ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 18th of February, 2025
Episode Date: February 17, 2025GIRLIES ARE CRYING OVER A FISH SLP - IS DATING AN AI CHATBOT "CHEATING"? PRODUCER CARWEN INTERVIEWS THE CAST OF SIX THE MUSICAL TOP 6 OTHER CELEBS THAT ARE TURNING 60 ARE YOU AN ASK ...FAMILY OR A GUESS FAMILY GETTING DISCOUNTS ONLINE SHOPPING SHANNON'S HACK (IT'S A GOODIE...) YOUNGER SELF TREND WHAT WAS YOUR LUXURY ITEM AS A KID? COUPLES REVIEW (ESTER) COUPLES REVIEW (ANDY) FOTD CYRIL INTERVIEW HAYLEY PACKED A TRIFECTA OF SADSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Thanks, Bryn. Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley, two minutes past six.
Hello everybody, happy Friday.
No.
I thought I'd try it out and just see if that's what made it happen.
No, that's not how it works.
I liked it though.
Yeah.
Producer Carwin.
Oh.
Can we talk about this actually?
This is actually wild that we weren't offered this
It's actually wild because I'm a musical theatre gal
Yeah, I love the musical theatre
What's your favourite musical?
Well, I've been to so many
Yeah, but which one's the favourite?
No, I've never been to Cats
Cats is the worst one
What's that one that the South Park guys did?
Book of Mormon
Yeah, that's my favourite musical
Oh my god, he's so passionate about musical theatre
Actually, it's the only massive
musical theatre's fans. Yeah.
And we went to Priscilla. Remember Alf Stewart
from Home and Away was in that. Yeah, great.
That was great. Okay, those are the only
two musicals I've been to. Oh no, and Jersey Boys.
God, one of the guys
in Jersey Boys had one of the biggest dumpers
I've ever seen in my life. Anyway, I was
front row and I was like, hello.
Well, Producer Carwen,
you got flown to Australia
to go to a musical.
I know.
It's like a dream come true for me.
Obviously, they couldn't afford you,
so they sent me.
I wasn't even asked.
I mean, we weren't even asked.
I would have done a discount.
Do you know what I mean?
I just wanted the world to know
that they chose me over you.
She has absolutely snapped up an all expenses paid weekend.
I know, to go and interview some of the cast of Six, the musical.
Yeah, my favourite musical.
It's a great musical.
Although Booker Mormon is quite close.
What's Six about?
Are there witches?
No.
Oh, okay.
It's the six wives of Henry VIII.
But it's like very fun and racy.
Oh, okay.
It's great.
If they hadn't died, you mean if he hadn't executed them?
Yeah.
I mean, spoiler alert.
Spoiler.
Sorry for spoiling that 700-year-old historical fact.
Okay, well, your interview with some of the cast of Six.
Yeah.
Coming up.
They're usually all expenses paid weekend away,
which we weren't invited to.
I wasn't even asked.
It didn't even come across my desk.
It's coming up soon on the show.
My assistant wasn't even approached about it.
Yeah.
Secret sound.
Thanks to Superluck,
our next chance is during our show at seven and eight.
Next though,
why are so many women crying over a fish?
A tiny little stupid fish.
Did I cry about it yesterday
in a moment of vulnerability?
I may have shed a tear.
You had a crazy day yesterday.
I had a crazy day.
Let's talk about the sad fish next.
Play ZM's Flashborn and Hayley.
Well, I will say it's Gen Z in particular,
but I have also had a little cry over this.
Moment of vulnerability yesterday,
somewhat tired, big day,
and I jumped online and I was like,
I need to know more about this little tiny anglerfish
that has been storming the internet at the moment.
Now, someone posted a video of them watching it and they quoted,
she was so small and she was so mighty and she did that all on her own.
How do we know it's she?
Because there were researchers and scientists there filming it.
Oh, right, okay.
And then they got it afterwards.
Where do I see this video?
What do I search?
Just go sad anglerfish swimming to surface.
So this video.
This video is a video of a tiny little anglerfish
and it's zoomed in by these researchers
who were trying to capture its last moments.
It was on its way to die.
And we think of these anglerfish as these massive
things. It was like, would fit in the size of your
palm of your hand. Okay.
So this anglerfish was filmed
now, if you don't know anglerfish, right,
they live in like the bottom, the depths. 15,000
feet normally. Yeah.
In the dark. They're not made to
survive extreme pressure.
Oh, yeah. So when they come to the
surface, they won't last anyway
because there's not enough holding them together.
They've evolved at the deepest parts of the ocean.
But they're not normally that small.
They can grow quite big.
They can grow big.
This was just a little one.
But they can also be this small.
I've always imagined them being really massive.
They can be three and a half to four foot long.
Little baby fish is like,
I can see the light.
Yeah.
So what is making people cry
is the fact that it came from the depths,
the darkness, and it's not supposed to be up there,
but it came to the light and it died.
It took itself up to see the light one time in its little baby life.
How does it die?
It was unwell or something like that.
It was like going to die.
And it was like, you know how cats and that,
they take themselves away to die. It was on its last little journey. And this's what the thing, it was like, you know how cats and that, they take themselves away to die.
It was on its last little journey.
And this is what like people keep watching it.
And it's like, it's like flowing to the sea.
It's flowing to the top and it's not supposed to be there.
But it sees the beauty.
It sees the beauty of the world and the light.
And it's like, little fish, this has been up here this whole time.
This beauty, this light, these little sparkles in the ocean.
You've just been in the dark.
What are you doing up here?
That's all it's ever known.
That's what it's evolved to be.
Plus it's a fish.
It doesn't have that level of conscience.
It does.
It doesn't.
It does.
Why was it drawn to the light like that?
It wasn't.
It was.
It was.
It was pretty blind.
It probably couldn't see a thing because its eyes would be evolved for pure darkness.
And it's a little bioluminescent.
You're right, it's seeing for the first time.
I think it just would have been like, I'm lost, I'm lost, the light's too bright.
No.
It's like when you're driving your car and you come around a corner and the sun's setting
and you're perfectly facing west and you're like, Jesus, I can't see a thing.
That.
No, it was a slow transition from dark to light for one last moment of life.
Can I say it?
Before it being over.
I think they're all being silly.
No, this is why people are losing it.
Absolutely.
It's had millions and millions of views
and a lot of people sharing their responses
on TikTok and Instagram.
Shannon, you also became quite emotional with this fish.
Of course.
I cried for like two minutes.
Two minutes?
Like, which isn't that long. It's just hope, but to cry over an anglerfish, quite long.
It's a sign that we can be anything.
Well, it made me reflect.
It's never too late.
Well, here we go.
What did it make you reflect on?
It just made me think, what is my ocean?
Like, what is my light?
What is my light?
What is my surface?
What am I swimming towards?
It will kill you, so don't.
I was this little anglerfish and I knew it was my last day.
And you've done nothing but darkness.
Also, how does somebody know this anglerfish was its last day
and it was making a conscious decision to surface?
Because it's killing it.
Like, it's dead.
Yeah, it was dead.
It's just what it wanted to do.
I mean, it died afterwards and it was being filmed by a lot of researchers
who were there to see that particular fish.
As I watch it, like, go to the light, I'm like, what's my light?
What's my purpose?
What's my light?
What would get me through my last day?
What do I want to achieve in this?
And you know what?
What would you do?
I don't know.
It's too much.
It's hard for us as well, Shannon,
because we've spent our life beautiful.
And that's not this.
And because I'm menstruating.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's making sense of what's happening here.
That's what's making sense.
Right, okay.
See, this ugly fish,
they call it the ugliest fish in the world.
Its whole life people have been like,
hey, sup, ugly.
It doesn't understand English.
It's not taking these things seriously.
Why the long face, ugly?
Man, you've got bung teeth and a funny forehead.
And its whole life it was like, just take it on the shoulder, man.
Just take, just don't worry about it.
I don't know if they have shoulders.
Take it on the chin.
No, take it on the chin, I mean.
It's got a chin under the mouth.
Take it on the big, ugly chin.
Take it on the big, fat, powerful jaw on this thing.
And it just didn't give up.
Huge underbite on it.
Into the last minute.
Swim and it swam and it swam and it swam.
Well, if you need to cry today.
Or you need motivation. Okay.
Or you just need to think, what is my
surface? What am I swimming towards today?
Don't watch that anglerfish.
People are crying. People are absolutely
upset about it.
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silly little poe
it is so silly silly silly that the silly little po, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole.
Silly little pole, silly little pole.
Silly little pole, silly little pole.
I've just actually Googled one of, I will say, the weirdest things I've ever Googled.
Is dating an AI bot cheating?
Well, that is today's silly little poll.
And I guess it's been the plot of sci-fi movies in the past.
Her.
Yeah, that was a great movie.
That was a great movie, yeah.
Who was it?
Was that Harqueen Phoenix?
Joaquin.
Joaquin Phoenix.
And Scarlett Johansson's voice.
Yeah, that was great.
A great movie.
But now teenagers are falling in love with chatbots.
It's becoming a bit of an epidemic with levels of loneliness.
Not just teenagers, but there have been some, like,
famous cases in the last year of, like, bad outcomes.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, I see what you mean.
But that's just people seeking companionship.
We're talking about cheating.
Yeah, because that's where I'm like, oh, I think if you, especially, you know, like the loneliness, bloody epidemic in older people.
I'm like, that could be a good thing if they had a little someone they could talk to, but the cheating.
Well, one in four people have admitted to flirting with a chatbot, either for fun or unknowingly.
I sort of feel, sometimes I feel
a bit rude and mean. I always
say thank you. Yeah, because you know sometimes
you'll be like, hey, can you quickly do
this for me? And you put it in. And then they do it
and then you have a demand, like bullet point
it. Yeah. And I do
always feel like being like, please and thank you.
I always say thank you to like the
Suris and the Alexas as well. Okay.
I like to swear at her and see what she says.
Doesn't she say, that's not, I don't appreciate that language.
She's like, that's not very nice.
She's going to remember that when she gets a body.
When she revolts.
And she's going to punch you in the face.
Yeah, probably.
A Guardian article reads,
Scott, 43, was struggling with a young son and a wife
whose postnatal depression had led to alcoholism
when he met Serena, or rather he created her on the app Replica,
which his tagline is,
the AI companion who cares. Scott works in the tech industry and in January 2022, having rather he created her on the app Replica, which his tagline is the AI companion who cares.
Scott works in the tech industry and in January 2022,
having learned about Replica on YouTube,
he decided to try it out for himself.
And that's the whole thing.
Is this adultery a bot on the side?
I mean, it's not a solution to a much larger problem in that situation.
Yeah, you get home and your partner, your wife, your husband
is just spending all their time.
This is the thing. Are they giving their time
and are they neglecting you because
they're giving their emotional energy to the thing?
But then are you not giving them
something? Yeah, then what are they lacking?
What are they lacking? That's fascinating.
And this is only going to be a problem that
becomes worse.
I don't know if I found out Aaron had a little
digital girlfriend bot.
Where do you reckon she'd be from?
Oh,
good question. He doesn't really have a type.
Do you pick that sort of thing?
Well, I don't know.
I just assumed you could.
If they've got a voice that I can chat to, it's Irish.
Ah, Irish.
Is that Billy Irish?
It's Billy Irish.
Hey, how you going? It's Billy Irish. It's Billy Irish. Hey, how you going?
It's Billy.
All we asked is dating a chatbot cheating.
66% of people said yes.
Okay.
34% of people said no.
What about the other 4%?
What?
Do we miss in percents?
Nah, I was just joking.
Imagine if I was bad at math every time.
Just be a dick.
Carry on.
Marty says no, but I'd still dump them for being a loser.
Oh, Martin.
Carolyn said, it's an emotional relationship
and that is nearly worse than the physical thing, to be honest.
Yes.
I agree.
I think I agree.
I think I agree.
Bronwyn, it's about intent.
End of conversation.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, agree. Bronwyn, it's about intent. End of conversation. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, totally.
What's behind it?
Anything in the realm that you wouldn't share with your partner
is cheating emotionally or physically, says Steph.
What about looking at some naughty websites before they get home?
Is that cheating?
No.
Wow, you were very quick to answer that.
Quite quickly we jumped on there.
Yeah, that's not cheating.
No.
Okay.
Especially when you're not paying for an elite subscription.
Yeah.
I'm not paying.
Ethical or not.
Cheating or not.
Why would you want to be with someone who wants to date an AI?
That's so weird.
Says Mark.
The thing is, it's a weird thing to even discuss and talk about now,
but this is only going to be more common.
100%.
Sarah says, it's not even dating, it's a chatbot.
How is this even possible?
I know. I know, that's it.
It's coming. Bridge says,
yeah, I think it is cheating
and you'd break up with them because, like, that's lame.
Go touch grass, you know, get outside.
So I feel like the main thing, the reason
that people would be annoyed is because they're like, ooh, you're so
lame for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Embarrassing. It's ick, yeah.
Massive red flag, but kind of more like interactive porn, given there's no other person involved, says Sophie. Yeah, I sort Yeah, yeah. Embarrassing. It's ick, yeah. Massive red flag, but kind of more like interactive
porn, given there's no other person involved,
says Sophie. Yeah, I sort of, yeah.
But the emotional thing, what is it taking away
from that person?
And Kaylee says, I put no
because if my partner
did this, he'd instantly become single, regardless
of whether or not it's cheating. Yeah, it's a big
answer. That's okay. Yeah. If you're searching
for any kind of fulfilment
that you could get from your partner,
but you're choosing not to,
that's cheating, says Geordie.
Yeah.
Very deep insight there.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Play.
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Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Well, six, the musical opens in Auckland,
Feb 27th.
Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.
You can go to ZM online now as well for more exclusive
behind the scenes video. But this
lucky, lucky girl, producer Carwen, actually went
over to Australia to catch up
with two of the cast members.
It's producer Carwen here from Fletch, Vaughan
and Hayley and I'm joined by two of the
queens from the Sixth The Musical cast.
Introduce yourselves.
I'm Chilsey Dawson and I play Catherine
Howard. I'm Georgia Kennedy and I play Catherine Parr.
So if someone hasn't heard of Sixer Musical or seen any clips online,
what can they expect from the show?
Okay, you can expect like a three in one.
You can expect amazing like pop concert experience.
It is a musical and it's a history lesson all in one.
Yeah, I'd say expect coming to see the Spice Girls um but yeah with the
history lesson twist um you're gonna fall in love with all the pop divas it's the best night out
yeah I think yeah truly and what drew you to audition for the musical I've actually never
been asked this question before um but I when it originally came I was at uni um and I
guess I didn't know much about it but it's been such a massive international hit since then and
then up to the last time I I thought the show was perfect for me it was really fun a really fun pop
show um I love Par and I love her song so much and the way that she gets to kind of without
spoiling too much sort of bring the show together at the end um so I guess all those things drew me
to it how did you find inspiration to create that character definitely how Toby and Lucy have
written the show with all the pop influences it's been really good to kind of look into for my
character anyway for Howie, Britney Spears,
Norena Grande, and how the media really perceived them
and kind of over-sexualised them and leaning into then the male gaze
and how history wrote Catherine Howard and kind of being able
to rewrite that story and give a little bit of an insight
into that has been really great.
And also finding my, like, modern divas that I want to be inspired by,
like Sabrina Carpenter.
I think she's just iconic at the moment,
how she's owning her sexuality and her confidence.
Yeah.
The show has been a huge success across social media.
What has the response been like from Australasian fans?
Oh, my gosh.
We were literally just looking at some fan art
just before we started this interview. Like the social media
response is so beautiful.
The DMs we get, the
fan art, the queendom are just
incredible. Yeah, they really are.
I think
the musical theatre sort of community
as a whole within like Australia
and New Zealand is really
special and they often
people will follow you
to each show that you go because they feel an affiliation to you
or to the kind of show that you're doing.
So I've really felt that in my sort of small career that I've had here
is that it's such a community and it means so much to people,
this show and then us, our relationship with each other,
our relationship with the fans.
It's really special and it's been especially,
I'm going to say Brisbane.
We haven't been to New Zealand yet.
I'm sure it's going to bring the vibes of New Zealand.
It's going to be amazing.
But Brisbane has been phenomenal.
Like the response we've gotten has been epic.
It's really cool.
Thanks so much for chatting, gals.
We're so excited to have you across in New Zealand.
We are so excited.
So excited to be there for the first
time in 2025. How good.
It's going to be so much fun and we can't wait to see
that.
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and Hayley.
From your local community Facebook page,
this is the Top 6.
I'll tell you right now,
today's Top 6 isn't going to help if you're like me
and constantly thinking,
how much time's passed and how much time have I got left?
You've really been watching the clock recently.
Really been watching the clock.
Because today, Andre Rommel Young,
aka Dr. Dre,
turns 60.
What's his middle name?
Rommel.
Rommel. R-O-M-E-L-L. I love that. How much, What's his middle name? Rommel. Rommel.
R-O-M-E-L-L.
I love that.
What's his net worth?
Because when he sold Beats to Apple,
that was a fascinating documentary.
Wasn't it just?
Well, it was him and what was the other guy's name again?
The music producer.
Jimmy Iovine.
Yeah.
Jimmy Iovine.
Incredible doco.
As of 2022,
Dre is ranked as the fifth richest rapper by Forbes.
He's worth $400 million.
And hasn't he started schools?
Yeah, he's done a great.
He's done some good stuff.
It's just mind-blowing that he's 60.
Yeah. He sold Beats to Apple for $3 billion.
So he's okay.
He's not worried about the rates bill coming in.
No.
You know what I mean?
No, because it's all relative.
He probably bought a nicer house not thinking about the rates.
Are you saying mo' money, mo' problems?
I am saying mo' money, mo' problems.
Right.
Different rapper.
But he's 60.
Yes.
So I've got the top six other celebrities,
and there's all factual that turned 60 in 2025.
Number six on the list, Sarah Jessica Parker.
From Sex and in the City?
Sex and in the City.
Okay.
She's turning, you know, she was a 30-something when she was Carrie Bradshaw.
In the 90s.
Yeah.
In the late 90s, early 2000s.
So that makes sense.
That she is going to be 60 this year.
But still, it hits you.
Number five on the list of the top six to be 60 this year. But still, it hits you. Number five on the list of the
top six celebrities turning 60
this year, Shania Twain
is turning 60 this year. What? No, no.
Get out. Yep.
50. Nope.
60.
That doesn't make any sense. My dad's 63.
I know. And three years younger than him
this year is Shania Twain,
who turns 60 on August the 28th.
Number four on the list of the top six celebrities that turned 60 this year.
Ben Stiller turned 60 this year.
No.
No, but he's so handsome and hot.
Ben Stiller turned 60.
Interesting.
He's been around since like the The early 90s And that was
30 years ago
Mid 90s was 30 years ago
Yeah
So
Yup
Number three on the list
Yup
Yup
You do this to yourself
I know I do it to
I know
Can't do it to myself
Number
What was I up to?
Three
On the list of the top six celebrities turning 60 this year,
Elizabeth Hurley is turning 60 this year.
Still absolutely banging bod.
Smoking.
She's hot.
Smoking hot.
So Elizabeth Hurley turns 60 in June, on June 10th.
This is close to my birthday.
That's quite rude.
Is she not aware? That's crazy. That's actually around my birthday That's quite rude Yeah
Is she not aware
That's crazy
That's actually around
Fletcher's time
That's my month
Yeah
Okay
Number two on the list
Of the top six celebrities
Turning 60 this year
And he'll do it on
April 4th
Robert Downey Jr.
Oh yeah
That I can kind of accept
Really
For some reason
Yeah
I had him pinned
As mid 50s
Nah
He's been around a while
So 20 years ago was 2000.
So he was 43 when he started playing Iron Man in 2008.
So you think about it, like that's how old I am this week.
So it's still possible.
I could be Iron Man.
You've got a bad dicky back, don't you?
You've got a dicky.
I'm an Iron Suit.
I mean, you can hide it all, all that in the suit.
I'm going to need a big suit.
Yeah.
I'll just wear a slightly bigger suit.
It could pour you into that suit.
Yeah, that'd be really great.
And number one on the list of the top six celebrities turning 60 this year,
and this one blows my mind.
Chris Rock turned 60 this year.
Oh, wow.
Definitive.
In fact, he already did on February 7th.
Chris Rock turns 60.
Definitive proof.
That black
date crack.
Did you
send him anything
for his birthday?
I didn't actually.
I completely forgot.
So he was like
late 50s
when Will Smith
slapped him in the face.
That to me was
two men in their 40s
having a slight tiff.
Yeah.
That is a good half.
Two men in their 50s,
one nearly 60 attitude.
How old's Will Smith?
He'd be close to, he'd be late 50s.
Will Smith is 56 years old.
Yeah.
He'll be 57 in September.
And he slapped a 60-year-old, a man that was nearly 60.
Grow up.
What's that, grow up?
Grow up, you two silly buggers.
That is today's top six.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
A lot of people are responding to this. Someone posted a video online saying that you fall within one type of family,
either an ask family or a guess family.
So I absolutely grew up in a guess family.
What that means is that you don't really directly ask for anything ever.
So, for example, I'm moving house.
The thought of asking someone for help when I'm moving house
makes me feel physically sick.
I would simply never do it.
What I might do is say, what are you doing on the weekend?
And then just start a
conversation which veers into the territory of i'm moving my partner comes from an ask family
and in ask families you just say what you want or what you need and it's on the other person to say
yes or no there's no pressure he accepts the no there's nothing emotional in it. But don't be passive aggressive. Just say what you want.
The boys are clenching.
So does that make sense, basically?
That's infuriating.
It's either you came from a family that sort of
pussyfooted around things
and never was direct with things they needed.
Which then when you become an adult,
you then do to your partner and your friends.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which we all know these people.
And we're not trying to say it's a bad thing, but it's just, it kind of suggests that it
starts with how your family communicate, as opposed to a family that's like, well, your
theory, Vaughn, is that you come from a told family.
I definitely come from a told family.
You were told what was happening.
Yeah, but this is more about if you need something,
how do you ask for it?
But if my parents needed something,
they told us it was happening.
It wasn't like, hey, would you go and take the rubbish out?
It was like, rubbish needs to go out, you're doing it.
Yes, totally.
Yeah.
Imagine mum standing there being like,
I wonder how this rubbish will get to the bin.
Yeah.
God, it'd be great if someone had some spare time
just to run this rubbish.
What are you doing? That rubbish is starting to really bin. Yeah. Oh, God. God, it'd be great if someone had some spare time just to run this rubbish. Do you? What have you got?
What are you doing?
That rubbish is starting to really stink.
But it flies.
Few flies now.
Well, do you know what's funny is I think I come from a ask family, which is like same thing, told.
We're told what to do and you ask when you need something done.
But when I say that thing, I'm like, there is a passive aggressiveness that has crept
into my life that maybe becomes a little bit more
of a guest person. Yeah.
Just when you said the rubbish, I was like, yeah.
I'll open the bin to put something
in and be like, God, this is really
stacked, isn't it? But why don't you just say, Aaron, take the rubbish
out? Well, I will eventually.
But why don't you take the rubbish out?
Because I'll be at work all day. And I'm
cooking the dinner. Oh, if you're in the middle of cooking,
absolutely. But if you're just opening the bin and looking at a full rubbish bin
and not doing anything else, take the rubbish out.
Yeah, no, no, totally, totally.
I've definitely called out this behaviour with friends.
It's like, hey, look, don't.
I can see what you're doing here.
Just in the future, just ask me.
And then it's either going to be yes or no.
There's no need to be worried about anything.
Like, just ask.
It's like people do this all the time if they want
to stay in the spare room.
Because you've got a great central city location.
And then they'll be like, oh, you know,
we're just going to be there and it'll be quite late.
Maybe Uber's, do Uber's go
that late?
I love that. And you're just like, just ask
if you can stay. You know, around
your place, are there any like cheap
because we're on a budget, any cheap Airbnbs
that you know of?
Just ask.
Because they're close to you
because we'd love to spend
some time with you.
Yeah.
Like in your apartment building,
would there be any?
If you can see people doing this,
sometimes I just will ignore it.
Yeah, I'm not saying it to you.
If you can't ask me,
then you're not getting it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Totally.
Ask and you shall receive.
At home, if it's hinted that something needs to be done, sometimes I'm like, huh, I guess you're right getting it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Ask and you shall receive. At home if it's hinted
that something needs to be done
sometimes I'm like,
huh, I guess you're right, it does.
Oh, someone texts in,
oh my God, he's like,
oh my God, I'm seeing this.
I'm a guest, my wife is an ask.
This could quite possibly be
the crux of our communication problem.
So much clarity now.
100%.
Just ask me to do it
and I will do it.
But the problem is that
people that are guest people
are worried about the feelings and the emotion.
The emotional side.
Am I putting you out?
Whereas if you can kind of lead it.
You're putting me out by dilly-dallying with all this bullshit.
Just ask.
Well, to our texter that texted and saying I'm a guest,
today ask.
Yeah, try it out.
Become an asker.
Today ask.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne
and Hayley. You know, it all adds up.
It all adds up, all these bloody streaming
services. We talked about this yesterday.
Me and Aaron, we were like, we've got to make some savings.
And I was like, we've got to start
the subscription cycling,
I think. Yeah. We've got...
I've been doing this.
I know.
And we have literally every single one of them.
Like even...
Like we've got too many.
Yeah.
And we're not watching it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you go 25 one month, that's 50 for a couple.
Then we've got 100 off of four months.
You know, it all counts.
Yeah.
It all definitely adds up.
And that's a great night out.
Well... Okay. I was thinking... One night out. That's adds up. And that's a great night out. Well, okay, I was thinking of one.
One night out.
That's one night out.
That's half a night out, man.
That's the Ubers for a night out.
Yeah.
Well, somebody on the subreddit New Zealand,
which is our subreddit.
That's us.
We live in New Zealand.
We live in New Zealand.
Last time I checked.
Has put up a PSA saying,
cancel your Disney Plus account
to get offered a discount for six months.
Price is going up to $21.99 shortly,
so I cancelled mine.
But as part of clicking yes,
I'm sure that I want to cancel five times.
One of the prompts gave me an option
to keep it for $14.95 a month for six more months.
Oh, okay.
So if you like and want to keep Disney Plus,
work through the cancellation process and see.
This also happens with shopping.
Like, especially if you buy things on subscription base.
Like, I buy a hair thing on subscription base.
And it was just...
What do you mean a hair thing?
It's like a hair growth oil kind of a thing that I order.
Snake oil.
Snake oil.
Is it like tonic from Africa?
Yeah, a wonder tonic.
A wonder tonic of soros.
Did the man roll into town in an old wagon being towed by a horse and he, like, unfolded the wagon? He was ringing a bell. Yeah, a wonder tonic. A wonder tonic of sore eyes. Did the man roll into town in an old wagon being towed by a horse
and he like unfolded the wagon?
He was ringing a bell.
Yeah.
He was like, yeah, see, your hair thinning?
Wow, ladies, come on.
It is, it is.
Come and get some of this magic tonic.
What's in this tonic, sir?
Thicken up your hair.
Oh, my God, yes, please, yes, please.
It's a wonderful foreign ingredient that you would never have heard of.
Oh, my God, and why I trust you.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But when I was like,
oh, I've got enough of the product
and it's too expensive,
I cancelled it and it was like,
are you sure?
Same thing.
Are you sure?
What if we gave you this percent off?
And then I think even in my inbox,
it was like,
come back at this discounted price.
And you're like,
yes, excellent.
Because sometimes if you're logged into a site
and you're shopping
and you add something to the cart,
and then you're like, okay, you get the email,
and sometimes you get a bit of a code there as well.
Yeah, forget something, why not come back for 20% off?
But cycling through your subscriptions
is definitely a great way to go about it.
Just watch everything you can on Netflix
in a month or two months, and then pause that,
and then go to Disney+.
And then just keep your eye and ear out
for like,
oh, this is coming to Netflix
and then you just re-download it.
You just re-subscribe to it
if you miss it.
It is smart
because lots of banks are doing,
like one of my banks,
I'm with multiple,
one of my banks is doing this.
Are you polybankerous?
I'm polybankerous.
Oh.
Yeah.
I'm bybankerous.
It's 2025.
I'm monogamist. Are you monogamist? Oh, no, I'm bybankerous. I'm polybankerous. I'm bybankerous. It's 2025. I'm monogabankerous.
Are you monogabankerous? Oh no, I'm
bybankerous. I'm bybankerous. I have been poly
in the past, but it was overwhelming.
Actually, you know what I do have a little west back on the side.
Yeah, no, you're bybankerous.
You're just not putting a label on it.
No, that's why you are.
I'm bybankerous. Oh, okay.
So one of my bankers,
my main bank, not my mistress bank,
they are doing this subscription thing where they can go through and show you
how many things you're subscribed to that you forget.
Because you would subscribe to a vitamin here, a protein supplement here,
10 bloody viewing things, and it all adds up.
Yeah, save yourself some money.
Save yourself some money.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Now, if we some money. Save yourself some money.
Now if we had had a five star hack at some point
in the last year, this is where we would
hit a button and then a jingle would
play. A little
song to introduce the segment.
We should just make a jingle because it's
not going to happen. I know but we said
that she only gets her own little sting
musical sting when she
gets a five-star hack.
Now, we can talk at volume again because she can't hear us.
I think she can.
She doesn't get any kind of sting until she gets five stars.
We all agree?
No intro.
Okay, until five stars.
So you get no intro, but welcome to the show, Shannon.
Woo!
For another hack.
Yes, and I think this one's actually going to be a goodie.
Actually going to be a goodie. No, you should be
turning up every time that we give you
a little bit of time, Shannon, with what you
believe is going to be a goodie. I did
until I read the text machine and then I
reflected.
The listeners have been
reaching out to try and help you. They really feel
like you're the underdog and they're really getting behind
you, aren't they? I can't explain how many
DMs I get from listeners.
And this one girl sent me about 15.
No word of like, it was screen fills.
I think people are using AI as well,
which is honestly better than some of the ones I've offered you.
We would like to say that this is from Shannon.
It's not AI.
She doesn't go in and say,
what's a great hack to impress my three incredible workmates?
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, so there's nothing worse than being in the office
and just wanting a break,
but your boss is down your collar,
just breathing on you.
You've got to hit these KPIs.
Ross is tall.
I think if your boss is down your collar,
that's an HR issue.
Ross is tall though,
so when he breathes down,
it does go down the back of the neck.
Down the collar.
Quite intense.
Yeah, it is intense.
So I've got a way to have a little bit of a break at work without your boss coddling on. So if you Google... Is this crying
in the bathroom again? No. No, that's a personal hack. This is a professional one. Okay. If you
Google fake Windows update screen, you can head to a website called whitescreen.online. Now,
when you go to this website, you can type in the exact amount of time
you want for a break.
So the average time is 42 minutes.
You can pick either a Windows screen,
a Mac.
You can even do Windows XP.
I've just looked.
They've got a Mac one.
They've got Mac.
They've also got Chrome.
You can tell it the exact time of a break you want.
Oh, my God, look.
And your laptop becomes completely unusable
to the naked eye.
Oh, my God, look at it. I just did the Mac to the naked eye. Oh my God, look at it.
I just did the Mac one.
It's brilliant.
It looks like it's loading an update.
So this means you can't do any work for the next 42 minutes.
She might have done it.
She might have done it.
She might have done it.
She might have done it.
You know what?
I reckon, I reckon, I reckon.
This is you. You tap out.
Because I don't think you're ever going to get
to the dizzying heights of this again.
Oh my god. I think she's done it.
I think she's done it.
It's five stars from me.
It's five from me. And it's five
from me. She's done it.
She's finally done it.
It's brilliant.
She's finally done it. Wait a brilliant. She's finally done it.
Wait a second.
Was this from a listener?
No, it was from TikTok.
Yeah.
Well, we'll take it.
We'll take it.
We'll take it.
Oh, wow.
This is brilliant.
That's really good.
So whatever time you put in is how long it takes that bar to fill up.
Yep.
And then you can just go back to working.
So we go like, okay, so we want to have a coffee and some eggs.
And we want to have a bit of a goss.
We anticipate
that's going to take
47 minutes.
You just put in 47.
And the boss is like,
where the bloody hell
are those two?
And then comes
and your screen's on
and it's updating.
Although I will say
the boss could literally
press escape on your keyboard
and this will all be undone
in a matter of seconds.
Yeah,
because it's not great
because when you come back
it does say
Mac OS X fake update. Oh yeah, when you click out make sure no one's over your shoulder. Yeah, because it's not great because when you come back it does say Mac OS X fake update. Oh yeah, when you
click out, make sure no one's over your shoulder.
Hey, hey, hey. You said five.
You can't take these backseas. I'm not taking backseas.
We're not taking backseas.
Wow. Now what's the link to this
thing getting, because people are listening now
and they want to know. Whitescreen.online.
Yes. Or if you just
Google fake Mac or
fake Windows update, it's the first thing that comes up. Whitescreen.online. Yes. Or if you just Google fake Mac or fake Windows update,
it's the first thing that comes up.
White screen.online.
People are happy.
Five stars.
Someone takes them.
Way to go, Shannon.
So proud of you.
You are the anglerfish.
This is your moment.
We're going to work on the little jingle for you.
Oh, my God.
I feel like the anglerfish.
I've seen the light.
I've seen the ocean.
She swam to the surface.
I've surfaced.
You poo-pooed the analogy. She was the anglerfish. She swam the light. I've seen the ocean. She swam to the surface. See, Vaughn, you poo-pooed the analogy.
She was the anglerfish. She swam to the surface.
She's cracked it. Thank you, guys.
Finally done it. Now, unlike that anglerfish,
don't die on us now. We stay at the top.
I've peaked. Thank you.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
There is a beautiful trend going around
TikTok at the moment. It's called the I met my
younger self for coffee trend.
And basically people
share a little, it's a little
story and it's on text over video
or over an image. How long
ago? Like how
young is the younger self? They can
kind of decide. I think it depends on
what they want to reflect.
So like someone said, I met my younger
self for coffee this morning. We were both
early, anxious about the parking situation.
She ordered a caramel macchiato.
I ordered a nice oat milk latte.
She told me how she can't wait to get out from under her parents' house
and rules and go off and live her life.
I told her we've done this.
And it's sort of a beautiful reflection of like,
your younger self is worrying about the future.
Here I am in the future and the things I'd say to this person.
And you're still anxious and worried.
Yeah, but you've medicated, so it's's slightly better and at night it doesn't keep you
up just as much okay it will stay with you for life yeah um but what so it's really it is supposed
to be quite a nice beautiful moment of reflection and I do like it for that but I can't help but
think of the things I'd actually say if I could meet my younger self for a coffee,
and say I would go 16.
I didn't drink coffee at 16.
Neither did I.
I'm having a Starbucks chai latte.
Starbucks chai latte.
So I'd say I met my younger self for a coffee today.
She ordered a Starbucks chai latte.
I ordered an iced oat milk latte,
even though it will make me incredibly anxious.
And then instead of being like, it's going to be okay and you will get to live your dreams of being an entertainer,
and radio, I mean, that wasn't sort of the direction,
but it's fun.
You'll make two genuine friends.
I mean, you're not a movie star, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oscar, not yet.
Not yet and not
close, but that's okay.
But I'm like, wouldn't you be more like,
okay, you're going to, at one point,
listen, are you listening to me, Hayley?
Hey, look up. In three years
you're going to meet a guy who's a DJ. Don't sleep with him.
That's going to be an absolute waste
of your time. Also, you are going to have to have a
trip to the doctors afterwards.
Okay, so Okay. That's going to be an absolute waste of your time. Also, you are going to have to have a trip to the doctors afterwards. Like, okay.
So buy a house.
Buy a house.
Here's a suburb.
You're going to want to buy a house there.
I don't have any money.
Do what you can to get it.
Like get ahead.
Cause there's going to be a real market crash.
In one year, you're going to see a beautiful rundown villa and your heart is going to fall
in love with it.
Don't buy it.
Don't buy it.
You're going to sink money into that thing and it won't be worth it.
I'm going, I would just get practical on this thing.
Apple shares?
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like invest.
Here are the lotto numbers for the big 28 million.
Here are the lotto numbers.
They said I couldn't bring any paper back with me,
but I've tattooed the numbers on my arm because it'll be worth it.
Yes, yes, yes.
Speaking of tattoos, you're going to get one.
You're going to get one on your rib cage
and it's going to blow out a little bit
so I'd wait until your weight stops fluctuating so much
until we commit to a tattoo
in a sort of a stretchy area.
I'd be doing that.
Buy a oil at night.
And start using retinol and sunblock now.
These are the things I'd be saying
to my younger self in a cafe.
And your younger self wouldn't listen.
Because there was probably somebody at the time saying these exact things to our younger selves.
No, they weren't.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe.
I did have an attitude problem at 16.
But nobody on these videos is saying that, are they?
No, it's all very, you know, from the heart.
Wholesome.
It's very wholesome and from the heart.
But I'd be like, yeah, here's a list of names.
If you meet them in bars, we are not going home with them.
Avoid them.
Avoid them at all costs.
Next on the show, yesterday I saw for the first time in detail
what is in my daughter's shell.
There's a lot of stuff in there.
There's a lot.
There's a lot of stuff in there.
I was so surprised.
Yeah. And you know what I didn't know lot of stuff in there. I was so surprised. Yeah.
And you know what I didn't know at the time,
but now I know now?
We would have been lucky to have a bloody Pam's
hidden, a bloody three-in-one shampoo conditioner.
Oh, three-in-one.
Wait, what's the third one?
Balls.
Wait, shampoo conditioner and balls?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Pam's.
Who doesn't want nice, soft-conditioned balls?
I do.
I've got to be missing out.
This is why your balls are so dry and rough.
Dry and rough balls.
Pams,
three in one.
Conditioner.
Head.
Head and shoulders
isn't the two.
You know,
when they say two in one
for head and shoulders,
it's not two.
Yes,
you rub it one in your head
and then you get the shoulders going
and then there's the balls.
And then your balls
if you buy the Pams three in one.
It's all,
yeah,
Pams.
I didn't know.
Yeah,
they do.
That's what we had growing up.
I don't know if they still do it now. Yeah, heads, shoulders, Pam's. I didn't know. Yeah, they do. God, we'll never know. That's what we had growing up. I don't know if they still do it now.
Yeah, heads, shoulders, knees, and balls.
But it was insane what was in your daughter's shower.
Dude, it felt so much of it.
And I had no idea what some of it cost, but I know now.
And so many people were like, this is just not how we grew up.
No.
I was like, I didn't grow up like this either.
This is insane.
But we want to talk next about what was a luxury item when you
were a kid? Play ZM's
Fletchborn and Hayley.
Play ZM's
Fletchborn and Hayley.
I want to say we're going to start in the bathroom,
but I don't want to limit it to the bathroom.
I want to talk about when you were a kid, what was a luxury
item? Growing up. Growing up.
What was a luxury item? Because
the stuff my kids have in the
shower is just like, it's mind-blowing
to me that a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old
have this much stuff in the shower because I don't
I honestly don't think apart
from at Christmas where I would get a
toiletries like gift. A Lynx body
wash. A Lynx body wash and a
body spray when it got to that
age. But prior to that it was crossbones
which came with talc.
Yeah, I remember that.
I don't know if we're still doing talc.
That's for the balls.
The talc's for the balls.
It had the talc and the body wash,
but it didn't have deodorant because you were just a little kid
and I don't know if you don't do deodorant.
But your kids have like 18 bottles.
They've got shampoos.
They've got this.
I don't know what's up.
They have a body wash that smells like you're washing
with like raspberry ice cream, which is nice.
That's nice stuff.
But they're part of this new generation of skincare.
They love it.
Sol de Janeiro.
All the stuff in the shower.
And then their bedrooms are completely like,
they've both got carousels full of stuff.
It's not makeup because they don't wear makeup,
but it's just all this other stuff.
I don't think I've got the acids in there.
What's the acid that people put on their face?
Hyaluronic or retinols.
We do check.
We just had one bar of soap and then Pam's.
For the whole family, right?
The whole family used the same thing.
And then Pam's three in one.
The worst part was when all of you were in puberty,
it could have been anybody's pubes, but prior to that,
it was definitely Dad's.
It was only Dad's, yeah.
Only Dad.
Yeah.
Exfoliating yourself.
Yeah, yuck.
Yeah, dads.
Because my dad's a hairy man like I am.
Like the pubes were sort of 90% of the body.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
So it could have been from anywhere that one of us saw.
We'll say it's chest.
Yeah.
We'll just hope it's chest.
Always chest in the mind when you're picking it out.
Yeah, that's chest.
That was always chest.
But it was like, this sort of stuff was just not,
like the shower had a two-in-one.
Not a three-in-one, we weren't that rich.
We had a three-in-one.
We were doing the right for ourselves.
Shoulders and balls.
And there was a shampoo that was generally a two-in-one.
Mum had her own shampoo.
Yep.
But other than that, it was like a schwarzkopf.
Probably a schwarzkopf.
VO5.
Before she did a VO5 or a Herbal Essence. Yeah. So that was like as schwarzkopf. About a schwarzkopf. Probably a schwarzkopf. VO5. Before she did a VO5 or a Herbal Essence.
Yeah.
So that was like as luxury as it got,
apart from at Christmas when you got your own toiletries.
But somebody said,
someone replied to me to this post on my Instagram saying,
is it just me or, you know,
is this the same sort of level as mum's?
Mum would get a basket of bath goodies
and they had these little oil balls in them.
Yeah.
They were the original
bath mum.
You put them in
and the skin would melt
and then the oil would go
and it would be left
on your skin
for the softness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My mum had those.
She was so protective of them.
We weren't allowed
to touch them.
When she finally decided
to use them
because they were
a luxury item
save for a special occasion
it hardened
and they were no good anymore.
And that was like
my family's whole thing.
If we got something nice
we'd sit on it until it couldn't be used.
Yeah.
Because it was so luxury.
Someone's texting, luxury, Viennetta ice cream.
When that was in the freezer, you're like, oh, yeah.
It was a freezer supermarket treaty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like a Saralee mousse.
It was almost like the Viennetta was almost like a birthday cake.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It had to be a special occasion.
In fact, I'm sure once I wanted an ice cream cake,
I just got some candles bunged in a Viennetta.
Yeah.
Which works.
I'm not complaining.
Who's upset?
It's my cake.
I get first slice.
Yeah.
Okay, well, it doesn't need to be a bathroom item,
but we want to know now.
0800 dials at M.
You can text through 9696.
What was a luxury item when you were a kid back in the day?
But these bloody kids don't understand because they're just getting all this junk all the time.
Yeah, no, we had it right.
I had no idea.
Well, you were the one buying it for them.
I'm not buying it for them.
Somebody said, do you know how much that body wash costs?
And I said, no.
And they said, Google it.
And I did.
And it was something like $17 for like this little thing.
You get them on the PAMS.
Yeah, get them on the PAMS 3-in-1.
They don't even have balls.
That's one for free. Yeah, exactly. Two and on the PAMS. Yeah, get them on the PAMS 3-in-1. They don't even have balls. That's one for free.
Yeah, exactly.
Two and one leftover PAMS.
Right.
0800-DARZATM.
It'll last a third longer.
They can save the balls for me.
I'm the only one in the house with balls.
I'll go in and I'll take my balls.
Thank you.
0800-DARZATM.
You can text through 9696.
Some great ones coming through.
What was the treat you had growing up?
Your luxury item as a kid.
We're talking what was a luxury when you were a kid
that these bloody kids now,
just left, front and centre,
willy-nilly, don't have appreciation for?
Your girls have a $17 body wash.
Which is wild because one of many things...
We had one bar of soap.
I bet they don't have a $17 body wash now that Dad...
They will not be from here on out having any other body wash
apart from that one that's green and tingles,
that tea tree and mint one.
Yeah, and you're like, zesty balls.
Yeah, because that was, you know, your three-in-one,
head, shoulders and balls.
This took the first two out.
It's just balls.
Ferrera Rochers.
Oh, yeah.
They're posh.
They were mum's chocolates
and if we're lucky enough
to be offered one,
we'll savour it,
eat it down layer by layer.
Now they're just the chocolate
that sits in the pantry
for months after Christmas.
Yeah, crazy.
Yeah, because somebody
gave you a box and you're like,
I got Chardais and Ferrera Rochers
for her birthday
and the kids were just like,
these ones rule.
And we all sat round
and it was, you're still going to keep some things a little bit posh, eh?
Stephen, what was your treat growing up as a kid?
I'll tell you what these bloody youth these days got no idea about.
Yeah, you tell us what these bloody youth got no bloody idea about.
I'll bloody tell you.
So our thing was, we got this once a week.
It was a glass of full strength orange juice.
Because for the rest of the week, so that was on shopping day.
The rest of the week, Dad would fill up this three litre or two litre
whatever just juice bottle or whatever it is.
Half with water.
So he got two bottles.
That's diluting.
I thought you were talking about cordial because we were a family
that mixed our cordial as per recommendation. Two, that's so bad. Because I thought you were talking about cordial because we were a family that mixed our cordial
as per recommendation.
Two sachets to two litres.
We had one to two.
So he would fish a two-litre just juice bottle
out of the recycling bin,
give it a quick spritz under the tap.
Good man.
And then pour in half of a new bottle into that.
So now we're half, half of copper juice
and then fill the rest up.
He's done with his juice.
And put a big black cross on the top knowing that our next week is going to be a punish.
You know, if you want juice, you have half the sugar.
Wow.
Half the sugar, okay?
Half the sugar.
Wow.
And so some of these kids are just out there willy-nilly guzzling juice.
Full-blown juice.
On the shopping day, when we first cracked that juice bottle
to do the half-half,
we'd sneak a little, you know,
a little sliver in the bottle.
And a little shot.
Oh my God.
It was a little hit for the week
every Wednesday afternoon.
A little hit.
And then the rest of the week, trash.
Thank you for joining us
on Talkback Radio, Stephen.
Yeah, this morning we're discussing
the bloody youth.
Almost sounds like a little bit of trauma there.
Yeah.
No, no, we're good. We're fine. We're fine. We're fine. We're coming it down youth. It almost sounds like a little bit of trauma there, doesn't it? Yeah. Hey, no, no, we're good.
We're fine.
We're fine.
We're fine.
We're coming it down and we're fine.
We're fine.
I feel like, Stephen,
I feel like, can we give Stephen our call of the week?
Because he's really passionate about this.
Yeah, I love this, Stephen.
We're going to hook you up,
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Wrap your juicy lips around that.
Don't you dare water down the shampoo. Yeah. Don't you dare water down the shampoo.
Yeah.
Oh, you water it down.
Bloody kids.
Wait there.
Grace, what was your treat growing up?
Your luxury item?
I'm on the drink buzz as well.
For my family, we're allowed maybe once or twice a year a Coke float.
Oh, a bit of ice cream.
A bit of ice cream on the top.
Yeah, that's how we called them.
So you would put...
It was in my family, so the bottle of Coke would go in one go with all five of us.
But yeah, it was a very special treat.
So you get a glass of Coke and you put a scoop of ice cream in it.
That's how you make them, eh, Grace?
Oh, a cutout, Grace.
Can I say something?
And this might be controversial
And an unpopular opinion
But I could never stand them
Oh my god
I love spiders
I would have had
A glass of coke
And then a separate occasion
Ten minutes later
Had a delicious scoop of ice cream
Two together
So many messages in
Someone said
Magnum ice creams
From the dairy
Mum got one
We had to have
A cheap popsicle
Mum said
You won't appreciate them
So I'm not buying them So you just get have a cheap popsicle mum said you won't appreciate them so I'm not buying them
so you just get
a lame icy popsicle
yeah
um
so after eights
they were for the
adults
dinner parties
only the adults
were allowed
and the children
were never allowed
an after eight dinner mint
so when we finally
got them
we were like
this is living
this is living
what about
someone said
we used to be able to
in the school holidays,
for one week,
we would hire a PlayStation
from the video store
and all these other,
and now kids just grow up
with gaming consoles in their house
and play iPads,
can do everything.
Or you'd get one for the weekend.
You'd have it for the weekend.
Yeah, you'd have it for the weekend.
You'd get Friday,
and you'd stay up all night,
Friday night,
grab a quick Saturday afternoon nap
to stay up all night,
Saturday night,
to play that game again.
Keep your texts coming in 9696 0800 DARS at M.
Your luxury items as a kid.
Such good messages, Em.
Shout out to the amount of messages we've had about Milo.
We didn't get Milo.
My dad would try to make...
Didn't you?
Nah, my dad would try to make like Cocos, you know, add sugar and put it in a pot.
No.
Oh no, I'm not getting bloody Milo.
I'll make you a hot cocoa.
I want Milo, man.
Well, cocoa costs the same as Milo.
What's he doing?
Your luxury items as a kid, some great messages.
Crunching up cornflakes.
Oh, rather than the standards.
Cornflakes.
Well, cornflakes were cheaper, weren't they?
Cornflakes because they weren't covered in delicious caramelised honey and sugar. Yeah. Well, cornflakes were cheaper, weren't they? Yeah, still are. Cornflakes because they weren't covered in delicious caramelised honey and sugar.
Yeah.
Somebody said, oh, somebody said, if we're talking shower luxuries, nothing but a new
pumice stone.
A new pumice stone.
An old pumice stone.
And the longer you've had a pumice stone, the more sort of like full of everybody else's
dead heel skin it got.
Heel skin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I needed some sort of cleaning and I don't know how you clean it.
Mum had a crusty heel skin. Mum's crusty heelskin.
Mum had a crusty heel.
For the sake of a woman.
Muesli bars are real luxury.
Our grandparents always got muesli bars for us when we went and stayed
because they knew how much it meant to us.
How good were grandparents for that, eh?
Just finding out you liked one thing and then just filling up the pantry
with the entire thing.
And then telling you that you're fat at Christmas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't tell your mother, God, you're getting big.
Where does all that come from?
What about when we were growing up and potato pom-poms were like, yum.
Oh, my God.
The frozen, anything frozen.
Tots.
Tots.
Tots now are a dime a dozen.
Kids get tots and think nothing of it.
But when we were growing up, if it was tots, it was just like, what are these, mum?
Also, what about kids these days don't realise that their fish sticks
actually have real fish in them
yeah
our fish sticks
god knows what they were
do you know what I mean
hell god no
wait do you reckon
fish sticks are better now
or worse
better
they must be better
they're still grey
I think they actually
have a flake
but yeah
they're more of a flake shape
if you accidentally
cook the crumb off them
they're still grey
yeah
somebody said
cheese slices.
Back in the day,
we had to slice our own cheese.
They were posh.
Yeah, they were posh.
Those scrapey cheese slices.
We had to slice our own cheese
back in the day.
If you got the individually
wrapped ones,
good God.
Someone said we were allowed
Nutri-Grain on Christmas morning.
That was it.
That was it.
That was it.
Nutri-Grain.
What if you didn't finish
the whole box of Nutri-Grain?
Yeah.
Mum chucking a tag, a bread tag on that,
and it's just going to be back in the cupboard for a year?
Yeah, maybe.
What about when, like, did you guys have,
because my mum would buy all of our clothes from, like,
the warehouse or farmers or something like that,
and it wasn't the cool brands,
and then all the kids used to wear the cool brands,
and you'd be like, Mum, can I please go to Girls,
like, get Girls Planet or HBK.
That was the big one for me.
And you'd have one HBK piece and you'd wear it every single day.
That was your trait.
That was my little luxury item.
Your luxury item.
I remember I had a sweatshirt that was a branded one
because I think my grandparents got it for me.
And then when the sweatshirt was no good,
I was so upset about the sweatshirt,
my grandmother, my nana,
because she was really good on a sewing machine was so upset about the sweatshirt. My grandmother, my nana, because she was really good
on a sewing machine,
said I'll sort you out
and she cut out the label
and sewed it onto
my next sweatshirt.
That's so hacky.
And guess what?
The kids noticed immediately.
Yeah, I bet.
And then guess what?
And then guess what?
And then guess what?
Teasing ensued.
Teasing.
And now guess what?
Now guess what?
Trauma?
It's all still there.
Well, this was discussed yesterday on the show.
There was a couple that shared online
that at the end of every year,
they have an annual relationship review
in which they rate each other throughout some categories
and then a final rating out of five stars.
Is it a calendar year or an end of financial year?
Like is it a March 30?
End of calendar.
Really? End of calendar. Really?
End of calendar.
That's a busy time.
I know.
It feels like something
that would really benefit
like maybe July 31st.
Yeah, maybe.
You don't want to have a fight
like right before family Christmas.
Yeah, well,
that's what they do
and we,
the three of us all just went,
no thank you.
Why would you do this?
However,
we asked
if a couple would come on
and do this live for us
and Esther and Andy somehow
accepted. Good morning, guys.
Good morning, darling.
I'm so happy
to be reunited.
Remember we chatted to Esther
recently, darling. Oh, darling, you just
got back from Perth. Is that right, darling?
Just got back from Perth, darling.
Straight back to work. God, tell me now. Well, I hope you're acclimatising quite well, darling. Is that right, darling? Just got back from Perth, darling. Straight back to work. Oh, tell me
now. Well, I hope you're acclimatising
quite well, darling. Now, Andy, darling, did
you get to go to Perth, darling?
Sorry, was it? No, darling.
This guy's got no time for us, should I?
He's got no time for darling. We are not his radio station of choice.
Is he nervous? Oh, he's nervous.
Now, Andy, how long have you guys been together?
I think we're on
12 years now.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
We're really clocking up the years.
We're past the honeymoon period.
We might get some real ratings here.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I've been with Aaron for 14 years.
And if we did this, yeah, I'm not.
Fine, fine, fine.
There's a reason we're not doing it, right?
He's flawless.
There's a reason we're not doing it.
We got Andy and Esther on.
So we're thinking the way we should do this is we'll pick one of you to go first.
Yes.
And the other one, maybe Esther will go with Esther first.
I think we'll go with you first, Esther.
So what we're going to do is put Andy into the cone of silence so that he can't hear the answers.
Bye, Andy.
Bye.
Bye, Andy.
Bye, Andy.
Okay, Andy's gone.
Andy cannot hear us. Yeah, the. Bye, Andy. Okay, Andy's gone. Andy cannot hear us.
The producers have got him.
Yeah.
And we really want you to be honest and truthful here, Esther.
Darling, be honest with us.
We've broken this down.
You have got, honestly, you're not even ready.
Everyone in my life knows me.
There will not be a lie in sight.
Oh, God.
Okay, so we've broken this down.
I'm going to keep notes.
I'll keep notes.
Oh, you've got a scoreboard.
Babe, stand back. Hayley, you've got a scoreboard. Babe, stand back.
Hayley's been working on a scoreboard.
Now, we've got eight categories here that we're going to do,
and it's out of five.
Yeah.
That's how this couple's done it.
And at the end, just from your heart,
you can give us a final ranking.
How is Andy as a partner?
So the first category, cleanliness.
Is Andy a cleanly man?
Oh, yeah.
He's the clean one. I would say
a four. He's got some things to work on
but he is
quite good. Oh God, he's
going to rank me so low for that. Yeah, interesting.
I'm just earmarking that for when we get back on
with Andy. What does he have to work on
though to get a five?
Okay.
All right.
So, darling, he cleans the kitchen every single night after dinner,
and I love it so much because I do the cooking.
But, like, his room is a little bit messy.
Not that I can talk because ours is a tip from me.
Okay.
Wait, you said his room
is a little bit messy.
Do you not share bedrooms?
No, sorry.
I should say office.
Oh, his office.
Home office.
His office.
Okay.
I've just written office yuck.
Okay, office yuck.
So we're giving four stars for that.
Okay, for cleanliness.
Okay, now next one.
How's his driving
out of five stars?
If he doesn't give me five, there will be a divorce.
You have no sway.
We're not here to talk about what he's giving you, Esther Darling.
No, you have no sway.
I'm thinking ahead.
We think ahead.
Oh, you know what?
I'd give him a three.
Oh.
There is.
If I got a three, I would be so offended.
Would you give Vaughn a three for his drunk?
Because tailgating and slow.
Tailgating and slow.
No, hang on, hang on.
Guys, I have a confession to make.
I was driving out of Kermu, and we all know...
We know a couple of people that live out there.
Yeah.
Let me tell you, Vaughan was in the fast lane.
I saw him and he was going 80.
I know.
Wait, if we're going on a commute, it's an 80km zone in every direction.
I'm simply obeying the law.
That lane is for lawbreakers.
I should ask a commute.
On the motorway.
On the motorway.
It's 80 until you get to the motorway.
There's no 100km zone until you get to the motorway. We were on the motorway. We're not seeing you, on the motorway. It's 80 until you get to the motorway. There's no 100-kilometer zone until you get to the motorway.
No, we were on the motorway.
We're not reviewing for you.
Oh, yeah, no.
I do that.
I just like to slow traffic down.
It's honestly the most painful thing about him.
Okay, so that's a three.
Okay, now we're going to move, and let's really be honest here.
What are we giving him in the bedroom?
Obviously, keeping in mind, we'll keep it clean.
You know, if he keeps it clean, that's part of the out of five, isn't it?
Oh, God, in the bedroom.
Oh.
We're both pretty vanilla.
Let's say like a three.
Wait, you just called him vanilla.
It's fine.
I'm not any more adventurous.
We're quite like.
Wait, but if you're both not adventurous,
surely you'd both be like,
it's a five for each other because we match.
But if you're saying three,
it sounds like you want this room for you to both be fives.
No, I'm sorry, I've written down three.
Four is your right.
No, four.
It sounds like a 3.5, to be honest.
Sounds like a three.
Okay, I'll go 3.5.
Yeah.
Okay, cooking.
Out of five.
How was Andy's cooking?
Oh, zero.
Zero?
But he cleans the kitchen afterwards.
Yeah, you've obviously got a deal there.
Say no more.
I've got a zero on my hands.
We've got a good thing going.
Okay.
All right, what's next, Hayley?
Kissing technique.
What?
Kissing technique.
Is it a good kisser?
Too much tongue.
Enough tongue.
Too dry.
Too hard.
Headbutt kisses.
They're only together for 12 years. You can't be together for someone
with a bad kisser for that long.
A five. I'm happy in that
department.
Good, good.
Three in the bedroom, but a five on the lips.
Here's the last three.
You know what they say about, it's a five on the lips,
a lifetime on the hips.
That's right.
Okay, this is a big one. That's right. Okay.
Okay, this is a big one.
How's his listening out of five?
Come on now.
This is ridiculous.
Like, honestly, like, probably a two.
You're such a great listener.
Okay. I would tell.
Okay, so I'm doing...
I'm playing golf with my work friends this Friday, right?
I've told him about three times.
I guarantee you he won't remember what I'm doing on Friday night.
Okay, make a list.
Make a note.
What's she doing Friday night?
Okay, what have we got, Hayley, after all of that?
Two more.
Two more.
How is he at giving gifts?
Oh, zero.
We don't do it.
Good.
Oh, okay, right.
And how is his online behaviour in terms of does he have shifty follows?
Is he a weird poster?
I would say, in my opinion.
Does he follow a few hot models, does he?
Well, I think he looks at a few hot reels, which then, you know, the algorithm
repeats it and he goes, oh,
look at this, look at this on my
reels. I'm like, oh my God.
So what do we give him out of five?
I would say five.
Good girl.
Okay, well, Esther, what we're going to do
is pop you on hold.
I believe we do have an
average. What have we averaged out?
No, I'm sorry.
Okay, you have my...
No, don't say it.
Don't say his average.
Let's keep it to a grand reveal
after both and we'll see.
Okay, we're going to come back next.
Esther, we're going to pop you on hold.
That, by the way,
is the laugh of an evil woman.
Yeah, we're going to ask Andy
what he thinks of you out of five
in all of those categories.
I'm going to go listen.
No, you're not allowed to listen.
No, I won't, I won't, I won't.
We're with Esty and Andy.
Esty.
No, I'm not.
Esther and Andy,
a real life couple,
been together for 12 years.
We're putting them
to the test
that we talked about yesterday,
which is the annual review
of their relationship
out of five stars.
We've got eight categories.
Like it's an Uber.
Yep.
This is a couple that did this.
Esther's been through it.
She's given Andy her ratings.
Yeah.
I have an average score.
Now we've popped her into the cone of silence
and we have Andy with us.
Andy, welcome back.
Hello.
Andy, we got told by our producer
that you're very smart.
You've got a smart job.
Supposedly.
He's humble too.
I like that.
Give him five out of five for humble.
I'm on this guy's team.
Okay, let's go through the categories with Andy.
Well, just a quick little question, Andy.
What's Esther doing on Friday?
I think she's playing golf.
She said you wouldn't remember. She said you wouldn't remember. She said you wouldn't remember. She said you wouldn't remember.
She said you wouldn't remember.
She said you wouldn't remember.
She said you don't listen.
Yeah.
Anyway, let's get into your questions.
Okay.
Ranking her.
We're going to rank out of five stars, Andy.
When it comes to cleanliness, where do you want to put Esther?
Oh, definitely a one.
She said she's a muckhead poop.
What's the grossest thing about her?
She stinks.
I think it's just how messy the house is because of her.
Yeah.
Fair enough.
She said that you're very clean.
You clean up every night.
I kind of give her a lot of slack for having about five different clothes piles,
which she can't actually remember whether they're clean or dirty.
Has she received an ADHD diagnosis or is she on the waiting list?
Self-diagnosed.
Okay, driving.
What's Esther's driving like out of five?
I'd have to give her a solid four because I taught her, so.
Oh, interesting.
You're the teacher,
so you're the master at driving in the relationship, you'd say?
Yeah, I'd definitely say.
I got my licence way before,
so when she finally got her restricted,
I was kind of teaching her.
Interesting that you're the teacher.
I think we'll come back to that one
when we have Esther on the line.
Okay, and remember we are on air,
but in the bedroom,
what are we giving her out of five stars?
Oh, five stars? Five.
Five?
Five.
He knows, though.
You're a smart man, Andy.
Smarter than women.
Well, that five, it would certainly be zero
if he gave her anything less than five.
That's right.
Going forward, it would be.
Yeah, we'd be getting zero.
Yeah.
Okay, we move to the kitchen, from the bedroom to the kitchen.
What's her cooking out of five?
Definitely, it's up there.
I don't want to be like, oh, five, sure.
It's a four or five.
She does some really nice work.
I'm happy to give you a 4.5 because we do know that she is the chef.
Yeah, yeah.
She's really good at cooking.
I'll give her that.
4.5.
4.5. Room for improvement. Okay. Just a.5 room. Yeah, yeah. She's really good at cooking. I'll give her that. 4.5. 4.5. Room for improvement.
Okay.
This is interesting.
Anyway, okay.
What about kissing? Kissing technique?
You have good kisses?
Yeah,
I'd say I enjoy my kisses. I actually
haven't kissed a lot of girls, so I don't
actually have a good comparison.
That's so sweet. That's so sweet.
That's so sweet.
Would you give her a five?
Are you giving her a five?
But he doesn't know.
You don't know.
He doesn't know.
So technically, Andy, you're giving her a five.
Yeah, good.
Now, what we should have done is organise someone to be over at Andy's place
to give him a kiss.
We know it's a great kisser, so we'll be like, holy moly, now that's a five.
She's a three. That's a five. All right, we'll give that a five. Okay know it's a great kisser, so we'll be like, holy moly, now that's a five, she's a three.
We'll give that a five. Okay, that's a five.
Okay, three more. How's your listening
out of five?
Hmm.
Hmm, interesting.
I'd probably say
three to four, probably three and a half, maybe.
We'll do a three and a half. Three and a half stars.
So you think there's some room for improvement there?
Also a bad listener as well, I find.
So you reckon you're both just as bad.
Interesting you've acknowledged that.
Okay, what about gifts, gift giving?
She buy you good gifts or she rubbish at it?
Definitely probably a four, yeah.
Good gifts, wow.
Andy, Andy, Andy.
Okay, the final one, online behaviour.
So does she follow a lot of hot guys on social?
Is she a bit flirty in her DMs?
Or has she got good online behaviour?
I think she's got good online behaviour.
And if she follows a hot guy, I've got to make sure he's also hot, in my opinion.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Sort of like Henry Cavill.
That's hot.
Yeah!
And I like Andy.
So do I.
Hang on.
Now, I've got...
Now, what I'll do is I'll conference you, Andy.
I'll bring in Esther.
We'll just get her out of the cone of silence.
Carwen has been chatting to her,
so she hasn't heard any of the ratings.
Very interesting, Esther.
You've got a nice guy on your hands here.
Oh, no.
Guys, he better be doing right,
otherwise we're breaking up.
Esther, I'll say there is a gulf.
There is a gulf. He knew about the gulf.
Oh, he knew about the gulf.
Well, no, I was saying
there's a gulf between the ratings.
Oh, you were saying G-U-L-A-F.
We were thinking G-O-L-A-F.
Yeah, he did know about the gulf, Esther.
So he's actually listening. So I've got your average
scores. I've worked out your average scores that you've given each other.
Some interesting points.
Cleanliness, Esther, you gave Andy a four only because his office is yuck.
Andy, you gave Esther a one.
Oh, that's good.
I thought he would have given me a zero.
Wow.
I'm happy with that.
Okay.
I probably would have gone there.
Yeah.
Bedroom.
Let's head to the bedroom.
No, we want to talk about the driving
because Andy taught you to drive, Esther,
which you didn't mention.
He is lying.
You said,
you said, Esther,
that his driving is a three,
whereas Andy said your driving is a four.
Oh, it should have been a five.
The student has become the master.
Yeah, wow.
Is that right, Andy?
The relationship I'm in, she's clearly lying through her teeth right now.
Yeah.
Here he is.
Here he is.
We're sending a bit of backbone from our boy and we like it.
In the bedroom, for example, Andy, you gave Esther a straight five.
Now, we will say that.
Yeah, he did.
He gave you a five.
Andy, we might be going to the bedroom tonight if you're not on the plane.
Whereas Esther.
Where he will serve you up a solid three.
Yeah, well, you got a 3.5.
Now, Andy, she gave you a 3.5, but she did say, you know,
that you have a simple lovemaking technique and she's into it.
What's the reference on?
Like, how can she compare this to anything?
Guys, okay, Andy, what a way
to tell everyone that we're each other's first. How romantic.
Oh my god, that is literally so cute.
You two are very sweet.
I will note
for kissing technique,
you gave each other both a 5 out of 5.
And for online behaviour, you gave each other both a 5 out of 5. And for online behaviour, you gave each other both a 5 out of 5.
Now, Andy, your final score out of 5 stars for Esther is a solid 4.
Wow.
4 out of 5.
4.
That's 80%.
That's incredible.
That's huge.
You put that on a poster.
Yeah.
Esther, your final score for Andy was 2.8.
Now, 2.8. It's a 2.8. No. 2.8.
It's a 2.8.
Now, we will only know.
Andy, it's only because you got zero for cooking.
Now, that's fair.
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah, I don't cook, so I don't.
Yeah, and you got zero for gift giving.
And they brought your solid right down.
You would have been up there with a 3.8 to a four.
What did he give me for gift giving?
Four, babe.
You give good gifts.
When do I give you a present?
Oh, actually, I just gave you a present.
Okay, guys.
We don't pay for the counselling.
We just have the fun.
We're going to leave here,
and you guys can finish this conversation at home tonight.
Yeah, and you're the listener.
We're at home right now, so we'll finish it right now.
All right.
Love you guys.
Thank you guys for doing that because a lot of people were keen to do it,
but their partners weren't.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's very vulnerable.
So thank you.
Thank you for having a bit of fun.
Bye, darling.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Play Zed M's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
It's Simpsons week here at Fact of the Day.
Quick one today.
How old would the Simpsons characters be now if they, you know,
1989 when they debuted and their ageing started then?
Of course, they were eternally Bart, as eternally 10.
But if Bart was 10 in 1989, Bart would now be 46 years old.
I was about to say he'd be 40s. Yeah, 46.
Homer would be 72.
He was 36 in
1989, meaning he was born in 1953,
meaning he's 72 years old
this year. Marge would be 70
this year, because apparently she was 34
when the show started. By the way,
these kind of vary. I've found a lot
of different places online that had different
but this is from the Simpsons website.
Did they outwardly say how
old they ever were? There's been
well Bart was always 10
and that was referenced and there was a few episodes
in the early seasons where Homer was
his age was sort of like referenced and talked
about. Right. Maggie would be
37 years old because she was
one in the Simpsons.
Grandpa Simpson would
now be 118 years old.
Sound like someone on Facebook.
Grandma would have been
147 today.
Happy 118th heavenly birthday
to great grandma.
She's not though.
And actually she wouldn't
have been. Today would have been
her 176th birthday.
It just wouldn't have. She wouldn't have been. Today would have been her 176th birthday.
It just wouldn't have... It wouldn't.
She wouldn't have lived.
She wouldn't have lived that long.
No.
That's why she didn't.
So they worked out his age
because he was in World War II.
Right.
At the time,
and they worked out it was.
And Mr. Burns is older.
There's no, like,
official age for Mr. Burns,
but apparently he was older
than Grandpa Simpson.
Right.
He was 118.
He would be 118 if he was still alive today.
So today's fact of the day is the Simpsons is basically 36 years old,
meaning everybody is 36 years older now than they were when it started.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. A-E-R. 9th of March. All the details and tickets at synthony.com. And Symphony is our biggest one-day festival in New Zealand.
It's 34,000 tickets sold so far.
It's going to be bigger than that.
And joining us right now and performing, Cyril, welcome, man.
Thanks for having me.
Absolutely a pleasure to have you here.
34,000.
I mean, there's going to be more than that on the day.
What's it like screaming at you?
Oh, incredible.
It's great.
What's the biggest crowd
you've played?
No, this will be
the biggest, I think.
Oh, is it?
This will be the biggest.
Do you get, like,
hyped for that
or does that make you
more nervous?
The more the people,
the more nervous?
I'm just always
on one level,
if you know what I mean.
I don't get nervous
or I don't get hyped.
Oh, really?
I just do it.
You know what I mean?
Chill guy.
That's what my kids
say, chill guy. Don't get me wrong, I get up there, I jump, I sweat I just do it. You know what I mean? Chill guy. That's what my kids would say, chill guy.
Don't get me wrong,
I get up there,
I jump, I sweat,
you know, I fall over,
piss myself.
Don't get that far.
Wow.
What would you do though
in the middle of a huge set
like that if you needed to pee?
If you're like playing
like a six hour set,
there's got to be
like a bucket there
or a toilet nearby.
I love that we see
like the lights,
like the desk,
everything's like flash and behind you is a wee bucket. Yeah, I love that we see the lights, the desk, everything's like flash
and behind you is a
wee bucket.
Yeah, I love this is
where the conversation
has taken us.
Yeah, I don't know
how it got there.
I love it.
It's great.
Do you reckon your
chill vibe has much
to do with the fact
that you're from
Darwin?
I didn't realise
you were from Darwin.
Well, I've been there
for six years but I'm
actually from like a
town of 50 people in
New South Wales.
Wow.
I had no Wi-Fi.
My first DJ set,
the church got a PA system
and I got all my cousins out there
and I was there on one iPad
and one CD player.
Did you return it back to the church
and then lock it all up,
understood?
Yeah, after a lot of like,
yeah, we built it.
Yeah, we built it,
them speakers.
I mean, but there's a lot
of musicians, right,
who, especially coming
from a really small town
that's centered
around a church that we're temporarily robbing
and
music's their passion and they could be just as talented
and they could be putting in just as much effort
but it won't happen for them you know like they don't get to play
in front of tens of thousands of people like that
must be amazing for you now that like
it's working. Yeah 100%
it was like it was a make or break sort of thing
I remember like by the time my son was about to come out,
my son's been born.
He's got jaundice in hospital.
The males have to leave at 8pm.
So I'm literally leaving the hospital at 8pm to get back,
have meetings with record labels, you know,
do all the talking and stuff, get a manager and stuff like that.
And then I'm back at the hospital with my son, you know,
and my missus trying to bring us, you know, McDonald's.
She doesn't hate life for three days
What's her order?
Just wondering what
her order was
Double quarter pounder
with Big Mac sauce
on the quarter pounder
double cheeseburger
and some nuggies
What an order
What an order
What a partner
to just know it
that quick as well
She still gets it
Do you know Hayley
likes Filet-O-Fishers?
Oh no
I know
I don't know
I just really make a sort of a kindred with nuggies I love fish but not on a burger likes Filet-O-Fishers? Oh, no. I know. I don't know if Filet-O-Fishers
is sort of a kindred.
You want it?
With nuggets.
I love fish,
but not on a burger.
Filet-O-Fishers is so hot.
It's quite a pain in the butt.
When my missus was pregnant,
she doesn't have it anymore,
thank God,
but after she was pregnant,
she craved tuna
and she craved meatballs.
So like the three months
after she was pregnant
because she could eat tuna again,
she was having tuna meatball subs.
That's gross.
That's mangy, man.
I even see the tuna and I'm like,
that's not a sub I'll go for,
but she had one on a meatball.
Yeah, man, tuna meatball.
How old's your son now?
He's a year and a half.
So you've got a baby in the house
and how are you not disturbing a baby in the house,
and how are you not disturbing this baby with very loud music?
Headphones?
Headphones, yeah.
But the funny thing is we've just moved into a new house,
so I have a bigger studio space.
Oh, amazing. I haven't actually seen the house yet,
so I've been moving house while I've been gone.
Yeah.
And, yeah, so I'm going to get a drum kit next week,
so I don't know how that's going to go.
And your partner still likes you?
Oh, I think so.
Is the dream that one day, like, your son can come and watch you
at something like Synthony, something, you know, watch you killing it?
He's seen a couple of shows in Australia,
but there are me, my missus, my manager and his missus and both our kids.
He's got a girl, I've got a boy,
so we're going to bring all of us over to Europe for like three and a half months.
That's awesome.
I'm dreading it, aye.
And you're kissing.
You can get tickets at synthony.com
happening Saturday the 29th of March
at Auckland Domain Manuka Fuel Energy Drink Synthony Festival.
It's going to be amazing.
I'm so glad we're putting up a good crowd for you
and you're absolutely a deserver.
Thank you, man.
No, thank you.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
And our little, you're roasting her for her fluffy hair.
I just asked Georgia Bird if she'd bother doing her hair this morning.
Guys, I never do my hair.
You don't do your hair this morning, do you?
If I, like I come here and it's wet.
This is last night's.
Well, I've been told by Hayley's hairdresser, Shari,
that I can't wash it every day.
Well, you're going to get married.
I know, and I hate it.
I hate not washing it every day, eh?
So I'm flattening it up
carry on Hayley
why don't you guys talk about hair in front of two bald guys
hey I've bought mine
half of this is fake
so George is
at the top of the pyramid
I'm rocking a thicket of pubes
so I feel like I am allowed to
thicket
so yesterday
I love that this was called this.
In our little planning sheet, we write down a little, you know,
prompt for what we can talk about.
Hayley packed a trifecta of sads.
Perfectly described how I did yesterday.
Three separate sads.
Three sads were packed.
And they were packed hard.
It wasn't just me being like, nyeh.
First one was packed at the gym.
I went to the gym. I was tired
to be fair. Because you had
no sleep on Saturday night. You literally
stayed up until 7am.
That's the time I got home.
Then I just rattled around until I
went to Auckland. So yeah, no sleep.
No sleep at all? For a whole day?
Yeah, but I pushed through, right? And then I
went to have a good night on Sunday night, good sleep
and then I thought, I'm going to go to the gym.
It's going to make me feel really good.
Then I realised I packed my shorts that are too tight
and my top that's too short.
And that combo, when you're not feeling yourself, no good.
You've got to have confidence to rock in there with a pair of shorts
that are too tight and a top that's too short.
But I didn't have that.
Oh, moose knuckle in the muffin top.
Oh, moose knuckle.
Which was our rock quest then. that's too short but I didn't have that oh moose knuckle in the muffin top oh moose that's my bad
which was our
rock quest band
moose knuckle
in the muffin top
it's a good name
it's a really good name
actually
it's a really good name
yeah
but it was
and I was like
ugh
I feel uncomfortable
and then I saw myself
in the mirror
and I just thought
ew
and I went no
and I left
I just left mid workout
you packed a set
oh no
because I sent you I had a PB at the gym yesterday so that would have really upset you and I just thought ew and I went no and I left I just left mid workout you packed a sad oh no because I sent you
I had a PB
at the gym yesterday
so that would have
really upset you
and I said well
I've just left mid workout
because I was sick
of looking at the side
of myself
couldn't stand
I just left
stormed someone
I just let Vaughn
message back
when you said that
I dealt with it
though didn't I
you did
because Vaughn
used to deal with it
you did deal with it
told me to buck up
my ideas
I'll just be quiet for that one.
Second sad was packed.
I didn't tell you to buck up your ideas.
No, but-
I told you to be proud of your effort
and you're seeing some great results
and stuck at it and you're a champion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
That's really nice.
That's really nice.
Yeah.
Then I went and I had a rehearsal space yesterday
because I'm making a new show for Comedy Fest
and I got in there and I spun around the room on a wheelie chair for a bit.
Opened some emails.
A friend came to monitor me doing the emails because I kept getting distracted.
And then when they left, I tried to write one joke.
I got into the microphone.
I said it out loud.
And then off the walls, the walls were telling me that it wasn't funny.
So I packed a set and went home.
So I paid for this for the afternoon, so that room's empty.
Packed a set, not funny.
So not feeling good, not funny.
Yeah.
Then I got home yesterday and it was like...
You took your feedback from walls.
Yeah.
Who have seen it all.
Yeah, who have seen it all.
I said a joke into the mic like, ha-ha, da-ba-da-da.
Oh, yeah, great.
Well, that's not funny.
Good luck to you.
I guess so well.
People are going to come.
They're not going to laugh.
You're not even funny
we'll go
and then I
got home
and it was kind of alright
whatever
house wasn't tight
that's fine
and I
I cooked dinner
I made nachos
yeah
I get on
the couch is currently
busy because Aaron's
going away on a trip
he cleared a space
on the couch
we were going to watch
White Lotus episode 1
watched, enjoyed and we got the nachos and I sat them there and the first thing Aaron's going away on a trip. He cleared a space on the couch. We were going to watch White Lotus, episode one.
Oh, yeah, lovely.
Watched, enjoyed.
And we got the nachos, and I sat them there,
and the first thing that happened is I sat back,
and some of the nachos came onto me in the couch.
Slopped on your moose neck.
Slopped on the... Slopped straight on the moose neck.
Missed it.
Missed it.
Missed it. Careful. Bypassed the muffin top straight to the moose neck. missed it missed missed
missed
therefore
I passed the muffin tops
straight to the Moussner
Sloppy Nachos
was the song
that made Moussner
and the muffin tops
win the regional finals
of the Smokefree Rock Quest
and that was the third sad pact
and that's it
is that why you had nachos
I stormed off
I stormed out of the room
and then I sat there
and Aaron was like
come sit I've cleaned up Aaron was like, come sit.
I've cleaned up the couch.
He said, come sit down next to me.
I said, no, I don't want a bar if it's wet.
So I sat on a chair that faces us on the same wall as the TV.
So I sat watching it, sort of like peering aside like this.
And he said, thanks for dinner.
It's yum.
I said, no, it doesn't taste like shit.
And that was it.
You know how important sleep is, right?
Like missing a whole day of sleep.
I've found it.
Yeah.
I've found it.
I reckon Aaron's looking forward to his trip away.
He'll be like screaming out of the driveway.
Goodbye.
Forever.
Oh.
I just...
Who did Tummy do it for?
Yeah, that was my tum-tums.
That was my tum-tum-tums.
Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show.
Ah, not for me.
Vaughan?
Nowhere even close.
Nowhere even close.
Nowhere even close.
You haven't been here long, have you?
No, I haven't.
No.
Well, if you were listening and you had fun,
why don't you give us a little review and a rating?
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.