ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 2nd June 2023

Episode Date: June 1, 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletchforn and Hayley Big Pod. Thanks to McCafe. Great things are brewing, one cup at a time. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletchforn and Hayley. It's three minutes past six. The day has arrived. The Long Weekend Group 2.

Woohoo! Just a couple of hours away. Eight o'clock, join us. Tell you what. Yeah? Traffic, common this morning. Oh, really? It's busy.

That motorway that I take, busy. Busy. Well, that's a good sign then. We want lots of cars out on the road. Yeah. So join us at 8 o'clock. Unless everybody was getting to work early so they could knock off early for the long weekend. Yeah, maybe.

Maybe. But then maybe people will hit the road early as well. Yeah. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe. Maybe. But then maybe people will hit the road early as well. Yeah. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, join us 8 o'clock in traffic with the horn at the ready for the long weekend group tour. Very excited about this. King's birthday on Monday.

The top six is coming up in Canada is trying to tackle smoking. Yeah, they're going to start printing the sort of messages we had on cigarette boxes. Yeah. On the individual cigarettes. Oh, my God. Yeah. So there's a, I don't know. Well, I was just about to say, I don't know if this ink's poison,

but then you're literally smoking poison. So I don't know if that's even on your radar. It's all poison. I don't think it matters. I don't know if that's your prerogative at this stage. But cigarettes are going to have individual warnings. The top six individual warnings I would print on cigarettes. Yes.

Oh, it'll be like, did you ever have like a pencil at school that had writing on it and then every time you sharpened it, the word got shorter and then disappeared? The famous, there's this very famous case of like a Life Education Trust type Harold the Giraffe situation going around in America with a pencil that said, too cool to do drugs. But when you sharpened it down, it said, too disappeared, cool to do drugs. And then eventually the last message it had on the short pencil was do drugs. Oh, my God. That's so good.

So you have to be very careful when you're smoking it down what's left on the cigarette. That's coming up in the top six. Next on the show though. Oh my god, the Barbie movie, which I'm so excited for. It's mid-July. We've got to wait till the middle of July. Is that right? Oh, something like that. Yeah, I'll have a look.

There's been a bit of a... July 22nd? That's my guess. What is it? I'm going to say July 13th. I'm going to say July 13th. I'm going to say July 20. Ah. July 20. I looked.

I googled. Well, yeah, it's cheap. Yeah. Anyway, the Barbie movie. It's the Thursday after we return from our holiday. Oh, well, let's go out. No, okay. No, that was good.

We went out last night. You hesitated. We went out last night. So we can't make plans for July? I'm done. It was nice to see you in real life, though. Yeah, it was nice to reconnect. Having only seen you on the Zoom for the last couple of weeks.

I even managed to bloody squeeze out a couple of cuddles from you. Only because I'd had a couple of wines. Yeah, he gets loose. He gets loose with his heart. Yeah, he gets loose. He gets loose. He gets loose with his heart. Yeah, he does. Anyway, the Barbie movie has caused a shortage of something worldwide. I'll tell you what it is next. We've all been watching the Barbie movie trailer.

It looks so good and so like genre bending. You know? They're in this Barbie world but then they go to the real world. It's not for kids. Yeah, it's what it looks like. But I don't think it's not not for kids. No, I think it's for everyone. Much like this show.

Yeah. But they might say balls every now and again kind of thing. Yeah, but... Who? Barbie? Yeah. Yeah. Surely they would only allude to the balls. Not say the balls.

In fact, I don't even think they have balls. No, they don't. No, they've got the mound. It will be an absolute crime if this Barbie movie happens and Ken's complete lack of genitals isn't addressed in some witty manner. I really do hope we get to see Ryan Gosling's mound. Yeah. I beg your pardon, sir.

And Barbie's nipple-less boobies. July 20, we find out. I think it's going to be one of those movies that's either, like you say, it's genre-bending, it's new, it's different, or it's just going to be really bad. Yeah. It feels like it's going to be one or the

other it's gonna it can't be in the middle it's either going to be incredible and wild or it's going to be really bad i'm so excited i'm such a but i was such a barbie girl i've still got them all they look like crap now but you know anyway but she so greta gerwig who's the the director she didn't want to use as much CGI at all. She was like, I want it to be real because Barbies were things that we touched and the moment we start making it all digital, you kind of lose that. So they had this massive soundstage that had the blue sky painted in it and parts of the Barbie world.

And they used so much pink paint on that set that they caused a global shortage of it. Oh my God. Wow. Because did they have to go down to like Mitre 10 and the person behind the counter does the drops? The machine? It goes drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop. Two of these, three of these.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't, I guess the drop, they would have run out of the pink. The pink drops, whatever's in the red. Yeah. Wow. So they had 100 samples of pink paints, and they narrowed down the whole set to 10 hues of pink. Right.

So if you look at it all, it's all painted in like 10 different hues of pink. And it just looks so... Like like it just is so spot on. Yeah. You know, like the whole fun of the world of Barbie just looks so good. Look, we went to a function last night. So many people in pink. Pink's back, baby.

I just feel like every season of pink. Pink's back. It's everywhere. Men in pink. Women in pink. Everybody. Well, I didn't see men in pink suits. I saw them in pink shirts underneath.

That's a new Will Smith film as well. Here come the men in pink. Here come the men in pink. I love pink. I love, like, I would say even through all my gothiness, and even though I don't wear it that much, I'd say pink is still my favourite colour. And when I see something that's pink, I'm like, ooh.

I'm, like, drawn to it. But if you. And when I see something that's pink, I'm like, ooh! I'm like drawn to it. But if you want to paint a room like a bedroom pink, can you do that now or is the shortage over? I believe the shortage is over. Right, but months ago you would have been tough out of luck. When they were making the set, you would have been absolutely tough out of luck. That's the saying.

I like reading articles like this. The psychology of pink. Oh, yeah. I this. The psychology of pink. Oh, yeah. I know. The psychology of pink totally changes your mood, right? I remember reading this. It is. It's linked to a reduction in aggressive behaviour and often they will use it

in holding cells for violent offenders as they've found it has been effective. Yeah. Some sports teams have painted the away team locker room pink at their home ground so it reduces your aggression before the game. Imagine the All Blacks getting changed in a pink changing room at the World Cup.

Yeah. It'll make you feel all happy. You'll be like, hee-hee. Well, every now and then a sports team will wear a pink, like a special pink sports, like a jersey. Yeah. Or maybe that reduces the... Because that's kind of the breast, if they're doing a breast cancer fundraiser.

Or if they're playing a team and they've got very similar colours. Our cricket team wears pink. The Blackcaps wore pink, haven't they? Yeah. My basketball team, Miami Heat, they wear pink a bit. They've rocked a pink. Yeah. Okay.

We love a pink. We do, we do. Play ZM a bit. They've rocked a pink. Yeah. Okay. We love a pink. We do, we do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. There is a female triathlete. That's when you run, you swim and you... What next? Well done. Who let her in there?

Well done. God, next thing they'll be making togs for. Vaughn, you won't believe this. They have.gs for. You won't believe this, they have. No, don't you dare. Yes, they have. Don't you dare. Now, her name is Emma Pallant-Brown. She is actually the world champion duathlon champion.

Well said. Wait, so what are her duathlon... What's in a duathlon? Well, a biathlon is the skiing and the shooting. And then at the end you celebrate with a man and a woman. I think this is a run and a bike. Duathlon. So they don't swim in a duathlon.

Or do they swim in a bike? Duolingo is not what I'm after. Thank you, Google. Duathlon is a running and cycling. So no swimming. No swimming. Anyway, so she's the world champion of this, but she was doing a triathlon.

Truck a swim in there. In Ibiza. Ooh. We're going to Ibiza. Hey, it's my pick for Friday Flashback. Maybe we'll do that. Back to the island. Anyway, so she was doing this, and she shared a photo online.

She came fourth, which is pretty massive. It was a huge event. Well, they had checked a swim in there. She probably didn't see that coming. Yeah, she was like, I thought this was the trip. And in the photo, she's wearing a one-piece leotard, or it's a swimsuit, and she's wearing a one-piece leotard, or it's a swimsuit. Yeah.

And she's got a little period stain, like little bits come through. And basically, so many people online were like, oh, my God, how embarrassing. Or like, God, I'd be mortified if that happened. Most people were probably pouring chips into their mouth, you know, when you get to the bottom of the bag. Yes. How embarrassing for this woman. Yeah, this absolute monster.

Like, yuck. She had a lot of comments from men being like, you know, yuck, put it away. And then she was basically like, she just shared it. And she was like, there's a number of things about being a female athlete. Part of it is, do you remember at the Olympics that year? And was it a diver or a swimmer? And then she was being interviewed at the end and they were like, how did it go?

And she's like, oh, I've got to tell you, I woke up with my period. So I was not in fine form. And everyone was like, as if we don't know that they happen. And she shared saying like, guys, like let me just explain to you. Because she's in a, she runs in her togs when she's in a high temperature area. So everything is really hot. And she tends to overheat.

So she was like, I just do the whole thing in these togs. And we were experimenting with lighter colors because the dark colors also attract heat. Oh, yeah. Because like a black will absorb the sun and the heat. Yeah, totally. So if you wear a white, it's better. Yeah, she's in a little baby pink. It always blows my mind that the black caps and the all blacks play in, like, all black.

Yes. And when it's the heat of the sun, like, that's got to be a disadvantage, right? Hell, yeah. Because you know when you're sitting there and the sun's attracted to your black t-shirt, you're like, oh, I need to get this off. And she was basically going like, also what's the problem? To edit it out and not share that photo just because of this little mark is to sort of

acknowledge that there's something wrong with it, which there's not. And I think a lot of people are like, hell yeah. As someone that doesn't get their period would there be would it be harder physically yeah because your temp your body temperature when you're menstruating is higher in general so that's not helpful and you do like a lot of people have pain or you feel sluggish like your hormones are at a totally different part of your cycle it does impact you so she was just like yeah well good on her well i'm not gonna do a triathlon with a big fat pad in there like that'd slow you down more than yeah the heat you know i just think this is awesome i mean like

young but like the shame you feel from these things happening, it shouldn't exist. It's just normal. It just so happens. Is there anybody, like, triathlete with poo pants? Oh, remember that? Because there was that woman who did a marathon, and she was going for a PB, remember?

And so she just cacked herself. Yeah, that's exactly the first article. So imagine that's your legacy of your time as a triathlete. A woman who pooped her pants halfway through a marathon and ran with it in her shorts until she finished the crossing line achieves a personal record.

Because she knew that if she stopped at the toilet, you would be like, ooh. And that's the first Google result. Yeah. She'd have such bad shaving. Yeah. Remember I shat myself on the Lime Scooter and that was on the Herald. But luckily that's way, it's on page five of the Google.

That's buried. Which nobody sees that. Nobody goes more than two pages, right? I just don't know how you'd run with a turd in your pants. Like is it liquidy or is it a little sharp? Or are we talking a full... It's not good. I just Googled Carl Fletcher lime scooter. Yeah.

No, it brings up Christine Fletcher because remember she had an issue with lime scooters. Yeah, she doesn't like lime scooters. Ten thoughts we had while riding lime scooters. Oh, that's good. It's been pushed down. Oh, yeah, it's right. In fact, it doesn't even come up.

It's buried. It's been buried.. Oh, yeah, it's right. In fact, it doesn't even come up. It's buried. It's been buried. I actually paid an organisation to bury that story. Prague. Bury it. Yeah. Were you in Prague? Yes, yeah, I was.

Because that was my defence was the cobblestones. Yeah, they shake it out of you. I did have a tummy bug. Fantastic. Fletch ZM wife. That's just all pictures of my wife. Yes. We can share.

People do often say to me, how are you, Vaughn? I said, I'm great. I'm great. I say, I'm great, thanks. Thanks for asking. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. For the cost of and Ailey. Play ZM. With the cost of living crisis, it's out of control.

Sushi costs $11.50 for six pieces. That blew your mind, didn't it? Wild. Well, you wouldn't even buy a pair of boots yesterday, even though you deserve it. Yeah. Why don't you have a shopping addiction like you do? I can see something and then think, I don't need to buy them now. Really?

I see things and I just go, that's going to improve the quality of my life. Buy now. Buy now, buy now. Buy now, buy now. So I've got a list of the top 10 most expensive household appliances to run. Oh, okay. This is good. Number 10 on the list, the microwave.

The microwave. I suppose because you don't use it all the time, right? It's not running all the time. But it would be cheaper, though, to run, to reheat. Say you were reheating some food. Cheaper in the microwave than the stove, right? Because the stove would take like 10 minutes. Do it in the oven.

Well, stove or oven. Stove top. Yeah. I'm gas. Oven. Like if you need to reheat some mince. That's why people love air fryers. Yeah. Because they're a teeny tiny little oven. And. I'm gas. I'm gas. Oven. Like if you need to reheat some mince. That's why people love air fryers. Yeah.

Because they're a teeny tiny little oven. And they use less power. And they heat up real quick and they do it quicker just because they're smaller and they've got the fan thing in it. Leave it too long and it gets pretty crispy. Yeah. So on average, 60 New Zealand dollars a year is spent on the microwave and our electricity bills.

The gas hob is in at number nine. Yeah, boy. Next on the list, the dishwasher. Now, dishwasher's on the list twice. It's in at number seven at 55 degrees. Uh-huh. So my dishwasher doesn't have, you know, like your laundry, your washing machine has a hot cold.

Yeah. Whereas ours is just like, mine's just like long or short. Like big long wash or a shorty wash. I just go for a short eco wash. Yeah, same. I'm eco. And feel good about

saving the planet. I can understand Fletch going on an eco wash, but you don't rinse your plates before you put them in the dishwasher. Yeah. You're not supposed to.

You're doing an eco wash. You're doing an eco wash. You've got to do a full hard wash if you've got bits of carrot in the dishwasher. Full hard wash. You've obviously to do full hard wash If you've got bits of carrot Full hard wash

You've obviously got a cheap dishwasher That can't handle the jandle So yeah dishwasher at 55 degrees number 8 Washing machine is number 7 on the list That costs on average about $80 a year to run And I'm assuming that's if you're on the cold wash

The kettle Is next on the cold wash. The kettle is next to the list. I can understand that because it really, because that was a thing in Britain, remember? They were like, everybody flicks their kettle on at the same time. When TV shows are real popular, they'll flick them on in the ad breaks and it puts a massive strain on the national grid. Yeah, well, this list is from Britain.

240 volts of intense element heating. Yeah. I always feel like kettles are the things that, like, cause a... What's it, you know, when you... A surge. A surge. It's always the kettle to blame.

So next on the list at number five of the most expensive household appliances to run, the dishwasher at 65 degrees. So a dishwasher with a hotter wash. Hotter wash, yeah. Next on the list, electric oven. Oh, yeah, I can understand that. So the oven.

Yeah, the oven. Yeah, that's the fourth most expensive appliance. The electric hob is next on the list. Number three, average house spending about $200 a year on just the stove. That's not cheap, is it? Next on the list, and your wife loves this one, the tumble dryer. Dude, I hate that.

Loves a tumble dryer. Loves a tumble dryer. She loves a tumble dryer. In summer, loves a tumble dryer. I mean, they do fluff the towels like nothing else. Yeah, I can understand a towel because it leaves, but then what you do is you dry the towel mostly outside,

and then you just give it a zhuzh. Yeah, that's why I used the dryer, just to finish sheets off in winter. And the tumble dryer, using on average about $250 a year. Oof. The most expensive thing in the house. Appliance. What do you think it is that I haven't said? What's even there?

Fridge. Yes. Because it runs the entire said? Fridge. Yes. Because it runs the entire time. Fridge, freezer. Running all the time. Some of them can be massive. I don't run mine all the time. I turn it off.

I'm not using it. You just turn it off. Yeah, yeah. I open it, have a look, just use the light and just turn it off. Could you do that for overnight or a few hours

but just not open the doors? No. But then it would probably work real hard when you flipped it back on. Oh, yeah. And it's that rule, right, of it's like air cons and spa pools. You're just best to leave it keeping itself at that heat rather than up and down, up and down, off and on, off and on. Wow.

It's the most expensive appliance to run. Yeah. Wow. What are you supposed to do? Chili bins and bags of ice. Do you think it's because you just always open the door and you're expecting food

to magically appear? I'd pay more for a fridge that magically appeared food in there. Yeah. How far away is that technology, please? Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. The long weekend group tape

returns this morning at 8 o'clock. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the Top 6. Hello there. I was just seriously wondering when everybody who smokes cigarettes know they're bad for you now, eh? Yeah. Just I don't think they care. Yeah.

That's why I'm wondering, like, why bother printing anything about them anymore? Yeah, it's not news to anyone. Yeah, that's why I'm wondering, why bother printing anything about them anymore? Yeah, it's not news to anyone. Yeah, that's actually a really good point. Like, surprise. Did you know this is bad for you? Everyone knows, right? You can taste it. You can feel it.

Canada will be the first country to print warning labels on each cigarette. And apparently the phrase they're going with is poison in every puff. Oh, but we've known that for a long time. And then Health Canada. So a little bit of advertising there for their health department. I wonder if brands could pay to advertise.

Come and see my comedy fest show. Hayley Sproul ailments. Hayley Sproul ailments. Book here. So it's going to be on the orange bit. So it's not a... Yeah, you know how we mentioned those pencils where they got shaved down?

Yeah. And the message changed? Oh, it's going to go round. Yeah, so it's always going to be there in the landfills and in the ocean. And just chucked on the ground. For a million years. Yeah.

Yeah. They want, in 2035, Canada wants the use of tobacco to be less than 5%. Currently, they're sitting at 10% of people over 15 who smoke tobacco cigarettes. And we mentioned yesterday, Kiwis, the biggest age group of smokers is the over 35s, isn't it? Yeah. Kind of the middle-aged. And the 60-year-olds. You don't know what's in those vapes, so I wouldn't touch those bloody things.

Probably poison. Yeah, when you go to the bloody, they have one of those voices. Karen. It's a little gin that you've always run into them down the club. Yep. Now, the club could be an RSA, it could be a cosy club. Yes. It could be the club.

Surf club. Yep. Love a Chardonnay. Yeah, yeah. What time's the meat raffle happening tonight? I've got five tickets. Yeah, a bloody kill for a chick. So the top six warnings on Canadian cigarettes that'll be written on them.

Number six on the list. Sorry, but you may die. I don't want to bring down the mood, eh? But you could die. Sorry. Sorry. Oh, they're so apologetic, the Canadians. Yeah, they are. Lovely manners.

Number five on the list of the top six warnings on Canadian cigarettes is, Oh, hey there, buddy. You're poisoning your lungs there, champ. These are long messages. Yeah, small writing. You're just going to use the whole cigarette, are you? Yeah, pretty much run it down the whole thing. Number four on the list are the top six warnings on Canadian cigarettes.

Well, these things might mean playing hockey hard there, bud. Ooh, yeah. Because you've got to get hockey in there. They all love playing hockey. Rink rats. I love them. Remember when you used to see the All Blacks in the 80s or there's footage of the All Blacks in the 70s

and then just walking around with a beer and a ciggy at halftime? Dude, no one did that better than NRL. Like rugby league in Australia or cricket. Cricket was a shocker. Those big mustachio days of like Alan Boone. Yeah. Who was that little? David Boone.

David Boone. And Alan Borda. Yeah. And Merv Hughes. No one had those big cigs and big mustachios and they're having a cig. Love the Derry. Drinks break,

they'd slam a couple of Fosters. Wild. Fosters. Dude, Australian cricket, Australian sport on a whole lot of Fosters. Number three on the list of the top six warnings on cigarettes.

Oh, hey there, pal. Did you know smokes can kill your stiffy, eh? Oh, no. Oh, no. Can they? Yeah. Oh, yeah. They cause impotence.y, eh? Oh, no. Oh, no. Can they? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because of the blood vessels.

Oh, right. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six warnings on Canadian cigarettes. Excuse me, buddy. Those things are a big no-no, eh? And number one. I apologize to any Canadian listeners. On the list of the top six warnings on cigarettes,

on Canadian cigarettes. Ooh, hey bud, these things are poisonous, eh? But you do look pretty cool, but they're poisonous, dude. Always polite, giving you a little something, taking away a little something. Those are the Canadians for you. That's today's top six. There's something in my urine.

Something's happening and I can't get to the bottom of it. Okay. Well, we're not doctors, so let us have a guess. Yeah. Well, this... You know how when you have like a Barocca, your urine goes a funny colour?

Yes. When you have asparagus, your urine's a bit funny. I feel like this is more embarrassing for guys Who use a urinal Yeah because you can see it Because you can see it Whereas women you have the individual cubicles

You flush and it's gone Yeah Whereas if you have a multivitamin Quite confronting Then you go for a wee at the gym or something It's like in a white urinal Yeah It's just like

Yeah Well something's happened to my urine I haven't changed away at the gym or something, it's like in a white urinal, it's just like, what? Yeah. Well, something's happened to my urine. I haven't changed. I changed brands of vitamins. I don't take a multi. I take, I like to curate my vitamin intake. Oh, okay.

You got one of those boxes with the sachets. God, no. God, they look terribly environmentally unfriendly. I don't want to know what the sachets are made of. I can't speak to it. Are these the ones? You go online and you say what you want and what's going on in your lifestyle

and then they're like, oh, you need these ones. And then they send you one and there's a sachet every day and you pour it in your hand and you chuck it in your gob. Right. Yeah, but then you've still got to take, you know, your bloody birth control, unless you could send them your birth control and your bloody happy medication and then see if they could put it into your packet. But I don't know, but my urine is like the most citrusy, greeny, fluoro-y colour.

What do you mean? Fluoro greengreen ways? Yeah, but like not all day, just like after I take my pills, but I can't figure out which one. I try to omit taking my ashwagandha. What's ashwagandha? It's supposed to try to calm me down. I don't know if you know this.

You're a bit much? I'm a bit much. Ashwagandha is a plant. She's a bit much. She's a bit much. Yeah a bit much Ashwagandha Is a plant She's a bit much She's a bit much Oh yeah I'm getting lots here Looks like a little berry situation Okay

Yeah And it's like a relaxant Or a Yeah Well it's supposed to be Help your body Support your body In times of stress

And my life Is a time of stress Ashwagandha is Sanskrit For smell of the horse You're pissing like a racehorse Pissing like a racehorse Yeah maybe that could be it Yeah Could be that Life is a time of stress. Ashwagandha is Sanskrit for smell of the horse. You're pissing like a racehorse. Pissing like a racehorse. Yeah, maybe that could be it. Yeah.

Could be that. Relieve stress, increase energy levels, and improve concentration. Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha. It's sort of like the new, you know, like everyone's like, you've got to take ashwagandha. I've never heard anyone say, you've got to take ashwagandha. Well, I'm telling you now. Take ashwagandha. Take ashwagandha. You've got to take Ashwagandha. Well, I'm telling you now. Take Ashwagandha.

Take Ashwagandha. I'm just on a multivitamin. Am I not doing enough? Are you on a centrum? I'm doing a centrum. I do the woman's. Do you know what? Sometimes I'll take a woman's multivitamin if there's no multivitamins

because I honestly don't believe there's any difference. Are you taking the ones with high folic acid so that you know if you want to get pregnant? Yeah, baby. It's a good baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do that and I eat a couple of slices of white bread every day to get my folic acid. Good stuff. Yeah.

Well, anyway, I don't know what, I can't get to the bottom of it, so. It's green? Yeah, I don't think it should be green. Have you asked our friend Dr. Shawnee? I think I might have to meet up for drinks with our friend Dr. Shawnee and just. And just give him another unpaid problem. What does green urine mean? Uh-oh.

The most common cause of green urine is medication, but foods and food diets can also cause it in rare cases... Oh, no, I'm not going to say that. It's got to be medication. Oh, am I dead? What? I'm not alive. What are you not telling me?

It's a cancer. You're going to need a couple of ashwagandhas. In rare cases, it can be a sign of a bacterial urinary tract infection. Oh, not another one, please. You are a huge fan of the UTI. Not another one. You'll have to add some cranberry hon to your ashwagandha. Oh, no, please, God, no.

That sounds like a good juice. Yeah. Cranberry and ashwagandha. Oh. And pineapple, just maybe for some sweetness. They're also playing at Laneway Festival next year. Ashwagandha. Cran year. Ashwagandha. Cranberry and ashwagandha.

Great, yeah. All right, get your tickets now because that'll sell out. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Thanks to the show sponsor. We've just done a little order, haven't we? Because some of the staff this morning are a little hungover. Some even slept in. Didn't they, Producer Jared?

Yeah. Big night last in. Didn't they, Producer Jared? Yeah. Big night last night. Big night. Look what the show's spent. I've got a moccacinio because I am not hungover, just more tired than anything because we're up until like 11, which is late for me. It's very late for you.

They put a little sticker over the hole so that it doesn't come out. That's a great idea. That's so neat. 10 out of 10. Thank you, Show's. That's forward-sending. Thank you. That's why they've been at the forefront.

Go eat your hash browns, producers. Eat your hash browns. So yesterday I was lined up to pay for some – again, I don't want to mention the place, but I was at a chemist. It was a big chemist, and I was in the line, and there't want to mention the place, but it was at a chemist. It was a big chemist. And it was in the line. And there were two ladies behind the counter. You know, they have a big serving counter with like five or six cash registers.

Tills. Yeah. You're not confusing it with the, you're not talking about the big pharmacy counter at the back where all the pharmacists are hovering. No, no. No, at the front. They're like higher than you.

The pharmacists. It's a power play. Why do they do that? It's because they don't feel, they feel small compared to doctors and dentists and other people in the medical professional. So they make their floor two foot higher. Exactly. So doctors still have to go to the pharmacy, you know, to get their stuff.

So they go in and they get to lord it over everybody. It's not that they care about lording it over us. It's only when the doctors come in. It's us as well. It's anyone get to lord it over everybody. It's not that they care about lording it over us. It's only when the doctors come in. It's us as well. It's anyone they can lord it over. Very insecure people. Yeah, right. I also think it's so that when you ask for something remotely embarrassing,

they can be well heard when they repeat it back to you. And it sort of shoots over the whole store. Did you say thrush? I'm like, thank you. Thrush prescription for Spr like, thank you. Thrush prescription for Sproul! Hayley! Oh, not again! Oh, God.

So there was someone in front of me was being served, and the lady was kind of ringing up all of her stuff. And the lady next, in the next counter, wasn't serving anyone. But she kind of, just as I got to the front of the line and the lady in front of me went to the cash register,

this woman that was spare turned away from me and just stared at the Opti Slim on the shelf behind her. And I was like, oh yeah, okay, well she must be sorting out something with the shelf behind. But she just, like she was like frozen. She just kept staring. She was rebooting. For a minute.

A minute. And I was like, is she, like, thinking about something or is she thinking about what's on the shelf? She wasn't touching anything on the shelf and there was nothing else around. I was like, she's pretending she's doing something so she doesn't have to serve me. It didn't seem like she was busy. It didn't seem like she, and I was like, she's pretending she's doing something so she doesn't have to serve me.

It didn't seem like she was busy. It didn't seem like she, and I was like, I wasn't angry. I was like, that's brilliant. Cause I would do this. I'd just fluff around behind the counter organizing things so I didn't have to serve customers. We used, I used to, I would do this. I used to go up to all the t-shirts in my store and knock them over so I could refold them just so that I didn't have to deal with anyone all the t-shirts in my store and knock them over so I could refold them just so that

I didn't have to deal with anyone at the counter. Because would you rather be doing that than ringing up customers? Yeah. I unfolded a t-shirt in a store yesterday and then I was like... I feel so guilty! Ah! I feel so guilty. Ah! Because they do the special fold and you never put it back

the same. I can see the fold marks. Yeah. I can see where the folds have to back the same. I can see the fold marks. Yeah. I can see where the folds have to happen. Yeah. I can just never do it. I'll teach you the fold so it never happens to you again. I had one of those plastic things that you put the t-shirt on and went, fold, fold, fold, fold. Well, you had one at home.

Yeah. Why? You just do that but without the plastic. You just hang them up or put them in the drawer. Yeah, you see, you're a man without a shared wardrobe. Oh, yeah. I have to share my wardrobe. And so there's no room for you.

So there's no room for t-shirt hanging. Yeah, right. T-shirt hanging's very luxurious. And you don't have to fold the washing. I mean, in all fairness, this woman actually could have been doing something very important. But it just looked like she was staring at nothing to get out of serving me.

And I wasn't mad. I was like, I'm impressed. That's something I would do. And this is what I wanted to ask this morning because I thought if I worked at a shoe store, one of those busy shoe stores, I'd just sit out the back with all the shoes for like half an hour.

Even if I knew that they needed the size up and I knew there was no shoes at the back, I'd be like, I'll just go have a look at the back. And I'd just sit there for 10 minutes. Come back, oh my god, sorry, we've got no size 8s. I'd be hunted everywhere. I was up a ladder even. I would also just prefer that they left. You'd just wait

so long that they left. I would almost, if there's a security camera I could watch, I'd just sit there watching. I'd be like, this is the most boring TV show in the world. I could make myself a star of it but I'm not going to. Oh, they're leaving. Roll credits. So I thought,

could we take some calls? How do you waste time at work or how do you look busy at work? Yeah, I love that. Like maybe, and then you're so busy, you look so busy at work that other workmates

don't bother you because they're like, oh, well I can't. Vaughan looks really busy but all he's doing is She's doing something. Tap, tap, tap don't bother you because they're like, oh, well, I can't. Vaughan looks really busy, but all he's doing is... She's doing something. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. Maybe even just watching Netflix, but still looking busy. Shuffling papers.

Shuffling folders, yep. Looking a little bit like stressed and that you've got three quarters of what you're after, but you don't have that last crucial quarter. Yes. Okay, well, how do you look busy at work? How do you slack off? Do you have any little cheats? Maybe you worked in retail back in the day like Hayley.

Oh, yeah. And you pretended to fold the T-shirts to get out of serving customers. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. We want to know how you look busy at work. If you have some tips for slacking off. Yep. I mean, I'm assuming, I mean, I was in line yesterday and a lady, I think she pretended to look busy.

So she didn't have to serve me. But she was doing a terrible job. You just said she was just staring straight at the Opti Slug. Yes. That's the opposite of looking busy. Like she was, I mean, she could have been fidgeting with stuff on the shelf. I would have been doing that. Yeah.

She looked lost. She looked like she was having a turn. She did. But I mean, I wasn't mad. How good is having a turn? Oh, oh. She's having a turn. It's not bad news.

Nan's had a turn. Oh, no. At what? On the what? On the what? On the PlayStation. I mean, I don't know if she did. Jo, what is your tip for slacking off, looking busy at work?

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. The key to looking really busy at work is walking really fast around the office, holding a piece of paper. Yes. Speed is key.

Speed is key. What kind of job do you do, Jo? Oh, I'm in an office environment in HR. Oh. HR. HR. Oh, my God. Finally, we can take all our complaints to HR.

Yeah, but personally, I am really busy. But a tip for other office workers, walk really fast, hold a piece of paper, or even if you want to look even busier, put a pen in your mouth and walk at the same time. Because then you can't talk because you've got a pen in your mouth. That's a fantastic gag. That is better. Wow. And that's coming from HR, so you know that's sanctioned.

Yeah. Love that. Jo, thanks for your call. We've had a call in. Ash has called. Good morning, Ash. Good morning. How are you guys?

Now, you work at a pharmacy. Do you have the pharmacist up on the pedestal, two foot above everybody else? That's me. You are that pharmacist. You're looking down at us. Wow. Like some sort of high court judge. When people come in, just a question for you, pharmacist.

When people come in and ask for thrush medication, why do you have to ask if it's oral or vaginal? You know what I'm asking for. Would you accept an open mouth as the answer for that? Just like, obviously not. Okay, so we do try to be as discreet as possible, Except an open mouth is the answer for that. Just like, obviously not. All right. Okay, so we do try to be as discreet as possible, but we do need to know what you are getting it for.

Because sometimes it's not for you and it's for the baby. And I have had situations. Yeah. I've had situations where I assumed that it was for, like, you know, the lady in front of me and it was for the other area. And the lady was like, no, it's for my baby. And I was very embarrassed. Oh, so that's why you asked.

Could Hayley just point down? No, I don't need to point down. I'm in there. It's the peak of summer and I'm wearing denim short shorts. What do you think it's for? If you don't want to say, you could just be like, not for mouth, and then we just know what you want. Or you could just be like, not for mouth, and then we just know what you want.

Or you could just be like, not that one, and then we know you're talking about the oral one, because that's what we're thinking about. Or what about hand a note over? Like you're doing a bank robbery. A drawing. Even better. Yeah.

Can I just get this? And it's just Hayley scribbling a note. Yeah. Okay. And if you have a picture on your phone of what you want as well, just show us the picture and we'll be able to tell. No, of the cream, Hayley. Yes, of the cream, Hayley. Thank you, sorry.

Ash doesn't need to see that, especially this early in the morning. Ash, how do you look busy at the pharmacy? Oh, so this might get me in trouble, but I just sit at the front and read the emails. Oh, yeah, right. There's not really that many emails. Maybe there's like five new emails a day, but I just read them multiple times.

What kind of emails does a pharmacist get? Like, pharmacist weekly? They're just mostly, like, ads from, like, companies advertising their products. Oh, Big Pharma. Big Pharma. Yeah, right. And then Pharmacist Weekly is like, do you want your lab coat to look whiter than white? Here's the top five tips to looking like the cleanest pharmacist.

Yeah, wow. I get multiple about lab equipment that we don't even use, but I research about the equipment. Of course, you have to. You've got to know. There you go. Fantastic. Ashley, thank you so much for the advice as well

and great tips for Hayley there. Yeah, thank you. That was really, really valuable for me. Have a great long weekend. Jess, what are the techniques to looking busy at work

when you're not really? So I did a summer over at Kmart. Okay. Wait, you're making Kmart sound like it's like a Fijian island.

Yeah, yeah. I did a summer at Disney. Okay, you went to Orlando. I did a summer making Kmart sound like it's like a Fijian island. Yeah, yeah. I did a summer at Disney. Okay, you went to Orlando. I did a summer at Kmart. Wow, how exotic of you. Did you come back with an accent? And there's two tips our cool manager gave us because I was in the clothing area. Oh, yeah.

And we have to deal with click and clicks and rude customers all the time. Yeah, I'm sorry. If you really don't want to deal with people, get the broom. There's no cameras in the changing areas. And just shut one of the doors. Take a breather for five minutes. And then act like you were sleeping the whole time. Wait, so you're literally just sitting in the changing rooms?

Yeah, for five minutes. Because you have to stand up your whole shift. Oh, right. Wait, so they know if you're not standing. They came out, like, rig you up with some sort of apparatus that'll be like, employee 455 is sitting. If you're on the floor. They're not as bad as the warehouse, but yes, they do. You get in trouble if you sit down while you're working. Jeez.

Oh, God. I'd just get a wheelchair. I'd get a wheelchair. They would never know. That's a bit problematic, though. Yeah, it is. It is. And then the second one is if there's a rude customer

and they ask you to get something, you go to the back. They encourage you to talk with your friends for five to ten minutes. Go back. Say, we tried everything, but friends for five to ten minutes. Go back. Say, we tried everything, but we can't find what you're after. That is hot. That is a hot play. Yeah, hot play. It's a hot play.

That is a hot play. It is. Jess, thanks. You called some messages in. I work in retail and doing the good old refill report. It means you get to go out back, find that stock that takes you a while, then come back out, tag, fold, or nobody bothers you. It's great.

So you're just kind of get a little on the spot. Good stuff. I used to be a principal at a school, and when I didn't want to be bothered by students or teachers, I put my headset on so everyone thought I was on a video call, meetings, or training, and they wouldn't come in. Yes. That's good. Put on the video headset and just stare at your computer.

And then just keep pointing to your headphones. Oh, I can't. I can't. Also, you're a principal. Just ring the bell and tell everyone to go home. Our principal at primary school used to play golf every Friday. Was that sanctioned? It doesn't sound like it.

Just go for a game of golf. Really? Shitty had a good straight drive on him, though. What was his handicap? Low, like single digits. Because at lunchtime, he used to go to one end of the field and whack the golf balls and us kids would be at the other end of the field trying to catch them. Now that's insane.

It certainly wouldn't happen nowadays, but he never lost a single golf ball. What about those days when they'd be like, all right, kids, you have to behave today because the inspectors are coming. ERO. Yes. Oh, my God. EROs, guys, I'm not going to, I'll give this to you straight. EROs coming and we're in big trouble.

Yeah, is he golfing on the day they're there? No, no, no, no, I don't think so. 728? Flight attendant. You go and sit in the toilet when you've got Wi-Fi on board. It was better because then you could play on your phone. Oh, yes. That's good fun.

Although, yuck, that's a toilet that like... Do they have their own special toilet? Flight attendants? I don't think so. I think they share. They've got their own little bunk beds underneath or above. Today, final rankings. This is going to be a little tricky because we're going to do plain food.

But then we thought... It's all the same. It's all the same, isn't it? You always get the same. You get a chicken option. You get a beef option. A fish option. Fish.

Or a vegetarian. Haven't had a good pork option. No. Never been off a pork on a plane. What do they do for vegetarian food on the plane? It's a celery. Sometimes they'll do that cold pasta salad. Oh, yeah.

And it's always spiral pasta. Always spiral pasta. Always spiral pasta. Are we just going to do the main meal or are we going to do the other components? Because I won't say no to a yogurt with a melon-based fruit salad. Always a melon-based. Always a melon because melons are cheapest, right? So much melon.

Always a melon-based fruit salad. I don't like are cheapest, right? So much melon. Always a melon base for a salad. I don't like the buns because the butter's too cold and will not spread. Yeah. And the buns too dry to eat without the butter. Yeah. Although if you get a main that has a bit of zhusha, a bit of sauce. Yeah, like a stroganoff. Yeah, you can use the bun to soak up a bit of that.

Yeah, you can. There's always a sort of a beefy stew with some green beans and a mash. Yes. There's always like a... You always romanticise it when they say, today's options in flight will be a beef, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, oh, that doesn't sound too bad actually.

Yeah. And then it comes and you're like, why was I imagining it was going to be on a round plate? Yeah. What did I think it was going to be? It's always going to be in a rectangle plastic thing. Tithing foil, yeah. There's always a chicken with rice, like a sweet chicken with rice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's my number one. Then I always go for chicken and rice. I go chicken and then I go the, oh, what about the breakfast when they bring out that thing that's meant to be an omelette? Oh, they tried their best. God, that thing makes you fart. It makes you tootie. It's a farty omelette. Oh, they tried their best. Or did they? God, that thing makes you fart. It makes you tootie.

It's a fartier omelette. So I think maybe I'd go chicken, the breakfast eggs. Yeah. Eggs, in quotes. Eggs, in quotes. However they make those. Breakfast dust, whatever that is. And then, I don't know.

You've got to go beef. Beef. I'd go beef, yeah. I'm going chicken. Chicken number one. Chicken and rice. I'm never touching the fish. I can literally taste the sauce.

Yeah. No, I don't. Fish shouldn't be that far from the ocean. No. Fish should not be 30,000 feet above the ground. No, neither should beef. But at last. It should be chicken, to be fair.

Yeah. But it's a chicken. Anything's going to be higher. It's a chicken. Because I have seen a chicken fly. You can chuck them over fences and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, they'll land

but they're not up there, are they? No. Chicken number one, beef number two and then I'm going to go melon salad with a yoga pottle.

Really? Wild. What about the ice cream pottle? Always go the ice cream. Rock hard as well. Rock hard with a very fragile spoon. Yeah, and it will slip around

as you try to like stab into it. Yeah. Beef number one for me. I don't F with the fish because how long ago did that leave the ocean too? Yeah. Years. Yeah.

It lasts all the oceans pre-microplastics. So beef and then eggs. Yeah. And then. You don't touch the chicken at all. No, I don't like that. Don't you? Chicken's one of those weird ones.

I don't want to be on a plane if chicken goes bad. You know, if you get at the start of the flight and you have the chicken, but then it was a bit iffy. Yeah. And at the end, you're absolutely just, you're coming into land at our age with your dreams and a bloody absolute pants full of diarrhea. The cardigan that you wrapped around your pants. Because you shit yourself.

Yeah. Oh. I don't know what I'd put third. I really, I really don't like plain food. It's yuck. Do the pilots have to eat something different

so that if the chicken's bad and they both have the chicken. That was always the old adage, eh? Yeah. The old story was that pilots had to eat something different in case one of them

got food poisoning. I don't know what I want third. I'll probably just, I'm not a huge melon guy either. I always find that really disappointing. I hate melon. Well, you're about to go

on a big plane ride soon. So what are you going to just eat before you go? Load up before I go. Load up. Get on board. Couple of sleepy pills. Daddy will help himself

to a few Jack and Cokes and then I'll see you in Los Angeles. Or you won't, Sam. I would look after the kids. Yeah. I'll wake up in San Diego because we're landing in LA

and going straight to San Diego and I'll wake up and be like, now how did we get here? Who's driving the rental car? Oh, no, no. We're getting shuttled. Oh, okay. There's too many of us.

Someone's scared to drive on the other side of the road, aren't they? No, no, no. I was going to drive and then mum did the maths. My mum did that because we're going

as like a big family trip. Yeah. Dad wanted to do this when he turned 65, but of course the pandemic happened so we're doing it afterwards but mum did the maths and it was cheaper

to get shuttled than it was to hire a Wow. hire a van. Scared to drive a van. I was looking forward to driving one of those big vans.

Keep the passenger to the curb. Yeah. Passenger sits by the curb. Passenger on the curb. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Now I have not been listening to the radio as of late

I've been on a big podcast buzz And I've still got the Audi Some people are asking Still got the Audi Yep Have they just forgotten about this? Have you fallen into an Audi loophole? Because it was just supposed to be a month wasn't it?

It was a month It was a month loan But you're not an ambassador Are you just like a Because it was just supposed to be a month, wasn't it? It was a month loan. But you're not an ambassador. Are you just like a... No, well, I'm just driving the Audi. I've just got the Audi. You've still got it. Okay.

Yeah. And with it, it's got the car play, you know, the Apple car play with my phone. And as soon as I turn it on, it's really loud because I listen loud. Yeah. And it just picks up where I left off and I keep forgetting. And then when you're reversing, which I'm often doing, you can't adjust it because the reverse camera comes on, you can't like turn it off. And I've been listening to like the darkest, the darkest dark podcasts. Like, I used to be a case file girl.

I was always, like, listening to your murders and, you know, your white girl murders and whatnot. Yeah, but you've stepped up. I've stepped up. I'm so dark. So what a bunch of us, we jumped in your car. There were four of us. Yeah, we were heading.

A couple of weeks ago. We went to Maddie McLean's house. Yes. I picked everyone up. For the cocktail night, and we jump in the car. And I said, hang on. Yeah, I didn't even know if we could say what the podcast was about.

Like, it was that grim. Yeah. I'll be listening to a lot of Australian podcasts about terrible, abominable crimes. Yes. Like I said, I think we were chatting, Vaughan,

and we were talking about podcasts to listen to, and I was like, I'm listening to a podcast at the moment. Oh, yeah, yeah. And you said, what is it? And I said, oh, it's about the guy they've called the worst father in the world. And you were like, nope, nope, nope. I don't want to listen to it.

I don't want to listen to that. I'm listening to that. He listening he missed his kids sports games and i won't a little bit worse gymnastics a little bit a lot worse a little bit worse i just i don't know what it is i just like what i was listening to like investigative stuff yeah from like the guardian and the australian and stuff and then it just like then i went on to the next one and the content was sort of darker and then I got into the next one, the content was sort of darker and now I'm just like, it's a really bad place. Yeah, do you think that it's a slippery slope

and that you've started off with your light true crime, murder. Light true crime, yeah. And now a man's set of family of four on fire. You know, like now that's where I'm at. So do you think they're desensitizing you, these podcasts? I think so.

The things I've heard. But the worst part is that people keep getting into my car and I'll forget. And then it, like, clicks in and there's an Australian reporter saying, you know, whatever the story is at the moment. And no contact. No leader, no contact. He set them all on fire. Yeah. And it's just like, what are you listening to?

It's 20 hours until Mark someone will kill his whole family. And people are like, what is wrong? I thought you were a lovely girl. I don't even know why we need to make these podcasts. It seems unnecessary. But people are listening to these podcasts. Like, they're one of the biggest genres, aren't they? I'm hooked.

I don't know what it is about these horrendous things. Because the investigative stuff I was listening to was more like scams and internet scams and that kind of stuff. And now it's just gone dark. So if you're getting in my car soon, hopefully our listeners aren't. Please don't get in my car if I pull up at the lights. I just apologise. The Audi's got the locking though, doesn't it, when it drops?

Auto lock. Auto lock, of course. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. I'm horning, horning, horning, horning. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's long weekend group toot with Foursquare. It is back for King's birthday, the long weekend group tour. It's all thanks to our friends at Foursquare.

Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this King's birthday Foursquare has everything you need. Please don't do the toots. It's childish. That's what somebody just text messaged in. Oh, okay. Oh, well, we won't then. Should we stop?

We won't then. Turn that off. We won't. Coming up next, we're going to be talking about how the OCR will affect your mortgage rates. And if you fixed in late 2021 when they were at a record low, what that can mean for your household budget. We also want to talk about the use of te reo Maori on... Road signs. Road signs.

Yes, yes, yes. No, we will not listen to the haters. And race baiting dog whistling in an election year. That's coming up. All coming up on the show as we stop being so childish. Hey. No, we will not listen to the haters. Phone number that ends in 744.

You shush. Stick it up. Your poo bum. Your bum where the poos comes from. Okay, wow. Put this up there. Born, please. Some decorum.

It's the long weekend group. Some decorum, please. For the king. Your honor. For the king. For the king. Your honor. Some decorum. It's the long weekend group. Some decorum, please. For the king, your honour. For the king. For the king, your honour. For the king. Now, the long weekend group, do we have some examples? Let me look here.

Let's get an example of the long weekend group, Toot. Where can I find that, Jared? I should have asked previously. That's all right. You're not a professional, so I wouldn't have expected you to. Showbiz 4.8. You're not a professional, so I wouldn't have expected you to. Show bits 4-8. You're not a professional. You're a child.

Show bits 4-8. You found it there? I'm in show bits 4-8. Where's 4? Show bits 4-8. I see it right there. Like, literally there down the bottom. Okay.

So this is, if you've just joined us and you're new to the Long Weekend Group Tweet, this is how it starts. You call us in traffic and give us the start of the Long Weekend Group Tweet, this is how it starts. You call us in traffic and give us the start of the Long Weekend Group Tweet. Then anybody listening, if you hear a Long Weekend Group Tweet, finish it off with... So ideally...

Now, we did mention the previous Long Weekend Group Toots, the phone updates, especially on iPhones, can gate you. So if you swipe down on a call, there's an option to turn that off. Yeah. So we run a list of successes, successors. Easter, our first 10 was a 10 out of 10. Yeah.

We were on a hot streak. We've never had a streak like it. And Zach, maybe people were a little hungover from the victory. Yeah. And it didn't work as well, but let's get it started. Now Hayley, you're going to get in traffic. You're going to leave us and join us from traffic. Yeah, I will. I'm going to go, I'm going to jump in the Audi

now and I'm going to swing past the bakery and then I'm going to take part. Literally leaving your house to go to the Great Kiwi Bake Off, but you're going to go to the bakery and then I'm going to take part. Literally leaving your house to go to the Great Kiwi Bake Off, but you're going to go to the bakery on the way. Do the bakery later. Do the bakery later. I want a pie.

What is it, pie week? No. It should be. Let's start in Wellington. Good morning, Nick. Hey, how's it going? Good. You are the first tutor for the long weekend. Whereabouts in Wellington are you? Well, I've just passed through the Terrace Tunnel.

So I was hoping that I was going to get traffic through there, but now I'm outside of the tunnel through in Haightai Tai. So I might go quickly. Is there much traffic? No. Should we come back to you? Should we come back to you? Yeah, come back to me.

I'm going to try and get back to the tunnel. All right. Okay, let's go to Christchurch. Juliet, Jack and Felix, join us. Good morning. Hi. Hi. We're about to Christchurch, are you?

We're in Sydenham. Okay, all right. Sydenham. Well, when you're ready, give us the long weekend group toot. The first one. Oh, no. I don't want to be the first one. I can't remember how. The first one. Oh, no. I don't want to be the first one. I can't remember how it goes.

Sorry. Oh, no. This is not a good start. This is an atrocious start. This is a bad start. You can remember it with the numbers. One, two, one, two, three, one, two, three, four. Then don't do anything after that.

Make sure your windows are down so we can hear if anybody toots back. Okay. Okay. Ready? Yep. Okay. Okay. Ready? Yep. Yes! You did it! You really, really did it!

You believed in yourself. And this is just proof. This is just proof. This is just proof. You didn't think you could do it. You didn't. No. You can do it.

Hey, you did it and you got it done. Hey, why haven't you left to get in the car? I'm having too much fun listening. Well, you know that you can listen in the car. Okay, I'm going to go. I'll see you. Go. You've got to get on the road.

You've got to get on the road. You call us soon. Thank you very much, Juliet, Jack and Felix. That was really well done. That was. Now, Ryan joins us. Kind of embodied the entire spirit of the Long Weekend Group. It does.

It does. Ryan, good morning. Morning. of embodied the entire spirit of the Long Weekend group. It does. It does. Ryan, good morning. Morning. Whereabouts are you in traffic? Auckland at Westgate. Okay. All right. Okay.

I'm assuming someone else is driving, Ryan. Costco on Friday. Okay. Costco on Friday. You got it, Mum. All right. Let's do it. We're not in traffic.

Yeah, we're not in traffic. Oh. You're not in traffic? Okay. All right. let's do it. You're not in traffic? Okay. All right, we'll try. No. No. No.

No. Okay, okay. Did you hear them say, we're literally not in traffic? Nick, you've found some traffic back in Wellington? Yeah, yeah. I'm just coming around the basin now. Okay, okay. Rob's biggest roundabout.

Huge roundabout. Okay, let's do this. Yeah. Did you hear that? No. Go again, go again. Slow down a little bit. Slow down a little bit.

Don't rush it, don't rush it. Take your time, take your time. Okay, here we go. No. You're saying on the first, you got the reply on the second. You didn't make it. Yeah, I got one on the first one. Okay, maybe we'll go for a third if you're on the basin.

Go again. Yeah, go again. Okay. Yeah! Oh, good, Nick. There it is, Nick. Nick, that was brilliant. Good pace is, Nick. Nick, that was brilliant. Good pace there, too.

We found it. Thank you for doing the Huey. Thank you for getting back in traffic, Nick. Our second toot. All right, let's go, I believe, show favourite, Max and Totonga. Good morning, Max. Hi. Hi, Max.

How are you? Octopus number nine. How's the acting career going? They're gone now, but school's been pretty good. Okay. What are you doing at school? Yeah, what are you working on? Not much. We're just doing the same usual handwriting and all that.

Handwriting. It's important to know these sorts of skills. You don't want to end up with handwriting like Vaughn, Max. No, it's terrible, Max. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't read it. Never lose it. All right, when you're ready, worry about some to know these sorts of skills. You don't want to end up with handwriting like Vaughan Max. Terrible Max. Can't read it. All right, when you're ready, worry about some toe-drying, Max. We're in the traffic light by the big A&B building.

Elizabeth Street. Oh, Elizabeth Street. All right, Mum, give it to us. Yeah! Right there. Were they right next door? Yeah. That's beautiful. God, mum toots well.

Yeah, it's a good horn too. Mum's got a good toot. Good stuff. All right, lovely to talk to you, Max. Have a great weekend, mate. You too. See you, guys. Thank you to mum as well.

Let's go to John in Hamilton. Good morning, John. Yeah, good morning. Thank you to Mum as well. Let's go to John in Hamilton. Good morning, John. Yeah, good morning. I'm in a good spot. Can you come back to me? Oh, yeah, absolutely we will. I wrote your name down. I hate when they do that.

No, but you'd rather have some traffic. I would. So we'll come back in just a sec. Emily, whereabouts in Christchurch? We're on QE2 Drive. Are you happy to go now before I write your name down? You ready to go, Emily? Ready.

Okay. Dodger reception. Okay, go for it, Emily, when you're ready. Oh, Jesus. This isn't going to happen. Emily, we'll just pop you there. I wrote her name down. I wrote her name down.

Okay, well, scrub it. I've literally got room for one more name before I have to start a new line, and you know I don't want to have to start a new line. Ben, good morning. We're about to you. I'm in Auckland in Mungaree in some traffic. That's a terrible pronunciation of Mungaree there, but I will. Well, it's fine.

Give us a long weekend group two, Ben. Okay, here we go. Jesus, what car are you driving? It always sounded like it was whistling. It's a rav. I'll go again, hang on. A rav. Ben and a rav, interesting. Your tooting's not at fault.

You were really pounding that thing. It's a really good horn. It's a great toot. Unfortunately, Ben, yeah, that's enough. Do we want to try one more time? I just love the horn. Go one more time, Ben. Maybe one more.

Let's see. One more. Here we go. Here we go. Toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, toot, toot. God, people really honing there, aren't they? Well, they're in a hurry to get somewhere. Yeah, nothing's wrong.

Unfortunately, Ben. That's even sprawled. Everyone's going somewhere, you know. Yeah, they are, Ben. Tooting, fantastic tooting. Jess, whereabouts in Hamilton? Okay, Hamilton Gardens, guys. Come on, Hamilton.

Yes. By the gardens. Is there traffic by the gardens? There's a lot of roadworks going around in there. They're putting a new bridge in. All right, let's go. Hopefully, there are people listening. All right, let's go. Hopefully there are people listening. All right, Jess, go for it.

Right. Ready? Oh, hang on. There's a siren. Okay, just give that a beep. Just give that a beep. Ambulance. Ambulance.

Yes. Yeah, good. Please go slower. All right, I'm going to give it my best shot, guys. Okay, go, Jess, go. Oh, come on. Go again. Go again. Go again. That was great tooting.

Thank you. Okay, ready? Yep, yep. Oh, that's really upsetting, isn't it? Because that's not your fault, Jess. No fault of your own there, Jess. That's unfortunate. Have a't it? No fault of your own. Because that's not your fault, Jess. No fault of your own there, Jess. That's unfortunate. Have a great long weekend, Jess. Let's go to Annie and Gary in Auckland.

Whereabouts in Auckland? Morning. Good morning. Big part? We are on Hobson Street. Oh, okay. All right. When you're ready, give us a long weekend group two.

Roger that. Roger. Roger. Roger. Count it out. Is your horn, is that when you get to the end of a wheeze and you're like... Sorry, guys. No, you're right. It's all right. No, it's all right. Go again, Gary.

Third time's a charm, Gary. Also, you're not going to pass your wharf if this horn's not working. It needs to be a reliable warning device, Gary. Go, Gary, go. Did you hear that? Yes, I did! It was a distant toot. It was one. Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary!

Gary! We sounded at the bottom, now we're here! Good work, Gary! And Annie We sat it at the bottom, now we're here. Good work, Gary. And Annie. Annie did bugger all. Annie wasn't turning. Annie remained quiet. When Gary was floundering, Annie went quiet.

She was embarrassed. She was like, you're on your own, Gary. She was like, I don't want anything to do with you, Gary, but now look at you. No, we're on. Our ship name is no longer Danny. You are on your own, Gary. And then Gary comes through and then Annie comes in.

Hooray for my man! Where were you in Times of Tough, Annie? You abandoned your man! Let's go to John in Hamilton. And Hamilton, John, whereabouts are you? I'm in Hamilton East by the cathedral. Alright, when you're ready, give us a long weekend group two. Yay!

Hamilton with the goods. Yes. Great tuning, John. Yeah, that was great, John. Have a good day. You don't need an Annie. Remember Annie? Look at that.

I'm like Gary. He's just John is in and out. He got the job done. Here's the toot back. See you later, guys. Have a good day. John's got stuff to do. Productive John.

Now, we are joined by Hayley Sproul in her Audi. It's a lone Audi. Good morning, Hayley Sproul. Good morning. Long-time listener, first-time caller. Oh, yay. I don't know if you're allowed to say that, because you're on the show every day.

No, she's not wrong, though. She's not wrong. Oh, my God. I'm show every day. No, she's not wrong, though. She's not wrong. Oh, my God. I'm literally just coming up to a stoplight. Oh, okay. There's cars behind me. Okay, okay, okay. Ready?

Yeah, go. Are you kidding me? It's heartbreaking, isn't it? It's heartbreaking, isn't it? How good is the horn on the Audi? Horn on the Audi. Do you want to go again? One of its many features.

Okay, I'm just going to have to do more lights. Hang on. Here we go. And she's out in Kumi, by the way. Where are you? Her by Kumi? I'm in Kumi on the main highway. Here I come.

Okay. Okay. Yes! Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! That feels good, doesn't it? How did that feel? Oh, my God. I've never felt so alive in my life. It's invigorating.

It's invigorating. So good. All right, that's the end of part one. Oh, no, we've got nine. I feel like we should go for ten. Ten in the first half. No, I'm going to leave it at a success. I want to leave it a high.

Come back next. I can't imagine if we had another Annie on our hands. See if we can get to ten or more. Because, what, we got ten. We got ten in a row. Waitangi weekend? Easter weekend. We had ten in a row in the first half,

and then we flailed in the second half. Oh. So can we come back with a strong second half? Yeah, we're running six from nine at the moment. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. I'm horning, horning, horning, horning. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley's long weekend group tour

with Foursquare. It's all thanks to Foursquare whether you're vacationing or staycationing this King's birthday. Foursquare has everything you need. It's part two of the long weekend group tour. We've had nine toots around the country. Six.

Six from nine. Nice. Nice. Nice. It's a good rate. It's two thirds. It's pretty good. Yeah.

I'm happy with the two thirds. It's good. Let's see if we can keep this up, New Zealand. Yeah, but, you know, second half always kind of we lose a bit of momentum. We've got the warrior syndrome. Yeah. Blake and Brittany join us in Christchurch. Whereabouts are you guys?

We're on Tapanui Road. Okay. All right. Are there cars around? Yes, a lot. Oh, okay. Go for it. Let's go! Oh, there was a toot.

Go again. Go again. I heard somebody tooting. Halfway through. Halfway through. No, we didn't hear it at the end. We heard one halfway through. Yeah, go again.

And if you are around the toot, you've got to wait till the end here we go a couple there was two love it two replies there um what kind of what kind of car are you in a nissan cash drive a wreck of nissan didn't it that did it did i i've never What kind of car are you in? A Nissan Cash Drive. A wreck of Nissan, didn't it? Did it? I've never noticed a Nissan. I don't know. Wreck of a Nissan.

Blake and Brittany, thank you so much. Let's go to, and excuse me if I mispronounce your name. Excuse me if I mispronounce your name. Turn your radio off. Hello. Toy Ohamai? Hello? Toy, oh, am I? Hello? Oh, gee. Have we got a minivan here?

We've got a bus situation. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, then, whereabouts are you guys? We're in Alston. Oh, okay. Lovely. One of my favourite cities in New Zealand.

Let's, when you're ready. He says that to all the cities. I do. Give us a long weekend, group two. Okay. Go. They're gone. Jesus.

Intimidation there. It feels like you're intimidating the other traffic. Go again. Give it to us again. Wait, we didn't hear it what happened what happened you guys go again okay we've just got to come up to an intersection okay fair call fair call there's three of those in Nelson. Yep. Good luck finding one. Keep going!

Keep going! You do the toot again. You do the toot again and I may lead them in. Okay. Okay. There's only a cyclist. Oh, they don't have horns. They famously don't have horns.

Sometimes they have bells. Oh, they could have, yeah. One more time? Yep. Yep. Okay. We'll just have have, yeah. One more time? Yep. Yep. Okay. We'll just have them down. Go.

Oh, Nelson. Wow, we tried our best. We did, we did. Great enthusiasm there from the crowd. Yeah, thank you guys so much. Stacey and Palmy, good morning. Good morning. So far, it's a bit of a flat second half isn't

it we've it's feeling a little uh it's a little speaking of flat palmerston north famously flat let's uh put some hills in it though yeah whereabouts are you stacy um i'm just an intersection coming into the square and palmig. Okay. Hit us now. Go. Go. What are you driving? A 1910 Ford? A Luger? It's a Nissan. It's another Nissan. It's another Nissan.

It's another Nissan. They've got to sort their horns out, haven't they? They've really got to step up their horn, guys. Stacey, do you want to try again? Are there cars around? I'm just driving closer towards the square now. Okay.

I really want a win for Parmi, you know? I want a win for Parmi too. Parmi needs a win. Parmi needs a win. It's been a string of horrendous losses. I'm just looking for an intersection in the square now. Okay, go for it. She's driving a flute!

We're just going to text saying, is she driving a flute? That's really tickled me, isn't it? Richard Scarry, remember that guy in there? There was always like Apple cars and stuff. I remember someone would have driven a flute flute it would have been like a worm with a little top hat on anyway oh my god stacy go give us a long weekend group two in the flute okay oh god there's like two cars that's more cars than palmy knows what to do with let's hit it yep we'll give it a go now. We're coming up to the light. Okay. The flute!

Now all I can imagine is a flute. Stacey, thank you so much for trying. We really appreciate that. But it's a no from Palmy. Joel, Tom, Thomas and Liam are all in the car. Hey, what up? Yes, in Hamilton. Give us the long weekend group toot.

Hey, well, we will do a U-ey. Yep. Oh, do you need some time? And we're coming down to the lights outside the police station. Perfect place to be on the horn. Mind you, the New Zealand police have taken part in the Long Weekend group tour before. Yes, they have. I know, I know.

So let's give it a go, eh? Let's go, let's go. Go for it. Yes! We did! We did! Loud and clear, that's one on the board for Joel, Tom, Thomas and Liam, the lads. The lads, lads, lads. You're the boys.

Yeah, you're the boys. Hey, just while I've got you, what's Saturday for? What was that? What's Saturday for? The boys. The boys. Yes, it is. Thanks, guys.

All right, let's go to Christchurch. Let's go to Jenny. Jenny, good morning. Good morning let's go to Christchurch. Let's go to Jenny. Jenny, good morning. Good morning. Whereabouts in Christchurch? I'm on Dean's Ave. Okay. Dean's Ave.

When you're ready, give us a long weekend group toot. Okay. Silence. We've got a very good gate on that phone. I'm at a red light, so I'll try again. Okay, get the phone out the window too, see if that helps. Oh, no, you've got the... This is the thing with the new phone updates.

They're cutting off the background noise. There's nothing there, unfortunately. There was no truth back there, Jenny. Jenny's gone. Let's go to... We haven't had a Dunedin. Harry joins us. Good morning, unfortunately. There was no toots back there, Jenny. Jenny's gone. Let's go to Dunedin. We haven't had a Dunedin. Harry joins us. Good morning, Harry.

G'day. Whereabouts in Dunners? Oh, we're outside of King's High School. Okay. All right. Do you go to high school, Harry? Because you sound like you could be either like 74 or 14. Yeah, I go to high school at King's. Yeah. Good on you, mate. Okay. All right, Harry, when you're Yeah, I got a high score, Kings.

Yeah. Good on you, mate. Okay. All right, Harry, when you're ready, give us a long weekend group toot. Go again. Go again. Do you have one, Harry? Yes! It happened. Good on you, Harry. Yes!

It happened. Good on you, Harry. Delayed. Delayed. Harry, congratulations. Oh, mate, Harry. On the board. Beautiful.

Young mate, Harry. And, Deneid, a couple more. Where do you want to go? Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington. Wellington? Let's go to Wellington. Let's go to Sierra. You played during the Easter long weekend group toots, Sarah.

Yes, I did. Did you have a successful toot then? Yes, I was number seven. You were number seven in our 10 streak. Okay, well, here we go. Let's see if we can do it again. I'm not in much traffic now, though. Well, well, well.

I'm on the hill. I need like two minutes to get over the hill. Okay, all right. Well, we'll come back to you, Sarah. God damn it, Sarah. I'm on the hill. I need like two minutes to get over the hill. Okay, all right. Well, we'll come back to you, Sarah. God damn it, Sarah. I wrote your name down. People don't care if you write the name. I wrote the name down.

It ruins my sheet. Adrienne and Alicia, good morning. Paparanga. Good morning. Yes. All right. Give us a long weekend group too. Okay, ready?

Yep. Yes! They were right up your jacksie. Back off. Two second rule. Right, yeah. No rhythm there. Just leave it paused.

Yeah, they just came straight in, didn't they? Hey, we'll take the win. Let a woman breathe. We do it every group toot weekend, and we just nail it every time. Oh yeah, well God bless you. Thanks for joining the show. Should we go back to Wellington, Sarah? Is that enough time or do you need more time?

Well, I'm at the top of the hill so I just need to get down. What the hell are we talking? How big is this hill? You went up the hill, coming down the hill. It's the Wainui Hill. It's the Wainui Hill and there's a ton of traffic at the bottom. We'll come Wainui Hill. It's the Wainui Hill and there's a ton of traffic at the bottom. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a long hill. Okay, we'll come back to you.

You drive safely because that hill's not to be trifled with. Cara in Hamilton, good morning. Oh, good morning. How are you? Good, good. Are you ready to go, Cara? I'm about to write your name down. You can write my name down. We are on the corner of Clyde and Wairiri. We are sitting in some light. Go. Okay, go. Get in. Go.

Okay. Yeah. and Wirere. We are sitting in some light, so I'll be dead going. Okay, go. Get in. Go. Okay. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

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Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Haven't we? Now, how many is that? That's 11 from 17. Should we go for a nice even 12? Well, I was thinking go for a 20. We should get 20 callers total. That feels right.

Three more. Three more callers. Let's go to Sam. Good morning, Sam in Wellington. Whereabouts? In Johnsonville. All right. Are you happy to go now before I write your name down?

I'll give me three seconds. I told you. You've got to ask. One, two, three. What are you, my eight-year-old? That's what she does. Just give us a second. I'm going to go. Okay, go.

Yep, go. Oh, God. That phone is terrible. Cut it out. Oh, okay. Try again, but I don't know if this is going to let us. Let me try again. No, it's cutting it off.

It's cutting it off, Sam. Sam, no. There was me. There was me. It's back. Now, how are we rocking the phone? Is it inside the car? Is it outside the car?

How fast are we moving? Let's try to solve this problem because I need to success. I was at the light. You were at the light. Okay, put your phone out the window. Do it again, but put your phone out the window. Okay. I have to turn around now because I've gone up need to success I was at the light you were at the light okay put your phone out the window do it again put your phone out the window okay

I have to turn around now because I've gone up a side street oh no now she's up a hill now she's gone up a hill this is unbelievable I'm already turning around

okay go okay ripping a Yui which of course we encourage to do only in the safest of circumstances oh absolutely yeah it's on hands free

yeah the indicators hands free yeah absolutely stop the lights oh no it's a fly down okay that The indicators, hands-free. Yeah, absolutely. Stop the lights. Oh, no, it's not flying down. Okay, that's okay. We didn't even hear that.

Unfortunately, let's go back to Sarah Wellington. I'm going to just change Sam to Sarah. Go, when you're ready. Oh, I'm ready? Okay, hold up. We have been up. Oh. Really not worth the wait.

Let me go. Go again, go again, Sarah. Go again, go again. Give it. Oh, dear. Oh. You should have quit while you were ahead. You had the successful long weekend group tour to the Easter.

Who, me? No, Sarah. Oh, Sarah. Okay, let's forget I said that. I don't know if that's how records work. No. All right, let's go to... Unfortunately, thank you, Sarah.

Have a great long weekend. Last call, let's go to Shelley in Auckland. No, we've got two more. Shut up. We have got... No. No, we're going to get to 20. Who said?

Who said? What do the rules say? I do because we have a certain... Look, there's no time. We're already very late. Well, you're explaining yourself. I could have done two by now. Shelley, go. Give us a long weekend group toot.

Ah, nothing. Nothing. Sorry, guys. Go again, Shelley. Quickly go again. Quickly go again. Nope. There was one! Yeah, I hear it. We'll give you that.

We'll give you that. So now we're on to our final caller for the Long Weekend Group 2. Stevie and Eva, good morning in Auckland. Whereabouts? We're going down Southern Motorway. Is it crawling? Oh, it's stuck in the knee.

Of course it's crawling. Okay, go. You're the last caller today. It's flowing. It's flowing for once. It's flowing? Wait, we can't be talking about the same Southern Motorway. That thing's never flowing.

Stop. Okay, so we can't. Well, just put it down as a loser. Well, they haven't tried. We should at least try. Would you want to try at least? Okay. All right.

Ready? Yep. Nothing. Nothing. And we end on a down. But not bad. 12 out of 20. 12 out of 20.

12 out of 20, New Zealand. For the long weekend group show, that's not bad. Fantastic. It's good. It's good work. Great tuning out there. Some great tuning out of 20. 12 out of 20. 12 out of 20, New Zealand. For the long weekend group tour, that's not bad. Fantastic. It's good. It's good work. Great tuning out there. Some great tuning out there today. Drive safe if you're heading away for the long weekend.

Thank you to our friends at Foursquare as well for jumping on the long weekend group tour. The next one will be what? October. Labor weekend. Labor weekend, yeah. Or Matariki. Good question. No, we're away.

We're away at Matariki. We're away. So, yeah, it'll be Labor weekend. All right. Play ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZDM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Today's fact of the day is grey hair grows faster than coloured hair.

Does it? Yeah. That's ruthless. Isn't it? Grey hair. So that's why when you start seeing greys, you think that you've got more of them and you're like, they seem to be taking over because they grow a lot faster than pigmented hair.

Do you get some greys in your beard? The odd little grey? Oh yeah, look there. On the underneath. Starting to get them in the underneath. Do you reckon if you'll go, one day you'll go all grey and you'll be one of those like...

Oh, I hope so. I hope it doesn't... Yeah. Because you want it all grey or... Yeah, because it's worse if it's patchy. Because you're not meant to all grey Or Yeah Because it's worse If it's patchy Because you're not meant To pull them eh

Otherwise it makes more Or is that an old wives tale That's an old wives tale What is it Kill a grey hare Seven of its friends Comes to its funeral Or something

Meaning that when you Pull a grey hare It just gets replaced With more grey hares Yeah I don't think so I think it's probably Just the fact that

If you pull them out You could also risk Never growing back Oh yeah right That's also a risk With grey hair Yeah But it's thicker just the fact that if you pull them out, you could also risk never growing back. Oh, yeah, right. That's also a risk with grey hair. Yeah. But it's thicker and it grows faster than coloured hair. Huh.

Significantly higher. This was studied and published in the National Library of Museum and a grey hair is associated with active hair growth. And that's also why when old men start going grey in the eyebrows, they get the long curly eyebrows because it just changes how your hair grows. Where your eyebrows kind of get to a length and they're like, we're happy at this length. Yeah.

The grey eyebrows are like, no one's going to tell me how long I can be. And just go real long. Yeah. So, yeah, today's fact of the day is if you've got grey hair and you're like, man, this seems thicker and it seems to be growing faster than all of my other hair, you, my friends, are dead correct. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley Awards thing last night And when I got home it was like 10

10 or so It's like our school ball Everyone looking flash except for Vaughan Who went in a Pikachu t-shirt The right people like Pikachu The right people It repels the people who Put too much emphasis on a dress code

and you get to talk to a good quality of person. Oh, right. And it's like, who was your starter Pokemon? And I was like, this is the sort of conversation I'm here for. Squirtle. Squirtle every time and don't talk to me about any generation apart from the initial 151 Pokemon. That's a chat for another time.

Yeah. But when I got home, all of the ladies in my life were in our big bed. Oh yeah. Our super king. The kids, if I go out or whatever, the kids will be like, oh we'll start the night sleeping in mum's bed. Yeah. With mum. And so when I got home, Sade's like you need to put the girls back in their own bed. I was like

okay. Oh my god, get out. You just want to go to sleep. This is one of the greatest, well you know when you're a kid and how cool it would be, you'd fall asleep in the car on the way home and you'd wake up when you got into the driver, but you'd still pretend to be asleep because you wanted your dad to carry you in. I think we just got woken up and told to get up. Oh, my God. Even my father who knew no way to discipline a child other than give them a good kick up the ass,

he'd see a sleeping child and I'm imagining it would melt his icy heart and he would carry you in and put you in bed. I think I was too fat. Oh, please. Dad didn't want to put his back out. So that's one of the greatest things when you become a parent.

You're like, I get to do this now and hopefully I get to create that awesome memory of like, oh my God, we're home. But I'm going to... You know when you're a kid, you're really terrible at pretending

to be asleep. Dad carries you inside. I love it. But last night when I got home was the first time I tried to put them back in their beds. I picked up August and I'm like, I don't remember her being this long. She's going to be nine this month. She's getting very long. Yeah, right. So I picked her

up and I had to like, you know when you're carrying a long couch down a hallway and there's a lot of pivot, pivot, right. So I picked her up and I had to like, you know when you're carrying a long couch down a hallway and there's a lot of, there was pivot, pivot, pivot. I was going through the door, got her in bed. And then Indy, who's 11 and a half now, I picked her up and I was like, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to pick her up. And then I got really sad.

Because, you know, there's that saying that one day your parents picked you up and then put you down and that was the last time. Oh. That destroys me every time. He's welling up. That really gets me. And now I'm at that precipice.

So I thought I go into training now where I just pick them up all the time. But then I'm going to be the weird guy who, when his daughter is an adult, is still like, well, I've got to pick you up because obviously I can never let it. They're not going to let you do that. They're probably not going to be an old man with like no muscle strength left and I'm all atrophied and I'm just old as shit. And I'll be like, let me pick you up.

And they're like, no, no, no, no, you're going to drop me. And I'll be like, I will pick you up. There'll be a day come when you're old and frail and a rhyming and they have to pick you up out of your own piss and get you into the shower. Right. Yeah. come when you're old and frail and a rhyming and they have to pick you up out of your own piss and get you into the uh shower right yeah well the piss kind of killed the nice it's the circle of life it's the circle of life yeah yeah i picked them up out of their own piss when they were like little kids yeah this is the circle of life it is it's the circle of life so i just want to say like if you've got kids pick them up I don't care if they're adults.

Pick them up. Get you into the shower. Right. Yeah. Mother piss kind of killed me. Killed the nice sort of, like, it's the circle of life. I picked them up out of their own piss when they were, like, little kids. Yeah, it's the circle of life.

It is, it's the circle of life. So I just want to say, like, if you've got kids, pick them up. I don't care if they're adults. If you're a 60-year-old man accidentally listening to this because you somehow come here when you were looking for Hosking, I want you to pick up your adult children. Do it. Pick them up, put them down, and never let the day come where you pick them up and put them down for the last time.

Friday Jams are next. Enjoy the long weekend. If you miss any of the show this week, grab the potty. We'll see you back on Tuesday. Well, if you enjoyed that, give us a rating and review and be sure to tell your mates. You know what? I reckon your script reading's getting better.

Thank you. I give it five stars. Just like I'd give this podcast. I'm telling my friends about your script reading too. Much like I'm going to do about this podcast. Thank you, Vaughan and Hayley, for that. Good boy. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.