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

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Enjoy a refreshing McCafe iced coffee available only from Macca's. Great things are brewing. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Hello. So you've forgotten your headphones. Again.

And you're using the guest headphones, which, yuck. They're, um, tight. We seriously need to get better guest headphones. It's a little bit embarrassing tied on a big head yeah I feel sorry for the guests that come in

yeah especially if it's vice like I'll have a headache I reckon within 20 minutes I'd boycott the station yeah I'd boycott the station if you're a possible guest

of the show I'd boycott it calling for better headphones I'd boycott it if you're a guest in the studio had to sit on those filthy disgusting chairs

I should bring the bissel in and we should give them a run over just to see how bad it is. I don't want to see what comes off those chairs. Yeah. We should burn them. I think that's the only option is burning them. I'll bring in the U. Yeah.

We'll take them home and we'll burn them. Set them to fire. Pour some petrol on them. Maybe Guy Force. Maybe Guy Force. For Guy Force. We could save them for Guy Force Make them into a dummy

A guy It's just meaning the base of the bonfire Oh yeah You went straight to creating a mannequin out of them A Burning Man type thing They could be his throne He could be sitting for once

Top six on the way There's been some relief With some food prices Not chocolate though That's up Not great news for chocolate lovers Great news for broccoli lovers The humble

Delicious Brassicus I had Brought for Dent last night It's coming down in price But it's not greater than chocolate, though, is it? I'm not huge on chocolate. I go lols over chocolate. No, I go chocolate over lols every time. But broccoli, what a super food. It is, yeah.

Of the top six broccoli recipes you can try, with the price of broccoli being so affordable. Right. Stellar season for the growers. You're really looking after us in this cost of living crisis. I'm trying. Thank you. I'm trying.

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Next. I was always taught you're always going to use your manners. One of the one things that was drilled into me as a kid. But apparently not everyone is doing it. I have some manners stats. Please tell us next I will Thank you

So this is some research from California Which I believe is in Los Angeles Which I believe is The University of California Is in America Yeah Long shot I think you might be on to something. Nailed that.

Could be China. I'm not sure. Just don't quote me. They recorded 17 hours of conversations in a myriad of shops, hairdressers, and homes, and then analysed the number of times that people used the word please. Oh, wow.

Okay. And apparently it's only used like in one, in like 10% of requests, one in 10 requests. So asking for something please was only used 10% of the time. I wonder if it would be more here because when you're in America, people, the way people speak to people in like restaurants and like, sometimes they think if they're tipping them, they don't need to use their manners because they're paying to not use them.

And they're quite direct and quite blunt. Yeah. And that's just the way it is. I was like, I don't feel like I, I hear manners all the time. Like, I don't feel like when I worked in retail,

people weren't polite or anything like that, I don't feel like I hear manners all the time. Like I don't feel like when I worked in retail, people weren't polite or anything like that. But it's so drilled into us as kids to be like, use please and thank you. I'd use thank you more than please. Are you able to see if there's another size in there? Thank you. Yes, thank you.

Yeah. As opposed to please, ma'am, may I get the next size up? So then a doctor looked at this and was like, maybe it's not saying that people are... Head knocks. Head knocks. Too many head knocks and people just lose their manners. No.

He was just saying it's like, as you're saying, like just kind of the style of exchange in these workplaces may not demand a please. It's not just a generic marker of politeness. So as long as you're still being polite with your mannerisms and stuff, it doesn't mean that people are suddenly so rude. It's just that the actual word please is just being used less and less. Mine was always just like, can I get this?

What's the magic word? Did you say that in retail? What's the magic word? No, no that in retail? What's the magic word? No, no, no, no, no. In my life, never. Oh my God. Imagine me outside. Hey, those are sizes.

Can I just get this? Magic word? I'm going to need the magic word from you. No, no, no. I mean my mum. Yeah. Or every now and then me and Aaron will say it to each other. Can you get this?

I always say this. Can I get this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like there was a word missing there. Hang on. Try that sentence again. say it to each other. Can you get this? I always say this. Can I get this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It felt like there was a word missing there. Hang on, try that sentence again because it felt like

you cut it short. It's really passive-aggressive, guys. Yeah, did you cut that? Yeah. Did you stop mid-sentence? Or you finish your sentence? Or did I miss the start of the sentence?

Yeah. Something's happened here. I'm not sure what. Go again. How does it go down, though, when you do this to your partner? Blues. Yeah, that's what it is when you do this to your partner? Blues. Yeah, that's what it is.

Basically. Can I get that? Blues. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. It is so silly, silly, silly.

That silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little poe. Silly little silly, silly, that silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole, we asked you what's the best day of the week. Personal favourites? Hard to beat a Saturday.

Friday or a Saturday? I do love Friday because the next day is Saturday and your soul knows that. Yeah, but Friday still involves a wake up. Yes. To me, then that's why Saturday must be king. But work's a little bit looser on Friday. We have fun on a Friday and then you can have a nap because you got up so early and then you can go about your day and then you've got Saturday and Sunday to follow.

Because on Saturday I'm already like, oh my God, damn, tomorrow's Sunday. Which means the day after is Monday. Right. Yeah. I like Monday because it allows my brain and body to reset and that's where I really like,

you know, state my intentions. Shut up. I think I know someone whose favourite day is Monday for that reason. Really? It's just like a fresh start,

like, you know, clean slate. Well, the options we gave you because you can only pick four. Well, yesterday in the kitchen at work I said, great, you know, clean slate. Well, the options we gave you, because you can only pick four. Well, yesterday in the kitchen at work, I said, great news. Somebody said, tough start to the week or something. And I said, great news. The weekend's only five days away.

And then somebody else was like, guys, way to wish away your lives. And I was like, shut up. Shut up. Shut up. We're just trying to get to Christmas. And then it'll all calm down. We're just trying to get to Christmas. And then it'll all calm down. We're just trying to get to Christmas. Get that out the way, and then your father and I can relax.

What is the best day of the week? Finish the renovations after Christmas. If I can just finish paying off this mortgage. It's a 30-year term. Before I die. It's going to be 30 years. Then you can relax. It's 30 years, and I might need to, in five years,

push it back out to 30 years, depending on interest rates. Silly little poll, what's the best day of the week? Saturday wins by 1%. Saturday is 46%. Friday is 45%. Oh, wowzers. What were our options? Sunday, 6%.

Other, 3%. Sunday's always such a write-off, eh? And then you know you've got work. I love the lazy Sunday, but it's just that. Yeah. I find it hard to relax on Sunday, knowing I should have done a lot more on Saturday. Yes. So then you're either scrambling or it's a wasted day and works the next day.

Did anybody in the comments pick another day, like a Wednesday? Well, let's see. Or something silly like a Tuesday? Let us receive these comments. Let's delve. Let's delve in. Let's delve together. Let's delve. Friday Let's delve together. Let's delve.

Friday is a... Gwyneth is... Friday is the best day. Full Gwyneth. Paltrow. Not Paltrow. Oh my God. Goop herself, listen.

Good morning to our famous listeners. Friday is the best because of the anticipation of the weekend coming but without the stress of feeling like you're wasting your weekend when you're doing nothing

on Saturday. Yes. Yes. Karen says, every day in Bali right now is a good day to shut up. Next person. Anthony says, because Friday is the Christmas Eve of days. Yes.

Because the next day is the best day but that's what makes the day before the best day. Devin says, Saturday, no work, and it feels like the weekend's going to last forever. Oh, yeah, okay. Lisa, of the grumpy variety. Fantastic. Thursday and Friday are my days off, so they're my weekend.

Yeah, good, okay. She gives it Thursday, Friday. So Wednesday. Maybe she loves Wednesday. Wednesday's her Friday. Okay. Technically, it's the 24-hour period starting from 4 p.m. Friday to 4 p.m. Saturday. That's my favorite set, Anna, but it doesn't have its own name.

You can't pick a day. Fry-a-day. Fry-a-day. Fry-a-day. Fry-a-day. Fry-a-day. That's kind of the mix there. She's got it right there, though. She's nailed that. Anyone who says Sunday can F off

Coming in hot but sorry I'm not sorry about that Yeah Oh no What? Bindi Not another famous listener Good morning to our famous listeners I love a Monday

Don't judge I love my job and I love the start of a new week Really? We simply must find out what Bindi does Love a Monday. Don't judge. I love my job and I love the start of a new week. Really? We simply must find out what Bindi does and how long it will take for this job to crush her soul. Yes. I'm going to do a quick Facebook stalk to see if we can work out what she does. What she does for a job.

Okay. I got the wrong name. Okay. Well. What did I spell wrong here? Aha. She spells her Marie with two E's, not an I. Well, don't give away her name, Vaughn.

God, she might want private. We're still going to find her. What did I do wrong now? Okay, it's her full name. It's not Belinda. I'm terrible at this. Short for Belindi. Interesting.

Here we go. Maybe she can message. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Satellite radio. You'll give it up with the boom. We're doing a deep dive into Bindi here.

There's a baby. There's a baby. Okay. There's a baby. Anyway, what move on? Maybe mums, but mums don't get the weekend off. That's a 24-7 job. Next, Nikki says, I love a Thursday.

All the excitement that tomorrow is Friday, but Monday is still quite far away. So it's the distance from Monday, but the proximity to Friday that makes Thursday her favourite. Okay. Friday is treat day at the dairy, says Belinda. Another Belinda. She just goes by B though. She doesn't go by Bindi. And she's a farmer.

Oh no, her name is farmer. I wonder if she might also be a farmer. Because farmers were always, Friday was the day you went to town. Farmers, well she could be Farmer by name, Farmer by nature. Yeah.

Yeah. Imagine that, if your name was Farmer and you were a farmer. I mean, that's where we got our surnames from, right? Well, it's dumb that you're not a blacksmith. It is dumb.

Or a goldsmith. Or a goldsmith. Just a smith. Just a man in front of a furnace waiting for a metal to appear. Well, a Sproul is someone who walks in a jerky fashion. Now, I've lived up to that. Did you not have a job?

Was that just your job in the oldies days? Someone who works. It's someone who walks in like a sporadic jerky fashion. So you made the arrows. Meanwhile, Vaughn and I are making arrows. I'm making horseshoes and you're just the town jerk. Yeah. Oh, my God, you were the town lunatic. We're all filling a role.

We're all filling an old medieval role. It takes a village, guys. It does. It does take a village. To pay for this useless. Don't call me useless. Jerky walker. Yeah, I imagine we had to get some kind of leg splints or something.

Oh, my God. Hold on, Anna. Leather and wood. We'll try to make you something. That's a silly little poll. Next, if you were on an Air New Zealand flight, an international flight recently, and they took a photo of your tray after you've eaten,

they've explained why they've done it. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. New Zealand have... Employed? Employed? AI? I guess they've revealed that, yeah, they've been using AI, generative AI.

And this happened in October last year on flights between Hong Kong and Los Angeles to New Zealand. So Hong Kong to Auckland, LA to Auckland. What they would do is when passengers would finish with their food, and I imagine it was when they took it to the galley, not when people were still sitting there. Yeah, before they take a tray, they're like, take a photo.

Yeah, they were taking photos of what passengers left on their trays. 30,000 photos were taken. And then they worked out what people weren't liking, so they were like, well, let's stop giving it to them. Well, what I love from this finding, because I also, how would you take the photo? Because I always put the tinfoil back over the top

of the meal that I've discarded. I always stack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like make it a little thing. I take the kids' trays, put them in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything gets smooshed into one, always stack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like make it a little thing. I take the kids' trays, put them in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything gets smooshed into one, pushed down. Yeah, yeah, same.

It's just the people around me. I'm like, hey guys, should we gather it up? But so the info, one of the funny bits of info they got from there, people weren't loving the blue cheese and beetroot moss, the hummus. They weren't loving it. But blue cheese is very divisive.

I'm surprised it's even on a tray to begin with. It's full noise. Like I love it. What do you mean a blue cheese hummus They weren't loving it Blue cheese is very divisive I'm surprised it's even on a tray to begin with It's full of noise Like I love it What do you mean a blue cheese hummus? Or do they mean blue cheese and beetroot hummus? And beetroot hummus, yeah Right So there's two of the hummus things

So we've changed that Also Yeah, but also But blue cheese is very controversial In economy, passengers preferred leafy salads over grain-based salads. I was going to say, when you said beetroot hummus and blue cheese, it's not something I've ever come across on a plane. No.

Posh. It's a bit posh, yeah. It must be up in the front. Is that up the front? It must be up the front. Oh, don't look at me. Although hummus would be cheap. I'm not a front rider.

Hummus would be cheap as anything, right? Because it's chickpeas. Yeah. It's merely chickpeas. It would be so cheap I'm not a front rider. Hummus would be cheap as anything, right? Because it's chickpeas. Yeah. It's merely chickpeas. It would be so cheap. People weren't eating it. They didn't like it. I mean, hummus is yum.

I love hummus. Maybe it's a bit too much for most people. What were the salads? Very ethnic. Very ethnic. It's from the middle of the East, I believe. People weren't touching grain-based salads. So what is that like?

Those quinoa gross. Quinoa gross No those are filth They were a three bean salad Get out Get out of town I have no I have no respect for anyone

That eats a three bean salad And says yum I love a three bean salad You know when they go to the deli And they're like can we get 200 grams of shaved ham And we'll just get a medium-sized three-bean salad. I was like, wait, I hope you're not sharing that. That's a lot of... Medium's big, they pack a lot in.

It's tutti, is it? I think if someone came to a potluck and their contribution to the potluck was a three-bean salad, I'd punch them in the face. Either three-bean salad or a Mama Fia Raleigh's garlic bread. No, not on the same page at all, Vaughn. Ugh. At all.

You're telling me that you think that a three bean salad, the worst salad of all time, we should do final ranking salads because three bean is at the bottom. So we would rank the worst salads? Yeah, we could. We make the rules. It's our show.

Tangy slaw would probably win. Tangy slaw. Always a slaw. Like an Asian slaw. Yeah. You can't go wrong. Better than a Caesar. Yeah, every time.

Better than a Caesar? Yeah, I love a Caesar salad. Caesar's junk. Put an egg and croutons on a salad and all of a sudden you're expected to not be junk. We can argue this on Friday in final rankings. But you know, if one of us puts three bean salad high up on the list... None of us will.

We'll have to get a new employee. No, no one will. We'll have to change the line-up. If you don't want a leafy salad or a grain salad or a blue cheese hummus, just grab one of those big blocks of chocolate from the airport before you fly and just eat that. Just eat snacks. Just eat a Toblerone

and just keep... Get a Toblerone in you. Break a triangle off you. Leave it in the seat in front of you. Yeah. And by the time you land, you're on a sugar high. Oh yeah, you're crashing. You're crashing. And you're a shambles. I finished yesterday the Ashley Madison documentary on Netflix.

It's like the number one thing at the moment. So for those that haven't seen it and don't know, Ashley Madison is a website that started years ago. Yeah, early 2000s. And it was all about facilitating having an affair. Yes. And if you were on there and you were in a marriage or whatever relationship, you could go on, you could find other people in relationships, and you could have affairs and keep it nice and tidy.

And then something bad happens, basically. I think we all know about the... There was a... They got hacked. Yeah, they did. They got hacked, yeah. That's what happens. Anyway, it's a three-part thing.

Fauna, you watched it with Sharts. Yep. And then I finished it yesterday. It's so well done. Yeah, really well put together. And then a good little twist at the end. Oh, don't spoil the twist. No, no, no, I'm just saying that's good.

There's twists. Okay. Anyway, apparently one of the execs at AshleyMadison.com, this website for infidelity, says they're seeing a huge boost in membership, including some famous people. That's what was insane about in the documentary. They talk about the more press they got,

a lot of it negative. It just drove more people to the site. Even just curiosity looks. So they reckon... I can't believe it was still operating. We were watching the documentary and Sade was like, is this still a website?

I was like, I assume so. And we Googled it and then we signed up and we've now individually started seeing other people. I mean, we had an awkward moment where we accidentally started messaging. And I was like, oh my God, it's gone. But we weren't going to talk about it. So apparently that's what they think it is, is that because of this documentary,

people were like, oh my God, it's still around. They're going on in a curious way. And then their brain's just like, I don't know. They're not going to get hacked again, are they? I guess like a load of people would have just been finding this site for the first time as well. That's what I mean. Yeah.

Like they just were like, what? What is this about? And then now they've had a huge increase in numbers. So as of yesterday around the world, Bridgerton was the number one TV show on Netflix. Ashley Madison, the doco was two and Baby Reindeer three. Yeah. Baby Reindeer's still up there. I know, and that's been around for ages now.

So, yeah, this exec, his name's Paul, he said that celebrities still use the site. And I was like, I reckon he does. I reckon he's just saying it to get more people along. Totally. And in America, what they count as a celebrity is very far-reaching. Like someone that kind of got eliminated from The Bachelor in the first week. That's a celebrity.

Yes, exactly. They have their moment. They do. They do. Yeah. So they say that they're getting 365,000 new users per month. I wonder how many people are new. Because when the leak happened, I remember New Zealand was on the list. They kind of scoot through all the countries in the documentary and there was a mention of New Zealand. Oh, wow. Well, I just tried to go on the website for fun,

but the work Wi-Fi won't let me. It's blocked. Yeah. Are you telling me you cannot have an affair at work? No, they're encouraging it. They're actually encouraging you to have an affair At work No you can't They're encouraging it They're actually encouraging you To have an affair With someone at work

By not letting you Have an affair Outside of work Right So it's better Look right in front of you Here it ends in me We like all of our

Sexual proclivities To be kept in house Yeah As opposed to online Yeah Oh wait Proceed unsafe Nah

No It always gives you The feeling you're about to proceed unsafely, but yeah, you always have to be safely. But I'm hankering. For an affair? I'm hankering for an affair. Or pop upstairs to the NZ Herald or maybe Newstalk ZB and find yourself

someone to have an affair with. Okay, we've got some hotties up there. I can't speak to it. I'm not yet having my at- work affair. Oh, okay. Well, good luck to everyone here, producers included, finding someone within this building to have an affair with.

Or just go home and look online then. Because I'm assuming you're not going to block yourself at home. I'm going to get home. I can't keep my hands off myself. I'll play with myself and then completely lose any want for anything more. Play. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

This is the top six. Hi, broccoli, 30% cheaper. Yes. Thanks to stable weather. Remember last year when it just rained and blew and rained and rained and rained and rained? Well, that's not good broccoli weather. It's been good. There's been some, definitely vegetables have been cheap.

Fruit and veg have been a lot cheaper, eh, this year. Yeah. I went to the shop yesterday and it was still expensive, but it wasn't in the veggie bin. I like that. It's a big, fat, like, cauliflower sized head of broccoli. I hate when they're little babies. Like a little... Pathetic. I want two hands. Yeah. Not one

hand. You gotta go through and get the biggest one. Yeah, but you don't want it starting to go a little yellow. Because you know in Australia they pay for the weight of it, eh? Do you remember that? Yeah, they were racking the stalk off. Yeah, they had people, yeah, chopping the stalk in store. Yeah. That's right.

Well, the price of broccoli dropped. The price of broccoli dropped 32.3% in April compared to the same month last year. So April last year. I mean, we had a hell of a start to, like, end to summer start. It was horrible. Let's not talk about it, buddy. But chocolate, though. Chocolate's up, isn't it?

He's devastated about this. Well, you know, the things I ate, broccoli and chocolate. Balance. One takes, one gives. Bumper crop, prices down, quality up. Let's look at some fun broccoli recipes. And today's top six broccoli recipes to make while broccoli is cheap. Number six on the list,

broccoli cake. Okay, like a banana cake but it's broccoli. With broccoli, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or broccoli bread there. If your broccoli's

just starting a little bit brown, chuck it in the freezer until you're ready to make broccoli cake. Yuck. That'll be work. Number five on the list,

this will be right up your guys' alleys actually. Number five on the list. This will be right up your guys' alleys, actually. Number five on the list of the top six broccoli recipes to try while the brock is cheap. Broccolatini cocktails. Oh. Yeah. Grainy, though. Well, you've got to mull it up.

Depending on, some people like a grainy cocktail. This will make a super cocktail, though, because, you know, it is a superfood broccoli. Whizz it up, mix it in, you know, it is a superfood broccoli. Whiz it up, mix it in, shake it, serve in a cold glass. Okay, okay. Might need a lot of sugar syrup. Yeah, I think to balance it out, the sugar syrup's going to have to go up. Yeah, you know, hide the broccoli.

And more alcohol, I think. Let the broccoli shine. Number four on the list where the broccoli will surely shine on the top six broccoli recipes to try while it's cheap. Broccoli. It's broccoli chocolate. Okay. You dip the broccoli in chocolate.

Right. I mean, it will make it taste good. It'll make your chocolate go further too. You would just rewind the clock bitching and whinging, I'd say. About how expensive it is. About the price of chocolate. Now you can have two of your favourite things together and make each go further.

He was Bitchin' and Whinjin', wasn't he? He was Bitchin' and Whinjin'. He was being dubs. I was, yeah. Over here. Bitchin' and Whinjin'. Number three on the list of the top six broccoli recipes to try while the brock is cheap.

Broccamole. It's guacamole made with broccoli. Ew. Could work. Could it? Could work. Could it? Could work. Have you still got avocado in there? It's a bit like how they use peas to make wasabi and guac.

They make it go further. I've had a guac knockoff. A guac off. A guac off, I feel like. Or a guacamole. The main star was peas and feta cheese. Yum. I wouldn't be mad at that.

They put a bit of mint in, which just made the peas pop. And it was actually really nice. Yum. Okay. So I'm just imagining the same thing done with broccoli. Yeah. A superfood in every way. Number two on the list of the top six broccoli recipes to try while it's cheap.

A weekend classic, broccan and eggs. Okay, so it's like... Who needs bacon, guys, when we've got broccoli? I like broccoli for bricky. Yeah, I like a charred brock. Yeah, broccolini. Fry it in a bit of pork fat. How does that sound?

That's for sure. Sounds pretty good to me. Sounds pretty yum. And number one on the list of the top six broccoli recipes to make while the brock is cheap. Brocca Masseu. It's an Italian dessert that everybody's raving about. I don't know if they are. I don't know if they are.

It feels a bit much. It sounds good because it's not brown anymore. It's green. Yeah. It doesn't have coffee in it. It has broccoli. Okay. Well, these are some thoughts.

Or you could also just go on websites and go delicious broccoli meals for dinner. Yeah. Think your chas, your salads, your soups. I gave everything. I gave drinks. I gave puddings. You did give six. Appetizers.

The lot. That is today's. Huh? I don't think edibles are edible. No, I mean. Not really. Broccolini, maybe. At a stretch.

At a stretch. Ah, okay. That's today's top six. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. So there is a woman, her name is Carlini. Beautiful name. She shared her proposal video and it's like a big deal.

It looks like they're on a skyscraper on top of New York. There's money here. Okay. And maybe an apartment or a hotel room or something. And she said, not me thinking I was walking into someone else's proposal. They're literally like, there's someone's video in them. They walk into this room and as the door opens, there's like a little aisle of roses leading to a big,

beautiful lit up sign that says, marry me. And her boyfriend opens the door and she's like, oh my God, turn around, turn around. We're about to ruin someone's proposal. And he's like, oh my God, turn around, turn around, we're about to ruin someone's proposal. And he's like, yeah, bitch, yours. And she's like, what? Yeah, this is your proposal. And she's like, oh, totally thought it was for someone else.

It was just like pulling him back, being like, stop, we're going to ruin it. Quickly, quickly, someone's getting proposed to. You're telling me she wasn't one of these girls that has been hanging out for a proposal? I don't know. No, she genuinely looks like her brain just can't put it together. She was being videoed,

so she must have had her suspicions, says the cynical guy who doesn't believe anything he says on the internet anymore. Yeah. But she sells it. She sells it well. She does sell it well. I mean, she's completely just like,

what the hell is this? It's your proposal, my darling. It's a really good proposal too. Then all the family comes out. Da da da da da. Anyway, I have a friend, what am I? Oh, I have a friend who got proposed to the

Taj Mahal in India. Okay. There would have been so many people around. So many people around. It is in India. Okay. And. There would have been so many people around. So many people around. It is literally flooded. Yeah. Because everyone thinks, you know,

there's that famous picture of Lady Di and she's at Taj Mahal and she's sitting there in front on this, one of the stalls and there's no one behind her. Like they did that for her. They closed it down. And everyone tries to get the Lady Di photo

and there's thousands of people. Yeah. But my friend was there and you go through security and you put your bag through security and whatnot and my friend, the male friend... What aren't you allowed to take into Taj Mahal? Probably like weapons.

Probably weapons or something. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Why do you look confused? Why would they have guns into the Taj Mahal? Who would take a gun into the Taj Mahal? Can you take a toothpaste over 100 miles? Yeah, you can take toothpaste. Do I have to take my boots off? No, you can leave your boots on.

They just prefer you didn't have any weapons. Are you allowed to take your adult fun toys in there? Yep. I don't know what I'd do in there. It's kind of sort of. I just think you want to keep them on. You don't want to leave them at the hotel. It is like a tomb.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so my friends are going through the thing and he gets stopped. You know, look through the bag. He gets stopped and my female friend kept going back and being like, oh, why are they holding it up?

And he was going like, move, move, move, move, move. And the guys are rummaging through the bag. He brings out the ring box, the security guy. And then my other, the female friend's coming over and being like, can you, what are you doing? What are you, leave him alone. What are you doing? Go through this.

What's that? What's that? And he's just like, security guy. No, but she was the one who could have just like left it or just like, whatever. But she was like,

why? What's that? What is that? What's that little box? And he's just like, oh, ruined it for herself. So instead of a beautiful romantic proposal,

she kind of ruined it. This is what I want to know. Like this woman or like my friend, did you ruin your own proposal? Because the whole point is that it kind of like catches you off guard. Because you always hear of like, hey, we should go for a nice walk up there.

And they're like, I can't be bothered. I don't want to go for a walk. I don't want to go. Yeah. And then they've got this amazing plan. We should go for a walk. Yeah. And they've got. Yeah. And then they've got this amazing plan. We should go for a walk. Yeah, and they've got a photographer hidden in the bushes. Your family might be by.

Yes. And everyone's waiting for you to go on this little walk up a hill and you're like, I don't want to. I'm tired. Are you ready to go out for our beautiful dinner date tonight? Nah, let's just have like noodles and sit on the couch. Yeah. You said you wanted to go on a date.

Anyway, this is what I want to know. Did you ruin your own proposal? Yes. I love these stories. By any means. I'm just listening to that top text really made me laugh. We want to know if you ruined your own proposal or perhaps you were doing the proposing and the partner ruined it

because a woman walked into her own proposal and was like, oh my God, we have to leave. Someone's getting proposed to. It was hers. It was her. You are. You are my friend. That top text about the Kathmandu puffer.

I wanted a beach with the sunset proposal. Nearly didn't because I didn't want to go to the beach at 8pm in the evening in my fat pants in Kathmandu puffer. All worked out. Worth it. Hannah, what happened? Hey, so me

and my husband went to Samoa for two weeks. Lovely, lovely. I know. So I was like, oh my god, perfect time. Anyway, I ended up getting food poisoning, got the bum wheeze, all of it. Thank you for sharing, thank you. Do you know what you ate that gave you the bum wheeze?

My parents are heading to Samar in a couple of weeks so I'll tell them to give it a wide berth. Yeah. Do not drink the water. I don't know why I thought I could.

He was like, yeah, it's fine. Yep, couldn't do it. I thought the water would have been okay. At least for the locals because they're used to it. They've had the bum wheeze.

But a dingy fever there at the moment too, apparently. BTW, take your mosquito spray. Yes, yes. And then chicken wheat came around and anyway, Fingy fever there at the moment too, apparently. BTW, take your mosquito spray. Oh. Yes, yes. Okay. And then chicken week came around, and anyway, the beaches are quite far out.

So he's like, oh, should we go to this beach? And I was like, oh, no, I probably can't make it. I'll need to put a towel on the seat or something. And then. Oh, my God. He's like, oh, my God. So the bumwees, Liza. It's a really nice beach.

Well, how far into it did you get the bumwees? Day one, day two, day three? No, probably like day three, day four. Oh, wow. And second week, bumwees are still going to yatch. Wow. one, day two, day three? No, probably like day three, day four. Oh, wow. And second week, bum whiz is still going to go. Oh, and no, I just couldn't risk a fart, you know? Yeah, wow. Yeah, been there.

And then he was like, please, I really want to show you. And I was like, oh, okay, fine. And then we got there and I was like, let me just, can we go see what it looks like? And if it's fine, then I'm happy to stay. And then he's like, okay. So we went out there. We're the only ones there, but I'm really white.

So I was like, can you just, like, go get the stuff? I'll sit here on the beach, like, beachy thing. Oh, so you've got bum ways. Yeah. Yeah, because I took my top off to, like, cover my face so I wouldn't get burnt. And then I was thinking to myself, what if someone pervs on me because I, like, had just a bra on, but not, like, a nice-looking bra.

And then I heard this crinkling in the bush behind me, and I was like, oh, my God, what's that? Turn around, and it's this guy just a bra on, but not a nice looking bra. And then I heard this crinkling in the bush behind me. And I was like, oh my God, what's that? Turn around and it's this guy with a camera phone, one of those old school camera phones. I'm like, oh my God, he's recording me. I've just got a bra on. Oh my God, where's my boyfriend? And I'm screaming. And he's like, babe, babe, calm down, calm down. And he had this frangipani

looking flower and inside the flower was the ring, but I had no idea. I just thought this guy was recording me. He's a pervert. He's a pervert. He's watching me. And he asked the local to record it. Yeah.

So this poor local guy is like, oh God, look at this scungy brown. I don't want to be doing this. She's shat herself. Yeah, she's going to shit up her back.

And then you spin around and you're like, stop perving at me. Yeah, I'm literally trying to run away, put the top back on, but he's like, calm down, it's okay.

And then I realised, put two and two together. Oh my God. What is the video like? Is it just chaotic? Yeah, and then it just doesn't look good. But I managed to screenshot after the nice pictures of me just getting back down on the floor. Okay, good, good, good.

See, that's why you don't know what you're seeing on Instagram, eh? It's all alive. Yeah, it all looks perfect. It all looks perfect. They have no idea what I just went through. They have no idea Hannah's literally one fart away from knitting a new pair of shorts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is so funny, Hannah.

Hannah, thank you. Jaleesha? Jaleesha, good morning. Yes, good morning. Now, you ruined your own proposal. Yeah, but it did work out in the end. So my husband had organized dessert with my friend, and she wanted to go to the beach.

And I'm like, it's 8 o'clock at night. I don't really want to go to the beach. I made him stop on the way to Eastbourne and Wellington. Oh, gorgeous. That's where I'm from. The sun was setting, and he was panicking. And I was like, what's your problem? And then anyway, I was like, okay, let's go.

I was literally in a Kathmandu hoodie, a jacket and fair pants. And then we got there and my friend was there with her brother who was taking photos. There was a little picket fence. The sun hadn't set yet, which was really beautiful. So it all worked out and I just cried. So, yeah. Look, it doesn't matter what you're wearing.

I was in a fluffy robe, you know, from Te Warewhare. It's fine. The cat men do puff. He loves you despite your fat pants. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Jalisha, thank you. Some more messages in. I was Christmas morning, got up in the dark super early to use the bathroom,

came back to bed and my husband had turned the lights on. I got so grumpy about how bright it was and not ready to be awake yet. And then I rubbed my eyes and opened them and I realised he was down on one knee. That's cute. My now husband and I went on a trip to Europe. We saw 11 countries and I

ruined his proposal attempts in seven of them. By changing plans, always inviting other people to join us, etc. Oh, that's the them. By changing plans, always inviting other people to join us, et cetera. Oh, that's the worst. Oh my God, we're in London. We should catch up with so-and-so. Maybe we'll just do it.

Maybe we'll just spend a day by ourselves. Why? We're never in London. I know we're not, but that's why maybe we need to see these things by ourselves. Okay, well, we'll catch up with Joan in Paris. Not Paris either, please. My best friend ruined her own proposal because she thought her partner was acting weird and cheating on her,

so she snooped through his drawers and found the ring. Oh, no. And then had to pretend she didn't find the ring, and then she told me and said, you're not allowed to be as excited, you're not allowed to be excited either, and then we just had to... Just pretend.

Meh. Hey. Ali said he planned to do a proposal at the top of the mount, but I'm halfway up I was like I simply cannot go another step And then you get up there

And you're all sweaty and bleh Yeah Rizzi found the ring But then her profile picture On Instagram is her Getting married So I'm imagining it all Went through

It worked out Oh Took the wife out to dinner Was great Then went for a walk Along the beach My cell phone went off While I was driving.

She said, I'll get it for you. The phone was in my pocket. Found the ring box instead. Oh, no, you shouldn't have let her. Just reaching into someone's pocket when their phone's ringing? Yeah. Jess, he was getting down on one knee and I was like, oh, yes, of course I will.

Not knowing he was going to propose, I thought he was just tying a shawls on that kind of ruined it before I'd even asked. Oh, like she made a joke. Yeah. He got down on one knee, but we were in the water, and I said, don't do that. You're getting your shorts wet. Nothing like a good telling off that sounds like it's your mum

when you're about to propose to the person you love. What the hell are you doing? Your pants are getting all wet. Your pants are getting all wet. Your shorts. God's sake. Women just can't have nice things. I was going to let it wash. Women just can't have nice things.

We always want to take control. Yes. Just let go of a bit of control and you might get surprised by something nice. Play. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Now I watched Bridgerton season one

with, oh thank you. I've got some Bridgerton music for you. Delightful. Welcome back to this season. I watched the first season and then I was like, oh, that's enough for me. I watched it because Regé-Jean Page is hot. And it was hot.

Does Julie Andrews still narrate it? She is Lady Whistledown, yes. So does she describe what's happening? Yeah, well, no. I'm going to take off this corset and show you my big heavy voice. No, no, no, no. She writes the letters of Lady Whistledown. Like, she voices the letters, which is like the gossip column of the time.

Yeah. Anyway, I watched season one. I didn't watch season two. And so I did a quick scrub through of season two, you know, like buffer. Okay, you're that person. You're that person. Right.

And then yesterday I binged all. You like dragged it along the bottom row until there was like a peak. Oh my God, what? I totally didn't even look for that stuff. I was not searching for that stuff. You were just fast forwarding looking for that little peak. I was just looking for character development Vaughn.

The most rewound part, the most replayed. I was just trying to look for who's who. If I landed on, you know, I'd have a little looky-poo. Anyway, so I started season three because I was promised, and you know I'm in my spicy era. Yeah. I was promised spice. Carwin said apparently that this was supposed to be

like the most spicy of them yet. And I'll say it's season three. No, season one was hot and spicy. Yeah. We all remember the scene on the stairs. Now, Carwin. Is that where Julie Andrews tripped on the upturned rug at the top of the stairs and roly poly down? Not quite.

Is that the scene on the stairs? Not quite. Someone was laid across the stairs, but that's not. They weren't in pain. They certainly were not in pain. Because someone else had also laid, and I was like, oh, my God, he's, like, fallen down as well. Oh, no.

Why are you down there? Was someone, like... Like, they hurt themselves? I think they hurt themselves. Yeah, maybe they had. Okay. Anyway, Karwin, having watched all four episodes of, quote, what's supposed to be the spiciest Bridgerton, but a hand frottage in the back of a

carriage, that's it. Yeah, yeah. Listen, the people that read the Bridgerton books maybe don't read the same books that we do. This is what I think has happened. I have read too much Smut. And now what I consider spicy.

You've got a new baseline. I've got a new baseline. You've got a... Oh, that's dangerous when you find a new baseline. Yeah, because Bridgerton season one, I was like, oh, this is hot. And now that a couple of years have passed and I've read like 20 erotic books. Because that scene in Bridgerton in the first season,

that was quite... Yeah, everyone was like, oh. Not outrageous, but it was a bit of a surprise. You're not used to seeing that on Netflix. Yeah, but do you know what it is? I think that you're more of an enemies to lovers girly than a friends to lovers girly. Thank you.

As am I. I think you've got me down category. What are you talking about? So people start out enemies. Yeah, these are tropes from books. So in the first season, she was like, oh, I hate this man. Once I've written someone off,

they're not getting back in my books. Yeah, but it's hot. You're like, we have enemies, but what if? Yeah, I hate this man. Once I've written someone off, they're not getting back in my books. Yeah, but it's hot. You're like, we have enemies, but what if? Yeah, I hate you. Don't write off hot people. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's pretty hot. I don't think you'd write him off.

Yeah, they have to be hot. Yeah, well, I probably wouldn't write off a hot person. Yeah. This is the other problem with what the show's done is they've done four episodes and I've seen them. Yeah. And then I've got to wait now a month

to see the others. Is that because of the writer's strike? They wanted to kind of get something out now? No. I honestly think that it's so that you don't subscribe

to a free subscription binge it all and then not stay on. They got you. That's fine. I mean it's good. I like this

main character. I also think that the next, is it four again? Four episodes get a little bit spicier too. I'm going to need to see some. There will be. That's your feedback. That's your feedback. A bit more.

There shall be. A little bit more. Okay. Go on. We're going to. Pop it. You're going to pop it in. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? What's your jobby? A flawless jingle for a flawless game. Love this game. Now, what's your jobby?

We get you to call up 0800-DARLS-AT-M. We ask three questions and then try to work out your job. If we can do it, we can come to a unanimous decision. A what? A unanimous decision. He said it funny. I did say it funny the first time. I did.

Unanimous. Unanimous. Unanimous. Unanimous. Annabelle, good morning. Good morning. Oh, okay. That sounded like a teacher. Sounds like she's busy and in a rush and she wants to go, go, go.

Okay. Not one of my, oh, good morning, Miss Annabelle. No, you'll be her surname. Yeah, I know, but I don't want to ask her surname and out her. Oh, yeah. Okay, yeah. I don't know how she feels about publicly exposing her. First question.

Annabelle, did you have to study in order to obtain your job? Yes, yes I did. Oh, you should have said how many years did you have to study. She's on the road, it's 20 to 8. Yep. Nurse? Teacher. Teacher. Big teacher.

I've got big teacher energy. But see, you get an idea in your head and then it's hard to deviate. And then it's hard to get it out of your head. And you don't want to, like, you still need to ask a good question that splits the field of what's remaining. While I've asked my question. Do you work consistent hours or shift work? Consistent hours. Teacher. Teacher.

No, but it could be in an office. We don't really have to study to work in an office. It's for anyone. Who's turning up early? Who's turning up early to their soulless office job? This isn't early. People start at eight and then they can finish at like three or four. Not on my time,

mate. They'll stay till five. It sounds like Annabelle's on the road, though. On the go. But don't answer that question, Annabelle. Shut up. Okay. Your question, sir. Okay, well, do you work with children? No. No, what are you doing? No way. Shut up. No, because they could be older. They could be teenagers. But you need to think, if she says

no, we've got nowhere to go with that. Okay, what about do you work with computers? Everyone works with computers. We technically are on a computer right now. Even farmers work with computers. Damn with computers Okay, um, um What about a uniform? That's a fast road By the way

Maybe she's a personal trainer No Yeah, you have to study to do that She's running She'd already be doing the clients At like six o'clock Uniform questions? Uniform.

I'm going to ask you. Do you wear a uniform for your job? Yes, yes, I do. Oh, no. Not a teacher. Not a teacher. Not a teacher. Oh, no.

Okay. Study. Had to study. Oh, what about a cop? No, because cops work shifts mostly, eh? Okay. And nurses work shifts. Who else wears uniforms?

That needed to study to get where they are. Beautician. Beautician. Beautician. Beautician. They wear uniforms. They wear uniforms. They wear uniforms.

But she wears a uniform. She wears a uniform. Oh, she does. Yes. Okay. Oh, no. I'm far, far from a beautician. Okay.

We've got a little freebie. No clues, Annabelle. No clues. She's a doctor. A vet. A vet. A vet. A vet.

A vet. She's on the road. She's going to be a vet. She had to sit in a room. She wears a uniform. Vets wear uniforms. 100% you're on the mark. Okay.

Are you... And it's far from beautician because they're always getting looked at. Annabelle, are you a vet? Halfway. A vet. Text Bishop. Oh, come on. We'll do that. Are we giving her... Are we doing that? a vet? Halfway, a vet text bishop. Oh, come on, we'll do that. Are we doing that? I mean, there's vets everywhere

and they're like, doesn't count. I can't believe we did that. That was amazing. She's on the road. That was awesome. She's on the road. That was a good guess. That's a really good guess. Are you a mobile vet? Technician. Technician. Yeah, on farms every day. What's a vet technician?

Do the horse's nails. Technician. Technician. Yeah, on farms every day. What's a vet technician? Do the horse's nails. Large animals. Oh, right. Not your cats and dogs. Okay, well, that was fun. What are you on the road doing today? Where are you headed? We're going to do some teeth peeling.

Some what? Drying off cows. Drying off cows. Teeth sealing. I thought she said teeth peeling. When the cows finish milking for the season, you've got to seal the teats so no bacteria and bugs get in there and then they'll get mastitis.

What, like with cellies or something? No, yeah, wait. Correct me if I'm wrong, Annabelle. You're the vet technician. I'm just the dairy farmer's son. But you do your squirt, a little ointment up there, don't you? Yeah, you're on to it. Up the teeth.

Up the teeth. Could imagine if you had to close yours up for six months. I didn't have to close up my teeth. Mine were already clogged. Mine were never opened. Yours haven't been opened. They haven't opened. You're a beefy.

Wow. What? What is happening? She's not a milker. We're keeping her. We're going to slaughter her soon for her tenderloins. That's why I'm beefing up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm beefing up for slaughter. We're beefing you up for slaughter. Well, congratulations, Annabelle. Well done. $100. I want to play again. Yeah, well, we can't because we've only got $100. We've burned through our bunch yet.

We were too good. We were too good. We're sorry to our other callers. I don't think we've ever won on the first go. No, we've never won on the first go. A successful first up. I feel a bit ripped off. What's your jobby? What's your jobby?

What's your jobby? What's your jobby? Play ZM's Fletch for the daily. Play ZM. Mate, was it a couple of weeks ago we said there was a huge wait for passports? Yeah. It was like big news. They said what would normally take a few weeks could take up to 10.

Yeah. But taking around three weeks for a passport at the moment? Yeah. No wonder because apparently a third of New Zealand passport applications in the past six weeks have been urgent, which means New Zealanders have paid $1.2 million for the urgent service. I've had it once and it was, excuse me,

I was going to Edinburgh the next day. No, I was going to Edinburgh in two days time and I just had not thought to look for it. And you couldn't find it? Couldn't find it. And do you know what? And I ended up going and I got the worst passport photo because I was like, and then like my dad was like

driving me around town and dropping this off. And then the only thing that makes me feel better was that one, I paid for the thing and I got it in time and I got to Edinburgh. Two, I never found the original passport. Really? I've never, and I've moved house since then. That's good.

My parents have moved. Do you know what I mean? That feels right because if you found it, you'd be like, damn it. Yeah. So obviously got lost somewhere like outside of my house. So I was never going to find it. Were you one of those people that tanks your passport as ID to town?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because people that do that, I'm like, that's a dangerous game. Those are people that don't have a license. You're rolling the dice. I think I've done it maybe overseas when I was younger because they don't accept New Zealand driver's licenses as ID into like

da clubs overseas. Yeah, into da clubs. So to get into da clubs, I would bring my passport. But $1.2 million. We don't need to be spending that money. That's insane. Especially with that money that you could be using on your holiday. I know.

Because it's not cheap once you get there. It's a nice meal. That is a nice meal. We did a phony yesterday, which was like, what's the dumbest thing your partner has done in the last month? And someone did text in saying that their partner paid for an urgent passport for a trip that's three months away. They'd accidentally just clicked.

And St. Price had been like, oh. Or not noticed the price, been like, yeah, actually I would like it in a bit of a prompt manner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go through that, just must have average passport cost. If you're going away in 10 weeks, they're saying it can be up to 10 weeks. Just do it if it makes you feel

at ease. That kind of stress is awful. It is a lot of money though. So I saw a list, yes, because, you know, this is that kind of time of the year, if you're lucky enough, people do head off to do either their OE or do the Europe thing for a month or two because, you know, it's summer over there. As I'm someone with no money for travel and no plans for international travel,

I might sit this part out. You want to sit this one out? Okay, you sit this one out. You sit this one out. Yeah. No, I don't know if it will make you filthy because apparently, and this map that I saw was on the Daily Mail, it revealed all of the anti-tourism protests

that are happening in Europe at the moment. And it was there. Swiss was a, Swiss town was the latest one. Oh wow, so they finally decided to have an opinion or something. Nice. Yeah, well, welcome to the party.

We've been hating each other this whole time. But so many spots in Europe are just done with tourists. Like Barcelona. Spain had 85 million visitors last year alone and there are some towns and islands there

that are just done and they've even like restricted alcohol sales because of the Brits coming over. That's mostly the British. Restricted alcohol sales because of the Brits.

I think it is a... Oh my. It's the new colonising, isn't alcohol sales because of the Brits. I think it is. It's the new colonising, isn't it? Yeah. The Brits are still going to different parts of the world and mucking it up. Yeah. But they bring in like alcohol limits and stuff like that. Or just spray painting tourist rental cars as well. Right. Like people are renting cars and they're like, just go home on the side of cars.

What? Yeah. It's not even, the tourists aren't going to care. They're going to take it back to the rental car company who is, I'm imagining, owned by locals. And be like, I don't know who did that. I'm lucky I got that $3 a day insurance situation. Your problem now.

Yeah, definitely get the full insurance if you're renting a car overseas in Europe. Just to touch back on the cost of things, just online on passports.govt.nz. If you get a normal one, it's $206 for an adult. If you get an urgent passport, it's $412. But if you need it between 5pm and 10pm on a weekday, like that's so stressful.

Someone being like, no, no, no, I need to get this overnight. Or 8am to 10pm on a like, no, no, no. I need to get this overnight. Or 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on a weekend. It's $837. Like that is so much money. But like, what are you going to do? You literally cannot leave without it. Yeah. Well, if you do need a passport and you're heading away, check.

Get in the queue and get it done now. And always remember what Tyra Banks said and smize. Because I smized. And you've got a great passport. And I didn't regret it. Checkbones up. How do you do that again? You raise your eyebrows, smile, and then stop smiling.

I don't think I look weird when I do that. I look good. I'm giving a good camera. There are a few countries that are not going to let you in. Play. ZDM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. So, the one and only Taylor Swift. She recently went on a little romantic getaway

with her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey, to Lake Como in Italy. Oh, that looks beautiful, eh? Never been. Or Anakin takes Padme in Attack of the Clones. I don't think it is. I don't think it is. I don't think it is.

It is. It is. It was filmed there. There's a Star Wars place there. And guys, there's a thing online where guys who love Star Wars trick their partners

into taking them to a part of Lake Como. So they went to beautiful Lake Como to have some beautiful wines in the sun. Just like Anakin and Padme. But you do, you always see it

in TV shows and movies. I mean, it's the home of the rich and famous, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that Succession film there. Succession did, what, second last season was there? Beautiful. Oh my god, stunning. Anyway, so they had a little getaway in between. She's still touring. Yeah, all through

like Europe. Girl, have a little sleep. Do you know what I mean? I did four shows last week and I'm like, I think I might take the day off. I'm so tired. Anyway, so she was back on stage in Stockholm and everyone was like, what's that? What's that?

She straight up has quite a sizable hickey on her neck. Oh. But why doesn't she cover it up or wear a turtleneck? Do I reckon she would have But she like performs for three hours Sweats off the makeup I reckon she would have sweated off Because looking at this video

It's funny with Taylor Like her hair gets like You know like more kind of Sweaty Lanky and sweaty Throughout the show Because she's working so hard Just like tie it up right

Look at it It is a hickey It's a hickey It's not even That's not a hair straightener burn No Because Look at it. It is a hickey. Oh, that's a hickey. Oh, that's a hickey. It's not even because I get- That's not a hair straightener burn. No. Because sometimes I'll accuse someone of a hickey and it'll turn out to be a hair straightener burn.

100% no. And she also isn't straightening her own hair. She's got professionals to do that. Yeah, and you would imagine a professional that's straightening Taylor Swift's hair isn't going to burn her. But I get like a heat rash or like a something rash across my décolletage sometimes.

But it doesn't look like that. That is straight up suckage. Bruising. Do you think that she was upset after it or she's like, hehehe, cute? Aaron's only given me a small hickey once in our 13 years and I was like, you

bastard. Yeah, no, Sharae and I have never hickeyed each other. They're so, I, oh. It's tacky, it's awful. It's gross. I've had one in my entire life and I hit the roof. I used to, oh, so bad. I used to hit them as a teenager all the time. It was so bad. You always see

them when you go to like teenagers working at fast food restaurants and they have hickeys and you're just like, I tell you what, there's been more than a couple of checkout tricks with hickeys. Oh yeah. My worst one was. Checkout chicky hickey. Chicky hickey. My worst was I had had a single evening hang time.

How very classy sounding. She had a one night stand. Yeah, 20. And the next morning I was like, I'm going to leave. And just didn't think to look at myself. Ordered a taxi, was like down in the shops, like waiting for a taxi. Got in the taxi, like went into the bathroom.

I was like, oh my God. And I looked, it was, yeah, like. There were multiple. Yeah. Anyway, good night. We want to know when you've had an adult hickey Adult hickey, because the teenage stories are plentiful Oh, God, yeah

And maybe you didn't notice, because in the Throes of Passion It was just a little one It was a little one, yeah And then suddenly someone's like, excuse me Is that a hickey? Age limit at 20 and over? 20 and over 20 and over

Because even 20, I was like, oh yeah, I kind of get it. And maybe you didn't have the necklace. I saw a woman at the hot pools. I assume she was like, let's go to the hot pools tomorrow and then her boyfriend was like,

well, I better mark you up so they know you're mine. She had like a necklace of the hickeys. Oh no. How embarrassing. When we would march

in the Edinburgh military tattoo, one of the girls in my team was a makeup artist and we had endless soldiers from like British Army, Scottish Army, Norwegian Army would come into our dressing room

and be like, oh, Nicole, and like get her to fix them because they'd get in trouble. The soldiers had hickeys? So many. I thought you were going to say your marching team

had to use the makeup artist to cover the hickeys that the soldiers gave you. No, no, no, no. The soldiers had hickeys from like many. I thought you were going to say your marching team had to use the makeup artist to cover the hickeys that the soldiers gave you. No, no, no, no. The soldiers had hickeys from like tattoo hookups. Amazing. And then if they, if the military caught them, they'd get in so much trouble. So they'd come and be like, quickly, Nicole, Nicole.

Amazing. So I will take your calls now. Whenever you had an adult hickey and bonus points, like what did you do to cover it up? Did you have to, in summer, wear a turtleneck or a scarf? Yes. Because that's obvious when to, in summer, wear a turtleneck or a scarf? Yes. Because that's obvious when you see someone in summer wearing a turtleneck or a scarf. Yeah, why do you take a scarf off?

It's so hot inside. I'm unwell, so I'm just trying to keep my throat warm. Oh my God, it's so embarrassing. Did you use that excuse, I walked into something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My necklace got all caught up when I was sleeping. It sort of softly strangled me there. It doesn't look anything like that.

Yeah. 0800-DARCETEM. I can literally see teeth. Adult hickeys. They're very embarrassing. Taylor Swift definitely has an adult hickey. Straight up. That is a hickey.

I can, I, hickey knows hickey. I have seen a hickey in my time. You're a gym hickey. You're a gym hickey and you know a hickey. And I know a hickey. Yeah. We want to know when you've had an adult hickey like Taylor. It happens.

It does. It's a passion. Anonymous. Good morning. Good morning. Now tell us about your... Oh, that is a... Yeah, that sounds like regret right there.

Good morning. It's a shame. How old were you when you had this adult hickey? I was 22. Okay. Too old. Too old. Yikes. We draw the line at 20.

What happened? So I went on a one night thing with someone and I was living with my parents at the time and they were conservative and I was so afraid that I would get in trouble that I purposely gave myself a straightener burn. On top of the hickey, you went like that. Wait, do you have a scar to this day

or did it heal? No, it heals pretty well. You can't really even tell. Oh my God. I mean, that's one way to go about it. Concealer would be another one. You know, it'll start to scab and... Oh, my God. So you were just standing there with the hot straight and being like, do it. Just do it.

Yeah, pretty much. I have a pretty high pain tolerance anyway. Oh, my God. This is your penance for being such a strumpet. The modern country. You branded yourself. Oh, my God god And then when they Oh no you've hurt yourself

Oh darling Yeah Yeah God the bruising's Really come up around This burn too Yeah yeah yeah Why is it so bruised

Did you smack it I made it pretty big There was no way I was going to get caught Oh my god That is Anonymous Anonymous

Thank you for sharing Some more messages in I had a hickey When I was going to get caught. Oh my God, Anonymous. Anonymous, thank you for sharing some more messages in. I had a hickey when I was 30. Oh, too old. I told everybody it was eczema. No one believed me. I was in a brand new relationship, apparently with a vampire. Eczema is a complete different texture. 33 years old.

I've been with my partner for 14 years and he gave me the only hickey I've ever had last week. It was on my boobies though, so easily covered up. Oh, easily covered up. A boobie hickey? Yeah. Yeah, that's good stuff. Good for you.

Good for you guys, 14 years in. I spotted one on my sister's neck and I was like, whoa. And she told my parents she got hit by a hockey ball. She absolutely would have passed out of a hockey ball and hit it hard enough to give her a bruise in the throat.

Would it have crushed your windpipe? Would have done some damage. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Would have done some damage. My ex would get mad at me when I wouldn't let him

give me a hickey, but that was a control thing. He'd do like hickeys, so, and that's, I remember that was a thing. A little mark. A little mark. A little territory mark.

Yuck, like a dog weeing on a post. A lamppost, yeah. I had a message from someone that said, I'm 39 years old. I was at a Masters game event. Masters is when you're too old to be playing with the ordinary people. So I would say too old to be getting a hickey. We won the gold medal.

And I'm in all the team photos with a big hickey on my neck because I had to take off my jacket and wear the sports uniform with the medal. It wasn't a great look. And boy, did I hear about it. I bet. My class teacher aid is 40 something. She came in so proud that she, and to quote, got some ass and she was covered in hickey. Almost made me want to make an official complaint.

It was so tacky. Listen to that. This one is absolutely, here it is. Gave my partner a little hickey near the beginning of our relationship, but she has a nasogastric tube. you know, the tubes that go into your nose, which I somehow managed to rip right out during the same session. Had to drive her to the hospital right away to get a nurse to put it back in.

She tried covering up the hickey. What are you worried about the hickey? You're going to have to explain how your lover ripped out your tube. Just get the breathing sorted before you worry about the hecky. The nurse gave it a bit of a confusing look, but she didn't get it straight away because we're both girls. Now, there's a lesson to be learned there. If you do have a nasal gastro tube,

nice little bit of tape. Tape it down before a passionate lovemaker. Before a passionate lovemaker. Passionate lovemaker. How aggressively are you making out something that you rip out their nasal tube? You might have to use a bit of duct tape, like something a bit more sturdy. Than the medical tape. Yeah, than the medical tape.

Get the duct tape on it. Oh, my God, so many messages coming in. A friend at a party got drunk and decided it'd be fun for her to go around giving everybody hackies. No, that's not going to get people in trouble. So lots of our teacher friends ended up wearing turtleneck scarves and plasters for over a week while the bruises went down. Oh, God.

My partner, new at the time, has a passionate kind of kiss and managed to give me a hickey on my lip in my 40s. What? It's a lot of suckage. A lip hickey. The lip is not an easily easy to bruise thing. Lip hickey. I'm 48. Yes.

In a relationship, in a new relationship with a very passionate man. Oh. Okay. I was in my late 20s, had a big night out on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning rolls around. Climb out of bed, still feeling a bit rough. Throw my hair up and go down to do presents with the family. Don't throw the hair up.

No. Leave the hair down. That's all done. I go back to my room, look at myself in the mirror, and there's a huge hickey. And nobody said anything. No. Who's going out on a big boozer hookup on Christmas Eve and then going home being like, oh.

Was getting hot and heavy with the missus. Let my intrusive thoughts win. And I started sucking on her neck as a joke. We were laughing, saying, imagine if I gave you a hickey. Afterwards, we turned on the light. It turns out I have a lot more sucking power than I thought because there was in fact a big fat hickey on her neck. She was fuming.

The cold spoon, toothpaste. We tried all the different things. You do the whisk. That's the thing. Yeah, the whisk. Remember the whisk? Redistributes it. My flatmate and my 20s favourite quote

from our time living together was me saying, just covering up my hickeys for church. When I had a rambunctious Saturday night but was expected to turn up for the family to church the next morning. Someone just texted saying, my nan had a hickey once and asked us kids how she should cover it up. What? We were in such shock.

Oh, my God. Amazing. Nan. That's a very passionate move, isn't it? Do we have an age on Nan? Because that could be the... 047, can we get an age on Nan, please? Yeah, that could be the winner.

That could be the winner today. Quick age on Nan. So 48 is the oldest one we've had so far. I've got a small bunch of freckles slash a mole on my neck. Sounds like an excuse to me. Sounds like you've got... Sounds like we're setting up a big excuse. And often get accused of having a hickey.

I'm 37 with teenage children. It's not great, but what you can do, it just never disappears. Oh, yeah, because some people have a birthmark, don't they? Yeah. Yeah, right. I was a checkout chickie, often with a hickey. Yeah. Checkout chickie with a hickey.

And everybody always used to say, looks like you've had a good weekend. Oh. 60. All the time. Nan was 60. Nan was 60. And we got our winner. Get it, Nan.

Get it, Nan. Good stuff. Fact of've got our winner. Get it, Nan. Get it, Nan. Good stuff. Fact of the Day is next. I think we all imagined our grandmas, eh? Like my late 70s, 80s. 60s still fresh. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM. Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Today's fact of the day is the interesting cave fact. I was telling Georgie yesterday and she ignored me, so I stole her shoe and put it on the top of the basketball hoop in the studio and she's not listening today either so she's about to lose her shoe. It's cave week. Get your shoe off.

Here at Fact of the Day. And today I want to talk about the great stalactite pipe organ. You might be thinking, stalactite pipe organ, is that a word? It's not. It's a compound word of stalactite. Yeah. Stalactite mightwn, is that a word? It's not. It's a compound word of stalactite. Yeah. Stalag mite, because it uses both, and pipe organ. Even though there's no pipes like a traditional pipe organ,

but the base of the instrument looks like a pipe organ. It is located in the Luray Caverns in Virginia in the USA. A man was on a trip. These caverns, you've been able to go into these caverns forever in a day. Beautiful stalag mites, like the limestone stalagmites and the stalactites from the ceiling because they hold on tight. Mites, they grow like a mighty mountain. Oh, that's good.

That's the way to remember that. Point, moit. His child, as they do, was running around playing silly buggers when he turned and donged into a stalactite. And it made a dong. Oh. It reverberated throughout. And that was when he came up with the idea,

and I'm guessing this was before any sort of, his name was Leroy Sprinkle? Great name. Sprinkle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never heard of someone with the last name Sprinkle. What was the last name Sprinkle I don't know

Like Sprinkle Sprinkles Hayley Jane Sprinkle I was like Lilo Sprinkle Or Lilo Sprinkle Okay Hell of a name Hell of a man

And the sound made Throughout it He was like That's pretty good And then he went around Banging on Tonguing on other ones And he was like

Individually owned cave He said to the cave owner I've got a bit of an idea, but I'm going to need to be able to have access. How do you own a cave? He just owned the land that the cave was on. Oh, wow. And in America, that's why if you own the land that oil's found underneath,

you own down, I believe, and the minerals underneath. But in New Zealand, you don't. You only own a certain amount at the top. So should you be paying for the water that you take from your land underneath the ground? Don't? You only own a certain amount at the top. But you own the access to it. For the water that you take from your land underneath the ground? I paid the boring fee. Yeah, but I feel like you should give something because Hayley's people had the land first.

You could just give a little donation every year. I do. I bring her a couple of glasses of water. It's good water. Yeah. I'm happy with that. She's been in the spa once and I believe that's pay. It's duty paid. It's all water. Yeah. I'm happy with that. She's been in the spa once and I believe that's

duty paid. It's all paid. It's duty paid enough. Right. So he spent the next three years inventing an organ basically that would play the different stalactites

and mites around the cave. Some of them weren't exactly to pitch. You know tuning forks, how they tune a piano? Hayley would know but they bang it and they listen

and then they adjust the tiniest of strings. He basically did that and he would go around and find ones that made the right sound when he hit them. And then when he cut it off and put them together. No, no, no, no, no. He'd leave them where they are and if it was a bit sharp, he'd shave it. He'd shave a bit of

off and dong it again until it was the right frequency. So then he got an organ bass and through that, basically every time he pushed a key, it sent an electrical surge up to a little rubber, rubber ended prong that would go dong and like punch at the stellar type. And then it would doing.

And it would doing. Like when you kind of kick a pedal on a drum. Yes. Drum kit. It just goes boom. Yeah. It goes dong. But it was like a electrically going down the wire. Do you have a pedal on a drum. Yes. Drum kit. It just goes boom. Yeah, it goes boom. But it was like electrically going down the wiring.

Do you have a video? Yeah. Oh, thank God. This is an official recording. Because I found some other ones where news stories went, but people were constantly talking over it being played. Really? So I have found Midnight in the Caverns.

Montel Maxwell is playing here. The Great Stalactite Orb, and he's playing the Moonlight Sonata. Oh, I can play that. Okay, we'll hear it. Lovely. Oh my God. Was that Drippy Water? Drippy Water.

Well, that's nice, isn't it? That's beautiful. And the good thing about this is they had microphones at every part so it sounds right whereas the other ones also, they're like, isn't it? That's beautiful. And the good thing about this is they had microphones at every part, so it sounds right, whereas the other ones also, they're like, I couldn't hear that one. He's like, you've got to be sitting over there to hear it.

Right. Because it obviously reverberates in the area. Oh, so they put all the files together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, layered them. That's stunning. And that's what it sounds like when a cab is in play. You could go to sleep with that. That's quite nice going. The drips are a bit much.

A little jarring. Because it feels like someone's left just hasn't turned the tap off quite tight enough in the bathroom. Hey, babe, when you get up to pee, can you tighten that faucet? It's really keeping me awake. It's really going to. I mean, I could get up and deal with it myself, but I'm just going to push the pillow over my ear and listen to the sounds of the cabin being played.

Isn't it? Beautiful sound. That's lovely. I don't think you get away with it these days, rocking into a cave full of really old stalagmites and stalactites and be like, let's turn it into a piano. Let's boing them. Let's get them boing and happening and if one's too big,

I'm going to shave it down a little bit. So today's fact of the day is there is a cave that can be played like a musical instrument. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We've all had it, the old text message from the power provider to say, hey, at some stage or in all of these hours or maybe half an hour before and half an hour after or maybe just forever, you're going to have no power on Tuesday. I don't think I've ever had one of those.

Really? Yeah. Well, I live in the central city. If the power's on all the time. The power must stay on for the same. It must stay on all the time. Well, although going back some years, you'll remember that there was some old cable.

I'm talking like, how long ago was it? It was ages ago. Remember that Auckland, downtown Auckland was that powerful like three weeks. Oh, yeah. What? Yeah, it wasn't that long, but yeah, I remember that. Crazy.

It was big outages. Yeah, and then they went to replace it and found that the whole thing was, I believe the technical term was poked. Yeah. Okay, so they had to replace it. They're totally poke-a-bold, so they had to replace it. They're totally poke-balled, so they had to replace it. So your day will come again, Central.

Producer Jared, how long are you without power today? From 9.30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Oh, that's a big outage. That's a long time. Most people would be at work, so that's not going to be an issue. Yeah, most people. But you'll be at home during the afternoon. Yeah.

Prime PlayStation hours. Yeah, exactly. I thought you were going to say play with yourself hours. That too. That too. Both, both. Time for both. What are you going to do?

I have no idea. The middie was originally going to be home with me. Oh, there you go. That ticked that box. Hello. But she's just been called out for a shift, so it's just going to be me. Okay. By my lonesome. What about cooking? Oh, no you go. That ticked that box. Hello. But she's just been called out for a shift so it's just going to be me by my lonesome. What about cooking?

Oh, no. No. Yeah. Okay. I've got a little camping gas. Yes, but see, you can go camping

and get some of those yummy dried meals, those rehydrated meals. I don't know why you guys like those. It's so weird. I like them. I only like them

when I'm hiking but I wouldn't have one at home. I had an apple crumble a little while ago. Okay, yeah, the apple cr's dehydrated meal is good stuff. What is it, backcountry meals, is that what they're called?

Made in New Zealand one, eh? I don't know, yum. Well done. This is kind of like you've had a forced pioneer day. Do you ever have those at school? No. Oh, God, could your school not even afford to pay for power? So poor. So they called it a forced pioneer day.

We'll live like they did back in the day. Would you round up the Maoris and steal their lunch? Bloody hell. Boy, no. How realistic were they making it there in New Plymouth? Wow. No, it was, you know, and you made, like, butter out of cream and you did, like,

I don't know what you did on Pioneer Day. You just did old stuff like they did then. Did you did on Pioneer Day you just did old stuff like they did then did you not even do that we just went on a school camp we took care of most of that stuff on the week

that you did school camp you went bungee jumping yeah at high school at school private school's so different yeah man it was rogue yeah I was going to say

you need power to go bungee jumping don't you to wind the bungee cord back up yeah they have to wind it back up oh do you they have to haul you back up. Oh, do you?

Oh, they have to haul you in, God, maybe a couple of years ago. Power was out. How am I getting back up? You ain't. You're hanging there till the power comes back on. Oh, no. They need a generator for such things. What about you could do some writing?

I could. Yeah, I was going to read a book, but I believe my e-reader hasn't been charged. Oh. Because you've gone high tech with everything. We could have brought you in some books, but the only books we have are. Yeah. I don't want to read those.

You could go to the library. Is there a local library? That might be without power too, though. The Mount Albert one's good. Yeah. So they have Wi-Fi so you could get on your e-reader and read. Look at us genuinely struggling on how to fill a day without power. I try to think back to what I did back in Namibia

where I just was outside all the time. Or go see some giraffes. Yeah, I could do that. I can't climb trees anymore. Why not? I'm just too sore. Yeah, he's too sore. I think you'll surprise yourself.

I can still get up a tree pretty. I'm a big boy. Did you have power in Namibia? We did, but, you know, load shedding was a thing. What is load shedding? Ursula Carsten told me one time, like sometimes,

a friend of hers was in hospital and they're like, oh, power's about to go out. And then the whole hospital went, like,

you'd think they'd at least have power for the hospital all the time. Not all the time. Right, okay. Jeez Louise. Well, you just cast your mind back to when you lived

in Namibia, Jared. Yeah. Okay, I think you're going to you just cast your mind back to when you lived in Namibia, Jared? Yeah. Okay, I think you're going to have to have an antique analogue play with yourself. Then you're going to have to do some writing by hand. Write some journal thoughts, a bit of free, you know. I could do a dream journal. Dream journal brain dump. Have a nap.

That'll get rid of a couple of hours. Yeah, naps don't require power, eh? Practice singing. Nope, don't do that. Practice some singing. The neighbours don't have their headphones to block you out. Go to the movies or something.

Or just go to the mall. I'll just churn some butter. Yep. Somebody else just said that they're 25. Yep. And their school in Christchurch, they used to have forced pioneer days as well. Yeah, it's learning, guys.

It's learning. It makes you well. Yeah, it's learning, guys. It's learning. It makes you remember. How would it work? You'd rock up to school on, not the bus, because it's pioneer day. You either walk or take the horse. You're not wearing your uniforms. You're cold.

You're wearing hessian sacks and whatnot. Yeah, freezing. All I remember is making butter out of cream, and that's all I can remember about pioneer day. Well, how do you do that with a churn? It was like, wasn't there a TV show pioneer house? Yes. And it was like a,

it was like that, but at school. Hang on. Yeah. How did you make this butter? You made it with a beater, didn't you? Plugged into the wall.

Um, for sure. You didn't have an old school butter churner. I had a churner. I remember they had an old school butter churner. Or like you'd turn it. Okay. Yeah.

It sounds like a camping washing machine now. They didn't have those back in the pioneer days. Yeah. It sounds like you had a beater plugged into the wall. Somebody said, did you make ice cream by shaking ice in the jar with the... No, I don't remember doing that. Okay. It's a bit posh.

It feels like we have a forced pioneer show day on the show. But you'd have to broadcast it still. Nah. That's just called not coming in. That's what I like the idea of. I'll be a sickly old man in our Force Pioneer days. I can't go, I'm sort of a Grandpa Joe figure. Yeah, great. I'll just be in bed all day, bedridden old man in Pioneer days.

Hayley can have polio. Yes. And be pregnant. Yes, of course. You've got to have both. Why would you only do one Yes And Fletch you can be

Burned at the stake For your awful awful sins Yes We talked a little bit About this earlier When I was reviewing Bridgerton And I said it wasn't Spicy enough

And we talked about how There's like names For everything now Especially when it comes To romance genres Like enemies to lovers Friends to to lovers, or slow burns. And now everyone, when they share content, they always want to put all the tropes that are in it.

And people go like, oh, I love that. Now, one trope that is on the rise for content, be it written, listened to, or seen, is fail marriage. What? Gen Z wants to see marriages fail. Here's the quote. If there's a fail marriage in there, I want to see it 10 times more than if they weren't.

Happy. If they were happy. If there's a marriage, it's really boring when you're watching something and the couple's together and love each other. No one wants to watch that. Oh, yeah. They want to see people crash and burn. But then sometimes I find if

there's like, you know, a TV show or a movie and the couple's just fighting non-stop, I get sick of that as well. Oh, God, yeah. Remember Marriage Story? They just screamed at each other for the whole two-hour film and that was it. What's Marriage Story? With Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. Oh, no, I never saw that. Because I felt

it was a bit like that with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but that was exciting because that was intertwined with a lot of action. And they had great chemistry, so it worked. But I was a bit like, okay, I'm getting enough of the whining. Yeah. Enough. And the unhappy marriage here.

I'm getting a bit sick of it. No, well, people are loving it. They don't want to see happy marriages. I don't know about content-wise, but in real life, yeah, I love to watch a bit sick of it. Well, people are loving it. They don't want to see happy marriages. I don't know about content wise, but in real life yeah, I'd love to watch a marriage crash and burn. Sorry? What? No, not like friends or anything like that, but like

celebrities. Like I was obviously devastated when Jason Momoa got a divorce. He's also soft launched his new girlfriend, so I don't know what messaged me today. Have today they finally soft launched. Yeah. They've been seeing each other for a long time.

Yeah, yeah, I know. There's also rumours about J-Lo and Ben Affleck. Yeah, I know. And people just are like... I know. As soon as they get a whiff. Yeah, of like a failed marriage. People love it.

Also, surely not J-Lo and Ben. Embarrassing if it is. That's more embarrassing than everybody. We're like, after 20 years, we've realised we found the perfect person 20 years ago, but we just weren't ready. He's such a grumpy dumpy. Yeah, but on behalf of all grumpy dumpies, you need a grumpy dumpy in your life.

Yeah, and she balances out by being a happy flappy. Epervescent happy flappy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he's a grumpy dumpy in your life. Yeah, and she balances out by being a happy flappy. Epavescent happy flappy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he's a grumpy dumpy. I don't know. There's something a little bit sort of sad and sort of a bit sadistic about it, isn't there? Yes, that you're excited to see people fail.

Yeah. Well, that's what they want when it comes to like romance. The whole idea that we want to watch romance films, for example, and have it all work out in the end and be happy, Gen Z's like, nah, that's so boring. Movies that don't have a happy ending don't do well. I know, we like happy endings.

Is it because Gen Z all grew up with, like, divorced parents, so if they can't have grown up in a happy house, they don't want anybody to. Yeah, right. It's that dark, but maybe it is. Get a divorce so I can relate to this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, maybe. It's that dark, but maybe. Get a divorce so I can relate to this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, maybe. I counted 79 all rights today, Fletcher, but that's a new personal record.

Oh, f*** off. How many of those did you count? 79 of those, too. All right. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rate and review. Oh, f*** off. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.