ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 26th August 2024

Episode Date: August 25, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fleshpawn and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning, welcome to the show. Fleshpawn and Hayley, three minutes past six. Happy Monday. A thorough good morning to you both.

A very thorough good morning. A very thorough, top to bottom, in to out, left to right, up to down. Have you got a new coffee cup? This was just in the drawer outside. Oh, that suits you? You think so? Yes, it's cute. It's cute.

It's me. It's hot in here. It is hot in here. Temp check. Temp check. I reckon 21. Feels like 20 feels just right to me. Okay.

I think you two are overdressed. You've got a long sleeve on. You're wearing a blazer. I wanted to bring an era of professionalism to our radio station for the rest of the year. Oh, you don't have a job interview later? I might. Yeah, I'm hoping to pick up

some admin work. Thorough good luck to you. And I thoroughly accept your luck. Thank you. More chances on the show today to see Sabrina Carpenter. Another trip to LA this week. So we've got five of these all up. We've given away two. Flights, accommodation,

tickets and spending money. Again, you know how this works. If you don't, you've got to be listening for the Mother Trucker, either the activator or in the song, be the first caller through

on 0800DARLS.M. When you hear that, we'll give you a chance before seven. The top six on the way. Yeah, did you guys see the River Run Orange? I saw the photos, yeah. Did not. And Karangahaki Gorge. seven. The top six on the way? Yeah, did you guys see the river run orange? I saw the photos,

yeah. Karangahake Gorge. That's a beautiful drive. I love that gorge. Though there's some bits where there's just not a barricade and you'd just go over, wouldn't you? Yeah, you would. And the river's like, yeah, right below you. And then sometimes it floods and it gets right up. It's a beautiful spot.

When it's right up, it's quite terrifying the amount of water moving through that area. I want to do some hikes through there because it's an old gold mine. I always want to pull over. You see people pulling over and stopping. There's a track that I think you can even ride your bikes along. And there's a big tunnel.

At the weekend, it turned completely orange. The river. A puzzling shade of orange. Yeah. They've said it's an old collapsed mine shaft that had like a blockage in it. Rusty. So all the sentiment and everything was backing up. Sediment. What did I say? Sentiment.

No, no. All my sentiment was backing up. When it broke, it was a lot of feelings. Some lovely feelings floating down the river. Some lovely feelings to the river for their loss. For their loss. Yeah. At this time, we want your sediment to really be felt.

And they're saying it's sediment. I don't believe it. Oh, you don't? You don't? Science can't be believed, can't be trusted. I've got the top six reasons

the river actually ran orange coming up. Next on the show. There was a French actor who sadly passed away over the weekend, but in his will, he had a very strange request for his dog. Well, his name was Hélène Fabienne Maurice Marcel Delon,

and he was a French actor who passed away last week. Never heard of him. Was he in anything, like, we'd know of? He was, like, he's older. Was born in 1935. So like, you know. He was in Jurassic Park. He was 88 years old. I mean, he's a French

actor. He's in lots of French things, you know. Okay, you know. Like all these films I see. Oh, he did Legend of Zorro, like originally. He did some Asterix stuff. No, just weird things. Who would have been the voice of Asterix? Or did he play Asterix?

What was his name? I'll take that. Gangster Films was what he was best known for. Oh, right. Yeah. Right. What's he done then apart from die? Well, he's died, right?

But years before, in 2018, he did an interview with a French magazine saying that he's had over 50 dogs in his lifetime. He's a big dog lover. But there's one in particular that he had that he said he had a really special relationship with. He was like, I love this one like a child. Yeah.

That was not a French accent. I've gone German. Yeah. That was not a French accent. I've gone German. Yeah. Anyway, so he died last week. Yeah. And it was put into his will that his request was that the special dog, the one that he called his end of life dog, the one he would remember for the rest of his days,

when he died, he wanted a vet to euthanise the dog in his arms so that they could die together and go away together and be buried he'd be buried with this dog yeah what kind of does he say what kind of dog it is?

no I can't see a picture of it but right like it'd have to be a little dog I'm gonna say it's like a Pomeranian or something stupid yeah do you know what I mean

it gives off that vibe a Chihuahua a Chihuahua or a sausage dog yeah that would be if you were gonna choose a dog to be buried with, that would be the most economical.

A sausage dog. Space wise. Yeah, space wise. Yeah, Chihuahua or a saucy. Yeah. Because you've got, otherwise you're going to have to buy a bigger casket. Yeah, that's true.

And that's expensive. If you're getting buried with your Tabishan Mastiff. Yeah. Or a Great Dane. Yeah. That's just a whole extra coffin. That's a whole, yeah. Yeah.

That's a double decker. Yeah. Double decker coffin, so they're going I need to bury it twice as low. Yeah. Well, it hasn't been honoured by his family. They've denied it in the well. Because, and also, like, so many animal protection places came out being like, the life of an animal is not subject to the life of its owner.

No. Like, we can rehome them very easily. Like, don't murder a dog just for the stupid wish. Can you put the dog in later? Like, dig him back up? Yeah, well, you do those double graves. You dig them to eight feet, you put in the first one, and then you wait for the husband or wife to die,

and then they put them on top. Unless the husband or wife gets another partner, and they're like, I don't want to do that. Okay, I think this all the time about those double graves, that you're like, say the wife dies and in the hole she gets and she's like, I'll leave space for you so you can go on top. Let's say 70. You know, there's no way if you were married since you were 20

and the love of your life dies at 70, you might find another partner, but they're not a burial partner. They're not your favourite. Like at 70, it could be like, you know, there a burial partner. They're not your favourite. Like at 70? It could be like, you know. You never know. It could be that spark. You never know.

Yeah. 70's not that old. You hear stories of these retirement communities. Oh, my God. Yeah, no, that's lust. That's lust. That's wild, passionate sex. My granddad got a little girlfriend.

Did he? Yeah, yeah. A little girlfriend? I didn't know he got a girlfriend. My nana had Alzheimer's, and so she went into a home for the later part of it. Yeah. And he would visit her every day,

and they were still married and everything, but he had a friend. Yeah. And then once my nana passed away, they were like lovers. Yeah, but they were lovers. Until my pop passed away. But they were lovers.

They weren't zombies. Dirty dog. I love it. I don't know. Maybe they were lovers. They weren't zombies. Dirty dog. I love it. I don't know. Maybe they were zombies. So where did they all get buried? They got cremated. Okay.

Yeah. That's your tick, tick. That's easy peasy. Mix all the ashes together and sort of like keys in the bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit of ash in the bowl. A little bit there, a bit there.

Mix, mix, mix, mix. Pour it on the roses. Yeah. So anyway, this guy, he's not being buried with his dog. And so the family would be like, no, we're not putting a dog down. No, that dog's at home with family members. Okay, good, good.

I want to see a picture of the dog. I found out what he was in Asterix. Oh, yeah. In 2008's real life Asterix, not animated Asterix, Asterix at the Olympic Games, he played Julius Caesar. Oh, did he? If you're familiar with the Asterix comics, he was always a bit of a buffoon, wasn't he? Yeah. Betrayed as a bit of a buffoon. Okay. Oh, did he? If you're familiar with the Asterix comics, he was always a bit of a, like a buffoon, wasn't he?

Yeah. Betrayed as a bit of a buffoon. Okay. Oh, God. There was dogmatics in that. Maybe that was the dog. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. The famous Tui Brewery building

at Mangatanoka. Which is so short. Like when you drive past it, you're always like, God, that's small. Yeah, because it looks so tall and all the advertising because it's so thin. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's actually just a really small building. But it is, but it also is in the middle. Five storeys, six storeys high? Yeah, it's in the middle of nowhere. It's quite big for the, you know. Oh, yeah. You just drive past it, you're like, oh.

Yeah, it's a weird building in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. 1889 it was built. Wow. 1889. 1889 they built a building that big in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. 1889 it was built. Wow. 1889. 1889 they built a building that big in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

That's insane. But made the decision. The main production plant was shifted in 2015, but now it's snuck out that it hasn't been making beer. Right. Which I'm not at all surprised by. No, no, no. Everyone's like, they're not making beer there anymore.

I'm just like, I wouldn't have thought that would have been an economically viable decision for close to a decade. Like, good? Because it's a bit like in the middle of nowhere, odd. Where are they making the beer? The Tui beer? Just at the other DB brewery. I think they've got breweries in, what, South Auckland?

And there's one in Timaru as well. Timaru, yeah, apparently. What a great place. Yeah. But not at the Amonga Tanoka. Right, and some people are upset by that. Some people are apparently upset by a massive multinational alcohol brand just doing it the cheapest way they can.

Not using a tiny little brick building. They should Airbnb that. It's a very famous building. It looks a bit like the Ghostbusters building from the movies. Tall, skinny brick building. It's so out of place. In the middle of rural... Are they going to change all the imaging

on the boxes to some big corporate steel factory? Not quite as sexy. Not the same, is it? Not the same. Not quite as sexy. Big steel vats and whatnot. Yeah. But totally,

they could totally Airbnb it. Yeah. I'm just looking at the building. It's so cool. Like, I mean, I hate to sound like an Aucklander, but they really could make that

into some nice apartments. Do you know what I mean? I don't want to know. What do you reckon the stud height is? Two eight? Pretty even three. Twelve foot. Twelve foot stud height. Now we'8"? Pretty even 3'. 12 foot. I don't know, but now we're saying that it looks,

but it is deceptively small. We could be talking just a 2.6. You know what I mean? Okay, well, I don't think people are going to live in apartments here in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, it truly is. They could make a Grand Designs, yep. Blow your bloody socks off, mate.

Grand Designs. Grand Designs, Mangatanuka. Spoiler alert. They've run out of money. And they come up against all matter of council issues. Oh, 100%. And then it's a bowl and then we'll put up some apartments. And then the couple get divorced.

They split. It was a mysterious fire. A mysterious fire. Yeah. But they were just updated their insurance policy. It was just nuts. What are the chances? So coincidental.

So coincidental. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. No. What? No. That's not allowed to be on now. The top six? Yeah.

Yeah, you got to go, bro. I haven't written it. We've been talking. Oh my God, Vaughn Smith. We've been chatting and catching up. Well, you better come up with six on the fly. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

This is the top six. It's like improv. Improv. Yes, and. Yes, and. Yes, and. Now, over the weekend, images came out of an orange river. I didn't see this until you mentioned it.

The Ohinemuri River. So it feeds in... Is that the river that runs through the Karangahaki Gorge? I always considered that was the Karangahaki River, but I'm willing to stand for it now. It's just saying, which people treat bright orange just go to the Ohinemuri River. This is the road that you drive between... Tauranga?

Yeah, Tauranga and... Oh, calm down, calm down. Waihe and Pairoa. Yeah. Round there, it's around there. Tauranga's bloody miles down the road down Why he and Pairoa Yeah Round there It's around Tauranga's bloody miles down the road mate You might as well say

Are you that road you drive through To get to Whakatane Miles down the road All roads lead to Pairoa Yeah they do That's the old saying isn't it Well It was orange

You need to stop chatting Vaughn They have come out They have come out and said It's a collapsed mine shaft And all of the like Gunk Sediment That was the scientific word for it Gunk They have come out and said it's a collapsed mine shaft and all of the, like, gunk. Sediment. That was the scientific word for it.

Gunk. Rust. Rust. I'm imagining there's some rusty railings or railroad stuff. Clay, like that clay mud. You can see that. That's like really orange. It was all blocked up.

And then just enough pressure behind it. Took a laxative. Blew it straight out. I love those videos where they unblock drains and stuff. I would have loved to have seen this. Come out there with some force. But you think there's something sinister behind this as a cover-up. I sure do.

And it's not a collapsed mine shaft that's turned the river orange. No. Here are the top six things that turned the river orange. Number six on the list. Pollution from the high-vis factory. Oh, the orange. They've been dying the vis. Yeah, they claimed they had to clean out of the tanks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were like, dump it in the river. No, no, no. Yes. And then they dumped it in the river. Yeah, just dump it. That's why it's so bright. Yeah.

Oh, that makes sense. Number five on the list are the top six things that actually turned that river orange. A giant monarch butterfly soup got spilt. Oh, my gosh. It looks like a monarch butterfly and smashes them up. Because they're orange, aren't they? Smashes the monarch. Smashes, I know.

Because they're quite lovely. Yeah. Oh. It is the same color as a monarch butterfly, though. Yeah? Smash is the monarch. Smash is, I know, it's quite, because they're quite lovely. Yeah. Oh. It is the same colour as a monarch butterfly, though. Yeah, it is, actually. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six things that made the river orange. Gingers were having a bath.

Vaughan. And a bit of colour came off. We don't ginger shame anymore. I'm not ginger shaming. That's just a fact. That's just a fact. Vaughan Allen. Vaughan Allen. Vaughn. And a bit of colour came off. We don't ginger shame anymore. I'm not ginger shaming. That's just a fact. Vaughn. That's just a fact. Vaughn Allen.

Vaughn Allen. Vaughn Allen. Vaughn Allen. Vaughn Allen. Number three on the list of the top six. I've got one of you. Hit me. Number three on the list of the top six things that made that river orange.

Decomposing Oompa Loompas. Oh! We watched the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the weekend. It orange? Decomposing Oompa Loompas. Oh! We watched the Charlie and the... We watched the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the weekend. It's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Thank you. Wiggly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I've got one. Okay, number two on the list of the top six things that made the river orange at the weekend.

Someone was really hungover and they dropped a Barocca into it to drink it up. That would have been a lot of Barocca. A giant Barocca. I thought you were going to say they were really hungover.

Tubes on tubes. They took a wee in the river and they were so dehydrated that their kidneys were screaming. Yeah, sometimes on a Sunday you're like, I've got to have some water. That's not a good colour.

That's brown. I'm sorry, body. Sorry, body. I'll sort this out. And number one on the list of the top six things that made the river orange, not a sediment backup.

You know how at one stage in Finding Nemo, they store Nemo in the blender? Someone turn it on. Oh, no. No. Vaughn Allen. Someone turn it on. No. That's awful.

Man, that was easy. I might do the top six like this every day. I reckon a little bit more thought. A little bit more thought needed. Maybe a little bit more thought. A little more thought needed. Yeah, maybe a little bit more thought. Snuck up on me. Snuck up on me. Snuck up on me.

That's today's top six. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Play ZM. I was just thinking when I was reading this little study here that none of my friends are really very active on the apps at the moment. Just sort of disappointing. Because then I don't get to have a little play around

on the profile. Are you talking dating apps? Dating apps, sorry. Yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, right. I see you meaning like on Instagram. I was like,

I'm literally on it right now. I'm literally on it. I'm in a bit of a... No, the dating apps. Because we know I'm not on them and I really want to have a little swipety-wipety,

a little swipe through but I can't. A little judge. Pass it by the judgment. Yeah. See what's out there. I really want to have a little swipety-wipety, a little swipe through, but I can't. A little judge. Pass a bit of judgment. Yeah. See what's out there. I think I might have talked about this maybe even on radio or perhaps in private in our private conversations

just as genuine, authentic friends. I think that comes across on air. About the time that I was on my friend's dating app and we were swiping and I was having a little bit of fun and we saw a guy and we were like, oh, my God, cute, ticks a lot of boxes, this, this, this, look for the profiles. Oh, my God, love him. And I swiped the wrong way and we never swiping and I was having a little bit of fun and we saw a guy and we were like, oh my god, cute, ticks a lot of boxes, this is this, look for the profiles, oh my god, love him, and I swiped the wrong way and we never found him again.

And she's always like, that was my husband and you lost him. She still brings it up and this was maybe three years ago. So once you've swiped right, not every month it doesn't reset. I don't know. No, it doesn't. Some of the apps, if you accidentally

swipe the wrong way, you can undo, but that's something you've got to pay for. This was what you paid for a number of years ago. You should have paid for her husband and gone back. What a story it would have made at their wedding. What a story. What a story. And she's still single.

She's still single now because they swiped the husband. You swiped her husband away. I know, terrible. Anyway, the reason I've brought up dating apps is because there was a study in America looking at the biggest turn-ons and the biggest turn-offs, or ics, on dating profiles. Turn-ons being things like good sense of humour,

showing interest in travel, featuring a pet in a photo, having hobbies, like being interested in things, being motivated, and a good sense of style. These are the things that we like. Here are the icks. And the number one ick, I was like, oh, I wouldn't have thought of this as being the ickiest one. Okay, five, poor grammar and spelling.

Now we've got like, no apostrophes no there there there no two two two I've seen it yeah can't wait to get out there and done seen the world the wrong there there there there there there I mean

no one's no one's perfect no one's perfect and actually you know it's almost an irrelevant factor when you're with someone but

especially if they're a 10 if they're a 10 I'll take a thick 10 like do you know what I mean like they can be a 10 and say the wrong there, there, there, there, seen, seen, saw, whatever.

Shush. Yeah, yeah, shush. Your silly mouth. Shush, shush, shush. Okay, that's five. Four was just a complete lack of effort. Like crap photo, not enough information, haven't described anything about yourself. I'm going to say a 10. Just like that. Unless they're a 10. Just like that.

Unless they're a 10 and then you're like, they're playing with their sexy indifference. Yeah, I don't actually even need to know much about you. They're playing it cool. Yeah. Okay, number three was too much emphasis on material possessions being a big turn off. Maybe like a yacht, I'm in front of a boat.

Okay. I'm like there with my like- Even a 10, that could be a bit yuck. Yeah, like your Hong Kong Rolex. Yeah, like just flashing for a purpose, like being all flashy. And you being like, I see that you're doing that to impress me.

Yeah, that's- It's actually really ticked me off. Or like- But see, that wouldn't- From a guy, from a heterosexual male, it's one of your, it also looks like a lot of upkeep. Yeah, true.

Like, it might be fun, but it's a also looks like a lot of upkeep. Yeah, true. It might be fun but it's an expensive Like I'm going to have to pay for these handbags. Yeah. But then there are some people that are into that whole

flashy lifestyle you know, keeping up appearances thing. Okay, here were the top two profile acts. The second one, overly edited or filtered photos

where you're just like you're just hiding something. Yeah. You're a whole face. You're a minger. You're a six posing as a ten. And number one was negativity and bitterness. But I don't know how you'd even put that into your

profile. Like here I am on the dating app because I'm, you know, I've been cheated on again. Yeah, sick of inauthentic biatches. Only message if you're a real fan. I wouldn't have thought of that one either. Yeah, like of inauthentic biatches. Only message if you're a real thing. I know I'm ugly. I wouldn't have thought of that one either.

Yeah, like negging yourself. Yeah, but a self-neg. I mean, yeah, just try it. Like, give me a go, guys. Even though I'm an ugly dog. But that was the main, like, the top factor. Negativity. Negativity.

And you know how I feel about negativity. You get back what you put out into the world. Yeah. You're negative about negativity? I feel quite negatively towards negativity. Is that negative? Positive? Negative times negative equals positive, doesn't it?

It does. But also they say two wrongs don't make it right. So if I'm wrong, I'm not trying to fight. I'm just trying to have some dinner with some candlelight. I don't know what song you're doing. Something around the middle of the thing. Are you doing a song? Honey, I will leave.

Baby, I'll just stay. What is that song? I've got no idea. I know I know, I know I know this way. I want to love you like you the thing. Are you doing a song? Honey, I will leave, baby, I'll just stay. What is that song? I've got no idea. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to love you like you never loved me. Are you making up a song again? Touch me like you never took me. I think you're making up a song.

Oh, baby. Maybe Kelly Rowland. I don't know. Oh, if it was Kelly Rowland, Fletch would know. No, I wouldn't. Now, there's a 10. Huge Kelly Rowland fan. God, remember when we saw her live?

10. She's great. Yeah, oh, yeah. Absolute 10. Keeping it tight. No need for filters there. Absolutely no great. Yeah. Absolute 10. Keeping it tight. No need for filters there. Absolutely no need. What?

ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Two astronauts. They went to the International Space Station aboard a Boeing Starliner. Now this was in, they were supposed to be doing an eight day mission. So you imagine you think you're going somewhere for eight days. Oh, easy.

In June, on the way there, some helium leaks amongst a few other problems and they knew the helium was leaking because all of a sudden they started talking about this. I was going to say, did they suck it off and go Oh no! Anyway, they got there but then it was deemed to

be too unsafe to take them back. So that's been attached to the International Space Station the whole time. That's undocking. They call it docking, don't they? Yeah, they do call it docking. Where you put the shuttle. One goes over it and it docks. That's what docking is.

Yeah. At the International Space Station. Yeah, of course. There's also an urban dictionary docking as well, but it's very similar. For Christ's sake, it's 5 to 7 in the morning, I'm halfway through my porridge. I don't need to know about two penises

touching each other in such a manner, alright? We were talking about space stations. We're talking about space stations. Urban dictionary. That's what it says. My ass. So it's going to come back unmanned, the Boeing spacecraft that went. Oh, but they're going to undock that and just jettison it back to Earth. No, yeah, controlled.

This ain't controlled, but if people are getting in it and it's got some problems, I think if it's probably. It's going to have to get back to Earth. And they'll be like, oh, no. And they'll be waiting until next year. They went up in June for eight days. They're not coming back till next year. It's eight months.

I'm assuming they had like backup supplies, right? Or the International Space Station has enough like mints or something. Yeah, but it's a man and a woman who are not romantically connected. No, there's other people up there. Oh, the space station., at the space station? Yeah, the space station's always manned or womanned. There's always people in there. Oh, I thought they were there on their own.

But they're unsolicited guests. What, do you think the space station's like an Airbnb? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a lot of the time it's just empty. Leave the key out for the next guest. Man, the heating could have gone off. How many people are on the International Space Station right now? There's always at least a couple, isn't there?

Yeah. I don't think it's any more than three or four, is it? Five? We did Fact of the Day once about the last time that all humans were on Earth. About seven. Yeah, and it's been donkeys since all humans were on Earth because sometimes they're always, I mean, on planes and stuff, granted. But yeah, some of them are.

Within the atmosphere. Yeah, literally in outer space. So there's seven people there at the moment. Another kick in the teeth of Boeing, because they got $4.2 billion US dollars to work with NASA to do commercial space flights and astronauts to the space station. And meanwhile, SpaceX got $2.6 billion,

but they're the ones that are going to Boeing's rescue. Yeah. SpaceX is Elon Musk. Yeah, that company. I doubt he's got much to do with the day-to-day design of rockets and such. No. He pays the right people the right amount of money. Do they do like psychological testing before they pair you with someone?

We were talking about this yesterday. Me and Aaron were like, oh my God, I was telling him about these astronauts. And he was like, oh my God. But they can talk to Earth all the time, right? You'd have a psychologist in there being like, how are you looking after yourself? How are you guys getting on? Yeah. Because imagine if you took this job and you were like, okay, eight days.

Oh my God, I really hate the guy I'm working with. But it doesn't matter. We're only up there for a week. Yep. Eight months later, you're still hanging out with this dweeb also would you would you start you wouldn't you know you'd have a little bit you'd sort each other out wouldn't you they're rude i like that that is the first thing the first thing i thought about i was like eight months so she's 58. uh sunita williams who's up there i'm just

gonna see how old barry. Barry and Sunita. Barry and Sunita, cute couple. He's 61. Like, that's a lot. Like, I know 61's not old, old, but this is astronauts. They're in space, right? They thought they were up there for eight days. They're going to be up there for eight months.

That muscle atrophy and stuff. Yeah, it declines, doesn't it? Imagine the adjustment when they come home. Yeah, I know, because he's 61 and your body doesn't bounce back from stuff as quickly then. I mean, he's an astronaut, so probably quicker than me. But, yeah, you know. I think they stay pretty fit. How were your knees after the hike yesterday?

I hiked for three hours yesterday. Sore. Sore. Like you've been in a space station for like eight months? Yeah, just like that, I imagine. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Well, you know us. In particular, Vaughn Smith.

Real mouthpiece for the left. Yep. Real left-wing nut job over there. Speaking. Well, I want to balance that a little bit with something that a right-wing commentator in the United States, Liz Wheeler, has shared on her social media. And it's a graph that shows the most unattractive hobbies

that men can have according to women. Okay. Now, down the bottom, with an attractiveness score of unattractiveness score. So the more, the higher the score. Who conducted this research? No one It's not real

A right wing think tank Yeah It's literally just made up Okay So right down the bottom with an unattractiveness score of 50

out of 100 bird watching I love watching birds I think we're getting back into the bird watching Yeah yeah yeah I'm so into it I don't know anyone

I always just thought it was like an old man I don't know Yeah Stuck in a cabin in was like an old man, I don't know, stuck in a cabin in the middle of nowhere kind of hobby. We've got lots of trees around our property. Not on our property, sadly, but the tui, the ketidu. Yeah, I need them when you see a ketidu or a tui, but I'm not going out of my, like if they're there when I'm there, great.

The wax eyes. The beautiful thrush. The wax eyes are out. It's been a summer of no thrush. Two summers in a thrush Two summers Two summers in a row I'm going for three Yeah

Well yeah I went over to Europe That's my third summer So that's third summer in a row No thrush Wow Must have really good gut health there If we could go back to birds Yep

Equally as annoying thrush Equally as annoying Because they flip the mark everywhere They make a bloody mess Yeah they do make a mess But the wax eyes are in the tree Eating the oranges at the moment. You see a bird watching.

He's into it. Have you heard how unattractive it is? 50 out of 100. Yeah. So I'm going to jump one. Taxi Dermy's in there. We like Taxi Dermy. That's an unattractive sort of 60.

But is that doing it? Yeah, probably. Doing taxi. Or just having it in your house. Well, they said a hobby, so. Yeah, doing it, I reckon. Okay, building model trains is just above that. And slightly above building model trains with an unattractiveness score of 70 out of 100 is gambling.

Oh, okay. Then we've got online trolling at 75. Now, here we are at 80 with an unattractiveness score of 80 out of a possible 100. We've got magic tricks. Now, as we know, producer Shannon on our show, her partner is a magician. Yeah. He does nothing but magic tricks.

This is his job. He is a professional magician. To be fair, maybe I wouldn't like it as much if it was a hobby. Yeah, true. He makes money. Yeah, this pays our rent. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's hot stuff. I don't know. Yeah. Your daddy making a bit of money he's hot but um what's his what's his like big number one trick like does he does he bring magician have their one big thing yeah he has a trick with a crunchy bar and he makes money appear in it that's right inside the country bar of this. Inside the crunchy bar? Long and short, he gets someone from the crowd and he's like, who's got money? And then they

come up on stage and then he makes it disappear and then it appears in the crunchy bar. Same serial number. Magic. Magic. Do you go home and he's drilling holes in crunchy bars? Don't reveal the trick. No. We can't have that. He's drilling holes in the crunchy bars. He's drilling holes in crunchy bars. Don't reveal the trick. No. We can't have that.

He's drilling holes in the crunchy bars. Okay, well, let's go above. He's drilling holes in the crunchy bars. I figured it out. Shut up. Don't reveal the trick. Okay, so there's the top three. Yeah.

Magic tricks is number three. Yeah. Number two of the unattractive hobbies that men can have, according to this right wing American commentator. Collecting figurines. Now that's Aaron. Remember Aaron's got hundreds of Lord of the Rings figurines. Now he stopped collecting them well before we got

together but we still own them. Right. So they're there. And you haven't since you've been with him let him buy any figurines. No he hasn't bought any more and they're not out. Well the Lord of the Rings is finished. Yeah and he's got them all. Okay. So from there's a few. Yeah he's missing a couple. Yeah I think there's like four or five he hasn't bought any more and they're not out. Well, the Lord of the Rings is finished. Yeah, and he's got them all. Okay. So. Apart from? There's a few.

Yeah, he's missing a couple. Yeah, I think there's like four or five he doesn't have. Yeah. Out of all of them. Boy, oh boy, he'll be excited to get his hands on those. The Goblin. I don't know if the Goblin. Does he have the Goblin?

Goblin? Does he have the Goblin one? What Goblin? The one with the ring. I don't know. I don't remember. Yeah, I don't watch it. Oh, Goblin.

Did you think all this time Andy Serkis was winning awards for his motion capture work of Goblin. Yeah, I don't watch it. Oh, Goblin. Did you think all this time Andy Serkis was winning awards for his motion capture work of Goblin? You know I don't. Those movies were three hours. It put me off. They're so good. They are so good. Okay, the least attractive hobby with a score of 90 out of 100,

playing video games. I was just about to say video games. And I was like, this woman's so stupid. But also, I find this so attractive. Do you think she's nailed this list? She's nailed so many elements of this list. Because you, for Christmas, bought Aaron a PlayStation. And how's that been this year?

It's kind of fine. He doesn't play it as often as I thought he might. But every time he does, I'm like, pfft, pfft, yuck. It's your fault. Sit up. The sounds and all of it coming out of the lounge, I'm like, ugh. Has he not got a good set of gaming headphones? Well, Christmas is in four months, so I know what you can get him this month.

No way. Gaming headphones. Yeah, you get the proper gaming headphones. Then you're going to cut the noise. No, but then I would look at him and it's even worse. The controller in his hand's gaming. I'm also sad that he's going to get one of those ugly chairs. He only ever plays.

Oh, he'll never be allowed one of those. Not in your house. He's got to get a big giant beanbag like me and drag it right in front of the television. No. You flop into it like this. Flop. And that's you.

No, our lounge lacks the depth. And he only ever plays single player. It'd be so much better if the noise coming out of the lounge included Go, go, go, come here, quick we need help. Back over here. No, he doesn't play with other people. Yeah. I think Sharder finds that very sexy. Do you want

Vaughn coming through your speakers in your lounge though playing with Aaron? No. Only if I get to play with Vaughn's wife while they play. Yeah, but you guys play Chardonnays and that's kind of a different game. That's way more fun. Imagine the noises coming out of my wardrobe when we're in there having the wardrobe wines.

Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley. Fletchford and Hayley Silly little boy Silly little boy It is so silly, silly, silly That the silly little boy Silly little boy Silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Do you think you have a boring life?

Yeah, so they did this study in America. One in four Americans said, yep, they've got a boring life. That's sad. But I tell you what's worse, way higher on our poll. Are you kidding? 63% of people said they had a boring life. Which, from the responses, doesn't always mean that's a bad thing. People are happy with their routine. Yeah, boring, it's how you interpret the word boring. Yeah, I don't think I have a boring life, but I'm pretty sure for some people my life would be boring

because it's not all zip zaps. Zip zap? You've got a bit of zip and zap. I've got a little zip zap. Did you say no, Fletch? No, I said I don't have a boring life. Do you have a boring life? I said no.

Yeah. You travel a lot and you've got a fun job and you get to work with the funnest people. The best people. No. Yeah. You travel a lot. You've got a fun job. And you get to work with the funnest people. The best people. The best people. Yeah. So 63% of people said yes, I have a boring life.

37% said no. Interesting. Very interesting. Probably just some feedback for us. I live, Rochelle says, it's definitely Rochelle, not Rachel. Rochelle said, I live in the UAE. United Arab Emirates. Yes. Travelling to Europe every summer.

And I only work four days a week. Plus get that bank money tax free. Oh, that's not boring. That's not boring. Whereas I always wonder if I'd get bored living in countries in the Arab Emirates. Why? I don't know. It is pretty restrictive.

It's pretty hard to... Yeah, you can't just go out and get boozed in public, can you? They'll arrest you. Yeah, well. You'd be in jail in like a month. 100%. Noob says, I drive lorries, which they must be British because we just say trucks. Yeah, we say trucks, don't we?

I have two horses. I try to gym four times a week. I don't think I have time to have a boring life. Busy, busy, busy. Yeah. They're good. They're keeping themselves occupied. Rachel, not Rochelle.

So we've had a Rochelle and now we're having a Rachel. Yes, boring, but I love my drama-free existence. I still do some holidays. Zero socialising, but zero drama. So I would be boring in other people's eyes, I guess, but I'm having fun. Yeah, it's all in how you look at it. Jesus

says, Jel, I never understand how people can survive a boring life. Jel's getting crazy. It's what you make of it, right? Absolutely. Everything. Not here for long. Dorothy said, I eat, work, sleep, repeat. Do you think she thinks she's got a boring life? Yeah.

Sounds like it, yeah. Sounds like she might have voted for boring. Single lady, 40, work in HR, live on my own with my dog, can't get any more boring. But are you having fun? Single lady in your 40s. Yeah. Get out there.

Yeah. Work in HR. Get out there. Get out there. See. Work in HR. Get out there. Get out there. There's all the things you can't do at work but can do outside of work. And live in the room

with your dog. It's great. Yeah, some people are the opposite. They're like, I don't have a boring life because it's simple. Yeah, yeah.

It's drama free. It's a simple life. Michael said, I'm a mechanical engineer who volunteers on old steam trains. On old steam trains? That's not boring, is it?

No, that's already... No, no, I don't think he's boring. I don't think... He thinks he's boring. He's a mechanical engineer, which is an exciting job. Yeah, that's exciting. And then he volunteers his time

on old steam trains. Heck, that's exciting stuff. Yeah. I bet he's stoked when he sees them puffing down the track. Avril says, it's so boring, not worth trying to tell you

as you'll fall asleep at how boring my life is. Thank you for protecting us. Yeah. But get out there and live a little. It doesn't have to be... Zip zaps. No, don't do that.

Kiss a stranger on the street. Oh, don't do that. Monkey pox. Flash. Go drive past somewhere and flash them. That's illegal. You'll be arrested. Okay.

Again, another reason why you couldn't live in the UAE. Let's flash someone. That's illegal. You'll be arrested. Okay. Again, another reason why you couldn't live in the UAE. Let's flash someone. Yeah, and then pash someone. Let's do the old flash and pash.

You guys want to head out for a bit of flash and pash? And then end up in jail in a dash. That's the little poll. Instagram have added a new feature, and it's making people a little bit nostalgic for MySpace. Oh, my God.

That was me, man. Big emo vibes. Tom 8 Friends. No, it's not Tom 8 Friends. It is the ability to add a music, a song, to your profile. So when someone comes to your profile, there's a song playing. Yep. And you can change it as often as you,

like you could change it every day if you wanted to. I think this will annoy me. I never tend to go to profiles. And I don't know if it will play, if you will have to choose if it plays or if it'll just automatically start playing. So I just checked it's available. You've got to make sure your Instagram's updated

and then you go edit profile and where you would put in all your profile stuff there's a new bit that's called add song. What song are we doing? You can pick any song you just search music and it'll just add it. How much of the song will it

play? If you're on the profile it'll just keep playing the song. It's like when you put a song on a story it'll just select a little bit, 15 seconds. And it will loop.

Because if you're going to their profile and then looking at their posts and it's got a song attached then that song will play too or that song won't play.

Which song gets priority? Oh, so you've got to click on it. It's just under the bio. It'll just add the song. Yeah, I just never go to people's like like, whole profiles. I just...

What are you doing? You are an absolute stalker. No, I just... Oh, yeah, for a stalk, for a check-up. But mostly... I'd say 99% of the time, I just scroll through what I'm given. I mean, you're not going to your friends' profiles every day

or all the time, right? Nah. Nah. So, yeah, it does seem... I guess it's just a way for you to just show a little bit of your personality or what you're into your favourite artist

I'm sort of into that when I was on MySpace it was always like some like it would have been yeah but on MySpace you got to put like the theme

and everything like the background I used to do coding and stuff on my MySpace so that I could change the whole profile so that it was like not the way that it had it set up you go and edit profile and you do like codes and stuff on my MySpace so that I could change the whole profile so that it was like not the way that it had it set up.

You'd go and edit profile and you'd do like codes and stuff so you had a photo here and music here and a background. Just so you could look like an absolute emo. Yeah. But beyond me. Big shrine to my boyfriend at the time. This is Benjamin, the love of my life. What happened to him?

How embarrassing. He was alright, he was just kicking about. That's embarrassing. Do you look back and you're like, that's embarrassing or you look back and you're like, that's just who I was at the time. That was just who I was at the time. That was sweet, he's alright. He's just kicking about. That's embarrassing. Do you look back and you're like, that's embarrassing? Or you look back and you're like, that's just who I was at the time. That's just who I was at the time.

That was sweet. It was cute. Oh my God. No part of me wishes I had social media at high school. Yeah. No, it was fun. I know. Weren't we saved?

Like, we just escaped. We just got out. We just escaped. Yeah. I only had MySpace. That was my only one. You never had Bebo? No, I never Bebo'd.

Ooh. I was too alternative, my friend. Oh,. You never had Bebo? No, I never Bebo'd. Oh. I was too alternative, my friend. Oh, were you? Was Bebo a bit cutesy? Way too cutesy. Right. I didn't know that. Yeah, no.

I was MySpace only. Exclusively MySpace. Yeah. What happened to Tom from MySpace? He's rich. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out.

He sold out. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out. He sold out.

He sold out. Then he was working for Facebook for a while. Yeah. Was he? I think he's doing all right. I don't know what he's up to now. I hope he's rich. Me too. Simple guy was working for Facebook for a while. Yeah. Was he? I think he's doing all right. I don't know what he's up to now. I hope he's rich. Me too.

Simple guy, eh? Tom from MySpace. Tom, he's 53 years old now. Wild. He founded MySpace in 2003. He was president. He sold it. He made some moolahs.

I don't have anything, no updates as to what he's been doing lately. Okay. His personal life. He's been doing lately. Okay. His personal life. He's active on Instagram. Okay. He explained in September 2014 that his personal interests had always been diverse. Sounds like someone who's about to get in trouble, eh? The COVID mobile birthday scavenger hunt.

Well, that did not take long. Oh, God, already? That did not take long. Oh, God, already? That did not take long. I believe we've got Anna on the line. Anna, good morning. Morning, how are you? How on earth did you take from our clue, park your car in Hagley where you can spy a wicked?

How did you find our Black Thunder in Hagley Park? She's obviously a genius. I'm sorry, it's a very popular morning parking spot. Oh, is it? Yeah, it is. That's crazy. Too easy. Hey, congratulations, Anna.

We have for you, thanks to Kogan Mobile, who are celebrating their fifth birthday, we have a one-year Kogan Mobile phone plan for you. Plus, in studio, we've got a mystery prize. Vaughn, if you could just unwrap there. I'm so excited. Oh! It's big. I'll say no more.

It's big. A Kogan 42-inch smart TV. Oh, my God. Congratulations. Well done. Here we're going to get that in the post. I was going to say, why didn't we just give that to the person as well rather than now we're responsible for the post? We're going to get that in the post. I was going to say, why didn't we just give that to the person as well,

rather than now we're responsible for the post? We're going to get a truck. Now we have to get a truck. Hey, leave that to Anna. Leave that to us, Anna. Don't you worry. And all thanks to Kogan Mobile. Turning five, celebrate with a big discount on big plans, and we'll give you another chance to win thanks to Kogan tomorrow.

ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. We'll give you another chance to win. Thanks to Kogan tomorrow. Sometimes on a Friday, the three of us like to go out for a little post-show brekkie, a little brunch, hang out, because we're authentic friends, and I think that really comes across on you. You keep saying that. The more you say it, the more it feels like it. Disingenuous.

No, we do joke about it because there are some radio shows that hate each other. Yeah, they really hate each other. I couldn't imagine anything worse. I know. And I really laugh that we do enjoy hanging out. So we went out for brekkie and how did we spot her? There was a woman.

She was sitting kind of opposite us on the outside tables and then their kind of party wrapped up and someone else sat at their table, didn't they? And then off they went. And we commented on something of that group. What was it? A dog? No, dog.

Oh, no, it was this. I'm going around in circles. No, it was that little kid that walked past and bit Fletch with his dinosaur. I wanted to throw my cup of water on him and I was like, you can't do that, can you? He was a puppet dinosaur. He was just having a bit of fun. He was going

along and he was going, um, um, biting everything. And he bit my arm. And he bit Quench's arm and I thought it was hilarious. The best part was the mum didn't apologise. She was like, come on. She was just like, oh, come on. I expected the mum to be like, I'm sorry, my little Timmy thinks he's a T-Rex. Fleshly's such a saint. He was like,

I've just been bitten by a dinosaur. But that's what you do. And then the kid walked back past the dinosaur and we all cowered and felt like the dinosaur was going to bite us. It was funny. Anyway, so this table left and then we saw the woman come back and she'd left something behind and it was her entire bike. Yeah, she had to ask the guy that had taken the seat.

She was there when we got there. I thought she'd left that there a long time before that. No, no, no. They left just as we sat, just as we were sitting down. That party was wrapping up. Because then that next guy sat down and started reading his book. Yeah, and she came back and was like, I'm so sorry. The Wolf Age.

I remember looking at the book and being like, what sort of guy sits down and reads a book at a cafe? Give me a break. The Wolf Age. The Wolf Age. Is that good? I don't think it's sexy. It looked more like a family thing.

What about Vikings? She had left her entire bike, like ginormous adult-sized bike. She just left it. So she'd arrived to the cafe on bike, had breakfast. Gone to work. And walked off to work. Got all the way to work and was like, I biked here. Yeah, she got to work and she said,

oh, I better train up my bike before I go upstairs. I walked here. And then I had to come back and say to the guy, I'm so sorry, I've left my bike and he had to move so she could get her bike out.

And we just said to her like, how the hell did you forget that? She's like, oh God, I have no idea. It was a Friday, I guess. Yeah, long week. And everybody else she was with walked. Walked away.

Yeah, exactly. So she sort of got pulled into it. I want to know, what is like the biggest thing that you've forgotten? The biggest item. Like expense wise or size wise? Maybe.

Yeah, it could be expense wise. But like maybe you bought like a TV and you're there and you put it down to load your car and then you drive off and you've left it there. Or some people would 100% leave a pram, right? With a kid in it. Or a kid. Oh, honey.

I mean, you wouldn't admit that, right? A bit frazzled. You don't want to call up and admit that? Well, if you want to call up. I mean, people have left behind children at service stations on roadies. It's a problem when you have like 10 kids. When you've got so many of them. You're going to lose one or two over the...

It's a real home alone situation. Yeah. Yeah. This is what we want to know. What is the biggest item that you've forgotten? Laptop on a plane? Yep. Left behind. How far did you get before you've forgotten? Laptop on a plane? Yep. Left it behind.

How far did you get before you went home? A whole, maybe a whole suitcase? Yeah. Like you, you think you've just got checked baggage

and you forget that you checked the bag? Oh wait, no, I checked a whole entire 30 kg bag. Where is it? Okay,

well this is a question. 0800 dials at M. Give us a call. You can text through 9696. Someone else's husband forgot their bike. Walk away from a call. You can text through 9696. Someone else's husband forgot their bike. Walk away from a bike. You just walk away from it.

Goodness me. This is what we want to know. What is the biggest item that you've forgotten, you've left behind? Give us a call. We want to know what is the biggest item you've left behind. Because when we went to breakfast the other day, a woman just left her entire bike behind

and walked back to work. Then returned to be like, I biked here. And in the scheme of things, and we are hearing from a lot of people, that is a bike is nothing. Yeah. A bike is nothing. Molly, what did Gran leave behind? Well, Grandmother went to do the big grocery shopping

and she obviously took the car, but normally she would walk. So she did huge shopping, walked all the way home. I didn't realise until my Grandad was like, where's the car? It's at the supermarket. Oh, no, that's not good. Grand's losing a whole car.

A friend of mine just texted and said his dad does this all the time. Goes to the supermarket, goes inside and then just walks home. And it's like, where's the car? How did you forget your car? Also, especially when you've got all the groceries, wouldn't you be like, God, I wish I had my car? Yeah, I wish I had a car here. I wish I had a car over.

Molly, thanks for your call. Emma, what's the biggest thing you've left behind? My engagement and wedding rings. We went to the zoo with the kids, and I took them off and put them on the picnic table so I could sunscreen them and not get all the cream through my ring. Yep. And went and pushed them on the playground, on the swings,

lovely, lovely, off for a coffee. 20 minutes later, I suddenly felt my finger and I was thinking... Oh, I hate that. My heart dropped. I've never run so fast in my life. I think I must have had an asthma attack. And they were still sitting there on the table. Oh, my goodness.

Thank God. Wow. Well, my brother- Thank God. Wow. Well, my brother-in-law said, well, maybe they weren't nice enough to steal. Oh, rude. That's cruising for a while. Ouch.

Imagine if someone had chucked them to the monkeys and they were getting married. Oh, my God, you'd look up and there's a monkey wedding happening with your rings. You'd almost be like, I'm willing to let them go because there's a monkey. It's so cute. Emma, thanks. You called James the biggest thing you've left behind?

That would be my son. Good stuff. And what age was your son when you left them behind? He would have been about three hours old. I mean, in your defence, you weren't used to having a baby. Yeah, you were new to it. No, definitely. I was definitely new. Where did you leave

him? In baby in the city. Baby city. We were getting some extra stuff. Well, at least it's a baby-friendly place. Wait, so you have this baby. He's three hours old. You're like, this is most unexpected. This baby's gonna require things. We might need a cost.

So you go to buy the things, and then you leave the baby in the store where you went to buy the things for the baby? Yeah, pretty much. Okay, fair enough. Baby brain. It's baby brain. You're new to having the responsibility of this thing. Wait, was your partner with you

as well or was it just you? Oh no, we were both there. Oh okay, so she can't blame you. So you're like, you and me babe, leaving babysitting. What a good place to shop for. Why were we there again? Yeah, pretty much. Oh, no! Oh, that's too good.

Thanks, James. Some messages in. I forgot my car. I drove to get the kids from school, and when I got to school, there was a bit of drama. We walked home chatting about the drama, and then when we got home, I was like, I drove to get you guys. Damn it.

I had my whole handbag under a table at a restaurant. Didn't realise for a few days because I only really use it on work days. Lovely lady at the sushi restaurant still had it waiting behind the counter

for me to collect. A whole handbag? A whole handbag. I'm like attached to mine. It's deadly pain. It's deadly pain, darling. You wouldn't be leaving that behind, would you?

Darling, darling, darling. You wouldn't leave that behind, darling. Keep your texts coming in 9696 0800 DALS at M, the biggest thing you've left behind. Forget darling. Darling, darling. Keep your texts coming in. 9696 0800 DALS at M. The biggest thing you've left behind? Forgetful. People.

Leaving things everywhere. This is like giving me anxiety. Handbags. Important things. We were at a restaurant and someone had left their whole bike there. Yeah. Just forgot that they rode there. We want to know the biggest thing or the most important thing that you left behind.

Yana, what was the biggest thing you left behind? Oh, hi. How's it going? Good, good. Thanks. Okay, so I forgot my wedding dress. Oh, my God. On your wedding day? Yes, literally on the wedding day.

What? Okay, where were you? Why? Okay, so I lived in Christchurch at the time. The wedding ceremony was actually in Dunedin. So the day before, we'd travelled to Dunedin. And then the morning of the wedding, woke up. Mum's like, cool, where's your dress?

We'll hang it up, get it ready. And I was like, my what? And she's like, you know, your dress. And it was still in my wardrobe at home. Oh, my God. So what did you have to send someone down with it or you got it on a plane? What did you do? I was so lucky.

I still had guests traveling from Christchurch that day. And I was like, come on, like, who can go home and grab it? Yeah. So someone was able to whip past home and get it for us. But it was the worst, worst feeling ever on your wedding day when you woke up, you're feeling really good. That's so stressful. And it arrived all fine?

A friend went and got it? Yeah, no problems. It was actually no problem at all. It was hilarious. I told my husband at the end of the day, I didn't want to stress him in the morning off. Thank God your mum mentioned like we

should steam it. Imagine if you didn't and it was like. put it in the bathroom, get it ready. Imagine if you were like an hour before

like, oh, I should probably put my dress on. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I guess you just have to get married in a track

suit or something. I know. I was like, what do I do? Like, do I just like go down to the shop and grab something from like.

Off the rack. Yeah, nice. Yeah, what have they got? Oh my God. Yana, amazing. Thank you. Some messages in.

Put my baby in the car seat, got it all ready, jumped in the car, drove to drop the aforementioned child off at daycare, got there and was like, where is that child? I'd buckled it up in the capsule and left it inside the house. Drove back and got it. At least it wasn't in the driveway for like half an hour or something.

I forgot. So many people forgetting their driving places. I drove to work, completely forgot about it, caught the bus home because normally I bus. That's so good.

And I was like, oh my God, my car's been stolen, but it hadn't. And I guess what, you just stay at home and then bus to work the next morning?

Yeah. Someone that went a step further, their friend went to the supermarket, parked their car, did the shopping, walked home and then was like, oh my god, my car's been stolen. Rings the place, my car's been stolen. Goes through the start of the insurance

claim and everything. Two weeks later, the police contact them and say, we've found your car, it's at your local supermarket. Oh, they knew what had happened, right? Do you reckon they clicked at some stage? 100%. I reckon it happened all the time. Yeah. Somebody said, I can't wait to get old listening to these.

A lot of these people aren't even old. No, I know. What is that? A lot of these people are just tired. Yeah, tired. Somebody said,

backpacked all through Europe between us. We had two backpacks and two big suitcases. Yeah. We were taking our final train journey to go to the airport

to fly home and got off the train. One had forgot our backpack. One had forgot our suitcase, never got them back. That is my worst nightmare is getting off public transport and forgetting a suitcase because yeah, you're not seeing that again, are you? No, no, no, no. Off it goes. And it goes down the line another hour and you're just like, you're not getting it back.

My mum forgot when I was a baby, my mum forgot my baby bag at Queenstown Airport because it was just right in the middle of the airport The airport went into lockdown Because apparently It looked like a very suspicious bag Oh yeah Yeah I left a cello on a bus

Now they're big They're big Oh yeah On the way home from school An old lady spotted my school uniform And took it back to the school And said someone with This uniform

Oh my god Isn't that lovely Are they the ones as tall as a person No that's a double bass. Cello's like... Yeah. You sit down to play them, mate. I'm sorry, but that's getting into

you should buy another ticket for that. Because that's taking up a whole person's seat. It actually is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We can't shuffle next to that. Here, the guy, here's a cello. He actually bought a ticket for it, didn't he?

On the plane. Hayley's were on that flight. Yeah, because some of them are very expensive. Yeah, didn't want to check it in. Cello. That's me saying cello as if it was hello. You know, if you're a cellist,

that's what you'd say. You don't say hello to people. Cello, Haile speaking. Yeah. That's what I'd say. At the start of a conversation, not toward the tail end as we are. I was just sort of,

it just felt appropriate to bring it in then. As an idea that was something we could say I don't know wildly inappropriate are you sure

wildly inappropriate Jello Jello how are you now it sounds like you're saying J-Lo but in a very inappropriate accent no I wasn't don't do that to me maybe we'll just knock this on the head

no I was just saying Jello like hello no you're only digging the hole deeper oh my god I'm going to the I just had early breakfast because I'm going digging the hole deeper. Oh, my God. I'm going to the... I just had early breakfast because I'm going to the airport soon. Are you going to hit the Kuru?

Shit, yeah. The Kuru! With a vengeance. Yeah, man. Okay. Those eggs better be out when I get there. They are. They better be ready.

Flipping the powder as we speak. They better be ready. Because today I'm flying to Queenstown. God, it must be nice, eh? Don't worry, we'll stay here. And then I'm driving to Chihuahua. We'll stay here. Sorry everybody, they're not finished

wallowing in their own pity. Oh, we'll do the bloody top six in Fact of the Day. I've got a Fact of the Day theme for you guys. Okay. As a special gift. And every fact sorted out? Nope. See?

This is a kind of... You can do that while you're eating your eggs. You could. You could say I've put it... Put the work in. You put in minimal effort is what you're doing. Minimal effort. So then I drive to Teano this afternoon.

Love Teano. What are you like visiting New Zealand? Where I will... You know the sounds while you're down there? You're so close. I'm going to Dusky Sound, the bottom sound New Zealand? Where I will stay. You're going to the sounds while you're down there? You're so close. I'm going to Dusky Sound, the bottom sound. Oh, I've never been. I'm going to spend a few days on Anchor Island,

which is the super remote Anchor Island NZ. Yeah, Dusky Sound. Oh, it looks lovely. Beautiful. Predator free and a kakapo. Is that what they're putting you in just to see if... I'm more of a pest than a predator. There we go. Yeah, I've got my words confused.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm less of a stoat, more of a rat. Introduced bird, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit of a pest. It's quite a big island, isn't it? It is a big island. It's pest free.

And yeah, I'm going to be hanging out there the week with the kakapo recovery program. Yeah. Is this some kind of charity? What is this? It's just a mild, it's obviously, obviously they've bought my vote for bird of the year, which kicks off again soon.

I'm going to be a kakapo. I like the kakapo. They're fun. So how do you get from Te Anau to Anchor Island? In a whirly bird. In a whirly bird? In a whirly bird? In a whirly wopter.

I love whirly wopters. I love whirly wopters too. But then I looked at how much the wind is blowing down there tomorrow and it's a windy day for a whirly wopter. So then I started making heaps of jokes to my family about how they better appreciate me before I plunge into the dusky sound. They didn't like those jokes. Now that I've said it out loud again, it's a little grimmer.

But yeah, that's where I'm going to be for the week and I'm really looking forward to it. This is like so intense. I had to get my sleeping bag dry cleaned. Now I don't know what they think I've been doing in that sleeping bag. For me they knew. I haven't used it that much. Every time someone brings a sleeping bag into the dry cleaners,

they're like, oh, here we go. Oh, for God's sake, yeah. Get the gloves on before we touch this. Do you jump in here with someone else? Yuck. So I had to get that dry cleaned. I had to wash all my clothes in like a special thing because I've got birds at home, chickens,

so I can't risk taking anything. Then tomorrow I go like full quarantine. Those clothes have to be in like a sealed bag after washing and I'll let her dry them outside in case seeds from weeds and stuff blow into them because this island has like no invasive pests be them weeds or like mufflers.

You love taking a bag of gorse seeds with you. Usually I do. Literally, what's in your pocket right now? Gorse seeds. What, so all of this so that they don't get anything introduced? Oh, that's a lot of pressure, Vaughn. It's really good, though, that they do this. Yeah, I know.

It's a lot. It's a lot. And you know, I've been team more pork for years. Yeah. Don't tell that to the cock of four. Do they have lots of them down there? What are lots of what? More porks.

No, no, but that's always been my, you know, my big native bird. Oh, right. Do you know what I thought yesterday when I was bushwalking, more on that soon, stay churned, Fletch wouldn't have any laugh out louder, was you never see baby, like I've never seen a baby kereru or a baby tui. Because they're tree birds.

Yeah. You'd have to go up into the nest to find them. But when you see a kereru and they baby tui. Because they're tree birds. Yeah. You'd have to go up into the nest to find them. But when you see a kereru and they're so fat. Yeah. And you're like, man, what did you ever see a little baby one? You never see a little kereru. But you've seen baby kakapo, right? No.

You've seen the pictures of them. They're like grey and fluffy. Grey and fluffy, yeah. I can see them on your net because I'm Googling them now. So what are you going to be doing on this island all week? I get to help with the health checks. And then I get to use one of those TV aerials that you walk around and you listen and it goes, doot, doot.

Then you're like, they're down here. Because I've got trackers on them and you doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Get in there, track them. Just show people how it's done, basically. Right. Oh, fine. I mean, you could have done this on a weekend. Yeah, it sort of does feel like that.

It kind of feels like my own plans on my weekends. Those are weekends. They're not for work. You're not leaving us to do something you could easily do on a weekend. Yeah. I don't think you're missing the point. The weekend's my time. Okay, right.

It doesn't belong to a big train flight with a parrot. I didn't realise we could just flush away. I didn't realise we were allowed to just flit off. Yeah. Well, I don't know if you're there yet. Yeah. I'll go do it one more time.

It's something you've really got to work towards. Sort of a senior position. Oh, okay. Do that. Okay. Oh, well, have fun. Oh, I will.

Pictures, please. Yep. And text us when you land so we know you're safe. Yeah, I will. Because do they have internet? You guys have both got, yeah, they've got Starlink,

the same. Can you put your Find My on know you're safe. Yeah, I will. Do they have internet? You guys have both got, yeah, they've got Starlink, the same. Can you put your Find My on? It's on. Yeah, you can see me. Vaughn's always hiding because he's late for things. I'm still at home. Oh yeah, I can see you. I can see you. Okay. We'll follow you. Be safe, please. Yeah, I will.

We're just saying that Vaughn's going away this week and someone texted and saying have you checked that they've got WhatsApp where you're going Vaughan? Very funny, very funny I knew that there was WhatsApp in Europe I just didn't know if these guys had enabled it on their phone If you don't know

when Fletch and I were in Europe and Vaughan was at home he did message us on Facebook saying do you guys have WhatsApp where you are? No. I wanted to know if you'd enabled it.

Oh mum. Because I knew you were on eSims and sometimes you have to enable it. It's literally so global. I know it's global. And countries

touch each other. Now that I didn't know. I assume they all had moats around them. At the very least moats or islands. Great text. Great that I didn't know. I assume they all had moats around them. Yeah. At the very least moats or islands. Great text.

Great text. Good banter. Now we mentioned that on Friday we went for a little brunch the three of us. It's when the lady forgot her bike

and went to work. But another thing that happened there was where we go they've got those codes you know. Scan the QR code on your table

it is my preferred method of ordering. Smile and talk to me. I know the staff They've got those codes, you know. Scan the QR code on your table. It is my preferred. No. It is my preferred method of ordering. Serve me, smile and talk to me. I know the staff are great there, but sometimes like it's so busy, they don't come to your table for like 10 minutes.

But with the QR code. And we sit outside as well. So you can sometimes be a bit out of sight, out of mind. With the QR code, you scan and order. It's done in like 30 seconds. I love it. We have cheeky banter with them. Yeah, but you love interacting with people. I do love interacting with people.

But it kind of allowed you to sort of do an embarrassing thing, which was... Well, I don't think this is embarrassing. It is embarrassing, which is when you get to the checkout, you select your foods, you go to the checkout point to pay,

and there was a box that was like discount code. Now, everyone would have seen these when you go online shopping. Yeah. I just bought something with a discount code. You're like, yeah, great. You put it in and it's like, welcome 10. I thought you had a shopping ban.

It's interesting how bans work. The ban is in the eye of the beholder. Right, okay. So if Aaron doesn't know if it gets delivered to work, he doesn't know. It's not in the eye of him. I bought some new pants. Okay. Right.

I bought new pants. Pants. Yeah. Or pants. Pants. Pants. Pants. Okay.

Yeah. No, no, not pants. Sometimes you need pants. I'm not in my pants era. Yeah. Pants do me wrong. No, we are saying pans. Pants.

Pants. Frying pans. Pots and pans. Yeah. Pots and pans. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. But there was a discount code. Those wouldn't have been wrong. No, we are saying pans. Pans. Frying pans. Pots and pans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, but there was a discount code. Those wouldn't have been cheap. No. And now are these for use in your kitchen?

Are these for use in your kitchen or are they ornamental hangers? But they're both. They can be used. I think they're very aesthetically attractive and also great reviews. How much do you think she sells? But you're on a buying ban. You're on a buying ban. She's not on a pan ban. I'm not on a buying ban. You're on a buying ban. She's not on a pan ban.

I'm not on a pan ban. She's on a buying ban. I bought a pack of non-stick frying pans, and they are the devil's work. They stick. They are awful. The stuff comes off. I'm eating the poison.

It's so bad. So I knew I needed to get a new kit of pots and pans. Besides the point, let's not turn this around. Right. Anyway, so at the discount code for a cafe that definitely doesn't have a discount code. Why do they have a discount box? I think they are for when you buy someone a voucher to eat there

and you order online and you use the vouchers. No, it'll just be the app that they use just has it built in. Oh, yeah, the online things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fletch starts putting in welcome 10, winter 15. He put in Fletch 10 at one point like he'd

been suddenly given a discount code. I was like spring 10, spring 20. None of these were working. I tried Al Brown 20 because Al Brown works at an Al Brown restaurant. It was an Al Brown I tried Al Brown 20 because Al Brown works at an Al Brown restaurant. It was an Al Brown restaurant.

Al Brown 20. I tried Al Brown 10. Didn't work. Using the Al set up his own discount code so that when Al Brown goes to Al Brown's restaurant, he can put an Al Brown 20. Yes. He's not paying for food at his own restaurant. I tried maybe 20 codes.

And then we started talking about all those websites, aren't there? Yeah, I always use those if I'm buying something. Especially if you're shopping on quite a common website or a really popular thing. What do you mean? And there's websites that tell you the codes for different shops. Yeah, you can go in. But how can you trust them?

Because I've Googled discount codes before and they never work. They're junk. The pop-ups just go crazy. Yeah, annoying for pop-ups, but a lot of them do work. But then the girlies, you were saying that, like, you will try this, and this is a really good tip for discount codes. I'll use, like, Brittany 10, Chloe 15,

all the, like, basic influencer girl names. Yeah. Simone 15, we're getting it. Yeah, and then they'll get, like, it's good for them as well because they'll get some money back. Like, you're welcome, Brittany. Yeah. But, like, yeah, then I get five or 10% off.

Yeah. It definitely works at some places. I just thought it was so funny that Fletcher's delaying paying for his breakfast and therefore receiving his breakfast when we were hungry by putting in, you would have tried like 10 different codes to save a couple of bucks. I mean, it's worth it. See, if it had worked, you would have jumped on it. 100%, but it didn't.

So then I, I mean, I was also waiting, being like, well, I'll laugh at you, but also, what have we got? What do we got? You would have loved a discount code. Someone mentioned, we've talked about this before, the Honey plugin on Chrome. That's the one that if you go on a website, it'll ding you and be like, there's a code for this.

Oh, yeah, okay. If you've got the Honey plugin. If you've got the Honey plugin. How do you get a Honey plugin? You've just got to Chrome. And then code for this. Oh, yeah, okay. If you've got the honey plug-in. If you've got the honey plug-in. How do you get a honey plug-in? Well, you've got to crime. And then just search it. Okay, we'll search for it then. We'll see if that works.

Honey plug-in. We just literally said. How are you going to survive without Fletch this week? Nah. Well, there's not going to be any bloody honey plug-ins. In the middle of nowhere. What's that? Oh, there's a mobile app.

Yeah, all right. There you go. Sort that out. We're not a big honey money here. Look, regardless, honey, money, pan ban, flan pan ban. Wham bam, thank you, pan. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, Day, Day, Day.

This week's Fact of the Day theme is cat celebrations. And I thought I'd leave this in your capable hands. Fun. Because you guys like cats. We love cats. We're cat people. Cat people. My cats smell so good at the moment.

What kind of smell? Just like, cat, clean cat. I've got a great smelling cat. Yeah, man. Your cat never goes outside. Never goes outside. It just always smells delicious.

When Rolly, after Rolly cleans himself, it's so good. Cleans himself with saliva. Whatever, you share ice cream with your dog. I do. Yes, you do. No.

I don't share anything with the dog. I'm actually the dog having human food. It's disgusting. I wouldn't do that. We're talking cat festivals this week. And I hope you struggle to find more examples of cat festivals. Oh my God. Now, there's a link in my email with a few

different cat festivals. Okay. But then from there on out What do you mean like like at Coachella but for cats? Well there's all sorts where you could find

Catchella if you wanted to but I don't think cats would enjoy music festivals that would be too loud. Unless they do that thing where all of a sudden they're like and then scatter.

Unless like the headline it was jelly meat. I'd turn to jelly meat. So today's cat festival is Kattenstut, the festival of the cats in Belgium. Kattenstut. Okay. It's devoted to the cat, been running regularly.

It happened this year, May 12th, but won't be happening again until May in 2027. A lot of festivals are doing this. A lot of festivals are pulling back from being annual to less regular. There's a parade and a giant cat gets marched through. Each time there's a new giant cat. I'll just load up this picture of this giant cat. His children

dressed as cats. Really? It's like two stories tall. Yeah, a giant cat float gets dragged through and they celebrate the cats of the town. The background of this cat festival is that it marches through town. The background of this cat festival is that it marches through town.

One story is that it's connected to witchcraft. And the killing of the evil spirits. And so basically, the cats were thrown out of a bell tower into the town square below to kill them.

That's terrible, but they always land on their feet. They always land on their feet, but you can land on your feet from a huge height and just do yourself irreversible damage. So they thought that they were associated because cats, of course, black cats are associated with witchcraft. And another story suggests a celebration of the cats and the throwing of them from the bell tower, because that's an undisputed fact, cats were thrown

from the bell tower, is that before they could make these buildings rodent-proof, over winter they'd let cats live in there. So the cats would parade around these storage areas of the hall where they stored grains and such and town reserves to eat the rats. Right. Yeah. And then there was wool in there as well. And so the cats would go in, keep the rats out of the wool because the rats would go in there to be warm and also be fed.

And then when springtime came, they're like, what are we going to do with all these cats? We can't afford to feed these cats. Oh, no. Out the bell tower. So obviously they feel bad about it now. Oh, dear. So they started having this celebration of the cats.

They were wearing like little cat outfits and stuff. Yeah, they parade through town. Yeah, that'd be fun. You're kind of drawing attention to it, though, isn't it? To the fact that they were throwing cats out of the bell tower. Yeah. But why didn't they just take the cats somewhere and bring them back in winter? Where would you take them?

On a summer vacay. Yeah, summer vacay. Where are they on a summer vacation that's rich with rats? Catalonia. Yeah. Hello. Great name for it. Cat Stellarizzo.

No, too flash. No? Too flash. Catalonia I've heard of. What about Catagonia? Catagonia, if that's a Patagonia play, that's South America. That's a long way from your cat's religion. And also, not all cats are into hiking, Hayley.

What about Catland instead of Thailand? That's not even close. That's really good. But it's not even close. You could go there on a catamaran. You could take them to Paris. Yes. On a catamaran.

They go on a catamaran. From Belgium. Yep. Paris, did you say? Yeah, you take them to Paris. Beautiful gay Paris. Yes. So our today's fact of the day is there is a cat celebration that happens in Belgium

where they celebrate cats because they used to throw them out of a clock tower. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Play. Zidane splits Vaughn and Hayley. Play. Zidane. You may remember two weeks ago, I went on a bush hike and I got lost and ended up walking for hours across a main road. Yeah. Yesterday, we went back and took the right turn and it was amazing. Oh, wow.

And you didn't get lost. We reached a dam. We, like, beautiful scenery. It was amazing. Oh, wow, and you didn't get lost. We reached a dam, beautiful scenery. It was incredible. Congratulations. Thank you. Finally got it right. I also had to, on Friday, show Hayley that on that watch,

you can actually backtrace your steps. I know. That blew my mind on the compass thing. Yeah, just use the compass thing. I had that tucked away in my head in case we got lost again, but we didn't. It was good. Anyway, towards the end of the hike, there were some beautiful cascading sort of water streams coming down.

Gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful. The Waitakere Ranges. I think you're almost describing a waterfall. No, I call it a cascading water stream. Water stream. Coming down. Coming down off rocks. When does a cascading water stream? Water stream. Coming down. Coming down off rocks.

When does a cascading stream become a waterfall? Well, they call it a cascade. Because it would be vertical, right? A waterfall would be vertical. Yeah, this was more like flat and going down. Oh, yeah, that's not a waterfall. That's a cascading river. It was a cascading river.

Or stream. Or stream, stream. Running water always erodes rocks, but some rocks are more resistant than others. So a waterfall can, that's the cause of a waterfall. What's the difference in a waterfall and a cascade? Here we go.

Here we go. Here's the question we all want to know. A waterfall descends from a wide stream. A cascade is a waterfall that descends over a series of rock steps. Yes, rock steps. You would describe these as rock steps. Cascades.

Think your pink and white terraces. Oh, R.A.P. What do you mean, think your pink and white? Well, you've been back to the 1880s before. Do you remember Aaron's sister remembers going to the pink and white terraces? No. From a previous life. Yeah, I've heard about this before.

From a previous life. She thinks she's been. She has a memory where she's like, I have been. We went. Dad took us. And we're all like, no, he did not. In his time machine. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know. So before the huge eruption that destroyed the pink. I know. She's thinking of going to a water park. I think she's thinking of coconut ice. She went to that. She saw once, she saw a whole lot of coconut ice. She ate a coconut ice in front of a waterfall.

Yeah. That's what happened. Anyway, so beautiful cascades and there's this bridge there. And so we stopped to really soak in the serenity. It was beautiful. And on the bridge, there was another couple and they kind of joined us and we said hello, as you do. Also, so many grumpy people on a track. It's so

weird to me when you're on a track and people don't say hi. They're out there walking beside water. Presumably they've had their banana and they're still depressed. Dude, outside, body of water, banana on board, depressed. It's so bizarre. I love saying hi to people. I just make a game of it. We passed what would have been a woman's walking group where I love saying hi to people. I just make a game of it. Like, hey, hey.

We passed what would have been a woman's walking group where I would say there was 20. And I was like, hi, hi, hi. What a group. Go, lady. I was commenting everyone. Everyone got a hi. And they were so friendly.

But every now and then you pass someone, you're like, cheer up, Charlie. Anyway. So we get to this thing. I thought you were going to say this group of women were all grumpy. And I was like, maybe they synced. They would have synced. No, older. They'd been together. Older. I would women were all grumpy. And I was like, maybe they're synced. They would have synced. No, older. They'd been together.

Older. I would say menopausal. It felt like a menopausal walking group. Right. Yeah. Walking their way through the hot sweats. Anyway, so this couple joins us on the bridge. And I see them awkwardly trying to take a selfie to get the cascades in with them.

And so as I always do, I offered to take a photo. I was like, do you want me to take a photo of you guys? And they said, yes. She hands me her phone and I could not believe it. This is not to shame her. I just have not seen this for such a long time. It was an iPhone 4. It was an iPhone 4 and we've got one, the station

iPhone 4 that Shannon just brought in for reference. Yeah, they found this in a cupboard somewhere, in a drawer. Yeah, still works. So I googled June 24 2010 was when the iPhone 4 was released. Roger that. They were a square, a flatter iPhone. The 3 was a roundy little fatty.

Well, you had one of these, eh? Yeah, I had one. I had one of these. The iPhone 4, I think, was my first. I didn't have an iPhone 3. Still has a headphone jack? Has the big, flat, wide thing, a headphone jack. It's got the button. Anyway, she handed it to me. She said, oh, it't have an iPhone 3. Still has a headphone jack? Has the big flat wide thing, a headphone jack. It's got the button. Anyway, she handed it to me

and she said, oh, it's just an old phone. And it was all blurry, like the camera was crap. I almost felt like, I'll take a photo. She should have emailed. We could have done that. You wouldn't have been able to airdrop it to her. I'm pretty sure the phone was pre-airdropped. No, I mean, I would have got her email address and been like, it's a really nice photo. But I just, you know, anyway, took it. I couldn't believe it. iPhone 4.

And she was still using it. It was her main phone. It was all fine. But this is my parents' live by the mantra, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah. If something's working, why are you going to spend money replacing it? But that's the generation they grew up in because their parents or their parents' parents would have gone through the wars.

And things used to be made of quality. Yeah, they lasted. Oh, careful. You sound quite old. Really old. As I put together my flat pack furniture last weekend. Yeah. But, so we were talking, I was telling you guys about this this morning and Fletch, you mentioned

that your mum. Oh, I saw it last weekend when I was back home. Yeah. She's got this crock pot. Yeah. And it used to be white. Oh, yeah. But it's so old. It's so, yeah, it's so old

that it's kind of gone like an orangey cream colour. Well, the external part of the crock pot sits in. Yes. Cambrook. Yeah, it will be that. I'm picturing the exact one. A little switch down the bottom on the front. High, low, middles.

They're always on. You've got to turn it off at the wall. Yeah, it's a classic. The Canbrock Classic. It's a classic. But it's gone so kind of old and orange. It just looks like it wants to spontaneously combust. But it still works.

It still works. So why are you replacing that? Why are you spending money to replace that? That's what mum said. It's like, well, I want to get a new one. It works perfectly fine. Well, this is what we want to know this morning now. What is the thing that your parents are still using? Be it an item of technology that they're like, well, it still works fine. Well, this is what we want to know this morning now. What is the thing that your parents are still using?

Be it an item of technology that they're like, well, it still works fine. It's great having this camcorder they have on their shoulder in the holidays. Look, shut one eye and look through them. I mean, this is why they can afford to go on overseas holidays. Yeah, because they're not buying things all the time.

Well, that and the fact that they bought houses at very low prices and sat on them and could sell them with absolutely zero capital gain. It's probably another reason they can afford to go on overseas trips. Screwed it for the rest of us. But, you know. It all contributes.

It all helps. Equal part, equal part, no capital gain, equal part. They didn't buy a new crock pot for $30. Yeah. Of course, both equal parts. Okay, so this is what we want to ask. 0800-DARZATM-9696. What are your parents still using that they've had for ages?

Maybe it's the old TV. They turn it off at the wall every night. Oh, yeah. And it makes that big bzzz sound when you turn it on. Yes. What about your parents? Heaps. Everything.

Heaps of things. They've got, like, plastic containers that I can remember. Oh, my God, yes. Oh, yeah. Stuff out of ice cream and pudding. Orange containers with the little peel-off lids. Yeah. that I can remember. Oh my God, yes. Eating stuff out of ice cream and pudding. Those like orange containers with the little peel-off lids. Yeah, mum, there's this like, I can picture this teal blue thing

and every time mum makes her crispy noodle coleslaw, it's always, she puts all the ingredients in and then puts the lids on and shakes it. Yum! The thing that you put a tin of beetroot in and then you pull it up out and all the juice stays in the bottom but you can put it up the beetroot,

that thing's been around since the 70s. Whereas I'm like, oh, everything must be matching. Someone just texted, my mum still does phone banking by calling 0800. What? To do that

rather than using the app. And then transfer money between accounts. There's apps. Here's my account number. Now I would like to transfer from this thing to this thing. Oh my God, no.

Do it on an app. It'll change your life. Why? You ran into a lady at the weekend with an iPhone 4. Yeah. Your mum's got a crock pot from the bloody 70s or 80s she's still using.

The Rachel's call through. Rachel, my parents have this as well, an old dryer. But I don't think my parents' dryer is as old as yours. How old is your parents' dryer? 1979. What brand is it? That is 45 years old is your parents' dryer? 1979. Oh! What brand is it? That is 45 years old.

Do they use it? They do. Like, you know, not often, electricity bills, et cetera. Sun will do its thing. Yeah, you know. But they religiously, I know they get the lint out because I've harassed them about the danger of house fires. I don't know how many times. But all I get from that is, well they don't make things

like they used to, you know blah blah blah so yeah, it's terrifying The energy rating sticker on that would be a negative Negative five stars Do you know what brand that is? I just want to see what it looks like, I want to have a little Google image search

It is something with Lux on the end, I was trying to remember what it was. Oh, right. Make your Lux? Because my parents have got a 90s dryer, but they never use it. They'll just put washing in front of the fire in winter. Yeah, my parents never use their dryer. I think that's why they've hung on to it.

Mum hates using it. Yeah, fair enough. I'm always just like, that looks like it's one cycle away from a house fire. Hell yeah. Like, you've ought to be careful. It's a boomer badge of honour, I think. Yeah, totally. Amazing.

Rachel, thank you. Lisa, what are your parents still holding on to? So my parents, they had a microwave that decided to catch fire. And my mum sent my dad into the back of the garage to the store of all the things that they may use one day that never do and pulled out an original microwave from the

80s. Oh, like one of the first ever microwaves. One of the first ever microwaves that were released. Did it have a hot element on top? I have no idea. I don't know how it still works today. It kind of scares me

with all the, you know, radiation and whatever. I put it on and leave the kitchen so I don't you know. Yeah, I'll put one of those vests on and they give you when you're with your kids in the x-ray. Yeah, exactly, exactly. But yeah, still using it today. Wow.

So the last one that caught fire, that was an 80s microwave as well? No, that was a newer version. Oh. Like, they nearly broke the kitchen down. But yeah. They don't make them like they used to. I don't make them.

This is what I save it for. This is why I have all these random things in the back of the garage that I don't use. Oh, wow. That's incredible. Lisa, thank you. Victoria, what are your parents still holding on to? The old orange tough wear jugs

that used to mix the cordial and... I know. With the push top? Yes. Of course, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, now we're talking. And underneath the fins? You know, a similar vintage,

how many parents still have the Pyrex mugs? Oh, yeah. You know those brown. Oh, the Art Brock mugs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Staffroom mugs. Yeah. Oh, my God, so good.

Tradie coffee. You've got to drink a red ribbon or something out of it. You can't have a nice one. Victoria, thank you. Some texts in. Someone said, I see your 1979 dryer and raise you my 1973 Fisher & Paykel dryer. Wow. Still going strong.

That must cost like $100 to run a minute. Yeah. It's all go. Somebody said my ex-mother-in-law used an agitator washing machine. Oh, my God. The agitator washing machines didn't have a lid, and you just turn them on and they go zzzz. And they always had a ringer on the top.

Yeah. Yes. You'd feed your clothes to her and ring them and then you'd shake them and hang them, get most of the water out. I couldn't believe it when I first met her and it was still going. Funny thing was, the ringer had stopped working but she didn't want to get it fixed so she'd wring the clothes out by hand. Oh my god.

Just get a new washing machine. You can get it cheap. Talking about the things your parents are still holding on to and still using. So many, man. Because they don't make things like they used to. My mother still has a stick mixer that must be older than 35 because that's how old I am, and she got it before I was born.

And we lived in the UK at that stage, so it still has the UK plug. So she has a UK plug into a converter into the New Zealand wall socket, still uses it. Imagine how many delicious cakes and biscuits that's made. I know. The treats it's seen. We've got a 1963 hot water cylinder. Still going. It can't be economical though, right?

I don't know. Well, you can wrap them. You can get those. That's the only thing that's really changed, right? I guess so. Maybe? I don't know. Someone said my Nana still uses an Electrolux vacuum cleaner. Aaron's the only thing that's really changed, right? I guess so. I don't know. Someone said, my Nana still uses an Electrolux vacuum cleaner. Aaron's parents had one of those, like the standing up sort of British ones.

Oh, you had the standing one with the bag on the back? With the bag on the back? My grandmother had an Electrolux because she always used to say, I'm going to do the luxing. Yeah. But it was a long, skinny one with two wheels on the back and the hose at the front. Oh, yeah. those were a classic

they were a real Kiwi classic they're so heavy every year we still get out the fake Christmas tree that was at least 1990 lost half of it's trunks and it's branches but it still just gets assembled it's got that charm though and the memories

someone said what about the spew bowl Paris would never get rid of the spew bowl, isn't it? It's just a mixing bowl, isn't it? Well, yeah, the spew bowl that was also used for salad. Yeah, it's the Pyrex. It's the family Pyrex. Ours is the family Pyrex. It's got some melted bits, fades. Do you know someone else texted and saying

they're still using an iPhone 4 and it works fine? And producer Carmen called them to get them on the phone, but they were busy. And she said they sounded absolutely crystal clear. Well, see, why get a new phone? Why get a new phone? It's still working. Although I did Google that lady that you were taking a picture of.

Yeah. That's a five megapixel photo. Yeah. What are they now? That's better than I thought, though. Blurry. I don't know what they are now. It's blurry.

It's blurry. It wasn't, you know, you're not going to print it out and blow it up and put it on a canvas. No. Lovely phone background, though. Still using my grandmother's waffle iron that she bought with her from Norway in the 1960s, her Kenwood cake mixer that she treated herself to in the 70s, and her washing machine from the 80s.

Wow. Still all going. I love this. My dad absolutely refuses to replace his toaster. Bought it from the warehouse 100 years ago. Probably not. Yeah. And it only works on one side

so you pop the toaster, you've got to turn it out flip it around and pop it again Like literally they're like 30 bucks for a cheap toaster He said he goes feral when you tell him you can go back to the warehouse and get a $14 one now that'll work on both sides He's like this one's fine, this is how I do it This is how I make toast How long would it take?

It's double your time but not double your power, is it? Because one side's not working. Oh, maybe. I don't know if it will work out quite as much. My dad worked for the Consumers Institute in the 80s, so he knew all the good brands for everything. Yeah.

And was handy with electronics, so he could fix everything. We had all old stuff growing up, but he said, this will last forever. Yeah. He still has our first microwave. We had a dial phone until around 1994, like a. Yeah. He still has our first microwave. We had a dial phone until around 1994 like a grrrr

tick tick tick tick and when we won a cordless push button telephone and we finally got to upgrade he did not like it though. I bet he didn't.

Didn't like it because he didn't know the brand. Oh God. Washing machines. Oh someone see my parents still have the same cutlery

they got for their wedding celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary a few years ago. There's no serration left on them. They're so blunt, you can't even cut cooked vegetables. You couldn't stab someone if you wanted to. That's kind of a real last breath.

That's just a stalk, isn't it? That's just a stick. Okay, if you had to rate, review or marry Fletch, Vaughn or Hayley, what one would it be? Okay, I would marry Hayley. I would have sex... Wait, which one is it? No, no, no, no.

It's only rate, review, marry. Oh, okay. No comment. I could have sex with the podcast. I don't know how that would work. Give us a sexy little review, though.