ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 17th July 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fleets, Fawn and Hayley Big Pod. Download the MyMaccas app and earn rewards on your coffee. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fleets, Fawn and Hayley. We're back. Pause for applause. After a two-week hiatus, pause for applause. Fantastic, thank you.

Thank you, live studio audience. Thank you. How are we feeling, everyone? And you've changed your hair colour. Yeah, I'm blonde, guys. We're going to have to do the photo shoot again, aren't we? Can we wait? It's post-holiday.

Yeah. Wait for the post-holiday muffins to go down. Is this a Barbie thing? Semi-Barbie inspired. I sort of realised the last time I'd really... Heads up, guys, I'm in my sexy era. Are you? Yeah, I'm in my sexy era. Are you? Yeah, I'm in my sexy era.

I thought that was you were always in your sexy era. No, it's really come to life. I have an undeniable sexual energy about me that's just developed. I was thinking of entering my fragile bully era. Oh, this could be a rough partnership. Where I push a lot outwards, but if it ever comes back, I don't like it. Yeah, right. Really crumple.

Well, because you were teasing me this morning about my pants that I wear every single day. I've never seen them teamed up with your new dad lawnmowing or new balances. He's got so many pockets, though. I've got so many pockets. I can store stuff if you need them. And it's great for keeping the wind off the legs while you're on the bench on Finetti. See, he's in his fragile bully. He is.

You came in fully ready. What era are you in? I don't know. Just like post-Sleeping Pill drowsiness, I think. Yeah, a little bit still asleep. No one entering their anti-Maldi road signs era? No, no, that's not me. I went through it.

Well, it's because you couldn't read the bloody signs. I couldn't read it. We've got the top six on the way. Yep. Have you decided what you're doing for that? The National Party. I didn't mean this to come out of the gates with two attacks at the National Party. Right.

Were you any mouthpiece of the left? Such a mouse piece? Meow. No, that's not a mouse noise. Squeak, squeak, squeak. I'm a mouse piece. Just forgotten how animals work. They absolutely haven't seen an animal for years.

The National Party have claimed that they will fix all the potholes in 24 hours. There's like seven by my house. There's a man that ran over about 24 on the way to work today. That is a wild claim. Some of them literally part of a collapsing road. Yeah. I think it's a wild claim. Now the roads need to be fixed

but they don't know that the roads aren't broken. Literally, if we report an Auckland pothole to our friend Councillor Richard Hills, it's fixed in the next couple of days. If you don't tell the official channels that there's a pothole, they don't know. Yeah, I feel like most people don't actually, they just moan about it but they don't

actually complain. You just hit them and you go far out. Ring someone. Yeah, just ring the council. There needs to be an app. Oh no, because you'd be driving. No, because there'd be too many. I'm 33, I'm not going to ring the council when I drive over a puddle. I've rang the council so many times. He got glass swept up once.

Yeah, I got glass. Well, nobody's going to clean it up. No one's going to clean it up. No one's going to sweep up my house. Who knows when the street sweep is coming by next? I don't want to puncture on my bicycle. Oh, for God's sake. But see, people don't.

They just complain about it on the local Facebook page, of which the councillor is not a part of, because what sort of mad city councillor would be part of any Facebook page? So who came to sweep this up? The council. I don't know who did it. The council said just sweep it. They did.

They got sweepers. I mean, they probably won't do it now because there's budget cuts. Too many massive budget cuts. So with National announcing this, 24 hours, potholes will be gone. Yeah, I've got the top six other things that need fixing in 24 hours

of the next election. Next on the show, there's bad news, guys, from NASA. Why are we starting the show? We're back. People are excited that we're here, and now we're going to hit them with just some terrible news. Well, that's what...

They're too excited. They're too happy. We're going to start the show with some bad news from NASA. NASA, they do the space stuff. Is it that India's beating them to the far side of the moon? And they've become sort of the joke of the International Space Race. Is it that India's beating them to the far side of the moon? And they've become sort of the joke of the international space race. Is it real? Yeah, dude. India launched

a rocket yesterday. Are they going to land on the moon? I think they want to land it on the moon and then next time they might send someone. No one's in the rocket. We've already been to the moon. They've got their first, haven't they? Yeah, but nobody's been to the dark side of the moon.

Apart from Pink Floyd. Because they went for research. Yeah, yeah, for music research. For music research. To see what it sounds like and then turn that into an album. Yeah. But, yeah, right. That's the big one, you know that, right?

Okay, yeah, right. Because we went to the light side of the, well, we didn't. We didn't do anything. Yeah, but it was dark at some stage. The light side. It was night We didn't. We didn't do anything. Yeah, but it was dark at some stage. The light side. It was night time. Yeah. No.

Wait. It must be. It must turn around and be dark at some stage, right? Turn around. What's the axes? What is that? It all comes down to the axes. I mean, it must.

Yeah, sure. Look, I don't know how it works, but. We work in radio. Sure, but yeah. I'm not a NASA scientist here, guys. No, exactly. I'm not a NASA scientist here, guys. No, exactly. I'm not a rocket scientist. But NASA's news is bad because they have said that June 2023

was now the hottest June on record. So the dark side of the moon, sorry, but this is very important, the dark side of the moon refers to communication with the spacecraft being dark. Oh, not always that it's completely in the dark. It's that you're going behind the moon and there's nothing out there to bounce the signal off. Well, we need to get one of those mesh Wi-Fi routers. We need to get a tower up there.

Yeah, they put a tower and bounce it off another. The dark side. Or a satellite. A series of pylons around the moon. Yeah, sure. To bounce the signal. Some 4G towers So that's the far side of the moon Dark side of the moon refers to the fact that it's a dark spot for communications

Right, not that it's shadowed Not entirely all the time Or you're dark meaning unknown instead of lacking sunlight Right Well, anyway, it's Hot, was it? Back on Earth, we're all screwed We're wet over here, but I'm sure, is it globally?

Globally, yeah, global temperatures. So yeah, June, since records began, June the hottest. And I think during June was there some news stories, the end of June, some of the hottest days as well recorded in some parts of the world. Yeah, for sure. European heat wave at the moment. Indian floods.

Antarctica's gone, basically. Antarctica's a rock now. floods. Antarctica's gone basically. Antarctica's a rock now. It's basically melted. It's not slowing down like I hoped it would. Yesterday was a lovely day though in Auckland. It was a lovely day. It was finally nice to see a day without rain.

And then it rained. And then it rained in the evening. 11 past six. Next on the show, silly little poll. We're back with the silliest of the littlest of the polls. Now, I think I've answered this one wrong. Do you add water with the toilet brush? It's like a poo soup.

Your brush sits there in a poo soup. I'm a no on this one. It's next. ZM. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's Silly Little Pole. Silly Little Pole. Silly Little Pole. Silly Little Pole. Today's Silly Little Pole, it's about the toilet brush,

which sits next to the toilet, if you're lucky. The question was, do you put water with the toilet brush? But I answered it as in, like, when you put it in the loo, you're not just going dry dog. Oh, no, you dip. You dip. No, no, no. It's about the... The holder.

The holder. No, a small collection haphazardly collects. Yeah, in the bottom and it's gross. And then you have to tip it out. Our gym do a big... Have you ever used a toilet brush at our gym? It's full of like disinfectant water. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that's what people put in there, right? Yes. It's more of like a bleach or a disinfectant so it doesn't smell. Yeah, for like a public purposes. But at home, no. I think for a public bathroom, yes. But at home, you don't want that manky water sitting there. And when you pick it out of there, it's going to drip.

It's going to drip the poo soup on the floor. Okay, I've got $500,000 in my hand. I'm not drinking it. Half a million dollars, bro. I could die. I've had Chiara. It's bad, but it's not that. It's not $500,000 bad. Half a million dollars. Yeah, I'll sort you right out. You just take like three

pills and you're fine. So there's no disinfectant in it. It's not loaded up with toilet dust. No, it's just poo soup. It's just poo soup. Probably be actually quite good for your gut health. Yeah, oh my god. Poo transplant. It could fix it. It's not loaded up with toilet dust. No, it's just poo soup. It's just poo soup. It'd probably be actually quite good for your gut health. Yeah, oh my god. Poo transplant. Yeah. It could fix it. Are you doing it? $500,000. I'd probably have to be drunk. No, you can't. Half a mil. You're gonna be sober.

First thing in the morning. Can I just have a shot? Shot glass? And you're not allowed to cleanse her afterwards. You have to really sit with her. You have to sit with her all day. I couldn't do it. No, I couldn't. But so our cellular poll asks, like, do you put water in the toilet? We don't have a toilet brush. What do you have?

Sade saw these things on Facebook. And they're like a... They're covered... Is it silicon? Yeah, it's silicon. The poo can't stick to it. Does poo not stick to silicon? The poo doesn't stick to the...

So you, like, put it on... It's really good. It's like heaps of little knobs. Yes. Little nubs. Yeah, I've seen these. And it sort of rubs the poo off the toilet bowl. It's not a spear.

No, no, it doesn't smear. It sounds like a wood, and then you just give it a light little jiggle in the water. Show me the link to these things. I've seen them too. They're being advertised to me. Yeah, and they do. I was very hesitant.

Do they do a black one? Because that's what my current one is. Yeah, I want brushed brass. You want brushed brass. Brushed brass is sort of the vibe. It's got to go with the bathroom aesthetic. Yeah, I'm not going to have like a fluoro green silicon scrubby do. Toilet brush.

I don't know what to Google. I'm Googling toilet brush alternatives. Yeah, here we go. Flex silicon toilet brush. For one of those, you wouldn't have water in the toilet hole. No need. Okay. Okay. Timu's got them for $11.48. Of course they do. Are you still Timu-ing?

Oh my god, I've chucked out nearly everything I bought. I'm not surprised. An environmental assassin. Such trash. Are you telling me the spoon with the measuring... With the weight. With the weight. No, that's in the drawer, but it has not been used. Okay.

The one-piece bodysuit, that went to the Salvation Army. And what about the massage, the mini massage gun? You know, I've got that, but it doesn't have a lot of chutzpah. Yeah. She's pretty soft.

So all in all, quite a waste of your money, Timu. Yeah, and a waste of the world. Yeah, and it's plastics. But now that they've got a flexi-silicon toilet brush. How did the nation vote? Well, the nation said no, overwhelmingly.

Ah! Oh my god, I just clicked on a Teamu link, and Teamu emailed me saying, almost immediately, are you still interested in this brush? Oh my god, calm down. Calm down, Teamu. It's so keen. Yeah, play hard to get. It's not attractive. Email me later, okay? That was

way too eager. Like at 11 o'clock at night, up? Yeah, I'll be like, hell yeah. AliExpress plays hard to get. A few me later, okay? That was way too eager. Like at 11 o'clock at night, up? Yeah, I'll be like, hell yeah. Ali Express place hard to get. A few days later, it's like, I wasn't really thinking that either. Don't suppose you want these? I'm about to dump them from your car, if you care. Your car's about to be cleaned out, you little bitch. 79% of people said no, I don't put water in with a toilet brush.

21% said absolutely. Rebecca, manky. That's what she says. Yeah, very. Julie, no one wants poo floaties in theanky. That's what she says. Very. Julie. No one wants poo floaties in the brush holder. That's true, Julie. No one wants that. You've got to flush it out, though.

Alex says. Yeah, you hold it in there while you flush, right? Yeah. And you shake the hell out of it. That's what I do. Get a little poo bits off. That's the worst when you get a toilet paper caught in it. Yeah.

Oh, you whack it against the side and spin it and hope the poo dislodges itself and give it another flush. No, but I do do a splishy splashy of bleach, says Alex. Oh, okay.

There's no liquid in the soup. Yeah. Kelly says there's got to be a better invention. I've just mentioned it. Kelly, find yourself one. How much are these

silicon brush? I found one on brands.co.nz for $15. It looks quite swish. That could look good in your bathroom. And you can get black. Oh, yeah, that's nice.

Oh, yeah, that's a bit of me. That's him. That's the one we've got. Oh, wait, does that curve, does that get under the S-bend? It's got a bit of tongue. Bend to it, like a tongue. Oh, look, look, look. There's your bloody...

Oh, yeah, there's a question of it. Okay, I need one of those. How much is that? $15. I'm going to send you the link. question of a room. Okay, I need one of those. How much is that? $15. I'm going to send you the link. That is a steal. Yeah, try it. I mean, $15.

You haven't got too much to lose there. You know him, though. He won't spend it. No, just continue to bitch about it. Yeah. He's got a toilet brush

that looks like a Barbie that you gave a haircut to, but he won't get a new one. Why would you? I have honestly never, ever considered putting water in the toilet brush. Good, yeah. Emma says, ooh, no way.

It's literally like having a tiny, unflushable mini toilet next to the toilet. It is. It is. You're right. You're right. That is legit. Carly says, I fill it with bleach or disinfectant and I change it often, like every week. See, then you've got a week of pooey disinfectant water.

I know, but what if you splash a bit of bleach? I'm so afraid of bleach. Get it in your clothes, get it in the tip of your shoe or something. Yeah. Got to give it an exit mode. Stuffed. Why would I do that, said Josh. So I can drip gross water on the floor on the way back to cleaning the toilet.

It's a big anewer. Thank you. Yeah. Well, there you go. I think the nation's overwhelmingly voted no to putting poo soup in the toilet, it's a big no, thank you. Well, there you go. I think the nation's overwhelmingly voted no to putting poo soup in the toilet brush holder. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, just a callback.

Just moments ago, if you are considering buying the silicon toilet brush that Vaughn mentioned, I have seen some one-star reviews, Vaughn. Read some out. Very flimsy and lightweight. You said flimsy. The actual silicon head seemed fine, Vaughn. Read some out. Very flimsy and lightweight. You say flimsy. The actual silicon head seemed fine, but the rest was cheaply made. And I did think that it did look a bit plasticky. Yeah, but you're going to get a black one.

What do you want? Willa H. What do you want? A bespoke, blacksmithed, heavy-duty cast iron toilet brush? Willa H. says this may be a very small toilet brush. The measurements may be on there, but I couldn't find them. Too small to use? Waste of money.

Too small to use. Is that what you find? How big is her toilet? Maybe she's got a gaping toilet. I'm unsure. She must have a huge old armitage shank. The toilet brush holder I want in Brush Brass is $210. Oh, no, that's ridiculous.

You could get a lot of silicon. Silicon ones. I mean, I guess I could send it back. What are you going to send it back for? Did she use it and then send it back? Because, A, that's gross. Well, no, the first person didn't use it. Well, so they sent it back without trying it.

Yeah, they said didn't use it. They just assumed it was flimsy. They said didn't use it, returned straight away for a refund. Surely. But they, so they didn't, they're just assuming it's flimsiness. Yeah.

It needs to get around the bend. Surely they have some rules around using it. You know, you can't return togs and undies. Oh, yeah, well, you can't return knickers if you try them on. Let alone a poo brush. No, mate, you can't. No. Not even if you fold them back up in that little plastic bag.

I'll wear them for the first week with the label still on them just to give myself a little bit of wiggle room on the reach. So we were always itching down there and adjusting that tag, sticking it in a crack. Okay, well, you know what? I'm going to order one of these toilet brushes and stand by for my review. Yeah, form your own opinion, I reckon. Your own review. Now, there is a bit of scandal that's gone down at a mall, at a cafe.

Hayley Sproul, Scandal Queenie. That's what they've always called you. That's what they've always called me. That's what they've always called you. That's what they've always called me. That's what they've always called you for decades. Even before I came here. Yeah. At primary school, it was Haley Sprouly, Scandal Queenie. Yeah.

Because kids did it. They didn't know that it could rhyme. Yeah, it had to rhyme. So this is in Lynn Mall in Auckland. Honestly, a great mall. One of the greats. They're always known for their cheap movie tickets. Lynn Mall in Auckland, honestly a great mall. One of the greats. They're always known for their cheap movie tickets. Lynn Mall.

The movies rule and there's like a part with food. That's good. The rest of the mall, rough. Oh, so I see why they're luring you in with cheap movies. Lots of people in their pyjamas with Uggs that have like worn out because they've got a little bit of an instep on them. Hell yeah. It's stunning.

It's a wonky Ugg. Come one, come all, come as you are. So this is the coffee club at Linmore. Love a coffee club, me? Why not, you know? Well, I would just say at this stage, Hayley, this would never happen at the show sponsor cafe. You can download the MyMackers app

and earn rewards on your coffee. You bloody know it wouldn't happen there because they've been... Thank you. He's become even more seamless. And he's absolutely seamlessly working on sponsor credits. On my two-week break, I would just be, like, just waiting at an airport or travelling

and I would just practise my show mentions. Yeah, yeah. People would come up to you and be like, hey, where are you from? And you'd be like, I'm from New Zealand and you should download the MyMackers app and earn rewards on your coffees today. You would be somewhere waiting

and there would be a song playing over the shop speakers and just it would start fading down and you'd be like, that was shop song four. Don't forget to download the My Maccas app and earn rewards on your coffees. And then the next song would start and you'd be like, shop. But I

saw this story the other day and I laughed. This is too funny. Yeah. So this video was posted to a Facebook page called You Know You're in West Auckland When. Love it. I'm joining as a West Aucklander. Yeah.

And someone had taken a bird's eye view photo video of the behind the scenes of the coffee club. Because you must have, I'm assuming on the next lever up you can just look straight down at the mall into it. And it caught someone unloading a tray of Countdown muffins onto a plate

which was then sold for $6 a muffin. How much does a tray of muffins on a countdown? Muffins. Because these are the ones my wife gets for the kids for the lunchbox.

Yeah. Really? A six pack costs $6.20. I mean, this is good economics from the coffee club. And there was a carrot cake as well. The cake was $7.30 from countdown and they sold it for $7.20 a slice.

So the muffins are $6 for a six-pack, and they were selling them for $6 each. Yeah. So it just seems they buy it and then sell one at the whole price. Oh, my God. Yeah. Wow. Were they short? Had they run out?

Has there been a please explain? Well, so one of the workers said the Herald visited. The Herald popped in for a high on from the Herald. And one of the workers confirmed that the carrot cake and the muffins were bought from Countdown, which is directly opposite the cafe. Imagine being the poor worker there and the press shows up and starts questioning you about the carrot cake.

Yeah, and then he said most of the things here are bought. We hardly make anything. Right. And then he said that part of it was part of a holiday promotion, school holiday, like if you bring in your kids or something, your mum gets a muffin for free. And then later they confirmed it wasn't part of it. Oh, they just made it up?

Yeah, they just made that up to make it seem better. The coffee club, Lynn Moore, currently rocking a 3.3 star they just made it up? Yeah, they just made that up to make it seem better. The coffee club, Linmore, currently rocking a 3.3 star review on Google Reviews. Right. Jessica said, the white mocha was pretty good

and so was the scone. Half of the outlets were not working though and the Wi-Fi is only free for two hours. Really? In 2023? It could be very loud

and busy during lunchtime. How much free Wi-Fi is this Jessica expecting? This is not your office, Jessica. Are you set up here all day? If you were at a coffee club for longer than two hours, move along, Jessica. Move along. The head of

coffee club has said, like, this is not, like, this is a franchisee problem. This is not what we do. Right, it's a franchisee going rogue. This is what this rogue franchisor has done. That seems like a bullshit palm off from head office. No, the palm off is saying we're still investigating.

Palm off. I feel palm off. Everyone's getting palmed off. Oh, okay. I wouldn't say no. And I wouldn't say no to a bloody palm. The whole palm? Just the palm.

Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley. Play ZM. From the panoramic ZM think tank, this is the top six. Well, well, well. Election year. Is it over yet? I wish. Who won?

We've got a date though, right? Yeah. October 14th? I'm saying October 14th. I feel like I... September. 14th. Yeah. Good boy.

You were right. Congratulations. He knows. He knows. Clear the calendar. He'll be popping down to the local school to have a bit of a look around. Yeah. Best part about an election day is going for a look around an area that's a polling booth.

Yeah. Yeah. A little walk around. Gotta part about an election day is going for a look around an area that's a polling booth. Yeah. Yeah. Walk around. Gotta talk about fun. So National are going to create a pothole repair fund with child-faced shadow minister of transport, Simeon Brown. Yes. He's an adult man, isn't he? He's an adult man in a child's face and body.

Is he oil of Olay, probably? I would love to know his skin care. Probably, yeah. Sunblock, for sure. And maybe never having to actually work a day in his life. Yeah, probably. Certainly never having to fill a pothole in his life. So, the pothole repair,

the response rate for pothole repair will be halved from 48 hours to 24 hours. Potholes will be fixed even before they'll be finished becoming a pothole. will be halved from 48 hours to 24 hours. Potholes will be fixed. Even before they'll be finished becoming a pothole. You could actually dig a pothole in the road and someone would just turn up as you're digging to fill it up. To fill it.

And right with each shovel out, that one's back in. Yeah. So a $500 million fund to be established for state highway and local roading repairs. Going to get all these potholes fixed. Fantastic. In 24 hours. So I have thought, well, why stop there?

If it's that simple, yeah. Other things that need to be fixed within 24 hours. Services on the go. Number six. Possums. Do you reckon we could get rid of them all in 24 hours? I reckon if we all went out with a gun. If we all did our part.

Possums could be a thing of the past within 24 hours. I'm in a pretty good shot. You could probably just sprinkle some 1080 if you like. I could do that. You're big on 1080. I'm keen if we could not. I throw some out the window on the way home most days. Yeah.

You're saying? I've got a little bucky of 1080 and I put my gloves on because it'd be a full notch and I'd just throw it onto the side of the road. I'd be keen for a couple of possum corpses for taxidermy purposes. Right. But probably not. How many do we have in the country? I need a couple.

Well, you should tell me. I'm trapping them all the time. Yeah, no, but you mangle them. They're all like, ah! Well, that's how a trap works. You want one that died of natural causes, young age. Slipped away in his sleep. Yeah.

So that it's perfectly taxidermied. Surrounded by his family. And then immediately sent to the taxidermist so that rigor mortis doesn't set in. When your renovation's finished, you're going to look like one of those weird country antique shops. Yes. Walking into a weird... That is the aesthetic. Minus the gollywogs.

Well, when I was a child. What am I going to do, throw them out? They're happy. That boy's got a big mischievous grin on their face. Nan. Nan, no. Nan, no. It's more racist not to have a gollywog.

Are all your dolls white? Then you're racist. Number five on the list of the top six other problems that need to be fixed within 24 hours. Not golly walks, surprisingly enough. Climate change. Why not? Just a day? We should probably get on it.

I reckon the first half of the day, the first half of the 24 hours will be convincing them that it exists. And then the second half will be obviously doing it. Being an action party. Doing it. Changing the climate. Fixing it. Number four on the list of the top six other things

that need to be fixed in this goddamn country. Whoa. Within 24 hours. He comes back from America. Too much freedom. Poverty. Or people who don't like coriander.

One or the other. I'd be happy to see either the solution solved. Yeah, okay. It'd be a tough one though. Tough to choose. I think you just make them eat it until it doesn't taste like soap,

personally. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six other things that can be fixed within 24 hours. I guess this is kind of golly wogs racism. Yeah, okay.

Fix it. Soft racism. What? He's cute. Is it going to be easier to stop it Or just ignore it That it's happening

Oh yeah These things And more To be solved In the first 24 hours After the election Easier for some To ignore than others

Number two on the list Of the top six Other things that need To be fixed within 24 hours Wobbly tables at cafes Oh my god yes Yeah but is it a cafe If the table's not wobbling

Because my table at home never wobbles. Mike, it never. Is it a bunch of a couple of serviettes? A couple of napkins. Sometimes I'll get a fork. Oh, yeah, okay. Because, you know, a fork's twisted and it's got sort of a lead up too, so you just push the fork in as far as it needs.

But then another customer's got to come in and use that fork at some stage. They could probably get a floor fork now. Okay, it's a floor fork now. Okay. It's a floor fork now. No one's going to sit down for their eggs, Benedict, and go, oh, there's my fork. No, I mean that the

cafe people will be like, oh, well, I'll just chuck that in the dishwasher now. Yeah, it's clean. Oh, and they're now going to, yeah, put another fork under the table. Yeah.

Just leave it there then. Okay. I've solved your problem. And number one on the list of the top six things that need to be fixed within 24 hours of the election, how often frozen Coke machines

aren't working? Oh, that's a big issue. That's a huge election year. That would win you an election. Yeah, it would. I don't think so, especially with temperatures ever on the increase. Oh, yeah. There's a much larger market for frozen Coke.

That is today's top story. I'm utterly pushing my luck at the moment. How long have I not had a case for? Maybe like two months on my phone? So nice, slippery and slim. Oh, no. I just love it. I can't do it.

I've always got to have a case. I drop my phone too much. Same. Look at that. That's a couple of big gouges on the edge there. I mean, it's still like fine. And the screen itself is only chipped,

not cracked. But apparently, I'm up there with everyone. So they did a big study on how people, how many times their phones are at risk or in peril. There's the word

that I've used in this study. Peril. Moments of phone peril. I thought peril were reserved only for human risk. Yeah. Like when it's in your back pocket and you're pulling your pants down on the toilet. Inents of phone peril. I thought peril were reserved only for human risk. Yeah. Like when it's in your back pocket and you're pulling your pants down on the toilet.

In the toilet it goes. Yeah. That's happened to me at least half a dozen times in my life. Yeah. It's like I forget. This is out of the US. They divided groups into Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X and Baby Boomers. Yeah.

And found on average, including everyone, the average person experiences about 140 moments of phone peril a year. Surely boomers would be the least right, because they always like to charge it and leave it somewhere on the bench. Yeah. Gen Z was the worst. 18 to 26-year-olds were the worst. They're just flimsy-wimsy, don't give a toss. Millennials second.

It kind of went down. The older you were, the more careful you were. It's pretty wild though like sometimes I'll just chuck my phone on the ground like at the gym on my towel or whatever. Not on the concrete

or anything. Just want to lob it. No I do too. Like from the bench. But then you're just like this phone is like so expensive. I know.

Like they're so expensive and you just don't think about it do you? I know. The average person has owned their phone for only 20 sorry only 2.2 years.

Yeah. However, 69% of people using their phone say that it's partly broken. 69% of people. Common issues, cracked screen, scratched screen, and then battery problems. You know how phones like to just start dying and then you buy a new one. And overheating is the major problem. My favourite is when you... Overheating.

Oh, that's where you leave it in the sun and you've got to use it and it's hot to the touch and it says, excuse me, I need to be cooled down. But you know how like also, and you know I'm an Apple girl, but like Apple products love to heat up after a couple of years. You know when you've got a laptop and like soon you're like, fuck, my thigh's burning. I'm like medium rare thigh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got a bit of a sear going on. No need for that vasectomy now. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. Spray on the face with some salty product. A lovely company sent me some salt spray and so I've given us a little bit of a spurt. And Hayley was like, shut your eyes and don't lick.

And immediately I licked. I followed instructions. Familiar sentence. But then it hit the little cuts I've got on my face from shaving and that was real salt in the wound. Yeah. Quite literally. Malayan pink salt in the wound.

Anyway, we are back from a break and a big thank you to producer Jared who cared for the farmlet in my international absence. He was saying he lost his vape in your paddock. And I was like, this whole thing should have been documented as a video series because I would have found it quite hilarious to see producer Jared trying to

farming work. With a vape in his mouth. I'm good at farming stuff, I think. Right. Well, he didn't chuck out the chicken egg. Remember last time, did I tell you about the so you buy fake looking eggs and you put it at a place so the chickens lay.

Something that looks like that is about to come out my cloaca. I better put it beside those ones. They're so dumb, eh, chickens? Well, they're dumb, but Jared thought they were eggs that had gone bad because they were rubbery. That's right. That's right. Chickens are dumb, but Jared is dumber.

This time in the lads chat, Jared's like, this is amazing. Look at this. And it's a, he sent a video of this fantail we've got. Now,

this fantail follows you around because. Don't claim the fantail. That we've got. It's not a pet. What's its name? No, but it's always there.

It's free to go. It's free to go wherever it wants, but it chooses to stay. So it's not a pet, it's a friend. It's not your fantail. It's probably not the same one. not a pet, it's a friend. It's not your fantail. It's probably not the same one. It'll just be a different fantail.

It's the same fantail. Guys, I've got some pigeons and seagulls. Yeah, me too. Oh, they're, you know, they come and go. They're mine. They're mine. I've got a farm of skinks at my house. Oh my God, I love them all equally.

We own a fantail. Okay. And this fantail follows you around because you're flicking up when you're walking and it's flicking the little bugs and such that it can eat. And it flitters. That's how I like to describe my fantail movement. They were flittering. And it was flittering around

the different wires on the electric fence. And Jared's like, this is amazing. How's it not getting a shock? A bird's fantail shockproof. Yeah. And he's in this little lad's chair, and you know when someone starts typing,

their little bubble comes up, everybody's bubble. Everyone's bubble. I know these guys well. I can just imagine everybody's just like screaming at their phone, trying to type as fast as they can. Yeah, yeah, for an idiot. Everybody wants to begin the pile off. And then you get through first with the reply. Of course, you've just got to start with the ha, ha, ha, yeah, for an idiot. Everybody wants to begin the pile-on. And then you get through first with the reply.

Of course, you've just got to start with the ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. It's easy to type. Get it out quick and it sort of establishes you as the leader of the gang of the pile-on that's about to happen. And it was at that stage that we learned Jared had never, like, worked out that you had to be earthed to get a shot. Now, I'd never seen birds on power lines before. But I thought power lines have, like, a rubber casing around them.

I seriously didn't. I mean, because I know about earthing, but I just didn't, like, put two and two together. Yeah, my thought process when I saw the fantail, like, hop in the wires, I was like, oh, weird. Birds' legs don't have enough flesh on them to carry that instead of a policy electricity yeah okay it's just cartilage yeah well that's true you show me a bird with a fat with a fat ankle yeah but then everybody

else in the room this morning when jared relayed this story My face went a bit vague. Yeah, Carwen and Shannon were like Oh. Carwen's arguing that she knew. I did. Yeah, I thought that birds had to touch two at once to get a shock. So power lines, if you touch two at once, you're in big trouble. Yeah, that's what I thought. So I thought if they were flapping

and they flapped too wide I'm always worried about my wide flaps. I'm Shannon's dumbo. I'm always worried about my wide flaps. I'm not on Shannon's Dumbo. I'm always worried about my wide flaps touching too wide. ZM presents Symphony in the Snow. Grow up.

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Was it viral dress? Was it black and blue? Was it brown and white? Never mind that. An update. Play it. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Okay, the blue and black dress, right?

Do you remember this? Like, what year was this? 2016? 2015. 2015. 2015. Was that the first big thing that broke the internet? No, Kony.

Kony 2012. Right, yeah. Which is famously, I think, 2012? Yeah. That that was happening. I think so. There was a man who shared a photo of his mother-in-law's dress for a wedding and it was black and blue lace. And then some people were like, no, it's not. It's brown and white.

Or gold, like a goldie. Gold and white. And everyone was like, oh, my God, crazy. And like, what do you see? And it went everywhere and everyone was seeing different things. You saw both colours. Well, I saw black and blue the whole time. And then one day it just like popped up in my feed and I was like, oh my God, it's brown and white. It's straight up brown and white. And now I cannot see black and blue

again. Yeah. I'm back to black and blue, by the way. Yeah. Anyway, bit of an update on the world of the black and blue dress. The man who shared the photo, it was his mother-in-law whose dress it was. he shared the photo. He's been charged with trying to kill his wife. And he sounds like an absolute piece of work. An absolute piece of work. Like this guy even went on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Now that's when you know you've made it.

Ellen's producers call you. Yeah. Hey, what's up? Hey, what's up? Sophia Grace. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're eight. Oh my God.

That's so exciting. And you want to come and meet Nicki Minaj and sing the Super Bass song. Now you've made it. Now you're a world famous. He is so right, though. Guy that shared that thing. Literally anyone that became viral was on Ellen the next week. Oh, yeah, totally.

Totally. So now, so it's been reported that him, his name, is Stingy Johnston. Stingy Johnston. I don't know. Keir. I thought you said Stingy Johnston. Stingy Johnston. I don't know. I thought you said Stingy Johnston. Stingy Johnston. Maybe. Who knows? He's been charged with allegedly trying to kill his wife.

Oh wow. And apparently he's been an a-hole for years. 11 years she said that he's been an absolute piece of work. It's terrible. And now the blue and black dress is back and everyone's like, I see brown and white.

And everyone's like, Wait, he tried to kill his wife. Guys, don't get distracted. He's a piece of ass and he tried to kill his wife with a knife. He brandished a knife. Yeah. Anyway, the Crown says that he carried out these alleged actions with the intention of murdering his wife.

Did the Crown say, is it blue and black? The Crown has confirmed it's blue and black. But the knife is brown and white. And that's what's crazy. I know it's not a laughing matter, but seriously, what a weird way for this to come back into the zeitgeist. Do you remember that only a few months ago there was that woman whose husband died and she wrote a book about it? Oh my God. And she was the one that ended up killing him.

What was her book about? It was like, I Lost My Husband or something. It was a kid's book. Yeah. Yes. I Lost My Husband, the kid's book. Yeah. Yes. About grief. I lost my husband the kid's book. Is he behind the flap? Like, my heart.

Like, daddy's gone now, you know, like, a way to, like, move on. And she was on all these TV shows. And then it turns out she, like, had taken out life insurance against him. And killed him. And killed him. I didn't hear the story at all. It was, like, all over the news, like, a few months ago. That's got Netflix.

Four part. Oh, 100%. Docos slash Ren Ackman written all over it. A hundred percent. 723, next on the show, I nearly died, guys. I'd be devastated. To lose me? I'd be lost.

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. I actually spent a bit of time at airports in the last couple of weeks. You have. I've Been away. Yeah. But it was coming home that was the most... Harrowing.

The harrowing, the most scary. It's like there was a little flight delay. I was like, well, that's life. That's life. It is life. You're hard to rock in those situations. You're very calm. Nothing you can do.

Just grab some overpriced airport food. Yeah. And put your feet up. And that's when the announcement came over. I was at Chicago Airport about to fly home to New Zealand. There was a tornado coming. And I was like, well, great, this is how I die. You shared some of this on your Instagram and people were like,

ha ha, wait, what? And then they were like, because they've got shelters or something. Yeah. So they've got signs all over. And so what had happened like two days before, a friend of mine had said, I said I was flying into Chicago and they were like, oh, there was a tornado there today. And I was like, what? And it was actually a tornado that went through the airport. And so.

I didn't know that Chicago was tornado territory. Yeah. What's known as the Windy City. But yeah, I didn't know. I thought that was more for like the mid. But I guess Chicago was tornado territory. Yeah, well, it's known as the Windy City. But, yeah, I didn't know. I thought that was more for, like, the mid. But I guess Chicago is the mid, yeah. And so, yeah, this bing-bong comes over the intercom. And this guy, calm as, is just like, this is a shelter-in-place warning.

Please make your way to the tornado shelters. Yeah. Oh, sorry, I'm just looking on CNN. Yeah, the very rare tornadoes. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I'm just looking at on CNN. Yeah, they're very rare tornadoes. Yeah. Actually, like bloody like twister style going through. Yeah. And so it ended up just being a bit of a fizzer.

So after like 30 minutes, So when you see that you nearly died. You sound disappointed. Yeah, like I was like, I was amazed by. I'm disappointed with the story. You said you nearly died. I was ready to die. I was like, I found a place-

You'd made your peace with God. I found like a real little shelter in between an ATM machine and a concrete pillar. Did you pray? I didn't pray. I don't. Thoughts and prayers do nothing in those situations. Yeah, I know.

But sometimes in those moments you think you're going to die, people turn to prayer. Even if they're not religious. Not me, not me. Wow. But yeah, and I was ready. I was sat there and everyone was so calm

and just like, here we go again kind of thing. Well, this is good that was ready. I was sat there, and everyone was so calm and just like, oh, here we go again kind of thing. Well, this is good. No, it wouldn't have been good because we're about to sort our wills out. Yes. But we haven't yet. But I don't have a will. I wonder what would happen to your staff being a spinster as yourself. Well, Vaughan's got a key.

I reckon he'd go through and pillage most of it. I'd take as much as I could. You can come on the second trip when I take the trailer, the first trip. I just saw a thing in the paper that might answer that question. There's someone's dead and it's got this big thing saying, creditors next of kin and others having claims in respect to the property of their state of the deceased. You have until this date to get in your claims, otherwise you're shit.

Is that in the newspaper? Yeah, there's like two of them today. How soulless. We're like a're like a long-distant relative? Yeah. That's what I was thinking. So wait, if I died, you'd just go through my stuff and take it? I'd take some stuff. I'd probably wheel your drinks trolley straight out.

Oh my God, I'd fight you to the death for that thing. That is loaded. That's loaded. I would want Hayley to have that. Thank you. To be honest. I do my best to try to make a dent in it. It never makes a difference. I come back and it's top pack up. It's been restored. You want Hayley to have that. Thank you. To be honest. I do my best to try to make a dent in it and it never makes a difference.

I come back and it's topped back up. It's been re-stored. You're just a whisker. I don't have any whisker on that trolley. I don't drink anything. It's not for you. He's got a lot of weird shit, you know, like stuff that you're like,

where are you even going to? Yeah, but then I don't have the weird shit because once we had a bottle of something and I was just like, I guess I could drink that by itself. And I did and it was gross, but it slowed down my drinking. So I guess that's got to be a positive.

These melon schnapps. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. There is an item in our house and it has been with me, I would conservatively guess, since 2003. So that means it's been with me for 20 years.

Wow. It is my green plastic washing basket. Oh, I thought you were going to say some kind of like antique dresser or, you know, something years. Wow. It is my green plastic washing basket. Oh, I thought you were going to say some kind of like antique dresser or, you know, something beautiful. Nope. I don't know if there's anything else I have that's lasted that long. I did buy some

Forever Sharp knives once. Are they still sharp? Are they? Like infomercial. Were they from an infomercial? No, they were from a mall kiosk. Oh. Which was like an infomercial in real life. Yes. All my knives are like butter infomercial in real life. Yes. All my knives are like butter knives at the moment. No, these ones, they're still sharp.

Okay. The handles are young, but they're still sharp. Green washing basket. A green plastic washing basket. I don't know the brand, but I would be saying. Probably the warehouse that came up from back in the day. I definitely wouldn't have spent. I think my mum got it for me.

Decker. When I went flatting because I used to probably, Decker, I used to turn up with a load of washing. Yes, of course. And she'd wash it and fold it for me because she loves me and I'm her little darling prince. And she would put it all back into the basket and I would take the basket back.

So she probably got me a basket to stop me stealing her basket. Yeah, right. When I was going back to my flat. Yeah, yeah. And while we were getting ready to go away and getting everything sorted and shut, I was like, I don't, this needs to be replaced. I said, oh, there's absolutely no doubt it needs to be replaced.

It shook, it shook, it shooks me, shaketh me that it hasn't been replaced before now. Yeah. Because she's such an aesthetic queen. She's been through three or four cheaper washing baskets. I don't know if they were cheaper price-wise, but quality-wise they've not stood up to the test

of time like Old Greeny has. Old Greeny's missing a few bars and sometimes if you chuck a sock he might sneak out. Oh, yeah, okay. That's a great life for a washing basket. And especially to survive the Scandinavian purge that your wife... The Scandi purge.

The Scandi purge. Everything is Scandi minimalist. A lot of things got cut, didn't they? A lot of things got cut. A lot of things got cut. You're not allowed any of your nerd toys on the shelves. No. But yet the green washing basket's safe.

The green washing basket has remained. She was embarrassed by this. Well, she said, oh... She's like, oh... Because, you said, oh, she's like, oh. Because, you know, you tidy your house before someone comes around because you want everyone to think you live tidy. Oh, yeah, I did that before my friend house sat my cat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Whereas it wasn't untidy, but you don't want people thinking you live in anything less than a show home. Of course. Why we do this to ourselves, I'm not 100% sure. More people that have cleaners and they clean before the cleaner gets there. Oh, that's insanity. By definition not 100% sure. All people that have cleaners and they clean before the cleaner gets there, that's insanity. By definition, that's insanity.

So, Shade's like, we should get a new washing basket. I said, old green is fine. Old green doesn't live outside. Some people's washing baskets perish because they live outside. Old green's just old. Also, who are you trying to impress? Jared doesn't care you've got a green washing basket.

Jared, you don't care they've got a green washing basket, do you? Nah. Yes, it is. But I don't think people care about a lot of things. Jared doesn't even have a washing basket. Do you have a washing basket? I was about to say I'm impressed you have a washing basket. Yeah.

But I am in kind of a... He has dreams of having one one day. I've just never seen a washing basket that has impressed me. Like, I look at them all and I... Have you seen my washing basket? I don't know. What have you got for a washing basket? What do you need a washing basket for has impressed me. Like I look at them all and I always... Have you seen my washing basket? I don't know, what have you got for a washing basket?

What do you need a washing basket for? What do you mean? You're one man and you live in an apartment. I have to carry my washing from the laundry... You can put it straight

to the machine. What if there's coloured things You would have a laundry thing. It's very nice, like I don't know how to... Like wicker?

Yeah, mine's straight from the 70s. And it's from... What's that store that does all the home stuff? Freedom. Freedom. like wicker? Yeah, mine's straight from the 70s. And it's from that, what's that store that does all the home stuff? Freedom.

Freedom. Freedom Furniture. Okay. Mine's my dead grandfather's. Because it's from the 70s. It's like, it's got this like,

What are you saying? He didn't die in the basket. You don't know that. No, he didn't die in the basket. Yeah, they had to pick him out of the washing basket. Yeah, and that's why it's a sentimental value to me. Yeah, and a little bit him out of the washing basket. Yeah, and that's why it's of sentimental value to me.

Yeah, and a little bit wobbly on the ground because it was wicker and he fell on it and his weight sort of morphed the wicker. Exactly. They call him the wicker man. I'll take a photo and bring in my, I think you'll be impressed. Because I'm going to need one. I'm going to need a new one. It's hard.

It's a new laundry. It's hard when you go to pick a washing basket. A washing basket is one of those things. Yeah. And that's why I said his shirt has never been replaced because you never see one. It's like toilet brushes. It's like we talked about toilet brushes earlier. Yeah. It's hard to find a washing basket. A washing basket is one of those things and that's why I said a Sade's never been replaced because you never see one. It's like toilet brushes. It's like we talked about toilet brushes

earlier in the show. It's hard to find a good toilet brush. Yeah. It looks nice. Yeah, they all look like a Barbie with a bad haircut but you just hold on to it

because it's doing the job and it's a weird thing. Anyway, but then Sade said how long has this been around and we did the maths on it and I think this thing's been around for at least 20 years. You've been hanging on to it

for a place that's teen born. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Knocking on teen door. Probably was it your teenage teenage born gift.

Probably one of those ones where you first move out of home and it's like your birthday and your parents don't know what to get for you anymore so they get you some practical stuff. Yeah. Knives and forks

and a plastic basket. And a plastic basket. But I would like to know if anybody else listening has something still hanging around that really has no business lasting as long as it has. Yeah, maybe it was something your parents got you in the early planning days.

Is that your basket there from freedom? Yeah, that is it, but the dark one. No, the top right, which means nothing. Oh, you've got the dark black one. I've got the laundry hamper. Yeah, it's taller though. See, but it's a laundry hamper. What do you mean?

It's a laundry basket. That's a laundry basket? It's a basket. You don't put your wet clothes back into there. A hamper is a basket. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. A hamper holds the dirty clothes pre-washed, then you put them in the basket to take them to the hanging place. Oh. No, you don't have two baskets.

Yeah, I do. You can't put the wet clothes. No, you're talking about one of these, like a tub like that, like a washing, that you take the washing out. That's the washing basket. You don't put the wet clothes back into the hamper because the hamper's always lined with linen. And then you're going to have a damp...

You're going to have a damp lining. Wait, do you use one? No, you've got to have two. You're encouraging Mulgrew. You've got to have the washing basket and the laundry hamper. I put my duty clothes straight into the laundry machine. The washing machine. Sorry, I thought you meant the hamper. No, no, no, no, no, not the hamper.

God, I go through hampers like, no, man. Whether it's a hamper or not, we want to know what you're still holding on to that's still going. Maybe it was like a toaster that you bought, like, for your first flat and it's still going. That you yourself got from the Salvation Army, so someone else has owned it before you. Because I feel like it's rare for, rare for stuff you buy now to still last,

whereas your parents still have the jug from the 80s. Or a crock pot. Yes, that's still going. They've got a crock pot from the 1970s. It's plastic, it's sunbeam. Yes, and it tastes like deviled sausages no matter what you cook it in. No matter what. And there was a bubble over at some stage,

and your mum just can't get the stain out of the side of it. So 0800 DARS at M. We want you to give us a call now. Text us, well, 9696. What has lasted for you a lot longer than you thought it would? What have you had that's lasted way longer than it should have? I've got a 20-year-old washing basket. Which your wife isn't embarrassed to...

Yeah, it's got holes in it. Yeah. But old green's gone strong. Old green. In my mind, I know exactly what this looks like. Yeah, it's got holes in it. Yeah. But old green's going strong. Old green. In my mind, I know exactly what this looks like. Yeah, same. I've got the white one. Everyone's got them.

The classic Kiwi plastic laundry basket. Yeah. So good. So we want to know what is still going. Caitlin's called through. Caitlin, what's still going? My partner and I have the couches that her mother owned when she was a teenager.

Are they brown? No. They fortunately got reupholstered, but even my partner had them when she was a kid. Those couches are insane. Some stuff, eh? Yeah, and they've even moved from Aussie to New Zealand and still survive. Oh my gosh. So you could never get rid of them?

Hell no. They're so comfortable. My partner would never let them go. They're in the well. Oh, wow. They're going in the well. My sister has my grandparents' couches, and as a kid, they were the comfiest couches.

The head, the armrest wasn't the perfect height. You could lie on it, and it would just pop your head up a little bit. That sort of couch? Yeah, pearl. Caitlin, thank you. Chloe, what's still going? The old wooden beater.

Oh, like a hand be, like, wind up. With the wooden handle? Yeah, yeah. So it was Nana's, then it was my mum's, and I've had it for, like, 15 years now. And has it got to the point where the wood's cracked and you kind of pinch your... Yeah, and the kids throw it in the dishwasher,

and then every time I'll go to empty the dishwasher, I'm like, who did this? Monsters. Yell at them. But don't, yeah. Kitchen stuff, eh? in the dishwasher and then every time I'll go to empty the dishwasher I'm like, who did this? Monsters. Yell at them. Kitchen stuff. I've got my nana's food processor. Like everyone's got

a fancy kitchen these days but mine's just... Kenwood or a Sunbeam? Sunbeam. There was only two kitchen appliances I'm pretty sure

it was Sunbeam. In the 70s and 80s. Chloe, thank you. Some messages in. Someone said, I in 19... No, in 2003 at the age of 13,

I bought a material headband for Glassons from Glassons for $5 and I've still got it. So that's 20 years out of a $5 headband. I don't think anything from Glassons is meant to last that long, is it? I don't think so. Keep your texts coming through, 9696. We'll get to more of those next. What's lasted way longer than you thought it would?

I've got a green plastic washing basket. It rules. It's holding together after 20 years. Charlotte, what's been going strong since 2007? My GHD straightener. Yeah, baby, Generation 1. Yeah. Lines from 2006.

Were they the first sort of like hair straighteners, the GHD? No, they were like Remingtons and stuff, but GHD was the first good one. Like cool. Yeah, they were cool. GHD was founded in 2001 by Martin, Gary, Susan and Robert. That's what GHD stands for. They collaborated with Martin, Susie, Gabby and Robert.

To buy the rights to a hair straightening iron from the inventor in South Korea. Shal, is this still your main hair strainer that you use? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I've kind of thought about going to the Dyson, but, you know. No, what, have you got to spare $1,000 lying around? Don't be ridiculous. The change will last forever.

Charlotte, thanks for your call. Dave, what's still going strong? Yeah, me and my wife got a, you know those love heart balloons, the foil ones with the stick on them? Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, yeah. my wife got a, you know those love heart balloons, the foil ones with the stick on them? Yeah, beautiful. Helium balloon. Me and my wife got gifted one of those at our engagement party eight years ago, and it's still floating around in her walk-in wardrobe.

Wow! Dude, we got given a balloon when one of the girls was born, and it was like, congratulations. And we were like, ah, cool, and put it somewhere. And the other day I found it, and it's still there. If it was August, it was 9. How does it... It was like 11 and this balloon's still just like fully inflated. Is it because it's foil, not like your typical balloon latex or whatever?

I don't know, yeah. I don't know, but I'm a bit nervous that if it pops, she'll leave me. So I'm keeping it. There's an omen. The love will die. If I have a rose in Beauty and the Beast. Yeah. Yes!

You must keep it inflated at all costs, Dave. Yes. At all costs. Okay, otherwise the love will go. Put it in the will. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. You must keep it inflated at all costs, Dave. Yes. At all costs. Okay, otherwise the love will go. Put it in the will. Put it in the

will. Some messages in. A plastic colander from my flooding days. Purchased in 1999. Still perfect. I can imagine

what that looks like. Same. I've got it. Yes. I've got it. It looks so great.

Somebody said, I have had a stick blender for 26 years. Oh, amazing. Bought a microwave when I was 20, going back 28 years in preparation for moving out. It worked perfectly, Bought a microwave when I was 20, going back 28 years

in preparation for moving out. It worked perfectly, never missed a beat. A couple of weeks ago we noticed the coating was coming off and you could see the metal.

Oh, okay. Did a quick Google, that's very dangerous. So we sent the microwave off to microwave heaven. I'm 48 and I just lost my friend of 28 years. Thoughts with you?

Have you been with Nana's old egg beater? Oh, yep. Okay. The old wine by your hand egg beater? Oh, yep. Okay. The old wine by your hand egg beater. That'll last forever. I have a waffle maker.

I've had it for nine years. My old flatmate was a previous owner, and she'd had it for five years before that. She found it in an op shop. Still makes the best waffles. Yeah, good stuff. I inherited a metal potato masher that we've had since I was a kid. I'm in my 30s, and the masher hasn't made a potato it couldn't mash. Because that's when you're... That's when you know. That I'm in my 30s and the masher hasn't met a potato it couldn't mash. Because that's when you...

That's when you know. That's user error when you break a potato masher because you didn't boil the potatoes long enough. That's on you though, not the masher, isn't it? Exactly. That's human error. Absolute user error. I have a freezer that was my dad's.

It was old when I got it in 2004. My guess would be it's a chest freezer from the late 80s. That would probably cost a fortune to run to get that bad boy resealed. Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley. Play ZM. I had a very beautiful day yesterday. It was the last day of our holidays, and I wanted to go out on a date. But unfortunately, Aaron was playing games with his brothers all day.

Games? Games was he playing? Like board games? No, like PlayStation games maybe. Oh, okay. Right. I don't know. I have such a little interest in what they're doing, to be honest.

And when Aaron said that, he was like, I feel really bad, but on the last day of your holiday, I'm not going to be here for the whole day. I'm out the door. Does he not bore you with an hour recount? As I, I'll corner Sade in the kitchen after Dungeons and Dragons and give her a full breakdown of what happened. Absolutely not.

No, can she not get out? No. Because there's that kitchen has no exit. No, no. She's got a button. I'll corner her in the scullery. She's got a button under the beam. She hits a panic button.

Panic calls the authorities. Help, help, help. No, he doesn't, he didn't recount it. He was gone for 12 hours, nine the authorities. Help, help, help. No, he didn't recount it. He was gone for 12 hours, nine till nine. Wow. He was gone. See, the whole day, it's like when you leave him and you go drinking.

That's exactly it. 12 hours? Gosh. Or Hayley's games. That'll be a record. Hayley's games. Yeah, Hayley's out playing games. What's she playing? Who knows?

No one even knows where she is. No, but he said it like he was feeling bad. Like, I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend the last day. I was overjoyed. Yeah. You know when you just get a day at home on your own and then I was like, I'm going to get up. I'm going to sleep in for a little bit.

Yeah. Spend some time. Wink. Wink. And then I'm going to get up. He lives alone. This is Fletcher's thing. He's like

What a novelty Wink Has breakfast Wink Goes to the gym Another wink Winks very close To what I was

Actually wanting to say I was like careful now I will sue You'll hear from my lawyers This is defamation And then he'll come over And have dinner And then probably have a wink

With somebody else This is defamation Two person wink And then Slander Put them in a new facility And then home Bed early And have a wink with somebody else. This is defamation. Only have a two-person wink. Slander. Slander. Put them in a new facility, home, bed early, and have another wink.

Wake, wink, repeat. Whereas for us, if we cohabitate with people, it's a little bit more special. It's more winky. Yeah. So anyway, a sneaky wink.

My whole plan, and then I was like, I'm going to get up, I'm going to put on an outfit that makes me feel good. I'm going to go to the market. So anyway, a sneaky wink. My whole plan, and then I was like, I'm going to get up, I'm going to put on an outfit that makes me feel good, I'm going to go to the market. I went to the local markets, got a little wrap,

got some chilli oil from my favourite place and then I did some laundry and then in between each load of laundry went to the pub on my own and drunk wine. Wow,

you really had a you day. I had a you day and then I said to Aaron, are you home for dinner? And he was like, is it okay if I'm not? And I was like, even better. I'm going to take myself out on a date.

And I share this on Instagram that every now and then, probably like once a month, I take myself out for dinner. Just on my own. And I'll have like a lovely full dinner. Sit down. At a restaurant. At a restaurant. Have a glass of wine.

Da-da-da-da-da. Time. See, I can do this very easily. You can also. But there are some people that just could never, ever. Well, I do it because I crave company so often. And it's like good to remind yourself you just don't be by yourself for like a day, you know? Yeah.

And I love it. It's so good. Because I messaged you saying it was sad only because you were getting a curry. Why? Why were you so particularly you were getting a curry. Why? There's something particularly sad about having a curry by yourself. Do you know what? Because I usually get Japanese. I always go for Japanese.

See, Japanese is a... It's a solo person's food. It's a solo person's food. Also, a lot of people in Japan eat alone all the time. Restaurants in Japan where you literally sit at a booth and they don't bother you and they just hand your food through a curtain and you're all by yourself. Exactly.

There are solo people. What can you do behind the curtain? Curry's a family and you're all by yourself. Exactly. There are solo people. What can you do behind the curtain? Curry's a family meal. You can wink. No winking in the Japanese curtain. Are you sure? Absolutely. Well, good to know.

I'm not allowed back in Japan, so I can speak fairly solidly to that. You've been banned from the whole country. I've been banned from Japan. Too winky. That's actually the name of my autobiography. Von Smith, Ban of Japan. Ban of Japan. Bad man, ban of Japan. Bad man, bad in Japan.

Bad man's bad in Japan. But usually I would always go Japanese, and I was literally driving to go to Japanese, and I was like, I can't be bothered going all the way into town. So I was like, I'll just go out west, and then there's this amazing curry place. I knew you were having a curry before you were saying a curry

because that day cook is unmistakable. You can't mistake it. How did people react on Instagram? Because they were quite surprised. They thought it was a joke. all the women that messaged me, of which there was, like,

tons of messages. I'm incredibly popular and I just want to remind us all that. Okay. Tons of people messaging being like, I love this because I message saying,

I like to take myself out on a solo dinner date at least once a month because it helps to remind me that I can be in my own company and that's cool and okay. Then I said, I'm also being particularly brave today because I've ordered a butter chicken. Now usually, you know me, we went

out for dinner, us with a big group of our friends and only one of them, our friend Matt, ordered a butter chicken and he got absolutely roasted at the table. What did you have? Because you always get a butter chicken. I don't know, something else. It really lived a little. It was real yum. Yeah, we all branched out.

Because I think it was South Indian. Yeah, it was a really nice food. More than British Indian. Shout out to... As opposed to the beautiful UK Indian. Shout out to Arranged Marriage in New Plymouth. Great, that was fantastic. Oh, unreal food.

That was great food. Well, shout out to Sangam in Kiumiu, who was my favourite. Shout out to King of India. If we're just chucking in Indian restaurants out there. Shout out to Maharajas in Petone. I mean, let's just keep naming our favourite places.

So, but nobody like... So, heaps of women messaged me like, I love this, I do this. Oh my God, I'm going to do this this week. Oh my God, I love this. Reminds you that you don't need like to be with someone.

You can just go out and take yourself out for a nice date. So many men messaged me being like, you alright? Because I was sitting there eating a curry and drinking Prosecco on my arm. As I've said, it was the curry that made it sad for me. It's a weird food, yeah.

It's a real – Yeah, comfort, a comfort curry. Yes. That's why I made me ask if you were okay. A lot of people messaging me saying, you know, that's not keto. They have a bad ship sail. Are we done? Well, sort of soft. Soft entry.

A soft exit? I thought keto, you couldn't just do soft keto. No, you just pummel out. Yeah, you pummel out. It's all over, over. Anyway, I really recommend taking yourself on a little dinner date. What we were talking about was a month

ago and people would order their supermarket shopping online, pick it up and then just go park. We were talking about how do you get a little bit of alone time if you've got a busy life or dependents and people that harangue you and lots of mothers and wives said they'll do the online grocery shopping so they pick up windows half an hour but then they'll go and they'll pick it up real quick and they'll go and have an ice cream and a bit of a chill time by themselves.

That's what I do when I do the laundry. I always pop across the road and have a little glass of wine because I'm like. Glass of wine seems to be the constant in these stories. It's delicious. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Now, 20th of July, which is Thursday. Yep. Yep.

That is the official release date for the Barbie movie that I am fizzing for. I've been fizzing for it since I even heard of it. Since I saw that first trailer. I'm obsessed with Barbie. You've still got, like, how many Barbies? 52. And you broke the Karen Walker Barbie. Broke the Karen Walker Barbie.

In front of Karen Walker. She had a comer. Still a great moment. It was so bad. I can't believe she gave you a... Did she give you a jacket the other day? Yeah, Walker. She had a comment. It was so bad. I can't believe she gave you a jacket the other day. She just sent me a jacket. She's a glorious woman. She's a glutton for punishment. You broke her Barbie. What a power play.

I think it was a power play. People look at Karen and think she's an intimidating woman. I break your shit, Karen. Send me a free jacket. 20th of July is Barbie opening day and the opening day for Oppenheimer, which is Christopher Nolan's new, like, incredible-looking film. Story of the birth of the atomic bomb.

I saw the trailer for that the other day, and it looks amazing. And I want to see Barbie, because apparently Ryan Gosling's amazing. I'm going tonight. I'm going tonight. I'm going tonight. I'm going tonight. I'm so excited. It's past my bedtime.

Like, that's how much you want to go. You're going to be past your bedtime. Yeah, I think it finishes at 9 o'clock. I don't care. I've got the cutest outfit planned. You wouldn't even believe the outfit I've got planned. It is so cute. I've got blonde hair.

It's perfect. It's just going to be really, really cute. This is your day. This is my day. But so many people are joking online about how these two films could not be more opposite, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Because Oppenheimer is about the birth of the atomic bomb, right? The US rushing to make the atomic bomb.

Dark, eh? Like everyone's saying. Dark, really watch of a man who wants to achieve something and the minute he does is like, I should not have done this. Bad, bad thing I've done here. Yeah. Barbie, is Barbie living in Barbie world?

She gets into the real world. Something happens there. Ken's there and it's thing I've done here. Yeah. Barbie, is Barbie living in Barbie world? She gets into the real world. Something happens there. Ken's there and it's silly and it's fun and it's pink. Two great directors, Britta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan. Yes. Are you allowed to give your review tomorrow or is it embargoed? Oh, I've read the email. Reviews are coming out already, aren't they?

Saying it's good? Yeah. So, okay, well, Hayley, we'll give the review of the Barbie movie tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay, good. I'll do that. Yeah. Okay.

Don't drink too much tonight. But now they've put this, dating experts have created a new dating term based on this observation of the polar opposites called the Barbenheimer. The Barbenheimer. The Barbenheimer dating trend. I want to see this film, Barbenheimer. The Barbenheimer. The Barbenheimer dating trend. I want to see this film, Barbenheimer. But it's going, if you're a Barbie, go on a date with an Oppenheimer. And if you're an Oppenheimer, go on a date with a Barbie.

Because if you're a Barbie and you go on a date with Barbie, it's pretty predictable. And, you know, there's not really anything new that's going to happen and you're going to go like, cool, that's exactly what that was. I know Barbie, and so I got Barbie. This was the premise of Beauty and the Geek, that reality TV show where they put polar opposite people. A-class TV.

And all those hot women had their Wi-Fi fixed so quick. Oh, I know. It was so good for them. You've just got to branch out. You've just got to branch out. You've just got to branch out. So they said, this dating expert said that it can feel intimidating

to date someone outside of your usual type, but it connects you with someone who pushes you to become the best possible version of yourself, developing new concepts and views in the world, you know, rather than just having like the same point of view. Plus on a physical level, the spark is unlikely to fizzle if you're a Barbie and you pick an Oppenheimer. Because you're learning, you're like, what, what, what, what the whole time.

Well you're a Barbie. And nerds try harder. Yeah, you're a Barbie with how many? 50? Oh my god what the If you're a 7 and you're if you're an 8 and you're dating a 5, the 5's going to try really hard. What the hell is coming into the room right now? I think you may have another Barbie because we have been sent from Barbie.

Oh my god are you kidding me? The biggest Barbie goodie box. Oh, my God. Like, that's like a human casket size almost. I'm sweating. This box is ginormous. We were sent this. We haven't opened it.

We don't know what's inside. Oh, my God. It's the Barbies. Blah, blah, blah. Oh, my God. This is like, I have a vision of me living in Eastbourne. I would have been like six years old and my dad was late home from work. Maybe he was in trouble.

Maybe he did something bad. and then he was coming upstairs and he had two Barbie doll boxes under his armpits. I just remember the vision of being like, why has my dad bought me Barbies? And he came into the room and he's like,

I got you a drink. Had he been cheating on you? Because he ran over your dog. Oh, he ran over your dog. He did kill my cat. There was a dog. Oh, there was a... Okay, we're just going to

open the Barbie box because inside... This is like a metre long. Oh my God. Do you reckon it's a metre? I could measure it for the exact... I think it's more than a metre. Yeah, it looks a little...

I'm going to say 120. There's back corners where you're struggling. The back corners where you've got an air lock. Break the air lock on this back corner. Don't want to mansplain how to open a box. I don't want to mansplain that we probably should have had this pre-opened before we surprised... There we go. The box is...

Go. See, Jared came in and solved the lock. There we go. The box. The box is go. Yeah, see, Jared came in and sold the lock. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Are those roller skates? They're roller skates. Oh, my God. Kneepads and roller skates.

And Barbie socks. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And Barbie? What Barbies are in there? Barbie. Is it Margot Robbie Barbie? Can I have the blue Barbie socks?

No, you can't have any of the Barbies. Dude, you would look great in those socks. I would look great at the gym in those Barbie socks. Here's Margot Robbie Barbie. Margot Barbie. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God. It's like the knee pads they wear from the movie.

The wrist pads. Oh, my God. You've got to have wrist guards as well. And I believe. Oh, my God, there's a roller skate. There's a roller skate. You're going to have to take up roller skating again. Can I skate to the premiere tonight?

Absolutely. Wow. Oh my god, they're fluoro yellow. Oh my god, they're roller blades! Well, happy bar... Those are pretty rad. Wow, those are pretty cool. Fluoro yellow. And pink. This is the best ever. They don't have brakes.

Rollerblades only ever had one brake, eh? One foot was your braking foot. Yeah, that's right. Well, happy Barbie day. You're up to the premiere tonight. Tomorrow we'll give you the review of the Barbie movie before it hits cinemas on Thursday around the country. This rules. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Looking cute in your sunnies, babe. Thanks. I'm wearing my Barbie socks. Barbie socks and Barbie sunnies. Barbie socks and sunnies. Such a look for you. Thank you.

I'm also in trouble because I said no to going to the Barbie premiere. And now I've just heard from my daughters. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's too late for them. It's a school night. Yeah, that's what I said. Do they like Barbie?

Oh, yeah, they like Barbie. I've got two Barbie dolls here. They're coming home with me. If they want to live in a dream house, their accommodation is sorted. But today's fact of the day is not about our Barbie. It is about the final annual sauna world championships. Sorry. Go on. The final. What kind of sauna?

Just a heat sauna. Okay. Just an old school sauna. Well, it got called off and the championships were cancelled. Never to happen again. Oh, this is why they have signs at like the pool and the gym, like only 15 minutes max. 2011, the 12th World Sauna Championships.

Okay. Outlasted each other's, other competitors in the heat. Oh, yuck. And the steam. It was held in Honola, 86 miles northeast of Helsinki. Okay. And had been since 1999. Two competitors were fiercely battling it out to be the last man standing.

When Vladimir Ladislashvili was pronounced dead. Yeah. So he forfeits the title at that stage, you'd imagine. So it got to a certain point. He didn't die with it. Yeah. Because he didn't survive. It would get to a certain point. Did you die with it? Yeah. Because you didn't survive. It would get to a certain point at this Finnish competition

where they would just start cranking the heat up. I'll just make it stop. Vladimir Ladislavski survived, spent up to six minutes enduring a temperature of 110 degrees Celsius. My goodness. That's like a starting temperature in the oven. Yeah, it is. For maybe a, what would you cook at 110?

Well, you could go a low and slow. If you were going to do an all day brisket on a barbie, you'd be happy for like your 110s, 120s. Yeah. Slow for a little lamb though. And so he just dropped dead. Shoulder a lamb though. Do it low and slow and you can pull it at the end of it.

It'd be beautiful. So at the stage where the heat was 110 in the sauna, how long had he been there? He died after six minutes at 110 degrees Celsius. Oh, wow. But how long was he already in there? The other competitor, Timo Kralkokken from Finland, was pulled out and has been treated for burns,

not only on his skin but also his lungs and his mouth because when he breathed in, the air was so hot, of course, it would burn you all the way in. Oh, yeah. You're in an oven. Yeah, you are. You put yourself in an oven air was so hot, of course, it would burn you all the way in. Oh, yeah. You're in an oven. Yeah, you are. You put yourself in an oven. Yeah.

And so these were cancelled, these championships. Yeah, and they've never happened again. Right. That's a shame. I was going to buy tickets to the next one. To watch. To watch, yeah. So the rules in the competition,

the sauna would be heated to 110 degrees Celsius, 230 Fahrenheit. Water would be added to the stove every 30 seconds, and the last person standing in the sauna won. But of course, at that temperature, steam is steam and stays as steam and you are slowly cooking yourself. Are you a fan of a sauna? Not for long.

For like four minutes. Yeah, it gets a bit macho. Yeah. Whereas some people at the gym and the pools can be in there for like ages. Nah. What are they doing in there? Just sitting there.

I like the steam. Can I get confirmation that they're doing nothing but sitting in there for like ages. Nah. What are they doing in there? Just sitting there. I like the steam. Can I get confirmation that they're doing nothing but sitting in there? Well, on my side of the wall, we're just sitting there. Yeah. I believe, yeah.

On your side of the wall, God knows what's happening. You would be absolutely live bait in this one, on my friend. Oh, yeah. He just popped the calf muscles in his Barbie socks.

Farrah, he's looking good at the moment. He's looking like a thoroughbred horse. He is. They'd be chasing. They'd all be trying to strap a saddle on him.

You absolutely would be. Thank you for the compliments after you came in with a real bully attitude this morning. Well, I don't know why you were hiding those beautiful calves underneath those netball training pants. Can he keep them till summer? Because we need to get the shorts out. He needs to get the shorts back out.

Well, it's not shorts weather yet. That's what I may. Yeah. It's only the lucky boys in the sauna that get to see you. I don't sauna, but okay, thank you. So today's fact of the day. Today's fact of the day is the sauna competition doesn't happen anymore in Finland

because a man died in it. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Jesus, she's about six foot eight when she's got rollerblades on. Look how tall she looks. She's put her Barbie rollerblades on. Guys, this is the greatest day of my life. Now, have you trusted Vaughan to put the brake on your Barbie skates? Yeah, I've got Vaughn to put it on the back of my left foot.

It's on well. You don't want to do it too tight because then you clamp the wheel so there's a certain amount of oomph that you put on the screws and away you go. Ready for the Barbie. Good bearings too. Check the bearings. Hi, Barbie. This is good.

I'm getting exercise while we're on the radio. And it's not noisy or distracting whatsoever. That's the best part about it. Apparently, the average worker switches career by the age of 31. Okay. That's when they're like, I don't like this anymore. Because I thought the average person. By then, that will be when they've changed their career direction.

So career, not just job. They will have had jobs, but maybe in the same area. Do you reckon that's kind of like you with getting into radio? Yeah. Like, I mean, same kind of thing. Same sort of industry, like entertainment, but definitely like a bit of a left turn and one I'm very grateful for.

Thank you. Because when you said like a bit of a left turn, did you kind of take that as a bit of a slap in the face? No, no, no, no, no. A positive. Two paths diverged in a wood. Robert Frost and I took the left one and I'm happy.

She's doing art. Bloody acting again. I get to use all my skills on this job. Like rollerblading. This would be like the average person you go to uni or you study and then you decide I've had enough at the age of 31. That's the magic age.

Yeah, that 10-year career itch. The seven-year relationship itch, the 10-year career itch. It's where you're like, this isn't what I was hoping it would be. Seven years with one person. Dude. Wow. I'm approaching 14. I can see why there's an itch.

So do you have two itches now that it's double? Yeah, they don't talk about the 14-year itch. I can just feel it just sitting on my back. Your itch is different because... Right. Because I'm not in a relationship. You are itchy for a completely different reason. Yeah, so people apparently they get the 10-year itch

and then they will change career at the average age of 31. This would be true of a lot of my friends who started as artists. And then it gets hard in your 30s. Oh, yeah. So then you would go and get a different job. Like a, I hate to say proper job, but proper job. Well, yeah, because if you're in the arts, like, you know, your jobs are few and far between or they can be all at once

and then nothing for a while. And in your 20s, that can be a bit fun. In your 30s, it's less fun. Well, yeah, especially if you're settling down. Or you want a house or you have a kid or something. I've got lots of friends that change. This is what we wanted to ask this morning is, have you had like a really wild 180 career path change?

Like you went from something like... I love the people, I follow a few of them on Instagram that were like big corporate people and it got too much and they threw it all and sold it all and moved to the country. And started a yoga retreat. Here's how we do chickens. Yes. Here's how we raise our chickens.

I built a thing that catches water off the roof. And you're like, yes. One of Aaron's friends was a GP and it got too much. He was like, ugh, I can't do this anymore. Too much hydrocortisone cream. Too much diagnosing with hydrocortisone. And then so he became a design teacher, like a set design teacher. What?

Yeah. Was always interested in art and design. I bet the set design sounds like fun. I bet the pay is like a lot less than a GP. I don't know. What about the happiness? What about the lack of stress? What about the work-life balance?

Yeah, that's true. And you're expressing yourself and your artistic side is free. Yeah. We can't all be Dr. Shawnee you're expressing yourself and your artistic side is free. Yeah. Yeah. We can't all be Dr. Shawnee the homeopathic homozygous. I was like, what? Who's a doctor but also, you know, gets the peddlers magical waters and such at the same time. Is that greenstone? Can you please stop saying that because he gets so upset.

Enema working for you? And I have to deal with that. It's the only reason I do say it. I know, he shouldn't bite. He's going to start losing bloody clots. He shouldn't bite. So we want to know losing bloody clout. He shouldn't bite. So we want to know this morning, 0800DARLS.M, give us a call. You can text through 9696.

Do you have a wild 180 career path change? Yeah. Like what did you used to work as and what do you do now? 0800DARLS.M, give us a call. Play ZM's Fletch for the daily. Play ZM. So it turns out 32 is magic age where people change careers the most. A big 180.

It's like time for something new. Time for something new. And we want to know what you change careers to. Maybe it was a big 180, something completely different. Emma, what did you change careers to? So a typical uni student had done like an enormous variety initially. But then my big change was going from personal training to environmental science after I realised I didn't really like people that much.

No, they're the absolute worst. They are the pits. Wow. They the absolute worst. They are the pits. Wow. They are the pits. Also, like, I feel like if you're a personal trainer, you couldn't let people see you buying lollies and stuff at the supermarket. Oh, my God. My PT always said this. Like, she put on, like, 4K GZ and was like, I thought you were on PK.

And she's like, I'm just living my life. Yeah, whereas if you work in environmental sciences, like, no one judges you right like that. We can't throw trash out your window anymore. Exactly. Oh, yeah. We've got to stop eating dolphins. Oh, my God.

The sashimi. Oh, my God. Do you have to get an electric car? You probably have to get a gas fireplace because you can't burn logs. But logs, nothing burns like a log. But also, what about getting the gas? As an environmental scientist, is that sort of like... How do you heat your house?

You've got to frack. How do you heat your house? Do you do fracking? I must... She doesn't do fracking. She's anti-fracking. I'm a blankets person, so yeah. Oh, okay.

So you're not heating the house, you're heating the individual. Yeah. I'm all about a hot house. I'm a heat pump guy. Ooh. I just, I burn wood. Okay, well, Emma, we'll have some words for you. I burn the trash that I don't finish to get out the car window.

Thank you, Emma. Ask the messages. This message tweaked my nipples and my interest. Ooh. Okay. Okay. Consider my nipples tweaked. Your nipples are about to be tweaked.

Where did it go? My career 180 flip was after 25 years in global corporate retailing, I flipped to creating stop motion films slash TV commercials for brands in New Zealand. It's been two years, loads of fun. Check out awkward.animations on Instagram to see what I do now. That's a free plug. But then I was like, I love stop motion.

My Wallace and Gromit No Got so boring It's like you've got A little claymation thing You move it a millimetre I don't want to make it I just want to watch it Take a photo Move it a millimetre

Look at this Take a photo And he's made a Star Wars one He did this Oh that's pretty cool He did this They would have taken He did this

It's like That's five seconds And we've taken them Like half a year Yeah I know But we just get to enjoy The five seconds Not have to put in The half a year. Yeah, I know. But we just get to enjoy the five seconds, not have to put in the half a year work. Your big career changes.

Apparently at the age of 31 the average person's like nah, something different. Let's get out of here. Something new. I've always wanted to design wine bottles. You know, like labels. Is there a career change or an extension of your alcoholism?

My longest career to date. The longest job I've ever kept. Or is it actually your main career? Yeah, it could actually be my main thing. Sure. I'm certainly looking that way. Adele, this is your dad's career change, 180. Yeah, so he's made a big decision after nearly over half his life to change careers.

So what did he used to do? What does he do now? Ever since he was like early 20s, he was in the building industry. Oh, yeah. Either being a builder or selling tools, always something to do with building. Yep. And he left his job recently and decided to go and be a tour bus driver around the country. Oh, my God.

I would love that. Old mates. Love being tour bus drivers. They do. They love driving the big bus. Oh, my gosh. I wonder if, because, you know, when your dad, Fletch, your dad's a builder. Yeah.

My dad would, like, go on holidays from dairy farming and do building. Yeah. This is weird. He'd take a holiday and just do another job. Yeah, they can't sit still, old mates. They can't sit still. So my dad was bad enough. He'd drive past the house, he'd be like,

built that whore. Oh, we did the fence on that. Yeah, my pop was a house painter. Painted that one, painted that one. Painted this church, painted that. Imagine Adele's dad on the tour bus. Hello, everybody. I built the house on the left.

Up here, just before we get onto the motorway, you'll see a big block of apartments. Well, if you'll just hold your horses there, I'll show you where I sold a record amount of tools at a Sunday market. Just up here on the right. Adele, thank you. Molly, this is your career change.

You went from deep-sea fishing. Yes. To what? Now I'm an accountant. But first of all, long time listener, first time caller. Oh my God, where's the bell? We've been away on holiday. The bell's here.

Welcome. We did deep sea fishing. How long would you be away on a boat for? So the trips are six weeks, but I did quite a few. I did like three trips in a row before I had a trip off. God, I get bored going on the ferry to Waiheke to the winery. I've got to churn in time before we're out the harbour.

You'd get seasick. There's no way you'd handle that. And then the smell of fish, of course, always helps the season. It really does. Do you always smell a fish even when you have a shower and stuff? Oh yeah, definitely.

Even now as an accountant. You have your fishing clothes and then your at-home clothes. Do you still get a whiff every now and then? No. At the supermarket? Are you like, oh, no, I just went on yourself. You might like, you know, still be sweating it out.

I had a whiff on a fishing boat. I met him at sea. He's an engineer on a fishing boat. So every time he comes home, he does. He's still on the fishing boat. You're like, three showers for you and then I'll touch you. Now, Molly, I'm very progressive, but Fletch is a bit of an old stick in the mud.

Many women on a fishing boat? No. Well, Fletch can't believe women. He's definitely outnumbered by the men, but there's more and more women. When you called up, Fletch was like, Molly, don't you mean Ollie? Oh, Ollie.

He's a man on a fishing boat. I think you've accidentally put an M in front of Ollie. I'm so progressive. I don't know. I don't know about that. Maybe it's pronounced Mola. So you would, because this, we had a family friend whose partner did this, and I was like, what?

You just go to boat for six weeks catching fish? Yeah. In the middle of nowhere? What if you hate the people that you're on the boat with? Too bad, buddy. No, but she met her husband. She was getting it on. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

She was shagging and catching fish. Was there shagging on the ship? Are you allowed to have relations with the crew members? Oh, yeah, everyone. There's some people that really get around. Wait, everyone? Everyone. We have orgies.

Well, maybe not everyone, but... You just said that there's not many women on the ship. Yeah, but I hope the orgies aren't getting into the gurnard. Do they wash the gurnards? Is there an orgy in the gurnards? Gurnard with a side of chlamydia? Yeah. God, there was a clap on the boat.

Jesus. Oh, God. What do you do for six weeks if you've got the clap? Oh, I don't know. You do antibiotics. Can you get the antibiotics? I've got so many questions. Oh, they do have antibiotics. I think we need to... The skipper is a medic. Oh, the sk't know. You have antibiotics. Can you get the antibiotics? I've got so many questions. Oh, they do have antibiotics.

I think we need to do a pod. The skipper is a medic. Oh, the skipper is a medic. The skipper is a medic? They have antibiotics and stuff they can give to people. Skipper being the medic, that's two bigger roles for one person. That needs to be two separate things because if the skipper goes overboard, you've lost your medic.

And how have you guys got familiar? Failing couple. There'll be the skipper and the first mate will both be medic. Wow. They've been medics. Wow. They'll be medics? Yeah. And so what are your little cabin bits? Were they medics before they were first mates

or were they first mates? I think we need medics. Well, I don't think it's extensive training. I don't think it's like... Right. We've run out of... It's just a step further than a first aid course, I guess.

Right. Molly, we've run out of time, but I would love to do a podcast special with you, Molly. What are you doing for the next 10 to 15 minutes? She's like, I'm doing accounts. You're doing nothing.

Put this 15 minutes to one of the rich clients. I don't know how that works. You get a little time sheet and you go to account for your time. I'll just charge it out. Yeah, charge it out. Charge it out. Just like that.

We've got so many questions. So fascinating, Molly. Thank you. We're going to do a deep dive with Molly. Hey, remember how you just gave that Uber driver five stars because you wanted five stars back? Yes. Let's do that with this podcast.

Oh, yeah. Review it five stars. Tell your friends. And we'll do the same for you if you ever need a review for anything. But where are you giving me my five stars? Well, I don't know. Do you own a restaurant or something? Yes.

If you give us five stars on this podcast, tell us where you would like your review, and we'll review. We won't even go. We'll just review your thing. I don't want people to know where my restaurant is. I'm doing one of those secret restaurants. Oh, I was going to say,

because that's exactly the opposite of how restaurants work. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.