ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 5th June 2024

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fleach, Fawn and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleach, Fawn and Hayley. You guys are probably wondering why and how my shoulders got so jacked in one day. I was thinking that the moment you walked in. Yeah, swole. Real swole shoulders.

Four hours on a jackhammer. Boy got swole. Four hours on a jackhammer and I've never been, I've done two days of intense manual labour and I've never been more sore in my life. Were you just,

when you had finished, were you still shaking? Yeah, dude. Oh, I hate that. I woke up in the middle of the night, my hands were like shaking. Yeah.

And like, I've got, I slept on my arm, I've got nerve pain in the elbows. I don't know how people do this. He's not built for hard work, is he?

Imagine this being your job. I don't know how people do this. He's not built for hard work, is he? I love it. Imagine this being your job. I assume people listen now, going to work or at work are actually doing hard manual labor.

And then their bodies stop working in their 50s, I assume. I assume everything just packs up when you've blown yourself to bits for that many years. I think that even

when I'm painting, I'm like, F this for a living. My shoulders are burning. Yeah, but when you do it all the time, you get used to it, don't you? You get the muscles. You get the muscles. And you get a little bit of...

And you get a little bit, yeah, brain... A bit of pain fumes. Shut the window. Shut the window and make the pain go away. Yeah. I don't know how people work with concrete. That shit is horrible. I've been cutting...

Famously quite hard. Very hard, especially when you put metal bars through it. I've been cutting. Famously quite hard. Very hard. Especially when you put metal bars through it. I've been cutting through it. It's a nightmare. The world's made of this junk. Anyway. Well, it's a big day. I'm going to win Lotto tonight anyway.

Exactly. Then I'm going to get everybody else to do all my manual labour. Lotto is at a record. It's, I think, the fourth biggest. It's the biggest biggest. No, it's not. It's not biggest biggest. No, it's not. It's not, Vaughn. Is it a must win or have they changed that boundary

as well? Last year, I'm sure it got to 46 or something like that. Yeah. It's the fourth biggest. The app's currently closed. That's bananas. You can't get on this early. But yeah, huge amount of money up for grabs tonight. We're going to deal with this

in the top six. Yeah, the top six ways to gloriously quit your job if you win Lotto tonight. From a man who spent a lot of time thinking about how to quit a job. Oh, I have spent

to the last dime of that $43 million in my head. Have you? Yeah. Okay. Lots of it's given away. I'm going to buy one of those secondhand P&O cruise ships.

Where are you going to park that? Your house. In the estuary? Yep. Oh, God. I'm going to block out your son. Make a casino. It's going to be like the Ozarks.

It's going to be a casino that I also use to just launder my drug load. I'd build a four-story wall next to someone who I hated. Yeah. Just to block their view in the sun. Who has wronged me? Yeah. Well, they're about to get

18 townhouses beside them. Just for fun. It's coming up in the top six, but next. There's actually a word of warning from a financial advisor

for the lucky winner tonight. Yeah, if you happen to come across all this money. Yeah. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. I've got a few days off brewing here. Why?

Someone just messaged in, I know a guy was on a jackhammer for too long one day and got nerve damage. He was on ACC for a year. Oh no, you can't do that after two days. A year doing the Alternative Commentary Collective. That's amazing. No. Oh, you've got that slightly wrong, Han. You've got that slightly wrong. Now, tonight, the $43 million lotto prize

is the fourth largest in New Zealand's history. There were two 50 million Powerball jackpots in 2020. I don't remember those. And a 44 million prize in 2016. I drank a lot that year. The 50 million, though though went to 10 people. Boo! Not enough. I know you finally win Powerball

and it's divided by 10 people. My mum's like 50 million is too much for one person but if she had to split it with 10 she's like that's not enough for me. Oh no, 5 million dollars that's going to go far. So Saturday night they sold 1.43 million tickets. Yes. Have you ever done that?

Checked your tickets, not one, immediately bought more. I always give it a few days. No, you've got to feel, I always try to go off a vibe when I feel the right moment to buy the ticket. Right.

How's that working for you? So far, it's not a great investment. It's not. It's not. Yeah. And that's what they're saying is that ticket sales

have been lower than similar sized jackpots because they're putting that down to the cost of living crisis. People are spending less. It's not cheap. And thankfully they're not spending what money they do have on lotto tickets. Yeah, totally. You know what would

solve a cost of living crisis? I know. Winning $43 million. That's the problem with gambling, isn't it? And as they say, it only takes one ticket to win. I know. So you don't need to spend, you know, 10 tickets. I know. I mean, me and Aaron will buy probably two when it gets to this.

Sorry. We'll buy one each. One physical. He always goes physical. And then I'll buy one online. But, you know, like, that's within my means to do so. But if you do, you're like, don't waste. You can actually end up spending quite a lot of money trying to win this.

And then you don't win. And then you don't win. But then you're going to win anyway. So there's a financial advisor for Forsyth Bar Investments. The stadium. Is it a stadium? Well, it was named after Forsyth Bar. I used to think.

Is that what Forsyth Bar do? I thought they were a construction company. No, they're investment. No, investment people. That explains it. When I first went to Forsyth Bar, I thought that a bar had the naming rights for Dunedin Stadium. And I was like,

that must be a popular bar. You didn't see the two R's. The two R's. Yeah, I was like, wow, they must sell a lot of drinks to have naming rights over a huge stadium. I know I'm doing $5 handles. No, they're not. His name's Jeff Matthews.

He has given some advice ahead of this massive, life-changing astronomical win for those that win. His key sort of sentiment here is stay calm, don't tell anyone, and remember, money doesn't buy happiness. Oh, my God, that stay calm, don't tell anyone, and remember money doesn't buy happiness. Oh, my God. That second one, don't tell anyone. Don't.

Like how many people, a lot are always like, oh, this family of five from, you know, Ashburton. It's like don't tell them anything. Just say, I don't want any details out there. Yeah. What about a red herring? Oh, yeah. What about a red herring? Yes. What about a red herring? Oh, yeah. What about a red herring?

Yes. What about a red herring? Like, sexy, 19-year-old girl from Christchurch. And then no one thinks it's you.

No one thinks it's me. I'm not a sexy 19-year-old girl. You're none of those things. But you're gonna, I don't know if Lotto would lie. I'm from Christchurch.

I don't know if Lotto would lie on your behalf like that. Oh, don't they? But yeah, don't tell anyone. It's one on your behalf like that. Oh, don't they? But yeah, don't tell anyone. It's one of Aaron's biggest things. Like we even argue, I was like, there's a small collection of people I'd tell. I mean, I'd have to tell you two because we've got a deal.

Yeah. I'd have to tell my parents and it sort of grows and grows. And Aaron's like, no. That's the thing. There's no such thing as a secret when more than one person knows. Yes. Like if somebody told me they'd won Lotto, I'd be like, hey, guys, do you know what?

Don't tell anyone. This is what I'd always say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I tell you guys a secret? But you cannot tell anyone. And then you tell your trusted friends. And then you're telling Sade, and then you'll tell James, and I'll tell Erin.

It's like, okay, suddenly too many people are knowing. Sade will tell her mum. Raglan knows. Now Raglan knows. She puts it on the local community notice board. I'll tell my mum. She's chuffed. She's telling literally everyone in Featherston.

Yeah. And Italy. Half of Italy's messaging you. Oh, small village in Italy. They all know. Bonjour, no, bonjour, no. Oh, is it a lot? So he suggests, his immediate suggestion,

because it's always like, what do you do straight away when you've gone from being a normal person to a multi-millionaire? Short six-month term deposit. Chuck it in there so it can start working for you, generate interest on 43 million. I'm like, what, some coin? What is that?

I'll do some mathematics for you. What's 6% on that? On 43 mil? Current term deposit rates, New Zealand. He said use that six months. Don't just have it sitting there. Put it in there. Use that six months to Like, don't just have it sitting there. Put it in there. Use that six months to make a plan.

Because that is his one thing. He's dealt with lotto winners who have become overnight millionaires before. And he said when they don't have a plan of how they're going to spend that money, that's when it goes tits up. Do you remember that documentary? It was a few years back and they talked to lotto winners. And some of them have nothing now. Oh, yeah. So to lotto winners and some of them have nothing now. Oh yeah, blow it all. So many of them. So many of them have nothing left.

He said he dealt with someone who won $35 million, went through the lot of it within five years, bought a $5 million house and then just bought boats, cars, other properties, no clear coherent strategy. He said it was like watching someone go into a supermarket

and try to grab everything they can within a short period of time. And at the end of it, they just went through it. And they didn't stop. Trev's got nothing left, eh? I don't know. Remember Trev from Te Kauwhata? See, again, don't go public. Nah, he went on.

Yeah, no one wants to, you don't want to be Trev. You know, the multimillionaire. Oh, he lived a life, but it's gone. So currently, Rabobank, non-spawn, I believe has the best six-month term deposit rate of 6.15%. Okay, so what's that at six months on 43 million? Heartland goes better, but they weren't in the top five when it showed the results.

So I've done it at 6.15. Do 42.5 because I'd burn through half a mil just like quite quickly on fun stuff. So at 6.15 over the course of six months uh you would earn is that six months that but that's per anime it'll tell you how much no yes you split it in half and six months you would earn 1.3 million dollars before tax yeah That's crazy. So your income would be $2.6 million a year, just off $43 million sitting in deposits. So he was like, while you've got that,

just clicking up a little extra money for you, you need to sit down, decide who we're telling, who we're helping, how much we're giving away, the charities you want to support, where you want to put it, and most importantly, what is important to you? Like, you're still fundamentally someone with values.

What are those values? Don't just burn through it like this idiot that bought a house. And what's important and how you're going to use the money to support that. It'll be so much fun. And he said, you know,

he's like, you know, he said someone in the UK won 158 million pounds. That's $300 million. And got breast cancer a couple of years later and died. What? He's like, it's not just going to make you happy and invincible. Yeah.

Just got to be smart with that. So I've taken this on board and I will listen to this. I'll go to the doctor. I'll be like, give me the top to bottom every test you can possibly run. Yeah. Can I have an IV drip of health? Why would you want to worry? No, because then at least you'd catch it and you'd just smash it.

You're like, I've got $43 million to burn through. I can't die in the next 10 years. Yeah, yeah. Well, good luck. Unless it's from a little crazy party time. Good luck. Oh, my gosh. And feel free, if you do win and you're listening to,

just give us a mail for that lovely advice we just gave you. Yeah, that wasn't for free, by the way. I'll be invoicing for that. Viewers in the UK were asked about their TV watching habits. In particular, what annoys them the most when they're watching TV? Number one, what do you reckon it is? Your partner being on their phone and then popping back in and being like, oh, who's that?

Not number one, but close. Is it talking? Like just talking over things? It is. And Shannon, this happened to you last night, didn't it? Oh, I was filthy. Oh, gosh. Premier of Below Deck yesterday, big day for me.

Huge day. You're a massive fan. I even messaged Carwin saying, don't message me for the next hour. Great. You know you can just turn your phone on, do not disturb. No, no, no, no. This is like, I was in the zone.

We ordered dinner at 2pm so we could watch it. Wait, you ordered it for arrival later or you ate dinner at 2pm? We ordered it at 2pm and it got there like 3ish and the premiere dropped at 3pm. We watched it. Oh, perfect. You had dinner at 3pm?

Yeah. Okay. So, big deal for me. That sounds the premiere dropped at three. We watched it. Oh, perfect. You had dinner at three? Yeah. Okay. So big deal for me. That sounds like lunch to me. I'll say it. No. I'd call three o'clock late dinner. No, late lunch.

Well, it was premiere dinner. Very big deal. That's fair. Time doesn't matter when there's a premiere. Exactly. And then Brendan, my partner, is just yap, yap, yap. Shut up, Brendan. And I paused it, and I turned to him, and I said,

this is a big deal. If it's old below deck, and I paused it and I turned to him and I said this is a big deal if it's old below deck we can converse and be joyful but we can convene at the end of this hour and debrief but not during did you say it like that

or did you yeah and he started laughing at me and I said this is not a laughing matter yeah and he's like you're taking this way too seriously

I said my friend Aisha is on the show she follows me and he's like how you're taking this way too seriously. I said, my friend Aisha is on the show. She follows me. And he's like, How close a personal friend is Aisha? Well, she follows me. Okay. Yeah, but how?

Because Bourne asked her to. Yeah, right. Right. I've got a bit of swing above and below deck. Yeah. Good boy. Wait, what?

Wait, I don't know. I just said that because that's the name of the show. Is there more advice? Well, I don't know. That was taken as quite. It sounded dirty. Like a pirate.

I thought you meant. You're up a deck. He's big D swinging. No, no. I meant sword fights and sword fighting. Sounded dirty. It did sound dirty. It sounded naughty.

I apologise to long time friend of the show, Aisha, for dragging her into this filth. Completely unintentional. That is the number one thing that people hate is their partner talking during the show. 45% absolutely hate it. Yeah, hate it. 32% hate key moments being spoiled by someone else.

You know, your partner's like, oh, I reckon this is going to happen. Oh, that's definitely the bad guy. Oh my God. My brother does this. So does my mother and Aaron. It's like a director's cut. And you're getting the commentary. You're like, turn that, yeah, yeah.

He's did it. He's the killer. Yeah, it's like, oh, I'll find that out on my own. Yeah, it's like, you're right and we all know it, but just shut it. It's not a competition here. When your partner's on your phone or someone you're watching TV or a movie with is on their phone, 30%, that's the third biggest.

You're not really watching this, eh? Yes, I am. Are you watching this or are you just watching TV or a movie with is on their phone. Aaron hates that. 30% that's the third biggest. You're not really watching this, eh? Yes, I am. Are you watching this or are you just on your phone? And then they have questions about what's happening. The worst. The worst. What about questions about what's happening when you don't even know what's happening? Because you've only just started?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. What's their deal? This is episode one. This is the opening scene. This is what's supposed to be drawing us in. All news to me. I'm sure we'll find out soon. Yeah, yeah. If this is episode one. This is the opening scene. This is what's supposed to be drawing us in. All news to me.

I'm sure we'll find out soon. Yeah, yeah. If you just pay attention. And the part of falling asleep is the fourth biggest pet peeve. I hate that. But I, I hate it when Aaron falls asleep

because I'm like, one, now you're lying on the couch and you're sort of snoring and I'll always be like, why don't you take yourself off to bed? But then also,

if you're watching a show together, you've got to pause. Oh my God. Oh my God. If they fall asleep, if you're watching a show together, you've got to pause. Oh, my God. If they fall asleep, that's on them. They can catch up at a later date. No. No. If I fall asleep and we are watching a show together,

you pause. Oh, yes, but we're a special case because we work silly hours. Yeah. Yeah. There must be allowance for those who are up before the sun. Oh, my God. Aaron will just like, oh, I'll wake up, I'll fall asleep. And then the next day I'll be like, oh, let's pick up where we left off.

He'll be like, no, I finished it. Screw you, man. We seem to be watching that together. Yeah, that's rough. I hate that so much. No, I already finished it. Also, how was it? When they talk to people about their pet peeves,

they also found that people give a new show 34 minutes on average to impress them. Otherwise, they're out. That's quite a long time. Which is normally, like most episodes are 40 minutes if it's an actual TV network. I heard of the, and once I heard on this podcast, I was like, oh my God, that makes so much sense.

How shows have this, they start fully dramatic, fully intense, and then it cuts and it's like three days before. Yes. Because they can't start the story slow anymore because people don't give it a chance, a story to develop it anymore. They need to drop you in the action. Be like, hook you and then let's find out how we got here.

Now I'm going to give you a bit more of a chance because I want to see how they got to this situation. Versus in the old days they just started telling a story from the start. Yeah, chronologically. And now people have zero attention. Yeah. Versus in the old days, they just started telling a story from the start. Yeah, chronologically. Yeah. And now people have zero attention. Yeah. 625. Play it.

ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Do you remember when Lenny Kravitz split his leather pants and we all saw his third leg? Yes. Yeah. And did you see that video a few weeks ago where he's at the gym doing workouts in his leather pants? Oh, I know. There's a guy at my gym the other day in almost formal attire like a car key, a collared

shirt and just like ordinary shoes. Uncomfortable. Yeah, I don't know what was going on there. It is odd. The reason I bring up Lenny Kravitz is because he has revealed as part of his spiritual journey, because you can tell he's got big

hippy dippy spiritual vibes. He does, yeah. As part of his spiritual journey for nine years, he has been single and is practicing abstinence from sexual activities. Does that only mean with other people, or is he allowed to

play with yourself? I literally have been trying to figure out whether or not Lenny Kravitz is allowed to play with himself or not. But he's just like, no, I can't. Sounds like a harsh rule to impose on oneself. Yeah, well, he was just like, I was a what's the point of life? Sorry, anyway.

Do you know what I mean? Like, why be, why breathe? It's literally one of the best parts of my day. He was like, I was just living this life as like a bit of a player. I was out sort of shagging everyone and he said, I just didn living this life as like a bit of a player. Yeah. I was out sort of shagging everyone and he said,

I just didn't want to be that person anymore. Oh, good on him. So I wanted to add some discipline into my life, not letting my desires take over. Yeah. Which is interesting.

I feel like it's interesting in a time where you hear more about people being a bit more sexually liberal, sleeping with, you know, open relationships. Aren't like Gen Z all about this? Whether it's forced or not?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know. They're definitely not behaving as I know my friends and I did in our late teens, early 20s. Yeah. They're into it. Whether it's spiritual or by choice or that they just fuddle.

Do they know it feels good? I don't know if they know that it feels good. Yeah. Should someone tell them that? Someone should tell them it feels good. It makes you feel good. A little bit of a release of some chemicals and some brains.

Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. We actually put up a question box. Are you abstaining from sex? And why? And why? Reigns. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. We actually put up a question box. Are you abstaining from sex? And why?

And why? Some responses. You don't give the gold out for free. Put a ring and some commitment on it first. A ring. Also, rate your fanny. Gold. Gold?

I'm bronze, man. I'm bronze at best. I've seen a couple of tin cans out there. I thought you were just a runner-up certificate. I'm participation. A ribbon of sorts. Yeah, yeah. All the guys on apps are high road.

How else do people meet these days? That's a valid point. That doesn't sound like opting into. It just hasn't happened. Yeah. It's not happening not a yeah not a choice um have you seen the dating pool

for women in their 30s hashtag standards yeah I don't know about the dating pool for women in their 30s don't like a man do you think men in their 30s

think the same yeah I don't know do you think that that's an honest question I'm not trying to knock the person who said that but I think my standards now, if I was single,

would definitely be higher than they used to be. Just reflecting on one to ten people that I slept with. It just would mortify me now. Time's flying by, guys. Vasectomy is expensive and I don't want to get pregnant again. So that's someone who's in a relationship, married, doesn't want to get pregnant again. So that's someone who's in a relationship, married, doesn't want to get pregnant again.

There's so many other ways. Get a vasectomy. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know what you just said. Or just there's other ways. Gotcha.

I was like, what are you doing? He's so innocent, hey? What are you doing? Yeah. And ask the Catholics. Don't put that video up. No. I'm just miming something for the boys,

but that's just for the boys. Someone says, I'm currently abstaining because I'm married. Yeah, okay. So that's happening. Involuntary as well. Yeah, life admin does get in the way, doesn't it? It's not the hottest thing in the world.

Husband has shingles. Oh, yeah. You've both had shingles, haven't you? Yeah, you've had shingles. I don't want to be frottaging out with some of the shingles. Yeah, yeah, but they don't last forever. No. Don't cut the old boy off just because he had shingles once.

Yeah, if he's told you that he can no longer have sex because of the shingles forevermore, he just doesn't want to have sex with you. Sorry, love. Shingles, you know, it's... Didn't you get those in 2018? Yeah, but you know, you're shingles. Yeah, but shingles are shingles, my love.

Yeah, don't Google it. Don't Google it. Yeah. Somebody said, I'm not interested in sex in the slightest. I think it's been about five years since I've had any interest in it at all. Wow, interesting. What do you think about all the other hours? If you're not desiring it,

maybe there's other thoughts that occur in your head during the day that bring you delight. Like the beautiful sight of the autumnal leaves. Yeah. You know? In the time that we're thinking about. Oh God. Could you get so much more done?

Yes. 100%. You probably could. You would have the most productive days. You'd be like, why does it feel like there's so many more hours in the day? It feels like daylight savings at both ends of the day. It feels like daylight savings at both ends of the day. Yeah. I'm a big fan of The Office, particularly the American one, which is controversial.

For me, the British one is like too cringy. Really? Really. Yeah. Because I was never able to get into the American one.

Oh, it's so good. Yeah, I never gave it the chance beyond the first season. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, I never gave it the chance beyond the first season. Oh, it's so good. There's actually an Australian version coming with a lot of Kiwis in it. Has it been announced? Because I know people in it, but maybe I shouldn't say who's in it. I just heard rumours.

No, it's definitely been said that it's in it, and they said who was leading it previously. But I don't know if the rest of the cast have been revealed. Okay, I'll just shut my fat mouth. Sometimes we talk about things and I forget that they haven't been announced. Oh, okay. And then we've just got insider industry inside. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, there is a new series that is, they're calling it part of the office world, but it's not like following any of the characters from the previous seasons. Is it connected to the American office or the British office? American. Okay. American, I believe. I mean, because it was hugely successful, wasn't it?

And it's one of those shows that people just watch streaming on repeat. I reckon I've watched the American one at least like from top to bottom at least five times Really? And there's ten seasons It's one of my favourite shows. It's perfect Steve Carell is literally perfect But he's not there for the last few seasons eh? Yeah like

two and then he pops up in the last episode Right. Spoiler alert Anyway so this is called, not The Office but The Paper It's an original series that follows the staff of a struggling community newspaper, full mockumentary style, down the barrel, all the interviews and stuff that you might know and love. But instead of following a paper company, it's following this terrible, dwindling paper company. Newspaper.

Like community newspaper. Yeah. Not like the NZ Herald. No, 160 years class of No. Established.

Classy. Realism. Kind of a bit like Ricky Gervais in Afterlife. That's a community newspaper, yeah. Kind of that kind of vibe, maybe.

So you know how, if you know the American one, there was a moment where we finally kind of acknowledged that this paper company has been followed by a documentary

crew. Right. You know, because we never really acknowledged, like, why is there a camera crew there? Yeah. And then towards the later seasons, it was very clever, they kind of revealed it and flipped it a bit, which was really, it's so good. It's so good. Okay. So now, the

logline for the paper reads, the documentary crew that immortalised Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch, which is the paper company from the office, is in search of a new subject. So it's like the same crew, that's the story, but it's part of the same world. But of a new subject where they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters.

Oh. How good is that premise? Volunteer reporters. Now, in the cast announce, Domhnall Gleeson? Yes. You know him? Yeah. He just did that show with Steve Carell, actually,

where he kept his psychiatrist hostage. He was amazing. He's going to be in it. He's going to be in it. And Sabrina Amacatore. Soon they'll be household names. They will be. Yeah.

Right now we struggle to say their names. Yeah. So they say it's later in the year. Oh, no, it's going to start filming in July. So it's about to start filming. So you have to wait for it a little bit. But honestly, I'm fizzed for this. In the works.

In the works. Just giving my daughter a little pep talk about sewing. Oh, she's sewing. She's starting, they call it design tech now. Oh, okay. Not materials or whatever, but she's not looking forward to it. Materials and textiles. Oh my God, I loved it.

Tell her I made a Garfield pillow. Fletch really enjoyed sewing and made a Garfield pillow. And you know what's still relevant all these years later is the new Garfield movies out. Exactly. And I tell you what, we traced that Garfield onto that cushion and we didn't pay any trademark or copyright. No, I had no idea. Well, I'd shut your mouth about it because I could still come for you. No, you weren't selling it for money.

It was a fan fart. Fan fart? Yeah. Fan art. Yeah. I made a goth spider web skirt. Tell her to be careful because Gareth got the sewing needle through his finger. Well, Gareth is probably playing silly buggers, isn't he?

Yeah, I think he was. Is this Augie or Indie? Indie. Okay. She probably won't do the goth thing. August is giving big goth vibe. She'll be goth later on. Yeah, she'll do a bit of a goth phase.

Well, I've got the top six ways, grand ways to quit your job after you win Lotto tonight. Good. It's today's top six. It's not just a letter, is it? No, it's an official AI generated resignation letter. It's been a pleasure to be part of this company for the last da-da-da-da-da. And then you're like, tone it down, AI.

Can I say, just wait until you've gone into the Lotto office, you've got the money in your bank before you do this. Oh, you've got to tape around. It's going to be so obvious. Some people check the wrong tickets, or some people think they've won sometimes and they haven't, is what I'm saying. You think you've won, you walk in and you're like, F you and F you.

No, no. So the top six grand ways to quit your job after you win Lotto tonight and after you've confirmed with the Lottery's Commission that you did actually win Lotto tonight. Yes. Number six, hire a marching band. How great would that be? Because I'm imagining all these happening here at work. We've got a big foyer. People hear it and they're like, what's that be? Because I'm imagining all these happening here at work.

We've got a big foyer. People hear it and they're like, what's that noise? They start down on the corner. Email the company our free biscuits. So everybody's down. And everybody comes.

You're the leader of the black parade. Yes. My chemical romance vibes. When I was young boy and you come and then you're like, grand announcement,

I quit. Yes. And the band plays And then you're like, grand announcement. I quit. Yes. And the band plays you out and you march out. Fantastic. Love that. Yeah. You just watched that march. It was a little bit nasty.

Hands were a bit high. Yeah, hands were a bit high. Is that not what you do? What do you do? She keeps the arms down here. You go right up. Okay. Nice straight arms.

Yeah, no, no, no. Number five on the list of the top six grand ways to quit your job after you win Lotto tonight. Fireworks display outside your boss's house. One of those real big ones. Yeah. Oh, get a bigger than a boombox.

No, bigger than a boombox. Full-blown pyrotechnic display. Yeah. With somehow, it says you're fired. Well, you can probably afford to buy those drones that make light shows.

Oh, yeah, that's cool. I quit. I quit in the drone display. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six quit. I quit in the drone display. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six grand ways to quit your job after you're in Lotto tonight

are stripper gram. Remember those? Oh, my God. Yes. From a time gone by. It was like a singer gram that arrived and said, I'm a singer except a stripper gram

would take me for a while. And then do you remember people then did stripper grands? Yes. Oh. Granny strippers. Didn't know where to look. Grannies can be naked too.

Absolutely. Yeah. It's a bit weird when it's in the office. Yeah. And it Granny strippers. Didn't know where to look. Grannies can be naked too. Absolutely. Yeah. It's a bit weird when it's in the office. Yeah. And it's your grandma. Sure. Number three on the list of the top six ways to quit your job after you win Lotto tonight, homing pigeons.

Thousands of homing pigeons. Wow. How are they going to give the message? You print out your AI thing on a little piece of paper and you'd put it around their leg. Hey, boss. And then I quit. I quit.

From Vaughn. And I'm imagining it happening here too. The foyer doors open and just all of a sudden it's all full of pigeons. Get into Ross's desk. Ross boss's desk. Flying here. They go to the security guard. Can I get swiped in?

And he puts a little swipe card around their neck. Yeah, and he's like, I need this back before you leave. The lead pigeon swipes it, holds the door open. We'll have to tell the pigeon about our dicky door. You've got to push it, pause, then pull. And then go, yeah. Otherwise it'll go wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble. Number two on the list of the top six grand ways to quit your job after you win a lot of time.

Huge cake. Huge cake. Oh, yeah. You're exploding out of the cake. Nah. And then you come out of the cake. Oh, yeah. I think you should come out of the cake if you want. I think you should come out of the cake. Huge cake. Oh, yeah. You're exploding out of the cake. Nah. And then you come out of the cake. I think you should come out of the cake if you want. I think you should come out of the cake.

Okay. Very important to come out of the cake before they start knifing it. Yeah, just stabbing into it with huge swords. They stab you and the cake starts bleeding. Oh, my God. Raspberry jam. Yum. Yeah.

Oh, my God. It's metallic. Metallic. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six ways to quit your job after you win low tonight. Buy the whole company and shut it down. Oh. You're shutting it down.

Buy the whole company and then just... You're shutting down this whole media company or just ZM? No, the whole thing, mate. Wow. Shutting it all down. Pulling the plug. That's terrible. I wouldn't stand for that.

It's quite ruthless. It serves a lot of people, this company. Well, I'm rich now. I've got to be savage. You're not a person to me anymore. You're a plus or minus on a spreadsheet, mate. And I've seen a lot of minuses. Hang on. So you're going to take our jobs

even though you've won Lotto. But then you have no money left because you've spent all the money shutting the company down. Worth it. Weird play, man. Weird play. Odd play. It's the last thing they're expecting. Keep them guessing. Keep them guessing.

Odd way to quit your job. Odd way to quit your job. Yeah. Just take your job away. Obviously, I was imagining a significantly cheaper company. Right, like a bakery or something. You work in a bakery. Oh, I'm not shooting in a bakery.

It's a Montserrat. Why would you shoot in a bakery? Oh, wow. You stand up for the massive media company, but not the small man. Oh, mainstream media over here. Oh, wow. The last touch of the common man, this guy.

He's like, yeah, don't shut down the media, but by all means, crush Ma and Pa Bakery. Wow. Disgusting. Trying to give the world customers queers and sausage rolls. You son of a bitch. Sorry to our bakery owners this morning.

Who are some of our most... Who have been up long before us. Reliable listeners. I was just going along with what you said you'd do. Shut up, you pig. I'm disgusted. That's today's Top Socks. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

One of the best shows of all time, Arrested Development. If you've never watched Arrested Development, you should be in the start of the start. Yeah, we've been watching a few old clips. So much of it still stands. Great show. It's so stands. All of it. That's so good. All of it.

Anyway, there is a football club. It's a Sydney soccer team. Yeah. Called the Hertzville Zagreb. What? Hertzville Zagreb. Isn't that like? Football club.

Croatia? Zagreb's a country, isn't it? Zagreb. It's the capital of Croatia. Yeah, it's the capital of Croatia. Well, maybe they're Croatian. Okay. Yeah.

Let's just assume they are Croatian. They're from Sydney. Wait, it's the capital of Croatia. Well, maybe they're Croatian. Okay. Yeah. Let's just assume they are Croatian. They're from Sydney. Wait, they're not Australian. They're Sydney. A Sydney-based. First grade soccer team. But they're all Croatian maybe? Okay.

Sydney's southern suburbs. Okay. Oh, okay. So I agree with you. These details don't matter. All you need to know is that these soccer boys are professional athletes. Okay. And they have been truly humbled by Pilates.

So there's reform... You hear of like all blacks that have done this and they're like, oh my god. Pilates is so hard. I love it, yeah. It's so hard. Yeah, I've done a couple of, and that's not with the machine. Oh, the reformer. Well, these boys are on the reformer. They're at Reform Me in Sydney. Oh yeah, see, because when you these boys are on the reformer. They're at Reform Me in Sydney.

Oh, yeah, see, because when you're just doing it by yourself, you can only push yourself as far as you can go at that time, but the machine can pull you a little bit further. Yeah. It really does. It was invented as a rehab for, like, World War II soldiers. Was it? It was a German guy that did.

It's a lot of basic pictures and expensive leggings. Joseph Pilates invented Pilates. Yeah, but wasn't it for rehab for World War II soldiers or World War I soldiers? No, it was just stretchy and harmful, wasn't it? And didn't he smoke ciggies and... I thought it was just get hot. Oh, that's Mary Windsor Pilates was the one that made him get hot.

Every person that does Pilates is hot. Because it's expensive, you can do hot Pilates. You can do, what was that? It's called Zuni Pilates or something. Zuni Pilates? Z hot pilates. You can do, what was that? It's called zooni pilates or something. Zooni pilates? Zooni pilates. Wasn't that a heated pilates?

I don't know. Are you thinking of bloody, what's the one? Huh? What was it? There's a documentary about it. Yoga. Bikram.

Oh yeah. Oh, maybe I've seen Bikram. Very different. Anyway, they've been doing weekly pilates classes as a way to,

because you can target the small muscles a lot in that. It's really good. It builds a lot of strength and flexibility, ankle flexibility, all things that soccer players need. And so they've been doing these Pilates classes to try to get a bit more stability and support in their legs and feet and stuff. And there is a video that they took and they're all like, you know when your legs vibrate and you're like, oh my God, this is killing me.

And these are like, I'm talking the quads on these lads. I have clocked those. It's hard. They've been truly humbled by it. But I think that they came in with the attitude of being like, man, we lift heavy. We run fast.

We are professional athletes, ain't no little slidey board and some string going to get me down, and they've been truly humbled. So then I wanted to know, what was the thing that you did that ended up being a lot harder than you expected? Maybe you just sort of, you know, there was like when I was like,

I'll just do tennis. And I brought a tennis racket and tennis balls and we walked down to the tennis court. And you went to do tennis and it was real hard. I went to do the tennis. It's so hard. Oh yeah, saw backs, saw a lot of lunges and such. Also just like, I can hit the ball but I'm hitting it too hard. But then you watch

the professionals and they're like, smack! And I'm like, but why is mine going... Over the fence. Slowly, slowly but quite far over the fence. It's hard and I was sweating a lot

and I've done it once. Well, it's like people that like not sports but like chew, take a bite of more than they can chew with home renos

or like fix it jobs. Oh my God, idiots, dum-dums. Why would you bite of more than you can chew? I mean like they actually think they can fix something.

Oh yeah, do it themselves. Do it themselves. They're like, oh, a bit of plumbing, I'll be able to fix that. Oh, yeah, do it themselves. Do it themselves. They're like, oh, a bit of plumbing, I'll be able to fix that. No need to call a guy. Cut the wrong wires or drill through something and have to get the professionals in. Yeah.

But we all, like, we just exude confidence. Or is it arrogance? It could be both. It could be both. That's what I want to know. Well, let's take your calls. Give us a call now. 0800 DARS at M is our number.

You can text through 9696. What ended up being way harder than you expected? Give us a call. Right now, the question on our lips is, what was harder than you originally expected? Because there is an Australian soccer team that thought they'd nail Pilates. Turns out...

They've gone viral because they couldn't. Little trembling boys. Pilates, turns out... They've gone viral because they couldn't. Little trembling boys. And Pilates is insane. Yoga's insane. It's genuinely so hard. You need such a strong core. Do you know what else is real hard? Those gym classes that require any rhythm and coordination.

Oh, yeah. Step. Yeah, that's the one. They give you that little box. And I'm like... It's like doing a dance. Oh, it sucks so one. And they give you that little box. And I'm like, uh. And it's right there. It's like doing a dance. Oh, it sucks so much. It's hard.

Rachel, what did you think you'd be able to nail, but was a lot harder than you thought? Pole dancing. Oh, okay. I've heard this. I've heard this. Sexual or, like, exercise? I'd say more for exercise.

Can we call it sexercise? Sure. Let's do sexercise. So you went to a pole class? Yes, so I had my second pole class, and I think the instructor wasn't expecting me to be such a beginner. Right. Right, yeah, yeah.

It's not something you come to a class like with kind of any, unless you're a fireman and you've got a fireman's pole. Or you were a child in the 90s. In the playground. Because we had poles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's not like you have a pole at your house. I mean, some people do, don't they?

Well, you've got to start somewhere. Yeah. No, not at all. Not at all. Did your thighs squeak down the pole? Oh, yeah. That would be the hardest part. Yes, honestly, the way that your body

is supposed to stick to the pole is like magic. I don't know how they do it. Yeah, I'd be like, squeak, squeak, squeak. Oh, yeah. Like burning. Burning. Yeah, that was the worst part about the fireman's pole at the playground. Rachel, thank you.

Crystal, what was a lot harder than you thought? Painting my bathroom. Yeah. How hard is painting? Painting sucks. Well, that's what I thought. I thought it'd be easy, you know, and I'm, you know, I was by myself with no partner. So I thought, you know, I'm going to up one and try it on myself, you know, DIY.

Yeah. And not only I didn't get it once, twice or three times, I ended up repainting it and stripping it about five times. Yeah. Because of my OCD, you know, like I couldn't get those corners. I even tried to use makeup brushes. Yeah. Painting is hard. It's really hard. When you notice little things, you're like, oh couldn't get those corners. I even tried to use makeup brushes. Yeah, painting is hard.

It's really hard. When you notice little things, you're like, oh, no, that's not perfect. Especially on your own because you'll do a bit, and then you've got to go down the ladder, and you come back to blend it in, and it's already dried. You're like, oh, crap. But then you don't realise when, like, when I go to your house, Hayley, and I see the painting, it looks amazing. No, that's because Aaron's done it, and it is amazing.

But it's taken months. You've just got to take your time, Crystal. You've got to take your time. I don't want to take my time. I want to rip shit and bust, get in there. Same. I want to chuck a 10-litre at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Crystal, thank you. Some messages in. Climbing Mount Taranaki, someone said on Instagram. They make it far too accessible, giving you false hope that it's easy. I feel like that about the mountain. Everyone's like, let's go up the mountain. I'm like, oh, God, I'm puffed. Mount Taranaki is hard, but it's beautiful once you're up there

and it's easy coming down. Yeah, hard. That's the thing about going up hills. Coming down, whether or not you want it to be, you're going to move in a bit faster. Yeah. Someone said making out for the first time. I didn't anticipate my tongue getting so tired and blue.

Oh no, I see what they're saying there. Yeah, they got a very tired tongue. Oh, God. Having a toddler after a dream baby, that was a lot harder. Giving up the Diet Coke. Oh, yeah. A lot harder than I expected. Yeah, good.

Pottery, golf, and travelling with people who don't travel like you. Yeah, that's hard. Travelling in big groups. Yeah, and you do expect it's going to be easy and fun. You're like, oh my God, this will be great. We're going to have a beautiful holiday. Cool, and us could be prep. Yeah, I thought I'd fly through that as well, but boy, oh boy.

Yeah. Sex. I don't know how they worked that out, but it couldn't start a fire. I assume they're talking there about cavemen or early monkeys. Yeah, right. Okay. Long term relationships. Yeah,

they are hard. Yeah. Adulting, a lot of people just saying adulting is significantly harder than anybody just told me it was going to be. Someone else messaged in saying the step class at the gym. God, it's so hard. It's just a coordination. My mum used to smash it in the 90s. Yeah. First time we're in the middle of the group thinking, oh, it's so hard to step. It's just the coordination. My mum used to smash it in the 90s. Yeah.

First time when in the middle of the group thinking, oh, this is going to be easy, it's just step. Nope, was out of time and looked absolutely stupid, would just get the hang of the movement and then they'd change it. Yeah. Yeah. You just keep going.

You get used to it after you keep going, right? Boxing, I bought a punching bag and some gloves for some cardio and within one minute, both arms were limp and for days I felt dead and I gloves for some cardio. And within one minute, both arms were limp. And for days, I felt dead. And I couldn't breathe properly. Swimming, when you haven't swum since you were a kid. Yeah. Probably leads to swimming.

A nice, easy exercise. And then when you haven't swum for years, the muscles in your back that you never knew you had. Yeah, yeah. What the hell is that? It's a different set of mushrooms. Different set of mushrooms? In your back, yeah. It's a different set of mushrooms. Yeah, it's? Different set of mushrooms? In your back,

yeah, it's a different set of mushrooms. Yeah, it's a different set of mushrooms in your back. Keep going, lots of protein, you'll grow your mushrooms

nice and strong. Is he having a stroke? Are you having a stroke? Might be, I'm not sure. Well, I mean, if you are,

that's a whole different bag of mushrooms. Yeah. I'm going to say it there are some twins they have a podcast the podcast is called Something for That Ass now I think these twins

may be somewhat out of touch with the world but this was an interesting debate a discussion they were having about their demands that they want from their future baby daddy the father of their children now they want from their future baby daddy, the father of their children.

Now, they don't have children yet. Okay. They're planning. Now, one of them was a push present that is either a car or a house. Now, a push present is a gift that the person pushing the baby out gives, gets, and it's like a ring. Lots of people get like jewelry or something to be like, well done, you pushed out a baby.

Here's a $50 Whitcalls voucher. That's great. You get a couple of Jones picks there. Yeah, Jones picks, man. She knows how to pick a book. Would I expect one? I'd expect so much more than a Whitcalls voucher. No, I guess the present's supposed to be the baby.

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Also, I feel like it's a thing that's happened in the last 15, 20 years. Yeah, I don't think our mothers got push presents from our fathers being like, well done you. Yeah. And I was a big baby. Patsy deserved at least a pat on the back.

She would have got a pat on the back. She would have got a pat on the back. Well, she got an angelic child instead. So one of them wants either a car or a house as a push present. She sounds like a nightmare. Yeah. And this is the thing that's interesting is she thinks the exchange should be a body for a body. Because as you know, as you know, Vaughn, the body does a lot when it gives birth to a human life. Phenomenal.

And some of it, it never goes back. It never, you know, you really put your body on the line for this new life, I guess. So what does she want? She wants the father to get a tattoo of her face on their body. A body for a body. So that my body changes forever, your body changes forever.

You meant to hide all this crazy before you lock in a baby daddy. She hasn't. And I was like, you're not going to. You meant to lock in all this, like this should be thoughts in your head. And you slowly vent the crazy. Yeah. A little bit by a little bit. She's also gone crazier to say, preferably I want the face of myself to be on the man's stomach.

Because my stomach's going to look different forever after a baby. So should yours. Wow. Now, are we talking a sidewalk caricature or a sort of photorealistic tattoo? Because the photorealistic tattoos, the fine lines, they don't last as long as a nice broad-lined caricature. Yes, a woodwork caricature. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So she's got a slightly, what does she look like? What would you, if you were to, does it show her face? Yeah, they're just, they're hot, hot ladies. Okay.

With curly hair and lots of work done. The curly hair would definitely be one of the things that they'd focus in on. High, sharp features. High, like big inflated lips. Sharp features. High cheekbones.

Yeah. And then she's going to have to look at that every time he doesn't have a top on. And I think lads will find out pretty quickly she doesn't want that there. Also, if I had my face on a man's stomach and then, you know, we know how life fluctuates. Yeah. Well, my face is going to fluctuate with them. Big face, small face. I don't know.

I sort of, I mean, know. This is a bit insane. But I always think this. As someone who is not going to have children I'm always like, I would feel resentful. You know when you see the man and they're still fit. They're going about it. Working out. Their body didn't change.

They're not pissing themselves. They didn't have a prolapse, did they? No, yeah. And you're sitting there trying to get your breasts back in order and you know, you're just forever different. But this isn't why I shouldn't have children.

Because I'm being like, oh, my body, my body. Not, oh, what a joy it would be to bring a life in. And then you hopefully would not pass that resentment on to the child. What child? It's just not happening. Okay. Yeah.

I'm going to keep it tight, perky, and Aaron doesn't need to get a tattoo of my face anywhere on his body. Yeah, that's just crazy behaviour. It's madness. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley's. Silly little poll today.

My little cuties is... Ooh. Not you, the listeners. Aw. Oh. Am I not a little cutie? My mucky little bunnies. You're the mucky bunnies. I'll be a mucky bunny.

My little cuties... This is weird. Stop it. This is weird. Which do you prefer? That's spoken like a true mucky bunny. Yeah, something a mucky bunny. Try to be a cutie. I'll try. Which do you prefer? That's spoken like a true mucky bunny. Yeah, something a mucky bunny. Try to be a cutie.

I'll try. Which do you prefer? Do you remember the ad back in the day? Nyucky bunny and the bunny got a wash in the washing machine and came out all clean. Oh, that's right. Nyucky bunny. That was what the girl said. What was that an ad for?

Cuddly. Like Purcell or something. Yeah. Okay. And then she got afterwards and it was all cuddly and clean. It's cuddly. Nyucky bunny. she got it afterwards and it was all cuddly and clean. It's cuddly. Nyucky Bunny.

Nyucky Bunny. Because it was all dirty. Are you looking up nyucky? I spelled it N-Y-U-C-K-Y. Nyucky. That looks like it up the top. I reckon there's a G in front of there. Nyucky.

No, that's not it. You're like nyucky. Yeah. If it's 1990s TV, is it? TV, yeah. Okay, I'll leave it there. I'll see if I can find it. Yeah, good stuff. Lucky.

Silly little poll. Which do you prefer, Facebook Marketplace or Trade Me? I go Trade Me even though it costs more because it's just tidier. You are just in the majority. 53% of people said Trade Me. 47% said Facebook Marketplace. There was a Reddit post yesterday and someone had like trade me throughout the ages,

like what it looked like when it first came out. Oh, yeah. What it looks like now and then throughout the different years. Do you remember when trade me was literally like the classifieds in the paper? All it had was a blue hyperlink, no pictures or anything.

It just said what it was. That was pretty wild. Alex. How the F... Full word. Do people like Facebook Marketplace? She's... It is trash.

But you can find some treasures. Are you more likely to get scammed? Yeah, hard. So many of the scams happen on Marketplace. It's not as regulated, is it? No. Facebook Marketplace says, Rachel is kind of dodgy, but no success fees.

Also dislike that friends see when I post stuff, which is annoying. You can hide that. Huh? You can hide that. You can hide that, eh? Yeah. Trade Me costs a bit,

and there's a lot of trash from offshore sellers on there now. Yeah, lots of dropshipping trash on Trade Me as well, right? The fees, though, is what is getting people the way. They've gone up so much. Especially if you're selling something of significance. Yeah. It's a percentage, eh? Yeah.

They both suck, says Trace. Trade Me fees have got way too high, and Facebook Marketplace is full of annoying scammers. Do you reckon she's hitting up the old Trade and Exchange? Oh, Trade and Exchange. We should go back to having garage sales and listing classifieds. I've been thinking

about throwing a garage sale. Oh my God, you should. You still see so many signs. If you're driving around on the weekend, there's so many signs that say garage sale on the dresses.

Can I come along and help? And if you get one of those sticker price guns, I'll do all the sticker prices. Okay. I was going to do make us an offer and then on some bigger items I'll do that. No, because I've always wanted to do a sticker price gun thing. Okay, well was going to do make us an offer and then on some

bigger items after that. No, because I've always wanted to do a sticker price gun thing. Okay, well we'll get you a sticker price gun. And I want an apron. A pinafore.

You need a pinafore. I need a penny. I was thinking about making it a whole thing. With margaritas? Margaritas. Maybe I'll make some slice. Dollar for a slice.

You'll get tire kickers if you've got margaritas. Also, if you've got slices, then the council are going to want a food inspection certificate. Like, you know, food hygiene. Oh, God, you're not going to know where you live. Or just sell my, like, sort of leftover paint and screws. Yeah, that sounds better. Kate says, people tend to ignore you on Marketplace when you're buying, and then when you're selling, you tend to ignore people because of the stupid automated messages and the people try to scam you. Trade me much more genuine and reliable. Yes. And we talked about our friend as well that got offered drugs.

Drugs. Drugs. Drugs. Naughty. For a soundbar. Bigger, more expensive purchases, trade me because it's safer, but smaller purchases for sure.

Marketplace, so convenient. Yeah. Using both. Is this still available on Facebook? On Facebook, Marketplace makes my skin crawl. She's Rosemary. It's just the go-to. You got messed around on Marketplace quite a bit, eh?

Yeah. Have you given up on that now? I always look on Marketplace. I'm like, eh, eh, eh. But then all of a sudden, I think, ah, they're bloody dreaming. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're dreaming. Saw some fencing stuff yesterday.

They wanted $200 for it. I felt like messaging them. I'm like, my king, you've got too many O's on it. That's $20 junk. That's not $200 treasures. Cherie says, trade me fees are too high, and I owe them $1,200. What? How do you owe them $1,200?

Like, she's sold a car or something, and then it was. And then she hasn't paid the success fees. I guess so. Yikes. Small basic purchases marketplace. Anything over $80, trade me, says Danielle. Okay. Preeti says, Facebook marketplace for sure.

The best entertainment is with the, is this still available messages? Because that's the default message, right? Yeah. I love when you see a listing and it's like, if you message me saying, is this available, you will be blocked and ignored. Never ever use Facebook Marketplace. I work for a bank and it's put me off for life seeing people lose thousands of dollars and they'll never get it back. They're the scum of the earth.

Trade me every time, please. Scum of the earth. I think a lot of people are saying if it's over a certain amount of money, trade me. Because then you can go with verified sellers, right? Someone said, to be honest, guys, I think you should bring back BuySellExchange on the radio. Yes. Oh, my God.

Yeah, you call up. What are you selling today? Now, have you got an offer there, Trev? I've got a bunch of little taps, you see. Old taps, Trev. Maybe replace the bathroom taps. And I've got nothing wrong with them. Bit of a trip. Just needed to wash a bit.

I've got my taps. Okay, what brand are they? Methvin Taps. Oh, good brand. MZ made taps. Okay, and how much would you like for those taps? $5,000. Oh, that's probably a bit steep there, Trev.

I'm not willing to budge. Okay, how much did you originally pay for them? I couldn't tell you. I've lost the receipt. Okay, because taps are like a couple of hundred dollars. Yeah. What? Yeah, for your cheap Chinese imported crap.

What do you want them rusting and breaking and falling off the wall? You bloody jokers. I'm talking high quality New Zealand made taps. Well, you're dreaming, Trev. No one's going to pay that much. You're dreaming, bitch. Zane gets out of control. Oh, wow.

Like I always said, we should have let woman on the radio. I'm just going to hang up on Trev. No one's going to pay that much. You're a dreaming bitch! Oh, wow. Like I always said, we should let women on the radio. I'm just going to hang up on Trev. What did you say about women on the radio? I said they shouldn't be allowed on the radio. Shouldn't be allowed to drive kitchen, if you ask me, behind some lovely $5,000 meth and taps.

Cleaning, polishing my meth and taps. If you'd like Trev's taps, give us a call at 0800-DARLS-AT-M. $5,000 and they are yours. I don't know if BuySell is ready for a return. I want Sell to Ethnics. I don't want these beautiful taps being in the hands of Ethnics. Okay, we're going to hang up on Trev now. And that is why we can't have Bicella on the radio.

We could bring it back. We might have to vet the callers. We might have to vet the Trevs. Okay, there is a woman who is doing 30 days of rejection therapy, she's calling it. Overcoming the fear and the embarrassment that comes from being rejected. Be it big or small. And in public too. This isn't like being rejected in the comfort of your own home by yourself.

Yeah. Oh, no, yeah, yeah. You're not just like meditating through it. So how she does it, it's a 30-day challenge that she set herself. And what she has to do is like go up and talk to people and ask for something that she kind of knows that she'd be rejected for example asking people to like pay for her petrol but can i get this petrol for free well like go up to the counter can i get this petrol for free like can i have this trolley of groceries for free yeah you know they're gonna say no they're gonna say no but as someone for

the who has the fear of rejection you you just wait to receive it. That's insane. That's insane training. If you did this for 30 days, by the end of it, you kind of would be over it. You'd handle it, right? Yeah. So she's just like, hey, guys, it's day 19 of rejection therapy.

I'm at the gas station. I'm going to go in and ask if I have a tank of free gas. You're like, they're not going to say yes. Though I will say she's young and beautiful. If anyone's getting free gas, it's this attractive young blonde female. The video of her going up to the cashier at the servo, she got denied there. That's been her most popular video. Yeah, she said she gets lots of dirty looks because a lot of people are just like, the audacity.

But she's like, no, I'm asking you because I know you're going to say no. Not because I think it's something that you're actually going to say yes to. I don't know what I would, I don't know what I get fear of, like what the things I'm scared of being rejected are. Did she start small, at least? Like, what, did she just jump straight at the end of asking for a free tag of gas? If you want to do this, you need to be one of those people that ask people to sign up for like Greenpeace or you know those things. They're always outside the supermarket. They must get so much.

Can I just have 30 seconds of your time to talk to you about, no, I don't have the time today. Yeah. For that very worthy charity. Or yeah, I mean always worthy charities, but you're just like, they must get told no and get the filthiest looks all day. It would be so hard. Well, she says, like, yeah, this is where the work is. Like, you go, you know you're going to get a no, so that's almost taking the guessing work out of it.

You're feeling nervous and anxious. You push through it because it's not going to be as bad as you think. And that's always the thing, right? Afterwards, you're going to be like, hey, can I get a tank of free gas or can I have all of these groceries for free? No? Okay, fair enough. And you walk away and your life goes on.

And you're like, great, I've just practiced being rejected. What's she training for? What sort of rejection? I think she was just not very good at it in life. Just not good at it. But then who is good at it? Gives her a lot of anxiety. She has a lot of fear of judgment.

But if she's very good looking, it's not like she's ever going to be rejected romantically. Oh, my God. What is the worst rejection than the romantic rejection? I don't know. So, like, when you go to your cat, and the cat turns around and walks away, and you're like, no.

Not again. I'm used to that rejection. Well, that actually hurts me the most of all. Yeah. Some other ones she's done She went and knocked on the door of a fire station And asked if she could slide down the pole Oh did they say yes?

Because that almost seems like Oh no health and safety Is this in America? They said no Yeah So she does things where the outcome is unlikely Every now and then I'm sure she gets one that's like yes She's gone up to a non-alt

And asked if she could just have a go Coming up with her own McFlurry. So they'd go up to the counter and be like, can I get a McFlurry? Yep. What flavour? Are you alright if I step back there and just whip one up? And they're like, no. No, you can't have it. You can't come back here. This is a health and safety thing. Because it almost would seem if she's attractive and

filming it that she was like doing it for clout online. Yeah. More than to be told no to face rejection. I think I kind of get it though. It's to make small rejections feel less painful. Another one, she went to a curry shop and asked if they had an iron.

Bizarre. And she also went into a bed store and asked if she could just take a fiver. I'm pretty sure they'd let you take a fiver. You've got to test. You've got to test the bed. You've got to test it. Well, there you go.

If you have terrible fear of rejection, get out there. Go and ask something that you know the answer is no today and see how it feels. I've got quite a story for you here. Okay. If you'll allow me to indulge. There was a couple...

I'll allow it. Fawn? Fawn? Fawn? Just to keep the show flowing and moving on if you could just allow it. I will not proceed unless I'm allowed. Indulging. It does feel sinful.

Ross Boss, is it allowed? Indulgence. It's Wednesday. It's a Wednesday indulgement. We've actually been outvoted because Ross is in the studio. And also, what do you have to talk about? Yeah, come on, you bore. Your hand cream? Because your hands are sore from working? No, the skin is very dry.

I've actually got quite dry legs. You could exfoliate my legs with those rough hands of yours. Now, that didn't mean to be as sexual as it sounded. That sounded very indulgent. That's the end of it. Vaughan will be back up to HR third time this week and it's only Wednesday. I'm worried about how

indulgent this next story could possibly be. I'm indulging regardless. I don't need your go ahead. That was what the test was. Was a woman brave enough to broadcast her on her own two feet? And she's passed. It's nice. I'm proud to have played my part in the advancement of women in the industry.

You're making me a stronger woman. Now, there was a couple they met online. They were in Ibiza, I believe. Yep. Hawaii. Not even close. They were in Hawaii. What are we indulging now?

Your loose grasp on geography? It's an island. I assume it's Ibiza. It's some party island. They were both separately. Literally the other side of the world. Allow me to indulge. But you do remember when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 in Ibiza.

Oh, my God, yeah. It was like, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. So, anyway, there was a boy and there was a girl and they were both on holiday in Hawaii. And they hopped on the apps. Little Hawaii holiday hookup. Went on a few dates, realised they lived nearby, back in Los Angeles, came back to Los Angeles.

A few weeks together dating. It's all going well. This is really great. Then this guy, Cody's his name. Hayley's hers. How embarrassing. He ghosts her. Oh.

And she's like, oh my God. Like what the hell happened? And I'm sure this happens all the time to people. Thought we had a good connection. Thought we had a good connection. A lot of fun. He didn't seem like the kind of guy that would do that. Like, you know, maybe he just surely would have just messaged me like, hey, it's not

for me. Anyway, so she's like, sits there for a couple of weeks and then she goes on the internet and starts Googling him to be like, where the hell is this guy? I need to get hold of him. Nothing on Instagram. I mean, let it go. He's ghosted you. I know. Nothing on Instagram, nothing on Facebook. And then she

stumbles across a GoFundMe campaign that his family has set up to help him after suffering a traumatic brain injury after being hit by a moped in Ibiza. Hawaii. In Ibiza, Hawaii. California. In Ibiza, because he went there after Hawaii.

Oh, that's okay, right. That's where I got Ibiza from. Yep. So he got in this horrific moped accident and was in a coma. That's why he ghosted her. that's why he ghosted her. That's why he ghosted her. He was in a coma for weeks. I'm quite in tune with females.

Yep. So he's in a coma, but she's going to be angry at him when he comes out of the coma because he went to Ibiza without telling her. Oh, yeah. And they were kind of seeing each other. Like years down the track, they'll be together. He wouldn't have emptied the dishwasher. And he'll be like, do you remember that time you ghosted me?

Well, guys, the saga continues. She would say that. The saga continues. He's in hospital for months of recovery. Afterwards, she like reaches out to him and is like, hey, how are you doing? I'm so sorry to hear about your accident. Do you want to meet up again? And he's like, is he like, okay? No, he's like, who are you? He is. 51st dates. He has no memory of their few weeks together. There's a big chunk of time just before his accident that he's completely gone. Oh, no. So he's like, hey, I feel really terrible, but I do not remember you at all.

And she's like, oh, all good. They meet up. They're still together. And she helps him through his recovery. That's really cute. They can't say they've been together since the first time, though, because there was a definite break. We reset the clock.

And you've got to reset the clock when you go on a break. Also, is he hot? She's, like, there for his recovery. They're both really attractive people. Right. But he's got partial paralysis. He's in a wheelchair. There was a really massive accident.

But he said that he was like, oh, my God, like this woman came back into my life. I had no idea who she was. And then they're together. The reason for the ghosting was literally a coma. Yeah. And she would have been sitting there, you know, for a couple of weeks being like, that bastard.

Yeah. How dare he do this? Now, this is what I want to hear. Some more stories like this of when someone has had a legitimate reason for ghosting you. And perhaps it's not even just like on a date or on an app or something. Maybe like a member of your family or a friend. Yeah.

You're like, God, I haven't heard from my auntie for a while. Yeah, oh my God, that's terrible. She's dead. When did that happen? But you hear of that as well. Like people don't tell members of the family someone's died. Yeah. Like an auntie or an uncle.

You're like, oh my God, I'm driving through Tauranga. I'm going to go see so-and-so. Uncle Trev. No, he's gone. What? When? Yeah. Maybe there was a legitimate reason, an accident or something.

I don't know. Something's happened. Well, give us a call. 0800-DARLS-AT-M. You can text her as well. 9696. Did someone have a legitimate reason for ghosting you? Maybe like this.

Disappearing on you. Yeah. Maybe it was an accident. Yeah. When was there a legitimate reason that someone ghosted you? There was a woman. She went on a date with a guy. He ghosted.

Turns out he had a terrible accident that left him paralyzed and he was in a coma. Much after recovery, they're still together. If I'm ever single again, hit up the coma ward. Pick out a hottie. They're like, remember me? We were just seeing each other just before the accident. Oh, Vaughn.

Vaughn, that's so problematic. I don't remember you. And I'll be like Remember me? We were just seeing each other Just before the accident Oh Vaughn Vaughn That's so problematic I don't remember you And I'll be like What? We had so much time together We had such a genuine connection You said I was the best shag You've ever had

I will be advanced To the point at that stage I'll be like Look here's us At Kelly Tartan's That's gaslighting Looking at their now extinct Orange roughy

See look how much You love stingrays Look how much You love stingrays Yes you how much you love stingrays. Yeah, if you're patting a stingray, here's us on a train. Remember when you had a funny six-fingered hand? That's sorted now while you were under. I got that sorted.

Karen, you had a friend who had the exact same thing happen. Yeah, very, very similar. So she was dating a guy only for a few weeks, going really well. They'd sort of organized a trip away. And then all of a sudden he ghosted her and she was absolutely devastated. And she was reaching out, couldn't get a hold of him via his phone or his social media. And then somehow she got one of his friends' numbers and managed to find out that same thing. He'd been in a moped accident and was in hospital.

I think he might have been in a coma as well and was in the spinal recovery unit. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it was pretty horrific. He was lucky to be alive. So she kept in touch with his friends for updates and stuff. And then a couple of weeks went by and she asked if she could go and visit him. And they were kind of being really shady and saying, oh, we don't know where he's been moved to a different unit. We're not sure, you know.

He's married. He's married. And then the next week she was at New World doing her groceries and she turned around to go down the next aisle and she walked straight into him and her best friend. Oh! What? What? What? So the entire story was a complete lie just because he was seeing them both and decided he wanted the best

friend. Oh, so he ghosted? There wasn't even an accident? There wasn't even an accident. No, no accident. Oh! I would have just gone to the coma ward and found another one. Born again, no. That's not what's happening. Please let me go to the coma ward.

Why are you guys stifling me? This is so problematic. So he just didn't, he just made up that exorbitant lie. Horrific lie, yeah. But that's intense. Wait, there's other lies you can tell to get out of this situation. Yeah, I know. Or you can just say.

No, I'm in a spinal ward. I don't want to be with you. Yeah, you can just say I'm not into this anymore. Thanks anyway. Bye. Or just even a less full on lie. Oh my God, that is so. Than a spinal injury.

Wild. Karen, thank you for sharing that. Some messages in. Still not a legitimate so wild. Then a spinal injury. Karen, thank you for sharing that. Some messages in. Still not a legitimate reason, though. This happened to me. I was seeing a guy. I had been together a while. I left my house one morning and didn't answer my messages all day.

I thought he had ghosted me all day. End of the day, I got a call that he'd fallen off a ladder at work, went into a coma. Woke up, had no idea who I was. And then he wakes up and Vaughn's like, hello. Hello, remember me? Hello, remember me? Hello, remember me? I'm the love of your life.

You're a cutie. This is when we went to Kelly Tarlton's. It does look like your head's just been literally pasted on top of another woman. Yep. We met at Kelly Tarlton's. No, we went on a date to Kelly Tarlton's. Oh, he meets at Kelly Tarlton's. Don't be ridiculous.

How did he pick up his hot wife when he takes everyone to Kelly Tarlton's on a first date? Oh, don't ask. Because I smell good compared to the fishiness. Yeah, true. So when you leave, you smell good by default. At least he's not a fish, they say. Yeah. Don't tell them I am a fish.

I stayed by his side for a while, but his memory of me never came back, so I had to move on. Oh. Oh, you just build new memory. No, but that's the thing. Oh, wait, you're telling never came back, so I had to move on. Oh. Or you just build new memory. No, but that's the thing. Oh, wait, you're telling me that was problematic five minutes ago. Build a new memory. So he, like, there was obviously this connection before the accident, and then he just could never get that again.

Yeah, I suppose not. Wow, that's brutal. That initial spark, I guess, is gone. Yeah. I definitely don't call me, but five plus years ago, I was a sugar baby for a guy. And then he went silent on me. Didn't really care much for it, to be honest. How old's daddy?

But then six months later, I get a letter from prison. Turns out the money he was giving me had been from scamming people. Oh my God, that's hot sugar baby money. That's not your sugar baby money, is it? It's not sugar daddy's money to be giving the sugar babies. Did they have to pay back the... No. Felt awful for the people,

but that money definitely helped me out at the time. Yeah, wow. Also, you're not taking money from people who are getting scammed. Not indirectly, Hayley. What do they call that? No, it's fine. It's receiving stolen property. You guys used to be cool.

You guys used to be fun. You're such squeers now. Invited my grandma to my engagement party. Thought it was rude not to show up after she IRSVP'd. Turned out she had a valid reason and I had a funeral to attend. Bloody rude of Nan. Meanwhile, Nan's not getting checked up on. Nan's dead.

Do you think they didn't want to say because it would ruin the party? It would ruin the, if somebody knew, right, you're like, let's tell her after the engagement party. Oh, Nan's just sick. She's not coming. Yeah, you know what Nan's like. Where is she? She's in a box. She's in a coma.

She's just having a nice lie down in a box. Yeah. What do you mean? What happened to the bed we got her? You know those old people, they grew up in a depression. Sometimes they like the simpler things. She needs a really, really long sleep. Of course she already sleeps for 10 hours.

Come on, Nanny. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day I forgot the jingle I was like And you're gone Gone

I'm back Late night for you It was a late night It was a late night. It was a late night. It's heart rate week here at Fact of the Day. Happy heart rate week. Slow heart rates. Today I want to talk about the maximum heart rate ever recorded in a human.

I think mine, the highest mine has been is 183. This is Wikipedia. It's got a sound file and it says, this is an elite athlete's heart rate recorded during a maximum workout effort, maintaining over 180 beats per minute for 10 minutes. Oh, that's bad. I don't know if I'm going to like listening to this. Oh, yeah.

It just sounds like you're staying above a club in a hotel. Yeah. Someone's cleaning up the bottles out the back. Guys, too ceramic-y. Stacy! Do you want to share an Uber? Yeah, it does. Yeah, that's horrible. Okay. Jeez, that's horrible Okay

Jeez, that's going for it For a sustained period of time Any guesses? Now I'll tell you The theoretical maximum heart rate for a human is 300 beats per minute But it shouldn't be What? Theoretical

The theoretical maximum What is like the safe level? It's your minus your age or something? A number minus your age? Is that what you should be? Oh no, that's why you put your age into the machine, eh? Oh, like where you should be at

And it's always good because the one good thing about being 50 is I'm not going to have to work as hard to get the heart rate up That's nice, that's lovely I'm already in zone three. Lovely. Oh, exercise.

So are you talking about a resting heart rate or when you're exercising? The highest ever. I'm talking about the highest ever recorded human heart rate. Now, the theoretical maximum, yes, for exercising, for anything, the fastest those muscles should allow the heart to beat is 300 beats per minute. Jesus, that's fast. And then it depends on your age as well. Yeah.

So 300 would be the highest it could possibly ever go. Theoretically. Two. But these ones I'm looking at for like average maximum heart rate for a 20-year-old, 200 beats per minute. A 30-year-old, 190. A 35-year-old, 185. for a 20-year-old, 200 beats per minute. A 30-year-old, 190. A 35-year-old, 185. And a 40-year-old, 180. 600 beats per minute.

Shut up. The fastest human ventricular conduction rate recorded to this day is a conducted, big word, with else word, with 600 beats per minute. Was it a plumber that got two Vs or Red Bulls for $5 and sculled them both before seven? Do you want to hear 600 BPM? Yep. Okay. Each of those taps is a beat.

That's insane. That's too much. That's how fast the heart was beat. That's insane. That's too much. That's how fast the heart was going. That's too much. Now, it was a medical situation. Is the heart having a seizure? So they've never released the name of the person or where it's happened, but it's in medical journals.

It is comparable to the heart rate of a mouse. Oh. Do mice have? Mice have incredibly... Well, remember we said the bigger the animal, it seemed the slower the heart needs to beat. You're like an elephant has a really slow... When you're ants, their heart must be like...

Like that. That was really good. Thanks. I don't know what an ant... I've got incredible rhythm. I don't know what an ant's heart rate is. I'm just Googling. Like that.

I can't get over that. That's a human heart going that fast. Now, how to take an ant's pulse. Are you all right, little buddy? You put fingers on his neck. You're all right, little buddy. Oh, is he alive? The average initial heart rate of all 31 ants in a study

was 53.5 beats per minute. Okay, that's not so bad. That's faster than yours. Now, there is a shrew. You're way bigger than an ant. Thank you. The Estuskan shrew, one of the world's smallest mammal, their heart beats up to 1,500 times a minute or 25 times a second.

Okay. And that's how fast theirs is. Ooh la la. Yeah, so that's obviously very quick. So that person died, eh? Oh, yeah. Or needed a new one. Definitely you'd wear through them.

It feels like it would explode. Yeah. Well, it's twice as fast as what they believe to be theoretically possible. So it might have kind of been a healthy situation in the end of things. So today's fact of the heart rate week is that the fastest human recorded heartbeat ever was 600 beats per minute. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. A couple of weekends ago, I hired a scissor lift. Fun.

Fun. Was it fun? It wasn't fun. It wasn't, was it? In my previous experience, scissor lifts have been nothing but fun. This one wasn't fun. It was too heavy. The ground was too wet.

It sunk. It got stuck, didn't it? It got stuck. Didn't do the job it was intended to do. Took it back. Yep. Packed a grump. When I took it back, though, because I'd hired it,

the lady at the hire centre said, you didn't find an iPad on the trailer, did you? And I said, no. And she said, oh, the young fella that checked you out can't find the iPad, and he thinks he might have popped it on the trailer when he was doing the last checks and then never got it off again.

And then you drove off. And then I drove off. Assuming it fell off. So I was like, no. Yesterday I went to the same hire centre and hired a jackhammer. Fun. Which was fun.

It went better this time, didn't it? At least it worked. Concrete saw and a jackhammer. Taking out some concrete. I still think you shouldn't be doing that. And saving myself a fortune, mate. And you're not built for this work. No. Tell people how sore you are today. Well, no,

I woke up with dead arms because I think I've got nerve got some sort of nerve damage. I've always had a funny, funny bone. I just have to tap it on my extreme pain. Same. I don't think mine runs into my ear. Yeah. The nerve isn't hidden with any bone.

No. Just a light tap in the area. And I said, when I took the stuff back at the end of the day, the lady was working there that had asked me if the iPad, she's like, hey, the iPad showed up. Oh, that's good. I was like, fantastic news. She said, is this your address?

And said my address out loud. And I said, yes, it is. Just say it on the radio. Oh, no thanks. I know it. Why are you not saying it? You say it. We both know it.

Just say it. I don't think we should say it. Why are you keeping it a secret from us? We literally both know where you live. We've been there. Just say it. Just the three of us. I mean, people could turn up and use your pool.

Oh, yeah. Someone should use that. What a charitable man. I'm having so many leaf. I'm having a lot of leaf problems at the moment. Oh, honey. Oh, yeah, someone should use that. What a charitable man. I'm having so many leaves. I'm having a lot of leaf problems at the moment. Oh, honey. Oh, no. Actually, we are opening the lines for thoughts and prayers

for who's pool has too many leaves in it. Yeah, who doesn't invite us around. My pool cleaning robot's really having a hard time. Oh, the robot. Keep all the leaves out of it. Must be a hard horn. So, yeah, pity is always accepted. Luckily we didn't give out your address

because someone could come around and steal the pole robot. Oh, my God. I'm so glad I didn't say it out loud. So lucky. Despite knowing it. I'll be shutting the electric gate. Wasn't that broken? Keeping the ring.

Yep. And she said, is this your address? I said, yeah. She's like, a lady was walking her dog and literally found it across the road from your house. Oh. So I drove all the way home from the hire centre, which is like 5Ks, and the turn into my driveway, which I took wide because the trailer was quite long, was just what?

But you would have turned onto your road. You would have made many turns. Apparently very smooth turns. Oh, yeah. Until your driveway. Until over a trailer. Apparently a very smooth trailer driver. And was the iPad like cracked or anything? Or was it in a case?

It was in a case but it was open. How long had it been outside? Oh, I don't know when the lady found it. I think she said she found it like a couple of days later. Don't they have Find My iPad? They did but because nobody was walking past it and the iPad didn't have cellular in it, it had to connect to Wi-Fi

or somebody else's Bluetooth that it didn't work. Yeah, right. And so this lady picked it up and saw some kind of high-end details on it. Yeah, it had the contract thing, and so she just got in her car and took it back to them. Did it work? I thought, that's a good person. Yeah. But then, as you say, it's hard to get

because they are so traceable. Yeah. Did she have to put it in rice? say, it's hard to get them because they are so traceable. Yeah. Did she have to put it in rice? No. It was all good. A lot of rice for an iPad. She said they just plugged it in and it turned on straight away. What?

After being outside for a couple of days? Yeah. Was it there a couple of days? Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, my God. But, oh, no, you're not focusing on the right part of the story. I drove so smoothly on a series of very sharp corners.

But this iPad survived two days outside in cold temperatures and dewy weather. It's not a baby. I love those. It's a lot of moisture. Do you remember when that door came off that Boeing flight, that plug? And someone's iPhone went out. And they got it back. Yeah, they just found it.

And it was working and stuff. That's insane. That's incredible. If the pilot had been driving smoother, it would never have flown out the door in the first place. I don't think it's got anything to do with that. Again, I told the story as a well-worn, smooth driving because I often do wear a lot of flack around here for my driver.

I did not take that from the series, from this moment, from this story. It was smooth. Obviously, a very smooth cornerer. There's some bumpy parts on the road. What's most impressive is that an iPad's some bumpy parts on the road. What's most impressive is that an iPad survived two days out in the wilderness. That wouldn't prove nowadays. No, not really.

Let's praise for Apple. More praise for my smooth, smooth foot. Well, if you were that smooth, you would have got it all the way home. Yeah, it wouldn't have even come off. Yeah, got it in. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Well, this news came to us from TechCrunch, a tech website. They have announced or they have revealed that Meta,

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, they are testing on Instagram unskippable ads. Yeah. So these are like you'd be scrolling and then you'd get an ad and you'd keep trying to scroll but the ad wouldn't move. You just cannot go past it. Because there's some websites that do have this. Like a lot of news sites do. You've got to watch the 15-second ad or 30-second ad

and then you can continue. Do you think that would put people off? I got turned off when they were just even doing the suggested posts. I always snooze them. Like, get out of my feed. Because I always feel like with Instagram in particular, this is my curated space where I watch things that I've chosen. I've curated my 2,000 followers, followings.

Yeah. You know? So they're currently testing it. And people that have kind of had this are like, no, it's not good. Not liking it. I mean, I don't know who likes it. I mean, you can't escape it, can you?

No. I mean, and I guess people are used to it. Like, you know, if you don't have YouTube Premium, you sit through an ad. So, you know, you put up with it. People have, you know, ads on Netflix now. Are they going to do a, do you reckon, a paid version, ad-free version? Would you pay for an ad-free version?

How much? Like a small one. Yeah, I'm not. A fiver. Five a month? Five a month. Ten a month? Two a month.

Yeah, but this is the thing. It's five a month and they say it's $7.99 a month and then it's $9.99 a month and then it's $15 a month and then you're like, oh, I'm in. Like Spotify premiums going up again. Yeah, and it's hard once you've experienced ad-free, when you've gone ad-free on something, to then be like, right, well, I'm just going to stop

and then go back to ads on it. I don't know. I'm very precious about my Instagram. It's my chosen platform. George is up next and because you didn't pay $29.99 a month. It's my chosen platform. George is up next, and because you didn't pay $29.99 a month, here's an ad break. Suck it.

You just told our audience. Hey, listen. Thanks for listening to the show this morning, but now you can suck it. You should have paid the $29.99. I will say some of the clients buried in this ad break, great clients. Yes, fantastic.

Hot deals. It's coming up. Some of my favourite clients. Some of my favourite clients. I handpick a bespoke range of clients for this station. You do. They don't know that Vaughan does this. He does.

He's a handpicker. Every ad break has been meticulously curated by our very own Vaughan Smith. He only chooses his favourite clients. What I like to do is just before the clients start, I like to put a little ZM zinger in there. Oh, do you? A little promotion of another part of ZM. This is why people don't know

the Z in ZM stands for zinger. Zinger M. Zinger more. More zingers. I couldn't put more first for obvious reasons. I don't know what that is. Couldn't put more first. I don't know what that stands for, Vaughn. So what I do is I put a ZM zinger up the front.

Yep. Promoting us. And then you handpick. But sometimes that will also, and you won't even notice it. It'll have a client involved. Yeah. You won't notice it. Seamless.

It's what you do. I'd like to get into a few more ads. Where do you do your, like, how do you choose your, this is curious, how do you do your time saver traffic? Like, where does that fit in? I always like to put that at the end of the ad break. Oh, sometimes I thought you put it at the start. I think you put it at the start. I thought you put it at the start.

It feels like it comes quite soon. Did I say end? I meant the front end. Oh, of course you did. Sometimes the end end, sometimes the front end. See, why would you subscribe when you can have Vaughan's handpicked

curated playlist of ads to keep you in the loop? From his most beloved clients. Yup. Georgia is up next and there is a chance for you to win cash. The next chance is at midday.

I'm excited to see what Vaughan's got for us. You didn't get the song. No. It's a jackpot. It's a jackpot to $600. Midday is your chance to play Human Shazam. There'll be chances as well at four and seven. You know they're trying to get me to do the top 20 ads.

At night now, they're trying to get me in the night show where I just play everybody's favourite ads and it's voted by the listeners. Shush. Oh, I'm busting for a wheeze after that podcast. I'll tell you. What? It's a podcast.

You are allowed to listen to it while you're wheeze. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a podcast. It just says here I'm busting for a wheeze. I read it. Okay? I read it. Give us a review. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.