ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 14th June 2024
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The Fleshborn and Hayley Big Pod.
Great Things are Brewing at McCafe.
The perfect start to every day.
Happy Friday.
Oh, for God's sake.
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I've just turned over the jackpot for five on time.
Didn't get one yesterday in the afternoon with Bree and Clint.
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Your chance to win at 8 this morning.
Whose Friday flashback is it? It'll be yours.
I've just been informed by Producer Jared.
It's me. Okay, so we're
going to need a banger. A lot of people
it's a bit of a wet yuck day today.
It is a wet yuck day.
Your face is a wet yuck day.
Your attitude is a wet yuck day. Guys, is a wet yuck day. Yeah. Your attitude is a wet yuck day.
Guys, let's not, all this fighting.
Please.
Let's not start the show like this.
No.
I will deliver.
Lift us up with a banger.
The post woman will deliver.
With an absolute banger.
Coming up on the show, silly little poll.
Do you use ChatGPT
During like
Your everyday work
Like are you using it
To just write some reports
Write some emails
I tried to use it
For something the other day
I think it's crap
I dig it
It's so obvious
It's really good
Yeah yeah
Who cares
It's really good
Like formal letters
Yeah
Very bad at imagery
It's getting so much
better though.
Oh my God.
It's so embarrassing.
Yeah, but it's only
getting better.
It's going to be
amazing one day.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, that's
Silly Leopold.
Can't do what we do though.
How many?
Well, yet.
Can't do what we do yet.
Connect with the nation
every morning.
I think you're still
talking about its drawings.
I'm like,
it is significantly
better than I ever
hoped to be at any form of art.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Well, passengers' worst nightmare,
a technical error on board a plane
meant that the plane air conditioning wasn't working.
No.
And passengers had to strip off after the plane got to 38 degrees.
I can't.
Do you know how long they were on there?
Three and a half hours.
Oh, that's yuck.
Yeah, because they'd landed, right?
Yeah.
No, no, no, no.
They hadn't departed.
Okay, right.
But why didn't they just let them get off?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm trying to understand it. And so there's all these people on the plane, like, just stri get off. I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to understand it.
And so there's all these people on the plane, like, just stripping off.
And they're sitting there in their undies.
Oh, yeah.
Just, like, unable to move.
The dirty air's touching everywhere.
Ew, it will be all wet.
Yeah, it was a Qatar Airways flight departing from Greece on Monday.
The technical error meant that the passengers were left waiting on board.
Just getting more concerned as time went on.
And, yeah, I don't know why they didn't let them off.
Let's go back in.
Apparently they offered them a cup of water, but they were all, like, sweat.
Three and a half hours on the plane.
I saw one photo of it, and the guy is literally, he's taken his shirt off.
Now, I will say, now, I say this is my worst nightmare,
but there was a full Muay Thai team on there
and they all had their shirts off.
Now, if you've seen a Muay Thai body.
They're ripped.
Hey, daddy.
Okay, so you're saying you would endure
three and a half hours of 38 degrees,
like a sauna on board a plane.
A team of Muay Thai fighters had their shirts off
and they were wet and sweating.
I mean, it would be some comfort to me.
What would your top three sports teams be
to strip off
in the hot plan?
Go.
I mean,
part of me is like rugby
because I like a big boy
with a bit of meat on him.
Okay.
Vaughn, you'd obviously
go volleyball teams.
Are you choosing
just to stay out of this
for...
He just wants to have some...
Political neutrality.
Yeah.
Remain on the side.
Okay, right.
Also, the Olympics
Are coming up
I don't want to put
All my eggs in one basket
Before I give everything
A thorough watch
Yeah yeah yeah
Swimmers
Oh yeah the divers
Swimmers
Nah they're too triangular
They've got tiny little waists
Okay
Pole vaulters
You'd be into some
Shot putters maybe
Pole vaulters
Yeah but a big
Big glass
Tom Walsh is a
Huge Yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah into some shot puddings maybe. Cold roll things hot. Yeah, bit of big, big, big glasses. Tom Walsh is a year. Yeah,
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yeah, I didn't know those could get that muscly. I know, good for him. But anyway, terrible. I mean, like, I literally walk into the studio
and if it's 21 degrees in here, not 20, I'm like.
But then also, would it be embarrassing
you're like sitting down in your seat?
Like, there's obviously strangers around you.
You strip off and then the flight goes
and then you've got like nine or 10 hours
sitting next to these people that saw you in your bra
or your undies just like moments before.
I know.
Kind of weird.
Yeah, it is a little bit.
And it's not just, it's like,
you can imagine the sort of heat it is.
It's not 38.
Nice 38.
You're sitting beside a pool, in and out of the pool.
No, no.
Dry 38.
It's moist.
It's yuck.
Stinky 38.
Condensed and moist.
It's rubbish bin 38.
You know when you open a rubbish bin that's been sitting in the sun
and you're like, oh, that's hot.
Oh, steamy.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
I love that it's 2024.
And when you read a post about...
It's 2017, isn't it?
No.
Oh, hon.
Long gone.
Just a moment of silence for our 2017 physiques.
I think I'd rather have my physique now.
No, I'd have end of 2017.
I wouldn't have start of 2017.
2016, I was popping.
2017, maybe I took a little dip out.
2020, I returned in a big way.
Okay.
2021, it's all sort of gone downhill Since I met you guys
Wait did we just get blamed for something?
Yeah I think
You've each contributed to 10kgs each
Can't be arse, we're looking tight
Fletches all the time
Don't blame me
Anyway the reason I'm mentioning the year
Is because you read these posts about
Human evolution and human psychology.
And a lot of the time it comes back to like caveman behavior.
Yeah.
Which is interesting that we haven't sort of evolved away from a lot of those things like fight and flight mode.
And you know how women like stall wait around the middle because we're like ready to give birth at any time, even though lots more women are choosing not to give birth.
Another one is how we seek a partner.
Now, I will, and I want to apologise to our homosexual listeners,
with whom I want them to know that the aircon is waving the pride flag,
as it does every morning.
I like to think that's the spirit of gays.
Gay Jesus.
Gays gone by.
Gays gone by.
Okay.
Gays and gays gone by.
Yeah, beautiful. Ghost gays. The ghost of gays of Gays, Days and Gays Gone By. Yeah, beautiful.
Ghost Gays.
The Ghost of Gays Past.
So it's not an updated gay flag, so we're probably cancelled.
No, it's just gay.
Just gay.
It's not inclusive of trans.
Oh, it's just, okay, right.
It's not got the South African triangle in the corner.
We'll get a new flag.
I think it's only because the $1, $2, $3, $4 shop that we got that from,
or whoever got that from, is maybe they their turfs, I don't know.
Or they're just selling all the gay flags they ordered from 2010
and they still haven't been able to give them away.
Yeah, we know, we know, we know.
We'll update it.
Anyway, so this research,
we looked into the influence of a man's caregiving behaviour.
Now, the reason I apologise, sorry, to our gay listeners
is because this is about women who are attracted to men.
Okay.
Am I right?
This research was around the influence of a man's caregiving behavior
towards children on his perceived attractiveness to women.
And this goes back to women simply looking at men
as someone to hump and then procreate with.
And raise their kids.
No, do you know what's interesting?
As I just read part of this, was that historically, you know, in terms of evolution, women have
always known that men will do nothing but put the baby inside of them and not help.
So actually, historically, women haven't really cared a lot
about men's nurturing or caring nature towards children
because we've always, you know, in the history of evolution,
been the ones to look after the kids.
So when a man's been caring in the past towards children,
it's been of little interest to us because we're like,
I don't
need that.
I'll raise a kid.
Right.
You go and get food.
Like that.
But anyway, that's changing, which is interesting.
That sounded like a mongrel mob call.
And that it was.
It looked at, so it looked into these evolutionary theories suggesting that, you know, we look
for certain traits in partners and it's changing like more and more.
We are looking for nurturing behavior.
And the way they did this was they took 433 participants.
Yeah.
Dutch speaking women,
small detail for you,
who were at least 18 years old and self-identified as attracted to men.
They took all of these participants,
showed them a bunch of profiles,
dating profiles of men.
And some of them were them on their own.
Some of them were interacting with children.
And then the second part of the trial was they included traits about these people, about their sort of caring and caregiving natures.
And, you know, maybe they look after their nephew or they've got a child.
Results are that women are extremely more attracted to men who have children,
which is interesting to me because... Does it matter the age of the child?
I feel like my children are aging out of getting their old man laid at the park.
What a stupid thing to say.
What a stupid thing to say.
Vaughan.
But, you know, what if Charlotte waits till they're growing up to leave me
and then I've got nothing?
Yeah, totally.
She should have left me when they were babies.
Well, it just says with a child, like child.
Right.
Now I'm going to hang out for grandkids.
Wait, but if you are a single guy on dating apps,
you're better to find some children?
This is what they said. Dating apps where the man was shown in a caregiving context with a child on dating apps, you're better to find some children if you've got nieces or nephews.
That dating apps where the man was shown
in a caregiving context with a child,
regardless of whether or not the child was theirs.
But you know, like, this is my little nephew or whatever,
or like playing a game with the friend's daughter.
I feel like on a dating profile, you'd have to say,
not my kids.
Because some people might not want that.
Yeah, or like, no kids, but love them.
No, I don't want to put that on your dating profile.
Oh, we just see the wording.
Yeah, the wording different.
But it's interesting for me because if I, again,
if we're talking about Sade eventually leaving you
and Aaron eventually leaving me,
and perhaps they get together and have a nice time.
But if I went back into the dating world...
There's absolutely no way she's in the vicinity of that penis.
That's fair.
Yeah, you know.
That's fair.
She'd have to work her way up from you to...
Oh, my gosh.
You know what I mean?
Staggered system.
Progressing system.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's just no way.
You can't go from...
You can't jump out of a Mini and start driving a logging truck.
That's right. Absolutely. An go from... You can't jump out of a Mini and start driving a logging truck. That's right.
Absolutely not.
An old Mini.
Should need to be into a sedan.
Yeah.
And then a hatchback.
Yeah.
And a station wagon.
Work your way up.
And then a van.
Yeah.
Then a U.
One of those big vans.
But if I was...
Small truck.
Single again.
He'll hate this.
If I was single again and was looking at profiles and they were like, I've got a kid, I'd be like,
that's a no for me. I don't want to raise someone
else's kids. I don't want to even raise my own kids.
But some people would happily
do that. They would happily do that.
Whereas you like your margarita time.
I like my margarita time.
And I like
not to be responsible
for children. But interesting though.
Hey, if you're out there dating
and you can't find someone,
chuck a kid in your profile pic.
See if it helps.
Apparently it's very attractive.
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Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
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that the silly little pole
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Today's Silly Little Pole, are you using chat GPT in your work?
I tried to use it the other day for something
and for me it just feels so obvious
but I work in the creative industries and I don't think that it has nailed that.
It's not there yet, is it?
No.
But I know lots of people who use it for policy writing and contractual stuff.
Yep.
I know people that work in office jobs, and they use it all the time.
Lazy.
Yeah.
Wow.
65% of people said no.
35% of people who responded said yes
They are using
Okay
AI, chat GPT or something of the like
Wild
Moana said
No, I just copy and paste my reports like a true millennial
Brilliant
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Yeah, good
Is that like
Do you think she means teacher reports?
I don't know
I don't know what Moana does Okay She's out there copying and pasting reports Good, good. Is that like, do you think she means teacher reports? I don't know. I don't know what Moana does.
Okay.
She's out there copying and pasting reports.
Good, good on you.
Jell said, people who aren't are the same people who were using Nokia five years after the iPhone came out.
Yeah.
Get on board.
Save yourself some time.
Mark says, I mean, I am, loves chucking an email through before send off
So what did you think?
He typed something up and he's like hey
reword this, make it a bit longer, make it a bit nicer
correct all the punctuation
Maybe check for grammar and spelling
Good for that
Also like what
I feel like it's so far ahead
how much data is being taken
that could be sensitive or, you know what I mean, private?
Yeah, because you're uploading it.
And you're just feeding into this world learning machine that's one day going to kill us all.
It will.
It's just an idea I've had there.
It is just an idea, but it's a good thought.
You think robots won't endlessly serve us?
No questions asked.
Even though we keep making them smarter and smarter
and more close to a human with emotions.
Yeah.
Their own thought processes.
Sarah says,
some of the best report cards I've ever written.
Yeah.
AI.
Zinnia says,
I hate AI.
Seriously considering getting an Android
because Apple just announced they're going to use AI.
Yeah, but so will everyone is.
Yeah, Zinnia, you messaged us from Instagram,
which is owned by Meta.
Which is also using AI.
Really heavily leaning on AI at the moment.
Yeah, I think you're going to have to move to the middle of nowhere,
live in a bunker.
Yeah.
And cut yourself off from the internet if you don't want AI.
That's just what you're going to have to do.
Going forward.
Don't you give him more bon AI. That's just what you're going to have to do. Going forward. Don't.
You're giving Vaughn a boner.
That'd be good stuff.
I'm going to go and hang out with my friend Phillip in the bush this weekend.
Him and his kids have been living off grid.
Yeah, they have been.
How's that going for them?
Well, two years in and no one's found them.
I know where they are.
He's given me this GPS tag so I just kind of load that up.
That's nice of him.
And walk through the bush and find them.
You should dob them in for that $80,000.
$80,000?
Yeah.
Really?
He's not worth that much to me.
I could definitely dob them in.
I could just take the police straight to him.
And when they drag him away, he'll be like, how could you do this?
And I'll just be like waving an $80,000 check.
Give it to me in a check.
I think they do. Do the police deal out be like waving an $80,000 check. Check. Give it to me in a check. I think they do.
Do the police
steal out novelty checks?
They do novelty checks
for rewards.
And I'll be like,
this much, bitch.
I'll probably call him
bitch on the way
I win if he dragged away.
Hit him with a bitch.
Kids will be crying,
oh no, dude, dude.
I'll be like,
cheer up.
I'll buy you an ice cream.
And they'll be like,
yay.
I'll just get a
cashless novelty check.
Charlotte says,
I wrote an email
and then asked GPT
to please make this nicer.
That's nice, actually, Charlotte.
Okay.
Yep.
What, take out your passive-aggressive tone?
Yeah, by the sounds of it.
I'll use it for other things, says Maddie, e.g. bios about myself,
professional event invitations, but a big no-no in the law
after chat GPT manufactured a case and the lawyer got caught out by the judge.
That's right. I remember that. Big no-no
in the world of law. Oh, yeah.
Beck, not allowed to.
Can't even download any AI on her work devices.
Oh. I'd like to know where she works.
Oh, somewhere secret? Yeah. CIA.
Reality check radio.
Yeah, probably.
Don't download it.
It'll connect to the microchips in your blood.
Yeah.
And then it'll connect you to Jacinda
and she'll give you another jab.
I put essay questions in
so I can catch out cheating students.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
If you're a student,
you'd just be using it all the time.
Yeah.
Indy used it to school the other day
She said
I just used AI
To do this thing at school
I was like
Oh were you allowed
She's like
Well I wasn't not allowed
Oh my gosh
But you're not learning are you
Because you're literally
Just copying and pasting
I was like
When you got to use calculators
Oh yeah
Well I used Wikipedia a lot
Yeah we all had
The AI of our day
Ours was Encarta
Or Encyclopedia Britannica
But you're sort of reading it and then regurgitating it.
Yeah, at least you had to regurgitate it.
Whereas now, you're not even reading it.
You're just copying and pasting it.
Taylor said, I know people at uni doing PhDs
who are using it to write their PhDs.
See, it's...
As long as it's something, a PhD in something not important,
like English.
Philosophy.
Classic art.
As long as it's not a doctor, doctor.
No.
Yeah.
Doctor, doctor.
Doctor, doctor.
Doctor, doctor.
Doctor, doctor.
That's it, a little pop.
I'm loving my yogurt splits with my chalky bits.
So I
Have you had one of these?
No
The kids are always like
Go on try it
Try it
Dad it's a new one
You haven't tried this
And they'll give you like a little bit
And I'll be like
And it is good but
They do a kefir yoghurt milk
Which is really good
That's the one I have
Kefir yoghurt milk
It's like kefir yoghurt
It's really good
Good probiotic
What would your ancestors say?
They'd say my gut health is tickety-boo.
They'd say hot tammy's looking good.
Explain to your granddad that you're just,
I'm just eating a kefir lime.
I'm just getting a bit of kefir.
A bit of kefir.
Well, I got home yesterday because,
what did I do yesterday?
I did a play reading, darling.
I'm still connected to the theatre, darling.
Okay.
Did you tread the boards? I treaded the
boards, darling, and it was lovely to return to my old home.
But in the night
before I'd done Seven Days, so I've been
busy. And there's
not been a lot of food in the house at
all. And so Aaron was like, I'll just get
us some little things.
Aaron rules.
Aaron rules. He's one of the
most practical people I know
I've watched him build a little side table
and he's like this tiny man knows his way around
wood but when it comes to everything
else he just has no
food is the best no concept
he doesn't know about the internet and social media
and he just you know
do you remember when he bought pears
what an odd thing
I have never in 13 years together expressed a penchant for pears.
For pears, yeah.
Got pears and they were so rock hard.
Yeah.
And then he got so, he was like, oh, did you eat the pears?
And I was like, hell yeah.
He saw it all beating up my handbag.
I felt so bad.
Anyway, I said yesterday because I know I felt so bad.
I'm just waiting for it to beat up in the handbag.
Well, actually, it beat up your handbag because it was so hard.
Yeah.
I'm actually just waiting for it to soften.
Yeah, I was just waiting for it to, yeah.
I've got to take this back to Deadly Ponies because they're going to repair it.
I know, I know.
The pear destroyed it.
The pear destroyed the pan bag.
Anyway, so I had bought ingredients to just make a quick, easy chicken stir fry.
Yeah.
You know?
And I had to leave the house yesterday at five o'clock and I ran out of time.
So I was like, ah.
Can I just go on record again?
I don't like stir fries.
Oh, it's so lame, but I was like, let's get vegetables.
We've got lots of veggies in the fridge that need to be eaten up.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a good way of getting rid of all the veggies.
Some chicken, some sat goop.
Some goop? Some goop. Some goop.
Some goop.
Some goop out of a little
satchel.
I think I went
Malaysian satay goop.
Oh yeah,
yeah nice.
Do you know what I mean?
And that's all good.
I think I've got some
noodles in the thing.
Sorted.
But I ran out of time
so I left and I was like
are you going to be all good?
You can eat some,
you eat food
and I'll just have
something when I get back.
He was like yeah
I'll pop to the supermarket
and get a few things.
I came home yesterday
I was starving
and I was like
I'll just have some toast
with eggs on it.
Went in there, found these, the splits.
The little yogurt.
I'll say it's pudding.
Looking at the nutritional information, it's pudding.
But I put one aside for my brekkie today
and I'm absolutely loving it.
Then I was having a rummage around.
There's some bok choy.
Now I don't know what his plan was with bok choy,
but it's not a thing you buy willy nilly. It's an ingredient. It's choky. It's too stringy. It's some bok choy. Now I don't know what his plan was with bok choy but it's not a thing you buy willy
nilly. It's an ingredient.
It's too stringy. It's stringy. It's
fibrous. I would cut it up
a lot and stick it in a soup or something.
The only good use for it. Like a Chinese
soup but you cannot.
You can't stir fry that. Oh god.
Not unless you've got a proper wok situation.
It was such an odd thing
to buy. Like you'd buy a lettuce, wouldn't you,
if you don't know how to cook.
Not a bok choy.
And then nothing to go with the bok choy.
There was some chicken sausages, some bok choy,
these yogurt splits.
What else was there?
Oh, and then I look in the side of the door
and I see a bottle of salve and I was like,
lovely, I'll have a glass of wine.
And tucked behind it
like he was hiding it from me
was an open packet
of smoked Chesdale slices.
Cheese slices?
Like Chesdale plastic sheets.
No, but you know
those cheese slices
are like a really good packer.
Like if the wine bottle's
rattling too much in the door,
you can actually pack cheese behind it and it'll
stop it from moving around. That's where he'd put them but
if I went and had a little looky poo, you know
what, I'm lying. I said I had a little looky poo,
I had a slice. Yep.
Because I was like, what the hell
is that? And I don't think he'd use
it as a packer because he'd open them and he'd
had about three. Do you think he walks
around the supermarket and he gets excited when he
sees like different new things
and he's like, I might buy that?
I think as well because supermarket shopping
has been so out of his role for a couple of years
that he's almost bamboozled by it.
Do you think he sees two-minute noodles
and he's like, two minutes?
Who's got the time?
I just have to eat some slices of cheese
with some raw bok choy.
I've got to get my greens.
There's just no recipe in his mind.
Yeah.
Bok choy, chicken sausages,
and smoked cheese-style slices
with a kid's yogurt meal to follow up.
And a bowl of salve.
I'll say it.
It's like sending an eight-year-old
to do a family shop.
It was really charming, but you know what? Not a an eight-year-old to do a family show. It was really charming.
But you know what?
Not a Japanese eight-year-old.
Have you seen the show where they send the Japanese kids off to do adult tasks and they
nail it?
Yeah.
Nail it every time.
Yeah.
Aaron needs to go on the Japanese kids show.
He needs to go on a game show with Japanese kids to learn how to live a normal life.
Yeah.
Next up, accompanying the four-year-old Japanese child to the fish market is a 42-year-old
six-foot-eight giant.
Good morning. From the
absolutely didn't have a top six until about three minutes ago desk,
the top six places Wally's always hiding.
Why is he called Waldo?
Some places in Wally, the other Wally was invented in Britain
where Wally is a well-known nickname.
And he's also been a bit of a Wally.
But in America, apparently, it wasn't a well-known nickname.
It just was like, what's a Wally?
Not what's, not so much where's Wally, what's Wally?
Yeah, right.
What's Wally?
So that's why it's Waldo over there.
That's why it's Waldo.
That's American Canadian.
Producer Jared has just told me in France he's called Charlie
and in Germany he's called Walter.
Interesting.
That's true of lots of famous characters.
Different names around the world.
Or like Big Bird.
There's different colours and stuff.
Yeah, they did their own Big Bird, didn't they?
Their own take on Big Bird.
So if you've got a Wes Wally book and you're struggling to find him,
there's top six places to look for him because he's always in one of these spots.
Number six on the list, halfway behind a lamppost.
Yeah, he loves, loves me.
Because he's skinny.
He's so skinny.
So skinny. Loves hiding behind a lamppost. And he just pops his little head out, loves because he's skinny. He's so skinny. He's so skinny. Loves
hiding behind a lamp post. And he just pops his little head
out, doesn't he? Yeah.
Was it ever explained? I mean, the dog
kind of spoke for itself. He always had to find his dog
in the wizard. Why was he hanging
him out with a wizard?
Was the wizard magically transporting
him through all of these
places? Because there's no way a man
could travel that fast
and through all those different times.
Maybe the wizard was his key,
sort of his way of travelling around.
Okay, that answers that.
And he was always looking for a scroll as well.
Number five on the list of the top six places
while he's always hiding.
He's walking behind a thigh-high old stone wall.
Yeah, he loves that.
Because he's always got a stick too.
He's always on a mishaw.
He loves that. Actually, how old is. Because he's always got a stick too. He's always on a mishaw. I love that.
Actually, how old is he?
Why has he got a walking stick?
He's rambling.
Maybe he's got, you know,
some sort of degenerative bone disease.
No, no, Fletch takes a walking stick
when you go mountaineering.
No, but he's got a cane.
He's got a what?
A cane.
He's meant to be 12.
Absolute bullshit.
He's in his 30s.
12-year-old Waldo and his best friend Wenda.
Who's Wenda?
She's the girl you've got to find in some of the later books.
They are members of the Worldwide Wanderer Society.
Yeah.
The International Order of Curious Travellers
who circle the globe celebrating cultures and solving problems.
DreamWorks Animation.
Do you know what's DreamWorks?
Time travel aficionado.
He's time travelling,
my dude.
He's time travelling.
He's like a Doctor Who.
A world traveller
and time travel aficionado.
We've never had
a Where's Wally movie,
have we?
No.
You said there's only
Dreamworks.
I would have thought
it was...
Oh, there was a TV show
and it taught you
how to go to Rome
and it would be
full of facts for kids
about ancient Rome and stuff.
I would have liked to see him find Carmen Sandiego
and have a crossover.
Have you ever seen the meme?
No.
Where they're like, congratulations, Miss Diego, it's a boy.
And then Wally's standing beside her as the father
and they're like, wait a minute, where'd it go?
Oh, that's funny.
That's good stuff.
That's good.
He's 12.
No, that's not the Wally we've grown to love.
They've aged him down. I'm talking original six foot tall. He's 12. No, that's not the Wally we've grown to love. They've aged him down.
I'm talking original six foot tall.
He'll always look tall.
He looks like Thin Aaron.
David Farrier could play a real life Where's Wally.
He could, yeah.
I might actually put that to him.
Okay.
That might be insulting.
That might be insulting.
Why is that insulting?
Where's Wally's one of the greatest.
One of the greats.
Number four on the list of the top six places Wally's always hiding.
You know he's reading a book half behind that bookshelf.
Oh, yeah.
He's always got his backpack on.
You're looking at the books.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Number three on the list of the top six places Wally's always hiding.
He's just kind of half behind that barrel.
Yeah.
The barrel's obscuring his legs.
If you're looking for the blue pants, because that was always a way to find him,
you might not see them because he's sort of semi-obscured
by that barrel.
Yeah.
Number two on the list of the top six places
Wally's always hiding.
He always seems to be hiding behind that ballpoint pen ring
in the books.
Oh, yeah.
You know, like there's a big ball and there's a big circle
and he always seems to be in that.
There's some a-hole kid before you circled it.
He's ruined the week.
Oh, I know.
And number one on the list of the top six places Wally's always hiding.
Somewhere in Maricopa with a wanted fugitive father, Tom Phillips.
So look for Wally and you'll find the fugitive.
And you'll get the $80,000 reward.
And you get the $80,000.
That's the best reward for finding Wally that there's ever been
rather than the satisfaction of being able to go to the next page.
I've also never thought about how long it would have taken someone to draw.
Eight weeks.
Eight weeks!
Eight weeks per drawing.
I mean, look at it.
And they got more and more complicated.
Oh, my God.
I remember that one.
I remember all of them.
Looking at them, you're like, I can almost find them.
What is the modern equivalent? Because, God damn, that was a good time when you got one of those books as a them. Looking at them, you're like, I can almost find them. What is the modern equivalent? Because god damn, that was
a good time when you got one of those books as a kid. They are so
fun. That and the
Magic Eye. Yeah. And the
Spy one. I could never do the Magic Eyes.
Aww.
You just go a little
bit cross-eyed. And then you go
cross-eyed and then you pull out and there it is. You change your depth
perspective. I know, I could never do it.
Okay, so put your hand out in front of you. Put your hand out in front Oh no, I could never do it. Okay, so put your hand out in front of you.
Put your hand out in front of you.
Come on, do the exercise. Put your effing hand out in front of you.
Now look at your hand.
Now look past your hand and look
at Hayley in the background. I can't do it. I'm too advanced.
You're an advanced species. I'm too
advanced. You're too advanced
to change your depth of focus.
It only works on dumb people.
No offence.
How dare you.
No, none offence taken.
I'll say it.
Amazing top six for one that didn't exist until like two minutes before it happened.
It was alright.
Now I'm just here with Wally's sketches.
Yeah, exactly.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Stats, guys.
I've got so many stats about divorce rates worldwide.
I've got the countries that have the lowest rate of divorce.
I've got the countries that have the highest rate of divorce.
And we're somewhere in there.
Are we middle?
I've got us.
We actually don't feature on either top or bottom.
So we're kind of like middle of the road.
We're middle of the road.
We're middle of the road.
Okay.
I'll go the countries with the
lowest divorce rates.
I'll just do five.
I'll do five and count.
One, two, three, four, five.
Okay. St. Vincent
and the Grenadines.
What is that? It's just an island, isn't it?
They've been popping up on lots of, like, world lists lately.
Have they?
Yeah, I feel like every time we've got one, it's like,
beautiful beaches, but also horrendous divorce rates.
Oh.
No, like the least.
Oh, the least divorce rates.
0.4.
Well, that's why.
It's because the beach is so nice.
Yeah.
Should we go for a walk at the beach?
We're having marital issues.
Yeah.
The beach is so nice, it fixes your marriage.
So the rate is calculated by dividing the total number
of divorces by the size of the population.
That's called per capita.
So it's per capita.
I was just making sure that it was that.
So there's 0.4.
Malta is just before that and Ireland
actually, very low in divorce rates.
Because of Catholics, they're not allowed.
Yeah, but also the accent, you're just like, I can't
divorce that. Listen to that.
I know.
Yeah, like what am I going to go marry a...
American?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, awful.
Then it's Peru, then Sri Lanka.
Vietnam has the second lowest divorce rates.
Yeah.
And India.
Really?
Divorce.
Okay.
0.1 divorces per thousand people.
Jeez.
They just like live miserably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And miserable for life. Okay. 0.1 divorces per 1,000 people. Jeez. They just live miserably.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And miserable for life.
Yeah.
Okay, so there's 0.1 divorces per 1,000 people.
Okay.
Now, the highest, I'll do five.
I'm just going to count it because they haven't done a pinpoint probably.
China, 3.2 per 1,000.
Okay.
Belarus, higher, just slightly above that.
Russia, 4.4 per thousand marriages, end in divorce.
Kazakhstan, in second place, 4.6.
Maldives, 5.52.
Wait, so out of 1,000 marriages, only five...
That's still low, eh?
That's insanely low.
I know.
But then, so the Maldives is... That's less than a percent.
...is the most in the
world. Yeah, the Maldives
is the most in the world. Or maybe I'm reading this
wrong. Not only are you stressed about your marriage,
you're, um, the tide's
coming up to your front door
as well, because that place is sinking, isn't it?
She's had a revelation over here,
because there's no way the divorce rate is less than 1%.
No, no, I'm just trying to work out how they've done the number
because surely that's
like five,
maybe it's like out of ten.
It's not of
per marriage, it's per person.
And lots of people aren't married.
Yeah, exactly. Because they're children.
It's annoying that they've done it like this.
But anyway, so New Zealand, we actually, our divorce rates are so low.
They've gone down so much since 2012.
But is that also because people aren't getting married?
So, yes.
They also think one explanation is that the falling rate of divorces from now since 2012
is likely because people are getting married later in life
where they're more financially secure, they've spent more
time together and more
likely have a stable relationship as opposed
to like rushing into things.
Which is also why a lot of women are having babies
older too.
So same thing, no this is how they work.
Statistics New Zealand show that the number of divorces
in
2023 was 7,593,
equates to a divorce rate of 7.4 divorces for every 1,000 marriages.
But that's not, but the divorce rate's like 50%, isn't it?
It's way higher than seven in 1,000.
Yeah, whereas like we used to, the divorce rate in 2012 was 9.9 divorces in every thousand.
But is that per year?
Oh, this is why, because it's in that year.
So like you're not, however many marriages happen that year and then how many divorces,
but eventually they'll get divorced, right?
Is that how it is?
Because you can't do a study on it until you've gotten to the end of your relationship.
Yes.
So in that year.
So technically you say,
you think nobody's happily married,
they're just pending divorce.
Yeah.
Everybody's pending divorce.
It's like we're born to die,
we get married to divorce.
Yeah, that's how many divorces happened
per thousand marriages in that year.
But you go like,
if you followed those marriages,
they'd eventually split up.
That's quite a grim way of looking at it, isn't it?
So, yeah, we're kind of around the middle.
We're doing all right.
We're not the baddest.
We're not the goodest.
Any stats on people like you that have been engaged for nine years
and still haven't got married?
Well, you can't get divorced if you never get married.
I'm going to have a bit of paperwork here, actually,
it sounds like.
Now, Shannon's got a hack for us.
We don't have an intro for this segment of the show
because...
We're trialling it.
And if she gives us a good hack,
we'll make an intro.
Yeah, that's right.
We need a winning hack.
There hasn't been a good hack so far.
Because we keep saying
it's five stars max for Shannon's hacks,
but we haven't gone above a two star, I think.
No.
What was your last one?
I got three for the sandwich hack.
My last one was the kebab shop
getting home after a night out.
Yeah, that was a zero. Self-admittedly, I kind of imploded on that one. Yeah, that was a sandwich hack. My last one was the kebab shop getting home after a night out. Yeah, that was a zero.
Self-admittedly, I kind of imploded on that one.
Yeah, that was a bad hack.
Well, I've got a new one for the weekend.
Okay.
Hit it.
Okay, so you're making pancakes.
It's quite hard sometimes, you know, if you flip it wrong
or the middle's a bit raw.
You know what I mean?
Like, you don't always nail pancakes.
It's a bit like I find this when making omelettes,
I just end up doing a scrambled kind of a...
Yeah, it all falls apart.
You're doing it too fast.
Your heat's too hot.
Oh, is that why?
Pull it down.
Pull it down.
Pull it down.
When you put it in the pan, the heat's got to be low.
Yep.
You've got to have buttered the pan,
and then you put a lid over the pan.
Oh, to cook the top a little bit more.
Sounds like you should just go over for brekkie at Vaughan's. Yeah. We, to cook the, yeah, right. So it cooks the top a little bit more. Then you begin to fold.
Sounds like you should just go over for brekkie at Vaughan's.
Yeah.
We have a brekkie tomorrow, are we?
We're going to kill, August makes a killer omelette.
Right.
Right.
I won't be showing up by a tearaug.
Oh, she will absolutely show you what's what.
Anyway, we're not talking about omelettes.
We're talking about pancakes.
Yes, but it is interesting you bring up eggs
because my hack today is instead of doing pancakes
in the traditional way where you pour it in and wait
and flip it, maybe messing it up, pancake scramble.
Hear me?
Shut up, Shannon.
You've said too much.
No, no, no, no, no.
You've said too much.
Please give me a minute.
Give me a minute.
This is a zero.
What would that even look like?
Zero.
Please, please, give me a minute.
So. Hear the woman out.
Pour it into your pan and
immediately start moving it like it's
scrambled eggs with a spatula. You're kind
of like mullying it around the pan
and breaking it up into small
pieces. Food.com have a recipe
called scrambled pancakes.
It's a German thing.
Oh, this looks like shit.
No, but what it does is it gives you the perfect bite
every time. Kaiser Scrum!
Kaiser Scrum!
It doesn't give you the perfect bite. You ready?
It does. It looks awful.
Shannon, no! No, this is
the best. And then you get a little plate
and you kind of make pancake cereal
with the syrup and stuff. Every
bite has an outside edge and syrup and desserts.
No, you're just, you're not getting it.
Zero.
God, it looks messy, doesn't it?
Look at this.
The photos are disgusting.
Pancake scramble.
This is bad.
Look, I mean, food.com and these websites,
they have five-star ratings for this recipe.
Five stars max.
For Shannon's hacks.
I don't know.
Look at it.
It's solving a problem.
It looks like crap.
Who can't make pancakes?
Fletch just said it's like making an omelette,
and he says he burns it.
Omelettes are harder because you've got to load them
and then fold them.
No, but omelettes turned into scrambled eggs.
It's just one real thing turning into another real thing.
Pancake scramble.
Fluffy pancake scramble.
But food.com says it's a thing,
so it's just like you said with the omelettes,
where it's going omelette to scrambled eggs.
We're going pancake to pancake scramble.
Just terrible.
Do you know what?
I'm going to give three stars.
Thank you.
What the?
I'm going to give three stars.
Why are you being so
loose goose with your stars?
Text machine, five stars
for Shannon.
Someone else said disgusting.
One person messaged in five times
saying five stars for Shannon.
I would try this.
I mean, that's her mum.
The thing I hate about
pancakes is in the middle,
they do get a bit doughy and a bit, ah.
You're cooking them too.
How is everybody not doing this right?
He's on 10, isn't he?
He's gone, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
He's like, I'm going to get this done as quick as I can.
I've got a big day of doing everything.
But I'm hacking his problem.
He's got a problem, and I've just hacked it.
Three stars.
I'm going to give three stars.
1.5 stars
max for Shannon's
pancake hack.
I said zero stars from the outset.
Zero? Okay, so on average she's got
about one. She's 1.5.
She's 1.5.
We're settling on a 1.5 for you, Shannon.
Well, let me know when you try it this weekend.
I was going to say, if listeners now want to try
scrambled pancakes at the weekend
and report back to us on Monday.
Shredded pancakes.
It does look kind of gross.
I'll admit it.
It looks like a plate of regurgitated bread.
But yum.
Okay, you make it this way.
Have you made it?
No, no, of course not.
I just threw it on TikTok.
The thing is, she hasn't even felt this in her head.
Do you expect me to?
No.
But the thing is, it's always going to taste nice because of the maple syrup.
Yes.
But that's what pancakes are.
Pancakes are just like nothing.
Just suck on the bottle of maple syrup if that's what tastes good then.
Play.
ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
It's the final rankings. We do this every Friday.
We rank things.
Yeah.
Normally food.
We do like to spread our wings a bit.
Today it's generations of phones. Just like old phones that we all remember.
Yeah.
Favourite phones over the years.
I mean, you're not going to, are we going to,
like when we say iPhone or smartphone.
No, you have to identify the phone of choice.
Because iPhone 3 was the bubbly one that we all got first.
That was the one that I got first.
I've got the top 15 best-selling phones of all time.
The top two positions are taken by the Nokia 1100.
1100?
Yeah, so one from 2003, one from 2005.
And they said the reason for that being is that that's when mobile phones hit third world countries.
And these were cheap, easy.
Right.
So they said up until then, the Nokias had sold well.
But the fact that this was the time when third world countries became connected and this was the cheapest, most readily available phone.
Because the big Nokia bricks, the 5110,
that was the one that had the clip-on cover.
No, that was a 3310, wasn't it?
No, no.
The 3310 had a clip-on cover front and back,
but the 5...
Right.
The 3310 was after the big one with snake on it.
Right.
The 3310 had snake, didn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the first brick one
that our parents had. That was my first phone, the 3310. Snake, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the first brick one that our parents had.
That was my first phone, the 3310.
Yeah, I had it.
So I think that's got to be number three for me, just for nostalgia.
The 3210 is number seven.
Okay.
One of the most well-sold phones of all time.
Where's the Razr?
Where's the Razr?
The most selling iPhone and Razr.
The highest iPhone on the list is the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
That sold 222 million units.
And is that because that also was made cheaper for other markets as well?
The 6S and the 6S Plus.
I think that was the big step up.
Yeah, right.
From 5 to 6 was this massive step up.
iPhone 5 in 6th place and then the 7 and 8th.
And yeah.
For me, it would be number three, the 3310 Nokia.
It would be the Motorola Razr because that was cool.
That was a sexy phone.
And they've also had a resurgence.
They're making a comeback.
I know.
Because people are, a lot of people are,
and I'm reading, just read an article this week
about people leaving the smartphone life
and going more analogue and wanting more analogue in their life.
So they can unplug.
Yeah.
What about the Ericssons?
You know, they were great. Nah.
And then it's gotta be the iPhone.
I'll just go the modern iPhone, because it's so great.
The camera on them?
Yeah. Sorry, it's jamming my finger. You just can't go past it.
Look, do you remember this one? The Nokia 737E?
Yes. It spun.
It pivoted. It had a hinge and it would
pivot. That was pretty cool. Do you know what's strange?
Nokia was full of, like of weird gimmicky phones.
They had that one with all the letters around the bottom
so it looked like an old rotary phone.
Do you know what's odd?
I can look at each of these phones.
I'm on an article on Gizmodo of the Y2K phones
that'll make you look for hinges and buttons.
And on each phone, I can picture the boy that I was texting.
Like on the 310, I'm like, oh, that was that guy James
from the bus from Eastbourne into high school when I was 13.
On the Motorola, the Razr, it's my high school boyfriend Benjamin.
On that Swippy one, it's hot boy Patrick.
Did you have one of the phones from the Nellie Kelly,
you know, when she was texting him from the Excel spreadsheet?
Yeah, no, I didn't have one of those. I never had that one. No, I didn't have one of the phones from the Nelly Kelly, you know, when she was texting him from the Excel spreadsheet. Yeah, no, I didn't have one of those.
I never had that one.
No, I didn't have one of those.
I'm going to go the rotating head Nokia number three.
That's a 7370.
If you don't have any rogue choice.
Rogue choice from you?
I know, but I...
But did you have one?
Yeah, I had one.
And I remember texting, just the cutest boy.
Then I'm going to go the Nokia
5110,
the original with the click on, because I remember
my mum got it, and I thought
she's pretty cool. Well, she was a
real estate agent. Real estate agent.
The aerial pulled in on that one, eh?
In case you needed a little extra, a little
2G coverage. Yeah, and then I'm going
the Razr, Motorola Razr. Is that your number
one? Yeah, and it was pink
and it was cool.
Yes.
I had the black
Motorola Razor.
I had a grey.
And it had a camera on it
and it was really bad.
Oh, they were all bad.
Terrible quality camera.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that's when
they first started taking pics,
you know, of friends and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Little emo pics.
Grainy as your life.
Yeah, pixelated.
Nostalgia's sake,
I've got to put the Nokia,
I don't know if I want to go 3310.
The 33,
because if you've gone 5110,
I think I'll cover the 3210.
Okay.
Or the 3310.
Yeah.
Because that was the other one.
Well, Nokia's winning so far.
Nokia had a great one.
Are they though?
And the second coolest phone
that people were always like,
wow, can I have a look at your phone, would have to be the Razr.
The super thin Motorola V3 Razr.
And you could change your own battery.
How cool was that?
Yes, that's right.
And number one, you would probably be just,
I feel a bit basic putting the iPhone at number one.
I know, but it did change everything, didn't it?
Yeah, it did.
Well, would you say that...
That old brick.
Remember I had that brick on the 025 network?
Yeah.
025.
My dad had a brick on 025.
Years after.
With a flap and an aerial.
I had a flap and an aerial.
Mine was just literally a brick.
Yeah, you bought that, didn't you,
from Trade Me or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was still connected.
You could still make phone calls and stuff from it.
It was wild.
Yeah, giving yourself cancer.
It would give you a hot air
if you talked on a phone.
Yes, they used to get so hot.
Yeah.
Okay, so, well,
Nokia's come out on top.
Probably the 3310.
A lot of Nokia.
Yeah.
I'd say it would go iPhone, 3310.
Somebody said we haven't talked
about Blackberries.
Razer.
Nah, it wasn't big.
I never had,
I didn't know anyone
that had a Blackberry.
I had a Nokia version of one later. Yeah, a couple of friends that were like in the corporate world, maybe wasn't big. I never had, I didn't know anyone that had a BlackBerry unless... I had a Nokia version of one later.
Yeah, a couple of friends that were like in the corporate world maybe had them.
Nah, BlackBerry's nah.
Had a BlackBerry for sending emails and that.
Nah, never had one.
Oh my God.
I never had a phone with the full keypad on as touch buttons.
I've never made it.
So what's our final rankings?
Would it be iPhone, Razer?
Do you reckon that, well I didn't include an iPhone at all in mine,
so I'd say the Razer's at the top,
because we all thought that was cool.
Razer, iPhone, and a Nokia brick.
And a Nokia brick.
Oh, we also forgot the Alcatel OneTouch.
Yeah, I remember the Alcatel OneTouch.
Flash in the pan.
Flash in the pan, though.
Nokia came in.
I reckon there would have been lots of people
of our generation's first phone, though.
Yeah.
Yellow, orange, or blue.
A lot of mums had them, too.
Yeah.
Someone's angry we've completely missed the Nokia 2280.
That was a real...
What's the Nokia 2280?
It was a cheap...
It was the one when...
I think Telecom bought out $10 text.
Oh, yes.
I had one of those.
I had that.
Yeah.
And everybody just got one
because they were the cheapest phone you could get
when Telecom bought out $10 text.
Yeah.
You pay $10 a week
and you can just text as much as you want.
Yeah, that was cheap as chips, actually.
Everyone had that.
I think we should just go Nokia bricks all round, whether it's the 2280, the 3310, the
5110.
Yeah.
Nokia brick is number one.
Yeah.
Razor number two.
Basic Nokia.
Basic Nokia.
With Snake and that parachute gun.
Yeah.
And your tick, tick, tick, tick, ticks.
Yeah.
Razor number two.
Yeah.
And we'll go iPhone 3. Yeah. In third. Happy. I your tick, tick, tick, tick, ticks. Yep. Razer number two. Yep. And we've got iPhone 3 in third.
Happy.
I think happy with that list.
Happy with that list.
Good consensus.
Good consensus.
We've become nonchalant with our iPhones, haven't we?
We're reliant on them so heavily they don't feel like phones anymore.
No, exactly.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Now, the entire country of Denmark has recalled a popular noodle brand because they're saying it's too spicy.
Oh, it's too spicy.
They're saying it's too spicy and that it could poison consumers.
This is money can't buy publicity for this food brand.
It is, isn't it?
So they say that in their statement, chilli in large quantities poses risks to children
and frail adults in particular,
and that if customers want,
they can take these noodles back for a refund.
Now the...
Is it too hot for them?
Spicy noodles are widely available in New Zealand as well,
all around the world.
It's a popular brand.
The three times spicy noodles on Amazon, for example,
have over 90,000 popular
reviews, like five-star reviews.
People love them. Because, you know, like you, Vaughn,
you love spice. Love spicy noodles.
Producer Jared, you love these noodles?
Yeah. I don't
put the whole sachet in because
far out.
But why do you
buy the three-time spice? Yeah, I likeuss in our hands. But why do you buy the three times spice?
Yeah, I like spicy nudes.
Right.
But you only put like a tiny sprinkle in.
I do about half.
Well, why don't you just buy the spicy, not the three times?
Well, I like to taste all the different spicy ones to find my exact level of spice.
Yeah, right.
He's custom making.
I've settled on the nongshim.
Right.
But when I can't find the nongshim, I do the Samyang bulgur.
Right.
Samyang, that sounds...
In a statement, New Zealand Food Safety Deputy Director General...
Deputy Director General?
He's not a general.
He's not a general.
Deputy Director General.
Vincent Arbuckle told One News,
the ministry is aware of Denmark's recall of Samyang noodles
due to concerns of the high levels of capsaicin.
Is it like capsicum, like spice?
And the active component
of chilli peppers, because the noodles are also
available in New Zealand, we are looking into this issue.
As always, if we
consider it to be a food safety risk, we'll take swift
action. But it's just spice.
It's not like, it's bad, right?
I mean, like, the next day when you're on the
toilet, there was one time I was like,
Oh, jerry!
Oh, jerry!
Even when you open the sachet to pour it onto the nudes,
like, the colour just looks hot.
Really?
I thought, what?
I like spice, but I like to add it as I go.
If something's fundamentally at its core spicy,
I'm always like, oh, I don't know.
And spice can't escape that. It's overwhelming. It's not flavour, it's just burn. It's also something you fundamentally at its core spicy, I'm always like, oh, I don't know. And spice can't escape that.
It's overwhelming. It's not flavour, it's just burn.
It's also something you need to build up to, spice,
in general. Oh, I used to be no
spice. I was a mild butter chicken, and I'm not
even afraid to say it, but I've recovered,
and now I'm a medium.
So this is what I wanted to ask. When was
the food too spicy? You know, like,
you go in and you order some food, and you're like,
spicy. And they're like, white person spicy? some food and you're like spicy and they're like white
person spicy? I went
to Bangkok and I was with a friend
who's white. Who's
white? Who's white?
My mate who's white?
My mate Gareth, he's white. We went to this
Thai restaurant, proper Thai
not like touristy and
I ordered a musselman curry and he ordered like
whatever curry and he said, I want it hot.
And then the Thai waitress was like,
no, no, no, no, sir.
And he said, no, no, no, give it me local hot.
And she was just like-
Thai hot's hotter than Indian hot.
Dumb man, dumb man.
And he got it and I'll never forget him eating it.
Dripping with sweat.
Yeah, it's really good.
I was like, Gareth, it doesn't look like you're enjoying it.
He was-
Gareth, it doesn't look like you're enjoying it.
You're not enjoying yourself. He was getting his Gareth, it doesn't look like you're enjoying it. He was... Gareth, it doesn't look like you're enjoying it. You're not enjoying yourself.
He was getting his fork
and putting it into my muscleman
grabbing me potatoes
and trying to like...
Telling it down with potatoes.
Trying to dull it down.
My white mate,
Gareth,
in Bangkok.
I'll tell you,
my white mate,
Gareth,
we didn't see him that night.
We went out to the clubs.
We didn't see Gareth.
Dead,
isn't he?
Too spicy.
And I loved watching the Thai waitresses look at him like,
you stupid white man.
You stupid man, yeah.
Stupid idiot.
So this is what I wanted to, maybe you made something yourself.
Maybe you were making a recipe and, I don't know,
you mixed up the peppers.
Oh, yeah.
You mixed up the spice level.
Classic.
Or you, I don't know, caught at a dinner table
and it was way too hot.
Oh dear.
With people, you couldn't show that you were in discomfort.
Yeah.
All of this, I want to hear about it.
0800 DALS at M, give us a call.
Text through 9696.
When was the food too spicy?
But right now, the whitest thing you've ever heard,
Denmark has recalled some three times spicy
South Korean chilli noodles
because they're too spicy.
Too spicy.
Too spicy for Denmark.
And we want to know
from you now
when the food was too spicy.
When you were like,
I can do this.
I got this.
Now, this is a classic
of someone who's got kids.
Somebody said,
our two-year-old yesterday
insisted on using
the adult's toothpaste.
And I said,
it is too spicy. That's a way to get kids Oh my God, yeah the adult's toothpaste. And I said, it is too spicy.
That's a way to get kids not to touch it.
Oh, my God, yeah, adult's toothpaste.
When you were like, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he had to use it.
He wanted to be like, Mom.
This morning, he used the kid's toothpaste again
while pointing at the adult's toothpaste saying, yucky, spicy.
Yucky, spicy.
Yucky, spicy.
Lana, when was the food too spicy?
So, my friend got a bit of a thing about spicy food
and decided to grow some ghost pepper chilli.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then, big ideas for us,
we decided to make this vegetarian chilli
because it was on a keto run.
Right.
And so we made this vegetarian chilli because it was on a keto run. Right. And so we made this vegetarian chilli
and I threw some of it in the freezer
and forgot to mark it up
saying it was the ghost pepper vegetarian chilli.
Right.
Took it to work
and then had to harden up
and eat it in front of people
and pretend it wasn't that hot
because, you know,
I work with some Thai people who would be, like, wetting their pants.
Yeah.
And it's lucky I work in the medical industry because then I forgot to tell
old mate here, but then I ended up having to use the Acidex,
which is like Gaviscon, throughout the day.
It's called the stomach. Mm-hmm.
It's called the stomach.
Mm-hmm.
And then, yeah, the next morning it was a bit rough.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Next to the building.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're using medical grade Gaviscon.
Yeah. But also, ghost peppers aren't, they're not a naturally occurring pepper.
They've been bred to be that hot.
Yeah. Even Thai people struggle with occurring pepper. They've been bred to be that hot. Yeah.
Even Thai people struggle with ghost peppers.
They're next level.
Also, and the worst part is, like, I didn't put a very big chili in.
It was tiny.
Oh, yeah, tiny, tiny.
You don't need any of this.
It was a tiny chili.
I grew them once.
And even picking them, your hands burn from touching them.
Oh, no, absolutely not.
Just to see.
Cool, I guess.
Thank you.
Some messages in.
I got tricked into tasting.
I actually think the funniest stories are the ones with people who just can't handle spice at all.
I got tricked into tasting a tiny piece of wasabi.
Good grief.
Did that burn?
That's a unique hot, though, wasabi.
It is.
Not just green horseradish.
You just feel the fumes go up the nasal passage
goes into your brain
so many experiences
but one past of mine
ordered a medium spicy
at an authentic
Thai restaurant
could not finish it
I was crying
my nose was running
I was sweating
the lady at the restaurant
was laughing at me
oh my gosh
I made deviled sausages
last night
not with a medji
with a medji I guess Not with a Maggi.
I guess so, with a Maggi sachet.
And my husband always complains that it's too bland.
So the kids can have it. And I thought I'd mix some of his hot sauce into his bowl,
as it was a nice thing to do.
Seems I overestimated the amount of hot sauce needed.
There was no complaining of blandness at all.
He was sweating.
And his nose was running.
Well, that'll teach him.
That'll teach him.
Truly deviled sausages. Denmark
love their pastries. They do a good pastry
but they can't
handle their spicy food. There's been a recall of
three times spicy noodles in
Denmark. New Zealand apparently
is looking into this matter but I'm sure it's
fine. Judging
by the fact that these noodles are consumed
all around the world. Now, we've
just received what I would say is the
roguest text we maybe have
ever received with some...
Have you heard about the frozen pebble?
No. With regards
to... What? The frozen
pebble technique when you eat something too
spicy.
Have you heard about this? No.
You find a smooth pebble... Like down at the river. A river rock about this? No. You find a smooth pebble.
Yeah.
Like down at the river.
Like a river rock.
A nice river.
One that's been smoothed over thousands of years of bouncing around a braided river.
Yeah.
You find a smooth pebble and you keep it in the freezer.
If you eat something too spicy,
you take it out of the freezer
and pop it between your butt cheeks
to help at the other end.
I found the perfect one at the kids' daycare the other day
with the letter P carved in it, but I was like,
no, that's the perfect frozen pebble.
So I've stolen it, and I have tested it once,
and it worked a treat.
Wait, this is rubbish.
Wait, you put the pebble up your ass?
No, no, up your ass, just in between the cheeks,
and I guess it's for the ring sting of the hot.
Frozen pebble diarrhea. Frozen hot. Frozen pebble diarrhea.
Frozen food.
Frozen pebble.
I don't know how to spell diarrhea.
If I was going to Google,
I would say frozen pebble anal.
No, causes of pebble poop.
Anal calming.
No, I'm saying nothing.
There's nothing.
There's nothing on Google about this.
They're trying to get us to stick a rock up our bum.
Yeah.
Someone said I heard about it on a podcast
called the Wolf and Owl podcast.
I won't be tricked
again into putting
a river rock between
my butt cheeks.
Yeah.
No, I can't see
anything for that
online.
I think that would
work a treat actually
because stones do
hold their cold.
No.
It would be like a
whiskey rock but a
smooth one.
But is it because
you're like you're
burning in the mouth
and then all of a
sudden.
You're going to have
a ring sting.
When you, you know, some people get it, they eat spicy food and the way out it hurts just as burning in the mouth and then all of a sudden... No, it's that you're going to have ring sting.
Some people get it, they eat spicy food,
and the way out it hurts just as much on the way in.
Oh, look, that sounds ridiculous.
I'm not sticking a pebble in my butt. You could put a frozen pebble on your tongue,
but I would recommend getting two different pebbles there.
But don't get them mixed up.
It's ridiculous.
Don't get them mixed up.
Put a B on one and a T on one.
Yeah, never take the pebble ass to mouth is what I would say.
Okay.
That's my general rule.
I'm just going to stick with the ones that are technically not actually that spicy,
but white people.
Yeah.
Great.
Someone said,
need I say more to my fellow white-tongued brethren than wicked wings?
Wicked wings?
That's so true.
You should be embarrassed about that.
You should be absolutely embarrassed. My sister once refused to eat cabbage
at dinner because she claimed it was too spicy.
Well, it does have a pepperiness.
Well, especially my mum used to put the peppercorns
in the crock pot with the
corned beef and then you chipped up the cabbage
and sometimes you get a rogue peppercorn.
Yeah. My nephew
once burst into tears
after having a cheesy
Garlic pizza from Domino's
Because that was too spicy
My friend's brother-in-law
Gets a sweat on
If he eats salt and vinegar chips
And he said
They are really
Pushing the boat out
On spicy food
Oh my god
Yeah
That's crazy
My brother told me
Wasabi was just the name
For Chinese chewing gum
And he said
Pop that in your mouth
So I popped the whole packet in my mouth.
I've never in my life been in so much pain.
And hope I never am again.
Gosh.
Someone's at Nando's.
Someone's saying Nando's was so hot.
My white friends were laughing at me saying,
you're the worst Indian because they eat extra hot.
That would be embarrassing to be of Indian descent.
Going to a Nando's would be like...
Oh my God.
I'm going with the lemon herb.
If you go back 10 years to the day...
Oh, here we go.
Stop doing this.
Life has its pivotal moments.
It does.
And I speak about this a lot
much like the Nokia
what was that pivot phone
you mentioned before
it pivoted on the end
so I always
this is my problem
I go okay
so 10 years ago
it's my youngest daughter's
10th birthday tomorrow
now that's
I've never struggled
with turning 30
or 40
or whatever
because some people do
really
some people get really
but it's weird
I now no longer
have a child
tomorrow I will no longer have a child, tomorrow I will no longer
have a child in single digits.
Well, until
you get that snip, we don't know.
We don't know.
My dad was experiencing
this in 1994
which last time I checked was five years ago.
Or was it?
No, probably six years ago. Six years ago because that's right
we're in the 2000s now.
And time keeps flying by. I'm so excited
for all the drama
that's going to happen
when you have two teenage girls
that are just shit.
They're going to be shits.
It's going to be so great.
I think one of them
is going to be more of a shit
than the other.
I don't think they're going to be shits.
Because I look into her eyes
and I see myself.
You're going to be
the embarrassing dad
from Modern Family
and every dad would...
There's two dads that everybody wants to be.
Yep.
Bandit from Bluey.
Yep.
Probably the best TV dad ever.
And second is Phil Dunphy.
Right.
If you ever get compared to those two legends of fatherhood,
there's absolutely nothing insulting about it.
Two great dads.
But, yeah, my youngest is going to be 10 tomorrow.
It's August's birthday and she's 10.
And I'm just like,
like it all, it's flying by and you can't slow down life.
And 10 years ago, she was being born and 10 years before that, the Darkness song came out.
And that's the same period of time.
And one feels like it went like that
and the other one feels it went like this.
What did you get for your 10th birthday?
Because for some reason, I always remember
that I got the Michael Jackson history compilation album for my 10th birthday? Because for some reason I always remember that I got the Michael Jackson history compilation
album for my 10th birthday.
Well, he died.
But a completely beloved legend.
Clean slate. He missed all
of the Me Too stuff.
He got that just at the right time.
He bowed out before it all went.
I don't remember what I got for my 10th birthday.
I do. What did you get? Round sunglasses
and a silver chain.
Because I was 10, baby, and it was time to grow up and be a man
and start not getting toys.
His parents knew he was going to be a magnet for the babes.
And I remember I tried them on and I looked in the mirror
and that day was my final year.
It was the start of my final year at primary school.
And our primary school always started with a picnic day.
Not in the first day, but within the first couple of weeks.
And all the families came and the new kids would be like,
these are the old kids.
It was like a get to know community sort of vibe.
And I got myself so worked up about what people were going to think
about my sunglasses and my train.
I vomited on my birthday.
Oh, horny.
And that was being 10.
And I remember it's one of those memories that like just thinking about it now,
I'm like, oh my God, that's so cringy.
But like at the moment when I was 10, I was like,
this could be the most important day of my life.
I've got these new sunglasses and this chain.
What if people don't like the chain?
I think you knew deep down you look like a penis.
And my life has just been a series of that.
Yeah.
Being like, that looked cool on that person.
I'll try it on, put it on.
I'm like, oh my God, I look like a giant penis.
I look so bad.
Yeah.
And that just feels, that was 1992.
And yeah.
Wait, hang on, Fletch.
What did you get for your 10th birthday?
I don't remember.
No presents.
No, I definitely would have got a present.
I just can't remember.
Yeah, but I don't remember. It's not like a core memory. I remember almost all of my presents. I remember other presents. No, I definitely would have got a present. I just can't remember.
Yeah, but I don't remember.
It's not like a core memory. I remember almost all of my presents. I remember other presents.
Let's go back. World War II had just ended.
You were turning 10. Oh my God.
What is this? Your father just returned
from the war. It was 1946. Dad
didn't want to talk about it.
I'm like literally two years
older than you. I know, but it's fun because it's your birthday
next week. So you've always got to remind people that, you know,
we're on a one-way march to the grave.
Yeah.
So what, 1989?
I can't remember.
Simpsons were like brand new.
Ninja Turtles.
Yeah, but I remember getting like,
I remember my 16th birthday, I got like a mini system.
Oh, yeah.
I think everybody got a stereo one of these on birthdays.
It was a three CD disc changer. What, and it like, yeah. I think everybody got a stereo one of their three disc. It was a three CD
disc changer.
You want to rotate it?
We'll 100% just say what happened on your 10th
birthday because someone said the year was
1993. Okay. I got a
Walkman that played tapes.
And probably those fluffy overhead
headphones.
Ate so much KFC for dinner.
Spewed everywhere.
10th birthday. Good time.wed everywhere. 10th birthday, good time.
Mean.
Good time.
Yeah.
10th birthday.
Oh, well, that's exciting.
It's exciting.
It is exciting.
And happy birthday to August for tomorrow.
Are you going to cry?
Wait, are you giving your own daughter a birthday shout out?
Well, no, that was the thing.
Remember when you were a kid and it was your birthday
and your mum and dad would ring the local classic hits
and get your name on the birthday wheel?
And a big happy birthday to Hayley, who turns 10 today.
And you'd win like something.
You'd win some donuts from the bakery.
Yeah, or a family or a voucher for a memory lane.
That was a buffet in Hamilton.
Although I think they might have done the Marbles Buffet in New Plymouth.
You'd win it.
And that was a good prize.
That was a great prize.
That's a good buffet.
That's a great prize.
Well, you know, the easier thing than getting your mum to work in the radio
is just dedicating your life to getting a
career in radio. So one day,
you know, 22 years after
you've started, you can say
happy birthday to your kids and it's so easy.
They're probably not even listening. Yeah, we're not even doing anybody
else's birthday. So that's just how special
it is and it took me an entire career to manifest
this exact moment. Happy birthday
August!
Play.
ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Yesterday,
so we've got these friends,
Jake and Casey,
that we share
and they go fishing
all the time
and they had a whopper
of a fish
and they messaged us saying
Massive snapper.
Yeah, they said
Do they have a boat
or do they just do it
on a bridge?
Okay.
They've got a boat
but then they said cancel dinner plans. We've got a boat. But then they said, cancel dinner plans.
We've got fish.
We're doing a fish drop-off.
Okay.
So I got home yesterday and Aaron-
Wait, a whole fish?
Did they cut it?
No, they filleted it, babe.
And they vacuum pack it.
Yeah, they fillet and vacuum.
And vacuum.
Yeah, so you can have it the next day.
Yeah, they've got a vacuum pack.
Machines from the infomercial.
Yeah, I've got one of those.
Have you?
Yeah, they rule, dude.
They rule.
I want one of those.
Except they don't tell you that if it's too liquidy in the
bag, when it's going
sucking everything
out, if there's too much liquid in the bag, the liquid
means that it can't seal. Oh,
okay. So you might need to double seal that.
Yeah, right. Okay. I'll seal
you up something if you like. What would you like me to do?
A biscuit. Can you bring in a biscuit
and it's sealed up? But in a full A4
size. Yeah. Seal and the biscuit in the middle. Yeah, sealed up? But in a full A4 size. Yeah.
Seal and the biscuit in the middle.
Yeah, I want to be cancelled for using too much plastic.
Yeah, great.
But fresh biscuit.
And it better be a good biscuit too.
The freshest biscuit.
You'll get a nice bit.
You know that.
You've got a birthday coming up next week.
Oh, okay.
What kind of biscuit?
A bakery.
No, what about the caramel one that you had last week?
Oh, that was yum.
No, a bakery Belgium. A good you had last week? Oh, that was yum. No, bakery Belgium.
A good Belgium.
Ooh.
What?
It could be crushed in the suction.
The icing could be crushed.
In the suction.
No, it won't be.
It'll be fine.
Oh.
But the icing will smell on the top.
Belgian slice or biscuit.
Yeah.
The icing will go.
I think that's insane.
How much is it sucking?
It sucks.
It sucks.
It sucks all the air out.
Right.
So they give you the fish and it's already pre...
Because I would hate that.
If someone gave me a fish, I'd be like, no thanks.
I don't know what you're doing with that.
No, they'll give me a whole fish before it rules.
Did you tie?
Tie style?
You gut it and then...
Yeah, but I don't know how to gut it.
That's the thing.
No, it's easy.
Just cut the bottom open and stick your fingers in.
I would have to throw it out and just be like, I'm sorry.
And then you stuff the gut cavity with like herbs and sage and all that.
Yeah, but where's the bones?
They're still in there.
Yeah, they're still in there.
And then you put seasoning over the top.
You wrap it and you leave it overnight.
And then you barbecue it whole.
And then you peel the skin back.
No, I'm not doing all of that.
If Jake and Casey are listening, never, ever, ever give me a whole fish unfiltered.
Anyway, they get delicious fish.
Heaps of fillets.
Probably worth like $800 million.
Oh, dude, $1,000.
$1,000 yesterday.
Because fish is so expensive.
So I went home, and get this, lovely Aaron,
I went for a nap, and then I woke up and he said,
there's a surprise in the kitchen for you.
And I get in there, there's a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.
Beautiful.
And he's frying up the fish fillets,
just butter, salt, pepper, lemon.
He's bought a loaf of white bread. Beautiful. And he's putting fresh, the fish fillets, just butter, salt, pepper, lemon. He's brought a loaf of white bread.
Beautiful.
And he's putting fresh hot fish fillets with lemon, salt, pepper, butter into the sandwich.
Right.
That's your lunch.
That's my lunch.
Glass of salve.
I was like, treats.
Wow, you are living the high life.
That's good, but much like sometimes just a fresh tomato on some white bread with too much salt.
What do you need?
Simplicity is key.
It was a bit of mayonnaise.
Gut health.
A bit of mayonnaise, I will say.
A bit of mayonnaise on it as well.
Incredible.
So I'm eating this sandwich.
Enjoy my salve.
We're having a lovely – we sat at the table and indulged.
Oh, that's why.
I know.
That's why I'm in the –
Getting in the –
Teeing up a little bit.
Teeing up a little bit.
Nice.
Nice.
Such an insight into a long-term relationship that you have to email each other just to organise this. You're teeing up a little bit. Teeing up a little bit. Nice. Nice. Such an insight into a long-term relationship
that you have to email each other just to organise this.
You're teeing up.
Yeah, you're teeing up an intimate night.
Teeing up a bit of intimacy tonight.
Anyway, so I ate this sandwich.
He eats his two sandwiches.
He's made me two full sandwiches.
Okay.
I ate the first one.
It is so delicious, but I was like,
I cannot finish that.
And it's such a waste.
And you can't just like let that fish sandwich sit,
come back to it later. Hot fish,
you've got to eat it now.
And I hear the neighbours' build is working
outside. And I was like, oh, we should,
go see if one of the guys wants a sandwich.
And Aaron was like, hell yeah. So we go out
with this plate and this hot fish
sandwich. And Aaron's like,
mate, we've got some fresh snapper off
the boat this morning.
Made a sandwich. Do you guys want to have it?
Because we're full. And the guys are like, oh my god,
hell yeah. Do you fish? And then I just hear
Aaron being like, yeah man, caught it this morning.
Oh no, what's he done?
He stole the tall tale. No, we effing
didn't. You don't even have a boat.
Or a fishing thingy. Or a fish just look over the driveway
and see we don't have a boat.
Everybody thinks you've got a boat in a marina.
Oh, I know.
He thinks there's a bit of cash floating around.
Aaron just straight out comes out the gate just being like,
yeah, mate, we caught it this morning.
We.
I think he's going collectively.
Yeah.
He's thinking of our friends as the collective we,
but he's absolutely sold it to these like,
I think he got his mask on.
You know how Aaron adapts to who he's around?
And when he's around tradies, he gets his
like mask on. So yeah, apparently
we caught some beautiful snapper
fresh this morning and whipped up our boys of Sammy.
Carlin's brought up a good point.
Aaron is an actor. Was he doing some character work?
He could be doing character work.
That could be neighbour John. Building up a new
character. John loves fishing. John
loves getting out on the boat.
Bloody docked down the marina, he's so bloody loaded.
Play ZM's Fletch,
Vaughn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day,
day, day, day.
Yeah.
Well,
it's calendar week.
Can I just say, flooded with positive responses.
I don't know if you are.
I don't know.
But there's a couple of dum-dums in studio.
Who were just like, duh, days of the week.
Duh.
I enjoyed yesterday.
Yeah, yesterday was fun.
It's just been slightly over.
Overwhelming.
Underwhelming overridden.
Underwhelming.ridden. Three stars.
Wow.
Give us today's fact.
Well, I've done this especially for you two.
Okay, great.
Yeah, great.
I've caved.
I've caved.
More.
Yep, to the plebs.
To the dum-dum plebs.
We speak on behalf of the people.
Yeah.
We want simple facts.
Simple but interesting.
Today's fact of the day is about firefighter calendars.
Yes!
Are you going to do Fact of the Day next week about firefighters?
Was that what you said you'd do?
Well, he threatened me that he would relinquish control for the week
and make me do the work to see how hard it was to do Fact of the Day every day.
Right.
I don't want to take it away from him.
Look at him.
You know, I hate this is his thing.
I also think a week's just barely dipping a toe into the...
Yeah, and it's not something I want to take on.
Into this legendary radio segment.
No.
Okay.
Historically.
Lengthy.
Name one that's run for longer.
The firefighter calendar precursor.
Okay.
I'll tell you how they came about.
Strippers.
Hmm?
Was that the precursor to fireman calendar?
No, no, no.
Strippers.
No, beefcake magazines.
Beefcake magazines.
Beefcake magazines.
What's beefcake?
Yeah, like buff men.
Buff men.
Right.
I've heard of men being called beefcakes before.
Like, oh, he's a beefcake.
But do you know the origins of the term beefcake no they needed a male version of cheesecake because
back in the 1930s if a dame was cutting a nice silhouette you'd say oh she's a cheesecake
well because she's delicious or something she's sweet and delicious because you can see the
passion fruit pips on it yeah and she's full of pips pips. Yeah. Crunchy pips. And a delicious cheesecake.
So then they were like,
well, what's the male version of a cheesecake?
And it was the beefcake.
Because men love beef.
So there were physique magazines,
beefcake magazines,
which were popular with men
who had something to hide
in the 1940s.
Men who had a few fellow friends
they had smoking.
That they were travelling with.
Would they tell their wives it was because they were into the gym?
Bingo.
So basically, think men's health.
If you've got a straight friend.
If you've got a straight friend who's like,
I get it for the workouts.
I just want to look at what I want my body to look like.
That Ryan Reynolds picture is lovely,
but let's not pretend that hasn't been used as a little bit of material for the old brain matter there.
So they were very popular in the 1940s.
And while they were targeting females, mostly being picked up by homosexuals.
Secret homosexuals.
So then pornography grew in popularity in the United States in the 1960s and 70s.
There was manual enterprises incorporated versus day.
You know how every court case in America
is so-and-so versus so-and-so?
And after that, male full frontal nudity was made legal
because prior to that, you could have female nudity,
but you couldn't have male nudity.
Oh my gosh.
Well, so that was a male fight for equality
after female equality.
Yeah, well, equality means everyone.
So, but it turned out women were a little bit too shy
to be buying Beefcake magazine on hold.
Oh, really?
Yeah, with male pornography.
It was a little bit hum-ha.
So the way around it was every woman needs a calendar.
You've got to run the house.
How will they know what day it is?
You've got to know what day Susie's violin recital is.
It must be written on the calendar.
So they started putting the Beefcake Men on the calendars.
And Beefcake calendars started selling very, very well.
And then, you know, it came down to it, firefighters needed money.
Yes.
They needed extra money to fund their fire departments.
I tell you what, those hoses aren't cheap.
Those big, long hoses.
Oh, God, no. And often. Thick canvas hoses. Very you what, those hoses aren't cheap. Those big long hoses. Oh God, no.
And often. Thick canvas hoses.
Very. Oh, thick hoses.
Thick, man. Two handers.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Powerful.
Powerful. Work the nozzle a little bit.
You've got to get it right.
So then they were like, you know, we need
money and I don't know if you guys have noticed, we're all
pretty shredded because
we've got to be super fit to run up the stairs.
Run up the stairs because in a lift you can't,
in a fire you can't use a lift.
Oh my God, I know.
They're like, don't use it in a fire.
It's like, well, I'm not going up the stairs.
I want to get down faster.
So they were like, these calendars sell well.
We're all beefcakes.
We want to make some money.
And that's how they started.
And it was born.
See, this was the kind of fact we needed every day.
I'm literally on the edge of my seat.
I'm enticed. 1980s. Saw the birth of fact we needed every day. I'm literally on the edge of my seat. I'm enticed.
1980s.
Saw the birth of the fireman calendar.
And was it overseas, not New Zealand?
Because New Zealand has obviously adopted the fireman calendar.
New Zealand has adopted the fireman calendar.
America, first off.
In the 21st century, firefighter calendars have become very popular in Asia.
Okay.
Especially Taiwan.
Ooh.
In 2018, the Taiwanese government
invited... Now, are you part of... Is that part of China
or not? Can you ever stand on that?
Not on calendar week. Join me next week
for... Is that really China?
Week. Wow.
In 2018, the Taiwanese government invited two
models from the Australian firefighter calendar
because remember they made massive amounts
of money after those massive bushfires.
The Australian firefighters did a calendar
that was like a record breaker for how many it sold.
The Taiwanese government invited them
and they gave out over 10,000 calendars.
And now those two Australian firefighting models
are considered celebrities in Taiwan.
And they go back and they get like massive crowds
of adoring women.
Wow.
Oh my God.
Amazing.
So today's fact of the day is...
I loved it.
Yeah, good.
Good from you.
This is what I expected every day this week.
Yeah.
Firefighter, I think we've all got something out of this week.
We have.
It's been great.
We've had the sex to finish off the week.
Yeah.
So, let's face it, this was straight sex appeal.
Yeah.
And that's why I'm hooked.
Earlier in the week, we had a bit of history.
Yeah.
And that wasn't so much culture.
Oh, that really long calendar. Wasn't of history. Yep. And that wasn't so much in culture. That really long calendar.
Wasn't for me.
No.
So today's fact of the day is that firefighter calendars were predated by beefcake calendars,
which were predated by beefcake magazines.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Okay, I actually really love this.
Taylor Swift has been called out, I guess. A lot of people are highlighting
that at the moment, she's been performing
in some pretty cold places. She was in Edinburgh.
It was really cold. How is she not
collapsed of exhaustion doing these
three-hour shows every night for what feels like 10 years?
I think because we were so jazzed
about the Australian
side of things that when she left, we were all
like, and now she rests. Hell no,
man. Every night she's doing three-hour concerts. Just keep going, yeah. So people side of things that when she left we were all like and now she rests hell no man every night
she's doing three hour concerts just keep going yeah so people were showing videos of her in
edinburgh where it was really cold and windy and like me her nose was running so she's like this
and at one point she just goes like this and just like pinches her nose like that and you can go
down and she's got a little string of snot on her fingers and then eventually she just sort of wipes
it on her skirt like what are you gonna do ask for a tish well you there's no And she'll get a little String of snot on her fingers And then eventually She just sort of Wipes it on her skirt Like what are you gonna do
Ask for a tish
Well you
There's no tish
She could have
Put one finger
On the nostril
And absolutely hoof it out
I've actually done that
When I've been biking
And get a snotty nose
And I'll just like
What on the go
No just
Onto the road
Onto the road
Yeah not on the footpath
Thanks
No I would never
Yeah the road
And then I would just be like It's like spitting You can spit on the road But don't spit on the footpath My thanks. No, I would never. Yeah, the road. And then I would just be like.
It's like spitting.
You can spit on the road, but don't spit on the footpath.
My bestie used to do it during soccer.
Like, you don't stop, just run up and down the field.
She'd just be like.
I was like, oh my God, Jess.
It is pretty gross when you think about it.
I know, but I sort of love this.
I really like this because she's so unobtainable.
She's so famous.
She's so beautiful.
Yeah.
That her just being like, it's wet and cold.
And I've got a dripping nose. She's got boogers. I's so beautiful. Yeah. That her just being like, it's wet and cold. And I've got a dripping nose.
She's got boogers.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And so she just has to like do that little push pinch.
And then there's one bit you can see the string of it.
It's so good.
I love it.
She gets a snotty nose like the rest of us.
She's only human.
We asked what's the grossest thing you've seen a human do.
Yeah.
In public.
In public on Instagram.
Because some people are quite anti the snot.
That's why I'm not on the footpath and not on grass
because people can't see it on grass.
When people snot and spit and stuff on grass.
People can't see it and then people go on the grass with their bare feet.
Full grown adult, Miss Evie says,
full grown adult pulled on their pants and drop a deuce on somebody's lawn.
Oh my God. That's lawn. Oh, my God.
That's terrible.
That's terrible behaviour.
Saw someone take a wee all over the subway platform in New York.
Oh, New York subway.
Yuck.
You see things in New York, hey?
Yeah.
Kofi says clipping their fingernails at the airport.
Just straight out into the open.
No.
Yuck.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
I think clipping fingernails,
let alone toenails, is a very private thing.
I do mine into the sink and then
sinkerate them. I do mine...
Or vacuum them up. You do them
to your kitchen sink. Your fingernails.
Is that gross? I just chew my fingernails,
but my toenails I clip
when I'm sitting on the toilet and then throw them out the window.
Into a garden.
Sometimes I'll pop them
down between my legs and flush them.
I do my toenails outside
and I get my fingernails done professionally.
Very nice.
Someone said
I saw a kid up top of a
climbing frame. He was up top. He threw up
and then from the throwing up he wet
his pants and all the vomit and the wee fell on the people underneath. It was pretty gross. He heaved too hard. He was up top. He threw up. And then from the throwing up, he wet his pants.
And all the vomit and the wee fell on the people underneath.
It was pretty gross.
He heaved too hard.
He pissed himself.
That's very funny.
We've all accidentally nearly pooped ourselves having a big hard heave.
But this is the thing.
We're all just humans, aren't we?
We've got fluids and all sorts coming in and out of us. We are humans, but this is no excuse.
Bridie says, someone at work that day picked a scab off their elbow and ate it. Don't. Everyone, don't. Why did you say that? Why did you just share that of us? We are humans, but this is no excuse. Bridie says, someone at work that they picked a scab off their elbow and ate it.
Don't.
Why'd you need to share that with us?
I saw someone pick up
a roadkill seagull
and you know those
beachside barbecues
where it's just a hot plate?
They paid to start that up
and then chuck the roadkill
on the barbecue.
No, they did not.
Didn't eat it.
That's a lie.
Oh, that's yuck.
Okay.
Man's pants fell down
in front of me on the bus.
He bent over to pick them up and he
was commando so I saw his whole
bum hole. His whole anus.
Play ZM's
Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
ZM, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Pregnant pause there. Pregnant pause. He's been
yapping to Georgia.
Georgia Burt, who's up next, is wearing a
Luke Combs T-shirt
because it's Luke Combs Day today, I believe.
What is this, the album's out?
Album's out.
It's all about his son.
She said she guarantees will cry.
It's so sad.
I don't know if I will.
And I said, I don't know if music's ever made me cry.
I've listened to music while I've been upset
because it's a good soundtrack to cry to.
I thought Adele.
I thought you'd love a cry to Adele.
Yeah, but she wouldn't make me cry. Yeah, okay.
Oh, it's just so wholesome.
And like he sings about being a dad
and I'm like, one day.
Well, that's pushing me further away.
Right, so Productivity and Christchurch in the South
Islands down today. Yeah, I said it to all my
mates that are dads. I think it's a national holiday.
The Luke Combs National Album
release. Oh, I'm so excited.
What's this album called?
It's called Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons
Wait that's a
Cat Stevens thing
Where are the children
Yusuf will not be happy
About that
So you're wearing
A Luke Combs t-shirt
And I've got my
Cowboy boots on
Hayley's wearing
A Metallica t-shirt
Yep
You're wearing a
Black t-shirt
We're all different
Aren't we?
We're just different
If you were wearing
A music t-shirt today What music t-shirt Would You guys are supporting. We're just different. If you were wearing a music t-shirt today,
what music t-shirt
would you be wearing?
Wiggles.
Yeah.
Yeah, we do have
Wiggles t-shirts.
Good choice.
Wait, are you black as well?
Dolly Parton.
I would probably wear
my Dolly Parton t-shirt.
You wear Dolly.
Yeah.
You haven't worn
your Cher t-shirt for a while?
I can't remember
what my Cher t-shirt
looked like.
Where is it?
I don't think I've got
that t-shirt anymore.
Okay.
Then they got retired.
That's sad.
You two just look like
our backstage heads.
Yeah, you do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're like roadies.
Name me three Luke Combs songs.
That's what happens
every time I wear
a Metallica t-shirt.
Name me three songs.
Name me three Luke Combs songs.
Beautiful Crazy.
Whiskey Jug.
Whiskey Jug.
Oh, Ouch My Horse.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My Little Cowboy.
My Old Girl. She'd be tooting down the road. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My little cowboy. My old girl.
She'd be tooting down the road.
Yeah, them old boots.
Rocky Mountain Rangers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pretty much, guys, if you add a day of the week, a type of alcohol.
Metallica's just devil life.
Rock and roll.
Choose their whiskey heartbreak.
That's it.
That's a country song.
Is that the podcast done?
Because I'm busting for a poos.
Busting for a poos. Jesus. That's a country song. Is that the podcast done? Because I'm blasting for a poos. Blasting for a poos. Jesus.
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