess Charlotte's sleeve looked a little bit funky. So they pulled it because of that. But now so many other things have come out about it as well. There's about like five different reasons that they've wanted to pull it. Kensington Palace have come out. They've said we're not releasing the original photo.

Oh! Yeah. Why? What's wrong with that? Wild, right? And then Kate has also come out, issued a statement this morning, and she's like, sorry, guys. Sorry for any confusion that this photo has caused.

I'm an amateur photographer, and sometimes I like to edit my photos. Oh, okay. Yeah. So they've sort of accepted fault there? A little bit, yeah. Yeah, right. And then also, why not pop up a selfie when you're doing that? Yeah.

Or do a video. Or do a video, yeah. Yeah, totally. But she has been seen this morning. She has been seen. Yeah, Daily Mail posted a photo of her with William in the back of a car. And this is huge because Daily Mail were very much like, we're going to respect her privacy.

That's what she's asked for. Of what Daily Mail's known for, respecting privacy. Yeah. Especially with the royals. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, but they were. So there was a photo a couple of weeks ago of her with her mum in the car.

Daily Mail refused to post it. Now they've started posting these photos and the theories have gone bonkers. What are some of the thoughts behind that? Some theories are that her and William are actually going to get divorced. Yeah. That's a massive one. I think what started all the conspiracies is that a Spanish journalist came out and said that Kate was in a coma. I've read that one.

It just gets crazy. It's like flat earth, right? Yeah, it's totally. But she had abdominal surgery. We knew that's true, right? She had surgery. So she's on a diet. What's true, Fletch?

What is real? What's true? You know what I mean? How do we know that she's had abdominal surgery? We don't. Well, now she's wearing the tight jeans. She's in the tight jeans. The tight jeans theory has really blown my mind.

Someone messaged in, they had stomach surgery, and it was keyhole surgery. So skinny jeans were an option. Okay. All right. We debunked that. She's back in the skinny jeans. We debunked that.

But also, we're not wearing skinny jeans anymore. That could be two years old. She's a mum. This is why I thought you were bringing up the fact that she was skinny jeans. Because how old are you, may I ask? I'm 27. Yeah, you'll be into the baggy jeans. I am wearing baggy jeans right now.

Because that's the trend. But Kate's older. Kate's a mother of three. Yeah, she's not. She's a 27-year-old. She's sensible. Those baggy jeans, they get in the way. Yeah.

Trust me, I was around in the 90s. I remember it well. Because I'm looking at the photo of them in the back of the car as well, and it's like you can't really see anything. There's no smiles. No, there's not a whole lot. And she's looking away. It's almost like she knows there's paparazzi there.

Of course she knows. What if it's a face-off situation? With faces? They're transplanting her face onto another person's face because she wanted to leave the royal family. Oh, okay. I think she's had enough. And we're like, check the contract, we own your face.

I want to leave. That's fine, you can leave. But your face has to stay. But we get to keep the face. And we'll give you a new face. Okay. Well, if we get more updates, Lily, we might have to hit you up. Absolutely.

On what on earth is happening here. We need to get to the bottom of it. We do, actually. Lily, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, guys. Really appreciate it. I was alone last night. Had the house to myself for the whole day and evening.

Because Aaron was playing games with his brother. This would have been perfect for your affair that's brewing. I know. I just couldn't. I was like reaching out. I'm on all the apps, but like literally no hits. I'm like swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. I'm waiting for like, it's a match.

Nothing. Nothing. Okay. Really? You just didn't go cruising down at the local rugby club toilets? I went for a walk. Yeah? Yeah. Didn? You just didn't go cruising down at the local rugby club toilets? I went for a walk. Yeah? Yeah? Didn't see any action down there?

Nah, there was like, there was a hosting a big like kids athletics thing. Oh, man. So the toilets were not like pumping. I was gutted, man. There was no hot dads? No, no hot dads, nothing. Unbelievable. The whole walk was a waste of time.

What games was Aaron playing? I don't know, PlayStation games, board games, all sorts. That's a good relationship he's got with his brothers just to be able to play games. Well, his brother, who's a doctor, he had accrued too much leave and so the hospital was like, take some leave. And so he was just like, come play games.

He lives quite far from us, so he just stayed the night. I wasn't complaining. It was nice. Got home. Quiet house. Quiet house. Leave the Apple Watch on. Leave the Apple Watch on. And a nice time. Anyway, at night, I was like making my bed and stuff, and I was,

you know, changing the sheets, doing this. And as I was changing the sheets, I noticed that Aaron had nicer pillows than me. Do you not purchase your pillows together? Well, because we had all these guests over Christmas, I was like making three beds up. And so I was kind of like grabbing odds and sods from all over the place. And we're not actually in our bed.

We're in the guest bed at the moment. So I had guest bed pillows on our bed and I noticed that he had like this really luxe, dense memory foam pillow. Oh, nice. Plus a feather one. We always go one feather, one memory. Yeah. But my one-

Will you say the two pillows? Always, mate. Have we discussed this before? We've been here, yeah. You don't need to say the two pillows. Why don't you say the memory pillow? No, I like two. How adjut is your head?

How adjut? My memory foam's too, I like two. How adjut is your head? How adjut? My memory foam's too small at the moment. I won't sleep with a second pillow. It's not 45 degrees. Wait, so your head isn't straight to your neck when you sleep. It's pushed up. Oh my god.

That explains the cutting off the oxygen to the brain. How would you be? I need a pillow that's exactly the width of the oxygen to the brain. How would you be? Why are you so dumb? I need a pillow that's exactly the width of my shoulder to my ear. No, but I sink into it. I think I sink into it. People, the two pillows thing is.

That's how boys hit two pillows. No, no, it's so annoying. My mama raised me a two pillow girl. It's like people who sleep face down. What's wrong with you? I sleep face down. Yeah. And it explains a lot.

You face down and then neck turn? I wake up every morning very cute. It is nice like that. I am super cute and adorable. You go face first into a pillow. No, your head's to the side. How do you do it? Your neck.

Oh, my God. No, my back and my neck are sore just hearing about this ridiculousness. Your neck, your back. Don't even. Anyway. My bones. Don't rip apart how I sleep So I saw that he had the nicer pillow So I just did a swapperoo

While he's away I just thought to myself, you know what You old sea dog I see that and I'm taking it We've got a pillow pirate on our hands So now you've got the nicer pillow Now I've got the nicer pillow on my side What's going to happen when he gets back and notices?

I honestly feel, I mean, the man's got so much hair. He can make his own pillow. He's got a third pillow situation. He could plant himself a pillow. He could plant himself a little pillow. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Came across this yesterday and I thought, oh my God. Google Trends tells us that in 2023, Gisborne.

Gisborne? Gisborne. Gisborne. Gizzy. Gizzy. Gizzy hard, bro. Gizzy is the only region in New Zealand that Googled global warming more than the term Love Island. Gisborne.

That's not great is it Look as a Love Island fan I'm embarrassed This is 2023 where as a result Of global climate change We had atmospheric rivers Which was a term I'd never heard before And we still googled Love Island more

Than global warming Despite all the weather Events that happened last year. Yeah, but is there because we know it's because of that? We know what it is? Yeah, and we weren't sure, like, if Anton was going to, like, put it up with Georgia. Do you know what I mean? Like, it was, like, not as clear as, like, the weather and stuff.

Because, like, Anton's been, like, playing around and we don't know. And you can, like, look out the window and see your weather. Yeah, like, are they going to get friend zoned? So, like, Antoine's been, like, playing around and we don't know. And you can, like, look out the window and see you're with her. Yeah, like, are they going to get friend zoned? So, like, we had to know. Right. Yeah. See, I hate it more now. Yeah.

Like, is Molly getting back with her ex or, like, what's happening? Yeah. You know? And, like, are the twins, are they, like, a package deal? Like, we didn't know Vaughn so it's like look it up and you don't know

about the twins but you know about global warming I know it's too hot yeah but I don't know if Anton's hot if he's like a friend

if he's more like friend zone right yeah you can see how this has happened do you know what I mean like it's it's not as clear

it's you know I can I wish I hadn't said anything now. I don't know, I look like the fool. Like, how messy is Messy Mitch going to be? And is, like, Liberty, like, totally, like, just playing around? Is this island we're on going to be underwater soon? Or destroyed by a, you know, a once in a hundred year weather event

that seems to happen every six months? Or, like, are those tits real? Maybe that's how we need to get people, you know, more active. Get them talking about it. Is the next season

of Love Island have the water right in the villa? Yeah, that could be like on Tokelau, the Pacific Island nation that is literally

going to sink. Like maybe they experience a flood during the season. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. And a horrendous hurricane. Yeah. This is a once in a 100-year storm that we had three weeks ago,

but we're just going to have another one now. Global warming Love Island. Love Island. Sinking Love Island. Sinking Love Island, yeah. Yeah, that's good. Play ZM's Fletch for the Daily. Play ZM.

So people are like, what's happening there with Millie Bobby Brown, star of Stranger Things, who is getting married to Jon Bon Jovi's son? Yes. Jon Bon Jovi Jr. Jon Bon Jovi. Gian Bon Jovi. Whatever his name is, Bon Jovi. That's a full, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Italian, rightgeoni. That's a full, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Italian, right? Yeah. So she's been doing interviews recently, not related to anything else other than like, hey, you're getting married soon, that's really exciting. And everyone's like, what's happening? What are you doing there? Because she's got this kind of like hybrid American accent,

but she's British and we know this. Because she first was known for Stranger Things where she spoke very little but when she did speak it was American. Then she did in some other movies and she was British and everyone was like, she does that well. And then we learned she is British so that's why she's doing that well.

So she's doing the American accent very well. Yeah. But hasn't Stranger Things season five production begun and she spoke previously that when she's doing that role, she has to go full American accent all the time, otherwise she can't just turn it on when she gets this filming. Yeah, maybe. Because there was another case,

I know this happens a bit with celebrities and you can kind of see why because they play characters and stuff. Like there was someone who did an award recently and everyone was like, what's that? That's a totally different voice. Britney Spears does it as well she's just weird like every now and then she'll do an interview and she'll be like yeah well i went down to anyone's like hey why are you doing that yeah and then i think in the book she addressed it and said it comforts her because she grew up with this like older woman who was british and like you know like

a nanny sort of situation she's's thinking of Nanny McPhee. I think she is thinking of Emma Thompson with a fake nose on, but it's hard to tell. Anyway, I always find it really, do you know another person that does this? And I'll say this because we know each other. Kimbra. You know Kimbra, New Zealand musician?

Yes, yeah. Great musician. But she spent so much time in America that when she comes back, you're like, wow, you've stuffed that, haven't you? She's always had a very interesting voice, though. American. But a lot of Kiwis do when they go overseas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Kimmy Crossman, she touches into an American every now and then. I think we find the American insulting when Kiwis go to America and come back with an American accent, we're like, what was wrong with our accent? We're a bit like that. What was wrong with our accent?

You're back and you think you're a big shot, do you? Yeah, all calm down. Come on, you're back in New Zealand. But when people go to Britain on the OE and they're there for two weeks and they're working behind a bar. I love that. And they come back with that just little tongue. I have friends that did the big London thing and came back and they're like, oh my God, it's like crazy over there. And you're back with that, just little tongue. Yeah. I have friends that did the big London thing and came back.

Oh, my God. It's like crazy over there. And you're like, oh, stop that now. Anyway, we want to know. You can call them out. You can do it anonymously if you please. Do you have a friend that just puts on an accent? You don't know why it pops up every now and then?

What about people who raise them on military bases? They've always got the most fascinating. That's not putting on an accent. No, but they're generally very good at going between if they've gone from different international military bases. Because sometimes people grow up when parents go overseas and are based and the teacher is American. Aren't you Taylor Joy?

Is that the actress from Queen's Gambit? Argentina. She's got like nine different accents on the go. But you know, that's like, maybe you had a friend that did the London thing, or maybe you know, they spent a little bit of time in Europe and they've got a strange role now.

When did your friend just suddenly put on an accent? I think people, you can dub yourself in too. Oh yeah, if you're one of these people that sort of... Maybe it was just easier when you lived overseas to try to speak in an American accent. Well, I can see why because they can't understand us. No, they cannot

understand us. I've got no idea what we're saying. So apparently I do this, do I? Do I adopt an accent? You did it to a caller, Dino, that we had the other day. I did do it to Dino. Yeah. We should catch up with Dino, by the way. We said we were going to.

We're working on it. I'm simply not going to be dishing out any more of these empty promises. No, no, we're working on it. No, but someone else called me out. You guys just called me out then, and another person called me out. A British person asked if I wanted a coffee, and I ordered it in a British accent. And then I have a friend, I'm not going to do the accent,

but I have a friend, we were at an Indian restaurant, and he was looking, and he's never done anything. And then he ordered a palak paneer in a very, very strong Indian accent. Now this is the whitest guy you've ever met in your life. And it just came out and the whole table was like, interesting. I'm not angry about that. Well, you don't speak French, je vous draie une croissant. You put on the accent.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when you order a palak paneer, he really bounced around it. I also feel like you've done it with some celebrity interviews as well that we've had. Probably. You've kind of mimicked their accent. Or when I interviewed Mamor, I was like, hi, how are you? And he was like, what are you up to? Let's take some calls.

Candice, who's putting on the accent? My daughter. I'm calling her out. Okay. How old is she? She's 11. Okay. So you're American.

I'm American, yes. And so I've dropped her off at school so she can't be embarrassed by me now. Aw. So she's 11 and born and raised in New Zealand. I'm married to a good white cattle boy, but obviously I have an American accent. And this girl, she goes back and forth between the two accents all day long. It would be super confusing because you'd hear your mom's voice all the time, right? But you're growing up around other Kiwis.

Exactly. And so she calls me mom and then she calls it Like a trash can Not a rubbish bin You know She like will go Interchangeably between the two But then on top of that My mom grew up In the deep south

And so when my tween Gets fired up She starts talking With a southern drawl Oh my god I was going to ask Whereabouts in America Are you from?

I grew up in Minnesota But like I said My family's from Atlanta And so I myself Have a weird accent for an American. Yeah, because it had a bit of, I was going to say it's got kind of a Midwest sort of a feel, but when you said a couple of words, it had a Southern drawl to it as well. Candice, thank you so much.

Anita, you had to put on an American accent. I did, yeah. Hi. Long time listener, first time caller. Yay! Get the bell, get the bell. Here we go! Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

Is this when you were travelling in America? Yeah, so my husband got a job in America and we were having some problems with our internet and TV at one stage, but nobody knew what I was saying at all. Until I held my nose. And then I started talking like this out the phone. I can't get back to my wafa. And they understood everything.

Oh, no. They understood everything. When I was talking like this, talking to my nose. So your advice for New Zealanders in America who people can't understand is hold your nose and, like, lean into it. Yes, very much so and they understood everything I wanted after that. Oh my god, I love that. It is like that when you're

in America. You really have to, you think that they just understand us but they don't. And we talk very fast as well so they're like, what the hell is that? Anita, thank you. Claire Patra. Coming at you. Good morning. Don't say that. We're taking on some accents. Don't say that.

You've taken on some accents. Yeah, unfortunately, I guess it seems like a thing that I do. So in Canada in 2012 with my ex-husband, even just in the airport, I started off with a twang, and he was like, what are you doing? Don't do that. I was like, oh, I didn't even realize I was doing it. But the most accentuated one was flying into LA and going through the drive-thru when I landed with him

and my parents-in-law and going through the Wendy's drive-thru and she couldn't understand anything I was ordering. Coke, chicken nuggets, burger, nothing. So I was like, okay, what are we going to do? So I was like, yeah, can I have some burgers and chicken nuggets? And I'll have some fries with that. Some fries. Oh, yeah.

And another burger. That would be fabulous. Thank you all. And she understood everything. Like, no issues whatsoever. So I was like, okay, I guess we're just doing this and just went full on with it. And I'm pretty sure there's a video of it somewhere.

Oh, no. I apologize to our actual American listeners now. Because they're like, that's what American accent is? But it works. That's two people who literally said the same thing about just put on a silly one. Thanks, Cleopatra. Jess, same thing for you. You are a serial accent adopter.

Yeah, I'm with Hayley on this, and I have to often come with a disclaimer. So I'm like, hi, I'm not taking a piss out of you. I just have echolalia and I will copy your accent. It's got a name. We've got a syndrome. That's what it's called. It's a condition in the brain. It's called echolalia. Echolalia.

Echolalia. Echolalia we'll call it, yeah. Echolalia. But we went to Australia a couple of years ago for like 9 or 10 days with the kids and we met some friends of our in-laws that were there and we met a lady called Nessie and so yeah her name was

Natty and so for 9 days I was a full on Brisbane Aussie and that was Natty and that was Renee and Gan Gan, and we had the whole accent going on for nine days. And I came home, and it was like, okay. Yeah, you've got to shake it off.

Yeah, yeah, you have to really do it. So, yeah, and then I remember meeting someone American who came over, an exchange student, and she thought my name was Juicy because of the Kiwi accent, and my name is Jessie. Jessie. Oh, Jessie, yeah, right. And so I was like, no, my name is Juicy because of the Kiwi accent and my name is Jessie. Jessie. Oh, Jessie, yeah, right. And so I was like,

no, my name is Jas. Jas? Right. What's it called again? Echolalia. Echolalia, yeah. I tried to learn how to play the echolalia.

It's actually harder than it looks, yeah. Too many strings. I was going to say, does this kind of affect where you plan to travel to? No, I think I just have to have that disclaimer. I might make myself a t-shirt.

Right, yeah, I've got echolalia. I'm not racist, yeah. Amazing, thank you Jez. Some messages in. This is actually really interesting because I remember reading a few months ago that American kids were getting an Australian accent from watching Too Much Bluey. Yes. And my

kids had a British accent from Peppa Pig. Yes. And my kids had a British accent from Peppa Pig. Yes. And now they don't by default, but they can put on flawless American accents because of YouTubers. Yeah. Oh yeah. And people are saying that it's their kids and why didn't this happen to us? And it's because we watched American shows more generally with that

non-accent American. Yeah, like general American, which is like nothing. Yeah, it's not identifiable to any specific part because the shows were made to be universally accepted and not too regional. Yeah, and also we watched a lot of local cartoons, Susie Cato and whatnot. Somebody said, when I go to India, I have to speak Hindu.

Hindi, sorry. And really slow English to the people there. So when I come back to New Zealand, I've got this Indian accent that sticks around for a couple of weeks. And speaking really slowly. Before I have to shake it off and get it back. Yeah.

A secondary school teacher, I was taking the role and one boy had an American accent. And I said, oh, well, that's very interesting. Where are you from? And he said, New Zealand. Okay. And I said, what's with the accent? And he said, I watch too much TV, too much YouTube.

I love someone's married and saying, ever since married at first, I can't help but have the voice of Lucinda. Oh, and having had her in last week. She's fantastic. Right across from us. Such a lovely voice. So lovely. Less of an accent and more of a way of speaking.

Yes, yes. Over enunciating and so smooth. And getting those softest lips. Yes. Oh, such a lovely. hunk of spunk. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. This is pilot fact of the week.

Timely, isn't it? Timely. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your pilot fact of the week. Speaking. Yeah, yesterday, that was chaotic. Yeah. Breaking news. There was 10 emergency response vehicles at Auckland Airport,

but the flight had already landed. So everyone was like, what's happening? It's not described as turbulence. No, apparently the pilot said they had a technical issue. Now this is a Boeing? A Boeing, yeah. Was it a couple of weeks ago John Oliver did the big story on Boeing? Yeah.

And events around the world with Boeing aircrafts? Yes. And you can opt now when you're buying tickets to fly what kind of aircraft you want to fly in? Yeah, a lot of people are filtering out the MAX. We're not loving the MAX. They are not loving the MAX. The MAX has had so many problems.

Yeah, I don't think we're, definitely not any aircraft in New Zealand flying domestically. If you let's go, because I just booked flights. You've got neon. I would recommend popping back a couple of weeks and watching the John Oliver episode on Boeing.

Just very eye-opening about the whole thing. But today's fact of the day about pilots is that an airline captain has the ability to arrest you or take your last will and testament. What? Oh, interesting. Apparently, traditions inherited from ship captaincy.

Oh, okay. Because if you were the captain on a ship, you were kind of considered the ruler of the ship. Yeah, right. And you were on international waters. So they needed to have somebody out there with them. Yeah. So they would take your last will and testament.

If you were dying on a ship and no one was there, you couldn't trust just the passenger next door. They could be like, oh, on this eight-month journey to New Zealand, we became quite close and he's decided to leave me everything. But he might have a family back home. So the captain would take the last will and testament and that's just kind of been inherited by pilots. Is that actually a thing though, really?

If they didn't have a will, well, exactly. I don't have stats on how many times it's actually happened. Yeah, right. But, you know, you're on a 17 hour flight, you're somewhere over, you look out the window and all you can see is the vast expanse of nothing, but definitely the curvature of the earth, but the vast expanse of nothing and you're dying and you're like, I didn't get my will sorted at public trust. Yeah, I think the pilot's going to be a little busy. Come back and take some notes on a sick bag. He's going to be quite busy.

So there's a couple of leather jackets in there that are worth a bit of money. Those are going to go to Jess, okay? Write that down, Jess, okay? Jess is going to go to Jess. Yeah, and I've got my teddy bear that is not to go to a child. Are you writing this down? Kweli is not to go to a child.

Not to go to a child. Do you want to be buried with that? No, no, no. He won't be able to breathe, you idiot. Write it down. Kwali is not to go to a child. Not to go to a child. Do you want to be buried with that? No, no, no. He won't be able to breathe, you idiot. Write it down. Oh, yeah. So where do you want him to go? In a museum.

In a museum. Donate to Te Papa. Te Papa. Te Papa's the one you want to do? Te Papa. Not the old school shoes, the old school shoes, don't they? They do, they've got the nomads.

Yeah. Kwali to Te Papa. A nomad's back. By the way, quick side note, a nomad's back? Like a moccasin sort of a shirt? Yeah, I believe they are.

Oh, god damn it. Have my Doc Martin collection? They can go to Vaughan. They can go to Vaughan. I don't know if he wants, is he the same size foot as you though? He's a little bit bigger,

but. What can I have? I want something. What do you want done with Aaron? Give him to Vaughan? Give him to Vaughan Give him to Vaughan They've got that giant squid They could have a giant Greg Grover from Nova

Yeah Great Put him in that solution Send him in resin Put him in there That's great Like that monk in Thailand That they're like

He's been there for a hundred years And look at him He's looking fantastic He's wearing sunglasses Because his eyes have evaporated But you know I could really say that Can I leave my mortgage to Fletch? Yes Thank you Absolutely not He's looking fantastic. He's wearing sunglasses because his eyes have evaporated. But, you know, I could really see that happening.

Can I leave my mortgage to Fletch? Yes. Thank you. Absolutely not. What happens to your mortgage when you die? They just, the bank sells it. Whoever you leave the house to inherits the mortgage. Oh, my God, absolutely not.

You can have my house. I don't want that crippling debt. I don't want that crippling debt. So today's fact of the day is an airline captain on a pilot on a flight can, if they need to, either arrest you or take your last will and testament. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Do you think that that song has seen an uptake in people playing Texas Hold'em, the card game? It's seen an uptake in people doing line dancing on TikTok.

A lot of line dancing on TikTok. Yeah. I don't know if it's making people gamble. Actually, side note, if I might digress the show momentarily. Have you seen that Kiwi guy who's doing a blackjack bet

every day? Yes. Have you? This is insane. I really, I'm, I can't remember his name. It's Nacky something. So it was like,

I only saw it yesterday and I've watched all of his videos. Bet a dollar for every follower he gets or something. No, he bets 10 cents for every Instagram follower he has. So he started out and he had quite a few. And Tim.Nacky is his name.

So he started out with some Instagram followers and he said, for every one of you, I'm going to put a 10 cent bet on a game of blackjack. Yeah. And so it turned and more people followed him. So it got bigger and bigger. He is now at 295,000 followers. So today he will be betting $29,000 on one hand of Blackjack. How does he get his money?

He does it online. So he started out, he made the initial investment and he just plays the safe bet with Blackjack. He does it online or every now and then he'll pop into the cast. Yeah, I think he did some in Vegas. It seems problematic. So he's $200,000 up. What? This is wild. But now So he's $200,000 up. What?

This is wild. But now he's placing $29,000 a bet. And I don't know what his end game is. I don't know either. But it's fascinating watching it. It's this kid who goes, all right, we're placing a $29,000 a bet. And you're like, it's nuts.

That's, yeah. It is nuts. Now, if you feel like today that you're going to have a fight with your partner, like a fight's brewing, tension's rising. Well, you're just in the mood, so you just... You're going to pick, pick, pick, pick, pick until you break him. Here is a hack that has been shared online.

If you are in the middle of an argument with your partner and it's getting a bit heated and you're feeling like, you know, people aren't being heard and it's getting a little heavy, chuck on a birthday hat. Chuck on one of those cardboard. A silly hat. Silly hat. It could just be a hat with a propeller on it.

Dumb hat. Silly hat, funny glasses, silly costume. My dad's got sort of a small collection of silly hats. Okay. He's got one with like a peak that golfers wear because my dad's bald like me. Thanks, Dad. And the peak's got one with like, it's like a peak that golfers wear because my dad's bald like me. Thanks, Dad.

And the peak's got fake hair in the middle. He's got his dreadlocks hat. He doesn't wear that out in public, thankfully. He's got a sombrero. He's got the Scottish one with like orange hair

poking out of the Scottish hat. Has he got the hat that holds two beers and has the straws? He doesn't. That would be a good one for his birthday, maybe. It would be.

You should think about that. He doesn't like to do too many beers. He'll need a couple of cookies afterwards. Yeah, what about a... Ciders. He doesn't. That would be a good one for his birthday maybe. It would be. You should think about that. He doesn't like to do too many beers. He'll need a couple of cookies afterwards. Yeah, what about a... Ciders. He could chuck a couple of ciders up there. Yeah, what about the hat with the fan built into the peak? Oh, yeah, that'd be cool.

That'd be great. Solar powered fan. Not as funny as the silly hats. The theory is anything silly that you have, right, a birthday hat is the example, it lightens the mood. Suddenly it's not as serious. You can not take each other so seriously. You can laugh a little bit, have a little bit of fun,

and then it kind of alleviates. Who gets to say the last thing before you put on the hat? Vaughan. That's not about that. Who gets to scream the last thing at the other person with spitting absolute white hot fire venom at somebody that you love and can't

imagine your life without but in that exact moment. You want to hurt so deeply. You just want to hurt them inside. Who gets to say that thing before you pop the hat on? I think it's the person with the Highland hat with the orange hair. And they're just about to put it on just as they're lifting it up to the head. And they were like, yeah, well, your mother would say that.

Bam, on. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Even better before the hat goes on. Not your mother would say that. You sound like your mother. Hat on. I don't think any hat has ever got to alleviate you sound just like your mother.

They'll slap the hat off and then it's on. You've turned it into quite a toxic tool here actually. It's supposed to be a fun light way of making an argument not so dramatic. I'm going to try this next time I have an argument.

Maybe when I tell Aaron about my affair. So I'm going to get the affair going. Storm off to the bedroom. Yeah, storm off to the bedroom, full costume change, come out looking silly.

It would be so funny. Do you know what? It actually would. I can imagine this happening. If I think about me and Aaron having a tense argument or something, if he went into the room

and was like, I just need five minutes, I'd be like, oh yeah. Well, typical. Oh, if you go, what are you doing? He comes out, there's a horse.

I'm like, he's a silly boy, I love him. Hard to argue when you're the back end of a panto horse just the back end would you say

that we've descended into chaos yeah there's a silly element there's a silliness in the air I'd say not usual for a Tuesday

no is it only Tuesday real Friday vibes in here today slap in the face well millennials apparently and I can speak for them for Tuesday. Is it only Tuesday? Real Friday vibes in here today. Slap in the face. Well, millennials apparently, and I can speak for them as I am one.

Yes. Millennials are apparently sick of the dating apps. Now, they're the first generation that kind of had dating apps. Yeah. In the dating years. Both have been off the market

so long that you've never used. Don't call me off the market, please. Roof. He knows I've got an affair brewing. Sorry. I know that you do. She's that house down the road that's perpetually for sale. It's always on the market.

The people are living there and you're like, do they want to sell it? Are they being unreasonable with their price? No, I like living there. It's a nice house, but I'm always looking. Always looking for what else is, you know, you know. For the next step up. Yeah. For the next door up.

I feel like you're doing the affair all back to front the wrong way round. Like most people have the affair and it's secret. By letting Aaron know that this is what I want to do. It's bizarre. Okay. Well, the generation that kind of had the dating apps from the get-go has apparently grown sick of the dating

apps. Fair enough. It's grim, eh? But here's the dumb thing. Apparently they're going back of the dating apps. Fair enough. It's grim, eh? But here's the dumb thing. Apparently they're going back to speed dating events. Ooh. I've never been on a speed date. I remember them like always talked about growing up. They're like an evening, eh? And you go and you move around.

And you get like a minute or so with each person. So you've got to be like. I like it on Love on the Spectrum though. Quick. Oh, okay. They do speed dating for neurodivergent people because it's like a much much more straightforward interaction that worked oh so it's but it was very funny when one of the

guys yeah started writing no while the woman was still in the chair they'd be like hey like um what are your hobbies and she'd be like this this and he'd be like okay no and then the camera crew's like hey are you writing that down while they're still there? And he's like, yeah. Like, oh, don't do that, my bro. Right. It's so good. Sort of like looking over the shoulder

of the person who's failing you on your fitness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, oh, well, I know I'm already failing, so. I think speed dating, I don't know. I think it'd be fun. Nah. Click chats. Nah.

It's over. At least if someone swipes away from you, you don't know about it. Yeah, true. But I think the dating apps are pretty grim these days. So you'd be all about the speed dating? When I've dipped a toe for a friend and having a little swipe away, it's just not good. Would you peek in the window of the bar or the restaurant

wherever the speed dating is happening? She can't sell her house. She's fussy about where she wants to live. I am fussy about with whom I have an affair. Right. Oh, that's good to know. That's good. It's good to know.

Oh, yeah. Got to make it worth my while. But then if you are like, there's the person I'll have my affair with, and you say, good sir, or less, to you, I would like to offer my affair. And they were like no thank you Oh god rejection again I know Oh wow it's been so many years since rejection

Is that on the cards? I get rejected most days Well congratulations to you Podcast listeners you've reached the end So I would assume if you've listened all this way through You're either asleep In which case wake up Or you enjoyed it.

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