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The Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod.
Great things are brewing at McCafe.
The perfect start to every day.
Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley.
Two minutes past six.
Good morning.
What was that grin for?
It's a little wry kind of smile.
No, I'm just bringing the sex appeal.
Okay, right.
We've had a discussion before the show.
We considered changing roles.
Fletch, you were going to maybe be the vibe hire today.
What does that make feeling today?
You're not feeling the vibes?
No, I don't know.
But you were the vibe hire.
I'm the vibe hire, yeah.
Yeah, so.
Happy to play the straight guy for the day.
Just a straight guy.
Not straight sexually.
Well, yeah, straight sexually
Both
Yeah, right
Straight guy
I'm not going to be dead serious but sleeping with dudes
Right, right, okay
That would be the straight gay guy
And I'm not going to be the, you know, jovial, happy fellow
Heterosexual, that would be the gay straight guy
Right, so you're just going to be straight
Straight, straight Dead, straight. Deadpan
straight today. Deadpan straight. Okay.
That's not what we hired you for. Heterosexual.
It's sort of like you're not fulfilling the role.
Ah, okay.
Well, I'm going to need a reboot then.
That's going to take 15 minutes.
Chances for you to win today are one golden song at 8 o'clock.
The song that could win you $1,000 today.
Loads of chances as well
during the show and today on ZM
to go in the draw to see Sabrina Carpenter live in LA.
Just listen out for the mother trucker.
Have you seen that video of someone at a concert
and they're stuck behind a screaming fan screaming the lyrics,
I'm working late because I'm a singer.
She can't hear Sabrina Carpenter sing.
That's my worst nightmare.
I kind of hate that.
I mean, it's okay if you're the one drunk singing,
but not when you're stuck behind that person.
Yeah.
Next on the show,
pets.
I have some.
You've got the most.
And children.
You've got the most.
I also have some.
You also have the most.
I have the most of anybody in this room.
You can probably see why my vibe's not off
On
With all these children and pets
Yeah
It's a lot of things
Draining you
Yeah yeah yeah
Tiring stuff
Let me get rid of some of them
With the children
Whoever
Whatever
Whatever
Meany meany
But the dogs would be gone
If I had to pick
Really you'd go dogs over the kids
That shocks me
What that I'd pick my children over the
dogs? Oh, interesting.
Are you doing my head in at the moment?
Pets. When you have
children, they have thoughts. Let's discuss
those thoughts next. Jealousy?
Play.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
You know,
when, you guys don't know because you don't have
kids, but you've got pets. Yep. And your pets. That's how I feel when I don't know Because you don't have kids But you've got pets
Yep
Woo
And your pets
That's how I feel
When I don't remember
That I don't have kids
That you don't have kids
You
Have pets though
And you prioritise them
100%
Even though
Your cat's a bit
Skittery
He is skittery
He's a skittery cat
And your cat's spoiled
And you need to smack him
No he doesn't need smacks He's just cuteittery cat. And your cat's spoiled and you need to smack him. No, he doesn't need smacks.
He's just cute.
He's just sweet.
And then when you have kids,
it's been officially recognised by animal behavioural experts
that your pet has resentment towards you.
100%.
Oh, yeah.
Pets have resentment, especially cats.
Cats have resentment when you are just out.
Yeah.
Oh, my God, yeah.
And they were like, well, I was outside
but then I came inside and you weren't here. Where the hell were you?
Yeah. We get such a chewed
from Rolly when we're out late.
When we come home and we're a little bit late
for dinner. Yeah.
He's just like, well, well, well.
Well, we'll use the science here.
Save me from the brink of
starvation. Yeah.
You left me with Uncle Vaughn the whole weekend?
Yeah.
And a spoon that was very hard to work out exactly how much was level
because it was just a dessert spoon.
And the chunks, the cat food chunks were big.
Right.
So you say a level scoop when it's a scoop.
This wasn't a scoop.
It was a spoon.
Do you reckon you underfed or overfed, Raleigh?
Probably overfed.
That's good. Then that makes me happy? Probably overfed. That's good.
Then that makes me happy.
Probably overfed.
That's good.
So they get jealous.
Yeah, they get jealous.
I can imagine.
They get the shits.
Well, our cat, our Anakin, he's dead.
I don't want to talk about it.
It's been like how many years now?
Three nearly.
Will it be coming out in three years?
Yeah.
He just took off when Indy was born for like 10 days.
Oh, really?
When we finally got her home because she stayed in Niku and stuff for like a week.
Yeah.
And a bit.
Or two weeks, actually.
So by the time we got her home, she was full like screamy babies.
And he was just like, no, not for me.
Yeah.
I don't know where he went, but he was just like, not for me.
How long did he take off for?
10 days.
10 days. I reckon he was trialling neighbours. Some other houses. Some other neighbours. Some other families. Yeah, that's it. I don't know where he went, but he was just like, not for me. How long did he take off for? 10 days. 10 days.
I reckon he was trialling neighbours.
Some other houses.
Some other neighbours, some other families.
Yeah, shopping around.
Yeah.
Flat hunting.
Do you want a tabby cat?
Yeah.
Hi, I'm cute.
Kind of free now.
You guys want to feed me?
Ooh.
Ooh, nah, I can't stay here.
It's a primarily dry food diet.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with the dry biscuits.
Look at my cat's silky coat.
You've got to give that cat's dead.
And your cat's dead, so. You've got to give that cat some wet
You've got to give that cat
If we're comparing
Some wet
He might be dead but he was
No it's under the ground
Yeah not anymore
I don't know how silky the coat is
Yeah
He might not have lived
Well he did live a long life
He was around for a very long time
But he was happy because his food wasn't making him cough
The whole time
I just need some liquid.
So what do parents do then?
Because you do prioritise, obviously, your kids more than your cats.
Oh, 100%.
Oh, your pets definitely become second-rate citizens around the house.
Yeah.
You just see it all the time, especially like dogs as well.
People that were obsessed with their dogs.
These are my fur babies.
And then they have a real baby.
And the dog's like, get out.
Now it's an outside dog.
Your stinky dog.
Sort of just waiting for it to die.
Get outside.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, poor pets.
The hell are you looking at?
Yeah, pets are definitely second-class citizens.
And apparently it's important to remember
that pets respond in the moment
to the environment around them.
Right.
You've got to prioritize. So that's why where there's noise or new stuff and apparently it's important to remember that pets respond in the moment to the environment around them. Right.
You've got to prioritize. So that's why where there's noise or new stuff or...
Like screaming babies.
New smells for dogs, apparently.
Dogs, the new smells, all the new smells in the house,
like the poos itself, the nappy wipes, the ointments, the balms.
Right, yuck.
The bubble baths.
I'll just keep it with the cats.
I think I'll just keep it with the cats.
That sounds cool. You guys haven't exactly sold either of you sold that
parenting is even on the radar
I don't have to baby wipe my cat's bottom
You might one day
And I would happily
Because he's my fur baby
11 past 6
Next on the show Why it is good for young men to live with women.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
This is out of the UK and Australia.
Combined study here.
Okay.
That looked into the benefits of mixed, mixing flatmates, like mixed genders.
Okay.
Living with a good mix Of girls and boys
The benefits it had
Particularly
On men
Yeah
No effect on women
Will be fine regardless
Oh
I think I've always
Lived in mixed
When I flatted
Was always mixed
I've lived in
Pretty much
Every scenario
Right
I've lived in all guys
And that was just
A hovel
Yuck.
There was no super like macho-ness.
There was no that sort of stuff, but it was just a messy, like a hovel.
But then females can be messy too.
So don't give me that.
Don't give me that whole females are always clean and tidy.
No, no, no.
Fair enough.
I've lived completely with girls and then the only other other than Aaron was one homosexual male.
Oh, yes.
So practically a girl.
No.
I was wondering.
But I've never lived with straight men other than lover.
Okay, right.
So the benefit for men was that it absolutely decreased their level of competitiveness,
a.k.a. their macho-ness.
Okay.
And found that it was extremely beneficial for them in their wellbeing
and the way that they exist in the world.
Because they're less like
beating on the chest.
It softens.
Yeah, yeah.
Softens men.
Softens men.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I lived in a flat where it was me
and five other girls.
Four other girls.
You were the only boy.
My dude.
My dude. My dude.
I don't know,
the king of the castle.
Oh, my dude.
Look at me,
king of the castle.
And we went and saw
that movie Signs.
Remember that movie Signs?
Love Signs.
It was a great movie, right?
Mel Gibson.
Yeah, Mel Gibson.
There's aliens.
Have you seen it?
Joaquin Phoenix.
Yeah, maybe.
One of the Colkins
is in it, isn't he?
Yeah.
And then we went home
and they were all so terrified. Everyone slept in my room that night. And I thought, king of the Colkins is in it, isn't he? Yeah. And then we went home and they were all so terrified.
Everyone slept in my room that night.
And I felt like, can you have a castle?
What?
A beginning of a porno.
Yeah.
But that's why everything.
Not my own little house.
That's why it softens me is because you're like,
is it a bit of kickoff?
We're about to have like a full blown orgy?
Do you think so?
Oh, 100%.
100%.
Or when you're doing all like like, the girly things,
you're just like,
Mum, I'd say boobie here.
100%.
I would have thought it was, like,
the positive influence of women.
It's boobies.
And we're doing nice things.
We're lighting candles.
We're putting flowers around the place.
It's like, ah!
This is a true story, too.
Ah!
What's happened?
There's a spider in here.
She's in the shower.
Come and get it.
I'm like, oh, I can't.
Are you getting your life and the porn you've watched mixed up?
No, it's true.
This was wild.
Master's Ave, Hamilton.
It's a medical centre.
Now it got torn down.
How?
So I was the last king to live in that castle.
For the fall of the kingdom.
And I went in and I was like, oh, have you got a towel on?
They're like, no, I haven't got a towel yet. I was like, I'll bring a towel. Well, don't look. I did it. I handed the towel because I was a gentleman in and I was like, oh, have you got a towel on? They're like, no, I haven't got a towel yet.
And I was like, I'll bring a towel.
Well, don't look.
I did it.
I handed the towel because it was a gentleman,
but I was like, it's a baby.
He's hoping.
It's like a season movie.
We were talking about this,
and Shannon, you think you've lived in lots of setups as well.
Yeah.
A mixture of girls, boys, boys.
And like guys I knew before moving in,
guys I didn't know.
Yeah.
And there was such a difference
week one of knowing them
versus like three months in.
So like what kind of thing,
like how does it soften them?
There was lots of times
where I'd be watching reality TV.
Week one,
they'd walk past me like,
like Love Island.
Oh yeah.
Three months in,
they're like,
how dare he do that to her?
Are you having a laugh?
Are you kidding me?
And they would love a face mask.
They'd come hang out in my room.
You're only sitting here watching Love Island.
He's hoping you're going to get all revved up sexually by watching it.
And he's going to be the nearest penis.
And you've got some boobies that he wants to see.
This is how men function.
Not every guy just wants to. They're lying or they're a homosexual. Yeah, but not every guy wants to see. This is how men function. Not every guy just wants to...
They're lying or they're a homosexual.
Yeah, but not every guy wants to hook up with their female flatmate.
Dudes love a convenience hookup.
They don't think long term.
They don't think about how awkward it's going to be on the other side of things.
Jared knows what I'm talking about.
I don't even need to look behind myself to see him.
He just gave the thumbs up.
Yeah, he did, yeah.
We don't think long term.
We're just animals.
We're animals. Yeah. To did, yeah. We don't think long term. We're just animals. We're animals.
Yeah.
To be fair, you can tell.
I know you can.
You can tell which male flatmate was down and which wasn't,
because I had two, and one of the guys,
his name was Shannon as well,
and it was just like obviously never going to happen.
Shannon and Shannon.
Yeah, there was a different vibe.
Would you hook up with a Vaughan?
Hell yeah, Siobhan.
Oh, I can think of three.
I can think of three Siobhans.
I said, I'm Vaughan.
We were all laughing.
I said I'm born, but okay, sure.
There's probably a female born out there that I would...
A female born?
If I wasn't married.
I don't think so.
Just two.
This is all historical.
Would you hook up with a female...
Carla? No. Carla. Oh, yeah, there you go. There is all historical. Would you hook up with a female?
Carla?
No.
Carla.
Oh, yeah, there you go.
There's a Carla.
Right.
But you knew what was happening.
Oh, a hundred.
But you can tell that with any man in general. Wait, so you're saying this research is literally just...
Yeah, does this research say anything about the guys
just basically wanted to hook up with them?
No, it's just saying that it softens them.
It makes them less... because they're not around men
being like competitive, competitive.
I'm the king of the castle.
Yeah, because they don't have
the men to compete with.
But they say mixed, so.
Right.
You know, they may be
some other men.
They've realised that the game has changed.
Yeah.
And if a woman wanders
into a den full of men,
she's not going to be impressed
by the alpha male.
No.
He's in the den.
He's playing the softer creature.
Yeah.
Because he wants to see the boobs.
It softens them.
I think this is good.
If you've got a teenage son, you know,
make sure he's living with a lady
and that he's respectful and hands you the towel without looking.
That's me.
Hands up.
Hands where I can see them.
That's me.
Well, in five days,
Australian workers will have the legal right
to ignore all work calls,
all emails outside of work hours.
I know.
Now, so I didn't know they've already done, this is law in like 15 other countries around
the world.
But yeah, it basically means if you work for a company that's more than 15 employers, employees,
15 people, then you can, yeah, literally walk out that office door
or work. It's the right to disconnect, right?
Which means if your boss texts you on a Saturday
and says, hey, look, I know that it's the weekend
if you're, say, you're a Monday to Friday,
9 to 5, hey, I know it's the weekend, but can you please
look over this? You have, you
legally
don't do it. Yeah, or just
do what I do and just delete emails from your phone.
Yeah, I'm thinking about doing it.
The app.
Yeah.
I haven't had the app on my phone for years.
I've got my personal emails, but I've also got my work ones on my phone.
Yeah, I'll just log on if I want to read them.
Yeah.
How good was it when we were overseas in Europe
and you couldn't actually log into your work emails?
Oh, yeah, because work was like, yeah, no, you're overseas.
Work was like, oh, you're a scammer.
Yeah. So, yeah, a lot of countries.. Work was like, oh, you're a scammer. Yeah.
So, yeah, a lot of countries...
I don't have that problem
because I didn't go to Europe.
Well, there's one way to solve it.
I just want to say,
everybody listening who didn't go to Europe this summer,
you've got one hero on the show.
It's not too late.
One relatable hero.
Three relatable heroes.
Yeah.
One relatable hero.
Top-notch bloke.
Not these two.
Bloody didn't do it.
This has been a thing in France since 2017.
There was one case where there was a British pest control company
that operated in France,
and they asked an employee to have their phone on
to respond to work requests,
and they were fined €60,000.
Oh, shit.
Oh, because they were a British company,
but they were based in France.
Yeah.
So they weren't adhering to local employment laws.
And they were like, just leave your phone on.
You know, we've got a few things over the weekend.
And the employee was like, no, complained.
And yeah, they were fined.
But there's some jobs.
Drinking and staying with us.
I always thought it would be a ballsy move to like sue the company that you work for
and then just stay working there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there are some jobs where you have to
be
what's contactable, right?
An encore? Yeah. Like if you were in charge
of like a company's, I don't know, IT
or something and things went
down, but then that would be in your job description,
right? And you'd be paid more for that? Yeah, you may
be, yeah. It would have
to be in your contract. But if you were a general
office worker, absolutely.
But then some people just love, you know, they're just workaholics.
Oh, totally.
Cannot turn away.
And they can't switch off.
Like freelance for sure as well.
Like you need, because you never, you've got to put boundaries around it.
You know what I mean?
Because you don't have that structure.
Well, in five days.
I want nothing to do with work on the weekends.
In five days, it'll be law in Australia.
Sometimes I think us as a team of six,
I think we chat too much.
Oh, really?
Yeah, on the group chat.
You'd like to write too?
Oh, yeah, because how does that,
if you have a work group chat,
is that included?
Yeah, if your boss was like,
and you were discussing work stuff,
but not if you were just chatting.
And then Carmen will always make an apology. She's like, I'm sorry to message you on the weekend, but I need to know if you want to do and then Carwen will always make an apology
she's like I'm sorry
to message you on the weekend
but I need to know
if you want to do
this interview
and we'll be like
right to disconnect
biatch
you don't have that right
by the way
you don't have that right
I don't know
no
no
you should apologise to Carwen
sorry Carwen
oh she was actually
out of the room
so you didn't need
to apologise
you don't need to apologise
to people if they're not in the room she disconnected you didn't need to apologise. Oh, I don't apologise. You don't need to apologise to people
if they're not in the room when you're bad.
Yeah, because she disconnected to make toast.
If an apology tree falls in the woods
and no one's there to hear it...
Yeah.
Did it even make the apology?
Was it worth it?
No, it wasn't.
Was it worth your energy?
Is that how the saying goes?
That's not going on a horse.
Yeah, no.
So recently, Chapel Rowan
Whose music I absolutely love
Great song
When are we going to start playing
Hot To Go in the mornings?
It's not really up to us
We don't get to choose the music
Play Hot To Go in the background
No I won't
Just because you want it
Whoa
The brothers are fighting
Dad Dad No, I won't, just because you want it. Whoa, the brothers are fighting.
Dad!
Brat.
Dad!
Brat.
Dad, Fletch isn't letting me have my turn!
Dad!
No, this is a great song, right?
And so she was working on music for six years,
nothing was happening, and then suddenly now, boom.
Everyone loves Chapel Roan.
When it happened, it happened quick.
Totally. And this happened to Billie Eilish, right?
And Billie Eilish talked about this and she was like,
fame slaps you in the face and it changes everything and it's really full on
but you've just got to go with it.
And Chapel Roan talked to her TikTok
account just
a couple of days ago, basically having
a bit of a moan about her newfound fame
if you saw a random woman on the street would you yell at her from the car window would you
harass her in public would you go up to a random lady and say can i get a photo with you and she's
like no and then you get mad at this random lady this is a lady you don't know and she doesn't
know you at all i'm a random you're random. Just think about that for a second.
Okay?
Yeah, I get it.
Totally.
Be careful what you wish for.
I know.
Totally.
You want to be famous.
You got it.
Yeah.
I think she's like, this is like borderline stalking.
And I'm like, that's just going to get worse.
Oh, 100%.
Yeah.
And I don't, it's not that I agree with it.
It's just, that's just how it goes for famous people.
People get obsessed with you and then, yeah.
They'll be breaking into your house soon.
You know, like, that's just how you'll have some stalkers.
Yeah.
I love it.
She's like, would you run up to a random lady?
I'm like, no, but they're not famous.
They're making music that I listen to.
Yeah.
And if they ask for a photo and you say no, then sure, that's the end of things.
But they just assume that they can ask for a photo.
It must be such a strange thing
to hit that kind of level of fame just suddenly.
So quick.
And you're 26 years old.
And the people that like you,
you know, her core audience are like younger,
more fanatical, you know, her core audience are like younger, more fanatical,
yeah,
you know,
fans.
Yeah. Maybe not as chill.
So they come in
probably pretty hot.
Yeah.
So she was just like,
she thinks that fans,
she,
and this is what has got
fans divided,
she says fans who approach
her asking for a photo
or a hug,
she's like,
you're creepy.
And they're like,
well no,
I just like you.
They just like you,
yeah. I don't know if I've, I was about to say, I don't. And they're like, well, no, I just like you. They just like you, yeah.
I don't know if I've, I was about to say,
I don't know if I've been full on.
I literally sat on Jason Momoa's lap when I asked for a photo with him.
I thought you were going to use an example from your younger life,
not like a year and a bit ago.
That's probably the only famous person I've ever asked for a photo with.
Right.
I imagine.
I think so.
But yeah, fans are a little bit like, well, we're just trying to support you.
Yeah.
And she's like, you're creepy stalkers, leave me alone.
But it's not going to happen.
No, it's only going to get worse, unfortunately.
It's just that it is what it is.
I mean, a lot of celebrities hate fame and they just wanted to be
We've seen enough
celebrities come in
over the years
that look dead
behind the eyes.
Oh yeah they just say
I hate all of this.
I just wanted to be an actor
or I just wanted to be
a singer or whatever.
Anyway Chapel Ryan
less complaining
and more working
on the ends of your songs
because that was lazy.
I don't want to hear it.
I hate that fade out.
Just because it's not
just a fade out it's also a slow down. I because it's not just a fade out, it's also
a slow down. I like it.
It's like she's turning it off. Well, if you like it, why don't you go
and stalk Chapel Road at her house.
Should have played Hot To Go.
Play. ZDM's Fletchvorn
and Hayley.
Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah,
blah, blah. This is
the Top Six.
Good and Morgan. Gurdon Morgan.
I assume.
Yeah.
Is that how you say good morning in Swiss?
Yeah.
Morning.
English to Swiss.
English to Swiss German.
I was waiting for that.
Is it Swiss German?
Is that what they speak?
Yeah.
I thought they had their own thing.
Can they do anything up there?
Can they do anything?
No, it's not Swedish.
That's a different country, Vaughan.
Yeah, Switzerland.
Switzerland.
Do they just speak German?
No.
So, come on, whose side were they really on?
We're all like, oh, no, don't, don't.
They were neutral.
Were they, though?
Were they? Were they?
Were they?
The four national languages of Switzerland, the German, French, Italian and...
English.
Romance.
Romance?
Romance.
Romance.
And romance.
Did you say French?
And chocolate, yes.
Well then, bonjour.
Bonjour.
Bonjour.
Bonjour. Bonjour. Bonjour.
Bon matin.
There is a lake in Switzerland.
I even wrote Sweden in my top six notes.
There's a lake in Switzerland where munitions have just been dumped for ages.
It's a beautiful picturesque lake.
I'll get you guys to give me, on seeing this lake, an ooh, but...
Sell it.
Would be like two out of ten.
What's the lake called?
Oh, would be ten out of ten.
It has a name.
Lake Lucerne's got to be one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in Switzerland.
Yeah, it's a beautiful lake.
So very Queenstown-y.
So Lake Lucerne is one of them.
Lake Thun and Lake Brienz.
Lucerne's got like dumped.
Oh.
Yeah, that's like something you'd see in Wanaka or Queenstown.
It's on steroids almost a little bit.
If we're being honest.
Beautiful.
So Lake Lucerne's got munitions dumped in it.
Wow.
Oh, no.
It's so beautiful.
I'll say it.
Short-sighted.
Really short-sighted. it. Short-sighted. Really short-sighted.
Humanity short-sighted.
So there is a competition to get these old bombs, tanks.
What else is in there?
Just everything.
Everything.
Everything that was outdated.
Probably old planes.
Yeah, right.
When they were done with them, just chuck them in lakes to get them out.
And they're offering $57,000 as a prize for the idea that wins.
So I've got six.
Okay.
Number six on the list.
A bomb disposal rowboat.
It sounds like robot.
A bomb disposal rowboat.
But would you lower a robot down?
I'm not here for the technicalities.
I've written six puns. I've written six puns.
I've written six puns.
This is terrible.
So we're rowing onto the lake.
Yeah, it's a bomb disposal robot.
And then what?
How are we getting them out?
Robot.
Okay.
Robot.
Huh?
Yes, eh?
Jumping towards a robot.
It's a robot.
The bomb disposal robot.
Number five on the list of the top six ways to get the munitions out of the Switzerland
lake.
Swiss?
Lake.
A dragnet magnet.
Which actually would work.
That would work.
It actually would work.
But you'd need a big magnet.
Yeah.
And it'd be powered.
That's magnet fishing on steroids.
I know.
Imagine going magnet fishing and pulling up a Spitfire.
Like a magnet the size of this desk.
Yeah.
And you turn it down and it's one of those ones
that you see in the movies
and then they power it up
and it goes...
Yeah.
You have to make sure
you weren't wearing any metal.
Tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, tink.
That'll rip your nipple piercing right out
in your nipple ring.
Yeah.
Do you guys know that Vaughn got a nipple ring?
He got his nipples pierced.
Why?
It's so wild and crazy.
It's the beginning of my midlife crisis.
It could be, yeah.
Number four on the list of the top
six ways to get the munitions out
of the Swiss lake. Well, I don't
know, but whoever's going to go down there is going to need an
air tank.
Number three on the list, that one didn't...
I don't think you're winning with these
ideas. A tank is munitions.
And they're going underwater, so they'll need an air tank.
Whoever's going down there is going to need an air tank.
No, no.
These ideas are not winning so far.
You literally couldn't have explained it harder.
Yeah.
And you still don't know.
So they dump tanks in the lake.
Yeah, I know that.
Yeah, and then if you're going to go down diving under a lake,
on your back you need a...
An oxygen tank.
An oxygen tank.
So whoever's going to go down there is going to need an oxygen tank.
It's just the comma or the dot, dot, dot.
It's not working.
It's just a gap.
It's two space bars.
Number three on the list of the top six ways to get munitions out of a Swiss lake.
How about we send down some swordfish?
They're already bloody weapons, aren't they?
Number two on the list of the top six ways I'm just going to get this over with.
This is really bad.
The Ninja Turtles, I reckon.
Ninja Turtles.
Oh, my God.
Do you want this prize or not?
Are you going to take this seriously or not?
So they can go under the lei.
The magnet is the closest you've had to a good idea.
We've got to go back to the magnet.
And number one on the list of the top six ways.
Wait, hang on, hang on.
You've dropped a couple in here.
What are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles doing?
Well, they're turtles that can go underwater and they can hold their breath.
And they're mutants.
And they'll also grab weapons.
I was just trying to give you a chance to explain it.
That's because they're familiar with weapons.
Right.
More like swords and stuff. Yeah. Well, because they're familiar with weapons. Right. Yeah.
More like swords and stuff.
Yeah.
Well, there might be bayonets down there.
Yeah, right.
And number one on the list
of the top six ways
to get those munitions
out of that Swiss Lake,
how about we call them
the Navy Seals?
Because they're Navy Seals.
Because Navy Seals
are an American.
Terrible ideas, Vaughn.
Navy Seals.
Terrible ideas.
Seals!
That's the top six. Play ZM's F ideas, Vaughn. Navy. Terrible ideas. Seals! That's the top six.
Clay, ZM's, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
We love toasted sandwiches.
Oh, gosh.
We love a bougie toasty.
We love a plain toasty.
We love...
There's something about it, isn't there?
It just rules.
Yeah.
So this is a nationwide competition that's taken place.
Yes.
Happens every year, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah. So this is a nationwide competition that's taken place. Yes. Happens every year, doesn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
And cafes and restaurants all across New Zealand,
they put them out.
And then some restaurants, where was I?
And they'd done one, and they don't usually have it on the menu.
Oh, right.
But they put one together for this.
Right.
The toasty takeover.
McClure's Pickles sponsor it.
Oh, they are the great.
They're so good.
They're good pickles.
I just love pickles. Good pickles. You know, they're bougie. They're so good I just love pickles
You know they're bougie
They're a bit more expensive than the other pickles
They are
Top tier pickle
Top tier pickle
The sweet and sour ones
We're pickle crazy
We're pickle crazy
Sade's mum will bring us a big jar from Costco
I'm talking like this big
Like two litres of pickles.
A week.
Done.
Wow.
Beautiful.
I'll just find the kids with their bloody forks in the jar.
Are they good, the Costco pickles?
Yeah, they're pretty good.
Okay.
Okay.
They're a good pickle.
Now, who's won this year?
The winner is from O'Kiddy Falls Store, which is.
Never been.
I've been a couple of times.
Yeah. We went to Oktoberfest once and I was like, oh, I've been a couple of times. Yeah.
We went to Oktoberfest once and I was like, oh, this will be fun.
And it was wild.
And then at the end of the night, these people were like,
do you want to ride back to the hotel you were staying at,
which was on the lakefront, jump in the boat,
and it turns out it was Aunt Green's mum.
And then all of a sudden they're like, ah, we'll just go to our place.
And then we got boat napped.
You got boat napped? You got boat napped?
Willingly boat napped.
This is amazing.
Yeah, and it's just, that was the weekend where I was like,
I could do a lake house.
He says not being able to afford a lake house.
I can't even afford my house.
I could.
I could do one of these.
I could do a lake house.
Should we?
I could do a lake house.
I'll consider it.
Oh, darling.
It's a beautiful spot.
It's like maybe 15 minutes
out of Rotorua,
on the lake,
on the side of the lake
of Rotorua.
And it's,
the O'Kerry Falls
are the highest
commercially rafted
waterfalls.
Yeah,
there's a massive
at the end.
Oh yeah,
she's a big drop.
She's a seven metre drop.
She's just that awesome place
and Chuck the Toasty
and on top of the O'Kerry Falls
store,
which is amazing
and does a fantastic October thing
I stopped in March
And yeah the food there
Is just amazing
I'm looking at the menu
Because I think most places
Put together a special toasty
To enter into the toasty takeover
But in general
They've just got like
A cheese toast
Cheesy peach
A little sugar
But you'd be able to go and get
I mean I want to go and get this
I want to literally drive
Three and a half hours to get this.
What's in it?
It's in it.
This is what's in it.
This is an unusual one.
Okay.
What's it called?
It's the winner, though.
Figgy in the middle.
Wait, what happened to the Picton place that does great?
It'll be in there.
It'll be in there.
Because you know that Picton place is famous for its toasties.
Yeah, there's different regions that won as well.
Okay.
But that's called Toasty, right?
And picked in.
Yeah.
I've had Toasty.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
It's called Figgy in the Middle.
Figgy in the Middle.
And it has dill pickle.
Yum.
Cheesecake whip.
Okay.
So you're talking a mascarpone sort of element.
Which isn't necessarily sweet, right?
No, you wouldn't add your sugar.
Creamy. Yeah, but not sweet, right? No, you wouldn't add your sugar. Creamy, but not
sweet.
Swiss cheese.
Yum. That's good cheese.
Vandy's streaky bacon, toasted walnuts, rocket,
pickles, blue cheese,
a drizzle of chilli honey.
Yum! And apparently they were
like, it needs something else, and that's
where the figs came in. Figs. I like
so, because I was reading about this,
and they call it a cheese board and a toaster.
Which is it?
You're like 100%.
It is.
You know when you get those cheese boards with the honeycomb and the figs
and the chutneys and the pickles.
Yum.
Yum.
I want to try this.
So then the People's Choice Award was also in Rotorua.
They know their toasters.
They know their toasters.
At Capers Cafe, listen to this one.
This was created by Apprentice Chefs.
Zion and Jessie, huge future in my culinary department.
Yeah, yeah.
Listen to this.
Hoisin glazed pork belly.
I'm in.
I'm in.
With sweet chilli and garlic.
You've got to show them.
I've got to chill down my spine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My nipples are rock hard.
And also to clarify for Fletcher's mum,
who you said before that I had got nipple piercings,
that was a joke.
Be concerned that if I have any of the defibrillator,
they're going to have to tear out my nipple piercings.
Which I didn't know that you had to take out nipple piercings
if they needed to defib you.
I suppose it would conduct the vault away from the heart to the nip.
Yeah, maybe.
I'd clamp to the nips.
What if I find someone in the supermarket,
I don't know, and I've got to someone in the supermarket, I don't know,
and I've got to defib them because, I don't know.
You've got to undo the ball ball.
You've got to undo the ball. No, but they won't have to check that they've even got nipple piercings.
Or you've got to, do you have to take the shirt off?
Well, you've got to get the, the defibrillator's got to touch bare skin anyway.
Oh, okay.
So I'm sorry, but what if I wasn't wearing a bra?
Well, I mean, that's, my cojones are just out.
Do you want me to save your life or do you want me to keep your... My modesty, okay. So I'm sorry, but... What if I wasn't wearing a bra? Well, I mean, that's... Do you want me to save your life,
or do you want me to keep your...
My modesty, sir.
You want to remain a modest lady.
I'm glad we took a break halfway through this sandwich's ingredients,
because we're not even...
Okay, go back and recap.
There's pork belly.
Prep your nipples for this one.
There's poison-glazed pork belly with sweet chilli and garlic,
McClure's sweet and spicy pickles.
My fave.
Crispy fried shallots.
Shut up.
Mozzarella.
Yum.
Tasty cheese.
Yum.
Spring onion and red onion.
Miso mayonnaise on a garlic buttered Turkish sesame bread.
Get out of here.
Does that not sound...
How did that one not win?
The only thing that would make Asian food better
is to put cheese on it.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That'll go huge on the cheese in Asia because of the lactose intolerance.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Roadie this weekend?
What are we doing?
Dude, why are we sitting here?
A toasty roadie?
The great toasted sandwich.
Look at these photos.
You can go on toastytakeover.com and there's photos of all the finalists.
Because we have a few toasties around Auckland that we love
and they're not even on the list.
So these must be insane.
And there's winners for different regions on that website as well.
So you can find out what the place that has the best toastie in your area.
Oh, I love it when they put some chups on it.
Some chups.
Silly Little Pole is next.
How do we feel about tattoos?
Turn on or no?
Not as much of a turn on as these toasties.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Fletch, Vaughn 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. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole.
Today's silly little pole.
Ah, is, is, it is, it is, it is tattoos.
Are they a turn on?
Or are they not a turn on?
Or are you just like, eh?
I just love them.
Yeah, it doesn't phase you sexually.
You are not phased.
I think when I see a grown man without them,
and I do apologise to you two, I think grow up.
You think grow up and get tattoos?
Wow.
Grow up.
What are you doing?
Okay.
I always thought tattoos were for tough dudes growing up
because our bus driver had one that he got in World War II
because he was in the Navy.
I think they used to be.
Oh, yeah, those are tough tattoos.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you see them and they're so blown out and blurry
and you're like, man.
That was never good.
That's what you'll think when you look at that.
Well, 45% of people said
they were turn on.
37% said,
doesn't faze me, 18%
not turned on by tattoos.
Okay.
Right, let's dive in.
Courtney says, depends if they're shredded or not.
So what's the problem?
Courtney, it's not the tattoo that's doing the heavy lifting there.
You just like the abs, Courtney.
Yeah.
You're like, oh, that beautiful house has some paintings on it.
That's what you're seeing.
Yeah.
The house has already sold you.
Well, that's landscaping.
Yeah.
Michelle, definitely not when they're on the face or the neck.
And bad tattoos are horrific.
But when they have nice ones kind of hidden away that you see when you're getting to the generally more covered areas.
Intimate.
And then she's done two splash emojis.
Oh, my gosh.
Horndog?
Yeah.
Which weird that she's like, no, no to the neck.
But if it's under the shirt, she's like, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Fiona said, not bothered really, but super hot, male or female,
on someone you'd least expect to have tattoos.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, especially if they're big or not run of the mill.
And then it's an unexpected tattoo that gets her.
You're like, what's that?
Gets her going, gets her a little bit hot.
Hot.
Depends on the tattoo.
Again,
another one completely
dependent on location.
Probably not
on the side of the face.
Yeah.
Yeah,
side of the face
is full noise.
Yeah.
Casey said,
I'm a OG emo
from the 2000s.
Now they say more
yummy,
yummy,
yummy tattoos,
smiley face
licking its lips,
squirt, cup.
Jeepers. Why the cup on the end?
Wow.
Like, do you want to take a little drink?
Yeah, maybe she's thirsty.
I'm thirsty.
Thirsty for it, thirsty for it.
Depends what they are.
Any mythical creature, like a dragon, is an absolute no from me.
What if they're Welsh? From Sarah. Oh, if it's the
flag dragon.
Right, what if it's an imagined dragon?
Yeah, what if it's the band
Imagined Dragons? Their portraits,
the full portraits of the bands, yeah, that'd be
a bit odd. Technically not a mythical
dragon.
Ashley said
proper sleeves, yes, sticker book looking sleeves definitely not VOM. Yeah said, proper sleeves, yes.
Sticker boot looking sleeves, definitely not VOM.
Okay.
Yeah, it's trendy.
Yeah.
Far more for females than males though, right?
Yeah.
Oh, maybe.
The sticker tats.
Mason said, yes, daddy likes his princess with some ink.
Jesus, I hated that. If she can commit to those, she can commit to my dumb ass.
Sorry, daddy, I hated that, daddy. Daddy commit to those, she can commit to my dumb ass. Sorry, Daddy, but I hated that, Daddy.
Daddy.
Daddy.
This princess did not like it.
Also, he spelled Daddy, D-A-D-D-I-E with a Macron.
Okay.
Daddy.
Daddy.
Daddy.
Daddy.
Shay, I told my zero-tats, needle-phobic husband I'd pay for him to get a sleeve, but no luck yet.
Managed to get him to grow a beard though
so my vision feels
partly complete.
Oh, there you go.
Sounds like she wants him
to be someone else.
Yeah.
Sounds like trying to change
too much of who he is
on the inside
by changing his outside.
Yeah.
You can get those
cool mesh sleeves
you know,
those like tops
off Timu
that have sleeves on them
and you cannot tell the difference. Maybe henna and then you can change the design. You know those tops off Timu that have sleeves on them? Yeah.
And you cannot tell the difference.
Maybe henna and then you can change the design.
That's right.
You just kind of trial him with a sleeve before he commits.
What if all these renovations you're doing,
you're just creating a sexy man that everybody else is going to want?
Oh, yeah.
And he's going to know it too.
He's going to know it because they keep telling him.
Careful.
Careful.
Tread lightly.
That silly little time.
Okay, so there
is a woman and she
believes she has a severe
allergy to
the big O.
Reaching the
pinnacle. No, she's been on Ozempic so she's not big anymore. She's tiny.frey. The pinnacle.
No,
she's been on Ozempic so she's not big anymore.
She's tiny.
I just meant big
as in celebrity.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No,
she's not alluded to
Oprah Winfrey.
I meant big.
It's only a matter of time.
Oprah's a yo-yoer.
She is a yo-yoer.
From a yo-yoer
on the ladder.
From one yo-yoer
to another,
yo-yoer recognizes yo-yoer.
She'll be back.
Oprah aside.
No,
she will never be back.
She can afford it.
Yeah, true.
It's the people that can't afford it.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, anyway.
Anyway, we digress.
So apparently, whether she is with a partner, a lover, or with herself,
if she ever reaches the big O, she has an anaphylactic reaction.
So has she just kind of, because some people develop allergies later in life, right?
Yeah, later in life.
So this hasn't always been the case, but all of a sudden it's like, this is happening.
This is just happening.
And she's gone to doctors who were very hesitant to give her an official diagnosis,
but they believe it's something called post-orgasmic illness syndrome,
which is a very rare condition in which a person develops flu-like
and allergy symptoms.
So I was reading an article as well this week.
There was a guy who plays in the Yankees,
and of course that's baseball, and they have to wear the gloves.
Yes.
And he's allergic to the gloves.
I've heard about people being allergic to the leather. Yes. Or something in the leather wear the gloves. Yes. And he's allergic to the gloves. I've heard about people being allergic to the leather.
Yes.
Or something in the leather and the gloves.
Apparently for the last like three years,
he's been dealing with the fact that,
and like he's a, you know, pro sportsman.
You just have to get some nice cotton liners.
Some cotton liners.
Some nice soft cotton liners perhaps.
But don't they have to take the glove off and then throw?
Yeah.
A disaster.
I don't know how it works,
but apparently this is something he deals with.
And that's something as well that's happened kind of later in life.
Yeah.
He's just all of a sudden found out he's allergic to something
he has to work with to earn his money.
Yeah.
So instead of going for a life without,
she just carries an EpiPen around.
What?
You'd be like, worth it, eh?
No, aren't they like a hundred bucks or something?
Easy, in America?
I imagine it's absolutely horrible
I mean I mean you know like it's sort of
It doesn't happen every time or it's every time
Yeah every time
So she sort of just avoids it
So she wants to have an intimate moment with a boyfriend
She's got to cut it off
She's got to cut it short
Oh right okay
Anyway We want to know She's got to cut it off. She's got to cut it short. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah. Which, oh.
Anyway, we want to know, how did you discover you were allergic to something?
Because as you say, sometimes it develops out of nowhere.
Yeah.
And you don't know that it's happening until you try something or try a food or whatever.
And then also people, because you were allergic to peanuts, weren't you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you grow out of that.
It's one of the ones you can grow out of.
Yes. When you go through your puberty change. Right.'t you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you grow out of that. It's one of the ones you can grow out of. Yeah.
When you go through your puberty change.
Right.
Have you been through that?
I have.
Yours is 25.
I have.
I didn't get all the bits that I read about in the book.
They told me about the beard.
They told me about the arm.
Yeah, and the hairiness.
I was promised a bigger penis.
Yeah.
He's still waiting for his mandate.
There's some sort of, yeah, there's some sort of increase.
He's just a little boy whack.
They've got this little infantile situation going on.
Well, maybe you're just not through the whole cycle.
Yeah.
Well, this is what we want to know this morning.
0800-DARZATM.
Give us a call.
You can text through 9696.
How did you discover you were allergic to something?
There's got to be a moment that you went,
something's wrong here.
Whether it's a food or something you touch or something as obscure as this poor water.
Maybe it wasn't until later in your teen years or your 20s that you find this out.
Because I don't know, you just grew up not eating a certain kind of food maybe.
This is super common, this one.
Someone just texted in an allergy to condoms, which is like latex, right?
Yes.
And then the first time, you don't know.
And then the first time, then you use
them, and they said, I thought I had an STD because it was
burning. Oh. So what do you use
instead, like Glad Wrap? You can get latex-free
ones. Oh, right. I wouldn't use Glad Wrap.
Okay.
Our advice is not to use Glad Wrap
as a replacement for a latex condom.
Fletch made a joke. No.
He uses Glad Wrap.
And that is why there's so many little Fletches running around.
All those frozen torpedo things that you snap in half
and have in summer, Fletch cuts the bottom off that
so it can fit his willy in it and he uses that as a condom.
Hey, we want to know how you discovered you were allergic to something.
Because there is a woman who is apparently allergic to
reaching the pinnacle of sexual intimacy.
The big O.
The big O.
And so has an EpiPen.
Has an EpiPen, just in case it happens.
Just in case it happens.
Hard thing to stop.
Georgia, what's your friend allergic to?
She is allergic to giraffe saliva.
Giraffe saliva.
I've heard of this, where they lick you and it's a reaction.
Yes.
So she's anaphylactic to giraffe saliva.
So how often is she getting licked by giraffes?
Luckily, not often.
How did she find this out?
In a zoo?
Yes.
Okay. Wow. Okay.
Wow.
Yeah, so she could have gone her whole life and not knowing that.
Yeah, I suppose.
So wait, she went up to one of those things where you go stand on that platform
and the giraffe came and licked her and then she got sick?
Yeah, well, she got to feed giraffe.
Oh, okay.
And she was feeding the giraffe, l licked her and ended up in hospital.
Does she have any other allergies?
Because I'm reading here that they've got an antiseptic property,
the giraffe saliva, to protect its throat from the spiky thorns that it eats
because it makes little cuts on the way down,
so the saliva goes down and stops the cuts from getting infected.
Oh, because that's amazing, isn't it?
Yeah, but evolution there, so maybe she's got some sort of allergy to that.
Yeah.
Whatever's doing that.
Maybe.
Boss.
Yeah, wow.
Okay.
I wonder if zoos have EpiPens for that.
Yeah, they would.
In case, like, they've got EpiPenguins.
Don't lick your lips at your own joke.
Don't lick your lips at your own joke.
I like it.
I do like it.
Stacey, what did you find out that you're allergic to?
I found out I'm allergic to cold water just suddenly.
What?
Cold water.
I'm a vet student, so I'm always having to help clean stuff out.
And I was trying to help clean the cow shed out and turned on the cold water
and instantly just broke out in the high.
You didn't come across cold water until you were a vet student.
What about us?
No, I mean, I've been fine.
But then suddenly, like, just cold water.
And, I mean, I'm originally from California,
so maybe it's just the New Zealand cold winters that I just can't hang.
Wow, but not warm water.
Your seawater's cold, though.
Do you ever go swimming in the seawater in California?
Way colder than I thought it was going to be.
Yeah, real cold.
Real cold because it comes down from the airtight.
But instantly, just my skin turns bright red,
hives all up on my neck everywhere.
So how do you, like, can you drink it?
I can drink cold water.
It's fine.
It's just on my skin.
Wow.
Okay.
Oh, my gosh.
And did you go to see, like, a dermatologist or a doctor about that?
It honestly just started happening this year, and I'm kind of like,
I'm just going to pretend it's not happening.
Oh, I reckon go see someone.
You can't avoid cold water your whole life.
Well, if I wear gloves, it's fine.
And as long as it's not super icy cold, then yeah, we're okay.
Wow, that's crazy.
Stacey, thank you.
Some messages.
My partner's allergic to zinc oxide.
You might be thinking, how did he work that out?
Well, he used acne medication.
It does have it in it.
And had to be rushed to the ER when he started to die. Oh my gosh.
What else is, is that like in zinc
that you put on your nose? Zinc oxide?
Maybe. I'm allergic to
semen. Condoms for life.
Breakout in hives. The Navy's not
for them.
You two, don't encourage
him. That's real good. Yep. Maybe the Army's for them. Yeah., don't encourage him. That's real good.
Yep.
Maybe the army's for them.
Yeah.
Or the air force.
Okay, okay.
Might be allergic to semen.
What about airmen?
EpiPens are now free
in New Zealand
under prescription.
Really?
As they should be.
That's great.
I work in a pharmacy
and one of our customers
is allergic to water.
Has to take a huge amount
of antihistamines every day
just to brush your teeth
and have a shower.
I've seen this.
Oh my God.
That's terrible.
I know.
Awful aim.
Someone said, I'm allergic to lactose.
Not just intolerant.
Allergic to it.
Allergic.
Anything like that.
But I tell you what I love.
A mocha.
A McFlurry.
Yeah.
Sometimes worth it.
Sometimes worth it.
Amazing.
Sometimes you just drive past that.
You're like, let's get a McFlurry.
Allergic to eucalyptus.
Washed my hair with a plant-based shampoo
that's active ingredient was eucalyptus
and just had the most insane rash on my scalp
and down my back.
Oh, wow.
From that being.
I was pregnant with first child craving white peaches.
Yum.
Yum.
White, yeah.
Delicious.
I always go yellow, but yeah.
Peaches have had a couple of shout outs on the show.
Because the girl dinner was a tin of peaches yesterday.
Yeah, beautiful.
I think peaches have gone to the dogs in the last few years.
Nick Duran's peaches, it's all gone to the dogs.
You're right.
Stone from New Zealand's not great.
Wow.
It's not like it used to be when we were kids.
Yeah.
I think you need a little roadie in central Otago.
I am in Auckland.
You need to get some roadside stalls
Yeah
Roadside stalls in central Otago
Is there?
Yeah
Shit yeah
And so I ate a white peach
Throat started tingling
Felt scratchy
Rung the husband to tell him
He said I can hear you're still eating it
It's delicious
Maybe stop eating it
Yeah
So that was when I was allergic to that.
I'm allergic to ibuprofen.
Couldn't figure it out for ages because after a boozy night,
I'd get up, take an ibuprofen.
Then I assumed it was the hangover getting worse,
but it was actually the ibuprofen that was adding to it.
Okay.
So I had an allergy to it.
I'm allergic to the glue on plasters.
Oh, they're adhesive.
Yeah.
I've heard a few people
having that.
It comes off
and it's just super scratchy.
Or what do you do
if you can't have a plaster?
Just put a pad on it.
Oh, yeah.
A goose.
Oh, my God.
Allergic to alcohol.
I had a friend
that became allergic to alcohol.
Like, really,
would get super, super sick.
Like, just from one drink.
Mine actually be good for some people.
Put your arm.
Oh, literally.
He's the healthiest friend I have.
Yeah.
And then you've got those other people
who think they're allergic to alcohol,
but they drank 20 of them.
So...
Yeah, I think I might have an allergy.
That was a volume thing more than an allergy thing.
Play.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
I still have a little scroll.
Do you know what?
I've been terrible because I didn't sleep much the night before last, did I?
And then because I was on my phone till like 11.30.
You've got to put your phone down.
I know.
And then yesterday I went home and had a two-hour nap
and that sort of sorted that out.
And then I got into bed and I chugged on my phone.
It was 10.30 and I was like, what am I doing?
I know better.
But it's like that little, I'm a dopamine addict.
I just want little delicious things, little treats.
And that's why I doom scroll.
I always know when I wake up and in our group chat,
you've seen us videos at 10 o'clock at night.
I'm like, oh.
Yeah, here's the reels.
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
Yeah.
So a lot of people are jumping on their phones when they're bored, right?
Then they're going, I just need something to entertain the brain, get that going.
We're all guilty of it, whether it's at night or during the day.
Apparently, according to this research out of Toronto, the University of Toronto,
it's doing the opposite.
It is dulling our brain, making it far more bored.
So it's not actually giving us the little sparkle or the energy
or the sort of entertainment that we think it is.
It's called digital switching.
But we all still do it, eh?
Like we know that it makes us feel bad.
We know that it's like making us sleep worse.
Yeah.
But we still do it.
Yeah.
Why?
So even though, even if, even they said,
cause you know, like Instagram's my one.
Yeah.
And you don't get to choose your reels.
You're just flicking through and it creates it for you. Yeah, it's my one. Yeah. And you don't get to choose your reels.
You're just flicking through and it curates it for you.
Yeah, it's the algorithm.
Yeah, it's the algorithm.
They said even when the videos were curated by yourself in this research, even if you'd made your own playlist of little entertaining videos,
it didn't actually ignite that part of the brain that was entertained
or made happier by it at all.
So it's actually got nothing to do with just the like mundanity of the brain that was entertained or made happier by it at all. So it's actually got nothing to do with just the, like,
mundanity of the content.
Just the action of watching endless videos,
doom-scrolling again and again and again and again and again
is actually dulling your brain and making you even more bored
and less satisfied.
I thought you were reading before bed.
Oh, well, I do.
I do.
Yeah, I know.
And I thought you were journaling. The journal has remained empty for a week. Oh, well, I do. I do. Yeah, I know. And I thought you were journaling.
The journal has remained
empty for a week.
Oh, no.
She's off the journal.
See this?
You were on a good.
You were on a good.
Was it boring?
So boring.
You were on this good streak.
You were like,
I'm journaling.
I'm reading a book
and then I'm falling asleep
and laughing at it.
I got sick.
Yeah.
I got sick
and then I couldn't go to the gym.
So then you can't sleep as well. and then when you can't sleep as well,
you're like, well, what's the point of doing the journaling
and listening to the meditation?
I'm just going to go on my phone.
It's all, you just throw it all out the window.
Now, have Vaughn and I made it into the journal?
You've been in the journal once.
What did you say about us?
You were in my appreciation post, actually.
That's nice.
That's the ones you were in.
You were in my gratitude section.
At least it was on a Friday and you were like,
I appreciate that I don't have to see...
See these nitwits anymore.
Play ZM's Fletch for the Daily.
Play ZM.
At my gym, they've instigated a new sign.
Oh, okay.
They've popped up a new sign.
I said instigator because yesterday at the gym,
I watched the new Matt Damon movie, The Instigators,
which you won't even know existed. I watched it. You watched it?
Yeah. Did you?
Yeah, the one where he like steals. The heist
that just everything goes terribly wrong and he plays
like this weird straight guy.
It was quite a bizarre choice for him.
Yeah. I liked it though bro.
It's weirdly flown under the radar
of I just kind of stumbled across it on it's an
Apple TV original.
Great cast.
Why, how do you get to,
how do you watch a whole movie at the gym?
Like, are you actually doing anything?
Yeah.
I do one full hours of cardio and some other stuff.
Yeah.
All while watching a movie.
I can't do it. I cried to get inspired by you
because I never have enough time
to watch the shows I want to watch.
And I try on the bike and then I'm like, it doesn't get me going.
Are you on the Stairmaster?
Sometimes I'm on today's Stairmaster.
No, no, yesterday was Stairmaster.
I saw somebody walking sideways up the Stairmaster.
Oh, that's so good.
But you never walk upstairs sideways.
So what's the point of training walking up the stairs sideways?
Get the booty poppin'.
Just in case you want to squeeze past somebody.
No.
Well, I never sit down and pull something down from the ceiling like that either.
That's the only thing I find myself doing at the gym.
I just never randomly pick up stuff and go, ooh, ah, ooh, ah.
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle.
I don't even bungle all stuff that I do at the gym outside of the gym.
I never run that fast unless outside of the gym. Yeah. I never run that fast, unless I'm being chased.
Yeah.
So there's a new sign at the gym, and it says,
if you're on your phone, please don't also be on the equipment.
Ooh.
Because there's been some dawdlers,
there's been some people that sit on the equipment.
Oh, we've all done that, though.
But you've got to take your breaks.
Wait, is this something aimed at you because you're watching movies?
No, because I'm
doing stuff while I'm on the treadmill. I'm running.
I mean in between sets when you sit
there and you just sit and you're like
Yeah, because there was a shocker
because when you're on the
treadmill you get the reflection
off the window. And there was a dude
and I reckon he would have sat there for like
he would have been on the equipment for like
15 minutes in total. I reckon he was doing something for about five of the tops.
And then he just went.
And you know that one where you.
We've all been there.
You know that one where you sit and you push the legs up the.
Leg press.
Leg press.
Yep, that one.
Someone was like fully snoozing on that the other day.
They had their eyes shut and their head back.
Oh, no, it's not a seat.
But you were not supposed to take little breaths.
I could see them breathing. Their rest was like, well, I'm just going's not a seat. But you are supposed to take little breaths. I could see them breathing.
Their rest was like, I'm just going to catch a quick.
It would, especially at smaller gyms where there's only one machine.
Yeah.
And if there's not a second or third machine,
then you're waiting for someone.
You're like, oh.
But then someone will come take your machine.
If you've got three sets and you've got one,
what are you supposed to get?
Just sit there and raw dog it.
Yeah, but people don't like to.
Because the best thing to say to someone is,
hey, do you mind if while you're doing yours we share?
Tag in, tag out.
Yeah, so when they're on their phone,
they can just get up and stand there and you can quickly use the machine.
Yeah.
But some people don't like to talk to people.
Yeah, yeah, they just keep phones on.
And maybe they're intimidated by them, I don't know.
The gym did a video as well about the people just sitting on their phone,
being on your phone and just being like, tap, tap, tap.
I've definitely been guilty of it because you have those days where you're just like, eh.
Someone said three minutes between sets is best for muscle building.
Three minutes?
Three minutes?
That's a long time.
Is that?
What would just get up and get out of the way for a bit?
Just get up and get out of the way maybe if someone.
So what, did you say there's a video?
They've made a video as well.
They made a video of what not to do.
God, it's past that.
I know.
It's real.
Yeah.
It's real like scooch off.
Right.
Scooch off.
It is a small gym, your gym.
It's not massive.
It's not like, I think your guys' gym's massive.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It's big.
It's a biggie.
We go to a big gym.
I don't need to overcommit that.
We go to a big gym.
Big gym.
I go to a big gym, but then I go into the small women's gym,
which is half the size of your gym.
A gym within a gym.
Yeah.
Wow.
But sometimes there's only one machine of particular types of machines.
Yeah.
But the women are pretty good.
I would say men seem to be the people who are sitting. Yeah. Sitting on their phones types of machines. Yeah. But the women are pretty good. I would say it's men. Men seem to be the people who are sitting.
Yeah.
Sitting on their phones a bit more.
Well, both cases that I used of the guy on the phone and the person having the snooze.
Guys, yeah, right.
Both men having a little snoozy-toozy.
Okay, well.
Right, will you be keeping a vigilant eye out for sitters?
You bet.
What is this guy?
Not actually doing anything.
Read the sign.
Oh, God. Tap the sign.
Yeah. Tap the sign. Oh, no.
That's the worst. That's not good.
Play.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Now, this
fella, he's 55
years old. I don't know why I'm saying
that like it's a shocking fact, but I sort of imagined a younger person employing this tactic to break up with someone.
Okay.
However, 55 years old was dating, going out, looking for things.
And when you are dating, not casually, but he would go on a number of dates with people.
And when it would come time to being like, oh, I don't actually want to, you know, I don't see this going any further.
He found it horrible to sort of have to break up with them.
Well, no one likes breaking up.
It's hard.
Awful.
No matter how long you've been together.
So he employed the powers of chat GPT.
He was like, do you know what?
I just like, I decided I didn't want to be with this person after the third day.
I just thought I wanted to word it really nicely and make sure that they didn't feel hurt, didn't hate
me afterwards. And this would be acceptable
over a message, right? If you'd been on three dates
with someone, you could do that? Yeah.
I mean, it's still shitty, but. Yeah, he was like, I can't
remember the exact words of the message,
but it was basically
an expansion of a, it's not you,
it's me, da-da-da-da-da, and then
sent it to her, and the person
said it was a beautifully crafted breakup letter.
And the woman received it really well.
She was like, that's a really nice thing to say.
And I appreciate you taking the time.
And thank you very much.
And I wish you all the best.
Oh, nice.
Anyway, so a relationship coach came in and was like, look,
it's not inappropriate all the time to use chat GPT to break up with people.
It does depend on how long you've been together.
Yeah, like you wouldn't use it if you've been with someone for three years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you send them a little message being
like, it's over. Dear Flinch,
I'm writing this to inform
you. Anyway, so we,
I want to put this to the test because
he hasn't included his letter. Okay.
How good chat GPT would be
at actually
personally breaking up with someone.
Oh, I like this. Okay, so Vaughn, you have...
I've got it open.
Now, so for...
Are we going to pretend you two are breaking up?
I said...
Let's use Hayley's acting degree here, Vaughn.
He wishes.
Oh, yeah, Vaughn will be the one to dump me.
He wishes.
He wishes.
Okay, well, we'll play this silly scenario, but...
We'll see.
We'll see.
Okay.
I, a male,
need a nice, friendly, short,
complimentary breakup message
to send to my needy,
short-tempered, boozy girlfriend
who cheated on me
with her female workmate.
You're right.
Wow.
Okay.
Okay.
You got me down.
I'm sorry you're going through this.
Can you tell me what tone you're aiming for?
More formal or casual?
What?
Like a formal?
Like what's a dim?
To whom it may concern.
To whom it may concern. To whom it may concern.
Casual.
Being you, Hayley.
Here's the message.
It says, let's keep things short,
respectful and straightforward.
Hey, Hayley,
I think it's best we go our separate ways.
I wish you all the best.
Take care.
Too short.
That's too short.
Can you put into chat GPT
that we've been together for three years?
Like up the stakes a bit.
More emotional.
Make it more emotional.
Hey, Hayley, I think it's best we go,
I see you is all the best.
Maybe you should have gone formal, actually.
Maybe formal would bring out a bit more of that.
I think just ask them to sort of craft it a bit more.
I understand, yeah.
Because I would be like, lol, babes, you so funny.
What time am I picking you up?
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Lol, babes. Hey, Hayley, what time am I picking you up? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Lol babes.
Hey Hayley, this is really tough for me to say,
but after three years I think it's best if we part ways.
We've had a lot of good times.
I'll always cherish those memories.
However, I feel we're going in different directions
and it's important for both of us to find happiness separately.
I genuinely hope you find what you're looking for
and wish you all the best in the future.
Take care of yourself.
Two formal.
That's quite nice. Take care of yourself. Two formal. That's quite nice.
Take care of yourself is quite nice.
It doesn't even mention that I've cheated on you
with my female lover.
Yeah, I feel like I need to acknowledge
that this is all her fault.
Yeah, there needs to be some blame applied here.
Yeah, yeah.
Like I'm taking control of my emotions
because you didn't respect me.
Hey, Hayley, it's really hard for me to say this,
but after everything that's happened, I think it's best if we end things.
That's a bit nicer.
That's a bit better.
The trust has been broken and it's clear we're in different places now.
I value the time we spent together, but I need to move forward.
I hope you take care of yourself and find what you need.
Wishing you the best.
More blame.
More blame on Hayley.
I mean, I'm sort of like, they're doing a you need. Wishing you the best. More blame. More blame on Hayley. I mean, I'm sort of like
they're doing a bloody good job.
More blame though. More anger.
Maybe
make it angrier. Had
more anger. Or passive aggressive.
Oh yeah.
After you decide.
Make this more
passive aggressive.
I thought that was quite a good Yes. Aggressive. Yes. Okay, brilliant.
I thought that was quite a good.
Yes.
You know.
I mean, even if you used it to kind of give you some ideas of what to say.
A bit of a framework.
A bit of a framework, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Hey, Hayley.
After everything that's happened, I've realized that we need to go our separate ways.
It's clear that the trust and respect we had is no longer there,
and I can't ignore the impact of your choices.
Oh, not passive aggressive enough for my liking.
I hope you find what you're looking for.
I want it to be a bit bitchy.
But it's clear we're not on the same path anymore.
You want it to be more bitchy.
Yeah.
Okay.
Can it be?
We've completely changed the original thing.
We want it to be respectful.
Yeah, complimentary.
Now we're like, you put her in a place she can't shit on you
Can it be more
Bitchy and
Also
Inform her that
I'm keeping the big
TV
Certainly here's a message
Hey Hayley given everything that's happened
It's pretty clear that we're better off apart the trust is gone
And I can't ignore the choices you've made.
I'm going to keep the big TV as a reminder of the times we've had
to help me move on.
I hope you can figure things out.
Goodbye.
That's it.
I hope you can figure things out.
It's pretty good.
It's a nice parting jab.
I hope you can figure things out.
Yeah.
You're a mess.
This is you.
You've done this.
You're a shambles.
And actually, you know what?
I'm taking the TV as a reminder of the times we've had together.
Yeah.
This message is direct and also includes the details about the television you asked for.
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
I've used it for quite a few things.
Have you?
Yeah.
I've never used it.
And you can just be like, I feel like it needs to be longer.
And you don't even have to give a shit what it is that fills up that gap. It's like, I'll work that. And you can just be like, ah, I feel like it needs to be longer. And you don't even have to give a shit
what it is that fills up that gap.
It's like, I'll work that out for you.
Wait, so when you were like talking to us
in our group chat and stuff
and you send all those really like
lovely long messages to us.
Oh, it's chat GPT.
I don't even know what to say.
I just copy and paste.
This is really personal stuff
about how you go.
I don't even do it.
I just get my children to do it.
I'm like, read it out to me.
They read it.
I'm like, here are the instructions.
Yes, that's fine.
Copy, paste, send. Wow. Yeah. The future, right? Yeah, it's the to me. They read it. I'm like, here are the instructions. Yes, that's fine. Copy, paste, send.
Wow.
Yeah.
The future, eh?
It's the future.
It's looking bright.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, is national dishes that aren't
That didn't originate in the country that you associate them with
Yeah
And today we're talking hot dogs
Get your hot dogs
Well they're German aren't they? They are German But they're the national dish of America They Get your hot dogs. Well, they're German, aren't they?
They are German, but they're the national dish of America.
They're American hot dogs.
I suppose so.
When you buy them at the carnival, they call them American hot dogs.
Yeah, they do.
Are we talking hot dogs as in the bun?
In the bun.
Yeah.
Corn dogs is what you're.
Yeah.
But we call them hot dogs.
We do.
And I think that's why we call American hot dogs American hot dogs.
To differentiate. Because we call the sausage on the stick and the batter, we call them hot dogs. We do. And I think that's why we call American hot dogs American hot dogs. To differentiate.
We call the sausage on the stick and the batter,
we call them hot dogs as well,
even though they're supposed to be corn dogs.
See, I'd rather have one of our hot dogs
in the carny sauce over an American hot dog
because there's too much bread.
If someone said to me right now,
I'll get you a corn dog dipped in carny sauce,
I'd pay a hundred bucks.
I love them.
If someone said right now,
oh my God, I just want one so bad.
Yum! They're so good!
No, I'm just saying, right now.
But what if
someone shows up in five minutes with one?
And they're like, where's my $100?
Please don't.
They'll expect their $100.
They'll probably spark up the deep fryer and everything.
It's probably a fair setup somewhere.
I would give anything to have one in my hand like that right now.
Have you ever had the one where they, what do they call them?
And they smash all the other stuff into the batter?
No.
Have you ever had the corn dog where the chips,
like hot chips are chopped up into little bits
and they put them in the batter.
And so they put the batter on and then they like smash it
like sprinkles on an ice cream
except a hot dog
and they call them
like ugly dogs or something
and they've got a whole lot
of different ones.
Right.
And sometimes it's chips
and it can be like
bacon bits and stuff
and then they batter again
and deep fry it.
Yeah,
I've had one in my life
and my heart,
my heart was like,
you can't do this to me.
I don't care.
Heart,
you shut up.
You take it.
So hot dogs are German.
Of course, the sausages in the hot dogs are called Frankfurters.
Yes.
Zavenas.
Traditionally.
Zavena, exactly.
All right, so the hot dog is not American.
It's German.
But also, add into this, hot dogs,
because I've never known why they're called hot dogs,
stand by.
Stand by.
Don't guess.
Stand by.
Stand by.
Don't guess.
They're bastardized from three separate German names.
Frankfurt sausages were a bit formal.
So when they first got to America, they called them hot dachshunds.
Oh, like the dogs.
Like the dogs.
Yeah, except Americans could neither spell nor pronounce dachshund.
So then they were just like, let's just call them hot dogs.
Oh, my God.
I've never thought about it.
I know.
I've never thought why they were called hot dogs either. But now we call the dachshunds sausage dogs. Oh my God, I've never thought about it. I know, I've never thought why they were called hot dogs either.
But now we call
the Dush Hoons
sausage dogs.
Exactly.
So if you ask for a hot dog,
what you probably get
was a wiener in a bun
from the English word
wiener,
which is a loan word
from German,
meaning from Vienna.
Meaning Vaughan Smith.
Wiener.
That's not very nice.
You're a wiener.
I'm more of a Savloy.
I'm more of a Savloy boy myself.
You're a wiener.
People point people wieners?
What a strange thing.
Weird times.
Yeah.
It's triggering.
I remember.
So if you ask for a hot dog, what you bring to you is a wiener and a bun,
which, of course, wiener is a loan word from German. You upset the little Sav.
So the Sav.
A little Sav's upset.
So that's a loan word from German meaning from Vienna.
We've talked about this before.
Wiener schnitzel is schnitzel from Vienna.
And we always think it's German, but it's Wiener schnitzel.
So we say wiener schnitzel referring to Vienna sausages
or wiener sausages.
And then we go full circle because Dachshunds are now often called sausage dogs.
Sausage dogs or Wiener dogs.
So when they are, so I mean, you're getting a two for here.
Yeah.
The hot dog isn't American.
It's German.
And when they first went to America, the hot dog in the bun with mustard, with sauce, with onions.
Yes.
If you're not getting onions, grow up.
Grow up.
Grow up and get onions.
Grow up.
Was originally called a hot dachshund.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey.
Play ZM.
Well, Ancestry.com, there's 23andMe.
There's a heap of DNA ancestry tests that you can do all over the world.
And we've got the ancestry ones.
They're fascinating.
Oh, I've done mine. They're kind of all over the world. And like, we've got the ancestry ones. They're fascinating. Oh,
I've done mine.
They're kind of updating all the time.
I didn't discover anything fun or spicy
other than my 1% Hawaiian.
That was quite fun.
Yep.
I'm a few,
what am I?
A little bit Swedish?
A little bit.
A little bit Norwegian.
Have they updated?
Norway-agean?
What?
And always updating.
Always.
The more people that do it.
I think,
I think a lot of that
where your people are from
is bullshit
I just think
it just changes
but it's always changing
because the more people do it
you know
and update their family trees
it's fascinating
but since Brexit
and this is a story
out of the UK
since Brexit
because you know
that passport's become
a bit dud now
the UK passport
because you used to
with Brexit
be able to travel
all over Europe you used to live you be able to travel all over Europe.
You used to live.
You could retire in Spain.
You could retire
in the south of France.
No.
But now British citizens
can't.
Like they have
like us basically
I think
what your parents
are there five months a year?
Yeah.
They can live there?
I think six months
you can
and then you gotta go.
Well people are turning
to DNA tests
to see if they can get
a better passport,
particularly the Irish passport, because Irish passports can still,
or it's still part of the EU.
Oh, I would happily get an Irish passport and an Irish gentleman to go with it.
The Republic of Ireland, right?
Yes.
The South part.
Catholic part.
Not the Protestants.
Do I have to be Catholic to get this passport?
Mm-hmm.
I come out.
And you've also got to have some ancestry as well.
I've got 17%.
It's right here.
But in the past, like, you've had to have, like, birth certificates,
like your grandfather's or whoever, the relative.
Every country is different to how you can get a passport.
But people are now using ancestry tests, these DNA tests,
to back up their applications.
Really?
Yeah, to say, look, here's
what's happened. Well, I mean, what is
the, what's the quota?
Do you know what I mean? Can I get a Scottish passport?
I don't know what the, but then the Scottish
is... You're removed.
That doesn't give you an EU passport,
does it? Nah, but, you know,
Scotland's nice.
It's nice enough. This gives you another passport.
Yeah, I just want something.
Another place to live.
Yeah.
Do you know, it would be,
because there was no surprises in mine
or any of ours really, right?
There was no big surprises.
No.
If you were adopted,
that would be like,
this would be such a key opening a door
of who you are, right?
Yeah, totally.
And that's what I wanted to ask this morning.
Have you done a DNA test and did you find something out?
Like, was there a surprise?
Well, maybe you've got, you know.
Surprise!
Surprise.
Maybe you're, like, your uncle is your cousin's mum.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those weird family tree stuff that gets exposed by these DNA tests.
Because the TV show
that's on at the moment, that's more of a
mystery person one. Who are you?
Vaughn's father.
That one? No. Okay.
What one are you talking about? I'm talking about the one that Sonia Gray
is doing. The New Zealand one where someone's like,
we've got this weird mystery in our family
and there's always a DNA aspect to it.
A whole lot of investigations.
Quite often in those sorts of shows,
they find out that someone they thought was,
and it was the same with, wasn't Steve Buscemi
that was the big celebrity that had it?
Growing up, he thought he had an older sister,
but it was his mum.
Oh, okay.
And his parents were actually his grandparents.
But you could get away with that back in the day.
You could, you could.
Because DNA wasn't a thing.
No.
Or it wasn't so accessible to the public.
You couldn't pay $100 and find out who you were related to.
Yeah, totally.
We want to know this morning what you found out from a DNA test.
Because people are using DNA tests to get extra passports.
Yeah.
Proving your heritage.
Yeah, maybe they can live somewhere, I don't know, exotic.
Fun, spicy.
Now, we are hearing from people with plenty of surprises through DNA tests.
Taryn, you found a half-sister.
I did, I did.
Which half?
The top half or the bottom half?
Oh, we love.
The left half.
Okay.
And you had no idea she even existed?
No.
But it sort of doesn't surprise me because my father was married before my mother and
had three daughters, which I've never met, but they're in England.
Yep.
And then, yes, I had three girls and then married my mum and had four kids, two boys,
two girls.
Yep.
Good swimmers.
Yeah.
And too good.
And then my daughter decided to get her DNA tested and it flagged up there was some kind of match,
but we couldn't figure out what.
So I got mine tested and then it showed that I've got this half-blood sister,
which sort of doesn't surprise me because obviously he's, you know,
quite romantic.
He's a breeder.
Yeah.
And so was this in New Zealand or in England?
She's in England, yeah.
So is she one of the three from the previous marriage?
No, she's not.
She's a new one.
She's in between the two marriages.
Oh, dad!
It was understandable for me,
but the fact that she thought she was an only child
and I told her she had five sisters and two brothers.
Oh, my God, that must have rocked her world.
Did you just like...
Yeah.
Because I've had those messages on Ancestry.com.
I was like, so-and-so wants to, you know, as a distant cousin.
I just ignored one of those.
What did you just get?
Did you just message her and say,
hey, by the way, you've got all these half-sisters and brothers?
Yeah, I sort of messaged her and said,
would you like to, you know, chat and sort of know about the family
and everything, and then after a few emails, I rang her,
and yeah, I'm going to go see her in hopefully January next year.
Oh, my God.
Wild.
Gosh.
That's cool.
Yeah, Taryn, thank you for sharing.
Rebecca, you found a whole bunch of sisters on a DNA test.
Yeah, I found six sisters.
Six?
No, wait, half sisters or actual sisters?
I've got one actual sister and the rest are half sisters.
Are you adopted?
Yeah, when I was about five.
Yeah, wow.
So a full sister and a bunch of sisters.
And then so did you reach out to them and connect with them and be like, hi?
Two, I don't know who they are, unfortunately,
because they haven't done the DNA testing.
But one, yes, and she lives not far and married someone I went to school with.
Oh, my God.
So were you all adopted out?
Yeah, I think so.
Right, and so there's just like a couple of blank,
like squares on your Ancestry.com family tree.
And there's like two people out there that don't know they have all these.
Wow, that's so fascinating.
Yeah, it's a bit bizarre.
It's a bit different.
Wow.
And so do you keep in touch with the ones that you've spoken to?
Yes, I do. Yeah. Oh my god.
That's so cool. Thank you for sharing, Rebecca.
Family later in life. We want to know
this morning, what
surprises you got from a DNA test?
Yeah. I didn't
realise there's a message system on
Ancestry.com. Yeah. A couple of people reach
out being like, I think that we share a great
great grandfather. I know. I had those and reach out being like, I think that we share a great, great grandfather.
I know.
I had those
and I was just like,
I don't care.
You're not welcome
at Christmas.
You think about
how many relatives,
you're going back
great, great grandfather.
So you're going back
four lots.
And you think of
back in the day
when they were having
lots of kids.
Yeah.
You think about
how many cousins
you'd have at that level.
Oh, I know.
You're not coming to the wedding.
It makes it sound like I'm trying to legitimately justify sleeping with my cousin there.
I just caught the tone of the, I'm not.
Yeah, like it's not even that freakish.
What?
So your mothers were sisters.
Who cares?
Some wild stories though.
That's too close.
DNA test.
I found out my husband is my third cousin.
Oh no.
That's okay. That's all right. So that's going found out my husband is my third cousin. Oh, no. That's okay.
That's all right.
So that's going back to a great, great grandparent.
You're right.
That's a rule.
Yeah, but you don't text a radio station and tell people about that.
Nah.
I mean, no name attached.
They do have a shocked face.
It hasn't ended their marriage.
If anything, it's made them closer.
I found out through a DNA test I had an 18-year-old daughter.
What?
That would be freaky right?
Wait so someone just was like
I'm pregnant
And they're like well I'm not going to tell him
I'm not going to tell him
Or maybe I don't know who he is
Because it happened like way back in the day
Yeah true
You were out of town
Or somewhere different
And didn't get a name
Yeah
So I wonder
Wait do you message that person?
Did you message them?
And be like
Hey I'm your dad
Oh yeah
But what if he doesn't know? And especially message him like now Because it's hey, I'm your dad? Oh, yeah.
But what if he doesn't know?
And especially message him like now because it's Father's Day and like a couple of weeks.
Get a present.
You get a present.
Get some socks.
Do you need some socks, bro?
Text him.
I thought I was one quarter Mexican for my whole life.
Okay.
37, I did an ancestry test.
What?
I'm a boring old white European.
Turns out my biological father's just a big fat liar.
He wasn't Mexican at all.
Probably just tanned well.
Tanned well.
What?
Tanned well.
I found my dad doing a DNA test.
So I found, in my mind, she walked into the kitchen and dad's like.
Spitting in a tube.
I found my father using a DNA test.
Oh, wow.
I didn't even know I was looking for him
My mum had been wrong my entire life
It was incredible
I have two brothers and two sisters
And 33 nieces and nephews
Now hold on
Whoa
Wow
Wait you've got four siblings
And 33 children between them
Even that
What are we looking at there
Six
Seven
No
I reckon I'd like cancel my membership
Because that's a lot of Christmas presents.
That's a lot.
I don't want to all of a sudden have to buy that many presents.
Yeah.
You do one of those $2 shop pick and mix.
Yeah.
Everyone grab a wrapped up thing.
My real father of 32 years all of a sudden redid his will
and forced me to take a DNA test to find out
if I was actually his real daughter
who would have thought summed it up with a $100 farmer's voucher
as a sorry and a thank you to myself and my mom.
Because she is his daughter. No, I took that as
not. $100 voucher.
What? Or was that the make up?
Make good. No, like sorry I accuse
you of not being mine. Right, here's a $100
farmer's voucher. I don't know. You wait till jockeys
are on special, best owner buddy. Yeah, wait for a sale
for sure. There's so many of
these. And think, like, how long has DNA testing
been open to the general public
for fun and not solving crimes?
Like 10 years?
When we started here, yeah.
We started here and they gave us a free one.
That's the only reason we did it.
A lot of people, this is an interesting message.
Not me directly, but I've been privy to many young people in their late teens
who have just found out that they're Maori because their grandmothers
were sent away when they had illegitimate pregnancies with Maori men.
Right.
And then that's been kept a big secret.
Come back.
Tan baby.
Tan's well.
No, Maori.
Yeah, Italian.
Yeah, Italian.
Spanish.
Whatever.
Portuguese.
I don't get why that's...
I mean, that was a different time.
Different time.
And this poor woman being sent away.
My dad's massively into DNA testing and family trees.
He has found a sister that his father had.
He only found her in his 50s and his father had passed on,
so they didn't even know if his father knew he had an illegitimate daughter.
Oh, okay.
He also found out that my mum's grandparents lied about where they were from
so they could move to New Zealand.
Oh, yeah.
So we were growing up under false pretense of our nationality.
I matched with a dude on Tinder.
That's not the start of this conversation.
Where's this going?
I matched with a dude on Tinder and things were going so well,
so I added him on Snapchat.
And then Snapchat had my last name in it.
So it wasn't even a DNA test.
It was a Snapchat test.
Okay.
The last name, I was like, that's interesting.
Asked around cousin.
Oh, okay.
Let's hope that it was a bit of a Taiho.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
I love this.
My son had to get genetic testing done in Niku,
and when the results came back, it had some irregularities,
and the doctor had to ask if my husband and I could be related.
We had to get tested, but thankfully we're not,
but God, I had a good old giggle about cousin humping.
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