ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 22nd May 2024
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The Fletchvaughan and Hayley Big Pod.
Great things are brewing at McCafe.
The perfect start to every day.
Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletchvaughan and Hayley.
We're all here.
Such a good Wednesday.
You just made it.
You just made it in time.
Who are these people with these early jobs?
They're, what, clogging up the roads so you nearly didn't make it.
Yeah.
Tell you what, I've never hit the brakes so fast.
There was a policeman on the side of the road.
But I'm here.
You're here.
Fantastic.
And your Auckland show is tonight?
It is open.
Or opens tonight?
There is one ticket available for tonight if you feel like coming on your own.
I've...
Jesus Christ.
Boy, you can't...
You can't show us
how to work.
It's so horizontal.
I was just telling these guys
I was watching a show
with an unexpected penis.
You know when a show,
like, unexpected boobie
is like, all right.
But an unexpected penis,
you're just like,
oh my God.
But not an unexpected
hard penis. Unexpected, fully wrecked penis., oh my God. But not an unexpected hard penis.
Unexpected fully wrecked penis.
What show is this?
That's a 90 degree angle.
Well, this is a thing I feel like I can't say
because people will watch all six episodes
and say like, oh, I watched six hours of program
for, you know, five seconds of penis.
But it's A Man in Full, the new Jeff Daniels show
that's based on a 19-
A Man in Full mast?
A Man in Full. Well, kind of, there's a whole lot of throughout. You're like, oh, that's why it's called A Man in Full, the new Jeff Daniels show that's based on a 19- A Man in Full mast? A Man in Full.
Well, kind of.
There's a whole lot of throughout.
You're like, oh, that's why it's called A Man in Full.
Oh, that's why it's called A Man in Full.
Because this is a show you said you were watching,
and I was like, no, I Googled the reviews.
It's terrible.
It's not great.
Yeah.
Directed by Regina King, who's an actress and director,
who was in The Wire.
Yeah, I like her.
She's awesome.
And made for television by David E. Kelly.
Oh, yeah.
He's done everything.
Yeah, he's done a bunch of shows.
Busiest man.
And then, yeah, in the sixth episode, Unexpected Penis.
Wow.
Nice treat for you, isn't it?
Yeah, lovely little treat. I watched it all at the gym because I've been trying to get back into it.
But then I got home and I had 20 minutes to go.
So while I was having lunch, I chucked it on and Sade was watching.
And she was just like
this is quite an intense show and then
Unexpected Penis and she's like, what
is this show? What is this?
Yeah, so you've been watching the whole
time? Yeah, that's the only
Unexpected Penis, but then we did a
couple's Google to find out whether
it was real penis. Oh, like
that show, what was the one and the guy
in the shower and it turned around and everyone was like, oh, that was fake. The, like that show. What was the one? And the guy in the shower. And it wasn't.
And it turned around and everyone was like, oh.
It wasn't real.
The actor said that you're just straight up not allowed to have a real erect penis on film.
Oh, really?
Every erect penis is a, well, I mean, apart from porn.
But like Hollywood made stuff with the unions and all the tick off and everything.
Studios.
It's a phallus.
It's a phallus. It's a phallus.
Okay.
Well, it's kind of disappointing now, isn't it?
Yeah, I know.
Now I'll just always know it's not the real deal.
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Yep, the top six things.
I wrote this last night and completely forgot.
How do you not remember last night?
Because I write them the night before and then completely forget.
I've got a lot of stuff going on.
You've got this penis steering in the face.
You didn't forget about that, did you?
He got distracted.
No, no.
The Statistics New Zealand have said they're moving out of central Auckland.
Yeah.
It's no longer a neighbourhood they want to be in.
So I've got statistically the things you're likely to see in central Auckland
should you venture in there from Statistics New Zealand.
Oh, wow.
Next on the show though,
life expectancy
is on the up.
Is it?
So don't
spend your KiwiSaver
too soon
when you retire.
Don't be frivolent with it.
I could spend mine
in half an hour.
Yep.
Very easily.
Mine wouldn't even
touch the sides.
I said to Aaron
how much it was
the other day
and I said,
it'll be a nice holiday.
And then realised he'll be 73.
That's a nice holiday.
Looking forward to it.
Cruise?
That feels, it's got cruise energy.
Yeah, big cruise energy at 73.
I'm disappointed.
Why, Vaughan? I'm disappointed because I was sure
that, you know,
10 years ago, scientists
scientists
before they became waylaid
with vaccines and such
Oh God, yeah. They
said that the first person to
live to 125
or something, some
astronomical age,
had already been born.
Oh, okay, right.
Because anybody that gets to that old, it's always a bit iffy-iffy.
It's like, oh, yes, this Chinese lady who spent the first 50 years
of her life in a village with absolutely no paperwork is 120.
She's just a couple of years old.
She's not.
I think she's rounded up significantly.
Yeah.
But this news, this is terrible.
The researchers from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
Jeep.
And a whole lot.
What a miserable.
Miserable.
Imagine driving to work.
It's like, you know, just after six, you're like off to the, what is it?
GBDS.
Global Burden of Disease Study.
Oh, God.
We just get to drive in and laugh out louder
I mean I know the life
I'd choose
Well they're saying
babies born in 2050
so babies that are still
a twinkle in your eye
26 years away
Yeah
can expect to live to
80 on average
80?
New Zealand's life expectancy
is already over 80
isn't it?
So I just googled
our New Zealand life expectancy, 82.21.
That's not long enough for me.
You know how I feel.
I don't want to die.
Australia is just above us, 83.3.
But the world.
Who's got the highest life?
Oh, yeah, world.
I'm going to go.
Life expectancy, 71.33.
Oh, that's terrible.
There's a lot going on in France.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
Highest average life. Would it be the Japanese? Oh, that's terrible. There's a lot going on in France. I mean, yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
Average life. Would it be the Japanese?
They live quite long.
Yeah.
They have a healthy diet, don't they?
Monaco.
Rice and vegetables.
Monaco.
That's a weird, super rich anomaly.
Anomaly?
Yeah, an anomaly.
An anomaly, I believe.
Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea are the Asian countries in the top 10.
European countries, Switzerland and Italy.
Italy.
Italy.
It's the olive oil.
It's the olive oil.
It's the Prosecco for breakfast.
It's those, what do they call them?
Blue zones.
A lot of the blue zones, like Italy has a blue zone.
What is a blue zone?
Like, it's been all the rage.
There's documentaries on it.
There are places, they got nicknamed the blue zones
because those are the places that,
I think it
initially started because someone researching it
highlighted those countries in blue.
That's why they're called Blue Zones.
But they are the countries with high life expectancy.
Blue Zones Kitchen, 100 recipes to live
to 100.
And they're just places that, yeah, it's a lot of fresh
fruit, veg, nuts, seeds.
Not a lot of processed food.
No processed foods.
And not only that, social aspects like nuts, seeds. Not a lot of processed food. No processed foods.
And not only that, social aspects,
like family, community, all those kind of things.
Live together for longer and all that kind of stuff.
Sartan and sumac roasted tofu.
I think I'd rather die early.
You've Googled recipes.
This is the Blue Zones book. This is the Blue Zones book.
These are recipes that have made these countries the Blue Zones.
Even when they talk about it now, a lot of the Blue Zones book. This is the Blue Zones book. These are recipes that have made these countries the Blue Zones. Even when they talk about it now,
a lot of the Blue Zone countries are catching up with the rest of the world
with processed foods and unhealthiness.
Gotcha.
Oh.
Gotcha.
But yeah.
I definitely want to make 100.
Why?
But I want to do nothing about my lifestyle to ensure that that happens.
So I just sort of want it to be a luck thing.
But then how good is it seeing on the news,
they're like, what's the secret to your old age?
I know.
And they're like, ciggies and lollies.
Yeah.
I love seeing that.
I love seeing that.
I love seeing that.
I love seeing that.
I love seeing that.
I love seeing that.
Whenever my husband annoys me,
they're like, oh my God, I love that.
But they were born a hundred and whatever years ago
when lollies were like boiled sweets.
Yeah.
And then like a ciggies,
I mean, there's no explaining that.
I do ciggies, loollies and Prosecco for breakfast.
Because that's what, in the little village where my parents live in Italy,
all their old men, they stop off in the morning,
have a little shot of espresso and a little Prosecco on the side.
Off they go about their day.
What?
Yeah.
For breakfast?
Including men of the trades.
Wow.
Before they tottle off to my mother's house.
Okay.
Yeah, no, why not?
At least that's on par with a pie and a red bull, isn't it?
Yeah, dude.
Probably.
In fact, probably way less calories and less ultra-processed food.
Yeah.
Way to go.
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Uber have announced in America, and so I'm sure if this will make it to New Zealand,
but fingers crossed we can only hope,
a feature that will make it cheaper to get to the airport
and concerts and special events.
So what they have is this kind of vehicle
and there are a bunch of seats in it
and you can book one on that big vehicle
and it will take you to the airport or the event.
Feels like a bus slash shuttle.
Yeah, it is.
It's a shuttle.
It's a shuttle.
Other people can also book.
And other people that you don't know will be on there.
They say it's on the way.
They'll be stopping.
But it's not.
There's huge detours to pick up other people.
Yeah.
Because there's UberPool. We've got UberPool, which I've never used yet. But it's not. There's huge detours to pick up other people. Yeah. Because there's UberPool.
We've got UberPool which I've never used
yet. But it's a lot cheaper.
But it's so much
cheaper. You can share a ride
with someone who may be upon
a similar journey to you. Yeah.
Not too far out of the way but they'll pick them up.
How many people max do they take in UberPool?
Well UberPool is just normal cars.
So you'd probably be like two or three.
If it's a stranger, you don't want to be going.
Uber Shuttle will take up to 55 passengers per trip.
What?
That's a straight up a bus.
A shuttle's a 12 seater.
A shuttle's 12.
That's a bus.
It's UberBus.
But I mean, all right if it's a concert and you're going from one point.
Like a pickup point?
Yeah.
It doesn't say whether, there'll be downtown
pick up points
in these certain cities and when concerts
are on, say there was a big, I don't know
Taylor Swift concert or Harry Styles or whatever
they'll be like, we're leaving from downtown, much like the
buses do. To Mount Smart
and you'd book a seat on
that. Whereas in Auckland, if there's a
concert, it's free with your ticket, isn't it?
Yeah, we're so lucky with that system.
It's bloody good. But isn't it insane
how I was thinking all these apps
came along and they really
changed and
disrupted the way we've done things.
Netflix came along, no
ads. And you just get all these
shows and then all the other streaming services
and now they've just become
the norm. TV with ads.
I know. That you
pay for. Yeah, so like Uber
is now just becoming the bus.
The bus that you pay for
and go on a bus with a whole bunch of people.
How cheap it would be?
So they give an example
of a Pittsburgh
drop off from the central city to
a stadium for $15
versus an Uber XL price of $44.99.
See, we don't really have Uber XL,
which here's my issue
because I've been doing my shows
and traveling around
with my big keyboard
and all my stuff.
I've been ordering Uber Comforts
being like,
hopefully it's a bigger car
than like just a standard Prius.
And it's just a Prius.
Oh my God.
I've got to call it out.
I think a lot of people are taking liberty by
registering themselves on Uber Comfort.
I've got in some crap
cars that had
maybe a little seat cover.
It'd be very unlike guys to add a couple of inches
though and say it's bigger.
Even leg room, penis length.
You're lying here. This is not a
comfort. What is Uber Comfort
in addition to... Nicer and newer cars and sometimes-
Bigger.
Sometimes bigger.
Extra leg room.
But I got one the other day and the seat didn't flip out.
But we don't have XL here.
No.
Oh, right.
But that's because in America, XL are those massive SUVs and stuff like that.
Yeah, in addition to extra leg room on every trip,
after requesting you'll be able to let your driver know your travel preferences,
including temperature and conversation. You can do that now on all of them.
But I would say like, yeah, there's some like,
because usually if you get an Uber Comfort,
it's like quite a nice car.
But recently I've gotten into them and they're like.
A couple of Corolla Wands.
You're grim.
You're grim, yeah.
I hear you saying people are lying.
Yeah, yeah.
It was like me getting in my bloody Mazda Axler
and being like, Comfort's got leather seats.
And you're like, that is a dirtbag car
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Fletchford and
Haley
blah blah blah
blah blah blah
this is the
top six
stats NZ
it's easier to
say than
statistics New Zealand
why is statistics
statistics
it's all the T's
it's the S's and the
T's and the
switching between
them
statistics tis tics and then the people that Why is statistics? It's all the T's. It's the S's and the T's and the switching between them. Statistics.
Tis.
Tics.
And then the people that work there are statisticians.
Statisticians.
I didn't do stats at school.
I thought it was going to be the easiest math.
I was right.
Very wrong.
I was wrong.
Stats NZ will abandon its office space in Auckland Central at the end of this year.
Staff don't feel safe
leaving the premises or arriving at the premises
On Grey's Ave, a 10 story building
I'm not sure I know which building that is
Yeah, I know exactly the one, it's next to the hotel
and over the road, no one mentions this
in the news from the new development
I don't know the new development
Grey's Ave
Central Auckland.
So the bottom of it's the basement theatre and queue and all that.
Up front.
Where is it?
Up the road.
Yeah, it's just next to the hotel, whatever that's called now.
Oh, the one that used to be Nipple Pink, the rendezvous.
Yes, that one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where's my Nipple Pink?
Mural.
Well, that's the one our friend worked in, that building,
and they could always see naked people in the hotel and then email
over and around. There's a plus.
If we're looking for silver linings.
So they don't feel safe there.
They don't feel safe.
Stats NZ have said their staff
are allowed to work remotely until the
end of the year if they feel intimidated by coming to work.
I do too though. So do I
feel quite intimidated? I just feel intimidated by coming to work. I do too, though. So do I. I feel quite intimidated.
I just feel intimidated by both of your good looks.
Yeah, same.
Stop it.
I'll have to keep coming to work.
I'm working from home.
I'm working from home.
I'm working from home.
My co-workers are too attractive.
We're already working from home. Well, statistically, I've got some statistics of things you're likely to experience in downtown
Auckland, according to Statistics GNZ.
Okay.
Number six on the list.
You are 94%
likely to be told to F off by a
truant teenager who's also vaping. Yes.
Oh yeah. 94%.
And teenager meaning like just
13 or 14. And maybe even
not. I was walking
in the city yesterday right behind some
people and I'm guessing they were
maybe backpackers or
I think maybe they were Irish. And then one of them
it was quite busy, maybe
I was right behind them, blew vape right in my
face. Oh yeah. Like didn't even look behind
before he blew his vape. No, no, no.
They don't care. They don't think of it as
an inconvenience. No, they don't think of it as smoke
or give me chemicals.
Stuff that's chemical. What did it smell like?
Pineapples.
Actually it wasn't a nice one. it smell like? Pineapples. Pineapple mango.
Actually, it wasn't a nice one.
Oh, no.
It was like menthol or something.
Oh.
Yeah.
If you're going to do it,
do you know what I mean?
Have a little treat.
Yeah, grow down
and give yourself a treat.
Some cherry ripe.
Number five on the list
of the top six things
you're statistically likely
I just got them into the vape.
The Turkish Delight.
A little Turkish Delight vape.
Oh, now I'm vaping.
Great.
Are you googling
Turkish Delight vape juice?
Yeah.
Because you know
it's on the market.
Number five on the list of the top six things
you're statistically likely to experience in downtown Auckland
on a visit to downtown Auckland,
you're 71% likely to see a grown man's penis
as he tinkles in the public gardens.
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.
I've seen someone's penis accidentally.
I've seen someone's penis tinkling in a garden bed.
Yeah.
I must say, I must, I must say. Yes. I prefer a tinkle in a garden bed. Yeah. I must say, I must, I must say.
Yes.
I prefer a tinkle in a
garden bed to the wall
of a building.
Yeah, I saw a human
poo in a shop way on
Sunday morning last
weekend.
Great.
What time?
Actually, it was
the weekend before.
I don't know, it was
like 11.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Late in the day.
Shop not opening or
just chosen to stand over the poo? Yeah. That's disappointing. I was like, that's a human poo right there. Yeah. Late in the day. Shop not opening or just chosen to stand over the poo? Someday shop not open.
Yeah.
That's disappointing.
I was like, that's a human poo right there.
Great.
It is, isn't it?
Oh, yeah.
Number four on the list of the top six things you're statistically likely to experience in downtown Auckland.
Are you 69% nice?
Nice.
Nice.
Likely to nearly be run over by a fletch on a lime scooter as he disregards any rules he deems not fit for himself.
Only because Hayley's on the back and we're in a rush.
You're out of control.
Out of control.
You absolutely...
Yeah.
You've got to have faith.
He's got good skill.
Three from three so far for me.
Yeah.
Of the things I've experienced in the city.
Okay, here you go.
Number three on the list of the top six things
you're statistically likely to experience in downtown Auckland.
You're 100% likely to smell something you can't quite put your finger on,
but it seems to be a mix of the three Ds.
Death, defecation and durries.
Yeah.
Yeah, not wrong.
Those are the three Ds of downtown Auckland.
Yeah.
Number two on the list of the top six things you're likely to experience in downtown
Auckland according to Statistics NZ.
You're 83%
likely to walk
50 metres from Queen Street
and feel like you've gone through some
sort of portal because you're pretty sure you saw
a Prada store that sells
very expensive handbags and there's a security
guard and there's a small line outside.
50 metres later you're outside a store
that sells anonymous meat noodle dishes for $7.90
and you see the same people at both.
Yes.
Also at the noodle dish place, you can also buy a ponamu as well.
Yeah.
Queen Street really, yeah.
It's got a bit of everything.
Really mixes up their noodles and ponamu.
It's got a bit of everything.
And number one on the list are the top six things you're likely to experience
in downtown Auckland if you accidentally end up there.
You are 97% likely if you accidentally go near Queen Street in a car
to grow old and die before you get out of that train.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I've learnt now, but it took me quite a few years to be like,
oh, I just need to get, I'll just pop up Queen. No, never. I don't think you can pop up God. Yeah. I've learnt now, but it took me quite a few years to be like, oh, I just need to get, I'll just pop up Queen.
No, never.
I don't think you can pop up Queen.
Never.
Or even go near Queen or adjacent to Queen in a car.
You don't touch it.
You don't.
You don't touch it.
It seems like the green lights are for the pedestrians
and you're a real inconvenience.
Yeah.
You become a bollard.
Yes.
A car bollard.
You abandon your car as some sort of art installation.
Yes.
On Queen Street.
That is today's Top 6.
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Play ZM.
Okay, so we talked about Squid Game.
When's it coming out?
Li Zhongzhai, who's the main character of Squid Game.
Yes.
He was on the red carpet for another show that he's part of,
The Acolyte from Disney.
Star Wars.
She brought it up.
Now I'm allowed to talk about it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's Star Wars.
It's the new Star Wars show
and it comes out soon
and it's set like 200 years
before all the Star Wars
that we're familiar with
from the movies and the TV shows so far.
Thank you for that, Vaughn.
The Acolyte.
He's in it.
I believe he's a Jedi character.
Right.
Well, he has dropped on the red carpet
that we have to wait till December.
Really?
Like how long is that from the release of the original Squid Game?
Well, so I feel like one would have been enough.
It's perfect.
I know what you mean.
Is he going back or is he going to be a manager
or is he going back
with all of his money to bet
on the Squid Game or go in
with the money saying he's betting on the Squid Game
but trying to shut it down or expose it? Or is it Squid Game
All Stars?
Fans versus favourites.
He wants that whole mystery. It's on an island.
Where is it?
Who's controlling it? It's a very well kept secret. So there you go. December on an island. Like, you know, where is it? Who's controlling it?
It's a very well-kept secret.
So there you go.
December for Squid Game.
But if you cannot wait.
You think they might ruin it?
I mean, yeah, they could do.
Some shot, yeah.
It is literally one of the most perfect shows I've ever watched.
And so I know what you mean.
You're like, don't stuff it up.
Are you better to walk away?
Anyway, so if you cannot wait,
there is a new show that has just dropped on Netflix
and you can get it in New Zealand as well.
It's called The 8 Show.
It's another South Korean amazing drama,
but it has a comedic element apparently.
So kind of like a dark comedy.
Very dark comedy.
So it's called The 8 Show.
It tells the story of eight people who are desperate for money.
So it's another competition.
And they've been invited to take part in a shady reality TV show.
They soon find themselves trapped in an eight-story building in Seoul.
And the longer they stay, the more money they can earn.
However, other than food and water,
all other resources cost a thousand times more
than normal prices.
So then they all start to turn on each other
as to like what they're going to spend their money on
to survive.
The longer they stay, the more money they get.
There's a ticking clock and all this.
However, they are fighting,
but they have to fight in an interesting way
because if one of them dies
everyone loses
right
so they have to keep
the half score alive
so this is scripted
scripted not
I mean obviously
you don't want people
to die on everybody
yeah yeah yeah
so it's scripted
so it's like
all around the premise
that time is money
and the clock is like
ticking day by day
and they've got to
keep on staying
they've got to get to the end
and if they make it
then
they get the money. They all get the money. And he's in this as well?
No, no, no. He's not in this.
I was going to say he seems to really have been typecast
now as South Korean guy
and South Korean drama reality
show. Yeah, no. No. Different actors.
Apparently it is amazing.
Everyone was saying, I'm only relating it to
Squid Game because it's another South Korean amazing show
And people were saying it's very similar
Because there's like an unseen audience
Like that watch
And you remember that was part of Squid Game
Those rich white people in animal masks
Yeah it was animal masks
It had a sexual
It was very weird
It was some sexual stuff
That was sort of the worst part of the show Let's admit it Yeah it was animal masks. It had a sexual... It was very weird. It was some sexual stuff. That was sort of the worst part of the show, let's admit it.
Yeah, it was a bit weird.
Yeah.
So apparently everyone's saying like it is written even like more intelligently than Squid Game.
Incredible writing.
A masterpiece.
Like I've watched all the episodes in one day.
Best series ever.
Watched it in one day.
Can't stop watching.
And so it's out now.
Screaming at their TV worth a watch.
It's literally just dropped on Netflix.
So you can watch The 8 Show, eight episodes,
described as an offbeat, dark comedy.
Give it a go.
Play.
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Fletchvorn and Hayley, silly frying an egg, when do you crack it into the pan?
This happened at my house last night.
Nasi Garing on the menu.
Oh, yeah, with a fried egg on pan? This happened at my house last night. Nazigering on the menu.
Oh, yeah, with a fried egg on top?
Yeah, hello. Some spicy rice?
It was like calorie-restricted Nazigering, so it wasn't like dirty
$12 for a huge tray Nazigering.
Oh, yum. Because that shit slaps hard.
Covered in oil, yum.
Yeah, yum.
Chili oil.
But then an egg goes on top. And I said, because I was taking Indy, our. No, no, no, no, no. Chili oil. But then an egg goes on top.
Yeah.
And I said, because I was taking Indy, our oldest daughter, to hockey.
Shada said, I'll take care of dinner.
So then she's like, do you want it now?
And I said, yes.
And she's like, I'll fry you an egg.
I said, I can fry an egg.
And so we both happened to be standing at the oven when she pulls out the pan.
Immediately turns on the oven and immediately cracks an egg into the pan.
And I, a bit of oil.
For a fried egg?
Yeah.
But olive oil as well, which I've said a hundred times, it's got a low smoke point.
It's not meant to be.
I olive oil quite a bit.
You can use it.
Yeah, you're all right.
It's healthy.
You're all dickheads.
You're all dickheads.
And go ultra processed.
It's got a high smoke point.
It doesn't affect the flavour.
She put the oil on the coal pan.
Yeah.
Straight away puts the egg in.
Didn't wait.
And I was like, what are you doing?
Even if it's induction, it still takes a little bit.
It takes a little bit to get that oil heated.
Especially for an Asian style fried egg.
You've got to have it hot.
And then you put it in and it goes.
Crackles.
Yeah.
What kind of Asian is she's always done this.
And I said,
what kind of Asian is she?
She's a bad Asian.
And I said it,
I said,
naughty Asian.
Naughty,
naughty,
you're being a bad Asian.
Her ancestors
shall haunt her for this.
I know,
I felt her mama
behind me going,
oh yeah,
oh yeah.
And she's like,
oh,
that's what I've always done.
I was like,
it's not the way to do it. And she's like, it's that's what I've always done. I was like, it's not the way to do it.
And she's like, it's absolutely.
I said, we shall put it to the people.
The best way we know how, silly little poll.
So I sent it through to the group chat.
Shannon's like, brilliant.
Just about to put up silly little poll.
It happened.
So I was eating my dinner watching a live update of people voting on this.
It's delicious, and I shouldn't sound ungrateful.
Yeah. It's delicious and I shouldn't sound ungrateful But 3% of people put the egg in the pan before the pan's hot
That is wild
How embarrassing
Especially because the egg, if you've got a traditional stovetop, not induction
It would take a very long time to heat up
The egg would run and so you wouldn't even get a very nice shape
Maybe every now and then if I'm doing a soft, slow scramble It would run, and so you wouldn't even get a very nice shape. Yeah.
Maybe every now and then if I'm doing a soft, slow scramble,
but I won't go in raw.
I won't go in cold.
I'll go in as it's heated.
If you're doing a scramble, you've got to get butter in there and get it melted.
And get it melted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Always give me some stickiness.
Oh, God.
97%, if you've done the maths, 97% said wait until it's hot.
Do we have an actual number of... Yes.
4,604 votes for
wait until it's hot. 121 votes
for before you turn on. We run a good
poll. We run a
way better poll because people
publish polls
and they'll be like, we've had 400 people.
Yeah. 500 respondees.
It's a great sample size.
We run a good poll.
So your wife and 120 other people.
My wife.
My wife.
And 121 other people.
This is nuts.
Yeah.
CN says, what kind of crazy person puts it in a cold pan?
It's never even crossed my mind to consider this.
Psychopath.
Stephanie says, it's not right to cook eggs in a cold pan. It's never even crossed my mind to consider this. Psychopath. Stephanie says,
it's not right to cook eggs
in a cold pan.
That's crackhead.
Oh, well, I will,
but I'm actually just asking
to watch your language there.
That's crackhead behaviour.
And Lisa says,
Gordon Ramsay scrambled eggs
in cold eggs in a pot,
but always hot pan.
What are you talking about?
So Gordon Ramsay does it
in like a pot
and he puts the butter in
and then you go in with the eggs
and you like custard them.
Oh, because he cubes the butter, eh?
Yeah.
And then you add cream fresh.
Don't you go on and off the heat as you add the cream fresh?
A lot of work.
Alicia says, before, you want rubbery whites by the time the heat gets to the yolk?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is madness.
Ash said, I need to hear the reasoning why people would crack an egg into a cold pan.
I don't believe I've got any reasoning apart from that would crack an egg into a cold pan. I don't believe
I've got any reasoning
apart from that's just
how I've always done it.
And Anya says,
I'm lazy.
I can't see what she voted for.
Do you think she cracks
into a cold pan?
I reckon she goes in cold
and is just like,
oh, just get that going.
You've got to wait.
She's lazy though.
I'm upset by this.
In a deeper way
than I imagined I would be
Taylor's in a hot pan
You get a crispy base
Yeah
That's the thing
This wasn't a crispy fried egg
What's the point?
I know
Well you should
It was more like
Sunny side up
A poached
Yuck
It had a poached vibe
But with an open top
Is that making it
Is that maybe these people
Do they feel like it's healthier
No
Because it's not fried?
Because it hasn't gone crispy.
You've still got the oil in there.
They're like,
oh my God,
healthy fried egg.
Yum, yum,
healthy fried egg.
No, it's not that.
It wasn't that.
Now I want a fried egg.
I want a fried egg.
I want a bubbly fried egg
with chilli oil all over it.
Yes.
Scramble.
Good stuff.
Are we doing eggs today?
Because now I've got to hanker it for an egg.
Eggs must be done.
It could be eggs.
I'm going to specify with the chef, however.
Get that pan hot.
Many ways you could choose to name a baby.
You could just name it your name.
Some people do that.
Some people do that. Some people do that.
Like, imagine if you had a boy
and it was Vaughan Jr.
VJ.
It goes well.
VJ goes well.
That's cute.
VJ Smith.
VJ.
Yeah, Vaughan Jr.
Oh, VJJ though.
Problematic.
People in New Zealand
don't really do that, eh?
It's an American thing, eh?
We've got a family name, Matthew.
So my cousin's Matthew,
his dad's Matthew,
my pop was Matthew, his dad's Matthew, my pop was Matthew,
his dad was Matthew, you know, that kind of thing.
But they don't say the junior thing.
No, not a junior.
No, or the third.
Yeah.
We don't do that.
Let's just say, I've also gone, here's another way, thebump.com.
There's a random baby name generator.
So we'll just go unisex name.
Yep.
Starting with any letter, any origin, any style,
any meaning with all syllables.
Generate names.
John.
Here we go.
Let's say we're having a baby together, Vaughan.
Wild night.
Wild.
Jesus, Vic, we got carried away.
That's the one night you were allowed in the spa pool.
And now I know why I wasn't invited.
Our baby's name is Noah Smith.
Noah.
Very popular. Big Christian energy, Noah, because, of course, Noah Smith. Noah. Very popular.
Big Christian energy now because, of course, the ark.
But very popular name.
Yeah.
I'd say the last couple of decade and a half.
20 years, Noah's been very popular.
Just generating another one.
This is said to be unisex.
Fletch that same night.
It got double knocked up.
Our baby is called Evelyn Fletcher
Evelyn, Evie
For a boy, Evelyn, the boy
Evelyn for a boy
Sorry to all of our male Evelyn listeners
And good morning to our Evelyn listeners
Regardless of gender
Yeah
Well, there's a new way
That has been shared
on TikTok
and I kind of get it
but it feels a little bleak.
So,
there is a woman
that shared that she took
her whole family on a trip
to find some cute,
old-fashioned,
classic baby names
at the cemetery.
Like,
one of those
old-school cemeteries
that still has all the old,
like,
concrete.
Like here lies Gertrude McLaren.
Beatrice McLaren.
Born 1805 and all that kind of stuff.
Okay.
I know so going through the cemetery and being like, oh my God, a beautiful classical name
that you probably wouldn't see pop up on these modern sites.
You can Google classic old names.
It feels a bit
bleak. It's a bit bleak. Because what are you going to do?
You're going to land on a name and go,
I like that. We'll just take that.
And then when your kids eight or nine,
they'll be like, how'd you come up with my name?
Yeah, I know. We went for a walk
in a graveyard. Yeah. Because do you know
why your parents chose
your names? Because mine was just like, that's what you called every baby born in the late 80s.
I think the nurse said to my parents, he looks like a Vaughn.
Really?
I think that was the story.
My dad is like a people pleaser and a wild flirt.
Oh, yeah, there was a nurse hot.
Vaughn it is.
Vaughn it is.
It was an E in 10.
Might have been an E in 10.
Could have been. Might have been
an Ian 10. And then
yeah, that's how I got my
name. And Alan, my middle name is my grandad's
name. Yeah. Yeah.
I only got Jane because my mum
wanted it to be Rose, but then the baby born next
to me was Hayley Rose
and mum was like, oh my god, the woman's going to think I'm copying.
But then she'd never see her again.
I know. How much cooler is Hayley Rose? then she'd never see her again. I know.
How much cooler is Hayley Rose? Hayley Rose Sproul.
Yeah, I know.
Hayley Jane.
And Rose was like a significant family name as well.
Right.
Yeah.
So she just ditched that.
Wait, so out there, there is a Hayley Rose.
On October 8th, 89 in New Zealand.
Wow.
In Rangi Ora.
I know.
Where are you?
Hayley Rose.
And why did you steal my cool name?
She should have changed.
I just would have done it.
Like you never would have seen this family or baby again.
Who cares?
Why would you even talk to the woman and say,
I'm calling my kid Hayley Rose?
Anyway, so if you've got a baby.
And Carl, your parents were massive communists.
Yeah.
Named after Karl Marx.
Yeah, that's right. Yes. Inspired by. I think so. massive communists. Yeah. Named after Karl Marx. Yeah, that's right.
Yes.
Inspired by.
I think so.
Inspired by.
Yeah.
Was there any story behind it?
No.
It was just a nice name at the time.
Just, yeah.
What about Peter?
Again, I don't know.
Oh, is that not a family name?
I don't know.
Because usually middle names hold a bit of significance.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the...
No.
Well, my dad doesn't even have a middle name.
Doesn't he?
No.
Oh, my God. I couldn't afford one. Poor boy. We should give him one. It's like, yeah, they pay per Yeah, yeah. No. Well, my dad doesn't even have a middle name. Doesn't he? Nah. Oh my God.
I couldn't afford one.
Poor boy,
we should give him one.
It's like,
yeah,
they pay per letter, right?
Yeah.
That's why his name's John
with no H.
Yeah,
it's not short for Jonathan.
They wanted to go Joe,
but yeah.
Yeah, just call him Joe.
They had a couple of extra bucks.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley.
Well, I mean,
it's absolutely nobody's dream
But you're always miffed
When someone gets asked
And it's not you
To go back and speak
At your old high school
Why would you want to do that?
I've done it
I feel like I want to be asked
But if I was asked
I'd be like
I can't make it
Yes
If they go and be invited to a party
I don't want to go to the party
I want to be invited
Yeah
To know that I'm loved
Thought of And oft missed Yes But I don't want to go to the party. I want to be invited. Yeah. To know that I'm loved, thought of, and optimist.
Yes.
But I don't want to go.
But going back to the school to talk about her career in radio.
To rouse and inspire.
Now, this is booked in for, by my calculations, the 7th of June,
because it's a day after a big event,
which just before the show,
Carmen was scoffing at her for booking anything after that.
Because we know she's going to be a write-off the next day.
No, I've got great self-control, thank you.
Maybe when you were looking for your cell phone
and it was in your hand.
No, I don't.
No, I don't remember that.
How did you sustain that ankle injury?
I don't know.
Exactly.
So you have been asked to go back to your old school,
which is what's it called?
East Auckland High or something?
Hallett College.
Even worse.
And you've been asked to go back there to talk about radio.
Yeah.
They want to rouse the youths, I guess.
Wow.
Inspire them.
An hour chat.
An hour?
An hour.
To an assembly or just to a media station?
Yeah, I believe so.
The youth are tangled up.
Yeah.
An hour chat?
No.
Apparently most of it's Q&A.
Oh, God.
Hayley, you've just done an hour of stand-up.
Yeah.
How'd that go?
Yeah, you're good.
But it's quite, it's a long time.
And the thing is, people chose to be there, didn't they?
Yeah, they did.
Whereas students have been forced.
Yeah, there's going to be a tutor from broadcasting school where I studied.
So I think they're going to kind of do the like serious stuff and then I'll stand there
and be like, yeah, we get free chips sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I'm going to order some nuggets.
Yeah.
Just an
offensive amount of chips will turn up
in multiple boxes and everyone
gorges themselves on chips and then everyone's like
I've eaten too much chips. Well, why don't I have some more chips?
I won't do that again
and then the next day chocolate biscuits arrive and we
do it all over. I really think that'll
inspire them, hey? 100%.
Pretty sweet perks.
What are you going to say to them?
I don't know.
Follow your dreams.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
Never let anyone tell you you can't do anything.
Unless 100% of the shots you don't take.
Yeah, that's great.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think,
because I did a speech at the Leavers' Dinner,
which you had this little dinner where you go to in seventh form.
Wait, as a seventh form you did a speech?
This is where I was gifted the pearl bracelet
when I was in seventh form leaving.
Private schools, eh?
You were in seventh form when you did the speech at the leaders' dinner.
No, no, no, no, no.
I was then invited back years later.
How long after?
What had you done?
What did you achieve?
This is what I mean.
I definitely was like,
God, you should have invited me now.
I'm far more successful than when I went and talked then.
I think it was because I'd done lots of shows
and been to Edinburgh
and I'd really followed my dream as a theatre artist.
I bet the private school parents love an art person coming back,
probably earning, what, $12,000 a year
on the artist's benefit
to tell their kids about what a great time they've been having.
I reckon my fourth year out of drama school,
no, maybe my third year, I'd earned
$8,000
for the year.
That wouldn't have even covered
tax? No, half a year.
No, I paid no tax on it. How much was
tutelage? How much was your private school
a year? I'm guessing $8,000 wouldn't have put
on. Private school? Yeah.
Like 5k a term? Yeah, 20 a year. And you earned $8,000 wouldn't have put up. Private school? Yeah. Ah, like 5K a term?
Yeah.
So 20 a year.
So 20 a year and you earn $8,000 four years after you left.
But I was in there being like, you've got to carve your own path, you know,
really follow your dreams.
Like if you have a dream, just like do anything you can.
And then I'm like.
And your parents are leaning into their kids' ears being like,
don't listen to the hippie.
Don't effing do it.
You do it, you become an accountant,
you'll never be happy, and you earn money,
and that's the way we do it around here.
That hippie is on 8,000 a year.
Do you want to eat?
We didn't scrimp.
We didn't scrimp and save
and run from our mother country to come here
to work hard to put you through private school
for you to be an artist, all right?
You do something that makes you money and no happiness.
No happiness.
I talked a lot of shite.
You just got to make him feel inspired.
You know what I mean?
A few jokes.
Do you want to get some jokes in there?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't really know why it's me.
I represented the school on a community station.
So I think it was kind of like she did it then and now she gets
paid to do it. She's doing the real deal.
Are you going to say anything bad about us? Like what it's
like to work with us? In the Q&A, do you reckon
I'll get asked what it's like working with them?
High school kids don't listen to
the radio. They're going to have no idea who we are.
Yeah, they will. They'll be like, you guys
on TikTok.
Oh, we are.
Are you the loud people from TikTok?
You're the old yelly people on TikTok.
Girl, Matt, you know the one.
Ah.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM.
When you think about finding friends,
you think about wanting to have kind, loving people around you,
and that's all very well and good.
But there is an argument brewing online
in support of finding yourself a mean friend.
Someone who is a straight shooting, hard talking,
take no BS person, up front, will do the dirty work,
will be raw and honest with you.
Is this to keep you grounded?
Not so much.
I don't want that.
Although I know that, I know
Vaughn likes a little neg every now and then.
He thrives on it. Is this
like a friend group roasting?
No. It's different
than that? It's more the mean friend
that in any situation is gonna
take charge and then
just sort shit out. Like,
say you're at a restaurant
and your food
arrives and
the chicken is cold
and it's yucky, right?
You just eat it. Maybe you're the person who's just like,
oh God, it's awful. I'll just send it back.
No, no, no, I don't want to do that. I don't want to cause a fuss. I don't care.
I've waited so long. Your mean friend is the one who's like, no way.
Excuse me.
Hi, excuse me.
This food's not cooked.
This is cold.
I'm sorry, man.
My mum was this person growing up.
I think it's mums do it.
Yeah.
So the moment anyone is anything but accommodating or, you know, serving you,
you need the mean friend who's just going to like cut to the chase,
who is like not afraid to like talk to the manager
or like sort something out.
Great person to travel with.
Yeah.
Right?
Like the person who is just does not care what anyone thinks
will be mean and upfront.
And I was like, I totally get this.
Especially if they're saying like,
if you're like a bit of a people-pleasing,
delightful sweetie.
Yep.
Like myself.
You need someone that's going to say,
but you'll say stuff.
Yeah, I sort of sit somewhere in the middle, I think.
Yeah.
But anyway, we teased this on our show
and our friend Matt was like in the gaggle.
He's saying, you're welcome.
You're all welcome.
Because he's the one who just like won't take any BS.
Yeah, he'll say something. Or speak up
and be mean.
But do you mean like
you need this person so if your food's cold
or if you're travelling and something goes wrong. But
what about like for life advice
or what you're wearing. Totally.
Do you want that? You do need a friend to tell you to
snap out of it. Yeah, totally.
It's not mean.
Mean is not quite the right word.
That's what people are saying.
Someone commented on this video saying,
ma'am, we are not mean.
We simply have clear boundaries
and we don't mind enforcing them.
Oh, yeah, I like that.
That's a good way of putting it.
Clear boundaries.
Because I think that's the thing of being like,
oh, you know, this boy's treating me like this.
I don't know, but he's really nice.
Be like, nah. Pandering.
Pandering. Not pandering.
They don't pander to your bullshit.
They will tell you straight. There's a snap out of it.
You're being ridiculous. Yeah, totally.
I was like, this is great. You do need these people
in your life. Yeah, someone commented,
this is me. I will be that mean friend for you.
I will uphold the boundaries come hell
or high water. Mess with my bestie
you mess with me. And it is not
a pretty picture.
I love this. That person doesn't sound much fun to be around.
They sound a bit too far.
This is what they need. The quality
they need. Zero problem with confrontation.
See I can be like
a straight shooter but I hate
confrontation and I will avoid it at all
costs. Don't initiate it.
No. But don't like
let it happen. Yeah.
Aaron is kind of this for me
like because I hate confrontation
so much. I'll just be like oh no I don't want to
upset people. I don't want to do that. And he
doesn't like being the mean friend but because I'm
so adverse to what he has to be. Like with
tradies right you'd be like okay well they've stuffed
that up and I'll be like, oh, hey,
just noticed that you've actually
put a crack in my brand
new window and I hate to bring up
that that might be a little bit of an issue.
He's the one who has to put on
the big boy pants and be like, hey, that's not good enough.
Yeah, you've broken the window.
You need that. You do need that.
This is great.
Who would it be out of us?
Fletch.
Yeah, Fletch.
It wasn't even a question.
It's definitely Fletch.
Thanks for pretending to wait to say me.
We waited.
We pretended to think.
I already established that you were.
I'm two people, please.
I just want everyone to just be happy and joyful and love me.
Vaughn doesn't care enough, probably.
Couldn't give him too, whatever.
Just let it go.
Just roll with it.
Whereas you'll be like, no, I paid for this.
This is not right.
This is an injustice.
Sometimes it just depends what it is.
Totally.
Sometimes I'll just roll with it.
I'm like, oh, it is what it is.
Yeah.
You're welcome. No, I appreciate it. Because I don't want roll with it. I'm like, oh, it is what it is. Yeah. Hmm. Wow. You're welcome.
Oh, no, I appreciate it because I don't want to do it.
I don't want to be the mean friend.
Next, we want to talk about a TikToker who has revealed
what could be one of the coolest jobs ever.
Play.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Now, a woman has revealed her job on TikTok.
Oh, yes. Now a woman has revealed her job on TikTok Oh yes
Now I
When I was in retail
This didn't exist because I only worked in like a small
Store
So it was never like
Tested
But her job is to be a mystery shopper
And that's when like you go in
And you're paid to
Pretend to shop and you're paid to pretend to shop
and you're, like, looking for things, right?
You're, like, testing the service there.
Or some people are mystery shoppers to try to catch people stealing things.
Yes.
And they usually do them in, like, bigger stores, right?
But when you worked at the service station,
it wasn't their mystery shoppers?
Yep, yep.
But that was a big service station and they hired the people.
Yeah, but that's why they always ask you
if you want the chocolate bar special or whatever.
Yeah, the upselling, that was one of the things.
Are you smiling?
Yeah.
I know, are you smiling?
You hire these people, right?
To get like a little gauge on it.
Yeah, well, there's this woman, Charlie,
and she shares her experience of what
it's like, breaking it down into tasks
like, my first task was to
order a drink at this place. She's
at a bowling alley. I was like, what a bizarre
thing. Order a drink, like,
was it a good drink? Did you get nice service?
Was the service fast? Da-da-da-da-da.
Third task was to enjoy a game
of bowling. See, like, what a
great job. How amazing. you're basically going out and
eating and drinking and bowling or shopping yeah and a lot of the time like do you get to keep the
stuff is that like your payment yeah sometimes i'd really struggle to take the experience of
bowling off you again i've seen it yeah let them try joy yeah so joy yeah like sometimes I think
if it's like a big
like retail
like a
department store
or something
yeah they'll say like
okay you've got a budget of
yeah right
hundred bucks
whatever you buy with it
it's fine
it's yours to keep
like I like how exciting
that is
and it's something different
but I also hate the fact
that you're like
testing another human being
yeah
you know like
I know it does feel it's sneaky like were. You know, like... I know, I know.
It does feel sneaky.
It's sneaky.
Like, were they smiling?
It's like, well, I don't know.
Are you paying me enough to smile?
Yeah, yeah.
Like, what do you want from me?
That's what I...
When I was told I need to smile more,
I said, what have I got to smile about?
Because I'm getting paid $4.80 an hour
to be here at six o'clock on a Sunday morning.
Was this the 1950s?
$4 something an hour?
No, it was illegal is what it was.
Shut out.
So this one,
like she shares a lot of different experiences,
but this like bowling night,
she was given a drinks budget,
then was given a budget to cover a game of bowling,
then was given a budget for food and beverage,
like food, like she got a burger and some chips,
and an additional eight pounds,
so about like 16 bucks for the feedback session,
which took 10 minutes.
And then she was just given a night out.
What a dream.
That'd be all right, Ashley.
How do you Google?
Whose drinks budget are we budgeting for though? Hayley would need a bit more. You'd need right, Ashley. How do you do your Google? Whose drinks budget are we budgeting
for, though? Hayley would
need a bit more. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or I'll just skim it off the food one.
They want you to
remember your experience. Become a
mystery, hang on, become a mystery
shopper NZ. I know
people have done it in New Zealand. I know that
it's a thing. Yeah. Well, should
we get some little calls and messages
from these people? Because I'm looking.
Are you allowed to talk about it though? Or is it
like being a spy? Like you've got to sign a thing?
It's not like being a spy. I think they're allowed to talk
about it. Are you sure?
Well, they can call anonymously if they want to.
Because, you know, national security is at stake, Vaughan.
China's listening. Is that what we're worried
about? China really wants to know
if you offered to upsell
as you were leaving the service station.
Guys, I hereby submit my resignation from ZM.
It's been really fun, but I am now on mysteryshop.nz
where you can apply to be a mystery shopper 18 years and over,
anonymous shopper who evaluates businesses
and then shares their experience in order to improve customer service.
Okay, give us a call.
0800 DALES.
Have you been a mystery shopper before?
And what did you mystery shop?
Yeah, what did you do?
And did you get to keep the things?
And did you have a bad experience?
And were you honest about it?
Did you feel bad about like narking on people?
Because you're basically a nark.
Some of the tasks.
You're a nark.
You're a paid nark.
You're a paid nark.
You're a CI.
You're a criminal informant.
We will say snitches get stitches
but we want to know if
you've been a mystery shopper and what
was involved. Give us a call.
0800 dials. You can text through
9696.
What did you do?
What the hell just happened?
I missed the button. Did you miss the button?
That would have sounded really good.
Can we just leave a nice pause? Give us a call.
0800 dials.ALDZDM.
You can text us as well, 9696.
Have you been a mystery shopper?
Wow, so many mystery shoppers.
I know.
I'm listening to the show right now.
They're everywhere, these narcs.
You secret little narcs.
And they've fallen for our ruse.
We've exposed you all.
We have.
I love this. Not so mysterious anymore.
Look at all these people.
I love this. So you were an anonymous Look at all these people. I love this.
Sue, you were an anonymous shopper for who?
Good morning, Narc.
Oh, is that me?
Yes.
It's Snoo, darling.
S-N-U.
Good morning.
Wait, you're Snoo.
I love Snoo.
I can, look, usually we'll absolutely,
I will say physically assault the producers
if they get someone's name wrong.
We can slap across the face.
Or I must say Snoo.
Perfect, I'm down for it.
I would have thought you meant Sue as well.
What's Snoo short for?
Snoozy.
It is short for Susan.
I was a special needs teacher for a long time,
so it's short for special needs unit.
Oh.
Yeah, anyway.
Snoo from the Snoo. Snoo from Snoo. Thank you. Oh. So, anyway. So,
from the snow.
That's very cute.
Thank you for joining the show,
Sue.
So,
what were you a mystery shopper doing?
Um,
I was a mystery shopper
for Toyota.
Um,
so,
I know,
super bougie,
right?
So,
I had to take my car
that was a minivan
full of children
through to get a service
like the full kit and caboodle
for like $350.
What they didn't tell me though, or what I didn't read in the email maybe, was that I
had to pay for it and then they would reimburse me.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'll give you a budget of this, but they didn't pay me for two months.
Oh, yeah.
It's hard.
It's like when we get reimbursed through work.
It's hard.
It takes ages.
Two to three years.
So eventually, you got a full car service, and you just had to kind of report back and say,
they were lovely.
It was good.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
They didn't clean the roof of my car even
though they said they cleaned my car but they missed that bit yeah that's that was pretty much
it she's a nice she's a nice there's some come to paying and they're like oh that's 350 you're like
i'm a secret shopper i think you'll find this is covered i think it's i wish I was that smooth.
Wow.
I wish.
Snoo, amazing.
Thank you for sharing.
Olivia, you were a mystery shopper for who?
I don't know if I can say the name, but a supermarket.
Oh.
There's hundreds of those.
We'll simply never guess which one.
Yeah.
It's not a duopoly or anything.
Certainly not a dangerous duopoly.
So what was involved?
So I used to do it for the alcohol and also the produce section.
Delicious.
I love produce and alcohol.
Oh, yeah, because asparagus is R18, eh?
Yeah.
Definitely, definitely.
And so what would they, like, quiz you on?
Well, the produce ones was always a deep giveaway that you're a mystery shopper
because you had to go find someone in the shop and ask them,
oh, tell them you're making a fruit salad and ask what the crispiest apple was.
And whenever you ask that, you could always read the mood shift.
Yeah, you could see the penny drop and they're like, oh, it's a mystery shopper.
Yeah, they're like, oh, okay, no, I need to get my game on.
Hello.
Yeah, you could always see it shift.
I'm making a salad.
What would I put in the salad?
What is the crispiest lettuce
for a beautiful,
fresh summer salad?
They could go a bit more left field
with an apple,
but I've got to work, mate,
and every time I eat at the desk,
I think they're going to leave.
No, I want them to leave,
so I need the noisiest apple.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
That's better, Mr. Shopper.
Yeah, it is.
And what did they pay you?
Or did you just get the produce
and the wine?
Well, when you then had to buy the produce,
but the alcohol, there were two different ones.
There was ones where you were allowed to buy the alcohol
and you'd get reimbursed for it,
and you just had to make sure that you actually check your ID.
Right.
And then there was one where you would forget your ID
and try buying alcohol.
Yeah, because they've got to be careful, otherwise they lose their license, don't they?
Embarrassing if you've got a raggedy old face, though.
They just don't ask.
Olivia, thank you.
Anonymous, you were a mystery shopper for alcohol stores as well.
Yes, I was very similar to the last one.
So I would go around alcohol stores and supermarkets doing the same audit.
But what was really awkward for the alcohol stores is supermarkets doing the same audit. But what was really
awkward for the alcohol stores is that
you had to take photos
of the place and
outside the place.
About the conditions of
what it was looking like.
So you kind of go and
try and get their attention because they're meant
to kind of serve you and ask
you, do you want anything?
And then leave.
Take photos.
And always forget to get the receipt.
Oh, yeah.
Which you needed to be reimbursed.
Oh, no.
Okay, you're a hot mess.
And then you're sitting out going, oh, no, I just stuffed that one up.
No, I just have a bottle of wine.
No money for me.
No, no, you've just got wine.
You're doing mystery shopping all wrong there, I think.
You have.
I think so.
And then you go to the, oh, oh gosh, the supermarket.
It's right there, the supermarket.
And they, so often you have,
because they had to have like lanyards on if they could serve you alcohol.
Oh, right.
So if they could, if they could,
you could buy alcohol from them
or I said to call a supervisor over.
Oh, right.
And the supervisors are like, run off their feet.
Yeah.
So they come over and they'd be like, yes, fine.
I'd be like, yeah, no.
No, ma'am.
You're a narc.
You're a narc.
You're a narc.
She's a narc.
You're doing with me.
Anonymous is a narc.
Anonymous is a narc.
Thank you for your call, Anonymous.
So many messages and calls coming through.
We'll get to more of these next.
I want to be a designer clothing one.
You know what I mean?
Where you get to keep the Karen Walkers.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. We're talking about mystery shoppers. It seems there's mean? Where you get to keep the Karen Walkers. Oh yeah.
We're talking about mystery shoppers. It seems there's a lot of you
out there. This message, I had to stop
being a mystery shopper because I kept buying
what I was actually just sent in to test.
Yes.
I was supposed to just ask a bunch of questions about it, make sure
they were knowledgeable about the product and
leave. It came to an end
when I bought a bed from a large chain store
because I felt so bad for lying to them
and then I returned the bed when I knew the person
who sold me the bed wasn't rostered on
oh god
okay you're too much of a people
pleaser to be doing that Joel
I used to have to cold call for unis and tertiary
providers to check if they said all the things
they had to when I was making inquiries
oh yeah
about studying there I worked at, I was making inquiries. Oh, yeah. About studying there.
I worked at, I was a mystery shopper for Sky City.
And my job was to go to every entrance with no ID
to try to get in and see if the security guards would ID me.
Oh, for the Cassie.
Yeah.
I was a mystery shopper for a big food company.
It was badass.
I was in my early 20s.
I got a car, paid accommodation,
cash to spend,
went all over the North Island,
saw some cool parts of the country
as I'd never been to.
Always felt like a dick
though,
buying random ass products
and then standing there
with a judgy face.
Fun job though.
Yeah.
So they were just doing
all of the North Island.
Wow,
you're a travelling narc.
I would love it,
travelling narc.
Yeah,
you're out and about
being a narc.
My friend had a job
through a private security company
where she had to steal as much as she could from glass saunas.
No, that would make me nervous.
That would make me so nervous.
To see their level of security.
So glass saunas head office obviously hires a security company, right?
Yeah, of course.
They hire someone who looks like a glass saunas shopper
and is like, go ahead and steal.
I'm going to be so embarrassed.
Yeah.
Getting caught.
I know, and the beepers go off and everyone looks at you.
Yeah.
Oh my God, I couldn't.
I'd be too embarrassed.
And the great news is the Green Party does have a couple of openings
for people who want to, you know, scratch that itch.
Vaughn Allen.
Vaughn Allen Smith.
And then get into politics.
Vaughn Allen.
Vaughn Smith.
Be a sweetie.
Has he just taken a swing at the left?
Is he no longer a mouthpiece to the left?
I thought he was the mouthpiece.
Well, no, he's not.
He's a free agent.
He's a free agent. He's a free agent.
Now swing where he wants to swing.
Play ZM's Fletch for the nightly.
Play ZM.
Okay.
Jason Momoa's got a girlfriend.
Whatever.
I'm fine.
It's fine.
I don't even care.
I've got a fiance.
Let's not forget.
And I'm not just a desperate single just sitting here genuinely believing that I'm going to end up with
Jason Momoa.
I really let go of that
dream.
He's got a girlfriend. I've known this for like
two years. It's fine.
He's gone public. He called her Mia Moore.
She's gorgeous. I'm happy
for them. Is she gorgeous?
She's been on
Vaughan Smith's radar for quite a few years.
Okay.
Good Omens is a TV show that had Doctor Who in it.
You know the Scottish Doctor Who?
Sure.
The tall Scottish Doctor Who.
You know his name.
Why can't I think of his name?
Why are you looking at us?
And now I've blanked.
He's a very well-known actor.
David Tennant.
Oh, yeah. Martin Sheen. He's a great actor. Good Omens,'ve blanked. He's a very well-known actor. David Tennant. Oh, yeah.
Martin Sheen.
He's a great actor.
Good omens.
They play two.
That's a great show, by the way.
She's in that.
Right.
That's where she popped onto the Vaughan Smith radar
and has been quietly bubbling along ever since.
And when you mean Vaughan Smith radar,
you mean acting ability, don't you?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
You're not talking about looks.
You're not just.
For my production house.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
The craft.
The craft.
Craft. Craft. She's got fantastic craft. Great craft. Yeah. No, no, no. The craft. The craft. Craft.
She's got fantastic craft.
Great craft.
That'd be wise with her then.
She's got a great set
of craft on her.
She's got great craft.
She's a beautiful
Puerto Rican actress.
Yeah, beautiful
Puerto Rican craft.
Now, here's the good news
is that Hayley
got a little bit confused
when she saw
slash met
the ma ma
or girlfriend.
Yeah, I met me a moa.
And she said to me.
Because I didn't know her name.
I couldn't remember her name.
And she was describing her.
And so I'm running through the Vaughan Smith encyclopedia.
I'm a little, my brain's not working right because I've just Googled her
and it's all a little bit, hold on.
Oh, God, the words are gone.
And Hayley describes who I believe is Aza Gonzalez.
Oh, right.
And then he shows me a photo and I was like, yeah, I think that's her.
Because she's all done up.
But when I've met her, she's been like, oh, Nat Trow.
So I was like, there you go.
It's her.
It's not her.
It's not her.
So Vaughn's relieved because his hall pass is free.
Right.
Okay.
Of course, hall passes happen, don't they?
Yeah, yeah. The hall pass hasn't even been discussed. In fact, this whole pass has happened, don't they? Yeah. Yeah.
The whole pass hasn't even been discussed.
In fact,
I'll probably be in trouble
for even having this conversation.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
I beg your pardon.
The good thing about every woman
that I find attractive
is they do look a fair bit like my wife.
Yeah.
Same ballpark.
Oh my God.
I know.
Totally.
Same ballpark.
Same with me.
Same ballpark.
Massive,
burly,
huge people.
It means we've got our time,
you know,
and they should be flattered by that.
We're driving a Ford Falcon.
We're just looking to upgrade to the XR6.
That's right.
Anyway, so.
We're happy with the Falcon and the Ford family on a whole.
What we want is an XR8.
Yes.
Now, so on the side of all of this, that's fine.
Great.
Good stuff.
Happy.
Yeah.
And long may it last.
Anyway, I've talked about, as part of Hayley's Horny Book Club,
this app called Quinn, which is an audio erotic app.
And recently the actor's just done a whole big thing.
Andrew Scott.
Andrew Scott's done it.
Yeah.
And there's another creator on there who's my number one content creator on Quinn.
Now, if you've seen my show in Wellington, you're about to see it in Auckland,
you'll hear me talk about this guy.
Yes.
Fletch knows.
Yeah.
And he's my favourite content creator and he goes by the devil of Dublin
because he's Irish.
He's got a deep Irish voice.
Deep, sexy Irish accent.
Do we know what he looks like though? No.
Oh, that's exciting. Now here's
the twist. It's like the Irish guy off the chase.
No.
An Irishman can really take
a, you know, one of two
lanes. They're either utterly gorgeous
or, um,
you know, little ginger leprechauns.
Hayley
James threw out apologies to our
Irish listeners this morning. No, if you're
not a little ginger leprechaun then you fall in the lane
of being extraordinarily hot.
So this content creator
if I just find him, he has like a
little art.
Now in his art
it's the Irish flag,
and then it's a sort of sketch of a man with long hair,
the horns, and a long beard.
Very much my type, right?
Yes.
And his voice is gorgeous.
Almost like a character from Vikings,
like a silhouette of a big man.
Celtic sort of, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, so the other day, he's also on Instagram
and I follow him on Instagram, but he posts no face.
It's a faceless profile.
Really?
And he just posts about his like content.
And then just two days ago, he did I Can Ask Me Anything.
Yeah.
And in my show, I make reference to the fact
that we don't know anything about him other than his gorgeous voice and his like sexy stories.
And in my show, I reference that I have a suspicion he may live with his parents.
Yeah.
So on the Ask Us Anything, I just submitted the question, do you live at home with your parents?
Yeah.
And then he finally, he responded to that with like a full voice thing.
I wonder if I can find it without it being dangerous.
Hang on.
What do you mean without it being dangerous?
The devil of Dublin.
I'm just wondering if it's still up.
Has Ask Us Anything.
No, I didn't record it.
I've just been doing a quick Google in the time of this explanation.
It seems like the woman of TikTok that listened to these erotic literatures
being read by the devil of Dublin are all trying to work out who he is.
Yeah.
Who is the devil of Dublin?
And he's thinking about revealing himself.
You're going to be disappointed.
Yeah.
Do you know what?
I know, I know, I know.
As you're setting yourself up.
Especially as two men who've worked in radio for many years,
the disappointment on people's faces when they would meet you
and having not known what you look like.
And they've pictured you.
The nicest thing they can think to say is,
you're taller than I thought.
So here's his voice,
because I did do a screen recording of it.
It's just like a blank wall, right?
Then he's just answering these questions.
My question, do you live with your parents?
No.
I mean, statistically,
if you probably look at some sort of census of Ireland,
it is incredibly high
in the amount of people who live with their parents
only because the housing prices here
and the rent prices are...
He got a bit sort of stetsy on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, at the end, he's like,
no, I own my own place and da-da-da-da-da. I was like, oh, my God, hot. What does he look like? Then I was like,. At the end, he's like, no, I own my own place. And da-da-da-da-da.
I was like, oh, my God, hot.
What does he look like?
Then I was like, oh, my God, amazingly,
to respond to my question, how great is this?
Then I go into my Instagram.
And you know me, I've had some pretty hot follows
over the last wee while.
Briscoes, Chloe Swarbrick, The Wiggles, Jason Momoa.
These are my top four.
Now I've got the devil of Dublin.
Really? And he started going back and liking really old photos of mine. these are my top four now I've got the devil of Dublin and
really
he started going back
and liking really
old photos of mine
hot people don't do that
hot people don't do that
I know they don't
hot people don't do that
including
the photo of me
and Jason Momoa
so I was like
maybe he's liking
in my head
I was like
he's liking
because he's going
this woman likes men
like this
and this is what I look like
that's what I'm thinking wow that's what I'm thinking he's not, this woman likes men like this and this is what I look like.
That's what I'm thinking.
Wow.
That's what I'm thinking. He's not going to look like what you imagine him.
Now, listen.
Aaron just texted me saying, oh, Hayley.
The devil of Dublin.
Thanks for listening, Aaron.
The devil of Dublin liked my photo.
Why is he listening?
He's listening.
He's listening.
I think he was worried I wasn't going to make it to work this morning
because I slept in.
Anyway, he has liked a few of my photos.
And so I don't know.
So this is your new crush?
This is my new crush.
Face TBC.
Face TBC.
Do you know what I mean?
This is giving real early 2000s MSN chat room.
I think you're about to get catfished.
I know, but listen to the voice.
Like, oh my gosh.
The things he says to me, Uncle. You know what I mean?
Hayley, you have admitted
that you are committing a fashion crime
as we speak. Yeah.
Now, this has come from some
prominent fashion directors and writers
from the UK.
The Telegraph, The Times.
Anna Murphy, the director of The Times Fashion.
Lisa Armstrong,
head of fashion for The Telegraph.
And they are saying that
trainers and dresses
are done. And millennials
are not having a bar of it.
Like, this start, I would say,
do you reckon Lily Allen started this?
Like back in the day, floral dresses,
I'm just crossing to the girlies here
for a bit of a chin wag around the origins
of like girly dresses, white trainers.
Yeah.
Or even like Nikes.
Yeah, Lily Allen.
Lily Allen was like big dresses, long skirts, trainers.
Sun is in the sky, away, away.
Do you know what I mean? And then
we've just been going for years.
Now I'm wearing like a
long skirty dress thing
and trainers.
It's
tried and true. I do this like every day.
Yeah, literally every day.
Shannon?
It's all I do. You've got the mid day. Yeah, not literally every day. Shannon? Yeah, it's all I do.
You've got the midi skirt.
Midi skirt.
Midi length.
And then the trainers.
And the trainers underneath.
You only have to shave knee down.
Ankles get a little quick shave and that's it.
You look stunning.
And if you're fake tanning, just to the angle.
Just to the knee.
Yeah, I know.
Well, apparently it's stale now.
What do they want us to do?
Put on proper shoes?
It was 2005, 2006?
Yeah, look, it has been around for a while.
We're 18 years deep now.
Yeah, I know.
Was it not timeless?
Thank you.
I thought it was timeless.
I thought we were going a classic.
Is it because the ballet flats are back?
Or the Mary Janes?
What I'm wearing today.
What are Mary Janes?
They can burn and handle that.
Oh, you're wearing, I was going going to say you've got your Dorothy's
and Oz shoes on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stylish little Mary Janes.
I'm not.
It's comfort. We've always
gone it's stylish and comfortable.
That's the two great boxes you want to
tip when you're wearing clothes. Because they can't be comfortable
walking to your car. No, these are fine.
Fine. She said fine.
They're no sneakers.
Yeah, they want us to wear loafers, boots,
Mary Janes or ballet flats. And they're saying
put your sneakers away, keep them for the jime.
Mm-mm.
How am I meant to
comfortably walk? What do you want
from me? But they don't want you to. It's the patriarchy.
This is the patriarchy at play.
No, hey, I'm pro-sketches.
If you girls want to be comfortable in sketches, I'm pro-sketches.
You really are a great foot feel.
My mum told me at the weekend she's had to stop wearing sketches.
She's got what they call a proud toe.
What's a proud toe?
Went up too much for a sketcher or something.
I don't know.
I'm sorry, what?
She said it and i was like what
are you talking about and i was like that's just a toe that's in a wonky erect toe yeah i said are
you trying to tell me your toe points upwards and she said at some parts of the step the toe points
up how does it bring no i don't know if it's the roll onto the front of the foot it goes up oh
okay because she thought about cutting a hole whatever she is, whatever she is, if that's her biggest issue,
a proud toe so she can't wear a pair of Skechers,
she has to find a different pair of shoes.
That's fine.
Nan, 90, yesterday, still wears Skechers.
Right.
Okay.
Comfort.
Well, another stylist has said there are far more appropriate shoes
to be wearing with our dresses, including Mary Jane sliders or loafers.
R.I.P.
No, not R.I.P.
We're bucking the trend.
It's anti-fashion.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Fact of the Day.
Yeah, boy.
Good stuff.
Caves.
It's been fascinating so far.
It's been a good week.
I hope today's.
I'm really enjoying it.
I hope today's is fascinating as well.
Okay.
Because we're going to Kentucky.
Okay.
In the United States of America.
Right. Kentucky is the home of the Mammoth Cave.
It is the world's longest known cave system.
420 miles of subterranean wonder has been mapped.
That's a no thanks from me.
Some of it's massive though because mammoth, the name,
doesn't refer to bones of the prehistoric elephant-like creature being found.
Mammoth refers to the scale of things.
Okay.
There's some huge, they're so big, they're called vast theatres of cave, like underground massive openings.
Avenues where you could literally drive a car down some of these caves because they're so massive,
as well as some much tighter, when it gets to the end of things, things get a little bit tighter.
And there are tours that can take up to and over six hours.
Wow.
Where you can walk around the caves, multiple day tours.
It's a massive amount of things.
But the most interesting thing about the Mammoth Cave that I found out
is that in a quest to cure, I guess, tuberculosis,
Dr. John Krognin of Kentucky, who guess, tuberculosis, Dr. John Krognon of Kentucky,
who also had tuberculosis,
purchased Mammoth Cave for $10,000 in the 1830s.
They didn't know a lot about what they were calling
the white plague, tuberculosis then,
consumption, they started calling it
a little later in the century.
And he said that
visitors and miners
in the caves
had reported feeling
well after spending time
in the cave.
The air is slightly exhilarating.
Sustains one.
You know,
and it's exciting
being down there
and when you're down there
you hardly feel
any sense of fatigue.
Okay.
And he's like,
well, these are all the things
that you experience
with the consumption,
with the white plague.
With the consumption.
So he invited 16
patients to take up residence in
the cave in the winter
of 1842.
They had
some lovely slaves build them some houses
down there. Wow. Shout out to the
slaves. Shout out to the slaves who built
stone cabins and simple wooden structures
and everything.
So they had watches.
They would sink them to the outside world
and then, of course, go in because there was no natural light.
Yeah, they wouldn't know.
And they kind of kept up life as per in the cave.
But you'll be thinking if it was dark and in the 1800s,
you wouldn't have had solar-powered torches or batteries
or anything like that.
Of course, they had to have oil lanterns and a large fire in the middle.
Now, one other thing you'll be familiar about caves is that the smoke coming off that fire
probably couldn't get out because caves aren't chimneys.
No, no.
They go straight up.
They kind of go down.
There's pockets where it would get caught, et cetera.
Oh, that'd be awful.
Yeah.
So whilst immediately when they went down there, all of the victims began to feel better.
The people that suffered from tuberculosis,
they began to feel better.
Soon after, the smoke and ash from the lanterns
and the large fire used to continuously light the cave
made them all feel a whole lot worse
and degraded and also damaged their lungs.
So a few people died
and then they decided to cease the experiment.
But when it first went down
and everyone started feeling better,
he immediately had plans drawn up for an underground hotel
where you would come and stay when you had tuberculosis.
Did they figure out why that was good for tuberculosis?
In the cave.
Yeah.
So there was suspicion that it was like less
because people were all living in polluted cities.
Yeah, right.
A lot of people with tuberculosis,
it was exasperated by the fact that they were living in places
where coal was burning 24-7.
They had fires burning in their houses.
It was dusty.
Yeah.
So when they went to these faraway places,
often it was just getting out of the,
so it was down there.
It was kind of fresh air.
It was cooler.
It was a consistent temperature.
It didn't go up and down, up and down.
And the caves underground.
Fascinating.
Wowzers.
Now, if he'd done it in modern times, granted, tuberculosis is not the problem it once was in the Western world.
John Green, author of many books and movies, loves a bit of tuberculosis facts.
So I know it's not completely gone.
Yeah, right.
From following him online and listening to his podcast.
Tuberculosis is still a problem, but in modern times,
it could have been a different story.
Wow.
So today's fact of the day is the longest known cave network in the world
was also home to a once and evidently failed tuberculosis hotel.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
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Hey, do it.
You won't.
You don't have to listen.
Including the weekends.
Are you nigging them?
I'm nigging them. These guys probably wouldn't get it. Wouldn't even want you. Yeah't have to listen. Including the weekends. Are you negging them? I'm negging them.
These guys probably wouldn't get it.
Wouldn't even want you. Yeah, you guys probably wouldn't get it.
The podcast listeners get it. It's a little bit more
advanced. Maybe not for you guys.
How do we start getting talk, how do we start
talking about, we were talking about track pants.
Oh, you saw someone
at the gym with
That's right, Vaughan witnessed
a man in grey track pants.
Short.
Grey track shorts.
Yes.
And I saw the wang.
And you were assuming he must have been excited.
Not fully excited, but on his way to or his way back from excitement.
It's a bell curve.
And that's why you asked us if that had ever happened to us in public.
Yes. And then you said a guy at high school. I said, why you asked us if that had ever happened to us in public. Yes.
And then you said a guy at high school.
I said, you said the worst place it had ever happened.
I said school bus as like a college kid.
Yeah.
Because of the hormones and the vibrating old Bedford bus that we used to have.
Yeah.
And then I talked about a guy who did the classic move of when you,
as a teenage boy begin to realise
that this is happening
there's a swift move called the tuck
and you tuck it up under the belt
now the important thing is that
the t-shirt is not tucked in
or the t-shirt, it goes behind
the t-shirt and the belt
now a fellow
tucked it up
but it went between the t-shirt and the belt,
meaning the tip of the member was poking out.
Now, someone spotted that, and thus the nickname was earned tip.
Which I thought was a very kind nickname for the scenario.
Considering the situation.
He could have been called like Stiffy Pants or something.
It could literally be so
much worse. It could be so much worse.
And that was his nickname for the entirety
of school. Tip. Oh, he was a bit older
than him, but when I left, he was still Tip.
You know what? I don't even actually
know his real name. I can picture him,
but I don't know his real name. It's Tip.
And to this day, there's a Tip out there.
There's a Tip. G'day Tip. I think he's had morning
to all of our tip listeners.
Yeah.
And so, but that got us onto the topic.
We're like, how did you get your high school nickname?
Yeah.
How did you get your nickname?
I didn't have one.
Are we just going to do your high school nicknames or just all nicknames?
No, I want like school nicknames.
Yeah, because they're always so lame and embarrassing.
Something horrendous happened and then it's a lame, constant reminder.
Yeah.
So, I mean, this could be opening up some traumatic memories for people.
That's okay.
Trauma's welcome, as always.
Well, 0800-DARZATM is our number.
You can text through 9696.
How did you get your high school nickname?
And what was the story behind it?
Permission to laugh.
We want to know this morning how you got your high school nickname.
So, I think we'll go to Heidi. morning how you got your high school nickname. So I think
we'll go to Heidi.
What was your nickname
at high school, Heidi?
Hid.
Hid.
Okay, how do we think
Heidi got the nickname?
Is it just short for
Heidi?
Hid?
Or did you hide somewhere?
She hid somewhere.
You hid somewhere
because you had a little
breakdown or something.
You were hiding from...
Okay, no.
No.
A girl used to sit behind me in math class when I was 14,
and she used to pull my hair.
She used to think it was real funny.
What a bitch.
And then she started calling me hideous.
And then she started calling me hideous Heidi.
Oh, Heidi.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's all right.
I know I wasn't, so it's fine.
Where's this bitch now?
Let's kill her.
She made some really nice.
She was 14.
You know, we became friends.
It's fine.
Okay.
But I kind of turned around to her and said, whatever, man.
Just call me what you want.
And it stopped.
Oh, okay.
Because I didn't care.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I didn't care. Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You took the power away.
And then it just got kind of shortened to hid,
because she can't,
it didn't stop straight away,
but it just ended up getting shortened to hid,
and then all my friends kind of took it up
as a thing as well to not care.
But it's short.
We all know in our hearts it's short for hideous.
Wow. Heidi, thank you. Mickey all know in our hearts it's short for hideous. Wow.
Heidi, thank you.
Mickey, what was your nickname at high school?
So I had multiple.
The one I'm calling about is Cripple.
Oh, did you break your leg?
Back in the days.
So I had a string of bad luck.
Okay.
So first off, I got laryngitis and the first nickname was Mancala.
Mancala.
Because of your voice, you were like, I can't talk properly.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then once that had healed, I then smashed my front teeth and my sternum and got snaggletooth.
Aww.
One more and I'm taking
you out. We are changing schools.
Yeah.
And then the last one, my
brother broke my toe and I ended up needing
surgery. So I was
in a moon boot.
Aww. Moon boots are so embarrassing. Big fat clobbery things. surgery. So I was in a moon boot. Oh, right. And they were like, you just
accident prone. Moon boots are so embarrassing, eh? Big, fat,
clobbery things. Yep.
Within all of this, I also
nearly sliced my finger off and
cut my wrist on a mandolin.
What? Oh, sorry.
I thought of a guitar. I'm still
thinking of a guitar. Medieval.
Captain, what's his face's mandolin?
The slicer.
Thank you, Mickey.
Leah, what was your high school nickname?
It was Smell-A-Fant.
Smell-A-Fant.
Oh, Smell-A-Fant.
Oh, my God.
That is horrible.
I know.
So it started in, like,
year nine,
and my cousin was actually
one of the ones
that started it,
which is a bit rude,
but it's all good.
Like, it's all good now.
Yeah.
They were watching me play soccer and they're like,
man, she's kind of run like an elephant.
Like, I mean, I wasn't that big, but, you know, I enjoyed food.
And then there was also a rumour going around that I didn't shower
for nine days, which is like a very specific amount of time.
Nine days is a long time.
Yeah, and then they sort of
mashed it together.
So like for four years of my life,
I was known as Smell-a-Fan.
Oh, Smell-a-Fan.
Man, the rumours and stuff
that would go around schools.
I know.
It was like quite a ruthless time.
They became legend as well.
You could never shake them off.
Every school had one
where some siblings
had been caught kissing.
Oh.
Ours was the girl who had...
I thought you were going to say their name.
No, no, no.
Ours was the girl who had peed in the pipe.
You know, one of those play pipes that you could, like, climb into.
What?
What do you mean play pipes you could climb into?
It was like a concrete pipe.
Yeah.
And the rumour was X had peed in it.
Oh, no.
She hadn't.
Thanks, Leah.
Keep your tanks covered.
Thanks, Smell-o-Fan.
Talking about your high school nicknames.
And God, some of these are brutal.
I know.
Emma, good morning.
Good morning.
I am imagining just now seeing your nicknames on the screen here under your name that you are a tall person.
Yeah, yeah.
6'2".
And I hit my peak height when I was 13.
Oh, mate.
Oh, wow.
It was awesome.
It was so great, I tell you.
Wow.
And so I was right into athletics,
right into running and stuff like that.
So somebody,
Paul Surrett,
I hope he's listening.
Fuck you, Paul.
Because everybody else has been like,
it's okay, it's okay.
Let's name and shame his cousin.
No, not Emma.
I love that.
We'll allow that.
He's a good mate.
All right.
Well, watch your language.
Watch your language going forward, please.
Watch your language, Emma.
Thank you.
Otherwise, Katie will have to pay another fine.
Live on air.
Yes.
So he called me Skippy.
Skippy Big Boobs.
Oh, Skippy Big Boobs. Oh, Skippy Big Boobs.
Why Skippy?
Not only did I get my height, I developed early as well.
Right.
Skippy Big Boobs.
In proportion.
In proportion.
Okay, and Big Bird as well was one of them.
Yeah, so after Skippy Big Boobs faded out, I became Big Bird.
Oh, wow.
Because I was tall, lanky, and I don't know.
It was an easy target.
And you've got a big beak.
Yeah, and friends with Mr. Snuffleupagus.
Yeah, I'm Caucasian, blonde hair.
So I don't know.
They put two and two together.
They're like, that is the name.
That's the name.
Wow.
Amazing.
Emma, thank you for sharing.
You know what?
David, what was his name?
I think I said it right.
She's got blown away by the absolute F-bomb drop.
My nickname, Duck Tang, because I had webbed toes on both feet.
Aww.
My nickname was Eyebrows.
I sported a lovely dark unibrow until I wised up and got that sorted out.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
Peanut.
Wide shoulders and hips and no boobs.
So shaped like a peanut. Aww. Wide shoulders and hips and no boobs. So, shaped like a peanut.
Oh, wide shoulders and hips.
That's what everyone wants.
Yeah.
Peanuts go in at the waist.
Let's just call it an hourglass figure.
Oh, my God.
Okay, so this is the worst. When I was at school, I gave a guy some light hand relief in the back of the bus.
We all did. And then from then on, I was just referred some light hand relief in the back of the bus. We all did.
And then from then on, I was just
referred to as the handyman.
Oh my god.
Okay.
The handyman can. I wonder if they
sung it to the Willy Wonka Candyman song.
I gave a girl at
high school the nickname Far Lap because I
walked in on her and her
partner, wait a minute it's disappeared, her and her
boyfriend and she was riding
him in the saddle
That would make him Far Lap
I don't know. I would have nicknamed her Lance O'Sullivan
Probably New Zealand's most high profile
That's too layered, it's too
intelligent that one. You've got to be
too into your equine sports to know
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I can feel it in your voice that you're dancing around a few of them
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Hey guys apparently being the company's most successful podcast
Isn't enough
They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends.
So people are clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it.
I would concentrate more on the shitter podcasts that the company makes.
Yeah, same.
You know, the real losers out there.
Same.
No, no, no, we'll just...
Yeah.
Maybe we won't say no.
Maybe we should even encourage people to listen to other podcasts that the company makes.
Oh, no, but only after ours.
Yeah, nah, nah, don't do that.
And not more than ours.
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