ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 18th July 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. It's Thirsty Thursday. How's it Thursday already? The week's gone fast.

It has gone quite fast. Five on time every day, every hour from seven, we're going to give you the chance to play 5 on time until 7. Yeah, how about that? Every hour. So $25,000 up for grabs, 7 o'clock, your first chance. It's soon. And an hour after that is, don't tell me, 8?

8, yes, and we'll give you a chance then if it hasn't been 1, and then 9. How old? No, 9. Every hour until seven. So, we've got to give this cash away. Come on. It has to go today. We've had some. I mean, it doesn't have to. It could literally

keep going. It's been going for weeks. It's been going for weeks. Also, I know it's selfish, but I want it to go with us because I like to give away things. I know you do. Well, your next chance is at 7 o'clock. The top six on the way. Yeah, if you're like me,

you've got kids at home for the school holidays and you're saying no a lot. So I've got the top six days I like to say no. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah, absolutely. There's good stuff.

I didn't get to watch the season finale of Star Wars The Acolyte last night because I've been watching it with August. This is our show we watched together. Oh yeah. And she didn't finish her dinner and then there was a meltdown and then there was a standoff. Oh great. And I said, I hope you're happy.

If I see spoilers today, you've ruined Star Wars for me. Oh wow. Now that's a big axe to swing in our house. I would have just watched it without her. Yes, same. You've done this to yourself. I know I have. You've done this to yourself.

But I also, I think, I will always look back at the show we watched together rather than it's the show we watched together until the last episode when there was a standoff. Yeah.

Star Wars was my show, it was my films with my dad. Really? Star Wars would go to the movies. Unless you were a brat. Was there ever a standoff? I was never a with my dad. Really? Every Star Wars we'd go to the movies. Unless you were a brat? Was there ever a stand-off? I was never a brat. Not to my dad, I was never a brat.

Okay. Yeah. We'll show you some of that. The top six soon. Also, joining us on the show in just minutes. We've got a guest. It's the return of Hayley's Honey Book Club. We've got a few guests coming up, actually.

We're excited. And we're going to talk to a New Zealand author of the erotic kind. Catherine Robertson. She's got two names. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. New changes to police eligibility criteria will allow people on their restricted licence to apply to become police officers.

Oh my God, I love this. How embarrassing. How embarrassing. Because you would always have to have a full licence police officer with you and you're not allowed to drive by yourself after 10 o'clock. Wait, so you could be pulling someone over but you've got your restricted plate in the window. No, that's just learners. But if you pull someone

over and had to put them in the back of your cop car, you're no longer allowed to drive with a passenger. Right? They better hop in the boot in case you get pulled over by the cops. Unless they've got their full licence. Imagine arresting them and being like, no, do you have a full licence? They have to sit at the front. And then they have to sit at the front with you.

No, but I think they've said that you can join the police. No, there'll be exceptions. You can join the police and you get the restricted while you're training. You get the full while you're training. You get your full while you're training. Apparently 250,000 people currently hold restricted licences. Quarter of a million. You can't get it together

to get your full licence to join the police. I don't think you should be issued a taser. No. No. But is it because it opens up

a whole lot of younger people to become cops or is it just that people are... No, because you get your bloody learners at 15. Yeah, that's... Like, if you...

Who wants to be arrested by... Is it 16 now? Who wants to be arrested? Is it 16 now? Who wants to be arrested by an 18-year-old? How embarrassing. Yeah. I'd be like, this is the most embarrassing moment of my life. You're a child.

Sitting on it, maybe the cost of it's prohibitive. Yeah, true. Getting the full license. Oh, yeah, and they'd probably pay for it, too. Well, let's not go crazy. It still is a government-funded know, a government funded branch. So I don't know if they're going to be paying for it. Oh, my God.

So embarrassing. People who hold a residency visa will also be eligible to apply. I mean, they could just pay the ones we've got. But no, no, no. Let them go to Australia. No, no, no. Bring in some newies. Let them go to Australia.

I might get some hot Brazilian cops. Oh, my God. Sea puppies. How much have you had to drink? Probably too much. I don't know. You're blowing zero. You're clear.

I don't know. We'll give you a shot. Let's go get a drink then. Let's see. Why did your crime immediately go to drink driving? I don't know. I don't know.

It was just the easiest thing. I'm too soft to commit like a violent crime. I would be calling the cops to say I've had a crime committed against me. Smash a window at my house. No, but they're not

going to arrest you. I believe this is the longest No, but you'd still get the hot Brazilian cops. No, but the fantasy is him like pulling up my arms behind my back. Oh, you like it rough.

Pushing me against a wall, do you know what I mean? Right. And I'll be a resistant arrest, tell you what. Oh, no, no, no, no. You get in the back. Yeah, okay.

You get in the back. They have to put the spit hood on you? Oh, yeah. What's that? It's the one where if you're spitting, they put a hood over

your face so you can't spit on them. Oh, I didn't know that was a thing. A spit hood? I've never heard of that. It would be my go-to to spit at someone,

though I have never been arrested. If your hands are tied up behind your back, you're not a, oh, you could be a kicker, but let's just say that I've got you.

You, I think you'd spit in a moment of. Maybe. Give it that hock tour. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. From the panoramic ZM think tank, this is the top six. 5.37pm. Oh, yeah?

Dad, can I have some chips? What time's dinner? Well, dinner's on the way. Yeah, right. What? What time's dinner? Well, dinner's on the way. Yeah, right. What are we having for dinner? Oh, last night, I'll tell you what. She knocked it out of the park with some sort of lamb mince. Lamb mince?

Filo-topped pastry. La, la. It was very nice. Wow, it was a mutterweed pastry. It was very nice. Lamb mince, filo-topped pie. Wow, it was a mother winged string. It was very nice. Lamb is phyllo topped pie. Yeah, yeah. It had spinach in it.

It had a bit of cheesy situation in it. It was the spinach that caused the stoush that cost me the ability to watch the stars. Oh, really? No spinach? It's going to choke me. Oh, yeah, it is stringy. Chew it.

It's a super food. Chew it. It is. Was it not cut up, though? I always cut mine because I always cut it with a string. Was it cut up? Was it cut up enough? It was cut up.

It feels like she's raw dogged it and cut the whole leaves in. I choked on the phyllo pastry. Right. Because that's a crumbly, a lot of choking hazards in your household. Yeah, it sounds like. Everybody's choking on it. Well, school holidays, you're having to say no a lot. No, yeah, yeah.

No, no. Why not? Can I have 12 friends over for a sleepover? Oh, yuck. Christ, no. You've done this to yourself, as Hayley did mention earlier. Yeah, you've got to tell these kids no. Top six favourite ways to say no are school holidays special number six on the list.

Nah. Oh, yeah. Nah. It's casual and it's also dismissive. Right. Nah. Nah is very dismissive. Nah. Nah. Nah. Oh yeah? Nah. It's casual and it's also dismissive. Nah. Nah is very dismissive. Nah. Nah. Why not?

Nah. Can't be bothered by that. They've still even got jobs though, have they? Huh? They're not paying for any of this. These kids. Yeah, so if they say, can I go to the movies? You've got to also pay for it. Nah. Nah. Nah. Number five on the list of the top six my top six favourite ways to say no on a school holiday special. Nah. Nah. Nah. Number five on the list of the top six, my top six favourite ways to say no at a school holiday special.

Ne. Ne. Ne. Not a neho? Neho's coming up. Oh, is it? Sorry, I've ruined that. Oh, you've ruined the list.

Okay. We'll make that the next one. Or do you want to hope that by the time we get to neho, people have forgotten. I was going to say neho. All right, I'll stop saying neho. Just tune in. Because my mum used to say neho.

Yeah. Neho. Yeah, neho. All right, I'll stop saying neho. Just tune in. Because my mum used to say neho. Yeah. Neho. Yeah, neho. That was a favourite of ours. Ne. Is it? It's just a ne. Again, it's dismissive.

It's quick. Ne. Let's them know. Number four on the list of the top six favourite ways to say no a school holiday special. No way, Jose. Oh, classic. Yeah. No way, Jose.

Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. Dad, can I do this? Can I watch the TV that you're watching? Can I have that? No way, Jose.

Have you only got one TV in your house? No, we've got two TVs. Oh. Don't want to rub it in your face. If this was the 80s, that'd be a big flex. That would be such a flex downstairs and upstairs. In the 80s, we always lived in double-story houses. People loved double-story houses.

I think it was maybe the 70s was the first time that double-story houses was really introduced to New Zealand and the building code. And then 80s, you were posh if you had an upstairs-downstairs, especially if there was a rumpus room. Oh, my God, friends with rumpus rooms. We went to someone's house once. They moved to town from the country. That was a big thing to move to town. They got off the farm. They had with rumpus rooms. Yeah, we went to someone's house once. They moved to town from the country. That was a big thing to move to town.

They got off the farm. They had a rumpus room. And then the house they moved to had a rumpus room. Outrageous. The first time I went there, he's like, oh, should we go to the rumpus room? I was like, I beg your pardon? There's always a beanbag in there.

There's more things to clean. Yeah, no, it's just another room. TV, toys everywhere. It was pretty rad. Number three on the list of my favourite top six ways to say no is school holiday special. Yeah, nah. Give them a the list of my favourite top six ways to say no, a school holiday special. Yeah, nah. Give them a false bit of hope.

Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. You're really hitting the... Has he ever said... Nah. Number two on the list of the top six ways to say no, a school holiday special.

This was going to be in your haul, but I thought of another one. Oh, great. Maybe later. Maybe later. No, but you're one. Oh, great. Maybe later. Maybe later. Oh, no, but that's just, you're just delaying a problem. Maybe later. And then if they ask again later,

it's like, hey, look, maybe later. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe. Maybe next week. Maybe before you go back to school. No. It's just kicking the can down the road. It is.

Of the old no. And number one on the list of the, my top six favourite ways to say no a school holiday special. No. No. Really spell it out with a pronounced. It's a real sarcastic. It would really annoy me.

Yeah. No. Is it the SpongeBob meme? Where he's like, his lips are out and his tongue flicks down halfway through. No. It's like a drag it out. Really? No, you're serious. Yeah. No. It's like a drag it out. Really? No, you're serious.

Yeah. That is today's Subsex. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Hayley's Horny Book Club. Well, it continues. The reign of smut continues and I have been indulging. God, I've read a lot overseas.

Over your holidays? Did you read a lot? Read a lot. Listened to a lot. Strange to listen to on the plane, plane i'll say that yeah i've been diving into a new book by a new zealand author which is so exciting because lots of them are american we're yeah we're chatting to her now katherine robertson good morning hello hello now katherine you are not because a lot of smart writers exclusively write this. You've got two books, Corkscrew You and You're So Vine. This is your first dipping of a toe into the world of,

I won't call it smart, but like erotica. People do self-identify as smart authors, but some people are just erotic literature authors. Is that right, Catherine, that this is your first time? It is my first time. And I have to say that New Zealand has a huge amount of successful international romance writers.

So I'm very much a rank amateur in this space at the moment. On the coattails of many. We're talking 60 to 80 incredibly successful romance writers in New Zealand. I know, I always feel so proud of them when they pop up in my smut catalogue.

So you actually have written like normal fiction novels and whatnot, I call them normal and you've also written kids books before. Well, I've written one kids book, Pearl in a Whirl, which came out last year to raise money for

the Hawke's Bay floods, of course in my area. Love this. When did your brain, Catherine, cross to the dark side? It's been crossing to the dark side since 2008. It's a long time, I know. I met a friend through a professional setting. Noticed she had this pink lanyard that said Romance Writers of New Zealand and said, what the heck is that, man?

And she took me to the first Romance Writers of New Zealand and said, what the heck is that, man? And she took me to the first Romance Writers Conference and I've stayed on the outskirts of that until now. What happens at a New Zealand Writers Romance Conference? A Romance Writers Conference. It's where all the incredibly successful, I mean, honestly, like I think Romance Writers of New Zealand has about 400 members at the moment. Wow.

And they include multi-million selling authors like Nalini Singh and like Soraya Lane, right down to the newbies who are just trying to get into the whole thing. So there's the whole gamut of it. I want to be invited. Yeah, the question I always have when I'm reading or listening to an erotic novel is, is the author creating their fantasy? Because if I was to write a book, I've never written a book in my life, don't worry, I'm not coming for you, Catherine.

But if I was to write a book of this nature, I would only be able to write what's in, you know, the deepest, darkest cockles of my desires. Is that where you get your inspiration from? I think, you know, it's a weird thing. People say, write what you know. And romance is so character driven that you have to get inside the head. So to qualify as a romance, the story has to be primarily about the couple and their relationship. And it also has to have a happy ending.

But within that, I mean, your hero and heroine could be not even human, you know? Oh, I know. Yes, I've told the boys about all sorts of beasts. Centaurs and, yeah. Well, because the scene in particular, because I've been reading Corkscrew, you're loving it. There's two things I love, smart and wine. And this is set in a winery.

There's a scene in particular that I want to know. I mean, feel free to tell me. I'm not telling you, Hayley. If this came from you or just your imagination, it involves a pie. Oh, yeah. With cream on top that is taken from the kitchen to the boudoir. Oh, no.

I'm so glad that this is on the radio and you can't see me, because I'm, like, really pink right now. Or is this something that we have experienced in real life? I think, you know, sex and food can be a good combination. Like, I really hate nine and a half weeks as a movie, but the concept of food and sex, they're heavily aligned, I feel. Like, I've eaten too much food,

there's no way I could have sex, sort of. That's how it aligns for Vaughan. Yeah. That's how it aligns for Vaughan. The only thing is, like, when I read this, if my head for a second goes out of the scene, I'm thinking, like, what are we doing with the sheets? Now we've got cream in the sheets.

Yeah, now we've got to wash the sheets. We're not sleeping amongst the pie, are we? No, well, we're hoping the pie gets, everything's going to sound like a double entendre, but we're hoping the pie gets just entirely eaten. Right, yeah. That's why I like to get a waste of pie. I get hotel

rooms with two beds in them and one bed's for that. He does do that. One bed's for rompty-pumpties and one's for eating. Which one do you sleep in? Just whichever one is less messy at the end of the whole ordeal. Yep. Okay, gotcha. Makes a perfect amount of sense. Catherine,

now that you, were you inspired to set these in a winery because you're from beautiful Hawke's Bay? Fundamentally, yes, and also because I wanted to set them in America because America is such a big market for contemporary rom-com. And I used to live in Marin County just across the bridge from San Francisco. And so if you go up the line, you've got Napa and Sonoma counties where this is set, fictional town in it.

But I'm also like right now sitting at my desk and looking out over vineyards. I'm surrounded by, I've got Elephant Hill, Clearview and Te Awanga Vineyard. Oh God, what a place. I think your next romance novel should be set in Taradale. I was just going to say this. I would love for your next, you've clearly got a knack for it. The books are great. I would love for you to set the next one in New Zealand.

Flaxmere? Flaxmere. Look, hey, don't diss the flax. There's a lot going on on the flax. It's awesome. What about two employees who fall in love when working at Splash Planet? Splash Planet, oh, yeah.

For a real local. With a code brown. Yeah. I'm going to bring you to go like a code brown. You'd have to put that in the content warning at the beginning, I think. Well, Catherine, I wish you all the best of luck with both the books, Corkscrew You and You're So Vime

by Catherine Robertson. They're out now, and I'm absolutely loving them, and I can't wait for your Splash Planet set in New Zealand next book. Thanks so much. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Play ZM. You know the boot camps, the ratbags and the rascals and the renegades and the, anybody else got another R word to describe?

This was ragamuffins. Ragamuffins. This was a promise by National leading up to the election. Nothing gets boomers harder than the promise of a boot camp. Fully erect at the thought of military service. They are full masked. Even though they never did compulsory military service. They were born after the Even though they've never, they never did compulsory military service. They were born after the war.

Their father never talked about it. Their father was a stoic, silent man who drank too much and beat them because he didn't know how to communicate because of his time at the war. But they loved the thought

of getting these little shit bags, rounding them up, getting them together and chuck them in prison, junior. But it's shown, like, it doesn't work.

Like, other countries have tried this and it costs a lot of money. In fact, you are just training shitbags to be better at being shitbags. Totally. Totally. You're just making them angry. You're just making them angrier. But it's happening.

And we grow angry men. Bootcamp mentors are a, they're going to be like running the place. What are their qualifications? So, as I said, they must meet certain specifications. They need a suitably qualified and experienced youth worker, professional mentor or coach. There's qualifications through the New Zealand Certificate in Youth Work. I'm just making sure, you know,

it's not just sort of a bunch of dudes that think they know. Yeah. Both the Andrew Tate skin in there and and bringing the next generation of horrendous men. But it's come out how much it's going to cost per offender. Boot camp mentors alone. Mentors alone. $100,000 per teen. Sorry?

That's just for the mentors. What salary are we doing for this thing? I'll mentor a naughty kid. Well, you do five at once. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah, but then I'll get, so yeah, that's, it's a ton of cash. Wait, so it's, okay. I mean, the only thing that gets, the only thing that will kill a boomer hard-on for a boot camp

is that they might possibly have to pay a bit of tax for it. Yeah, right. That they would possibly have to pay for it. That's the salary or what it costs for one kid in the program. The pilot will cost approximately $5.1 million. This kicks off at the end of the month, by the way. It's starting. I thought we were just going to think that was an election thing

and we weren't actually going to do it. No, no, it starts at the end of the month. 10 boys aged between 15 and 18. Yeah. $5.1 million for the pilot program. Two options for how the mentor service would be funded. The first option is a fixed, all-inclusive $100,000 per

young person. This includes staffing, ordinary travel overheads on costs such as KiwiSaver and ACC and any other costs for the chosen provider to deliver the service. Option two is a variable cost as proposed by the provider made up of an hourly to deliver the service. Right. Option two is a variable cost as proposed by the provider made up of an hourly rate that the mentor will receive,

capped monthly hours. They're going to be putting it over there. If, here's an idea. If you were, say you were 16 and you ram rated dairy and they caught you and they said, okay, if you're really good for the next year, we'll give you $100,000.

No, make it more than one year. Okay, if you're really good for three years year, we'll give you $100,000. No, make it more than one year. Okay, if you're really good for three years. Until you're 20. Until you're 20. What about until you're 20, we'll give you $100,000. Until you're 20, we'll give you $100,000. Would you do it? Hell yes.

And they have to meet criteria along the way. Yeah, like a bit of community work. Yep, yep, yep. A bit of volunteering hours. A bit like you're on probation, right? Like you've got to check in. You can't break the law. Or we'll send you to shit camp.

That's the option. It's not going to be fun. Oh my God. I mean, that's cheaper. That's way cheaper. I would do that. $100,000. But then do you think, here's my devil's avocado.

Yeah, it's Advocate, I think. No, it's not. Are you sure? A smashed Advocate. Okay, devil's smashed Advocate. Yeah, with eggs. With, it's not. A smashed advocate. Okay, devil's smashed advocate. With eggs. With eggs. And an extra egg for protein.

Oh, of course, always go an extra egg. And halloumi. $4 for an extra egg? This economy is out of control. I know. I thought inflation was coming down. It's bizarre. But what if you'd be like,

well, I'm never going to make $100,000 before I turn 20. Yeah. I'll ram raid when I'm 15 just to get into the program. Oh, so you're saying it would encourage... I'm'm a good kid but I'm a bit of an entrepreneur I would encourage entrepreneurial investors that's a good thought there actually

my total income before I was 20 was $100,000 no hell no and I was pretty good that would have taken years and years and years cumulatively to do that so someone like you would then ram-ray. Even a good boy.

I'm not going to drive. I'm probably not even going to be in the car. I'll just be like waiting and then there's a ram-ray and I'll just be standing there. I'll be like, oh boy. It was me. Shucks, I'm a naughty. It was me.

I just wanted some dairies. Yeah, yeah. You know me. I love my dairies. I'd love 100,000. Sign me up for that program And then four years later I got 100,000

Because I'm a good kid I'm going along I'm singing to the grandparents So can I do the math here? You said there's 10 boys In the first camp Yep And at $100,000 age

That's a million dollars Well the pilot is also costing 5.1 million dollars So there's more. Yeah, that doesn't seem worth it, does it? All right, just give them a smack. What about give them a smack and then just give us some money? They probably might have had a smack and that's why.

They've never met. Put it into Lotto. Put it into Lotto this weekend. Oh my God, did Lotto go? I don't know. Did it go? Someone just messaged in saying they are asking for voluntary redundancies in the military. Yeah, and also the police as well.

And the police, yeah. Is it the non-sworn members of the police are being asked if you guys want to chuck in a redundancy? Which seems crazy because they're trying to get more police people. But don't want to pay them. Yeah. No, it's $20 million. It didn't go. But they could put that $5 million and make Lotto $25 million. That'd be fun. Yeah, that'd pay them. Yeah. No, it's $20 million. It didn't go. But they could put that $5 million and make Lotto $25.

That'd be fun. Yeah, that'd be tasty. Yeah. And then just give the Ray Marators a smack on the ass or something. Yeah, I think a clip around the ears. A clip around the ears. A little snap of the bout, clip around the ears. Sort them out.

Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Now, Shannon, you have bought a new viral Kmart Sensaceum Oh yeah I've been influenced I've seen these around for a while and I've always thought when I've seen them, how does that work? Yeah I was quite

sceptical until I saw a bunch of TikToks of people using it and raving about it so I had to buy it for myself So it is the Toasty Maker Microwave Maker Toasty Machine it and raving about it so I had to buy it for myself so it is the toasty maker microwave make a toasty machine that's the official name yeah yeah that's full time is that the one on the website yeah so how much was it so it's $19 I got the cute pink one okay um yeah it was funny my boyfriend saw it and he's like that's interesting they only made pink and I was like oh no I I

picked the pink like right we could have got it black but so for the it's like it and he's like, that's interesting they only made pink. And I was like, oh no, I picked the pink. We could have got it black. So it's like a single sandwich bag. It's silicone on the outside but there's hot plates in the middle. Yes, they're removable. But you microwave it with... The metal plates

are... Because that's what's weird to me. Metal doesn't go in microwaves. Well, I've got a microwave that you can put metal in. And it's also got a grill feature. Oh, wow. And it's inbuilt into the kitchen. However, we've been raised to believe you don't put metal in a microwave or it'll explode. Yeah, it freaked me out.

But it's very clearly on the instructions. There are a few, like, caveats. You can't put it in the microwave without food. I think it'll explode. Okay. I didn't say the word explode, but that's what I took from it. Right. But I tried it yesterday, and it is the greatest product I've ever used.

Because what's bizarre and what blew me away is that the toasted sandwich comes out like it's been grilled and toasted, but it hasn't. It's been microwaved. It's crispy. Like, I ran my knife along it, and it's like. But what do you mean it's crispy? I know you can make crispy bacon in the microwave. Because the hot plate makes it crispy.

Yeah. Just like it does a toasted sandwich. And there's no oil pooling or anything like that because I use butter on the outside. I've even bought it to work. Have some respect for the sandwich. This is my new thing. Because it's now its own transport case as well. So I just made the toasty at home last night,

put it in the fridge, chucked it in my bag this morning, and I'm going to microwave it here. You can have a toasted sandwich for lunch. A toasted sandwich. Yeah, and it takes three minutes. You should put mayonnaise on the outside. Yeah, I put mayo.

Instead of butter. I put butter. It's real noughts. I make mine in a pan like a grown-up. Do you know what I mean? Not an impress. And so you put butter in the pan and then you put mayonnaise on the outside of the sandwich.

It's double. And then a stent in your aorta. But for like a quickie lunch where you're not going to get a pan out and all the bells and whistles. There's a toasty press at work, but I don't want to catch something, you know? That's a George Foreman grill.

No, it's a panini press. Yeah, it's a George Foreman. I've used it's a panini press. That's a George Foreman. I've used it. It's definitely got some STIs. Yeah, so good. I used to use it. I think they just got a new one. Didn't they just recently get a new one here because there's a sign that says to make this

one last longer, please wipe it down. And I'm like, what a wasted sign. No one's going to do that just because of signs. I always wiped it down when I used it. Yeah, but you're a good human. Thank you. And I'm cute. But yeah, this one's dishwasher safe.

So I chucked it in the dishwasher yesterday and it came out beautiful. And it works. So well. I will say to put it in the dishwasher, it's best to separate the two, like the plate from the silicone because it kind of filled up with water and it can have to be. But that's kind of used the air. I think that's common sense.

Yeah, that's just you being a dum-dum. Yeah, I think so. But how yum. This is my new life. What's in your toasty, more importantly? Well, listen, we just got stuff from the dairy because we don't have food at the moment. Yeah, I love a dairy toasty.

Yeah, so it's just salami and cheese. Yeah, beautiful. Just simple. Why don't you? You're underselling it. There's nothing wrong with a salami and cheese toasty. I was happy with salami and cheese. I was just prepared for a roasting.

No, no, no, no. I put some red onion in there myself. Would you pre-cook the red onion? No, I raw dog it. put some red onion in there myself. Would you pre-cook the red onion? No, I raw dog it. Raw dog the red onion. Yum. I might pre-cook a white onion. Uh-huh.

Red, I'll always raw dog. Raw dog it. Yeah, yum. For the crunch. For the bitter sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you would give this five stars? Like 10 stars out of five.

Okay. This is the greatest product I've ever used. Would it hold spaghetti? Yes. Yeah. That's a big test. In case spaghetti? There's a clip on each side and it kind of compresses it,

so it does that nice thing where it seals the edge. Seals the outside. Yeah, that's the only problem with the pan. Yeah. When I go to flip, oh, God, just like... Slubby. Good luck to us all. Yeah, so I definitely filled it quite lightly yesterday,

but I reckon it would hold a good amount. We're going to do spaghetti soon. We're doing another dairy run. Oh, my God. I want a toastie. You know there are, like, these places that are bigger than dairies? No, look... We're going to do spaghetti soon. We're doing another dairy run. Oh, yum. I want a toast egg. You know there are like these places that are bigger than dairies. They're huge. And often cheaper.

And often cheaper. No, our dairy's cheap. And they've got heaps of the food that's in the dairy, but it's bigger. Well, because our dairy's on the back of City Mission, so it's real cheap. Right. So hang on. So you're cashing in on homelessness? No, no.

You walk in there in your pyjamas and your McDonald's Crocs. Yeah. 12.30 and they're like, shit, give her the discount. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little poe. Silly little poe.

It is so silly, silly, silly. That silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. Would you be okay with phone bands at concerts? Yes. 76% of people agree with you. They would be okay. Yes. It's so amazing when you look at footage of concerts, you know, by like old school bands.

Yep. And there's so less cell phones. I can't, I don't know how to do English. English. When you look at it like it's like the Eagles or the Rolling Stones or something doing a concert, there's way less phones. There's more iPads. Taylor Swift and all that.

There's a couple of iPads. Full brightness iPads. But it's definitely a generational thing that we're like, that our parents and us a little bit are more like live in the moment, see the concert.

I will say though, it is nice to have some videos of your favourite concerts and songs. Oh shit yeah, I've got them. And in the last few years, being able to do

that is a lot easier with your phone, because the phone technology is so much better. Yeah I know. It doesn't sound so muffled. But you do sort of go sometimes like get a couple of your favourite songs, your favourite moments and then just like put it away.

So Jack White, Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Madonna, Beyonce and Adele have all implemented phone bands at a lot of their concerts. Not all of them. A lot of them are using yonder pouches. Yeah. Which some of the schools in New Zealand have been buying for the phone bands. Oh, really? You put it in and it locks your phone

so you can't use it. You can't access it, but you can see it. But I think, how does it work that you'd still be able to, you'd still need your phone for emergencies? Especially at a concert, right? Yeah, I mean, I guess you could just go out and they could, because they've got those tags on them, like, you know, security tags when you're buying jeans

or clothes at a store, retail store. You just cut those off. Take them off with a magnet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get a hole in your jeans, but they were free. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

I saw this because Bob Dylan announced him yesterday that he was an old, senile bastard. I'd be like, who are you fucking? Oh, my God, I just swore. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I was doing a Bob Dylan impersonation and he swears. old senile bastard I'd be like who you fucking oh my god I just swore sorry sorry sorry sorry

I was doing a Bob Dylan impersonation and he swears but he would just be like put your phone away yeah he'd be over it he's still doing shows

yeah man he's 80 gotta pay the bills have you seen Timothy how many bills does Bob Dylan possibly have he's probably getting a thousand dollars

a fortnight from bloody super he'll be getting a little cut from Timothy Chalamet's new film. Oh, it's about him? He's playing him, yeah. 76% of people said yes.

24% of people said no. Whitney says, live in the moment, not through a screen. Oh, yeah. Look up. Put that on a horse. Look up, Whitney.

Guys, it's happening before you now. No one cares about your concert video, not even you. Be honest, you're not re-watching that from Gwyneth Paltrow. I love that she messages in every morning now. She regularly messages the show. Jack

says, oh my god, can you imagine asking Swifties not to be on their phones during the concert? I think most of them just went to the concert, so they had a video of them at the concert. Yeah, what about, come on, Carmen, you went to like eight Taylor Swift shows. Would you have thought about not posting and being on your phone?

So, okay, I was lucky enough to go to two. Yeah. As good as eight. On the first night. Felt like eight. Thank you. On the first night, I was like, I'm going to take a couple little pics just to be like, this is the first night.

But then I didn't take anything else. The second night I was closer to the stage I took a little bit more I knew the concert by then I like used my digital camera

yeah right a digital camera you took a digital camera you took a digital it's a bougie digital camera oh yeah

I got some great photos are you pirating the concert and uploading it online shh wow okay okay Michael says my memory is shocking I love looking back at videos yeah there you go Pirating the concert and uploading it online. Wow. Wow, okay. Okay.

Michael says, my memory is shocking. I love looking back at videos. Yeah. There you go. Good on you, Michael. I just never watch them again. I'll upload to the stories and that's it. Lisa, who's a mum, she messaged her.

Not grumpy, Lisa. Okay. Mum Lisa. No, no, no. You've got to have your phone in case you lose your friends or need to locate your ride home. So there's a little bit of admin there. You need the ride home. Totally.

Anonymous Mail. I'm a nervous peer, and a phone is essential for using a public urinal. I need the mental distraction, otherwise I'll stand there forever with everyone watching me not peeing. The cues for the poop tournets are usually huge. I'm sure Jared would agree. Yeah, because Jared... So they'll be on their phone while they're peeing.

To distract them. Because you don't like using the urinals either, Producer Jared. You're a shy weir. I'm a shy weir, but I also don't like people thinking I'm taking a picture of my job. Of your diddle. Oh, yeah, drooping on your phone. Oh, yeah. So you'd unzip, and one hand you've got your thing, and then one hand you've got the phone.

And you're just looking at it to distract you. I'm pro phone during a poo. Very pro. Yeah, I know you are. But not during the wee. There's a couple of guys here at work that you'll walk into the bathroom and you'll be like, what's that noise?

And they're watching something while they're at the urinal. I'm like, what are you, put it away. You don't have five seconds? Yeah. But maybe it's a comfort thing. It helps them urinate. With no, put it away. You don't have five seconds? Yeah. But maybe it's a comfort thing. It helps him urinate. With no one else in there. Yeah, I don't know.

Maybe. Can't grow up. Would you watch a video of a waterfall? Because you know you hear water and it makes you pee. Oh yeah. Turn the tap on.

Yeah. That's also a good option. Ash said, yes, but we should be allowed times where we can record, take pictures for the memes. Yeah.

Thanks for the memories. So what everybody, you just get a little doot doot and then the bag goes and opens and that's your two minutes to get a couple of photos and then put it back in the bag before it shuts down again. That's silly little pop. Next. The new

shoe collaboration that's got me very excited. Perfect for winter. Yeah, these would be quite styling. Question mark. Question be quite Styling Question mark Question mark Styling Shout out to the show sponsor

McDonald's because boy they do a collaboration We last year received The McDonald's Crocs Yes the collab That I said for me not because they're McDonald's But because they're Crocs. Yes, the Colab. That I said for me, not because they're McDonald's, but because they're Crocs, would be garden only. Yeah.

And boy, oh boy, have I worn them to the supermarket on more than one occasion. You have, yeah. They are comfy. Anyway, so we all got different versions of those and they're very funny. And now, apparently this is a return. They've happened before.

Nug boots. No. McDonald's is collaborating with Ugg Boots, the famous sheepskin slippers, to make nug boots. And they're a pair of your stock standard basic B Ugg boots, but on them printed is like nugget texture.

That's just for you guys to look at so that they look like a lovely nugget. It's like the whole boot is a nugget rather than like hundreds of nuggets on the boot printed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One nugget. It has the skin of a fried nugget. I love it.

And so they're doing these now from today. So in Australia they're on sale? This is in Australia that you can buy them. No, they're free. Are they? You've just got to enter. So is in Australia that you can buy them. Now... No, they're free. Are they? You've just got to enter. So you buy nuggets and scan the QR code. Oh, it's like a prize.

A biggy party. You're right. There are 2,000 nug boots. That's so good. That's so good. Yeah. Oh, so it's like a little... What's it?

You can't buy them. Nah. They're like absolutely limited edition. And you've got to be able to win them. I run a hot foot. I can't wear a nug. What are you doing? I've tried, but the minute I put them in,

my feet start sweating profusely. I've never been a slippers guy. I just got some lovely, because we've got the wooden floors and they get so cold and a little bit slippery when we polish them too hard. Poor Raleigh, his back leg's like. But we've got, I got some sheepskin New Zealand made Yeah

Slippers recently But I wouldn't say no To a pair of nug boots I'm just putting that out there Just the name I'm just putting my nug boots on I'm just putting it out there That a pair of nug boots

Might go quite nicely Would you go to the supermarket In nug boots? As long as their sole Hadn't worn out On one side specifically Yeah If you've got a wonky ug

You can get those resold I've got a cobbler I've got a cobbler too. You can get those resold. I've got a cobbler. I've got a cobbler too. Yeah, I've got a cobbler. No, I'm happy with my cobbler. Your cobbler, it's embarrassing. No, mine,

he's inside the warehouse. I know. There's nothing embarrassing about a cobbler inside another establishment. It's like saying the cafe inside the Miner 10 is embarrassing.

It is not. It's just, you can go and get a sandwich. It's a little bit. It's a little bit. It's embarrassing. It's a cobbler in the warehouse. It's a little embarrassing. It's a little embarrassing. It's a cobbler in the warehouse. It's a little embarrassing.

My cobbler redid my Birkenstocks. And they looked as new. And that's not easy because that's like cork and rubber and everything. I've got a great cobbler. My cobbler specialises in marching boots as well. He's a specialised cobbler. You know what that says to me? Expensive.

Yeah, I love that. He's a specialised cobbler. You get what you pay for. He'll engrave things. He'll cut your key. I feel like we should get our cobblers in studio. For a cobble off. Specialised cobbler. You get what you pay for. You'll engrave things, you'll pick your key. I feel like we should get our cobblers in studio. For a cobble-off. For a cobble-off. A great Kiwi cobble-off. And we'll all bring in a broken shoe. And you re-sole it.

No, it'd have to be the same shoe. We'd have to get that shoe scientifically broken. And they'd need to be in their own cobble shop. These cobblers are going crazy on TikTok and Instagram reels. Oh, I love watching a reselling of like an old boot. There should be a TV show on cobblers because people would watch it.

Cobble Street. It would be like the repair shop meets old Ugg boots or Birkenstock. I think it would have run for a whole series. What about the Great Kiwi kiosk off? And every week is a different kiosk competing against another kiosk. So we've got Mr. Minutes. We've got cobblers, we've got engravers,

we've got calendar people, that would be the Christmas special. Yeah, okay. We've got the people that import those lamps from Turkey. Yes. Cell phone cases.

Yes. The cell phone cases people. The sock people. Those weird mineral facial things. Oh, you're talking Dead Sea Salt? Yeah.

They've quietened down. I feel we've moved away from the cobbler. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. We'd have to be specific with who was involved in this great Kiwi kiosk.

Well, if you're heading to Aussie or you're listening to the podcast from Australia, Nug Boots. Nug Boots. You can buy Nugs,

scan the QR code, you've got an internet. I think we should reach out to show sponsor and see if these are in New Zealand because... I think we should have reached out to show sponsor and got some nugs because now we've been talking about nugs and I don't have any nugs. And I'm so hungry.

Yeah. And I've got cold feet. I've got no nuggets, I've got no nug boots. This is a sad day. The Olympics are happening this next weekend Yeah

Is that just the Olympic ceremony? Yeah the opening ceremony Do some things still happen? Maybe it's weird some things happen before the opening ceremony Like on the day of

they always do the opening ceremony at night but sometimes they're like we're going to do a couple of things I don't know do they? Because haven't they done they've done the torch ceremony, haven't they?

It's still going. It's always in the lead up to the Olympics it kind of travels around, doesn't it? Okay. Does it go from the last Olympics? Is that how it works? It travels from the last Olympics to this Olympics? It crosses across the world to

the new one. And then they always find a way of lighting the torch. My favourite's the archery. Yes. When the thing, the big gob. Yeah, it was. Why are you going to ruin my life? Why are you going to do that? They had a barbecue lighter, an igniter.

They missed because I was always like, how did they do it? Was that Sydney Olympics? Or was that the Muhammad Ali? I can't remember. Can't remember. Can't remember. Yeah, it missed anyway. Yeah, shucks.

Well, we've got a few. That sucks. That's really crushed my dreams of becoming an archer at the Olympics and lighting the final torch. We've got lots of Kiwis heading over. Good luck to them. Good morning to our Olympic listeners. And it's been revealed they're day jobs because not all athletes

are full-time athletes with a full-time salary. They've got hustles. Do you remember growing up when all the All Blacks just had day jobs? Yeah, they had to. They were all sheep farmers. Their training was just tackling sheep and sharing them heaps. That's pretty good. Okay, we've got Sam Dakin.

He's a cyclist. Yeah. God, Svelte. Good quads. Great quads. Great upper body as well. And the heir to the heat pump fortune. Is he?

He started coffee roasters. Which is silly because he's fast. He should have called it fast. Tom Walsh, who is our big shop port dude. He's a bit of me. He is

Oh, he lives in Timaru. Hang on. I thought that he. Personal construction. Oh, he works like, yeah, he's a manager of a personal construction company. I would have thought he wouldn't have had a job because he seems to be constantly doing it, like world champs, world events. Oh, yeah, right.

He's always in the news for his, now he's popping off to bloody. Works in construction. Okay. Now, here, right. He's always in the news for his, now he's popping off to bloody. Works in construction. Okay. Now, here's a great one. Robbie Manson, who is a rower. Yeah. Only fans.

He's got an only fans. He's got an only fans. Good for him. And I tell you what, maybe I'm getting an only fans account. Do you think that, right,

what would your thing be? I don't really know how only fans works because I've gone on the web, because it's not an app and you go on the website and you can't find people. No. It's works. Because I've gone on the website. Because it's not an app. And you go on the website. Is it on an app? And you can't find people. No.

It's weird. It's like a real messy website. Have you done some research here? Yeah, I have. Are you thinking feet will be? You're going feet, aren't you? I was looking into things. Yeah.

And I thought it was an app. Not an app. It's a website. And it's a shambles of a website. Is this Robbie Manson? Robbie Manson. What does he do? Is he a diver?

He's a rower. He's a rower. He's a rower. Yeah, he's got an OnlyFans. Ava Morris, who is... He's a homosexual. Good on him. I was looking at his body, I'm like, what lucky lady. Right.

See, this feels like it. Halibut. This works. Ava Morris, who is an artistic swimmer. Wait, do you have the link for the OnlyFans? I've found it already. Yeah, don't worry. You've found it already. Subscribe. Robbie't worry. You've found it already.

Subscribe. Robbie Manson, OnlyFans. That'll pull that right up. I'm subscribing only to support his Olympic journey. Okay, you're good. Obviously. I'll give him some gold if he returns some gold. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, right. Beautiful. Eva Morris who is an artistic swimmer. Yeah. So like, you know. Synchronised. Well, it looks like she's solo. Oh no, yeah, she does a bit of synchro

as well. I hate when they're practising when I'm swimming. They're always tinking away and playing music. Are they practising in the pool? Because you can't hear the music when you're underwater. Yeah, they synchronise their swimming and you just hear tinks and little music and you're just like. Oh my god. Well, she teaches reformer Pilates.

Now that sort of makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. Very stretchy. Oh, we've got a Sparky. Now, that's hot. Curtis M. Emery. I'm butchering these names. Okay.

Means canoeing. Okay. He is a Sparky. Sparky by day. Yeah. Canoeist in spare time. Do we say canoeist? I believe so.

Canoeer. Canoeer. No, it's canoeist. Canoeist. Site projecter. No, it's canoeist. Canoeist. Site project manager, James Preston. He's one of our runners. Okay. Hazel Vanessa. Oh,

hand. Okay. That's how she likes it said. Yeah. Oh, her hand. Swimmer. She's a senior accountant. Oh, okay. It's so strange to think of these like absolute elite athletes and then popping in to do some accounts. Then she'll be swimming and then she just does that kick thing

and she does the twist and she's heading back. She's like, shit, I actually forgot to file that business's GST. I better get out of the pool. Yeah. Get that sorted. It's what makes her race so fast. Yeah. Getting back to the office to file. Getting back to the office to file.

Get back to the office to file GST. Otherwise, someone's going to get an incursion penalty. You know, just reading this article, I haven't done my taxes. I just realised. Right. And also, no media people on that list. Nah. Lazy.

All lazy. Yeah, we just, we literally plonk our butts down and do this. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. That's us. And it's not very athletic, is it? No. Shannon just said you can't call it synchronised swimming anymore. Why?

Why not? Is it synchro? Sounds like some PC madness to me. Why is it not called synchronised swimming? You can get cancelled for calling it that now. I saw it on TikTok. It's artistic swimming. I don't know, like, the law of why not.

They changed it. Yeah, they changed it. So don't say the other one. Don't say the other one. Long known as synchronised swimming. I'm brave. I law of why not. They changed it. Yeah, they changed it. So don't say the other one. Don't say the other one. Long known as synchronized swimming. I'm brave. I'm a brave patriot. I'm a brave patriot.

I'm going to say it. It is cool. It's cancelled. Synchronized swimming. Okay. The sport re-mandated itself after the 2016 Rio Olympics. Most swimmers were opposed to the change, but the world governing body, FINA,

said the new name would better illustrate what the sport is about and hopefully lead to greater popularity. Well, I don't think that doesn't sound like it's racist. It's less about the swimming and it's more about the artistic side of it. Yeah, I think some people were offended and I think you're being patronising by calling it synchronised.

So what did they used to call it? Synchronised swimming. No, get her to say it so we can cancel her. They used to do it in time with each other. But now it's about the other way. You're describing synchronised swimming cancelled. Well, you just said it. Cancelled. Cancelled. Men weren't...

It wasn't a male sport. Males didn't do it. So now artistic is more open as well. I think that's also why it got cancelled. And the World Aquatics Championships will now allow men to participate. The woman was previously an artist. Synchronised swimming. Gotcha.

Stop it. Done. Everyone's cancelled. We're going to be off air in minutes with everyone getting cancelled at this rate. Well, good luck to our New Zealand Olympians. Cannot wait to see you all. And the synchronised swimmers. Especially our synchronised swimmers.

Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. olympians especially our synchronized swimmers we want to ask now and take some calls of times when kids have been mean to you as an adult like a little kid just maybe said something so mean you were just like yeah they've got no filter you know what i'll say it and this is just coming to me now. Kids say the darndest things. What an interesting term. Thank you. Almost could be a TV show, couldn't it? Get children together and get them to test them by asking them questions that are a leading question and then see if they do indeed say the darndest things.

Okay. We'll sell that idea. Already had a message in just from the T's. Yeah. As an oral health therapist, they used to call us a dental nurse. Cancelled. Cancelled. Gone.

And so she was probably a synchronised swimming dental nurse. Probably. And an ear stewardess before that. Yeah. I can confirm when confident children are scared, they're ruthless. Oh, really? Oh, okay. I can see it.

Your nose, you've got a hairy nose. I've definitely had a kid point out my mustache before. Did you, like... Yeah, smack them. No, I didn't. I was just like, oh, some women, get out of here. But kids can be ruthless. It is, it's ruthless.

Because they just don't know. They just don't know. The reason we talk about this is President Joe Biden was giving an interview just about the political rhetoric. No. Repercussions. Rhetoric. Oh, rhetoric.

Political rhetoric that is happening at the moment in America. It's very divisive. People are very angry. And he said he can never remember a time when he would be driving through America, like a rural country area, and people have big Trump signs that say F Biden. And he said there was one little kid holding one of these signs that said F Biden, ripping the middle finger as he drove past. Now, yours telling this story with quite a nice sense of flow.

I'm sure when Biden told the story, it took a bit more time. Maybe took twice as long. I don't know. But yeah. I love that. Kids are brutal, man. When a kid was brutal to you, and this is what we want to ask this morning.

Already a couple of messages coming in. So many. 0800 dials at Emma's number. Give us a call. Oh my God, this is so good. Just one to kick us off. I'm an early childhood teacher, and just last week a four-year-old boy said to me,

Emma, being a teacher is embarrassing. Noseless. Last week, a four-year-old boy said to me, Emma, being a teacher is embarrassing. Roseless. Emma, being a teacher is embarrassing. Being a dum-dum is more embarrassing than a little shit. Now get out of here. Okay, 0800DANCE. Call us now. Text through 9696.

We want to know when a kid was real mean to you. Talking about the mean things that kids have said to you. When have kids been mean? Kids are ripping the fingers at the President of the USA and he's like, this is pretty wild. Some messages in. When I worked in an emergency department, a three-year-old told me to F off.

A three-year-old? I'm like, I just want to help. There's an injection for that, isn't there? Yeah, there is. I walked past a primary school on the way to uni and a little curly-haired kid said to me, you're going to work for me one day and pointed right at me. Absolutely ruined my day and I had no response.

Oh, my God. That would ruin you. Yeah. Who's raising these kids? Carisha, good morning. What did a small kid say to you? So I was working as an oral health therapist. Yeah.

And when I first started at the school, I wasn't pregnant yet. Yeah. So obviously I didn't have a bump. And one day I was just, yeah, so I was further along in my pregnancy and I grabbed a kid ready to go to the dental clinic. And she goes to me,

Miss, are you pregnant? And I was like, yeah, how could you tell? She was like, well, you've gotten really fat. Oh, for God's sake. And I was like, yeah, how could you tell? She was like, well, you've got it really fat. Oh, for God's sake. And I was like, thanks. Thank you. Oh, God. I thought you were going to say they said, miss, are you pregnant and you weren't.

So at least you were. Yeah, that's very true. At least you were pregnant. There's no filter on these kids, is there? No. Actually, that would be a good device. A kid filter. A kid filter. A kid filter.

Thanks, Carisha. Michelle, when was a kid real mean to you? I was dropping my daughter off at kindy when she was three, and I had really, really long hair right down to the middle of my back. Oh. And the kids weren't allowed to style each other's hair because of the knit transfer issues. Oh, yeah.

They said to me, can we do your hair? Can we do your hair? And I said, you're right. So for an hour I sat there. I was poked and prodded. And they used pipe cleaners and clips and ties and stuff. And when they were finished, I put my hands under my chin and tilted my head to the side and spun her in.

And I said, how do I look? And this little boy looked at me in the eyes and he goes, oh, you're still a little bit fat. Oh, no, Michelle. Oh, my God. Cheers. Cheers, Michelle. Oh, my God. Cheers. Cheers, bro. You little shit.

Meet you at the sandpit. Boom, boom, boom. Oh, no. What did you even say to that? I just said, well, you're not wrong. Oh, no, Michelle. He wasn't wrong, but my hair did look bloody spectacular. Oh, I bet it did.

I bet, I bet. Amazing. I love a pipe cleaner in the hair. Michelle, thank you. Some more messages. When I worked as an after-school carer, we did a school holiday program. We took the kids to all these famous playgrounds around Auckland. It was a great day.

We went to all the best playgrounds. Yeah. And then it was one of those things where you sit on it and somebody else spins you. Yeah, I love that. And a kid was sitting on it. I spun him on it and somebody else spins you. Yeah, I love that. And a kid was sitting on it. I spun him for a while. I said, my turn, your turn to push me. And he said, I can't push you.

You're far too fat. What? Okay, everyone's getting fat shamed by these kids. They have to be hearing it from somewhere, don't they? Oh, they have to be. Asking you about the times when kids were really mean to you. President Biden has spoken about how divisive America is at the moment, divided. He said he's never in all of his political career

seen little kids holding F Biden signs, ripping the fingers. Yep. Yep. That kid's going to grow up to be such a cool kid as well. Such a cool man. Such a great person. Some Instagram responses.

My son upset me greatly one day after getting dressed. I walked past the lounge and heard, nah, try again. Oh, my God. What attitude. I was staying at a mate's place and her niece said, my auntie is so much prettier than you. What? I was camping and a kid came past my tent and said,

cool tent, shame it's so small. Oh, we've got so many. You know what's sad is when people have changed their appearance. Oh, there's a few of them. The way they do things because of something a tiny kid said. One of my year nine students, granted they said it quietly, asked me. By the way, year nine is a 13-year-old. Oh, they should know better.

Do you know one of your ears sticks out more than the other? None of your business, 13-year-old teenager. Well, I do now. R.I.P. Ponytails. Head out of school all the time now. No. Yeah.

That makes me sad. My six-year-old son said, can you walk me to class today, Mum? I said, yeah, but why today and why not other days? And he said, well, you've got makeup on and you've tried to look pretty for once. Little shit. Oh my, grounded. Oh my God. My friend who works at a GP clinic was explaining to a kid in the waiting room that there was going to be a little bit of a wait due to an emergency. Someone had been badly

hurt and they were going to have to deal with the emergency and the kid apparently went, wamp wamp. Wamp wamp. a lack of empathy. We've said it multiple times this morning actually. My mother is very very short. Yesterday I was dropping my kids at her house

and my two year old asked who would be looking after them. I said, Nana's going to be looking after you. She said, it needs to be someone tall. Oh, Nanny. Nana's not tall enough to be an adult. I was walking down the street with my four-year-old daughter and a big guy was walking towards us and she said to me quite loudly, Dad, that is a big fat man.

Oh, no. And he looked at me like it was my fault. I didn't say it. You've got a problem talking to the four-year-old. I used to teach Saturday morning music classes one morning in my 20s. I was a uni student, incredibly hungover. One kid looked at me and said, crikey, you look ugly today. But the following week he said he'd riddle that by now.

So he kind of won me over again. Okay. Well, that's terrible. It's like when people say to women, what's wrong with your face? Are you okay? And you're like, no, I just don't have any makeup on today. This is just my raw face. Are you sure? Are you an? And you're like, no, I just don't have any makeup on today This is just my raw face Are you a name it? Yeah, you look terrible

Or did you get no sleep last night? No, it's just my face I was dropping my kids off at an early childhood centre that they go to and one of the dads of another kid was there and he's got a beard and my daughter said, your dad's face looks like my mum's fanny.

Go mum, you know. Yeah. A small child that I had never met before in a store asked me once if I'd consider getting my teeth fixed. Oh my God. Once we were shopping in the warehouse. This is a while ago. There was an ad on TV. It was an ad for a Hilux. And my little brother loved it.

He was hanging off the side of the trolley going through the warehouse. And there was a person in the middle, quite a large person. Yeah. It was going to be impossible to get around either side in the warehouse aisle. And my little brother hanging off the side of the trolley, yelled out, out of the way, sheep shagger, because he'd seen it on the ad. Oh my God, that's so good.

So upset. I'm an early childhood teacher. One child would laugh whenever they saw me and say, you've got a fat tummy. Got to the point where I was avoiding this child like a school bully and ended up getting gastric bypass surgery. A kid once asked me what that was on my face.

I said, it's a mole, aka a beauty spot. She said, well, I'm sorry, but that's ugly. I said, well, some people pay a lot of money for beauty spots like this. And she said, nah, get rid of it. So I had to hold myself back from telling a seven-year-old that her fringe was ugly and didn't suit her face. I was visiting my sister's class of six and seven-year-olds.

I dyed my hair red. And a kid came up to me and said, you've got dyed hair. I thought I smelled chemicals as soon as you walked into this room. Jesus. My son asked his great-grandma, why does your neck look like a chicken's?

My daughter was looking in the mirror at herself and said, I'm looking at my boobies and they're like, mums and her sister said to her, no way mums are way longer than yours Now, longer longer's no way to describe boobies You know that I am always

stuffing my algorithm on Instagram constantly, it's like Christian content and then like yesterday it was nothing but travel stuff You know that I am always stuffing my algorithm on Instagram constantly. It's like Christian content. And then like yesterday was nothing but travel stuff. And I was like, leave me alone. Well, you've been traveling. Now it's rubbing it in your face. I know.

It's like, take me back. The one thing I've absolutely had enough of is the one second reel trend. And it's people post a one second video as a reel so that when you watch it you don't realize it's just ticking over view views views views and it's how people get more views and and hence more money more into the algorithm they get more exposure more money and you don't even realize until it's too late and you've given them five views. I'm trying to find one now. I haven't seen one.

It's just, it's my algorithm. It's like I'll linger on one video and it's like, this is your whole thing. And now all it's doing is one second videos. Because how long does it count as a view? Well, this was the thing. Yeah, I don't know because it just like, I thought it was just like from start to finish of the video. That three seconds? Yeah, I don't know because it just like I thought it was just like from start

to finish of the video. That's a view. But I don't understand. Well, let's go to the social media desk, producer Shannon. Yeah. Have you seen these? No, I don't use Reels. I'm under 30. I love that. Absolutely.

Well, you are sitting through some trash because the refined department of reels is TikTok's creme de la creme. Jesus, look what just, I'm just trying to find a version of this. Look what just popped up on my reels. Is that that guy that cuts wood? No, I don't know. He cuts something.

He'd cut wood with those abs, wouldn't he? He'd cut my ponytail off. Anyway, sorry, I'm confused. I don't know. Why did you say that? I don't know. Follow! Anyway say that? I don't know. Anyway. So, but have you seen these things?

Yes, on TikTok there's kind of a variation of this and it's called TikTok for Good and people will post videos kind of being like, my dog has cancer, it needs the surgery, we need 30 grand, please watch this for five seconds, help pay for the surgery and they'll post a cute video of the

dog. Is it a short video that will just loop and loop and loop? It's just a one second video. Yeah, you only need three seconds to count as a view. This must be an Instagram thing. How are they getting money off just someone watching it? So you need to be a part of the creator fund which isn't a New Zealand thing but

if you have over 100,000 followers and you're in another country, you can start monetising that content. But also on the flip of that, if you get lots of views, you can get brand deals and more followers. So you could share with your insights, like look how many views I had in the last month.

But your video is not, you haven't put any effort into it. It's just a one second video. Yeah, but I think the TikTok ones are quite nice because it's an easy way to do charity, you know? Yeah, because both you and Carl Woman are saying you will do this for people. You will believe their

sob stories, which, let's be honest, they're not proving it, are they? Where's the bill from the vets for the dog with cancer? The Instagram one comes with a sound. That's how long the video is. But when you're watching an ordinary reel on Instagram and letting it play like twice

before it's like, what? Watch again? No. With this, I'm just giving this woman views and all she's doing is holding an Aperol spritz and blinking. That's it. She's making money off you. Yeah, look. I'm just giving her money. There's a few on TikTok for people with student loans which I love and the videos will be

quite long. No! Your own student loan! You took it! It's easy charity, and Carmen and I both agreed. Okay, Shannon, that is not charity. It's paying off someone's student loan. Giving money to cancer researchers. No, what if they're hot with a big student loan? Well, you didn't say that they were hot.

Okay, well, hot is. You just leave it on your phone, and just walk away. We were saying we'll go to the bathroom, grab a glass of water and just let the video run. It's no work. Okay. And then this person with the sick dog or the student loan is clocking up views and then money. Right. Okay.

And then I feel better about myself. And it didn't cost me. It didn't cost me. If anything, I went and got a glass of water. It's good for me. Right. You're helping me. And then you're classing that as charity.

Well, obviously. I'm under 30. You're obviously granddad And then you're classing that as charity. Well, obviously. I'm under 30. You're obviously a granddad. Come on, granddad. Keep up. Oh, I'm over it. As someone who's been trying to put, I've been trying to make a reel for the last three days.

I'm putting some effort into it. With CapCut? Make sure you cut off the end logo. Always. It's so embarrassing. We were talking about this the other day. Someone we know leaves the CapCut logo on. Delete it.

Is that the noise of CapCut at the end? It's very, it's like similar to Netflix. Yeah. Anyway, look, I just think it's lazy. What do they call that? What do they call that Netflix noise? Sonic logo. Sonic logo.

Yeah, it's a sonic logo. Why are you cutting your kiwi fruit like that? I just felt like it today. Pat is, you are a sonic of Pat. That's right. He's doing slices like from a today. Pat is, you are a sonic of Pat. That's right. He's doing slices like from a lengthwise. Like how you slice a tomato. Yeah.

He's slicing a kiwi fruit. And then you eat it like a slice. Like a dish. It's actually really good. And you eat it in the skin. He always eats the skin on it but that's a golden one.

Did you wash it? No, it's good for your gut. We should do a one second reel of which cunning is kiwi fruit. Yeah, and then say I've got a sick dog with cancer

and how much money will I get? None, because the creative fund isn't in New Zealand. Yeah, we can't. We should say

that our show is in, I don't know, who's part of the creative fund, Uganda. Cayman Islands. Cayman Islands. Say that our show

is based in the Cayman Islands and all the videos you guys are putting up, we siphon off the money and don't tell our employer. What a great idea. And if they ask, we're like, well, obviously,

it's not making money because we're in New Zealand. We're in New Zealand, yeah, but we're in the Cayman Islands. Okay, I like this. We might have to set up a bank account in the Cayman Islands. Easy, easy.

Okay, cool. Fletch has already got one. He's been dodging tax for years. Yeah, I've been dodging tax. I don't pay any tax. Yeah. What else do we need? Maybe like proof that we live there.

A VPN. Or should we buy a house in the Cayman Islands? No, a VPN. We'll get a VPN. I don't pay any tax. What else do we need? Maybe like proof that we live there. A VPN? Or should we buy a house in the Cayman Islands? No, a VPN. We'll get a VPN. I've been to the Cayman Islands. I've got a photo there. So that could be you.

That could be me now. We've got a Photoshop skill. Yeah, and I'm not even in New Zealand right now legally. Oh, this is perfect. I'm still in Melbourne. Have you sorted out that passport issue? Have you emailed them? I emailed them. They said they'll take 20 days to reply.

So I feel good about myself that I've done it. Okay. Update there in the Shannon... We wedged a lot into there. Yeah, we did. Speaking of wedges, I'm just uploading a video to my social media. If you want to see how Fletch has cut his kiwifruit, that's disgusting. It's a great way to cut a kiwifruit. You are disgusting. I'm interested to see how it goes.

If I was going to dehydrate kiwifruit, that's how I'd do it. So, for years and years and years, as a girl If I was going to dehydrate kiwifruit, that's how I'd do it. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. So for years and years and years, as a girl that wears makeup, we have been told you put on your foundation or your base layer, whatever, and then you put on. Who tells you? The world and society. I always wanted to know, do mums sit down with their daughters at some stage

and be like, well, you've got daughters, aren't they? Like into makeup and skincare. They're into skincare. They're big into skincare. They've got makeup so much yet. Well, apparently. It's coming. It's coming.

Under eye concealer is dead. I don't know what that is. So you know concealer, which is what you put on your spots and your bits and whatnot. It's like a thicker foundation that you put over your foundation to cover dark circles. You know when we have a photo shoot and they just basically like jib over the plaster over the wrinkles. No, that's foundation. If you had a spot like this guy here that I've got.

Jesus, yesterday we had a moment in the bathroom together, me and this pimple. One of those ones that has like a headache. Oh, was it one of those ones where it splattered on the mirror? No, it didn't. I was so disappointed. I love when they splatter on the mirror. Yeah, yeah. It's gross, but it's like.

But it's job done. It's job done. Mission accomplished. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a good one. You feel like George Bush on that destroyer in the middle of, you know, the Persian Gulf. Yeah.

Mission accomplished. It's a weird. It's a very famous mission accomplished. It is a weird. It's a very famous mission accomplished. Yeah, it is. Well, anyway, you would put concealer over it, and then for years we've been told you put brightening under-eye concealer for your dark bags. Now, I don't wear it.

I never wear it. Well, you don't have dark bags. Thank you. I know. I'm gorgeous. You're gorge. I'm literally gorgeous. But some people, and in particular women,

do suffer from, you get really dark like under eye circles, right? Yeah. And then they would put brightening, like really almost white concealer to brighten it all. We've been told this for years. This is what we've been doing. Look at the Kardashians. They're like glowing under the eyeballs.

It's dead apparently and we've got to embrace the darker, natural, heavier skin tone under the eye for a sort of rinsed out look. It's all over TikTok. It's dead. It's dead. This is news to us. Now, girlies, as fellow makeup wearers,

were you ever really into the brightening under eye concealer? Back in 2016, when we'd do like the heavy eyeshadow. Heavy contour. Heavy everything. Yeah, you would do a big white triangle. Yes, yes.

And it was told you had to go all the way down to the nose, all the way up the cheekbone and then carve out the cheekbone. And then carve out the cheek triangle. Yes, yes. And it was told you had to go all the way down to the nose, all the way up the cheekbone, and then carve out the cheekbone. And then carve out the cheekbone. Yeah, whereas now it's a little bit more chill, but still definitely hit a brightening under-eye for me. Do you still use it a bit, Karwini? Yeah, absolutely.

With this job and this wake-up, if I didn't, I'd look like a whole different human, I reckon. Oh, really? Yeah. We've never seen your saggy-baggy under-eyes. No, girl. Now I'm thinking, like, did I need it? But now it's too late.

No, you're right. I am stunning, naturally. Shoot. Right, but it's over. It's over. Okay, right. So if you're out there today. What are you just meant to have bags under your eyes now?

So if you would have, like, your normal foundation on or something, you just, like, let it be dark. Are we going back to that sort of heroin chic look? It is, yeah. Yeah, the 90s heroin chic. We're sort of looking back to the grungy, sort of messier, rinsed out, I've just popped a little,

popped a bit of meth in me. I don't know how it works. There's some people on TikTok who will actually put like a slight red eyeshadow under their eyes. I've seen this to look a bit blazed. Yeah. What?

I wouldn't say blazed was the word I was looking for, but like definitely like a softer approach. What, like you've just been crying and rubbing your eyes? Kind of, like a softer, tired, cuter look. This is good for me because I've woken up this morning with a slight puff and eczema patch under one of my eyes. Is it conjunctivitis? Have you hit something in the eye?

No, but it's annoying me because the puff has brought up my cheeks slightly into my eye line. Like that? Yeah, okay. I haven't had anything near my eyes. Is it good or bad? Thank you. The puff has brought up my cheeks slightly into my eye line. Like that. Okay. I haven't had anything near my eyes. Is it good or bad? Thank you. Well, I was just thinking because my eczema gets red

and now this is the trend. I'm on trend. It sounds like you need to wash your pillows. So I have manky pillows. No, I had fresh sheets on. I had fresh sheets on. I don't have pink eye. Absolutely not.

I don't have pink eye. It's not. It's eczema. It's eczema. That's just a little bit of eczema. The other eye is pink eye.. It's eczema. It's eczema. That's just a little bit of eczema. The other eye is pink eye, but that's eczema. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Sorry, I'm just laughing because you gave me a slice of apple and it had a little bit of seed left in it. So I've actually sliced it back and I was going to throw it at you. Grow up, please. Give me a better, cleaner slice of apple. Have some maturity. Okay. Well, we've just had a delicious slice of apple and it is fact of the day theme this week.

Eating records. Interesting eating records. We've talked about live cockroaches. We've talked about the world's biggest meal that the person died from. They don't ever want anybody to replicate that record because somebody died. We talked about eating butter. Yeah. Now, 800 grams of butter, we thought to ourselves, accomplishable, but then the more we thought about it,

hard and five minutes. Yeah, yuck. In 2016, Gijin Oiji broke the world record for eating kale. Gross, right? Yeah.

Was it fried? Cause that's yum. Yum. Kale chips. Raw ass. Raw ass. Stork? Raw ass kale. Okay. Kale chips. Raw ass. Raw ass. Stork?

Raw ass kale. Okay. Yum. As you would purchase from a produce section. Le Sous de Marchand. Remember when that was all the rage? Everyone was like, kale. It was probably then, 2016, was it?

It was, yeah. Kale was packed with protein, fiber, vitamins A, C, K, folate, omega-3 fatty acid. It's good for you. I'm surprised with all your nonsense talk about gut health. Nonsense. I know it's not nonsense. It's good for you. I'm surprised with all your nonsense talk about gut health. I know it's not nonsense. It's a bit much. Witchcraft. This witchcraft has got you in the shape of your life.

This witchcraft has got you looking significantly better than us. This scientifically based witchcraft. I thought you'd be on the kale. I don't mind it if it's in a... But I don't go out of my way. I'd rather eat broccoli. I love... Same, but I love crispy kale.

Yeah, crispy kale. This is raw kale. How much in eight minutes to set the world record? Three kgs. But in what quantity? Cups, handfuls, bags? Kgs. Shred it.

Is it cupped? But I don't know. How much is a bag of kale? A bag of kale is 175 grams. I'm looking at like a bunch, a decent sized bunch of kale is 175 grams. Because that's light. It's a light vegetable. 10 of them, 1.7 kgs.

10 bags of kale in 10 minutes. Is that possible? 10 minutes? 8 minutes. 8 minutes. So what did he do? I want you to have a guess. He wants us to guess.

5 kgs. 5 kgs. That's a ton of kale. Okay. I don't know. That's a bale of kale. Okay. 2 kgs of kale in eight minutes. I'll say 175 gram.

I'll say three and a half kgs. Eleven and a half kgs. Why did you laugh at me when I said that? No, I didn't poo-poo. If you listen back to the audio, what I said was, that's a lot of kale. Yeah, no, but you said it negatively. That's a bale of kale. I would have gone higher. No, I didn't poo-poo. If you listen back to the audio, all I said was, that's a lot of kale. Yeah, no, but you said it negatively. That's a lot of kale.

It's a bale of kale. I would have gone higher. Yeah, I know. He put your crock there. I would have gone higher because he poo-pooed you. I didn't poo-poo anybody. I just exclaimed, it's a lot of kale. You've done us dirty there.

Even at that small amount, that's a lot of kale. That is insane. 11 kgs. 11 and a half kgs. And it's the weight of the average two-year-old human. Not cooked. Raw kale. Raw. And it's the weight of the average two-year-old human. Not cooked. Raw kale. Raw.

So it's the human. It's the human cooked when you're measuring them. How do you eat that much kale? It's the two-year-old steamed or fried. The two-year-old is raw like the kale. Okay. Right. All right.

Eight minutes. How? I have no idea. 408 ounces. Are they allowed to have water to wash it down? How did you have room in the tummy? No, down? How did you have room in the tummy? No, actually, how did you have room in the tummy? That's what I'm saying.

Everything about this record is amazing. Yeah. Okay. It seems unreal. It does. I've checked. I said, did this right, and I Googled it, and I found the name, and another one, 408 ounces converted to grams, 11.5 kilograms.

Do you think tomorrow we can have a cheese-based eating fact? Would we have a cheese-based? Yeah, something for tomorrow lined up? Yes, please. Because I ate a lot of cheese. I was going to do mayonnaise. But for that health. Oh, okay.

Mayonnaise, okay. Yuck. I like mayonnaise, but just eating too much of it. Yeah. I'm just going to chuck this out here now because I'm going to do cheese tomorrow. Okay. I'll find one. In eight minutes, Oleg Zhudlinsky ate the equivalent of 80 golf balls worth of mayonnaise in eight minutes.

Some weird measurement. 128 ounces, which is three and a half kilograms of mayonnaise. How did this guy eat 11 and a half kilograms of kale? I don't know where it went. Mayonnaise is so much. Was he pooping in between? And would you be allowed to use a straw with the mayonnaise? Why would you straw a mayonnaise?

It's too thick to suck through a straw. Not if you've got a good hoover. Like a boba tea? Yeah. A boba tea. Because that's what they're always saying about, oh, Carl Fletcher, he could suck mayonnaise through a straw. You're good, ain't good, you.

It's too thick. He's got one hell of a hoover on him. They call him the human hoover. Boy, oh, boy, he's got one hell of a hoover. Suck best man's mayonnaise through a bloody straw. What? A bloody straw. Nah, a skinny straw, mate.

Not even a frozen coke straw. Yeah, not even a thickie. Not even a thick straw. Just a stock standard. A paper straw, you could do it. frozen coke straw. Yeah, not even a thickie. Not even a thick straw. Just a stock standard. A paper straw, you could do it. Anyway. So today's fact of the day, and the hardest to believe.

Yes. Is that the world record for the amount of kale eaten in eight minutes is the same weight as a two-year-old 11 and a half kilograms. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Apparently there's a huge rise in millennials cutting off their parents because they are bad for their mental health. They're saying, my parents are narcissists. They're toxic. I'm over it. I don't need it. I'm cutting you out.

Now, I sort of thought that we just sort of took the good and bad of our parents and just went, oh, well, they're old. But then that's because you have great parents. I do have great parents. But you hear of some people whose parents, like, the way they, you're just like, what are you dealing with here? They should be the parents. Yeah.

They should be the mature ones. Absolutely. I mean, I think there's like different degrees, right? Like there'll be parents that are really terrible parents. And then something like this where you go like, look, I love you, but being near you is not, doesn't make me feel good. Like nagging me every day. Nagging me, maybe like, you know, maybe they've got a bit of an almond mum, you know, with the...

What's an almond mum? An almond mum like, oh, don't eat that, darling. You know, we don't want to gain weight. Yeah. Oh, so have a couple of almonds instead. Yeah, almond mums are the ones who are like, oh my God, a couple of almonds. I'm absolutely full to the brim. Right. Yeah. I never knew my father, a couple of almonds, I'm absolutely full to the brim. Right.

Yeah. I never knew my father, but before he left, he named me Sue. What? I'm a boy called Sue. The famous Johnny Cash song. His father, he never knew his father, but he named him Sue.

That's not on demo. Do you want to put that into the logs? Do you want to put that into the logs to play next? I would have thought that song was well known enough it would have cut through. No, it didn't cut through. No, I mean, you could tell by the look. He named his son Sue because he knew he wasn't going to be around,

but naming him Sue would make him a tough guy before he did. This is very embarrassing. He had a bar fight with him. Actually embarrassing for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That reference was very embarrassing. It was referenced in the 2005 Oscar award winning film, I'm cutting you out of my life.

Walk the line. It's not good for my mental health. With Robert Patrick playing Johnny Gash's father. How do I say cutting you out of my life. That's not good for my mental health. With Robert Patrick Wayne joining Gash's father in, how do I say his name? Harkwin, Wakwin, Phoenix.

Joaquin. Joaquin Phoenix. You always struggle. Anyway, it's an interesting thing and lots of people are discussing it online and I thought we could get

some calls in of, maybe you've cut ties with your parents. Calls? Using the phone? That's not on demo. This is true, they don't have a phone.

And you're too scared to talk to us. You're too scared to talk to a grown up on the phone. No, but this is millennials mostly so they'll pick up a phone. If you're too scared to talk to us, text us. If you're too scared to talk to a grown-up on the phone, text us. No, but this is millennials mostly, so they'll pick up the phone. But if you're a Gen Z, you can text. It is wild. Like, what is the reason that you have cut your parents off?

Yeah, and maybe it's, you know, it could be something major or maybe it was something just a decision you made for yourself. Or maybe your mum slept with your boyfriend. Okay, well, we'll take juice. We'll take juice if you've got juice. I can't let my mum out of my life because she shagged my husband. I mean, these things happen. Yeah.

These things happen. They totally do. I don't know if there's anybody, surely not, that just was sick of their parents nagging them, so they cut them off. Maybe they just disappeared. You don't have to formally announce it. Maybe you just stop talking to them.

And they're like, are you coming for Christmas? You're like, I'm busy. I'm too busy with that. Wow, this is blowing my mind. We want to know have you cut ties with your parents and why? Because there's a rise. Apparently millennials are doing this quite a bit because of their mental health. They're just saying it's not good for me to be

in a relationship with you. Thanks for your service but goodbye. Even though you brought me into this world. Well, thank you for that. Thanks for that. Other than that, go away now. But it is, yes, we're hearing from people. Lucy, why did you cut ties? My dad stands with a sign in the middle of Wellington

with a very controversial sign. And he's kind of like semi-well-known. And he gets posted on one of the biggest Facebook pages and Reddit and stuff. I think Iwell-known. Like, he gets posted on, like, one of the biggest Facebook pages and, like, Reddit and stuff. I think I've seen it. Like, super religious. Yeah, yeah. So, for example, he offers, like, $100 to people

if they can, like, convince them. I won't say what the science says. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. I don't want to promote that. Yeah. And so you're just like, Dad, I can't do this. Oh, yeah.

No, no, no. Yeah. No, I don't. I don't agree with that at all. Holy wow. And so did you, when you made the decision to not have anything to do with him, did you announce it or did you just remove yourself quietly? Oh, no.

It's a vlog story. Well, he's got, there's four of us children. Right. So like none of us talk to him anymore. And it was when my mum left him that we're all like sweet. So yeah. We'll go with you. Right. Okay. Wowzers. Oh, right, okay.

Wowzers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. I mean, is it cool having a famous dad? He's not cool with famous, he loves thinking that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Oh, interesting, Lucy. Thank you for sharing. Thank you. Some messages in. When have you cut the parents off?

Yeah, I've cut ties with my narcissistic mother Had a health scare which she was told about on two separate occasions by my siblings She's not contacted me at all about it Wow Cut ties with my mum at 15 I've never got to know my father He wanted nothing to do with me until I was about 20

It's so peaceful without them And thankfully I have my grandparents Oh yeah, that's nice Yeah, right It'd be cool to go to your grandparents and be like, man, those kids are yours. Yeah, what did you do there? You stuffed that up, didn't you?

Man, they suck. The kids are terrible. It's quite an intense conversation. There's a rise of millennials cutting their parents off, cutting them out of their lives basically because they think it's no longer good to maintain a relationship with them. Because they're too much. Because they're just too much.

We want to know why you cut your parents out of your life. I'm on the verge of being a third generation person in my family who has cut off their parents. My mum cut off her mum and her mum cut off her mum. Oh dear. And I'm on the verge. Oh really? Of cutting off my mum.

Wow. Do they say what the mums are doing? No, there's no words to what they're doing. Currently stepping away from my dad. He's just a dickhead. Okay. Do they say what the mums are doing? No, there's no word as to what they're doing. Currently stepping away from my dad, he's just a dickhead. Okay, that's good. Fair enough. Come my dad off after he chose alcohol and drugs over a relationship with me.

Made this decision when I was about 10. I'm now 27. Haven't seen or spoken to him since then. Best choice I ever made. Good for you. Wow. My mother was in a discussion with my sister who was talking to her about her narcissistic behaviour and calling her out on all the things she'd done and then mum said,

do you think your sister made these things up to be closer to you? Well, that's sort of a narcissistic behaviour. I like it. Completely lost on a narcissist as well.

Or that I haven't done anything wrong. Do you think your sister's doing a game here? Yeah. Needless to say, when your first opportunity is to put a wedge

between your kids to protect your crap behaviour and lies, it's time to be cut off. Yeah. Needless to say, when your first opportunity is to put a wedge between your kids to protect your crap behaviour and lies, it's time to be cut off. Yeah. Wow. So many messages. Isn't this wild? I know, I just read that one.

You can't read that. That's terrible. So many of them are, like, full-blown massive. Someone texted saying, my four-year-old constantly tells me when she's a mum, she's going to cut me out of her life. This four-year-old. Like, oh God, when I'm the mum, I'm done with you. Tell my kids what to do.

Cut out the in-laws. After I caught my mother using very, very racist, my mother-in-law using very, very racist terms in front of the children. Think the most racist. Yeah. We don't say that. We don't say that.

No. Or anything close to that. You don't. And she said, there's nothing wrong with that word. All right, bye. These are all you can pre-read. I'm trying to help you out, Vaughn. I cut my mother off

because she didn't message me for nearly a year during this time I was doing 17 months of cancer treatment for quite a bad cancer. She made it all about herself. And prior to that,

she moved to Australia one day and didn't tell us. She's a nut bar of Vaughn. Wow. She's a nut bar. And people who know her always are like, how are you? And then I talk to them for a while and they're like, I'm just gonna say it. I don't know how you turned out so normal with a man.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, cut ties with my dad 14 years ago ripped me off over $100,000. Then I found out he ripped off his parents and his friends and his sister. Oh yeah, cut him out. And then when I cut him out, he told me I ruined his life. And I forced him to sell his property.

It's like, you owe me $100,000. It seems to be people cut their parents out when they're, quite a few of these are when they're sick. Somebody else said I was going through cancer treatment and my mother hadn't contacted me to see how I was, which was nothing new. I wasn't worried about it. And then when my sister hit her up and said,

mum, this is your daughter. You've got to be there for her during this time. My mum said to her, gosh, she always has to make something. Everything's such a massive deal and a big drama, doesn't she? Wow. And I was like, okay, that's.

She's got cancer. My mum tried to ruin my wedding. That's all it said. Oh. My mum tried to ruin my wedding, so she was gone. Interesting. Yeah.

My mother was controlling No no no you go No I want Vaughn to go Because you were starting to read it I cut ties with my parents because my mother was controlling And always wanted her way Found out she was bad mouthing to people Your mum's bad mouthing you around town

She doesn't seem to care about one of her grandchildren She has three Banned me from seeing my grandfather even when he was dying and I wanted to say goodbye. Has told people I'd be a shit grandmother to my new grandchild, even though she's one of the worst grandmothers I've ever seen. Oh, my God. Family, eh?

Wow. Oh, wow. Okay. My daughters are already planning to cut their dad off when they turn 16. However, his wife is only seven years older than them. So is that why they're cutting her out? Yeah, and from a different country. After 14 days of meeting her,

right between the lines. Oh, okay. Dad got himself a little takeaway. I think he got himself a little takeaway. A little takeaway there. Take the rest home in a box. Bit of satay sauce.

Oh. Who did your tummy go to? Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I just heard your tummy go. Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Ah, not for me. Vaughan? Nowhere even close.

Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't. No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun, why don't you give us a little review and a rating? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. you had fun. Why don't you give us a little review and a rating? you you you you you you