ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 23rd September 2024
Episode Date: September 23, 2024Family can't get a passport for kid Youtube's pause ads Top 6 ways to make the lawyers happy Hayley's first helicopter ride SLP - Are you at peak stress in life right now? IOS 18 calculator converter ...Vaughan is getting old Pax Assadi What don't you like that everyone else does? Interviewing Dua Lipa Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome awareness month Fact of the Day How did you last out as a teenager?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Thank you, Rune.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Is it the last week daylight savings this weekend?
Yeah, baby.
Already so light outside now.
I know, and the birds are chirping when I leave the house. I have been leaving a little bit later, but... We'll lose that next Yeah, baby. Already so light outside now. I know. And the birds are chirping when I leave the house.
I have been leaving a little bit later, but.
We'll lose that next week, though.
And it'll come back over.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, because we're jumping forward, right?
Spring forward.
Fall back.
So we get a lighter evening.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
I mean, summer, summer, summer.
It was actually really nice yesterday in Auckland.
I was hot.
Wearing shorts.
Are you going to give the forecast for the rest of the country what it was like yesterday?
I don't care.
On a national radio station.
I don't care.
Probably cold down south.
Windy in Wellington and warm in Auckland.
Predictable.
It's not hard.
We've got a big show today.
Big fatty.
Stop eating.
These oats take me an hour and a half. Big show. Big show. We've got a big show today. Big fatty. Stop eating. These oats take me an hour and a half.
Big show.
Big show.
We've got guests.
Dua Lipa joins us after eight this morning.
But not to be overshadowed, Pax Asadi is also coming to the studio.
Comedian.
Comedian.
Who you're doing like a double billing with.
We're doing a double bill.
Is that next week?
Yep.
We're going to talk comedy with Pax.
And then we'll talk to Dua Lipa.
Both equal, you know, weight.
Crowd pleases.
Yeah, yeah, crowd pleases.
Entertain us.
Top six on the way.
Good morning to our lawyers listening.
Apparently New Zealand lawyers are sad.
Saddest in the world.
Saddest in the world.
Why?
Why are you so sad?
You've got good money?
Nice suits? Every lawyer earns good money. You've got good money? Nice suits?
Every lawyer earns good money.
I've got quite a few.
That's a bit of a...
A couple of lawyer friends and they're all broke.
Yeah.
I think they went to law school being like,
I'm going to be rich.
And you're like, nope, takes years.
They have to read too much.
Takes years.
I know.
They have to do so much reading.
Can't AI do that now?
Yeah, which is probably another reason they're sad.
But I've got the top six ways to make the lawyer in your life happy.
Okay. That, lovely.
Next on the show, what would happen if Vaughn could name his kids...
A third child.
A third child with no restrictions from his wife.
No supervision.
Because a British...
Lightsaber Lego boy.
A British couple have run into a Disney problem
with the name of their seven-year-old.
We'll discuss next.
Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley.
Well, a family in the UK,
their son has been denied a passport for their vacay.
Oh, no.
For their holidays.
I'm assuming the family was off to Europe.
So they applied for a passport for him.
Because what's the deal with kids and...
When a kid's a baby, does it have its own passport
or it's on your passport?
No, the minute you want to take them overseas,
they've got to get their own passport.
Have you ever seen parents getting their baby's passport photos taken?
It's so funny.
They lie them on a table and then they go bird's eye view
and they have to get out, get their hands out.
The baby's like...
And it's so hard because you've got to get them neutral expression.
Same rules apply.
No makeup.
Oh, my God.
It's so hard to get mascara off of a baby.
I know.
No Photoshopping their passport photos, Hayley.
I did not.
I am naturally beautiful in mine and it will last for 10 years, thank gosh.
Well, they applied to get their son a passport.
Seven years old.
This is, by the way, a Star Wars-loving military family.
They named their son Christian.
Sorry, the soldier, the dad, Christian is his name.
God bless.
They named...
Threw up in a religious family.
Yes.
Loki Skywalker Mowbray.
So Mowbray is their surname their surname loki they've given him his
first name's loki god of mischief yes middle name skywalker yes from the star wars franchise yes
jeepers big fans of disney is loki in star wars no no loki's in the marvel universe right yeah
it's tom hiddleston's character it's's Thor's brother. Loki of Nordic religion.
That's a nerdy name.
It's also like dooming your child to be a shitbag.
Naming them after literally the god
of mischief. Yeah, a little bit.
There's a photo of their kid. Doesn't he look like a
Jaden or a mischievous?
He looks mischievous.
That's a Caden. He fits the name.
So wait. When to get a passport? He's obviously looks mischievous. That's a Caden. He fits the name. So wait,
when to get a passport? Yes.
He's obviously got a birth certificate. There's no rules against
calling a kid stuff like that.
So he does have the birth certificate, but the Home Office
who is like our immigration,
who does our internal affairs,
they're in charge of immigration and
security in the UK. They denied
the passport claiming it couldn't print Skywalker
because of Disney's copyright on the name. They denied the passport claiming it couldn't print Skywalker because of Disney's copyright
on the name. Oh shoot!
But it's
just a private passport.
It's weird
that they would give you a birth certificate
but not a passport.
So what are they doing?
They just can't get one.
You'd have to take it the next step.
What if your name was actually...
I mean, there must be someone out there
whose surname was Skywalker before Star Wars.
No.
Old family name?
Skywalker.
Yeah.
No, old family names are usually jobs.
But I was thinking, like, First Nation, Native American?
Do I say that?
Yeah.
Is that okay?
Because their names were, like, Raging Bull, Running Water.
Like they would have been somebody like the-
Running Water.
Yeah.
They would have been the Skywalkers.
So I don't know if they dropped the Skywalker
because eventually it says here in the news article
that they were issued the passport
and that the family can go on vacation.
Right.
But maybe they just dropped his middle name.
Yeah, maybe.
And maybe they changed it to no middle name.
Oh, God.
You've got to have your full name on your passport.
Well, that's something to think about if you're naming kids.
Yeah.
Copyrights as well.
Yeah.
Because I know, you know, like Cadbury, that's copyrighted.
Toyota.
Yeah, Whitaker's, Cadbury Whitaker's.
Toyota Hilux Sprout.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Cute name.
Yeah, you just love utes.
Vaughn, when you were naming your kids,
because Indiana is a state,
but a little bit in Indiana Jones.
It was Indiana Jones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
But did you try to get anything nerdier than that?
Nah.
No, I don't think so.
No layer or?
Nah, I didn't go for a layer or anything that was too obvious.
But I knew a guy whose name was Ben,
and he was named after Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ben Kenobi.
His parents were nerds.
I thought you were going to say Uncle Ben's.
Uncle Ben's Rice. Uncle Ben's Rice.
Big fan of rice. 90 seconds.
It would be cool if you were Ben
and you become an uncle though and you're Uncle Ben.
That's pretty cool.
And you specialise in rice based dishes.
You'd have to be a good rice cook.
What if you were keto?
Oh my god, Uncle Ben is on keto.
How do they get the rice so it's ready in 90 seconds?
I don't know. Is question, what magic is that?
Is it pre-cooked?
Yeah, it's pre-cooked.
What do you think, it's raw rice in that bag?
But then if you've touched it, it's all like oily.
It's glossy, yeah.
It's got a coating.
It's weird, it's weird.
It's got a coating.
Good at a pinch.
Oh, I like it.
Well, nobody's got time to actually make rice.
I always actually make rice.
You are the one person on the show who has enough time to make rice.
An abundance of time.
An abundance of time.
You are time rich.
Get a pot, some water and some rice.
It's so boring.
Oh my God.
I cannot cook rice.
How does 90 second rice work?
It's cooked.
You're just heating up rice.
It's pre-cooked.
So you just have to heat them
and serve them with your favourite recipe
or rice meal they're microwavable.
But then how does it not go manky in the bag?
Because it's got preservatives all in it.
Is that what the oily stuff is? That's the coating.
I just want to say that I believed you as a woman
when you told us, me, how rice
works in a bag. Thank you for not googling
what I knew was true.
She's a woman. She can't be trusted.
She might be on her period and just spouting nonsense.
I know what happens in the kitchen.
I know how to deal with food as a woman. I know what happens in the kitchen. I know how to deal with food as a woman.
Yeah. Tis my role in the kitchen.
You're like a white woman. You don't know anything about rice.
You specialise in breads and potatoes.
This is true. I do specialise
in breads and potatoes.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Now, YouTube. I've got
YouTube Premium and I wonder, this won't
affect me, will it? YouTube Premium
is the most expensive streaming service there is. It's so expensive
I'm going to get rid. You say
that, but I use YouTube every
day. I know. A lot and
I think I'd still pay. It is
expensive though. It's so expensive.
Is it $25 a month? When you think, I mean
I was going to say, you think about all the
different kind of content you get on something like
Netflix or Neon or Apple
TV, but then I guess you're getting all the content on YouTube.
No.
No, no, it's just more budget, isn't it?
I'm paying $25 a month so my kids can watch the Norris Nuts.
Without an ad.
Wait, is that for a family plan?
Because mine's not that expensive.
Isn't it like $17 or $18?
What's a family plan?
Like more devices?
I think it is.
Is it $25.99 a month?
No, no, no.
Mine's like that,
20 something.
Jeez, okay.
I don't think it's a family plan.
I think it started at 17,
didn't it?
Yeah.
God, that's expensive.
YouTube premium
memberships,
da, da, da, da, da.
Yeah, I'm going to pay
$23.99 a month,
YouTube premium monthly.
Oh, I'm $17.99
individual membership.
Yeah.
What bullshit is this? You're on some family, it'll be multiple devices. Yeah, that sounds I'm $17.99, individual membership. What bullshit is this? You're on some family,
it'll be multiple devices.
Yeah, that sounds right, $17.99.
Yeah, $17.99, which is still quite expensive.
Yeah, but... Really expensive.
No ads. No ads.
Now, on YouTube, normal YouTube,
if you don't have premium,
you click a video, an ad will
play, and if it's a long video, maybe another
one will pop up throughout and
you can't pause them or you can skip
them at a certain point or the companies pay more
that you can't. Now they're doing
pause ads. Do you know who
does this? It's like your free
streaming services like 3
Now and TVNZ Plus.
When you pause a show and you go to the toilet.
When you pause a show, a big ad
comes up and this is what YouTube's going to do now. So if you pause a show and you go to the toilet. When you pause a show, a big ad comes up.
Yes.
And this is what YouTube's going to do now.
So if you, like, pause a video on YouTube, it's going to advertise to you.
Ah.
Yeah.
Because usually it doesn't.
It'll just pause a video.
But I'm guessing if you pay premium, that's not going to happen.
Yeah. If you press pause, it's going to be a still ad.
Because TVNZ does that.
You pause it and an ad comes up.
It's a still ad, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you pause, it's not going to
just suddenly play a video at you, but it'll
be like some big advertising thing.
So, yeah,
I'm just reading on this article, YouTube Premium, it's not
going to do it, obviously. Right. So you can just
play and pause Willie Honelly.
It's amazing it's taken them that long to do that,
to be honest. Yeah, I know.
It's just like an empty space. Why not?
It kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
But I guess it'll bring more
$13.99 YouTube revenue.
Okay, this is an American website.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah,
you're going to be advertised
while you're watching
and while you're not watching.
That's fine.
It's probably not going to interrupt you too much.
It's life, isn't it?
It is life.
Top six is next.
Top six ways to make lawyers happy.
Apparently we've got some very unhappy lawyers
New Zealand lawyers
Are the unhappiest in the world
Oh
It's mental health awareness week
Cheer up I just said cheer up Great advice I just said cheer up. It's Mental Health Awareness Week. Cheer up.
I just said cheer up.
Great advice.
I just said cheer up
as you said it's Mental Health Awareness Week.
I was being facetious.
Yeah.
University of Melbourne
surveyed 800 New Zealand-based lawyers
and law students.
34% of lawyers experienced
moderate to severe psychological distress.
Why?
What's the thinking behind it?
Stress.
High levels of depression, anxiety, stress, and psychological distress
compared to international counterparts.
A lot of pressure, I guess.
Yeah.
Why is it so uniquely punishing from a general New Zealand vibe perspective?
The outlook's certainly bleak.
According to the literature, the legal profession, they just...
Okay, so it might be the sort of person attracted to the law
area in the first place doesn't help
right yeah and then
long hours dealing with the grimmer stuff
oh yeah like any friends that you know
that work in law they work
hours and hours
true also that they have to deal with
probably some horrendous cases
horrible and just a lot of reading,
a lot of like,
you know like when you're like
signing a contract,
you never read it.
They read that.
They have to.
I pay you so you read it
so I don't have to read it.
All the time.
They are updating their Apple software.
They have to read it all.
Do you think they still read it all?
They read it all.
They don't read any of it.
Well, I like the top six ways
to make lawyers a bit happier.
Okay.
Number six on the list.
We all stop being ratbags.
Yeah, right.
But then they won't have work.
That'll make them more sad, won't it?
Nah, they'll be all right.
Okay.
I didn't really want to stop being a ratbag.
Legally, I'm not a ratbag.
I'm a law-abiding citizen.
Oh, okay.
Well, that means you're not a legal ratbag.
Okay, that's okay.
You're out of there here.
I can just keep being a general soft ratbag. A soft ratbag. Rat, okay. Well, that means you're not a legal ratbag. Okay, that's okay. You're out of there here. I can just keep being a general soft ratbag.
A soft ratbag.
Ratbag lie.
Diet ratbag. Trial version
ratbag. Yes. Number
five on the list of the top six ways to make lawyers
happy. Just take their word for it.
Sorry.
You know, when they tell you something, just believe
them. Yeah, right. Although they, when they
explain things, they do get paid more, but there's probably, they just want to, just believe them. Yeah, right. Although when they explain things, they do get paid more,
but they just want to go home.
Yeah.
Right, okay.
Stop.
Number four on the list of the top six ways to make lawyers happy,
less itchy wigs and more flattering gowns.
You can't see the physique under there.
Some lawyers are snatched.
Yeah, and you'd never know.
They're in their muumuu.
But they don't wear the silly wig.
They don't all wear the silly wigs, eh? Nah. Ituu. But they don't wear the silly wigs. Which one?
They don't all wear the silly wigs, eh?
Nah.
It's only the baristas that wear the silly wigs, eh?
The Queen's.
King's Council.
The King's coffee makers.
Your law muumuu.
Yeah.
So you've got your law muumuu on.
Oh, someone's got a big case on their hands.
Muumuu on.
Number three on the list of the top six ways to make lawyers happy.
Just tell the truth from the get go
they must get sad when they lose a court case
because you were lying
that you lied and you did
whatever you were accused
of doing
imagine being a defence lawyer and you know your client's guilty as anything
but then you're just trying to get them
a fair trial
yeah
I know but it would be hard to sit next to a piece of shit.
A piece of shit.
Right, a big lap.
Absolutely.
I'd be drawing up my Whangamata Beach house.
Yeah.
That that court case was going to afford me.
I'd be drawing it up a bit.
Head down.
Oh, yeah.
And then actually, I'd get out my throat and scribble through it,
and I'd be like, no, it's Pahuanui waterways.
Yeah, great.
I'd scribble that.
Got to have a little jetty out the front for the boat.
Number two on the list of the top six ways to make lawyers happy.
Of all boring law books that they have to read, were instead exciting podcasts.
Oh my God, yeah.
Do you know how much reading, like that's how you get around reading, Fletch.
You listen to audio books.
That's still reading.
You listen to a book.
And they could do the same thing.
I read a lot of books.
You don't.
You listen to some books. I take on a lot of books. You ingest a lot of books thing. I read a lot of books. You don't. You listen to some books. I read, I take
on a lot of books. You ingest
a lot of books. I ingest a lot of books.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. In a non-traditional
way. Yeah. And number
one on the list of the top six ways to make
lawyers happy. If
you're a judge and you ask them to approach the
bar. Yep. They arrive to a
cocktail menu. Oh my gosh. In moderation.
Yeah, obviously. In moderation. That'd be great. But you can see you're a judge. Approach the bar, please arrive to a cocktail menu. In moderation. Yeah, obviously. In moderation.
That'd be great. But you can see you're a judge.
Approach the bar, please.
Mimosa? Yeah, sidebar.
Tell me what you want to know.
Just that, it makes lawyers happy.
Yeah, have a little one.
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Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn
and Hayley.
Might have seen on our FVH socials yesterday,
a video uploaded of me and Shannon in a whalley-whopper together.
Now, you guys also went in a whalley-whopper,
but you've been in a helicopter before.
Yes.
I haven't.
This was a bucket list for you.
Bucket list.
I've always wanted to be in a helicopter,
but it's never, like, aligned.
Was this a first for you as well, Shannon?
Yeah.
Your first time in a helicopter?
Yes, and we were squealing.
We were squealing and swearing and saying all sorts of things,
and then we felt forever bonded afterwards.
Yeah, I did feel like a blood pact with you,
because I think there was, like, this unspoken, like, if this is it.
We said we'd kiss on the way down.
Yeah, we did.
And we said if we lived, we would just pretend.
And we'd be like, hey.
I was a different person.
How are you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Good, good, good, good.
But we, so you know we were at Hawkes Bay Airport in Napier last week
to celebrate the naming of the new fire truck, Judy Drench.
Yes.
And then as part of that, you know, we were at an aero club where there
was like hobby planes and what are those?
Top dressers.
Top dresser planes. I had a good chat to the lads
from the top. Because Fletch, you went in the
fire truck when Hayley was in
the helicopter and I just had lads
chat. Lads chat. Lads chat.
Also, the stories
Skiv, the guy that
owned the helicopter we went in,
he lived in Africa.
He was a pilot in Africa.
Tourism, flights, also like for mining companies.
He'd like set up the camps and stuff and then have to helicopter everything out.
Had an amazing story about having malaria and being surrounded by a pride of lions.
Well, this is Skiv.
So we were just hanging around this aeroclub waiting to go on the fire truck and stuff,
and this lovely gentleman, Skiv, from Aroha Helicopters,
shout out, came up to Vaughan and said,
Vaughan, I've got something I think you might like,
and it was a MASH replica helicopter
from like the 1960s or something like that.
Yeah, and I thought it might have been a modern version.
It wasn't.
It wasn't?
No, no, it was actually an old helicopter.
Bell 47. Yeah, yeah, and then he said, I. It wasn't. No, no, it was actually an old helicopter. Bell 47.
Yeah, yeah.
And then he said, I'll show you.
And I just mentioned, I was like, oh, my God,
I've never been in a helicopter.
It's a bucket list.
He was like, should we try to get you up?
How much time have you got?
What time's your flight?
I was like, it's 11 o'clock.
He was like, oh, my God, we've got plenty of time.
And then he took us up.
And it was so amazing.
So we went up with Sean from Aroha Helicopters.
And he took us over, like, the coastline of Napier. Yeah, up Marine
Parade. Up Marine Parade.
Did some like turns and
stuff. We were only up for like maybe 15 minutes
or something like that but oh my god.
It is thrilling. It's wild
eh? I said to
Sean who was the pilot
like feels unnatural. Also
that helicopter, full glass
bubble so you can see everywhere. I've never been in a helicopter
with that view. But also you
sit right at the front.
Whereas other helicopters I've been in
you're either in the back row or even if you're in the
front it's like there's a little bonnet in front of you but
being in this one was like being in a van for the first
time. There's nothing in front of you. There's no bonnet.
You just go and you're up.
It was so cool. And you put on the
headphones and like talking into the thing.
But thank God that you couldn't hear in the video because the helicopter is so loud.
But your headphones, me and Shannon were screaming.
Anytime he was like, oh, it's going to turn around.
Such a weird way to turn helicopters.
They sort of just like pivot almost.
What's on your bucket list now that you've ticked that off?
Like what do you have left?
Jump out of a plane.
Have you never skydived?
Never skydived.
I was going to do it with my dad.
We need to get back out to the bloody Air Force.
Yeah, well, I was going to do it with the Air Force
who I messaged saying,
oh my God, Fletcher and Vaughn jumped out of the plane.
Can I do it?
But then the weather turned bad
and they take it very seriously.
Yeah, right.
The weather.
They won't take you up in shit weather.
Oh, they have to, don't they?
Yeah.
So I've got to jump out of a plane.
Other things I can't say on air.
Yeah, there's a few.
I've got a lot of things I want to do.
Okay.
Yeah, a lot of things.
But flying in a helicopter was definitely one.
And I said, and he said, everyone says this,
this is how I travel now.
There's so many people that say,
well, I'm never going to return to a pathetic little vehicle again.
This is how I travel.
I want to get dressed up in some military car keys
like the TV show MASH.
Yeah, yeah.
Korean war style and go to the vineyard.
Darling, darling.
Well, we simply must return to a helicopter.
I'd love to go again.
Yeah, you know next time you have to pay, right?
Is life not free now?
No.
Okay.
It's not, no.
Well, a big thank you to Aroha Helicopters in Napier.
It was amazing.
Tick.
Bucket list item.
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Flesh, Fawn and Hayley
Silly little pole
Silly little pole
It is so silly, silly, silly
That the silly little pole
Silly little pole Silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole.
Well, Americans say they're at the peak of all stress.
40, yeah, 41% of Americans.
And you know, the election's coming up in America.
Actually, yeah, that feels pretty stressful
that Donald Trump could be a president again. When does it
like go
down? As an adult? Death.
Death, when you die, I think.
And when you're an old person.
Are we just less, are we
more aware of it?
I'm in the midst, we're going to talk about this soon,
I'm in the midst of this weird, it's not a
midlife crisis because I'm not doing like running away from my family
or buying an MX-5 and like getting a boyfriend or anything.
Why did you look at me in the eye when you said that?
It's a 1971 Mercedes.
I was going to say, you're not trash enough to show me out.
You're going for something classy.
There's, I don't know, it just, are we more aware of it?
So we're more stressed?
We're taking in too much.
We're hyper-consuming.
All around the world, there's obviously a lot of inflation,
a lot of stress with mortgages and money at the moment.
Post-COVID, we're still in post-COVID.
The world's always been falling apart.
Yeah, no, but we're seeing it more because of social media.
That is exactly why.
Hyper-consumption of bad news.
You never saw people dying in the streets of another country.
No.
You could just pretend like it wasn't happening.
Yeah.
Well, we asked a question for Cilla Lutopol this morning.
Are you at peak stress?
Are you at peak stress in life right now?
Just got to get through to Christmas.
Shout out as well.
This was unintentional, but it's Mental Health Awareness Week.
It is indeed.
I've got therapy tomorrow.
Can't wait.
MHAW.NZ Mental Health Awareness. That's the website. I've got therapy tomorrow, can't wait. MHAW.NZ Mental Health Awareness,
that's the website,
whole lot of resources there and activities,
things going on this week that you can find out about.
Well, 54% of people that responded to our poll
said they are at peak stress in life right now.
Oh my God.
That's worrying.
I click no because right now I'm not.
Yeah, this is not my peak stress.
I can't remember.
I feel like peak stress would have been when interest rates skyrocketed.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was when I was like, uh-oh.
I liked it when it was 2%.
And everything was like super expensive and everything was a bit like,
I thought after the vaccine and the COVID stuff,
it was going to be like, everything was going to be fixed,
but everything else, I don't know.
Yeah.
Maybe that was it.
Are you at peak stress right now?
54 said yes.
46 said no.
Let's have a delve, shall we?
Let's.
Let's delve.
Robbie said, I just arrived back from a 10-day cruise to Vanuatu.
Though I haven't seen my workload.
So maybe that could change pretty dramatically.
Ask me tomorrow.
Yeah.
Don't look at it.
Nice, Robbie.
Quit.
Earl said,
Nah, I'm a glass half full kind of guy.
My wife, however, carries the stress for both of us.
Well, that's not fair.
But then he can't do anything to alleviate her stress.
No, because if you ask me,
I'm more stressed.
Yeah.
Just stay out of it.
What can I do to help?
Stay out of it, Earl. And she's like,'m more stressed. Yeah. Just stay out of it. What can I do to help? Stay out of it, Earl.
And she's like, leave me alone.
Yeah.
Earl's like, let me carry some of this burden.
Nope, you can't.
What are you saying, I'm a burden, Earl?
And then, yeah.
That's the spiral.
Wait, what?
Yeah, it's a spiral.
Jane says, I break up after eight years, moving house.
My granddad's broken his arm.
I'm now head of department at work and I'm trying to
plan trips as well as
aiming to complete a 10 mile sponsored
walk on Friday. It all feels like
it's snowballing. You need to start saying no
to things. Yeah.
Poor old grandad.
Yeah. Broken bloody arm. He'll be alright.
He'll be alright. Samantha,
my husband's just signed a contract for a job in Sydney
so I guess we're moving.
Also, my back hurts.
But when you get into your late 30s, 40s, your back always hurts.
I just sat up straight the moment you said that because my back hurts.
I woke up and I was like, at the weekend, I was like,
and my kids were like, are you all right?
I was like, this is just life now.
Every morning it's seized.
Everything hurts. Every morning.'s seized. Everything hurts.
Every morning.
Takes a while to get going.
Lisa, getting married in a few days and we're doing the food ourselves.
Oh, God.
As well as getting married an hour away from the location of the reception.
Oh, okay.
An hour transit between ceremony.
I would say the best thing we ever did was have it all in one spot.
Just get some nuggets.
No moving.
Just get a whole bunch of nuggies.
You telling me you're at a wedding and nuggies turn up? You're mad?
No way.
I'm very stressed, says Pip.
I'm in the final planning stages of a wedding that's less than
six weeks away. Weddings are supposed to be the
most joyful day. Stress.
So much stress. A few months
ago I was, but things are a lot better now,
says Tamsin. I'm very glad to hear it, Tamsin.
And Cam said, I'm on holiday having my
brat summer in Europe. Oh.
Two more weeks of holiday, Italy
for a Monday. It just felt like bragging.
Didn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
Jealous. Really, we're ending on that note? We're ending
on that? Yeah. Oh, we're happy for you.
Hope you're having a good holiday.
Boo! Bloody Grazi!
Get out of here! Grazi Millie, mate.
Get out of here!
Get in, Fletch Vodden Ailey.
Play ZM.
We only just realised that you can update your iPhones to iOS 18.
Mine says it does it automatically, but I always have to check.
I'm doing it now.
More update requested.
I'm not. It's 3.8 gigs.
Yeah.
That's an overnight update.
That's an on-the-work Wi-Fi thing. I'm on the work Wi-Fi right now. I'm not. It's 3.8 gigs. Yeah. That's an overnight update. That's an on-the-work Wi-Fi thing.
I'm on the work Wi-Fi right now.
I'm going to update.
Well, there is...
You're going to get a warning.
There is a feature on if you're an iPhone user.
And I don't know, maybe Samsung phone calculators on the phone already do this.
Shut up.
But this is an amazing feature that people are pointing out on just the simple app, the calculator.
And producer Carwin came in this morning and showed you Fletch
and you were like, oh, my God.
He did that.
He was like, oh, my God.
That does sound like him.
I don't sound like a seagull.
So basically it's like a on-the-spot currency converter.
Yeah, so you've got you can actually, like,
you've got a whole bunch of different, like,
you can have scientific maths notes.
Scientific calculators.
All kinds.
Show me, I can't see the story that's coming from there.
So it's there.
So now there is a currency converter.
Well, that's handy.
So you would put in your, it's basically like,
because I use the XE app.
Yes, XE.
XE.
Yeah, E-X-E. XE. And same thing, you I use the XE app. Yes, XE. XE. Yeah, XE.
XE.
And same thing, you put in the currency you've got
and then you convert it to the currency you want to convert it to
and it's very easy, but now it's just all in the app.
So you open the calculator app on your phone,
you click the calculator mode button, switch the convert toggle on
and then you can click the conversion menu
and all the currencies come up.
And so if we were, I don't know,
looking at something online
and it was 89.54 US dollars,
including shipping,
you just press, you put that in
and then press equals
and it says 143.51 New Zealand.
I'm not buying that.
That's ridiculous.
I'm not paying that much for that.
Out of cart.
Maybe you could buy it at a local retailer for 160.
So it's basically,
it's all there.
Yeah, and so I googled
like what rates it's using.
It's using the end,
the day before's
end of the market rates.
Which is like,
it's not going to change drastically.
Whereas I think XE
is kind of updating
in the moment all the time.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, which...
Give or take,
it's going to be roughly the same, right?
It's going to be roughly the same.
So if you're like overseas
and you've got like Wi-Fi or an eSIM,
this is perfect for like quick conversions.
Nine minutes remaining till I can get this on my calculator?
No.
iOS 18?
There's no way I did 3.8 gig in that long.
Yeah, 11 minutes.
On the work Wi-Fi.
2024 now, Vaughn.
Well, I think, no, it downloads at first
and then you've got to do the thing where it'll turn my phone off for ages.
And I regret this and I actually just want it to stop.
How good for shopping?
So good for shopping.
But not in the next 25 minutes while your phone's installed.
Yeah, this is stupid.
I'm full of regret.
I can't use my phone for a while.
We're going to have to talk and have a conversation.
Oh, more no, because my phone's working,
and I'm actually just playing my game,
so I don't want to talk or have a conversation.
Oh, okay.
Fletch?
It's wild that you play a game while we're on air.
What is this game?
But the listener can't even tell.
It's last war.
Listener can't even tell.
No, I mean, this is a fully professional outfit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here I am talking, but I'm also just,
I give it a shake and it auto-mines my resources there.
Oh, my gosh.
You are outrageous.
What is that?
Play ZM's Fletch one and Hayley.
Yesterday I had a moment.
That sounded like I was going to cry.
I'm not going to cry.
Yesterday, Hayley's just pulling some curtains.
It's just the sun hits us at this time of the year.
Yeah.
Daylight savings this weekend.
Yeah, that's lovely.
And we know that we're getting close to summer
when the sun reflects off the building over the road into our eyes.
It illuminates the boys and makes them look stunning,
but it's really too distracting for me, so I've got to shut the curtains.
Because of how beautiful we are.
Stunning.
Yesterday I had a bit of a moment, an unravelling of sorts,
but it wasn't like an out-of-control unravelling
and like a snotty-nosed cry or anything.
Yeah.
But it was just one of those moments you sat there and you kind of,
if it was in a movie or a TV show, a montage
would have played with some music.
And it would have been a moment of reflection. But my daughters had their like end of term
dance concert thing. Yeah. You go and watch them dance. They do it thoughtfully. They
do it now rather than too close to Christmas.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah. So they've been going to the same place for years and they did their dance and I was like,
this is weird because they're still like tiny children in my head,
but undeniably that's a borderline teenager up there.
And then-
What, 12?
Yeah.
That is exactly what you would say is a borderline teenager.
Borderline teenager, 12 and a half.
Yeah, that's a-
She is half a year away from being an actual teenager.
I know, being an actual teenager.
And I was just like, this is all going too fast.
And you're kind of like day to day, you're like,
God, just bloody get to the weekend, it'd be great.
And then you're wishing it away.
And then the time's going too fast.
And then I was like, there was a dance to that song, Oh Mickey.
Oh Mickey, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind.
Hey Mickey.
Came out in 1981.
Toni Basil, who sung that, was 38 years old when she released it.
She's 81 years old now.
Oh, really?
Yeah, she was 38.
She looked like a teenager.
God, you go down some holes.
You're spiraling.
You're spiraling here.
But she was 38 in 1981 and now she's 81.
That can't be right.
But it is.
And so when that, so then I did this weird maths that my dad was my age now in 1998.
Yep.
And I remember 1998, Claire is about, I remember him in 1998.
Yes.
And he seemed so mature and switched on.
Yep.
And I was like, he knows all the answers.
He knows none of the answers.
Because that's what, but he didn't, did he? Was he the same place that I am now? Where you're just kind of like
fumbling your way through life with this white guy arrogance of like, I haven't
done that before, but it can't be that hard. And you give it a go and it kind of half works and you're like,
well, shut up. And now he's like going to be 69 in January.
Nice. Nice. Nice. We should send him a big sexy gif.
And then so when, in 1998, Nice. Nice. Nice. We should send him a big sexy gif.
And then so when, in 1998,
Oh Mickey would have been a 17-year-old song.
And so the equivalent now in 2024,
I used Fergie's Glamorous as a 17-year-old song now.
And then when I'm his age,
the equivalent would be in 2050,
watching my granddaughters or grandchildren dance to Fergie's Glamorous.
And they're like, this is such a funny old song.
And I'm like, no, it's not.
It just came out.
It came out about 10 years ago.
And they'll be adults.
Oh, I don't know.
Why do you do this?
I'm spiraling.
You always do this.
Why do you care?
I don't know.
Because I'm not like, death doesn't, I'm not worried about death. Death's coming for us all. You always do this. Why do you care? I don't know, because I'm not like, death doesn't,
I'm not worried about death.
Death's coming for us all.
Sorry, Hayley.
Hayley's petrified of death.
That's going to shiver down my spine thinking of dying.
I think it's ageing that scares me more.
And just like how you're only getting one shot at it,
and so I can't help but try to like put it into
the most of memory day in life.
Totally.
I saw one thing that was like, if you are 30 something years old,
it was close to my age.
If you are 37 something years old,
like what are you doing?
There's only X amount of weekends left.
And I was like,
like it was a very like fathomable number.
And I was like,
well, I just wasted one of them.
So now I've got one less.
What am I doing with my life?
What am I doing now?
I can imagine having kids, you would
hit these touch points all the time.
Yeah. High school. I always remember
my grandmother saying to me
when
Indy was born, she's like
you watch this.
And I was like, what? And she's like, it's so
weird because one day you don't have kids
and then you have kids. Then one day
your kids' kids, your you have kids. Then one day your kids,
kids,
your kids have kids.
And then she's like,
I'm at the spot now where my kids,
kids have kids.
And she's like,
it's kind of lost.
And I was just sitting there.
What are you talking about?
That won't be something we can relate to.
We'll just be like,
Oh my God,
you're the cul-de-sac.
You're the end of the road.
Yeah.
Our mother phones are cut.
And we're like,
I don't think Fletcher's mum's been
like, huh, for like 30 years.
She gave up on that train a while ago.
But your brother's got kids, right?
She's sorted.
The good genetic line continues.
We'll be on an Italian, I don't know, coastal village
or something somewhere.
This village has changed in the last 20 years.
Speaking of ageing.
And I'll say to my kids who are on their OE,
if you need Italy, it's where you need to go.
They'll be adults by then.
Which is horrible because
it's not that far away. You'll start freaking out again.
Speaking of ageing, do you know
Fletch and I came up with a theme for our
joint 40th and 50th on the weekend.
Oh my god, yes we did.
Because you guys are 10 years apart.
Fletch and I turned 40 and 50 on the same year,
not too many months apart.
2029.
This is great, you're going to love it.
2029, we're going to get a sailboat in Santorini.
Well, I can't afford to come.
Yes, you can.
You've already...
You've got some time to save,
and the theme is 90 years old,
and everyone's going to get prosthetics
and dress up as 90-year-old.
And what would we call it?
I don't know if we can say the S word on air.
Oh yeah.
We were going to call it Santorini Somerset Sluzzers.
Sluzzers.
Oh yeah.
Santorini Somerset Sluzzers.
Because of the rest time.
And that's going to be the theme of the party.
Yeah.
As rest time.
And you know,
we might not be able to be in Santorini.
We might have to be in,
I don't know.
We could be in the Auckland Harbour.
The Coromandel or something.
The Coromandel or something.
Anyway. That's our theme.
That's nice. I like it. Do you like that? I like that.
Great. Well start saving for you and your wife to come to Santorini
in 2029.
Five years.
Indy will be. Oh my god stop doing
this. Why are you doing this? 17 years old.
Yeah well she can look after Augie and you'll be
fine. Augie will be 15.
She won't need looking after.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
They'll be absolutely fine at home on their own with their boyfriends throwing a party.
They won't have my rights!
They'll be throwing a party in your house doing all sorts of naughty things.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
You know, Pax Asadi used to do radio and he said to me he'd never do it again.
And looky, looky, looky, who's in a radio studio this morning, Pax Asadi. Thank you so
much for having me. I feel very uncomfortable
in a radio studio.
But that was mainly because of the early mornings.
Yeah. I hated it. And people
were mean to you. And the people
on the radio were mean to me.
Wait, the people on the radio or the listeners?
The listeners. Or both. The listeners were
really mean to me. When I first started
working here, he was like, listen, they're going to say mean things about you.
Don't listen to them.
The texts will come in.
Just ignore them.
We've got nice listeners.
But it didn't help that the first thing I said when I got the job was,
I hate the music on this radio station.
That didn't help.
He's immediately endearing to the crowd.
Pax Society immediately establishing good communication with his people.
So Pax, next week, you and I, from the 3rd to the 5th,
take your chewing gum out, have some decorum.
That is the level of respect I have for the radio listeners.
From the 3rd to the 5th of October, which is next week, Thursday to Saturday,
you and I are doing a double bill at Kew Theatre in Auckland.
Some people have messaged me a little bit confused,
thinking we're doing stand-up together.
Me too.
They were like, oh, my God, I love you guys on Bake Off.
Can't wait to see you do a show together.
I was like, hmm.
That's not what we're doing.
No, no, no.
I do my show first because Mama needs to go to bed.
Yeah.
And then Pax, who doesn't get up at 4 o'clock in the morning,
does his show after mine.
Because Daddy needs time away from his kids.
That's right.
Now, we haven't seen each other's shows so we can't
actually vouch for whether or not they're any good.
But we're just going off like
general vibe. We know the other
person is funny. We've spent a lot of time together.
We've spent an immense amount of time together.
We could soft launch that
officially Bake Off has been cancelled.
We got told in an email
and there was just never a word about it.
Why do you think I'm wearing golf gear right now?
I was going to say, dude, you've transitioned.
Yeah, I'm turning...
When we worked together, you were like...
Cool guy.
Hip hop guy.
And now, like, the Callaway cat and jacket.
I was just about to ask you about this golf.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to play golf.
I've got a job after this,
and then I'm going to go play golf after that.
And, Hayley, ask me why I'm going to play golf after this.
Why are you going to golf?
Because Bake Off got cancelled.
And I had nothing better to do.
Nothing to do except for your show secrets next week.
Except for my show secrets,
I'm going to be busy next week
because you're going to be,
not you,
not you people in the studio with me,
you listening,
you're going to be at the show
and you're going to be enjoying it.
And I had a chat with Luxo
and people who-
The Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister.
If you hear about the show,
like if you know the show exists,
but you don't book tickets,
you get your passport removed.
Oh my God, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
It's actually mad that we haven't seen each other
for a while and now you're really good friends of Luxo,
is it?
And playing golf.
And playing golf. Yeah. That playing golf. And playing golf.
Yeah.
That's mad.
I also enjoy quiche now.
How is it that since you've stopped hanging out with me,
you've gotten whiter?
And I don't know how that's happened.
That's because you're a brown sister.
A little bit.
Caramel.
What secret's about?
Is it thematic or is it just pack society telling great jokes?
You're one of our best. I won't say our best
one of. That's genuinely so kind
Secrets
is about, it's just stand up
but there are a couple of stories in there which I
have throughout my career been way too embarrassed
to tell because they are very
embarrassing and so
I'm digging deep
into the annals.
Double N.
Double N, yeah.
Of my ability to be vulnerable.
And I'm just going to say them.
And I'm just going to say these stories that make me seem really dumb and bad.
Okay.
This is a new pack society.
This is a new pack society.
Vulnerable, golfing, quiche eating,
depressed because no money because Bake Off gone.
I feel like if anyone knows your secret private stories,
it would be me.
I think we've shared more with each other
than we have with any other people.
Honestly, we've shared way too much with each other.
We have so much on each other. we have with any other people. Honestly, we've shared way too much with each other. It's incriminating.
We have so much on each other.
It's uncomfortable to be around you,
knowing that you could just say things that would just like change the way people see me.
If you stab me in the back, I've got so much ammunition.
But that also creates a real unity in our friendship
because we know how much the other person has,
so we just have to stay friends.
Yeah, that's right.
We have no choice.
Can we find out what station packs was on?
Someone texts them.
No, you can't.
They just text them back.
We'll let them know afterwards.
I was just thinking one thing.
When you do your double bill,
you could do something together.
You could play with the crowd your game,
Where's the Nipple?
Which you two invented and have tried pushing on.
You've tried pushing it on another booboo and everyone's like,
don't touch me.
Hayley's like, the Bax loves this game.
That's where you've got one go at pinching their nipple
through their top.
No, you don't pinch.
She's always pinching.
I pinch.
Do you point?
Okay, well, you've added to the game.
We play a game.
Because when you're on set with someone,
you get very close,
and there's a lot of downtime on back off,
and we would try to entertain ourselves in many ways,
one of which was tell each other our deepest, darkest secrets.
Yes.
The other one was a game called Find the Nipple,
and you have one go to just go, boop, on the nipple.
And you say yes or no,
or you can give indication,
hot, cold, a little too low, a little too high.
It's a really great place.
A little far to the left.
A consenting crowd member
Completely consenting
And then whoever's closest wins
To be fair, I just want to say
I don't think I ever played it with you
It was always you to me, can we just say that?
Back yourself
Just quickly, quickly
You never played it with me
We were never inappropriate with each other.
Well, look, my show is at 6.30,
and Pax is on another time.
It's later.
It's after that.
It's afterwards.
If you want tickets.
Go to qtheatre.co.nz,
and you'll see our show.
It's Pax, Secrets, and Hayley Wild Flutters.
Pax Society, thank you so much for joining us,
and have fun at golf.
Thanks so much.
I'm going to go play with Daryl and Sebastian.
Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey.
Play ZM.
Win the very last tickets in New Zealand
to see Taylor Swift on the Eros Tour.
In Vancouver.
Crick de Mundo.
Yeah, a little bit of a slurger in that.
He's drunk on kiwi fruits.
Yeah.
God, he's still slicing his kiwi fruit the wrong way.
Discs, discs.
Yeah, I love it.
Thick discs of kiwi.
Yeah.
Thick discs.
Oh, kiwi.
How do you like your kiwi fruit?
Thick discs.
Yeah, it's a beastly.
Skin on, golden, thick discs.
I'm having a grapefruit.
It's sour, it's great.
I'm not on birth control, not even concerned.
I don't like grapefruit. I've never. It's great. I'm not on birth control. Not even concerned. I don't like grapefruit.
I've never got into grapefruit. Oh, it's delish.
That's just one of the many things that lots
of people like that I don't, he said,
in a seamless segue onto the next talk.
The way to make it more seamless is not to acknowledge it,
but it's okay. I just felt it might have
slipped past. No, it was really good.
It was so seamless, people wouldn't have ever known.
It's really good. On Saturday night,
the All Blacks played.
Yeah.
It was also my father-in-law's 74th birthday.
He's keeping it tight.
I said I'd cook a mistake for his birthday.
What cut?
It was a,
okay, I'm so glad you asked.
Because we just got,
mum and dad said,
we're about to do a home kill.
Do you want half?
Oh yeah.
And I said, yeah. And then the guy, Ross, Tofuri Meats we're about to do a home kill. Do you want half? Oh, yeah. And I said, yeah.
And then the guy, Ross, Tofuri Meats, give him a call.
Home kill.
Free plug.
Shout out.
He rang me and he's like.
Shout out to Tofuri Meats.
Do you want, how do you want this done?
Like, you like your steaks last time?
I was like, yeah.
How thick can I go on the T-bone?
And he's like, you name it, I'd cut it.
Like four centimetre thick.
Far out. T-bones. Yeah, right, you name it, I'd cut it. Like four centimetre thick. Far out.
T-bones.
Yeah, right.
And they're slapped.
Reverse sear,
the key is,
season them,
get them in room temp,
season them up,
get them on like a,
you can do it in the oven,
I do it in the barbecue,
low temp,
bring it up
and then just sear it,
hot, hot, hot
and then let it rest.
Yum.
And then eat it up.
Can you make me a steak?
Yep.
Thank you.
It'd be my pleasure.
I haven't had a steak in so long.
I love cooking steaks with people.
So I said I'll cook a mistake.
Yep.
And so he came over, early rugby game.
He's in his element.
He's getting a free feed and he's watching.
Babies.
He's not paying for Sky Sport.
We'll pay that.
He's got more money in his bank than I've probably ever seen,
but that's how he likes to live.
Yep.
Good for him.
A free night out for him.
He sits down and the
anthems are on and I
will say my father-in-law moved
here when he was
18, maybe just
a little bit older because I think he did Melbourne on the way and
then came to New Zealand from Thailand.
He was one of those
immigrants. God, that came off
the tongue hard, didn't it, from a white guy? He was one of those immigrants. God, that came off the tongue hard, didn't it, from a white guy?
Really?
He was one of those immigrants.
Immigrants.
Wow.
He was a migrant.
No, that doesn't sound so much better.
He was one of, he got here.
Immigrant's not a bad word.
He was an immigrant.
And he obviously got here and was like, I need to fit into the society.
So did that thing where he took John as a name.
Yeah.
What's his real name?
Toklok.
Wow.
I mean,
John was kind of
like the nickname.
But he was like,
I love this anthem
and I love rugby.
Yeah, right.
So one of those
moves to New Zealand
and it was just like,
what's the easiest way
to relate to people here?
I'm going to love rugby
because everybody loves rugby
and I'm going to love
God of Nations.
And he was like,
our anthem is the best anthem
in the world
it's one of the goodies
for sure
it's better than Australia's
it is better than Australia's
so I watched the anthem
I watched the Haka
and then I just went outside
because I'm not a huge rugby guy
I like rugby league
thank you for honouring
the Haka though
I've never
I've always watched
the Haka
they didn't do
my favourite Haka
do you like Karmater?
I'm old he's a? He's a classic.
They do it too fast.
The one where they used to slit the throat was rad,
but I think they got,
they got,
that's a bit too much.
So those are my two favourites.
Right.
So then I just went outside and just talked to the dogs
and threw a ball for the dogs and had a drink outside
and watched the meat cook and I just relaxed.
And I came back in and he was like,
why aren't you watching the rugby?
I was like, I don't like rugby.
He's like, everyone likes rugby.
I was like, I don't think everyone likes rugby.
It's okay and it's okay to not like rugby.
I don't like it.
I think it's kind of funny when they lose.
It's kind of funny when they lose.
It's a good reminder.
Everyone freaks out.
Everyone gets really upset.
It's funny when it happens once,
but I think we were on a bit of a roll there for a while,
so maybe everybody was freaking a little bit too much.
Yeah.
But you don't have to like everything that everyone else likes.
No.
And that's what I was wondering this morning.
What don't you like?
Everybody's going mad about something,
and you're like,
hmm,
like imagine being a lesbian right now
and not being in a chapel room.
Criminal.
That's not something I can understand.
Criminal.
Like that,
you'd get your lesbian revoked
you'd be seriously
investigated by the
lesbian tribunal
yeah
knock at your door
you go get yourself
a boyfriend
you knock at the door
you look out the window
there's a Mazda BT50
ute in the driveway
oh my god
it's the lesbian tribunal
and they're checking
your credentials
you know so I know
because we have a
Mazda BT50
and I told Aaron
yesterday I said
you know this is the chosen ute for lesbians?
He was like, excuse me?
He was so confronted by it.
I was like, yeah, yeah, man.
What a lesbian ute.
He was like, okay.
All right.
He had no idea.
Get a Nissan Navara.
A lesbian's not going to be seen dead in a Nissan Navara.
No, no, no.
It's madness.
No, I like having the BT-50.
It suits us.
It's great.
And they always look, don't they?
They do.
And I'm not mad.
See if you're a hot lesbian.
If Aaron's got his hair down.
Big lesbian. He could'm not mad. See if you're a hot lesbian. If Aaron's got his hair down. Big lesbian.
He could.
He could.
Yeah.
Okay, so you want to take some calls.
Yeah.
What don't, what, you just can't get on board with.
Well, you're just like, you don't hate it, but it's not just not, it's just not for you.
You're just like, everybody goes crazy and you're just like, it's, you're fine, you enjoy it.
I mean, I can think of there are like TV shows.
I don't like when people actively shit on something that other people like.
No, yeah, that sucks.
I don't like that.
Yeah, I don't like that.
Let people enjoy what they enjoy, but you don't have to enjoy it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well, let's take some calls.
0800-DARZATM.
You can text through 9696.
What do you not like that everyone does like?
We're talking about what everybody seems to like
But you
Not fussed
Don't hate it
We're not using the H word around here
No
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You're just not fussed on it
So many messages
Yeah
My husband hates cheese
Oh my God
We don't use H
The H word
Imagine not loving cheese
Like cheese is life.
Life.
Life is cheese.
Cheese is life.
Or anything that looks like cheese.
He doesn't like sour cream.
He doesn't like white sauce.
Oh, I love sour cream so much.
What is he just eating?
Plain steamed broccoli?
Yeah.
What a monster.
So yeah, someone doesn't like cheese.
Someone said current fashion.
Yeah, fair enough.
Stick with your timeless classics.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You do you, hey?
You do you boo.
As a woman, I've got no time for wine.
At work functions, I feel like one of the blokes
because I drink beer,
but recently cider has become popular,
so now I drink that.
But everyone's like, do you want a wine?
I say, oh, no, thank you.
Can't relate.
Bowling.
I just don't like it.
I hate bowling
Because it's a really embarrassing walk
Back to your seat
After you've thrown the ball down the aisle
Yes
The whole thing's embarrassing
That sounds like somebody needs
The side gutters up
Yeah
The barriers
I love
That somebody's mind
The anxious mind is like
God this walk back's gonna be horrible
It's like a walk of shame
Just throw the ball
Turn around Head down Straight back to the seat Go go go And that's why you probably don't like bowling mind is like, oh, this walk back's going to be horrible. It's like a walk of shame. Just throw the ball, turn around, head
down, straight back to the seat. Go, go, go.
And that's why you probably don't like bowling because you're not
concentrating on the bowling. You're normally bowling with your
friends, right? Like, who cares?
Someone said ice cream.
Really? They've never been on board with ice cream.
Even as a kid, people would be like, oh, you deserve a
treat. How about an ice cream? Nah.
What about gelato?
Same thing. Yeah, right. It's not the same thing. Gelato is a an ice cream? Nah. What about gelato? Same thing, yeah, right.
It's not the same thing. Gelato is a fancy ice cream.
For fancy people like you and I.
Crocs. Somebody said everybody
seems to love Crocs at the moment.
Just tell you what though, slip your feet in their care.
Have you tried them?
They'll get you, they'll get you.
They'll get you. TikTok.
Few people have said TikTok. Remember when I
decided to become, I was going to really put effort into TikTok?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I made two videos.
Someone said the worst thing is when your mate sends you a link
to a TikTok video and you've got to have the app to watch the video.
I know.
It's annoying.
I just don't watch the TikTok video.
I say, send that to me when it's an Instagram reel.
When it's made the cut.
That's all we like to hear.
When it's been filtered out.
When it's been refined.
Yeah.
Strawberries.
Why does everyone love them?
They taste like nothing.
They do.
They're really watery.
Yeah. Get a good one, though. Get a They taste like nothing. They do. They're really watery. Yeah.
Get a good one, though.
Get a good one, though.
Good, good, real rich.
Straight off the thing,
because sometimes they pick them early and let them...
Yeah, it's not going to be good.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Dua Lipa on ZM, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
What a coincidence.
What a twist of the face.
It's not a coincidence.
It was intentional.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
Yeah.
That song was put in there intentionally.
Yes.
Because I believe she should be on the Zoom with us right now.
Hello.
Oh, a voice from the dark.
A voice from the dark.
Oh, hello.
Hello.
Right, I'll do one of these professional radio interview intros.
She is coming to New Zealand Next April
Playing at Auckland Spark Arena
On the Radical Optimism
Oh he's cocked it up
On the Radical Optimism Tour
Dua Lipa hello
Hello
Was that a professional intro?
That was very profesh
You've dealt with some of the world's best broadcasters
And I have just made the ranks
I appreciate the honesty Dua Lipa you've dealt with some of the world's best broadcasters and I have just made the ranks.
Yeah.
I appreciate the honesty.
Dua Lipa, you've just added another show.
Are you happy at how much we love you?
I'm so happy at how loved I feel.
Today's been a really great day and I'm really looking forward to coming back to New Zealand and touring.
I'm really excited.
To get excited for your tour to New Zealand,
I've been watching a few videos.
How many people do you bring on tour?
Because there are a lot of backup dancers,
a lot of people involved.
Yeah.
Gosh, I mean, probably just under 100 people.
When we travel, we're a team of five.
And that's chaos enough.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, I have like a smaller team but the tour it's it's so
big and you know there's a big crew and you need to have lots of people looking after like different
parts of the team from the dancers to the band to you know all our roadies that come with us and
you know we've got we've got such a such a big amazing team. We could actually save you, do maybe three flights
because we can dance.
Well, I can dance.
The boys not so much.
My dancing is not quite as good as my professional radio intros.
Which is all pretty, it's still pretty crap.
Yeah, I might have to set that one out, I'm afraid.
Okay, so maybe a quick crash course in our routine
and we'll just throw you on stage.
We'll watch YouTube before. You don't have to worry about it. We'll arrive prepared and we'll just throw you on stage. We'll watch YouTube before.
You don't have to worry about it.
We'll arrive prepared and we'll be sorted.
And the best thing is we'll make you look even better
if that's possible.
That's what I've been looking for.
Can I ask when you travel?
Because when I travel,
there's a number of things I take with me,
some of which I can't say on radio.
And one of which being my teddy bear that I've had since I was three.
Do you travel with anything specific that you, like,
cannot leave home without?
I don't really have, like, kind of talent.
I mean, I take, like, my diaries and my notebooks
and I take a lot of books with me and stuff like that,
but I don't have, like, a kind of talisman of sorts
that I take with me wherever I go. Do you keep a diary have like a kind of talisman of sorts that I take
with me every day. Do you keep a diary every day? Do you write in a diary every day? No, not every
day. No, I'm quite rubbish at it, but I take it with me everywhere. So I'm forced to like write
something. So if I feel like I want to write, then I do. But yeah, I'm not as regimented,
but I did find my diaries from when I was younger,
and I used to have a real,
like I was just so dedicated to writing my diary every night.
And I just, I don't know why I ever stopped.
I know.
I found my diaries recently,
and man, I had such a big crush on Marcus Lamb,
and I just thought he was the cutest boy,
and that was the main thing I wrote about.
That's sweet.
I had very similar things in my diary.
Yeah, don't you name them,
because it'll turn into an internet hunt.
Hayley can name all of them,
and they're like, oh, yeah,
but if you name a name,
even down in New Zealand,
I'll get back,
and then I'll be turning up at their doorstep.
Yeah.
Is it a nice book?
Has it got, is it like moleskin?
Do you have a special pen?
Like leather. Is the paper lined, or is it got, is it like moleskin? Do you have a special pen? Like leather.
Is the paper lined or is it free form?
It's lined.
It's leather bound.
Ooh.
It's nice.
Yeah, that sounds like a good diary.
I've got a trash diary.
Yeah.
Exercise book.
If you, because for us, part of the best,
I mean, you work so hard when you're on tour.
I'm sure you just want to like rest and relax. But do you work so hard when you're on tour. I'm sure you just want to, like, rest and relax.
But do you hunt out food when you're travelling the world?
Because that's one of the main reasons I travel.
That's, like, that's really, I work my day around my meals.
Yeah.
That's a big thing for me.
So wherever I go, especially that's also one of the things
that I look forward to the most when I'm travelling
is because throughout the year,
I find all these places online of different restaurants
in different countries.
I'm like, you know when I'll go and try that?
When I'm on tour.
And so I have this whole list of places that I'm looking forward to.
You know, in Auckland, I've got a Jamaican restaurant I can recommend.
I don't know your thoughts on Jamaican cuisine, but it's...
I love Jamaican cuisine.
Okay, I've got the place for you.
We'll talk afterwards.
It's so good.
You can pop it in your moleskin.
I would love that.
Okay, perfect.
What about after the show?
Because, I mean, imagine you're exhausted,
but also do you have that surge of adrenaline where you can't sleep?
Yeah, I can never...
After a show, I struggle to sleep.
So I'm usually awake.
Even if I'm laying in bed,
I'm usually awake till about four o'clock in the morning for sure.
Oh, wow.
Oh my God,
that's the time we get up.
Buzzing.
That's a painful combination.
So the radical optimism to us
being gone for a while,
but by the time it gets here,
you're going to be well versed in it.
Are you bringing the whole,
because quite often
getting stuff to this side of the world
is a rigmarole.
I think Miley once left her hot dog behind, didn't she?
Or did she bring the hot dog?
I think she finished it, so she left the hot dog here.
Right, yeah.
But sometimes people don't do the whole show.
Are we getting the whole radical optimism?
You're getting the whole show.
That's why we love you.
That's why we like you too.
What you've seen so far online
in terms of the set list or whatever,
I did a set, a show which was for my summer shows
and festivals that I've done.
And this new show that I'll be bringing,
that I'll be doing all through next year is going to be different.
Oh, okay.
Well, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us, Dua Lepa.
And honestly, so excited to have you in New Zealand.
And any food recommendations you want, you excited to have you in New Zealand. And any food
recommendations you want, you hit us up.
I will do. I definitely want
that Jamaican restaurant.
Yeah, I can help you out. Nanny's in Kingsland.
If you want to ride on your mouska now, I can remind you.
Close into the time.
If you want tickets to either of these shows, by the way,
she's just saying, just go straight to DuaLipa.com.
Yeah. No, don't worry about your local
ticketing people. Just go straight to DuaLipa.com. Auckland, Spark't worry about your local ticketing people. Just go straight to dualeper.com.
Auckland, spark her in it.
Dualeper, thank you so much.
We'll see you next year.
See you next year.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Wasn't she lovely?
She's lovely.
I love her voice.
She's got a lovely husky sort of British voice.
I love it.
Love it.
Oops, that came across creepy.
Yes, I agree.
Yeah, don't.
We still haven't had Jamaican.
Now you're inviting Dewar to Jamaica.
Do you know what?
I'm going to go on Wednesday, I've decided.
So I keep forgetting.
I keep forgetting too.
Anyway, that's side, side, side.
Sidesteps.
Now, last week, September's a busy month for, what do you call them?
Months.
Dedicated months.
Like charity months.
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori was last week.
It's Mental Health Awareness Week this week.
Was it the start of September, Tongan?
Or was that the end of August?
I cannot remember.
Why is it this time of the year does seem weighed down with weeks and months?
It's New Zealand Sign Language Week this week.
And then, do you know, I didn't even know this.
It's PCOS Awareness Month the whole of September.
We're nearly at the end and I only just really learnt this.
PCOS, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, which I have.
And I think they used to be like one in ten women.
That was the stat.
And they never really studied it because it's about women
and they don't study women's bodies, they study men's
bodies and they just go,
adapt it for yourselves. Well, it's because all the scientists are gay
and they don't want to go near it. They don't want to see your fannies.
They don't, they're like, oh, no thank you.
No thank you. Do you know what would be weird?
But if you want me to study those balls. Do you know what would be weird?
A gay gynecologist.
No, that would be surely the dream.
Well, you know Dr. Shaw, because I,
my doctor moved away
and I said to Dr. Shaw, well, maybe he could become my doctor.
He's like, I don't want to look at your fanny.
And most of my doctor appointments are fanny related.
It's weird because it wasn't only the doctors that said that.
The dentist was also like, I don't want to see your fanny.
I know.
My optometrist was like, your vision's fine.
Get out of here.
Get that fanny out of my face.
I was like, what do you mean?
While I'm here. Vision's 2020. Great. That's what do you mean? While I'm here,
Visions 2020.
Great.
That's fantastic.
Thank you.
While I'm here.
While I'm here though.
I'm not that kind of doctor.
Have a little look.
So they used to say
it was one in 10 women
which is quite high,
10% of all women
and then they did this,
finally they were like,
we should probably
look at that number
and they did a random test
of women around the world
and it was like,
it was more like 21%.
Yeah, wow.
One in five.
Jesus.
I know they have this thing.
Because PCOS manifests differently in people.
To diagnose it, you could have three different things.
For those that don't know what it is, can you explain quickly what it is?
It's like a metabolic kind of disorder that starts with your whole life.
And the thing with polycystic ovarian syndrome is you don't have to have cysts on your ovaries to be diagnosed, to actually have it. The stuff on your ovaries
is actually such a small part of it. It's a metabolic thing. And you have to have three,
there's three ways to diagnose it. And you have to have two of them in order to get a diagnosis.
Cysts on the ovaries is only one of them. Anti-androgens like hairiness, acne, weight
gain, that's the second one. And the
third one's in a regular menstrual cycle. I got
all three. Bam.
She's out of the pool.
I don't want to show off.
I don't want to show off.
A plus for polycystic ovarian.
Well, thank you. You know, I nearly went a year
without getting a period recently. I don't want to show
off. But that's a pretty busted
menstrual system.
So happy I was involved too and it finally did happen
and we were on a road trip.
He looked me in the eye and went, I need a bathroom.
Fletch is famously great at dealing with women.
He loved it.
He looked at me like, why, what's happening?
Oh, Hayley.
Yeah.
Oh, Hayley.
But it is, it's a very complicated thing,
and I feel like these months are good,
but they're good to talk about,
because I think a lot of women sit in shame
or not really knowing what it is or what to do.
And so if you think that you have PCOS or you have it,
this is the month to talk about it.
I am sure I knew a woman before I knew you that have had it,
but nobody really talked about it. Nah. And then since you've talked about it, I found out quite a few people I know have had it. I am sure I knew women before I knew you that have had it, but nobody really talked
about it. And then since you've talked about it,
I found out quite a few people I don't have had.
So many people. A lot more people
openly talking about it. Yeah.
Do you know what? I'm a bit of a sniffer dog. Sometimes
I'll see women, I'll be like, you've got it.
Really? Yeah, I'll just be like, oh no.
I'll see symptoms that all
kind of align up and I'll be like, hell yeah.
Like a gaydar.
Yeah, we see each other in the laser hair removal clinic
like top of the morning to you.
Top of the morning to a fellow white woman
getting an extensive hair removal.
Yeah, I think it can be really devastating for people
because it also really impacts your fertility,
which for me, not a problem.
I don't want to have kids, but it can impact it.
But one thing I would say is that a lot of the time,
and I'm not digging at doctors,
but they're not PCOS experts.
And sometimes you can get a diagnosis from a doctor
that might tell you that you can't have children.
And it's just not true.
There's all sorts of things you can do.
So it's definitely not a, you know,
it doesn't have to ruin your life
or your dreams of being a mother or whatever.
It's just something you've got to work with.
So it's PCOS Awareness Month.
Do you know what?
There's so many.
In fact, today I'm going to share, go on my socials.
I'll share some links for all the experts and people that I follow on Instagram
that have great advice and, like, great things you can do to improve your symptoms
because it's not, you know, it's not great,
but it doesn't have to be the end of the world.
That's the end of my PCOS rant. Thank you. I'm hot
because I've got too much testosterone
and my hormones are raging.
It's great because I've got a lack of testosterone.
Yeah, no you don't. You're bald.
It's an imbalance. Yeah,
you've got too much. That's an imbalance, right? Do you know what's
interesting? So, like, just one thing,
the extra testosterone that women have
with PCOS women
is why, like, my hair falls out and I get acne on my beard line.
Like, around your chin.
You know how you can cover that up?
Grow the beard out.
Grow the beard out.
I know, but I've had it lasered.
Oh!
I know.
What a waste.
She's got a head.
It would have covered all the acne.
Play ZM's Fletch for the Nailie.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM.
Time for...
Fact of the Day.
Day, day, day, day.
Streaks is the theme of this week's Fact of the Day.
I just saw one.
To be honest, this is one of the ones I saw and I was like,
man, that rules.
I'll be able to find four more full of confidence.
Oh, yeah.
Good luck to you, my friend.
So if anybody, you know, Anthony's really listening.
Oh, you lazy sod.
Stop outsourcing your work.
Outsourcing.
This is delegation from middle management, me.
So I don't know if anybody's got any amazing stories about streaks,
but I'm open to hearing them.
Okay.
Give us an example.
Set us off with a great one to start.
Are you familiar with how the game craps works in a casino?
Because I wasn't until I read about this.
Not really.
Craps.
Craps.
Craps is a game they roll on the table and someone will give it a little blow
and then they'll roll them.
Oh, no.
So the idea is you get two dice, two six-sided dice,
and you roll them to get your point.
What are Dungeons and Dragons, NerdAid?
They had to clarify it was a six-sided.
I was just thinking that, yeah.
All dice is six-sided, bro.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Hayley, let me introduce you to the world.
To the 100s.
To the wonderful world of all sorts of polyhedrons.
Oh, God.
20-sided.
No.
100-sided.
No, this is not what I was welcoming.
Just move on.
4-sided, 12-sided, 8-sided.
That's why I thought it but didn't say it out loud, Hayley.
I said it.
I said it.
Nice.
Roll once.
Okay, this is craps.
This is craps.
That establishes your point.
Whatever number you roll is your point.
Can't be 7.
Okay, I'm going to give 4. Can't be seven. Okay, I'm going to give four.
Can't be seven.
Okay, so how did you roll them?
Three and a one.
Perfect.
I rolled two sixes.
He just pulled the fingers at me.
Hard to get another one.
Oh, okay.
Well, no, it's a...
Yes.
No, it's the same.
No, you're right.
There's only one option on each dice, but on you, if you've got two different ones, you've got...
Three and a one.
Three and a one.
One or a three. Correctamundo. Is that right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, dice, but on you, if you've got two different ones, you've got three and a one, three and a one, one or a three.
Correctamundo.
Is that right?
But still the same amount of odds, right?
No, there wouldn't be.
No, double.
I don't know, man.
I haven't thought too far down this path.
I just researched how to play it.
Okay.
So you roll your point.
Yep.
You get a number.
Now the idea is you've got to roll that again before rolling a seven.
Now seven is the most likely one you are to roll
because every combination, six and one,
everything can add up to seven.
Five and two, three and four.
And then four and three, five and two.
So there's lots of combos that can make sevens math.
So you've got to roll again
and get that number you just double six or four
before you roll a seven.
Any combination of four or is it going to be a three and a one?
Good question.
I just think it's that number. Or just two and two. Regardless of how it comes up. Four and a seven. Any combination of four or is it going to be a three and a one? Good question. I just think it's that number.
Or just two and two.
Regardless of how it comes up.
Four and a zero.
And so how does the Cassie make their money?
When you gamble.
You gamble on it and then if you roll your point, you win.
But of course, you're in the mood.
You're feeling it.
Yeah.
And so you're like, yeah, I'm going to go again.
Okay.
And you roll it.
Chances are it's going to be a seven before it's anything else because of the combinations.
Right.
Correct.
Well, in 2009.
Great year.
Patricia, a grandmother from New Jersey, was in Atlantic City, America's second secret sin.
Las Vegas is the biggest sin.
Atlantic City is Vegas on the coast.
Yep. She rolled it.
She rolled, before she hit seven, 154 times.
So statisticians, statisticians, statisticians,
worked out what the chances of that happening.
It was one in 1.56 trillion odds.
Wait, she rolled that many times and didn't get the-
And never got a seven.
Yeah, right.
But wouldn't she win?
Was she winning anything?
Yeah, every time.
Every time she was winning it.
But the streak ended.
Man, gamblers, eh?
Like, you're literally defying odds.
To the trillions.
To the trillions, and you're still like,
I think I can win again.
I'll roll again again I just do not
Like thankfully
I'm not again
Like I'll buy the odd lotto ticket
I might
Every now and again
Put money in a poker
And I'll lose 20 bucks
And I'll be gutted
And I'll be like
Never again
But man
That's some insane thinking
It lasted 4 hours
And 18 minutes
People were crowded around
Apparently by the end of it
The entire casino was there
The casino people were like,
this is shifty, obviously.
Yeah, magic dice.
She's got magnets or something.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
Waits.
It wasn't.
Or she's stopping time
and then running around,
flicking the dice
and then starting time again.
Did they check that?
I think that's the most likely.
Nope.
Oh, you're talking about a time pauser.
Yeah, time pauser.
Hot play. How cool would a time pauser? Yeah, time pauser. Hot play.
How cool would a time pauser be?
I don't even want to travel back in time.
To be able to pause time is as good.
No, but you're still aging.
Didn't you see that terrible movie with Adam Sandler?
Click.
Click.
That's right.
He would pause things, but he was still aging.
And then he aged up.
No, he was fast forwarding the boring things in life,
but then the AI remote started fast forwarding everything.
That's right. And so everybody was aging, but he wasn't remembering. He wasn't enjoying life. then the AI remote started fast forwarding everything. That's right.
And so everybody was aging,
but he wasn't remembering,
he wasn't enjoying life.
And the idea was you got to enjoy.
Trust me, as a guy who just had a mini meltdown
yesterday about how quick time's passing,
I always consider click.
Yeah.
But my idea of the perfect time pauser
is you don't age,
but you've kind of got to,
there's got to be a downside
to be able to pause time.
There has to be.
So you could only pause it,
you'd only pause it for like 30 seconds.
Okay, what about-
No, 30 seconds, no, I'm having a sleep.
Here's another doubt.
Okay, you've got a time pausing machine,
but every time you pause time,
you lose a centimetre of your height.
I thought you were going to say something else.
I was like, God, you've got to quickly run out.
It's too much.
I've only paused time 187 times.
Exactly, exactly.
If I pause it five times people will be like
Are you shrinking?
Even if you pause it 20 times
You're just significantly shorter
Yeah
At some point you're going to be 50cm
But am I like the same scale?
Or am I everything shrinking?
Like everything
I'm just becoming a miniature version
You'd only do it once in a blue moon arm, like everything you become shrinking. A miniature version.
You'd only do it once in a blue moon,
wouldn't you? And that's why you would only pause time when you really had to.
Also though, the three of us are tall, we've got
a little bit more pausing leverage
than say someone who's already short and
can't reach a cupboard. Yeah.
Okay, what if every time you pause time it was
a random effect?
What do you mean? Like what? Yeah, but how bad? Are you talking... Anything. Okay, what about simply finger you pause time, it was a random effect? What do you mean? Like what?
Yeah, but how bad?
What if you're talking...
Anything.
Okay, what about...
You take your finger or lose an eyeball?
Exactly.
Oh, no, no, you're not pausing time at all.
No, you don't know.
And then the next time you pause at the eyeball,
eyeball might come back.
You don't know.
It's completely, it's wild magic.
No, that's ridiculous.
People want to know when she rolled a seven finally
after those times, do you lose all the money?
Yeah.
Oh, for...
Well, that's how gambling works.
Jeez.
Like cash out at any stage on this trillion-odd streak.
I don't know if she, because she'd never played craps before, by the way.
She'd been on the pokies, and the guy she was at the casino with
had been playing poker.
Right.
And he was not having any luck, and she's like, I'm bored of the pokies.
He's like, if you've been playing this, explain how it worked.
And so it was her, like, first or second time ever playing.
Yeah, right.
Was she getting smaller as the winning streak continued?
One centimetre every time.
There you go.
She's going to be so tiny.
Which is why she started out at 1.54m
and now she's zero centimetres tall.
With no eye and a twitchy hand.
So today's fact of the day is in 2009, a New Jersey grandmother had a 154-roll streak in a game of craps,
which has the odds of 1.56 trillion.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah.
This is so funny.
Someone shared a TikTok.
It's just a very simple video and it says,
when I was 11, my mum took away my iPad
and I got so mad that I stole her phone
and took a picture of me,
took a picture of my poo in the toilet
and posted it on her Facebook page
with the caption, my dinner.
Like, even in the moment, as a parent, your job is to be disappointed.
Yeah.
But, like, when the kids are going to bed and it was just, for example,
because this has got big August energy.
Yeah.
Big August energy.
Or Andy would just pack a sock.
Big August energy.
They'd go to bed.
We'd be sitting in the room.
We'd look at each other.
We'd be like, pretty good.
Pretty funny.
Pretty funny story. But at the time, you would have told her other and we'd be like, pretty good. Pretty funny. Pretty funny story.
But at the time you would have told her off.
This is unacceptable. That's disgusting.
And da da da da da.
Trying to give a straight face. It's not like
nothing's been broken.
It's a little vindictive, but
like, not as
vindictive as, you know,
starting a proper rumour or anything.
My mum told me all the time that her and dad would laugh at my...
Antics.
Antics.
After they'd dealt with it.
After they'd dealt with it, they'd go to bed and be like,
did you see what she was wearing?
And you're like, oh, they just have a big laugh about it all.
You're like, I love this.
So funny.
This made me laugh so much.
When I was 11 years old, my mum took my iPad away.
I was so mad.
I took a picture of my poop in the toilet and I posted it on her Facebook page
with the caption, my dinner.
That's how she, my dinner.
It's the cherry on top of her dinner.
It's so good.
So, okay, this is what we want to ask you now.
We want you to cast your mind back
to your angsty teenage years.
Yeah.
How did you lash out at your parents?
How pathetic was it?
How dramatic was it?
It's always high on drama.
High drama.
Because everything at that age,
I mean, this is 11, that's quite young,
but everything at that age is just extreme.
And so when you lash out at your parents,
you just do the weirdest shit like this.
That makes me laugh.
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Did you take a picture of your poop and upload it to your mum's Facebook and say,
My dinner?
Maybe you did.
That's what one girl in America did.
Man, there are some great stories coming through.
Again, like, who would have kids, eh?
I used to hide my mum's car radio faceplate. Remember when you take the faceplate off? Yes.
Some people would still have the removable faceplate.
We've just moved into adulthood
where you just are happy with the car that
comes, the stereo that came standard.
You just move to an
age where you're like, I don't have the money
to want that
to be a fusion.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love some more speakers in my to want that to be a fusion. That she said it was. Fusion.
Don't get me wrong,
I'd love some more speakers in my Jimny.
The speakers in there are ratty and tinny.
But I have more important things to spend my money on.
You don't need extra weight in that vehicle.
It'll slow it down.
No, you can't have big subwoofers in the back.
The fuel economy would just be terrible.
Put some subwoofers in there.
You'd lose all the boot.
Someone used to hide their mum's faceplate
whenever she got told off by her so she couldn't
listen to the radio when she was driving in her car.
It's terrible for radio.
Actually bad for us.
Put it right back.
Someone said
when I was about 17 my mum
poured bleach on my favourite t-shirt and told me
it was an accident.
So this is reverse vindictivism.
Wow.
They poured bleach on their favourite. I'm imagining the t-shirt may have been an accident. Probably was. So this is reverse vindictivism. Oh, wow. From a parent.
Yeah.
They poured bleach on their favourite.
I'm imagining
the t-shirt may have been
Marilyn Manson.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whoopsie doopsie.
Can't wear that anymore.
A band that they thought
was going to corrupt
their wee girl.
When I was in my 30s
she told me she did it
on purpose
because she was angry at me.
Oh.
That's wild.
That's wild
that that works both ways.
You're meant to be
the elder,
more mature parent.
This one's the low end of the scale,
but mum apparently would get pretty wild when it happened.
She used to have the same pair of heels in four different colours.
When I was nine, she wouldn't let me watch Scooby-Doo after school
until I cleaned her room.
What?
Okay.
So I went and swapped one shoe from each pair to another pair.
She went to an event the next day that she got dressed for early in the morning
with one brown shoe and one navy shoe.
Do you want to hear something really pathetic?
I was probably about 12 or so.
I was pissed off at my mum.
I can't remember why, but I cut all the elastic in her fitted sheets.
Wow.
When my dad annoyed me, I'd get a water spray bottle
and spray a wet patch onto my bedroom ceiling.
I'd do it every now and then until my parents had to open the ceiling
to see where the leak was coming from.
There was no pipes running along that part of the ceiling.
They thought the roof was leaking.
Someone came and said, no, the roof's sweet as.
It was a forever mystery, but I used to do it when they pissed me off
just to keep them busy.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
That's psychological.
I came clean when I was 43.
That would have cost your parents a fortune,
getting a roofer and probably a plumber.
I was pre-teen and had to be a bridesmaid
with this awful flowery 1970s dress.
Being a tomboy, the whole thought of this was horrific.
I started to cut the dress up with scissors,
but mum caught me before I could destroy the dress.
Looking back now, what an awful.
That's so dramatic.
What an awful, awful child.
I used to do that when I was a little, little kid.
I'd get so angry at my mum, I'd just cut my fringe off.
I'd be like, screw you.
And they'd be like, I look like a dick.
You're the only one that's hurting from that.
Yeah, yeah.
When I was 15 and I was having a bit of a teenage temper tantrum,
mum always used to try to distract me or cheer me up.
And one of the times she said,
okay, let's see who can
make the ugliest face
and before she could even
do anything,
I said, you win.
And I really hurt her feelings.
Oh my God.
Someone said,
who lashed out at their parents
when they were a teenager?
I would have been absolutely
knocked on my ass
if I behaved in any other way than respectful.
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The plastic bag.
Are they back?
No, no, still banned.
Okay.
They never left.
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