ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 21st August 2024

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The ZM Podcast Network. 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?
Starting point is 00:00:15 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?
Starting point is 00:00:33 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
Starting point is 00:00:45 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
Starting point is 00:01:03 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.
Starting point is 00:01:17 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,
Starting point is 00:01:40 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,
Starting point is 00:01:55 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.
Starting point is 00:02:04 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
Starting point is 00:02:12 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
Starting point is 00:02:20 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?
Starting point is 00:02:37 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
Starting point is 00:02:47 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%
Starting point is 00:02:56 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.
Starting point is 00:03:05 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.
Starting point is 00:03:20 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
Starting point is 00:03:33 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
Starting point is 00:03:50 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.
Starting point is 00:04:04 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.
Starting point is 00:04:14 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?
Starting point is 00:04:27 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.
Starting point is 00:04:43 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.
Starting point is 00:04:49 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.
Starting point is 00:04:57 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
Starting point is 00:05:09 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
Starting point is 00:05:19 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.
Starting point is 00:05:37 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.
Starting point is 00:05:52 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.
Starting point is 00:06:04 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.
Starting point is 00:06:19 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
Starting point is 00:06:38 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.
Starting point is 00:07:03 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
Starting point is 00:07:12 Oh I think I've always Lived in mixed When I flatted Was always mixed I've lived in Pretty much Every scenario
Starting point is 00:07:20 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.
Starting point is 00:07:34 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.
Starting point is 00:07:49 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.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Because they're less like beating on the chest. It softens. Yeah, yeah. Softens men. Softens men. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:17 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.
Starting point is 00:08:26 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?
Starting point is 00:08:35 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?
Starting point is 00:08:42 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.
Starting point is 00:08:53 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%.
Starting point is 00:09:03 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.
Starting point is 00:09:15 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.
Starting point is 00:09:25 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.
Starting point is 00:09:36 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.
Starting point is 00:09:47 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.
Starting point is 00:10:01 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?
Starting point is 00:10:14 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,
Starting point is 00:10:22 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.
Starting point is 00:10:40 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.
Starting point is 00:10:56 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.
Starting point is 00:11:05 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.
Starting point is 00:11:18 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...
Starting point is 00:11:35 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?
Starting point is 00:11:46 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...
Starting point is 00:11:59 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.
Starting point is 00:12:11 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,
Starting point is 00:12:19 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.
Starting point is 00:12:27 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.
Starting point is 00:12:39 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,
Starting point is 00:13:01 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
Starting point is 00:13:18 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.
Starting point is 00:13:34 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
Starting point is 00:13:47 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.
Starting point is 00:13:58 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,
Starting point is 00:14:10 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.
Starting point is 00:14:26 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.
Starting point is 00:14:41 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
Starting point is 00:15:00 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.
Starting point is 00:15:16 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.
Starting point is 00:15:31 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,
Starting point is 00:15:41 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
Starting point is 00:15:49 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
Starting point is 00:15:57 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
Starting point is 00:16:05 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.
Starting point is 00:16:16 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
Starting point is 00:16:34 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
Starting point is 00:16:44 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?
Starting point is 00:17:01 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.
Starting point is 00:17:17 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.
Starting point is 00:17:46 Okay? Yeah, I get it. Totally. Be careful what you wish for. I know. Totally. You want to be famous. You got it.
Starting point is 00:17:52 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.
Starting point is 00:18:08 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.
Starting point is 00:18:20 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,
Starting point is 00:18:43 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.
Starting point is 00:18:51 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,
Starting point is 00:19:00 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,
Starting point is 00:19:07 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.
Starting point is 00:19:28 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
Starting point is 00:19:47 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
Starting point is 00:19:54 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.
Starting point is 00:20:03 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.
Starting point is 00:20:17 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.
Starting point is 00:20:30 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.
Starting point is 00:20:46 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.
Starting point is 00:20:57 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.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Romance. Romance? Romance. Romance. And romance. Did you say French? And chocolate, yes. Well then, bonjour.
Starting point is 00:21:23 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.
Starting point is 00:21:42 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.
Starting point is 00:22:00 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.
Starting point is 00:22:16 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.
Starting point is 00:22:26 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.
Starting point is 00:22:40 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.
Starting point is 00:22:59 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?
Starting point is 00:23:10 How are we getting them out? Robot. Okay. Robot. Huh? Yes, eh? Jumping towards a robot. It's a robot.
Starting point is 00:23:19 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.
Starting point is 00:23:31 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.
Starting point is 00:23:43 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.
Starting point is 00:23:52 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.
Starting point is 00:24:03 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...
Starting point is 00:24:19 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.
Starting point is 00:24:35 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.
Starting point is 00:24:50 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.
Starting point is 00:25:09 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.
Starting point is 00:25:26 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.
Starting point is 00:25:40 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.
Starting point is 00:25:49 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
Starting point is 00:25:59 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.
Starting point is 00:26:11 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.
Starting point is 00:26:24 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.
Starting point is 00:26:36 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.
Starting point is 00:26:44 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
Starting point is 00:26:59 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.
Starting point is 00:27:08 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.
Starting point is 00:27:22 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,
Starting point is 00:27:34 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.
Starting point is 00:27:54 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.
Starting point is 00:28:02 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,
Starting point is 00:28:12 the O'Kerry Falls are the highest commercially rafted waterfalls. Yeah, there's a massive at the end. Oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:28:19 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
Starting point is 00:28:26 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
Starting point is 00:28:36 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.
Starting point is 00:28:45 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.
Starting point is 00:28:52 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.
Starting point is 00:29:06 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.
Starting point is 00:29:15 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.
Starting point is 00:29:30 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,
Starting point is 00:29:46 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.
Starting point is 00:29:55 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.
Starting point is 00:30:11 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.
Starting point is 00:30:19 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.
Starting point is 00:30:35 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.
Starting point is 00:30:52 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.
Starting point is 00:31:08 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.
Starting point is 00:31:24 My fave. Crispy fried shallots. Shut up. Mozzarella. Yum. Tasty cheese. Yum. Spring onion and red onion.
Starting point is 00:31:32 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?
Starting point is 00:31:45 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?
Starting point is 00:31:55 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.
Starting point is 00:32:20 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.
Starting point is 00:32:35 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?
Starting point is 00:33:02 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.
Starting point is 00:33:15 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.
Starting point is 00:33:25 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%
Starting point is 00:33:41 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.
Starting point is 00:33:56 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.
Starting point is 00:34:10 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.
Starting point is 00:34:28 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.
Starting point is 00:34:45 Depends on the tattoo. Again, another one completely dependent on location. Probably not on the side of the face. Yeah. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:34:54 side of the face is full noise. Yeah. Casey said, I'm a OG emo from the 2000s. Now they say more yummy,
Starting point is 00:35:01 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?
Starting point is 00:35:14 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?
Starting point is 00:35:32 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.
Starting point is 00:35:48 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.
Starting point is 00:36:01 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.
Starting point is 00:36:14 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.
Starting point is 00:36:28 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.
Starting point is 00:36:36 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.
Starting point is 00:36:47 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.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Careful. Careful. Tread lightly. That silly little time. Okay, so there is a woman and she believes she has a severe allergy to
Starting point is 00:37:19 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.
Starting point is 00:37:30 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.
Starting point is 00:37:38 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.
Starting point is 00:37:44 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.
Starting point is 00:37:53 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,
Starting point is 00:38:26 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.
Starting point is 00:38:46 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.
Starting point is 00:38:59 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
Starting point is 00:39:13 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?
Starting point is 00:39:27 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
Starting point is 00:39:42 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.
Starting point is 00:40:02 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.
Starting point is 00:40:10 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.
Starting point is 00:40:20 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.
Starting point is 00:40:35 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.
Starting point is 00:40:58 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.
Starting point is 00:41:14 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
Starting point is 00:41:34 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.
Starting point is 00:41:56 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.
Starting point is 00:42:14 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.
Starting point is 00:42:31 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,
Starting point is 00:42:50 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.
Starting point is 00:43:07 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.
Starting point is 00:43:21 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
Starting point is 00:43:44 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.
Starting point is 00:44:07 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?
Starting point is 00:44:26 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,
Starting point is 00:44:39 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.
Starting point is 00:44:59 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
Starting point is 00:45:16 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.
Starting point is 00:45:29 Or the air force. Okay, okay. Might be allergic to semen. What about airmen? EpiPens are now free in New Zealand under prescription. Really?
Starting point is 00:45:35 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
Starting point is 00:45:42 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.
Starting point is 00:45:52 Allergic to it. Allergic. Anything like that. But I tell you what I love. A mocha. A McFlurry. Yeah. Sometimes worth it.
Starting point is 00:46:00 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
Starting point is 00:46:13 and down my back. Oh, wow. From that being. I was pregnant with first child craving white peaches. Yum. Yum. White, yeah. Delicious.
Starting point is 00:46:20 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.
Starting point is 00:46:37 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
Starting point is 00:46:48 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
Starting point is 00:46:59 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,
Starting point is 00:47:12 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.
Starting point is 00:47:26 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.
Starting point is 00:47:35 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.
Starting point is 00:47:47 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.
Starting point is 00:47:57 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.
Starting point is 00:48:13 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.
Starting point is 00:48:29 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?
Starting point is 00:48:43 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.
Starting point is 00:49:07 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,
Starting point is 00:49:20 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,
Starting point is 00:49:38 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.
Starting point is 00:49:59 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.
Starting point is 00:50:09 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,
Starting point is 00:50:17 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.
Starting point is 00:50:26 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?
Starting point is 00:50:39 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.
Starting point is 00:50:54 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?
Starting point is 00:51:09 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.
Starting point is 00:51:25 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.
Starting point is 00:51:39 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.
Starting point is 00:51:57 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.
Starting point is 00:52:13 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.
Starting point is 00:52:34 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
Starting point is 00:52:50 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.
Starting point is 00:53:07 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.
Starting point is 00:53:18 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,
Starting point is 00:53:35 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,
Starting point is 00:53:50 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.
Starting point is 00:54:04 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?
Starting point is 00:54:21 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.
Starting point is 00:54:32 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.
Starting point is 00:54:43 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,
Starting point is 00:54:53 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.
Starting point is 00:55:07 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.
Starting point is 00:55:23 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.
Starting point is 00:55:38 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.
Starting point is 00:56:03 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.
Starting point is 00:56:21 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,
Starting point is 00:56:40 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.
Starting point is 00:56:52 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
Starting point is 00:57:12 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.
Starting point is 00:57:26 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.
Starting point is 00:57:37 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,
Starting point is 00:57:49 short-tempered, boozy girlfriend who cheated on me with her female workmate. You're right. Wow. Okay. Okay. You got me down.
Starting point is 00:57:57 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.
Starting point is 00:58:06 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.
Starting point is 00:58:15 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.
Starting point is 00:58:27 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?
Starting point is 00:58:43 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
Starting point is 00:58:57 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
Starting point is 00:59:09 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,
Starting point is 00:59:27 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.
Starting point is 00:59:44 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.
Starting point is 00:59:58 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.
Starting point is 01:00:11 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.
Starting point is 01:00:25 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?
Starting point is 01:00:38 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
Starting point is 01:00:54 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.
Starting point is 01:01:10 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.
Starting point is 01:01:20 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.
Starting point is 01:01:34 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
Starting point is 01:01:45 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.
Starting point is 01:01:55 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.
Starting point is 01:02:03 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.
Starting point is 01:02:14 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.
Starting point is 01:02:49 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.
Starting point is 01:02:59 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
Starting point is 01:03:12 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.
Starting point is 01:03:28 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.
Starting point is 01:03:43 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.
Starting point is 01:04:03 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.
Starting point is 01:04:12 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,
Starting point is 01:04:18 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.
Starting point is 01:04:30 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,
Starting point is 01:04:40 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.
Starting point is 01:04:49 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.
Starting point is 01:05:03 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
Starting point is 01:05:12 from the English word wiener, which is a loan word from German, meaning from Vienna. Meaning Vaughan Smith. Wiener. That's not very nice.
Starting point is 01:05:26 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.
Starting point is 01:05:37 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.
Starting point is 01:05:51 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.
Starting point is 01:06:14 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.
Starting point is 01:06:29 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,
Starting point is 01:07:05 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?
Starting point is 01:07:15 A little bit Swedish? A little bit. A little bit Norwegian. Have they updated? Norway-agean? What? And always updating. Always.
Starting point is 01:07:22 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
Starting point is 01:07:31 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
Starting point is 01:07:38 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.
Starting point is 01:07:45 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
Starting point is 01:07:54 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
Starting point is 01:08:00 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.
Starting point is 01:08:14 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.
Starting point is 01:08:23 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.
Starting point is 01:08:44 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,
Starting point is 01:08:58 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
Starting point is 01:09:10 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.
Starting point is 01:09:23 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?
Starting point is 01:09:37 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
Starting point is 01:09:56 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?
Starting point is 01:10:13 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.
Starting point is 01:10:26 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.
Starting point is 01:10:44 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.
Starting point is 01:11:01 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.
Starting point is 01:11:20 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,
Starting point is 01:11:41 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.
Starting point is 01:11:54 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.
Starting point is 01:12:08 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
Starting point is 01:12:28 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.
Starting point is 01:12:48 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.
Starting point is 01:13:04 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,
Starting point is 01:13:30 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.
Starting point is 01:13:48 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
Starting point is 01:14:04 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
Starting point is 01:14:11 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
Starting point is 01:14:19 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.
Starting point is 01:14:30 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.
Starting point is 01:14:42 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.
Starting point is 01:14:51 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?
Starting point is 01:15:06 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
Starting point is 01:15:15 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
Starting point is 01:15:24 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?
Starting point is 01:15:33 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.
Starting point is 01:15:48 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.
Starting point is 01:16:03 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
Starting point is 01:16:12 Wow Wait you've got four siblings And 33 children between them Even that What are we looking at there Six Seven No
Starting point is 01:16:20 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.
Starting point is 01:16:33 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?
Starting point is 01:16:52 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?
Starting point is 01:17:07 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.
Starting point is 01:17:24 Right. And then that's been kept a big secret. Come back. Tan baby. Tan's well. No, Maori. Yeah, Italian. Yeah, Italian.
Starting point is 01:17:33 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.
Starting point is 01:17:45 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.
Starting point is 01:18:04 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.
Starting point is 01:18:19 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.
Starting point is 01:18:29 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. Oh, another one in the bag. It's a Versace bag as well.
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