ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 24th April 2024

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletch Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. It's a, I guess, a short week for many. This will be a lot of people's last day at work

because a lot of people are taking off the day between Anzac and the weekend and making a mega weekend. So Anzac Day is tomorrow. Yes. 25th tomorrow. Every year I say this, I might get a mega weekend. So Anzac Day is tomorrow. Yes. 25th tomorrow. Every year I say this, I might get up and go to the Dawn Parade. I've been to a couple. I don't.

The one in Auckland at the Domain. Yeah, that's the one to go to. That's the one to go to if you're in Auckland. It's pretty moving. Yeah, it's incredible. Well, I'm going to soft commit. I'm going to soft commit. This is the one time

you can because your body is used to getting up at these hours exactly it's like nothing for you you probably wake up anyway no

do you know the other day I didn't talk about this the other day Sunday I believe it was I slept in I woke up at 7 because I was supposed

to go somewhere Aaron was like look you're really tired don't worry about it fell back asleep woke up at 12.30 in the afternoon that's wild I woke up at 7 because I was supposed to go somewhere. Aaron was like, look, you're really tired. Don't worry about it. Fell back asleep. Woke up at 12.30 in the afternoon. Jeez. That's wild.

I woke up at lunchtime. That's wild. It was crazy. That's tired. You're a tired gal. You lose quite a lot of life getting up that late. I forget what it's even like to sleep in that late. Yeah.

I've got no idea. My granddad used to say half the day is gone when you got out of bed at 8.30am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On a sleep and on a school holiday saying your grandparents. Half the day's gone, he'd say. That's really not. And then when you're a teenager and you can sleep until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, I know.

Glorious. There's half the day gone. Big show today. Big fatty. Huge guests joining us. We do, actually. You guys heard of Ryan Gosling? Have you heard of Emily Blunt?

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, I think I've heard of a couple of them. So the movie Fall Guy is out in cinemas across the country today. We got to see it a couple of weeks ago. Oh my God, so good. We're still talking about it. It was one of the most joyful, fun, entertaining movies I've seen in years. Amazing action, great story, brilliant acting.

It was shot in Sydney. The action's incredible. And today. Great story. Brilliant acting. It's shot in Sydney. The action's incredible. And today is press day, so we, after 8 o'clock, are going to chat to Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and soon, Winston Duke, who's also in the movie. Yeah, he plays the props, not

props master, the stunt coordinator. It's kind of a meta movie. It's like about a movie about movies. It's about a movie about a movie but it's all like kind of goes behind the scenes of stunts. It's so good. So Winston Duke joining us in the next 20 minutes.

You recognise him from other movies like Black Panther, Us. Hell yeah. He's, yeah. Exciting. He's 1 metre 96. I was going to say he's a big kid. He's a big kid. I was going to say he's, yeah. Exciting. He's 1 metre 96. I was going to say he's a big cutie. He's a big cutie. I was going to say he's very tall. He's a big tall cutie.

I like that. I like that. He's a big cutie. Also, we need to discuss your ongoing dramas, getting a parcel delivered soon. Part five. Aaron's having an hour in there. Part five.

I'm having an absolute hour in there. I think a lot of people have had an Aramex part five. Oh my god. Next on the show though, there is a huge mismatch in sports today. Yeah. We'll discuss next. I'm not huge on tennis. I don't follow a lot of tennis. Like I know the big tennis players.

I know the big names. I love't follow a lot of tennis. Like, I know the big tennis players. I know the big names. I love watching the tennis Netflix doco. Oh. Isn't that called making a racket? No, it's definitely not. It should be. Yeah, balls out, balls out. Balls out.

No, no, no, no. It's called the balls in your court. No, it's called. No, it's not. It's lines. Line ball. Line ball. Line ball. I've teased it. Hang on It's... Lines. Oh, no. This is so bad. Lineball.

I've teased it. Hang on. Stay tuned, caller. Oh, boy, oh, boy. It's called... It is like the equivalent of the Formula One one. Yeah, Drive to Survive. Drive to Thrive to Thrive to Survive.

Thrive to Survive. Surviving, not thriving. Balls in your court. Tennis. I'm just going to look up tennis on Netflix. Night court. Break point. Break point.

Juice. Break point. And it's actually up there with the Formula 1 one. Same kind of style. Right. It was like a top tennis player. Right. Yeah, so good.

Well, the Madrid Open starts, according to my Google search here, at 8pm tonight with the first match. The Madrid Open. Is my girl Emma Raducanu playing? I don't know. Also, you're into tennis now, are you? Oh, definitely. And that new Zendaya movie where she plays tennis?

Right. I might give that a watch. You love tennis. Okay, it turns out more and more. He loves tennis. Right. I might give that a watch. You love tennis. Okay. He loves tennis. For the right reasons. Well, this match that is happening is blowing people's mind because there is a tennis player called Darwin Blanche who is

Great name, Darwin. Darwin Blanche. Darwin Blanche. Hello there. Who is going to take on Rafael Nadal, 22-time Grand Slam winner. Yeah, Rafael Nadal, one of the best of all time. He is an absolute champion, one of the world's greatest tennis players ever. Yeah.

And Darwin Blanche has drawn to play him in the Madrid Open. What do we know about Darwin? Darwin Blanche is 16 years old. Oh, man. Isn't that insane? Rafael Nadal would have been winning titles before this kid was even born. Yes. Because Rafael Nadal's been in it a long time now.

Yeah, find out when his first one is. So this guy's a young American tennis protege who is pretty good. He has played a tournament before. He's currently ranked 1028th though in the world. And he's been drawn out to take on Rafael Nadal. How old was this kid? 16. Yeah. So he would have been born

in minus 4. You've got 12 left, 12 off. 2008. Thanks for showing your workings there. That's absolutely fine. Rafael Nadal won his first international Grand Slam at 19 years of age in 2005. So three years before this guy was born. That's insane.

Rafael's had quite a lot of injuries. He's had an 11-month layoff. He's had a hip injury. And he hasn't been playing that well. Right. Hasn't been playing that well for Rafael Nadal. For him. So this guy, this 16-year-old, Darwin Blanche took to Snapchat,

as you do when you're 16. When you're 16, yeah. Put a filter on and double spit it. It's just a picture of him covering his face with the caption, Guys, I play Nadal. WTF? Yeah. That's got to be pretty cool, though.

Insane. He wouldn't have known the world without Rafael Nadal, and now he gets to play him. Hell yeah. To play against your heroes would be pretty amazing even though you'll probably lose. Yeah. The career earnings,

they've compared the career earnings from the 16-year-old. He's made $30,650 so far. Good for him. And that's a lot for 16, eh? Humble for tennis earnings. I was still delivering newspapers and junk mail at 16.

I had no job at 16. That is compared to Nadal's earnings of $134.7 million. And that's just off tennis wins, because he would have done more than that for sponsorship. Sponsors and brands and stuff. Yeah, so Wednesday afternoon, Madrid time. So, yeah, tonight at 8pm is that match if you're into tennis. 21-year age gap, that's wild.

Crazy, eh? Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. I've inhaled something like a, you know, like when he gets caught in your throat. Sound like my mum growing up. I had a ha-hum mum. Oh, my mum's whole family are ha-hum. We call it the McElroy cough

because it's all ha-hum, ha-hum, ha-hum. I just do that. You do that. I just do that. Or do your noise when you're choking on an apple skin because it's all... I just do that. You do that. I just do that. Or do your noise when you're choking on an apple skin because it's hit your dangler. I always get it called a dangler. Have you got a long dangler?

I think I've got a long one. A long dangler. Makes sense. Ah. Oh, massive dangler. Yeah. That's what they say about Fletch. I've heard it before, but I don't quite know what it meant.

I am in the middle of just... I am just trying to get my product. I ordered two lights and they were coming from Christchurch and I thought they'd be quite simple, quite straightforward. We need them. Can't see. Running around blind in my own house. Oh, yeah, banging into walls. Why from Christchurch?

That's where they were from. Oh, a private sale, not a light distributor. No, it's a small company just based in Christchurch? That's where they were from. Oh, a private sale. Not a light distributor. No, it's a small company just based in Christchurch. Interesting. That I got them from. I find that interesting. Why do you find that interesting? Why that Christchurch sells lights that they weren't closer.

Interesting. Yeah, it's boutique-y, you know. We're boutique-y. You're boutique-y, people. We're boutique-y. Are these the enamel lights? Yeah, the red ones. Oh, yeah yeah very cool

Unexpected red theory Yeah Anyway so we got these lights And then yeah You get that little Your order is on its way And I click the link And oh hoo hoo

It's Aramex And I was like Be cool God damn Be cool Be cool Be cool Be cool

Be cool Be cool Be cool I've had many Aramex deliveries Lately and I will say They've been all fine Absolutely fine Exactly

I don't want to have any prejudice towards them, but you know five points of contact later I'm starting to buy into the rumour that they're not that great I don't understand it was like they left a card to call like no one was home, and I was like that's fine

they're big packages and I think they'll say fragile on them right so that's fine I called, card to call They're big packages and I think they'll say fragile on them, right? So that's fine. I called. Yeah. Can't to call. So I called and I spoke to someone on the phone and they said,

oh, we just need you to give authority to leave it. And I said, you can leave it. We've got a front porch. It's covered. Fine. Just bloody leave it. Just bloody leave it. Yeah.

Next day, no lights, card to call. I was like, oh, yeah. It's okay. I'll go online. I went on the website, go online, card to call. Put in the card to call number and I put in the information. Just leave it. Covered porch, leave it on the porch.

No problem. Then they came. No, then it was two days later, card to call in the mailbox. Another one. So that's the third card to call. I went back on the website and I said, third card to call. Oh, by the way, for two of these card to calls, Aaron's home. Okay, right.

Aaron's home. Yeah. Maybe they knocked on the front door and he was in the garage. Do you have a ding-donger? A bing-bonger? We don't have a bing-bong. You should get a bing-bonger have a ding-donger? A bing-bonger? We don't have a bing-bong. You should get a bing-bonger. No. No, you need a bing-bonger. You've got a long house.

It is a long house. Because you could be at the back of the house and not here. Your gate, though, is close enough to your house. The Wi-Fi would reach the gate. You could have a little ring cam.

No, you know what you need? On the gate. The things that dairies have. No, my auntie and uncle had one of those growing up. It wasn't all it was cut out to be. No, it'd be fun. What about a long one?

Like a grandfather clock, a digital grandfather clock. I'm going to buy you a dairy chimer. Thank you. If this keeps happening, I'm buying you a dairy chimer. So far... You get Jane Carwell half the money. Yeah, yeah, tights. So far, we're car to call, car to call, car to call.

Then what happens next? Then I... Another car to call? Called them. Right. I called them again and I said, I have given authority to leave it. Just leave them.

And then I get a text yesterday saying, hi, Aramax Courier's here. We have an item for you. Please call this number to provide new delivery instructions. You requested re-delivery front door, but the gate was locked upon delivery. Please note there's a fragile parcel also cannot be left over the gate.

You can respond to this text. Now, our gate doesn't lock. There is no lock on it. It's a slider. And it would have been open too, right? It was open. I get home and I said to Aaron, you're not going to believe this. I've just heard from Aramex. They said they couldn't deliver it because the gate was open. He goes, what?

He says, I've been home all morning. So third time Aaron's been home, fourth, fifth time they've tried to deliver. Aaron was home and he said he specifically got up at 7 a.m. to open the gate because he was like, they'll think that the gate doesn't open because it's a big sliding gate.

I don't know what to do. Okay, $17.90 for a big sliding gate. I don't know what to do. I called them again. $17.90 for a wireless door chime. Okay. But do you know at the front of my house, like how it's super cute and like old?

Yeah. We put in a bing bong on it because I was sort of thinking you need some brass hardware. A knocker. A knocker. Oh yeah, you get a nice knocker. You could get a vintage knocker.

What about like a real vintage? I thought a bell. The knocker. Oh, yeah, you get a nice knocker. You could get a vintage knocker. What about like a real vintage? I thought a bell. The bell that goes like, remember when you used to have a bicycle bell? I thought like a ship bell. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's nice. That could hang there. Or those old workshop ones where you had a landline

and if you were in the workshop farting about, you wouldn't hear it and just had that hammer that went between two bells. Yeah, like a school bell or something. Yeah. Yeah, that's what you need. Are we being unfair to Aramex? Because I've had a terrible experience. I've called them again.

The final thing yesterday was I said to them, I don't really know what to do anymore. Throw them over the fence. I said, I'm really struggling to come to terms with what to do at this point. They were like, how can we help? Drop off. Give me

my effing package. Slide the gate across. Anyway, I lost my cool a little bit. Why were you going to say? Trustpilot.com, the New Zealand branch of it. You can review services.

It's had, Aramex New Zealand has had 1453 reviews Yep 7% of which Are 5 star reviews Okay 4 star

3 star And 2 star Don't even register 92% Of reviews Are 1 star Wow And if you just read

Some of the comments It's like I just want my package But also You've got to remember That careers If they leave something On your porch and there's no, I mean, I know that you've said you've given your permission.

Five times, Fletch, five times. But if you don't give them permission, they can't leave it. No, no, no, I totally understand the first couple of times and the confusion around it. Just Aaron's been home for three of the five attempts. Aaron's been home. There's a big truck in the driveway. This review is from literally last week.

I've never had any problems with any other courier companies but for the last four times in a row that Aramix have tried to deliver it I have been sent an email that

says cannot access nor find address. Oh. Well at least they know where your house is. That's a good start. Yeah I reckon they've

driven past seen a big gate and been like can't deliver. Next on the show, we are going to chat to Winston Duke from the movie Fall Guy, which stars

Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, who also joined us on the show after 8 o'clock this morning. The movie Fall Guy is out in cinemas across the country today

starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, who are on the show with us after 8 this morning. And the man who is on the phone with us right now, you'll recognise him from Us, Black Panther, Nine Days, Spencer Confidential, his name is Winston Duke, hello. Hey, glad to be here with you. Winston what were you just jamming out to? We caught you, we jumped on the Zoom and you were jamming and singing. I was jamming to Levi's Jeans, you know? Levi's Jeans by Beyonce and... Beyonce influenced me.

Look, brand new. Don't show your crotch. I do apologise. I should not have shown you that part of the jeans. Post Malone. It's so lovely to chat to you. We had the privilege of watching The Fall Guy and you know, you see these films sometimes as part of the job and you watch it and you go, great.

And I'll ask you, how was the show? But literally, we haven't stopped talking about it. We loved it. So great. It was so much fun. And it was deeply informed by, you know, your backyard. We shot it in Australia. So the neighbours, the neighbours next door.

Winston, we don't talk about them. But did you like, because we had such a blast watching it and it kind of, you know, you're actors, you look like you're having fun, but did you enjoy filming it as much as we enjoyed watching it? It was incredible. So, you know, I've had the privilege of being a part

of some really big blockbusters, as you know, Black Panther, Us, and now The Fall Guy of some really big blockbusters as you know black panther us and now the fall guy and each big blockbuster has their own personality and that's largely to do with the director and the world that we create and this one was deeply influenced by the landscape you know we shut down the harbour bridge, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We had a lot of folks and I think we had a couple, is it okay for me to say Kiwis? Is that okay?

Yeah, so we had a couple Kiwis on set. You remember now and then a Kiwi would speak, you'd be like, that's us! There he is! That's us! Exactly. I also loved during the movie, so many people were wearing Kathmandu puffer jackets, which is like the Kiwi brand.

And it's very much like the film crew uniform as a puffer. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So it was just one of those like super fun experiences. And this movie, you know, incredible. We broke records on this movie. It's a movie about making a movie.

So as Dan, I really got to learn what it meant to be the stunt coordinator. There was a line in the film about stunts not officially being recognized by the Oscars, which I thought was a great dig. But also like this movie was pretty much a movie for the Academy to be like, they definitely deserve at least two. It was a love, it felt like a love letter

to the stunties of the industry. Absolutely. You know, it's advocating for recognition. And, you know, my position on recognition is recognition creates incentive for better work as well. You know, when people realize that their name can be immortalized and their work can be recognized and immortalized, they're incentivized to do more

and do better and push limits and be innovative and to break through barriers. And I think that's one of the really great byproducts of recognition. And, you know, these are the unsung heroes. I couldn't do a lot of what you see in movies that my characters get the credit for. I know. And then everyone looks at you and they're like, man, you're so cool. You're like, oh, did none of that.

And I do take credit. I take all the credit. As you should, man. As you should. It's interesting, because a lot of you guys were playing stunties, but obviously the behind the scenes of the behind the scenes is that you had stunties doing a lot of your stunts,

which we loved the ending, where you actually showed the making of it. You said that records were broken in this, and the records that were broken in the film are mentioned in the film, and then everybody's got to hang around until after the credits or mid-credits. Because then you get to see the records being broken,

literally, that were in, it's kind of a meta level. Yeah, it is meta. It's a complete meta thing, yeah. It's so beautifully done. It's a movie being made inside a movie by actors pretending to be people who are making a movie who are people making a movie. Yeah.

And then there's shots of the actors who are playing stunt people to actual actors and then the stunt people with the actors playing stunt people with them. And there's about 10 people that look like... Well, there are some stunt people pretending to be actors. It's so good.

And so even though you guys all had stunties to be your stunty stunties, did you... Of course. Because it's super physical and all about these epic stunts, did you at any point get hurt? Like, did you hurt yourself,

put your body on the line? That wasn't me actually trying to slip something in. I had to really cough. I thought you were going like, yes, I did. Yes, I did. I broke my back.

Spinal. I wouldn't say I got hurt, but I definitely had to take a couple of days off after. I've got this like amazing missile kick where, you know, you jump up and you kick with both legs. Yeah. And after doing my missile kick training, I mean, I needed like three or four days after dropping this 280 frame, 280 pounds. I don't know.

How do you guys measure weight? KGs, but that was like 150, 140. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 127. Yeah know. How do you guys measure weight? KGs, but that was 150, 140-ish. Yeah, yeah. 127. Yeah, 127. I like 150. Yeah, we'll go 150, man. 150 and two metres tall. Yeah. Exactly.

Exactly. But like that frame hitting the ground over and over and over, or hitting the mat over and over, it took a toll you are like two meters tall 150 we've rounded up because you wanted to only because you wanted to where do they find a stunt double to double you dude you're a like you're an absolute unit beast i think they i think they stitch two different stunt doubles it's actually two people yeah it's like two guys in a trench coat yeah double.

It's actually two people. It's like two guys in a trench coat. Doing all my stunts. Wearing a Catman do jacket underneath to pump it out to fill out the frame. Otherwise they just look too lanky. I love that. Absolutely. Hey, thanks so much. Great to chat to you.

Thanks so much. Great to chat to you. Thanks so much. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the top six. A strike notice covering 2,500 resident doctors employed by Health New Zealand, TK2 Order,

and members of the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association has been issued. They will withdraw from service for 25 hours on May 7th and 8th. Okay, so a bit of warning, that's good. Yeah. So they've reached an impasse last week

when Health New Zealand presented pay options and it did not measure up. Yeah. Uh-oh. Resident Doctors on strike. Now, last night when I was like, oh, okay, Resident Doctors on strike. That could be a top six. We could do a funny list about that. And then immediately I was like,

I made that noise. My children who had just got home from a stay with the grandparents said, what was that for? I said, I've got to write a top six. And they said, we can help. So here is... Wait, your kids have written this. You're outsourcing your work to your kids. That's just smart.

I think I'm also outsourcing government problems to my children who are problem solvers. Okay. Top six ways to avoid a doctor strike according to my children. Okay. Number six on the list. Give them more tongue depressors.

They called them the big popsicle sticks and huge swabs because once we were at the doctor and he needed to go, but there was no thing and he was like,

excuse me for a moment. I've run out of tongue depressors. Yeah, right. And we were left in there for ages because I think he went out and then got asked a series of questions

and then he came back asked a series of questions. And then he came back with a handful of them. And I don't know why, that always sticks in their mind. If we give them more of those, they'll be happier. Are you sure he wasn't out of the room for a while because he had to finish the popsicle, rinse the stick,

and then come back in with it? It did have a lemonade tang to it. You don't want it, if it's red, that means they've had a raspberry. Yeah, you can tell. They should do what the hygienist did. I had it the other day. You know't want it, if it's red, that means they've had a raspberry. Yeah, you can tell. They should do what the hygienist did.

I had it the other day. You know how they do a mouth check, jaw check like this? And then she just grabbed my tongue to the side with gloved hands

She manhandled your tongue. But she grabbed, pinched it with her fingers and was like, look at either side. Did you get the sandblaster? Yeah.

I've got to pay extra at my dentist now. Do you? It's good. It feels amazing. Oh, it's lovely. How was your tongue health? Fine. The tongue's okay? Gums are actually good. Not receding? They're always receding

mine. Everybody's always a little bit. Stop brushing so hard. Yeah, and I'm like, but I want them to be polished. Clean. Number five on the list of the top six ways to avoid a doctor's strike, according to my like, but I want them to be polished. Yeah. Clean. Number five on the list of the top six ways to avoid a doctor's strike according to my children are better parking

for their cars. Oh, yeah. Didn't really elaborate on that. I think it's just because every time we go to the doctor's the car park's full. So they imagine that they get there in that.

Well, there's always stories about like nurses having to park or pay like exorbitant parking or park ages away. Oh, gosh. Which is so, so crappy. Yeah.

Yeah, I know. Terrible. They shouldn't have to pay for parking. No. away, which is so, so crappy. Yeah, terrible. They shouldn't have to pay for parking. No. I'll put that down. Number four on the list of the top six ways to avoid a doctor's strike, according to my children, better snacks for themselves

and to give to their patients. They said lollipops are like okay if you're a baby, but maybe they should be giving us bags of chips now. I said I don't know how well that would go down. Yeah, I think that's also a lot of the reason why people are left the bad food they're eating. Yeah, maybe. On a bag of chips,

hey, well done, we were brave. Here's a bag of chips on the way out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they can have a bag of chips themselves. Yeah. And that might make them feel better. Number three on the list of the top six ways to avoid doctor strikes, according to my children,

let them check people's teeth too because they're nicer than dentists. Oh, shots fired. I've got a lovely dentist. Yeah, me too. I just think as a kid, dentists are scary. Very scary. So, but the doctor not as scary

because they're not always prying around in your mouth or drills and picking and telling you off for not flossing and stuff. No, exactly. So they reckon let them do teeth, which will somehow make them happier. No, exactly. So they reckon let them do teeth which will somehow make them happier. Yeah, that makes sense.

Number two on the list of the top six ways to avoid doctor strikes according to my children. Don't hold them up with dumb questions. I like to hold up my doctor with dumb questions.

You like to write a list. What's that? I'll point to something. What's that? While I'm here. Am I dying? Am I dying? While I'm here.

Yeah, yeah. You spend 15 minutes talking about the main issue and they're like, cool, so we. What's that? While I'm here. Am I dying? Am I dying? While I'm here. Yeah, yeah. You spend 15 minutes talking about the main issue and they're like, cool, so we've got a script. While I'm here. And you open up your phone, notes app. This is it. You know from our friend Dr. Shawnee they don't like that. They don't.

Well, whenever they're late. Like, you go to a doctor's for a nine o'clock and you're not until 20 past nine. How are they that late already? But then you you add a couple of minutes every patient adds a couple of minutes

with the dumb questions by the end of the day it's a complete blowout it is and number one on the list of the top six ways to avoid doctor strikes according to my children

newer magazines oh yeah because I once told them that magazines and doctors waiting rooms are always old so whenever we go to the doctors now

they always check the date and they're like this is so old. Totally. I was like three when this magazine came out. Because at my doctor's, Jane Jane's still married to Dom. Oh, no. So I'm really excited to see what happens here.

Jeez, that's an old mag. Yeah, it's an old one. Grant, Pauline and Grant's still together? Yes. Really? Also, have you seen the flowers laid out in front of the Buckingham Palace for Di? Oh. Amazing.

Amazing. It's a sea of flowers. I know. She was a beautiful woman. I just want to know how locals are reacting to the Commonwealth Games. Yeah. In 1990. Yeah.

Just get some newer magazines. Get some fresher magazines. Yeah, get some new magazines. I reckon that's the day. Stop sucks. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Just get some newer magazines. Get some fresh magazines. Yeah, get some new magazines. I reckon that's today's top six. Just a reminder, Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt are on the show with us at ten past eight. Yeah, yeah. So I am, so I received a message from a publisher.

Yeah. Which we do sometimes. Sometimes like publishers or brands or PR people will slip into the DMs and say like, hey, we want to send you something, which we always appreciate. In the hopes, like you are right now, that you'll talk about it. Yeah, and great. Do you know what? I'm happy to talk about this item for such different reasons. They said, we want to send you a book. It's

a book about hormones, perimenopause, and menopause. What's perimenopause? Is that like a spicy? It's like an early, it's like where you go lemon herb, lemon herb-ores. Yeah, it's light, menopause light. Yeah, perimenopause. It's the lead-in, right? It's the

lead-in period where, you know, you're leaving your normal kind of menstruation and moving into a next phase of your life. Which, I've just googled the average age of menopause, 51. Let's just put that out. I'll just put that out there. Let's chuck that out there for context. Anyway, I read

it and I think I brought up at the time just to you guys as pals that I'd been asked if I wanted to receive a book about menopause and I had been lightly offended by it just because I was like, you know, I'm still so young. And so I didn't respond, which you know me, I never respond on Instagram. I just didn't respond.

I didn't say like, thanks, but no thanks. Or I didn't say, you know what, I don't feel like that's appropriate for me. Anyway, despite that, it has arrived. And look, I see the benefit in this. It's called The Everything Guide, Hormones, Health and Happiness in Menopause, Midlife and Beyond. That sounds like it would be an amazing book for someone that was experiencing that. You know me.

Like I live a life dictated by hormones with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Get it. Get it. You can't be horny without hormones. You can't be horny without hormones. I have friends who are... That should be a T-shirt.

Chuck that on a T-shirt along with the horse one we did last week. Yeah, actually, if we could get that made up as a motivational poster. You can't be horny without hormones. You can't be horny without hormones. Yeah. Maybe what would be a mountain? Not seeing a can't be horny without hormones. Yeah. Maybe what would be a mountain?

Not seeing a couple of cute penguins looking out. Yeah, because they mate for life. Yeah, because they mate for life. Or what about dolphins? Dolphins are horny. Dolphins are horny. A narwhal. Dolphins.

A narwhal. A narwhal. Kind of like a horny. Horny dolphin with a horn. With a horn. Yeah. Great. A narwhal coming up through the ice.

You can't be horny without hormones. Yeah. Love it. So just reading the description of the book, which again I want to preface, I'm not being ungrateful. I really think... We should... I'm so sorry to interrupt. A very strong Wahine Toa.

Big fan of both Malditum and woman, but I must interrupt you. We should make a calendar of these quotes. Oh, yeah, what a great idea. Yeah, we should actually when we came up with them. End of the year, sell some, make a little money.

Yeah, gorgeous. Wait, for charity? No, for us. We could do Christmas cards, like postcards, get them printed. We could do a couple of Christmasy ones. Now, please, back to Hayley Sproul. Naughty. Fatwa and Ngapuhi.

It's up for debate. It's up for debate. Where did the ship dock? Anyway, before you mounted it and took my people and my land. And when I say you, I mean the majority of my family as well. Anyway, so it's written by Nikki Besant. And it's a New Zealand author. Nikki reframes aging for a new generation,

tackling mental health challenges, menopause and perimenopause, feeling lost in midlife and reconnecting with ourselves during a time of hormonal transition. Do you know who I think should also read this book? Men or partners of women or people I identify. Do you know who I think should read the book? Go through it. Women older than me.

I was I appreciate the sentiment but I'm so far away Just chuck it on the shelf for like from this for another 15 years. I was going to say 30 because you're so young. Because I'm so young.

I'm basically in my 20s. I'm closer to my 20s than I am in my 40s. Tell in my 20s. I'm closer to my 20s than I am my 40s. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm closer to my 20s than I am my 40s. No, because it's like the price is right once you go over. You're out of the game. No, I'm not out of the game. It's got to be under.

It's got to be under. You're a bitch. You're being a bitch. I'm not out of the game. It's under. In fact, I would say. I'm 34. You're 40.

You're knocking on 40s. Don't round me up. If we're rounding, I'm say... I'm 34. You're 40. Yeah, you're knocking on 40s. Don't round me up. If we're rounding, I'm closer to 30 than 40. I was your age in 2016 and that was yesterday. No, it wasn't. And now I'm 42. It was eight years ago. 42, sore lower back.

I don't have a sore lower back. Absolute hand-braked metabolism. Yeah, I've got that. Can't sleep now. I've got this sleep thing. I keep waking up in the middle of the night and not being able To go back to sleep Which I always laughed

When my parents told me That that was happening to them Yeah God you're basically 50 I mean if we're Talking downhill slides I'm not basically 50 I'm basically 20 Thank you for the book

But no thank you for the book Someone said Sorry Hayley You're closer to 30 You're closer to 40 Do your maths I'm 34 I'm closer to 30

Than I am to 40. Yeah, but you can't go backwards. Yes, you can. You can't. Just you wait for your next birthday, and then I'll be saying you're closer to 50, and I'll hand you this book. He literally will be.

He literally will be. I know. Oh, don't say that. He literally will be. How does it feel? Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley Fletch, Vaughn 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. When do you spend a gift card as today's silly little pole? Do you do it straight away as soon as you get it

or wait till you need something from that store? Because this happened to me. I was cleaning out my junk drawer and I found a farmer's gift card. Oh, they're some of the best. I know, and I was like, get yourself some new knickers. I was like, do I need new knickers or new towels? I need some new gym towels because they're getting old.

Don't. Nice. But then I don't need them. The little hand ones. Yeah. Steal those from the hotel next time. What? What? Because they're already kind of in use.

It's so obvious, though, you're at the gym with a big white hand towel. Everybody knows you've stolen that from a hotel. Don't spend money on towels just to thrash them at the gym. Surely. You retire your old towels. And then I was like, do I need something for the kitchen? I don't spend money on towels just to thrash them at the gym. Surely. You retire your old towels. And then I was like, do I need something for the kitchen? I don't need anything. I don't need to spend this.

But it's there now and I've remembered it. I'll spend it. And now I need to spend it. How much are we talking? Oh, just fitty. Just a little fitty. What about getting some, like, body stuff? Socks?

I don't need socks. Some essentials. I've got so many socks. Knickers? I could get some fragrance. Why essentials. I've got so many socks. Knickers? Why don't you buy a gift for someone else? No, but this was a gift to me. I'm not really good at anything. Gift to gift.

Okay. Well, 21% of people said as soon as they get it, they're spending it. And 79% of people, nice, 79, say when they need something from the, turned around, turned away from. Yeah, yeah. Somewhere. 75% said when they need something from the store is when they use the gift card. Okay.

But then how many... Oh, I love them. We should have had a third option. Do you let it just expire and forget about it? That's a crime. That's what I do. Yeah. I'm shocking at it.

That's why I want to spend it straight away. Yeah. Because otherwise it ends up in the straw and I forget about it. Yeah. That's why I want to spend it straight away because otherwise it ends up in this drawer and I forget about it. Amanda says, work gives us heaps and I save them up for my Botox. Do you think she's getting Prezi cards? Prezi cards. Can you pay for, I suppose you can pay for anything. Can you go in and fan out like 12 Prezi cards to pay for your Botox?

For your Botox? Be like, there you go. Keep the change. Could I just do $40 on this one and I'll do $60 on this one? I'll get $40 between the brow. It goes $60 on either side of the change. Could I just do $40 on this one and I'll do $60 on this one? I'll get $40 between the brow. It goes $60 on either side of the eyes. Double down on a bit of that. Julie says, I'm now questioning my whole outlook on life

after seeing so many people who are just using it when they need something. Yeah, it's not real money though. I like doing it. That's what she says. That bitch is free money. She's getting spent immediately. Yes. Dawn says, about a week after it's expired is generally when She's getting spent immediately. Yes. Dawn says,

about a week after it's expired is generally when I try to spend it. Yeah. Some stores let you. I know there was a bit of an uproar and stores made them longer, eh? They last longer now. Yeah.

Especially over COVID time, eh? Yeah. Simon says, they just burn a hole in my pocket. I get way too excited and got to get rid of it. Yep. Mason,

I still have a gift card for my 35th birthday. I turn 39 in a few months. I presume that'll still be good. I don't know, my dude. Probably not. I used to spend them straight away when I was young and free, says Rebecca, but now I have responsibilities and we are in a cosy live cry

and I definitely save it until I'm in need of something that is not within my budget, usually clothing or shoes. Oh, that's good. I'd love to see stats from like big department stores or chains of how many gift cards they issue and that are never ever cashed in. They would make a bit of money there. With Prezi cards.

Yeah. Like my brother will send my kids Prezi cards for their birthdays. Because he's laundering money, isn't he, through them? He's laundering money through Caymans. Cleans it right up. But then when they want to buy something, it has to be online. Like it's not as easy to use as an in-your-hand voucher.

And I know I can spend the exact amount on the card is when I use it, says Shiloh. Oh, yeah. James, you need a third option when it is about to expire so you panic and buy something useless that you didn't want nor need. Yes. That's the good stuff. That's the good stuff.

That's a little pop. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. For now, let's talk about Rebel Wilson's book. It is called Rebel Razzin. And it is available in New Zealand next month. But it's out, you know, for reviewers and whatnot. And it's kind of come online. But it's out in the UK? Yes.

You can buy it now. But in the UK there are big redacted bits in it. So we were trying to figure out how on earth they've done this because I want to keep that there. So in it they've added a line into the text

that says parts of this have been redacted due to peculiarities of the law in England and Wales. And the rest of the page is boxed out in black, like blacked out. So they would have... I'm like, when did they print? Because it got delayed, remember? It got pulled from shelves.

But then how would you go back and print that? Or is it like a statement? Is it commentary? Because they said that there have been new sort of issues of it, I guess, that have been printed. Well, the Sacha Baron Cohen stuff came out, and then he took legal action, and that's why the whole chapter's gone.

Yeah, which I think, but it's not gone, it's blacked out, which I think is just like kind of a comment, right? Being like, well, I'd be made to remove this, but here's what it was. But the thing is, we've all read it. It was about him being a larrikin on set for the Brothers Grimsby and her feeling harassed by it, which, you know, you're like, probably.

Yeah. But he sued saying that it was completely false and everyone on set would deny that and da-da-da-da-da. So for legal reasons it's redacted. But it's out. But just here with these big blacked out sections, one of the big revelations from the book was that she was invited, allegedly, covering my ass. Allegedly. That actually doesn't work. from the book was that she was invited allegedly

covering my arse allegedly you were just repeating oh cool thank you I'm learning to do I'm doing the radio I didn't done the radio school. Rebel Wilson was once invited to a drug fueled orgy put two and two together here

once invited to a drug fueled orgy by a member of the British royal family. It's been alleged. In the book, it says, in 2014, I got thrown a last-minute invite to a tech billionaire's party. The guy who invited me was like 15th in line to the British throne, had said to my male friend, we need more girls for this orgy,

Wilson claimed, without identifying the royal in question. Okay. I've put two and two together in my head, who the tech billionaire is and who the... Really? Okay. Who the royal family is.

Oh, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't at all. I've just Googled who's the 15th in line to the throne. Well, she said 15th or 20th. 20th. Right. Yeah. To make it vague enough.

Yeah. She said, she added that the medieval, oh no, that's throwing my theory out the window. It's unlikely a person that far down the list, someone said. Right. Would be a senior working royal. She added that the medieval themed event had taken place at a rented ranch outside Los Angeles. And she'd gone and worn a buxom damsel outfit complete with a cone hat.

She said the party was insane. Men were jousting on horses in a field. Girls dressed as mermaids in a pool. Property was massive, da-da-da-da-da. She said it was just mad. Were there celebrities there and stuff? Any other scandalous revelations? Not really.

And then reading, okay, this is a headline from a review. Chunks of Rebel Wilson's book have been redacted. Were they the funny bits? Oh! Ouch. Okay. Yeah. Ouch.

They said, Controversial chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen has been excised, leaving Rebel Rising, the book, a mere potpourri of weak jokes and self-indulgence. Oh, ouch. So not being incredibly reviewed as a book.

What year did she say she was invited to that? Because one of the other stories was she lost her virginity at 35 and she's 44 now, so nine years ago. 2015. So she was invited to a royal drug orgy as a virgin. Yeah. Crikey dick.

Yeah. Yeah. A lot happened in there. Well, if you want to read it, it's not out. It's available for pre-order in New Zealand. You can pre-order it from all your usual book retailers in New Zealand. But it's not out till May. Mid-May.

Mid-May. There you go. mid-May. Mid-May. There you go. Mid-May. Mid-May. Shoplifting. It's not fun. It's naughty. It's dangerous.

And it makes prices go up for everybody. I feel like I'm being told off by Dad. Legally, I'm required. If I'd gone in and been like, it's a thrill of a lifetime, Fletch would have been like, no, no, no, no, no. No, you can't say that.

It is naughty, isn't it? It is naughty. I've never shoplifted. Have you never shoplifted? I've never ever shoplifted. I used to steal, remember, as a kid, but from like other kids. Other kids.

So you weren't shoplifting, you were kidlifting. Yeah. When I was like five, six. It was outsourcing your shoplifting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I've never ever gone into a store, but I had friends that shoplifted up a store.

What? Now, let's try to get to the bottom of why they did it. Did they leave? Did their parents ever take them on exciting adventures? Was it a lack of thrill in their life that they had to find thrills through other ways is what I'm kind of getting at. No, no, they just wanted it.

I think it was a thrill. And also, yeah, like a friend of mine that used to shoplift quite a lot, it was always stuff that, you know, as a teenager you wouldn't afford. She had a real penchant for stealing lingerie,

clothes, shoes. That they couldn't afford because the kids I knew that shoplifted kind of had everything they needed and it was just for the thrill of it

yeah yeah totally it was a kleptomaniac when Winona Ryder got done that would be the most famous case of it ever yeah do you know they still point that out

we went on one of those Hollywood bus tours when we were in LA last week and they were like and there's Rodeo Drive and you may remember Winona Ryder

who my daughter knows as the mum on Stranger Things. Yes. Was it Sax? No, it wasn't Sax. I think it was. Sax for that. Yeah. Yeah, and she was like, and he was like, that's where Winona Ryder stole from. Oh, leave

it be. Well, it's school holidays and it always happens during school holidays, it goes up. The shoplifting. It's a real problem. A teenage boy has been caught allegedly shoplifting from a donating chemist. The 16-year-old was stealing

eye cream, hydrating lip oil, hydrating serum, and other beauty products worth $145. Now, this is a teenage boy. Teenage boy. It's never too early. Well it is too early

sometimes. It's too early to have great skin. I think it's great. What I'm hearing is there's no retinoids in there which is great. Because young people shouldn't be putting that. You know that young people are getting into their skin care and stuff. You don't need retinol. So I'm hearing he's just looking for hydration. Right.

That's really going to keep him young. Sort of a glowing complexion. Dry skin is old skin. Who has this kind of skincare routine? Is he stealing it for himself or is he stealing it for a girl? Oh, yeah. Because I also knew people who stole things for their teenage girlfriends. Yeah, right. Dunno.

They could both have great skin. It sounds like they both have great skin. I think skincare isn't just for the girls. And the gays. Yeah. It could be for the guys as well. It's for the girls. And the gays. Yeah. It can be for the guys as well. It's for the fellas as well. Isn't the male beauty market really...

Yes, it is. It's a bit off, isn't it? Dollars spent. Yeah, I changed up my skincare routine and I gave Aaron all the stuff I wasn't using. I'm talking really expensive stuff. He never uses it. And then he'll put it...

Every now and then I'll put it on his face. He'll be like, ooh. And I'm like, it's not going to make a difference, mate, if you use it once. And, well, it feels nice at the time. Yeah, I know. But you're not going to wake up in the morning and all your fine lines are gone.

So he's done a skincare haul. He's done a skincare haul. He's been caught stealing. And now it's, like, all over the news. Yeah, I know. He's got to go to court. Oh, really? He's got to go to court.

I thought they just gave you diversion or whatever. Arrested and. He's got to go to court. Oh, really? Why, you don't think they just gave you diversion or whatever? Arrested and charged with theft and will be in court today. Oh my God. It's a bit harsh. At least you have great skin.

Oh, you'll know which one he is. He'll glow. Mugshot. That mugshot will look glowing. Gorgeous young fellow. Glowing mugshot? Play.

ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. We want to talk about what went up the vacuum cleaner. Now, I've had a few things I suspect went up the vacuum cleaner. What do you mean suspect? Rings. Jewelry. If we can talk vacuum cleaner, I'm thinking about getting a wet. I'm thinking about really stepping into adulthood today.

Really taking, putting my boots on and jumping into adulthood with both feet. I'm thinking about getting a wet and dry vac. We've both got one. I'm thinking about getting a wet and dry vac. Yeah. They're amazing. Because you're doing a bit of building and... Yeah, you've got a big, big, big, big long weekend

of bloody building ahead. And you've got to suck up all the dust and... And just yesterday I cleaned out the garage. I was like, we could really use a proper big shed vac. Well, this feels targeted because Vaughan once upon a time had a specific vacuum cleaner for his garage, which I'd say in January I asked to borrow for a couple of weeks. Oh, yeah.

It's April. It's become our house vacuum. Well, why don't you just take it back from her? Well, because then we'll be vacuumless. And it's not a wet one. Oh, right. I want the ability to suck up wet stuff. We've got a wet one

for Renault because that's all you have to. Everything's wet and dusty and stuff. You should get one and it's really good. Yeah. So I can keep yours.

No. Oh my God, he gave me a vacuum cleaner. No, we need that one back for the cars. Well, the reason we're talking about this is because

people online have been sharing the things that they sucked up in a vacuum. One of them, my fiance vacuumed up my mother's ashes. Like this,

I understand, because we don't have any ashes in our life. Like any ashes we've had from grandparents have been scattered. Nana's buried. Nana and Papa Sproul are in a memorial wall.

You know, like they get scattered. We don't have any around. Some people leave them on like a mantelpiece. I have a friend whose mum's in a box and every time we go over to mark the death I'm always like, I don't want to be too near the box. I'm going to knock off the

box. Well, this happened. She crashed into it unexpectedly, you know, knocked them over, sucked them up with a vacuum cleaner. But wouldn't you, you'd empty the vacuum cleaner, right? Give that a tap, tap, tap. Yeah, but it's full of house dust and hair as well. And then vacuum it up and then just pour it all back in there. Siv out the hair.

Let the hair in. Oh, yeah, good. Nana's not going to mind. She's dead. Yeah. Yeah. Well. You can pick out the real long hairs.

Yeah, you can. Would you sieve mum? Would you sieve mum? No, because they're gritty. It's gritty stuff. Yeah. It wouldn't go through a sieve. Yuck.

Some of it would. Yeah. Then you're left with a fine powder of mum. You better just take the whole vacuum, suck it all up, and then take the whole vacuum cleaner to a lovely space and scatter the dust bowl. Get my ashes after my body has been used by science for whatever it wants.

Yeah, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think science wants your body. You have said some hurtful things to me. Well, it's quite pickled, isn't it? That's what they want to study, the long think science wants your body. You have said some hurtful things to me. Well, it's quite pickled, isn't it? That's what they want to study, the long-term effects of alcohol. And other stuff, because I'm going to go hard. Once I hit 60, anything from there is free.

Anything past 60, the minute I get to 60, I'm like, this is all just borrowed time now. This is nuts. You want to see drugs. Let's see some drugs. Yeah. Do you know what's terrible? It was, okay, this is so much worse.

I'm just reading down. He knocked it off the mantle by mistake. Mum, into the carpet. And he got so scared that the wife would be like, oh my God, that he just hoovered it up. And wasn't going to say until it all kind of came out. And he was like, I hoovered her. I mean, you've got to hoover it up and wasn't going to say until it all like kind of came out. And he was like, I hoovered it up. I mean, you've got to hoover it up.

You've got to hoover it up. I know. And then put it back in the box. Yeah. And then I saw another TikTok. Can you, when I, I didn't finish what I was going to say, when I get cremated and they get the ashes, because I will be quite gritty. Yeah.

Can you put me in the magic bullet? What, and drink? Yeah. No, no, no. And just whiz it till it's like a fine, fine dust. More of an icing sugar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to be like a fine powder. I don't want to be gritty.

Do we make you into a cement or a paste or something? That'd be cool. Mix me into some builder's mix. We could mix you into a pavement somewhere. Oh my God, we could grab my bathroom. Yuck. Please do. Just hiff me into a hole on a side.

Oh, we want to talk about what went up the vacuum. Yes. But now I kind of want to talk about have you ever done anything weird with ashes? No. No, we're going to do what went up the vacuum. Who did a line of their father? Was it Keith Richards? Yeah.

What? Railed a line of his father's ashes. Are you kidding me? Wasn't there a real time there where the old rock and rollers' parents were dying and they were like smoking, putting a bit in like a joint? There was a whole lot of weird stuff happening. That's weird. Yeah, when you're that drug induced, you know,

sure you'll hoover up your father. But it's been in the magic bullet. You don't want to gritty. I don't know if anybody can beat sucking up ashes in the vacuum cleaner, dead people's ashes. But we want to know this morning on 0800-DARLS-AT-M. Give us a call. You can text through 9696.

What went up the vacuum? Maybe it was something precious. Maybe it was something irreplaceable. We want to know what went up the hoover. What went up the vacuum cleaner? Because someone sucked up their fiancé's mum. His ashes. His ashes.

Imagine if your mother-in-law was so tiny, accidentally vacuumed her up. Oh, wow. Some calls coming through. Jamie, what went up the vacuum so tiny, you'd accidentally vacuum her up. Wow, some calls coming through. Jamie, what went up the vacuum? Oh, my dad's ashes. Just some of them. So the same, like literally the same story.

Oh, no. Well, actually, I've had a bad run with my dad's ashes. So first of all, we went to like sprinkle him in the ocean and we had a massive gust of wind and he ended up in everyone's eyebrows. Yeah, I don't mean to laugh. Ashes will get in the eye and they're gritty. It's fine.

So he's been passed away quite a while, so now I can laugh about it. Yes, time heals all. We literally, with ashes, you tend to like divvy them out a little bit because you want to put them in all different places. Just in what little baggies? Yeah, so I got like a gift from my mum, like a little Pandora charm. And I thought, right, I just fake tanned for the day and it was a little bit wet. And I was like, oh, well, I was hanging out at home, so I had a little bit of free time.

I'll just put some of my dad's ashes in this little trinket. And I spilt my dad's ashes and he went all in my fake tan. So I had to vacuum him off me. You're sticky. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Jamie. Jamie to vacuum him off me. You're sticky. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Jamie.

Oh my God. Jamie. Was your dad like a practical joker? This all feels like... I honestly think I just had to laugh. I was like, okay, this is like the second time now

so now the rest of him is just staying in the box next to the TV because it's safer. Yeah. Dad's in the fake tan. Oh my God, I love that. I love that.

Jessica, what... Jessica, what went up the vacuum cleaner? My pet frog. Oh. Yeah. I was like about seven, and I must have left the tank open slightly after feeding it, and mum sucked it up, and it did not survive. Oh, that was going to be my next.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you imagine if you got sucked up a, you know, like a human-sized vacuum cleaner. It'd hurt. Shit, it'd hurt hitting the corners. Like a Hydra slide, but it's in reverse and you get sucked into a black bag.

Was it a bag vacuum though? So you didn't have to deal with it, just take the bag out and put it in the bin? Yeah, no, that was mum's job, not mine. Oh, my God. Poor Froggy. Rest in peace. Yeah, rest in peace, Froggy.

Olivia, what went up the vacuum cleaner? So my dad vacuumed up live honeybees. Oh, no! Save the bees! Connie collapse! Connie collapse! Why did he do that? Because a queen bee on a very windy day decided

she'd like to move her hive into our chimney. And we had an open fire. Right. And so we had millions, millions of bees trying to fly into our house. Right. And so he just what, did he get the vacuum cleaner up

the chimney? No, he stood at the opening of the fire and as they flew through, was waving the vacuum cleaner in the air, trying to catch the honeybees. I've sucked up live flies before. I'm always like, and you get. And you get, right.

And then mum came home and, you know, with all rational and sense, and called the guy who looks after the honeybees to come and fix it. Well, that's good. But the vacuum cleaner broke, so we needed a new one. He's full of mullied up bees. Yeah. How many bees did he suck up?

Oh, lots. I hope he didn't get a bee. They just kept flying into the house. And I'm absolutely petrified of him, so. Oh, no. He was like a ghostbuster. He was like a ghostbuster, but for bees. He was, he was.

Sam, what went up the vacuum? Okay, so my flatmate went out to work drinks. And he came home late at night, maybe like 2 or something. But I heard him come home. He woke me up. I was lying in bed. I heard him vomit in his room and I was like. Oh, no, shut up, Sam.

Poor guy. Poor guy. And then a couple of minutes later, I heard the vacuum turn on. I was like, oh, my God. No. Yeah. So I jumped up straight out of bed and just ran him down. I was like, bro, what are you doing?

And he was just like, you know, in a state of like drunken stupor. I'm barely sort of able to understand what I was saying to him. And I was like, oh, Jesus. So I got the vacuum off him. And then the next day we explained to him what he'd done. And he had to give it a good clean, of course, because I don't know if you do the, like if you own pets and you have a vacuum, the vacuum stinks, like from vacuuming up

all the pet hair and stuff. You can imagine how bad it is when there's been vomit sitting in it for like... That's going in the tip. That's going straight out. Throw that away. I'm not claiming that. Yeah, it's thinking like cheesy, disgusting smell.

Oh, Sam! Do you know this would be the most common text we've received, though? Really? Really? People hearing someone hovering uping up Chunny, somebody said they did it when they were living at home. They Chunny'd and then they vacuumed it up with mum's vacuum

and the next day had to go out and buy a mum a brand new vacuum. Yeah. Sam, thank you. So many messages and texts. We'll get to more of those next. Grim, man. Oh, 800 dials at M. What went up the vacuum cleaner?

That's not Chunny. I think we've dealt with Chunny. 0800 dials at M. What went up the vacuum cleaner? That's not Chani. I think we've dealt with Chani. Let this be a PSA. Yeah. No more Chani stories. Joining us on the show soon via Zoom, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt to talk about Fall Guy the movie. We need to wrap up this chat before they get on the Zoom because we don't want them hearing

any of these stories. Oh my god. There are some incredible stories coming through. You can't read out that one you just told us. You don't think I can read out the rental car story? I think you can. It's gross. Maybe we'll punch out of it into the ads. And then we'll punch into ads and-

Just walk away from it. Walk away from that. Like an action film walking away from an explosion. So somebody sucked up their- Fiance's mum's ashes with the hoover. Yeah, they knocked the urn over. Knocked the urn and instead of just saying, hun, I've knocked the urn and sweeping it into a

pan and putting it back in, hoovered it up to try to cover it up. We want to know what went up the vacuum and boy oh boy are we hearing some stories. I worked at the A&E in Perth in the 90s and a guy came in with a vacuum stuck to his willy.

He put it in the vacuum. What do you mean stuck? Is he thick? Sorry, that came out so... Well, I mean, he must be. He must have been, but it went in. It could have been a small tube. And then once the blood goes in, it can't get out.

It keeps going in and the swelling causes it and then it won't go down. It sounds like you know. Wouldn't you have to think about your grandma or something to get it soft? No, tell them as soon as you get to A&E and they'll really rush it. Don't be shy about it. Come out and just tell them straight away what you've done. How do you walk into A&E with a vacuum cleaner pipe? You detach the thing, eh?

And then you shove the rest of the hose up your top. Yeah, and then you put the hose straight up and you put track pants on and then a sweatshirt and the pipe just sticks out here by your face and hold a newspaper in front of your face. Wear a scarf. I'm having a... And you walk in very straight back and you're like,

I had an accident on the vacuum cleaner. Have you put your willy in a vacuum? I've put it. Have I? Yeah. Oh, I thought we were still playing this game. No. No.

Really? Do you know the weird thing is growing up on a dairy farm, if you would take people who weren't from a dairy farm and you'd milk the cows and you're putting on the cups, people who never milked cows before, I'd never even thought of it until someone looked at it and was like, you could put your woolly in that. I was like, oh, no, oh, much.

Pulsated. Yeah, no. I can't. I'm just saying there's a lot of dairy farmers In this country Lucy what went up the vacuum? My dog's feces Oh no But how did you

Did you not see it? Why'd you suck it up Pick it up with a bag So we have a robot vacuum Oh I've heard of this Happening before Yeah

And we turn it on Every night And it just doesn't sing. And our dog had an accident in the house unbeknownst to us. And then we just woke up to stench. And then sure enough, the vacuum had gone over the poop, rolled it up inside and kept going for a long time. Did it spread it everywhere?

Yeah, it smudged it all over the concrete floors until it finally parked it. Did it spread it everywhere? Yeah, yeah. It smudged it like all over the concrete floors until it finally packed it and then just the poo broke the vacuum. Wait, concrete floors?

Concrete floors? Yeah, polished concrete. Oh, that's... Okay, we've got a positive out of this. Thank God. It was a monarch

shit spread. If that was carpet, you'd have to get the whole thing cleaned, wouldn't you? Oh, you'd burn the house down.

Oh, yeah. I think you'd have to Get rid of it Get rid of the house And the dog Go full insurance claim Did you have to get A whole Because I guess

A robot vacuum Isn't under warranty For dog poo is it No I don't I didn't want to have That conversation With the manufacturer Yeah

Let's get a new one My partner Actually Like he got in there He Like, like, pulled it apart. Yep. And soaked it in water for days and it came back to life. Oh, wow. The spirit of the turd is always in there.

Do you know what I mean? I would have deleted that. Lucy, thank you. Katie, what went up the vacuum? Hi. you katie uh what went up the vacuum hi um so uh my sister and i were gonna be home alone for the night my mom had just gone out yeah and we just thought may as well just you know dip into the liquor cabinet yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah with water afterwards they'll never tell you just got to do the ones at the back of the cupboard.

Yeah, that's right. The ones they don't touch, like the Midori. The Galliano's. That's the thing. They're at the back of the cupboard for a reason. Either they yuck, like Midori. No offence to those that celebrate. But there's your Galliano's back there.

There's a bottle of what's that? Port. Port. What's that stuff that's just like absinthe because they got given some absinthe sometime from some German they knew. It's all in the back for a reason. It's rocket fuel, baby. Yeah.

Ripe for a plucking. Yeah, well, the Midori definitely came out, that's for sure. Oh, your little, wait, come out of you or come out of the cupboard? Well, that comes later. Oh, okay. Oh, God. So we got pretty drunk. um yeah afterwards i was like okay i'm gonna shower this off came out the shower my sister was like passed out on the toilet

lying against the wall vomit up the wall vomit all over the carpet and i was like oh no i better like clean this up before mom gets home so i I run downstairs, grab our internal vacuum, which is like, you know, the pipes that just, it goes for miles. Oh, my God. The one that goes in the wall and you just carry around the hose and plug it in when you need it. Oh, my God. Nice, by the way.

Nice. Very nice. Must be nice. Correct. Yeah, so I plugged that in the wall, vacuumed it all up. My mum came home early, she saw it, and she was like, oh, my God, what have you done? Wait, so in the system, wet vomit all through the house's system?

All through the house, maybe. All through the pipes in the house. And did you, there's no way to clean that. No. So if you still, like like open up the flaps to the... Will you still open up the opening? You can still... You can say flaps on here. You can say flaps.

You've given the context. We all know that's a vacuum flap. For an internal... We weren't talking about flap flaps. No, no, no. On planes. Yeah, so you can still smell it but we had to get rid of the internal vacuum and just get a Dyson. You broke your

back. My God, that would be so expensive. How do you even clean out? I've wondered about that. You'd be better to get that gap filler. You know, the expanding filler? And just fill up the start and end and then just cut your losses. Just leave it for the next owner. Just leave it for the next owner. Katie, thank you for sharing.

Then one day the fermenting vomit just explodes in the wall. Oh, my God. Okay, we've got to end this because we've got Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt. We're in a Zoom waiting room, but one last text to finish. Can you read, I sucked up my bird's head. How did the head come off? I sucked my bird's head up in the vacuum. Oh, but the body stayed. I was cleaning up the seed husks

around the cage on the floor. When we had birds when we were little, that was the easy way to clean up the bird cage. My mum always said, don't put the vacuum cleaner near the bird because you'll hoover it up. The bottom of the cage was really messy. I made a quick judgement to poke the vacuum head into the cage. My bird got all, um,

my bird got sucked up and the head flew into the vacuum. His wee little head disappeared in the end. My bird got all, my bird got sucked up and the head flew into the vacuum. His wee little head disappeared in the end. I couldn't turn the vacuum off quick enough, but luckily he survived the traumatic experience. It sounds to me like I ripped the head off. Yeah, it sounded like that. I was pretty concerned.

No, I wouldn't have read it if that happened. Hamsters have gone up. Okay. The last text to finish. I work for a rental car company and I was in charge of cleaning the cars when they got returned. I accidentally vacuumed up a used tampon

that was just sitting on the passenger seat. I will never forget the sound of that going up. And it made like a dud thud, right? Who? Did she sneeze? Did she sneeze so hard? Sometimes I'll eat a banana while I'm driving and I'll lay the banana skin on the front seat.

Beside me, I'm like, I simply must remember to take that with me. And if you don't, you get in your car and it stinks of banana. Now I... Is it like that? Yeah, but when you return a rental car, you're like, okay.

You do a sweep. Get my charges, check the console. Get my tampons. Get my tampons. Let's get out of here. Do a sweep. Get my charges. Check the console. Get my tampons. Get my tampons. Let's get out of here. Do a sweep. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM.

The movie's out today. Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt. Who we are currently waiting in a Zoom meeting to talk to. They're doing all the junk at press for the movie. We have exciting Zoom meetings. We do, actually. We don't have those boring work Zooms. Nah.

Now, Producer Jared, still, what's the deal? Yep, it looks... Oh, yep, they're dead. This meeting is being recorded. I'm going to Mother Wolf. Gills, I'm going to Mother Wolf. It's Wolf Mother, isn't it? Isn't it Wolf Mother?

Yeah. Wolf Mother, yes. Oh, my God, don't correct her. Joker in the face. I should say Mother Wolf. Don't correct me. Please correct me. Tell your story about the Joker in the face of the night. Wolf Mother. Cut the interview. I like this Joker in the thief. Or she's Mother Wolf. Don't correct me, please. Correct me. Cut the interview.

Cut the interview. I don't want to talk to someone that moves. I just feel like we've interrupted mum and dad fighting. You know, we're the kids in the bedroom trying not to listen. Are you guys going to eat a dog? Go to bed. We're in here. We've had the absolute privilege of having a preview of The Fall Guy,

a movie we have not stopped talking about since. Yay. And we're chatting with Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling. Hello. Hello. Guys. Are you doing a split screen thing for us or you always do that? We don't get on.

We don't get along very well. So we're actually in three teams. They were having a go at us and they can't be in the same room. We all have to sit this close. You're like, we learned it from watching you. It is a homage

to the movie. Yeah, I know. No, but seriously guys, like we were chatting, you know, we go and see lots of movies to interview celebrities about them afterwards and you know, some you like and, you know, we go and see lots of movies to interview celebrities about them afterwards and, you know, some you like and some you don't but genuinely, we laughed, we screamed.

We made a few of those. We definitely made a few where you guys were like, what do we say to them? We felt like we owed it. We had to make it up to you. Everybody was like, Bobby, Edge of Tomorrow. Everyone scrumpily sat through amazing Hollywood blockbusters. I'll never forgive these two.

I imagine you guys had as much fun filming it, though, right? Like, you looked like you're having a bloody blast. There was not a cloudy day on that set. It was so fun. Except when there was that huge rainstorm. Except when there was the rainstorm, which Ryan was so freaked out. And he was so sketched out. The trailers were washing away.

There was so much rain. They weren't. They were. It was up to your needs, but they weren't drifting away. It was okay. It was up to your needs. Ryan was a real action hero for me in that moment. Right.

I thought I was saving Emily. I was like, Emily, you got to get out. He was like, you got to leave. And she was meditating with a candle in her trailer. And she was like, it'll be fine, Ryan. I was like, Ryan, just go. It'll be fine. Don't worry.

It kind of sounds like Ryan was being a bit of a baby about this rain situation. I didn't want to say that. I felt you were being very protective. They evacuated the set. You were the only one that stayed. Okay. I was like, you're too relaxed. You're too zen.

Can you meditate too much? I mean, to be fair to you, it was a monsoon. When I finally looked out the window, I was like, okay, he's not shitting around. Thank you for saying that. No, for real. I did. I thought you were overreacting, and then I looked outside, and I thought, no, you weren't. Actually, when you were filming the film,

mum and dad are slightly making it up. Yeah, they're making it up. They're making it up. Don't kiss in front of us. It's yuck. Please don't have another kid to try to make this work because there's already three of us.

We're not getting enough attention. Because we're going to have to get a bigger car if there's four of us and I don't want a minivan. Oh, yuck, an embarrassing car. It's cramped in my car. I'm the cool guy. Can we just give

them the iPad? Please. Can I see the iPad? Yeah. This is that moment where parents regret reducing screen time.

Nice screen time. Yeah, we'll just put some Bluey episodes on for you. Yes. No, don't even get started on Bluey, Ryan.

I watch Bluey all day. As a dad, do you watch Bluey and you're like, and the kids have left, but you're still watching Bluey and you're like, I'm kids have left but you're still watching Bluey

and you're like, I'm crying now. Oh my God, that's like dad goals. Yeah. Oh yeah. He's the best band, it's the dad goals.

I've never watched it. I don't have kids and that's why I'm happy. Happy all the time. Like just constantly. But you guys, we're talking about you guys fighting but one of my favourite parts

about the film is your like, incredible chemistry. Like, it is such a fun love story to follow along. And then I was like, oh, you guys, because you're both gorgeous people, and I don't mean to sort of hit on you both equally at the same time. Genetically a very blessed movie.

Genetically blessed. Yeah. There was one bit, Ryan, we were in the cinema with us and one other journalist, and you turned to the side and your arm was, we were in the cinema with us and one other journalist and you turned to the side and your arm was like in the shot and everyone sort of gasped. Everyone went, arm. Are you doing bicep curls?

How many are you doing? It's CGI. They just kind of, there's a filter for that. Okay. So no bicep curls at all? Usually just a can of Sprite. I see him just do Sprite. I have stunt arms.

I just pull them in. Okay. Like that dog thing where you're sitting on the dogs there, but the human hands are at the table. Yeah. I just sort of have a stunt guy behind me with just like totally ripped arms. That's impressive because it was a tank top. What I'm saying is that social effects are amazing.

Yeah. It's scary. But then like when you guys finally kissed, we were like, oh, yeah, We like to see two Beautiful people kiss The way you went Yeah Oh yeah

Whoa It was weird Because there was Four people in an entire cinema And it was dark And everyone's just like The talk Yeah

And then we were like But then there's like John and Eva at home And I'm like What are they thinking Seeing these beautiful people kiss Can you imagine if they're Making the same sounds as you Like oh yeah Or maybe they're watching And then there's like John and Eva at home. And then I'm like, what are they thinking seeing these beautiful people kiss? Can you imagine if they're making the same sounds as you?

Like, oh, yeah. Or maybe they're watching it together and being like, well, if they kiss, we'll kiss. Is that an unspoken rule of Hollywood? If you kiss somebody else's spouse in a movie, they get to kiss just to keep the scoreboard even. No, guys. There is no scoreboard. This has really taken a nosedive. This has really taken a nosedive. It's really taken a nosedive.

We're your parents. What are you guys doing, babe? You cannot talk to us like this. Stop yelling at me. Go to your room. Dad, Mum had Uncle John again this afternoon, and they made us go and play outside. What is going on in that theatre?

Yeah, it was pretty... More pineapple lumps, okay, and less of those sounds. That's what we wanted to ask. You mentioned pineapple lumps okay and less less of those sounds that's what we wanted to ask you mentioned pineapple lumps you how old were you when you were in New Zealand filming Young Hercules

what's a pineapple lump the best oh yeah the best movie snack you could ever have better than Maltesers you know oh no

Maltesers number one I'm with you there thank you he was really reeling on Maltesers do you remember the white ones they're like hollow it's dust inside we don He was really reeling on Maltesers. Do you remember the white ones? They're like hollow.

It's dust inside. We don't have time to discuss white Maltesers. No, we do. We don't have time to discuss white Maltesers. Do you know all the different flavors, Ryan? It's too much, guys, to unpack Maltesers versus Whoppers. It's chocolate-covered dust. It is crap.

Not as honeycomb, and I don't want to fight about it. You're grounded. It's dust, Emily. It is crap. No, it's honeycomb. And I don't want to fight about it. You're grounded. It's dust, Emily. It is dust. But yes, you were in New Zealand filming. How old were you when you did Young Hercules? 17. 99 years old.

You were doing so well. I'm 17. I turned 18. So I think, you know, New Zealand made me a man. Wow. Jeez Louise. And you are welcome. What are you talking about? Come on, New Zealand made me a man. Wow. Jeez Louise. And you're welcome. What are you talking about?

Come on, guys. We're at work. He was in West Auckland too. So that's where, you know, me and our man. Jesus, West Auckland makes anyone a man. Even someone. Shelley Beach Road. Yeah.

Just down the road. My parents got married on that road. Guys, we could talk about dust chocolate and getting married all day, but we're out. SPQR. SPQR. That's still around? Is that still there?

No. SPQR. I love the way they go, no. No. The best proper cup of coffee I ever had was at Brazil. Okay. Well, come back, guys. We'd love to have you for a coffee and a chat and some dusty chocolate.

We would absolutely love to get into the movie that you two have painstakingly made, but we are told our time is up. A little Milo, maybe a little Milo. Yeah, a little Milo.

I always get a Milo. Milo is like a... Chocolate drink. It's delicious. It's like a Bourne... What do British have? Bourne Vita or... What's that?

Like Nesquik. Yeah. Bourneville? Bourneville. Yeah, kind of like that. Nesquik, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,ville? Bourneville. Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah. Well, guys, love the movie.

This has been eight chaotic minutes that you are never getting back. And we apologize wholeheartedly. Please don't get divorced, mum and dad. We love the movie. Yeah, we love the movie. And we love our mum and dad. We love our mum and dad. We love you kids. We love you, New Zealand.

We love you kids so much. Thank you. All right, bye, dad. We love you kids. We love you, New Zealand. We love you kids so much. Thank you. All right, bye, guys. Thanks so much for chatting. Dave Darbin. Who's Dave Darbin? Who's Dave Darbin? Who's Dave Darbin?

Only the greatest musician ever. The greatest. Play. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. My dad's staying. He's helping me with a building project because he knows what he's doing and I'm going to be his little apprentice. Little apprentice.

Grab my hammer, boy. Get the hammer. And I'll be like, okay, dad. Which one, dad? You did a lot of work yesterday, though. You sent us a little picture of. Yeah, cleaned out the garage. Got a project on.

But dad arrived and straight away wanted to get into it and then we went out for dinner and when we got home I said because I was talking to him a while ago about how he needs to now that he's not getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning to milk cows, he needs to learn how to sleep again he's not sleeping well and he doesn't

want to take sleeping pills I don't know if he became for some melatonin is that what the people are taking for their sleeping? Yeah, I've got melatonin. It's good. I said he needs to get into the brown noise because he hears everything. Yeah, right.

Hears of being a farmer assuming someone's coming to steal the diesel out of the farm tank. Or just grab some stuff from the cow shed. Sleeping with one ear open. Yeah. I don't recognise the sound of that car going down the road at that exact time.

Who would that be? Who would that be? He's so terrible. So I said, you need to get involved in brown noise, which Hayley put me onto. I tried sleeping with white noise and Hayley's like,

you simply must try brown noise. What's the difference again between brown and white noise? Brown noise is lower frequency. Oh, okay. It's more of a... Do you want me to pull up some brown noise?

Yeah, okay. I mean, I just... Yeah, I sleep with earplugs and that's... No, I can't because otherwise I think about all the bad things I've said and done over my life.

You know, I need to drown out the bad thoughts. Yeah, I need someone to drown out the... What is playing here? I don't know. Something on your browns have worn. I'm scared.

Just turn it down. I'm going to try it again now. That's brown noise. That's brown noise. That's brown noise. Oh, my God. Literally? It sounds like the sea. Or like an airplane.

Do you think, though, it's bad, though, that it's making you dependent on brown noise? So if you don't have it, you won't sleep? I think it's better to be hooked on that than sleeping pills. You make a great point, Hayley Sproul. I've heard terrible things about crack. This is white noise. Oh, yeah. Higher heard terrible things about crack. This is white noise. Oh, yeah. Higher.

Yeah, brown noise. This is brown noise. Oh, no, that's white noise and brown noise. Kind of like a rumbling of the sea. Yeah. It's nice. Rumbling of the sea. Or some rumble of a plane engine.

You guys want a bit of green noise? I'm here. I might as well, right? We did Friday rankings. Noises. While we're here, can you chuck in some whales? I'll add them. I don't like green.

It's nice, yeah. Hey, we don't want to be putting people to sleep while they're driving. No, wake up. Wake up. So I said, there's an Alexa. Take this Alexa and pop it in. I, wake up. Wake up. So I said, there's an Alexa. Take this Alexa and pop it in. I plugged it in and I said, when that starts up and the ring goes

around, just say, Alexa, play brown noise. Now he won't he need to teach Alexa to listen to his voice because, is that a thing? No, you can teach it to like identify your specific voice and it will say your name but it'll recognise anybody's voice. Oh, okay, right.

As long as they're speaking the same language, I suppose. Yeah. So he plugs it in and he gets ready for bed, and then I'm just walking down the hallway and I hear, Alexa, play brown music. Oh, no. And I just stick my head in and I'm like, Alexa, stop. Before Alexa accidentally makes it sound racist.

What do you think Alexa would have played? Playing 50 Cent on Spotify. I don't know what brown music would have been. Maybe like a playlist that somebody else had made. Yeah. You know, you'll say something sometimes and it completely mishears you and starts playing something completely random.

Yeah, so I was like, did he go to sleep? I talked to him this morning, but he was listening To brown noise When I went to bed Right Oh that's so nice Everybody was All the bedrooms

Had brown noise in it Indy and August Both have Alexas Those little dot ones That sit beside your bed Yeah And they were both Listening to brown noise

And dad was listening To brown noise And we had brown noise On the road I'm listening to brown noise You're listening to brown noise It's like And he said

Oh it sounds like the ocean Doesn't it I said I think that's why People find it relaxing. Do you think, because we live approximately like eight minutes apart,

do you think if we can get the bits between us, the people living between us, to listen to brown noise, there'd be enough brown noise in the

neighbourhood that you'd almost hear it driving down the streets. If everyone's got their brown noise on. It's like an atmospheric hum. Yeah, if we all add on.

That would make me go a little bit crazy if it was around the entire time, not while I was just trying to sleep. Yeah. And then I said to Dad, in the morning, just unplug that, take it out to the garage and plug it in,

and then you'll be able to, like, listen to music in the garage. Yeah. While he's working. Yeah. Is he working now? He's working on your project now. He wanted to start first thing in the morning. He's like, what time are you home tomorrow?

I'll get started before you get home. God, they love starting early, eh, old mates? Day to day. God, when do you have it? They love it. They never stop. They just don't stop. When will they stop?

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And if you can get through with Georgia this afternoon and name all three items, you win them all. That just would have made the time in the trenches better. You're right. Right now, though, time for... Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We've been talking about accidental inventions this week. We certainly have, Vaughn.

Yes, we have been. Is it being half week, have you decided this is just a short thing? Just a short one. Okay. Just a short one. Okay. Just a short one. I just don't think I could do, I could probably do five more next week, but then that's,

No, we'd like a change. I'll do three, change it up, come up with a new theme for next week. Today, did you know, accidental inventions, the potato chip, the crisp, an accidental invention.

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you to the 1850s. Oh my God, good year. We are a great vintage in the 1850s. Great vintage. At a Moon Lake Lodge resort, a young chef, George Speck, son of an African-American father and Native American mother.

Oh, that's hot. I'm going to say it. I'll say it. Already hot. I want to see a picture of this fine-looking gentleman. He was working as a cook. One of the dishes offered at the Moon Lake Lodge was French fried potatoes.

Okay. Now, those were made then by cutting potatoes lengthwise and lightly frying them. What if it was a really round potato? It would just still be like slithers or like a scallions. Scallions, is that what you call it when you make potatoes? And they're just like diet, just like... Like scallop potatoes.

Scallop, just straight across. Yes. Now, according to the legend, a customer sent back his French fried potatoes and said, too thick, too soft. They need to crunch. Okay. He said, okay, and sliced some thinner potatoes, cooked them again, sent them out to the customer. To the customer said, too thin, too thick.

Too thick? Too soft. Oh, okay. George is livid by this. He's wasting taters. Yeah. And so he's like, I'll teach this guy. Grabbed livid by this. Yeah. He's wasting taters. Yeah. And so he's like, I'll teach this guy. Grabbed a vegetable peeler.

Yeah. And peeled the potatoes as thin as he could. Almost transparent. Almost transparent. Chucked them in the fryer, fried them up until they were crispy and brown, then took them out and put them down. And the guy was like, perfect. Oh, yum.

And he's like, what? And he's like, perfect. This is how I want them. Oh, my God. Wow. And so George is like, perfect. Oh, yum. And he's like, what? And he's like, perfect. This is how I want them. Oh, my God, wow. And so George is like, oh, God, that mess up. Someone from the table over is like, what was that crunch? Oh, wow. I simply must have.

Yeah. So these new chips, which were soon called Saratoga chips, because you'll remember this lodge is on the side of Lake Saratoga. Yeah. Never been myself. Looks beautiful. Upstate New York. Countryside New York.

Oh, lovely. State, not city. Okay. So, other customers, oh, they simply must have some of these crunchy chips. Sorry, what other customer? I just want to hear what they sounded like. They simply must have some of the crunchy chips. So, George is like, okay.

The next night he makes them. These take off. Everybody's all about the Saratoga chips. He then works out that when you cook them, if you leave them, they kind of last. Yeah. Because they've been deep fried in oil. They'll last for a while.

They take off. This restaurant becomes super popular. And then that's the birth of the crisp, the potato chip as we know it. Wow. Or because some guy was like, I'll show you, you smartass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too bloody thick, too bloody like, I'll show you. You smart ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Too bloody thick, too bloody soft. I'll show you.

It was Laura Scudder who then created the first modern bag of potato chips in 1953. Ask me how potato chips were taken before that. How were they taken before that? You'd buy them in wooden boxes or they'd be scooped from behind glass counters Like lollies Or like popcorn And put it into a brown bag That's a great business idea Pick and mix chips

People come into your little shop And you've got little Like an old lolly thing Scoop of that Scoop of that Do you know what I hate at a party When you've got a bag of like sour cream Like your snack of changies

And then someone puts in like the salt and vinegar on top of that. Don't do that. Every bite's a surprise. A half way down and they fill it up with a different flavour chip. Get a whole new vessel.

A whole new bowl. Every bite's a surprise. No. Oh, I'm into it. Don't mix chips. You don't mix chips. Wow. Segregate chips.

Is that what we're going back to? That's what I'm saying. I don't want to say it. You want to get them their own bathrooms and whatnot? I'm sorry, potato chip. That's your bathroom over there. You're not allowed to use that one.

The sound of the crunching of the potato chip contributes to the pleasure of eating them. There was a study that showed that consumers who ate crisps with headphones on became bored with crisps more quickly. Oh. Maybe you can hear it inside your brain. It just travels up the...

That was actually a very good Bit of folly from you What am I, Reece Darby? Do a gun noise So today's fact of the day Is that potato chips Were invented by a mistake By a chef who was just getting fed up With a very picky customer

Fact of the day Day, day, day, day by mistake by a chef who was just getting fed up with a very picky customer. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. So this is awful. So there was a family of eight that were dining at a restaurant in... Eight. Eight. Oh, this changes everything. As a family of apes were dining and I was like, tell me more. Unclog your ears.

Yes. It's in Swansea in Wales and they were racking up a bill of $630. Oh, okay. They were having T-bone steaks, all of them, over a dozen

soft drinks, then had second helpings of dessert, then ordered more food, were sending back half empty plates and then ordering more food, which kind of raised alarm. Like even one staff member in this restaurant was like, it's weird, ma'am. Like they're ordering all this food, but they're

wasting it. They're not finishing what they're ordering. But, you know, they're ordering, they gotta pay. So then the mum of the family goes up to pay and tries to pay with a savings account card that declines both times. Yeah. Decline, decline.

Her son is behind and she goes, oh God, don't worry, I'll go get my other card. Pops off to, you know, go get her other card, tells her son to stay behind. But then his phone rings, gets a phone call. He darts off, gone. Dine and dash. Oh, my God.

This is apparently just a small family business that's been left with this. They then tried to track down the family using the number that was left on the booking made. Fake number. Oh, so they had planned all of this. All planned. It was a fake number. That is rough. That whole trying with a card,

oh, let me get my other one, the phone call thing, all BS. So then they reported it to the police and the police are investigating it. But, you know, it's kind of, they're gone. But this is like, are all their photos all over the news now? Yep.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because there's footage of it. Like, you can see them. So if you knew, if that was like someone you knew. They had a baby with them and a child and a couple of children. What can see them. So if you knew, if that was like someone you knew. Put a baby with them and a child and a couple of children. What are you teaching them? They sound like those rat bags. Remember those rat bags? Unruly tourists.

Yes. Tour up New Zealand. Yes, they do. So then they were saying that this is like a real problem. There's one woman who online, this is not, it's from a different family, boasts of being the most wanted dine and dasher in the UK. Allegedly cheating pubs and restaurants out of hundreds of dollars.

Multiple times she's been caught on CCTV, leaving venues all across the UK. She has a perfect plan. That is rough, man. Because, I mean, like, we all know. Nips out for a cigarette. Hospital businesses are doing it so tough, even after COVID. Yeah.

Like, there's still a lot of them are struggling. And you see so many still shutting up it so tough even after COVID. Yeah. Like there's still a lot of them are struggling and you see so many still shutting up you know years after. Yeah. The $500 bill

nipped out for a cigarette quote unquote. I don't know how people have the balls to do this hey. Well this is what I want to hear if this happens in New Zealand. If you work in a restaurant a restaurant owner

or you yeah in great staff in hospo have you ever had someone dine and dash in your workplace and how much did they get you out of it Work in a restaurant, a restaurant owner or in staff, in hospo. Have you ever had someone dine and dash in your workplace? And how much did they get you out of and how did they do it? It happens accidentally, but you don't want to hear about accidents, eh? Because we've all kind of nearly not paid for something, eh? When was it like straight up?

A dine and dash. A dine and dash. Intentional. I feel like New Zealand's... What was your excuse? How'd they get away with it? I feel like New Zealand's... What was your excuse? How'd they get away with it? I feel like New Zealand's too small to pull this off. Like, you know, could you imagine doing this

if you lived somewhere in like Hamilton or whatever? Well, yeah, your photo goes up in the window and everybody knows everybody. Someone will point you out. Yeah, totally. Well, that's what I want to know. Is this an impossible photo? Nah, it's not impossible.

You reckon it would happen? You reckon it would sadly happen a lot? I think so. I'm just interested to know. It's so ballsy, as you say. You've it would happen? You reckon it would sadly happen a lot? I think so. I'm just interested to know. It's so ballsy as you say. You've sat there all day. Your face just sitting there in the restaurant talking to staff. This family, it's not

like they were doing it rough and they just wanted a small meal. No, no. They were being incredibly wasteful and doing this on purpose. Really expensive meals. Yeah, yeah. For sure. Okay. 0800 dials at Amazon number. Give us a call. Text her as well, 9696. Have you experienced a dine and dasher

on your shift? We want to know if someone has dined and dashed on your shift as a hospo worker because this happened in a massive way in the UK. Apparently happening all the time. And now this family's like plastered all over the news. Yeah. Rat bag family of eight. Eight of them. Monica, you all over the news. Yeah. Rat bag family of eight. Eight. Eight of them.

Monica, you've had this happen. Yes. I was a waitress many moons ago and it was like a famous seafood restaurant down on West Haven Marina by the water. Yeah. And basically it was just a couple, you know, the average couples coming in for some drinks and a seafood platter. So they ordered a few drinks, and then they just pop out to the deck, which is on the water for, like, a ciggy, so we didn't think anything of it.

Yeah. However, after they ordered their, like, $200 seafood platter, they popped out for a ciggy but never came back. Rude. How did they get off the deck? Did they jump into the ocean and swim away? No, it was like you could walk. I don't know how to explain it, but you could walk to another restaurant.

Oh, sneaky. It's really sneaky. Yeah, before the days of when CCTV was inside restaurants. Yes. Really sneaky. Yeah, before the days of Wednesday, CCTV was inside restaurants. Right. It was outside, but more of the car park area for driving there. That is so ballsy, eh? That people do that. It was wild.

The owner was furious, but yeah, we couldn't really do much. They're gone, no? Yeah, really worth calling the police. Wow. Did you eat the seafood? Were you like yum, yum, yum? I would have numbed it all up. No, no, because I was just like, who knows where else they've been and what they've been doing.

Wait, so they didn't even touch the platter or they had touched the platter? No, they had touched the platter, but they had eaten the expensive things like the oysters and the prawns and the solids, but the battered fish and stuff, they had touched the platter, but they had eaten the expensive things like the oysters and the prawns and the solids. You know, the battered fish and stuff, they kind of left. They left your crab sticks. You love your fake crab sticks.

Oh, were there any crab sticks that left, Monica? Because I do love a crab stick. It's not crab. It is. Well, we like to imagine it's crab. We do pretend like it's crab. We like to pretend it's crab. Monica, thank you.

We'll get to more of your texts and calls next. We're talking about when someone's done a dine and dash on your shift. It's so ballsy, and people are doing it's crab. Monica, thank you. We'll get to more of your texts and calls next. We're talking about when someone's done a dine and dash on your shift. It's so ballsy and people are doing it. Yeah. So even there's not just a hospo, a salon in Wellington. What? A salon in Wellington had a client move her car to avoid a parking ticket, did a runner with a full head of foils,

which, by the way, for women can range between $200 to $400. Left with cape and all. Went to pack and save next door before going home. The seller managed to get camera footage of you. I'm a hairdresser. It's having a hairdresser. There's more hairdressers. I'm a hairdresser. We have clients, they'll pay,

they'll say they'll pay online after their card declined, after their card declined, after having $1,500 of hair extensions put in, fake number and booking details. That is wild. You know I run four salons in the city. I've started chaining up people. You do.

I shackle them to the chair until I've finished. And then I'll take payment and unshackle. Somebody said, we had a dine and dash at a restaurant I worked at. It was so confusing we couldn't work it out. We watched the CCTV footage. This guy with his family, just before they leave, goes and talks to another guy at another table.

He doesn't know. We don't know the conversation that transpires. Goes back to his family, says, all right, let's leave. On the way out, says, our mate's grabbing it, and waves goodbye to the guy, and the guy waves to them. No! And then they walk out, and that mate's grabbing it and waves goodbye to the guy and the guy waves to them. No! And then they walk out and that guy stuck with the bill but the guy's like, I'm not paying. I don't even know that guy.

Oh my god. Some people, eh? Someone said years ago, a full restaurant fire alarm went off. About 70% of the diners got in their cars and drove off. I've been at a restaurant when the alarm's gone off.

That's rude. But we just ordered and then it went off. So you did get your food. So we went in and then got our food, yeah. Went back in for it. Yeah, because we were at Ben Bailey has a restaurant, a TV chef and just great chef. Must be nice.

We had a voucher. It was very nice. A voucher? Oh great chef. Must be nice. We had a voucher. It was very nice. A voucher? At Aji. Oh, they're voucher citizens. They're a voucher. We didn't tell them that until we came to pay. You don't let people like, oh, Frank, you're paying with a voucher.

You don't tell that. And I said to him, when the fire alarm goes off like this, how many people just don't come back? He's like, you'd be surprised. These people are just like, well, we don't know how long we're going to be outside. So some people leave like that. And some people do leave like maliciously to get out of pain for it. Wild.

Someone said a weird a dine and dash happened with $700 worth of Botox. We are looking for a criminal who cannot express the emotion of regret or happiness. Did you steal that?

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