ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 26th July 2023

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletchforn and Hayley Big Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Good morning, welcome to the show. Fletchforn and Hayley, two minutes past six. Very disappointing to hear the crowd booing. That's poor behaviour, that's no, that's no no. Sorry, we were the crowd booing at one or two.

Didn't you just hear it then though they played the audio of us losing? There was a crowd booing. There was a booing at one stage because every time the Filipino goalie got it

she'd hold onto it for ages and she'd like lie on it and be like oh what a hard one to catch but it just like

rolled to her real slow and then people started counting how long she was taking the crowd out loud. Do you think that's why they were booing? Maybe.

They thought they were stalling from the goal. Even rugby when someone's lining up a kick and the crowd starts booing I'm always like don't do that.

Do you know who's the worst NBA fans? Like what? Oh my God. My mum told off a crowd we went to one of the first ever Warriors games 1995 against the

Penrith Panthers. Did you say up the Wows? Greg Alexander's Penrith Panthers. We didn't one of the first ever Warriors games, 1995, against the Penrith Panthers. Did you say up the Waz? Greg Alexander's Penrith Panthers. We didn't say up the Waz in the 90s. Okay, right. We say it now, though. Up the Waz. They were booing the Panthers when they were lining up for a kick,

and my mum stood up, and she was like, Stop! No! Christy! That is a sports person trying their best. Wow. I totally agree. It's so rude.

Did they tell her to piss off? My mum nearly fought someone at Disneyland when we were there. What? We lined up for hours. Yeah. Well, mum and dad sat down on this picnic mat for the best spot for the fireworks. Cute. And we'd like come and go.

We'd go get food and stuff. But we're just kind of sitting there hanging out. And then just before it started, this guy tried to like push in at the front and mum's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Get out. And this other person on the other side was like, do you know him? And mum's like,

well, I've never seen this man before in my life. And the whole crowd turned on this guy. My mum's like, turn that back, turn that back. And everyone is just like, boom. It's all about fairness. Tearing this guy to bits. Wow.

She's, Christine's ruthless. Yeah. Christine is ruthless. I love it. It's like, mum, we get shot. We're in America. On the show today, we'll give you another chance to go in the drawer. Now, the drawer is this Friday to be expense free for the rest of 23.

So, power bills, all your petrol, the mortgage. I don't have to worry about it because I bought the winning lotto ticket. Oh, have you? Okay, well, if that doesn't pan out. Do you know, I felt it yesterday. I walked past the lotto and I went, I was drawn to it. Sure. Okay.

Well, good luck with that. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. Also, thanks to American Airlines, our destination drawer. We do this on Friday, this drawer as well. Our three boarding passes today. Check out these destinations.

Budapest, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires. Oh my god, literally. I haven't been to Lisbon, but that's definitely on my list. Are you trying to say Brisbane? No. I've dabbled in Lisbon. You've done a bit of dabbling in Lisbon, have you? Budapest

is a beautiful city. Budapest, I would love to go. Oh my god, it's such a great city, and so is all of these places. Are we saying Lisbon. You've done a bit of dabbling in Lisbon, have you? Budapest is a beautiful city. Budapest, I would love to go. Oh my God, it's such a great city and so is all of these places. Are we saying Lisbon right? It's not Brisbane. No, but it's Portuguese. Is it Lisbon?

It's Lisbon. Have you never heard Lisbon before? Yes, of course I've heard it. But no, I've seen it written and I've heard Portuguese people say it. I don't feel like Lisbon. Lisbon. It is Lisbon. It's Lisbon. Lisbon. It is Lisbon.

It's Lisbon. Lisbon. Yes. How do you want it? Lisbon. I want it. Lisbon. I want it.

Lisbon. When we say Barcelona, we say Barcelona. It's just Lisbon. I want to say it's just Lisbon. I've got a little audio here. I've got a little how to pronounce. Lisbon. Oh, piss off.

Oh, for God, piss off. How wildly... You couldn't even get more accurate. Are you going to apologise? Lisbon. To Hayley and I

for being right? I don't want to apologise to you. I want to show my disappointment to the Portuguese people who at one stage were the colonising

force of Europe. They truly were. Absolutely. And their capital city is said like a Kiwi named it. And we're just going to go down to Lisbon. Lisbon. So between 8 and...

Lisbon. This morning between 7 and 8, listen out for the American Airlines activator to get in the draw. Pick one of these boarding passes, and that could be you on an all expenses paid trip, escaping this horrible wind and rain and snow and cold. And hail and...

Yeah. God, it was a bit scary last night. Speaking of travel, some passengers on a recent flight to London were a little bit surprised by their onboard catering. Oh. See, normally you get the yuck. Usually you get the plate of yuck and you pick around the yuck. I can only speak from my experience in economy.

Fletch, would you like to speak for the front half of the plane? Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Well, a recent flight from Nassau, which is in the Bahamas, in the Caribbean. Oh. That's always written on the financial reports. What? Nassau.

So, like like all the different currencies and stuff. Is it? Yeah. It's always one of those things. Oh yeah, mate. I know my Dow Jones. But isn't there a Nassau?

Don't you mean the NASDAQ? Nah. Maybe. Yeah, probably. What's the NASDAQ? North American Security Devices X.

X. I don't know. I don't know. I literally have no idea what you guys are saying. No, I always remember they don't do it on the news anymore, really, do they? The financial report. No, but they used to have them up. They'd be like, oh, I'm on the markets and they'd show stuff. But I guess it's so out of date by 6 o'clock now

and the markets are shut for the day that no one really cares and they get it all on the internet, right? But it used to be on the news and it's one of those things that's ingrained into my brain from my childhood watching the news, like the name's the High Tiffin. Okay, great. So High Tiffin. Well, this flight was going from Nassau in the Bahamas,

in the Caribbean, to London, British Airways, and they were about to leave, and I think there must have been some kind of mix-up or whoopsie. The catering truck didn't show or didn't have any food. Had a sleep-in maybe. And this is, I'd imagine, a long flight. That must be like six or seven hours. Jeepers.

So apparently the airline went into the terminal and ordered fried chicken from an outlet in the terminal and gave every passenger on board one piece. Oh, I was like, delicious, but one piece. One piece is not enough. That just whets the whistle. One piece makes me want more. One piece.

And then what if you got the dry breast? Or if you just had the small drum. Yeah, because sometimes the drum is actually not that great. No, no, it's small. Unless it's got the thigh attached to the drum. It never has to. That's what I call a quarter. Thigh.

We've ranked this before in final rankings. Thigh is number one. Who ever only eats one piece of fried chicken? Also, could you imagine the smell of that plane? We had chicken centurion last night. Chicken centurion? What the hell is... What if this chicken's on guard and you walk up and you're like,

I'm eating you. I'm eating gladiators. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a shield and a spear. It's like sticky, chilly, hot chicken. It was bloody good, I tell you. Yeah, it was bloody yum. Is this a well-known dish?

Yeah. Because I had Indian last night and it was a tikka masala. Not a century. I had a goan fish curry and the boys had doses. Oh, man, it was bloody good. A goan fish curry. What are the doses? Are they the crackers with the stuff on top?

They're the big pancake with the potato and curry in the middle. This is going to be one of those days the girls come back into the office and they're like, God, I don't know who's been in the toilet, but yeah, she's blind. She's blind the back out of it. Yeah, man. Centauri chicken. That'll be Hayley today.

Am I spelling it right? Centauri. C-E-N-T-A-U-R-I. I can't find... Chicken centurion. C-E-N-T-U-R-I-O-N. I know, I'm spelling it completely wrong. Well, what is it?

It's just like red, delicious chicken. Just beautiful chicken. Just chicken. Right, okay. Right. Anyway, all I'm saying is I had chicken last night. It was bloody good. I love chicken.

If I was on a flight and they served me some fried chicken, I'd be delighted, but I'd need more. It would be worse if they were like, oh, the caterers haven't turned up, but don't worry, we're just going to reheat some fish in the plane microwave. Far out. You've got some tinned tuna and some crackers for you all. We're going to huck it on some two-minute rice

and just heat it up. Some mayonnaise if you need it. I always think about the poor people at the airport that do the air bridge out to the plane after like a 12 or a 14 hour flight. Apparently it stinks. When you open that door, it must be the mankiest smell in the world. When I'm on a flight, because of the big rumble, I just fart that literally the whole time.

I've got funny guts and something about flying just actually sets it off. The food doth not help. The food doth not help. I think that food is designed to block you up so that less people use the toilets on long haul flights. sets it off. The food doth not help. The food doth not help. I think that food is designed to block you up so that less people use the toilets on long-haul flights. But I think for some people it has the opposite effect. Oh, yeah. Because the food's just stodgy rubbish.

But I'll just be like, everyone's got their headphones on. I'm just like... Fart, fart, fart, fart. Literally for 12 hours. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. In China, apparently a lot of young people between the ages of 16 and 24 are jobless. Like really struggling to find work.

Right. They say they've either been locked out or shut out of the labour market or, yeah, just struggling to find a career that they want to do or they're burnt out from pushing too hard on whatever it was that they want to do or they're burnt out from pushing too hard on whatever it was that they wanted to do. Yep.

And they're like, I'm overworked or I'm underworked or I don't have a job. What am I going to do? And now there's a real craze going on where they work as a full-time child to their parents. Okay. So she's full-time child to their parents. Okay. She's full-time with your parents and you do

things that you would do for your parents anyway, but they pay you. And you live there as well? You live with them. So her parents, there's a woman here called Jia, and her parents pay her a full-time salary that is the equivalent of an average salary in China.

Yeah. To spend time with them. Yeah. Just sad. Choose to spend time with my family. Yeah. Spend time with them. Take them to the grocery store.

Are these parents that are like aged? I was just thinking the same thing. I was like, I'm pretty sure my parents keep their own asses to the grocery store. But then if they were older, that would actually be better than say just a stranger being a carer for them. Big cultural thing too.

Parents have got to be looked after when they get a bit older. Whereas here, like you're offered to do something for your dad and he's like, piss off, I can't tell that. I'm still doing it. The mirror stuff will die. I mean, it's mostly young people. So I would say that they, you did, and he's like, piss off, I can tell that. I'll still do it. The mirror stuff will die. I mean, it's mostly young people.

So I would say that they, you know, like, they wouldn't be that old. They wouldn't be like elderly as, you know, as if you were in your 40s. Yeah, yeah. Becoming a full-time person. But they cook for them. They cook lunch, dinner, bricky, Monday to Friday. And it's their job. Clean, clean the house.

Wait, so you have the wheezy? Lazy old people. Oh, my God. I mean. But this one person said it's absolutely changed their life. They're a full-time daughter. This person's 37 years old. They had a full career.

Okay. And they had a horrible mental breakdown after one of their relationships failed at the same time as their work was just going crazy. And they were just like, blech. Like, I've got to pull back. I'll be a daughter. I'll be a daughter. And now people are actually declaring it like income. Right, as a proper job.

As a proper job. And people are saying, I don't know that this is a proper job. Let's not declare it. Let's not declare it. Let's not declare it. Let's put that in our back pocket and not tell the government. Mummy gives me a little cash. Yeah, it should be money. Mummy just takes out money at the ATM.

Yeah, it pays a little expenses. Yeah, that's a gift. It's under the table. Let's not tell the IRD about that one. Let's keep that one under our hands. I mean, I would do this. I love hanging out with my parents. I do it all the time one under our hands. I mean, I would do this. I love hanging out with my parents.

I do it all the time. Would they not drive you crazy though? No, my parents don't. See, I think the sort of parents that would expect it are the sort of parents that would

drive you crazy, but the parents that don't expect it and don't want it are the ones that you could do it for. No harm. 100%.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's not like I'm living that exact scenario. But yeah, I think my parents would be the same. They don't want... They wouldn't want... they wouldn't want independent

people. They know if they give up their independence it's near in the end and they don't want to ever accept that. So they wouldn't want it. Well there is a, their principal economist, so basically they're Brad Olson. Oh okay. Friend of the show. Meow Zhu Xin. Bad news meow.

He said it is actually quite worrying because if they stay in this and they're like, this is great and it's going well for me, I'm getting money, I'm spending time with my family, I'm helping them out, it's very hard for them to then enter the workforce because it isn't officially seen as a job. And it's also not a job that goes forever too. Sadly, is it?

Because they don't really die. You always find another old person until you become the old person. Well, then you're just an aged carer. Yeah, which is a job last time I're just an aged carer. Yeah. Which is a job, last time I checked, and a very important one. Yeah, exactly. 621, next on the show, the top six. Yeah, online trend. People are putting their FPOS cards, the chip out of the FPOS cards,

into custom-made rings. So they don't need to carry around an FPOS card. They can just paywave it. Until you get there and they're going to charge you 2.5% extra to use your credit card and then another 2.5% to use paywave. Or they don't have paywave. And then you're stuffed. Yeah.

Yeah. But I've got the top six other cards that need to be rings. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. From the self-driving ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hi there. PSA. If you're watching a video online and immediately you're not sure what's happening, check the comments

because the first one is likely to be what an absolute waste of time watching this and then don't watch it anymore. Absolutely. Because I like to know what's happening here. I'm just sort of following a group of lads who look very young. Maybe.

Well, I think their mate that came back and helped them is on spring break from college. So university age. And they call themselves Premier Ponds. And they go around putting in fish ponds for people. Now that's good watching. Because they dig the holes old school. You want one? I want a pond.

How old are ponds then? Nah, your cat will fall in. You can put a mesh. Don't mesh. That's ugly. If pond thing? No, you've got your cat. Your cat will fall in. No, but you can put a mesh. Don't mesh. That's ugly. If he catches a fish, just get more fish. Fish are very cheap, and it keeps your cat active. In touch with his...

No, because he brings them as gifts. But they cool, they roll down, and they, like, can put a waterfall in if you want, and just, like, a trickling thing. Very zen. And they're just young lads. So I started watching them. But another video I saw a while back, at the end of it, I was like, well, that was dumb,

was somebody putting the chip from their FBOS card in a ring, in a custom-made ring. They went to all this effort to make the ring. And a lot of people are now doing this. Just like the SIM card in your phone. But it's redundant because Apple Pay. Like, you can literally, with my watch, I can do it all. Yeah, I do it a lot. But though yesterday I went to buy a lotto ticket

and I didn't have my wallet with me, and then I went to PayWave and she was like, no, you can't pay away for lotto. You can't credit card it either, can you? Nah. Or PayWave. You can't rack up debt to gamble. It's called an investment.

It's called an investment. But yeah, then I had to go and like get my wallet. But I feel fine about it because I'm literally going to gamble. It's called an investment. It's called an investment. But yeah, then I had to go and like get my wallet. But I feel fine about it because I'm literally going to win millions of dollars tonight. Oh my God, you're not.

Drip open your Velcro Rip Curl wallet and take your FBoss card out. Swipe it. Well luckily it was attached by a chain to my pocket to my jeans. You don't want it falling out

when you're skating. With my etnies. Well I've got the top six other things, other cards to pop to Where is a ring Yeah To pop in there It's not just your FBOS card

Number six on the list It's your library card You want to look like The most badass librarian Or library attendee there is Yeah They're like Got your library card

You're like You damn right I threw Dorothy Dorothy Punch the machine But not too hard Because then it won't scan Yeah Number five on the list Of the top six cards to wear as rings are your Costco card.

But it'll need to be a big card because they've also got to see the photo on your card. Yeah. Of? Have you been yet? You still haven't been. Because there was a store. Last time I went to Costco, there was a store saying, get your digital Costco card here. Right.

And does that mean it can, because that is the thing, it doesn't, you only have to scan the barcode. Yeah. But. But they need to see it's you. They need to see it's you. Do you have it on your phone?

Yeah, there's an app. I've got a Costco app. I don't know if I'm going to go again next year, if I'm going to keep it going. Yeah, no, well, I've paid for it, but I've literally, I've used the gas.

I've used the gas once. Yeah, the gas is good. Yeah. Don't you want, once. Well, no, you just buy me my T it, but I've literally never used it. Well, I've used the gas. I've used the gas once. Yeah, the gas is good. Yeah. Don't you want... Well, no, you just buy me my Tide Pods. You just go. Absolutely not. You get one Tide Pod.

All I do is get you hooked on the Tide Pod, and then I tap out. Yeah. I need the Tide Pod. I need the Tide Pod. Number four on the list of the top six cards to wear as rings, your Flybuys card. But that's a barcode, so maybe a bangle with a barcode would be quite nice. I've never done flybys. Neither.

I just don't. I don't flybys. I'm all about the airpoints. Tell you what, when the mortgage rates were low and you could chuck your mortgage on flybys and just absolutely every time you paid your mortgage earn an insane amount of flybys. Yeah. Whoa. That was fun times. Is it fun times now?

Absolutely not fun times. It's not fun. No, my mortgage is not fun. Okay. Yeah. It has become a very unfun. Mine's a laugh. It's an unfun horn.

I wish I'd seen that it could be kind of fun when it was at record lows, not just assuming it was going to get eventually to zero, because that's how dumb I am. Yeah. Eventually, if I don't lock this in, it's going to get to zero. Sorry, did you think that you were going to pay off your mortgage? I was of the opinion that one... That's not how mortgages work, mate.

That certainly doesn't feel like it now. Number three on the list of the top six cards to wear as rings are your public transport card. Oh, yeah. Because that's just a little... Toot. ...situation.

Yeah. Tap on, tap off. Away you go. Number two on the list of the top six cards to wear as rings, the Ace of Spades. Because when you're playing poker, you might need another ace to get a four aces.

Yeah, right. And then win the poker game. And no one will see it coming when it pops out of your ring. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six cards to wear as rings, the McCafe card. Or you don't need one. It's already an app.

And you can drive through and get a cup of Barista McCafe coffee on the go. He really is so good to the show sponsor, isn't he? He's a company man. Seamlessly working it in there to the top six. He's a company man. That's the top six. RELrules.com This stands for Relationship Rules

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Also uses less battery. Well, railrules.com brings us five things single women deal with that men don't. And I thought as a man that is neither a woman nor a single, I would be the perfect person to talk about this. Yeah. Okay. I would have thought actually Hayley would have been there. Your line was gonna.

Top of article. Good woman wearing a beanie. Outside, she's a bit like, I'm single. I'm traveling. That's the vibe I'm getting from her. If she was my friend, she'd be in Europe right now. And I would constantly be saying, how is she affording this? Yeah. I'm traveling. That's the vibe I'm getting from her. If she was my friend, she'd be in Europe right now, and I would constantly be saying, how is she affording this?

Yeah. Also, weren't you commenting on the fact that no one was wearing a life jacket on South Croatia? Dude, I was very concerned. I said, why aren't people wearing life jackets on South Croatia? You're such a boomer. Dude. I mean, anytime I see anyone on board without a life jacket. Yeah, but a life jacket is the seep out of the sea. It is.

You're an absolute madman, woman, person, whatever, whatever you identify as. It's completely up to you. Put a life jacket on.

Yeah. Okay. And the seas were rough. The seas were rough. I'm really going with my cute bikini that I spent a lot of money on. The seas were rough

so much so that if you were walking you could become unsteady on your feet, fall, bang your head, fall overboard. The boat is going so, you know, on were walking, you could become unsteady on your feet, fall, bang your head, fall overboard. The boat is going so, you know, on a steady course,

you're sinking because you weren't wearing a life jacket. Then what? Is South Croatia fun now? Your friend died doing it. All right. Jesus. Are the blue, are the blue, are the blue, are the beautiful aqua tones of the Adriatic Sea

full of happy memories and bikinis now? Or your friend that fell overboard wearing a life jacket. Wear a life jacket. Now, five things single women deal with that men don't. Internalizing society's perceptions of single women. Being single can sometimes feel overwhelming. I feel like you're not taking this list seriously. I'm taking it very seriously.

No, you're being very serious. I'm taking it seriously as life jackets on a self-proliferation show. You're being sarcastic and this list seriously. I'm taking it very seriously. I'm taking it seriously as life jackets on a self-relation. You're being sarcastic and facetious. I'm not being sarcastic. He is. I'm not being facetious at all. Should I take over as a man with two daughters? I'm reading this list and it's ringing truths. Okay. So the society

puts an unreasonable pressure on a woman to be in a relationship and they may start questioning their value and feel like something's wrong with them for not being partnered. Whereas with a man, they wouldn't do that. They're a bachelor. Boy bachelor. Yeah, the bachelor pad. Get it.

There's a pad for them. A place for them to be in their bachelor. Is there a bachelorette pad? There is. Listen to the, you said it and there was an iffy tone about you. I didn't have an iffy tone. You had an iffy tone. Felt like an iffy tone about you. I didn't have an iffy tone. You had an iffy tone. Felt like an iffy tone to me. So that's society.

Yeah. I was going to say it's more likely to be full of cats, isn't it? But then so is my bachelor hand. Yeah, I was going to say that is rich coming from you. Yeah. Number two, dealing with sleazy pickup lines referenced in their singlehood. Dating as a single woman can be challenging and sometimes you come across cheesy pickup lines that make you cringe. Any examples?

The guys wouldn't do that, get that as much or at all? Not as much. Single guys. Not as much. Yeah, single women don't do pickup lines on men as much. Not as much. The cheesy ones. I just feel no one should do pickup lines.

I agree. Let's just stop doing that. Well, do you like? If someone tries it, you know, it's just been a while. I see you like it. Let's just stop doing that. Do you like? If someone tries it, you know, it's just been a while. It's been a while. Right. Okay. The internal struggle of whether to lie or not about your relationship status.

As a single woman, you may often find yourself grappling with the internal dilemma of whether to pretend you're in a relationship to avoid unwanted advances. Oh yeah, for sure. If I'm out with people, again, it's been a while. When I've been out with people and someone's hit on me, I'll just grab a friend and be like, that's my boyfriend. You should be aware that resorting to deception

can leave you feeling conflicted and compromise your authenticity for societal convenience. So that's like you shouldn't have to lie, but you do to get yourself out of any trouble. Authenticity for societal convenience. So that's like you shouldn't have to lie. Yeah. But you do to get yourself out of any trouble. Four, the spinster stereotype. Oh, yeah. In society, old stereotypes call single women spinsters.

And didn't it used to be like 25? Yeah. 25 if you're not like coupled up. You'd be in the spinster squad. And this is something women deal with and men don't. No. Yeah. Because I've already decided. He's a playboy, isn't he?

If he reaches 40 and he's single, he's a playboy. I've already decided that if me and Aaron don't make it for some reason, I'll spinster him. Yeah, right. I'm just going to... Get some cats. Get some cats. Play free and loose.

Free and loose. Maybe take a female lover. I'll take multiple lovers of all ilks that's not really a spinster though is it that's not really they can't stay the night and they can't live with me they can't take my heart

you can get one of those maps of the world where you scratch off the country when you've travelled to it except you scratch off the country when you've taken a lover from that country don't make me too excited lastly and always the most you know horrible to hear about the walking home alone the safety concerns of a single woman who's seen uh by predators as prey we know that and that's not something men have to deal with no yeah it's the complete uh anxiety for single woman uh especially when walking alone or in an unfamiliar area

or when it starts getting dark. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Or you could, I mean, you also might have a partner and when you walk in the dark, he starts squealing and being scared and he'll run away from you, he'll trip you up and run away.

Is that what I use from experience? No, not from my personal experience, but I just do this. He'll squeal and he'll run away from you. He'll trip you up and run away. Is that what you used to say from experience? No, not from my personal experience, but I do know some very, very weak, terrified males. Right, so there you go. I still think you would have been better to deliver that list. It was an honour to listen to it, actually, from an outside perspective. It was an honour to explain that to you from a man's point of view.

Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Potatoes. Mashed or roasted? Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Potatoes. Mashed or roasted? That is today's silly little pole. Roasted. That's hard. Roasted.

I'm a mash guy. You can only have one. It's got to be roasted. Roast potatoes rule, but when you really nail a mash, and I'm saying there's no rules to a mash. Like, I can have lots of gravy. You can put parmesan in it. really nail a mash? And I'm saying there's no rules to a mash. Like I'm, I can have lots of gravy. You can put parmesan in it.

Yeah, I'm leaving the skin on the potatoes. I'm going to leave the skin on the potatoes for a start. And don't you dare. Now, I'm not going to like boil them until they're slopped.

I don't like a creamy mashed potato. I like a chunky mashed potato. Then, when I'm finished boiling, I drain them. I let them sit there for a bit. I chuck a big knob of butter

in and some garlic. 500 grams of butter. Celery salt at least. Yeah. At least potato to butter ratio is going to be one to one. I mean, these are not healthy mashed potatoes at all. I did not say that it had to be healthy mashed potatoes. And then mash them, but don't mash them too much so that they've still got a bit of texture.

And I tell you what, if you've got the time, then spread that out and chuck it in the oven and grill it. The results are in. Mashed potatoes 33%. Roast potatoes 67%. Yeah, that's the way I thought it would go. But sometimes putting like a sausage on a mash. Yeah, bang is a mash. If we had chips in there though, chips would win.

Chips would win. Chips would win every time. Straight out of the gate, chips would win. Not for me. You'd go mash. I'd go mashed and roasted over chips. Chips are all good now. You're so weird. So weird. Sometimes I feel like I know him.

Yeah. And then I don't. Yeah. You're like, wow. He's a wild boy. Amy says, this is impossible. When I had surgery, these were options for dinner, and I asked if I could possibly have both.

Okay. Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. It's like when you get a steak, and you get to choose between mash or chips. Yeah. Mash. Why? What, mash and chips?

No, no. If it's steak and you're eating it with a knife and a fork, you might as well get mash. Chips. Taking chips. Ah, Bronnie says,

mashed with butter and a chicken stock jelly. What? Plus salt and pepper. Trust me, you'll never look back. Jelly? Chicken stock

Jelly You make it jelly But it's chicken stock You are making me salivate Bron What is this? Chicken stock jelly? So are you talking about

One of those little Manu pots Of you know how Manu Did the stock Oh yes And it was like Those little pods Yeah Pods of stock

Wait see That's an intense chicken flavour That's a whole pod That's not That's meant to be flavour. That's a whole pod. That's meant to be diluted, right? With like a litre of water. So no, I'm going to do that, though. Someone remind me.

Might need some follow-up on that. Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri. Remind me to put chicken jelly stock in my mashed potatoes. Apologies to everyone whose Siri just went off. Yeah. Yeah, see those are meant to be watered down, aren't they?

That's stock concentrate. I've added put chicken jelly stock in my mashed potatoes to the list. Yeah. No, one stock pot makes two cups of liquid stock.

That's a lot of stock. But that would taste so yum. But then chicken salt in potatoes is yum. It's like essential celery salt in chicken salt. Okay. Essentials to a good mash.

Courtney says, mashed to my father worse type of potato. I am neither a baby nor an elderly person. I can chew. Yeah. That's true. Another Courtney says, I always assume people who mash potatoes

are sad on the inside. You need that crunchy crunch. Are you sad on the inside? I like a text you'd mash potato. I saw a recipe last night Yeah Pop up on Instagram And it was like

How to get the creamiest Mashed potatoes And they just boiled them And put a bit of butter in And then just used a stick blender To turn it into slop I was like That's yeah

That's the dumbest recipe I've ever heard Yeah that sucks Want to pulverize a potato Till it's a paste Cut thin and roast it in hot fat So what you've just said Claire Is making chips

Yeah You've deep fried a potato That's called a chip Yeah Cut thin and roasted in hot fat. So what you've just said, Claire, is making chips. You've deep fried a potato. That's called a chip. Mashed reminds me of vomit, says Sophie, who obviously I once got food poisoning and ate a whole lot of mashed potato beforehand and vomited it up, but it was an extreme pleasure to vomit. Julie says, good Lord, this is Sophie's choice. No, Sophie's choice is we should choose between her children

at a Nazi concentration camp. You're just being asked to choose a potato. Some more life for some people. You win regardless. Sophie lost regardless. Just yummier, says Angela. Mash needs gravy, roasted just needs salt. So there you go.

People want favour of the roast. It's 7 o'clock and I want dirt on potatoes. I want roast buds. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. There was a couple that was holidaying in Europe.

Okay. Hate them already to be honest. Should we do a stuff you? Yeah, stuff off. Was it stuff off or they can get stuffed? I think it was

they can get stuffed. And get stuffed. Well, these guys can get stuffed. They're holidaying in Europe. And this video that was uploaded to TikTok has had 4.6 million views currently for like 5,000 comments. And it is a woman and she's in the line to board the plane. And then she pans over and it's her boyfriend.

And he's in a separate line because he didn't pay to the little extra fee to make his seat next to hers. You know, he just like, he got generated a seat, she got generated a seat, they weren't next to her. If she's got such a problem with it,

she could have paid the fee to move next to him. I actually agree with you wholeheartedly. What, man? Because he's the bad guy. Because he was like, ah, it's just a short flight. We've been literally in each other's face all day.

He wouldn't have had a seat selected until the day of boarding. So she would have paid when she booked the flight, right? Yeah, probably. Because she doesn't mention that she's done like an extra leg room or like a priority or whatever. She's just paid for a seat. Yeah, yeah. And then when they checked in, he wasn't next to her.

And he said, like, I'm not paying extra 10 euros. We've already spent enough on this trip. That's a drink. Yeah. At the other end of things. That's a cheap meal, a cheap roadside meal. I'd love to know the stats on who actually pays to select a seat. Especially on a short flight, like a domestic flight.

I can imagine people want to pay for like if it's a 12-hour flight. You want the leg room or the exit row. Well, Aaron has to because he doesn't fit. Because he's like massive. He's so massive. His legs are like the longest part of him. He should get compensation. I think he should get dispensation.

Well, he's exactly the same because sometimes they all get booked up and then he can't fit and then there's tiny little people in there. When he books a flight, there should be a little something in his record that says this man's a half giant. A giant. His mother was a giant from the highlands of Gigantia.

Yeah. And he needs more leg room so he just gets one without saying. Yeah. He couldn't agree with you more, I reckon. Because then a short king will be in the seat with all this leg room that he doesn't know what to do with because his feet barely get off the edge of the seat. I know.

And Aaron's crumpled up like a sardine. But that's why when we book flights, you try to book them as far out from when you're leaving as possible so that he can get a leg room. But if we're flying together, I'll buy one too so that I can sit next to him even though I don't need it. Yeah, but then a lot of flights, and I've just taken a few like overseas that were,

yeah, you just got them on the day. You just got your seat allocated on the day and you're like, I hope it's a good one. Yeah, you just like hope. You just hope it's a good one. But so many people online are saying like, who cares? Like it doesn't, stop being pathetic about it. And other people are like, yeah, no, you're worth, babe.

You're worth 10 euros. So she thinks that's her worth, 10 euros. Yeah, I know. That's embarrassing. That's worse than being free. Yeah. Someone else wrote, nah, you'd want them to pay the 10 euros if the plane goes down.

You don't want to be spending your last minutes with a stranger. That's a grim way to think about getting on a plane. That's a very grim way of looking at it. Thinking about your seat choice. Life. Don't take a plane if that's your immediate thought when it comes to planes. My thing is, like, I've always thought this about, like, flying business class or even premium economy.

Like, I would rather spend that money at the destination. On Aperol spritzers. Yeah, if I'm going to Barcelona, let's say. Oh, yeah. Barcelona. Tapas. Tapas. I want to spend more money let's say. Oh, yeah, Barcelona. Tapas. Tapas. I want to spend more money on tapas and sangria and paella.

That's a long flight, but also it's going to cost you so much more to upgrade of any sort. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So speaking of travel, we are in minutes away from giving you the chance. It's so nice of you to, you know, entertain us, Fletch, with the stories of economy. Vaughn, you're not getting one of

my complimentary upgrades. Hayley's got he's trying to get one of my complimentary upgrades. Well, I know it's an impossibility for me because I'm often travelling with my family. You've left your wife before. Screw them. I've left my wife before and I do it again. But I also understand that that was, you know, trying times. I could blame the work

on that one I blame that one directly on work but you could never just get away with it if there was a complimentary upgrade no

no play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley play ZM you might know this about me I'm not a man

that does anything at a great pace I'm the turtle that wins the race. Vaughan boarding planes at the airport. Like, we're straight on, aren't we? Yeah. Why this?

Come on. We're sitting in the lounge. We're privileged to have lounge passes. Yes. We're sitting in the lounge. We're enjoying cheese and always Coronation chicken. I know. It's always Coronation chicken.

Sort it out. The cheese. We're the king now Also I feel like Your wife's gonna get us Banned from this Lovely privilege That we get Complimentary through work

Because she keeps Taking the bottles of water No It's because You were all The gays were a bad influence On her No she could not

Like be sneaky But you No she's not a sneaky woman We was taking the bottles She's not a sneaky woman. We was taking the bottles. She's not a sneaky rogue. But you don't do anything fast. No, I don't do anything fast. And then you get on the plane and you're like, oh, there's no room for my bag.

It's like because you're the last person on. There's nothing better than taking out somebody else's bag and being like, who's this? And it's someone three rows back. And you're like, your problem. And then you put my bag in there and I shut the thing. The audacity. The audacity. Because that's not his seat.

That's not his space. He can sort this out. You don't do things fast. I don't do things fast. But I hate being told to hurry up when I'm doing something and doing something when no one's offered to help me

do the thing that's taking my time. Right. I don't like being told to hurry up. This is what happened last night. Yeah. I feel like I'm looking at Aaron and listening to Aaron. If you are going to tell me to hurry up. This is what happened last night. Yeah. I feel like I'm looking at Aaron and listening to Aaron. If you are going to tell me to hurry up,

a far better thing would be to help me do the task that's taking the time that I didn't, that maybe has, you know, you can predict that somebody's going to take you 20 minutes. One thing goes wrong. It turns into a 30-minute task. Now we're late though. For what? For to leave.

It pisses me off that we're late and the problem is going to be that our friends are going to miss us so much because they were expecting us at approximately 5.30 and we're there at 5.37. I don't care. What happened last night? What happened last night that set you off? Indy had hockey and we had to leave at 10 past three. The girls had a half day. By the way, teachers need a half day now to prepare

for parent-teacher interviews? They were always after school. Give me a break! It's all just Adlib, isn't it? After like 5 o'clock. I just Adlib, your kid's a shitbag, give it to me straight. Yeah, your kid sucks. You don't need to research my kid, give it to me off the top of the dime. You've stuffed this one up. I'd love to hear that from a teacher. You know, you can just

get rid of that one and start again. Yeah, yeah, it's a full reno. So we had to leave that from a teacher. You know, you can just get rid of that one and start again. Yeah, yeah. It's a full reno. So we had to leave at 10 past three. Now, I knew that, and so I kind of planned out the thing. Now, I'd been kind of doing – there'd not been a time yesterday where I got to sit down. Right. I'd been go, go, go. We had the late interview here.

There was a gap. I went to the – I'm not crying. I just got a little bit broken in the voice. There was a gap where I went to the gym here. Yeah. Came back. We did an interview with someone. That's a secret.

You'll find out later. Yes. You will. Then from there, I had to go and do a couple of errands. Then I got home and I fed myself. I had not been fed. Okay. And a boy needs to eat.

He's going to work out. After that, I started doing tasks that needed to be done. Shifting cows, trying to keep them from drowning in the mud that's everywhere at the moment. Now, I was taking down a fence and a cow pushed through the fence and the fence got... There was a little bit of a knot and a little bit of a thing. So the job that I had allocated 40 minutes for became a slightly longer task. Right. Now, at any stage of this task that blew out of time, someone could have come out and said,

is everything... We've got to leave soon or where are we at? It would be a pit to come out of the house and ask if you wanted a hand with the cows. I could stop and go in and be like, I need a hand, but then you're adding more time to the task and then I'm just trying to get done as quick as I can. Then I get inside, I'm covered in a mixture of cow shit and mud and I've had an electric shock off a fence,

which, to be totally honest, woke me up and it felt good. It made me feel like I was alive. Are you sure you're good at this lifestyle block farm like thing? No. Absolutely not. So then I get inside and You know you can just live in the suburbs or the lawn eh? Have you heard of apartments?

Prisons. Prisons. Fancy prisons. You are living in a fancy prison now. So I walk in and you know the first thing I'm greeted with is all three women being like, what have you been doing? Hurry up. Oh, he's been told to hurry up.

And you may have just heard Vaughn moments ago say he doesn't like that. I hate being told to hurry up. But because the task took longer than expected because things don't always go to plan. Yeah. But no one came out and said, does everything go to plan? Can I help? Can I help?

No, I'm not expecting them to. That's fine. But I'm also not expecting hurry up to be the first words. But it's because your nature and your normal uselessness. I'm moving the whole time. It's not, I'm not running. You've done this to yourself. You're exactly like Aaron.

Aaron's the same. Like he won't change the pace. No. So if the task, which I appreciate that he's doing, has been extended, I would love if the reflection was that the task that I now want is faster. Aaron has said this to me before. I'm going to explode.

Like when I say, literally this happened, we went out for dinner. That task you want done needs to be done faster. You don't walk to the fence faster. Like he doesn't walk faster, he just do, do, do.

Aaron, I'm thinking, everything's happening at once, I'm planning the next step and I'm moving and I'm moving in a constant pace. I left the house yesterday at 4.30am, right? To come to work here and I got home yesterday

at 4pm. In that time, I did a mixture of fun tasks, work, you know, he appreciates that I'm working, other things. Then I get home

and he's literally been working that whole time as well, non-stop on the house and he sits down for five minutes and I said to him, hey, we're going to leave in an hour. Please don't leave it to the last minute so that I'm rushing you. And he was like.

I'm going to explode or burn this house down. I literally. Why are we hurrying? Sat down for not even five minutes, for 30 seconds until I was already saying, basically, get up and get ready because I want to go to din-dons with my pals. Yeah. I'll be like, go.

Yeah. Just leave me behind. But then he, you know, like he doesn't want to rush. He doesn't like when I rush him. Or you're having a shower, which, you know, you're doing as quick as you physically can. Yeah. Come on, mate, hurry up.

Yeah, but you take a long shower. Oh, my God, Aaron takes so long in the shower. I'm a dirty boy. What do you want me to go out and wash? I'm supposed to, this is the thing, like I get in the shower, I don't need that much scrubbing. I haven't been lifting a finger. Aaron's got a full 6'6 body and a huge head of hair

and fingers that have been working. Mud everywhere. Mud in every crevice. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah. Why have you been in the shower for half a minute? You want your man to leave in the house with smelly genitals? Fine. I can come right now.

But you're the one that's going to have to later deal with someone saying, he smelled of the knee. Was it him? You smell? Your husband's genitals? I can smell them from across the table. Clay. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.

The cast of Barbie is unreal. Like, it's just so interesting and funny and surprising and then there's these pop-up performances where you're like who was... There are cameos. I finally saw it last night. Sugar Daddy Barbie

was... Don't say. No, don't say because you'll ruin it. Why? You'll love Sugar Daddy Barbie. Oh, really? It's one of your favourite comedians. Wait, so Sugar Daddy Barbie is a woman? No. No.

But it would be Sugar Daddy Ken. Oh, sorry. Sugar Daddy Ken. Yeah, Sugar Daddy Ken. Oh, sorry, Sugar Daddy Ken. Yeah, Sugar Daddy Ken, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they have like all these amazing small characters and they're mostly discontinued Barbies that got discontinued for like problematic reasons.

Although not the Barbie, the discontinued Barbie you bought that time. What one did you buy? The one with the earring. It was a Ken. Yeah. Gay Ken. The Gay Ken.

The Gay Ken. There wasn't a gay Ken. That was also Michael Cera's Alan was discontinued because too many people were saying it was Ken's boyfriend. Yeah, because he was the friend of Ken. Wink. Yeah. Yeah.

Like the sister of Dorothy's sister. Wink. Yeah. It was so good seeing Michael Cera again in a movie. Like, he's so great. And him as this sort of forgotten Alan doll. Yeah. His energy is, like, perfect for that role.

Such a great movie. And then there was Midge. And just these amazing performances. But the director, Greta Gerwig, and the casting directors have said that quite a few people had to turn down roles because the cast is really big. Yeah. Because there's lots of small parts.

They had to turn it down because they actually is really big. Yeah. Because there's lots of small parts. They had to turn it down because they actually started shooting it during the pandemic. Right. And so as part of doing it, they had to go, the cast had to go to London for three months

and basically to like be together. Right. In that time. And for a lot of people, that meant they couldn't do it. One of them, which I'd be like, oh my God,

he would have been amazing, was Dan Levy of Schitt's Creek. He was one of the ones that had to turn it down because of the filming restrictions. It wasn't more the fact that, because

you know, sometimes actors are like, oh no, I don't want to do that. Well that was right, because when it was first pitched, it was a different writer, different director different production company, different script and Amy Schumer said no to playing Barbie because that whole version of the film

which is very different to the version we've seen was that Amy Schumer wasn't stereotypically pretty enough to be Barbie and so she gets kicked out of Barbie world and then everyone was like that's not really the message of Barbie. Yeah. And they've very much gone the other way now where there's like Barbies of all shapes,

sizes, abilities, all sorts. Magic Aaron Ken is in the movie. Is he? Apparently it's a quick cameo from this guy. He's Magic Aaron Ken. Oh yeah, he is too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.

He's handsome. Yeah, there's yeah. Right. He's handsome. Yeah, there's a lot of handsome Kens. Ben Platt? I don't know him very well. Ben Platt? He was meant to be a Ken? He was meant to be a Ken. Had to turn it down.

Bowen Yang had to turn it down. Someone else who was in Glee. What's his name? Jonathan Groff? Oh, he's his name? Jonathan Groff. Oh, he's fantastic. He was supposed to play Ellen. Michael Cera's role. Michael Cera's role.

I mean, very different casting choices. And then he had to email, he said that he said in the email, I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I can't do it. Oh, okay, right. Because he always sent these roles, because then after Amy Schumer, Anne Hathaway was going to play Barbie, which I can

kind of see. I'm not a fan of Anne Hathaway. No, neither, but Margot Robbie is brilliant. Because then, as Anne Hathaway was kind of getting lined up to be Barbie, Margot Robbie's production company got the rights to do the film. It was all Margot.

Margot was like, yoink, we'll do it and I want Greta to direct and rewrite it. And then Greta rewrote it with her partner and then now it's the cool version of it that we know. Right. And it's a great watch if you haven't seen it. It's definitely worth it. It's different.

If you watched it and you're not in it, man, you'd be kicking yourself. And Will Ferrell too. He's always great. He's great. You've got to do it. You've got to see it. Next on the show,

an expensive afternoon for you yesterday. Me and Aaron literally chose a restaurant so that we could save money. A cheap BYO. Yep. No, it didn't happen. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. We have a dear friend of ours who's up in Auckland at the moment.

We share this friend, Aaron and I, and we decided to go out for dinner. But because we're renovating, we're penny pinching at the moment and we're very much trying to rein in our social life. Yeah. That's where we spend a lot of our money. Yeah. When I say we, I mean me. Aaron, your fiancé doesn't really go out that much.

Doesn't really go out. So it was a nice opportunity to go out. And you are the shopping as well. A lot of the shopping. Yes. Yeah. A lot of the outgoing. Actually, you are a lot of the outgoing.

Yeah. Yeah. I bet you're a lot of the incoming too. So. You know. You do you. You do you boo. Yeah.

Anyway, we decided because we were going to go pick up our friend and then bring him out our ways. And I was like, the house is a mess. There's nowhere to sit. It's freezing cold in there. Let's just go into town and meet him in there. And I picked a place based on our friend James loves whiskey. He's a fancy man.

He's a fancy boy. And I know this secret little whiskey lounge. Oh, okay. It's down an alleyway in Auckland. Right. And you go in and it's got like hundreds of whiskeys that you can choose from. Right. So we went in there and then it's adjacent to the restaurant.

Right. And I was like, great, we'll go there, we'll have a whiskey. Cheap restaurant? Yeah. Was it a first table? It's a BYO. It wasn't a first table, but it was just a nice, good, reliable, cheap Indian restaurant. Okay, good.

Yum. I'm excited. Cheap night for you then? Cheap night. Here's what I'm thinking. Yeah. We'll pay two thirds. He'll pay one third.

Yeah. BYO, I'll bring the wines. I've gone cheap on the wines. Yeah. Cheap night. I've got a gold the wines. Yep. Cheap night. I've got a gold sticker, but it's down to $11.99. And it's a cask, so like per litre. Bang for buck.

Yeah. So then we go into this whiskey room, and I don't know why I didn't ask. Can I say that is where you probably went wrong? No, but whiskey doesn't always have to be expensive. I'm going like we could each have maybe like a $20 drink, right? And that's the splurge of the night. We have one before dinner, cheap dinner, off we go home. Yep.

So then we go in and we're looking at this wall of whiskeys and our friend who's a whiskey aficionado goes like, get me something exciting, pops to the toilet. And I love that. I'm like, cool, let's get something fun. To the bar person. No, no, to me and Aaron. Oh, to you.

Oh, right, okay, yeah, right. So then we're looking at the wall and the person behind the bar's like, oh, what are you into? And we were like, we love Japanese whiskey. And he's like, oh, we're a little bit out of the good stuff from Japan. He said, oh, you should try an Indian whiskey. And I was like, well, I haven't dabbled with Indian whiskey before. I'd usually go Irish or Scottish or Japanese. I did not know the subcontinent dabbled in whiskey. And I was like, well, I haven't dabbled with Indian whiskey before. I'd usually go Irish or Scottish

or German. I did not know the subcontinent dabbled in whiskey. Dabbled in whiskey. So we were like, hell yeah, man. Indian for dinner. At this point for me,

I'm like, give me a vodka cruiser. This all sounds disgusting. No. Yum. That sounds disgusting. Give me a power. Now, do you have something

that's 90% sugar? I've been drinking a whiskey. Do you have something more raspberry lime flavor? Yeah a power Now do you have something That's 90% sugar In a whiskey Yeah Do you have something More raspberry lime Yeah yeah Do you have something Raspberry

That's like cordial It doesn't need to have been Barrel aged for three years No At a minimum No no no no Yeah So then

We get these whiskeys right And then he was like Do you want a single shot Or a double shot And for me a single shot It's like It's a waste of time Yeah

Don't even bother It's a breath Yeah So then Yeah. Don't even bother. It's a breath. Yeah. So then we say double shot. We get three double shots. Me and Aaron get it on the rocks. Our friend who's a whiskey aficionado gets it neat.

And we get it to the table. We have it. Full noise. Yeah. It's like a bit of burner. And I think we all agree we're not really into it. It's a bit of a burner. Too much.

Then I go, oh, shoot, we've only got five minutes anyway. So we knock these bad boys back. We're like, just get out of the way. We've got to pop to the restaurant. And then as I'm leaving, Aaron goes to pay. We'll shout the drinks. We're leaving. Those three whiskeys, one drink each, was $140.

What? $140. At no point when we ordered these drinks did the guy say, they're top shelf or they're a little bit. No, but you should have checked. It goes without saying, though, when someone's off to the bar, he's like, surprise, man. You're like, we've got a bit of an aficionado here. And we're like, oh, Japanese whiskey.

Because Japanese whiskey is never cheap. And he's like, these guys are balls. Was there not a menu? No, there wasn't a menu. There's no menu. There's no menu. They never put the prices beside it because it puts you off. Those whiskey bars are just like, I suppose you're supposed to know.

It was $50 each a drink. What were you thinking? We weren't. And then you could see Aaron was like. And you can't do anything because you've drank it. We drank them. Not only did we drink them, we were like, sip, sip, sip. Oh, we're running late.

Knock. 140 bucks. Oh, my God. We couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. You've got to ask. And there's your dinner budget and the next dinner's budget too. I've literally been somewhere and I said four whiskeys.

And they were like, oh, this is our nice stuff. I was like, yeah, cool. And they poured them. And then I was like, by the way, how much are these? And they're like, it is our nice stuff i was like yeah cool and they poured them and then i was like by the way how much are these and they're like it's a 120 i was like stop for the can i just grab the bottle then how much is the bottle we can't give you the bottle i was like well you better pour these back in yeah did you yeah i was like i'm not did they have a funnel i hope they did oh man we were too late we were just like walking and aaron was just like what whoa whoa he was like shaken and that always happens when you're trying to save money too.

When you're like, okay, we're going to go this much. Literally went out for a cheap night out. And before we'd even ordered an entree, before the barge hit the table, we'd already spent $140. That is so ridiculous. My listeners, and to you, the listener, ask. Yeah. But you want to know if anybody's been in this situation

before. I do. When did you not expect the price that you got? When did you not see it coming? When did you not realise the price of something? It's so bad because you don't want to be the person that starts debating price with the in a restaurant. But hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no.

But sometimes you don't you just don't understand and it's not always food maybe you've tried something on in a shop and then you're like great love this

and something happens and you just don't check the price tag and they're wrapping it up they've got it in the tissue put it in the box and you put it in the card and you're like

what oh no put that back when did you not realise the price you can still say no at that stage I love saying no at that stage

oh no no no put that back oh my god I can't I'm too polite can still say no at that stage. I love saying no at that stage. Oh, no, no, no. Put that back. Oh, my God, I can't. I'm too polite. I'm a people pleaser. I can't. It gives me anxiety. What, so you'd go through with it? Hell, yeah. Okay, well, have you been in this situation? 0800 DARS at M. We want to hear from you now. You can text as well. 9696. When did you not realise the price?

Play ZM's Fletch for the Daily. Play ZM's. We want to know when you didn't realise how big the bill would be. You ordered three drinks last night at dinner and... No, not drinks, not cocktails, just shots of whiskey and it was $140. You won't do that again, will you? No, no, I no longer drink whiskey. You'll check the price.

I will ask for the price before it gets poured and drunk. Man, some of these might make you feel better, might not. Someone said I was at the bar on the top of the Sands Hotel in Singapore. Now the drink said $12.

So I was like, that's not too bad. That's good. That's decent. I love that. But there was a $40 service charge. What? Okay, that sounds like a trap. $52 for a short glass double Jack and Coke. So not even like a cocktail. Not even a cocktail.

They drink in burbs. Jacky D's. You're paying $52 for a bourbon and Coke. I don't care where in the world you are. That's too much. You should be getting 12 of them. Oh, ow. Shane, when did you not realise the price?

Well, I bought a candle that was very expensive. I'd been at my friend's house and they had this really nice candle. Yeah. So I was like, oh, yeah, that's nice. I'll go and get it. So I went to Mecca and I just said to the waitress, she said, oh, what are you looking for? And I said, oh, this candle, I don't know what it's called,

but it's got a lightning bolt on it. Oh, yeah, I know exactly the one. She went and got it. I never thought to question the price. No, you didn't. It's a counter. $240. What the fuck? I know the candle. All the goodies know the candle.

They're talking about it. A choir as bougie as I get. Did you say no? We love a choir. Did you say no, Shane? You paid for that. No, I took it. I was too embarrassed. No! Shane, you're just like me.

You're a people pleaser. I'm more than a man on a mission. I'm more than on a mission. I gave you what I wanted. Shane, have you burnt this candle, though, or are you too scared to burn this money away? I've used it. You can't.

What? Shane, you can't use this candle. No, you can't. You know, I did toy with the idea of having just one of those ones that you leave That kind of emanates The scent for a while Yeah

Softly emanating You could have got like Six or seven aquas For that price Is it concrete after lightning Is that what it's called Yeah Concrete after lightning

Yeah something like that Something like that I'm just looking I just googled Lightning candle mecca They've got a one and a half kg candle Now that's a big candle It's a fat boy

But it's $600. What? And marketed as an outdoor candle. You be careful. It doesn't need to smell if it's outdoors. No, no. We're talking about when you didn't realise the price of something. And it is amazing how many people are so embarrassed. You just go through with it.

They go through with a really expensive purchase. You've just got... You've come up with a tip. I've come up with a great tip. As if you're paying with a card, just put the wrong thing in. Like if you don't... Because my cards don't have savings accounts on them.

Right. So I could press savings and it would just be like wrong account. And then I don't know if it does what and I'd be like, oh man, sorry, I guess I just don't have the money. Put it back.

But that's for you because I will straight up just be like, no, I'm not paying that. Yeah, see that's... You can put that straight back. That's still embarrassing. Anonymous has called us. Anonymous, when did you not realise the price?

Well, it wasn't me. It was my sister. Okay. We went on a trip to Australia and went shopping at Pacific Fair. And we all split up and went to separate shops. And we all met back up again. And she was absolutely mortified. And I said, what happened? And she said, I went to separate shops, and we all met back up again, and she was absolutely mortified.

And I said, what happened? And she said, I went to a tog place, and the shop assistant talked me into buying these togs. I found two pairs and didn't even look or think of what the price was. And then I got to the counter, and it was $550. Whoa! And see, she was so embarrassed. Like, it took all this time to find these lovely togs. And she felt like she couldn't say no, so she bought them. And she was horrified.

I would have just been like, no. Yeah. Yeah. That sucks, man. That sucks. It does. Don't feel bad. No, but I've done this.

When you've gone through a journey with the shop assistant, and they've helped you, and togs are hard hard and they're very hard to get the right fit. I've done this before and I've got a $300 black tog that looks like it's from Glassons. And I don't know how I got here. Anonymous, thanks for sharing some messages in. I was Christmas shopping for my husband and went to Tom Ford to get some aftershave. Well, that's on you. That's on you, man.

I didn't think to ask the price, but when she offered me the 100 mil, I said, oh, no, no, the 50 mil will be fine. It was $450, but it was already gift wrapped and there was no way out. Even duty free Tom Ford is not cheap. I don't even look at it. No, you don't bother. You don't look at Tom Ford. Two gender reveal balloons. I said, I can get them.

I'll get them. Yeah. They were $9 each. I thought, I could get that. They were $25 to fill with helium, and you couldn't take them without filling them with helium. So now that's a $40 balloon. $68 on balloons that I did not have.

It better be the gender you wanted. It's expensive if you didn't. I spent 70 bucks on this with a boy. Lots of Las Vegas stories. Now, money disappears in Vegas. It does. As Katy Perry once famously sung a song about waking up there. Yeah. A group of us last year went to a big outdoor pool party in Vegas.

I personally ordered five Red Bull vodkas for myself and friends. $250 US dollars means that they came to $50 each. Plus the 20% tip took it to $300. Yeah. So $480 New Zealand dollars. That is $90 for a short glass ready vodka in Vegas. Yeah. It is expensive in America at the moment.

I really hope you had a good night. I do hope they had the best night of their life. Also, don't drink that many Red Bull vodkas at a pool party. You'll shit yourself. You will shit yourself. You'll be nowhere in the pool. It's confirmed you'll shit yourself. Play.

ZDM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. I love a dating show. I'm loving Love Island. I love Married at First Sight. Which I might take five. Are you going to take five? I feel like I've got nothing to add to this conversation. Hey, I stick around when you do, Andy.

You do not. I stick around physically. You and French literally look at each other and say, I've stopped listening, I've stopped listening, I've stopped listening. That's what we do. When you start talking about Dungeons and Dragons or nerd stuff.

Yeah. You both look at each other and say, I've stopped listening. Anybody else stop listening? Yeah. Anybody else stop listening? That's what you say. And you just talk over.

Well, there's a new dating show. Because I need to go wheeze. No, you can wait until the next song. I'm not going to have anything positive to add. Don't wheeze yourself though on my behalf. I am talking about reality dating shows. Now this one is a new one on Netflix. It's a new one on Netflix because like Too Hot to Handle's back. There's a new season of that but I can't get back in.

Can I do that thing dads do where they just read the paper and sigh loudly? Yeah, you can read the paper and sigh loudly. I'm going to read the paper and sigh loudly. And you don't know whether I'm sighing about what you're talking about because I find it such a waste of human existence or if I'm sighing about something in the paper. It could be either or it might be both. Shut up, Aaron. It could be a hard crossword

too because you've been doing the crosswords lately, haven't you? Oh, I stuffed it up. I gave up. There's another one here called Perfect Match. This one I don't know. What's this? Couples who prove their compatibility gain the power to make or break other matches in this strategic and seductive dating competition. That's all right. Now, Shannon, this is one that you've been watching. The one that we're talking about here is called Deep Fake Love.

You've eaten the whole thing. We binged it. And it is honestly one of the most horrific shows I've seen. Like, they've really messed with these people's lives. But it's juicy watching. I couldn't recommend it more. Five couples put their trust to the test in this steamy reality series. You all right, Dad?

What section are you reading? I was just going to say, has this reality show messed with our lives as much as the bloody Labour government? Oh, there you go. Five couples put their trust in the test. How dare they? A hell of a year to be a white male. In the STEMI reality series,

where deepfake technology blurs the line of truth and lies in a cash prize game. Wait, so... It's Spanish. So there's real stuff, but there's also deepfake. So the best way I can describe it is, you know in Love Island when they go to Casa Amor, so there's two houses.

Yes, I do know. What they do in this show is they get couples. Now, all of these couples but one are engaged, and most of them have been together for five years. These are proper relationships. They send them off to two houses, and in the houses there's extra people. So it's exactly like Casa Amor.

They've split the couples. Split the couples. Then every week, the couples, they party, they do lots and people start hooking up. They have to then watch what their partner has done at the other house. But half of the footage is real and half of the footage

is deepfake showing them doing scamming things. So like hooking up with other people. Is the deepfake footage believable? So believable and it's so interesting watching it as a viewer because we see about 80% of the partying, but even watching it knowing that like, oh he hooked up with her

you watch the footage and you're like, did he? Did he not? You watch it and you get to play along, so it's a game. I want to try and get Daddy Vaughn back in Daddy Vaughn, it's in Spain. They're Spanish. Yeah, the theme song is to tainted love. No bloody money to go to Spain. Vaughn, it's in Spain. They're Spanish. Yeah, the theme song is to tainted love. The girls are Spanish.

No bloody money to go to Spain. Vaughn, the girls are Spanish. The theme song is tainted love in Spanish. So it goes, It's great fun. Why do they always have to be messing with the good songs? Why do they always have to be messing with the good old songs and changing them?

Oh, my God. I don't believe them as they were. This is what I told you. This is what happened to AI. What a wild premise. Yeah, and the couples then have to guess if the footage they're seeing is real or fake. The couple that gets the most correct gets a hundred grand.

Oh my god. A devastating blow to their relationship. If you scroll down though, this is what I love about the world right now. You scroll down, more like this. There's a show called Love Never Lies. Never heard of it. There's one called Perfect Yeah. There's a show called Love Never Lies. Never heard of it. There's one called Perfect Match.

There's dated and related. It's like surprise, it's your sister. Too hot to handle. I mean, there's so many now. Yeah. You've got to stick to the classics. But you would recommend this one? It's such a good watch.

I will say the pacing's a little bit slow, but we did it when you know. It's Spanish time. Yeah, but when you're watching it with someone, you're kind of debriefing at the same time. So it's definitely a good binge with the girlies. You're not making your boyfriend watch this, are you? No, he would never watch this with me.

Do you do, when you watch a show that's foreign, do you subtitles or dub? Because I cannot stand dubbed shows. I'm a full dub and it makes it very hard to follow the plot line because the voices... But then you've got actors putting on terrible voices over the top. Yeah, but it's trash from start to finish. And it doesn't match the lips moving,

the mouth moving. I don't like it. I watched episode one of Squid Game with dub and I didn't realise it was happening until I was like, oh my god! And then I had to go back. Right. Oh, well, check it out. I bloody missed Yellowstone last night. It was on at 9.30 on Prime. Your mother won't have recorded that for me.

All right, you can snap out of it now, Dad. Next on the show, you took a nap yesterday. I did. But where I took the nap was limited to me. There's no secret. I overdid it on the weekend. You're still paying the price. I'm slowly paying the price. Monday, I was exhausted.

I could barely open my eyes. And I had a good night's sleep on Monday and then yesterday Tuesday I had a really busy day. I was here, I was there, packed. The calendar was packed. But then I had an audition at three o'clock. Oh, okay. Are you allowed to say what it was for? No, I'm not.

Oh, okay. No details at all. Just a TV show. Just a TV show? Peahau Rescue. Oh, my God. I don't think you auditioned for her. I'm auditioning to be one of the people that goes out swimming in their jeans. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That's not going to work. What about Motorway Patrol? I'm auditioning for the role of... Slightly slurry person who's just bounced off the... No. Yeah.

I literally live just down the corner. That's okay, man. That's fine. If you could just blow into this. Okay. Yeah. No, No, yes. I literally lived just down the corner. That's okay, man. That's fine. If you could just blow into this. Okay. Yeah. No, no, no, blow. You're sucking on it.

Don't suck on it. Blow. No, I'm blowing on it. Blow like... Okay, keep going. Keep going. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, one big breath.

And now blow. Zoe, are you allowed to arrest me? Not yet. Keep going. My dad owns a finance company, and I think you'll find he'll be here in five minutes. So I'm just going to sit. I'm going to put my window up.

He can tell him to bring your mum too, and they can take the car home, but we're not going to be able to let you drive away from here. I've nailed the role. You've nailed the role. I've nailed the role. I've cast you. Thank you very much.

That was good. It's an entire white person pulled over drink driving. Anyway, so I had a laser appointment and then I had a little break. You're finally getting the eyes. Sorry? You're finally getting your laser-powered eyes. No, no, no, no, here. Did they do the back this time?

I didn't do that area. Oh, right. Yeah, I didn't do that area. I'm in my cycle and I don't want to be. Oh, yeah, Yeah, I didn't do that area. Why? I'm in my cycle and I don't want to be. Oh, yeah, no, fair enough. What area did you do? I did my mustachio, my chineos, and my sideburnios. Okay, if you don't mind answering this question,

because when I had my back and my butt area done, they stayed clear of the sack. I can take care of that myself. I just wanted the areas my butt area done. They stayed clear of the sack. I can take care of that myself. I just wanted the areas I couldn't reach. You wouldn't want to get pinged in the sack with that laser. By God. Every now and then it just hits a dark pigment and you're like. And I've got a very freaky scrotum.

Anyway, there's kids in the car and I don't want to have to explain that to them. Fair enough. Fair enough. They say sun's not allowed to touch the area after laser or before laser, but your face would be a very hard place to keep sun off entirely. Yeah, that's why I haven't done it for ages because it was summer. You really shouldn't do it in the summer. But I wear sunblock every day in the winter.

I don't know if you've looked outside, but it's not really. It's been miserable for eight years. That's what it feels like. Okay, cool. That was my question. Anyway, I did that, and then I had lunch, and I was learning the lines, getting the lines in. And then I'm quite good at learning lines. So then I had a bit of time

between my audition at three o'clock and I started to feel a bit snoozy. And then, so just sort of, rather than like doing the smart thing, which is like probably giving Fletcher texts and being like, can I have a quick nap? Hayley will come over sometimes just to nap in the

spare room. She's a tired girl. Or a shower because she doesn't have a shower. I do help myself to a shower. I am thinking about introducing like a surcharge. A charge. Like a $2 shower. You should get the coin machine put in like they used to have at the campgrounds. Yeah.

I pee in your shower, by the way. You get the dryer as well. Next time you clean the shower, I always go for a pee. Great, thank you. No, I wouldn't pee in your shower. Anyway, so I just like pulled off a side road into a quiet suburban street and looked for a, you know, like between two houses so that windows weren't looking at me and under the shade of a tree

and I just had a nap. On someone's random street? Yeah, like outside someone's front door. So this is method acting for that time you get pulled over drunk driving on Police 107 or Motorway Patrol. I'm not drunk. I'm just sleeping. The key's in the ignition mat. I'm not driving.

In the back seat? No, front seat. Just recline. And I put brown noise on the stereo. It was bloody beautiful, tell you what. Play ZM's Fletch Vordernaley. Play ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Can I expect that I learned this on the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast?

You do like that podcast. Love it. Yeah, it's a good podcast. Isn't it? Love it. Yeah, it is. Very big Conan O'Brien fan. And he was talking to Jake Tapper.

Jake Tapper is a- For CNN. Yes, correct. Lead Washington anchor for CNN. The lead with Jake Tapper is what he hosts. But he was there more to talk about his latest book, All the Demons Are Here. Now, I did not know this about CNN,

Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, but he writes books that are historically accurate, but he tells the story from a fictional person's point of view. Does that make sense? And this one, he tells the story of these siblings. One of them's working for Evel Knievel, the stuntman. And so it's the story of Evel Knievel, which is the true story of Evel Knievel.

But he's telling it in the way of a person that wasn't actually there. Right. A bit of a Forrest Gump situation. All the events happened. Were real. Yeah, yeah. Historical events, but the protagonist is not real. Wasn't actually there for all of it, but all of these things happened.

So this is his latest book. And then they kind of stumble across, they're just talking casually on Conan's podcast, about how killer bees were invented by Rupert Murdoch. And I was immediately like, what? And the co-hosts, Sona Morsessian and Matt, who work on the podcast are like, what? And the co-hosts, Sonia Mosessian and Matt, who work on the podcast, are like, what are you talking about? And he's like, yeah.

So effectively, Rupert Murdoch owned two newspapers in San Antonio, Texas. But nothing was happening. So he started to make up news. Of course he did. They were not even called killer bees. He gave them that title. And he gave his

editors at these newspapers free reign to just pretty much, if it could be one slither of truth to just blow it all out of proportion. So they weren't called killer bees, they were called Africanized bees. And it was in an effort to get more bees, more

resilient, and be able to pollinate crops and stuff better. They introduced African bees that bred with the existing honey bees of the area and made them a little bit bigger and a little bit more aggressive. But, and then it'd be like, oh okay

so those bees were introduced there and it's happened there but now it's here as well. And so he's like, people will freak out, killer bees. Everyone's scared of bees. Like if a bee flies into your house, you're like, ah, there's a bee. Is it a wasp or a bee? So he was just like, yeah, say they're spreading and say they're going crazy and say they'll kill you, even though it would take, I think I read a fact,

there was 158 to sting you at exactly the same time to give you enough venom to knock you down. So they couldn't kill you. They weren't killer bees. They were literally just honeybees that were spreading, and they were a different type of honeybee that looked a little bit different in Texas. Yeah, okay. And then they'd say, oh, by the year whatever,

the killer bees will have taken over America. And it's like, well, they might have slowly spread, but also they got to a point where it got too cold for them, so they couldn't because they were African bees. Fascinating. And it was all just to sell newspapers. And do you remember when you were young being scared, like hearing about killer bees?

Yeah. And then, yeah. And it just spread, and that was how it spread. I mean, this man is an absolute POS. Yeah. I mean, Fox News and everything that's done to America, like, yeah. Oh, yeah. And do you know he owned the Dominion, the Wellington newspaper for a while?

Way back, yeah. But he doesn't own any media in New Zealand now, does he? No. Dominion Post. What became the Dominion Post? Yeah, a previous iteration of it. Oh, no, he didn't deliver the Evening Post. That was what it became after the Dominion. Did you deliver all

of your... She worked for Murdoch. Oh, wow, you worked for Murdoch. That rings a bell became after the Dominion. Did you deliver all of your... She worked for Murdoch. Sometimes I'd say... Oh wow, you worked for Murdoch. That rings a bell and that rings true now. It does, yeah. She is often trying to politicise things. Paid me three bucks a week, man. That was sick. You were under thumb for life. So today's fact of the day is

the whole 1970s, 90s, 80s, 1980s panic about killer bees was the work of Rupert Murdoch. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. A lovely young 23-year-old woman. Her name is Emma. Emma De Palma. Some people just get a cool name, you know.

Some people get Hayley Jane. Your name's cool. Sprouse cool. Hayley's a bit bloody 90s, isn't it? Anyway, Emma De Palma, she had planned a massive trip around Europe. Flying from the UK to Europe. a big trip, lots of destinations, Portugal being one of them. That was the first destination, love to go.

She could go to Portugal as Lisbon. I was going to say she could go to Lisbon. Yeah. Anyway, one week out from departing, all booked up, accommodation, trips, flights, everything, activities, it's all planned. She's ready to go. Her boyfriend, who is going with her, dumps her. She gets dumpeted.

I was going to say, wait, at least go on the holiday, but then that's going to cost you money. And then if you can't stand the person. Yeah, but just go over and do your own thing. How did you end up booking a holiday with somebody if you couldn't stand them? There must have been a time where. Yeah, but maybe they, you know, they first got together or they... Does it say how long she'd been with him? No, it doesn't.

It doesn't say how long out they'd booked the trip either, but it's a pretty big trip. So maybe they would have booked two or three months ago, maybe. Yeah, yeah, probably. I mean, they live in the UK, so booking a... You know, we booked like a year out because it's so expensive and so far. Maybe not. Anyway, but...

So he dumps her. He said he wanted to work on himself. It's not you because it's so expensive and so far. Maybe not. Anyway, so he dumps her. He said he wanted to work on himself. It's not you, it's me. Anyway, so she's heartbroken. Absolutely heartbroken.

This was her first love. Yeah. You know, it's all over. So instead of cancelling the trip, she instead brings her dad, tells him what's happened

and the dad said, hey, I'm going to come on this trip with you. Let's have the time of your life. Dad's going to pay a little bit too.

Dad will pay a little bit. Is mum still around? Mum and dad are separated? No, mum and dad are together. So mum just gets left at home. Yeah, well you can't take both.

You've only got one flight. Maybe mum's just going to love the alone time. Oh, I would love to go on a holiday with my dad. I've been on plenty with my mum around the world. Your mum's going to feel,

why have I been left out? Because I want to take my dad. They've obviously got a very close relationship. Right, okay. She had a photo of them together and they're in Portugal and she's got an apparel spritz.

I just can't imagine getting away with this. He's got a drink and she said, POV, your dad's fixing a heart he didn't break. Oh!

Hashtag Europe trip. Wow. Hashtag dad. Hashtag broken heart. So she was like, I'm absolutely loving it. She said, you know,

anytime she feels down, her dad's the right person for her. Yeah. To still... She's like, mum's hard work. Yeah, mum's hard work.

Mum sounds like hard work. Or maybe she's a fletch, you know. Get up. We've got to go walking. We've got to get up the mountain before seven. We've got to make the most of the day. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, we want to know if... Did you have a breakup right before a big trip? Or maybe like a big event or something like that that, you know, you'd all

booked to go and it was all ready to go and then... Before a wedding must be a cracker. Because they're expecting you to bring the partner and then at the wedding they're not there so there's the obvious, where are they? And then you explain it to everybody. Oh, you don't mean the bride and groom.

No, no, no, you're a guest. Yeah, right. You're a guest at a wedding and then everyone's like, oh, where's your partner? And then they're just not... You have to explain that they're not there, yeah. But also, like, you know, you've got all the things you've paid for

that you can't get back. You can't just transfer a ticket. It's passports involved. It's a lot of money. You can't change the name on a ticket either unless you get someone with the exact same name, which was a plot line of Cooper enthusiasm for an entire season.

Where he's trying to find him. Was it a Mary someone? Oh God, yeah. It's so good. And he manages to find a few, but they just never work out. Anyway, maybe you were flying off somewhere to do something exciting or you had a big holiday planned and just before you broke up, what happened?

Yeah, because I want to know why people break up just before a holiday. Like, just go do the holiday, then break up. It's like people who say no to public proposals. I'm like, say yes now. And then no behind closed doors. And then get in the car and be closed doors What the hell was that dude? No Alright give us a call

0800 dials at Emma's our number You can text through 9696 Did you break up right before a trip? And then what happened? Did you go or did you cancel? Yeah maybe it's just a sad story you didn't go Or maybe you went and didn't talk to each other And just did your own thing

Oh my god Yeah, maybe it's just a sad story you didn't go. Or maybe you went and didn't talk to each other and just did your own thing. Oh my God. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Some of these stories are un... Like, I would just wait. I would just wait. I would go through it. It seems like too much of a hassle. We're talking about when you had a big breakup

before a big trip. You just wait. I would just wait. But then in saying that... We're booked, we've got the insurance we've got the travelling is tough for someone

like if you if you're not getting on like travelling ruins relationships and friendships yeah for sure absolutely it's hard

that's what they say I remember someone always saying to me early on with Aaron you've got to go through a big trip together a death in the family and move house.

And if you can survive those three things. You're good. You're good. Yeah. Big trip's the only thing we haven't done. Have you not? No. 2020.

That's right. All booked. Wait, you've never been on a holiday? No, we've been on heaps of holidays together. We've gone big, like a big Thailand, but I'm talking about like eight weeks in Europe. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. I've not done that either. about like eight weeks in Europe. Oh, okay. Nobody does eight weeks in Europe. Like, what are you kidding?

People have jobs, Hayley. Not me. I know a lot of people in their early 20s doing eight weeks in Europe right now. Yeah, well, that's true. No, no, we've done trips, but I just mean like a big overseas adventure. Where you can really get sick of each other. Really get in each other's head space. Yeah. We broke up the first day of Rhythm and Vines. Four days of hell. Where you can really get sick of each other. Really get in each other's head space.

We broke up the first day of Rhythm and Vines. Four days of hell. Ended up tent jumping the whole time as we were supposed to share a tent. Someone said, this original story, I'm with Vaughn, there's no way my mum would miss out and be happy for me and my dad going around Europe. You know, the original story, mum just got left behind. And I'm like, it's distinct to leave Mum behind But also just

I just can't Mum's probably Nagging all the time Me and my mum Have left my dad Behind before I don't like anybody Being left out

Mum or dad We can only afford Two people to go So Someone's going to Watch the cat Yeah My ex-boyfriend

Dumped me on the plane On the way home From our American trip So at least he waited Oh yeah that's nice. Two months later, I now met my husband of 10 years. That seems to be an ongoing thing. People can look back and be like, it happened at the right time.

You just shake it off in the words of Tay-Tay. My ex and I broke up two weeks before a Gold Coast holiday. Kind of got back together for the sake of the holiday. Yeah. Well, he'd paid, so I was, you know. Yeah, obligated. Five nights away, one hookup, faked an illness for the rest of the time

so he wouldn't share a bed. It was very uncomfortable. Oh, yeah. Maybe it's not worth going through it. Yeah. My partner and I go to Paris, the city of love, and he doesn't, if my partner and I go to Paris, the city of love,

and he doesn't propose in front of the Eiffel Tower, I'm catching the next flight home. No! Don't put that on him yeah the trouble is you'll be up there doing it with like

thousands of people 10 other people I know and also as a woman who went to Thailand for two weeks and every lovely vista looked at Aaron

sort of going and now you just ruin it for yourself you just ruin the holiday just enjoy it just force him to do it before you go

like Georgia did. And a big stuff you to her. And a big stuff you to Georgia Burt. Oh, I'm busting for a wheeze after that podcast, I'll tell you. It's a podcast. You are allowed to listen to it while you're wheezing. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a podcast. It just says here I'm busting for a weebs.

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