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Okay, so we're all back at work again
That's Vaughan and Hayley
Merch
Oh my god Okay, so we're all back at work again. That's Vaughn and Hayley merch.
Oh my God.
That just happened, didn't it? I did not hear that.
Hello.
We are back.
We are back for season whatever this is in 2025.
Yeah.
Welcome to the show.
Hello.
Fresh tanned. Quite a bronzed room. Yeah. Welcome to the show. Hello. Fresh tanned.
Quite a bronze room.
Yeah.
Sunscreen though.
I never got burnt.
I did.
Oh my God.
It's a safe tan for you.
It's a safe tan.
Safe tan.
Well, there's no such thing as a safe tan.
Actually.
Yeah, that's true.
You should see my butt.
SPF.
It's pretty hard.
Is it translucent?
Oh no.
It is flaming red. Because it was translucent Oh no, it is flaming red. Because
it was translucent and they gave it some sunshine
and it, yeah,
it didn't. Right.
You've got to be careful. I know, Dad.
You're over there looking like a baboon. I am.
I am. Flashing your red
tush around. Your red tush around the zoo.
As you heard Bryn mention, you probably have seen
online in the last 24 hours
TikTok has been banned.
It's gone dark.
Yeah.
In the US.
I know.
I mean, I don't really go on TikTok a lot.
I'm an Instagrammer.
You're a real.
But all my Instagrammers that I follow have obviously been on TikTok because I've been posting on Instagram being like, RIP.
Find me here, you know?
People make a lot of, this is how people pay their bills.
They make a lot of money doing it.
They make millions.
We're going to talk after eight this morning to someone in the U.S.
who is a TikTok influencer.
Yeah, Deanna Gioessi.
She is huge on TikTok.
She's got a massive Instagram following.
So I guess it's now, we'll talk to her about how you're going to like.
Well, people are moving to the Chinese app.
Red Book?
Red Note.
Red Note.
What does this Deanna that we're going to talk to,
what does she specialise in in TikTok?
It's not like peddling shakes or fizz sticks or anything, is it?
No, no, no, no.
That's good because I will not have that on the show.
Good beauty stuff, body positivity.
She's gorge.
We'll chat to her after eight and see how she's doing.
Yeah.
Like a lot of
Americans
yeah
coming up on the show
I've got the top 6
coming up
that's back
despite my
attempts to
get out of work
by saying
maybe we stop doing
the top 6
but you know
the people have spoken
they demanded it
I don't think so
it's just sort of
Phil's a break
no way he is
Phil's a break no doubt about that Phil's a break. No way he is. Phil's a break.
No doubt about that.
Phil's a break.
Sometimes let's Fletch have a wee.
You know, if he needs to have a wee, he can pop off for that.
Go for a quick wee.
Well, I saw a headline that said,
great breeding season for shags.
And that made me laugh.
Okay.
It makes me laugh every time I see a shag,
a river or a sea shag.
The bird that they are called shags.
Yes.
So I've got the top six other animals having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it.
Well, I raise your top six with a top 25 next.
Perfect.
Yeah, Rolling Stone Magazine have released the top 250 albums
of the 21st century.
What, are we just going to go through 250?
No, I'll mark through some highlights of the top 25.
Any Kiwis in there?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Stay tuned.
Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley.
If you're new to the show,
hi, thanks for joining us in 2025.
But last year, Rolling Stone,
they compiled a list of the greatest artists
of the 21st century.
And then we were like, who's going to win?
Surely Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift.
It was Beyonce.
Remember? Yeah, it was my pick. Taylor Swift. It was Beyonce. Remember?
Yeah, it was my pick.
Taylor Swift was second.
Beyonce was number one.
Not that I think Beyonce's the best artist,
but I just thought that magazine would.
That's where you'd go.
And that was all based on record sales and tour sales
and cultural impact and a lot of things.
Now they've released the 250 best albums of the 21st century.
So 250.
We'll start there.
I'll start with number 250.
We'll go all through.
And we'll just work through the day.
This could just be the show.
The whole list.
In 250th, genuinely, NSYNC, no strings.
Like, this is a great list, by the way.
Go on rollingstone.com to look at the whole thing because it's rap pop,
like,
um,
a bit of rock and roll.
You might find some of those albums you used to always listen to,
like in the 2000s.
Oh my God,
like gorillas is in there.
There's a lot of,
um,
uh,
white stripes.
There's a whole list.
Anyway.
So 250 that's in sync,
no strings.
I'm jumping around a bit.
70 second is 1989
Taylor Swift
42nd is
Killers Hot Fuss
great album
great album
I mean I've jumped
right ahead
because 41
I just want to shout out
some of the newbies
on the list
42
Killers Hot Fuss
41
Chapel Run
Rise and Fall
ahead of the Killers
of a Midwest Princess
I couldn't agree more
but I just didn't think
that would be the general consensus.
Then you jump forward a little bit,
Olivia Rodrigo Sour.
I mean,
they've really included
some great new pop.
35th is Charlie XCX Brat.
Now I move to 25th,
Lord Mellow Drama.
Yes.
At Rolling Stone's 250th best album
of the 21st century,
there's our girl.
2017,
that album was a great album.
And also,
when is she bringing out her new album?
It's got to be this year, right?
Because Solar Power was the last one.
And it was like two or three years ago.
I liked it.
I know.
It was a weed album, she called it.
Oh, did she? She'd been smoking a lot of weed.
That's why it was like quite chill.
Right.
Yeah.
I'll jump through a few because not all of them are of interest.
So that's 25th is our girl.
Then 21st.
I don't know if you're saying that right.
This guy.
Tearing me apart on day one.
She has a maths degree from Cambridge University.
Yeah.
How dare you question her.
It was when I was like, is medicine for me?
Yeah, and you dipped a toe in math.
Right.
21st.
21st from 2016 is Rihanna's Anti.
Great album.
And 20th, Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster, 2009.
Again.
Then 19th, Bob Dylan pops up.
Oh, okay.
Who's Bob Dylan?
Yeah, there he is.
He released an album in 2001, apparently.
18, Missy Elliot Under Construction from 2002.
Great.
Oh, like phenomenal.
Phenomenal album.
17th is Adele 21
Yeah
From 2011
Great album
Great album
Flawless
Then Beyonce pops up
Beyonce Beyonce
She just released an album in 2013
Called Beyonce
It was a great album
It was not as influential
As another one
That we'll see later in the list
Lana Del Rey's
In 15th
14th
The White Stripes Elephant
2003
Great album
Great album
Terrible drummer
But it serves a purpose
I'm going to jump ahead
We don't need to know there
Oh that one's dumb
Number 10
The Strokes
I want to know what one
You said was dumb
Jay-Z
The Blueprint
Oh okay
I don't know
I don't have a lot of time
For him at the moment
No I don't care
Number 10
The Strokes
Is this
I mean this is what I like
About it
The genres are jumping around
Number 9
Bad Bunny
Pops up there
Don't really know his music that well.
I've been being,
over summer,
I got fed a lot of Bad Bunny.
Well, because he's engaged
to Selena Gomez.
Is that Bad Bunny?
No, no.
No, no.
No, no.
You're thinking of Benny Blanco.
Oh, two babies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Benny Blanco.
Who's Bad Bunny?
Bad Bunny,
he was with a Jenna.
Wasn't he with Kylie?
No, Kendall.
Kendall.
He was with Kendall for a bit.
Oh, good for him.
And like huge in South America.
Huge. Oh, okay, okay, okay. And C good for him. And like huge in South America. Huge.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
And C-Papi.
Okay, C-Papi, to those that celebrate.
Number eight of the 250th greatest album of all time from Rolling Stone, Kanye West.
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy.
Oh my God, yeah.
It's a great album.
It's a great album.
I've got that on vinyl.
He's gone downhill.
I mean, he's an arsehole, but great.
Great album.
He's a shun.
Seven is Sissor SOS
Another newbie
Great
Kendrick Lamar is sixth
With Good Kid
M.A.N.D.
Taylor Swift
Folklore
Here's your top five
2020 Folklores
Great album
Yeah
Four
Outkast
Yes
Stankonia
From 2000
Stankonia
Yeah
I was wondering if it was gonna be the one
Where they
Hey
You know they did an album No no no Too poppy Yeah it was going to be the one where they did, hey, you know, they did an album of each.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Too poppy.
Yeah, it was probably.
Top three.
Frank Ocean's in there.
Oh, yeah.
The third with Blonde.
Amazing album.
Incredible.
Number two, Radiohead, Kid A.
And number one.
Okay, the biggest album of the 21st century.
Lemonade.
Beyonce.
Which, you've got to think about where they're going by reviews,
cultural impact.
That was a huge thing.
It had a whole visual album with it.
She dropped it by surprise.
Everyone was like, huh?
What?
What does that name a song off there?
Lemonade.
Yeah, my lemonade brings all the boys to the stand.
Okay, right.
Yep.
And I'm like, it's a dollar for a cup.
Remember her song?
Lemonade, lemonade, 25 cents. Lemonade, lemonade, 25 cents.
Lemonade, lemonade, 25 cents.
Lemonade, lemonade.
Great songs.
Did you know the shag, there's endangered shags.
Oh, dear.
Yeah.
I love seeing a shag because after they do the dive down and they get the fish or the eels or whatever they're eating,
they always go up and they spread their wings out to dry them so they can fly.
Oh, that's so good.
Badass sitting there with their wings out.
You saw a funny headline.
Yeah, I did.
Finally, a good season for shags.
I was like, brother, you're telling me.
Oh, I'm drowning in it.
Are you?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
All the time.
Oh, is that you?
Oh, man.
Heaps.
Heaps.
This is the season for shags.
Are you role playing as Fletch?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going to do one, eh?
Yeah, yeah.
Role play for Hayley.
Yeah.
Absolutely drowning in it.
Well, I like the top six other animals
that are having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it.
Okay.
Number six on the list.
The titi are looking great this summer.
He he he.
Titi's.
But you don't put S on it because, of course, it's the Māori word for the mutton bird.
Yeah, right.
So you just have to say the titi are looking great this summer.
The titi are looking good.
Good this summer.
Lovely titi over there.
Number five on the list are the top six animals having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it,
the African dick dick are looking strong and hard.
Excuse me?
I beg your pardon?
What?
D-I-K-D-I-K.
It's an African...
It's a little antelope-esque.
Oh, okay.
A gazelle-esque.
Oh, my God, it is adorable.
It's a real cute...
Dick dick.
Oh, there's a cute...
Is it a little baby one?
Oh, please don't show flesh pictures of the dick dick at work. I... It's D-I-K, look at the dick dick. Is it a little baby one? Oh, please don't show
flesh pictures of the dick dick
at work.
I, it's D-I-K-D-I-K.
We're safe.
That is the cutest
little dick dick
I've ever seen.
By the way,
these are all actual animals
so I'll see you at the BSA
if you've got a problem with it.
This is factual shit.
You need to grow up.
That's all we're doing.
If you've got a problem with it,
it's you that's got the problem.
You've got the filthy mind.
Number four on the list
of the top six animals
having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it, the South American You've got the filthy mind. Number four on the list of the top six animals having a cracker season and how I'd headline it,
the South American
screaming heart,
the South American
screaming hairy armadillo.
Loud, proud,
and surprisingly hairy.
Wow.
I'm screaming.
Did you see any
screaming hairy armadillo?
I saw an owl.
I saw a cute owl
and some eagles,
but I didn't see
one of those.
Screaming hairy armadillo. Oh my God, they're so cute. Arm eagles, but I didn't see one of those. It's a screaming, hairy armadillo.
Oh, my God.
They're so cute.
It's an armadillo, but they're hairy.
Like, long fur.
Look at it.
Oh, okay.
Odd.
I actually saw a video of the screaming, hairy armadillo on social media over summer.
Did they scream?
Yeah.
Like what?
Yeah, like, ah!
Like, really a weird, annoying pitch.
But you know how armadillos roll themselves up and protect themselves?
Yeah.
These guys don't do it.
What good are you?
They scream.
Oh, they scream instead.
Apparently you try to eat it and you get a bit of puke in your mouth
and you're like...
And it's like...
It's not for you anymore.
And it's like...
Number three on the list of the top six other animals having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it.
The elusive red-lipped batfish is well worth the dive to gaze upon.
Wow.
Real fish in the Galapagos Islands, if anybody wants to look that up.
The red-lipped batfish.
Dive down and have a look.
It's like a goldfish with lipstick.
It's a really unpleasant looking fish.
Okay.
It's a really unpleasant looking fish. Sometimes. It's a really unpleasant looking fish.
Sometimes you see those fish and you know, gross ones and you're just like, oh, that's
sad.
Whereas a snapper looks exactly like it should be eaten.
It looks like she's got a complaint for the manager.
Yeah.
It looks like she's, yeah, she's a kid that's put on makeup lipstick for the first time.
Mom, mom, like you now.
Who am I?
While we're on fish, number two on the list of the top six other animals having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it, the slippery dick, native to the Caribbean.
Sought after worldwide for a pet.
Really?
It's a blue-green fish.
About yay long.
I'm holding out my fingers.
What would you say that is, eight inches?
Right.
Oh, yeah. Moving on. Number'm holding out my fingers. What would you say that is? Eight inches? Right. Oh, yeah.
Moving on.
Number one.
The slippery dick.
Kind of.
Number one on the list
of the top six other animals
having a cracker season
and how I'd headline it.
Number one is the
particularly fragrant
wood puss
put off day trampers.
Vaughn Allen Smith.
Did you know that's an official name
for a skunk?
Wood puss. Wood puss. Named because Vaughn Allen Smith Did you know that's an official name for a skunk?
Woodpuss Woodpuss
Named because they believed it was a cat that lived in the woods
It's the first name back
Why are you getting us complaints?
I'm not, grow up
That's a name for it, Google it
I have Googled it and nothing's come up
Put a Y on the end
No, I'm not doing that
Really?
I just didn't want to say the whole word
because see how Fletcher acted to puss.
Imagine if I'd said the Y.
Oh, well, yeah.
But it's an actual name for a skunk, so.
Yeah.
Is it adorable?
You should just be glad I didn't bring up the common cockchafer,
which is found in the south of the UK.
It is a large bug, a hairy body.
The name cock meaning familiar or big,
and chafer meaning the fact that it chafes away.
That's how it eats leaves.
Well, there's some lotion for that.
Yeah, there is.
Yeah, there is actually.
But it's the season for it, isn't it?
Yeah, I go Vaseline.
Yeah, well.
That is today's top six.
I did the weekly shop yesterday.
Made a meal plan in there, really.
Oh my God, I made a meal plan yesterday too.
Yeah, mine wasn't healthy.
It was just like kids, what do you want to eat for dinner this time?
So we don't have to go to the supermarket five times.
And did they say nuggets?
Not nuggets.
Nachos, if we're thinking of that.
Nachos is on mine.
Is it?
Yeah, a very boring healthy version.
Boo, boo.
Yeah.
Nachos shouldn't be healthy.
No, I know.
I was making my way
around the supermarket.
I got to the hot shop.
Did you have a plan
or did you snake?
I snaked.
I love a snake.
I always snake.
Same.
Because I'll come across
things that I'd forgotten.
Yeah.
Or then I'm like,
that's inspiring.
Yeah.
You know?
Get it.
I'm inspired.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Love a snake.
They always say like,
make a list so that you don't snake
because you end up spending money that you don't have
or that you didn't plan on spending.
That's the joy of it.
A snake through the supermarket.
We do need some glase cherries.
I pulled up beside the hot chop display.
I don't even think those are cherries.
God, what is it?
I don't think anything.
What are they called?
Marachino.
No, marachino cherries are different.
Marachino cherries are the, like, fancy ones in the jars
with the syrup and stuff. Oh, right. Glase cherries are different. Oh. Maraschino cherries are the fancy ones in the jars with the syrup and stuff.
Oh, right.
Glazed cherries are those candy, green and red things you put in a fruitcake.
I just think I could eat a whole pack of those and not even be mad.
Quite aniseed-y.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are glazed cherries made from?
They reckon they're made from cherries.
Right.
Maybe like 10 years ago.
Yeah.
You know, 10 processes ago. So I pulled up beside the hot choc display. Yeah, maybe like 10 years ago. Yeah. You know, 10 processes ago.
So,
I pulled up beside
the hot chook display.
Yeah.
Which was lacking hot chook.
There was hot chooks,
but it wasn't like
packed with hot chooks.
What time of the day was it?
Because I like
when there's a whole lot
of hot chooks,
I'll go dry,
dry,
dry.
Yeah.
You look a little bit dry.
You gotta get a good one.
You look plump and ready
for a hot chook.
Yeah.
And it was at that stage
there was a lady
kind of parked there
and I looked just because...
How'd she get her car in the supermarket?
Carefully, I'd say.
And in her part, if you had a child, you would plop them.
She didn't have a child.
She had her list there.
Long list.
Lots on there.
And her handwriting was exactly the same as my mum's.
Oh, wow.
Exactly the same as my mum's.
Everything about it was the same as my mum's. Oh, wow. Exactly the same as my mum's. Everything about it was the same as my mum's.
It's funny how you can recognise your parents' handwriting immediately.
And so many of the times that I've seen my mum's handwriting
has been on a shopping list
because she keeps one of those Croxley long pads on the bench.
And every time she's like, oh, we need that, she pops it on the list.
This is just her habit.
Yeah, I love that.
She'll do it.
So much of the observation of her handwriting has been in the form of a shopping list i was
overwhelmed to tell the lady what why why are you and i had headphones on i had headphones on
shopping yeah listen to a podcast pause podcast airbag and i say excuse me and she turns around
and i think she meant she took took it as, excuse me.
I want a hot choc.
You're in the way, I need a hot choc.
Yeah, I need to check out these chicks.
And she's like, oh, sorry.
And I was like, no, no, no.
And I said, and please, I'm not,
this is, I'm not trying to be weird here.
Oh, when you preface something saying,
please brace yourself.
I'm not trying to be weird.
It's weird.
Gave it a pause and I said,
and I'm not trying to be nosy.
Your handwriting is exactly the same as my mum's.
Yep.
Like everything about it.
I was like, the way you, the C's, the B's, the way that.
Oh God, now it looks like you've really been reading a list.
What if it said condoms?
I would have been like.
Lube, lube, lube.
Nice.
So she was like, oh, okay.
And then you could see she clicked that I might've been telling her that
because I'd lost my mum. No, Christine's alive, isn't she? Christine's alive and well. And then you could see she clicked that I might have been telling her that because I'd lost my mum.
No, Christine's alive, isn't she?
Christine's alive and well.
And well.
Alive and well.
And so then she had to deal with this guy who she didn't know the circumstance
of my mum.
Yeah.
So she's like, oh, okay.
Yeah, I wouldn't even know how to receive that.
No.
And what?
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, what, bro?
This is something you
keep to yourself yeah you observe it and you go crazy yeah i couldn't move on and i said oh it's
just such a nostalgic moment shopping and seeing a shopping list that was exactly the same as my
mom's handwriting because my mom was such a shopping list lady yeah it feels like she's
dead and then yeah she was just like oh okay and i said and i said sorry about that i'll let you
i'll let you get on with it, but thanks.
And she was like, okay.
Oh, you're totally not. And she would have gone home to her husband and said,
God, this guy harassed me at the supermarket today.
I'll reiterate, she's alive and well.
Yeah, I know.
But uncanny.
God, my mother used to write shopping lists like that.
The same Cs and Bs.
Now I'm hearing it back.
I'm even more convinced she thought she was dead.
Yeah, 100%.
Alive and well.
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Silly little pole.
Silly little pole.
It is so silly, silly, silly.
That silly little pole.
Silly little pole.
Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly Little Pole today, do your parents have a favourite child?
Our options were, yes it's me, yes but it's not me, or no they don't have a favourite child.
Well a study of 20,000 parents in America found that parents do indeed treat their children differently.
And the way that they choose their favourites is more systematic than you might think.
Really?
I mean, if we ask Vaughan, because he's on radio and lots of people can hear,
he'll say, no, I don't have a favourite child.
Yeah.
I have favourite things to do with each child.
Yeah.
I have a favourite child in different areas.
Like, August is my favourite child when it comes to, like, watching or, like, building Lego together, watching shows.
Yeah.
Watching Star Wars stuff.
Yeah.
She's more into that sort of thing.
Which is your favourite child to shoplift with?
Both of them.
They're both so good.
They run a great game.
They run a great game.
Okay, good. Because they just look so innocent. They run a great game. Okay, good.
Because they just look so innocent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those smiles.
One runs distraction.
Oh, my gosh.
One runs distraction.
One runs cuteness.
And dad's just pocketing.
Yeah, it's great.
Good stuff.
Do parents have a favourite child?
44% of people said,
yes, it's me.
Oh, okay.
Also, funny if it isn't you.
But then I just found out my sister got a tattoo.
And you know, my mum's so anti-tattoo.
Did you drop her in it?
No, I was like the last one to find out.
Oh, okay.
No one wants to talk about it.
It's a tattoo.
The family's shame.
How old's your sister?
40?
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
No, it's not.
I was just, I don't know.
I don't know you got a Wow. No, it's not. I was just, I don't know. Well, I hope you're covering that up at Christmas.
I don't know you got a tattoo.
No one told me.
Right, so that just boosts you in the favourite stage.
Shit, did it what?
Great.
Virgin skin.
What?
Such not marked skin.
39% of people said, yes, my parents have a favourite, but it's not me.
And 18% of people said, no, my parents don't have a favourite.
Okay.
That just also should be added to that. They do, but it's not me. 18% of people said no my parents don't have a favourite. Okay. That just also should be added to that. They do
but it's not me. Or that you're just both
disappointing and your parents
are just like we failed here.
Someone just texted and said
they actually saw your daughters in Mecca Newmarket.
Were you aware that they were shopping
at Mecca Newmarket? Yeah
because they got vouchers for Christmas. Oh god
I was going to say you don't walk into Mecca Newmarket
without spending a bit of money.
Is Mecca the place that sells the bum bum cream?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
They were there.
I'm an only child, says somebody. My parents prefer their grandkids.
I gave them four.
Far out.
No, they're supposed to prefer their grandkids.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If they like their kids better than they like their grandkids,
they must have real dud grandkids. Yeah, d, yeah. If they like their kids better than they like their grandkids, they must have real dud grandkids.
Yeah, duds.
Sounds like duds.
You're not supposed to,
certainly not supposed to like your kids more than your grandkids.
No.
Brittany said,
honestly, I think it's because of my taste in partners
is why I'm not the favourite.
I keep bringing strays home.
But looking at it from their perspective,
I do understand.
Who's this guy?
I am so worried.
Oh, for God's sake.
Describing them as strays?
Yeah.
Perfect.
Like, I can, you know, I adopt, don't shop.
Yeah, of course.
But I've got a golden retriever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
I was picky about my adoption.
100%.
You know what I'm saying?
How many staff he's going to bring home for Christmas.
Exactly.
Don't bring me home a pit bull.
Yeah.
Hey, some people like him.
Not this guy.
Bring me home a golden retriever.
What else?
That'll push.
No, just a golden retriever.
That's it.
Christine said, it is my brother who's the only boy in my whanau,
better known as the golden boy.
Oh, he's the fave.
Of course there is. Sarah, my four-year-old. Khan, better known as the golden boy. Oh, he's the fave. He's the fave.
Of course there is.
Sarah, my four-year-old.
Khan, Terrier is the favourite child.
So that's a dog, right?
A dog, yeah.
Yeah, the dog's the favourite child.
Isabella, only child.
My parents have no other options.
Imagine if you're still not the favourite.
You're still not the favourite.
The potential that they decided against.
They're like, man, we could have nailed it with that second one that we never had.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Okay, so there was a woman.
She goes by Anne.
She's 53 years old.
I believe she's French.
Okay.
She has been scammed out of $1.5 million, New Zealand dollars.
$1.5 million.
$1.5 million.
I couldn't even get scammed that much because I don't have that much in my account.
That's a good defense.
Yeah, I'd be like, try.
Go on, try.
So she was scammed after she was contacted online.
And she doesn't go online a lot,
but she was contacted online by none other than Brad Pitt.
Who just, what, emailed her out of the blue?
Messaged her on social media out of the blue.
Just chatting, starting up a conversation.
She was like, oh, my God, he's actually so down to earth, super nice.
Okay.
Then her heart broke when she realised,
and obviously he'd kept
this private from the public eye
because he just wants to
go through it privately
before, you know,
coming out.
That he was going
through cancer treatment.
Oh no.
Yeah, awful.
And I had no idea.
He just looks like
a fit, healthy guy.
He does.
Full, full-blown cancer.
He looks like he loves
a ciggy, yeah.
Oh mate, that guy
moons the darts.
Loves darts.
He's a leathery old boy.
It's always weird when you do see a celebrity that you see in movies and stuff all the time
just casual and they're holding a durry and you're like,
There's quite a few celebrities like that.
Heaps.
Yeah, heaps.
Heaps.
So he reaches out because he's got cancer treatment and she's like,
Oh, my God, that's horrible.
He starts sending her photos of him in hospital beds,
some of which I just showed you before.
Comical. Comical.
Comical, clearly.
I mean, it's like him with ventilators,
but it's like Hollywood red carpet photos of his face
photoshopped onto...
It's week one learning Photoshop stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It could have been done in paint or sort of Microsoft Word.
Eventually this comes out that this is a scam, obviously.
And it all gets kind of sorted like this.
But $1.5 million, she's transferred to him to help pay for his cancer treatment.
Over how long?
Like what were the increments that was leaving the bank account?
Oh, I'm not sure.
I don't have all that.
I don't know.
I don't know how long, but I mean, it must have been a while.
Why didn't she?
It's Brad Pitt.
He's worth millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars.
Why did she think he needed the money?
I think she's quite naive here. Right.
And she, the only thing that alerted her to the fact
that maybe this was a scam is she would see photos of him in public
looking A-okay, you know, like red carpet, paparazzi shots and whatnot.
And she was like,
oh my God. By that point, she'd given him $1.5 million.
I mean, it's awful.
If there were stages of realisation,
she was like, Brad lied to me.
And she still thought it was Brad
that was scamming her money before she realised
he had nothing to do with it. I know.
So he's come out now.
The real Brad Pitt. He's not on social media. He he's come out now because he doesn't have- The real Brad Pitt.
The real Brad Pitt.
He's not on social media.
No.
He's got no verified accounts.
He doesn't do Instagram or anything like that.
But he came out and he said,
it's awful that scammers take advantage of fans' strong connection with celebrities,
but this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach,
especially from actors who have no social media presence.
That's kind of all he's had to say.
So, yeah, you dumb.
You deserve that.
Yeah, you dumb.
But now what happens?
Because this is ongoing.
He's got to meet her, right?
He's got to go.
He doesn't have to do anything.
He's got to give her a little coin.
No, Bradford is not obligated to do a single thing to this woman.
Half a million dollars would make her feel better.
He should go meet her and
give her one of his bottles of wine.
At least! I wouldn't even go and meet her.
You wouldn't even go? You don't
know way. Absolutely
not. He's got no obligation
to do anything. She should have been
talking to more people about this. People
should have been looking after her. This is not his fault.
Not his problem. They had a connection.
They had a connection.
He was suffering and she had a bit of coin.
Well, she's not the only one
because there's also a story at the moment
about this happening to someone else.
They believed it was Keanu Reeves.
I know.
But he's a nice guy.
He wouldn't ask for money.
He wouldn't.
He wouldn't do that.
But Kiwis in the last year
lost $2.3 billion to digital scams.
And that's just like what's known of.
So apparently, sorry, apparently the scammer told this woman, Anne,
that he was unable to access his, Brad,
was unable to access his bank accounts due to his ongoing divorce
with Angelina Jolie, but he's got this cancer treatment.
And he's like, good for her.
Okay, yeah, right.
You just got to be careful.
Remember, it's never
dumb to ask someone.
This is why you need to tell your grandparents,
your parents. Always ask me.
If you're ever in doubt, listen,
we don't judge. Yeah. When it comes
to scams. Because that's
your inheritance, you know?
Some people can't be told.
You hear about people whose parents are convinced.
You're just jealous.
Yeah, exactly.
They said you'd do this.
Yeah.
They said you wouldn't believe me.
Brad Pitt told me you'd try to stop this.
Yeah.
No, we didn't.
We didn't.
We didn't.
Play ZM's Fletch, Fawn and Hayley.
We've been away for four weeks.
Fletch, you went overseas and had some big adventures.
So I don't imagine that you spend a lot of time reading or watching things.
I know a lot of time in the plane.
So I watched a few series.
Yeah.
And then Vaughn and I, man, we also spent four weeks.
Just get crazy adventures, man.
So many adventures.
Yeah.
It sucks that when it's our summer and we've got daylight savings and we've got all this
daylight and amazing weather, We're getting all the best
shows and movies because in America
it's winter and they just want
to watch TV. So we get all the good
stuff and we're like, ah. You jump on the couch at
like 7pm and you're like, oh, and you're
looking outside like, oh, it's so nice
still. It just feels bad to be watching all of this
in the, you know, nice daytime.
Yeah, so I thought maybe we could share some of the
best things we read, listened to,
or watched over the break.
Half Dimension, Squid Game 2.
We'll bring the girls in.
Hi, girls.
Welcome back.
Hi.
We made it.
You did.
You made the cut.
They're back.
I obviously love Squid Game.
Squid Game.
I love Squid Game 1,
but I haven't even...
It's there.
It's ready.
It's so worth doing.
Like, for a sequel, they've done well.
It's so different.
Like, I was like, okay, here we go.
New round of game players and we'll do it again.
Like, how are they going to make it different?
It just...
I couldn't believe it.
I watched it Boxing Day.
Like, the day it came out and I watched it all in one day.
Yeah.
I was saying there's a lot of...
Can you not get to any sales?
Online.
I can multitask.
Big screen, little screen.
So you were watching Squid Game 2 and Boxing Day sales.
Okay, great.
I got a new backpack for work.
It genuinely is so good for a sequel.
Not even for a sequel.
It's so good.
I think that's the first overwhelmingly positive.
I thought the stuff I'd seen was a bit ho-hum.
I thought the hype would be more too, having watched it.
I think a few people watched episode one
and didn't think it was going to be what they thought so tapped out.
But I think you need to watch the whole season
and then you'll get the hype.
I think episode one is incredible.
I was like, I forgot that the show was this.
Ruthless?
Ruthless.
And yeah, bloody. And the music
choice is 10 out of 10.
One thing I watched is,
you know, Kunk?
You know, Philomena Kunk?
This is her second season?
Yeah, she's done Kunk on Life
and it is so funny.
It's just like, she just plays this kind of
mad, British,
you know, documentarian. Very funny. Do you guys watch anything? It's just like She just plays this kind of Like mad British Yeah she's hilarious
Documentarian
Very funny
Do you guys watch anything?
Watch Day of the Jackal
Which I know is a little bit late too
On TVNZ Plus
Which was phenomenal
Yeah that's good
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne
Yeah I got a bit of a man crush
On Eddie Redmayne
Do you?
Yeah
What about Henry Cavill?
Oh still Henry Cavill
Okay
Right
Oh my god Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill's had a baby Yeah wellony for me. Oh, still Henry Cavill. Okay, right. Oh my God, Henry Cavill.
Henry Cavill's had a baby.
Yeah, well, shut up.
Yeah, he's on the Gold Coast filming the Voltron movie,
which, again, now he's got a kid,
it's just another thing Henry Cavill and I can talk about when we hang out and have three quiet beers.
I think the thing, it's just, yeah,
one more thing you guys could chat about.
Yeah.
I think the thing is, it's just that with Henry Cavill,
we could just touch on Henry Cavill for a little bit.
Yeah. The Henry Cavill thing is that, like, yes, he had this girlfriend
and we were all like, sure. Do you know what I mean? Like, sure.
And the baby
really solidifies this kind of, like, love
and life
that they've got together.
Okay, sure, happy for you.
I did a bit of reading.
I read quite a lot in a beanbag.
Okay, I'll touch on some smart.
Wow, some.
Chasing Wild is one I watched, read.
Carwin's Jaw hit the floor.
It's outrageous.
Yeah.
It's really good though.
And I read two of the Twisted series,
which like they were popular on TikTok for a while,
RIP TikTok.
And then I read these books by,
this is a good,, this is literary.
People will be like, ooh la la.
She reads that.
And she reads, there's this author called Edward Rutherford,
and he writes these books.
There's one called Ernest Rutherford.
It's a different brother.
Yeah, yeah.
This is his brother.
He writes books that are called Dublin, London, and Russia, and Paris,
and they're about the history of a place,
but told through story.
It's told through these families over time.
You'd like them if you knew how to done read.
Well, again, audiobooks is reading.
Yeah, well-
And Carwin agrees, too.
Carwin agrees audiobooks is reading.
Yeah, look, I'm into audiobooks now,
so it's reading.
It's definitely reading.
I still listen to audiobooks, like every day.
Yeah.
Alongside my reading.
But see, I wouldn't consider Quinn Audios as
audiobooks. No, no, no, neither. That's
Okay, good. That's something else. I mean, that's just straight up
something else. That's a whole different category.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Very soon we're going to talk to
a poor woman in America
who has been
deeply affected by the TikTok
ban that was put into place hours ago, actually.
Yeah, yesterday.
Yeah.
170 million Americans.
Yeah.
If they open the app, it just says...
Unavailable.
Yeah.
So we're going to talk to Deanna G. Letty,
who has like nearly 2 million followers on TikTok.
Or had.
This is like her big source of income.
Yeah, 100%.
This is her job.
This is how she makes a living.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think she does like theatre and acting and whatnot, but I This is a job. This is how she makes a living. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think she does like theatre and acting and whatnot,
but I've got that one.
Tell you what, not a lot of money in there.
I'll tell you what.
Not a lot of money.
Yeah.
So apparently people are now turning to something called Red Note.
Red Note?
Yeah, because that's a Chinese app.
Yes.
And this is why the whole TikTok thing is a problem
because the US government doesn't want China
to have influence and access to 170 million Americans' phones.
So now they're turning to this Chinese app.
In defiance.
In defiance as an act of a sort of FU, I imagine.
Yeah.
Don't tell me what to do.
Now, social media producer Shannon,
can you tell us about this app? Yeah, it's kind of a scary time being a social media producer Shannon, can you tell us about this app?
Yeah, it's kind of a scary time being a social media producer
because then you've got to figure out what a new app is
and get your username in first.
So we're on there.
Remember when threads came in?
We got threads quick.
Go get your names.
Do we get blue sky?
No.
Oh.
That one's seeming to flop.
I think red note might fall down the same path.
But we're on there
We're F-E-H-Z-M
That's the only part of our bio
Not in Chinese
I will say
Oh okay right
Because it's
It's only
It's all in Chinese
Right okay
So I've posted two videos
Just to say
This is legitimately us
This is fantastic though
Because Vaughan you do
Speak Mandarin
Give us a little bit
Yeah
I
What are you doing?
That's English.
No, I was speaking Mandarin,
but the microphone was blocking it.
Oh my God, the government, man.
The government doesn't want me to be promoting
the wonderful country of China.
I wanted to, so it's a Chinese app.
How many followers have we got?
We're at 52, guys.
We've gone viral.
Oh my gosh.
But I will say it's so weird posting.
This is Girl Math 2.0.
I did post a Girl Math video to try and get attention.
Yeah, you're great.
But basically, when you go to post, so I'll put a video up.
The post button's in Chinese, so I just had to guess that I wasn't deleting or what.
I just was like, well, that one's red, so I'm going to hit that.
Okay.
Do you know you could take a screenshot and put it in Google Translate?
Ah, it's, you know.
But all of the notifications, every time we get a follower,
my notification screen, it's all in Chinese.
Wow.
Can we?
It's wild that a Chinese app would dare speak its own language.
Yeah.
How dare I?
How are all of these U.S.
You're in New Zealand now.
Speak English.
But how are these U. these US TikTokers getting around?
Like, are they just posting their usual videos?
Yes.
So people are kind of doing what we did
and posted a few of their viral videos
to be like, it's me, I'm here.
So my For You page is quite mixed.
It's either an American influencer,
a video I've seen before,
or just straight up Chinese.
And I don't know what's happening.
I think we should,
because we post our radio show,
little clips on there, I think we should cater
to the broader audience of Red Note.
I don't know if you know, but there's a lot of people there.
I don't know if you know, but I actually speak
a bit of Chinese myself.
I didn't know that.
Okay, are you ready?
I'm just going to clear my throat.
And I'll just say, I'll just say do like normal show banter.
Wait, so Shannon, start recording, because we can put this on Red Note. Okay, and I'm just going to clear my throat. And I'll just say, I'll just say, do like normal show banter. Wait, so Shannon, start recording because we can put this on red note.
Okay, and I'll just move my mouth so that it's like I'm saying it.
Okay, right, okay.
So this is, this is like, this is just for the red note people.
What is this about? What are we?
Well, you would understand if you spoke Chinese bracket traditional.
Okay.
If you could speak Chinese bracket traditional
You would know what I'm about to say
Okay
Did you hear her say
Should I laugh?
Yeah, yeah
Edit out that big pause, Shannon So it sounds a bit more natural Okay, I've got another one Didn't you hear her say... Should I laugh? Yeah, yeah.
Edit out that big pause, Shannon,
so it sounds a bit more natural. Okay, I've got another one.
This is specific for the show.
Wait, are we laughing at...
Why aren't you laughing?
I don't speak that.
What?
Okay.
You don't speak Chinese bracket traditional. You don't speak Chinese bracket traditional?
I don't speak Chinese bracket traditional.
I speak Mandarin.
Can I ask you a question?
Yeah.
What do I say now?
Just say heaps.
Heaps.
Oh, she's stitched out there.
What have you said to me in Chinese?
You're actually now banned from going to China
because of what you said you do.
How many people did you sleep with in South America?
Very rude.
The first one I said Fletchford and Hayley laugh
out loud every morning. They have a genuine friendship. I think it really
comes across on air. Right. As traditional
Chinese speakers will know. And I said
good morning to our lesbian listeners and of course our paramount
leader, Xi Jinping. I don't know. I think
lesbians are banned in China. That's why
when it says lesbians, it just went, it was speaking No, I don't know. I think lesbians are banned in China. That's why when it says lesbians,
it just went,
it was speaking Chinese
and it just went woman.
It literally,
in Chinese,
traditional,
did not translate
the word lesbian.
Well, Shannon,
do you think that's
going to be enough
to work with
to get us breaking
through in China?
I'm a bit nervous.
After Aer Lingus
on TikTok,
I don't know if we should
really be dabbling
in international affairs.
When we insulted all of Ireland.
Yeah.
Every single one of them.
Every single Irish person.
Well, now we're coming for the Chinese, apparently.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Severance Season 2 is streaming now on Apple TV+.
New episodes are dropping every Friday. Good morning, Tramiel Tillman. Good morning, Patricia Arquette from Severance Season 2 is streaming now on Apple TV+. New episodes are dropping every Friday.
Good morning, Tramiel Tillman.
Good morning, Patricia Arquette from Severance.
Such a delight to have you on the show.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you.
Now, we three are ginormous Severance fans.
Like, we have not stopped talking about it
for the three, almost three long years
that we have waited for Season 2.
It was, I can tell by that reaction, every single person
said it. But it was like, the minute
it finished, the group chat was like,
when's the next one? We turned to Fletch. Here's our
know-all of when shows are
going to be back. And he's like, there's no sign.
There's no sign. They're going to do one, but there's no sign
that it's even started. And we were like, how long
must we wait? Yeah. Has it been
personally hard? Have your friends or
fans in public been like
constantly pestering you yes yes yeah but it's beautiful you know to be a part of something that
people are anticipating and wanting to know more about i think that's wonderful and i am i am glad
because i was concerned that we would lose some people because of the weight. But even though it was beyond our control,
I'm so glad that people are back and they're ready
and they did not walk away from us.
I will say that your turtleneck's still the show for me
and I'm so glad that you're wearing a turtleneck now, Tramiel.
Were you pre-Severance?
Just for you.
Thank you.
Pre-Severance, did you ever wear the turtleneck much?
Free Severance?
No, I wasn't much of a turtleneck guy.
And then this show changed my life
and now I wear turtlenecks all the time.
Yeah.
That's all right.
Patricia, do you find,
because with the season two,
we've been privy to it
and it's absolutely stunning.
But I would say with both of your characters,
which is great that we've got you both,
every time either you, Patricia, or you, Tramiel, are on screen,
my heart races.
I feel like something bad is going to happen.
It's a foreboding presence that you both have.
How does it feel to carry that weight that you walk on screen
and we go, oh, no, she's here.
What's she done?
I feel good about it.
I love it.
I mean, you know, I think that it's fun to play kind of the heavy,
and these are conformists.
We're conforming to the structure of this thing,
and we don't really want to challenge it too much.
Although I think Harmony has her own agenda.
She has a little bit of a wild thing inside of her that's
testing. Yeah. Do you know what I love
with you guys playing those
heavy characters? Both of you
have nailed the smile.
The foreboding smile.
Especially with your character, Tramiel, we see you smile and we think
oh, that evil. Oh my god,
he's got something twisted in his mind.
Do you practice the smile?
I did. I did.
It is a very specific smile
and it is intended to do exactly what it's doing.
I mean, you know,
you have to be very careful with charming people
because that can be the most dangerous type of person,
the most manipulative type of person
can couch it in charm.
Do you know Vaughn across
from me? His smile has a
twisted touch. Can you give them
your smile? It's sort of
off-putting. But I don't mean it
to be. I haven't practiced it enough, obviously,
because I don't want it to be off-putting, but
it's one of those. Are you
sort of privy to
the story on a whole?
Or, you know, you hear about these shows where you're privy to the story on a whole or you know you hear about these shows where
you're privy to your character's arc
throughout and it's all interwoven obviously
with Severance but
do you watch it and you're like
whoa that's something I wasn't
privy to in the making of it or are you
across it all for that bigger picture
when it comes to acting?
I always get surprised by the stuff that I'm not
in and even if I'd read it,
how it gets realized and actualized
is super exciting with the acting,
but then also the direction, the camera work,
the sets, the whole deal.
I have to watch it multiple times
to actually get the full picture of it
because I learned something new
from reading
it versus seeing it on screen. That's another thing the the scripting's amazing but the
atmosphere that's caught and as you said the set design and the camera work and that like
director of photography sort of stuff it's it adds so much to it so I was reading the script
how much of the pie is that versus
the product when you sit with the set and everything i think that's a big part of it also
i mean it's all of it at first when we first started shooting the first season it was really
hard to understand what the tone was until they showed us some stuff cut together to understand
that more but the the camera work and the sets and the composition,
it's very much, you know, a part of that.
Yeah.
I mean, we think we know what's happening
and then we get to episode three
and we're crawling through a tunnel
and we see something
and we don't know what's happening anymore.
I can't say anything more than that.
Welcome to our world.
Welcome.
Thank you guys so much for your time, Tramiel and Patricia.
Absolutely fantastic work as always,
and hopefully not so long await for season three.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Now, Luke Combs was just in Auckland.
Two shows?
Two shows.
Sade went along, didn't she?
Yeah, she went to the Saturday night one.
Which was the big one?
Yeah, I think it's the fry sauce.
The fry sauce video looked a bit empty.
Was that the one with the All Blacks doing shoo-ins?
They were doing a shoo-in.
High question mark.
There were quite a few of them came out on stage, eh?
And then did a shoo-in.
Can I just say, I might sound like a grisly old man.
Shoo-ins are gross.
You already do sound like a grisly old man.
Drinking out of people's boots is gross.
I've done one, but we cut a pump bottle and put it in the marching boots.
That's cheating.
Yeah, I know.
I'm not drinking from sweaty marching boots.
Yuck.
The leather's going to absorb it.
I did it out of a brand new child's gum boot when I was 20 in Hamilton.
And even then, people were like, dude.
Dude, have some respect.
Dude, and that was in Hamilton.
Anyway, Luke Combs was there.
I did not attend.
I don't really know many of his songs.
But Carwin attended.
Yeah, I did on the Friday.
Despite not really being a fan either.
Despite also not knowing many songs.
Yeah.
Look, I love country music.
I know he's a big deal.
Georgia was like, you'll have the best time.
I got some work tickets.
I was like, I can boogie to anything.
So the song that we played a lot was Fast Car,
the Tracy Chapman cover.
None of it has.
And so you only went for one song.
Yeah, I love that song.
I love every version of it.
Maybe not the Jonas Blue one, but the other covers.
Okay.
Wow.
Did you just hear
show up by the Jonas Blue?
What's wrong with Jonas Blue?
Wait, so my question is,
so he plays this song
and usually when it's,
artists like that
and they've got one song
that just went huge
and they'll play it towards the end.
Yeah.
So what are you doing
for the rest of it?
Boogieing.
Boogieing.
Learning some new songs.
Are you doing that thing
where you're at a concert
and you don't know the words?
So you're like,
so that you look like a super fan?
Do you know what?
I'm also, I have this weird thing
where I can learn lyrics really fast.
So by the second time he's singing the chorus,
I'm there.
You're in.
Oh, wow.
You're in.
So I kind of looked like I was like an everyday,
maybe listens to him once a month kind of fan, you know?
Wow.
And was it worth it for the one song?
Oh, it was so good.
As I was leaving, he did the Twisters song from the Twisters movie
in the encore, and I kind of was like, oh, I know this.
I'm familiar with this tune.
So you went for one and a half songs.
Yeah.
Really?
Okay.
Fast Car was great, though.
I definitely went.
I went to, as you know, with our old producer, Jared,
I went to Papa Roach.
And I will say, cut my life into pieces.
You went off and everything else, I was like, good.
You were there.
You were just there.
I'm having a time.
You were just there.
I think there'll be many of us that are guilty of this.
Somebody said, someone just messaged an uncle too, one better.
One of my friends went to Luke Combs,
and then when the concert was finished, they were like,
I can't believe you didn't sing Tennessee Whiskey
Oh different guy
Just completely
the wrong artist. Just not even the right guy
Wow okay well this is what
we want to know now 0800
dials at him you can text through 9696
When did you go to a concert just for one
song? What was the song
and what did you do for the rest of the time?
Bonus points if you got the wrong artist as well.
That's so good. That's so brilliant.
But yeah, maybe it was
you had to fork out all that
money just for one song. Maybe you
even travelled for it. Or maybe
you went for one song and you left a true fan.
0800 DALES.M. Give us a call now.
You can text through 9696. Did you go
to a concert just for one song?
We want to know if you have been to
a concert for one song only
because Carlin went to Luke Combs over the weekend
as did thousands of people.
But she went for one song. One song.
And we were laughing because someone texted
and they also went to Luke Combs for one
song and it wasn't that
wrong artist. It wasn't Tennessee Whiskey. Yeah.
So that's what we want to know. Someone
texted saying went to Harry Styles to hear Watermelon Sugar.
Expensive, but worth it.
Oh, that was a great concert.
How do you know what that whole album's a great?
Yeah, I know, but I suppose that was the big radio hit.
Yeah.
If you're only listening to that, then...
Yeah, somebody said,
does it count if you went for the opening act
and then left before the main?
I've done that before.
I've done that before. I've done that before.
Because do you remember years ago, Kanye West opened for U2.
Weird combo at the time.
So odd.
And literally the crowd changed at halftime.
Yeah, you look tag out.
Yeah.
And people would have just gone home.
Yeah, yeah.
They'd run home from that.
Yeah.
Some other messages.
Went to Matt Corby for Brother.
Didn't know any of the others.
Would 1000% do it again?
Now 1000% is actually
in a mathematical impossibility
but I'll let you away
with it this time.
Please just from
now on just 100%
is fine.
It's the max
in this situation.
It was still a great experience.
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Have you been to a concert
just for one song?
Well for 170 million American TikTok users,
they opened the app to a message that said,
you can't use this anymore.
Nah, bro.
Nah.
Nah, bro.
Nah.
So we're going to talk to Diana Gioletti,
who has nearly 2 million followers on TikTok.
Makes money.
Makes money off it.
Like, it completely changed her life,
as it has with many TikTok
creators. And there are reports coming through
that it may be coming back online for some
Americans. Yeah, I just saw that
in the last, like, ten minutes or so.
People saying, like, oh, it's back. Oh, it's
gone. Oh, it's back.
So I think, I imagine that
they'll bring it back. We'll catch up with her soon.
Welfare check. Yeah, welfare check.
How are ya? See how she's doing.
Some T's and P's.
Right now though,
we want to know,
have you ever gone to a concert
for just one song?
Carmel went to Luke Combs
for one song.
One song.
Some of these are really good.
A lot of like throwbacks.
Oh yeah.
Somebody said,
went to see Leonard Cohen
back in the day for Hallelujah.
Oh my God, of course.
I was waiting for Hallelujah.
And then we got a call from the babysitter that the young daughter was very sick.
So we had to leave before we even got to see our one Leonard Cohen.
John, when did you go to a concert for just one song?
Yeah, look, I went many moons ago.
Went to go see Real to Real at the power station.
I like to move it, move it.
I was just about to say, I was going to say
these guys knew who I was.
Who the hell is that?
Fletch, I've got it right here.
If you could...
For the first time in 2025,
hit my aux cord.
I like to move it, move it.
Oh, my God.
John.
Now, I'm guessing, John,
this was before the Madagascar movies.
Well before, yeah, yeah.
Okay, it's a great song.
Wait,
what was it like live?
Yeah,
it was good,
it was alright.
I was there to meet a mate
who never actually turned up
so they played this song
and it was good,
it was banging,
right?
Yeah,
dude.
What's worse,
so you went to this concert
for this one song,
Weird Band,
and now you're there
by yourself.
What a sad story,
John.
I know,
I know,
but that song, that was mint, it was great. Yeah, yourself. What a sad story, John. I know, I know.
But that song, that was mint.
It was great.
Yeah, but what else made me a bad story?
I reckon John's talking about this this many years later.
It's one of his core memories.
This is true.
John, what else did they play?
No, no idea.
John, thank you.
Awesome messages in.
Somebody else said, I was booking tickets to Bruno Mars.
Oh, okay.
I was going through the entire thing.
I got to the last page where you're just about to click pay.
And I was like,
oh, they've misspelled Mars as major here.
Oh, no, that's a different artist.
Yeah, that's a wildly different artist.
That's what they found out.
They were like one click away
from booking tickets to an artist
that they didn't even know one song of.
Yeah.
Along the way, they were like,
these Bruno Mars tickets are cheap. He should be at a know one song of. Yeah. Along the way they were like these Bruno Mastick it's a cheat.
He should be
at a bigger
venue.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love the
throwbacks of
someone went to
George Thurgood
for one bourbon
one scotch
one beer
and then
that was a
really expensive
concert.
I bet it would
have been.
I couldn't
have made you
another one.
Back in the
80s a whole lot
of us from our
Contiki tour
went to see a
concert for
Curiosity Killed
the Cat
and to only hear the song which was our theme song because us from our Contiki tour went to see a concert for Curiosity Killed the Cat.
And to only hear the song, which was our theme song, because you know how Contiki's have theme songs.
Oh yeah, they play a theme song, yeah. So we all went as a group, they played our song, and then this just big group of people just walked out.
Weird.
Someone made a choice to go see Benson Boone, they said, for that one popular song.
So that's how loosely they know it.
The one popular song, they can't even name it.
For that song.
He's got many popular songs.
And then,
so they booked the tickets
and then said,
oh, but travelling
for the South Islander work day,
it seems a little bit extra,
so they've given the ticket away
to someone who knows
probably the name of the song.
Yeah.
I went to Luke Combs.
I will go to Tyler Childers
or whatever they're called.
Now, that's what they said
in brackets.
Tyler Childers
or whatever they're called
and Chris Stapleton.
All in my new Ariat boots
with zero song list knowledge
just because I've got boots.
Wait, so you're going to concerts
because you've got boots.
Because you bought a pair of boots.
So you bought an expensive pair of boots
and now you're spending more money
to justify the boots.
Oh, spent, oh my God.
Spent $1,500, $1,500 on two Coldplay tickets
to take my sister to the show.
I knew two songs and I pretended I knew the rest.
It was so awkward.
You would have known more than two.
Surely.
What two Coldplay?
You know, or they might just be confused
because all Coldplay songs sound the same.
So there's more than two songs.
Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley.
Well, for 170 million Americans last night, TikTok was shut off.
We are very lucky to be joined by Deanna Gialetti,
who has, well, had 1.8 million followers on TikTok.
Wow.
You just said in the past tense.
Can you imagine?
I know.
Well, temporarily.
So temporarily. So yesterday, what day is. Can you imagine? I know. Well, temporarily. They're gone.
So, temporarily. So, yesterday what day is it for you today?
Sunday. Yes, it's
Sunday for me. So, 19th.
The fateful day.
Yeah, the fateful day. Today you opened up
TikTok where you have amassed
these followers and you've posted so
many videos and become very famous
over there, Deanna.
And it told you TikTok is not available right now.
Can you imagine?
Well, how are you feeling?
No, I don't even have feelings.
I am a numb walking bug.
I don't even know what's going on.
And you know when it hit, I had this beautiful goodbye TikTok planned.
It was beautiful, glorious.
I go to post it last night, 9 p.m.
That's when I got the message.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
They said three hours early.
You've just up and vanished on your watches.
Yes.
It was like I was going to do a beautiful goodbye going through the past five years with this app that changed my literal life
and then it just got ripped from under me so how how did it change your life because you hear like
all these stories you just think funny videos but there are so many people out there making a
serious living from this aren't they oh my god it changed my life i was working on a cruise ship
before everything shut down.
I was doing Jersey Boys on Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Everything shuts down.
I'm stuck on that boat.
After that, Broadway shuts down.
That's the only thing.
I'm a performer.
For everyone, all the listeners, she's a performer.
Book me.
I'm going to work.
And if they can't see you, but you've got a hairnet on and you're about,
you're performing at the moment, aren't you? In Mystic Pizza. Yes. Yes, I'm in Mystic Pizza here. I see you, but you've got a hair net on and you're about, you're performing at the moment, aren't you?
In Mystic Pizza.
Yes.
Yes, I'm in Mystic Pizza here.
I feel you, darling.
I'm of the theatre as well.
Yes.
We do all these things, don't we?
Well, so when Broadway shut down, as you can imagine, I was like, okay,
so no more Cruise Life, no more Broadway.
I went to work for my dad's construction company.
Okay, we've all worked for him.
Because he was still working. Yeah, he was still working. So we were doing odd jobs here and there. And that's when
I turned to TikTok. And I was like dancing in dumpsters. Like those were that was the start
of my career. Yeah, dancing in dumpsters as I was helping him like do the big jobs really. Yeah.
And then Broadway was doing virtual auditions at
the time so i just started posting online like all my auditions and found a community of people
who were like oh this girl feels like hope this girl feels like yeah we might we might get the
world back one day like let's follow and then i built this community and it i didn't have to work
for my dad anymore said goodbye to the dumpster said goodbye so what's the plan now because I mean
it's it's said that it's temporary and the um the great Donald Trump has um promised that he's
gonna try to like change this so that TikTok can come back but are you making a plan to just move
everyone to Instagram and turn your back on TikTok yes you know what I was just doing making a plan to just move everyone to Instagram and turn your back on TikTok? Yes. You know what I was just doing?
Making a YouTube vlog.
Wow.
I switched over.
Old school.
I switched over.
You should make a Bebo post while you're at it
in a MySpace page or something.
No, not me waking up today
and seeing they're trying to bring back Vine.
What?
I thought about Vine over the weekend
when it was all the news it was going to shut down.
I was like, it was good.
It was great.
It was great.
You know what is going to be better for our attention spans?
If videos are only six seconds long.
Yeah.
So much better.
Oh my God.
I literally saw Elon Musk was like,
we're looking into bringing Vine back.
And I was like, I give up on all of you.
I'm going to YouTube.
Yeah.
I'm surprised it took you this long.
Yeah.
What we were talking about this morning was,
I remember in 2020,
Donald Trump was saying he wanted to ban TikTok.
So I was saying my goodbyes to my 100,000 followers in 2021
because I was like, looks like Donald Trump's trying to ban it.
And now he's trying to be the saviour? Good luck.
But also now you've got 2 million
followers basically so you kind of
do want them to save it, don't you?
Also, what do they
all know that we don't, eh?
Have you thought about that?
You know what I am thinking about right
now? How you can scroll
happily right now.
Yes, we can.
You know what would annoy you even more?
I never go on TikTok.
Yeah, we don't really go on TikTok, but we're old.
We've got Instagram.
Could you imagine?
Look, I've just opened it for you.
I've just opened it for you and just...
Yeah, do you want us to tell you what's happening?
That's what's happening.
No, please.
All right, let me see.
Okay, there's a trailer for a movie.
It's like showing an addict what drugs you've got, Hayley. I'm just giving her a little hit. She's happening. No, please. All right, let me see. Okay, there's a trailer for a movie. It's like showing an addict what drugs you've got, Hayley.
I'm just giving her a little hit.
She's clean.
She's clean.
I'm just giving her a little hit.
She's quick, cold turkey.
Deanna, just take a quick bump.
Okay, I'm scrolling.
There's someone there wearing different types of haircuts.
Wow.
Could you imagine learning all these beautiful things?
I know.
There's a sexy guy.
There's a sexy guy.
You can only see half of his face.
Anyway, that's all.
All right, put it closer. No, it's all you beautiful things. I know. There's a sexy guy. There's a sexy guy. You can only see half of his face. Anyway, that's all. All right, put it closer.
No, it's all you're getting.
Well, Deanna, good luck.
And, I mean, we can find you on Instagram,
and that's where we'll be.
Absolutely.
I'm on Instagram, Deanna Giletti.
I'm on YouTube at Peep the Shoes.
Check in on me.
I'm not doing well.
She's on Vine.
She's on Bebo.
She's on all of it.
Thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts and prayers.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Just on the back of Deanna,
more people are saying that TikTok is bad for some people in America.
People sharing being like, thanks, Trump.
Who knows?
Watch this space.
Anyway, speaking of watching this
space, I'm making a new show for
the year, basically.
Comedy Fest. I guess I'll turn it around at some point.
Who knows? Maybe it'll be crap and you'll never see it.
But I had to do a photo...
That's the attitude!
I made a couple
of good ones. Time for a date.
That's the way to go into it. I had to plan this photo shoot for this new show, right?
And I was like...
That's got to be the worst part.
What?
Of being a comedian,
is having to do some photo shoot for a poster.
We were talking about this.
Because do you go plain, like, this is me?
No, you don't do that anymore.
I talked about this with comedian Rhys Matthews
and I was like, the game has changed.
Oh, he was riding a horse backwards last year.
People just do
these elaborate
huge sort of
creative shoots
and so I thought up
this idea
and I really am happy with it.
Fletch and I love
photo shoots don't we?
Famously.
I can't wait for our
2025 photo shoot
where they say
Vaughn smile
and I say
I am effing smiling.
Yeah well now that
there's AI
they just make you smile.
Can they just take
my hottest photos
from like
I think I hit
kind of 2018
I struck it
no
no
no no no
mine was 27
2018
36
okay
you want those photos
but reimagined
I don't give a shit
okay
okay
great we'll submit it
I did an in person shoot
right
and I had this big dream
and as part of it
I was like
I want to look bronzed because I didn't do a lot of, right? And I had this big dream. And as part of it, I was like, I want to look bronzed.
Because I didn't do a lot of tanning.
I was very fair.
So I went to get a spray tan.
Now, shout out to Katie.
She did the spray tan.
She listens to the show.
Okay.
Now, I will say, if you haven't had a spray tan before,
you go in, you get completely starkers,
and you do weird poses so they can get in all your crevices and bits.
And as I walked... And wait, is it like airport security when you go in and you put your hands up they can get in all your crevices and bits. And as I walked...
And wait, is it when we did this?
It's like airport security when you go in
and you put your hands up.
Put your hands up.
And then like when you've got your legs
and they're doing the back slight bend in the knee
so they can get in the creases and the crooks
and all these things, arch your back.
I'm just trying to remember when we did,
because we did one as like a funny on-air thing
years and years and years ago.
Was it a machine?
Like automation?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We were person spray.
Because they used to have those ones where you just stood in the box
and it just blew it out.
We wore paper G-strings too.
Yeah.
I wore a little one this time.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, so.
I put mine on backwards.
The string at the front.
Yeah.
And it still covered everything.
Yeah, I know.
That's the wild thing about it. Yeah, yeah, still covered everything. And it still covered that teeny little thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Balls each side, but...
I thought it was funny because Katie at Tan in the City,
as soon as I walked in, she said,
I just want to let you know.
Saddle plug.
Oh, yeah.
So, well, there you go.
Katie said, I just want to let you know,
I do listen to the podcast.
Oh, okay.
She listens to Flesh on Haley.
And then she was sort of like,
so I hope I didn't make it weird
that I'm about to see all your bits.
And I was like, well, Kati, here we are.
Anyway, so we get in there, everything's off,
but I'm a little paper G.
Yep.
We're tanning, we're good, having a chat, having a yarn.
Like, you know me, I'm very comfortable.
She's great, doesn't make it awkward at all.
And then she leaves and there's a moment,
there's a little blower in these booths
where before you put your clothes on,
it gives you a little bit of a dry off,
you know, because you don't want to get all this sticky.
Gives you a bit of a dry off.
She was like, stand there for a bit.
Is it a bit like the car wash?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, the last cycle.
Where if you want to get rid of your rubbish,
you wind your windows down.
Yeah.
Well, sometimes I like to wind the window down
so it's like you're in a hurricane.
Oh, yeah, yeah. It makes a little hairdo. Anyway, so I'm to wind the window down so it's like you're in a hurricane. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, so I'm standing in the blower
and she pops out for a bit to go get a powder thing
they put on you.
Just quick Sammy.
Katie's going to Sammy.
In that time, I turn around to face the girls at the blower
and I look down and I noticed that I had just a small flake
of dry skin upon my right nipple. And I looked down and I noticed that I had just a small flake of dry skin upon my right
nipple. And I thought...
On the nipple? Yeah, well I
often get eczema on them. So it was
just a little bit of a remnant of it.
But the tan...
Hold back, boys and girls.
That's what I like to think about when I'm about to get a mouth on a nipple.
I'm going to get some dry skin in my mouth.
Oh, flaky nip sprawlers here.
So I thought, oh, and I'll get that.
And I just took my finger and I sort of brushed this skin
and I left this huge streak through the tan.
Oh, I hadn't tried.
Through the boob.
Like Eve, the artist from the early 2000s
who had the claw mark on her breasts.
I created my own Eve claws.
So then I had to holler.
I was like, oh no, Katie, I've done something.
And she was like, oh no.
And she's mid-sandwich.
She's mid-sandwich.
She walks back in, egg sandwich on white.
Egg salad on white.
And she's like, oh, what are you doing there?
What are you doing, love?
And I said, I've booped my boob.
And she had to come in with a little brush buffer
and then like fully sort of buff the boob by hand
to get the tan nice and even again.
Worked,
because when it set,
I had no claw mark.
You're like a classic Holden and she's a panel beater.
She panel beater.
She's just giving you a...
Yeah,
she'd done it all
and then went in
for a closer look
and did a little buff
of the boob.
Yeah, she did a little hand fix up.
Extremely intimate.
Yeah,
was the extra price
for the...
For the buff,
for the hand buff?
No, no, no,
she didn't charge me extra. Really? No, no, no, she didn't charge me extra.
Really?
No, no, that was complimentary.
You could have done that on purpose, that could be your thing.
I could have.
Oh no, I booked my other one.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no, I've booked down here too, and around here, and up there.
I've booked everywhere.
Anyway, the tan came out alright, but it was very intimate to be sort of hand buffed by a lady in the middle of the damn street.
Is it still on?
On?
Nah, it's sort of,
nah, it's gone now.
Oh, you can sit on your arms and legs,
but did you get your face done?
No.
Oh, do you not do the face?
You get a little bit on the face,
but you wash your face every day,
so that comes off faster.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Why, you commented that I look white
and then I didn't have a spray tan.
Well, I didn't on the face.
I can sit on the arms and the legs,
but not on the face.
So my foundation's a shade too light.
So what you're saying
is that my face
doesn't match the body.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, you're a butter face.
I'm a butter face?
You've got a hot bod,
rock and rig,
but you're a Raminga.
I'm saying out of this.
Nah, you're ugly.
Join in.
You're ugly.
Join in.
Come on.
Play ZM's Flesh,
Fawn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Do you know these terrible fires in LA?
The more I said, but you know the only good thing to come out of these fires?
All the rad shots of the firefighting planes pulling the wildest manoeuvres you'll ever see in your life.
Oh, it's insane stuff.
Oh, amazing.
Just like dipping down into valleys and then up and then they've shot inside the cockpit.
It's like pull up, pull up.
I've been loving seeing the fire retardant stuff that they spray on.
The red stuff.
It's pink.
Some of it's pink, like Barbie pink.
And so you can see all these cars and trees and houses just like pink.
It's wild.
Private forecaster AccuWeather estimates the total damage
and economic loss currently between $250 billion and $275 billion,
which would make the LA fires the costliest natural disaster
in US history, surpassing Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Well, this is only the beginning, isn't it?
Oh.
Sadly.
100%.
Yeah.
So you've decided to do Disaster Week.
And today we're looking at the world's most expensive disasters.
Great.
Well, not really.
Yeah, she quite heard that. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Oh, yeah, sorry. Oh, great. Well, not really. Yeah, she quite heard that.
Oh, yeah.
Interesting.
Oh, yeah, sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
Interesting.
How interesting for the brain.
The top five, of the top five,
four are all the same sort of disaster.
What sort of disaster do you think it would be?
Earthquake.
Correct, earthquake.
Damn it, I'm so dumb.
You are a bit thick.
I'm so dumb.
You are a bit thick. My'm so dumb. You are a bit thick.
My edumacation was the most expensive-est.
And it placed five.
In 2008, the Sichuan earthquake in China.
Is it where they met the source?
It is the area that the Sichuan pepper is from.
It is the area.
I love the numbing-ness.
It's more than hate.
It's a tingle.
It numbs a little bit.
I love.
It's got to be one of my favourite flavourings.
I'm not down for a tingle.
No, no.
It happened in 2008.
Yes, my sweet Thai chilli.
That's not Sichuan peppers.
Yeah, that's just sugar.
Yeah, I don't even know what that is actually.
Sugar and red food colour.
Red sugar.
Yeah.
With some fake seeds in it.
Yeah, yeah.
More sugar.
That cost inflated to 2023 amount.
That cost $184 billion in damage.
That was the cost of that.
Who pays?
Like, where does that money come from?
Oh, like an insurance?
Insurance companies?
Insurance companies.
Surely insurance companies
are going to run out of money eventually.
Well, when you think about the Christchurch earthquake,
like, it just changed the spending of,
like, the entire country.
Yeah.
The entire spending,
like, it just happens,
doesn't it?
Yeah.
No one ever, you know,
allows for it.
In 2023,
the Turkey-Assyria earthquakes
were the fourth most expensive
at $157 billion.
The Great Hanshin Earthquake
in Japan in 1995, that was worth $400 billion. The Great Henshin Earthquake in Japan in 1995.
That was
worth $400 billion.
We all remember the 2011
Fukushima nuclear disaster
that was the result of the earthquake
and Tohoku
and the resulting tsunami
that affected the nuclear. So that was kind of a
three in one. But it comes under earthquake
because that was the initial cause.
That's what causes the T-Tsunami.
An undersea megathrust.
That isn't a two.
That cost $487 billion.
Wow.
Now, number one on the list cost $888 billion.
Also, all of these Elon Musk could have paid for.
Oh, my God.
I was literally just thinking the same thing.
Elon Musk can just sort this out.
Yeah. So, at
$888 billion,
what do you think is the most expensive
disaster in human history?
I'll give you a clue. It's not an earthquake.
This is the one that's different. Thailand.
No, because that was caused by a tsunami.
Next clue.
Explosion.
Man-made.
Hiroshima.
No.
An atomic bomb of sorts.
That's what I said.
It's not an atomic bomb, but it is an atomic power.
Titanic.
You've been there.
There was like a couple of hundred people.
I checked your testicles afterwards for lumps.
Chernobyl.
Chernobyl.
You do for your Chernobyl checkup, actually.
He does it every year.
It's weird.
He's like, today's the day.
Well, I mean, that was a whole city that was just walked away from, abandoned.
But it was also the fallout involved in it.
Oh, wow.
And how much area of land had to be abandoned,
all of the costs involved on it.
And so how much was that?
$888 billion inflated to 2023 prices.
Wow.
Nearly a trillion dollars. Well, Wow. So nearly a trillion,
well, it's not nearly a trillion dollars,
but you're getting there.
I would have thought the big hurricanes
would have had more.
Same.
Like Hurricane Katrina at $195 billion.
Hurricane Harvey, $155 billion.
But these are all down.
These are all down on the list.
The South Asian floods in 2020,
you'll remember that.
Remember there was just those photos of Pakistan.
There was a satellite image of how much of Pakistan was covered.
It was like a third of Pakistan was covered in water.
So that was an expensive one.
But yeah, they just don't seem to measure up to earthquakes because I guess once the flood recedes,
it's not necessarily resulting in buildings needed to be pulled down.
So I just Googled how much Christchurch cost,
and that was all up, they reckon, $40 billion.
Is that right?
Private insurers, $21 billion.
EQC paid a fee of $10.
So it's on the list here, yes.
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, well down the list.
$40.
Inflated for 2023 prices, closer to $54.
$54 billion.
I mean, for a little country like us, that's a lot.
But it's actually... Yeah, per capita. Yeah, per capita. 54 billion. I mean, for a little country like us, that's a lot. But it's actually...
Yeah, per capita.
Yeah, per capita.
Per capita.
It's actually behind the 2022 European heat waves.
Huh?
Which cost $42 billion.
The heat waves?
The heat waves.
That were happening in like London and all that.
Yeah, just from loss of life, loss of productivity,
the damage everyone's by it.
God, this is a real grim fact of the day this week, isn't it?
Oh, you wait.
Okay.
You wait.
You wait.
That's nothing.
You wait, baby.
You ain't said nothing yet.
Pew, pew.
Jeepers.
So today's fact of the day is the world's most expensive disaster was the Chernobyl
nuclear meltdown, which inflated to modern costs, cost $888 billion.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Now, let me take you back to one of our last lockdowns
2022
2021
Touch on it lightly
I'll touch on it lightly only to say
that during that lockdown
my partner Aaron turned 40
right, big birthday, I'd planned this
party
and it couldn't go ahead because of all this.
So I was like, I've got to make the day special.
And I had planned all these things, but it was lockdown.
So I had to, you know, everything was contactless and people couldn't come over.
So I had planned all these things.
I got cigars. I got whiskey. I got these gifts.
And then I thought, do you know what this man has always talked about
wanting to get into
smoking meat
oh yeah
and I thought
like a little barbecue smoker
little barbecue smoker
and I said
I'll get in touch
with my dear friend Vaughan Smith
and he can help me
choose this barbecue
to which he did
right
he sends me this link
he's like
this is an approachable
you know
price point
this is great
it's nice and easy
nice and simple
so I buy this barbecue in the middle of a lockdown.
I then have to drive out to one of
those depots
45 minutes away for
a contactless pickup, which means
that me, I have to
pick up this barbecue
on my own and put it
into the back of my car because it's
contactless. It was so
heavy. But I can't bring Aaron because it's contactless. It was so heavy.
Yeah.
But I can't bring Aaron because it's a gift.
He can't know about it.
I get it in the back of my car.
I drive it back to my house.
Then I've got to get it out.
Like, I cannot tell you the drama and the trouble I had of getting this huge barbecue out.
Yeah.
Anyway, then set the unused for...
I don't...
When did it get unboxed?
When we moved house.
So like a completely different home.
So like three years?
Yeah, two, three years.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then he brought it out to use it once for the first time
and it had a part that wasn't working properly.
And then it's just sat in our garage ever since.
Okay.
And I was always being like,
get into the thing.
You know, lots of YouTube tutorials. Why don't we get Vaughn around here? He can teach us how to use it. Da-da our garage ever since. Okay. And I was always being like, get into the thing. You know, lots of YouTube tutorials.
Why don't we get Vaughn around here?
He can teach us how to use it.
Da-da-da-da-da.
It's come to my attention as of the other day that he's just,
he's regifted it.
Wow.
And not to me.
The most insulting part about this is when you have enough barbecues,
I don't think eight's enough.
I think it needs to be a nice round ten.
And there's one more.
Of this brand new. nine's a square number.
This brand new unused barbecue has been re-gifted to a friend of ours.
That probably didn't, was just like, oh, yeah, cool.
That'd be sweet.
He's re-gifted his 40th birthday present that I lifted.
Yeah.
And I deadlifted this whole thing on my own.
It's just gone.
And he was like, oh, I didn't think you'd mind.
He just didn't think I would mind.
And I don't.
Because it kind of sounds like you do.
No, it's not that I went to a lot of effort.
Look, if she's a woman and she says she doesn't mind
and nothing's wrong, then nothing's wrong.
When we say we're fine, we mean we're fine.
Why would we mean anything else?
Why would they possibly not say exactly what they mean?
It would be crazy for your brain to figure out
something was wrong. I know, when you said
it wasn't. Anyway, I'm so deeply insulted.
Did you hit him up about this?
I was just like, what?
I was like, that was your 40th birthday present.
Yeah, but I'm never going to use it.
Oh, we've got the web. I'm happy to just
do some light grilling. Okay.
Some fast grilling, you know.
Some light grilling on gas.
Wow. And then, okay. Yeah. And fast grilling. Some light grilling on gas. He's not into the smokers.
Gas.
Wow.
And then, okay.
Yeah.
And then obviously you're fine with his reaction.
I'm so fine with it. His response to that.
We can all move on.
And maybe we'll take some calls from people who are also fine with it.
Yeah.
Oh, Andrew, what are you fine with?
No, I do want to take some calls though of when,
because I don't know why it offends me so deeply
that my gift has been
regifted. Because I pride myself on buying gifts.
I always buy good gifts. When was
your gift regifted? How did you
find out? Maybe it was done in secret,
swept out from underneath you. Because it hurts
when you think that you've nailed the gift.
100%.
Like you think, they are going to love this.
And you did because he had said.
I had a hobby in this man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of smoking meats.
And then Hayley's getting to eat smoked meats.
Yeah.
Like, this was just win-win all around.
And he's re-gifted.
It was an exciting day.
He's re-gifted it.
Okay, well, we want to take your calls now.
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Text through 9696.
When was your gift re-gifted?
The barbecue I bought for Aaron for his 40th birthday has been re-gifted.
And you're fine with it? So fine with it. Whatever. That's fine. That's fine. Regifted. The barbecue I bought for Aaron for his 40th birthday has been regifted. And you're fine with it?
So fine with it.
Whatever.
That's fine.
That's fine.
Don't worry.
After it's his gift to do with what he sees fit.
Yeah.
It's not like I paid for it and picked it up and made a whole thing and a plan and brought
my friend Vaughn in to sort of help me with the process or anything like that.
Wow.
So many people are regifting.
And I guess if you don't want the gift, if you're not going to use it, why not?
We're not saying it's wrong.
It's just we're hearing from those
whose gift was regifted because it
hurts us. Yeah, it does.
Some texts in. I gifted
my sister-in-law all my
beautiful sentimental baby blankets.
Oh, that's nice.
Baby blankets. I noticed
she had regifted them when I saw them in,
on and around my mother-in-law's dog crates.
Wow.
Okay.
Oh, these crap old blankets.
Yeah.
Must be old.
I mean, it's reusing, isn't it?
I suppose so.
It doesn't matter.
But if they had sentimental value, you'd be like, oh, I probably would have given them to someone else.
Dogs doing that thing when it's starting to get an itchy bum and it's doing the skid across the blanket that housed and kept warm
your beautiful baby.
Yeah.
You'd be a bit like, oh, now it's got poo stains on it.
Poops.
Had poop stains on it then too, but they were the baby's poop stains.
You know, that's different.
My gift was raffled off on a TikTok live.
We don't know what the gift was, but that's an insult to a gift.
Oh, wow.
Raffled.
I love that. I spotted my gift in the back of her but that's an insult to a gift. Oh, wow. Raffled. I love that.
I spotted my gift in the back of her car in bags destined for the op shop.
No.
So it wasn't even like reselling.
No.
God, I've started the year with a boot full of op shop goods to drive around for six months.
No, I've got the op shop.
Do you?
I'm not going to say it on air because I'm worried people don't know.
Inundated.
They just kind of take and don't ask. Oh, thank God. No, I've got good stuff. I'm not giving them say it on air because I'm worried people don't know. They just kind of take and don't ask.
Oh, thank God.
No, I've got good stuff.
I'm not giving them crap.
I've got good stuff.
You have good stuff.
I've got a place.
I've got a place.
Because, you know, there's no clothing bins anymore.
I know.
Why are all the clothing bins gone?
People were just dumping their rubbish and household shit in them
and it was a nightmare.
Which was a shame because they did raise a lot of money
for child cancer patients.
I'm donating quite a lot of shirts
for tall people.
Okay, great.
Tall man shirts.
Well, there you go.
If you're after a tall man shirt,
get into your op shops
in the coming months.
Yeah, that's right.
I caught my sister
selling off our grandmother's
heirloom ring.
Heirloom ring.
Here's someone saying
they were the heir to the fortune
over the holidays.
And man, I laughed
because they were an adult and they should know better.
My grandmother's heirloom ring on Marketplace.
She fought me tooth and nail to get it after grandma passed.
Got it immediately, tried to sell it off.
On Facebook Marketplace.
Well, that's also a trashy place to sell an heirloom.
That's so bad.
You take it to a collector, right?
That place that takes gold opposite the casino.
But also if you fought your family member for this family heirloom
just so that you could get the money for it.
That sucks, man.
You suck.
You suck.
You should have taken the cash equivalent.
When people die, money brings out the worst.
It does.
So, yeah, people are scumbags.
People are regifting.
Regifting trash bags.
But again, you're fine with it. I'm fine. People are regifting. Regifting trash bags. Do you know what I'm going to do?
But again, you're fine with it.
I'm fine.
I'm just going to buy a barbecue smoke.
For myself.
Yes!
I just wanted to get into it as a hobby.
How have I?
Hey, guys, apparently being the company's most successful podcast isn't enough.
They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends.
So people are clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it.
I would concentrate
more on the shitter
podcasts that the
company makes.
Yeah, same.
You know, the real
losers out there.
Yeah, like,
oh no, no, no,
we'll just,
maybe we won't say
nice.
Maybe we should
even encourage people
to listen to other
podcasts that the
company makes.
Oh no, but only
after ours.
Yeah, nah,
nah, don't do that.
And not more than
ours.
Give us a sexy
little review though.
Play ZM's
Fletch, Vaughan
and Hayley.