ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 8th May 2023

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Thanks to McCafe. Great things are brewing, one cup at a time. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. It's two minutes past six. You're feeling a bit tired. Um, I can't, I don't have my high range.

Yeah, it's gone. Well, there was a bit of singing at the wedding, wasn't there? Big weekend. Big weekend. Looked like you guys had fun down in the beautiful south. Oh, Central Otago. So beautiful. So beautiful.

There was some blue skies yesterday, some autumnal colours. Oh, those autumnal colours. All those autumnal colours at the moment. Those colours, those oranges, those browns. We truly got around. I was in Wellington all weekend. Probably not quite as autumnal, but very beautiful autumnal. How was the comedy?

What did you do? A gala. Yeah, the comedy gala. Yeah, you did the gala. Yeah, I did. That was so much fun. At the Michael Fowler Centre, one of my favourite venues. Beautiful architecture.

It was great. I've never been inside that. Oh, it's so cool. It's the same architect as the Christchurch Town Hall. Oh, I've been inside that. I've been inside that and I thought that was nice. Yeah. Because that's all back in now, that whole everything wooden look.

Yeah, very mid-scinch. Oh, no, I would have had that painted over. Painted out white? Yeah, painted out white. In white, yeah. Get it ready to sell. A bit orange, a bit yellow. Yeah.

That was good fun. Oh, well, that's good. Right. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, Otago University has a redesign of their logo on their hands. Oh, okay. Their logo is just a big O. Yeah.

Not that big O. That would be a hard thing to draw because everybody experiences it so very differently. Is it one of those shield-y kind of logos? It's just a... Oh. Yeah, I thought this was shield-y. Oh, this is a... Are you thinking

of the rugby team? The rugby team. The rugby team's got an O. Got the O. No, University of Otago is a shield. Yeah, with the X on it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So is the O the one that was proposed but then everybody had a problem with the O? Oh, maybe. But that's so iconic, that University of Otago logo.

The shield. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't like change. University of Otago logo. The shield. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't like chains. They haven't had a good advertising campaign for years. Remember there used to be that television commercial? Yeah. And the goth, it was actually Carnell Lloyd, wasn't it?

What? Wasn't she in the University of Otago? Yeah, it was. She was going to Otago and she was a goth. Oh, right. Okay. Was she a goth and she got there and she stopped being a goth? I don't remember that.

Or she was a goth and she got there and she stopped being a goth. Oh, right. Okay. Was she a goth and she got there and she stopped being a goth? I don't remember that. Or she was a goth and she got there and she stopped being a goth. Yeah, right. She was a goth at one stage of the Moving to Otago

video. Right. So they're having a redesign of the logo. But there's a whole lot of issues, but I've got the top six things that

definitely need to be in the logo. Next on the show. People are very confused about one particular emoji. It's one I don't use a lot, but I know that Carween does. I'm going to try to explain it.

Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. There's been a big survey done in America. It's trying to get to the bottom of what are the most confusing emojis. The emojis that you receive them, you're like, I don't really know what that means. Right, yeah, what are they trying to tell me with this emote? What does that mean?

Some of them are a bit weird. Like, that made the list, like, a number 24 of this list is an octopus. And then they were like, yeah, that means octopus. Slippery little octopus. Slippery little octopus. But then you can see why people might be confused because they might think there's a meaning. Yeah, exactly.

You're like, no, I'm just being cute. Yeah, like the peach or the eggplant. Yeah, exactly. Barley and a meaning. Yeah, exactly. You're like, no, I'm just being cute. Like the peach or the eggplant. Yeah, exactly. I mean, doodle. Yeah, exactly. I know my emojis. I know what you're trying to tell me. I thought it meant cobbler. Peach cobbler. Peach cobbler, yeah. So I would send that, a peach,

and that means I've got to go to the cobbler. Off to the cobbler. And with the eggplant, it was like, we need to plant, it's time to plant the seeds. Yeah. You know, planting an idea maybe. Here's the top 10 of the most confusing emojis as voted by these people. Okay.

Number 10 is, it's like a face with like exhausted eyebrows and like pinched eyes and a sad face. It's a bit of a weird one. Kind of like, I'm exhausted. I'm going to use that one. Kind of like, I'm exhausted, I'm done with this argument. Well done you. Is that what that means? Frustration.

Frustration. And the official name for it is the persevering face. Oh, yep. Like, ugh. Ugh. Yeah. Number eight is the massage temples. Oh, yeah.

The official title is person getting massage. That just means like I need a bloody massage, like calm me down. Right. Which ones? I don't have that one. Yeah, it's there. Yeah, you do. It's not one of the most used.

Is it the yellow face one? Yellow face guy with blonde hair and he's got two hands. Oh, okay. But it's not under like the real plain yellow circle got ones. No, no, no. It's under the actual human yellow circle got ones. No, no, no, it's a human. It's under the actual human-y looking ones. Yeah, number eight is the sad face with a drip,

but the drip is lower. So it's out the mouth, not the eyes. Yeah, and they mean it's either sadness or sleepiness or sickness. Right. But they call it sleepy face. Why would you be snotting when you're tired? Like, I've only got a pet. Number seven is the dotted line face with a straight line.

It looks invisible. Yeah. That's the fadeaway. Like, awkwardly, it's like the Homer Simpson backing into the bush. That's right. Number six is the half blue shocked face. That's fearful. But everyone's like, why is it blue?

Is it cold? Exactly. Everyone's like, is is it blue? Is it cold? Exactly, everyone's like, is it cold? No one knows. Oh, it's that feeling when you're like and you feel empty in the stomach and like your guts drop. A little cold in the head. I thought that would have been very self-explanatory. Yeah, well, number five is the little cloud

with like lines coming out of it dashing away, it's called. Oh yeah. But a lot of people thought it was like farting or smoking. I can see why these are confusing. These are ones that people use a lot. Yeah. Like you never get sent these, eh? Yeah.

Number four is the upside down smiley face. Oh, yeah. It's totally upside down. It's called upside down face. But what do people confuse that with? They think 45% of people thought it meant sarcastic, like jokes. Oh, okay, right. Upside down.

37% thought it meant smiling through pain. Yeah, I thought it was just out of confusion. Right, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I'm just smiling because I'm hoping this will stop. Yeah. Here's the top three.

Number three is the purple fingernails getting painted. Yeah. It's the top three. Number three is the purple, the fingernails getting painted. Yeah. It's called nail polish. It's like Slay Queen. The third most confusing emoji. Yeah, 19% of people thought that it meant, ha ha, I don't mind. They don't mind me.

Oh, okay. 40% of people just like, it's just, I'm getting my nails done. Yeah. And 43% thought it meant like classy, like ooh. Oh, yeah, okay. Ooh, ooh. Number two is the wad of cash with wings.

Oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever used that one. Yeah, but why is the money flying? I thought it was because the money was like going away. Because you're spending it. Oh, yeah. It's disappearing. The majority of people think it means I'm gaining money.

Like I'm making money. But what is the official what is it actually for? They don't say. So the official people who make the emojis, they never say what it's used for. That's up for interpretation. The main thing they think is gaining money is just what these people think it means.

Okay. Number one of the most confusing emojis to Americans is the, like, woman in a purple shirt, she's got a hand out. Like, ha! Sleigh queen. Like, sassy, right? Yeah.

Sassy. It's called woman tipping hand. Woman tipping hand. 35% of people said it's feeling sassy. And then 31% of people thought it meant, I have a suggestion. Right. That would be this.

Yeah. Listen to me. So there you go. People are confused. I think emojis are powerful because they confuse us. You can send them off and you know that you've just like played with someone's mind. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley As well, some new research comes to us From

The St Andrews University in Scotland Oh aye St Andrews They have found that milk Is actually better at hydrating you Which may explain why when you're hungover You go for a nippies or a chocolate milk

Ow I don't reach for milk. I do not reach for milk. Water? Juice? Water. Water. If I've got a hangover, water or a pulpy, pithy orange juice.

So that's interesting. So researchers found, and I don't think they, they don't mention specifically hangovers here. But that's one of the times you're dehydrated most. A hundred percent, yeah. So they just mention water, either sparkling or still, still or spicy, do a pretty good job at quickly hydrating the body.

But beverages with a little bit of sugar, fat or protein, such as milk, actually do an even better job of keeping us hydrated for longer. Oh, gosh. So when you're hung over a chalky milk, as long as it's not too sugary, or even just a glass of milk, it's going to be better for you.

When you ran your, because you're the only person who's run a marathon. Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely not. You weren't chugging back the milk? You couldn't do milk at a drinks table. Oh, no, no.

In the hot sun. Because it might hydrate you, but God, it'll make your guts a bit upset. Flat Coke was the way to go on. Yeah, a lot of people do flat coke. Yeah, just for a bit of a sugar hit. How do you get it flat? Open it.

They open it way before you get to the table. Oh, this is interesting because I do this. Do you know those little tubes, those little sachets you get when you get diarrhea or you get a tummy bug? Yeah. Hydrolyte or those like, like, see the same can be said for oral rehydration solutions that are used to treat diarrhea. Those contain sugar,

sodium, potassium and also help promote water. Oh my God, water retention. Oh no, you don't want that. Also I'm not. At our age you don't want that. You don't want to be a bit puffy. You don't want to be holding the water.

Retaining a lot of water would look a little puffy. But no, I love doing one of those when I'm hungover, just a little Hydrolyte. It's like, it's better than Powerade because it's not as sugary. I listened to a podcast recently, Science Versus, and that was, they did a big scientific study

on what actually is the best hangover cure. And they were saying hydration is such a small part of a hangover that people are like, yeah, you've got to drink all this water. He's like, yeah, but like, it's not going to get rid of it. And then it came to it was like it's not what you do the next day, it's what you do on the day. And the main thing was food. Yes.

And we're learning this. We're so proud of ourselves. We're so proud of ourselves. I've known this for years. We've come a long way. I know, but every now and then I'll get tripped up. Hey, just have something to eat before you get there. I'll be fine.

That argument I have had so many times. I'll be fine. There'll be something there. I was like, yeah, but you won't eat it. Eat now. Eat something. Put a little base down. It's when you meet up with people at like four or five.

Oh, you've got to eat before then. No, but you've eaten your lunch, but then something happens and dinner doesn't happen. Yeah, dinner doesn't happen. Dinner's always got to happen. No, I know, but sometimes the night has and dinner doesn't happen. Yeah, dinner doesn't happen. Dinner's always got to happen. No, I know, but sometimes the night has other plans and then you're like,

man, what happened? Yeah. What happened was you didn't eat dinner. You need some bread, you need some carbs, soak it up. Do you know what you need?

Some Mama Fiorelli's. It's a beautiful soaker. It's a beautiful soaker. It's a great garlic bread. It's a terrible garlic bread. I'll stand by it. It's a trash of garlic bread. Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley from the bustling ZM think tank.

This is the top six. He's having a stroke. I'm trying to speak Latin. Sapore ordi. Dare to know. That's what it says at the bottom of the Otago University logo underneath the shield. Dare to know.

Okay. That's daring. So what's the deal with this? They want a new logo, but has there been some controversy or they can't make their mind up? Yeah, they revealed the proposed new logo and it's like a golden O with some kind of twist bits.

Twigs. It looks like the O that's been part of the like Otago rugby. It kind of looks like a Maori design. There's a little bit of Maori in it and one of the big problems was the

Just like me. Toreo. A little bit of Maori in it. A little bit of Maori in it. The Maori name was larger than the English name. Okay. So it's racist. Oh, now we've landed on the issue.

Well, it's reverse racism. There's no such thing. I know that was said in jest. It was very much said in jest. It's reverse racism. Oh, gosh. Talkback callers love that. They love saying reverse racism.

Just racism. Rever love saying reverse racism. Just racism. Reverse racism. So there's a whole lot of controversy. Now, I have done a bit of design in my time. Check my LinkedIn and consult me if there's ever anything that's been designed that you think, hmm, does this in any way look like genitals? I'm more than happy to tell you. It does. Do you do all genitals? I'm more than happy to tell you it does. It looks phallic.

Do you do all genitals? All genitals. Right. I can spot a genie at a mile away. Yeah, you can. In a logo. So I've got the top six things that simply must be part of the Otago University logo. Yeah, because it is a bit plain.

The O itself is a bit like. I like the shield because you can put things in different corners. Yeah, yeah. Hide a dinosaur in there yes or number six on the list a burning couch yes

wouldn't be Otago University would it without a it could be an artistic representation of a burning couch I think they're trying to distance themselves from that kind of it could be like a torch

to show you know like what that education lights our way and then the torch the flames and then if you look really closely, it's a couch. Yeah, good.

That's good. Number five on the list of the top six things that simply must be part of the Otago University logo, a puffer jacket. Oh, you have to. You've got to have a puffer jacket in there. Yeah. It's sort of an unofficial uniform. It really is. You get a Katmandu.

Yeah, you sleep in it. You get a backpack. You go to uni in it and then you sleep in it. You do. Because your house is so bloody cold. Freezing cold. Number four on the list of the top six things that simply must be in the Otago University logo. Someone's mum's old car.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going down there. Mum gets a new car. You take mum's old car. Down in Dunedin with your Ford Laser. Yes. Yeah. Beautiful trusty steed.

Do they still make a Ford Laser? No. My mum had a Ford Laser. They should. Yeahy steed. Do they still make a Ford Laser? No. My mum had a Ford Laser. They should. Yeah, they should. The Laser took over from the Escort and then was it the Fiesta or the Focus? The Focus took over from the Laser.

Beautiful. Bring back the Laser. Beautiful. Number three on the list of the top six things that simply must be in the Otago University logo. Seeing your breath inside your house. Yeah. How would you do that in a logo?

Just a puff of... Just like a side profile of a face going... In a cloud. Yeah. And you could be like... That could be vape though too. Well, that would also probably stand. Could be.

We could make some money. Yeah. Advertising vapes. Yeah. Before they tighten the rules. Number two on the list of the top six things that simply must be in their Tago University logo

diesel bourbon cans oh yeah cans of bourbs yeah yeah best way to drink it always the cheapest and number one at the list of the top six

things that simply must be in their Tago Uni logo plates have passed the dishes at the halls yeah the thing most responsible for fresher five

for the fresher 15 yeah 15 wow yeahher 5? For the fresher 15. Yeah, 15. Wow. Yeah, well, inflation's hit the fresher 5. Oh, has it? So now it's the fresher 15. Oh, dear.

God. But you're a growing, you're a growing boy or girl and you need your carbohydrates. Of course. Get in there. That's today's top six. There is a town called Old Bridge Which is in New Jersey

In the United States of America Land of the free Home of the brave And the guns Oh yeah more of that over the weekend wasn't there Yeah Doing nothing about it are they Oh no they're doing thoughts and prayers.

Oh. It's working very well. Jumping down on thoughts and prayers. Very, very well. So in Old Bridge, residents woke up. There's a little river, a little stream, and 500 pounds of pasta had been dumped. You probably would have seen this because it's gone everywhere on the internet.

Everyone's like, what? Who? Who? So that's 226 kgs of cooked pasta. Yeah, wow. It was not cooked apparently. Was it not cooked? It rained and it softened the pasta. Right.

So there's just mounds and mounds of pasta in the woods. Say mounds again. There are mounds. Mounds and mounds of it in the woods. Say mounds again. There are mounds. Mounds and mounds of that. Well, Cal, would you describe a pile? I'd say piles. Those are mounds, aren't they? They're mounds.

You've seen the photo, Vaughn. I'd say those are piles of pasta. There's a bit. Yeah, they're individual, but they're kind of linked to. So it's almost like an Alps dumps of pasta. Pasta Alps. Yeah, the pasta Alps. The great pasta Alps. So it's almost like an Alps dumps pasta. Pasta Alps. Yeah, the pasta Alps. The great pasta Alps. So it's all just kind of... So it's just dumped

lakeside. Did someone back a truck up or something? Well, apparently, right, everyone was like what the hell is this? And then the town's kind of spoken out a bit that it's part of a it's shooting light on a bigger problem that the town has. They don't have a bulk trash pickup. And actually this spot where this 500, these mounds of pasta have been dumped is a popular

spot for all sorts of things to be dumped. So residents were like, this is not the worst thing. Like this is just a spot because people don't have a means of disposing of bulk goods. Right. I was like the pasta, you could put it in a few trash bags. You could feed it to piggies Animals Birds would eat, I'm pretty sure even birds Chickens

Would eat a pasta Probably moist it up But if someone said to me oh we've got all this pasta I'd be like well I'll get some bins And I'll keep the pasta in the bins And I'll slowly feed the pigs the pasta That's a lot of carbs for your pigs A lot of carbs.

Yeah, because pigs are famously keto. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why they blow out as people start feeding them pasta. Yeah, that's right. They really retain it. They hold on to it. But I loved it. Like Twitter and the internet over the weekend was going crazy with this story.

Like people were like, we must get to the bottom of this. We must get to the bottom. It needs a podcast series. Like what is happening? I know. They still haven't found out who did this. Yeah. Sure. I mean, get to the bottom of this. We must get to the bottom. It needs a podcast series. Like, what is happening? I know. They still haven't found out who did this. Yeah. Sure.

I mean, look at the local Italian restaurant would be a sort of pizza. You know what I mean? Or like a bit of a giveaway. Someone that produces, because this isn't like having a few bags of pasta at home and dumping them in the woods. It's got to be like, it's got to be, I mean, how does pasta really expire? Dried pasta? It lasts forever. Yeah. It's true. It, I mean, how does pasta really expire? Dried pasta? It lasts forever.

Yeah, it's true. It'll outlast us. It's probably a supermarket. Oh, yeah, maybe. Getting expired stuff. This has got big teenager working at the pasta factory energy. I have made a huge mistake with this pasta. Yeah.

My only choice is to dump it somewhere. Oh, you'll do that suddenly. Maybe he was making the dried pasta Yeah. Or they're like, my only choice is to dump it somewhere. Oh, you'll do that suddenly. Nice. Maybe he was making the dried pasta and he just like dropped a joint in there or something, you know, like he dropped something into the batch. He was like,

I've got to toss this whole lot. I ruined it. Yeah, right. Or had to deliver it somewhere far away and was just like, ah, can't be bothered. Yes. Dip it in the woods.

Yeah, there's theories around who it could be. It was cleaned up immediately. Like they put it on social media and then residents came and got it. And then the mayor was like, look, it'll be $20 extra a week to add bulk pickup, you know, bulk trash pickup. So we just can't do it. And then he said, oh, you know, there is a large recycling facility in town,

but everyone's like, can't recycle. Well, you can't recycle. I don't know, which bin does that go in? Yeah, I don't know. Recycled pasture? Landfill. Landfill, probably landfill. So, I mean't recite. Which one does that go on? Yeah, I don't know. Recycled pasta. Landfill. Landfill, probably landfill. So, I mean, the mystery sort of continues.

And I would say, I'm going to pitch this to the ZM Podcast Network. The big pasta mystery. The old bridge pasta dump of 2023. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. Fletchvorn and Hayley, Fletchvorn and Hayley, silly little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole.

Silly little pole today, do you clear all the notification bubbles on your phone? You know, there's some apps and I couldn't work out how to clear them, so I deleted them. And there were some other apps where I couldn't work out how to clear them, so I went into the app settings and turned off notifications altogether. Yeah, you just go into notifications and have no notifications for that app, no bubble.

Like if you've currently got thousands of unread emails, turn off the number. Yeah. Turn off the notification bubble because you obviously aren't looking to be like, oh, 7,455 emails. I must have a new one. Who are these monsters? Like, there could be important emails in there.

I know you get a lot of spam and stuff, but just delete them. Years ago, I just went through it and I was like, right, because I was that person. Just let it get away with me. I'm talking like 30 would be sitting there or something like that. But you see people with like 1,000 notifications for email. And it's all junk, like shops. Yeah, junk.

I'm subscribed. I'm trying to look up how to read unread messages because I've got one hidden. On Facebook and it's annoying you. I'm going to scream. Yeah, Messenger's a real pig. Somebody said... Pig?

Sorry, I just called Messenger a pig. Messenger's a pig. Oh my God. Oh no. Like somebody said sometimes they'll serve you an ad and if you haven't seen it because it's down in the conversation

that'll be the notification. How dare they? Or sometimes you've got to look at the stories to clear like the notification for that. It's annoying. We asked, do you clear all the notification bubbles on your phone? And 83% of people said yes. Always

17% said no. I thought it would be a little bit higher because I see so many... If you're on the train or the bus or whatever, I'll just look at people's phones and I'm like, you monster, you've left all those bubbles. All the notifications. All the time. Don't look over people's shoulder on the train. I want to see what's on their phone. Vaughan at people's phones and I'm like, you monster, you've left all those bubbles. All the notifications. All the time. Don't look over people's shoulder on the train.

I want to see what's on their phone. Vaughn reads people's phones and laptops next to them on the plane. If I'm on a plane and there's people in front of me, I line up the gap and use my go-go gadget eyes to see what they're up to. It's when people have those privacy screens on their phones. I want to know even more. What are those people hiding? Why have you got that on? Why?

What are you hiding? I have a lot. Miss M says, I have a lot of unread messages and notifications. If it pops up and I've read it and it doesn't need an action or reply, so it'll just stay as an unread message. No, you've got to clear it. Maybe I'm just lazy, but see, it is working smarter, not harder. No, it's a mess.

It's a mess. Amanda says, because anyone who doesn't clear out as a psycho would legit... Who could legit stand having those annoying little bubbles just hanging around? Please prioritize clearing them. If you were on an early date with someone, or say for example, you went for a drink with Jess and Momoa.

Oh, he had bubbles. And he had red bubbles, notification bubbles. Would that be a giant red flag for you? Like, this person is such an unorganized hot mess. Do you know what, though? I think that he would. I think he doesn't care about social media. And then it flips.

Right. And now I'm like, God, he's so carefree. He's not conforming. Yeah. Yeah. Susie said, I get too many junk emails on Gmail. Plus, I get over 200 work emails a day. Oh, God.

Ain't got time for that. Well, you should be reading them and then they would be included and then you could just delete them and deal with them and gone. The best way to get on top of it is I love, I've unsubscribed from all of those crap emails. Anytime you get one. Anytime you get one, unsubscribe. And then you...

You stop getting them. Yeah. But sometimes I'm like, I would like to know the deals. Yeah, true. We get the wine deals, don't we? Yeah, vinyl. Yeah, I get the wine ones. We get the important ones.

Yeah, we get the important ones. Jell says, they really bother me, but I can't stay on top of emails. Currently 652. Oh. Takes some time. Maybe we could provide a service and go through people's emails. Yeah. And we get to read them as well. And we get to read them as well.

And we get to read them as well. We read them and we go, oh, Mark does unread. I don't think emails are as juicy as they used to be. Nah. There's juicier ways of communicating. Yeah, there's all these little coded apps and stuff encrypted. Grace said, I reply in my head, which is much better than actually replying. It's not helpful.

Those friends. Alicia, I'm such a nosy bee and a notification bubble is too much potential for me to ignore. Yeah. There you go. She's got to know. They get us. I clear them because I'm not a serial killer. Although I feel like serial killers would clear them.

Yeah. Precise people, serial killers. There and leave no trace. Yeah. That would actually be quite an interesting question to put to a... Serial killer. No, like a professor. Should we get one on the show?

A psychiatrist. What does it mean? Yeah. A behavioural. Charlie said, I'm way too popular, so it would take too long for me to clear all the bubbles. And Beck said, I currently have 102 unto open texts, 1,000 plus unopened personal emails,

12 messenger notifications, 17 Instagram notifications, 48 work emails, and 6,000 plus other emails on a different account. I don't have time to worry about the little things. Oh, Bex is so busy, she's just letting life snowball. Well, surely she wouldn't be busier than Fletch. No one's busier than Fletch. Excuse me, you know I had a very busy week last week. Bex has probably got mints in the fridge too.

No need. Okay, so I just Googled a study finds people with thousands of unread emails are most likely to become serial killers. Yep. There you go. It's fact.

That's research. MIT research. So that's like official MIT research. That's where Goodwill Hunting did his mathematical equations. What, the Melbourne Institute of Technology? Oh, I thought it was the other one. No, this is in the USA, so it must be Missouri or something.

Yeah. Yeah. No, it's Massachusetts, isn't it? Oh, someone just texted and they've got 34,000 unread emails. Just delete the email account. Just delete. Start again. Start again.

Start again. New email. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. We've got a message from the one and only Susie Cato. Isn't she a darling? Lovely lady. She slid into the DMs. She slid into the DMs.

Wow. Can I ask a favour? I was like, oh, here we go. It'll be one of those spams that you get on Instagram. Oh, yeah. I can't log in. Click this link. Yeah, I can't log in.

I got a new phone. I need to send somebody a link. But it wasn't. It was a legit request. It was these. Is she going to blue tick? Good question. Because then you would have known instantly it was her.

Good question. Although now you can buy blue tics. Anyone can have them. Can you buy blue tics on? I believe so. Yeah, Meta, Facebook. Facebook and Instagram, you can buy a tic. Yeah.

I thought it was Twitter you buy a tic. Yeah, so he's got the blue tic. I'm not blue ticked, and I think that keeps me humble. Yeah, because I'm a man of the people. I'm not blue ticked. Also, how has Susie Kato looked exactly the same for 25 years? She is. Deal with the devil?

Just the best. Yeah. I think it's a great skincare routine. Do you know the great thing about Susie? She did the last season of Celebrity Bake Off

and she was such a delight and any time you sing See You, See You Later, she sings it back. She sings it back with you. I know. Like, she'll never hesitate to just...

And then we... There'll be some days where I'll be like, not today. Yeah, no, she said she always loves it. Because she like raised us. She did raise us, yeah.

She said, why don't you teach me? She's raised the nation. I feel like She taught me to be kind. Yeah, in a very that can't be right. She can't be. And fluoro fashion. Yeah, fluoro fashion. You do love your fluoro fashion. You know me. Maybe it was tying shoes. I was a late bloomer.

I was a late bloomer. Do you do double bunnies? I was a late bloomer. 21. But I think I was like last year primary school, first year intermediate, and mum's like, you've got to learn to tie some shoes. I was like, Velcro barter bullets forever.

Yeah, because I had Velcro barter bullets and that kind of stopped you learning to tie shoelaces. Why would you? Yeah. Why would you? Or get the curly elastic ones, the elastic, the spring laces. Oh, they just go and you can pull your shoe up and put your foot in. Oh, yeah, what a great idea.

No, you want a snug shoe. Those don't work for a snug shoe. Who was telling me about the Chuck Taylor lace? You know Chuck Taylor's the worst shoe stretcher? They've just got the tightest laces and there's no stretch in the canvas. You put in stretchy laces so they look like normal laces. But you can pull

it wide and slip in. I reckon because I've got a fat foot I don't think that would work for me. Yeah you wouldn't work with your big foot. Chuck Taylors aren't really a friendly. Same I've got a wide foot. Yeah they're very skinny shoes. Oh god if you ever go pants or jeans shopping and then you remember you're wearing chucks,

you're like, I shouldn't have done this. I'll do it on a different day. I'll do it on a different day. I'll come back. I'll come back. Or you've got a longer foot and a tighter around the ankle and you look like you're wearing clown shoes. You do look like a silly clown.

Yeah. So why did Susie Kato message you? It was the New Zealand Children's Music Awards. And, of course... Okay. Are there children making music? There are children making music. Who knew?

Was... Wonderful artists. Was NewTube part of it? To NewTube? I'm not sure. I'm not sure of the whole thing because she asked if the girls could come and present an award. My daughters.

Oh, wow. But we were away at the weekend and they were at their nanny's house in Raglan. So I was like, unfortunately,

we're away. And she said, would they be able to record a video? I said, that they can do. Cute. So they recorded a video

introducing an artist and it got played at the awards. Did they get a plug-in for the candles? They should have. They didn't. They sold out though.

Yeah, they can't keep up with demand as it is. They can't keep up with demand as it is But now I'm owed one No but I feel like we've asked Susie to do so much for the show throughout the years Oh not for the show just for me personally Oh right like a personal concert I'm personally owed one A personal concert yeah okay What about the next big birthday party Like a private I'm personally owed one. A personal concert. Yeah, okay. By the big C. No, not the big C.

What about the next big birthday party? Like a private see you, see you later. See you, see you later. That would be lovely. Could do. Yeah. I'm just having a look at the Children's Music Awards. So it can be kids, but it can also be people that write children's music.

Oh, write the music for the kids. So like Anika Moore in 2014 won a children's song. Well, her album, her kids' albums are pretty bloody good, actually. Yeah. Really good kids' albums. They were one of those CDs in the car you'd put in when the kids were screaming. Yeah, right. You'd put it in and just hope for the best. The Wiggles little bees.

The Wiggles cleaning up every year? No, it's homegrown. It's just New Zealand. Oh, yeah, you couldn't compete. Homegrown. Keep the internationals out, you know? Yeah. Keep them out.

Play ZM's Fletch Vordernaley Play ZM The King's Coronation I didn't watch it I've just been watching Some highlights I did It was boring as hell And ridiculous

And I was just The whole time Just being like This is so stupid Is that why you left Our night out in Queenstown No I was very tired and very full. Wait, you ditched the party?

And the booze didn't stand a chance. He ditched the party and he was like, I'm going home. We'll watch the King's Coronation. It's Blue Canoe, baby. I ate too much. I eat so much. The booze just doesn't stand any chance of doing anything. Did you guys bring me a doggy bag?

I got a doggy bag. Wait, you did get a doggy bag. I ate it when I got back to the room. That was for me. Wait, you left the restaurant because you were so full. I was so full. But then when I got home, I'd walked up a hill. And I had a little bit of room.

For God's sake. So I pushed it in. But it is still happening. There's the big concert with Katy Perry, Lionel Richie. Yes. And a bunch of other fun things. Probably somebody won Britain's Got Talent or something. Yeah.

Magician. Ant and Dick will be there probably. Yeah, they'll be there. But I've got some highlights. Now here's some of the things that people are talking about. One of them was Princess Charlotte and her great behaviour. And she was so sweet, like holding her brother's hand. And she was a well-behaved kid.

Those kids had really had a rock up beforehand though. Dude, Prince Louis stole the show yet again. Do you remember him at the Queen's Jubilee? Yeah. Everyone was like, what a rascal. Yeah. Same thing. He had like five open mouth yawns, no hand, like this.

When they were doing the Royal Wave, the other kids were doing just a normal wave. The adults were doing the Royal Wave and he was going like window wipers, like double hands like this. He is just the best. A lot of people talking about the beautiful kiss on the cheek. Did you see this moment?

No. Well, Prince, what's his name? William. Leaning over and giving his dad a beautiful kiss on the cheek. Touching moment. A lot of people talking about Kate had a lot of tributes to Diana in the clothes that she was wearing. Some of the jewellery she was wearing.

A bit of a nod to her husband's mum. I've got some funny moments that absolutely delighted me. This one was a bit scary. Did you see the horse going crazy? No. Even the bit that I watched early on there was some sidewards horse action.

Yeah, well, one of the horses went nuts and backed through a barricade and into the crowd. No one got hurt, but like a massive horse's ass is coming your way. I guess it's just too overwhelming for them. It's like thousands of people. There's like huge brass bands and thousands of people, yeah. When they put the crown on Queen Camilla, it was like a little, it didn't fit very well. And as they were doing the thing,

she was like trying to brush her fringe. Like that sort of like, you know, when you put on a hat, it like smushes your fringe down. She was sort of like, just keep smudging it out of the way. Prince Harry was seated so far back. So he was in normal tuxedo attire, like with the tails. He wasn't wearing any like military.

He had his medals on. Oh, he did, right. His medals. But he wasn't in, because the royal, they all had these capes and all sorts. That is stupid. The capes, like Kate and Will's in the capes.

Everything about this whole thing just seemed so ridiculous. Yeah, what about the guy that everyone thought was in fancy dress? Oh my God, a mullet. 70s porn star glasses. He's like a famous composer. And has worked with Dame Kitty Takanaway and is like an opera composer or something. He's from the arts, for sure.

He's like a bad guy from a 1990s Sega video game. But it looked like he's stuck on an awake. He stole Echo the Dolphin or something. So funny. Princess Anne wore one of those hats that has the big feather on top and it blocked Harry's view the whole time he's behind her. And you see him kind of like trying to get around. Do you think that was on purpose?

Probably. Also, Katy Perry couldn't find her seat and then when she was leaving, she fell over. It's like, how embarrassing, how American. Yeah. One of my favourite moments was when Prince Andrew showed up and he's in the full royal, he's got the cloak and everything. Yeah.

Not at all shunned and the audience like booed. Yeah. So not at all shunned. And the audience like booed. Yeah. Good. And he was sitting in the same row as Harry. God, it was wild. It's such a bizarre parade. Oh, and what about the giant genitals mowing into the lawn? That was funny.

Did you see that? Oh, yes. The CMB in the big lawn. So if there was a helicopter doing flyovers, they'd have to see it. And it was like crystal clear. Yeah, yeah. The most childish CMB you've ever seen.

But it was really, like, it was quite symmetrical. Very straight. Very straight. There must have been some ropes and... I think it was the Germans. You reckon? Absolutely no being. Or the Dutch.

The Dutch. Oh, yeah. No, because they were always long and straight. Are they? From what I've been told. Or the Dutch. The Dutch. Oh, yeah. No, because they're always long and straight. Are they? From what I've been told. From what I've been told. Okay. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes from the concert.

Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Now, you've got slightly tender thighs. I've got really tender thighs. Tender thighs. Because yesterday I was like, I think I went to put my pants on, and I was like, ow. Tender thighs. Because yesterday I was like, I think I went to put my pants on and I was like, ow. Tender thighs. On the inside.

On the inside, really sore to the touch. Right. Like I'm just touching now. Oh, I know the feeling. And do you know why? Because at the weekend, it was my first rodeo. You know that saying? Not my first rodeo.

My first rodeo. Did you say this is my first rodeo? And I said, well I said to myself, I was like, that was my first rodeo. Oh, that's a good joke, you should have said it out loud. I should have said it out loud, it was really wasted. No, so we were in Wanaka and Queenstown at the weekend and we ended up, as you do, at Cowboys.

It's sort of a crime not to. It's a crime not to. Yeah, I mean it's something else. Did you go to Cowboys? No, I went home. Oh, is this the when you didn't? Yeah. This is where we parted ways. You don't have Cowboys. Did Sade come? No. She was full too. She was full, yeah. So they

went home and finished off the doggy bags. Yeah. Watched the King's Coronation. Man, marriage, eh? Wild. Sure simmers things down. But yeah, we ended up in Cowboys, which for those that have been, has a mechanical bull. It's just an iconic Queenstown late night bar.

It is. Did you have a sliding game? There were people at that table. It's a fun game. But the crowd's always diverse. Diverse is a kind way of putting it. Diverse crowd. They're a mess.

Yeah, there were a lot of people that were a mess. Although to the credit, the bar had like bottles of water you could take. So I feel like they're, well, that's good. Yeah. Well, you'll need hydrating after your rodeo. So how long did you last upon the? Well, it lasted a while, like maybe 30 seconds or 40 seconds. So you probably felt that long, but it was probably more like 10.

Yeah. Well, I've got a video of it, but it certainly seemed like 30. Maybe it was 20. It seemed like a longer time. What bucked you off? I did pretty well. Was it a forward back? A forward back? It was why I just got it.

Because by this time, I was quite booze. Like, we'd been drinking all, like, afternoon and all evening. So to last that long, I thought was pretty good. Yeah, oh my God. But yeah, I just kind of lost balance, and then it was all over. Just on the floor on my back in no time. It's like an inflated floor, though, eh? I've was pretty good. Yeah, oh my God. But yeah, I just kind of lost balance and then it was all over. It was on the floor on my back in no time. It's like an inflated floor though, eh? I've never done it.

Yeah, it's a soft. I've done zero rodeos. It's one of those things where you see it and you're like, oh, that doesn't look too hard. Oh, that person didn't last very long. And then you get on and you realise. Especially if you're top heavy. Yeah.

Because they make you do the one hand. Yeah, you have one hand for balance and you hold with the other hand. See, I think I'd be good because I'm. Yeah. Especially if you're top heavy. Yeah. Because they make you do the one hand. Yeah, you have one hand for balance and you hold with the other hand. See, I think I'd be good because I'm bottom heavy and very petite on the top. Such a petite way of thinking. You know what I mean? So you'd be anchored to it, do you think? I've got very solid thighs and I think I could brace. Right.

I could lock on. Right. Don't go too tight though because you'll have 10 to 5. I've got very tender thighs. Yeah, that hurts. Tender thighs, guys. Have you done it before? Yeah.

Because we've had them in at work, but I don't think I did it. You have done it a few times, but it's definitely like I get in my own head about how good I'm going to be at it and then get up there and I'm like, oh, that's right. Because most of you have bad spines. Yeah, well, I've got a sore back. Well, I've got rickets from an absolute lack of vitamin D. You've just been kept in a cave for a while.

I've got a scurvy from the C, rickets from the D. And I've got a slipped disc, and I reckon I might have slipped it some more because it's been real sore. Because your whole thing is rotating on the hip. It's a lot of core. It's a lot of core, yeah. So I think that was my first and last rodeo.

But I don't know how people do it on an actual, I mean, I know you're not allowed to talk about rodeos because you get cancelled. I don't think the bull's stoked to be there. No, they're not stoked to be there. I don't know how people do that. It relies on the bull not being stoked to be there. If the bull was stoked to be there,

and the guy straps on, and the bull's like, ready, daddy? And the guy's like, wait a minute, what? And then the bull just gets out there and he's like, oh, oh, oh, oh. The guy's like, ah, I've got to get off, I've got to get off. Throwing himself off the bull. Yeah, but at least at a bar you get thrown off

and you're on an inflated kind of soft pad. Yeah, it's fun. They hit the deck and the clown guy's got to distract the bull. Yeah. He's got a leg in the face. What a wild sport. It is a wild sport, isn't it? Yeah.

Are we calling it sport? They must have tough thighs, though. They wouldn't be wobbly thighs. Oh, they'd be using your bloody hip abductor that you've been using. Superpower thighs. The clench machine. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Someone was doing a little bit of the housework, as you should do.

Speaking of vacuuming, because we've got like a floor protector down because we've put our new floorboards down, but we're still renovating. So we've got this like cardboard protector. And it is grit city in our little renovation house. It is so bad that when you get into bed, you have to put your feet up and then give a little brush house. It is so bad that when you get into bed, you have to put your feet out and then give a little brush brush. Yeah. Oh, yeah, like when you're at the beach

and you walk back up from the beach, you've got sand all over your feet and it's a hardwood batch and you drag all the sand in everywhere and you get up in bed and you go sweep, sweep, sweep and then get your feet in bed, but you're always in it with sand. That's my life. I don't have a batch. Well, neither do I, but I've been to the beach

and stayed at the house. I don't have a batch either. Oh, I forgot that problem. Must my life. I don't have a batch. Well, no, neither do I, but I've been to the beach and stayed at a house there. I don't have a batch either. Oh, I forgot that problem. Must be nice. I don't feel sorry for you. Oh, yeah. What have you been invited to stay? What have you been invited to stay by some chums and friends?

None of my friends have a batch. Yeah, I just thought of that. I don't have batch friends. Have you ever been to the beach? Yes. I think maybe when I was a kid. Once? Right, once.

Yeah. I am starting to feel sorry for you guys. Anyway, this was in Queensland that someone was doing the cumming. Is that what we call it? Cumming? No, I think we just fit the vacuuming. Doing a vac. And they sucked something up and it went.

Was it shaken vac? No. Because that's meant to be sucked up. It wasn't shaken vac. You do the shaken vac, you put the freshness back. They heard a. They're like, oh my God, what is this? Open up the vacuum. Get out the bag, there's a snake.

A slithery little snake. You know, people are like, I want to move to Australia. I'm like, why? Why? Like, there's big spiders, big snakes. They found a nest of those venomous brown snakes at my brother's kid's school. Over the school holidays, it settled in on the outer field. No thanks. Why would you be doing that?

I remember when I was in Darwin, very heavy in the wildlife in Darwin, right at the top. And my friend and I were like, let's go for a bush walk. We're walking through the bush. But then I just sort of remembered where I was and I was like, let's leave here. This is the dumbest thing we've ever done. I forgot about snakes and spiders.

It went wild. I took a t-shirt off and threw it at somebody on a hydra slide, but it went over the side. I was like, oh, I need that T-shirt. Stopped myself, jumped off the hydra slide into like knee-deep grass. What are you doing? Oh, what are you doing? I grabbed the T-shirt and then immediately was like, oh, my God. Get out.

Snakes. Or toads or anything that wants to come out. Yeah. Anyway, he vacuumed it up, and they're actually a protected species of snake. Oh, no. It's fine. No, it was fine.

It was alive. Protected or not, that's going in the bin. It was alive. Ugh. It was just slithering. Was it under the couch or something? Yeah, it was inside their house. How did it?

Yellow-faced whip snake. Slender, fast-moving species. How big was it? Was it a baby snake? Skinny. It's a skinny. Because I don't think a snake would fit up my nozzle. Would a snake fit up your nozzle?

Why are you calling it a nozzle? Because it's quite a... It's like a slit, isn't it? Yeah, but you've got a... They might have had an old hoover with a thicker pipe. Yeah, right. It looks like a bloody old hoover. I'll show you.

A cheapy little hoover. Oh, that's like your Kmart vacuum. Were they using the head attachment or just the pipe? I'm not sure. Were they doing the skirting or something? I'm not sure. Well, they might have been doing some behind the couch, but you can't reach back there with the whole roller head,

so maybe they took the pipe. Yeah. I tell you what, that's a great advertisement for the suction of this vacuum cleaner. Yeah, stuff the bowling balls. Yeah. Slithery little snake up there. Got a snake up there.

Anyway, so they had a snake in the vacuum, and there's always that moment that you're, like, vacuuming, and you hear, like, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, and you're like, ah! Yeah. What was it? And usually it's, like, a bobby pin or, like, a clip or something stupid or, like, staple or paper clip. And you think to yourself, ah.

And then, like, two days later, after you've thrown away the vacuum, you're like, where's that engagement ring? Where's my diamond earrings? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I want to know what went up the vacuum cleaner. Let's take some calls. Get some messages.

Oh, okay. What went up the vacuum cleaner? You can have retrieved it, or maybe you didn't. Or maybe you didn't. And then it's that thing where you go, you've cleaned out the vacuum bag. That's gone in the bin. The truck's come and gone. And then you're like, where's my engagement ring?

And you go, damn, there was a big ting, ting, ting. I got too close to my moncera the other day. You sucked it in. And it sucked in a bit of the leeside to like trim it with scissors to make it look proper. Have you seen the video of the woman who put the pepper grinder kind of broke and put too much pepper on her eggs? She was like, I'll just vacuum it off and the eggs are... What was she thinking?

The egg's gone. The egg's gone. Of course it would. Look at your manky vacuum cleaner that close to your food. I know, and now the pipe. You can't clean that pipe. No. You'd be best to blow pepper off, wouldn't you?

Too much pepper. Yeah, but then I don't think she wanted it on her. Or just get a paper towel. Oh, yeah. I want to say this woman was an idiot. Yeah, she sounds like a damn fool.

Well, somebody in Queensland accidentally vacuumed up a snake. There you go. This is why you don't move to Australia. Just go on a holiday and stick to the paths. They pay better.

That's why all the nurses and doctors are going over there. I know, but snakes. I know, but snakes. I know, but snakes. Guys, stay. We won't pay you, but I promise there's no snakes. So we want to know what you've accidentally sucked up the vacuum cleaner. What's gone up the pipe?

Oh, God. And there are some stories coming through. Bridget, what went up the vacuum? So my partner, he's real into Japanese sort of culture and he really wanted to buy a katana sword. Oh yeah. Oh yes. Before he did, he decided he'd buy

the training blades just to practice before he did in case he doesn't cut a finger off. Wait, so he was buying a sword to use it, not just display it as a cool sort of a... No, not to display, but also to swing around in the backyard. Yeah, I've just got an ACC claim written all over it.

You know what I'd do? I'd chop a watermelon in half. Fruit Ninja. That would be so cool. I'd cut a shoe. My wife would be tossing me all sorts of fruit and veg. Mind you, that's expensive. So, wait, did the sword go up the vacuum?

No, so the training sword has like a fabric off of it and I think that the idea of it is to go around the belt of the samurai. Yes, yes. I'm just having a look and seeing it. I was vacuuming and I knocked the sword over and didn't really think anything

of it and then he came to me later that day and he goes hey, what happened to my sword? I'm missing the belt off it. And I was like, oh, okay. And then it clicked to me about 30 seconds later and we opened up the vacuum cleaner and

I had absolutely destroyed it. You sucked up the guitar belt. My God. Were you in the bad books after that? For a little bit, yeah. But it's okay. He's happy now because he's bought the real blade. I was going to say. God, he's got a love for a new Katana sword. We just talked about New Zealand nurses not getting paid as much as Australians.

They don't have to deal with snakes, but they deal with lunatics with swords. Hiya. Thanks for your call. Let's go to Amber. Amber, what went up the vacuum cleaner? My pet rat. Ew! What?

I mean, they can famously contort their bodies to go into very small spaces, can't they? How did you suck it up? Why was it out? It was not me. My pet rat, I don't know how he did it, but he got himself stuck behind the bathroom cabinet. Oh, yeah. And my mum was not happy about that. And I said, it's fine. He'll come out when he's ready. Probably just a bit spooked. And my mum was not happy about that.

And I said, it's fine, he'll come out when he's ready, probably just a bit spooked. And I left his cage out, went to school, came back, and he was back in his cage. And she said to me, oh, you know, he came out on his own. I was like, great. A few years later, my sister broke the news to me, and apparently mum used the vacuum cleaner to get him. Oh, wait, she intentionally used it. cleaner to get him. Oh, wait. She intentionally used it.

I'll get him. Wow. Mum is ruthless. I love that. Oh, my God. That rat wouldn't have known what was happening. Wait, wait, wait. Poor little rat.

Look at that. And it was fine? Like, it survived? He was fine. I don't... Because he was a fat rat, I don't think he went all the way up. Oh, okay, yeah.

He held in place. Yeah, holy sky. Wow. Amazing. You know when something doesn't suck up the vacuum and the motor goes into overdrive? Like, zzzz. Yeah, yeah.

Thanks for your call, Amber. Keep your texts coming in 9696. 0800 dials at M. We'll get to more of those next What Went Up the Vacuum Cleaner. Play ZM's Fletchford and Ailey. Play ZM. We are hearing what went up the vacuum. Someone sucked up a snake in Australia.

Probably less exciting things since they became stick vacuums. Oh, yeah. Versus the old drag around lux. Yeah. Yeah, big fatty tube. Yeah. Like with this, a lot of the stick vacuums have got the clear plastic see-through, so you can see what you've sucked up.

Yeah, which is quite handy. Yeah. Versus the old bag of yesteryear, which was just a thick knot of dust and hair. Yeah. And yuck stuff. So we're talking about what's ended up skirting up the tube. I vacuumed my flatmate's bedroom. That was nice of them.

Oh, that's lovely. And sucked up a sparkly G-string. Took it out of the bag and hung it up. And when she got home, I said, there's a G-string and she said, it's not mine. Oh. It was her boyfriend's. He wore sparkly G-strings.

Huh. Interesting. Well, each to their own. Yeah. You would probably have to have a bit more room at the front. I imagine a sparkly G would be very... Huh. Interesting. Well, each to their own. Yeah. You would probably have to have a bit more room at the front. I imagine a sparkly G would be very itchy. Scratchy.

Scratchy. Probably only for very special occasions. A few people sucking up birds. When they're cleaning out the bottom of the bird cage, they're doing a run around, cleaning up all the little sandy stuff. Budgie. Yeah, budgie. And the seeds and everything.

And then the budgie will go down for a look and up the tube. Oh, my God, no. Would a budgie be okay? Just cough a little and then go on. Well, that all depends on what kind of vacuum you've got. Hmm. Jeez. Imagine it getting up into the Dyson and with the cyclonic power,

just the budgie just getting absolutely washing machined around up there. Maybe not. Maybe, maybe not. My six-year-old nephew was feeding his pet mouse. He thought he'd vacuum up the

crumbs so his mum wouldn't get mad at the mess on the carpet and the mouse went up the tube. People are really sucking up their

pets. They're sucking up the rodents. Somebody said similar to your girl's story before there was a rat in our house and was

behind the fridge. Yeah. And so I just put the vacuum tube under there and was just swinging it wildly and then it went whoop and the rat ended up up the thing. Yuck. A friend of mine used to suck up spiders and then spray fly spray down the nozzle to make sure that the spiders die.

I suck up flies. Live ones. Yeah. It's a bit sadistic, eh? And I'm like, now you're trapped in there. But it works. Yeah. Because you know how when you've got to swipe a fly, it's the change in air pressure and they're like, oh, I go now. Yeah. It's a bit sadistic, eh? And I'm like, now you're trapped in there. But it works. Yeah. Because you know how when you go to swipe a fly,

it's the change in air pressure and they're like, oh, I go now. Yeah, yeah. But if it's the vacuum, are they like, I'll go, but when they take off, they go up. You've got to do it quickly and they're going to be on the wall. Yeah, they're not strong enough to fight the cyclonic suction. Picking one in the ear would be fun, though. That would be really great.

Yeah, but anyway, she was spraying fly spray up there to make sure the spiders were dead, and she sprayed too much fly spray, and the vacuum burst into flames. Oh, my God. Oh, wow, okay. It's a propellant, yeah. You've got to watch that.

It gets hot up there. We don't want to be doing that. And then just a series of other text messages about pet mice and pet birds being vacuumed up whilst people are attempting to clean. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hay clean. The New Zealand International Comedy Festival, it is back. It's been cancelled a number of times.

Like, over the last three years, it got cancelled twice. They managed to squeeze one in, and it was hard. It's because nothing was funny. No. Well, yeah. It's hard to laugh sometimes. Super funny. But more important than ever.

Yeah. You know, more important than ever to just step away from what's happening in the world and have a good laugh so it's back. You know, like COVID's done. The show will go on regardless. Yeah. And I made it. I don't have COVID.

Oh, yeah. Because if the performers have COVID, you cannot, in your right mind, perform. And I was so nervous that that was going to happen. And it hasn't. And my show opens tomorrow night. Tomorrow night. Now, how are you nerves-wise? I've got sort of waves of like, I'm not ready.

But I've never felt ready to open a show. I haven't made a show for five years. This will be my first solo show in five years. And I'm very, very excited. I couldn't imagine anything worse than doing a show. I haven't made a show for five years. This will be my first solo show in five years and I'm very, very excited. I couldn't imagine anything worse than doing a show. I didn't say anything worse than coming to your show. I was like bitch! No, I'm coming to your show.

Yes, I know. How long is it? An hour tops. So it's a good amount of time. But like, that would be so nerve wracking. It is overwhelming. Like, you still find it nerve wracking? Oh God, yeah.

I used to suffer from terrible stage fright. And anytime I performed, be it by myself or with people, I'd be like, why am I doing this? This is terrible. Yeah. And then the moment you get out, you're like, I'm like, this is why. It's the juice.

Put it in my veins. I love it. And I was reminded of this because I was down in Wellington. I did the big comedy gala at the Michael Fowler Centre. You know, over 1,000 people there. And it was so much fun. It's crazy that you would want to be in front of heaps of people telling jokes. But I have to say, to the ZM whanau, you've sold me out.

I've sold out. And I know that. Fantastic, fantastic. Thank you. My show's sold out. I think there'll be a couple of walk-ups available. Is this why people are calling you a sellout? That's why.

Is this why your acting art friends are calling you a sellout? Yeah, it's weird that they were calling me that for like the last year. I was like, we don't know yet. Yeah, we don't know. I mean, thanks guys. Yeah, but the tickets aren't on sale. But yeah, Hayley Sproul's a sellout is what they were saying. A total sellout they were saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. They were right. You know, they were right all along. They were right all along. There will be a couple of walk-ups for my saying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They were right. You know, they were right all along. They were right all along. There will be a couple of walk-ups for my show. It starts tomorrow, runs all the way to Saturday at Q. But when I say a couple, I mean like literally try your luck.

Yeah. But I thought we could, I thought I might give a few recommendations of my own because you can't come and see me. So the Comedy Fest happening, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch. Not Christchurch. Not Christchurch. But a lot of the comedians will take their shows to Christchurch. I'm planning on doing later in the year.

And a lot of the comedians have already been to Dunedin. So you do a bit of a circuit. I'm going to New Plymouth. A lot of people will kind of travel their show around. So while the official Comedy Fest is just Wellington, Auckland, once you've put so much work into a show, everyone basically travels it around. So even if you're not Wellington, one of the main centres, maybe a nice

weekend away. Absolutely. Who are you recommending? Okay, my first recommendation is if you can't have Hayley Sproul, have the arguably better thing, Mel Bracewell. Right, often confused. People think we're the same. She's in Wellington and Auckland with her show Forget Me Not,

which sold out Melbourne Comedy Festival. She's very funny. And I cannot tell you how big a deal it is to sell out Melbourne Comedy Festival. And she's doing the big thing. She's in the St. James in Wellington. I thought you were going to say St. James in Auckland. I was going to say Hornet. Oh, Hornet's not ready.

It's been pulled down. So funny. Like she's doing so well in Australia, and she's back to give us her show. Abby Howes is another recommendation of mine. She is a Billie T nominee this year, and she is just one of the biggest, like, she's one of the biggest hit rates of jokes per minute.

You know those people that are just like, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit. Her laughs per minute count is high. Hard to count that. Hard to count those. Hard, very hard, yeah. You'd have to record it. Yeah, like has somebody got to stop watching and writing them down?

Well, I've watched Abby and I've written them down. Okay, so many jokes per minute. But I was outside of it able to look in. Yeah, right. Okay. Abby Howe's so funny. She is just great. Then I've got two recommendations from Barney Duncan

who is not just straight stand-up. He's a real like clown guy. Like really absurdist comedy. Right. His show is called Just Jokes but jokes is spelt like yokes. Just yokes. Okay, yeah. Really funny. Wait, so it says just yokes or it says just

J-O-L-K-S? Well, he always plays a character called Juan, so I imagine it would be just Yokes. Is it appropriate? He's brown of some sort. So that's his show for adults, but also this Saturday in Auckland he's doing a show for kids. It's called Moon, and being a clown, it will be so, so funny.

Okay. Like he is just amazing. I'll run through my rest. Brinley Stent. Yeah. She won the Billy T last time. She's got a show called Frigid. She's currently in Whangarei.

Then she's doing Wellington, Auckland. Justine Smith. This is for you, Fletch. Her show is called Actually, I'm a Cat Person. Yeah, good. I'd like that. Yeah. She is just one of the icons. She wins

Best Female Comic every single year. And my last two are Reece Mathewson. Summer Gorgeous is his show. He hosted the gala last time. He's very funny. So, so funny. And then if you want to get bang for buck, there's a thing called the Comedy Mixtape. It's out in South Auckland and has all comedians of

colour and they are just some of the best. And that's hosted by Kuta Forrester. Right. We've also got your chance to win $500, a great comedy bait. So this is the PKF with his sang great comedy debate. It'll be moderated by Josh Thompson. Always very funny.

This year's topic, moot. Is it time to turn off the internet? Yes. You can get your tickets comedy. I've done the comedy debate before. Mine was love will save us. And I was on the negative team. Right.

Well, loads of funny comedians. Comedyfestival.co.nz for tickets. It's the 19th of May, 7.30. And if you go to the ZM Facebook page and comment to win, you're in to win $500 cash plus a double pass to the great comedy debate in Auckland. That500 cash plus a double pass to the Great Comedy Debate in Auckland. That's got Dai Hemwood in it as well. And he is one of the best people to watch debating.

I love to watch him debate. Jesse Morgan's getting back involved, which is good. Because I'm sick of hearing him. He's eating, isn't he? He's always eating. He's eating for free. He's eating for free. Nice places.

And then he was like, I enjoyed eating. Now that's a bullshit job if ever I've heard it because I love eating. You love eating. And no one's paying me to eat. Yeah. I'm sensing some jealousy. And then right,

what I thought of eating, every review, wonderful. Grateful to be here. Yeah, why would I have come here if I didn't want to enjoy the food? Yeah.

Give me more. Would you really want to be a foodie though and be eating out three times a day? Yes. Yes. Oh, my God. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley. I took a few stumbles and tumbles at the weekend. I saw most of these, and it was quite entertaining.

Jeez. I tell you, the one that is lingering, we went to a wedding, and I was getting off the bus and the steps were wet because it had been raining. It's good luck, isn't it, raining on a wedding day? Is that? Good for your pals? You tell the Wanaka lawn that was absolutely destroyed.

Good luck or not, because that lawn was wet. Question, if you go to a dry cleaning place to get your suit dry cleaned and the last foot of your leg is just mud on each suit pant leg. Yeah, they'll sort it out. Is that the same price or do they charge you more for like? For heavy soilage. For heavy soilage. Very good question.

Yeah. Not sure. Oh, that's on this week's to-do list. Yeah, me too. I've got a pant leg or two that need a clean up. But anyway, I misjudged the step and just slipped. And so slipped down onto the next step. It was a straight down, but it was a

high. It was my RM Williams boots. It was a hard. I'm showing off. I'm just name dropping the brand there. Not a cheap boot. Cost me a fortune, so I'd like you to know. Bang, and I hit it. But when I slipped, I banged my elbow on the rail that runs up the side. Oh, yeah. And I hit the deck real hard and slammed my jaw shut. hit it, but when I slipped, I banged my elbow on the rail that runs up the side and I

hit the deck real hard and slammed my jaw shut. And everybody on the bus heard it. Wait, this is you arriving. Arriving. Oh, darling. And I banged my elbow. Looks purple. Yeah, I don't know if there's a slight bruise to it. Yeah, there is. But whenever I

bang my funny bone, oh, I think I've got an exposed funny bone nerve. No, that's just But whenever I bang my funny bone, oh, I think I've got an exposed funny bone nerve. No, that's just why it's called the funny bone. It ruins your day. I tried to put on a brave face. I couldn't feel my fingers. Tears in your eyes, yeah, yeah. I couldn't feel my fingers properly

until after the ceremony. And even now, if I straighten out my arm and it's tied in there, it hurts. You were like, you know when a cricket player gets hit by a 150 kilometre an hour ball and it hits them right in the guts or something and then they're just like, I'm alright. And then in real life they're like. Do you remember at primary school when you'd get hit with a tennis ball or a basketball to the face or something

and you'd be like, oh, and you'd be like, no, it's alright. And you're like trying so hard not to cry. And you're mostly crying because you've got a fright, but you're like, no, it's fine. Or you're a little bit sore and then you see your mum and your mum's like are you okay I'm like I didn't see my mum but anyway

I slammed my jaw shut when I hit the deck when I fall I just went boom onto the next step and now that tooth that I've been ignoring for 13 years

with the temporary crown with the temporary crown for 13 years is sore oh you've just lodged it. This is it. You're going to have to go to the dentist. Yeah, maybe.

Maybe just get some Sensodyne. You know... Yeah, I have. For the last couple of weeks I've had some. How much do you reckon Sensodyne costs people because it hides the real pain? Yeah, and they keep delaying and delaying and delaying. And they keep delaying and it actually makes it worse?

Yeah. It's a beautiful band-aid. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. Do you know, because I've been reading a lot about ADHD recently because, you know, it's a thing that a lot of people are talking about, ADHD in adults. One of the key elements, and I'm saying this to the very high-energy Vaughan Smith, is clumsiness.

Oh. Because you did hit, you stubbed your toe. So then the next, was that at the distillery? Yeah, I think so. I walked around a corner. You stubbed a toe. you stubbed your toe. So then the next, was that at the distillery? Yeah, I think so. I walked around the corner. You stubbed a toe. I stubbed my toes. Also, can we talk about, you had a photo outside the Kadrona Hotel.

Yeah. And you're wearing winter clothes. Were you wearing your Birks? Yeah. It wasn't cold. Nah. It wasn't cold. But you had like a big jacket on and a beanie.

I don't know, I just had a hoodie on. Oh. It was, I'll tell you what, it was nice to go somewhere where, it was at 18 degrees at quarter to five this morning when I woke up in Auckland. Yeah. Yeah, 18 degrees. It was nice going somewhere where it actually felt autumnal.

Yeah. In autumnal times. Yes. But yeah, I stubbed my toe, which I haven't done since I was a kid, which I don't know how I did it because it was on a flat piece. I think I just like dragged my toe. Yeah. Did you swear?

Stubbed it and did it, yes. Does a toe stub hurt? Did you fall down another stairs? Have you got some kind of start of some kind of... Vertigo? All vertigo or some kind of neurological deterioration? I love a way to find out. Oh, yeah.

I just keep ignoring it until it becomes a proper problem. Like your tooth. Rub some Sensodyne on it. Put some Sensodyne on my whole body and hope for the best. You'll definitely tingle, I reckon. Yeah. But I did that slip thing as well.

That was bad, though, because it was on a very smooth piece of wet, temporary footpath. Oh, I hate that. And I did that thing where you jerk your neck around because you think you're going to fall. And then I was just like, I've heard that as well. Oh, poor smithy. Not a good weekend for the smithy.

Falling to bits over here. Wow. Do we need to get you a cane or something? It might help. It would look cool. Get a couple of those, you know those boomers that go walking in the inner city streets with their tramping poles?

Get a couple of those. Or a couple of those things Prince Charles had to hang on to at the weekend when he became king. What were those? The scepters. Dorky scepters. One scepter, please. Those are walking sticks for kings. Yes.

Why do we have two scepters? That's what they are. They're hiking poles for the kings. All the stolen jewels and diamonds from around the world wouldn't fit on one dorky king walking stick. No, it wouldn't. So we have to have two. We have to have two, yeah. Fact of the day is next. Shots fired, Vaughn.

Play it. ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. 8.29. Hang on, hang on. You fed me an apple slice and then said 20 seconds to go. This is on you, sir. You should be able to eat

an apple slice in 20 seconds. It's easy. I'm just a tiny, petite little mouth. I'm just a small girl. Okay, I'm ready. It is time for... Fact of the Day.

Day, day, day, day. Back to my apple. Today's fact of the day is about the alleged tallest cliff in the solar system. In the solar system? The tallest cliff in the solar system. No. Because Mars has got the tallest mountain, right? In the solar system.

Yeah. Well, you're telling the story. I've not researched every largest geographical feature of... What are you doing with your time? I don't know. No, I don't know. I just, something popped up on my feed the other day about this ginormous mountain. Oh, here, I've got it.

On Mars. Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons. The largest volcano on Mars is also the solar system's tallest mountain

measuring 374 miles in diameter like I don't I can't even remember what that's in diameter the height

hang on standby I'll click on this picture the height 21,000 kilometres high no 21,000 no 21,000 kilometres that's not true metres so 21 kilometres high 21,000 kilometres high. No. 21,000, no. 21,000 kilometres high. That's not true.

Oh, sorry, metres, metres. So 21 kilometres high. 21,000 kilometres. That's still... It's still massive. Just under three of Everest. There is a picture of like how big Mount Everest is. 8,848 metres is Mount Everest.

And yeah, Olympus Mons, 21,000 metres. That sounds like an upcoming popular baby name. Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons, 21,000 metres. That sounds like an upcoming popular baby name. Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons Smith. Yeah. Mons is the middle name or hyphened with the first? Hyphened.

Okay. Well, this is about Verona Rupes, which sounds like another. His sister. His sister, Verona Rupes Smith and Olympus Mons Smith. Yeah. Verona Rupes is a cliff on Miranda. Probably not. Where's Miranda?es is a cliff on Miranda. Probably not. Where's Miranda?

Miranda is the moon of Uranus. Or Uranus, depending on your preferred pronunciation. Now, there's aliens on that moon, by the way. Oh, no, there is not. No, that's what they're suspecting, that the aliens would be looking for them on the planets. They're actually on the moon of Neptune. This is the moon of Uranus.

Oh, I beg your pardon. Sorry, Neptune, as you were. There's lots of moons out on those outer ones. So how big is this cliff? Well, the cliff face was previously, in 1986, when the first Voyager 2 space probe scooted past and took some photos, it was estimated to be between 5 and 10 kilometres high. Whoa.

However, re-estimation in 2016 says it's more likely to be a 20 kilometre sheer cliff face. Making it the tallest known cliff in the solar system. Wow. Now, this is Miranda also has low gravity. So, if you

were to jump off the top of this 20 kilometre cliff, you would free fall for 12 minutes. Wait, low gravity meaning you'd be floaty? It's got lower gravity, so you wouldn't be pulled as quickly as you would be on Earth. So it wouldn't hurt as much if you fell as well. Well, it would, because by the time you reached the bottom,

you'd be doing a speed of 200 kilometres an hour. Yeah, that'd hurt you. Just on the sheer fact that you've been going for that. But it would take 12 minutes if you jumped off a free fall. What would you think about in that 12 minutes? I'd probably think of the 12-minute run. The run they used to make you do at high school. Right.

Spend all 12 minutes thinking what a terrible idea it was to jump off this 12-minute cliff. Yeah, I wonder if there's anything I can do to stop this now. Get to orbit the last minute of the 13-minute long Lennon Skinhead freebird studio version. Yeah, beautiful. I wondered if a parachute would work, but 200 kilometres a parachute would work, eh?

Well, you wouldn't start... See, parachutes depend on atmospheric thickness. Well, because what if you pulled your shoe and it was just like... Does it have anything to hold on to? Oh, it's a player. Are you still going down? Yeah, but it's gravity

But like the thing that fills your parachute is air It's the air resistance right? Right But if there's no atmosphere to hold air I mean I don't know This is assumptions I don't know how air works So you're saying

What did Matt Damon do when he grew potatoes in his own pool on Mars? I don't know He just put on them yeah So you're saying don't I wouldn't Don't jump Don't base jump from this cliff Base

Without doing some serious research into parachutes. Fantastic. Space freaks me out. I don't feel well. Yeah. When I think of it, I don't feel well. It's like a half marathon down, basically. Yeah.

That's another way of putting it. You would know. You're the only one who's run a marathon. You'd get it done in 12 minutes. That's a bloody quick one. That'd be a PB. It's a very, very 12 minutes. That's a bloody quick answer. That'll be a PB. That's a very good, big PB. It's a world record, to be honest.

Absolute PB. So today's fact of the day is the tallest known cliff in the solar system is 20 kilometres high and would take you 12 minutes to free fall. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Wow. It was a big weekend. Some people knew it ahead of time. Some people didn't.

But Taylor Swift, she dropped. And she chose a funny weekend to do it on. We're going to cross to our Swifties in the producer's booth. Huge Swifties. Channelette Pajamas, Carween. Hello. Were we excited? Absolutely.

So you knew this was coming? Look, she's been dropping hints for Speak Now Taylor's version for a good three years now. What is that? So she released an album back in 2010 called Speak Now. She wrote it all herself. And then it was one of the ones that was stolen. So now she's re-releasing it. That's why it's called a Taylor's version.

Ah, okay. Has she changed the songs at all? She has to slightly change them when she re-records them. You just add cowbell. Wait, wait, wait. So she's released an album that she's already released. No, no, no. So it's not out yet.

July 7th, a week before my birthday. But it's already out, the original version. Yes. But it's stolen. Would she add some new songs? You say stolen, but I'm pretty sure there was a financial exchange, wasn't there? Yes, but not with her. Yeah, but so you've got the album, and then the album was stolen.

Now she's re-releasing it, and it's the same album. And she re-records the songs. Oh, she re-records the songs? Yes, yes, yes, she has to. Oh, sorry, I thought you were just re-recording the whole album. I was like, no, no. She re-records them. Like a fiddle.

She's re-recording them, and then she also adds, like, I think it said maybe six new songs, which means folk tracks that have never been heard before. Oh, and that's what you're most excited about. Absolutely. Yeah. Although I do want to hear Dear John. I can't wait for Dear John. It is the song about John Mayer and he is going down. Oh! Okay.

So this is one she hasn't released before. No, she has released Dear John, but it's just gonna sting more like when she's 33 instead of 19, you know? Right. Which was when she first released it was when she was 19. Mm-hmm. And when, yeah. Okay.

A bit more sass in it. Right. I just think she's chosen one. She's releasing music she's already released, which I know she's doing. That's... I'll come round to understanding that. Well, it's because then she owns the rights. Yes. Yes. That's why she's doing it. Yes know she's doing. I'll come round to understanding that. It's because then she

owns the rights. Yes. That's why she's doing it. It was just a big weekend for a reappearance of Stolen Things. It truly was. South African Diamonds and the Crown. This is the thing. Why would you drop an album on the coronation weekend?

She just announced it. It was very stressful because I was on our wonderful station here at ZM and it happened while I was on air. Great station. Great station. I didn't know what to do. I felt like someone had just died. It was the biggest news and I was panicking

and I started sweating. My heart rate was up. It felt like such a big deal and I didn't know how to handle it. I felt like calling Ross. Why didn't she wait until after the coronation? She doesn't care about the king. Katy Perry. She's the queen.

Oh, yeah, it was a dig at Katy Perry. It was not a dig at Katy Perry. No, because they're friends now. Stop being woman against woman, Vaughn. I'm not being woman against woman. I think you're doing a great enough job of that yourselves. Yeah, women, we love to fight. We love to hate women. No, but this is the thing. This is the question

that everyone was like, huh. You know, because a lot of times artists time up. Like, didn't Beyonce release an album once and then another artist released on the same day and they're like, oh, whoops, I've stuffed that up. Yeah. Because Beyonce is going to win this one. So we want to know maybe when were you outdone

could be the question. Like, when did you sort of have a big moment? When were you playing at the King's Coronation yet your mortal enemy, who you've got a fake truce with, trumps her re-released stolen album from 2010? Should we see if we can get this going on Daily Mail? Yes. This rumour mill of Perry Swift beef reignites over coronation release drama.

But you just leave it until after the coronation because all the news is coronation. Yeah, totally. You want the news to be about you. What about people who get engaged at weddings? No, they should not. People get engaged at weddings, people who announce pregnancies at weddings. No, they should not. People get engaged at weddings, people who announce pregnancies at weddings or announce pregnancies at

baby showers. You're stealing other people's thunder. Just leave it alone. It's their day. Delay your announcement. And don't ask someone if it's okay to do it because how are they supposed to tell you no? Don't say is it okay if we announce our pregnancy

at your wedding it's like how do you say no to that just say no maybe why don't we do it like another day

and then people can like have you seen the ones where like a man will propose to a bridesmaid you know because you're like oh she looks so good

and then the photographer is already there it's like excuse me then you can pay for some of the money invoices of the bride and groom or whomever or what about you make a big announcement and then the photographer's already there, it's like, excuse me, then you can pay for some of the bloody invoices of the bride and groom or whomever. Or what about you

make a big announcement and then there's a big cyclone or a natural disaster and you're just like I mean, in the scheme of things, it kind of puts it all in perspective. But you know, like, or you're having this I'd be so angry at global warming and the rotation of the earth if I made an announcement the same day that a massive cyclone

was forming in the Pacific. Like if you got dumped from like a long-term relationship and you're sitting at home and you're like, I need my girls to come over and they're like, we can't,

the roads are blocked. And you're just sitting there like, aww. Okay, so we want everyone to feel sorry for you but all you've been through is like, you know, a relationship dissolving

and other people's houses have washed away. So how am I supposed to mourn now? So when was your big news overshadowed? Yeah, when did someone steal your thunder? When were you outdone by someone? We're talking about when someone has overshadowed your big news

or an event has overshadowed your big news. Stolen the thunder? Yeah, because we just thought it was a bit strange that Taylor Swift announced an album drop on the King's Coronation, which was arguably the biggest thing that was happening over the weekend. Yeah. No matter where you are, who you are, or whether you like it. People were still talking about both.

Yeah. Cheers. What was the big news that overshadowed your big event? Morning. I was just about to celebrate my first anniversary with my first partner like, my first partner ever. I just made it to a year. And on the same day as our one... Relationships are worse.

On the same day as our first anniversary, my mum left my dad. The real kicker is that we had another six anniversaries together before he's now my ex. And every year I'd be like, oh, it's our third anniversary.

Mum would be like, oh, yeah, it's my second anniversary of leaving your dad. Oh! So we celebrated it together for seven years. It was awesome. Oh, wow. And when you guys finally broke up, that wasn't on the same day, just to keep it all, you know, easy to read up. Unfortunately, the little bit extra admin there, not the same day.

Oh, so much admin. You can keep your texts coming in. When did someone steal your thunder? When did someone overshadow your big moment is the question we have posed to you. Because we just thought that Taylor Swift announcing an album drop on the King's Coronation, who overshadowed who? Really?

Well, yeah, I mean, all the news has been Coronation, hasn't it? I'm kind of done with it. I didn't actually know that Taylor had done anything over the weekend. Anonymous joins us. Anonymous, what overshadowed your big moment? So I had friends who got engaged around the same time as us. And when we had our engagement party,

we found out that they'd got secretly married because they announced it at our engagement party. It's not their party, it's your party. Oh, no. Yeah, so that was fun. Did they even think for a second that what they were doing was controversial? I don't think so, because they're a bit strange,

but it was real odd because, like, they weren't real, like, friendly with our friends, and so everyone was kind of just giving them a bit of an odd look. Right. Right, so you're saying they made this announcement even though most of the people there weren't even in their friend group. So don't like weird.

Yeah, yeah. They travelled from out of town to come to our engagement party. Yeah. Weird. That's weird. And they had actually set a date for their wedding and the date was a few months after our wedding date. So I think that maybe they were, I don't know, doing something a bit strange there.

And then they still had a ceremony on the date that they'd set after our wedding as well. Sorry? Yeah, so they got secretly married and then announced it at our engagement party and then went ahead and had a full-blown ceremony wedding thing. Oh, no. They're trying to outdo you. Are you still friends with these people? Kind of, but we don't really talk to them.

We kind of give them a bit of, like, a wide berth. Yeah, yeah, because they sound bloody strange, mate. Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in. My now husband planned a trip down to the South Island and surprised me by proposing. His sister's a travel agent, so he booked all the trip through her.

We came back excited to tell everybody, and they all said, yeah, we know. She told us. She had not only told the whole family we got engaged, but everything we'd done on the trip, where we stayed, what activities we'd done, how and where he was going to propose. We were none too impressed.

And then she wore a bright pink dress to our wedding to make sure she stood out amongst the crowd. Oh, she sounds fun. She sounds like a neat little girl. I'm going to say it, Vaughan. She sounds like a middle child. How dare you? Yeah, a little bit.

Real middle child energy there. My best friend at the time posted photos of my newborn on Facebook before I had the chance to announce his birth. Oh, no. Because the best friend came in to see the baby and the husband would take the time posted photos of my newborn on Facebook before I had the chance to announce his birth because the best friend came in to see the baby and the husband takes the photos and then puts the photos on Facebook. No, that's not your thing to do. No, that's a big no-no. Similar vein, I got knocked out for the C-section.

My partner announced to everyone on Facebook that we'd had the baby before I'd woken up and even met the baby. My blood would boil. He's a naughty boy. My grandmother went and died the day I got engaged. What a... Thanks, Nan. Absolute B.

What'd you do that for? My brother announced his wife was pregnant to our family the day I gave birth. It's been eight years and I'm still salty about it. My brother-in-law asked if he could propose to my sister at my wedding. I told him, in no uncertain terms, absolutely not. Don't do it. Yeah, don't do it. Don't do it.

Oh, I just realised I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards. Well, that means the show's backwards then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse. Well, should we speak in reverse, and hopefully they'll work out the other way? Give us a review.