ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 12th of February, 2025

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This is Flesh, Wine and Hayley's Big Pod. Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse. The biggest brands at the lowest prices. ZM's Flesh, Wine and Hayley. Good boy Bryn. Thanks Bry Healing. Good boy, Bryn. Thanks, Bryn.

Good boy, Bryn. Don't make good boy Bryn a thing. Good boy, Bryn. Great news this morning, Bryn. Good boy. ZM's Secret Sound back. 7am is your next chance to win the $10,000 cash if you can identify our brand new secret sound. And after a couple of days, it's still...

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oh god what is that it's right on the tip of my brain. That's not the saying. Yes, it is. It's the tip of my tongue. Oh, God, what is that? It's right on the tip of my brain. That's a saying. That's a tumor. Now, you're very excited. After 8 o'clock this morning, we're going to speak to an ex-maths producer.

Yeah. She's actually gone viral online because she's sort of been blowing the lid on a lot of their behind-the-scenes information. How it all works. I would have thought she would have been under on viral online because she's sort of been blowing the lid on a lot of their behind the scenes information. Which I would have thought she would have

been under some kind of strict non-disclosure contract or something. Yeah, I don't know. When you work on a show like that. Yeah. But yeah, we're going

to talk with her and ask some of the behind the scenes questions, particularly focused on Married at First Sight. Top six is on the way. Yeah, somebody on Reddit noticed,

and it was one of those things that immediately when they put it out there, everyone's like, could not agree more. When you do a drop-down menu, or you click in the drop-down menu and you type new, and you just want to hit enter for your country, always puts New Caledonia. Because there's one country with new ahead of us, and it's Caledonia. Because there's one country with you ahead of us and it's

Caledonia. Oh, Ben, it's nice. Have you? Yep. Darling, we did our French exchange there. Oh, darling! Darling, in high school, darling. Isn't there a travel advisory about, because you remember they had the riots last year. Yeah, they did. I don't think it's a nice place to travel at the moment.

They might have to go to Tahiti this year. Oh, darling. I do apologise to you. It won't be New Caledonia this year. It's going to be... What's that place in Tahiti? Bora Bora. Bora Bora.

Is it Bora Bora, darling? Lovely, darling. Tahiti. Well, I've got the top six new names for New Caledonia. Just change it. Let's just rename it. Great idea. And then every time we'll be the change it. Let's just rename it. Great idea. And then every time we'll be the first country.

We'll just go new and boom, piece of cake. Great. Suck it. That's what we'll say. Yeah. Next though, what is killing productivity for people that work at home and work on meetings in Zoom? Vaughan, would you like to...

Are you playing with yourself, Hayley? Oh, Vaughan. would you like to? Are you playing with yourself, Hayley? It's not that, no. Play ZM's Flashborn and Hayley. Now, when did I last have a Zoom meeting? I have, I don't know, maybe a couple a week actually. I'm probably still using it quite a bit.

We do a lot of interviews on Zoom now. Yeah, we do. That never used to happen. Do you guys still have, did we talk about this the other day that every now and then we'll still say to someone that we call it a Skype? Yeah. My mum does.

We'll give you a Skype later but we haven't had Skype for years. Oh, should we, we'll jump on a Skype. You're like, what? Boo-doop. Boo-boop. Boo-boop.

Boo-doop. Well, lots of workplaces are still using Zoom, right? They're still working from home and then jumping in on the Zoom meetings. So many people working from home still. Yeah, get out.

Get out of your house. There's a lot happening in the office. It's a vibe, you know? And also, let's not get into it, but it's like I was in Wellington recently and they were like, Zoom has killed not only workplaces, but like the whole city because then you're not buying coffees, you're not going out for lunch, you're not going out for drinks after work. That and the current government are doing their best

to kill Wellington City. Yeah, I didn't want to get political form. Anyway, so a lot of people still using Zoom. So there was a company that did some research around Zoom fatigue and whether or not Zoom meetings are actually making people like bored and fatigued and therefore less productive on their work. And one of the main reasons

they found that people were being fatigued over these Zoom meetings is an obsession with their own appearance. So they're getting so distracted on the Zoom about how they look that afterwards they spend so much time doing this, then they don't get as much from the meeting because they spent the whole

entire time just staring at themselves. Yeah, totally. Which I do constantly. Because you want to make sure you look okay for everyone on the Zoom. Yeah. And so, yeah. And it's also just distracting, especially if you're not used to seeing yourself in that way.

If you're on a Zoom meeting and you're there and you can see yourself, you're just more drawn towards it. I'm like that on FaceTime as well. Even with my family, friends. Well, that's why they reckon because of that and all the video calling that we're doing and filters, that's what's caused a huge rise in like cosmetic procedures. Yeah, I know.

Because we have to look at our ugly faces. Yeah, because we usually get up and we look at our ugly faces in the morning. And that's it. Right? And we'd have a little look and then we might catch a glimpse when we go to the bathroom at work. Yeah.

Or in a shop or something like that. Yeah. And then we look at our ugly face one last time after a shower before bed. Yeah. And that's it. And now, yeah, you're right. We just spend all day either looking down a Zoom, on a FaceTime. Seeing our ugly faces.

Seeing our ugly faces. I don't need to see that. You guys have to see that all day And I'm sorry enough about that Let alone me looking at it all day But yeah And apparently there was like A lot of people are still using those

Like using beauty filters During business zooms Oh yeah Just like to soften Save you putting on too much makeup If you're not leaving the house Apart from that one call Do you think it's better To turn off all cameras then And just have a You're putting on too much makeup and stuff. If you're not leaving the house apart from that one call,

do you think it's better to turn off all cameras then and just have a... Well, that's just a phone call. Do you know what I mean? That's a conference call. That's a conference call. That's old school, but conference call. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like it when I'm on Zoom and people have their cameras off. I'm like, what are you doing lurking in the shadows?

Yeah, what are you doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's so bad about yours? I've got my ugly mug out. Come on, let's see yours. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. I'd like to thank you both and the producers

for allowing me this time at 6.15 on a Wednesday morning because I wanted to tell the listeners about this fella who is making about $3,000 a month. Yep. Not bad. Is that US? No, that a month. Yep. Not bad. Is that US?

No, that's Australian. Okay. That's Australian. He's making about $3,000 additional to his other work because he works at like a Magic Mike strip kind of club thing. Right, okay. He's a dancer. He's a stripper, a dancer.

Oh, I mean, look at, he's got a rig. I mean, he's absolutely. He's a dancer. He's a stripper, a dancer. Oh, I mean, look at, he's got a rig. I mean, he's absolutely. He's a muscly man. He's all shoulders, muscly man. Handsome, beard, big guy. He'd be a bit of you, wouldn't he? He's a little bit, no. He's a bit like he's shaved off his body hair

and he's a little bit too jacked. Right, okay. Both his nipples are pierced. I don't have anything against all those things. It's a combination on him. It's not working for me. Just a bit more hair and a bit less chisel. A bit more hair and a bit less chisel.

Okay, yeah. You've got a bit of a gut going in your mind. Yeah. So his name's Nath Wilde. And like many people in this day and age, you realise you needed to make a little bit of extra cash to get a head, right? And he, with a body like that and already working in the sort of sexy entertainment industry, turned to OnlyFans.

Go at, you know. But he wasn't comfortable making really explicit videos. He was like, I don't want to do that. That's not really my thing. And he found a niche market as someone who eats a lot of protein for farting. Farting into the camera. He said,

he sort of describes, I'm just going to read it to you because he describes sort of a process. Squatting over the camera, nothing but a jockstrap, I felt a rumbling bubbling up inside of me. I'd been eating chicken and green vegetables to deliberately bloat myself so that my stomach would have

this exact reaction. Not being able to contain it much longer, I released a big fart and let out a moan before loudly telling the camera, wish you were here to smell this. That's grim. That is disgusting. Well, to each their own. He specialises in making

fart videos, sometimes making $2,000 a video. What? For people who will specifically Who has that much money that they're paying that? Yeah, people will specifically request he eats particular things.

They will request he describes the hoaft of the fart. Because farts are all about smells, aren't they? So getting a video of it. they're a real sound. But it's not a video

like that you send to someone you don't like. Do you remember there was that woman that got charged a few weeks ago for harassment? Yeah,

harassment. Because she was sending her boyfriend's ex just videos of her farting and smiling into a camera. Now she was doing that for free.

She was doing that, yeah. Well, she needs to jump on OnlyFans because he's making a lot of money. He said the first time he did it, he felt really, really awkward. He made it in his bedroom, was like trying to do a couple of different angles. And he says in his own words that he was blown away by the demand. Blown away. Just people out there for everything, aren't they? That's what he said. He's like look it's actually

not my cup of tea but who am I to judge if people want this. I've just googled like what kinks are earning the most money. Oh yeah okay. There's no definitive list on OnlyFans but I do have thebusinessinsider.com which I turn to for all my business news. I turn to all the time. Yeah you do.

Has done an article on the top 20 kinks. Feet would be right up there. Feet would be up there. I turn to all the time. Yeah, you do. Has done an article on the top 20 kinks. Feet would be right up there. Feet would be up there. Is money domination? Have you heard about that? The financial domination? Do you remember my friend got paid to blow up a balloon?

We talked about this. I could do that. I think this all the time. I've got IBS, I could fart. Yeah. Well, you let out a couple of free ones every day here at Workhorn. I do, yes, I do. And they're just for us for free.

That's just a teaser. That's to get you hooked. You could be making $3,000 a month. You should start charging us every time you need a tootie in the studio. I will. So what does the Business Insider say? Oh, I didn't even see feet on the list. Oh, okay.

Is it just odds? I will say I've never heard of urethral sounding. Vaughan. Far apart. That's like very similar to sounding with wine glasses. Yeah. You know, like. Not all that dissimilar, actually.

You make a joke, but not all that. Oh, God. I think this is. Let's take this off here because I'm curious. Play. ZM. You make a joke, but not all that. Oh, God. I think this is, let's take this off here, because I'm curious. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little poe. Silly little poe.

It is so silly, silly, silly. That silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe.illy little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Oh, no. What?

Silly little pole today. What is it? How many pillows do you sleep with? Yeah. So I'm reading this article that Shannon sent from a physical therapist that is talking about two-pillow syndrome and saying that that's no good. We shouldn't be having two pillows, just one decent pillow. Yep. Or no pillow at all.. Or no pillow at all.

She said no pillow at all. I've got a really thin memory foam and it's amazing. One pillow and if you need extra support in the neck, a rolled up towel under the old neck. Oh my God. I've got a big fluffy feather and a memory foam pillow on top. I go to it and I've always been that way. Oh my God.

Old crooked neck over here. You'll get Dowager's hump. Dowager's hump. What is that? Okay, so I Oh, crooked neck over here. You'll get Dowager's hump. Dowager's hump! What is that? Okay, so I've been getting really concerned that I'm getting a Dowager's hump because I don't have great posture for a marching girl and a pianist. It's at the back of your neck. It's pronounced penis.

Oh, my God. I'm a pianist. Yeah, she's getting a hunch. Am I? Yeah. Oh, my God. Don't say, oh, my God. This is going to make you go, no, because they've rebuilt the Notre Dame Cathedral

and they need someone to ring the bell. Let's get quasi-sproul over there for a redingo. I would love to live in Paris, but I don't want to be there. Oh my God, because I have been thinking about this recently because I sit so hunched all the time. I drive like that and you create this dowager's hump, which is the upper back near your neck gets this little hump. Right.

And they're saying that sleeping with two pillows can drastically worsen this. I used to, like when I was younger, love a bigger pillow or two pillows. But now, for some reason, just one and it's so brilliant. Love it. I'm changing my ways today purely for aesthetic reasons. I don't want the dowager's hump. Well, this is what we asked. How many pillows do you sleep with?

I'm assuming people answered as if they're sleeping on them, right? Not like how many you have on your bed. Yeah, how many pillows do you sleep with? The options are one, two, three or four. Four? Four percent of people. What?

Now, I believe those people may have misunderstood the question. Like those $10 Kmart pillows that are just like a... It's basically the pillowcase. A whip of foam. Unless they're counting a body pillow. Because I do a head pillow and a body pillow, so technically that's a two-pillow sleeping situation.

Oh, I didn't even think about that. Because this week I tried sleeping with one pillow, so I had my second pillow free. I jammed it between myself, like between the boobs and the legs. Lovely. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Now I think maybe I need to get a body pillow. We have a four pillower with us.

We have a four pillower amongst us, and no surprises, it's Shannon. Oh, Jesus. I was busy lost wandering land. How do you sleep on four pillows? One neck, one arm, one back, one knees. Every night, I can't sleep with less than four. So what is that? You sleep in a full recovery position?

Yeah. And I'm in a single bed as well. So it's tight. Why are you in a single bed? I live in a little apartment. No window as well. It's a whole situation. You have a partner.

Where does the magician sleep? Or does he just sleep in his coffin? In a coffin on the side of the wall. Standing upright. And the best part is, Shannon puts him to bed and then cuts it in half and stacks it the side of the wall. Standing upright. And the best part is, Shannon puts them to bed and then cuts it in half and stacks them on top of it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very economical. Great for the space. No, four every night. I can't, like, if we go to a hotel and there's only two, I panic and then I'll use

a throw pillow between my knees. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Like a three-way ooh in the cut chair. No. No, Shannon.

Ooh, people sit on that with a bare ass. I can't sleep with less than four pillows. Like genuinely. This is a rip off. It's so odd, isn't it? She is odd. Yeah. Well, not really.

She is odd. Well, you're not the only one. In your single bed with your magician in his box. You're odd. Stacked up in the corner. It's odd. The rabbit running around. Okay, what else?

Three pillows is 6% in the corner. It's odd. All stacked out. You're very odd. The rabbit running around. Okay, what else? Three pillows is 6% of the replies. 37% of people sleep with two and 53% sleep with one. So two's pretty close. Yeah, see, this is what you've got to do. One good. I'm changing today. Eliza, six. It's like sleeping in a cloud of memory foam and down.

But that's not under the neck. No, she's surrounding herself. In summer, surrounding yourselves. Horribly hot. Oh, that would be horribly hot. Unless you've got air con. Horribly hot. I have six on my bed, comfortably sleep with four around me at any time,

says Charlotte. So she's surrounding as well. Do these people have people sleeping next to them? Obviously not. Nothing opens you up to the idea of a little bit of hanky-panky, like being surrounded by six pillows. A barricade as such. Yeah, what's hotter, six pillows or no pillows?

If you're just a raw dogger with a top sheet, just one top sheet and no pillows. I'd actually be like, there's something hot about that. It's a survivor. No survivor and just a top sheet. Don't do that. I'm seeing a survivor. I'd be like, you's something hot about that. It's a survivor. No survivor in just the top sheet. Don't do that. I'm seeing a survivor. I'd be like, you're a manky boy and you don't know.

Well, Monique said. And you know the mattress is on the floor. The mattress is on the floor and it has no mattress protector and it's slightly soiled. Technically, all mattresses are on the floor. It's just how much is between it. No. That's poetry.

No, let me out. Technically, it's on the bed base. I'm a poetry boy. That's not poetry. That's poetry. That's your Hamilton coming through. That's so far from poetry. You out. Technically, it's on the bed base. I'm a poetry boy. That's not poetry. That's poetry, baby. That's your Hamilton coming through. That's so far from poetry. Yeah, you're looking at Rupyard Kipling over here.

We're definitely not. I'm about to write the jungle book. None was an option, said Monique. She's a no pillow sleeper. Wow, okay. None pillows. Stacey said seven is the current number. Not counting the pillow between my knees,

but I slept on both sides all over the bed. Wow, okay. We've got a single lady. So making the bed the next morning with seven pillows? It's hard enough with four. Imagine wash day. Oh. Stripping the cases.

Three pillows, says Schmooze. I make a capital A. So two pillows. Get a triangle pillow pillows on a triangle. And then one across the middle. Then they put their head across the middle so their head's in the middle of a capital A. And their head's surrounded by pillows. Weird.

So you need to get a triangle pillow. My in-laws had triangle pillows and I would sleep with them. They're not getting the neck support. They could just add another pillow. Kate says, I hit two but it's actually three. One for the head, one behind me, and snuggling the body pillow I bought after Fletch and Vaughn banged on about body pillows.

And I love it, and we're not wrong, and I cannot sleep without it now. No, we're not wrong. Body pillows are amazing. I think I need to get one. Yeah, you do. Sadly, it's just not the vibe. Where could I store it?

No, you hide it under the back. So first thing you put on the bed, and then you put the other pillows on top. I'm getting one. No, I proudly have mine at the front representing the pillow charge. If the pillows were going to war, the body pillow would be leading the charge. Honestly, you're so good. I think Briscoes.

Do we get ours Briscoes? Yeah, but these places are good. Oh, yeah, they've got them, yeah. Danielle said one for the head and one for between the legs. She needs a body pillow. Shana says a gusseted pillow. I will need to Google what a gusseted. A gusseted pillow.

Is that a triangle? That's the first one. Gusset crotch and gusset pillow. Oh. Feels like down gusseted pillow. Oh, yeah. They're like sewn, like quilted almost. Oh, no.

I wouldn't like that texture. Yeah, I've got that. That's what my feather ones are. No, that sounds like a decorative pillow only. Yeah, it is decorative only. I don't like that. Amy said, plot twist, none. I've started sleeping directly on the mattress.

I'm assuming she's got a fitted sheet on the mattress. No, she said directly on the mattress. We can only imagine she's raw dog on the mattress. With a pillow tucked under my arms like I'm giving a little cuddle. What a survivor. Elizabeth said, I sleep with four because I fight demons in my sleep and each need their own pillow. Anxiety's over here.

Regrets over here. And Kate said one because my mum told me I'd get a hunched back when I'm old if I slept on more than one pillow. I love that we've made Hayley go out shopping today. I'm going shopping for pillows. It's for aesthetic reasons. I need them because of my hunchback. And I'm going to stand up so straight today, you're going shopping for pillows. It's for aesthetic reasons. I need them because of my hunchback. And I'm going to stand up so straight today,

you're going to notice it. God, it's a lot of energy. I don't have the ab strength. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, are you, okay, when I just asked you the question, don't think about it too much. Vaughn.

Speaking. In your spirit, in your soul, are you a fork, a spoon, or a knife? Fork. Everyone wants to be a fork. No, because I'm a fork. Well, I don't know. I just, that's the one I'll use by itself. I can use it as a knife.

I can use it as a spoon, apart from for soup. Why do we have to be one of these things? People are talking about this online, and they're saying that everyone's one of, you know how like everyone's an animal or everyone's a type of, everyone's a earth, wind, water fire or whatever. This is the new version of it with the Gen Z's. Are you

a fork, a spoon or a knife? Now spork is not an option. Spork is not a thing. 100% Fletch, you're a knife. So here's the way. Wait, is that a bad thing? No, but everyone wants to be a fork. Okay. Why does everyone want to be a fork Okay Why does everybody Want to be a fork? Do you know what

Like spoon The feeling is I can't describe it But you'll know it Being a spoon Is like the same As being told That you're in Hufflepuff

You know what I mean? I'm in Hufflepuff Yeah I love Hufflepuff It's a great house Just soft and sort of weak And like cloudy We're not weak

We're not weak Accommodating Here's the definition Knives Okay In charge That's you Fletch soft and sort of weak and cloudy. We're not weak. We're not weak. Accommodating. Here's the definition. Knives. Okay. In charge. That's you, Fletch.

Yeah. Assertive. Yeah. In their own lane, i.e. Charlie XCX Chapel Rhone. Out there, right? Yeah. We're all knives. It's fantastic.

Yeah, I think I'm a knife. Yep. I'll cut the sausage. You'll cut the BS. Yeah. Spoons. Nurturing. sausage. You'll cut the BS. Yeah. Spoons. Nurturing. Sentimental. Softer vibe.

Think Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. That's you, Vaughn. You're a spoon. Vaughn's a spoon. No, Vaughn's not a spoon. I did the test. I'm a fork. Yeah, there's a little test you can do online if you want to.

Forks. Boundaries are set. Intelligent. Driven. Taylor Swift, Beyonce. They're saying a fork. So set Intelligent Driven Taylor Swift Beyonce They're saying a Forks So you think you're a Taylor Swift

Beyonce You're a Fork No I just did the test I think I'm a potato masher Because you try to shut the drawer And I'm like no No I don't Yeah what if spoon fork

If you're listening You're going spoon fork Knife doesn't apply to me It could be anything Ladle You could be a ladle I could be a ladle Oh my god I'm a whisk

Just come and Mess everything up and then just get out of here. And then you just get ejected into the sink. Out of the handheld What's this thing called? No, you're thinking a beater. Whisk. I've got a whisk attachment for the beater.

Oh yeah, me too, me too, me too. It rules. It's way better than whisking my hand. Yeah. I'm a whisk because you also don't need to Clean me thoroughly You can just give me a rinse Put me back in the drawer And that's what you think but you've got real manky bits

And then you look and there's lots of scabby crusty bits We tried to make some meringue with you But now you've got this weird film on the inside That's a bit Yeah yeah yeah that's me I'm a whisk I guess I'm a whisky gal I like whisk. I guess I'm a whisky gal. I like to take whisks. I'm a whisk gal. Fletch is a potato peeler because you just put

your hand in the drawer and somehow nick yourself on it and you're like, oh, why did it do that to me? Why did it hurt me? And you look at it and you're like, surely it couldn't have hurt that much. Why have you hurt me? Why have you hurt me like that? You look so innocent. Well, yeah, you can do this quiz online. Just look it up. Am I a spoon, fork or knife?

ZM's Fletch, Vaugh do this quiz online. Just look it up. Am I a spoon, fork or knife? Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. From the Notes app on Vaughan's phone, this is the Top 6. Hello. Today's Top 6 dealing with New Caledonia comes from a Reddit post from Inanimate Lamp that says, F you, New Caledonia.

I work in logistics and my job mostly deals with the domestic market. Every time I need to enter New Zealand as a country, the item is being shipped within. F-ing New Caledonia always pops up first, which requires me to make the debilitating effort to hit down arrow enter to get to New Zealand because of something called alphabetical order or another blatant government lie.

New Caledonia isn't even a country. It's a territory of France. Let's just rename New Caledonia France too and be done with it. We deserve that spot on the drop down. Couldn't agree more. Oh my God, I love this rant. It's so good. Why is it called New Caledonia?

Because my knowledge is Caledonia is an area of Scotland and this is a French colony. Well, why are we called New Zealand? It's just the next one that they named and found. It was a Dutch territory, right? So explorer James Cook, who I've only heard great things about. Oh, yeah, what a guy. Let's build more searches.

Great guy. Great guy. Great explorer. Was one of the first Europeans to spot New Caledonia. So, of course, he did what Europeans didn't rename it entirely. On the 4th of September, 1774, he said New Caledonia because the northeast of the island reminded him of the Scottish Highlands.

Had he been? A tropical South Pacific island reminded him of freezing cold, blowy Scotland? Yeah, weird. Madness. So I've got the top six new names for New Caledonia.

So we make it easy going forward when we drop down the menu. New Caledonia. No, New Zealand. Number six, Caledonia. I'd say we drop down. Yeah. It's so old.

It's literally been around for so long. It's a region of Scotland. It's not its own country. While we're at it, I don't think New South Wales should be called New South Wales. It should just be called South Wales. I also think...

Or just give it a better name, full stop. And you know what? We've been around for too long to be calling ourselves new as well. We're not New Zealand anymore. We're Old Zealand. Or you know what? Aotearoa, because then we're A ourselves new as well. We're not New Zealand anymore. We're Old Zealand. We're Zealand. Or you know what? Aotearoa because then we're A. We're right at the top.

No, but then if we go Old Zealand, what countries will be in the menu before us? Old. Old Town Road. Yeah. Are we going to change Plymouth as well? To New Plymouth? No, just to Plymouth. Nah. Methy, no teeth.

Number five on the list. We love New Plymouth. New names for New, no teeth. Number five on the list of the top six. We love New Plymouth. New names for New Caledonia. What about rather than you, Younger Caledonia? Yeah, that gets them away from us on the drop down menu. Number four on the list

of the top six new names for New Caledonia. What about La Pita? Because I did some research and that was what the culture of the people of the area were called before colonisation. Oh, wow, yeah.

La Pita also gets it out of our way on the area were called before colonisation. Oh, wow, yeah. Capita also gets it out of our way on the alphabetical drop-down. Yeah, perfect. Number three on the list of the top six new names in New Caledonia, what about South Caledonia? Yep, gets it out of the way. We're under them. Boom!

No, they're south of the original Caledonia. Oh, okay, yep. It's like Palmerston North is just north of Palmerston. Oh, that's true. It's the northernmost Palmerston. Number two on the list of the top six new names for New Caledonia. What about Tropical Caledonia? Given that that's the major difference

between the two Caledonias. Beautiful. It's an island. Gets it off the drop-down menu. And number one on the list of the top six new names for New Caledonia. It's been there

staring us in the face all the time. French Caledonia. Oh, that makes so much sense. They speak French way better. There's a French whack French in front of everything. Get out of my way, New Caledonia. Is that going to annoy the French?

I don't care. A head of France in the bulldog? F-R-A. Yeah, it'll be after. We're fine. They'll be fine. Okay, perfect. What are the French going to do?

Roll over and show us their soft belly like they did the Nazis in World War II? Yeah, you heard me. Wow, political. Historically political. Really? That is today's top secret. Valentine's Day, this Friday, we've got another jealous bunch to give away soon.

Oh, yeah. By the way, register ZM online. Tell us who you want to make jealous and we will send you a giant bunch of flowers. We've had some great stories. I could not believe yesterday's three year situation ship. Even off

air we were like what are they doing? After the show Hayley was like I still can't believe it. I know I still can't believe it and now I want to I just want to dive into it. Well an analytics company called Just has released a blog post with a whole bunch of Valentine's Day app

insights based on last year. So, and this was interesting, so restaurant booking apps and sessions surged by 156%. Wow. Wow. February 14, 88%. So this is people maybe, I don't know, maybe they're doing first table. Do people still do that? Yeah. Nothing says 56% Wow February 14 88%

So this is people I don't know Maybe they're doing First table Do people still do that? Yeah Nothing says I love you Like let's go out

At 5pm Because it's half price Because it's so much cheaper But we've got to be out At 6.15 Nothing says I love you Like let's do this With our budget in mind

And plan for our future together Where we have to spend On more important things That's right Why pay full price? Yeah. Also, recipe app sessions peaked by 60% on Feb 12. Oh, the home cooking?

So that's Feb 12. So like people are like, what am I cooking? I need to get everything ready. Get ingredients on the 13th, cook on the 14th. Music and app installs grew by 35%. Love making playlists. From Feb 10. So people are, yeah, getting playlists ready. Wow. For Valentine's Day. from Feb 10. So people are,

yeah, getting playlists ready for Valentine's Day. People are really preparing. I know. Messaging app sessions increased by 31% on Valentine's Day.

So is that like, hey, you up? What you doing? Do you reckon it's like your signals, your WhatsApp, your hidden sort of,

do you know what I mean? What, like cheating? Yeah. I just assumed it would be people that didn't have a Valentine and they were like, well, I'll just hit up some. Yeah, that's weird or just, yeah, I don't know. But you'd already have them.

Or people are like alone so they're like reaching out to, I don't know, isn't that weird? Yeah, it is weird. But 31% it's huge. Yeah. And what about dating apps? Because I always wonder if people who are at this point of the week going to be alone on Valentine's Day,

perhaps they decide they don't want to, and on a whim, maybe on the 12th or the 13th, they're quickly downloading an app to see if they can get a little Valentine's. So according to Tinder's year in swipe 2023 Bird. No. Like hanky panky. Ahead of Valentine's Day there was a 10% increase in overall matches compared to the average day.

Yeah, we swipe it and we're opening up. I reckon you're dropping your standards a little bit too. Okay, well none of these have worked. It's the 12th. Yeah, okay. This guy, this guy. That's fine. Oh, yeah. Okay. This guy, this guy. That's fine. Oh, it's nice to know that people are planning to do big things. Yeah, people are getting ready.

The playlist, the recipes, the restaurant bookings. I'm actually going away to spend Valentine's Day with my best friend. Right. Yeah. I was actually going to see if Aaron had plans on Valentine's Day and I was going to come around and deal with that wasp's nest that he needs dealing with. Oh, do you know what?

He would prefer that more than me making some romantic dinner or anything like that. That could have been perfect. What a dreamy Friday night for the two of us. I would love for you guys to spend Galentine's Day together dealing with the wasps in our bush. You are more than welcome to look after my boyfriend. I've dealt with a couple of bloody wasps in the bush on Valentine's Day before.

What does that mean? What are you insinuating? I think we all know. I don't know. I think we all know. Don't dig up. No, I want you to describe it because it doesn't make any sense. Buzz, buzz.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? Come on, guys.? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? Come on, guys. We can do this today. We can do this.

We can do this. We welcome Angel to What's Your Jobby. Good morning, Angel. Good morning. How are you? Really good. She works for God. In heaven. Angel, don't even give him the time of day with that laughter. Now, Vaughan, please be sensible. We haven't had a win this year. That's a beautiful name, Angel, don't even give him the time of day with that laughter. Now, Vaughan, please be sensible. We haven't had a win this year.

That's a beautiful name, Angel. We'll ask you three questions about your name, about your job, and then we'll try to guess your job. Okay, easy enough. Okay. Angel, do you work in the fashion industry? No, definitely not. That is the most ridiculous question.

She just had a really nice customer front end. The only woman in fashion. No, you just had a sort of a I don't know, like she would help me get a shirt. That was a stupid question. No, it wasn't because Angel actually led us down a path there. She said no, definitely

not. Absolutely not. So we're far from fashion. I think, Angel, do you work with children? No, also not the case, no. You guys have really stitched me up here. I thought absolutely not. I was imagining Messi, and she's like, I don't have nice clothes because I get paint all over them.

Absolutely not in fashion. Absolutely not working with kids. I want to ask if it works in an office, but then if she says yes, it's... Well, where are we? Where are we? Almost, okay, just a little side brainstorm on air. It's that we need like six questions. No, it's like you need to ask a better first question is what I'll say.

It is like that. It's like you need to ask a better first question. What about animals? Do you know what I mean? Angel, don't say anything. No what I'll say. It is like that. It's like you need to ask a better first question. What about animals? Do you know what I mean? Angel, don't say that. No, I don't. I mean, I can answer that. Angel, can I just,

can you, I just need to hear your voice a little bit more to give us a sense of... Why don't you tell us what you had for breakfast? Yeah. Oh, no breakfast yet

because I start really early, you know? Just some coffee. Do you want... Oh, see, you've got to close it. Think about it, guys. Think about it. When do you have breakfast? This isn't one of the questions.

That's a question. No, no, no. This is just a sidebar. I'm worried about it. How much of your day is she going through without eating? She's so early.

She said she starts really early. Think about it. She's a farmer. She's a farmer. Yeah, she's a farmer. She's a farmer. Do you work with animals? No, I don't work with animals either. She said she starts really early. Think about it. She's a farmer. She's a farmer. Yeah, she's a farmer. She's a farmer. Do you work with animals?

No, I don't work with animals either. She's a... She's a... Oh, why don't you talk into the microphone? It wasn't my turn. Courier. We take turns on this station. Courier. Okay, go courier.

Oh, no, no. She starts really early. What other jobs start really early? Okay. Baker. Baker. Baker. Angel. Baker. Angel, is your jobby a baker?

No, it's not a baker either. Okay. Angel, what's your job? I am a courier driver. Oh, what have you done? I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And you railroaded me.

I heard it. You should be eating early. I see. I'm sorry sorry. And you railroaded me. I heard it. You should be eating early. I'm sorry. You're on the run all day. Yeah. I was going to overrule you, but then it's really bad for a man to do that to a woman. It is. So I let you win and then we lost.

But almost it's as if the man should have. It's almost like I should have overruled you. It's almost like if we give women too much, they'll ruin everything. We stuff it up. We stuff it up. We stuff it up. Angel, unfortunately. Angel, we had it. Yeah, going home empty handed there.

Let's go to George. Good morning, George. Far out. Morning, guys. Good morning. Do you wear a uniform to work or for your job, George? I do. Great question.

Doesn't George have a lovely. Yes, to me, it's giving trades. Tambra. Tambra is the sound of his voice. Yeah. But a uniform, a trade, okay. Yeah, because I wear... I mean, when you say high-vis, is it a uniform?

It might be like a... Have a little logo on his high-vis. Okay. George, do you work with your hands? That's stupid. Everybody works with their hands, Hayley. Is your job a hands-on job Everybody works with their hands, Hayley. Is your job a hands-on job?

Not soccer players, Fletch. Why don't you say you were trading? What if he's a soccer player? Because they wear uniforms and they don't wear their hands. If he's a soccer player, they literally cannot pick up the ball. Yeah. Unless he's a goalie. But they're not in their uniform. They're in a slightly different shirt.

They're in a slightly different uniform. No, they're in a uniform. It's just slightly different. I'm sticking with my question. Screw you. George, do you work with your hands a lot? Yes, I do use my hands. That's so stupid, Hayley, because he could be typing or hammering.

We could have another courier on our hands. If someone says we've got three couriers on the line, then we won't get it once. No, but I think as a courier, you wouldn't say you work with your hands. You work with your legs more. No, but his hands help the steering wheel and change the gears and put on the park brake and open the door and carry the parcels. He works with his hands.

Over to you, Vaughan. He's in a uniform. He works with his hands. We've got a trade-in. Do you work classic nine to five hours? No. He's a shift worker. He's a trade-in.

I'm telling you, he's working seven till lunch and then he's going to pop off to another job and never come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, another job. And then he's going to ring you and say, oh, sorry, I went out to get a part, which you could have got before you came to my house, but you didn't.

But then I found myself in a car park playing with myself and I can't be bothered coming back to work. That's our tradies' work. And now I'm so close to my house. There's no point in me going all the way back to yours. I'll try to be back tomorrow. Apologies to all tradies listening now. No, they should apologise to me.

Hardworking diligent. They should apologise to me. All of them. Okay, we need a guess. A last question. He's in a clicker. He's got his indicator going. That's a van.

That's a high-ass. You reckon a courier. He's an electrician. Yeah, I reckon it's a courier. Electrician courier. George, are you a courier? No. I am.

I'm a nurse Can I say George can you give us a little bit of bedside chat With that lovely voice of yours Help me George I've got a really sore arm Hello Hayley I'm George I can't handle it No don't should we get you to read a whole book

George taking my temperature in my ear Or under my tongue is not accurate. There's only one place to get that. Anyway, another time, George. You can promise the mother of my book another time. George, thank you for your service. Thank you for your service, George. Sorry for the terrible questions there from my colleagues.

Again, really terrible. PJ, good morning. Morning, Cain. How are you? Well, floundering. I'll be honest. Absolutely floundering. Flound be honest. Absolutely floundering. Floundering.

We need a win here. Okay. PJ, I'll go first. Is your life ever in danger at work? Oh, great question. Great question. Oh, my goodness. Yes, I guess so.

Oh! She's on the oil rig. She's on the oil rig. She's on the mines. She's on the mines. She's on the mines. Old school mines too. Underground, she goes down in a lift.

Okay, I really like this question. She works at Kelly Tarleton's. And she has to feed the sharks. She has to feed the sharks. With a blindfold on. Yeah. Is your life ever at risk?

Yes, it is. She could also just be a courier. Yeah, I mean, the roads are bad. The roads are bad. Okay, can I, I'm going to use a question that Vaughn asked earlier

because I think it really helped us. PJ, do you work normal nine to five hours? No. Yeah. Life's a danger. Life's a danger. Not nine to five hours. Wait, what about like a truck drive?

Police. Police. PJ. Ask, do you work? Do you have a radio? Do you have a uniform? Yeah, I reckon you do. Do you wear a uniform, PJ?

Kind of. No, well, that's not a cop then. Yeah, because police definitely... Could be undercover. Could be undercover. Could be a detective. A vet. Because they're in danger.

Yeah, because you get stomped by a giraffe. Stomped by a giraffe, kicked by a horse, bitten by a dog. I don't know that she's getting stomped by a detective. A vet. Because they're in danger because animals are unpredictable. Yeah, because you get stomped by a giraffe. Stomped by a giraffe, kicked by a horse, bitten by a dog. I don't know that she's getting stomped by giraffes. Odd, odd hours. Or oil rig worker. PJ. She's either an elephant vet or an oil rig worker. We're going to hurry up because PJ's going to catch the helicopter out today.

Maui. Gus. Okay, let's get a guess in. Do you want to go with Vette? But I don't think that puts your life at risk. She's kind of in a uniform. Her life's at risk because she doesn't work normal hours.

She's a courier. Okay, okay, okay. Hang on. Listen to this. I'm going to the text machine. Probation officer, someone said. Oh, yeah. No uniform. Do officer, someone said. Oh, yeah. No uniform. Do they wear a uniform? Oh, they do.

They do. They do. Kind of. Someone else texted saying Hayley and Vaughn are really dragging Fletcher in the mud today. Thank you. Thank you. Us. Yeah, us.

Excuse me. I reckon she's a courier. You want to go courier? Come on. I mean, it's either courier or a rig worker or elephant. A broken clock is right twice a day. Courier. You want to go courier? I mean, it's either courier or rig worker or elephant vet nurse. A broken clock is right twice a day. But it's also wrong so many other times in the game.

So many other times. So many other times. PJ, are you a courier? No. Oh. Okay. Wait, you guys literally said my job while you were talking to me. Oh, no.

PJ, what's your job? A truck driver. Oh! You're kind of couriering things. No. No, that's not the same. No, we can't fumble $100 for that. What kind of truck?

Well, I've got a couple of questions. What kind of truck do you drive and what are you, like, transporting? Pellets. Pellets? Just pellets. Just plain empty pellets. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. Okay. How big's your truck? Because we've all driven a big truck. What kind of truck have you got? 18-wheeler. Kenworth. Scania.

No, 12. 12. Nice. Nice. That's a good truck. Well, unfortunately, PJ. No, I don't know. What brand is the truck?

Hino. Oh, it doesn't matter. Mercedes. Oh! Must be nice. Must be nice. Well done. Congratulations, PJ. What brand is the truck? Hino. Oh, it doesn't matter. It's ladies. Oh! Must be nice. Must be nice. Well done. Congratulations, PJ.

Yeah, for not winning there. What's happening? Every day she gets to win, though. She gets to drive a truck. She gets to go, brr, brr. When kids are like, how are you doing? Yeah, but what PJ doesn't get is $100. None of them did.

Not George, not Angel. When we do this again, you guys have got to focus your questions. PJ, is PJ short for pyjamas? No. Can I guess what it is? Is it Penelope Jane? No, T.

T. Oh, it's TJ. Thanks. Tracy Junior. Named after mum. Tracy Junior. Okay, well, thank you, Tracy Junior. Named after mum. Tracy Junior. Okay, well, thank you, Tracy Junior. Well, now we need to know what's it short for. No, TJ, what's it short for? It's short for pajamas.

Love you, PJ. Please drive safe out there. Oh, yeah, sorry. TJ, what's your full name? I need to know now. She doesn't want to tell you. Yeah, she's a truckie. Okay.

What is it? She doesn't want to say. She's gone. She's gone. She's gone truckie. Okay. What is it? She doesn't want to say. She's gone. She's gone. She's gone. She's gone. So leave it there, Vaughn. You're a loser.

Have you seen a truck full of pallets today? Tammy Jones. It's Tammy Jones. Oh, Tammy Jones. I don't know if this game's going to be back again. I think it's more fun when we don't get it. No! Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.

Get producer Shannon on the mic. Get her on the mic. Good morning. Good morning, Shannon. Let me like paint a picture for you here. Now, when we make this show for you every morning, we all kind of throw in ideas of things that we want to talk about. And Shannon came into the room yesterday and was like,

we have to talk about the fact that there's a, I believe she called it a study or an article from a doctor stating that when you get your pap smear, which we should be getting every couple of years. I've been telling them not to take photos of me as I leave work. No, not the paps, not the pups.

The paparazzis. Your pap smear in your cervix. The guitar player for the food fighters. I'll stop now. Thank you. That one smear in your cervix. The guitar player for the Foo Fighters. I'll stop now. Thank you. I just had that one last one in there. Thank you. PSA, get your pap smears.

Now, when you get them, you had read this article from a doctor that said that you shouldn't have sex within four weeks after getting a pap smear. Yeah, I believe I quoted it from a conference as well. It was a conference, she said, that a doctor spoke at. Now, listeners, please just bear in mind.

There is an end to this tale. Yes. And we will clarify all. And then we were all, Carwen included, right, we were all like, what? Like, how have we not been told this before? This video has got three and a half million views. Me and all the comments were freaking out. Freaking out. I'm now telling you guys

you're freaking out. I know because we've had abnormal, because basically it said that if you have sex within this time because of the scraping that they do on the cervix, it could vary your next results and give you an abnormal result. And then you've got to go through this whole kind of process of maybe getting

some biopsies done and all this kind of stuff to rule out cancer. Anyway, so we were like shocked, right, Carl? And we went, I didn't know this was information to me. So we said, let's get show doctor, an actual doctor, Dr. Shawnee on the show to tell us all about this and spread the word. The thing that we didn't know about. The awareness that we should all know.

So Shannon in the group brings it up yesterday and says, Hayley, do you want to reach out to Dr. Shawnee and just brief him on what we're going to speak to him about at 7.40 tomorrow morning? So I did. I called him and I said, hey, can we get you on the show to talk about this thing?

And I sent him a message and then he calls me immediately. And I was like, man, he's excited. I've reached, you know, the pinnacle of medicine. You have. He's excited to release this PSA to the women of the world to say, yes,

we mustn't be doing this. And he said to me, so now I'm taking time out of my day. Just a note. Taking time out of my day and his day. He's a doctor and I'm a comedian, you know, so we're both very note. Yeah. Take my time and my day. And his day. He's a doctor. Yeah. And I'm a comedian. You know, so we're both very busy. Very.

We're on the phone. We're on the blower together. And he's like, oh my God, where did you read this? I said, it was a medical article. I believe it was presented at a conference, a medical conference. Three million views on TikTok. Three million views. Yeah.

And he said, send me the link to the study or the article, the published medical article. I said, oh my God, I will. Stand by so we could prep for our interview. Yeah. Then I request Shannon, can you send me the link to this journal, this article, this medical document? And she sends me a TikTok and immediately.

Jesus Christ. This is a prime example of what's wrong with this weird reliance people have on social media for anything other than photos of babies that belong to people that they went to school with. I love that I've read an article is now I've just seen a TikTok. Yeah. Everything. I've been doing my own research. Watch the TikTok.

Read an article. Watch the TikTok. I was talking to someone. Watch the TikTok. Read an article. Watch the TikTok. I was talking to someone. Watch the TikTok. To be fair, Shannon sent the TikTok and we all went, TikTok. And she goes, but hang on. And then she sends a link to an article, which is the woman presenting, and then you just

see, dot, dot, dot, Shannon typing, oh no, she's a naturopath. Naturopath who said that bicarbonate soda or baking soda cures cancer are banned for life by Health Watchdog. Barbara O'Neill was banned from providing any health services in 2019. She's Australian. After making claims such as bicarbonate soda can treat cancer, are cancers caused by mushrooms...

Are you just joining us, by the way? This is all not true. Unsupported statements about infant nutrition, antibiotics for pregnant women, and vaccination. She's harmful and unsubstantiated, and her qualifications are very limited. She's permanently banned from offering any health services in New South Wales, ACT, Queensland, and Victoria, although Western Australia will still listen to her, apparently. How embarrassing.

Is she banned in New Zealand, though? It does. Don't you try to find a loom. Also, at this point, Dr. Shawnee is still waiting. He's sitting by in his medical practice waiting for me to send this article. And then I just have to, I text him

back and I say, effing Shannon. I say, she sent me the link. It's from TikTok. We've looked up this woman. Don't worry. She's a naturopath as you were. Now, I don't have anything against naturopaths. I've had great experience with naturopaths, but them making these huge medical claims where it's, yeah, it was.

The original I've got cancer. Have you tried sprinkling baking soda on it? Go to your pantry. Do you know what I did notice? The group chat name got changed after this. Yeah, it did. I have officially renamed us Shannon's Guardians. Because she sleeps in a single bed while her magician

boyfriend sleeps in a sword and half box stacked in the corner. She's surrounded by pillows. She's described her apartment. None of us have ever been. It sounds like she's in prison. And then I bought a raw potato to work yesterday. Found out you can get sick from that. She thought she could eat a raw potato. Like, I cooked

it some. Cooked it some. Guys, she cooked it some. I'm worried about you, Shannon. Well, I'm less worried about leaving my 13-year-old and my 10-year-old at home alone than I am about Shannon being unguarded the minute we leave work. Like, my kids could survive.

Yeah, don't worry. They'd never look at a potato and be like, I should kind of cook that. Right, but getting back to the original claim, not true. Not true, and actually Dr. They'd never look at potato and be like, I should kind of cook that. Right. But getting back to the original claim, not true. Not true. And actually, Dr. Shawnee was saying to me on the phone, he was like, now we have to remind people that you can actually get your,

you can do your own pap smears. So if you do a pap smear and you're all embarrassed, you don't want a doctor getting in there or whatever, and that's the thing that puts you off. Cervical cancer is one of the most rapid, fast killing cancers that women can get. You can go in and you can do your own. You just pop to the toilet.

And? Little swab. And you can have sex? And? Afterwards? You can have sex. Yeah, not during. Not at the clinic.

No. No. No. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley Well, we're back to Shannon who's recovered from a light off-ear roasting. Us, Shannon's guardians.

Thank you. To say congratulations. Your brother's having a baby. Oh my goodness. Auntie for the first time. I'm excited. Nervous. I don't want to drop her.

You know? I don't think they're going to be leaving you alone with the baby for a while. I don't think baby's coming for a sleepover. Until it's at least 15. Well, where's it going to sleep? At the end of the single bed? And then it's actually going to be the baby's going to be looking after you

rather than the other way around. You told us something that we found pretty cute. Yeah. My brother, so obviously his first time having a kid, and this is the first baby in the whole family. That's exciting. Well, you guys were babies once. We'll explain that to you later.

And how were those made? Okay. So he's becoming a dad for the first time. Baby's not due for a few months, but he's been driving weekly to the hospital to practice. June. I'll tell you when it's due. June.

It's February. He's seen the way to practice. June. I'll tell you when it's June. June. It's February. He's seen the where to go. I was like, good on him because we never got the chance to do that and he came six weeks early and we were literally driving in, ringing, being like, where do we go? Yeah.

The thing I find funny though is it's just a motorway. Like, it's all, like, get on, get off. You put in Google Maps, right? You've got to know where you're going at the other end is the thing. Yeah, well, I said to him, I said, Google Maps exists during labour. Yeah.

And he didn't find that as funny as I thought it was. Yeah, but also, if his partner's in labour and he's on his phone, I'm flipping tables at that point. So how many times has he done the practice drive? He told me he'd done it a few times, and this was over New Year's, and he's still practicing. Wow. Was he trying to

beat the time? I think he's testing out different terrains. Like, it's raining. I'll test the drive. Google Maps is going to be the ultimate. I'm with you. I think it's cute. But I am a bit like, okay, once is enough. Vaughn's got the point. He needs to go to the actual hospital and look around where to actually go.

Which door he goes to. And then there's no need to practice. Do you reckon he puts on a fake belly? No. He puts on a fake belly? They're not buying that. He can't waste their time by going in and going, we're in labour. Tell us where to go and then be like,

jokes, but now we know the hallway and the corridor and the room. So he's just practising the drive. Yeah. I think it's really sweet. You can go to the entrance though. Yeah. Yeah, look where to park. Yeah, cute.

Well, this is what we wanted to ask this morning. Yeah. Has anybody else done this? Because I mean, if you're first time parents, you probably are going to practice or like get things ready. Yeah, how did you practice or prepare for the baby? Yeah, people get the room ready

as soon as they find out, they're like, we've got to get this nursery ready. They get it ready so much time and then also the sort of people that the baby just co-sleeps with them for the first two years. Yeah, for sure. Beautiful room just sits empty and they outgrow everything before they've even used it. Or maybe like, would you practice putting on nappies on a doll?

They teach you at antenatal. They give you a baby and you've got these dolls and you have to do stuff, so there's that. But people could be practicing at home for sure. Getting a cabbage from the fridge and putting a nappy on it. A cabbage? I don't know, what looks like a bum? Like the size of a baby's bum.

Oh yeah, like a watermelon or something. Yeah, yeah. Could you practice on a watermelon? Yeah, you could. Like a little watermelon. Yeah.

A little nappy on a watermelon. Okay, 0800 DARS at M. Has anybody, we want to know if anybody else is doing what Shannon's brother is doing. Taking it to the extreme.

Yeah, 0800 DARS at M. Give us a call, you can text through 9696. How did you prepare for the baby? Well, Shannon's about to become an auntie. Her brother is having a child and he's been practising driving from the home to the hospital again and again and again since January.

The baby's due in June. So we wanted to know how hard did you prepare for the baby? James, how hard did you prepare for the baby? Well, we didn't do this, but after having a kid, this would be good practice. Okay. Get a live octopus and try stuffing it into a string bag, because that's what trying to dress a newborn baby feels like. A wriggly, wriggly.

So you're suggesting you go down to the local fish market, buy a whole octopus. A live one. A live one. Yep, exactly that. There's lots of squishy bits, and you're trying to push them into holes, and it doesn't want to go. Yeah, that would be really good practice.

Great new dad advice there, James. And you just get the octopus in the string bag, and it shit itself, so you've got to take it out and get it into another one. Yeah. Exactly, that's it. You've been there, you've done this. Yeah, right. You know, mate.

Did you practice changing diapers or anything, James, pre the birth? No, we didn't, but we wish we did because, you see, the first time we babysat our friend's kid when it was only a few months old and they wanted to go out for the first time before we had our own children, they were like, yeah, just bath her and change her. So we put her into a onesie and they got home.

Later on, they're like, well, it's on back to front. And we're like, yeah, just bath her and change her. So we put her into a onesie and they got home. Later on, they're like, well, it's on back to front. And we're like, okay. And he zip goes to the back. Yeah, we had no idea. They don't come with a manual, so it's really hard to know. Yeah. Nice. I also learnt the hard way you've got to tuck the willy.

Yeah, apparently. Yeah, you've got to tuck the willy or they wet themselves. James, thank you. Some messages in. Somebody said, my husband prepared for our baby by accidentally setting fire to the rental we were living in and cleaning the bottles in a hygienic way.

I don't know how he's doing that with fire. Right. We had to move in with mum and dad for six months. So that was pretty good. Pretty good. My partner learned how to heat milk without burning it. We drank a lot of warm milk during my pregnancy because he wanted to get, he wanted to, like a chef.

Like a chef in training and milk just the right temperature. Keep your texts coming in. 9696 0800 dials at M. How did you prepare for the baby? We're talking about how you practiced. Well before the baby was due, Shannon's brother's driving to the hospital It's due in June

Everybody's saying, it's the part everyone knows how to get to the hospital, it's where you gotta go when you get there That's the bit you gotta sort out, that's the bit you wanna know Babies are easy, said somebody You should prepare yourself for the pits of hell that are enduring toddlers more than babies

I practiced blending fruits to make little baby foods, but I ended up just eating it all. I was just using an excuse to eat wisdom fruit, basically. Somebody else said, I practice doing everything for myself as my partner was leaving to work in Italy for 12 weeks on our due date. No job would be worth it, dude.

Someone messaged my dad, practiced driving to the hospital three different ways and in the cargo, which has the widest, quietest streets anyway. He wanted to see which way was the quickest.

Didn't matter because mum had a 24-hour labour anyway. 24 hours. No need to rush. My husband should have practised how we were going to fill the bath situation we had for the home birth, the pool. Because when I started going to labour, he went out and put the hose, but the hose was two metres short of where the pool ended to be.

Also, that's going to be so cold. Yeah. How are we? Yeah. You've got to boil. Put a couple of jugs in. You've got to boil jugs. Oh, my God.

Put a couple of jugs in. No, we should have practiced that. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Well, she's been blowing the lid on the behind-the-scenes action of Maths, Married at First Sight. She's on the show with us to talk about it all. Alexandria Finnell, welcome to the show. Hello. Thank you.

Hello. Hello. Now, okay, so you used to, okay, let me get into this. So you worked in post-production, right, which is like after everything's been shot, you're in the editing room from that perspective. Is that right? Correct, yes.

There is a difference between the producers who are on set with the participants and then the story producers who are in post-production. So I'm in post-production. So we work through all the footage and yeah. So let's even touch on the fact that it's a story producer and yet it's reality TV, Alexandria. Like how much of it, I mean,

because you've kind of gone viral recently for kind of blowing the lid on a lot of the behind the scenes stuff. How much of it are you actually manipulating? Well, probably the simplest way to describe it would be it's not a documentary and it's not scripted. It's a heightened version of reality. Now, in terms of how much of it, I can't give you a percentage. The stories are led by the stories that happen.

We don't just come up with some story and make it be that. In terms of the manipulation element, I think what the participants are often referring to is more happened around the story sometimes. Yeah, that got cut or whatever. We're filming them for 14 hours a day and most of the time we're airing three minutes of their day yeah so it's only natural that things are going to get cut out and the interesting things are going to get kept in that's just showbiz of course do you get annoyed when like contestants come out and they're like they've edited me to look like the villain. Cause I'm always like, you had to say it. You said it. Yeah. It really annoys me. And that's part of why I've

started talking out. Um, because not, not many post producers actually put their hand up and be like, it's me. And so the participants get, can just go around saying whatever they want. But there've been so many times where participants have blamed the edit and the edit has specifically been my edit. And I've been like, why, Iona? Like, no, you did that. And so, no, I think they use, you know, they refer to the frankengrabs as a way to say, see, I didn't say it.

But two things can be true at once. We can make, you know, clarify what someone's saying through a frankengrab and also they can have done it. Like the edit is led by their behaviour and what they did. Can you just, because I know what you're talking about because I watch the show so much, but can you just explain what a frankengrab is? Yeah, so it's what people love to refer to as, you know,

the bad stitched together words essentially. But most of the time a frankengrab is just used to clarify the sentiment, I would say. If you're speaking in circles, I'm sure you guys will edit this a little bit to make it clearer. We've already made you say some horrendous things. Yeah, your stance on Trump.

I mean, it's really weird. I wouldn't have thought a woman would say that of another woman, but you did. And that's fine. Are you getting in trouble? Because you've actually got a podcast called That's Showbiz, Baby, right? You talk about showbiz and behind the scenes and maths has been a hot topic,

but you talk about other shows. Are you getting villainised a little bit within your own industry? People have been like, Alexandria, shut up. Honestly, all my friends, even the ones who still work at maths and whatever, they're proud of me and they're like, yeah, you do it, do it. Like, keep going. Everyone's secretly listening and pretending they're not. I do think the maths EP is unhappy with me, though, from what I've heard.

Right. But what are you going to do? Yeah, I know. Sue me, I guess. Yeah, I guess sue you. I mean, don't open there. Have you been watching the current season of Maps Australia? We're a little bit behind you,

but who would you have had a great time editing? Do you know what I mean? Because there's some really great characters on there. I would have loved editing Jackie and Ryan. Are they on your screens yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're just, see, that is what I live for. These, you know, quirky people come on television. Yeah. They have a perception of

themselves and they think that they're going to put that perception forward and project that image, but they don't have a lot of self-awareness necessarily. And yeah, I would probably have fun with them because they're just being their true authentic selves and it's hilarious. Yeah, it is. And if you had a really good friend of yours and he or she was like, hey, I'm signed up to go on this reality show,

would you let them? My friend is asking me at the moment actually. And I think he could because I think he is a genuine person i think he has good self-reflection so i would just ask the person who wants to go on to be really honest with themselves about how they are generally perceived in friendship groups in social situations if they generally have a fine time um they'll probably be fine. It's the ones who often cause havoc in their real lives. Yeah.

Come on. And then they continue to cause havoc. Like a new character doesn't come out of you once you're on the show. Yeah, totally. You can't suddenly turn the sweetest, softest, nicest guy into this like horrendous, problematic villain. Yeah, yeah. So I'd ask them to be really honest with themselves

about their level of self-reflection. So Fletch, the answer is no, you shouldn't go on this show. No, you shouldn't. Well, honestly, Alexandra, I've been listening to your podcast, That Showbiz Baby, and it's so good. You can listen to it wherever you podcast. Thank you so much for a little bit of an insight into like, honestly, behind the scenes of one of my favourite shows. I'm

absolutely obsessed with it. So this is really exciting. Oh, thanks guys. Yay, thank you so much. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Okay, let's talk. Okay. Okay.

Let's talk about this app. It's called Zen and it is, here are some of the reviews. The best thing ever. This is helping me so much to be more mindful when I use my social media. It annoyed me so much that it worked. I saw a screen Zen, it's called, sorry,

and downloaded it and it annoyed me so much, but it did stop using my social media. So basically it's an app that puts a timer on your social media app so basically it's an app that puts a timer on your social media app so that when you open them you've got to take like a 30 second pause where it's like, you really want to be here?

You really want to be here? I'm just going that one, that one, that one. Because I'll leave Instagram and go looking for another app and I'll be like oh what about Instagram? And I open it back up and the video is just watching and I'm like, I was just here. And you're like, oh, wasn't I here recently?

It's so bad, eh? And then do you just have a cycle of apps that you just keep checking and going into? And I'll always return to Instagram. I know I'm on Instagram too much, but I think in general I don't spend too much time on my phone. Well, you say that. I left my phone so I got home the other day and I left my phone

in the car and I was walking around for ages doing stuff kind of got myself all sorted and then I was like why do I feel this

I feel good I feel lighter I thought you were going to say why do I feel empty inside no I was like what is it why do I feel like

something's missing yeah it's weird and then I was like I don't have my phone I don't have that weight in my pocket constantly be like pull me out and have a look have a little look And then it's like, I don't have my phone. I don't have that. Wait in my pocket. Constantly be like, pull me out and have a look.

Have a little look at it. It's like Frodo in the ring. Yeah. You know, it's there and you're constantly like, oh, maybe I'll just put it on. We're on our phones a bit sometimes when we're not catching up as true friends when the songs are playing.

Mostly just so we can show each other things that we will automatically know that we'll find fun. And then we'll laugh about them. But when I leave here, I don't go on my phone that often until maybe like later in the night when I'll sit down and be like, oh yeah, I'll give myself a little scroll. Definitely don't scroll much during the day.

But someone who does is producer Shannon. We cross back to Shannon. She's really in the spotlight today. I feel like we're absolutely tearing you to shreds. Thank you, Guardian. I mean, you are our social media producer. Part of your job is being on social media. Yeah, I mean, I think half of it's work, half of it's pleasure.

Half? Yeah, 70-30. Now, you went on this app? Yeah, so I've used a similar one, and it was a 30-second break before you could open it, and it was infuriating. Like, your friend would send you a video, and you just want to see it then and there.

But what I do every night, I will say, is I offload all of my apps. So when it gets to six o'clock, I offload TikTok. So I don't delete the app, but basically you then have to reinstall it to go back on it. What do you mean? Every day you have to reinstall apps? Yeah. That is the most ridiculous thing. No, I sort of get it.

It slows me down because if I instinctively click it, I see it start to download again. I'm like, now stop. But how do you offload it? Do you hold it until it jiggles? No, so you go in your settings and go to storage, and basically it tells you how your apps are using your storage. It's like photos, 50 gigs or whatever. Go to TikTok or Instagram and you click it,

and it'll say either offload or delete. So don't delete your app. If you offload it, it just uninstalls it. But does it log uninstalls it. But it's tragic that I just... But does it log you out? No. That's why, because I couldn't be logged out of everything,

especially with work. But I will say that's fixed it for me. I stopped going on TikTok now after six. So, but what do you do? Like talk to the magician boyfriend? We share tricks. But he's come half. He's already stacked away for the night.

No, I did learn a new trick though recently. I'll show you guys off here. It's pretty good. Oh, no. Or just watch reality TV. Yeah, well, I crochet a lot. So from one brain rot to another.

No, she does. She's got her hobbies and her crocheting and stuff. I crochet while watching brain rot TV. Yeah. I still have to rot the brain but I will say

these apps definitely work and the idea of offloading. Honestly, I think the only thing I'll offload is the app itself. I'll put it on my phone and be like, I think the only thing I'll offload is the app itself. I'll put it on my phone and be like, I want less. And then I'll be like, no, I want Instagram and it'll prevent me. And I'll be like,

get rid of that app. Delete. This app is specific for maths equations. So before you can go on Instagram, you have to do a math equation. That's good for the brain. That was my worst subject. Like, how hard are the maths? So it was like 7 times 12 and you're like...

Well, seven tens is seven and then add two more lots, that's 84. So you have to open your calculator app. Oh my God, what, just to scroll Instagram? No, I don't think the idea is to open another app. No, I think it's to sit down. And work it out with your head. What, like an actual on the paper with a pen? I don't know.

Carrying the one. Maybe this will work for you. It's called Screen Xen. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's Shellfish Week. I feel like he should have cleared his throat before we started. I know, and then we started.

Did you hear it halfway through? It just really gravelled up. It just added an unprofessional touch to the end of it. Cookie Monster doing it. It's just messy broadcasting. It's Shellfish Week here at Fact of the Day. And lots of people have a shellfish allergy, don't they? Aaron does.

Does he? He can't eat, he can eat prawns and whatnot, but he can't eat like mollusks, oysters, power, scallops, bottom feeders. All the good ones. Yeah, I know. All the really young ones. Yeah. Well, don't cross you.

Blend up a couple of powers. Can mooly up some power in your smoothie. Yeah, you'd never taste that in your ordinary breakfast. God, my banana smoothie tastes like very strong fish. And it's not smooth at all. It's chunky. It's chunky lumpy. And fleshy.

Well, today's fact of the day about shellfish is if you are allergic to shellfish, you're probably also allergic to cockroaches. Yes. Really. Yes. Really? Yes. There's a very specific example. A guy called Edward Archibald entered a competition

at the Ben Siegel reptile store in Florida. Right. It was a cockroach eating competition to promote the store where they sold cockroaches you could feed

to your reptile friends. Yep. Your lizards. Yeah. Snakes. Yeah. Other things that lizards. Mm-hmm. Your snakes. Your other things that are yuck and wouldn't be good pets. And so he was there eating them. They were hygienically produced cockroaches, like lab produced cockroaches, like they're used in Fair Fact War.

Okay. Starring Joseph Harugan. But it doesn't mean that they have any less feelings. The cockroaches. They don't know that they were grown in a lab or a womb? No. Well, cockroaches aren't born in wombs. They're kind of pooped out of their eggs.

They don't know the difference. So he began after he gobbled up all of these cockroaches. Pooped out his eggs. Join us for Science Hour. Where we discuss cockroaches being pooped out of their eggs. After the competition, he began vomiting and collapsed outside the store and was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

Oh, my goodness. And the autopsy was conducted, and it was ruled that an allergic reaction was the cause of his death. It was horrendous anaphylactic shock. Should have had an EpiPen. Should have had an EpiPen. Allergic to cockroaches, unheard of. It turns out he had a very extreme

shellfish allergy. And there's a lot of proteins shared. The exoskeleton protein in the cockroach is the same protein that's shared by shellfish. And so if you are allergic to that aspect of shellfish, which is the most common allergy in shellfish,

you'll also be allergic to cockroaches. No, not eating cockroaches, but just exposure to cockroaches. You might. If you've got cockroaches in the house, because cockroaches skittle around and drop their, don't even, don't. We had quite a few for a while. Any allergic reaction from the big man?

No, but he's not like, he wouldn't die the moment he had power. He would have to go to the hospital and whatnot, have struggle breathing, but he wouldn't die. moment he had power. He would have to go to the hospital and whatnot, have struggle breathing, but he wouldn't die. So it's not severe like that. Do you have an EpiPen at home? We don't have an EpiPen. You should have an EpiPen. Do you have a four-colour pen?

You've got a vivid? Yeah, and I try to click them all down at once. Yeah! And sometimes you take the blue end off it and hold all four and write all four colours at once. Yeah, that's good stuff. Do spirals. That's good stuff.

I always felt sorry for green in that situation because, of course, black and blues, ink were right down, but green's like, guys, don't chuck away the pen. I'm full. Yeah, I didn't use the green ever. Nah. Only out of pity. It was a pity scribble every now and then.

Yeah, red for underlining. Yeah, editing. Black for headlines. Yeah. Blue for the body of the text. Yeah. Green for corrections, corrections maybe to teach us how embarrassing.

That would be a good silly little poll black or blue for pens. For pens. What's your pen colour? If I've got a choice it's black.

I'm black. But often you pick up a pen and it's blue and you're like how very tacky. Yeah. But blue. Like if you had to choose

it's black. Blue's more common. Why is it blue? Why did we go with blue? The colour of ink, I guess, because ink in general was sort of... Right. Just a blue-ish.

God, I just love a good pen. Same. You're in a stationary story. Yeah. It's got a nice fat flow. You ever go into a warehouse stationary for one thing and just end up playing with the pens? And it's scribbling on the pen pad

that they've got there to test. I don't like it too inky. I like it thick, but not too inky because I'm a smudger. I'm a pretty good smudgy. Yeah, I smudge too because I'm left-handed and I drag. Because you're left-handed, you're a full smudger. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, well, that's great. How do we get on to that EpiPen? EpiPen allergies. Someone just texted saying, green pens, brother, ugh. Brother, ugh. Brother, ugh. Brother, ugh. Oh, poor green.

It didn't ask to be born. Much like a cockerel. It didn't ask to be born. Green didn't ask to be born. Much like a cockroach. It didn't ask to be born. Green didn't ask to be one of the four. What would be on that four-coloured pinafore wasn't green? Put two blue. Or two black. Yes.

Did you ever do that thing where you pulled it out and put it in the other one so your mate would be like, it's time to do a red underline and then pop a green. Green shame. And you really choked it. Now that was when bullying was cool. Yeah, that's when bullying was so fun. Bullying was fun.

Bullying was slightly inconvenient and bullying stopped when you left school. We have heard from an auditor and green pen is our special colour. Ew, what? Brother. Brother ew. Brother ew.

What are you doing? I'm sorry, if you're coming into a business and auditing something, it should be red. It should be red. I would say so. We have a receipt for this. Red.

Yellow highlighter. Red pen. That is not a tax expense. And this auditor thought this was going to win us over, didn't it? Didn't this auditor? Yeah, it did, yeah. And they came in, guys, I want an auditor.

Shut up, auditor. Don't be nice, though, because we don't want an auditor. I don't want an auditor. It depends on the auditing. I think auditing. That's not my idea, auditor. But they might not even know we have an aud an order. I don't want an order. It depends on the ordering. I think ordering. That's not my idea. But they might not even order an auditing tax. You can order kind of anything.

Still, green's not an order. It might be a store order. A warehouse order. Where is that palette of green pens? Green doesn't command respect. Green's too casual. It does not command respect. It's too laxed.

Yeah. It's too relaxed. Imagine going on a date with someone and they were like, oh my God, let me, I'll write down my address. Green pen. They wrote it in green pen. I'd spit on them. What do you do?

What if they were like Jess and Momoa too? I'd spit on them and then I'd lick it. Spit on them and lick it. Okay, okay. Today's fact of the day. Somehow got a side trick. Pharmacists, we're only allowed to use the day. Somehow got a side check. Pharmacists! We're only allowed to use green pens.

What? Since when? This is all over again. They thought they were going to want us over. There's no way it's going to take you 10 minutes to pack those pills. You just want me to buy some shit. Even show sponsor Chemist Warehouse, the real house of frankincense, this Valentine's Day.

Stunning. Haven't upset them. Hope we haven't upset them. Hope they haven't upset the show sponsor. Send us if they're using green pens. It must be a pharmacy. They've upset us if they're using green pens. It must be a green pen pharmacy thing. Goodness me. Teachers use green pens so kids can edit in red.

Right. Maybe there should be a little Dropbox collection in, you know, the foyer of stationery stores for the green, you know, thing from the pen. Bic now do a four-coloured pen. Yeah. Black, blue, red and mechanical pencil. Fantastic. What?

That's thinking. What? Bic for thinking. The B in Bic stands for brains. Wow. The I stands for intelligence. And C is colours. Being red, blue, black and pencil.

Today's fact of the day. Someone said, sorry, one more text. Green is the Rob of the Kardashians. Yes. No one cares. We never see him. We want all the other inks and he'll just get left behind. Anyway, here we go.

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Gaggar Polanski. That sounds like what someone would call their granddad. Gaggar Polanski. Gaggar Polanski. Yeah. Yeah. So Michael Polanski, last Valentine's Day, he said to her, I have a surprise for you in the house.

And what he did was he turned what was his office, I don't know what he does for work, no one cares. You're getting married to Lady Gaga. You will never marry her again. He turned his office in their house into a full, like state-of-the-art recording studio in their house. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of those desks with lots of buttons and faders.

Yeah, you've got a little mini desk in front of you. Shame. Yeah, shame. Fake DJ. Fake DJ. He's just pressing the space bar. That is setting the bar high because that would be like a very expensive exercise. Also, he's a man.

This is her area of expertise, so he will have done it all wrong according to her. Yeah, probably. Oh. Probably. She would have come to her. Yeah, probably. Oh. Probably. She would have come in and been like, that's not the one I would have chosen.

That's not the soundproofing I would have used. Yeah. Did we need this cheap chair? Do we need to do that? I mean, it does the job but I mean, I can see here you've tried

but I don't care. Yeah, yeah. I'm just here to tell you you've done it all wrong. Is the thing. Also, you're really setting the bar high because this Valentine's Day,

how do you beat a full recording studio? I know. What are you doing? Also, like Valentine's Day, I'm like, we're doing flowers, chocolates, maybe a little sexy something. Yeah. How did she also not see that surprise coming? Like there are builders in there, in the office. Is she like, what are you doing in there?

Don't worry. Oh my God. Yeah. Was she on tour? Tradies there for six months. Yeah. What's happening in there? This is my office work.

That's my office work. Don't be nosy. I don't know. I imagine they have multiple homes. Yeah. You know, maybe this isn't one of their other homes. Anyway, we want to know, what is the most romantic gesture your partner has done for you

on a Valentine's Day? Let's set the bar. Do you want to start? Producer Jared text Aaron to get me flowers, and so Aaron bought me flowers. There you go. We've got the ball rolling. I don't want to bring it up

because I don't want the bar to be too high and then call us to be too afraid to text in and tell us the most romantic gesture their partner has ever made. Do you want to go in general or for Valentine's Day? Should we just go the most romantic thing they've ever done for you? For Valentine's...

Oh. Shut up, Vaughan. What would you do? You shut up. Let's just go the most romantic gesture your've ever done for you? For Valentine's Day. Oh. Shut up, Vona. What would you do? Yeah, shut up. Let's just go the most romantic gesture your partner has ever made. And I think it's

obviously something that's got to be thoughtful, right? Not just a really expensive holiday. Because that, what? I mean,

I'm not poo-pooing someone surprising me with a very romantic holiday. I'm into that. Wouldn't you want something more thoughtful? Like that's... No, the thought is you look like you could do with a holiday. Okay, well, anything like that.

I'll add 100,000 as a number. Text through 9696. What is the most romantic gesture your partner has ever done for you? Well, Valentine's Day is on Friday. It's come out that last Valentine's. Lady Gaga's fiancé built her a recording studio. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Making the rest of us look bad.

Yeah, with your bloody boxer cabri faves. Yeah, you've got to work up. And you've picked out all the Turkish delight, which you know I like. You don't set the bar so high. It's not Valentine's. It's not an anniversary, a birthday, or even Christmas. You're like, Valentine's Day? Well, we want to know from you this morning

the most romantic thing your partner has done for you. It could be a big thing, it could be a small thing. Brooke, what did your partner do for you? So for my birthday, he knew that my favourite flowers were peonies. Oh, peonies. Yeah, they're so pretty, but he couldn't find them anywhere

and so he showed up with a peony plant instead. Yeah, but you've got to they only grow, don't they need a few frosts? Does that thing have to go in the freezer a couple of times a year? Okay, this could make sense then, because I thought I killed it, and so I threw it out. Oh, my God.

Whereabouts in the country do you live, Brooke? I live in Christchurch. Oh, I keep on getting a couple of frosts there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or was it inside or outside? It was outside. Okay. I waited like a year, and it didn't flower, and so I was like, oh, yeah. Or was it inside or outside? It was outside. Okay. I waited like a year and it didn't flower.

And so I was like, oh, this sucks. There's this amazing website, Brooke. It's www.getapen.google.com. And you could look it up and it would teach you how to do it. Yeah. Oh, okay. You write that down. Two O's.

Wait, but why does a plant need a frost? You think it's global, but it's not. Why does it need a frost? Because that's what it evolved to do. It evolved to flower. That's why peonies are so expensive, because they're little bags. And you can only grow them properly in the South Island, naturally, because you need that frost. Right.

Harder than a rose. Okay, well, good luck, Brooke, finally getting that romantic gesture of a flower out of that plant. Yeah, I know. Wherever it is now. Thanks, Brock. Paige, what is the most romantic thing your partner did for you? So my partner flew over to America to ask me to be his girlfriend. Oh, my gosh.

Okay, that's an expensive risk. Okay, so wait, how did you meet? Why were you not in the same country to start with? Well, we were, but he'd asked me out three times previously and I said no. And then he decided to fly over to America and it was kind of

hard to say no at that point because it had flown half way through. I would have said no again. Do you know what I mean? Just to be like, I said no, bro. Right. So you felt bad, so you said yes. Yeah, but we're still together six years later. Okay, well, that worked out. That guilt is really a strong thing.

You're like, I still don't like the guy. Nah. Thanks, Paige. Keep your texts coming in. 9696 0800 dials at M. The most romantic thing your partner's ever done for you. Message is in. The most romantic thing your partner's ever done for you. I is in. The most romantic thing your partner's ever done for you?

I mentioned once on a date to my now husband that I loved houses decorated in lights at Christmas, driving home after a late shift and I saw an orb of light from my street and it was my house.

He decorated the entire front of my house in lights and left a bunch of flowers on the doorstep. Oh my God, that's so cute. Your power bill's going to be through the roof, huh?

God, all right. Okay, Grinch. Listen to this. Living in London, girlfriend wanted to go to a French restaurant. I started looking at my watch at 2 p.m., asked if she's getting ready.

She questioned the booking. 7 p.m., then I told her the restaurant was in Paris. Oh. Okay. We can only dream. Yeah. Had a guy cover my car completely with roses one morning. Could have been romantic,

except I've never told that guy where I lived, so it stalked me. Far out. Yeah, but do you want to get with a guy with initiative or not? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Most romantic thing was that he listened. Also siphoned money straight from his wages account into a holiday fund.

I thought that was going somewhere different. Yeah, like a secret account. Yeah, it took us to Fiji years ago. 24 years together and still manages to woo me. In between the dark, sarcastic humour that we both share. Listen to this. One morning I was in bed and asked my husband, then boyfriend, so it worked out, still manages to woo me in between the dark, sarcastic humour that we both share. Listen to this. One morning I was in bed and asked my husband, then boyfriend, so it worked out, what time he was starting work.

He works some shift times. He said, I don't know, what time do you start? Which was a very odd question as I started work the same time every day. What followed was a light coming on and under the sea from Little Mermaid playing on a Yui Boom speaker. There was a lace skirt on the wall with a banner that read we're going to Fiji at 2pm. He had called my boss months in advance

and booked an annual leave for me and washed and dried all my clothes the night before so I could pack what I needed and he proposed on the trip. That's the bar! That's good. That's the bar. Georgia, what's the most romantic thing?

That kind of thing happened to me. Is this what Haim did? No, so not for the engagement, but for Christmas a few years ago, both our families were at our place for the very first time, and he's like, open my present last. And I thought I was getting a Yui boom. I was so excited. I was like, this is epic.

Great boom. And I had this box, and I was like, man, open it up, and there's a lei sitting in there and an itinerary for a trip to Hawaii and he'd already got time off with Ross Boss.

Like he'd sorted it all out and that's why it became a joke like, oh, you're going to get engaged. I didn't. I got drunk on the first night

and was like, am I going to get engaged? So you were going to get engaged but then you made yourself so unbearable he was like, that's an ick. I'm going to need six more months.

Can you just tell me now so I can relax, please? That's really cute, though. That was very cute. That's really cute. It took a lot of effort. I would hate if Aaron organised a trip. I would just be like, no. No, hon.

Really? No, hon. No, we're not going there, hon. It wouldn't be somewhere you'd want to go, would it? Yeah, I'm not going there. You've allocated no time to shopping or perusing. What's that, museum? No, thank you No, we're not going there, hon. It wouldn't be somewhere you'd want to go, would it? Yeah, I'm not going there. You've allocated no time to shopping or perusing. What's that museum? No, thank you.

We're not doing that. Where are we staying? Oh, okay. We've gone budget. No, thank you. No, no. What's that layover? Oh, 27 hours.

She's a private schoolgirl at heart. 27 hours at Guangzhou Airport. No, thanks, dude. No, no. You could pick up your Teemu off or shop them while you're there. No, I'm fine. Yeah, you could.

You could get some Teemu shopping. No, I'm good. Go straight to the factory. I prefer they ship it to New Zealand. Oh, I'm busting for a wheeze after that podcast. I'll tell you. It's a podcast.

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