ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 20th September 2024
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Thank you Bryn. Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Two minutes past six.
Back in Auckland.
Saturated with rain.
After our lovely trip to the Hawke's Bay.
No, to Hawke's Bay.
To Hawke's Bay.
I know.
I thought you'd just let me have that.
No.
No.
Shout out to the woman who took my window seat
and then just looked away from me when I sat down
and kind of didn't engage the entire time.
Why didn't you just say you were in my seat?
I would just say something.
That's what I said.
Honestly, I thought I needed to be on the aisle
because that piping hot curry was still rumbling around my guts.
Probably just best that you had an aisle seat.
Was she an old lady?
Older.
Because they love pulling that shit.
And then they're all like, I don't know.
It's like, yes, you do.
You can still read.
I hate that when you get in and they're in the window
and that's a three seat and then that's your seat and they're like
do you want to just go and you're like no I'm not going in the middle
I see what you're trying to pull
people try it on
people try it on
try it on for size
it doesn't fit
coming up on the show the top six
yes Wellington Mayor Tori
Fano has said
that she's struggling on $189,000 a year.
Is that the mayoral salary?
Is that?
Yeah.
Okay.
That's public knowledge.
Okay.
Also, did you know in 2002 she won Lotto?
A million dollars.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
A million dollars.
Now, in 2002, I was living on approximately $130 a week.
Once rent was paid.
I was 12. That would have been
like a couple of houses.
Dude, it would have been two houses.
Eight houses. It would have been two houses, piece of cake.
The place I was living in 2002 definitely
wasn't worth half a million dollars. Would have been
eight houses in Westport, easily.
Yeah, it would have been good pickings.
Or one bloody nice house. Yeah. Bloody nice house. With columns easily. Oh, God, yeah, it would have been good pickings. Or one bloody nice house.
Yeah.
Bloody nice house.
With columns outside.
Oh, columns!
That's when you know you're rich.
You want columns.
You get columns.
Yeah, unless the columns are plaster.
And then there is a potential leak.
For a leak.
A bit of a leak.
It's like a leaky home.
A stone column, though.
Why is she telling everybody this?
I don't know.
She said times are tough.
Times are tough.
I had to sell my car to pay some bills.
Now, she's saying times are tough, and times are tough.
The rates are high.
But to say times are tough, I had to sell my car when you're nearly on $200,000 a year,
hasn't sat well with a lot of people.
Yeah, people are a bit like, come on.
Well, I'm actually on just below the average income for an adult,
and I don't have a house, a mortgage, and I don't have nothing.
I think that's an impossibility to me.
This is why you don't tell people things publicly.
No, you just keep it to yourself, I reckon.
You just sell your car and then just go on with life.
Yeah.
Well, I've got the top six other things
she could sell off down there in Wellington.
Okay.
Make ends meet.
And I'm pretty sure none of them even notice.
Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley.
A Sydney man has gone viral.
He lives in Waverley in Sydney.
You know, Aussie love their pubs.
Every suburb has an old-style pub.
Yeah.
An inn.
An inn, yeah.
Some kind of inn or tavern.
Well, he's got two pubs, the Charing Cross Hotel and the Robin Hood Hotel.
He owns them.
They love calling them hotels.
No, he lives across the road or around the corner from them.
Oh, right.
And for years, he has said people, men and women,
will urinate in his driveway, in his doorway,
where he opens up the door.
He said he's even opened the door to somebody urinating
while he was trying to leave his house.
That's terrible.
And he has put up this for years.
And obviously, it's not just the fact that people are doing it,
it's that it stinks, right?
Yeah, stale wheeze.
If you walk down a main street or anywhere near bars the next morning,
you're like, oh, okay.
Lots of urine.
In fact, you know when you have to see people opening up retail stores
and their first job is open the door and then hose down the wheeze?
Yeah.
Did you ever have to do that?
No.
When you opened up?
Where my shop was when I worked in retail was kind of tucked away from the main street.
It was like up and away from the bars and stuff.
So no, not too much urinisation.
Well, he has spent $3,000 on a CCTV system and a sprinkler,
a motion-installed sprinkler.
And it doesn't matter if he's home or not.
He said he could be on the other side of the world.
There will be a motion detector that triggers a three-minute downpour
between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
That's a great idea.
Genius.
And he's like, release footage.
And there's so many people just wandering down his driveway.
It's not like you are just passing it.
Like, you have to kind of walk down.
I suppose because you're like, yeah, off the main road.
I'll just tuck down here.
Because I bought a small one off, I think it was like Amazon or something.
Yeah.
And you just put it in the ground on a stake.
And it had a solar panel, which charged the battery, and a motion detector.
And when it detected motion, it would go.
What are you trying to detect?
When we first moved to our place we're in now,
the cats would come to the ranch lot on our bedroom door
in the middle of the night and be like...
And paw, paw, paw, paw, paw.
So I stuck it in a pot plant thing and had it on our door.
Your cats?
Yeah, yeah.
So our cats would come and be like...
Walk up to it and be like...
They stopped doing it pretty quick.
I need that.
For like when Murray does that at three o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, but hun, you live inside.
Like you can't, you don't want a sprinkler in your lounge.
Just in your little outside door.
Yeah, I see you've made a great point there.
Yeah, I have.
Made a great point.
Maybe it could just go tsss, tsss, tsss.
Because you know the noise would scare him.
Yeah, noise.
You see a spray bottle.
Or it could shoot little plastic pellets.
A little BB gun.
Get a little Nerf gun.
Yeah.
Set up on an automatic trigger.
Yeah.
Your cat would never come to your door again.
Did it keep your cats away though?
Yeah, dude.
That worked.
Oh, amazing.
Well, they're both dead now.
Oh, thanks for bringing that up.
Yeah.
They drowned.
No, they didn't.
It was a great deterrent though.
Stopped everything scratching on the door.
That's what this guy said, that nobody has urinated
because the cameras, the lights come on, the rain starts
and yeah, they're leaving us home in peace now.
That is so good.
Although I'd fall for this myself.
I'd walk out, you put something in the bin or something,
go move the car.
Oh yeah, same, but I didn't turn it off
and then you forget
that you've installed a
I think it'd be worth it
though to not have people
peeing on your property
constantly
that'd be yucky
somebody just messaged
and they once
had to clean human faeces
off their shop doorstep
oh no
to be able to do this
I kept telling myself
it's dog
it's a dog
it's a dog
it definitely wasn't a dog
it's definitely not
you can tell it's not a dog
just say it
it's a dog
it's a dog it's a dog play ZM's not. You can tell it's not a dog. Just say it. It's a dog. It's a dog. It's a dog.
It's a dog.
Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley.
Blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
This is the Top Six.
We're about to go to Wellington,
but did you guys hear that story about
the Wellington taxi drivers being banned from the airport?
No.
Yes, I did.
Because they were using the parents' room
to heat up their dinner.
So then the mums were going in
to change the babies.
Mums or dads were going in
to change the babies
or feed the babies.
It stunk like food.
You know what it's like
when you reheat food
somewhere where there's not food.
Like Georgia Bird
here at work with her fish.
Or Hayley Sproul yesterday
at the Hawke's Bay Aero Club.
I had a delicious leftover curry and at 5 o'clock in the morning,
I thought that that would be a nice thing to have.
Yeah.
And also, if we're in Wellington, did you see the Bluebridge Ferry loses power,
left floating adrift in the Cook Strait for two hours.
A lot going on in Wellington.
It's a hustling, bustling city.
It's all gone, isn't it?
Well, news from the Wellington Mayor.
Yeah, the Mayoral Office has said, well from the Wellington mayor. Yeah, the mayoral office. Yeah.
Has said, well, Tori Fano,
mayor of Wellington,
has said she's struggling to make ends meet in a chat earlier in the week.
Had to sell her car to pay some bills.
And people, because it's public knowledge.
Sounds to me like she's got another car.
You think she's running a two-car household?
Though Wellington's a very accessible city.
Yeah, a car, no. They don't need a car, no.
They don't really need a car.
She, well, her wage is public knowledge.
Yeah.
$189,000 per annum.
And that's caused people to say, well, hang on a second.
Yeah.
I earn half that, less than half that.
Yeah.
So, boo-hoo.
Like, everybody's struggling, but it's hard to, you know,
feel sorry for someone on nearly $200,000
when people on significantly less are struggling significantly more.
That's why you don't tell people you're selling your car.
You just, I don't know, talk about, yeah.
Unless she was like, I'm selling my car.
Here's the link to trade me.
You guys should buy this.
It's a hell of a car.
Hell of a car, yeah.
And you turn this interview opportunity into sort of an advertorial for your car.
I love that.
That's a great idea.
Actually, that's smart thinking.
Well, I've got the top six things Tori Whanau could sell to make ends meet in Wellington.
Number six on the list.
Te Papa.
I don't know if that's nice to sell.
No, you can't get rid of that.
No, obviously it's going to be a nightmare to move.
So I think it would stay there.
It would stay there, yeah.
Hell of a bachelor's pad.
No, because they moved a building to put Te Papa there.
Yeah, they moved it across the road and made it the hotel.
Yeah, so it's not impossible to move.
You could move Te Papa.
But Te Papa's significantly larger than that building.
And also not hers to sell, Vaughan.
Yeah, all the stuff in it's quite precious.
Well, it's in Wellington, mate.
She's the mayor.
She owns Wellington.
Is that how it works?
I don't think so.
I think so.
That's how it works in my mind. Hell of. I think so. I don't think so.
That's how it works in my mind.
Hell of a bachelor's pad.
Imagine being on the top floor.
Big bed.
Yeah, nice.
Lock it out.
I'd sleep in the earthquake house.
It'd rock me to sleep.
Oh, I'd put you to sleep.
A little bit of white noise.
Number five on the list of the top six things
Tori Fano could sell to make ends meet in Wellington
are that creepy hand thing that lives on the roof.
The sculpture.
I like that.
He's good.
Someone will buy that.
Some creepy hand fetish person.
It sort of feels like something I would purchase.
Yeah, have it in your backyard.
Yeah.
And the neighbours would be like,
God, it was all right when it was all inside her house,
but now it's spelling outsiders.
Her kooky personality is leaking out on the lawn.
Number four on the list of the top six things
Tori Farno could sell at Wellington to make ends meet.
Abra Cababra.
Hey!
She can't touch that. It's not hers to sell. It's a Wellington institution. I had one of make ends meet, Abra Cababra. Hey! She can't touch that.
It's not hers to sell.
It's a Wellington institution.
I had one of my first dates at Abra Cababra
with Ben McNulty.
Yep, when I was 14.
We went to Abra Cababra.
Probably a Cababra.
Mixed or chicken or lamb?
Chicken.
I wasn't into lamb as a young girl.
Yeah, didn't go from awful.
What were your three sauces that you picked?
Knowing me, it would have been like a sweet chilli. Sometimes, didn't go from awful. What were your three sauces that you picked? Knowing me,
it would have been
like a sweet chilli.
Sometimes I had a satay,
which is very insulting
to the people of Turkey.
I know.
Because satay's a sauce
on its own.
It's not a mixing sauce.
It's not a mixing sauce.
Too strong.
Yeah.
I would have done a sweet chilli
and I've always been
a garlic mayo girl
to my core.
I always do a mayo sweet chilli.
Yeah.
Sriracha maybe if they've
got some bougie sriracha.
Oh yeah, sriracha, I wouldn't mind.
Did that, then went and saw a movie.
I can't remember which movie.
Went to Abra Kabab and then went to Reading Cinemas
and made out in the back.
R.I.P. Reading Cinemas.
R.I.P. me and Ben McNulty, it didn't last long.
Didn't last.
Number three on the list of the top six things
Tori Fano could sell on Wellington to make ends meet.
Eastbourne.
Hey, that's where
I grew up.
I feel attacked.
Wellington's worst
so.
How dare you?
It's actually my favourite.
It's very beautiful.
It's actually my favourite.
You already said that
because Hayley's from there.
You could.
You could just slice it off though.
Both the bays.
Maybe you could be a republic.
You could sell it.
Who's on the other side?
Ireland.
No.
No, I'm talking my area.
Is it Wairarapa down there?
Where does that meet?
Sell it to the neighbouring.
Oh, Vaughan, it's so far away.
Yeah.
Cut it off.
Sell it next door.
Again, not his to sell, Vaughan.
Okay.
Well, number two on the list of the top six things
Tori Fano could sell to make ends meet.
All of Peter Jackson's stuff.
Again, not his to sell.
So much stuff. Like a couple of swords and stuff. Again, not his stuff. He owns so much stuff.
Like a couple of swords and stuff.
He's got shit.
There's a story last night
about the, you know,
the band Rotunda restaurant
down there on Oriental Parade?
It's been shut for years
because of an earthquake risk.
Six million dollars or whatever.
And they're like,
who could afford it?
And what,
is Peter Jackson just sitting there
being like,
I'll get it easy?
Yeah, what does he want?
He'd be a bit of a local hero
if he was like,
I'll do it.
He's already done that
with you know
like Bats Theatre
and stuff
he's saved a few buildings
around Wellington
save another one
what's another one
what's six million dollars
it's pretty iconic
yeah
never eaten there
neither
just sit on the roof
walk past
be like yeah
that looks cool
never been
to eat there
well it's been shut
for so many years
and number one
on the list
of the top six things
Torifano could sell
to make ends meet.
Sponsorship rights
to the Good Day.
Because, you know,
you can't beat Wellington
on a Good Day.
The Good Day.
Oh, I was like,
what's the Good Day?
Is that a new bar?
Yeah, same, same.
We should go.
So, you know,
for example,
show sponsor McCafe
could buy the Good Day.
And then everyone has to say,
man, you can't beat
a Mick Good Day.
You can't beat
Mick Wellington on a Mick Good Day.
That's a couple of letters.
There's only a couple of them.
I know.
You're not getting bang for your buck, are you?
But it's super exclusive.
And everybody talks about it when they do have a good one.
Yeah, true.
So, you know.
Stop.
You can't stop.
That's just how advertising works, baby.
That's today's Top 6.
There's some Kiwi terms
That are being added
To the Oxford English Dictionary
Okay
Including some Maori
Words
Which is fitting
Considering it is
Te wiki o te reo Maori
And
Here they are
These are my
I've never heard this one
Waka jumper
Which is someone
A member of a political party
Jumping parties
Yeah
I've heard that
Shane Jones got called A waka jumper When he left Labour and went to New Zealand first.
And there's a law against it, eh?
Is it against it or you can do it?
There's something about it.
There is something in place.
Right.
Mahi is being added to the...
Oh, cool.
Yeah, we like that.
And chili bin.
Because they wouldn't call it a chili bin.
Oh, right. They call it a... Esky icebox. Esky icebox, cool. Yeah, we like that. And chili bin. What? Because they wouldn't call it a chili bin. Oh, right.
They call it a...
Esky icebox.
Esky icebox, exactly.
Then we've got tikanga, tikanga Maori, kapahaka.
Mahi's in there.
And also ditch, as in the Tasman Sea.
Oh, right across the ditch.
Across the ditch.
Or ditch your friends.
No, they're giving that, like, that is its own exclusive use of the word ditch.
Oh, right.
Like a name, like a noun, like a naming.
I would have thought, like, ditching your friends or ditching someone would be another.
Surely there was, there is.
If you're going to add it.
Surely that's already in there.
Ditch is already in the dictionary.
Yeah, I know, but you know what I mean?
It'll just be under another number, right?
See, I've tried to Google ditch dictionary meaning
and it's come up with Dutch.
Oh, right.
A ditch is a ditch.
We know what a ditch is.
We know what a ditch is.
Like digging a ditch or ditch your mates.
But now ditch as in the Tasman Sea has been added.
Isn't ditching your mates,
the origins of that would be also ditch
To put something in the ditch
Put them in a ditch
Or whatever you're ditching
Like the plane and you end up in a ditch
Yeah I don't know
Or a car it's out of control
You end up in a ditch
I don't know there's so many things about the word ditch
To dig a ditch or ditches to drain
It's officially lost all meaning.
It's sort of gone all weird in my head.
It's just a series of sands now.
Ditch.
And then the one word that a lot of university experts,
the University of Ontario linguist, Peter Keegan,
said the words are great.
Like these are words that we've used for years and years and years
and they've never been in the dictionary, so here they are.
But the one that he found
has caught him by surprise as
Aotearoian.
Aotearoian.
Like someone from New Zealand.
Aotearoian.
Aotearoian.
Roan?
It's a mouthful.
It is a bit of a mouthful, actually.
Aotearoianite.
Probably works a bit of a mouthful actually Aotearoa Unite Probably works a bit better Yeah
I always wonder how they choose
Wellingtonian
Aucklander
Christchurchian
Is it Christchurchian?
Yeah it is
It's Christchurchian
I don't think it is
I would say Christchurchite
Yeah
Dineedite
Dineedite
Christchurchian No it's Dineedite You forgot the last one Dineedite. Yeah. Denedite. Denedite. Christchurchian.
Denedite.
You forgot the last one.
Denedite.
That's definitely Denedite.
Yeah, but how do we choose these things?
Denedians.
Hamiltonians.
Invercargillite.
Waikatoite.
Yeah.
Waikatoians.
No, Waikatoians.
Dargavillian.
Dargavillian.
Morrisvillians.
Morrisvillians.
Good.
Yeah, we were always Morrisvillians.
Morrisvillians.
What are people from my hometown of New Plymouth?
Methods.
Porn.
Losers.
Porn, Alan Smith.
We love New Plymouth.
Since the guy from Morrisville.
Rich from you.
Rich from you.
It was just fun to say.
No, you'd say Taranakians.
Yeah.
Taranakiites.
Yeah, you would.
Taranakians.
Taranaki, ends of the night.
How do you say that specifically from?
New Plymouth.
New Plymouth.
Because you'd say Stratfordians.
Eastbourneians.
Eastbourneians.
Or Eastbourneites.
Eastbourneites sounds cool.
No, it was Eastbourneians.
Eastbourneians.
New Plymouth-onians.
New Plymouth-onians.
New Plymouth-onians.
New Plymouth-onians.
New Plymouth-onians.
New Plymouth-onians.
Love it.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley.
Silly little pole.
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.illy little pole Silly little pole
Hey, baby.
Hi.
Hey, baby.
Today's silly little pole.
Do you wear underwear to work?
Well, let me just get straight to the numbers.
Backstory.
Delta E-Line said that you've got to wear underwear
if you're going to come to work for them.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
Kind of the media's kind of blowing this story up,
but I feel like if you're giving your staff, you know,
a big list of what they have to wear
and how they have to present themselves,
I feel like it goes without saying.
Undies.
Undies.
But obviously, wear underwear.
There has been incidences in the past
where underwear has nay been worn.
Well, maybe.
Or underwear that's visible, because that's one of their rules,
is like, obviously, you can't have a whale's tail.
Yeah, or the men couldn't have their, like,
Calvin Klein's poking out the top.
Yeah, exactly.
The women couldn't have their little lacy numbers.
Well, 97%...
Hang on, let's do a little poll inside the studio.
Yeah.
Three, two, one.
Just say yes or no, are you wearing undies? Okay. Three, two, one. Just say yes or no. Are you wearing undies?
Okay.
Three, two, one.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, I was.
Always.
I'm never.
Vaughn, you have those gym shorts with the mesh,
so you don't wear undies at the gym.
I find that weird.
You say mesh.
It's not like everyone's imagining the mesh inside toes.
It's a micro blade.
It's a micro mesh. It's a microfiber. You're the mesh inside togs. It's a micro-blade. It's a micro-mesh.
It's a microfiber.
Micro-planing your balls every day.
Still, it's odd.
I wear undies everywhere other than bed.
Yeah, same.
And even then I'll wear a short.
I wear a short, but you only wear undies to bed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we asked you today for silly little poll.
Do you wear underwear to work?
97% of people said always, yes.
2% said sometimes.
Perhaps our sex workers.
1% said, oh, yeah.
But they would wear undies too.
Oh, no, not necessarily.
Maybe not.
And 1% said no, they don't.
1%!
All right.
Okay, who are these people and why?
Being in the landscape maintenance business,
let's just say there's been some times where the schlong
has appreciated being non-restricted.
No, but you don't want to be flopping out in front of a customer.
Well, no, they said by some inquisitive female clients.
Woo-hoo.
Oh, okay, wow.
What?
What's he saying?
That he does not wear underpants.
He lets it breathe.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
If you were in that sort of industry and you're moving around,
you could get swamp crotch very easily,
something you could avoid by having a bit more airflow in the region.
Short shorts, airflow in, airflow out.
But also short shorts, crouch, schlongs out.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
And actually, Sam, you'll need to let us know your landscape business
because I'm pretty sure that business is about to pop off.
Yeah.
I got some work that needs to be done.
Yeah, exactly.
Rotating walls.
You've got to rotate the wall that needs to be built.
Joanne says, why is this even a question?
Surely everyone does.
Mind-blowing emoji.
Yeah.
Not everyone.
Rachel, one of my team asked to have an early morning tea break
to go to farmers as they couldn't find their undies
and had been going commando for the day so far.
It was TMI, to be honest.
Sounds like a good night out the night before.
Yeah.
You've been rummaging around in the morning.
Screw it, I'm late for work.
Yeah, they're always at the end, the foot of the bed,
where the duvet's tucked in.
Or in the sheet, yeah, down the bottom.
Yeah, get in there and find them.
But sometimes you don't want to wake them.
But also try where the headboard touches the wall as well, the bed touches the wall why would they be there flinging them around
who's woo woo wooing them yeah all right okay i don't want to know yeah you gotta
woo you're right that's weird ah my balls would hang out my tradie shorts if i didn't wear undies
says sam so thank you sam for your services yeah good hangers. Sam's got low hangers. I've kept them low hangers tucked. Good for you, Sam.
Michaela says, this has to be a Hayley question.
Never she always wears big granny panties to work.
Always.
The biggest undies.
Yeah.
From belly button right down to thigh.
Yeah.
Encapsulate it all.
Mm.
Carl says, work from home.
So most often there's no pants either.
Just have to be careful during team schools.
Oh, okay.
Or dogging on your seat.
He's Donald Duck in the same house.
Otherwise, the seam of my scrubs
would be right up my butt crack.
I need an undie buffer.
Always. Who are you
hussies not wearing grouts? That's what
Bronwyn's words. Bronwyn called
you all hussies.
Hardly ever wear underwear. I only
wear four pairs, mainly for when I wear jeans, says Korea.
Free the flaps.
Wow.
Okay.
You don't.
Jeans, denim and flaps.
Don't go together.
The thick seam would play havoc on the vulva.
I'm nearly chomped.
I mean, it's just an awful thought.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oof.
Char, short for Charlotte, not char grilled.
Not char grilled.
Char grilled, no.
As someone in HR, I am highly concerned you even have to ask this.
Yes.
Taylor, I often wear loose, flowy pants.
YOLO on wearing undies.
I don't know if you can say that on radio.
Let the girl breathe.
Oh, right.
Okay.
But she's used a different word for girl.
That's not the word Taylor used.
Meow.
Yeah. Taylor.
Taylor. Taylor.
Crude listeners. Taylor.
That is silly little pun.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. This is
actually really smart. I don't know
in what context, I don't think this could apply to
everyone because not everyone has a manager.
I mean, we've got agents that work for us
and a lot of actors and comedians
have managers and whatnot.
Influencers often have managers.
And this is this chick.
She has shared online
how she would try to get more money for her deals.
So she's an influencer
and then people would approach her,
companies, brands,
you know,
looking for co-labs
and she'd always say to them,
okay, thank you.
I'm going to forward this
onto my manager
and they'll be in touch with you.
Yep.
And the manager would get in touch
with the company
and they would get more money,
drive harder,
you know,
say she's worth more than that.
Yep.
The trick was,
there wasn't a manager.
She was just faking it.
So she dreamed up...
So she wasn't being the bad guy.
That's a great idea.
When you deal with brands or
TV or whatever,
you're never the one to be like, this is how much
I want to get paid. Your agent does it
and then you are removed
from it and you look like the nice person.
And this is what she did, but
she didn't have to pay 10, 15% to her agent because she was
the agent.
She would give them, she called them Lisa Bates.
Right.
Had an email for Lisa Bates.
Here's my, Lisa Bates at talentmanagement.com or whatever.
And then those brands would email the agent and she'd be able to say, hi, well, you know,
hey, Leah's da, da,-da-da-da push harder
and get more money for them. This is what every
day people need to do if they want to get out
of parties,
catch-ups, you know,
difficult life things. It's hard sometimes
to say no. But who would they say
they were talking to? Or let me just check
with... Mum. I just gotta check
with my mum. And I'll get my
mum to text you.
And then you make up a fake email address to your mum
and then mum's like, sorry, Hayley can't come to the party.
Yeah, Hayley's unable to come to the party.
The 30th this weekend.
Yeah.
Great idea.
Yeah.
She's not feeling too great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She just wants to recharge her social battery.
That's right.
And then mum is the bad guy.
And then you're like, oh my God, I'm so sorry.
My mum said, no, I can't come.
This is genius though.
It's so good. I wonder if you could do
this if you were doing contract negotiations
just in a regular job
where you wouldn't have a manager and say
I might put this through to my lawyer and see
what they think. Oh yeah, I've got a friend
that works in HR or something.
And I might get to get in touch with you because I think there's a
couple of things that I'm unsure of.
And they'll be like,
how did it go with Susie?
And it's just you.
And you can be harder in this role
and be like, no, no, no,
she needs more money or more this
or da, da, da, da.
And then you can just be yourself
being like, oh my God,
I hope you had a good time with my agent.
We're all happy.
Let's go.
Genius from her.
Play ZM's Flesh One and Hayley.
It's the final ranking Do you know why we've thought of this?
It's because beautiful Carwen's beautiful mother
Made a gorgeous tan slice yesterday
Yeah and tan slice is an often overlooked slice
But it always rules
Bicky caramel bicky
Do you know why a tan slice is good?
Because it's got a lot of the base
that kind of offsets the goo and the
sweetness. Yeah. And you can have it
with anything. Just like a cuppa.
You can have it by itself. A bit of ice cream
for pud. Whereas a caramel slice
it's a bit much.
It's a lot.
Which is why my number one slice is the
Belgian slice because it's
got the... Spicy. it's got the...
Spicy.
It's got the different spices.
Yeah.
It's got a lovely icing and it's got a good jam if it's a good, well-made Belgium.
It's my number one.
Caramel slice isn't on mine either.
I like, what's the one where it's chocolate slice but the bottom's biscuit?
You know, like biscuit and chocolate and it's kind of like chunky, like a millionaire's
slice, I think they used to call it.
Oh, what about peppermint slice?
Peppies.
Love a good peppy slice.
It is a top three.
It is a peppy slice.
It's a top three.
Now, I'm looking at pictures of slices.
Of course, we've got like a lemon slice.
Yeah, lemon-oat slice is right up there for me.
Lemon-oat slice.
This one, they call it hedgehog. You know the one I'm thinking of, the biscuits, the chocolate biscuits. Yeah, that-oat slice is right up there for me. Lemon-oat slice. This one, they call it hedgehog.
You know the one I'm thinking of, the biscuits, the chocolate biscuits.
Yeah, that's good.
That's really good.
It's not a top three, though.
Custard square?
No, that's a square.
No, that's a square.
No, that's pastry.
Okay, I'll just call it custard slice then.
No, that's different.
No, I'm sorry, custard square is not a slice.
It's a pastry.
A custard is a slice.
That's a pastry.
Get out.
Excuse me. Come back with the custard square when we do final pastry. That's a pastry. Get out. Excuse me.
Come back with the custard square when we do final rankings.
Quick text poll.
Is custard square a bakery slice or a pastry?
Yes, it is.
Or no, it's not.
To 9696.
Feel free to absolutely bully Vaughan on the text machine.
I actually feel like turning off his mic and you and I just doing this flesh.
It belongs in the slice cabinet with the rest of its slice brothers and sisters.
It might be in a cabinet at the bakery next to a slice, but it's not a slice.
My mum used to do this peanut butter slice.
It was like biscuity peanut butter base.
Oh, yum.
With a white chocolate top, which sounds trash, but honestly, Fletch, you would gobble it up.
I would gobble that up.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
I think I'm going to go tan slice top tier.
Really?
Yeah, tan slice rules.
Pepe slice sit in twos.
Pepe slice in two?
What, do you want to brush your teeth with a slice?
Yes.
I know, but I very rarely have Pepe slice.
And I've told you when I went to Edinburgh to tattoo,
they had Pepe slice.
I had it every single day.
I used to live near a cafe that did a brilliant peppermint slice.
It closed down.
I'll never, ever have that peppermint slice again.
Ginger crunch?
No, that's a slice.
No, that's a ginger slice, I'd call that.
Yeah, but that's what we call ginger crunch.
Okay, this is my top three.
Belgium slice, peppermint slice.
Ginger crunch.
And then ginger crunch.
Top three, nailed.
I'm going to go, yeah, I'm going tan.
Yeah, tan rules.
Tan top.
Two, I'm going ginger crunch. I've changed. Tan top. Two, I'm going ginger crunch.
I've changed.
I'm peppy slipping into three.
Peppy slipping into three.
Oh, what about lemon?
No.
Yeah, yeah.
Lemon's got to play a part of mine.
I think lemon might sit third.
You know they do the bake-alls do the pie awards?
They should do the bake-alls slice awards.
I would go to an evening black tie event to celebrate New Zealand's slices.
I'd buy a new gown for it and everything.
Oh, my God.
Somebody, and this was going to be in my top three, but I wasn't sure if it was going
to be two.
Yeah.
Lolli Cake.
Oh, my God.
It's not a cake.
It's not a cake.
It's a slice.
It isn't a cake.
It's a slice.
Well, that's going right in.
Custard Square is in the pastry.
No, that's a pastry.
It's a pastry top.
It's a slice.
I'm going to tell you what.
People are passionate on the text machine about the Custard Square.
What are they saying? Someone said definitely a slice. No, it's not. Yes, of course it on the text machine about the custard square. What are they saying?
Someone said definitely a slice. No, it's not.
Yes, of course it's a slice. Couple of no's. No, no.
Yes, of course it is. It's a pastry. It's not a slice, you muppet.
That's aimed at you. That's angry. Is custard
slice a slice?
Is the Pope Catholic? You've been called
a muppet twice. It might be the same
person. What muppet calls a custard square a slice?
Do you do for pastry? No, it's not a pastry.
It's a slice.
I'm with Vaughan.
If it's not a slice, then what is it?
It's a pastry.
Custard squares.
Of course custard squares are included.
Sorry, let me just redo my top three.
Yeah, because I'm confused.
Belgium peppermint lolly cake.
Lolly cake number one.
No, Belgium number one.
Belgium slice.
Belgium.
What was two?
Peppermint. Peppermint slice. And then lolly cake. Belgium slice. Belgium. What was two? Peppermint.
Peppermint slice.
And then lolly cake.
And shout out to Shannon that does an incredible Biscoff lolly cake.
Shannon's lolly cake knows no bounds.
It is the.
What did I say?
Did I say it wrong?
No, you're just happy.
I was just happy.
That was nice of you.
I can't.
She sucks at hacks.
She sucks at hacks.
She was laughing at me like, you know, when I say something wrong. Like, because I'm old. No, no. She sucks at hacks. But boy, me like you know when I say something wrong
Like because I'm old
No no she sucks at hacks but boy oh boy she makes a lolly cake
She does yeah
Actually it's my birthday next
Well because I don't live with like appliances
I used all my appliances for that
It's no bake
I tried making it with a grater that one time
I tried grating the bickies and it didn't work
Well hang on this doesn't align with me because it's my birthday next in a couple of weeks
Well I could go to my friend's house
and bake. Yes, you can. That's what I did with the cinnamon roll.
Good solution.
Vaughan, could you finish up yours? No, I've changed.
I've changed. Yeah, okay, so you're gone.
What's the number one? Getting three points
is
Shannon's lolly.
Shannon's lolly cake. Yes.
Biscuit lolly specific.
Shannon's lolly cake. Just cake lolly cake. I'm going to put lolly specifically. Yeah, Shannon's lolly cake.
Just cake lolly cake.
I'm going to put lolly cake.
Number two, I'm going tan.
Tan.
Number three, peppy keeps slipping.
I'm going lemon.
No!
How can you go lemon over peppy? I'm going lemon over peppy.
Wow.
Because lemon is refreshing.
The citrus cuts out the sweet.
Okay, Vaughan.
I'm going to go top tan.
Okay.
Like a tan or a plain or just something that I can eat the whole thing of.
And I don't feel guilty because my cheeks aren't sore and my teeth aren't telling me I'll be doing it.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Tan.
One.
Two.
No.
A custard square is a pastry.
It's not counted.
Zero points.
It's not counted.
Custard square.
Custard square.
And third, Lolly.
So one point for Lolly. Let me add this up. third, Lolly. So one point for Lolly.
Let me add this up.
No, shut up.
Lolly.
Pause.
Pause.
Pus.
Pus.
It is a puff pastry sandwich.
It is not a slice.
It's a pastry sandwich.
It's a pastry.
It's not a pastry sandwich.
It's got icing on the top.
It's a pastry sandwich.
It's a puff pastry square.
No, it's a slice. Someone the top. It's a pastry. Sam, pastries have icing. It's a puff pastry square.
No, it's a slice.
Someone here is calling it a treat.
Someone here is calling it an Australian pastry.
Everything's a treat.
It's not a slice.
It's a pastry.
There's pastry in it.
It's like cutting a slice of carrot cake and calling it a slice because you've had a slice of it.
It's not.
It's not allowed.
That's cake.
Just qualified.
No points.
Two points to custard square. No, it's not. It's not allowed. That's cake. Disqualified. No points. Two points to custard square. No, it's not.
It's not allowed.
Lolly cake.
Lolly cake.
Oh, we've got a draw.
Tan and Lolly are both on five points.
Let's go off trash.
What was your Belgian slice?
What was your P?
I wrote down P for your second slice.
Pepe.
Pepe.
Peppermint.
Peppermint slice only gets two points.
We've got a tie.
Lolly cake and second slice. Pepe. Pepe, peppermint. Peppermint slice only gets two points. We've got a tie. Lolly cake and tan slice.
Okay.
Lolly cake, you'll notice.
Yeah, but what would have been your fourth
if you hadn't have wedged custard square in there?
Before we're going to take my fourth,
we've got to take everybody's fourth into account.
No, we don't because we've chosen three slices.
You've chosen two slices in a pastry.
Mine would have been lemon, like a lemon.
See, then that would have bumped lemon up because I put lemon in mine.
No, but your lemon was only worth one point because you had it third.
He stuffed the results, which I'm irate.
Yeah.
Someone said raspberry slice.
Oh, no, yeah, I love raspberry slice.
Someone said, have you not mentioned caramel slice?
We did early.
It's delicious, but it's too sweet.
Too much.
It's too sweet sometimes.
I do love it, though.
It's a lovely slice. I wouldn't say no
to it. Everyone wants Shannon's lolly cake
recipe but I just think we sit on it.
So it's just ours.
What are we going to do? Are they going to mass produce it? I think she should
share it. It's delicious. You should do a TikTok
recipe on how to make it. People love that.
They do and you put the camera up looking
into the bowl and then all the ingredients appear.
Custard square has a pastry
as a base. A slice has a baked base.
I would disagree.
If we're going to say a baked base,
then lolly cake cannot go better as a slice
because lolly cake is not baked.
Well, fine.
We'll redo the whole thing next Friday.
I love how heated this is getting.
Another name for the Vanilla Square,
Custard Square, is Vanilla Slice.
It's not a slice.
That's a different slice.
You dumb idiot.
A vanilla slice is different to a custard square, isn't it?
Please stop calling the listeners dumb idiots, Hayley.
Oh, I was calling Vaughan a dumb idiot.
Oh, I get it right there.
No, I was reading the listeners' thoughts.
I love our listeners.
You were calling the listeners, by proxy, dumb idiots.
No, I'm calling you.
Well, I found a list that...
Who else is hitting the baker on the way home for a slice?
I'm so hungry for a slice.
So hungry for a slice.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's... Vaugh, Vaughan and Hayley
Play ZM
Vaughan just trying to convince me he's tough
Get your tail end of that
I'll switch them right now, that's how tough I am
I've got a short cord
Fletch, talk
No, it's fine, we'll do it later
Do it later please, Vaughan
Hayley has somehow got a short microphone lead
And so
I'm just going to undo that while you
No, you undo that while you...
No, you undo that one there, please.
Goodness.
Oh, shit.
We could do this after the next song.
Please.
I'd be like Fletch if you did a solo show.
Oh.
There we go.
How's that?
Oh, it's so much more space for activities.
Tough, eh?
Look at that.
Something like that, Vaughn.
Thank you to my tough friend, Vaughn Smith, for helping me out.
So yesterday I went and I got some needling done.
That's why my face is like bright red and a bit sore.
What is the idea of needling, for those that don't know?
Because I don't know.
It's trying to fix a huge mess, isn't it?
He's cheeky and he's tough.
Trying to fix this.
Trying to just do something about the face.
Yeah.
No, it's the same theory as like acupuncture or cupping
when you bring blood to the thing and your skin rejuvenates itself.
At this time of the year, you'll see it on golf courses
and lawn maintenance is they do coring where they take out
a core of the soil and replace it with sand to increase drainage and stuff
and it leads to a healthier lawn.
Yeah, it's basically like that.
You scratch up your face to smithereens and then it heals itself
and it looks gorge.
That aside, right, I got to Casey
and they said, oh, we want to do this thing with you
and it's a face scan. You may have seen it on
social media, but you put your face in this machine
and it takes all these, like, flashes all these
lights and takes all these photos
and it shows you all the
different layers of your skin and it's the
stuff that you can't see on the surface.
Is it a gimmick? Have you noticed
anything about your face as you're getting older?
I've got something I pointed out to Hayley the other day.
See this thing on the end of my nose?
It's like a permanent freckle.
I never had that.
Is it not a pimple?
Nah. I did too.
It may have looked like that.
Full homesie there.
For those who are aware of public, you know,
broadcasting legend
full homes.
You should go get this done
and see what that is
and get it zapped off.
Or you could just leave it.
Your face is beautiful as is
and it's actually
an endearing feature.
Yeah,
I don't want to pay for it.
I'm happy to have a muck face
as long as it's free.
So,
I'll show you a photo.
So,
it like does the different layers
of stuff that you can't really see.
So,
this is a machine
that's scanning your face.
Scanning your face
and then it will show you
like the redness and it goes a layer down and it shows you like skin, sun damage that you can't really see. So this is a machine that's scanning your face. Scanning your face and then it will show you like the redness
and it goes and layer down and it shows you like skin,
sun damage that you can't see on the surface that's there.
Can I show you mine?
Sun damage?
Yep.
Look at that.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
What is that from?
The sun.
From the sun.
So you can't see it in like general life.
You look dead.
Look at that.
That's what your dead head's going to look like.
That's what your dead face is.
So to the listener that obviously
can't see this right now, and I'm not putting it on social
media because woohoo.
One,
it's just like all these brown
sunspots that are like
and the lovely team at Casey
were like, this could have been from when you were a kid
and you just were out in the
sun in New Zealand tearing around without sunblock on.
Before we knew how important it was to do it.
Revealing stuff like that.
But what's the point of this scan revealing that?
Because then you can see what's actually happening in your skin.
You can see different things that are wrong with it,
and then you do treatments according.
Yeah.
The one thing that showed up that I didn't realise was so bad
is this one here, which is my face face and you can barely see any of it.
And you should be able to see lots of it.
And I was like, well, why can't you see it?
She was like, cause it is bone dry.
I'm a biscuit.
I'm a wafery, cranky biscuit.
That's why you just showed us, looked like the black photos that CSI people do when they go over like a bedspread.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So all those little white marks that's pollution
from like being outside pollution you don't know man yeah just like dirt on my face just any kind of like right okay other stuff on my face apparently i'm like i'm a dry biscuit and they
told me straight that's pretty so the idea they scan your face and then they would what give you
treatments yeah you can do it okay right i'm not trying to plug treatments. I was just so confronted by the sun damage
that we've got just like hidden under our skin.
You think about how bad it is.
Your granddad had skin cancers and stuff cut off, right?
Because he was a house painter and he never wore a hat.
There just wasn't sunscreen.
And wearing a hat was considered rude in some circumstances.
So they just went without.
And then these old boys have to get chunks cut out of their nose
and their ears and all because of the sun.
My pop, who was a house painter, he had ginormous ears.
So when he got cancer in them and they started to cut them down,
he actually ended up having quite nice ears by the end.
So it was getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
And then the generation after then, like our parents' age,
my mum used to cover herself in baby oil and lie in the sun
in the 1970s.
And then when we were young, she'd always come home
from a trip with a Copitone 4 and be so stoked
that she was going to tan.
She'd be riddled with it.
Then we kind of knew you should have sunscreen on as a kid
but would often go out without and get sunburned.
My kids, like, it's so full on with sunscreen.
I mean, the change of the season,
I mean, not today in Auckland looking out the window,
it's very rainy and grey,
but the change of the season's coming.
You've got to wear sunblock.
Because I am haggard.
Underneath this gorgeous exterior,
which will only last a few more years.
Haggard.
Play ZM's Fletch, Fawn and Hayley.
Help us. Help us, Mr. Flet Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Help us.
Help us, Mr Fletcher.
Can we have some money?
We cannot have any money.
We live out west.
We're not entitled to any money.
Please, give us some of your money
from the electricity board
of Central Auckland.
For those that are listening from
outside of Auckland, and this is a weird thing that happens in Central Auckland. I those that are listening from outside of Auckland,
and this is a weird thing
that happens in like central Auckland.
Yeah, I used to get it,
even as a renter.
There's like this rebate
that you get from the lines company
or the power trust.
The power trust.
I don't know how it works,
but if you pay for your power
and you're in the central Auckland zone,
you're due every year a different amount of money.
It's like a...
It's like a little rebate.
A rebate, like a payout.
Yeah.
I don't know how it works.
I don't know how it works, but it happens every year
and it would always be like a hundred and something
or a couple of hundred bucks or like,
oh, some years you'd be like, oh my God, all this money.
Well, this year, $350.
Far out.
Is this communism?
I like it.
It's not communism. It's something.
It's not communism.
It's not, right.
It's something.
It's like, I guess, like how shareholders get paid out, right?
Yeah, a dividend.
A dividend.
It's like, you know, just for-
Are you, by paying the power company, somehow a shareholder for that time?
I guess so.
Something like that.
When I lived in Auckland, I always lived within the area.
Yep.
Flatting.
And then we bought our first place out west.
Yep.
And we got out there and you were like,
yeah, Powerboard.
And I was like, yeah, Powerboard.
And it never came.
And I was like, where my Powerboard money?
No, because people out west don't get it.
Why not?
I don't know.
It's like a central Auckland thing.
But like everybody around the country should do it.
How cool is it?
It's so good.
It was all this little bonus money and it just turns up.
Yeah, well, Shannon messages me yesterday because she heard me talking about the free money
and you guys leeching on wanting.
I just did a round of coffees.
Yeah, no, but I could go another.
Do you know what I mean?
I want to get my money's worth out of you.
And Shannon messages me.
She gets an email because she lives in Auckland Central as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Getting the free $350.
Yeah, but I got real nervous because I am susceptible to scams.
Yeah.
And it was just like.
Well, your own mother warns you about scams and it should be the other way around.
Yeah.
And it just said, click this link and put in your bank details.
We'll give you $350.
And alarm bells went off, but I know I'm entitled to this money.
Yeah.
So I sent it to Fletch and I said,
is this the right email and all that?
Yeah.
And he said, yeah, it looks legit.
So I put in my details.
Haven't told my boyfriend yet.
And she's like, I'm so sorry for like-
Don't tell your boyfriend.
Yeah, don't tell your boyfriend.
It's your money.
It's your money.
Because I pay the bills.
Oh yeah, it's your money.
Exactly.
Don't tell him.
You'll just magic it away.
This does cause problems in flats
because some people get the money
and don't tell other people.
Yeah, because it should go to the flat account.
It should go to the flat account.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or like pay the power for the next few,
you know, however many bills you can.
This is the best.
I don't know when I'll get it though
because I just put in my bank details this morning.
Or I've just been cleared out.
I don't know, maybe.
Just a few little things.
No, it was good you asked
and Shannon was like,
I'm so sorry for asking.
I'm like, no.
No, this is what we want.
You ask any time. Well, I was just like, I'm so sorry for asking. I'm like, no, this is what we want. You ask any time.
Well, I was just like, I either ask and get ripped out on radio
or I get scammed again.
And I thought it was better to be.
And ripped out on radio.
Yeah.
There's a few little things going around.
We received something from our old bank that we're no longer with,
both me and Aaron, saying like, oh, we're going to transfer you $81.
And I was like, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam.
But then they also followed it up with mail to our house.
It was something about like we're overcharged.
Oh, yeah, right.
Interest at some point or whatever.
Yeah, they owe you money.
So that's $81 each.
Well, you proclaimed what just a couple of days ago
that you want free stuff.
Yeah, I did.
I said I want free stuff.
You want to leverage your power of the radio.
But can we do that? Can I say I want free stuff. You want to leverage your power of the radio. But can we do that?
Can I say, I want free stuff and I want free money?
No.
Can I say, I want the free free money?
It's very cheeky of you, Bootsmith.
I said, I couldn't find my UE boom ahead of UE boom season, summer.
And Noel Lemmings just sent me three UE booms.
So you can mesh them.
One each.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, my God.
Fletch, Boughan and Hayley.
You've got your power money.
So you could probably buy your own UE Boom if you wanted.
And Hayley, these don't really go with your own.
You've got a Mega Boom.
Yeah, I've got a Mega Boom.
Sweet.
Well, then you don't need any more Booms.
I'm going to mesh three Booms.
What, no one needs to send you these?
Yeah, they sent three Booms.
This is unbelievable.
Are you sure that they didn't send it to you to share with your friends Fletch and Vaughan and Hayley?
No, it says,
Dear Vaughan, it's no goo-filled wafer shafts,
but we hope you enjoy these UE Boom 3s.
If you were listening yesterday...
They were measurable, aren't they?
Oh, that's right.
We were talking about Christmas coming
and a lot of the goo-filled wafer shafts
are coming back in store.
Those little straws.
The chalky straws,
or as we like to call them now,
the goo-filled wafer shaft. Yeah now, the goo-filled wafer shaft.
Yeah, I love a goo-filled wafer shaft.
Okay, well, that's lovely for you, isn't it?
Thank you, Noel Leeming.
Noel in particular.
What's your beef with Leeming?
No, no, no, no, no.
That's just Noel of the Noel Leeming.
Right, okay.
I was thinking Noel in particular.
Oh, I thought it was like a lawyer's company, Noel and Leeming.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM.
We get to go to some really fun things.
Yesterday we went in a bloody helicopter and a fire truck
and all sorts to celebrate the naming of the new Hawke's Bay fire truck,
Hawke's Bay Airport fire truck.
Why were we not invited to the New Zealand National Cavvy Show in Taupo?
The New Zealand National what?
Cavvy?
C-A-V-Y?
Cavvy?
Cavvy?
Cavvy?
It was a guinea pig competition.
Why is it not called a New Zealand guinea pig competition?
I would have politely said, I just would have said I was busy.
Cavvies are rodents.
Cavvy guinea pig.
I'm sorry, no.
I wouldn't go to that.
It's a domestic, also known as a cavie or a domestic cavie,
is a species of rodents.
Belonging to the genus cavia.
No thanks.
It's really taken very seriously.
So this was held in Popor a couple of days ago.
Okay.
And they fly in judges from all around the world, held in Taupo a couple of days ago. Okay.
And they fly in judges from all around the world,
Germany, Poland, Australia, South America,
180 different cavies or rodents, as we've just learned,
are given their moment to shine at the 2024 New Zealand National Cavi Show.
And the guinea pig competition is one of the, you know,
most coveted awards to win.
Right, okay.
Split into six different groups.
Colour, marked, crested, oguti, coarse coat and long coat.
Have you seen the long coat guinea pigs?
Yeah.
They look like little brooms.
They look like little brooms.
Yeah, little fluffy mops.
Do you reckon these people are weirder than cat people at cat shows?
Maybe. brooms. Yeah, little fluffy mops. Do you reckon these people are weirder than cat people at cat shows? Mmm, yeah, maybe.
So I want to show you, the best
in show was Talia Hopkins from
Waikato with a black roan
cavy, was named the Grand
Champion. I just want
to show, it's a beautiful black and white
number.
I kind of want to pat that.
I want to pat it.
I want to be like here
They are sweet little things, I've never been a guinea pig person
because they sort of tend to die
Do you know what I mean?
Are they the ones that die when they get shocked?
Like if you give them a fright?
Yeah, rabbits, guinea pigs
You've got those ones with the long alpaca coats
I mean it's just amazing, I would love to attend
something like this
But I feel like if you ever said to someone,
what are you doing this weekend?
Be like, I'm entering my guinea pig into the 2024 New Zealand
Cavie Championships.
I want to know if you've ever entered,
or like what is the weirdest competition you've ever entered?
Now, the weirdest, I mean, other than marching, I suppose,
which is all a bit weird.
That's all a bit weird.
All a bit odd, isn't it?
The weirdest one I think I've ever entered was a,
there was two.
I randomly entered a Chinese art show when I was a kid.
I don't know why I did that.
Were you good at Chinese art?
Nope.
Oh, wait, was it, you had to do Chinese art
or it was just simply run by a Chinese?
It was run in China and I entered it.
I sent off a piece of art.
By the way, not an artist.
I suck at art.
Do you think they opened the post and they just laughed?
They were like, this is terrible.
I remember them sending a letter back and all that.
And I remember being like, well, I can't read the characters.
I don't read Mandarin.
Anyway, and then I also, when I was on holiday,
when I was about 10 or 11 years old,
I did enter Miss Ohope Beach.
Oh, right.
Because my uncle lived in Ohope.
Yeah, how did you go?
Didn't place.
I watched that competition a couple of times as a younger man.
Did you?
Yeah, what, I mean, before your time?
Yeah, we're different age groups.
I'm significantly younger than you.
Yeah, wow.
By eight years.
But I remember I entered that
and I got my, I'd made
a friend at the beach that summer and I got her mum
to give me a zigzag part and I really
thought that was going to put me apart and I put
on my best blue sort of fluffy
HBK top and I did not
place. It didn't place. No matter the
amount of body glitter I had on. Right.
But I feel like we've just all entered
A lot of workplaces have odd competitions.
Yeah, weird competitions.
Like they have the checkout awards
or, you know, some kind of weird industry competitions,
like maybe forklift lifting competitions.
Forklift.
Maybe you're a hobby horse.
Forklift loading.
Forklift driving.
Or like obstacle courses for that kind of stuff.
I mean, you can't put a value on a good forklift operator.
No, you can't.
No, you can't.
And when you watch it, good.
Okay. Oh, it's beautiful. It's artistry. 0800 No, you can't. And when you watch it, good. Okay.
Oh, it's beautiful.
It's artistry.
Oh, 800-DARLS-IT-M.
We want you to give us a call now.
You can text through 9696.
Is the ball rolling?
The ball is rolling already,
including someone who, as a kid,
entered these guinea pig competitions before.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
And one year, the lady who was judging
looked at our guinea pig, and my sister's one was judging looked at our guinea pig,
and my sister's one was an albino guinea pig,
and the woman said that it looked like a rat.
How terrible is that?
Well, it's a harsh world.
You know, not that far from a rat.
We've just learned it's in a rodent.
It's in the rodent family.
Okay, I'll wait.
Hunter, Darls at M, call us now.
Text through 9696.
Did you enter a weird competition competition and how did you go?
Do people know that hospitality competitions exist?
Yeah.
Not like the fun cocktail food making ones,
but like table setting, staying up till 1am,
starching your tablecloth and practising your napkin fold type competitions.
Wow.
Because the barista championships are amazing with the latte art and stuff.
The lart.
The lart. We'll just call it lart.
I entered a competition and won
a rowing machine last month.
It just arrived and in the email the lady said,
feel free to tag us in any photos you upload
when you're using it.
Now, not really in Instagram photos while I'm working out
sort of person slash physique, but
from your
point of view, what do they expect from me?
Well, you've already won a rowing machine. Yeah, but what
competition?
No, no, they've just entered like an online
competition. Well, that's not. I want to know if
you competed in some. But it's a weird competition
to win a rowing machine.
I think they need a message back.
What did they do? When we're doing
What did you win? What did you win as a prize?
Did you enter A weird competition
At our Christmas camp
There was a seagull
Catching competition
Now I think that would
Be frowned upon
Yeah
Because there's some rare ones
Some of them are quite rare
If you caught a seagull
You got a free ice cream
My eight year old cousin
Dug a hole
Put a towel over the top
Put food on the top
Of the towel
And caught one
It took her a few days
But she was determined
And she caught it
And laid it on top of it
And she just like
Wrapped the towel.
Oh, my God, that's so bad.
Oh, my God.
We do not encourage that kind of behaviour.
No, no, no, no.
Did you read out the tenant one?
No, I'm getting there, though.
If you shut your mouth!
I just feel like it's 8 o'clock and you're dilly-dallying.
I'm giving the people their way.
You're telling us about people that want a rower?
That's not even what we're asking.
Yeah, you're dilly-dallying.
I wouldn't have read that out.
I won the Foxton Beach Baby Competition in 1973.
Oh, wow.
The baby.
For being the best baby at Foxton Beach.
Years ago, we were renting,
and our landlord entered us in the 10 into the year competition.
We came runner up.
Well, just because they pay the rent on time.
You looked after the place like it was their own.
I got a good vacuum.
You gave a great vacuum.
Wiped the dust off the.
Yeah.
Off the ledging and stuff.
I entered a drawer of Womble competition.
What?
I got third prize and got a poster of great uncle Bulgaria from the Wombles.
Oh.
Classic.
Good lord.
I entered a cock and ball challenge that was like fear factor.
Cock and ball the bar.
Like the pub.
The pub.
Yeah, right.
Why? Where did your head go? Yeah. What kind of competition the pub. Yeah, right. Why?
Where did your head go?
Yeah, what kind of competition
are you entering
with your cock and balls?
I had to do all these rounds
like Fairfactor.
One was sucking fish eyes out.
One was piercings.
One was shots of Tabasco sauce
and I won it.
Yuck.
No, no, no.
As an eight-year-old
I entered a donut eating competition.
I beat all the boys
and I won.
Atta girl.
Sheep colouring competition
at the Te Puke AMP show.
Not a picture, like colouring
an actual sheep with chalk.
Play ZM's
Flashpoint and Hayley.
Flashback!
Flashback!
Well, you're picked today, Hayley, for Friday Flashback.
Correctamundo. And do you know what? This actually
came on in the car the other day
when the three of us were driving to Lechaport.
And every time this band comes on,
particularly you and I, Fletch,
we go, God, what a great concert.
That was a great concert.
I'd give anything to go back.
Like, just loved every second of it.
And then I looked up this song
because I was looking at,
I wanted a 20-year-old hit.
Yeah.
Because something about the year 2004 doesn't feel that long ago,
but this year it is 20 years.
That's how time works.
Yeah.
And this song actually came out in September.
September 2004 this song came out.
One of their biggest songs of all time.
Their next album was even bigger, but this album was incredible.
It did well around the world.
New Zealand, it was really well.
It was 38th in the charts.
Stubblers never charted.
But in the alternative airplay, it was number four around the world.
It was huge on the radio.
Huge on the radio.
And I think it's one of their most accessible, approachable songs.
I'm Not Okay, My Chemical Romance.
It's your Friday flashback on ZM.
It's My Chemical Romance, your Friday flashback on ZM.
Fleeche Vaughan and Hayley.
You went for a wee-wees, we rocked out.
Yeah.
What do you mean polarising?
Get a grip.
Polarising.
Is it?
Love this.
I was in a bad mood
and now I'm not.
Hayley, you're fired.
Well, you're not in charge of that
and you spelt my name wrong
so I don't respect you.
And they spelt your wrong
but that's okay.
Thanks, my neck hurts.
Love Friday flashback.
WTF is this.
Absolutely love the song
Transport.
Like five people messaged me and been like,
I've never heard this song before and I'm not sad about that.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
What?
If you started listening to My Chemical Romance
with the Black Parade and you think that you're alternative,
I'm sorry.
You've got to go back because that is an incredible
three cheers for sweet revenge.
Amazing album.
You need to apply a three strikes law
that is intended to deter repeat offenders. What a brick of a song.
Happy Friday, though. Wow.
So three bad songs. I think we've got some
preppy little prepsters
listening. And that's okay. We're all different in different
ways. Great choice. Rocking out with
eardrums in the car. Banger. I was in
a bad mood till now, but I'm reliving my
not-so-rebellious youth here.
Not my cup of tea, but it's somebody's, and I'm happy
for them for that.
See, lovely.
We're all different in different ways.
Emma Haley in the house.
Considering I just realised I forgot to take my antidepressants this morning,
this song seems somewhat fitting.
Yeah.
Absolute tune.
I'm not okay.
Great.
Pop home and get those.
I love MCR.
Thank you to the post woman.
Thank you.
Okay.
Holy F word.
Why'd you let her play that song?
Wow.
Okay, why'd we let her?
She's a woman.
She does what she wants around here.
I'm sorry if you think that these boys actually control a single thing that I do.
I'm sweating.
Fail.
Should have stayed in the 2000s a lot. Okay.
I think mostly nailed.
Okay.
Well, we enjoyed it.
Yeah.
We enjoyed it.
I preferred Crazy Frog.
Thank you.
I mean, obviously.
That says more about that texter than it does about my choice.
Might be a taskmaster, but not a postmaster.
Oh, that's a good burn, actually, though.
That's a great burn there.
It's a compliment.
It's a compliment and also a burn.
Yeah, because I won.
So you're back where you started.
Hey, speaking of me...
LAUGHTER
..let's continue...
OK.
..on that vein.
I've got an issue on my hands.
In May, it was the New Zealand
International Comedy Festival where I debuted my show
Wild Flutters, nominated, I don't want to
bring it on, nominated for Best Show.
Didn't win though.
Fred Award.
No, that's a Fred tag.
Didn't win.
Are you okay? Yeah, it's fine.
I should be nominated.
And as part of that, what I like to do is
I pay to get it filmed. I pay to get it filmed.
Oh, okay.
I pay to get it filmed professionally because, one, you clip it up,
put it on socials, it's always good.
And two, I always want to remember this time when I was an attractive,
young, funny female.
And it's not going to be forever.
Is that now?
That's happening now, Vaughn.
Yeah, that's happening now.
You've seen my last two shows. What were the
adjectives you used? Attractive, young, funny, female.
Attractive, young. I mean
funny. I'll take it.
I'll take it
because you see me like a sister and I understand
that it's confusing for you. God, we roast
each other but one day one of us is going to start crying.
It's going to be one of those days, eh?
I'll be like pre-menstrual and
tired and you'll say it and I'll be like
enough!
I am beautiful!
And that'll be my Friday flashback that day.
Anyway, so I've had it filmed
and by the lovely Tim Batt, who
you may know from Radio War, you may know from
Worst Idea of All Time
podcast. He
films and he does a great job
and he sent it to me about a month
after Comedy Fest saying,
hey, here's your thing.
Have a watch through.
Give me any notes.
And also as part of when I pay him,
he clips up a number of social things for me.
He's been hunting me to watch it
and give him notes
and choose some funny moments
that I want to go on socials.
Because you want to promote your shows
that are coming up.
You're doing your show in Auckland.
Yeah, in two weeks.
And it's not really, I haven't shifted a lot of tickets.
It would be a great time to have a video.
The only problem is I like cannot watch it back.
I've got the video here, right?
Here's me.
It's like me just do it.
I'm going to mute it because I cannot stand the sound of my own voice,
which is stupid for a woman who works in an audio medium.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
You know?
Oh, you look great!
Yeah, I know. I look fantastic. I did my own hair that day. It looks great.
I cannot watch it back. No matter what I do,
every time I watch it, I'm just like, you think you're
so funny. You shut up. Wow, you're tall poppying
yourself. I'm tall poppying myself. So you're the
poppy and with your little poppy leaves, you're reaching
down and cutting yourself off. Yeah, I'm Vaughan
Smith-ing myself. Just peppering
negs throughout. Yeah, you got an egg.
I cannot watch it. There's something about
I mean, normal people
not comedians or radio people would
understand this. The moment you hear your own voice
back, you're like, oh, shut up.
I met someone semi-recently
with what I would describe as an unusual
voice. Like what? Even more than
yourself. Do you consider this an
unusual voice?
We've become immune to it.
Immune to it.
Yeah, we're immune.
So they had an unusual voice.
Like what?
A little bit like that.
On the way to that, but not all the way there.
And they heard themselves in a video and they're like,
I can't believe I sound like that.
I was like, what have you thought you sounded like?
But when I hear my own voice in my head, I'm like, cool girl.
Right, but then when you actually hear it back,
which I do on the daily because we always post clips on socials
and we literally record our voices for a living.
But previous generations wouldn't have known what their voice sounded like
apart from what they hear it as as it exits their mouth.
And you'd be used to it.
Now everybody records
like even young
when you were young
you could record on tape
and listen back to your own voice
or like you'd see videos
of yourself
and that was your voice.
Yeah, you'd be like
I sound wild
I sound crazy.
People these days
would be hearing
their own voices
a lot more.
Yeah.
But you can't bring yourself
to watch it.
Can't watch it.
I have not watched a second.
I've scanned through just looking to make sure
that the face looked fine, and it does.
It's exquisite.
Like, it's actually gobsmackingly beautiful.
But I cannot watch it back, and so I'm just in this.
I'm stuck.
So why'd you pay for it then to get filmed?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Can't you just say to him, you just picked the best clips? You've got a great. You can say, I feel like I'm not subjective to the filmed. I don't know. I don't know. Can't you just say to him, you just pick the best clips?
You've got a great...
You can say,
I feel like I'm not subjective to the material.
But that's not part of his job.
That's not his job.
That's extra for you to be like,
you sit down as a comedy master
and tell me what's funny.
And that's not the job.
He's like, you just tell me.
And I can't watch it.
So you send him the time codes,
this bit,
and he'll go find the bit.
Why don't you outsource it
to someone on Fiverr or something?
Yeah, but then I have to get their opinion on what they think is funny.
And what if I say to you, can you find the three funniest moments?
And they come back and they're like, I could only find one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you're like, oh, so it wasn't that funny.
Yeah.
Plus, you've got to pay them more than $5 to sit through that.
Yeah.
Negging.
You actually paid.
Just a little bit of negging.
I did.
Did I?
Yes, I think I did.
But that was because I felt sorry.
No, no, no.
It's a wonderful.
It's a wonderful.
Where are you doing your shows next?
Auckland.
You're doing a Dunedin?
I'm doing Dunedin.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for this plug.
October 3rd to the 5th is Auckland and then October 12th is Dunedin.
Sorry, I talk all over the day.
Now you're talking all over the day and now people aren't going to know where they're
going to go to book tickets.
Whose voice is more annoying?
What?
Go.
October 3rd or 5th, that's Auckland.
Right.
October 12th.
And it is Dunedin.
And I feel like you're going to be like,
why would I want to come and see this show?
A show so bad you can't even watch it yourself.
Yeah, you've just, yeah.
It's wonderful, self-promotion.
I guess if there's any promotion for the show,
it'll be a static image.
Yeah, it just will be a static image.
Do you think you could possibly dislike Hayley's hour of comedy
more than she dislikes it herself?
Prove it.
Come and see the show.
Come and find out.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Well, it's been fire, truck fire, engine fire, appliance.
Week.
Week.
All week.
And I've just kind of finished the end with some leftovers.
Oh, nice.
I've got a big bag of leftovers.
I love when on a Friday you do a little leftover.
I do a little leftover.
I've got a whole lot of leftovers, so I'm just going to chuck a few facts. This is all because yesterday we were broadcasting
from Hawke's Bay Airport.
Name of the new fighter, Judy
Which we've officially been in
and shot the fire hose in and
played the siren in. We're going to play the joystick
and fire the nozzle. And we got to wear fire
outfits and it confused me when you guys put it on.
Yeah.
Wow. I'm good now though.
I want to say we're back to she's had some I want to say, yeah, we're back to...
She's had some time without us
and she just finds us repulsive.
Wait, so we're...
We're mingers.
We're mingers out of firefighter uniforms,
but in a firefighter uniform, we're tens.
Which I...
It's not just you two.
It's a rule that applies to all men.
Okay, right.
Yeah, you could be an absolute dog
if you put on a fireman's outfit.
Hot, yeah.
Jeepers creepers. Okay. Good to know. Right.
Would one from Look Sharp suffice? No.
It's got to be quality fireproof. It doesn't say firefighter outfit. It says
flame killer man. Flame killer man.
Just a skirt eating copyright. Yeah. Well, I've got a bunch
of them. So I'm going to start with a couple from Anthony
who's a fact of the day.
I've talked about him.
He's the goat.
Yeah, he's an outsourcer.
You're quite often outsourced to Anthony.
And he's like, he never sends me Wikipedia articles.
Oh, yeah.
And it's because he's a historian.
He's worked in research and stuff.
So he never sends a Wikipedia.
Oh, he's a purist.
He's a purist.
Is Wikipedia not extreme fact?
Oh, they spit on Wikipedia.
They spit on them.
Well, he wanted me to know about the firefighting trains in America.
So that's right.
There's trains that fight fires in California.
Yeah, but imagine if there's a fire and it's like a kilometre from the track.
Good luck reaching that.
So the main role of these engines is to...
Water.
As a brake.
As sort of a wildfire brake.
Because you know when these wildfires get big and the winds are blowing,
they'll jump big gaps.
They've got stop brakes.
They go down these.
And you can imagine how much water can fit in a train.
Trains can tow.
Yeah, a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Until tons.
Far more than trucks can pull.
So they just hoon it down the line and they just hose it everywhere.
Yes.
Right.
So that was pretty cool seeing that he sent me through some videos of that.
He sent me a fact about the world's biggest fire truck,
which actually looks like just a bigger version of Judy Drench.
Oh, okay.
Like a big sort of square-nosed thing.
Unveiled in Dubai.
This is the Falcon 8x8.
It's got eight wheels and all eight wheels drive.
If you could imagine a sexy truck, fire truck, that's it.
900 horsepower.
It weighs 54 tons but can get up to 80 kilometers an hour
in under 25 seconds
Which is phenomenal
For something like this
Must be big to fit
900 horses
You know how
Judy Drench could hold
Such a dumb joke
Sorry
Seven
Wait you've got a comedy show
No you don't worry about it
What are those dates again
Don't come
No
More jokes like that
At Wild Flooders
Tickets on Instagram
Judy Drench could hold
7,000 litres of water
This one can hold 16,000 litres of water.
So over twice.
Wow.
Over twice what our fair maiden at Hawke's Bay Airport can carry.
Not that we are diminishing Judy Drench.
She is our truck of choice.
She's our babe.
Mitchell messaged me.
He said, hey, I'm loving these fact of the days about firefighters.
My partner's dad has been a career firefighter for a long time.
In Korea.
Korea. Korea.
So he drops off the packages at your house as in Korea as well as fights fires.
Oh, right.
We need to play mince-mince again.
Korea, Korea.
Korea, Korea, in Korea.
But a firefighter.
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Yeah, go.
South Korea?
Korea, as in the package delivery.
Wait, North Korea. You said Korea as in the package delivery. Wait, North Korea.
You said Korea as in the country.
No, he said Korea as a job.
Yes!
Korea, Korea, Korea.
I'm really good at that.
Oh, we've just paid the bill at the restaurant.
I might grab a free mints.
No, you said mints.
Mints for meat.
You just said mint.
Yeah, mint.
You said I just grab a free mint.
You pluralised it.
I'll grab a free mints. From the bowl of mints. You said mints just grab a free mint. You pluralise it. I'll grab a free mince.
From the bowl of mince.
You said mince as in meat that time.
Oh, I got that wrong.
I was going to say the peppermint.
This is a good fun game.
People have never listened to the show before.
They're like, are they all having mental breakdowns?
That was a game we used to play called Mince.
Mince or Mince.
Am I saying mint or mince?
It was fun.
It was career, career, career.
Lovely mince balls. No, you. It was Korea. Korea. Korea. Lovely mints balls.
So.
No, you said mints as in meta.
So he said, regarding some in-fire truck technology,
they now have a tablet with all fire hydrant locations marked on it,
Google Maps styled layout.
Oh.
And someone watches it and they're like, 500 and 200 metres.
So we can stop at that one
or there's one 100 metres past.
They should give that to all the dogs.
They used to have,
back in the day,
it was just a guy in the back of the truck
shouting out every time he saw
the yellow square on the side of the road.
There's one.
I gave Hayley a free hit yesterday.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
It thumped me like a brother.
But here is
today's fact of the day.
Okay.
Sent in to us by, I'm just finding his name, Mario Manfray.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if that's an alias,
but that also might be the coolest name I've heard this week.
Mario Manfray.
Manfray.
Manfray.
Mario Manfray.
Mario Manfray.
Is the Salem Fire Department in Massachusetts.
Yeah.
Has a unique fire engine siren.
I will need for this my auxiliary cord.
We could have done this for all the sirens of the world.
Sirens of the world.
Somebody did ask me why there's been no sirens of the world this week.
Oh, we should.
With all the fire trucks. We don't have any time now.
Here we go.
The fire truck's pulling out.
The children have gathered to see it.
People have got their phones out.
And here comes the siren.
Sound storm!
Yeah!
I love that.
That's so good.
Because apparently it gets people's attention.
People will look when they hear that and be like, ah!
And then they'll see it coming and everything.
It does sound kind of like a jazzed up Mr. Whippy, doesn't it?
Imagine Mr. Whippy, but it was for pingas.
Yeah, like it's not dipped in sherbet,
it's dipped in some other powder.
Yeah, okay.
Everything else.
Adults only.
Sorry, kids, no ice creams.
So today's track today, we've had a whole bunch,
but we'll end on this one from Mario Manfrey,
is that in Salem, the fire truck has derued Sandstorm as a siren.
Yes.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- marriage. Oh yeah, the whole thing is quite awkward, isn't it? Yeah, so look, he cheated on his wife and the
woman he cheated with got pregnant
and that's the scandal.
But on the other side of things,
Dave Grohl's wife, who by the way,
10 out of 10.
She's an ex-model,
very beautiful woman.
She has been seen, not only out with her
wedding ring. Without her
wedding ring.
She's been out with her wedding ring. Without her wedding ring. Yeah, she's been out without the wedding ring
because she hasn't made comment or made any,
there's no like news on whether or not
they're staying together or whatever.
But she's been seen without her wedding ring,
out and about with her tennis coach,
who is quite attractive.
Tennis coach?
That's like so cliche.
Yeah, it's a stereotype, isn't it?
Someone's written like an erotic novel here.
It's about as stereotypical as a cheating rock star though, isn't it?
Exactly.
The whole thing's a cliche.
But he is a very attractive fellow.
And not that Dave Grohl's not an attractive fellow,
but probably not everyone's cup of tea.
A bit more my cup of tea than, say, someone else's.
I think the tennis coach is an upgrade.
The tennis coach is an upgrade. The tennis coach is an upgrade.
And it's an immediate rebound upgrade.
Exactly.
And this is what I wanted to ask because, look,
we've all been through breakups before and you sort of hope
that you do get a bit of an upgrade with each fresh new partner.
There is nothing greater than when a friend is cheated on
and then they go and get a really hot new boyfriend or girlfriend
and then the cheater is always the one that's like,
oh, but...
You had your chance.
Yep, you had your chance.
You stuffed it up.
You cheated.
Well, maybe this is what happened to you.
Or it's like when heterosexual guys want to be in an open relationship
because they think they're going to be really out there like slaying it
and then they close it up and their partner has just got all the attention
in the world and the dude's just like, it's harder than I thought.
Get all the hotties and you're like, well you can't
you can sleep with people as long as they're not hotter
than me. I want to know if
anything like this has happened when you've split up
with someone, maybe they did you dirty or maybe
you just went time for an upgrade and
you really upgraded and maybe it isn't
just looks.
Maybe we got a little bit of money.
Upgraded to like a millionaire
or something. Rich daddy boy.
What about guys, what if
they upgraded to a humanitarian?
Oh yeah, like a
real dog to a man
that does like Doctors Without Borders.
Yeah. No borders.
Yeah, that's what Without the Borders
means. I was just really getting it in there. No borders. Doctors Without Borders. Yeah, that's what without the borders means. I was just really getting it in there.
No borders.
The doctors already say that we're without borders.
You guys familiar with borders?
Yeah.
Not to these doctors.
Not these doctors.
They don't recognise international territory lines.
No borders.
Okay, well 0800 DALS at M.
We want to take your calls.
You can text 09696.
Did you upgrade your partner?
Be it by looks, money,
or anything else that you consider to be an upgrade?
Because... I mean, no one's going to ring up and say,
you know, my ex upgraded,
because that doesn't feel good.
No one likes...
Oh, 100%.
No one likes when your ex goes...
New Zealanders love negging themselves.
We'll take your calls if you also,
if your ex left you and then upgraded
and you realised that you were...
You're like, damn it.
How dare you?
Okay, 0800DARLS.M, you can text her in, 9696.
When you had a new partner, was it an upgrade?
Can I read this text?
Because I don't want us to get,
because we've got so many messages coming,
I don't want this one to get lost.
We want to know if you upgraded your partner.
And it's always after they cheated.
It's so satisfying.
Listen to this.
Myself and my best friend upgraded from the same guy, brackets.
That's how we became best friends.
Oh.
So there's a bit of.
So one of them was going out with him and then he was cheating on the other one.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
He had no job, lived at his grandmother's.
Also kind of short and skinny.
I mean...
Come on now.
I mean, skin and bone here.
Right.
She upgraded to a six foot five police officer who gave her two beautiful boys.
I upgraded to a six foot six man, built like a brick house, muscle for days.
Right.
Good job.
Looks after me, gave me two beautiful babies and treats me like a queen. Well, we love our short kings on the show. We do Good job. Looks after me. Gave me two beautiful babies
and treats me like a queen.
Well, we love our short kings
on the show.
We do.
We love our short kings.
Yeah, we stan our short kings.
But that was cheating.
As long as they don't get drunk
in a bit.
Well, she said he was not
a great guy as well.
Yeah.
Okay, well that's...
A word from the wise
to the short kings
listening this weekend.
Don't become the fighting leprechaun.
You don't have anything to prove.
Put him in.
Put him in. Put him in.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
You're good.
You're good as you are.
Don't worry about it.
My ex turned out to be a piece of shit
after a year and a half,
so I upgraded to being single for five years.
Oh, yeah, nice.
So that's an upgrade.
Some people, that is an upgrade.
Yeah, that's how bad they were.
An upgrade was nobody.
I upgraded by going from thinking
I wanted to marry a nice Christian pastor church boy
to leaving church and realising my sexuality is ABCM, meaning anyone but cis men.
Oh, okay.
10 out of 10 recommend this upgrade.
Yeah, nice.
Good morning.
Oh, that's a niche upgrade.
Yeah.
Good on you.
I was going out with a guy, think short boy band looking.
Okay.
Okay.
Short boy band looking.
And one night he cancelled on me as he was sick.
So I went to the races and the first person I saw was him hooking up with someone else.
Oh no.
So that night I went from short boy band looking to six foot two Rarotongan Dutch professional tennis player.
Oh. Raro Dutch. Short boy band looking to six foot two Rarotongan Dutch professional tennis player.
Rarotongan Dutch.
Game set and match.
Hello.
Photo please.
Photo to these.
Come on.
You can't say that and then not send a photo.
Rarotongan Dutch, German Tongan, Samoan, anything.
All the ons.
Yeah.
All the owens. Oh, yeah.
Goodness me.
Do you need a moment, dude?
Yeah, I just want to see him playing tennis
because you know what his physique's going to be like
as a tennis player.
Yeah.
Lean and long.
Yeah, which is Dutch.
Chuckle the brown skin on a Dutch physique.
Good Lord.
Good Lord, take the wheel.
Dare I say it?
Packing downstairs.
The studio's hot.
Yeah, it's getting hot.
The studio's hot.
My ex upgraded to the Les Mills poster girl.
So every time I turn on the TV or open the app,
there she is.
Oh, okay.
I'm sure that you and yourself are a Les Mills poster girl,
and that's coming from someone like me
who was actually asked to be part of one of the videos.
Yeah, if these two mingers can be pestered on email
from Les Mills about being in the background of a workout video.
I think you're misusing the word minger.
Sorry, no, we...
I think you've misunderstood.
Hayley and I are on the model call-up list.
I don't think so.
And we quite often were in the background of fitness videos, aren't we?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're the technique when they need to come to somebody
who doesn't know how to do it properly.
And if you just need to make some adjustments to your technique,
do what Fletch is doing here.
Hey, we've had someone else jump the fence.
I hella upgraded from my ex,
a 40-year-old man, to my now
22-year-old hot girlfriend.
Upgraded and then some.
Wow. Oh my. Super hot
in the studio.
Have we got a picture
come through of the Raro Dutch? Not yet.
Great work, guys.
10 out of 10 if I say so myself.
I'll do a 9.6.
Is that enough for you to review this podcast with a high rating
and then tell all your friends?
You sound very insincere.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.