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The Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod.
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Let's turn our microphones on.
Oh my god.
This is outrageous.
I'm sorry for the sloppy start, New Zealand.
I heard the end of the news and Fletch is videoing me.
I don't even know where they are.
To send to Matthew Paul McLean.
Oh my god, I feel I did.
You are a mess. We're all a mess. Oh my God, I feel I did. You are a mess.
We're all a mess today,
actually.
Okay, I have an answer.
Yeah?
We've been messaging
our friend Maddie McLean
about last night's episode
of Season...
I should just play this audio.
Celebrity Treasure Island.
Do you reckon I should
just play this audio?
I don't want to skip...
Yeah, but don't say
what you think it says.
No, no, no, no.
I'm not going to say that.
I trust you,
but I just want to make sure.
I can't skip this ad. Just, you know, bloody goddamn ads. I'm sorry, New Zealand. Oh, okay, so this... Slop no, no. I'm not going to say that. I trust you, but just want to make sure. I can't skip this ad just yet.
Bloody goddamn ads.
I'm sorry, New Zealand.
Oh, okay.
Sloppy, sloppy broadcasting.
I didn't watch, but last night at the end of Celebrity Treasure Island,
Jordan, who does Lotto sometimes.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm 100% Sonia Gray when it comes to the Lotto.
I know you are.
You're a big Sonia Gray fan.
Oh, I was second guessing that.
Shoot.
The injustice of her elimination from Dancing with the Stars
hurt you in a way I've never seen.
It rolled me.
It rolled me.
So last night, Jordan betrayed national treasure Mary Landy.
Oh, she's a national treasure.
National treasure.
Is she still a subway operator?
I think so.
Yeah, she's got a subway.
Her and Jim Mora are my favourite broadcasting couple.
Yeah. Who's your second favourite broadcasting couple? Us, she's got a subway. Her and Jim Mora are my favourite broadcasting couple.
Who's your second favourite broadcasting couple?
Ah, say.
Nick and Rog.
Never dated.
What? They never dated.
Yeah, apparently.
Not what I heard.
Wow.
I think every male duo has had gay rumours and they lead the charge.
They played you guys.
Jordan Van Damme betrays Mary Lambie.
A national treasure.
A national treasure.
Won't save it from elimination.
And this is her reaction right at the end of the show.
She's rolling on the ground laughing.
Wow, she's lost.
You're a***ing...
F-U, clearly.
Yes, U, and then another F,
and then the mouthing led me to believe
National Treasure said a very naughty word.
F-U-U-F-ing something.
Something.
Wow.
Well, Matty McLean said he's seen the unedited clip.
It's F-U-U-F-ing-effer.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, right.
So three of the same F word.
Yes.
F-U-U-F-ing-F-er.
F-U-U-F-ing-F-er.
Okay, that's closer.
She's laughing.
That's closer.
What a way to go out.
She's gone out with a bang.
She looks maniacal.
Yeah, she does.
It's good stuff.
But anyway, that's all we're talking about.
That show does something to people, doesn't it?
It does.
Turns you into something you don't even
recognise. Yeah.
I wish they'd ask me to do it.
No, you don't want to do that. I was kidding.
Oh. I've asked a thousand
times. It's a hard no.
You get two, you get, there's no alcohol
for like two weeks. I'm out.
There's not enough food. I'd put
a clause in my contract,
tell you,
Prosecco's on the beach.
Yeah.
And a personal trainer six months in advance.
Yeah.
I'll be there skinny in a bikini.
Cash catch up this morning
again at eight o'clock
if you want to win some cash.
You can't eliminate me.
I'm looking the best I've ever looked.
The people must see.
Let the people see.
On the way to the top six.
Yeah, there is a time capsule. This is a classic. People are still doing time top six. Yeah, there is a time capsule.
This is a classic.
People still doing time capsules?
Yeah, although this one, they reckon, could be one of the oldest ever.
Yeah.
1,700.
It may have been the original time capsule.
Well, I've got the top six things to go on a 2023 time capsule.
COVID test.
This is 2023.
COVID test. That would be 2020. That's triggering. This is 2023. COVID test.
That would be 2020.
That's triggering.
Yeah, true.
22, 23.
But nah, people aren't even doing it anymore.
I did one the other day.
Yeah, I've done one recently.
Tell you what, when you're not hoovering it daily,
the nausea starts to really tighten up.
It's tightening up for you.
Yeah, mine's sealed back over.
Yeah.
Next on the show.
We're going to talk about breath tests.
Oh, it's not a good week for the New Zealand police.
It's really not a good week for the New Zealand police.
Oh, and you're big ups to the New Zealand police.
We talk about, was it a Wellington cop shot himself in the foot?
Yeah.
Accidentally.
Look, not the best week.
We'll dive into that next.
It's milking.
It's milking.
It's actually some hot content we should do.
The country's nicest tap water.
It's Petone.
It's Petone in the heart.
They've got that spring, you know, the fresh spring.
And you go on Jackson Street, you can go and fill up
all your things from the spring. Oh, dude, I love
filling up, because at the top of the Kaimo Rangers,
there's a spring there, and I'll jerk straight out of that.
Beautiful. Well, Hayley, just while
that Taylor Swift song was ending, said Taranaki,
or New Plymouth, has terrible
water. Big, thick, milky water.
It's horrendous. Heavy. It's almost
as bad as Tauranga. Not quite.
That's a milky water.
Wellington Central's pretty heavy.
But you know a lot of the Auckland water can be from the Waikato, right?
Oh, yeah, no.
I wouldn't even touch Auckland water.
Have you driven past that?
Oh, no.
That's the water I drink.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Out the tap.
Oh, well.
This is not milky like your hometown.
Anyway, the New Zealand police have issued a statement apologising
for a mistake made
when someone pulled up.
His name is TJ. He owned the vehicle.
He was in a 1964
Chevrolet Impala.
Oh, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala?
That's Snoop Dogg. Is it? Oh, really?
Snoop Dogg sings about a 1964 Impala.
What does he say?
Come on, white guy.
He's drinking his gin and juice.
And driving.
Rolling down the street, smoking Indo,
sipping on gin and juice,
laid back with my mind on my money
and my money on my mind.
For a shizzle.
For a shizzle.
Well, they got pulled over at a checkpoint.
Yeah.
And apparently this happened three times
over the course of a weekend
because they were heading to a,
like a car,
you know, what is it called?
Like a speedway.
Right.
Where I guess they're going,
people are drinking and people are driving.
Yeah.
So we're going to catch him.
But they pulled up and then the window comes down
and the police officer breathalyses the passenger
because it's a left-hand drive.
Oh yeah, they walk up.
You would think outside of, this would not be the only left-hand drive. Oh, yeah, they walk up. You would think outside of,
this would not be
the only left-hand drive
going to a speedway event.
I'd say the 99%
of left-hand drive cars
are owned by people
who go to speedways.
So the female officer
winds down,
asks the passenger,
say, how are you?
Yeah, good.
You guys having a good night?
Yeah, no problem.
Count to five.
Driving without a wheel again?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Classic. God, you guys are rogues. How guys having a good night? Yeah, no problem. Count to five. Driving without a wheel again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Classic.
God, you guys are rogues.
How past are you guys?
Jesus, where's your bloody wheel?
Breathe into this.
Count to five.
One, two, three, four, five.
And then it passes.
And she says,
Sweetass, see ya.
Off you go.
And they drive off
and they're filming the whole thing
and laughing about it afterwards.
Now, apparently this happened
three times over the weekend.
The first time another cop told the officer it was a left-hand drive.
Yeah.
The second time the person doing the breath test noticed it themselves.
This is the third time where they didn't notice at all,
so they just thought it was really funny.
Now, the driver did say he was the designated sober driver.
I mean, the passenger passed as well.
Yeah, yeah.
But the driver said I was the designated sober driver.
I would have passed with flying colours.
We just thought it was funny.
And the police were like, hey, mate, you know what?
This was a mistake.
You could have mentioned.
Yep.
Driver's over here, mate.
And they did it.
But, yeah.
Because if you're standing up.
Way funnier.
If you're standing up and the car comes along,
you probably wouldn't notice, would you?
Or so you're just going, you're just ushering them through,
ushering them through.
You're not looking at the wheel.
You're looking at the person
to see if they've got bleary eyes.
Yeah. And then breathalyze them and send
them on their way. My in-laws have
left-hand drive cars and we've driven
them places, like we got pulled over once
Oh no, it was just like a
random stop. That was stuff against people.
And then they walk up to the passengers and they're like, hello
Oh, what are you doing over there?
Come around, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, well, good for them.
12 past six next on the show.
Why working from home is not turning out good for a lot of people.
There's a lot of these stories lately.
I feel like the big management are trying to get everybody back to work.
100%.
Well, a lot of studies at the moment about working from home.
As you say, big office, want us back in the office.
Yeah, they really feel like they do.
They're bored.
Well, I guess they're paying for all this office space.
Yeah.
Want everyone back.
I mean, we work in a studio,
so we have to work in a studio at the office.
Yeah, moving going sucks.
Even if I worked in an office, I think I'd want to work in the office. Yeah, same. I just want to get out at the office. Yeah, moving going sucks. Even if I worked in an office,
I think I'd want to work in the office.
Yeah, same.
I just want to get out of the house.
Yeah, same.
I don't, where pleasure meets play,
I don't want to add work in there.
Yeah, 100%.
But they've studied 2,000 workers.
60% of them admit that they're unhealthier
working at home.
They've done like a bit of looking into like the food that they're unhealthier working at home. They've done a bit of looking into
the food that they're eating.
Working from home, people that work
from home consume nearly 800
extra calories
with hybrid working and they take
3,500 fewer steps.
Because you think you're working in the kitchen
or the bedroom.
And you're not driving and then walking from your car
to your desk. Or you're not walking around. Walking to your toilet. Yeah, exactly. Your you're not driving and then walking from your car to your desk. Or you're not walking around.
Walking to your toilet.
Yeah, exactly.
Your toilet, your kitchen at home are all like steps away.
And so it's making like people fatter in the study.
I feel like it could go either way because like I know my best friend who works from home a bit.
When she works from home, she cooks herself a really good like nutritious lunch.
Whereas when she's in the office, she more likely grabs
something. Yeah, saucy rolls.
So I guess it's like
when I
didn't have a real job
and I just flapped about the house,
I would always cook a
pretty good meal.
I feel like I'd be healthier
if I worked from home.
But I get it, man. If you've got a pantry full of schnacks, what's stopping you?
Oh, yeah.
And you can eat a big bag of chips, no judgment.
Whereas at work, if you just rocked out like a big bag of chips
and ate the whole thing, people would be like, oh, my God, are you okay?
Or even, yeah, a bag of lollies at work.
People would be like trying to eye them up or looking at you thinking,
you're eating a whole bag of lollies.
Yeah, you're disgusting.
Dude, you demolished that bag,
that packet of Jaffa Thins.
Oh, yum.
Are you still eating Jaffa Thins?
No, they're all gone.
Oh my God, they're top tier.
They're all gone.
Yeah.
They're top tier.
Shrews, Breeds, Hundreds and Thousands, Jaffa Thins.
All of those biscuits are not top tier biscuits.
They're top tier.
Jaffa Thins rules.
Squiggles are top tier biscuits.
Oh no, that's 100% a top tier biscuit.
That's a top tier biscuit.
I'm not disagreeing with you on that.
But you know you're eating a biscuit,
but like a Jaffa thing, you eat a half a pack,
and you're like, how did that happen?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the equivalent of two Tim Tam.
Yeah.
Play it.
ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Hats off to all the truckers this morning.
You're out there on the road.
Especially the bloody long haul we've been driving on all night.
However, there are a few amongst you who are garnering, shall we say.
Attention.
Garnering attention.
Jennifer garnering.
I was going to say Duncan garnering.
Duncan garnering.
Duncan garnering.
But some of you are doing TikTok Lives while driving your trucks.
Now, I'm not saying you're holding the phone. No, the phone's in a holder.
Yeah.
Much like if you were using it for traffic and like dodging traffic using Waze or Google Maps or whatever.
But it's live streaming.
And I remember I used to see this when I'd peruse TikTok Lives.
Yeah.
Just to see what new
zealanders who considered what they were doing so important other people should see it were up to
and there were so many truck drivers and it was just like the video was just of the road yep do
they do night time ones as well no this was at night okay because i didn't watch it during the
day yeah i assume it happens during the day. But it's happening like during the night.
What are they showing?
Just the road.
But it's night time.
Yeah.
They're just talking to people who are commenting,
which is the dangerous part because they're, you know.
You've got to read the question.
Oh, yeah.
It comes up small on the bottom and people are asking questions.
Yeah, right.
Oh, no, that's no good.
Yeah.
Crack down on that.
The best part was when you'd see a truck coming the other way
and you'd be like, well, you've got to do the thing
and then they'd flash their lights.
And then they'd flash and toot.
They'd flash their lights.
Yeah.
The flashlights are, like, if they really care about their trucks,
they'll put some Christmas lights.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some of them really light up.
Christmas lights, adjacent lights all over their truck
and they light up.
I can get why they do it, though,
because it would be so boring and lonely doing long haul.
You know what I mean?
My uncle was a long haul truck driver across Australia and he loved it.
Because it's just time alone.
He is Aspergic, so he loves his own company.
Is that the adjective for people with Aspergic?
Aspergic?
Aspergic.
I don't know.
I like it.
I might hyper fixate on that for a couple of days and come up with a better title.
Yeah.
But you know, like I can see why they would do it.
It's a bit of a company on the road.
It would make time fly.
Yeah, totally.
It's dangerous.
You can't be looking down at the little screen and not having your eyes on the road.
I mean, the little screen is also showing what's on the road, but it's little and you should probably just be concentrating on the road.
It does feel like an Osh issue.
Yeah.
Plus if you crash, it's all on there.
So it's hit the news and now people are concerned.
Yeah, yeah.
It's hit the news because people have noticed that
and somebody's asked, like, what's the deal?
And apparently in Australia earlier this year, it was also a big thing.
For?
Right.
A Spurge-ic uncle who's driving across the outback.
Yeah.
People were like, I understand why, but, like, this is also dangerous.
Yeah.
It's a distracting thing and you were effectively driving a huge battering ram.
Yeah.
Well, would you rather they were doing this or watching Netflix?
I'd rather they were listening on iHeartRadio
to a Fletch, Thorne and Hayley podcast.
They should be listening to podcasts or Talk Back Radio.
Which is the full season available now.
Or getting on the old CB.
Roger that, rubber ducky.
Yeah, rubber ducky.
What you doing tonight?
When my dad would drive trucks and we'd go with him.
That was my favourite part.
Yeah, right.
He said I wasn't to abuse the privilege.
No, you went a lot slower.
Has everybody got any eyes on the Maramaru?
It was truck driving in the 90s.
They didn't roll their eyes.
Maramaru.
Got anything about the bloody Red Fox Tavern Maramaru?
They're like, yeah, roger that.
Some little kid answering back.
Yeah, roger that.
Just came through
traffic's looking good
it was so much fun
he let you go on the CD
that's cute
but not
not to muck around
not to bloody muck around boy
you'll get a smack
get a smack
now that people
are TikTok live
I can only imagine
what Ian would think
of that in the trunk
I could ask him
that sounded like he was dead
he's not dead he's alive you could ask him but That sounded like he was dead. He's not dead.
You could ask him.
But then I have to
explain what TikTok Live is.
Can you text him now
because now I feel
you've cursed him.
You've cursed him.
Oh, what do you mean?
I've killed him.
Yeah, you've killed your father.
Text him.
Send him a text.
Play ZM's
Fletchford and Ailey.
Play ZM.
From the panoramic
ZM think tank, this is the top six.
Ba-ba-ba-ba.
Hello there.
A time capsule's been found.
It is believed to be the world's oldest time capsule, dated 1726, found in a Polish church spire.
Okay.
They're doing some renos and some stabilisation and such.
How do they know it's a time capsule?
Like, it could have just been someone's lunchbox.
It's got 1726 written on the front.
Oh, yeah.
And it was, like, locked.
That's pretty cool.
It's pretty rad, eh?
It's a rad, it looks like a little...
It's like a little, yeah, like a little...
What would you call that little case?
Yeah.
What happened in the year 1726?
I've no idea.
Go to the Wikipedia page of 1726.
Started on a Tuesday.
Oh, Newton William told the Supreme P. Isaac Stackley about his theory of gravity.
Huh.
What was Isaac Newton?
His theory.
Big births that year.
Lord Stirling,
American Brigadier General
during the Revolutionary War,
of course,
December 4th.
Oh, yeah.
Celebrate that.
It was a big year,
wasn't it?
It was a huge year.
Great day.
I can't see any other notes.
What was in there?
What was in this?
Time capsule.
Coins,
300-year-old coins,
a note. What did in there? What was in this time capsule? Coins. 300-year-old coins. A note.
What did it say?
Basically, like, back in five minutes.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, like, so many shops at the moment, there's not enough staff,
so they're like, I'll be back in ten.
Back in five.
Unattended.
Why don't you just tell us you're doing wheeze?
Yeah, going for a dump.
Like, you're doing wheeze.
Wheeze.
Yeah.
Wheeze.
Ten.
Be back soon.
That's a poof.
That's a two. Yeah. Wheeze. Team. Be back soon. That's a poof.
That's a two.
Yeah.
That's number two.
A lead bullet that had been shot into the casket and damaged some of the documents.
So they think it might be like a rogue bullet from like a world war.
Oh, wow. Because they said, yeah, it's entered post sealing.
Oh, cool.
So, oh, okay.
So it's had four packages.
It's got four packages in it.
Yeah.
1726, 1786, 1884, and 1914.
So they kept adding to it.
That's not how a time capture works.
That's not how it works,
you dum-dums.
That's not how it works,
but everybody forgot that it was there
after they, you know,
over 100 years ago
put some more stuff in.
In 1726,
three men were arrested
during a February raid
on Mother Claps Molly House
which is a coffee house catering to
homosexuals.
In 1726 I thought
gays were only invented in the 50s.
I just spat.
Like it was a hell of a
post-war, post-war
nuclear bombs.
Who didn't invent the gays?
Oppenheimer.
Did Oppenheimer invent the gays?
Oppenheimer invented the gays.
And that's what he said when he said,
he's like, I have unleashed something on the world.
The genie is out of the bottle.
He's like, I can't ever take this back.
And in 40 years, a woman called Christina Aguilera
is going to write a song about a genie coming out of a bottle
and the gays are going to love that.
And they are going to get dirty, filthy, nasty.
Yeah.
But tell you what, they party.
Yeah.
And I'll leave you with that.
And they bloody God do they wash.
My name is Oppenheimer.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
So I've got the top six things to put into a 2023 time capsule.
Guys, forewarning.
It's pretty grim out there.
Number six on the list of the top six things to go into a 2023 time capsule. Guys, forewarning. It's pretty grim out there. Number six on the list of the top six things
to go into a 2023
time capsule. Maybe a
sample of the floodwaters from all the
floods that have been happening around the world this year.
That's only a one in a hundred event.
Weirdly, it's a one in a
hundred year event that's happened on every
continent. And most
countries have reported
record amounts of flooding here at home.
Remember when Pakistan was one third underwater?
Floods in the US.
Hurricanes that bring it in and cause
surface flooding. All sorts of
from around. And also maybe get
a bit of that melted ice cap in there as well.
Just some water.
Did you see, is it Franz Joseph?
500 metres
in five years.
What?
That's how much it's retreated up the hill.
When you go and visit the glaciers, they have photos of over the years.
Yeah.
Last time I was here, like a year or two ago, and that's gone down so much.
Some old family slides that I've got, and I was looking through them,
and there was the glaciers in like the 60s, and we were poppers down there.
And then just all the way down to the black car park.
It's crazy, eh?
Yeah.
And he lit a tire.
There's another slide of him lighting a tire fire beside his kid.
Shut up, Freezy.
Ying and yang there.
These things are so, so cold.
Light a tire on fire.
Number five on the list, speaking of fires,
are the top six things to go into a 2023 time capsule.
Ash from some of the many, many wildfires.
Canada was on fire.
Hawaii was on fire.
Europe was on fire.
Australia started.
Australia is straight up like,
guys, this is going to be a very bad fire season.
Everybody behave.
So maybe a bit of ash from some of those wildfires can pop in there too.
Number four on the list of the top six things to go into a 2023 time capsule,
a Russian tank.
The Ukrainians.
In fact, the tank could be the time capsule.
Because those Ukrainians have got very good at disarming those tanks.
They have, yeah.
Very clever.
Number three on the list of the top six things to go into a 2023 time capsule,
the crown jewels.
Because Queen Elizabeth's not using them anymore.
The king got a new crown.
We could probably pop a few jewels in there.
That happened this year.
Number two on the list of the top six things
to go into a 2023 time capsule.
AI.
I'm finished with it, so.
Just pop it all in there.
I think we could pop that in the box.
Yeah.
And number one on the list of the top six things.
Make it a positive.
Yeah, it would be good to wrap this up on a positive.
I'm looking forward to this one.
Something good from the year so far.
The top six things to go into the 2023 time capsule.
Number one, Lisa Marie Presley, Tina Turner and Sinead O'Connor.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah, you said positive.
That really amplified the idea now.
Yeah, that sucks.
What a year it's been, eh?
You should look.
Yeah.
So I'm looking at the list of well-known people that have died this year.
It's a long list.
Like, I forgot half of these people were passed.
Yeah.
Crazy, but that's me at the end of every year, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Oh, my God, I forgot they died.
That is today's top six.
Play.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Okay, there is a law...
Shut up.
It's a fade out.
It's a lovely fade out.
Shut up, Tom.
There is a law firm, Irwin Mitchell.
Like, you know, I like it when it's just names.
Yeah, it's because of all the partners.
Yeah.
Yeah, they get together, don't they?
Brian, Chris and Todd.
No, they always use your last names.
Our would be, what,
Smith, Fletcher and Sproul.
Sproul doesn't go wrong.
It would be Sproul. Fletcher and Smith
sounds good. Fletcher, Smith
and Sproul. Well, I'm going to go to Fletcher and Smith.
Fletcher, Smith and Sproul.
We do sound a bit more like surveyors,
like quantity surveyors.
Who's polling well in the Fletcher Smiths' brow?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, this law firm has predicted that if someone was to get married in 2023
and it was to end in divorce, then 2031 would be their divorce date.
So they're lasting eight years.
The seven-year itch.
Okay, that's the average.
Wait, does the itch start again?
Oh, I've been through the itch.
When did you, how many years?
Seven years.
Yeah, yeah, seven-year itch.
Yeah, man.
Everyone talks about the seven-year itch.
And then, so when's your next seven-year itch?
When's your 14-year itch?
Oh, I don't know if it's circular.
I don't know if it just keeps happening every seven years.
No, it does.
2025 is my next seven-year itch.
It's like fleas. They can come back. They do. Well, you've got to keep on top of your treatment, don't you? Oh, is it. 2025 is my next seven-year itch. It's like fleas.
They can come back.
They do.
You've got to keep on top of your treatment, don't you?
Oh, is it not like chicken pox?
You get them once.
Are you putting the dab on the back of your neck?
No.
Don't touch it once you put it on there.
I want to clean it, though.
Yeah.
That's why you put it there
so you can't reach it.
I'd love to see you lick that off the back of your neck.
Seven-year itch.
Seven-year itch.
Is it cyclical?
The seven-year itch is probably
sometimes quoted as having psychological backing.
Happiness in a marriage or long term romantic relationships
declines after around seven years.
Well, hang on.
You guys have been together for,
you're almost up for a bloody third seven year itch.
Yeah, we are, aren't we?
Did your relationship go through a couple of itches?
There was a time when Vaughn announced on other shows, didn't you?
You'd go and join other shows and just talk on them.
Babe, we've talked about this and I don't want to argue in front of
I don't want to argue in front of you.
He would talk to other radio shows and I'd be like
how dare you? I'm right here.
I'm literally right here.
But I said it meant nothing and I was
back here. But that's when he told me he was
by radio.
By radial. By radial, sorry. He that's when he told me he was by radio. Yeah, I knew it. By radio.
By radio, sorry.
He prefers mornings, but he will afternoon.
Yeah, he will.
Sometimes you just want a little afternoon.
Yeah, every now and then.
But since I've known, it's been a lot easier to deal with.
Yeah, totally, because you're like, it's all right.
Because I just let him go.
Every Friday you're allowed to have an afternoon slot
and then back and breakfast on Monday.
Yeah, exactly.
We don't need to talk about what you did in the afternoon.
Yeah.
This law firm also, they analysed a lot of the divorce,
because they were divorce lawyers.
They would, yeah, they'd be dealing in divorces all the time
and they'd see how often they end.
Yeah, so they have all the data on their people, right?
Yeah.
And they said that the ideal age to get married
as a woman who literally turns 34
next week is between
28 and 32.
I've missed it.
You've missed it. What about men?
That's just
genderless.
28 to 32.
Lowest chance of divorce occurring in those
age groups if you were to get married at that age.
But you've been engaged so long and with Aaron so long,
you're technically married anyway.
I got engaged on my 29th birthday.
Yeah.
No, my 30th.
My 30th birthday.
Okay.
That's in the bracket.
You haven't even got married.
That's what they're saying.
Yeah, right. Okay.
Yeah.
So you're doomed? They're still saying, yeah, I. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. So you're doomed?
They're still saying...
So you're doomed?
Yeah, I'm doomed.
But why bother?
Yeah.
Save the money.
Most common length of opposite marriages...
Oh, I wonder if they've got the stats for same-sex.
No, they don't.
Homophobic.
They said that the same-sex marriages,
the most common length is eight years,
which is an increase from pre-2021.
We can't stand each other anymore.
The gays actually get the itch
a lot earlier than seven years. Yeah, seven
weeks.
Once they push past that,
they're mating for life.
So apparently it is
cyclical.
They've identified it.
They haven't dug down super deep because there's more to it.
Yeah.
But apparently it's not just in relationships.
It's jobs, living in houses.
People get seven year.
We're about to get our next seven year itch.
Year after next.
Year after.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
In total.
When you hit 21, 21 years.
Far out.
I don't want to be here for that.
I might pop out.
I might leave.
I might bounce out.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
I've got a rule.
I've got a deal with my mother.
My father never goes online, so this can be avoided for him.
Yeah, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law,
anybody that I'm likely to inherit money off
and I don't want it taken by a scammer.
I mean, people that I love and care for.
Yep.
And would hate to see them.
Of course.
Scammed.
To say, if you're ever in doubt, don't do anything or click any links,
screen cap it, send it to me and be like, is this a scam?
And I will not judge you.
I will just say, look, it looks like one.
Yep.
Let me have a little bit of a look, bit of a Google,
because often if you Google like the scam,
you'll see it and you'll be like,
hey, don't do that.
Yeah.
I mean, oftentimes it's ridiculous.
Have you been getting lots of phone calls lately?
I get them from Australia.
Yeah, I always do.
I never answer.
The Visa credit card system.
You have purchased.
Oh, no, I don't get those ones purchased a whole lot of iTunes cards.
It says you've never done this before,
so we have caught this as a precautionary thing.
Press 2, blah, blah, and I just hang up.
And that's when I'm assuming they get your details somehow.
I assume that's what it is.
But it's not just the baby boomers and the upper Xs
that have to be looked after.
It is Gen Z.
Gen Z are three times more likely to fall for online scams
than their boomer grandparents.
Yes, dum-dum Shannon.
And if we go to Shannon,
I believe when was the last time you fell for a scam?
Quite recent, but I get very close on the reg.
Look, I've said it before.
Thank God she's pretty.
Thank God, yeah.
And thank God.
It sucks as well
because my boyfriend
literally made a TV show
with Nigel Ladder
about scams
and he scammed people
and it was this whole thing
and that week
he was doing it
I got scammed
is he scamming you?
no
well maybe
I don't know
but I
he tried to not be patronising
but he was like
this is interesting
this is
the exact kind of person
we're studying at the moment.
I was like, aww.
So un-gullible.
You're a really kind person
and you're just beautiful.
And she's the inheritor of
Miss Legs Australia.
She fell for one as well.
It was Miss Legs Australia.
Your mum did.
We fell for the same toll road.
Even though you've never been on a toll road. No. I fell for the same toll road. Oh, yes. We both tried to pay for it.
Even though you've never been on a toll road.
No.
I'm on a 10-minute commute.
I love that.
You always know because it's always from an 021 number or something.
You're like, I don't think my bank has Vodafone.
So why are Gen Z falling for scams more than boomers?
Yeah, it is a lot more so.
5% of total boomers reported falling for a scam. 16% of total boomers reported falling for a scam.
16% of total Gen Z reported falling for a scam.
But then also boomers don't want to admit they've ever made a mistake.
So they may not admit it.
It could be a little bit higher.
And that's also what stops people reporting scams is they're embarrassed about it.
And they don't want to be like, they have to admit like, I've been scammed out of a whole lot of money.
And those people that go on the front page of the paper or, you know, they're online
and they're like, I got scammed $100,000.
It's like, I would never admit that.
Yeah, you'd feel like a fool.
Everybody's just laughing at you.
You watch those documentaries of people who lost money and sent money overseas and stuff.
Yeah.
They get sort of brainwarped and you can see how it happens.
Even after they've been told that they're scammed,
they'll quite often still be so caught up in it
that they won't believe their family that are like,
oh, no, you're being scammed.
They'll keep sending money to Julio Iglesias.
Julio Iglesias.
He sounds like he's Spanish, but he's actually from Nicaragua.
He's just there on holiday though
but he's stuck there
and he needs money to get home to his son,
Enrique Iglesias.
So apparently it's just because
Gen Z spend so much more time online
and live through social media accounts
that they are more likely to fall for scams
and have their social media accounts hijacked.
Your cash cows though are going to be your boomers
because the Gen Z, they don't have much money.
Yeah.
But then if you're getting $2 or $3 from a toll road,
you know, 3,000 times of Gen Z, it's a lot of money.
What I shared last week or the week before
that I got scammed by an online jumpsuit company.
Right?
Right?
I'd spent close to $100 on two cheap and cheerful jumpsuits.
Well, I got a shipping update the other day.
Oh, so you didn't get scammed?
Well, I don't know.
There's no...
I think the shipping update's another scam.
Shipment status updated.
It's got a tracking number.
Because I didn't cancel.
I'm following with great interest.
And nothing else has been taken from my account that I've seen.
Right.
I should check.
You really should.
That makes it sound like there's endless money in there.
There's not.
If you're a Gen Z listening now and you're a bit worried about a scam,
reach out to Vaughan.
He's here to help.
Yep.
Yep.
You don't mind?
Nah.
Absolutely not.
Just change your profile picture.
If you're in like a bikini on a beach before you message me,
just change that.
That's hard to explain to my wife.
Wait.
It is.
An attractive woman in her 20s is sending me screencams.
Play it.
ZM's Fletch Vodanade.
I saw this article yesterday and I said we simply must address it.
This has hit me in so many emotional parts of my body.
So there is a cat rescue, a charity called Coast to Coast Cat Rescue.
Now, I've just followed them on Facebook and I've given them a like.
Okay.
Is this where they make the cats do the running, the biking,
and the kayaking across the South Island?
Yeah, have you seen it?
And you go try to beat the cats and they run fast.
Yeah, the cats and the kayak is the funniest thing.
The key to it is that they live on one of the coasts
and they just take them to the other coast
because then they've got that instinctual tracking thing to get home.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Now, they're a charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming felines.
Now, you know how I feel about that.
I've got a rescue cat.
Same.
No.
I rescued my cat.
I've told you so. Why do I have to keep saying this? You rescued it from a breeder. I rescued my cat. I've told you so.
Why do I have to keep saying this?
You rescued it from a breeder.
I rescued my cat from a breeder.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And how much did you pay?
Well, it was ransom money.
Whatever makes you feel better.
Now, Coast to Coast Cat Rescue is launching a new program called Companion Cats,
where they are pairing up the elderly,
and you know how I feel about the elderly,
with these older cats, adult cats,
and they're pairing them up in a win-win situation
for both the person and the cat.
And it gives them something to love,
it gives them company,
and apparently it's changing lives.
So they've got local business sponsorships.
You know, they're a charity.
They take donations, and it covers all the costs associated with the companion cat.
So the seniors don't have any financial burden of chipping it and cutting its balls off.
Man, feeding animals is costing a fortune at the moment.
Well, you've got like a hundred.
You need to start eating some of them. Get the cost down. No, no, those animals, I fortune at the moment. Well, you've got like a hundred. You're not eating some of them.
Get the cost down.
No, no, those animals, I'm talking the dogs.
Oh, my God.
Dogs and cats.
So food, kitty litter, flea and worm treatments,
all your sort of ongoing costs for the cat and medical care.
So if it got, you know, stuck in the lawnmower or something.
No, that's a put down.
Well, you don't know, it might have just mangled one leg
and then you've got a three-legged cat.
Cute.
So that's all covered
and the cat can be returned at any time.
Oh, that's nice.
So if you don't have a spiritual bond,
hard for the cat though.
Cats are very sort of, you know, territorial.
Is it like the ads that I constantly get on podcasts
for better health?
If I'm not enjoying the therapist,
I can change to another therapist at any time.
Yeah, at any time.
As I like the cat,
I'm like, no, this one sucks.
Yeah.
Can I have another cat?
Yeah.
A less scratchy one.
Yeah.
This is like heartfelt and touching.
What's that old person show you like?
Oh, my God.
Rest Homes.
Old folks home for kindergarten kids or something.
Yeah, for four-year-olds.
For four-year-olds.
Oh, my God.
I know, because it's the thing, like, loneliness is such a huge problem
and it's terribly sad for old people.
So these cats are just little companions.
They sit on their laps.
Personally, I can't wait to be a lonely old person.
Yeah, no, before your cats.
That's just me.
No cats.
Oh, my God.
Scientific.
No indoor pets.
Scientific evidence has shown that a cat's purr can calm your nervous system
and lower your blood pressure.
Really?
Because it gave me a hell of a fright
when at one o'clock this morning,
the cat bound out of the hot water cupboard
and started meowing and purring and then jumped on the bed.
And then I couldn't get back to sleep for a long time.
I would say that had the exact opposite effect.
No, but these are old cats.
You've got kittens.
They're boisterous.
Old cats, old people.
It's a win-win.
Once an arsehole, always an arsehole.
That's why I take on the cat. Silly, silly, silly daddy. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole.
Silly little pole.
Silly little pole.
Today's Silly Little Pole.
What would you rather have exposed, your notes app or your group chat?
Everybody's like freaking out about their notes app, so I'm looking,
and it's just nothing in here could get me in trouble.
I've got a lemon chicken sauce recipe.
Oh, pass that on.
I've got a lot of TV shows and podcasts and books
that I have added to my watch or read list.
Yep, there's always one of those.
But nothing scandalous.
And I'm absolutely shocked at these parole results
because I honestly thought group chats would be the most scandalous thing to have leaked.
Because I use my notes sometimes to communicate silently to people
when I don't want them, you know?
Like I just saw some on my notes app.
This driver keeps going 25 kilometres over the speed limit.
Oh, yeah, we've all done that.
And then this one I think was for Josh Thompson.
These seats are making my butt itchy.
That was from the Seven Days Tour.
I also write a lot of jokes,
unformed jokes.
I write joke,
and then I write a thought starter
or something like that,
and if people read those,
it'd be so embarrassing.
I just read one.
It's not funny at all.
Listen to this.
But could the contents of this unfunny joke
cost you your career?
Because there's group chats that probably could.
Yeah, actually. Old Smithy loves
a goss, doesn't he? Oh, the goss,
not even the goss, it's just some like
out of context comments
or jokes, personal jokes.
Or like, we're in a lot of group chats
where the roasting is
full noise. Yeah.
Phenomenal.
But, you know.
Well, the poll results are in, and 27% of people, which would you rather have exposed,
27% of people said group chat with your besties.
Yeah, wow. So that means, you know, nearly a third, two thirds of people are saying that.
I would say 27 is closer to a quarter than a third.
Yeah, it is actually.
You've stuffed up there.
Yeah, I wanted to round that, make it seem a little bit more even.
You've over-rounded.
A quarter and a half.
Three quarters would rather have their notes app.
What are people using notes for?
Producers, what did you vote for?
I said group chat.
Okay, yeah.
You would rather have your group chat exposed.
Yeah, I think so.
Because the notes app, I'm talking uni days.
It's very common for girls to write the boys they've hooked up with.
I did this.
What?
And I just checked my list and it's full named.
Like I put first, last name.
I don't want...
Good on you for knowing their last names.
Just for my notes.
Just for my notes. Just for my notes.
What was that last name?
Yeah.
Oh, sorry, before I go,
last name, please.
Last name.
Sometimes it's just a nickname.
It would be just a nickname, right?
Or a description.
Yeah.
Blonde, big guy.
My friends list actually has emojis
and each emoji relates to
a certain rating.
Oh, really?
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
I haven't hooked up
with anybody
since Notes app's
been a thing.
No.
Oh, hon.
Oh, babe.
Including my wife.
She's absolutely
stonewalled me.
Yeah.
Since our first date.
Born to set to use
a 1B5 or post-its,
didn't you?
Didn't need a 1B5.
There was a lot of pages
in that.
Just a single post-it would have taken care of the entire list.
I know a lot of girlies as well, and I've done this before.
If you've got a hard message to send, you'll pre-write it
in case you don't want to send it in the little box.
So pre-write them.
And I don't want those getting out.
Hi, Sally.
This is difficult for me to write,
but it's important I do so now
so you understand how I feel.
But before I do,
what was your last name?
Before I do,
I need to add you to my list.
Just really need that last name please Sally.
The vast majority of people
don't want people seeing what's in their notes
and messages in.
Alicia, no, no, no.
It's group chats.
Group chats.
Group chats,
they're significant
unless people write them to me.
Big chunk. But still a huge quarter. It's group chats. Group chats, right. Group chats, they're significantly less people than they're meant to be. Big chunk.
But still a huge quarter, just over a quarter.
Nearly a third.
I was edging towards a third.
Alicia says, the first time I opened the notes app was a few months ago to make lists of
foods I was going to try on a Europe trip.
So snoop away on my escargot and creme brulee to your heart's extent.
She'd never had creme brulee before.
You can get it anywhere. You can get creme brulee to your heart's extent. She'd never had creme brulee before. You can get it anywhere.
Creme brulee here.
Creme brulee rules.
You can get snails in the garden too.
I don't think they're quite the same.
You need to give them a wash.
And a bit of butter and garlic.
Make sure they've got no blitz in them.
Yeah.
The amount of times I've been in a homemade escargot and I get a little blitz in.
A little blitz in.
That'll really ruin the meal.
Josh says, bro, no one's getting the boys chat on record.
Right.
You're feral, I imagine.
Megan said, notes app is full of wholesome things like cute things my daughter says or dumb things my husband says, shopping lists, etc.
A chat with besties would surely result in being cut from other friend groups and disowned by family members.
Yeah.
That is so dangerous.
Well, it's like you don't want to overhear a conversation about you either, do you?
No.
Shay said, I would rather leak a nude than leak my chat.
Okay, that's a good one.
Would you rather have your nude leaked?
Yeah, a nude from when?
A nude from 2020, absolutely.
A nude from 2023, ain't no chance.
You don't get to choose.
No, no. But what about those luscious breasts't no chance. You don't get to choose. You don't get to choose.
No, no.
But what about those luscious breasts?
I know.
Give the people what they want.
I know.
What if it was top heavy?
Yeah.
From the ribcage up.
She's going 23.
Emma said, viewed notes app and then realised that I have all my usernames and passwords on there like the boomer millennial I am.
You might want to sort that out because if your phone gets stolen,
they've just got everything now.
My notes page has my practice conversations with people,
not my real ones.
Way more cringe.
Practice conversations?
Practice conversations.
Like, can't chat.
Is that a thing?
Do you do this?
Yeah, for sure.
Practice conversations.
Examples?
When we fired our last builder,
we wrote out the email before you send it because you don't wrote out a you know the email
before you send it
because you don't want to write it in the email
yeah
you just
write it in your notes
she's saying this is more of a conversation practice
not a message
she might be really good at arguing though
because she puts it down
what's a conversation practice
she works out
what they'll say back
she's like doing all the pack a path
ahead of time
yeah
Alan said,
I wake up in the night
and write my thoughts
in my notes app.
There's some real weird
stuff in there.
People don't even know
my strange dreams.
Not dirty.
She says in brackets
very quickly.
Really quickly.
Very defensive.
Group chat is mostly
about cats and fun things.
I don't tend to gossip
too much.
Maybe a little bit.
I'd love to hear
Grumpy Lisa's thoughts
on this one.
Did Grumpy Lisa
message?
Shannon's just going to check if we've got it.
We always like to...
I think if she ever does,
it's become a little bit of a tradition.
Yeah.
We'll include Grumpy Lisa's thoughts on it.
Mason said,
Notes app.
It's just shopping lists and carving records.
Group chat would end up with a few of us in jail
or at least a court appearance.
Oh, God.
At least a court appearance.
Yeah. That's not what you want. That's not what you want. No Grumpy Lisa. No Grumpy Lisa. jail or at least a court appearance. Oh God. At least a court appearance.
That's not what you want.
No grumpy Lisa.
No grumpy Lisa.
No grumpy Lisa feedback I don't think.
But you know you can guarantee it if grumpy Lisa responds to a silly little poll
in it. I'm going to say it.
Textbook grumpy fashion. We'll put it in the
results. 21 minutes away from
8 next on the show. A couple of C-lebs.
A couple of Kiwi C- lebs have had their image used.
They have.
Outrageous.
Play.
ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
The effervescent Hilary Barry.
Oh.
Or Hillsbaz.
National treasure, Hillsbaz.
Oh, my gosh, she's so sweet, and her husband's so lovely.
We love Mr. B.
Mr. B.
At Maddie McLean's wedding.
Good Lord.
He was a hit, wasn't he?
He was a very handsome man.
He's very handsome.
Very friendly.
He gets you going.
He gets me.
He's got my allergies all afluster.
Yeah.
So her image has been used recently to sell keto fat burning gummies.
And if I know Hilary Barry, one thing I know about her is she is a body positive quan that would not sell, use her image to sell keto gummies.
Were they also using Die Henwoods?
Die Henwoods had the same experience.
And I know...
I believe Tony Street.
Yeah, the lovely Tony Street.
Although, Vaughan, you're still...
Are you still beefing with her?
Correct.
Yeah.
It says,
Tony Street, in two months,
they lost 24 kilos without dieting,
without fasting,
using these gummies.
Now, that doesn't scream Tony Street, does it?
No, it's not.
And did Simon Callow... That's three kgs a week
without dieting. Yeah, the newsreader Simon
Delo, I believe he also had his images
at some stage. He's made a lean bean.
They've absolutely done Tony dirty here.
Oh my God! They've edited
previous photos. Jesus!
They've edited
previous photos
of her. Imagine if you
stretch a photo out of her. It's you, would you stretch a photo?
Absolutely.
It's insane.
But imagine if they used you and they,
but they Photoshopped the after.
Yeah.
They were like,
oh, this is me.
This is me.
And then they Photoshop you skinny
and they're like,
and that's the results.
You'd be like,
oh,
I can't believe they've done this.
Oh my God.
There's bloody Paula Bennett
selling these keto gummies.
I mean,
she was very open about her weight loss surgery as the start for her weight loss.
Ed Dye-Henwood's had it.
They're all just, their image has been used without their consent.
Yeah.
We were talking about this before the show and Shannon, producer Shannon, this happened
to you.
Yeah.
Not even a C-Lab.
No.
Whoa.
You're a nobody.
I'm a nobody.
Why would somebody use an utter nobody's
image? Just muck on the bottom of the
society's boot. Yeah.
It's just absolute scraps
of humanity. Okay.
Dust. You are the dust
that accumulates under the couch. I can't
even be bothered vacuuming you.
Wow.
Oh my God.
I might just go home early today.
You are the juice left in a bin
when the bag is taken out.
You need to be covered in hot water
and forgotten about.
Wow.
I'd say she's got a pretty good case
for a jar there.
You've got to laugh too
or it makes it way worse.
No, I think I just...
Laugh, damn it, Christina!
You're making us look like bullies!
God damn it!
Laugh!
This is a real dust behaviour.
All right, what have you got, meat juice?
So your photo...
Just kidding, just kidding.
Your photo was used.
Yeah, so someone...
It's because you're so hot.
It's because she's bloody beautiful.
You can't say that either.
I'll take that over meat juice.
I'll take anything now.
The pendulum swings.
So in 2021, so what, two years ago,
I got a notification saying that someone had followed me
and they were called Shannon Dot Trim.
And I was originally just Shannon Trim.
Right.
Oh, way to plug your social media.
No, well well I lost it
Oh that's right
They posted all these photos
of me with adult
things around me saying if you want
to see my OnlyFans
and they had this girl who looked quite
similar to me
That's Shannon and Trim
She's chucking the middle initial in there
But yeah they found this model who looked quite like just generic features.
She was blonde, but she had all these adult things with her.
They followed all of the men who followed me, including my bosses.
They followed my brother.
They followed all these men.
Oh my God.
And then I obviously reported the account.
All my friends were reporting it.
And then I got a notification saying your account has been deleted by Instagram
and they counter-reported me
and I got deleted as my own catfish.
Oh my God.
And I had had that Instagram since I was 13 years old.
The account had existed for years.
They wouldn't have used your account if you were bin juice.
So, you know, take it out bin juice.
I just want to really go on record and say you're not bin juice.
She's a fresh fruit salad.
Yeah, you know.
But yeah, they would use these like scandalous photos I just want to really go on record and say you're not bingeing. She's a fresh fruit salad. Yeah, you know.
But yeah, they would use these like scandalous photos and then the next photo would be a legit photo of me
and they kind of copied my feed but scattered it.
Oh my God.
Did they Photoshop your face on that woman?
No, she just looked kind of similar to me
and I guess amongst the feed of photos that were me
that they took from my account.
So I lost my Instagram and I submitted to Instagram my licence.
I had to submit all my ID, my passport,
everything to prove my identity and it still got denied.
So I had to make a brand new account.
Which is at Shannon J Tramm.
Yeah, I had to chuck a J in there.
So what happened to the account that was you?
The fake one.
It existed for a while but now when you search, I don't think
anything comes up. Right.
I reckon we should take some
calls and messages of when someone's used
your image. And you've just
been regular Jo Blogs.
Whether you're bin juice or you're
a fresh fruit salad or you're
mega famous. I know a girl who was
in a relationship and they'd used her
photos and made a Tinder.
And she was like, wait.
That sounds like a likely excuse.
Wow, yeah.
If a guy was pulling that shit, no one would believe him.
No one would believe a guy pulling that shit.
And she was in a happy long-term relationship.
But someone had just, because she had an open, I guess, Facebook or Instagram.
Yeah, right.
People used her photos and were catfishing people.
Yeah, I've had that once before.
We've talked about that.
We want to know
when someone used your image.
Probably without your consent.
Yeah, maybe you were
a stock image for something.
Yeah.
Or you ended up
advertising something online.
Yes, or you know,
you see those cafes
and they've got those wall stickers
of people sitting outside
and you're like, huh?
Or you go overseas
and they take a photo of you doing some,
I don't know, zip lining thing and then all of a sudden
you're the face of a Mexican zip line.
The balding, I got tagged in this thing and someone's like,
did you get this done?
And they'd used my face and the photo show would have looked like
if I got that tattooed balding stuff where it makes it look like
you've got like like.
What about those people that get filmed from behind for those like,
do you need to lose weight?
We want to know when someone's used your image.
Hilary Barry, the lovely Hilbaz.
Yeah.
People are using her image to sell.
Keto gummies.
Keto gummy bears.
Same with Tony Street, Di Henwood, Paula Bennett.
And we want to know just, if you've had this happen,
as a non-celebrity, have you had someone
use your image? It's a bit of bin juice.
The audacity to use your
image. Jack, good morning.
Morning, team. How we doing?
Did somebody use your image?
Yeah, so I was probably
in about my mid-twenties
and people said that there was like a tender going around
of this guy named Chris
who was 31 years old but using photos from when I was like 19.
Oh my God.
How embarrassing.
Was that when you look hottest, Jack?
Do you think you look hottest?
No, you're looking good now.
You're quite hot now.
Yeah, I'm quite hot now.
You sound hot.
You sound hot.
You do sound hot, but they're not going to use a minger, are they, if they're doing a fake account?
No, it is a compliment of sorts.
Where did they get the photos of you as a 19-year-old from?
I guess I got them off my Facebook.
Yeah.
It's quite a small town.
A lot of people were like, what's this?
Oh, wow.
Wait, did you have a partner?
No.
Okay, thank God.
It wasn't like a big deal, but also like, maybe they're getting matches and I'm not.
Yeah.
Taking your matches.
Congrats on being hot, Jack.
Yeah, well done.
Taking the compliment, I guess.
As horrible as it is.
We want to know when somebody's used your image.
Oh my God!
Listen to these.
These are hot off the press.
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
My daughter had an ex-friend steal her bikini pics from her social media
and set up an OnlyFans using her photos and was making money off them.
What?
Oh, my God.
I had someone use me and my partner's tape on Twitter
after my Snapchat got hacked last year.
Bit of a weird thing to come across.
You would hate that, Fletch, if your Snapchat got hacked.
That thing just dings the whole show.
Oh, my.
Oh, me, oh, my.
I had a family photo at Kelly Tarleton's in the 1990s.
Okay, where's this going?
And then our friend was in Tokyo on holiday,
and it was the size of a billboard.
It was my family promoting Kelly Tarleton's in Japan.
What?
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. They don't chuck bin juice on a billboard. It was my family promoting Kelly Tartan's in Japan. What? Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
They don't chuck bin juice on a billboard in Tokyo, though.
No, they don't.
Good-looking family.
I want to see the photo.
If you can send that in, that'd be great.
Catherine, good morning.
When did somebody use your image?
Morning, guys.
How are you?
Good.
Very good.
Thank you.
Very well.
So when I was at university, I broke my leg and used an electric wheelchair to get around because I couldn't walk.
Lazy.
What about crutches?
Catherine, was it a bit much?
Yeah, lazy.
Could you use crutches?
Even those scooters where you've got a leg up, they're a bit look at me, aren't they?
Yeah.
Go on, Catherine, please, please.
You were in pain, you had a broken leg.
Thank you.
Yes, I had my photo taken,
and then I became the poster girl for disability services in this perspective.
Oh, no.
That's not.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You were temporarily.
That's you.
Now you're going to be able-shamed.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Well, this is as bad as when on Glee,
that guy in the wheelchair,
it turns out he wasn't even in a wheelchair.
Oh my God, and the guy on Superstore, he's not even in a wheelchair.
Are you kidding me?
No, he's in room.
Artie from Glee and bloody Catherine over here.
Catherine.
All cancelled.
Thank you, Catherine.
Listen to this story.
It wasn't my image that was used, but after my previous partner died,
sorry to hear that,
someone made a Facebook with his name and image and started messaging me saying
I miss you.
That's dark.
That is so manipulative.
Oh my god, that's sad.
My husband's ex used my Facebook
profile picture to make an ad
and she put it in the paper saying I was a sex worker
with all my details.
Oh my god!
That's defamation, right? You could
totally take them. Okay, here's another one.
We just had Catherine
Abel washing.
Someone said,
at uni, there was a picture of me
one day and I was like, from a distance, I was like,
is that me? And I got closer and I was like, oh no.
And it was like, I am brown
but I'm not Maori and I was being used to promote Maori language. I was like, oh no. And it was like, I am brown, but I'm not Maori. And I was being used to promote Maori.
Oh no.
I don't,
I am a,
I didn't do this.
I didn't do this.
Now we've been talking about the,
the observations that people are making about men and women
and the things that we do and think about.
The Roman Empire.
Men have a favourite war.
Two.
Men think that they can...
How embarrassing it was, Vietnam.
So embarrassing.
It was.
It usually wasn't.
Men think that they can land a plane.
Yep, yep.
Women are thinking of being kidnapped.
And now people are noticing that the girlies,
we have small TVs and we don't care.
Yes, you do.
You buy small TVs.
We buy small TVs. It's just a small screen thing.
You could be watching a show on television,
but you'll turn your phone sideways and watch it on the phone
sitting on the couch in front of the TV.
Put it on the big screen.
No, I love watching things on my laptop.
Only if you're bed-bound and there's no TV in your bedroom
or if you're on a plane or at the gym,
a TV should be watched on anything less than 65 inches.
Now, I will say I have a big TV now.
Yes.
That's not up, but when it is, it'll be great.
But before that, I had a very small TV, 30 inch.
That's embarrassing.
How did Aaron let that happen?
I don't know.
You emasculated him.
Yeah, I know, but we're more of an aesthetic house
and because we didn't have an aesthetic TV,
we were like, we'll just keep it small.
Poor fella.
Poor guy.
Hey, no, I'm going to turn things around next week.
I've never met a guy that says,
God, I love living in an aesthetic house.
Yes, he bloody loves it.
I love the theme of the house.
Actually, I was telling him about plans for the designs of the house
and he was like, no, I don't want to do it.
I said, just get out of my way.
Let me do what I want.
This is me when we've changed things or renovated in the past.
Shadow's like, what do you think?
I said, it just doesn't matter what I think, though, does it?
Well, it doesn't if you're going to be like that.
No, it didn't before I was going like this.
Now, can we ask our girlies, Shannon and Carwin,
do you have a small TV?
Yeah.
And it just doesn't bother me at all.
Yeah, you're just happy to watch anything on a screen.
Yeah.
How big are we talking?
Well, how big's a computer?
Like a computer monitor.
13 inches?
Yeah, bigger than that
for sure
but not
what like this big
like a half a metre
as big as this TV on the wall
oh no way smaller than that
oh my god
that's embarrassing
she must be rocking
some kind of 30 inch thing
and she's thick
like the back of it's quite
oh shame
wait have you got a booty back
yeah
but you don't need it
I'm watching below deck
I don't need HD
big booty back
the depth of the mag.
God, they used to really take up space.
They didn't take those HD cameras on board ships
to document the life below deck for you to watch it in fuzzy non-HD.
No, but then I feel like I'm on the boat.
Oh, my God.
How small is your telly?
Well, we have quite a big one, but it's because it's not mine.
Oh, because it's your boyfriend's.
Yeah, okay. But before that, I had maybe like a, what's a standard, like a it's because it's not mine. Oh, because it's your boyfriend's. Yeah, okay.
But before that, I had maybe like a, what's the standard?
Like a 25-inch, 27-inch.
Ew, that's so small.
But it's not the 1980s.
What am I doing?
I'm just watching Gossip Girl on it, you know?
Like, Glee doesn't need to be high definition.
Jared, you live with a woman.
You're rocking a small telly?
Have you enforced a larger telly role?
We're rocking a smaller telly, but because the big telly broke.
Oh, yeah, right.
You've downgraded.
But our small telly's
maybe a little bit smaller
than a wall TV.
Oh, yeah.
40 inches?
42.
You're doing me.
Okay.
Yeah, you can.
We're down from a 58-inch, though.
Oh, babe.
Oh, babe.
I miss it.
How big's yours, Fletch?
75.
65. Oh, wow, mine's bigger. It'sletch? 75 65 Oh wow mine's bigger
It's mine that's 75
Yeah that's the one I've got
And then when I got 75
I was like
I'm gonna next time
I get a TV
It's gonna be 85
Do you know I'm ready
For an 85
Yeah
No you're not
Yeah
No you're not
I am
Not in your set up
It is
No I don't care
You've got your TV
Too high by the way
We need to bring that down
Do you think the TV
Is too high
Too high There's a ratio It's gotta be at eye line When you're sitting down We did the powering Is the TV too high, by the way? We need to bring that down. Do you think the TV's too high?
There's a ratio.
It's got to be at eye line when you're sitting down, right? We did the powering in our wall for our TV,
and I was like, we're going to bring it down.
Vaughan's is too high.
No, I like it up there.
Because you can see it from the dining table.
Yeah, I know.
Because you're a man.
You're a father, and you stand to watch TV.
I will 100% walk around watching TV.
That's what's happened.
You're a man, father.
What are you watching here?
Yeah.
Hands on hips.
What's Mr. Beast up to? Oh, yeah, what's that? This is how I watch man, father. What are you watching here? Yeah. Mr. Beast. Hands on hips. Look, there they are.
What's Mr. Beast up to?
Oh, yeah, what's that?
This is how I watch Mr. Beast.
What is this bloody guy?
What's he got?
Oh, God.
Who has the budget on this?
Why don't you kids watch something with a bit of story?
He's got his own chocolate bars?
What's he doing here?
He's flying in all...
You know what he did last week?
What?
What did he do?
He flew in all the different prices of flight things.
He was like, this is the cheapest you can fly.
And they flew economy.
And then he's like, this is what premium economy looks like.
And this is business class.
And this is first class.
And this is Emirates cabin.
I love that.
And he just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars taking these shithead mates on all these flights around the world.
What did I have to do?
I had to go outside in the rain and clean up a bloody mess.
Who's the real Mr. Beast around here?
Jared says he knows.
Producer Jared knows someone with a 98-incher.
Oh, that's too big.
Yeah.
Is that cinema?
You've almost got a mini cinema.
It takes up not the whole wall of his living room because he's quite rich,
but it's probably, it feels like this giant glass window in front of me.
Have you got rich friends?
Yeah, one of Emma's mates is dating a CEO of the New Zealand company.
That's hot.
Yeah, that's hot.
That's hot.
That's a CEO TV.
That's hot.
He's the real Mr. Beast.
I always think when you walk into someone's house
and if they've got a nice big TV and it's wall-mounted,
I always think, I don't know right for themselves.
If it's on a cabinet and it's small.
Shannon's bigger. Shannon's big here.
Big fat ass out the back.
Yeah, gross big CRT thing.
They invite you around to watch something.
Do you have bunny ears on top?
Do you guys want to watch the All Blacks?
And you're like, I don't even really care about sports.
Up the waz.
2024 is going to be our season.
But don't invite people around to watch sports at your house
if we're sitting around a 30-something inch television.
We're certainly not going to
Shannon's for any kind of viewing party ever.
Not with a 30 inch computer monitor.
We don't have enough seating anyway.
You're meant to be!
Everybody happy to reallocate Shannon back to being
bin juice. Yeah, I think
this is big bin juice.
This is big couch dust energy.
Tinder in the US has started taking applications
for its premium tier subscription.
So at the moment on Tinder, there's different levels.
You might pay, I think it's like 30 bucks a month
or 20 something a month.
Right.
And it gives you more swipes, whatever.
But this premium service is aimed at the top 1% of Tinder users.
You've got to be invited and it will cost you 500 US dollars a month.
That's no.
It's just over 800 New Zealand dollars a month.
Oh.
That's expensive.
That is expensive. That is expensive.
When they say top 1% of users,
like that's the hot ones, right?
The ones with the algorithm.
Yeah, I was like,
how do you get invited?
The hot people don't need to pay for this.
Well, your hot people have got a good way to get in.
They've got to do it already.
It's the mingers that'll end up paying.
How do you get invited?
How do they know you earn lots of money?
No, so I think they just somehow work out from you using Tinder
if they want to invite you.
So that's what's making me think you've got to be hot
or somewhat of a regular user.
Yeah.
Before maybe they open it up to everybody.
500 a month.
Or maybe they won't.
You might as well hire a prostitute.
I wanted to say that but didn't.
But that's what I was thinking
Cheaper
Well yeah
If that's how much money we're bloody spending
I'm trying to find lovers
So what is weird is that this will give you
The option to be able to
If you see someone's profile
You can just message them
Right
Without even matching
I feel pestered by that That's pesty right Big pesty energy can just message them. Right. Without even matching.
Oh, I feel pestered by that. That's
pesty, right? Big pesty energy.
I didn't swipe you. Yeah, and then they're
messaging you saying, hey, you're hot.
How's about it? And I've already decided
that you're not. But they're paying $500
a month.
I'd say, Daddy, where'd you get all that money from?
They might have a big TV. I might say, Daddy, where's the money from?
Then they've got a 98-inch TV.
Yeah.
Oh, weird.
Hey, good on them for making money.
What's Tinder worth these days?
Tinder worth.
I don't know, because they own a whole bunch of...
$42 billion.
Yeah.
Ay!
They own a whole bunch of, like, I think they own other ones,
like OKCupid and Match Group.
Yeah, Match.
Match Group.
They own a bunch of them.
But, yeah, so you may be invited in the future
if you're one of Tinder's top 1%.
Fingers crossed.
And if you can afford $500 or $800 New Zealand dollars a month
for this service.
Nope.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day
Today's fact of the day
Anthony supplied this
Thank you Anthony
For Roman, ancient Rome
Fact of the day week themed
I still haven't really worked out how to say that.
Yeah.
Rolled off the tongue well.
This is because, and you would have seen this online,
guys, all they do is think about ancient Rome.
We think about Rome.
Yes.
Quite a lot.
This will get you thinking.
This will get you thinking.
Okay.
Because Anthony said,
have you heard of the Nemi ships of ancient Rome?
And I said, I haven't.
And now I've been reading about them.
Fascinating, yet puzzling. Because on a lake, Lake Nemi in
Italy, there were two large
ships constructed, pleasure barges,
that were destroyed by fire in World War II
after Mussolini had spent lots of money to get them up
as a sort of a look at our long history of naval pride.
Right.
Look at these beautiful ships that were built centuries ago.
They were built in 1 AD.
So by the time World War I happened,
these things were nearly 2,000 years old,
these ships that had been sitting on the bottom of Lake Nimi. Now
you might be thinking, ships on
a lake. How big is this lake?
Well, I've been googling
sizes of lakes that are comparable to
have two large
luxury pleasure ships
built on them. Did they do like a dinner
cruise? They did everything, dude.
I'll tell you more about that in a minute.
If I may tell you to localise
this, if you're familiar with Lake Pupuke
on the North Shore of Auckland? Nope.
That's a real... It's a small lake.
It's really deep though, isn't it? It's very deep. It's very
small. That's how big the lake was.
For Hamiltonians listening,
the Hamilton Lake. The one down by the
playground. Where are we at compared to
Lake Taupo? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
The most famous. Calm your farm.
I've gone too big.
Tiny.
You've gone way too big.
There would be larger lakes on farms than this lake.
And maybe like for Wellingtonians,
because I don't know of any lakes in Wellington.
No, neither.
Maybe like 10 bucket fountains.
Oh, okay.
I see.
No, maybe like 100.
100 bucket fountains.
Well, it was like the equivalent of like 1.1 square kilometres.
I've got a list of lakes here.
You know, there's over 3,000 lakes in this size around New Zealand.
Very interesting.
Now, I've kind of got lost a little bit down the rabbit hole of lakes around New Zealand,
but there's lots of local comparisons for how big a lake.
Christchurch, that poo pond.
Why doesn't Hagley Park have a lake?
Does it have a lake?
Doesn't it? No, Hagley Park. I did find a Christchurch, a comparable Christchurch lake that poo pond. Why doesn't Hagley Park have a lake? Does it have a lake? Doesn't it?
No, Hagley Park.
I did find a Christchurch, a comparable Christchurch lake,
and it's out of town a little bit.
Right.
So you'd start a petition.
Get Christchurch a lake.
Get a nice lake at Hagley Park.
Well, they've got the...
So we can go on rowboats and get some ducks and stuff.
They've got the punting down the bloody...
Get some ducks.
Yeah, I know.
That's a river, isn't it?
Well, you want to shoot the ducks on the Hagley Park lake.
No, just like get some ducks for the lake, I'm just saying.
Oh, yeah.
There's already ducks in there.
Ducks will just come to a lake, I think.
You don't need to get them.
You don't need to force them.
No, you've got to invite them.
You've got to start.
You've got to send out a couple of invites.
Facebook invites.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Come and check out this quacker of a new body of water.
They wouldn't say that.
They're not self-aware.
They don't.
Come on, Vaughn.
But wait, we're sending them Facebook invites,
but they're not going to get an absolute great pun.
Come on.
Can you take this seriously, please?
Ducks don't get puns, Vaughn.
Yeah.
God, he's a fool.
Sometimes I wonder if he's okay.
Come and live in LA for free.
You won't be billed.
They're not doing humour.
They are famously a humourless bird.
Oh, okay.
What is wrong with you?
Daffy Duck, of course.
Donald Duck, famously humorous.
Humourless.
Yeah, thank you.
Okay, so two of these big-ass boats were built on this lake.
Why?
Well, it was the lake apparently had a little bit of, like,
religious reasons, so, like, yeah,
your flitches roll in his eyes.
At the right, on a full moon, it would, like, fully reflect the lake.
Yeah, and a big image of Jesus.
Make it look, well, no, this was pre-Jesus.
Because it turned into a mirror and reflected Jesus from the clouds.
Yeah.
It was more like Egyptian.
You don't know.
Religions.
No, it says here, it says ISIS.
You don't know.
The Egyptian ISIS cult.
ISIS was certainly not around then.
They weren't driving around in Toyota Hiluxes.
There is a lake in Hagley Park.
Yeah, my sister-in-law just texted me saying,
ah, there is a lake.
They sail remote control boats on it.
Why haven't I ever seen this lake?
I'm going to look at that.
No, there's a river.
A river goes around the outside.
I know there's a river, Vaughan.
Pon the Avon. That's the river, right?
The Avon River.
Where's the lake in Higley? I'm going to keep going with what was on the ship.
You keep going. I'm going to have a look.
So when they finally got these up... Oh, it's big!
I can see it without even... Victoria Lake.
Look at that. There is a lake.
You didn't do a very good Google search, Vaughan.
I Googled Christchurch Lakes
and it gave me nothing.
It gave me one on the outskirts of town.
Yeah, no, this is good.
Yeah, that's a nice lake.
Shut up, Alice.
Alice has just messaged from Christchurch.
All our Christchurch listeners are very upset with us.
Thank you for getting in touch.
You know what?
Next time we're in Christchurch for work,
we're going to go to the lake and feed the ducks.
Who?
No, you can't feed them.
Who are humorless birds.
Don't do puns.
As we've established.
They love Facebook.
They can't.
Yeah, stop talking about.
Yeah, you'd go from the botanic gardens,
you'd go over and then Victoria Lake.
Oh, there's a public toilet nearby.
Oh, good.
Perfect.
That's what I like with my mates.
You know, you've worn.
Ducks, humorless, love bread, worn ducks. Ducks. Humulus.
Love bread. Have Facebook.
Go cruising old school styles.
That's what a duck does. Anyway these
boats. These boats. Shush and let me tell you about the boats.
When they finally got them. So fishermen
local fishermen knew about them. Wait there's two lakes.
Lake Albert is right next to Victoria Lake.
So they've actually got two lakes. Albert and Victoria.
King and Queen. That'll be why they've called them those.
So they the local fishermen knew about these boats for ages.
And when they wanted to sell things to tourists,
I'm talking hundreds of years ago,
they'd just drop hooks down until it grabbed something
and then just yank it and hope that they broke a bit off
and then they could sell it.
So people were doing this for a while.
So when they finally drained this lake pre-World War II,
Mussolini's like, drain it.
Let's get this out.
As I said before, let's show the people
what a wonderful naval history we had.
They'd kind of been pulled to bits.
But there were still things.
There's a museum dedicated to them.
You can go and see all the brass fittings.
But they said they had marble floors,
mosaic floor, heating and plumbing.
There were baths on the boat that pumped water in,
heated it.
You could bathe.
I'm guessing eat, drink. So very
similar to the inter-islander. Very
similar, except just on a lake. And there was two
of them on different sides of the lake. They believe
it was some sort of religious competition on
who could it be.
Again, Jesus didn't have skin in the game at this
stage of the proceedings.
The religion du jour was mostly just
Egyptian and Roman gods. But they had different sides of the proceedings. The religion du jour was mostly just Egyptian and Roman gods.
But they had different sides of the lakes with different
moons. And these two massive boats,
they brought them up in World War II,
and they were like, look, and then they got burnt
down. Okay, wrap it up. You've been going on too long.
They got burnt down.
I just can't believe how he thought that
ducks had a sense of humour. They famously
don't. The world's first luxury
cruisers were invented by the Romans,
but were on a small lake,
no bigger than Lake Victoria in Christchurch,
which I've known about for years.
Wait, is that the one with the step hump silver...
The one where the birds were impaling themselves on.
I have been to that lake.
Me too.
Oh, that's cute.
Less of a lake, more of a sizeable puddle.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah. today the impossible phone and topic uh this is a story that we think is hard yeah a topic that we
may not get many calls on hopefully we do on this one. It's very interesting. Oh yeah, so we got the idea from this news
story. An Ohio man was out
hiking and he'd had enough.
I want to go home.
We've all been there.
We've all been there. You thought, I'm going to go for a hike.
No training, nothing.
We've all been enough more than we can chew.
And that's when he decided
that rather than walk all the way back out
of the trail,
he would call 911 and fake a bear attack.
Yeah.
So that the helicopter had to come and rescue him.
Now, what did they say when they saw him and he had no scratches on him?
You should see the other guy.
When he called, he claimed to be near death,
suffering a head injury and being circled by bears.
Circled by bears.
Bears famously, like sharks, will circle you.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, when they obviously, when they picked him up,
there wasn't a scratch on him.
And they're like, well, what's happened?
I told you about that podcast about that guy
that did actually get attacked by bears and survived it.
Yeah, I've listened to that. It's
insane. Horrible. The bears.
He actually was very
intoxicated and
apologised for wasting their time. Wait, he's pissed
on a tramp. Yeah, he's pissed on a hive.
He was arrested
and charged with falsely reporting
an emergency incident, a misdemeanour
with a maximum penalty of six months in jail
or a $500 fine.
Do you know how much
it costs to get a chopper
in there?
Yeah, they're not cheap.
They're not cheap.
Even an ambulance,
they've got all medical
equipment in those choppers.
An ambulance is at least
a million dollars.
Yeah, ambulances in New Zealand
cost like a million bucks.
To buy?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
I thought you meant
like how much they charge you
to like go out for a call.
No, no.
It's no way it costs them a million dollars to have.
My marching coach left one in her memory.
And when we found out how much, we were like.
Yeah, but that NOS isn't free.
No, it's not.
It's not.
All the bandages and stuff.
So we want to ask this morning, 0800-DARLS-IT-M-9696.
Have you ever been helicoptered out?
Chopped it out of somewhere.
Airlifted out somewhere.
Exciting.
Just imagine that.
That's your first time on a helicopter for most people.
Yes.
My Nana went in one when, unfortunately, she passed away.
But she was in the North Hospital.
And they didn't have the right things.
They chop it at Auckland.
And she'd never been in the helicopter.
When she got to Auckland.
Yeah. Not in the chopper. That'd be pretty helicopter. When she got to Auckland. Yeah.
Not in the chopper.
That'd be pretty cool.
If you had to die.
Halfway to heaven already.
Halfway to heaven.
You know, taking a bit of the legwork at it for Jesus.
That would mean that heaven's at what?
Like 28,000 feet?
Yeah, have you ever been up there?
We've been above in a plane.
Earth's flat, man.
That's where God is.
Outside the dome.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Okay.
So 0800-DARLS-IT-M.
It's the impossible phone in topic
has anybody listening now
been helicoptered out
oh my god
exciting
yeah maybe you really
hurt yourself
and you
you've never been on
a helicopter right
I've never been on one
not even Felicia
they are the wildest
the first time I went on one
it was a small
like two seater one
which was scary enough
but that
when it leaves the ground it is the most unusual feeling.
It gives a little bit of a wobble, and then you're like,
oh, here we go.
And you're just like, no, no, no, no.
This is wildly unnatural.
That long flight we took from Auckland to Rotorua, that was wild, eh?
Because that was a long time in a helicopter.
Yeah.
And it was hooning.
Yeah.
Great.
Tell you what, the best way to get to Like Roto-Roa
Really so quick
So quick
But you know darling
We're masked
Oh my god
This was a work thing
We certainly were
Paying for that
0800
No
Fletch and I
Earning this sort of money
We were doing
Helicopter Roto-Roa
Have a nice boys weekend
And come home
Of course
I'm just saying
I'm asking you
To helicopter home To get around traffic.
Yeah.
Not a word of a lie.
0800 dials at M is the number.
Text through 9696 impossible phone and topic.
Have you ever been choppered out of somewhere?
Well, a man on a hike in Ohio had enough.
He was boozed.
He called 911, said he was surrounded by bears and had a head injury.
He just wanted to be
helicoptered out
what is
what
how wrong is your day gone
when you're alone
and drunk in the bush
like what's happened
where are your friends
why are you drunk
I know
that's a bad day
but it's the impossible
have you ever been
helicoptered out
not impossible
helicoptered out
by the way
we're hearing lots of people
who have just
farted
about in helicopters, which are cool stories. Like Jeff
said, when he was in
Florida, he got to do a police SWAT.
And he got to do
a drug bust by helicopter.
Couldn't chat, but wanted us to know.
I wanted to know that, thank you. Well, you can just go along
with the SWAT team, or is he actual police?
I think he was actual. I don't think they're just like, hey,
who wants to have a go at this?
There's a bit more to it. They'd be cool.
American police force?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Alright, we'll take some calls.
Jamie, have you been
helicoptered out?
I have, twice.
Twice?
Whoa!
Okay, you're bad luck.
What happened?
So the first time
I was maybe 19
we went with a group of friends for a walk up Mount Taranaki.
And I probably wasn't wearing the best shoes.
Anyway, on the way back down, I slipped a couple of times and I rolled my ankle really bad.
And I couldn't get back down and the ambulance couldn't come get me and get up to me.
So my friends had to put me on a wire fence to carry me back down to the ambulance couldn't come get me and get up to me. So my friends had to put me on a wire
fence to carry me back down to the
base and the helicopter had
to come get me that time. Oh my gosh.
That's embarrassing, isn't it? Wait, did you
break the ankle or was it just sprained?
No, I literally just sprained it.
Oh. You could have walked.
You could have walked. Did they send you a bill
for the helicopter? I didn't,
no. Oh, that's part of our beautiful healthcare system.
God, they're great, aren't they?
They do an amazing job.
And then this happened twice, though.
Yeah, twice.
So the second time I was on a family camping trip at Lake Waikato Moana.
Beautiful.
Yeah, it is beautiful there.
On the way home, we were driving around the windy roads and we got into a car crash.
And it wasn't anything serious
but I got really bad whiplash
and we were just worried
about my spine and stuff
I couldn't see
I want to be there when you roll your ankle
and get a whiplash and you're like helicopter now
Whiplash though
I suppose it is dangerous
I do want to say slightly
I want to see a broken spine.
I want to see a fractured femur.
Jamie, thank you.
The impossible phone-in topic.
We want to know if you've been helicoptered out.
So many people.
So many people.
You always see that chopper up there.
I guess it's going somewhere.
Yeah.
And the people who have been helicoptered are messaging in.
Listen to this one.
I got abandoned up Mount Ruapehu because the shuttle left without me.
They just sent a chopper.
Imagine just being up there like, guys.
How do I get down?
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
That's an expensive way to say hi.
That's you.
Sarah, you were choppered out.
Yeah, hi. Hi. I think she might be a Sarah more than a Sarah. Oh, I'm sorry It Out. Yeah, hi.
Hi.
I think she might be a Sarah more than a Sarah.
Oh, I'm sorry, Sarah.
Hi again.
Sorry, Sarah.
We do have a Sarah for next, though.
Ah, Sarah and Sarah.
Okay, Sarah.
Well, Sarah, I apologise.
When did you get Chop It Out?
So when I was 11, I was skiing on Ruapehu with my dad.
Oh, lovely.
And going up a rope toe.
So holding on to the rope, and when we got to the top,
dad hopped off, started going down the mountain.
I went to let go, and I couldn't let go.
And my jacket had gotten wound in with the rope.
She's going to lose an arm.
And so I literally
couldn't let go.
And my dad saw
what was happening and he was like, okay, she's
going to get a hell of a fright, but
she'll go over the safety brake and it'll be
fine. But I went over
the safety brake and it didn't stop.
She's not fine.
No, she's not fine.
Went through the machine
like into the, they had
there was a temporary one back in the day
that had massive big wheels.
Sarah's in the machine.
Did you rage against the machine?
No, she's in the machine.
I wasn't raging.
She's just Florence.
Anyway, a guy
that was nearby came and pulled the
brake until it stopped,
and it stopped, and then I had to get Chop It Off.
What happened to you?
They've got a burn in this unit.
I'm fine, totally fine, but I did have, like, burns on my arms and my back
and my face.
Oh, my God.
Did you get a lifetime pass to a soccer barbarian?
No, they gave me a pass for the next season,
but I didn't pass for the next season.
That's not enough.
It's lifetime, baby.
That's all I want, lifetime.
Did you get a nickname, Toe Rope?
Yeah.
I didn't.
I didn't.
Maybe it's taken a few years to be funny.
Oh, that's traumatic.
Yeah, yikes.
That morning, I'd asked my parents for a helmet,
which was quite unusual back then,
and the helmet, they had stopped and hired me one,
and the helmet had completely been cut out.
The helmet saved your life.
The helmet saved my life.
Pause for helmet.
How good are helmets?
Helmets are the best.
Helmets are fantastic.
Helmets protect our brains.
We're lucky to even talk to Sarah.
Sarah, thank you so much.
Let's go to Sarah now. Shit, this better even talk to Sarah. Sarah, thank you so much. Let's go to a Sarah now.
Shit, this better be good.
Sarah.
I've been spotted twice.
Oh, okay.
Did you get chewed up by a ski rope one of those times?
No.
First time came off my horse up Mount Poronga as a 12-year-old.
Okay.
And it damaged my spinal cord.
Oh, spinal cord.
See, that's worth a helicopter.
Not a sprained ankle.
Not a sprained ankle and what did she get?
A sore neck.
What was the second one, Sarah?
The second one was Mount River Payhoe.
I used to do competitive
skiing and I had a rock actually
go between my helmet line and my goggle line.
Stop it.
Oh my God.
A rock. So you fell over and hit a rock and it goggle line. Stop it. Oh my god. A rock. So you
fell over and hit a rock and it
went in between. It went in between.
So thankfully for having
the helmet and stuff.
Another round of applause for helmets.
Round of applause for helmets.
Can we give caller of the week to the helmet?
I mean the helmet.
We've got to give it to a human because the helmet
We didn't hear what happened here. The helmet, so the helmet donged.
What happened to you?
Did you get knocked out cold?
Yeah, I got knocked out cold.
They banana me, like took me down in a banana boat down to.
Ski patrol.
Ski patrol.
Yeah.
And they were trying to wake me up for over an hour before I finally came to.
And now you're alive.
And now I'm alive.
Give her a McCafe voucher.
We're going to give you the caller of the week $50 McCafe voucher.
Thanks to our mates at McCafe.
Not just for you, but also for the helmets.
For the helmets.
Thank you for all of our text messages.
So many.
So many.
So many.
Hundreds of texts.
Should we do a little potty spesh with some of these?
Or some stories of survival and then a helicopter ride.
Yeah.
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