ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 21st June 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fleshborn and Hayley Big Pod. Download the MyMaccas app and earn rewards on your coffee. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fleshborn and Hayley. It's two minutes past six. Well, guys, big day. Guys, while you were sleeping, there was a big announcement. Screaming, crying, blowing up.

ZM sending you to Taylor Swift, the heiress tour, live in Melbourne. Yes, 4am this news dropped. Taylor Swift will be playing Melbourne, Australia and Sydney. Yeah, babe. She will not be coming to New Zealand, but that's because her stage is so giant. I think it might fit in a couple of stadiums, but it would literally touch the side.

There'd be no one on... There'd be no crowd. There'd be no room for the crowd, only in the seats. We are too small. Playing these mega stadiums in Australia, I think what Ed Sheeran played the MCG instead of world record, or record in Australia, was it 108,000 people in the MCG? Yeah.

I don't even know that many people. I've marched in front of 42,000 people, so that was pretty epic. So I know the feeling. I know what it's like to come out to an expecting crowd waiting for you in particular. And I'll tell you, it's a feeling. So here are the dates. Melbourne's MCG. I've been to the MCG for a cricket game.

That is gigantic. It's humongous. So many people. The 16th and 17th of Feb next year. A core stadium in Sydney. That's the 23rd, 24th and 25th. She's doing three shows in a row in Sydney. Now, the general public tickets are on sale the 30th of June next Friday.

Carween, producer Carween, she is the biggest fan. How excited are you right now? I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out. Any book flights? Yeah. Oh, my God. I was onto that ASAP.

Ross Boss, also a huge Taylor Swift fan in the world. How much? Were flights all right? Yeah, not too bad. Because I saw at the start of the week, Air New Zealand had a sale. Were they on sale? They'll put those prices up when they hear this.

Yeah, they'll be like, oh, this is a poorly timed sale. If you want flights, go now, I'd say. But, see, wait, you've booked flights, but you haven't got tickets yet, because they're not on sale. Nah, if I don't get tickets, that's not going to happen. But if I didn't, we'll go outside the stadium.

We'll just hang out there. Because fans have just been turning up outside stadiums and making a thing of it, right? So they've been tailgating. Last weekend in Pittsburgh, there's a lake near the cinema. People were in boats

in the lake watching. Yeah, it was amazing. It was insane. What kind of boats? Like paddle boats or like... Well, no, like a paddle stand-up. No, no, no. Like a little dinghy, like a rowable cute thing you hire

and you go out and it's shaped like a swan or one of those big bikes with three wheels that you pedal at the mouth. No, like actual boats. Actually like rich people boats. Rich fishing boats. Jet boats. Yeah. Like wall-type boats.

Guys, guys, guys, guys. How big is this lake? I'm on to New Zealand now. Go, go, go. How much for the weekend? How much to go to Melbourne for the weekend of the 16th, 17th? $235 over. Oh.

And, you know, like $300 back. Okay. It's not cheaper than that at the moment. No. Flights don't get cheaper to Australia than that at the moment. No, I know. I mean, it's still a lot of money, but that's what flights to Australia cost. So go get them now because they will not stay that price.

And then hope like hell that you can get your tickets this, not this Friday, next Friday. That's the 30th of June. Holy man, it's going to be such a bum rush to get tickets. At ZM Online, we have all the details. Plus we have, and I know, Karen, when you've been working on this, that's why you were up so early this morning. We have a chance for you to win tickets to Taylor Swift in Melbourne, flights, accommodation,

and not only that, we will make your dream era's outfit. So how does this competition work, superfan? So go onto the website, ZM Online, and enter your dream outfit, a mood board, anything that you would want to wear. Nipple tassels.

I wear nipple tassels. Yeah. Is it a Fearless Era outfit? Is it Speak Now Era? Do you want to look like Midnight's album? Pop it online and we could be making that outfit for you. Oh my God. That's insane.

And sending you and a friend to see Taylor Swift. All those details are at ZM Online. It's Taylor Swift, Get Away Car. That was the song that she released. Carwin, huge mega fan. This was the song that she released. Carwin, huge mega fan. This was the song she released for her 2018 New Zealand Australia tour. Yeah, so she came here for the Reputation Tour, popped that out for us just for funsies.

Fun. I would describe Carwin today as jittery. I am. No, I've had like five coffees. You said, I'm going to be late to work because I'm dealing with Taylor Swift stuff. What stuff were you doing? Was that when you were buying flights and that?

No, no, no. Getting the website up. Were you in charge of that? Yeah. Yeah, Cohen's got a lot of power today. She's got a lot of power here at work. She's got the password. Yeah, she's got the password to the website.

I've got the password. I don't feel like your wairua will settle until you've got tickets in your hands. Yeah, I am wearing my red cardigan, but it's off. I'm too warm. Well, if you've just joined us, Taylor Swift is coming to Australia. Dates announced in Melbourne and in Sydney. All the details are at ZM Online, plus your chance to win tickets, flights, and accommodation to one of her Melbourne shows.

We have got ticket prices now. Tickets go on sale on Friday the 30th of June. That's next Friday. And by the way, there's an Amex pre-sale and I've got an Amex. Don't say that. You don't tell people that. Carwin already messaged me at 4.20am. Are you getting cash in hand before ordering?

Well, no, because I've got my friends, Dr. Sean and Jared. They're going to want tickets. They're huge fans. You need money in the account. And they're my friends. Yeah, but you need money in the account. Dr. Sean also doesn't like you using your Amex because you get the bonus points. So I reckon you charge an extra.

This is great. Yes. This is great. Well, either way, whichever of my friends use these tickets, if I get through, I'm going to probably add a $50 service fee. Well, I tell you what. $50? You are a piece of work, my friend.

He's an absolute. Oh, my God. But I tell you what. You're not going to need to because points, how much for a point? I don't know. How many dollars do you have to spend until you get a point? I don't know. You get a point for every something. I don't know how it works. You do know.

Come on. No, I honestly don't know how it works. Doesn't it change? You are Mr. Points. I know, but it's a lot of points. I know it's a lot of points. Okay. So the cheapest seats there are is G Reserve.

Okay. And are these prices in Australian? Okay. These are Australian dollars. Pretty similar. $79.90. Holy! Is G Reserve.

So like the MCG, that'll be like top. Nosebleeds. Nosebleeds. But still, who cares you're there. You're there. Take some Beenox and save yourself some money. I'm so glad she's put affordable tickets on. Yeah.

F Reserve, $119. So $120. E reserve, $159. D reserve, $199. C reserve, $239. Now we're getting there. Get me closer, Vaughn. This is going to add up for Carwin when she adds her $50 booking fee.

Yeah, that's really going to happen. I mean, once she's gone D, she might as Carwin though once she adds her $50 booking fee. Yeah, that's really going to happen. I mean, once she's gone D, she might as well go C, you know, for the booking fee. This guy, no dependents. Okay, we'll take it down to 40. Good job, no partner.

What am I wrong again? B reserve, $309. Yeah. I want closer. A reserve, $379. $379 is A reserve. Is that like the top, without getting into a VIP package, is that the top price?

Yes, sir. I'm actually really shocked. Yeah, when you think of other concerts, big concerts when you're at the front, right up. Dude, let's not forget when I panicked and spent $1,000 ago to Billy Joel. Now let's not forget. See, she panicked.

She panicked. She's a panicked one. Let's not forget. She's still paying that off on the credit card. Let's not forget how much I panicked. I panicked. She's a panicked one. Let's not forget. She's still paying that off on the credit card. Let's not forget how much I panicked. I think these are really reasonable. There is a package. I don't know what's in this package.

It's called It's Been a Long Time Coming package. Yep. $1,250 Australian dollars. She actually cuts off one of her fingers and gives you one of her fingers. I thought she might. Let you have a chew on her thumbnail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure.

You get to kiss on the lips. She only sells 10 of these a show. She could do her toenails. She could really sell more. 20. Right. And then do 20. No, I don't know how many she sells of those, but that's $1,249.

Right. Well, all those details are at ZM Online. All the ticket details and your chance to win flights accommodation to Melbourne as well. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. There's an update coming for iPhones. Is this going to be all iPhones?

I thought it was going to be just the new ones. I'm rocking a 12. What are we at now? 14. 14. 15 later this year. I was going to say, is it 15 later this year? Yep.

Maybe. I'll wait. And Samsung's up to the 17, so they'll be... We've got better cameras. Yeah, but you're unusable. You're literally unusable. I have such disrespect for Samsung users. I'm always like...

You're very rude. How embarrassing. When I see those trips Clint gets taken on, I'm like, well, maybe. Yeah, iPhone's actually giving us nothing. Well, maybe. And they did give you a TV. No, no, I love their everything else.

I love their fridges. I love their washer dryers. I love their appliances. I love their fridges. I love their washer dryers. I love their appliances. I love their TVs. Their phones, unusable. Now, iPhones have an update coming. iOS 17 update for iPhones. Yeah, later this year I think it comes out,

around the same time as the iPhone comes out. I think so. And they've got to have a new tool on it that will tell you when your iPhone is too close to your face. Now, not when you're on the phone. That generally touches the face. So I'm a big speaker girl. I'm the same, actually.

When I call, I'll just sit there and put the phone on me and speak. Yeah, and just like relax. I hate this. Or, you know, put on your earphones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love taking a call in my car. Love that. Hands free.

Do you know living in the central city, right by an intersection, I live above a very busy intersection, the amount of people I hear ringing or making calls on their speaker. And you're just in your lounge. You're like, dude, how dare you? I can hear this call.

It's because they've stopped, and so they can go like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Dial it, and then they sit there and it goes, brr, brrrr brrrr I don't know how loud it is beep beep beep beep what should I have for dinner tonight

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Well, I've got to make pasta sheets. Can we not talk about pasta? Oh, she's off carbs. I'm fine. Anyway, so this new feature in the update is called screen distance. It's going to tell you when your iPhone is too close to your face, it alerts you saying, hey, square eyes, move that away. So it'll give you a little buzz and say you're going to move it away

because all this research was done around the prolonged screen time increasing the risk of myopia. Because what is the, does it say the perfect distance we should be? Well, if you're like this, you're just going to get used, if you're so close, you just get used to reading that. So when you start moving it away, you won't be able to read anymore. Right. Therefore making you short-sighted.

Because Shanaleigh at Pyjamas, producer Shannon at the social media desk, you were quite worried about this new feature. Yeah, this freaks me out a bit. I'm deemed legally blind. I'm good when I've got contacts or glasses. Did you know this? Why is there no, I've never seen you with glasses. Weren't you driving us the other day?

She shouldn't be driving us. I'm good now. I'm wearing contact lenses. Didn't you tell me that I looked beautiful the other day? Yes, she did. I don't even know. Yeah, nah. It's just like, I have corrective vision. I can see when I've got the

goods on. But when I'm not wearing contacts or glasses, I can't see anything. I've got, so mine's started far away, but the worst I've got has come closer. So I can only see maybe about five to six centimetres from, no, maybe like ten centimetres from my face.

Oh dear. Oh my god, that's so close. I just put my hand up. So in bed at night time, I take out my contacts and like when we're messaging in the chat or I scroll Instagram, when I'm posting on FVH, my phone is within 10 centimeters of my face at all times. My kids will sit there like that, like in a fetal position on the couch. Their phone's there. And I'm like, get up.

Get up. Sit up. Sit up. When we got told off for staring at the microwave real close waiting for dinner. Yeah. Beep. And we turned out okay. How far away from your face was it going to do? I've just got my for dinner. Beep. And we turned out okay. How far away from your face

was it going to do? I've just got my ruler out. 10 centimetres. Okay, if your phone is that close to your face. I know. You've got some, you need some help.

It's way too close, my dude. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Just woken up. Are you just joining us? Taylor Swift has announced shows in Sydney and in Melbourne. All the details are at ZM Online

plus your chance to win tickets to see her in Melbourne. All the details are at ZM Online, plus your chance to win tickets to see her in Melbourne flights and accommodation. Got a fascinating, complicated story unfolding in New Zealand. I saw this. About a thruple. I saw this yesterday. Wild.

I don't know any thruples. I know lots of people in open relationships, but not a working thruple. You know what I mean? It would just be so complicated. It'd be hot, though. It's hot enough with one person. Yeah.

And you might think, oh, a problem shared is a problem halved. But I just imagine there's just twice as many problems. What do you do when you're in the car at the intersection? Who sits in the front? There's that. Who drives? Who sits in the front? You're in the car on the way home at the intersection and you're on

the loudspeaker and you're like, what's going on? And then you've got to call the second person. And then you've got to call the second person and they're like, lasagna. And Bourne's like, it's too late for lasagna. It's way too late to sell lasagna. It's not too late for lasagna. I can get a quick one. I'm not having a cooked lasagna. He always

gets his way. I could just get a little, you know, El Paso. Not El Paso, that's Mexican. I'm down for that. Mexican lasagna. Any day of the night. Right. He always gets his way. But what's that Mexican brand of stuff you guys like?

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Tia Pablo. Tia Pablo. We made those cheeseburgers. Just quick, quick, if I may indulge you, quick tangent onto cheeseburger tacos. Tacos. So I saw you make these. You put the taco down.

Yeah, and you get the mince. Yep. And you just smush it. Smash it. Roar. Yep. Smush it onto the taco. Yep.

The tortilla. But how does the side on the tortilla get cooked? So then you just put it upside down on a hot plate. And because it's so thin, because you smashed it down, it's so thin it doesn't take long to cook. And then you take it off. And then cheeseburger sauce. And you put a bit of cheese on it, and then we kept them warm in the oven,

but that was also with the cheese goudon, and then a little bit of burger sauce. They're everywhere online. Was the tortilla crispy though? Yes. No, no, no, not bad. It's still folded. Still had all the dexterity to fold.

Okay, okay. So there's a throuple. I think we just agreed on what's for dinner tonight. Even though I've already had them one night. This is why we work, guys. This is why we work. This is why this works for us. Society shuns us a lot, but this is why it works. If we separate,

there's going to be property issues. And this is what's happened in this thrumple in the news because it's gone to the high court. Yes. Yeah, so there's a lady and a man and they got married in 1993. Yep. In 1999, they met another lady and in 2002,

they formed an official polyamorous relationship. Wow, they've been together for ages. Yeah, I know. And moved into a four hectare property in Kumi. Oh, neighbours are we. Should pop round for a cover. Over the fence. Pop round for a cover.

That'd be interesting, neighbours. And they, oh my God, they paid half a million dollars for it. Bloody steal. Half a million dollars? With a $40,000 deposit. If anybody wants to know what property was like back in 1993. I just put like a chain down my spine. Feeling well.

They lived together in the property for 15 years. Same room, bed. Big bed. Jesus, I've got a big bed. There's not enough room for a few. I've got the biggest bed. You need a California king. Yeah, I've got that.

I'm not putting a third in there. There's not a third. Especially, I've got absolutely no pets. Well, if you had a third, you guys would need a little person. It would have to be a little person. Like under five foot? Stackable. You've got them stackable.

Because Aaron's so massive, he would starve us to be. It would have to be a woman. There's enough men in that house. Yeah, he's one and a half men. Okay. So they all worked and contributed to the house and it was all going well until 2017 when you'll remember in the original couple, that lady broke up with the lady that came later and the original man. So original woman left.

Yeah, the original woman left. And then in 2018, next year, it turns out that she was the secret source because the remaining two broke up. Oh, okay. So the person who stayed living at the house was the third lady who joined. The third person who joined. And last to join, the property had been purchased in her name. Oh, my God.

The jury is going to need a flow chart. Yeah, we're going to need a picture to follow. Is there even a jury? You remember they paid half a million dollars for the property. It's now worth over $2 million. Of course it is. And that was in 2017. So you can imagine now it's worth even more.

No, probably not. It's probably back down. Skyrocketed and then it's fallen back down. So there's been like all the family court that people are like actually you don't have

the jurisdiction to be dealing with this. Okay. And so now they made a decision and it's gone to the Supreme Court. Too complicated. The Supreme Court. But to the Supreme Court. Too complicated. The Supreme Court.

But then the Supreme Court ruled that the family court did have jurisdiction to determine the throuples property dispute. Oh, so they threw it back. So now it's gone back to the family.

It's gone to the meat lovers. Yeah. To the Supreme Court, the meat lovers court. I personally, you know, people show me, but I love Hawaiian court. I love Hawaiian.

It's fruity in there. It's fruity. Especially if Judge Pineapple is flame grilled. Oh, my God. Say what you will. Say what you will. I personally like all of my decisions made in the five meat lovers court. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes. What about chicken and cranberry court? Chicken and cranberry court. Yes. That's a great court. That's more for traffic fine violations, that kind of stuff. Yes, small court. Yeah.

So what? It's just still being decided. And the law is just like, well, this... Wouldn't the law be just they have to split everything in three? This is the first time in New Zealand it has confirmed the legal position of a three-person relationship. When the law's in New Zealand, what happens when the relationship breaks down? Yeah, because they usually wouldn't last longer than two years. Yeah, and then I guess also people are like, well, this is dangerous because this could

set a precedent. Yes, a legal precedent. And then they always, then that legal precedent becomes known as so-and-so v. so-and-so. Yes. But in this one it would be so-and-so v. so-and-so v. so-and-so. So, yeah. Oh, my God. How interesting.

Ah. So, still ongoing. Can you marry? Could they marry? No. In the halls of New Zealand? Not three. The original couple were.

Right. Were they? Did I read that? I closed the tab. Also, if the other person comes in way later, do they get a smaller amount? No, because they didn't buy the property together until she'd been part of the relationship. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Oh, my God. And also, longer than two years. It doesn't matter when you came in. And that's the other thing. Bags does de facto work three way. Wow. I'm so glad I'm not dealing with this decision. Well, I'll never say never.

You know? You think I've still got time to make a career as a court judge? No, no. I thought you were involved in the thruple, to be honest. Yeah, yeah. You've got time to find one and then find another. No one hangs around nearly long enough to get de facto status out of this guy. Oh, no, there'd be a pre-dub.

There'd be a pre-dub. The day before the two-year mark, he's like, bye. Bye, pre-dub. Bye. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM. From the panoramic ZM think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hey there, the Commerce Commission is going to,

banks will engage with the Commerce Commission market study, but they don't think it's needed. It's like an alcoholic saying, I'm fine, I'll quit anytime I want. I'll quit actually fine. Didn't the supermarkets say that as well when they said they were having a Commerce Commission? It's like, we're fine. What do you mean? We've got some really budget, cheap, like, dollar breed here.

Yeah, and we won't raise the price on that. Yeah. No nutritional value. Yeah. So, banks and the sector is already competitive as industry faces a government-ordered probing. Like an alien. Up their bank bets. We're going to probe your bank bum hole.

They're billionaire bank bits. So are they having a, what an hour. Yeah. They're doing it tough. Guys, I'm not holding my breath. They are doing it tough though, guys. They're only earning a few billion dollars a year. A quarter.

Sorry, a quarter. Yeah. They should start to give a little. Quarter on quarter record profit. Start to give a little. Give a little. Westpac. Give a little ANZ. You go. I'm just going to set up these give a little. Quarter on quarter record profit. Start to give a little. Give a little. Westpac. Give a little ANZ.

You go. I'm just going to set up these give a little pages. Yeah, that's great. If you do it for everybody. Yeah, that's terrible. I feel terrible for them. Well, I've got the top six things I can tell you about banks without a Commerce Commission investigation. Okay.

Yep. Number six on the list. They own way too much of my house for someone that's not doing any chores. Truly. Mow the lawn, bro. To come around and do something. Yeah. Like, I'm getting nagged about doing the outside of the windows.

I feel like the bank should come around and do that. Can I borrow that window thing that you've got? Yep. The Karcher window thing. Yeah, because I need to clean my windows. You really should get your own Karcher. No, I'm not saying you can't borrow it, but you do have a lot of windows. Yeah, I've got a lot of windows.

No, but I want to try it before I buy it. What do you mean, don't drop it? Are you doing have a lot of windows. Yeah, I've got a lot of windows but I want to try it before I buy it. What do you mean don't drop it? Are you doing the outside of your windows? Yeah. You'll be leaning out the fourth story.

Don't drop it. You're up really high. Safety string it. Why are you worried about your back and not your best friend hanging out the window? He's very bouncy.

Okay. He's very resilient. There's an awning that would break my fall. It'd shoot you into the street and land on top of one of those cars making a loud phone call on a speaker. There's an awning that would break my fork. And shoot you into the street and land on top of one of those cars making a loud phone call on a speaker.

What's your effort done? What was that? I don't know. I don't know, but there's a car to window cleaner on my bonnet. Grab it. Those are great. Number five on the list of the top six things I can tell you about banks are that a Commerce Commission investigation.

They're not as much fun as they make themselves out to be. They're always doing fun things in their ads. Yeah, they are. Yeah, fun. Woo, we're a fun bank. Have you been into a bank? Not as much fun. Dry.

Oh, yeah, they're always like, tank your hat off. And I'm like, why? And they're like, because you could be robbing the bank. I look more like a criminal without my hat on than I do with it on. Yeah, I'm like, I've literally just given you my driver's license and my FPOS card. Like, why would I rob the bank now? She's like, take the hat off. I'm like,

but it really doesn't matter. Yeah. And then they're like, I'm pushing the panic button. And you're like, well, in that case, give me all your money. Yeah, yeah.

Well, if we're here. If we're here, I may as well go. If they're coming up. Number four on the list of the top six things I can tell you about banks without a commission investigation.

It's all gone downhill since the National Bank shot the horse. Yeah, they had to put those horses down when they merged. Yeah, but it broke its leg. Yeah, they merged. Yeah, so the horses went boom. You wait till Westpac have to put down that big monster. God, that's my boyfriend. That's my boyfriend in there.

Be careful. It's not going to be a gentle euthanisation. They will need a bazooka for that thing. Yeah, it's a monster. They'll need a few. Yeah. The hunt. Number three on the list of the top six things I can tell you about banks

without a commission investigation. Interest rates are too high. Really? That's a good observation there. Tell that to someone who had a mortgage 20 years ago and they're like, they were 15% or 20%. 15% on $10? It's $1.50 a year, Mom.

Well, if you weren't eating your avocado smash toast. Yeah. Those $3.50 long blacks. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six things I can tell you about banks without a Commerce Commission investigation, they're all run by a Scottish duck who loves swimming in big tanks of money. Yeah.

Those coins would absolutely snap you if you dove into them. Oh, you'd smash your face. Dove? Dived. Dove. Dove. Is it dove? It's dove. Doved into. It's dove. Thank you for clarifying. And number one on the list of the top six things I can tell you about banks without a Commerce Commission investigation because

my nan told me the banks are never bloody open. I know, old people don't like that, do they? Oh my God. We talk about a few things. We talk about the weather, me and Marlene, the weather, the warriors, and how nothing's open. Where's the post shop gone and the bank is

never open? That is today's top six. Play. ZM's Fletchv Vaughan and Hayley. From today in the United Kingdom at the big chain super drug, which is like chemist's warehouse or

massive pharmacies, you can now buy the world's first saliva based pregnancy test. Were you here this morning when I mentioned this, Vaughan, and Hayley said, ooh, yuck? You'd rather piss on a stick. Then what? Spit on a stick? Well, I misunderstood

how it works. Right. Do you remember when COVID was first stepped? That's how we got here in the first place. Oh my God, you're pregnant. Fantastic. When we first had COVID, and you had those tests, we had to like fill a vial with your saliva and do you know everyone was like we need to be doing that it's so much better but i

actually had a friend that traveled quite a bit during covid and he said they were the worst because it's hard to just come up with so much but you had to fill it up so much i remember like going on a shoot and they like gave me the test and I had to go sit in my car and they're like, wait to get more and just keep spitting into this thing. You have to fill it up this much. Yeah. Froth's not included. Yeah, no froth.

But this isn't how it works. You just put the stick in your mouth for a few moments like you would a thermometer, which gathers enough saliva. I would have said a chopper chop. You don't like a chopper chop. You don't have to. What's in saliva that makes you proud?

HCG. HCG, a crazy hormone that once I took to lose weight. HCG. Oh my God. 10 years ago, this was like a trend,

HCG hormone. How would you get it? Like a, like a, you know, like some dodgy company that's like brought it in from China and you brought it

and it was like some weight loss miracle. Just like that time I took the stiffy pills from India. Good lord, that was a crazy month. Yeah, it's a hormone specific to pregnancy which helps prepare the uterus for the developing embryo. Don't ask me how I lost weight.

You ate like two calories a day and took this hormone. I think that's how you were losing the weight not eating. Yeah, and I was working with Chris Parker and then one day he's like,

stop. You are insane. Right, so it made you like, was like another hormone in you. Yeah, yeah, right. So this is much better

than hiding in a bathroom and paying on a stick. Three minutes later they say the accuracy is pretty spot on bathroom, peeing on a stick. Three minutes later, they say the accuracy is pretty spot on as much as any other pee stick thing. What about how people are doing pregnancy roulette? Have you heard about this trend? Yeah.

A bunch of chicks get together and pee on pregnancy tests. And then put them in a box and roll it around. And they don't know whose test is whose. And there was one I saw online and two pregnancy tests were positive. That is wild. And then you have to go do another one and find out who's up for the duffel. It would be fun to do if you were pregnant and you were in charge of the box and you'd pre-peed on four sticks.

And then you'd tip the four out and put four in and shake it around. Oh, yeah, like do a switch. Oh, my God. Everyone's pregnant. Yeah. Speaking of pregnancy, my mum keeps sending me photos of my dad in Italy with like their friend's granddaughter. Like, look what a great grandfather he'll be.

And my dad's like so happy and this little girl's like looking at him dotingly. But then I did go to my niece's birthday the other day and the parents looked exhausted. Oh yeah, they're always tired. And they can't go to the pub. They just simply cannot go to the pub. So you're out. I was at the pub last night parents looked exhausted. Oh yeah, they're always tired. And they can't go to the pub. They just simply cannot go to the pub. So you're out. I was at the pub last night without my children.

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Gay penguins! Oh, you must get the timing on that one. You must get the timing on that one. It's been a while. We've got some great gay penguin news. This is very reminiscent of the Last of Us episode with Bill and Frank.

Which is one of the loveliest episodes of the Last of Us. Yeah, it's a beautiful episode. Because in 2018, Sven? S-P-H-E-N. Sven. S-P-H-E-N. Sven. Sven.

You say Sven. Sven. Sven. Because it's not the S-V-E-N. Sven. Sven. You say Sven. Sven. Sven. Because it's not the S-V-E-N. Sven. Sven. Sven. You don't say...

You also don't say Vorgan, but you know, we're picking names apart. Sven and Magic, since 2018, have been inseparable. They are two male penguins who love each other and they have successfully raised a chick that has been called Lara. Was that our last episode of gay penguins? I can't remember. I think this was another aquarium. These names don't ring a bell.

There's actually a few gay penguins. I know. They're beautiful. The way penguins love in general is beautiful. Gay penguins, of course, they give each other a stone, don't they? And the stone's for life. Yeah. What's with all the gay penguins love in general is beautiful. Gay penguins, of course, they give each other a stone, don't they? And the stone's for life. Yeah. What's with all the gay penguins?

I'm just going, gay penguins steal eggs. And someone says, what's with all the gay penguins? Right. That was two male African penguins at a Dutch zoo. They stole an egg from a heterosexual penguin couple. Crafty gays. After they thought they had a rock, and then the rock didn't hatch and they got sad. And then they stole an egg and they're going to raise that as their own.

So now, spin and magic are being used as a teaching tool to explain different relationships of kids who might just grow up in a heterosexual household. That really, it's not that different. It's really got you in the feels. It's beautiful. These two argue just as much as mummy and daddy. But they're daddy and daddy.

I want this fish. You got the last fish. Yeah. Oh, God, fish again? I don't see you rushing home to prepare a meal. Yeah. You've just been sitting here all day on top of this egg. Whoa. meal? Yeah. You've just been sitting here all day on top of this egg. Whoa!

So there's a unit of work now in the New South Wales syllabus. In the knowledge centre section of the member portal of the Federation's website reads this story. And you go along and you can do learn about relationships of different sorts. That's cool. Yeah. You go along on a little school trip

to the aquarium. Yeah. It's lovely. I love that go along on a little school trip to the aquarium. Yeah. It's lovely. I love that the answer to the question, how am I supposed to explain this to my kids, is penguins. Is literally penguins. Is gay penguins. Yeah.

You go along and you see them and you're like, oh, penguins. Then you go along and they shouldn't tell the homophobes which one because who can tell the difference between a male penguin and a female penguin? I can't. I don't know what to look for. They're so flabbery and flubbery you can't see the genitals.

Yeah, if you're like ignorant enough to be homophobic you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference either and then you'd be like okay pick your favourite couple

and then of course you're going to go for them because they've got this beautiful car. They've got this nice car, nice house, everything's so

nicely decorated and people will pick them as their favourite and they'll turn out to be the gay penguins. So, there you go, that's another one be the gay penguins. So, there you go. That's another one for the gay penguins. Another mark in the book for the gay penguins.

Do you want the theme song out? Sure, why not? I'll try to beat it up with my timing. Okay. Gay penguins! There it is. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley's silly little pose. Here it is. Today's Silly Little Pole, a man surprised his girlfriend by proposing at a Taylor Swift concert.

And as you've heard us mention a lot this morning, the Taylor Swift Eres Tour Australia. What? I've only just heard. In Melbourne and Sydney has been announced all those details at ZM Online. We will keep harping on about this. I think people are going... They're going crazy. has been announced. All those details at ZM Online. We will keep harping on about this. I think people are going... They're going crazy. They are going crazy.

People are losing their minds. I do know a lot of people as well are going like, why isn't she coming to New Zealand? We're too small. She actually can't fit the stage anywhere. She can't fit it. Like she could probably fit it in Mount Smart, but it would touch the sides.

You've got kind of a big backyard. Did you offer? Oh, very muddy. I don't want that sort of mess. No, it's boggy. Too boggy. Too boggy. Too boggy.

Too boggy for Taylor Swift fans. So, a man surprised girlfriend proposing at Taylor Swift concert, and we asked, Proposes at concert, yes or no? Yes, so cute. No, so cringe. I find them very cringe. Lots of people are doing them, particularly at Taylor Swift concerts. Well, if you're thinking of doing it at Taylor Swift, maybe tie ho there, fella.

Yeah. 9% of people said, yes, so cute. 91% said, no, it's cringe. I feel like over the past year or so, Harry Styles has been doing like one every second concert. People love doing it at a Harry Styles concert. Like the big on stage. Yeah, yeah. I feel like there's so much pressure.

Like, even when we got engaged, everyone was like, how did he propose? And it was like, he asked me the question and I cried and we said, do you know what I mean? Like, it's like there's so much pressure to have this huge event. Yeah. Calm down. It's about each other. Yeah.

Are you taking that personally? Because you had quite a great proposal story, Vaughn. Yeah, I know. Involved an island and, you know. Yeah, I know, I know. But it was still, you know, not public. But I mean, you were proposed to in the middle of a West Auckland Covers band's amazing rendition of Islands in the Stream.

Now, that's also pretty cool. It's sentimental. It's a romantic song. Will you marry me? I can't hear you over this guy doing a cracking Kenny Rogers. Baby, when I met you, there was peace on. And you were like, yes. Oh, my God, I will be your dolly.

Yes. Alicia said, why not, especially if it's during their favourite song or your couple song? That's thoughtful in my opinion. Oh, okay, that's nice. Yeah, but Bob Seger doesn't tour a lot for me. Not as much as you'd like. Not as much as you'd like. You and your oldie times music. I've got to tell you, Huey Lewis, he's not hitting the road a lot either me not as much as you'd like not as much as you'd like

not as much as you'd like you and your oldie times music I gotta tell you Huey Lewis he's not hitting the road a lot either oh get out

and I wouldn't dare propose during a song without the news being there with Huey Lewis and I told you Slipknot they're not coming to New Zealand

so what are you all gonna do what am I waiting imagine a proposal with a Slipknot concert dude it would have guaranteed to happen of course it would have

Sophie says I think cute it wouldn't be my cup of tea but he obviously knows his girlfriend and Dude, it would have guaranteed to have happened. Of course it would have. Sophie says, I think cute. It wouldn't be my cup of tea but he obviously knows his girlfriend and knows that she would have loved that surprise. Yes, yes.

Well, you do want to know the person you're getting married to, I've found. Yeah. That works. I thought it was a bit cute, said Kylie, till I witnessed the guy

propose at an Ed Sheeran concert to the A-Team song. Of all his songs, why the one about the drug-addicted prostitute? Yeah, that's about drug addiction and heroin, isn't it? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, not the proposal song you'd probably hope for. Each to their own. To each their own. Madeline said a few years back there was a proposal in the middle of a set at R&V. Oh, okay. So cringe and wasn't even New Year's. What were the warm-up nights?

Did they stop down during a shapeshifter set or something? Yeah, probably. Yeah, maybe. Okay. Good luck stopping it down once that's kicked off. Lisa says, you're going to look like a right Muppet if the answer's no. It puts a lot of pressure on the person to say yes. Well, maybe that's why they're doing it there.

Well, yeah, and as we talked earlier in the week about the people that got, you know, stood up at their wedding, just say yes and then just don't sign or go through it later on. Deal with that later. Gemma said, if his or her favourite song is playing, then why not? It'll make it a concert to double remember. Yeah. Well, we've announced the Taylor Swift Errors Tour Australia dates in Melbourne and Sydney.

The 16th and 17th of Feb next year in Melbourne, Sydney, at a core stadium the 23rd, 24th and 25th of Feb next year. All those details are at ZM online, but general ticket sales are next Friday, the 30th of June. Yeah, don't message us asking if we can get them for you. Taylor Swift has announced her Eros tour in Australia, not coming to New Zealand, but the tickets for Australia go on sale,

not this Friday, but next Friday. She's doing Melbourne and Sydney in February. All those details, you can text Taylor to 9696. I have really noticed this morning that you struggle saying February a lot. February. You're putting too much emphasis on the R. Forget the R's there.

But the R is in the word. February. It's February. February. February. February. Feb. She's coming in Feb. We've actually got tickets as well for you to win if you text Taylor to 9696. We'll give you the link. You can go

to see them online. Register you and your friend. Tell us which era's outfit you'll go as in. And you could win that outfit plus flights, tickets and accommodation to see her in Melbourne. You get it all

baby. Now I don't know how we got on to this yesterday but somehow we started chatting about what we all did for the 40 hour famine. Because it was banned at my school. Yeah my mum wouldn't let me do the 40 hour famine. Ours was in the peak of the early 2000s. Peak eating disorder time

for young women. We were all out. When did it become it wasn't just about food, you could just go without something for 40 hours? I feel like that was early 2000s.

Yeah, I think so. When numbers maybe dropped off a little. Yeah, I guess it was problematic, wasn't it? Also, the idea of not eating for 40 hours so you can experience

what it's like to be a starving child. You know, you're like, no, it's a little off. I mean, I guess the whole idea

of fundraising was, was, you know. Spot on, but I can see why they branched out. My brother did 40 hours outside in a tent

and he got cold and he wasn't surviving well on the barley sugars. Yeah. Yeah. So he was doing barley sugars and not eating and he came in

and he was crying. Yeah. He was cold. So he sort of came sugars and outside. And he came in and he was crying. Yeah. He was cold. So he sort of came in. But he still fundraised the money. Still went to WorldVish. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. It's like, because I remember eating donuts.

Dude, wait. Hang on. On 40-hour family weekend. Yeah. So you didn't even just like have a banana or an apple or some rice. You had a big indulgent. I was eating the. You had a big indulgent donut, which of course famously dropped in UN aid packages.

Yeah, I imagine I was in the middle of a desert, starving, and the UN Hercules lifted its back flap and just little donuts and parachutes came down. Wow. And I was like, thank you. Thank you, United Nations Food Program. I was fading. Once run by Helen Clark. That's insane. Is that what you're hearing? United Nations food program once run by Helen Klein. That's insane.

I remember there was, they moved on to maybe try living on the rations of... Oh! Not rations, the chip. Rations, R-A-T-I-O-N. I would do 40 hours. I'd do 40 hour famine cheese balls.

You'd have a sore tum tum by the end of that 40 hour famine. I never did it. Not that I don't care, but I just never did it. Right. Yeah. Don't look at me with those eyes.

You ate donuts. How many hours into this? But I ate donuts, but I still raised tens of dollars for World Vision. Hey, I sold my chocolate boxes, okay? Who was that for? I think that was just individual fundraising. Yeah, that would have been for something at school, right? Self-serving. We were talking about this yesterday,

just laughing about how we all just cheated at the 40-hour famine and thought this would be great to take calls on. Did you cheat on your 40-hour famine or any fundraiser? Or any similar kind of fundraiser. Because it was the parents that would take their kids' chocolate fundraisers to work and the whole office would buy like five boxes and it wasn't fair. My mum just had them and she was like,

you can't bring these boxes home anymore. Mums around the country. Don't bring these in here. That $2 block was such a good size. They're like, it wasn't a small,

but it wasn't a big. The fundraiser size blocks that are kind of have become more popular in supermarkets and dairies now. So good, man. But they weren't back in the day.

No, they weren't. You can only buy the small one or the massive block. I used to always steal the caramello ones. Oh, yum. I was a sucker for the caramello. So good. And then I'd be like, oh, add in the money. I'll do some chores and I'll get the money and put it in the box.

So we want to take your calls now. 0800 dials at M. Text at 9696. Did you cheat on your fundraiser? Maybe your 40-hour famine. Maybe you got your dad to drive you around the fun run. Dad? Hey, as long as you raise the money.

Did you cheat in a fun run? No. I wouldn't dream of it. Just sounded very specific. That's all. I cheated because it was not a fun run. Okay, yeah, fair call. That's fair. So your cheat was that you were miserable the whole time? I wasn't because it was not a fun run. Okay, yeah, fair call. That's fair.

So your cheat was that you were miserable the whole time? I wasn't having the fun part of the run. Yesterday, Fletch admitted he's an absolute piece of dirt. He cheated on the 40-hour famine, now known as the 40-hour challenge because lots of people do other things. Yeah, well, it's not about just going without something.

Going without something and raising money for people in need. Now, you did still raise the money, but he ate donuts. I ate donuts, yeah. So we wanted to know if you cheated on your fundraiser. Deanna, good morning. Oh my gosh, good morning. Good morning. What did you lie about on a fundraiser?

Well, first of all, I'm a long-time Mr. Fun Caller. I got the bell, I got the bell. You get the bell. I get to ding the bell today. You ding the bell. Well done. Welcome to the show, Deanna the bell. You get the bell. I get to ding the bell today. You ding the bell. Well done. Welcome to the show, Deanna. Thank you.

What did you cheat on? Well, it was a fundraiser. I used to dance at the Palace with Paris Goebel. And, you know, lots of fundraising, lots of money. And so my mum... Is that Windsor? No, no, no. The royal family.

He's not in the dance world. How embarrassing. Ignore him. Carry on. It's all right. And so my mum used to make this family recipe of fudge. And it was a hard recipe to make. And I was so busy dancing, I never used to help her make it or anything.

And I kind of never used to do the efforts of selling it. And everybody believed that I made the fudge. And so I kind of took all the credit. You're a liar. She made thousands of dollars of fudge. Thousands of dollars of fudge? It was in her interest, though, because otherwise she'd have to pay for you to fly everywhere or go on these trips.

Yeah, yeah, I suppose so. So it was either make fudge or have to pay. Must have been a pretty good return on investment in fudge making. Well, it's all just sugar. It's just bags of sugar. It's just sugar. It's just sugar, isn't it? Literally just sugar.

Bit of cocoa. It was delicious, though. You've got to do the water drop test. Yeah, you have to. Oh, yes, she did, but I don't think it's keto, so sorry Bit of cocoa. It was delicious though. You've got to do the water drop test. Yeah, you have to. Oh yes, she did but I don't think it's keto so sorry Hayley. No, definitely not keto.

Definitely not. Deanna, thank you for your call. Some messages in. When did you cheat on a fundraiser? These are so funny. Somebody said I forgot I was doing

the 40 hour famine and I woke up in the morning and had breakfast and then my mom was like have you quit? And I was like oh, I'd forgotten. It's just natural. about that um the other message uh for the first time ever somebody admitting i had a piece of pizza while doing the 48 fam and i've never told anyone this

before i thought this was a secret i would take to my grave thank you for sharing with us thank you for opening up and sharing we're talking about when you've uh maybe taken a shortcut a creative but a creative license on a fundraiser. I didn't realize all of our listeners were a pack of liars. A pack of cheats. Cheats and liars. Cheats and liars. I feel like I'm in good company now,

having admitted that I had a donut during the 40-hour famine. How soon in was this donut? Like that night. Do you know before we even met, Vaughn warned me what you were like when you weren't close to food? When it was due for food? And I've seen it. When it was due for its feed.

Yes. He needs to be well fed. He needs to be well fed. Like the T-Rex in the initial Jurassic Park. Yeah. We lower a goat into his... Yeah, exactly. If you can't be fed, I stay in the cage and in the compound.

Yeah. But if not, I'll break out and eat everyone. Eat everyone. Seinfeld doesn't do anything silly. Yeah. So how did you take a shortcut? How did you cheat? The weird part is this really seemed to teach people

that cheating was prospering. Because so many people said in the chocolate bar sales where you would sell a chocolate bar, $2 a chocolate bar, there was often prizes for the kids that sold the most. Yes. Or everyone you sold was an entry into a drawer. Someone said, I just took them home and my whole family pigged out on them so dad just had to pay for them, all of them,

and then I won a camera and a kayak. What? Wow. You'd always know the kids that cheated though because they'd turn up with like a $100 note and you're there with your sack of coins like, oh my God, man, we're hustling for this. Did you see, speaking of those chocolates,

the person that said that they sold them for $2.50 and each time they sold four, they'd get themselves a little Choccy bar. Now that's just smart. That is genius. That's so funny. That's so genius. That is great.

Just inflated the price. Yeah, they have. Rachel, you cheated on the 40-hour challenge. Morena, I sure did. What did you do, you little rascal? 15 years ago, we did the 40-hour famine, and we had to create our own houses out of cardboard and go without...

Well, we had food. It was just rice, though. Yeah. And that night, I was kind of like the ringleader and myself and a couple of friends, we snuck down from about a kilometre away to a fast food joint and had a meal and then snuck back in without anyone knowing.

And just last week, the Facebook page for our high school posted up some photos and I confessed on there to sneaking out. But one thing I didn't confess to was, and I feel absolutely horrified. Get it off your chest. We need to listen. Do we know what it is? I'm 32 now and I just know it was so bad.

Yeah, okay. I need to make up for it. Let it out. We actually used the money that we'd raised to pay for the food. Rachel! No! Rachel! Rachel, I would like you this afternoon to make a donation to a charity.

Well, pay World Vision back for that combo, basically. With inflation. With inflation. With inflation. That is... That'll teach me, inflation. That is so funny. I'm sorry. It is crazy to get a bunch of hungry kids together with money and let them just run loose for a weekend

and expect to have it all at the end. It's also another reason it's a 40-hour challenge now and that it's moved away from the food. Rachel, thank you for getting that off your chest. We'll go to Jen now. Jen, when did you cheat in a fundraiser? So this was like sort of early 2016. We went to quite a prestigious all-girls school in Auckland.

And we were fundraising for a new art centre. So they gave us the afternoon off, a bunch of raffle tickets to sell and dropped us in spots all around Auckland. My group of three friends got dropped on K Road. Wait, they dropped school kids on K Road in the

2000s? I was actually talking to a friend about it on the weekend. We were laughing at how bad it is. Anyhow, so got talking to the locals and met a lovely working lady. And she was like, what are you doing? And we told her, she said, oh, do you need some help with that? And we said, sure.

And so she said, well, look, let me see if a customer of mine will help you out. So we gave her the tickets and didn't even think twice about it. She went away and we were sort of hanging out, having a chat. Half an hour later, she came back. She said, here's your money. Here's the ticket. But go have a great afternoon. Oh, this is incredible.

That's insane. That's so good. She must have been great at her job, you know, and at the end being like, and now you have to buy some teenagers raffle tickets, sir. Yeah. Oh, my God. And she's just a nice lady. I mean, what a champ.

Oh, that is so good. What a story, Jen. Thank you for sharing. That is wild. I want to know, did the man with the ticket butts win? Oh, yeah, did the man win? I have no idea. Because, I mean, you're buying that many ticket butts,

you'd hope to win something. I think he got some other butts in the end, didn't he? He got the butts that he cared about. Yeah, he did. Thanks, you called, Jen. Some messages in. There's lots of cheating, guys. My daughter went to a well-

This isn't cheating. This is entrepreneurial. My daughter went to a well-known student flatting area on Sunday morning and sold five boxes of chocolates to feed the hangovers in 15 minutes. Oh, so good. That's entrepreneurial. That's seeing a tip of a graphic. Yeah.

Honing in, making money off them. I spent the $20 I made doing the fundraiser. Yeah. My social studies teacher came to my house and told my mother.

Good knock. Social studies teachers. It was always a social studies teacher. Yeah. Somebody said, I was doing the 40-hour famine and I was so hungry I said, technically if the Fijos are on the tree, we're outside.

We're living natural for the weekend. Yeah, okay. I don't know if that works. Their mum said, you can do it, but you're not allowed to use your hands. So they ate Fijos off the tree no hands as a sort of a loophole of sorts. Right. You don't eat nothing but Fijos. No, go right through. Right through you.

I just love the stories of people that got so close but failed. Like we're all like, I can't do it. Someone said that they lasted 36 hours until they woke up dry reaching and so their mum made them a Milo. There's a stat I've just read now, 53% of people

miss out on attending their dream festival or gig because they're stuck in an online queue waiting. And they miss out on tickets. And they miss out on tickets. And so there's a ticket buying expert who has sort of come up with a whole bunch of tips and we've got a few more from online. Have you ever been really flustered when you're getting...

I mean, you... I spent $1,000 to go to Billy Joel because I panicked. Because you panicked. And I couldn't do, you know, it was terrible. I would say that's insane. But people pay it for their favourite artist. It was right up the front. And I had a great night.

A great night. Saw Carween. It was beautiful. I don't think I've bought tickets in a panic. I think... God, you don't get excited about... Like, who would you get excited about in concert to be like... Well, you bought the Wiggles tickets.

I did. You bought the Miley Cyrus tickets that time. In fact, mostly if I'm going, it's probably with you and you'll take care of it all. Vaughan outsources everything to me or his wife. And that's why he looks fresh and young and you're getting a bit haggard around the edge.

Okay, here's some tips. Pre-register. So you can go on the ticket website, right? And go put in your email and get all the emails and make sure you know what you can do. Frontier touring for Taylor Swift. Yeah.

And also there's an Amex pre-sale as well if you've got a friend with an Amex. Yeah. So make sure you know who's got the pre-sales and if it's something that you can do, be like, great. Yeah, and sign up now. So you don't want to be signing up for a code or info

like, you know, an hour before because I don't know if that would be soon enough. No. Get onto that ASAP. Also, if you know which website is selling the tickets, get familiar with the ticketing website. So go on the website, make sure you know so you know which website is selling the tickets, get familiar with the ticketing website. So go on the website

and make sure you know so you're not going on and being like, oh, what is that? Dib, dib, dib.

You know, like you're already there, you know where to go. I mean, something like Taylor Swift, it's going to be boom, right there. But don't let the website

frazzle you. If you don't have an account, like set one up. Set one up. Be ready. Oh my God. If you miss out on tickets because you were pausing to register. Yeah.

That's on you. Like these are literally going to sell out in seconds. Yeah. Yeah. You need to be ready. Don't overload the Wi-Fi with too many other people. So you've got flatties who aren't maybe engaging in a Tay-Tay ticket. Oh, you know, turn everything off.

Everything else off. Apart from, yeah. Because if your Wi-Fi slows down, it's the difference between Tay-Tay and. Oh, you know, turn everything off. Everything else off. Apart from, yeah. Because if your Wi-Fi slows down, it's the difference between TayTay and NayNay. See, I've booked concert tickets on my phone a lot, but I feel like

if I'm in a stressful situation, is this one of the tips as well? Don't use your phone. Right. So they're saying devices, newer devices in particular, but a desktop or an iPad is way better.

Way better. Like, it's way clearer. You're not going to get stuck with. And newer, and they probably have better Wi-Fi. Better Wi-Fi connectivity. Newer devices. And then they say you should, if you're on a desktop, right? Yeah.

Then you should on your phone have your group chat with who's coming. Right. This is how we used to plan to get through to What Now on Sunday mornings. Yeah. So Vaughn, you're going to try at 7.06. I'm going to try on this phone. You could never.

I'm not going to get, I'm not going to even try the cordless Uniden because I think I'm going to use the corded landline because it's direct connected. Is it 800-001-001? I have a feeling

those teleops were just for show. I never got through. There was a lot of show. Ever. I never ever got through to a teleop. Yeah.

Always had marching teams on there. I never got asked. The number you're calling is experiencing overloading. Please try again later. Unbelievable. So you've got to have your group chat open with your pals that you're going to the concert with. Now before this moment of ticket buying occurs, you need to know with your group of friends how much money we're willing to spend each.

Like, okay. And if the tickets. Give us a window. Yeah. If like the tickets you want out there, do we go to the next one? We're going down. Or do we go willing to spend each. Like, okay, and if the tickets... Give us a window. Yeah, if like the tickets you want out there, do we go to the next one or do we go up

to the next one or do we go down? Exactly. Are we happy to sit here or here? Because if you've got a couple of friends that have a different budget

to you, you need to be on the same page. Yeah. Right? So you've got to make a plan with your friends before and then have them

on the group chat on text. Otherwise, Hayley will just buy the group $500 tickets and be like, everyone owes me $500. Transfer now Hayley will just buy the group $500 tickets. And they'll be like, everyone owes me $500. Transfer now, please, because I'm in debt.

And then you have them on text so you're not using the Wi-Fi. Mute every other chat. Block them, anyone who isn't buying a ticket with you. Mum, get out of here. Right, so kind of phone on, do not disturb, apart from the group chat. Because if you're here and ding, ding, bling, how did you get tickets? It's a distraction.

You can't have that. It's so stressful. Make sure your credit card is updated and has enough money on it. Yep. If you click buy now and it declines, you're running out of time. Yeah.

Those are pretty much the hot tips we've got. Oh, if you're on a if you've got multiple laptops, have multiple tabs open and like, you know, like have numerous things, have as many portals in as possible. That's going to just be confusing. Because you go on a virtual waiting line, right? But then some

tabs or some browsers might go in before or who knows how it works. Wow, okay. Aren't you better to have more sort of players in the game? Good luck to everyone. It's going to be so stressful. Somebody just messaged in. They tried calling What Now so many times

and one time they literally said out loud, this is the last time I'll ever call What Now and it rang and they answered. And then they panicked and hung up. They never get the name in the draw for the price at the end. I used to get so nervous calling ZDM when I was a kid. Can you play Pink? Did Vaughn yell at you once?

Yeah, probably. Good. You used to answer the phones and yell at kids that requested songs, didn't you? Good luck to all you ticket buyers out there for next Friday. Play. ZDM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. We, the generous we, sent some of our listeners to Arizona to see Taylor Swift. Now, Ella, that was you. It was.

And you took your friend Brooke to Arizona to see Tay-Tay live. How was it? It was, I, I have, honestly, I've had this question so many times, and the only way I can describe it is, like, amazing. You're amazed. Yeah, like, it was. And I think I've also blacked out a bit. I can't really remember that much of it.

But from what I do remember, it's just amazing. Too much screaming does that to the brain. You pass out for a while. It thinks you're in pain, so what, it suppresses the memory. Yeah. I think I was in shock. So when you heard the news this morning that she's coming back to Aussie, are you tempted to go over for that too? Um, we've already

booked flights. Yes! Are you going with Brooke? Goodness me. Yes, I'm going with Brooke and a couple of her other Swifty friends, and then I've got some mates that are going to come with us. Hell yeah, man. So about eight or nine of us that are going, that's already her flight., man. So about eight or nine of us that are going. That's pretty half-light. Wow.

Okay, so what can people expect from the Eros tour, from the show? Because it's like three hours. Yeah, yeah. So like, yeah, three and a bit hours, 42 songs. Wow. All the bangers from all the albums. And then everyone knows that she does the two surprise songs, so it'll just be, you know,

looking forward to and anticipating what that is but it's honestly just such a large scale production that it's just mind-blowing how amazing it is. How big is the stage set up? It's huge. It takes up like half of the stadium

that we went to. It took up like half of the stadium. Yeah, which is why it's not coming to New Zealand. It wouldn't fit anywhere here, would it? the stadium that we went to, it took up like half of the stadium. Oh my God. Which is why it's not coming to New Zealand. Like it wouldn't fit anywhere here, would it? No. We couldn't get it down the street. Exactly. I was so gutted when I saw it this morning, but then I was like,

New Zealand can't accommodate to a 70,000 person concert like the States can or like, you know. That's right. Ed Sheeran's got the record of that. MCG, right? Yeah. Yes. So she won't get it

just because her stage takes up so much more room. But then Ed Sheeran's stage was big. That was massive. But I think there was more room on the field for Ed Sheeran.

Filled up the majority of the cake tin. Yeah. She'll give him a run for his money though, that's for sure. Hell yeah. Oh my God.

I'm so excited that you get to go again. I'm so excited. We don't have the tickets yet. If you get tickets. Yeah. Will you do that thing, though, where you just go anyway and sit outside and listen to it? Oh, 100%.

Echoing around the neighbourhood? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Front row in the car park stadium. Yeah. Well, I wish that we were calling you to say, well, guess what? But we're not.

We just wanted to hear the experience of it. And good luck. Does that mean I can enter again? Surely. Oh, I don't know. Is she allowed to enter again? Apparently. Apparently.

Good luck. That's not her fault. She won last time. People will absolutely burn down your house if you win again. And the winner is, oh, my God, it's Ella and Brooke. Well, hey, thank you for getting us all excited, Ella. And good luck. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Ella, what did you wear? What did you wear? Oh, yeah. Oh, last time? Yeah. Um, oh, I... Obviously, because it was so last minute, I didn't have anything. I just went in, like, cute pants and a cute top, but I... That's what Vaughn, Jan's in his t-shirt. Yeah, that's what Vaughn's

going in, the Vaughn era. Cute pants and a cute top is like the uniform for women. Amazing. It's a staple, yeah. Ella, thank you so much. Thank you, guys. And good luck getting tickets Friday week. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Yeah. Today's fact of the day I learned this Listening to a podcast yesterday Okay A podcast By Australian Vice Media Called Extremes And it's about people

Who have been in extreme situations Okay I've been telling you guys, remember that I told you about that, I listened to that one about that, fairy sinking in the Baltic Sea. Fairy, not fairy. Fairy. Like a woodland fairy creature. I said fairy the same.

Fairy. Fairy. I'm going to catch the Eastbourne fairy. You said fairy. Fairy sinking. A fairy sinking. It's a fairy. I can't hear the difference. He's not here, he's saying fairy and fairy. I can't hear fairy sinking. It's a fairy. I can't hear the difference. He's not hearing anything. He's saying fairy and fairy. I can't hear the difference.

There's a difference. Fairy. I know there's a difference. Can you say, I'm going to go catch the fairy. I'm going to go catch the fairy. No, you said furry. You said furry. You're going to catch a furry?

What are you going to do with it? No, I said I'm going to get dressed up as a fox and you've caught me. What will you do to me now? Listen. Taringa. Taringa. Listen. I'm going to go catch the fairy to Davenport. You said furry again. Fairy. No, he's overthinking it.

Just tell us a story about catching a fairy. Okay, my friends and I are going to go to Waiheke and we're getting there on the fairy. You said furry. He said furry. Okay, now say, I went into the garden and I saw a magical fairy. I went into the garden and I saw a magical fairy. I went into the garden and I saw a magical fairy.

Oh, my God. He would never say fairy. There's a difference. I'm just saying. It's like hair, hair, and hair. The ship was used to ferry people. The small creature with wings was a fairy. I say them the same. You said the fairy song.

It's like, no, he didn't. The fairy song. You're the kind of bastardo who says that. You say hair, hair, hair different. No, it's hair and... Hair on your heart. And I'm over here and I can hear you. There and there. There and there.

Well, it's got nothing to do with fairies is the problem. Although that did happen on a boat, but it was a launch on a boat. Is this fact not about fairies? No, no, no. I said this was the podcast series that talked about the sinking of this fairy. What's the podcast series? Thank you for saying it correctly that time. Oh, my Lord. I said this was the podcast series that talked about the sinking of the Sperry. What's the podcast series? Extremes. Thank you for saying it correctly that time.

Oh, my Lord. I'm about to explode. So this was the next one after. It's called Extremes. It's by Vice Media. I'm following. They need to listen. Yeah.

Well, haven't they gone into Chapter 11 bankruptcy or something in America? I'm listening. I've got two podcasts in the top four podcasts in New Zealand. Nice. Good for you. Well done. She's certainly grounded. And humble.

And humble. Final episode's out today. Anyway, Karen, what's the fact of the day? So this was the next episode where it's the story about this Saudi billionaire

arms dealer and this harem of pleasure. Am I saying that right? Harem. Harem. Harem pants. Harem of pleasure wives. Yeah, right. Okay? Harum. Harum. Harum Pants. Harum of Pleasure Wives. Yeah, right.

Okay. So it tells the story of this lady called Jill, and she's beautiful. It's the 1980s. She's gorgeous. Oh, Jill. And she goes to France, and she signs with a well-known modeling company, Wilhelmina Models. Oh.

Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina Shrimpton. Wilhelmina Shrimpton Models. She ran a modeling agency in the 80s. As a baby. That's incredible. She signed with Willamina Models. She was getting all these high-profile jobs in French magazines.

She got invited to a lavish Li Pirate or the Pirate Party in Cairns. Cairns? Cairns. Cairns. They have ferries too. They do have the boats. Yeah, lots of boats and ferries. It was at that pirate party that she met the man who owned the boat,

and his name was Adnan Khashoggi. Khashoggi. Adnan Khashoggi. Yeah. Have you heard of him? Yeah. Carry on. He's like this legendary arms dealer.

She doesn't know this. She finds him mucho charming Oh, mucho charming Mucho charming And anyway, she sees him for a while And then one day what sets her off Is he gives her a nice ring And she's like, oh my God, I'm his favourite

And then she sees that two of the other girls Have got the same ring Oh, how embarrassing So she says to him If I can't be your number one I'm out And that was it That's the day she learnt

She'd kind of been sold. So it was a bit harder to get out of it. Anyway, at the end of this podcast, this amazing story, they're like, oh, so what did you do when she left? She's like, I started Roxy, the surf label. Oh, my God. What? Roxy babe underscore.

Roxy babe underscore angel. Oh, my God. She left and apparently she went to Quicksilver and was like, all your surf stuff seems really targeted at guys. I would like to start a female-based surf brand. And they said it'll never work, and she said it will. And she met a surfer and was like, what do we need to do to make this better for women?

And they worked together, and they launched the Roxy brand. Oh, my God. I remember I wanted Roxy so bad. And that's all thanks to Wilhelmina Shrimpton. Wilhelmina Shrimpton Mod Wilhelmina Shrimpton models. It's amazing. It's crazy. Yeah.

This whole story, I was just like, this is the most amazing story. And then today's fact of the day is the founder of surf brand Roxy was once in a harem of pleasure wives to a Saudi weapons trading billionaire. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Just woken up. Or you haven't heard, Taylor Swift has announced shows for Australia. They'll be in next year, Melbourne and in Sydney.

She won't be coming to New Zealand. General public tickets go on sale, not this Friday, but next Friday. There are some pre-sales, all the ticket details, and your chance to win tickets to see her in Melbourne with flights and a comm, and your Dream Errors outfit. Register at ZM Online, otherwise just text Taylor right now to 9696

and we'll find you back a link with those ticket details and the registration. Bebe Rexha. I'm good, yeah, I'm feeling all right. Baby, I'm having the best. I'm freaking out of my life. That's Bebe Rexha. That's pretty good.

Is Bebe Rexha in the room? It's me. It's pretty good. Here I am. I was fooled. Yeah. Bebe Rexha got smashed in the face at a's me. It's pretty good. Here I am. I was fooled. Yeah. Bebe Rexha got smashed in the face

at a concert in New York City. I saw her face. Dude. Her eyebrow got split. She got stitches in her,

just above her eye which is so dangerous. Somebody threw like a smartphone or like a heavy. Yeah, someone threw a phone at her

and hit her in the forehead in the middle of a song. Split her eyebrow, required stitches. She was taken off stage. Was it, you know when artists do like a festival or a line-up or they open for like an artist and the crowd doesn't like them? That would be my worst nightmare.

Yeah. Oh, throwing things. You know, like quite often this happens when somebody's opening or at a festival and they're just like, I don't know who this is or I don't care or I don't like them. And they throw, like, it's horrible. Yeah, is or I don't care. I don't like them. And they throw it. It's horrible. Yeah, people are so rude.

I know. Oh my God. She's got PCOS. Hmm. I didn't know this about her. Anyway, scroll too far down the article. Like you.

Yeah, anyway, so she had a photo of her afterwards saying, I'm good. Meaning, you know, I'm good. Yeah, I'm feeling all right. Maybe I'm going to

have the best freaking night of my life. But this guy did it on purpose, which is ridiculous. He's been arrested. He's a 27-year-old man. He's been arrested for using a phone as a weapon. Because he did. He used it as a weapon and he hurt someone. But she's good.

But we want to know your concert injuries. Because that's a horrible place to get a serious injury. Dude. Yeah. Oh, my God. Imagine if you had to be pulled out by St. John and end up in the little

St. John golf cart and they take you away to the tent. My bestie got pulled out at Big Day Out because we got a little, we're big Tool fans but we don't belong

in a Tool mosh pit. Well you were what, teenage girls? Yeah, and we were like 16, 17 and so it got too much. You just put your hand up and they pulled you out.

You always see security like pulling out like teenage girls out of a mosh pit or right at the front. They can't handle it. Yeah, it's quite funny. I've lost my jandal, and now I'm barefoot a big day out. I'm going home. But I haven't been injured. When I was 12 years old, I went to pink back in the low rider,

abs out days of pink, and she had pink hair. And I went with my friend and at the end, we were trying to run up towards the stage and she slipped and broke her ankle. Oh, okay. So then we had to go and my mum was like picking us up. She's like, where are you? We're in the ambulance and da-da-da-da.

But yeah, getting injured at a concert sucks. It's the drunk people, right? It's like they get too drunk and there's either embankments or stairs and people fall. Tumbly, tumbly. Or just pushing. People get a little pushy-pushy.

People do get a little pushy-pushy. Whether it was a mosh pit injury or you got crushed at the front, like that happens. Do you remember when you used to be in mosh pits and people would smoke? And you'd be like, ah, it's, ah. Oh yeah, you get a burn burn.

Ow. What are you doing? So we want to take your calls. 0800 DALS at M. Text 9 696. Share with us your worst concert injuries. What are you doing? So we want to take your calls. 0800 DALS at M. Text 9 696. Share with us your worst concert injuries. We're talking about your concert injuries.

We sure are. Bebe Rexha took a phone to the face, split the eyebrow. Because some twerp threw a phone at her. Twerp. I'm not left to swear on. I'm on here. I need a swear adjacent word. You twerp.

Emily, what was your concert injury? It was actually at Friday Jams last year. Oh, wait, wait, wait. This is an outfold, Emily. This is an outlive. I'm not paying you a dime. No, so my shoes alone weighed six kilos. What kind of shoes are they?

What on each? They were like huge platform sneakers. They looked great. Why should I Google? I want to Google to see what these huge Chevy shoes look like. Sketches. If you go to that Koi footwear. What? What?

I will have a look. I will have a look. Hold on. No, no, no. We don't have time. We don't have time. I'm just going to Google with 6kg shoes and then laugh. So wait, 3kgs on each foot?

Sparkly, big pink sneakers. I don't know. Yeah, hot, man. Like the Spice Girls. Hot look. Okay. So, okay. So is this the cause of the injury, these 6kg shoes?

Well, everyone thinks they were, but I think it's just because I'm clumsy. Okay. So I was rushing to get down the stairs. I tripped, landed face first pretty much into mud. Oh, bang.

Phone in hand. Phone in hand, right. My sister found me. The first thing she did was grab my phone. Yeah, okay, good. Make sure the phone's all right. And then about five people had to try and help me up. I had this huge scratch down my leg. There's actually a scar there.

And all up my arm. But this happened about 10 metres from the St John's tent, thank God. Oh, thank God. Oh, right, so they just patched you up, put a plaster on? They, like, wrapped my whole arm in a bandage. They put a huge plaster on my leg and it was like fine as, and I was there for the whole night. Hell yeah, man.

How good, how good. We were just talking about how good it was. Do you, are you going to wear these shoes out again? Oh yeah, they literally, they're in like, got their own little bag and they sit not in the wardrobe. I love this. I need to see what these shoes look like because I've got a picture in my head.

Emily, thank you. Callie, what was your concert accident, incident? Oh, is this me? That is you. Hi, hi. I was in the mosh pit at a Faith No More concert in the 90s. Yeah, you were. Yes, I was.

Yeah, I bet that sounds to me instantly feral. Yeah. Yeah, it was disgusting. What about when they do Easy on Sunday Morning? Easy like Sunday morning. Faith, no more cover of that. Very relaxing song. Yeah, right.

Surely put the crowd into a relaxed mood. So Mike was singing Caffeine, which is quite an intense song, and he just lost control of his microphone. I was right at the front, right behind the barriers, and he threw his microphone into the audience and it mashed me in the face. There was blood, there was blood, and everyone got so excited.

It was a frenzy. Did he see? He saw me and then I got pulled over the barriers and sort of just cowered underneath the whole concert for the rest of the thing because I was terrified. But I tried to make it scar because I was obsessed with Mike Patton, but nothing, I've got nothing. You tried to make it scar, I get it.

You're like, you've got to pick this scar off. I did this, look at this. This is the scar of love. Did they like apologise to you or did they sign anything for you or give you some merch? So Mike played another. This was in Dunedin at Sammy's back in the day, but a friend of mine stalked him up to Queenstown

and got him to write me a note. So I have a love note for Mike now. I love it. Hang on, first name basis. Yeah, me and Mikey. So I mean, Jase. Callie, thanks. You're cool a love note for Mike now. We're on first name basis. Yeah, me and Mikey. Callie, thanks for your call. Keep your texts coming in. Some texts in of your concert injuries. Someone said, hi life,

why hecky someone threw an entire bottle of wine and knocked my flatmate's two front teeth out. See, this is why we have to have plastic mini wine bottles at events because of people like that. Or retainers. We can all wear mouth guards at events because of people like that. Or retainers. We could all wear mouth guards at events.

Yeah. I was at a Supergroove concert in the 90s and the mosh pit got knocked down and it just dominoed. Everybody went down except I was too slow

to get back up and I was like under the thing and I got a bugger back for months. Wow. Yeah. R&V obviously

this is up a massive hill and it was raining and I was running to get my phone and I slipped and roly-poly down into Massive Hill and face planted at the end and broke my collarbone

in front of hundreds of people who all applauded. Oh, I don't think we're going to end with a collarbone snap. Not exactly a concert, but a bunch of girlfriends and I went to

the Australian Strippers. The Thunder Down Under? That's a concert. Thunder Down Under. Thunder Down Under. That's a concert. Do you Under. That's a concert. Do you have a favourite? Do you have a favourite?

Favourite? From Thunder Down Under. Mate, I haven't caught up with what's happening with Thunder Down Under for years. I used to love Baza. You were a big Baza fan. God, get me under a bit of Baza. You were all over Tezza from Thunder Down Under. Oh, Tezza's me, man.

Meet the blokes. All right, we've got the new line-up. Yep. Edward. God, there's right, we've got the new lineup. Yep. Edward. God, there's not a bloody ounce of fat on him. That was a good thing about Baza. See, I like a little fat. A little bit of guts for you.

A little gut for me to rest my head on. Jesus, they do. They're made of metal. They are savagely ripped. I mean, well done to them. Yeah, and horrifically bronzed. So anyway, one of them ripped off his G-string and it pinged and it shot my friend in the eye and she had a very bad eye injury.

He pinged in the eye. I wore the wrong clothes at the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert recently and I ended up with thorough chafing. Thorough chafing. So much so at the end of the night it was an open wound between both sides of my thighs through the whole concert. Terrible choice. Little jockey shorts.

You've got to go get the little jockey shorts. That's what I wear. It never happens. The little golf cart that's like an ambulance at a festival was hooning down this dirt road and it just ran me over from behind. Broke my wrist. It was the first night of a three-day festival. And then I ironically got put on the back of one and taken to an ambulance. So many.

And we're hearing from our heavy metal listeners. There you go, Hayley. You're in good steam. Because they're so dangerous. The mosh pits are fun, but terribly bad. Yeah, terrible. And U2 concert. Got hit in the eye by a skyrocket

fired from outside Lancaster Park. Jeepers. That's going back a bit. That's going back. We were skyrockets. Everything about this aged. Everything about this aged that text. U2 concert.

Yeah. Skyrocket, Lancaster Park. Yeah. But then I did get to watch the rest of the concert from the front. Oh, like I said, if you want to be at the front, injure Park. But then I did get to watch the rest of the concert from the front. Oh, like I said, if you want to be at the front, injure yourself. I love the irony of the person that had a panic attack at

Panic at the Disco. If they were playing at a discotheque, that would have been... It's full on then. If you liked today's podcast, tell your friends you could send them the link. And if you don't have any friends, just pretend you did. Yeah, great.

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