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

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletchvorn and Hayley Big Pod. Great Things at Brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Play ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Thank you Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the show Fletchvorn and Hayley. Happy Friday.

We made it. I thought it was Friday on Tuesday. So it has been somewhat of a crawl to get here. It's been a long week. And then, of course, the news yesterday of Liam Payne's passing. It's really awful. In Argentina. Yeah, really horrible. Especially sad for Producer Carwin, who was your number one.

When I was like a 13-year-old girl before I hit puberty, he was definitely my number one. Wait, so puberty changed your... Oh, yeah. 100%. It went to Harry. Really? Yeah.

I think everyone transferred to Harry eventually. Yeah. But do you know what it actually is? This is very vulnerable of me. I have a bit of a mole under my chin, and he had one on his neck, and that's why I thought that we were like, oh, shit.

Mole twins. Mole twins. Mole twins. Mole mates. Mole mates. Better. Tough tier. Retire it. We thought today

it would be people's choice for Friday Flashback. Yeah. One Direction. It's got to be a One Direction song. Yeah, we're not

going solo. So text 9-6-9-6 and I think we'll just pick the winner at 8 o'clock this morning for Friday Flashback. Yeah, very sad. Very sad. So text 9696 and I think we'll just pick the winner at 8 o'clock this morning. Yeah, very sad. Very sad. So young. 31, right? Yeah.

Too young. There's a lot. There's like, they're still looking into everything, aren't they? Yeah, and it's not, yeah. It's not great. Yeah. I'm just looking behind you. We've got these screens in our studio and usually they're all on the same theme

we've got four different themes we've got the late show we've got Georgia we've got one of ours and Taylor Swift Tuesdays which is done god everything's falling apart

everything's falling apart guys it's not yes Vaughn I'm here thank god the glue the glue

the show glue and the vibe hire the vibe hire the best deal I want to do a. The show glue and the vibe hire. The vibe hire sexy glue. I feel like I'm going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting as the vibe hire today. Do you reckon? Yeah, really pointing the vibes in the right direction. Okay. The top six is coming up and a bizarre musical pairing.

The Veronicas. Yes. A touring with Cyndi Lauper. Girls Who Want To Have Fun fame. No, it's Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Not Girls Who Want to Have Fun fame. No, it's Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Not Girls Who Want to Have Fun. And then she lists all the fun girls. Girls Who Want to Have Fun.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Girls Who Want to Have Fun. You're right. I'm dead wrong. You're dead wrong. Dead, dead wrong. Interesting. 41-year-old song.

Cindy Lauper currently clocking in. 71 years old. Gosh, she's so cool, eh? 71 years old gosh she's so cool 71 years old so you've got the top 6 other musical combos that would make a wicked tour wacko'd

next so we all know the love languages gifts and words and touch and stuff let's talk about fight languages play ZM's Flashborn and Hayley and this is Brewing Inside Me Gifts and words and touch and stuff. Yeah. Let's talk about fight languages. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. And this is brewing inside me. This little list of fight languages are before my eyes.

It's like the love languages. Like your love languages, touch. Words of affirmation. Words of affirmation, acts of service, gifts and... What's the other one? Doing the cleaning. Slapping that ass. Yeah, we both went to the same place. Sexual favours. I think is the fifth one. No, that's not one.

Unspoken love language. Okay. Here's your fight language, which kind of dictates how you... Your go-to response to arguing and fighting. Your fight style. Pick a player. Okay, number one, the igniter. This is the first fight language.

Okay. Whose reaction is anger-based and wants to feel protected. That's the igniter. Wants to feel protected. That's why they come out swinging? The best defense is a good offense? Yeah, I guess so. It's like your reaction and why is how this relationship author has broken these down.

Right. Anger-based is the igniter. The amplifier, whose reaction is emotion-based and wants to feel understood. So far, both of them. So far, both of them. So far. Wait, I thought the love language you picked won.

No, you can have two. I'm weird to affirmation and physical touch when it comes to love, so I can choose two. Okay. Okay. Okay, number three of your fight styles, the negotiator, whose reaction is based on connection and wants reassurance. That sounds a lot calmer, doesn't it? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, I'm hearing you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is where I'm at. What if we did this? Oh, God, that sounds like if you were dating a therapist or something. Yeah, or someone who's done a lot of therapy. You guys didn't come up in my session again yesterday, by the way.

We didn't? No. The boys, if you're just listening, I've been doing- I mean, this is good because how many weeks have been out? Four? We're not on top of the problem. We're not on top of the problem. I said at the start, we're not the problem.

We'll get there. We're peeling back. I'm an onion. Number four, the analyzer, whose reaction is logic-based. I think it's pronounced analiser, but go on. I didn't hit the anal hard enough. The analyser. That's what she said.

Sorry, the analyser. Yeah. Did you just do what she said? Vaughan, it is Friday. It's 16 in the morning. Have some respect. I do apologise. For our shift workers and our truck drivers and our lesbians.

Yep. The analyser whose reaction... And our Sri Lankans. I've actually got a Sri Lankan update later in the hour. I know, I know, I've got a Sri Lankan update. I just wanted to tease. Tease the Sri Lankan update.

Tease it out. The analyser whose reaction is logic based and who wants their reasoning to be understood. Screw fighting with that person. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds horrible. That sounds horrible. That crafted arguer.

Yeah. Oh, if I wish I could, I wish I could. I'll start with the best of intentions. Live with one. And then the Scottish Irish comes out and it just gets all fiery.

I've got a Scottish update. So I've got an Irish update soon as well. It's part of your Shrink update. There's been an update on Ancestry.com and it's been a seismic change for all of us. Do I look wider? Do I look wider? Anyway, and the fifth fight style,

your fifth fight language, is the extinguisher, whose reaction is based on detachment and wants to escape to safety. I'm a little bit there. I'm a little bit there. I'm a little bit of a... I'm not. I won't leave.

Yeah. Do you know what I am guilty of? For sure. Toxic positivity. This is a term that's been around. Someone who will never sit in negativity, will never listen to negativity, will just be like,

no, no, no, no, it's going to be okay. No, no, don't worry. No, that's not a big deal. No, no, no, no, no it's going to be okay, no, no, don't worry, no, that's not a big deal no, no, no, it's going to be alright, no, no, no, don't worry That's me, toxically positive So the igniter, the amplifier, the negotiator, the analyser, the extinguisher I'm definitely the top two more I want to do the quiz that the love language

has had, the quiz where you're like, if this situation what would you want to happen and it gives you options. Surely someone will make that. Someone will make that. Well, that's what that therapist should do. This therapist? Yeah.

Okay, they're missing a fight style here. The person that will throw in your face something that happened two years ago, that's a fight style. Is that,

would that be the Anna? The person who's losing the arguments and decides to dip deeper into your history. The drowner. The dog handler. I'm not winning this.

Well, what about that time? Yeah. That. Yep. That's toxic porn. Oh, I know. That's really toxic behaviour. I know.

Well, we had a tiff yesterday. Oh, okay. Shada and I had a tiff yesterday. But weirdly, we resolved it really, really quickly. Wow. Maturely. Mature. I wouldn't say it was maturely. It was resolved really quickly, Wow. Maturely. Mature. I wouldn't say it was maturely.

It was resolved really quickly though. At any point in the argument, did you go, say something? You say something? What about? No, no, no. Oh, no, no, no. I don't do that. I don't do that.

To me, that's losing. Do you do that? That's losing. Do you? You're lost when you do that. In moments of utter desperation, I have been known to be like, it was so bad. That is so. Hey, just. In moments of utter desperation, I have been known to be like, it was so bad.

Hey, just calm down. Keep your voice down. That's my guy. That's my guy. That's my guy. And that is just my, have you ever seen those videos where someone's like chucking petrol on a fire and they've got no idea how combustible petrol is? And they're just like, la, la, la, la, boom.

That's that guy when you're like, hey, hey, hey, just calm down. The voice is down. The voice is up. Whoa. La, la, la, boom, fa. 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 the silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Today's silly little pole. Who makes the financial decisions in your relationship? I'm the financial handbrake in mine. I'm like, no, we don't need that.

No, no. Wait, what's this money? What are you spending that on? Yeah. That's me. Whereas do you think she makes? I honestly think it's a joint decision. But I'm definitely the one.

I have to be the no because she's so much the yes. Right. Yeah, right. What about in your household? I make, we kind of make the financial decisions together, but it's all been around the house, I guess. So it's kind of a bit warped in terms of where all our money goes. But I run the accounts. Like you do the power and the utilities.

I do all the bills and stuff. And I do the budget. And I kind of say, this is what's coming in. So a study, and this was a study on hetero couples. What's up? What's up? Australia was the closest to us. Men, 60%.

Women, 40%. In the US and Germany, men, 61%. And 69% respectively. Nice. Nice. But yeah, it's mostly the men. Patriarchy's still alive and well, good to see. Nice. Nice. But yeah, it's mostly the men. Patriarchy's still alive and well,

good to see. Yeah. Wow. Well, we didn't ask man or female, male or female, we asked me or them.

Okay. So, 74% of... We've got so many gay listeners. It would be terrible just to be like... It would be rude to exclude. Yeah.

Well, that's a good saying actually. It's rude to exclude. Put that on a to exclude. Yeah. Well, that's a good saying, actually. It's rude to exclude. Put that on a tish. Who makes the financial decisions in your relationship? 74% of people said me. 26% of people said them. So we've got the dominators here.

I honestly think this is the new way Robbie said, we don't share finances. So many of my mates that are in,-marriages, apart from the certificate marriages, they have separate finances. They have a joint account where they just put the expenses into, but they're living financially separate.

How does it work? It'd be so weird being like, your partner of 15 or 20 years, hey, can you give $68 for the power? Yeah, you're half of the power is this. But I know lots of relationships weird being like, oh, like your partner of, I don't know, 15 or 20 years. Hey, can you $68 for the power? Yeah, you're half of the power is this. But I know lots of relationships that go like, well, you take charge of power and groceries. And I'll take charge of mortgage and da, da, da. Yeah, I think.

And they kind of split it that way based on income. Yeah. I don't know. I find it. I was very resistant to join finances. But once I did, I was like, oh, my, it's so much easier. Just to all be one. I know someone who's been with someone for years doesn't know how much they earn.

What? That's, they've got a secret fund. That's what I said. I was like, how do you, because they split their bills based on. Income. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, how do you know they've not got a bump since then

and they're just not saying and they're squaring all the way? And they're like, oh, I don't know. I was like, I probably wouldn't like, oh, I don't know. I was like, I probably wouldn't know. Oh, I couldn't do it. April says, I do because I always have.

I don't think he knows how much the mortgage repayments are. I wasn't always, but I'm now in banking, so he just trusts me. Oh, yeah. He probably just loves that someone has a little scum. He probably just loves

that she deals with it all. Takes care of it. Yeah, doesn't have to do anything. It's quite nice. I call my husband the CFO, says Trina. Chief Financial Officer. I'm terrible at math and love to spend money, and he's excellent with money,

and so it's just best he looks after things. And that's what some people need. Here's your money to spend. Here's your allowance. Thank you. I'll spend it all. People are like, oh, that's condescending and toxic, but

the person who will otherwise just blow all their cash on dumb shit will be better off at the end of things. When they've got a mortgage-free house at the end of it. Well, at least I'm not crazy. Mortgage-free. It's me and the mortgage racing to see who dies first.

Completely separate accounts works perfectly, says Sam. There's another person completely separate. Jenna said, both of us, we like to say we wear a leg of the pants each. Oh, have to get a big pair of pants. Yeah. Sisterhood of the travelling pants, perhaps. Amy said... Now, how did that work?

You know, it just doesn't... The pants are magical. One of them was significantly curvier than the others And it's just unrealistic I know sisterhood of the tramping pants But I don't know anything else So there's four girls Did they share a pair of pants?

They sent each other the pants In an op shop they found a magical pair of jeans They loved them and they all tried them on And they're like what? And then they went their four separate ways for a summer And they sent jeans around. And when you were wearing the jeans, great things happened. And you wrote letters or emails to the other sisters in the...

Wait, would they wash them before they sent them to the next person? No, I think you just give the crotch a Febreze. Yeah. No, Alexis Badil got her period in Greece. That's right. Without warning, so she had to give the jeans up. She had to give them a soak. Yeah.

A soak. But then if she was sending them to America Ferreira Rocher, who at the time was curvier than the rest of them, and she's given them a hot wash because she got a period in them, America's not getting those jeans on. No, but they were magical jeans. Oh, so they would just fit. I just feel like if my best friend,

who's a size 10, sent me a size 14, a pair of jeans, I'd feel insulted. Yeah. If she was like, put on these magical jeans. Yeah.

I can't fit them. I was just going to say something so wildly inappropriate about Blake Lively's jeans, but I've decided not to. Okay. Good on you for self-censoring. I'm going to fly there, Bourne.

Will you tell us off the mic? You bet. Amy said, because he's way too laid back, if I didn't stress about paying the bills, we'd have nothing paid and no money because apparently we would have enjoyed it. What? You would have enjoyed the money.

Oh, right. You know how it's like, where did all our money go? I think we enjoyed our money. That's actually a good say. Shauna said, he's a spreadsheet for every purchase. Oh, right, right. You know how someone's like, where'd all our money go? I think we enjoyed our money. That's actually a good say. Shauna said he's a spreadsheet for every purchase. Oh, my God. He's a spreadsheet for every purchase, month, event, experience kind of guy. And I'm a YOLO kind of gal.

But without him, we'd be poor. And without me, we'd be boring. Yeah. I started a spreadsheet. Confrontin'. It's very confrontin'. Very confrontin'. I like to call myself a patron of the local pub.

Every year when I do my accounts, I'm like, where's the risk gone? Where's the risk gone? We're a 50-50 joint accounts and both make the money. If he spends it on stupid shit, I get another pet. Oh, no. That's a lot more money. That's ongoing. In the long term. And Mo said, if it were up to me, I'd have a lot of new clothes that I don's a lot more money. That's ongoing. In the long term.

And Mo said if it were up to me I'd have a lot of new clothes that I don't need and more puppies. He's always needed new clothes so that's a lie. Yeah. Not puppies. We don't need any more puppies. That's still a little part. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fleshborn

and Hayley. Now I had some correspondence yesterday. Did you? What day were we talking about you water blasting? Well I think I water blasted Sunday or Monday You were water blasting your Like some tanks Some stuff I needed to paint And then I spun around and put a streak across our old concrete water tank

And I was like oh that needs to be done And it was very satisfying. And you were like, you called the lads. I FaceTimed the boys, yeah. Group chat, video chat. And they just sat and watched water blasting. I just love seeing, like every now and again, someone, and when they clean an old rug.

Oh my God. The rugs. They never come up. They're dirty and it's satisfying seeing how much dirt comes out. They never come up as sparkly as I want them though. I know, but also, where are these mugs, these rugs from? They're covered in mud. I think they dirty them up

on purpose. They dirty them up. 100%. I'm always like, what are you, just going to a swamp, a rug swamp? Yeah.

Pulling out these rugs from the swamp? Yes, I think so. Well, I always wonder what happens when those Persian rug merchants say, you know, we've ordered too many rugs.

Oh, I know. They've got to go. They've got to go. I thought we could act this out. You do a good Persian rug merchant. Go on, do your voice. Do your voice. No, that was a stage production way back.

We're actually thinking of doing a character podcast. We were brainstorming earlier, weren't we? Anyway, I said, when you were talking about your water blasting, I said, at the weekend, I drove through the capital of corrugated iron sheep and corrugated iron. and corrugated iron. Tito. T-Row. T-Row.

T-Row. Tito. Home of the water fountain in the main street. Home of some amazing shops. Yeah, you love the antiques. Oh, my God, there's some good antiques. Couple of killer cafes in there too. Anyway, you've got to have a cafe when you've got antiques.

I mentioned driving in there when you were talking about your water blasting. I said the sign. You know the green signs that say like turn left? Yeah. Or straight ahead, stay highway one. I said that needs a water blast. Well, I got a message from Kane yesterday saying filthy sign. Oh, my God.

It's got an unliken. Look at that. Now, I think we could do a joint promo with like Spray and Walk Away or 30 Seconds. And the Tito Council. Yeah, and we get up there and we get a cherry picker. I don't know if that's the council. I think that's like whoever's in charge of the green signs. NZTA.

NZTA. That needs a water. That's actually disgusting. It is actually disgusting. That's actually disgusting. That's really gross. Have some pride. Where's your sense of pride?

Why is that so like and covered? Is it under trees? It's under trees and it's in a really... Wouldn't see a lot of sun in winter? No, it doesn't see a lot of sun. Could we cut down the trees? Well, they could do with the trimmer if they're that far over the road.

They probably need a trim back anyway. I get so... I've got a couple of chainsaws too, so we could do this. This could be a one-stop shop. You know I love this. Yeah. I've actually had a couple of people message because when we talked about this. This could be a one-stop shop. You know I love this. I've actually had a couple of people

message because when we talked about the water blaster champions Did you see him getting a little bit gravy? It's bad man. It's really bad.

It's really bad. I've got a couple of people message we talked about organising a water blaster Are there more photos if I just keep scrolling are there more photos? No there's no more photos.

Start scrolling. How many photo scrolls do you see of penis? None. One. One. Very strong. A lot of Halloween photos. Oh, yeah.

Because I was trying on Halloween. That's me with a squid head. You can't go squid head. What are you? Who? What character is that? No, I'm not going as squid head for Halloween. I just saw it in the shop and I tried it on.

I'm not familiar with a character called squid head. There's squid wood. Squid wood? Yeah, I don't know. But he's whole body. But yeah, getting back to the water blast champion,

I think that needs to be a thing. Oh my God. 100%. I think we do it. It ought to be, you know when you go and watch a,

like wood chopping or something and everyone's like, yeah, get in there boy. But with the water blasting it would just be like, oh. Yeah, on a big screen

from like a bird's eye. Yeah. When you're doing a park or something. Yes, love that. Oh, we love that. It screen from like a bird's eye. Yeah, that's lovely. Yes, love that. Oh, we love that. That's what we need. Play ZM, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the top six. The Veronicas are touring with Cyndi Lauper. I get it. Kind of punky, punky poppy. Punky gal pop. Yeah, gal pop.

A couple of generations apart. Wait, who's opening for who? They're opening for who? I think they're opening for Cyndi Lauper. Oh my God. 100%. I know. She is a queen.

Yeah. Well, they're touring at some unusual convo. Do you remember when, was it someone opening for U2? Was it Kanye? Kanye West opened for U2 when you played Supertop like when that happens

it's there's hardly any crossover with an audience like that yeah totally it is you can always tell when an audience is there for the opening band

yeah and then you're like oh the main band's not that good yeah I saw Queens of the Stone Age open for Smashing Pumpkins.

Yeah. And I was like, I could leave. I could leave now and be happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Do you remember when Lady Gaga opened for the Busker Dolls? Yes. Oh, did she?

But that's not like, that's not a big unusual jump. No, but it was just weird. And then six months later she was. Yeah. She'd leaped from. And now kind of everyone's like. It's like Sabrina Carpenter. She was only opening for Taylor Swift.

And she was so stoked about it. And she was just like, oh my God, I'm so lucky. And now it's like, she's huge. Yeah. Well, I got the top six other musical combos that would make a wicked tour. Okay. What could... Number six on the list.

The Wiggles opening for Pantera. Yeah. You just described my... Big concert. Yeah. Big just described my... Big concert. Yeah. Big concert. My ideal night. Wait till middle parents bring their kids

and then get the parents to pick up the kids at halftime. Shuffle them out. And then stay for the Pantera to finish. Okay, yeah. But there has to be, they have to do a joint number in between, a crossover. Yeah, where they switch over.

Yeah. Yeah. Hot potato. Hot potato. Hot potato. Number five on the list of the top six musical combos that would make for a wicked tour are the Beach Boys opening for NWA. Oh, my God. Half of them are dead, so it makes it hard.

Maybe they could form a super group. Have, like, those holograms. BBWA, Beach Boys with Attitude. Yeah, okay. And, yeah, maybe get some holograms in there. Yeah, get some holograms. BBWA. Beach Boys with Attitude. Yeah, okay. And yeah, maybe get some holograms in there. Yeah, get some holograms in. Okay. Get some holograms. Number four on the list of the top six musical combos it would make for a Wooka tour, Metallica opening for

Taylor Swift. Yeah, again, I think the crowds would clash there. I really don't think they'd get on well. Clash of the crowds. I think so, yeah. There'd be some tussles in the crowd. There'd be some tossles in the black They'd be like black you know people wearing all black and then pastels

and then pastels and all these amazing Taylor Swift sparkly costumes Imagine the Taylor Swift fans though getting caught in one of those snake pits

where they perform a big circle and they all run at each other That'd be fun Some of those old boys that are like Metallica probably don't have

the knees for it. The youth of a Taylor Swift fan might surprise you in a snake pit. Yeah. I actually don't mind a seat at a concert. I don't mind a seat.

I want this guy sitting at Metallica. I don't mind a seat. It depends on the band. Yeah. Sometimes I love a seat. Number three, I don't think this one

would be impossible to sit through. Do you think that would be a good silly little poll for next week? Yeah, do you love a seat? Seated at a concert or standing? Yeah.

Yeah, good one. Got planning next week already. Yeah, I'm always on. Always on. Let's plan all the way up to Christmas, you know? We can just cruise-y-soozy. And just take some time off. Yep.

Number three on the list of the top six musical combos that would make for a wicked tour, ACDC opening for Celine Dion. Oh, my God, yes. That'd be actually pretty good. And then they kind of, at the crossover, do My Heart Will Go On with.... Oh my God, yes. That'd be actually pretty good. And then they kind of, at the crossover, do My Heart Will Go On. Oh my God, yeah.

My heart will go on! Damn, damn, damn. Yes. That'd be so good. Number two on the list of the top six musical combos that would make for a wicked tour are Rammstein opening for Miley Cyrus. Okay, interesting.

I reckon she could get onto that. I would love to hear Miley Cyrus do Hust. She's got the voice for it. She's got that gravel. Didn't she do that album with... She did Metallica. Yeah, she did Metallica. She did covers.

Yeah, she did covers. Yeah, she's done a few of those albums where she'll do... She's great. She's done some Joan Jett and whatnot. Yeah. Very good. And number one on the list of the top six musical combos that would make for a wicket tour, Beethoven.

Yep. Okay. A Beethoven. Is he dead yet? Nearly. Ludwig, is he dead? Oh, hang on. Oh, God.

Oh, is he? Yeah, he's hanging on. Oh, I must have read it wrong. They're wheeling him around everywhere in a chair. God, he looks like a skeleton. But it's great because he mostly plays the piano. So the wheelchair works. They just wheel him into there.

The fingers are working fine. Oh, my God. Well, nothing will invigorate him more than opening for Heavy Metal Legends Cradle of Filth. I was thinking you were going to say Creed, and I was like, yes. Yes. He could really spice up higher. Yes. With a bit of piano.

Dramatic piano. Yeah. What a sonata. What a sonata. Hey, you know what? I've always said, what a sonata. That's today's Subso. We've all done Ancestry.com.

Lots of our listeners have done Ancestry.com because every time we talk about it, people get excited. My friend was asking me about this yesterday. Didn't have a clue what it was. You spit in a tube. Spit in a tube. You've got to pay. You send it far overseas.

Like Ireland? Oh yeah, mine went to Ireland. Yeah. And then you get an online profile and it tells you what you are made up of in terms of ethnicity. And as the years go on and the more people do it,

the more accurate it gets. Yeah. And so it updates all the time. Yeah. Your percentages. We've shared ours before. Yeah. And they've changed overnight.

I got a message yesterday from Dr Shawnee because he's doing it as well he's a mix of bloody everything that man he's a walk through the spice market he's like you he's 1% Hawaiian

yeah I know we're siblings in that way we're Hawaiian brothers stepbrothers yeah we are brothers in Hawaii I feel like most people with

Maori heritage get a Hawaiian get a Hawaiian because that's where they came from and then maybe Japan you make it sound like Maori heritage get a Hawaiian. Get a Hawaiian. Because that's where they came from. And then maybe Japan. You make it sound like you just get a Hawaiian, like a Hawaiian burger or something. Pizza, yeah.

Yeah, I'm Maori with a slice of pineapple. But so he messaged me yesterday going, oh my God, the results have changed quite dramatically. And I lost, this is even on my Instagram bio, 3% Swedish. I'm now none percent Swedish. None percent. None percent.

Wild. You look so Swedish. I don't look, I mean, that's why I had it on my bio, because I don't look Swedish at all. You look so Swedish. So now I'm 1% Dutch. I've got Netherlands 1%. You do have little Dutch boy energy.

He does. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah%. You do have little Dutch boy energy. He does. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, it's a windmill. It was my windmill and clogs. It was your clogs, yeah. Damn it.

So I'm 1% Dutch, 2% Denmark, 4% Wales, Irish 14%, Scottish 26, and 53 English, which is because my dad's English.

I've got a British passport. Yes. But that's like really white and boring. Oh, I got whiter. That was mine. I lost my Norway. I lost my 4% Norway.

Gone. A lot of people lost their Norway. Why have we lost our Scandinavian? Because I lost my Danish. We're all, we just, yeah. Oh, you're not hot Danish anymore. I don't know. I'm just hot, hot.

That's sad. And now I'm just, yeah. I am 45% Scottish, which is so Scottish. But that's more Scottish than me. Yeah, I'm so Scottish. But my dad's very Scottish. That explains your ginger goatee. My ginger goatee and my thick brows.

Yeah. But my dad's fully Scottish on his side. And then my mum's dad was Scottish. I find this so fascinating. But it's also what you take from your parents say, like your parents could be... Yeah, you don't get 50-50. Yeah, you don't get 50-50.

It gets a bit from them and a bit from them but sometimes like... To me, my brother could be different slightly. Yeah. Because it's your traits. The thing I'm... I got more Irish and I did text the devil of Dublin this morning and I said, you are literally poisoning my bloodstream from listening to you so much. He's made me more Irish. What did text the devil of Dublin this morning and I said, you are literally poisoning my bloodstream from listening to you so much. He's made me more Irish.

What a flirt! And then the banter's like, we've got it all morning. And then he says, you want a bit more Irish in you? Yeah, you want more Irish in you? What are we doing? The disappointing one is I lost a percentage of Māori. Oh, right. One percentage. Yeah, I went from

19 and 1% Hawaiian to 18. But you've still got a piece of pineapple. But I've got a slice of Māori. Oh, right. One percentage. Yeah, I went from 19 and 1% Hawaiian to 18. Right, but you've still got a piece of pineapple. But I've got a slice of pineapple still. You've still got a slice of pineapple.

Yeah. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. It's the final rankings. It's a Friday tradition. Final rankings. We rank things. Today, this was an idea because you got a couple of pimples this week.

I got a couple of pimples this week. I've been on a pimple journey this year, and I'm really coming out the other side. So it's coming off the pill. The pimps came back. All the pimps in the crib, ma. Pop it like it's hot. Yes.

But I did yesterday, I felt one here on my chin, which is my predominant pimple area. And then I just went about my day, and when I got home, she was a glossy white. I had like a little, can you see there's like one trying to come through there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a couple of days. You've got a bit of a beard on the go.

You look great. I know, I need to shave. It's hot. No, I'm going to shave. No, I'm going to shave. No, leave it. I like it. Beards define the man.

No, I love a plain shave. He, I'm going to shave. No, leave it. I like it. Beards define the man. No, I love a plain shave. He says as he strokes his beard. So this gave us the idea for final rankings, the type of pimples. We should have almost ranked the worst ones because I had one in my nostril, you know, those, and they hurt so much. Or the under the skin ones that never come to a head. And you're like, oh. That was like the one on my neck that I like.

A throb. And I like squeezed it and I poked it and then it just looks like, it's looked like a hickey for like the last like three months. Yeah. You've got to go the squirter.

Number one. When you get your fingernails and you pop a white head and it goes- Little splatter on the mirror. Splatter on the mirror. Or it's a black head and you squeeze it

and it goes like a worm. A snake. Those are the best. Okay, on the mirror. Or it's a blackhead and you squeeze it and it goes like a worm. A snake. Those are the best. Okay, I love those. Also, apologies to those that are reading right now. I won't apologize. Yeah. Squirt is good.

I like a slow, I think we described them as a snake when we talked about it. We squeeze it and it just goes. But not a blackhead. No, but I do love a blackhead because they're a different thing. They come out and they look like a goo. They look like a toothpaste. Yeah.

Those are like the Dr. Pimple Pomper with the, she's got that tool, eh? Yes. I've got a tool. I got a toolkit from Timu with the little thing

because I go, I, because I'm trying to be good. You shouldn't pick your skin. No. I get mine professionally extracted,

they call it. And when I go and get a facial at Casey, they'll, if I've got someone that need extracting, they use the tools, it's all hygienic. And they do it so that you're not getting your fingernails in and causing scarring and stuff. And oh my god. And every now and then when Bree is doing it, she's always like oh my god! And it's a good one.

She loves it. Oh my god, that would be so satisfying for a job. She loves it. Yeah. Okay, I'm be so satisfying for a job. She loves it. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to go number one is a squirter. Number two is a worm. Yeah. Blackhead worm.

Yeah, blackhead worm. Yes. And number three is one that it like comes up and just goes away. Do you know what I mean? It just like is like there and gone. What about one of those really white headed big ones and you've got to squeeze it from all over the place and so much comes out? Yeah, and then it's passed and then it's a bit of blood

and you're like, get it, get it, drain it, drain it. What about an earlobe pimple? I've never had one. Haven't you? No. Oh, you find one on the earlobe because you can hear it. Because you can't hear it coming out when it's on the thing that's not close enough to it.

You can hear it coming out. When you squeeze it, you hear it, it goes... No, I've never... Have you never had an earlobe pimple? I'm too deaf to hear that. I just haven't... It's right there. I don't get them there.

What about like... You don't notice them because they don't ever hurt, but occasionally I'll be like giving myself a little earlobe massage. Right. How cute. And I'll feel one and I'll be like, oh yeah, and then you give it a squeeze and you can hear it. That's an erogenous zone.

Oh yeah, that's what I'm doing. Oh yeah, you're right. One hand on a nipple. It's nice that you take such good care of yourself. One hand on an earlobe. Yeah. Okay, so what about the other one giving a peace sign? What about body pimples?

Are we including body pimples? Yeah, like one on the shoulder or back. On the shoulder, on your back. A perfect round one that's shiny. I've got a couple on my shoulder at the moment for my sports bra. Could you give it a scrub? Groin pimple? What? Groin pimple? Nah. Nah. Not it a scrub? Groin pimple? What?

Groin pimple? Nah. Not delving into the groin pimple? Nah. I mean, you could have said, okay, tell me more. Not make me sound like a dirty boy. You were both like, nah.

You've got crotch rot. Maybe you should. Yeah. No, but it's the same vibe on the sports bra where the sports bra rubs the skin. Yeah, you're totally sweaty. You're sweaty and there's some jock thrush to be honest. It's not jock thrush it feels like it

it's not thrush it feels like you need some Lamisil I'd say that's more of a hair issue than like a pimple but it is pretty good if you get an ingrown hair

I haven't had many but you start pulling it out and the hair's unraveling and then at the end of it it goes and then it comes out on the end I was like

is that a pimple or like what's that growing there it was a red dot and then I saw the little lump of the moment. I was like, is that a pimple? Or like, what's that growing there? It was a red dot. And then I saw the little lump of a hair and I was like, come to me. Take the top off that. Take the top off that.

Okay, so what are we going, how are we ranking this then? For me, it's got to be squirter and worm. Yep, same. Those are the top two. And then three would be the ones that it's like you think that it's going to break out and then just sorts itself out and goes away.

Three would be air lobe pimple. It's got an audio element to it. Two would be a non-blackhead worm and one would be the explosive squirter. Yeah, we love

a squirter. Great rankings. Great rankings. What's yours? a squirter. Great rankings. Great rankings. Great rankings today. Well, I'm the same as Hayley. Yeah, you're like a squirter and a worm. Squirter and a worm is a big winner on the day.

We've got to hit the mirror. You know what I mean? We've got to hit the mirror. We've got to hit the mirror. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then polish it off the mirror. Yeah, then buff it out. You don't like wipe it off.

You just get a bit of toilet paper and you polish it into the mirror. Yeah, gross. Quarter past seven. That was yuck. Next on the show, terrible news. Oh, turn the the mirror. Quarter past seven. That was yuck. Next on the show, terrible news. Just turn the microphone off.

Some reactions to the death of Liam Payne. Just after eight o'clock, we're going to actually talk to someone in the UK about what's happening in the UK. Oh gosh. Great choice of song. Liam Payne tragically died yesterday,

fell from a three-story building. In Argentina? Investigations going on. In Argentina? Buenos Aires? Buenos Aires, yeah. And obviously people are shocked. He's 31 years old.

No one really knows the circumstances around it and I'm not here to hypothesise about that but a lot of celebrities taking to online. We just heard that his family's made a comment. No one from, none of the One Direction members have made a comment yet. But like you were saying, like kind of when Matthew Perry died. Yeah, a lot of the

Friends cast waited. That was like quite a few days. It's always, I would say it's always the sort of adjacent friends that come out first. Yeah. The most devastated. Charlie Puth shared, I'm in shock right now. Liam was always so kind to me.

He was one of the first major artists I got to work with. I cannot believe he's gone. Sharing photo with them together. Paris Hilton. Now I don't even know if they were friends. She's just very upset to hear the news of Liam Payne passing.

Sending love and condolences to his family and loved ones. Harry Styles' mum, Anne, two N's and an E. Yeah. She just shared a broken heart emoji. I always think it's a little distasteful emojis in the time of death. I don't know. It just feels odd.

Yeah. It was like, you know, remember when Facebook, before they had the care? Yeah. And people would like, someone would be like, oh my God, my dad's dead. And someone would be like, heart. Yeah. Or like, and you're like, that feels wrong. Yeah.

Like feels wrong. Like feels wrong. My dad died. Choice. Yeah. No. Rita Ora just posted a broken heart. I'm devastated.

I loved working with them so much. It was such a joy to be around on and off stage. This tragic news breaks my heart. Sending all my love and prayers to his family and loved ones. Our song for you takes on a whole new meaning for me. Now, R.A.P., we are taking suggestions for our Friday flashback, by the way. Yeah, people's choice.

9696, text in. For a One Direction song. I got excited because I saw Cher, but it's Cher Lloyd. Yeah, okay. I'll just skip that, I reckon. Thai dollar sign. Now, Thai dollar sign didn't actually share a story.

It didn't share a post, it did a story. Oh, okay. I think that deserves a post. You know what I mean? Yep. Just a picture of Liam saying, just talked to you two days ago, my guy. I'm going to miss you.

And then some other language that I don't understand, so I won't try. Liam Gallagher, life is precious, kids, and you only get to do it once. Go easy. LG. Greg Horan, Niall Horan's older brother, made a big post, heartbroken, understatement,

weird feeling this morning and all night. Just sharing some memories there of the early days of One Direction and how they all got together. Very sad. Noah Cyrus has shared, Flava Flav has chimed in. Really? What did he say? RIP to Liam Payne, comma, comma, comma,

instead of dot, dot, dot. Much too young. Prayer hands. Comma, comma, comma. I think he meant dot, dot, dot, and he's just young. Prayer hands. Comma, comma, comma. I think he meant dot, dot, dot, and he's just slipped. He's just slipped over there. We are going to play a One Direction song for Friday Flashback today. So if you want to put a vote in, whatever song, the people's choice today, 9696.

Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Let me tell you guys, I have no faith that this will be the day that Shannon gets a five-star hack. Now, this was something that Shannon recommended to you yesterday when you had forgotten your jandals. We'll drag her into studio for this. Shower at the gym. What is the hack that you said tons of girls are doing? I said, I don't have jandals to wear in the shower. And you said, just tape some pads to your foot. Some sanitary pads. Just tape some pads to your foot.

Some sanitary pads. Tape some pads to your feet. And then I said, what? And she said, tons of girls do this. I think I was being a bit dramatic with tons, but I've seen this. So you get. So I brought in, I've got some backup pads. Right.

In my bathroom for those that come over to my house and need to pad. And so I've got some big pads. Well, thank you. You guys could have them too if you want. If you're over there and you want to freshen up. If we get a gunshot wound, we could. Yeah, pad it up. I prefer a tampon. In the gunshot wound. Or a moon cup in my bullet wound, actually. I'm a bit of a moon cup guy.

Yeah, I actually use moon cups in my bullet wounds. No, you wrap period undies around your bullet wounds. Yeah, I use arwa undies when I get a bullet wound. You just get a pair of awas around you. Okay, so in theory. How many tons of woman in your mind? Because I just worked out the average weight of a New Zealand woman. Oh, you didn't say that.

I'm not going to. I'm not going to. I was like, don't hit me with the average weight of a New Zealand woman. A ton is 1,000 kilograms. Yeah. I divided that by the average weight and I've come to, it would take 13.8 New Zealand women to make up a ton. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tons. 26. So two tons. Two tons of New Zealand women. Usually 26 women would use this. Wait, where did you see this hack? Like Facebook on a five minute cross. Oh, exactly.

Oh, you are. When they pour in concrete. And it's always some of the stuff they do with power tools is insanely dangerous on those five minute hacks. Well, they do a lot of fetish content, so I don't know if this is legit, but I do think this is going to work, Hayley. No, I've never seen fetish content.

So what we have here is we've got a little tray of water and we've poured as much water as we think we'd gather in the floor of a gym shower. Yep. I've got my bare feet out. Don't judge, it's been a long winter. I've just got one toe half painted. Don't screw up your nose, they're not that bad.

And I said don't film too close because one of my toes is a little bit hairy. And I've got two pads. So does the sticky bit, hang on, this is going to be nice ASMR. So I don't... That was me taking the back off the sticky bit. That was nice. Does the sticky bit go on the sole of the foot or in the water?

Obviously your foot. Okay. And I'm going to tape it on. What are you... I bought you some tape because I thought... No, you don't need to tape it on with that. No, well, pads with wings was my initial hack. It feels quite nice on the ground.

I thought you would need wings to make my hack super secure, so I bought you some duct tape. Right, okay, in place of wings. Hang on, shut up. Well, that was the worst. That's near the end of the roll. Okay, so you're now just going to kind of, like a jandle strap, a duct tape jandle strap around the pad.

Yeah, as if it was the wings. This is weird. No, I will say if somebody at the gym saw you walking from the shower to where you were getting changed. You've just got to be confident. Kia ora. She's like tons of women. Kia ora, how are you?

I think you're getting the gym mixed up with prison as this is what they did on Orange is the New Black. They did. Did they? That's how I know it. Because they needed gym shoes. They needed jandals in the towels. Sure there's prison issues. How are you getting my gym jandals?

They don't have money on them. Okay, so these are prison jandals. Okay, so I've got my pants on my feet and they're duct taped. Now they fit perfectly. They are actually your size. It's a look. It's a size 10. It's a look. It's a look.

Yeah, wow. That's something else, isn't it? Okay, I'm going to stand... That's a very wet shower. Yeah. That's a very wet shower. I went for a slightly clogged drain. Yeah. I was going to say, that's clogged with woman's hair.

Because in the women's, it's all the hair and stuff. Then you've got about two centimetres of water in there. Yeah, it's like a free bath. Now, Hayley, you're going to step in there. Okay. Shannon, could you just get your mic pointing down at that as well there so we can hear? Have a go.

Okay. Hang on, ready? Yeah. I think this is going to be quite wet. Oh, it sounds wet already. My toes are all wet. Your toes are already athlete foot. But is it the water that holds the athlete's foot or is it in the tiles?

But your toes get wet in jandals. Why are you coming for me? She's right there. She's right there, yeah. But my sole, I'm trying to protect myself from the floor, right? That's where the athlete's foot is. You're not touching the floor. You're protected and you look pretty cute.

Look at you, Shannon. You look ridiculous. I love this. I can't wait till this video goes online. Not bad. You know what? I'll give it a, for ingenuity, I'm going to give it a three out of five. Are you crazy? It's done online. Not bad. You know what? I'll give it a, for ingenuity, I'm going to give it a three out of five.

Are you crazy? It's done nothing. Holy shit. It's done everything. It's also entertained me highly. Technically, you've got very wet feet. Technically, she's not wrong.

Your feet do get wet in jandals and I'm actually not touching the floor of the basin. Yeah, so that's why I'm giving it a three out of five. Five? It's not a five. No, it's not a five.

Athletes with spores, people can get Spores! Yeah, becoming by indirectly by coming in contact with contaminated items, clothes, towels, etc. or surfaces such as the bathroom, shower, locker room floors or the water can hold the fungus. Well, don't let science ruin a good time. That was...

Except the Christians. I just got Hayley to tape pads to her feet for the country. I feel like that's five stars. I'm giving you three. Vaughan, out of five. Like, two tops. I'm going to say technically my feet that I'm trying to protect are not touching the shower floor.

It's a four for me. Wow, there you go. That's one of your highest hacks, Shannon. It's a four for me. Wow, there you go. That's one of your highest hacks, Shannon. It's a four for me. That is fantastic. Can I have a towel? Watch out for that video because it's worth it.

Just to see Hayley's feet in pads. Go to onlyfans.com slash FVHZM. 24 minutes away from eight. Next on the show, we want to talk about when you thought it was fine but it actually wasn't fine,

medically. Because people are sharing stories about when they thought it was fine, but it actually wasn't fine, medically. Because people are sharing stories about when they're like, oh, that'll be nothing, it'll go away. And it wasn't nothing and it didn't go away. It's a tumour. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Why did that sound weird? Did you hear that?

It sounded like two times Vaughan speaking, which would be pretty cute. I don't know. I think one's enough. I think I'd get on pretty well with myself. Vaughn squared. Yeah, Vaughn squared would be great. You know, you meet people and you're like, they wouldn't get on with themselves if they weren't them.

I think I'd get on with myself pretty well. We haven't even started this story or a solicit for people to text in and they already are. Well, this sharing stories. This started on Reddit. Yeah. People sharing strange symptoms they suffered, which is a hard sentence to say.

Strange symptoms they suffered. Strange symptoms they suffered. Thinking it was normal, but it turned out that was like quite serious. So what, maybe you feel a little bit of pain or it's something you've had since you were young and you just think, well, that's just how. Oh, that's just normal.

Well, that lump's just sort of been there. Yeah, but has that changed? But you hear of this happening all the time. Like people go to the doctor and they're like, oh, no, that's just normal. And the doctor's like, no, no, this is actually a proper thing. Yeah. My dear friend, I'm sure she's talked about this before

and so I'll take it and I'll put it on air and radio. And hope that she's talked about it. Yeah, no, I know she has. Dear friend and friend of the show, Kuda Forrester, comedian, and a short history star, she had a very large fibroid on her... What is a fibroid?

Like a growth, like just a big, almost a cyst thing, but it's massive. Yeah. And she was just sort of a bit uncomfortable and had painful periods and everyone was like,

oh yeah, that's just sort of panty me, you woman. Panty me, you woman. And then she went and got painful periods and everyone was like, oh yeah, that's just sort of, panting me a woman, panting me a woman. And then she went and got a scan and there was a fibroid on her uterus that was like the size of a small child. Jesus. And then when she got it removed, she was like, I feel amazing. And then like hadn't realised that her normal was not good. Well, this is exactly what we want to talk about this morning and just take more of these stories because it's so fascinating. Here's some examples.

Okay. My family told me I'd randomly space out, although I never remembered it. I thought it was normal. I just thought I was daydreaming and, you know, sometimes you zone out. It turns out I was having something called absence seizures. Seizures, yeah.

Yeah, okay. I went to a high school with a girl that had this and she'd just go, like, look to the side. Yeah, it's a form of epilepsy. But it's not a seizure as we call it. Yeah, as we sort of stereotypically know them, so never thought anything of it. And you went to school with a Victoria's Secrets model.

I did. Your school had everything. Yeah, I know. We had it all. Absence seizures, Victoria's Secrets, whatever you were doing. Our seventh form hangout room was a beautiful renovated villa gorgeous

gorgeous private school wild place I know this is a case with a lot of people when they don't know that they're supposed to be able

to see things clearly and then they'll try on somebody else's glasses and be like holy shit whoa the world is in high definition now

yeah yeah or people realising that they're colour blind. You know, when they're like, oh, that's a bit da-da-da. I thought everybody experienced abdominal discomfort when flying. It turns out it was recurrent appendicitis. What?

Which can kill you. No, but I thought once you got it. No, most people get to the point where the appendix is going to rupture. So they take it out. And if it bursts, it can flood your bloodstream with like poison and kill you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this person just had like a rumbling one and something about the flights activated, but it was recurrent appendicitis.

Like when you take like a bag of chips or a Coke can and it expands. Yes. Someone said, already late for work, so I can't ring, but I experienced what I thought was just really bad indigestion. Just like, oh, yeah, I've had too much to eat. That turned out to be multiple bilateral pulmonary embolisms. The pain in my chest was actually blood clots going through my heart. Oh, my God, you could have died.

When you're just like, oh, oh, get that down. Get that down. Get a bit of Gaviscon in there. Okay, well, this is exactly what we want to hear from you this morning. 0800-DARZM is the number. You can text through 9696. When did you think it was just, ah, nothing, mate. It's going to be fine.

But it probably wasn't. This is quite serious stuff. I know. There's some insane stories coming through. The things you thought were just normal but were actually like a medical problem. The texts are pouring in. It's, went to the, can I read a couple of texts? Went to the doctor,

completely unrelated issue. She asked to check my tummy. Turns out the puku wasn't from too many pies or having kids. I had a 22 by 26 centimetre cyst. Get out the tape measure. So that's how wide it was. That's how wide it was.

Whoa! That's massive. That's like a small pizza. I'd be pissed off if I got a pizza that big. No, it's a hell snack size. Yeah, it's a snack size. Don't market that as a medium. No, that's a kid. That's the smallest a pizza should ever be, but the largest

the tumour should ever be. That's a massive tumour. It was on my ovary. But the ovary's not that big. So your ovary, your poor ovary's hanging in there with this huge thing pulling on it. You'd feel like a new... Your ovary's like one olive on a snack-sized pizza.

You would feel like a new person when they got rid of that. So a lot of people messaging him being like, when they got it removed, just feeling like, oh, I was unwell. This is what normal feels like. Yeah. Yeah. Some calls. Chloe, good feeling like, oh, I was unwell. This is what normal feels like. Yeah. Some calls.

Chloe, good morning. What did you think was normal? Morning. When I was five years old, I went through a glass door, and so I had to have stitches on my forehead. And for around 20 years, I had like a little lump that would move around in it. And it started being a bit painful one day so I went to the doctor

and he had a look at it and he said yeah I think you've still got a bit of glass in there so I have to go and have surgery and have a bit of glass in there Oh my god

That is crazy Will you like make the scar a lightning bolt or do I want to get Harry Potter on this thing I did get called Harry Potter when Harry Potter came out Yes That's so good So okay and it was always just moving around get Harry Potter on this thing. I did get called Harry Potter when Harry Potter came out. Yes, that's

so good. So, okay, and it was always just moving around and it was a bit lumpy and you just were like, well, that's normal because I went through a glass door. Yeah, I just thought it was part of the scar, like a bit of scar tissue that sort of popped in and out. That is wild.

Did you keep that, wait, did you keep the bit of glass? I put it in like a ring. I did. Yeah, you did. I did, I still got it, yeah. You should get it like? I put it in like a ring. Yeah, you did. I did. I still got it. Yeah, I still got it. You should get it like put in a little thing in a ring. That'll be fun. It wasn't like a tiny, insignificant, invisible shard.

You obviously can see it. Yeah, and it's quite small. Obviously, it was in my forehead and I didn't notice it for 20 years. 20 years? Yeah, it's big enough to see. Far out, Chloe. That is crazy. What is in your head?

Glass? Yeah, not rocks. Not rocks, but literal glass. Chloe, thank you for sharing. Lisa, what did you think was normal but was actually like a medical issue? So I went to the gym on a Friday night and I had done abs for ages, so I like did an ab workout. And the next morning I was like,

oh my God, oh my God, my abs are so sore. I must have gone way too hard out and then all weekend I couldn't really eat and I was starting to feel like worse and worse

and then on the Sunday night I was like in bed and I couldn't sleep or move and I was like Googling and I was like, oh shit, maybe I'm constipated.

So I went to hospital and they're like, oh no, you actually, you've got appendicitis and it's burst and we're going to have to do surgery. And I was like, oh, okay. I would say burst appendix is the single

most common response we've had to this topic. Which you've got, because it does set out minor and it just escalates. Because if you don't get to hospital, it can kill you. It will kill you, yeah. And you literally crunched your appendix open. You think

that it's going to be just on the side, but it's actually like pain across your whole stomach, so I was like, well, that's just mad, you know? Yeah. Ripped skin straight away. Lisa, thank you. Someone said if I might

sidebar, I've approached the sidebar. Might I digress? No, might I? And I said, of course, digressions are always welcome here. My husband's done the opposite twice. He said he had major stomach pain and it was really bad and it was a burst of appendix. He went, turned out he just had a little bit of gas.

Needed a bath. And then he got quarantined for a week because they thought he had German measles. He was allergic to antibiotics and had just forgotten, so he was having a skin reaction. Keep your texts coming in, 9696 0800, dial ZM,

those are, yeah, we'll get to those next. This is insane. When you thought something was going to be fine, turned out big medical issue. There's themes, eh?

There's definitely themes. A lot of women with the pain and being like, bad periods, and being like, nope, huge growth. I was really tired.

I was working in hospital, partying too hard. I thought, this is just life. Turns out I was in renal failure. Now that's when your kidneys shut down. What? Oh my God. Needed a kidney transplant

and now back on dialysis. Sidebars. Sidebar. Welcome. Join the sidebar. If any of your listeners want to donate a kidney, get in touch. I've only got one. Share your Join the sidebar. If any of your listeners want to donate a kidney, get in touch.

I've only got one. Share your spare is my saying. Share your spare. You don't want mine, mate. It's not in good nick. It's the heavy lifter of the Smith board. The kidney in the liver. The kidney in the liver.

Wow, it would make a lovely pie. Yeah. The pie is pre-marinated. It's an ale pie. Sometimes when you see donor on people's licenses, you're like I don't think they want any of it. When you're in renal failure, you're like, not

is. My wife was an incredibly heavy sleeper. I had severe pains, couldn't wake her, ended up driving myself to the R4H's clinic. When she woke up in the morning and rang to find out where I was, they were prepping me for emergency surgery for appendicitis. Oh, yeah. We still laugh about it.

You couldn't wake her? I thought it was going to be her health issue that you couldn't wake her. Okay, this is an amazing story. My mum was feeling unwell for ages, bad headaches. The doctor said she was fine, so she thought, maybe I just need new glasses. So she went to Specsavers. Shout out Specsavers. Yeah. Because they identified that she had a brain I just need new glasses. So she went to Specsavers. Shout out Specsavers

because they identified that she had a brain tumour. Holy shit. What? Because they see it through the eye. Maybe, but must have. Because they look right through and they can see into your skull.

And if something's pushing on the back of the eye, that's the pain and the headache and they're like, well, no, that compression back there. Should have gone to Specsavers. She bloody did

and it saved her life. She had to have major surgery to have her brain tumour removed. Should have gone. She did. No, you guys, no, she did. Should have gone to Specsavers. She bloody did and it saved her life. She had to have major surgery to have her brain tumour removed. Should have gone. She did. No, she did. Should have gone to Specsavers. She should have gone to Specsavers.

She should have gone to Specsavers. She did go to Specsavers. No, but she should have gone. I know she should have and she did. I was sitting on her optic nerve. Yeah. Should have gone to Specsavers. She did go to Specsavers.

No, but she should have gone. Somebody else. Yeah, she did. Somebody else moving on. Somebody else. Just to confirm she absolutely did go to Specsavers. She did go to Specsavers. No, but she should have gone. Somebody else. Yeah, she did. Somebody else moving on. Somebody else. Just to confirm, she absolutely did go to Specsavers. She should have gone. She did.

Oh, God. My family thought I was zoning out a lot. Turns out I also had the epilepsy that you described before. You just like leave the room for a bit and come back and be like, oh, I feel terrible. Epileptic. I've had lower back pain since my teens. Docs just gave me pain meds in my 40s.

I moved to New Zealand and asked a doctor for pain meds, and he said, I'm not giving you pain meds. Not refilling this prescription enough for 20 years. Go and get an x-ray. Scoliosis. Oh, my God. That's the spine turning into an S. That's the spine twist and turn.

Mike, where is it? My cousin had been going to the doctors for what they thought was food allergies and intermittent pain in their stomach. One night it got so bad, went to the hospital and while they were trying to figure it out, what food was causing all the allergies, she just started going into labour. Straight up pregnant.

Baby. I don't understand how people wait that long. Like if anything is wrong with me, I'm like, doctor. I'm so, I've investigated. Ouch, ouch, ouch. Inside and out, yeah. Turned so, I've investigated inside and out. Turned 40 and thought that

the breast lump would turn out to be nothing. Don't do that. Oh, no, no, no, no. I did a check the other day. Yeah? Big thorough one

because they've gotten so, they've lost a lot of density and it's a lot easier to feel for lumps. When they used to be like, pfft, firm, couldn't feel much. Now they're

super soft and they're like feeling for a pee and a half filled balloon or something. Yeah, that soft. I feel like I'm feeling for a pee. A little rattling around. Peeing in a half-filled balloon or something. Yeah, that is. That's a lot easier. Get in there.

But you've got to do it. You've got to do it. Yeah. Thought it was going to be nothing. Thought the she'll be right attitude will take care of it. Eventually, I was like, oh, I should probably get that checked. Actually, I did 17 months of intense cancer treatment. Yeah.

One month's checks. Early girls. Yeah. You have to. You've got to. So many lost a lot of weight. I've never been a skinny person before. After every meal, my stomach would stick out and protrude like a huge bulge.

I thought it was just bloating. I was reacting to food. And then I was wearing a tight T-shirt one day, and my best friend was one that said, that is not bloating. That's too weird. Went to a specialist. Had a giant undiagnosed hernia that needed an urgent operation.

Just what? Oh, my God. Hernia's a tear in the abdominal wall and an intestine's poking out. Yeah. I've heard urgent surgery. I used to vomit every morning and feel really unwell. I just thought it was, you know how some people get that in the morning but anxiety about the day?

Turns out I had a brain tumour at nine years old. Oh, my God. I showed none of the usual signs, and they put it down to the fact that I'd been doing dance for so long, and my brain had just rewired itself around the tumour, so my balance wasn't affected, and I never got the headaches. The strings in the brain. The brain worms.

The pink brain worms. Someone else said my friend had headaches for years, thought it was normal, turns out it was a brain tumour Do you know what When his vision started going blurry And was like oh god the headaches My vision's gone blurry The doctor was like

Then got the tumour removed Alive And was like life rules I feel so much better Oh my god I've just had a side thought Yeah sidebar Sidebar if I may

Good party happening here at the sidebar What about the hypochondriacs that are listening This will be doing nothing for them Side thought. Yeah, sidebar. Sidebar if I may. There's a good party happening here at the sidebar. What about the hypochondriacs that are listening? This will be doing nothing for them. Oh, we've sent them over the edge. They'll be like, you are one. I'm not a hypochondriac. I did my first wee test the other day.

And you were like, how have you never done a urine test? I am a little bit. But that's why I have every MRI, every x-ray, every test. I'm sorry I went to the doctor for my aching testicle switch. Also, Hayley has what you're on your eighth doctor now, 20th doctor. Yeah, 20th doctor. Someone just messaged in saying,

you're absolutely right, fellow hypochondriac here. I've just booked a doctor's appointment for this afternoon just to go over the usual list. And probably should go to Specsavers too. Oh, and you should probably go to Specsavers. Should've. One minute away from eight, we'll have the latest in news next and then it's...

Wait, one more, one more. I was having fun times with my boyfriend. It was fun times. Fun. There he was. Felt a bit of pain at the end and just thought,

good for you, sir. Must have thought it was a size issue. Cervical cancer. What? I did not expect that. I didn't think that's where that story was going. Felt a bit of pain, went, ooh, must be a big boy.

Nope, cervical cancer. So it's actually just quite small then. Yes, tiny. Tiny. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Friday. Flashback.

Flashback. Flashback. Well, it would have been your pick Hayley for Friday Flashback today but we decided we decided today there was no doubt that it was going to be One Direction because of the sad passing of Liam Payne yesterday in tragic circumstances

and it's awful I forgot he's a kid of the sad passing of Liam Payne yesterday in tragic circumstances. And it's awful. I forgot he's a kid with Cheryl Crow. No, Cheryl Cole. Cheryl Cole. Every time I say Cheryl Crow, I'm always like, it's not right. Also, I could have jumped in straight away, but it was...

You watched me drown. I watched you, yeah. That's okay. But yeah, fell from a third-story building. Died on impact, basically. It's just awful. It's crazy the world we live in now. All the details were online.

Too many details were online. It was like too many. I didn't like that. Disgusting. Even if you weren't looking for them, they were there and you were just like, whoa. I was sort of off the internet until all had been removed. But I was seeing articles being like, people have posted pictures. Have some respect. It's disgusting.

And it's very, very sad. But to commemorate him, we thought a One Direction song. I know he had solo stuff, but everyone, you know, everyone loves the One Direction. It's got to be over 10 years old. Has he been solo for 10 years? Nah, not solidly. Yeah, everyone loves the One Direction. It's got to be over 10 years old. Has it been solo for 10 years? No, not solidly.

Yeah, listener voted today. Producer Shannon, and you were saying before, a lot of your groups, Facebook groups, that you had when you were like 11 or 12. Yeah, groups that haven't been active in over 10 years. Girls that live in different countries now. I don't even know what they do for work, but we all immediately reached out like,

oh my goodness. And we were like reminiscing on how much we used to love One Direction and just lots of memories. And you wrote fan fiction. Yeah. Me and my co-authors

of our One Direction fan fiction reached out to each other. Wow. Yeah, it was really, really sad. Publish it. Publish it. I didn't know what the words meant that I was writing.

You'd seen them once somewhere on a forum and went, okay. Yeah. Carlin, what about you? You were the big One Direction fan. Yeah, it was hard. I had like girlies reaching out to me who I hadn't spoken to in years as well. But also like my mum reached out. Like she was one of the first people.

Oh, she was like, are you okay? Yeah. And I didn't expect that. Like, I didn't know that she would have already seen it. But she would have experienced, as a mum, watching you grow up with posters all over your... Exactly. Yeah, and, like, Liam was one of my faves.

Was he your number one, though? He was, and then I grew up and found Harry, you know? Oh. He was your pre-pubescent fave. I was normally the other way around. I thought Harry was the cute little dude that you were into before. And then when you went through puberty, you went to a Zayn or a Liam. That's fair.

I just also think that he was like a little bit of the underdog, right? Like he was a really good singer, but he was never like the frontman of the group. The lead, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm like an underdog, you know? Well, we asked from six o'clock this morning To vote for your One Direction song of choice And it was a resounding kind of vote of unison It was This song is from 2013

It was released in October In fact, it was released almost to the day The 28th of October One Direction That's 10 days away, so Almost to the day That's almost to the day. Would you say 10 days is almost?

To the day? In terms of a whole year, that's almost to the day. Vaughan, are you staying out of this? I'm politically neutral, man. I'm bipartisan. I'm bipartisan on the whole issue. Resounding. It's a resounding vote for One Direction's Story of My Life

today's Friday Flashback on ZM. Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain. Story of my life. One Direction's Story of My Life, it's your Friday Flashback on ZM. A resounding winner from your votes today. We asked you to pick the song because of the sad passing of Liam Payne yesterday. A lot of people texting in just saying like oh my god who's crying

very beautiful even if they're not One Direction fans. It's really, it's moving people today. Very sad news. Yeah. And we're lucky. Only 31. I know. Far, far too soon. In the words of Flavor Flav himself. He actually tweeted that. Far too soon. Comma, comma, comma. Comma, comma, comma. In the words of Flavor Flav himself,

he actually tweeted that, far too soon. Comma, comma, comma. Comma, comma, comma, comma. I don't know why he used the commas. No one knows. We're joined on the phone by, all the way from London, entertainment reporter for Metro UK, a website that we actually all use a lot.

Lily Rowan, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining us, Lily. Hello, my Kiwi media fam. How are you? Good. Bloody good, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for joining us, Lily. Hello, my Kiwi media fam. How are you? Bloody good, mate. Bloody good. A lot of Kiwi over in London, though. You won't be missing them too much.

Guys, you cannot move without running into a Kiwi. It's actually ridiculous. Aren't you flatting in a house with 12 other New Zealanders? Isn't that the way the Kiwis live over there? Throw in a couple Aussies and we're good to go. You haven't got a South African in the mix. Hey? You haven't got a South African in the mix. Not at the moment, but you know what? I feel like, give me another couple months and it could happen. You've got to get one in there. Now Lily, obviously extremely sad

news. Yesterday Liam Payne passing away at the age of 31. Not a nice thing I imagine for you as an entertainment reporter to have to cover. Waking up this morning and seeing that, I literally cannot tell you the shock that I was in. My boyfriend thought that my grandma or someone had died because all I could say was, oh, my God. Oh, my God.

It's absolutely heartbreaking. And obviously, I mean, were you a One Direction fan yourself? A 1D or what do they call them? Huge, huge. Yeah, what do they call them now? Directionists. Directionists. Yes, huge 1D fan.

Went to their concert when I was like 15. I think it was my first concert. Me too. I think I was 15 at their concert. No one believed that. No one even entertained the idea. I remember taking

winners to the Sydney show and being deafened. I had never heard screams like it when they went on stage. It was insane. Well, the fans are

hardcore, aren't they, Lily? Oh, so intense, yeah. And I think the devastation I just felt, it's so intense. I think everyone you see and talk to here

is just, everyone is going through the stages of grief. Yeah. You know, there's anger. There's, like, there's upset. There's disbelief. It's just, it's insane. Now, none of the One Direction members have posted anything yet, have they?

There's been a lot of celebrity comment, but no actual official word yet? Nothing from them yet. I believe Liam's family spoke out this morning briefly. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, so sad. But no, nothing from the boys yet. I feel as though it could be a bit like the friends when Matthew Perry died.

I think maybe they'll release a joint statement. Yeah, I'm sure that they're all talking, right? I mean, it's very devastating. Not fair. And he saw Niall, you know, two weeks ago. So is there much like... You're in London, obviously, a place that absolutely loves

One Direction. Is there much like sort of gathering on the streets? Are you seeing sort of gaggles of young women all together in mourning? Look, I haven't seen that, but I have been talking to a few friends. My boyfriend was in his office,

and that big office of recruitment boys, you know, very white collar, and they were playing One Direction all afternoon as tribute to Liam. And then another friend, you know, she was in North London, and little things came on the radio, and she said she just, she peed up. She had to go to the

bathroom and just sort herself out. So, yeah, I think it's being felt far and wide for sure. It's definitely, it feels like a real moment in culture, doesn't it? That we all remember this because it's just so tragic. He's so young. Absolutely. And I think it's like the first big death for my generation as well, our generation, you know.

You don't really expect it to happen. Yeah, because we've all been through Prince and Michael Jackson and as well or our generation you know you don't really expect it to happen yeah because we've all been through Prince and Michael Jackson and the likes like that you know I was going to say

some non-problematic people Matthew Perry I was going to say Princess Diana was my yeah right yeah first big one

or when Steve Irwin died everyone was just like what? that's still fresh I reckon especially in the UK we'll see it though, because I saw where he passed away in Buenos Aires, that fans were sort of gathering around the general area,

which I imagine is probably a pain for police, but people are gathering in vigil somewhat to remember him, and I'm sure that'll be happening in the UK as well. I would say so, yeah. And I think when he comes back to the UK and when the boys make a statement, it'll obviously hurt all over again. Very sad news.

Well, thank you for, you know, keeping us informed on the comings and goings of this tragic event, Lily. So awful. Thank you so much, guys. Hey, thank you. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. So yesterday

I had a busy day yesterday. I got home at 4.30 after work. That's a 12 hour day. That's a big day. I had a number of appointments. I went to therapy. You guys didn't come up. Went to the gym. I keep telling you we're not the problem.

I think if she keeps digging though. We'll be down there somewhere. You'll be down there somewhere. No, I don't think we will be. Yeah. But I where did I go after that? I did a thing and then I did a thing and then I did a thing and then I had a little bit of time. I had like an hour and a half

in between one appointment and the other. Got my nails done. Went with a sort of a red wine. A mulled red wine. Yeah, they look good. Really good. Perfect for Halloween. And so where I get my nails done, shout out a sort of a red wine, a mulled red wine. Yeah, they look good. Really good. Perfect for Halloween. And so where I get my nails done, shout out to Sophie, she always listens to the show. God, she's like, God, you guys are funny. She loves the phoners.

She loves the phone and topics. She always says to me, I love it when you guys are like, oh, you ask a question and then people ring up. And then they share their stories. It's the bread and butter of the show. It's the bread and butter of the show. That's what I love the most

about our show is the callers. It's the callers. It's you guys. The stories are always incredible. Like the phone and tablet we just did. I know.

It's an incredible story. We're going to do another one soon. We're going to do another. Sophie, it's bread and butter. Sophie, stay tuned. We're going to do another one soon.

Don't show how the sausage is made. I'll show them the whole sausage, which must be 25 to 30%. I'm not my sausage. Which must be 25 to 30% fat if you want a decent sausage. Oh, shush with your fat stats. The butcher's magic ratio. Anyway, I had an appointment with Sophie,

but I had a bit of time. And she's in Browns Bay, and it's beautiful out there. So whenever I go, if I've got a bit of a spare time. Little Joburg. Little Joburg, yeah. In Browns Bay and it's beautiful out there. So whenever I go, if I've got a bit of a spare time. Little Joburg. Little Joburg, yeah. In Browns Bay. When I go to Browns Bay, I always think to myself, I'm going to go sit at the beach and just like soak up Rangitoto.

It's my favourite island. Do you park? Do you park at the beach? I park my car at the beach in the car park. And I get to the house and there's always like a picnic table. Oh, you're losing it. Pull back. I know.

I'm scared now. Where am I going? Our South African friends say you do a very good South African accent. I know, I know. Anyway, so I did, I parked my car in Browns Bay and I had a full hour. And I just thought, oh my gosh. An hour? An hour, a full hour.

And I thought to myself, I'm going to go, I'm going to sit at a park bench. I'm going to soak in some beautiful nature. I've got to drop it. It's going to get problematic soon. Because somehow I always end up in India and I don't know how it gets here. Right. Speaking of India,

I was sitting at a park bench and I had a book in my bag. I was like, I'm going to read a book, look at Rangitoto, which is my favourite island to look at and soak in some beautiful blue skies. It was a bit windy, but it was nice. I was like, I'm going to read a book, look at Rangitoto, which is my favourite island to look at, and soak in some beautiful blue skies.

It was a bit windy, but it was nice. Anyway, I sat there reading my book. What's the book? What is it called? It's called Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. It's called My Coworkers Aren't the Problem. Yeah, recommended to me by my therapist. Maybe I'm the problem. My Coworkers Aren't the Problem, parentheses, yeah. Was it recommended to me by my therapist? Maybe I'm the problem. My co-workers aren't the problem,

parentheses, maybe it's me, in parentheses. It's called, it's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me. No, it's called

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Anyway, I was reading my book and then I heard someone was like eating lunch at the park bench behind me and I sort of turned and looked and thought nothing of it.

And then I, this gentleman, a very handsome Indian gentleman, kind of approached me and said, hi, I looked across at you and I thought that you looked so much like, and he said a name, like you look so much like this person

who I used to live with. And so I was looking at you thinking, is that so and so? But then you turned around and I realised it wasn't yeah but what I realized is that you're very beautiful and I was like hi wow let me place it on my book sir and he stuck out his hand he introduced himself and I said I'm Hayley and he said what are you doing and I said oh I'm just reading a book I'm waiting to see a friend yeah which is my Sophie my now girl so I'm just waiting to see a friend I said, I'm Hayley. And he said, what are you doing? And I said, oh, I'm just reading a book. I'm waiting to see a friend. Yeah. Which is Sophie, my now girl.

So I'm just waiting to see a friend. I said, what are you doing? He's like, I start work in 15 minutes. I said, where do you work? He works over there. He commented on the moon. The moon's been making everyone crazy. Yeah, it is, has been.

Yeah, so he mentioned where he worked and whatnot. And then he said, what do you do? And sometimes when you work in an industry like this, it's like almost too complicated to explain it. Oh, what station are you on? Or like, oh, what have you been on that I will know? It couldn't be simpler. No, but then it was, I don't know. What do you do for a while?

I work in radio. What do you do? I do the talking part. When? In the mornings. Do you pick the songs? No, it's too much. I said I work in media.

I just said I work in media. Mainstream media. And he goes, oh, you're a're a reporter he said i hope you're not reporting are you recording me now i hope you're not reporting on me and i said i am actually i'm recording every single word you're saying and he said oh my god am i going to end up on the news and i said well maybe you have to watch the news tomorrow and find out so i was we were just having a bit of fun a bit of banter yeah and then he goes well why don't we watch the news together tomorrow? This is a smooth, this is a smooth do. So smooth. This is a smooth operator.

And by the way he takes this. Please cue Shard A Classic smooth operator. Okay, we'll pause for smooth operator. Hang on, I've got a tick song operator. No, but hang on. Smith operator. If I was. Von Smith operator. If I was... Von Smith operator.

If I owned a construction company that had operations involved then I'd definitely... Smith operator. Smith operator. You'd have to call it Smith operator. Smith operator. Yeah. Okay, so this smooth operator when he thinks that I'm reporting on him for the news, he says to me,

why don't we watch the news together tomorrow night? And I said, oh. And I think I just said like, oh, I'm not going to be on the news. And he was like, I think we should hang out tomorrow night anyway. Give me your number. And he pulls out his phone like this.

And I was like, go you! I see the engagement ring's back on today. No, it's not. That's just a plain ring. I was looking at the wrong hand. This is a plain old ring. Bought it for myself for 30 bucks, babe. Smooth operator.

And you know, I have expressed in the past, as a white woman predominantly, and today I got whiter, I've always wanted to be an Indian bride. I know, because you want the five-day wedding. I want the five-day wedding. I want all the colour and the henna and the sari. So I considered it for a moment. But I did.

And I said to him, I'm sorry, I've got a boyfriend. And he goes, he said, well. Well, he didn't. You've actually got a fiancé. Boyfriend felt better at the time. To let him know that, there's a slight chance. Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let him know. I know. And I said to him, I was like, thank you. But I said, but thank you so much. And he said, well, you yeah, yeah. You know? Let him know. I know, and I said to him, I was like, but thank you so much. He said, well, you're very welcome and you're also very beautiful so I'm sad that you've got a boyfriend. But have a nice day

and then he took his leave. Do you know what I mean? He took his leave. I know. Beautiful. Pitting on me. Beautiful. Like 10 out of 10,

no notes. That was smooth. I couldn't do that. How nice. Could you just walk up to someone and do that? No way. And he did a fumble at one point. I think he knew his secret weapon because he had sunglasses on

and he was talking to me. Oh, he got the old peepers out. He flips his sunglasses off. He's got bright eyes. Indian boy bright eyes. Nearly had me, but anyway. Nearly had the fish on the line. Nearly had me. Nearly had the fish on the line. Anyway, do you know what?

He walked away and I was, I just had like a big dumb grin on and I was all chuckly and it really made my day. It was not, I didn't feel, I didn't feel hassled.

It was just 10 out of 10 hitting on me. Wow. Yeah, I know. And I realise, still got a glow. Crank it! Cos he was a smooth operator.

Smooth operator. Anyway, if anyone's in Browns Bay, right, and they're looking for a beautiful brown boy. Yeah. For a husband. Get a book at the park bench. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's Mount Everest week here at Fact of the Day. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- that i don't know if you've answered yeah how long does it take good question yes how long does it climb we'll start right here how long does that time client climbs down fair blah blah blah clear 66 days in your schedule if you want to climb out if you want to climb out every 66 days now this includes day one i thought it was just like an overnight. Like, you know, park at the bottom of the mountain, up and down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, up and down. Day one, arrive in Kathmandu. Wait, which one? Because they've got like 60 stores formed.

The place. In the mall? The geographical setting. Not the shop. Rickerton or Sylvia Park? Days two and three, you're both being silly and I've got a lot to get through. Please. You're both being silly and I'm... a lot to get through. Please. You're both being silly and I'm...

Well, I don't know where to park. He's got his belt out! He did it the sexy way, by the way. Get your belt away! Who's getting it first? No one. No one? Carry on, Vaughn.

Sorry. That's your final warning! That's what my dad used to do, whack the table. I think Hayley's old enough that this has a different meaning now. Maybe stop. Sorry. What are you going to do? Oh, my God.

I'm in trouble, Daddy. What am I going to do? Punish me. Days two and three. Don't hold the belt up at me. Shopping and trip preparation. Day four, go to the Ministry of Tourism and get your official briefing at the Ministry of Tourism. Number, day five, fly from Kathmandu.

What happened to three and four? No, that was prepping and shopping and like getting all your local supplies. Local supplies. So we go to a Kathmandu outlet. There'll be other outlet stores nearby. Sorry. One more and you're getting it. Right across the ass.

Oh no. Fly from Kathmandu No jokes To Lukea And trek to Is it that crazy Airport they always Show videos of And the runway

Is like a banana Oh And they land And they've got a pole Didn't Sered help build that Maybe I think Sered played A major part in building that

Trek from Trek for six hours So okay So the first trek You get to 2640 metres The second trek On the next day For six hours. Okay, so the first trek you get to 2,640 metres. The second trek on the next day for six hours will take you to 3,446 metres.

There is an acclimatisation day and a rest day, which you will need. You then trek to 3,800 metres on day eight. Day nine, trek to 4,200. There's a lot of trekking. Each day you go further and further. But we're not climbing yet. No, on day 11, you finally reach Everest Base Camp

at 5,360 metres and there is accommodation. Then clear day 12 through day 60 for the climbing period because you've got to wait for the right weather. You've also got camp after base camp. You've got camp one, two, three and four. To go back down through. To go up to. Oh, up to. Yeah, and then

obviously that whole time, then you've got to go back down to Everest base camp and then pretty much reverse trek the whole thing that you did. God, that'd be a pain. And once you get to base camp, being like, I just want to get home now. You know what I mean? Like the trek. Like you said yesterday, paying anywhere from

$100,000 to $300,000. Yeah. Which seemed outrageous, but now you think it's two months of intense. Yeah. What are these people doing for a living though? Like are you taking time off work? Yeah, I think if you've got that much money.

Yeah. All right. So that was one of how long it takes. I liked that. Another fact today is that more people have died climbing Tabletop Mountain in Cape Town on South Africa than have died climbing Everest. Really? Because much like our mountains, there was that guy rescued off Taranaki

who was just like, I'll just go up and give it a blast. It doesn't look that high or hard. There's hardly any snow on it. And then the sun disappears and that soft spring snow turns to ice. Yeah. Idiot. Poor planning, dehydration, exposure, and losing concentration while taking selfies

are the main killers in Tabletop Mountain. I mean, you're getting a couple of selfies, aren't you? Yeah. Another fact about Everest is the oxygen level at the top of Everest is the same as in utero. So in utero, the oxygen level you get as a baby is designed to keep you asleep. So you don't become conscious in the womb.

So that's why when you're in Everest, that's basically not enough oxygen to be physically active in, let alone maintain consciousness for an extreme period of time. And finally, I want to tell you, two men are the only known men who have paraglided off the top of Mount Everest. Oh, wow. You're in the clouds. It'll be so scary.

Apparently, like, a one in a million chance that the weather's going to be the right sort of weather and it's not just going to suck you out and just blow you straight back into the mountain. But you brought the paraglide with it. They both went in the same paraglide. It was a tandem, so it's shared

carrying stuff up. So they are both locals and they're the only people ever to have officially because they documented the whole thing. And it is a big no-no. Was it a Red Bull stunt? No. Got Red Bull stunt written all over it.

But then they're worried about getting in trouble. So they paraglide off the top of Mount Everest. They land, immediately jump in a kayak and kayak 500 miles down the Ganges River to the Indian Ocean. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you don't deserve to face any kind of repercussions for that kind of adventure.

Not if your idea of a swift escape is a 500-mile kayak adventure. Amazing. Down what I'm imagining is a fairly full-on river. So today's facts have just been Everest. It's been a fun week, and it's a big old mountain. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Big news yesterday. It's shocking news, actually.

And when this kind of news happens, like the death of Liam Payne, you always remember where you were when you received this big news. Like, for those old enough, Princess Di, Michael Jackson, Steve Irwin. Oh, yeah. Heath Ledger. I don't remember. Yes. I remember the Heath Ledger.

We were working when Michael Jackson died. We were filling in on mornings. That's right. We were doing the Heath Ledger. We were working when Michael Jackson died. We were filling in on mornings. That's right. We were doing the morning madhouse. We were. I was working. Crazy times. Crazy.

I was working in retail and I had him on the radio. Just coincidentally. On my iPod. And someone came in and was like, bloody sad, isn't it? And I was like, what? He died. He died. I cried.

I was mowing the lawns when Princess Diana passed because Chris Jensen rang. Chris bloody Jensen, how is he? He was on teletext. Oh mate. He said, Princess Diana's in a car accident. I said, shit, no good. And then he rang back. He's like, she's gone mate. And I was like, bloody hell, that's hard. And I said, mum, Princess Diana's died.

Who told you that? I told him I'm the queen guys. Producer girlies, you were in a sacred place yesterday when you heard the news. Yeah, look, it couldn't have been a better place, to be fair. I did a little bit of retail therapy afterwards. We were in the middle of Mecca. Oh, yeah.

Did you get some bum bum cream? I didn't, you know. I've actually moved over to the Kmart Joop. Yeah. Really? What's the price difference? Kmart Joop's 10 bucks, Tim. Oh, wow.

It smells exactly the same. Okay. But yeah, we let out a little squeal, a little scream, because we were like, oh my gosh. And then we were just looking around like no one else has read this. Did you almost go, guys? Yeah. Like we walked up to the counter.

Please, everybody, put down your cosmetics. I'm talking serious news. Add more things to your cart. Get the waterproof mascara. Yeah, true. And also Vaughn was how we found out. I had so many notifications of people blowing up my phone that the first one I

went to was our chat because usually you guys are telling me to do something. And so I was like, what do they want? Oh no, kindly, kindly. Shut up. You know, just like we're just so talented. And so I was like, what do they want? And it was Vaughn being like, oh my god, have you seen? Yeah. But not just like we're just and so I was like what do they want and it was Vaughn being like oh my god have you seen yeah

but not just like these celebrity deaths like bad news comes when it comes yeah you know what I mean and you can never choose where you are

that's why it's bad news what if it's spoiled like bad news has spoiled something for somebody like oh you can't go to you can't enjoy something

because it's always synonymous it's a reminder I remember my dad I was doing a play it was my first ever professional play out of drama school You can't go to, you can't enjoy something because it's always synonymous with that. It's a reminder of that. I remember my dad, I was doing a play. It was my first ever professional play out of drama school and I did a fantastic British accent. Okay.

To which my acting teacher from drama school came and saw it and said, oh, what was that accent? Anyway, I digress. And my dad. Did you throw in their face those who can't teach I didn't I didn't do that no

he's a lovely man don't say that how dare you no but I was I think my dad forgot that I was literally like putting on my makeup to do this play

and he rung me to let me know that my granddad had died his dad and I was like oh shoot what do you want oh come on

and I cried and then I had to go on stage and be like hello girls what are we doing today it was really quite it was surreal.

Well, you imagine like you're in the middle of a Brazilian and your phone rings and you don't want to answer it, but you see it's mum and you're like, well, she never calls during the day. Odd hours, your heart starts racing. And she's like, Gran's dead and you're getting a Brazilian. Oh, I know. And you're like, well, I can't think about Gran right now. For real.

Gran would have loved this. That's what we want to ask this morning. In those horrible times when you've had some bad news or you've heard about a celeb death or a death in the family or a friend or whatever. Where were you when you were told? Because you cannot choose it. Were you standing in the middle of pack and save?

Or you're at some amazing concert and your dad texts you like, hey, Hong, give me a call. I hate that. Hey, when you're free, Hong, give me a call. I hate that. Hey, when you're free, can you give us a call? Why? Why? Who is it? Not urgent.

Not urgent, but give us a call when you can. You always state it's not urgent if someone hasn't died. Yeah, exactly. Okay, 0800 DARS at Emerson number. Give us a call. Text her as well, 9696. Where were you when you received some significant bad news? Where were you when you got the news?

Steph, what were you about to do when you heard about your nan passing? I was about to walk into one of my exams for my degree. Literally, five minutes. Oh, no. No, you see, I would have preferred to get the call after. What was the call? So my dad always texts, like, are you busy? Or are you free?

And he texts me, he always texts me before he calls me. And so I just ignored him thinking, oh, it's just him calling me to have a chat. And then he rung me pretty instantly. And I was like, perfect. So now every time he texts me, I freak out. And then he rung me pretty instantly. And I was like, perfect. So now every time he texts me, I freak out. That's sad. Yeah.

They don't tone it, do they? My mum has started going, not urgent, not urgent, but when you can, give us a call back. Like that. And you're like, oh, okay, that's all good. Yeah, but mum's version sometimes of not urgent, not urgent, is I've got cancer. You know what I mean? Like how mums are like, we will just protect you.

It's not urgent. Oh, no, my mum just wouldn't tell me until it was done. She won't tell us about it. She doesn't want to worry anybody. Yeah, like can't get the Wi-Fi to work in cancer, the kind of almost same urgency. Yeah, but it's not urgent. Not urgent, darling.

Steph, thank you. Georgia, where were you when you found out the bad news? Yeah, I was at Australia Zoo the day that Steve Irwin died. Oh, my God. I remember we were on air, weren't we, that day, Vaughn? Yeah. It was either before or after. I can't really remember.

I think it was on air in the afternoons. And just being devastated, like, just so shocked. Yeah. Everybody was like, what? What a treasure. But you were at the epicenter. What was that like? They actually didn't tell anyone that was at the zoo.

The zookeepers all knew, but they kept it on the down low. So we found out through friends, but yeah. Wow. That's wild. Can I just take a moment to say how proud he'd be of his children? Oh my God. I was watching some TVwin TV the other day It's still wholesome stuff

Quality stuff, Georgia, thank you Keep your texts coming in, 9696 0800 DARS at M Where you were when you got some bad news Do you know we were trying to work out when Steve Erwin passed I've just had a message From Clint From Brian Clint, who we used to work with, of course.

Not the other one. You and Vaughn were on air when Steve Irwin passed because I was driving the Roadrunners and we were at Manico Westfield. Does he remember what they were giving away? Bollie sunglasses. Probably some chips or something. Chips and Bollie sunglasses.

Some drinks or muesli bars or something. Yeah. And you guys were the ones that broke the news to me on air. Oh, wow. So, yeah, we were. Amazing. It's actually a really important job that we do. Actually, it's just message mellow puffs.

There must have been a new mellow puff flavour. Yum. The big ones that used to crack on your head and that hurt. Yum. Yum. Yum. I hate mellow puffs. Because you like marshmallows.

A caramel swirl. Oh, yum. Do they do those? Was there a raspberry mellow puff at one stage? Or am I, is that a fever dream? Do you know what? The Woolworths or the Countdown, whatever, the Rocky Road ones, they're like a mellow puff, but they've got peanuts in them

and a raspberry or something. They're the best. Does Rocky Road have peanuts in it? Yeah, they're a Rocky Road mellow puff. They're a Rocky Road mellow puff, and they're actually better than mellow puffs. I'll go out there and say it. That's actually really brave.

Yeah, thanks. A brave start it. That's actually really brave. Yeah, thank you. A brave start. What I'm doing there is saying a store brand is better than a big brand. Ooh, guys,

it's 9.01. Yeah, I know. See ya. Well, I'm having fun even though it's Friday and we're going out to brunch.

Technically, we have finished so we should just tap out but let's read a couple of these messages because the listeners We'll just leave the mics running while we catch up.

The listeners have sent in some wild stories. Here's a funny one for you. We were away on holiday in Australia when my husband's mum's sister, no, with my husband's mum, sister and families, when his father called to say that his partner had passed away. We were all at Movie World at the time, but we hated her, so we went out for dinner. Okay.

Right, don't bring down the holiday. Yeah, I know. I've just got one. It seems like one of those ones Where someone tries to sneak in Like a well-known pop culture reference As their own story Oh, like Seymour Oh, right

It's not a shout out Because, you know, Georgia gets a few of these On Friday Jam Seymour Butt She's always saying the songs for Seymour Butt Yeah, no, no, it's not like that It's like, you know, someone will text message in If we're doing something that was

They get you, don't they, Georgia? They get you with those. Hey, Dum Dum. I've actually never heard the Seymour Butt one. It's from the Simpsons. It's from them. Oh, my God, I love that. Most heaven.

Guys, keep those coming through because that tickled me this morning. I didn't even hear Seymour Butt. If you want to get one over Georgia and you want a Friday Jam shout out. I'm happy as. Bye. Some of these texts are straight up sad. Yeah. Like there's you want a Friday Jam shout out. I'm happy as pie. Some of these texts are straight up sad. Yeah. Like there's not even a funny twist on it.

This is the one that I thought might have been like from a TV show or something. Came home from a nice holiday late at night when we noticed the flashing light on the answer machine. Press the button to hear my mother-in-law's message. Darlings. She was fake posh, this person says. Oh, yeah. Darlings, bad news. Darlings. Uncle Jit. Uncle Jit. Dead. Darlings. She was fake posh, this person says. Darlings, bad news. Uncle J, Uncle J, dead,

dreadful, sunbathing, laundry truck. What? Really between the lines, the story was Uncle Jared, who'd have been in an institution for years, had been sunbathing on the grass on the ground, and a truck had reversed over him twice by accident. Now, that doesn't

sound real, does it? I'm not laughing, that doesn't sound real, does it? I'm not laughing. That doesn't sound real. That sounds like what happened in a weird... Or did you run over someone accidentally once and then you're like, what was that? Forwards. Forward.

Boom, boom. And I see nothing go back over me. Jeez, what was that? I better back up to have a look. Thud, thud, thud. Straight over again. Jeez. I don't know.

That might be from a TV show or a movie. That sounds like it. Or it's just the wild might be from a TV show or a movie. Or it's just the wildest family story that you'll probably ever have. But it ruined laundries for them. I shit you not, it's true. Okay, they messaged you. I shit you not, it's a true story. That might have happened sometime in the past,

but today my thoughts and prayers go to Uncle Jared. Yes, and the driver of that truck because that was probably an accident as well. Oh yeah, totally. Sunbathing on the grass is one of life's true pleasures. Yeah. Isn't it? Well, just maybe, yeah,

just not in the way of the laundry truck. No, nowhere near any sort of vehicular access. It sounds like he was sunbathing on the driveway, to be honest, doesn't it? Someone is at the docks when their dad rang and he never rings. He says, oh, don't worry, I'm just ringing to let you know I've got cancer,

you know, like man cancer. But they thought, oh, don't worry, love. I'm just ringing to let you know I've got cancer. You know, like man cancer. But they thought, oh, I think they got it early. Talk later. Man cancer? Kiwi bloke say kiwi bloke. Oh, don't worry, love. Just go. I've got the man cancer.

But I think they caught it early. Anyway, love, you go make your day. Talk later. All right, Dad. Thank you for your texts and messages. Georgia is up next with Friday Jams. Are you going to be playing a lot of One Direction? Yes, she is.

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