ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - April 17th, 2025

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod: Minecraft movie trend Pasta instead of a wedding cake? Top 6 - Things to do if your stuck inside this weekend that won't cause a fight Shows to watch this weekend Drop - Meghann Fahey & Brendan Sklener Interview Shannon's questions about house sitting SLP - Do you have your read receipts on? When did you receive a complasult? Starting your FB friends list from scratch Weird place you got engaged? Fact of the day Hayley flooded her apartment laundry  What order do you get dressed in? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hayley. Thank you, Susie. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley Thank you Susie, good morning, welcome to the show Fletch Vaughan and Hayley Stay safe out there, especially in the North Island Some crazy wild winds It's a windy, it's a windy The chimney was really I was gonna say I worry about you in that chimney Vaughan

Light car, high centre of gravity, side winds Really felt it It's really not built to anything over 40k winds, is it? Oh no, sir. No, no. I'm even surprised it can go 100k without just tipping over on itself. Well, guys, it was 26 degrees and sunny in Melbourne yesterday. So I'm just sending you some thoughts and some prayers as you get through this difficult time.

Today, it's going to be a high of 29 here. Rub it in. Now, Hayley, I know you are going to love this announcement. Are you ready? Are you ready? I'm pumped. From the team that bring you symphony. ZM presents Manuka Fuel Full Metal Orchestra.

Okay. Okay, Bogans. Bogans, unite, my friends. Bogans, unite, my friends. Bogans, okay, you know, I'm from the Naki, so I guess I've got a bit of Bogan blood in me. A little bit. Hayley's from Rangiora, which is the South Island Bogan capital. I tell you what, I'm going to go to this because...

Okay, well, let's explain. It's a hell of a combination. Isn't it? Brace yourself because Manuka Fuel full metal orchestra is coming. This is happening on the 26th of July, Spark Arena. Tickets are on sale the 1st of May. Now, you're going to see massive metal anthems from the likes of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, ACDC, and more.

Soaring orchestral arrangements. Searing guitars. Oh my God, searing guitars. Don't worry, Fletch, you can hold my hand and I'll walk you through this, okay? I'm ready for this. You've got to put your index finger and your pinky up. Now you've got some horns, okay?

Fantastic. And you just rock them like that. I think this could be up your alley too, Vaughan. Yeah, definitely. Some anthems in there. I mean, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and ACDC. You've got your Moran's Fall. Moran's Fall 4 there.

Top 4. If we were to do a Mount Rushmore of Moran's Fall, those would probably be there. Tickets are on sale May 1st. If you want to sign up for the pre-sale, go to fullmetalorchestra.com. See them online on Facebook and Instagram as well. You can comment on the post that is up, and you'll be in the draw to win a double pass,

the first double pass, Full Metal Orchestra. I'm just putting it into the calendar right now. That'll be a couple of weeks after holidays, won't it? You'll be ready. I'll be refreshed and ready to rock. Coming up on the show, the top six. Vaughan, what have you got for us today? Yeah, well, the weather sucks and it's a long weekend,

so I've got the top six things that you can do when you're stuck inside all weekend that will not cause a fight. Definitely not cause a fight. Definitely won't cause a fight. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Now, I haven't seen Minecraft, the movie. I don't know a lot about Minecraft.

I've watched my daughters play it and sometimes they spin around too fast, and it makes me feel sick, so I'm still watching it. Right, it's based on the countdown things they were handing out at the checkout, weren't they? Well, I think they were the, no. Oh, right. They're kind of the last stop.

They were a merch stop for a pre-existing situation. I thought they'd seen those collectibles and made a movie about it. Oh, no. Interesting. No, usually, yeah, merch comes after the creation of the main thing. Okay. Yeah.

Right. Sorry. That's all right. It's all right. You didn't know that. A new searched Minecraft movie. Minecraft movie is now Jack Black's sixth biggest film. It has just beaten King Kong and two of the Kung Fu Pandas.

It's doing so well at the box office. It's killing it at the box office. Is it because so many people have played Minecraft? Yeah, dude. And Minecraft's been around for so long, even adults could have played it at some stage. Yeah. It's like a big cult game as well, right? Like, it's not just a game you play. You get really into it.

Yeah, yeah. You can lose. I mean, you see some of the things kids have built or adults have built on Minecraft. It's phenomenal. Hounds deep from Lord of the Rings. It's fully recreated, you know, perfectly. There is one aspect of the movie that is causing ejection from movie cinemas, though,

including being removed for bringing a live chicken in. So the chicken jockey challenge? The chicken jockey. So it's a rare thing that appears in the game. I've done some reading So it's a rare thing that appears in the game I've done some reading It's a rare thing that appears in the game It's a zombie riding a chicken And apparently

How have you never played this? You're such a nerd I know I think it was too daunting When my first introduction to it was How intense it can be Right I think I have run around in it

But it didn't do anything worthwhile Right You were more of an Age of Empires. I loved Age of Empires. Command and Conquer. Yeah. Command and Conquer. Oh, my God.

How good was Age of Empires? Man, I could absolutely lose today playing Age of Empires. Huck in the code and get the Flying Dutchman early. Dude, I'll be using codes the whole time. All about cheat codes. All about cheat codes in Age of Empires. I don't have time to be waiting for these tiny people to build a village. I'm in the Stone Age.

I want a car that shoots missiles. Yeah. And I want to hoon around all manner of landscapes and, you know, never get a puncture. So this part, when the chicken jockey comes in, people lose their mind. Now, I've been throwing popcorn. Popcorn is just going up. Flower.

Someone has literally been videoed with a chicken in the cinema throwing the chicken up. Which is animal cruelty and I would advise against it. And everything else is just disruptive

and very messy. So now movie cinemas around the world are finding, who's got an email? I don't know, is that me or you? No, I don't have an email.

No, I think that's you. It wasn't me, I didn't get one. It might be Shannon. Now when movie cinemas know exactly when this chicken appears in the movie, the chicken jockey,

they will be sending in security teams and extra staff to make sure there are no shenanigans. Shenanigans? Even Google News searching, like Sevenoaks Cinema ejects a Minecraft movie screening. A Kent movie cinema ejected a whole group of people.

Yeah, it's all over the world, including in New Zealand. They're kicking people out because they're being shitbags, basically. Yeah. And also, the other side of things, people are like, well, isn't this great for the movie cinema industry? Like, people are going and having fun. Have you been to a Rocky Horror Picture Show? No.

A screening of a Rocky Horror Picture Show no a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show where it's like you're encouraged the full audience interaction and there's throwing in different scenes and I think it's undies

right there's a scene where you throw your undies in the Rocky Horror Picture Show and it's like they have these cult screenings of it and like crazy times and it always sells out

because it's a whole interactive experience this could be the next I know but I think they just are like it's terrible for the cleaners and you know it's a whole interactive experience. This could be the next thing I know. I know, but I think they just are like, it's terrible for the cleaners. And, you know, it's unnecessary.

Absolutely. Yeah. I'm just trying to... Imagine popcorn would fill up the vacuum cleaner so fast you'd have to empty your vacuum cleaner like eight times. I've got audio here of a... This is a TikTok of somebody saying, and it says,

my theatre's reaction to the chicken jockey when the police were called. Okay. Chicken jockey. That's so good. And people are just throwing buckets of popcorn, like throwing themselves. Oh, and they've turned it off, and the police are over and shut the movie down.

Yeah. Pretty. Wow, okay. That's how quickly, there was a cut in there, but oh yeah, they're ejecting. All right, now they're singing goodbye.

So good. So good. Apparently in some cinemas they're putting, you know when, if we get to go to previews, they put these cameras down the front

that can see in the dark. Yes. So it can scan the crowd for anyone using the camera. They're using the same technology to see who starts it. Okay. Well, you've been warned. If you're off to Minecraft this weekend.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Vaughn, if you could have one of one, oh, one more of one thing. Well, okay. Spit it out. Hang on. Hang on. Vaughn. Yeah.

Vaughn. Yes. If you could have more of one thing at a wedding, what will it be? Food. Food. There you go. It's food. Food. Okay.

So you have your food at your wedding, right? And however you choose to do that, your little hors d'oeuvres and then you sit down dinner or your shared plates or whatever. That's the food, right? We've got the food sorted. Food trucks, food, whatever. That's your food. And then there's got the food sorted, food trucks, food, whatever. That's your food. And then there's no more food

for the rest of the night. And then all you've got is cake, right? There's cake and whatever you choose to do. And no one's stoked when you've had a few bloody Shiraz's in the sun that cake is your only option. Enter this couple here. Genius.

Towards the end of their night, when the traditional cake cutting would be, they had a large pasta dish, like a big, huge kind of wok thing that you would see like a Spanish paella

in one of those huge pans. Oh yeah, okay. And a chef come in and just whip up a big vat of pasta instead. Was it like a mac and cheese? Yeah, something simple but delicious. It was simple but delicious.

It was like a tomato-based penne with cheese and all this. Oh, my God, but at that hour? I don't want that at 10 p.m. Oh, you're okay. Yeah, he's no carbs after three. I'm the same with cake. You want something like, what was that wedding? Did you see that wedding and they ordered like a thousand nugs?

Cheesy bees. Oh, yeah, people do that. Why don't they get cheesy bees? Or boxes of nuggets? Yeah, I'll take that. But this couple, I'll say, looks classy, whereas you're trash. So that's why you're sort of. Right, I'm going for the classy dude.

I'm from New Plymouth, so yeah. I mean, it was this full full chef in a white hat thing. And they came and instead of cutting the cake, they slurped from a spoon of pasta. Oh my God, honestly. I would be delighted if I was at a wedding and towards the end of the night, a big bowl of pasta turned up.

Got plonked in front of you. I'd just be stoked with some salt and vinegar chips, you know. Do you know what I mean? Not enough people are putting out chips at a wedding. People think they have to be classy at a wedding. Put out bowls of chips, you know. Do you know what I mean? Not enough people are putting out chips at a wedding. People think they have to be classy at a wedding. Put out bowls of chips, man. Yeah. And paper bowls so you don't have to do dishes.

Even cheese balls. Don't be ashamed. No, no, no, not at all. If the day ever came that you got married, Fletch, 100% you need to bring out at the end of the night cheese balls and mummafiarellis. I do cheese balls at every party and there'll always be someone that doesn't know me or isn't

maybe normally at one of my parties and they will scoff or they will make comment of the cheese balls in a tone that suggests that maybe it's a bit juvenile to have cheese balls, but let me tell you. Correct. Yeah, they've got orange fingers in the end of things. The cheese balls always go. They're the first to go. That's why he runs

around. He always runs around a party being like, show me your fingers. Who's been in the cheese balls? Who's been eating my balls? Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. From your local community Facebook page, this is the top six. Well, howdy there. The weather's not looking great up in North Island. Down south, I think you're going to enjoy this long Easter weekend.

I want you guys to have fun down there. I don't want you guys to worry about us getting wet. We might have a dick chair off the deck. It's 4.4 degrees in Alexandria at the moment and 20 degrees in Kaitaia. Wild comparison. It's windy. Whangarei is currently the windiest spot. Kaikouhe is the wettest spot. It's windy. Whangarei is currently the windiest spot. Kaikōhe is the wettest spot.

It's all good. Heavy rain warnings and strong wind warnings up the wazoo. Yeah. So I don't know if you're going camping this weekend for Easter and the...

Bold move. It would be a bold move, I'd say. Bold move. The resilient... A lot of events as well already being cancelled for the long weekend,

which is sad. Oh, nuts and bolts. Oh dear. Well, don't put me on the spot. I mean, if you're going to make a bold claim like events have been cancelled. This is the radio. People tune in to us for cancellations. I did read some yesterday, but I can't remember the exact names. I'll get back to you. I know there's, I think there's

an air show that was cancelled. But now he's made another promise saying, I'll get back to you. He's not going to actually get back to us. The classic fighters, that was our air show that was to light up the Maoburu skies has been cancelled due to the severe weather system. The Isla of Takapuna Easter Festival cancelled. Yes, I wasn't

lying, was I? I was just light and backing up with details. Sufficient information. Slack. I didn't want to put the people wrong. Right. Yeah, how historical villages apparently cancelled due to weather as well. Right. Was that on your list, Fletch, of the ones that you saw?

Wasn't on my list, but good to know. Well, you're going to be stuck inside, suckers, in the Upper North. So here are the top six things you can do when you're stuck inside all weekend that won't cause a fight. How to avoid cabin fever, number six on the list. Rearrange the plastic container drawer. How you want it. Organised,ised stacked or maybe

the lids are on one side and the plastic containers are on the other or the lids go on the plastic containers because it's got to make more sense than whatever bullshit situation is currently rolling in there. Mum's not going to let you rearrange things and chuck out lids. No. Mum's don't like to chuck out lids because they might find that container one day. Yeah.

She used it to scoop some potting mix and didn't need the lid. Yeah. But one day they'll be reunited. Yeah. And she will use the thing that she used to scoop potting mix

to pour in leftover peaches. Leftover peaches. That's what you do. Sounds like a surefire way to get, what's that disease you get from the potting mix?

Oh, legionnaires. Yeah. Do you know, I watched my oldest daughter absolutely nail an entire tin of cold spaghetti with a fork straight from the potting mix? Legionnaires, yeah. Do you know I watched my oldest daughter absolutely nail an entire tin of cold spaghetti with a fork

straight from the tin. Shit, that's child behaviour, eh? I've been doing that since I was like 13. She was like, I just scoffed a whole tin of spaghetti.

Cold. I was like, I saw it. I've never been more proud of you in my life. Let's not burn off those carbs.

Number five on the list of the top six things you can do when you're stuck inside all weekend that won't cause a fight. I reckon wash the duvet cover and then as a team, put the duvet back into it when it's been dried. No. We'll fight.

We'll fight. I like to climb inside the duvet. I put the duvet inside out. Yep. And then I hold the sheet like I'm a Red Bull guy that jumps off cliffs. Yep. You're a base jumper. I'm a base jumper in the squirrel suit.

And then I grab the top two and I flick it and then I wiggle my way in. Then I lay it on the ground and I wiggle my way out. That seems a lot of effort. It sounds ridiculous. It's the best way to do it. That's too complicated. I just stuff it. Yeah.

Stuff it in. Put it in. Put it in. Hold the ends and shake the duvet down. Yeah. No, no, no. You're overcomplicating that. You are.

I will fight you both. Number four on the list of the top six things you can do when you're stuck inside all weekend that won't cause a fight, discuss politics with a visiting family member. Oh, nice. I mean, we've never been more united on politics, have we? If there's one thing we all love, it's exactly the same political system and political party. Number three on the list of the top six things you can do when you're stuck inside all this wet weekend

that won't cause a fight, let the kids cook a cake or something that's flour and egg heavy in a freshly cleaned kitchen. That won't be stressful at all. I'm sure they'll all have a wonderful job cleaning up after themselves. And you won't have to do anything at all. In fact, they might leave it cleaner than you left it.

Number two on the list of the top six things you can do when you're stuck inside all weekend and don't want to cause a fight. I reckon sit down, open up the bank accounts and go through the last six months of spending and see who spent what. Oh, they won't. Sorry.

Can you shut your mouth? Sorry. Should we have a game? Who spent the most money in the last six months? Oh, no. I don't want to play that game. Actually, I'm in Australia. I'm safe.

Okay. You can do it over Zoom. That's the best thing about it. Yeah. As a fringe. Yeah, shut up. You just shut up. Number one on the list of the top six things you can do

when you're stuck inside all weekend that won't cause a fight. Enjoy a lovely, relaxing board game. The cupboard's full of them. We've got all of the favourites. Monopoly. Oh, yeah. Never goes bad, does it? Cranium.

Everybody here's skilled. We can all have fun and there's no need to fight. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Get it? Together, this is a professional work environment, Fletch. Hey, do you know, guys, yesterday I finally watched the White Lotus final. Finally. How have you not had it

entirely spoiled for you? I can't, I mean I semi did but I don't know, anytime I saw anything kind of like leaning towards it, I was like, ah, and got it gone. I thought I had it spoiled for me but I didn't. Yeah, there's a lot of times. It's a great

final. It was a meme. Yeah, so long weekend ahead, we. It's a great find. It was a meme. Yeah. So long weekend ahead, we thought we could do some recommendations. Just on Netflix alone, Love on the Spectrum, obviously you need to watch. And also yesterday I started watching the new season of Black Mirror. Yes. Which is real good. Did you like?

What episodes did you watch? Are you watching it in like one, two, three, four? Or have you Googled this other order to watch them? I watched Rashida and Chris O'Dowd's one. Yes. Rashida Jones. That was great. I mean, it's great.

I mean, I just love it. It's so, it'll make you really question the future of the world. Yeah, always does. I think that's why I might give it a miss. The world's already bleak enough. You want something a bit lighter, do you? Yeah, I want complete escape from my movies and TV shows. I've watched five or six of them now.

There's a couple that aren't as bleak, more just like a fascinating take on a technology. Oh, yeah. Like not that usual. You end and you're like, oh, I feel sick. Right. It ends and you're like, wow, that would be an insane technology to have access to.

Yeah. Still a series that you can't binge all at once. You've got to break those episodes up. Have you watched Bad Influence? I'm just looking at Netflix's top 10. Have you watched Bad Influence, the dark side of kidfluencing? Well, this is what Shannon wants to recommend. Yeah, you absolutely have to watch this this long weekend.

It'll also kind of make you question a lot of things like A Black Mirror, but it's all based off a true story about this kid influencer called Piper Rockelle. Piper, no. Piper, no. You're not a boy, are you? Her mum put her on YouTube when she was very young, about nine or so, and they created this YouTube squad.

They got a bunch of kids involved. They started making millions of dollars and realised if they kind of sexualised these children, they made a lot more money. So within these children, this momager would make almost like an arranged marriage. She'd be like, you and you have to now start dating. You and you have to.

You need to do this on camera. It gets very grim and it definitely makes me question how I use social media and I'm 25. Wow. So I definitely recommend watching it and yeah, it gets grim. Well, it's one of Netflix's top shows this week. Yeah. There's big lawsuits out

against this mum, but they're still posting and they're still out there. Wow, okay. Definitely give that one a watch. Vaughn, you've just started The Pit, which I just finished. The last episode came out on Friday. That's on Neon. That's on Neon, but my iPad is so old,

it won't update to the new Neon app. Oh, sweetie porn. I know, I'm poor. And I have to watch it on my phone, and it's small, and it's not a phone show. It's because there's so much happening. It's like a big screen. It's a beautiful show.

Take it all in show. It's by the same creators of ER. It rules like a big screen. It's a beautiful show. Take it all in show. It's by the same creators of ER. It rules, man. And Noel Wiley is just insane. The last episode, he absolutely seals all the awards. All the awards. All the award wins. 100%.

See, I'm not a huge fan of medical dramas. No, but this one is. Even people in the medical field say it's very realistic. Yeah, it's great. They're raving about it. I'm looking at Neon's top ten now. The Last of Us is number one. Handmaid's Tale is back.

Obviously, The White Lotus, if you haven't watched it. Twisters, that movie. That movie with Glenn, what's his chops? Powell. Powell. Then The Pit's in there. Happy Valley's still in there. I love Happy Valley

have they just they've got that they must have just got that yeah because that's a BBC it's a British show but brilliant yeah

that's incredible I think you can binge all three seasons Yellow Jackets is another show that's on there that's definitely binge worthy that's been massive so many shows

so many options no shortage looking at the weather forecast what a perfect long weekend to sit on the couch. Although, Netflix's stock price is down on the NASDAQ. Oh, no. I know.

I don't know. Oh, Papa, no. Papa, no. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. I remember we spoke about this movie months ago. Yeah, because we were like, they're making a thriller based around

airdropping things to people and we were like, what? So it's like the emoji movie, but no, not at all. This movie called Drop is out today.

It's a thriller. It's perfect movie length, by the way. It's the return of the One Hour 35 movie. Oh, beautiful. It's perfect. It's absolutely perfect,

but it's about a woman, a single mum, who starts receiving mysterious airdrops. Are we okay? Somebody sent me this. It's just dumb kids but it's about a woman, a single mom who starts receiving mysterious airdrops. Are we okay? Somebody sent me this. It's just dumb kids trying to mess with you. That's weird.

Who do you think it is? Oh, I don't know. We can figure this out. You gotta be within 50 feet to send a drop. So, it's someone in the restaurant. Drop is out in cinemas in New Zealand today. We're joined by the stars, Megan and Brandon. Hello.

Hello. What's up, guys? I want to start by congratulating Brandon again. Your fantastic forearms being the star of a film or a TV show, which are covered at the moment. And to be honest, I'm gonna let those dogs breathe. Come on, don't let those dogs breathe. Here we go.

You mean here they are. A little bit. Yeah. It's kind of hard to talk about a thriller without giving stuff away because throughout this movie, constantly changing who you think the bad guy is what exactly the entire situation is so we'll stick to the simple questions like have you guys ever had a really awkward first date in real life like because this is what the movie is it's a it's a first date

bundled up as a extreme sort of like emotional thriller it was like a second date or something and I was in this girl's apartment. I was 22 years old in LA and there was this show that used to be in the States on MTV. It was a reality show, but like a fake reality show, but a reality show. I mean, they're all kind of fake,

but this was like obviously kind of a bit. Like a staged, yeah. A staged thing where it's like a guy and a girl or a guy and a guy and a girl and a girl basically dating this person and the parents are trying to set them up with somebody else because they don't like the person they're dating, right? It was called parental control. Yeah.

And I'm dating this girl, and I'm on the couch watching, just flipping through the TV. I'm on MTV. And she's on the parental—she's the girl that's on the episode of parental control that I'm watching. But she was— I know. But she was completely different. She was really goth, and in the show she was, to my knowledge, I was on a date with her.

So clearly it likes guys on some level, but she was on a date with a girl in the show, and I was like, you know, which is totally fine, but it was news, and she was goth. It was just like, she was gone it was just like it was just like she was a totally different person on this show and you're on her couch and I was on her couch and then she was like mortified

and I was like is this, she's like oh my god yeah I just you know it's not like okay it's kind of strange I don't know I think I'm gonna get out of here yeah so that was kind of awkward and weird, that was a weird one the movie almost entirely happens in a in a high-rise restaurant how long because my my continuity brain was kicking at parts of it i was like if this took multiple days to film like the continuity of keeping it looking

like it's all happening in real time must have been like an insane task for behind the scenes and and you know how long were you filming on that set six weeks, but it was really incredible like the the supporting artists were you know had their own choreography and they were at like Specific points of their meal at various times and their drinks were at certain levels So like that was being tracked in a way that I've found to be very impressive But we shot a lot of it in order. So we had the luxury of kind of living with something

and then finishing it and moving on to the next thing and so that was kind of helpful. Yeah, because there was a couple sitting behind you at one stage and I was watching them talk and then when it cut back to them I was like it still looks like they're having the same conversation like the same sort of tone. I was like, it was amazing. Professionals. Professionals.

Yeah. Professionals. Drop is the movie. It is in cinemas today in New Zealand. Brandon and Megan, thank you very much for your time. Love you guys. Thank you. Thanks for your time. Cheers, guys.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Shannon. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. I shat all over you there, Vaughan. You go, you go. You didn't. Yeah. That's fine.

Producer Shannon, you have been asked to, I was wondering why you would house at Carwen's house, but then I remember she's got a cat. She's got a little kitten. Is that the main reason? Yeah. Okay. Is it all of Easter?

When do you move in? When do you move out? No, so it's just this weekend. Carwen and I are both going to Southland this little Easter Anzac break, but we don't overlap. So she's there this weekend and then I go the next day. Sounds like they're dating and actually you're trying to cover up, like there's no overlap, you know.

Sounds like you guys are dating. If you guys are dating, that's okay. I mean, we weren't asking, but you really just crowbarred that in there. Well, it's important to my question. Okay. So I'm house-sitting this weekend. I leave for my trip the very next morning.

I need to fake tan for my trip. It's just an important... Everyone in Southland at this time of year. Everyone's well tanned in Southland at this time of year. It's just important to me. Right, okay. Do you want to be the brownest person in Southland? You know what?

You don't. No. It just makes me feel better about myself. And I'm going on a trip. I want to be bronzed. Okay. I love a little Bondi Sands. So I need to...

Free plug there. Trying to get some from the show sponsor. Yes, from the show sponsor. I constantly buy it. So I need to fake tan while I'm house sitting. Is that okay? Is it weird to fake tan in someone else's house? Wow, I don't know. Why didn't you ask Hayley?

Okay, listen. I can't remember what we were going to, but I have fake tanned in Fletcher's house. We were leaving my house to go to Southland and Hayley wanted to be the brownest person in Southland. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, and I did, there's a couple of things though, because I put on

the fake tan and then I had to let Fletch know not to come into the bedroom because I was going to be starfishing on the bed completely nude. Yeah. And then, but you have to remember Fletch has black towels. So I was sort of safe there and I lay them out over his bed because he does have lovely white Sheraton sheets. Got lovely linen. Actually, he only wears Wallace Cotton now.

The same as Vaughan's T-shirt that he wears as a nightie. His nightie. I actually don't know what happened to that T-shirt. I haven't had it in a rotation lately. Have you checked under your pillow? Because that's usually where I put my pyjamas. But I did. I lay out on his bed, but I put down a base of black towels in order to do it.

Yes, and you dried on the towels. I dried on the towels. But Shannon, you have to bring your own towels, I believe, to Carwen. Well, I'm just curious about, because you just, yeah, I call it marinating. I marinate for about an hour or so, and you have to sit there naked.

What surface of hers am I appropriate to sit on? What do I? I think you just have to stand in the middle of the room nude. For an hour. I mean, Carwen's right there. How do you feel about this, Carwen? Look, I understand the need for a fake tan. Thank you.

Does Bondi Sands come out of, like, your sheets and stuff if it goes on your pillow or your sheets? Well, I just normally just... I have a grey mink blanket and that's my fake tan blanket. I just sit on it. Does the fur stick to you afterwards? No. A little fur transfer?

A little furry butt. Not actually mink. I think it's just a warehouse thingy. Ah, yeah, right. Mine's mink. Somebody messaged in, you should use Ed and I tan, no transfer. Have you heard of Ed and I? Oh, that's Edna Swartz brand.

Ah, right. Okay, no transfer. Who's the I in Edna? I don't know. She's obviously Ed. Her business partner. Yeah, Edna. I love my little Bondi sands, and it's not sticky or anything,

so whatever I sit on is fine. You can't sit on the toilet because I've done that. My toilet at home's a bit brown. Yeah. Interesting. I've learned that. Oh, God. So I won't sit on your toilet Carlin

I promise you know what I will flag is that the house that I live in is currently on the market so yeah if there is to be

any staining this could cost money you know yeah but a naked Shannon might put the price up yeah is she tanning

during the open home should I have an open home yeah and I'll just show them round because I can't sit down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good idea. Could you take somewhat of a bond, Karwin, you know, from Shannon? Oh, yeah.

And if she ruins anything, you keep the bond. Yeah, like a sheet bond. How much are your sheets and just charge her that? Oh, I mean, I don't have fancy sheets. But, I mean, she is doing me a favour here. Like, I'm not paying her to house sit for me. Yeah, okay. So, really, I probably shouldn't be like, give me money. That's such a conundrum where someone does me a favour here. Like, I'm not paying her to house sit for me. Yeah, okay. So really, I probably shouldn't be like, give me money.

That's such a conundrum where someone does you a favour to house sit, but then something gets damaged that was absolutely their fault, and then you're like, what do we do now? How do we resolve this? Do we never talk about it again? Good luck with that. I'm sure we can, yeah, we'll reassess when we get back from holidays and see how everything's gone.

I think I'll just stand up. I think that's the best option. I'll just stand for an hour. Stand by a fan. Yeah, it'll be fine. I'll be careful, Carlin, I promise. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Silly little boys. Silly little boys. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little boys. Silly little boys. Silly little boys. Silly little boys. Do you have read receipts on? This is when you send somebody a message and it'll say that they've read it. iMessage and traditional phone to phone always had it. It would say read it, 235 or whatever.

You can turn it off on iMessage, right? Yeah. I'm pretty sure. You can turn it off on WhatsApp too. Okay. Yeah, because if you're in a group chat and you want to see who in the group's seen it, you swipe right, right? And it'll say delivered to and read by at what time.

But you can turn that off as well. I don't think it's anyone's business when I read their messages. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, but then if you then send the funny reel back to the group, you know, a day later being like, oh, my God, guys, this is so funny, I'd be like. Which I do often. Had you read the group chat, you would have seen this already

really popped off here. But also, it is nice to know that someone has got your message so you're not wondering. If you're trying to tell them something that they need to know or that you want to know, then you can be like, rude. Only 30% of people have read receipts on. 70% of people

have them off. I guess if you get the message preview on your phone as well, that's a sneaky way of reading it without reading it. If you've got a kid watching this, it pops up. I don't think that shows up as read. Some feedback on it. Wilson. This is Christmas Penetration. It pops up. I don't think that shows up as red. Yeah. Some feedback on it. Wilson. This is Wilson.

This is Christmas Penetration Wilson. Oh, fantastic. Lovely Wilson. What gets me is the last active. Stresses me out. Oh, yeah. You can turn that off as well. Does it show when you were last like actively messaging?

Won't WhatsApp be like last online 54 minutes ago? Messenger does that too. Messenger does that. I do with everyone except my regional manager. I need time to craft my responses without the pressure

of him knowing that I've read it. Yeah. That's a good call. Yeah. Gives you a few more business working hours. Yeah.

Katie says, I could not care less if people know that I've read their message and not replied. So she's obviously left it on. Steph, oh my God,

you can turn them off. What about on social media? Do you guys mean emails? Emails off social media. Tell me how obviously left it on. Steph, oh my God, you can turn them off? What about on social media? Do you guys mean emails? Emails off social media. Tell me how to turn them off. It's in settings, Steph. Quick Google settings. It's super easy. It's in the settings. Absolutely not, but I love it when other people have them turned off, says Claire. Because it makes

me be like, what are you? Sneaky devil. Yeah. Sneaky and cheeky. I just like to reply immediately and just, I don't know, those people that just let messages pile up. Oh, that's dilly dally. I'm ignoring like five messages at the moment, about 10 emails. I just can't face it, you know? Deal with it another day.

I mean, you are very busy. Earl says, I don't have the mom, but I turned my mom's on, so I know she's alive. Oh, you're nice. Yeah, that's on so I know she's alive oh you're nice yeah that's good see that mum's read it I want to know in a heated debate that they're reading

what I'm writing otherwise I'd turn them off P.S. Vaughn Nana says hi and sends her love oh yeah someone's Nana

it's your cousin no no no it's not my Nana somebody's Nana uses them as a form of communication to ask me questions because Nana doesn't

have Instagram oh okay what does she want questions because Nana doesn't have Instagram. Oh, okay. Oh, Nana. What does she want to know? She doesn't like Bradley Walsh from The Chase. She wanted to know if I was going to do the New Zealand version of The Chase. Is she the only person in the world that doesn't like Bradley Walsh? Talks too much, apparently.

I love him. Alicia says, read receipts are on, but my online status off. No business of yours if I'm online or not. Yeah. And Tim said, I've only got them on for the miso. What did you reckon? The miso. Did you reckon the miso was like, Tim? Tim, where are your bloody read receipts? I don't even know if you've seen that message.

That silly little poem. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Oh, I'm so sorry. I choked on my own spit. Now, you know I love compliments. I absorb them

and I give them and I receive them and I love them, but sometimes they don't always go well. Now, Producer Shannon, you received a compliment that was slightly offensive. Less of a compliment? Yeah, I took it as a compliment the first time and then he doubled down and he doubled down again. He ended up saying it about four times

to me and I was like, maybe this is an insult. So I went to get a haircut, just a cheap walk-in situation. And he was like, what do you want? I said, just, you know, make it look better kind of vibes, like just two inches off, nothing crazy. crazy and as he's doing it he was like complimenting being like oh yeah this looks way better and I was like yeah it does like awesome and then he kept saying you look more expensive now let's make you look more expensive and then okay he's like I'm gonna give you a free blowout and it'll make you look more expensive and I was just like, did I look cheap? A more expensive what? I don't know.

And, like, it is nice. And, like, he did a great job. He was such a nice guy. Like, he wasn't saying it like it was an insult. But when it's said to you multiple times, I'm like, did I look cheap? There was something about me giving English vibes. Was English not his first language? Was he meaning, like, I want you to look more luxurious?

No, he was British. Weird. Yeah. I want you to look more expensive. Yeah, and then after the haircut, he kept saying how I looked blonder after the haircut, which logically I don't think I did because it's the same hair I had. It's the same hair. He wasn't colouring it, was he?

No, and because my hair is natural. There's no colour in it. Because he asked that because they ask about your hair, and he said, what is it? And I said, it's virgin hair. was he? No, and because my hair is natural, there's no colour in it. Because he asked that, because they ask about your hair, and he said, what is it? And I said, it's virgin hair, and he was like, cool. So then after he cut it, he was like, it looks blonder. Virgin? Yeah.

Sorry, I just wanted to highlight. Virgin. Thank you. Did he think more expensive, like, I want to make this cheap haircut, you're getting to look more expensive, do you think? Yeah, or like me? Did he think I looked cheap? Yeah.

No, I think it's you, yeah. It's you. He he's going like you look a little bit sort of cheap and young and trash you wouldn't say expensive it makes it sound like he's like we don't want you looking like no bargain bin slapper like yeah i was just like did i look like i was worth 100 a night and now i'm worth 200 like i don't know what jesus sh've got to put more value on yourself. That's 1980s prices there. Damn. Thank you. It's good to know my worth, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so was it an insult? Was it a compliment? Unsure. It's a bad compliment. It's a bad compliment. If it was meaning as a compliment, it's a bad compliment. I do love when people put their foot in it with an unhanding compliment. They're trying to be nice. They're trying to, like,

this guy wasn't, you know. He was so lovely. He was being, he was nice. He was just trying to give a compliment, but it didn't land. More choice of words. It was a bad compliment. So, we want to take calls this morning. When has this happened to you? I'll wait 100 days with him. I've definitely had this,

you know, I gained about 30 kgs over three years. And I remember telling someone, they were like, yeah, but I reckon it really suits you. And you're like, I know that that's not an, I know you're trying to be nice, but you're confirming that I got that. My mum has said it before when she's lost weight and people go, oh, my God, you've dropped a ton.

Yeah. And they're saying like, well done, but also saying you used to be a big girl. You were huge. Because you had a ton more weight. Yeah. It's a weird one. I just, you don't tend to comment on people's weight. Yeah, it's not good.

It's just a safer option. Yeah. Somebody said we call these complisalts. Complisalts. You're getting a compliment, but you're also getting an insult at the same time. Okay, when did you get a complisalt? Shannon was given an underhanded compliment. A complisalt.

A complisalt, as one of our very good listeners has called them. And I tell you what, no shortage of people also receiving complisalts. I love, I mean, I know it's insulting. A compliment that might have good intentions doesn't hit that way. It's coming from a good place. Let's just remember that.

Yes. Dame Marie. Good morning, Dame Marie. What was the comp of salt that you received? Good morning. Long time no see. First time caller, by the way. Fantastic.

My bell's always hidden. I'll do the bell. You do the bell. Dame Marie. I would have remembered if we talked to you, Dame Marie, because I love your name. Dame Marie. Oh, I thank you.

What's the origins of that name? We've I thank you. What's the origins of that name? We've got the time. What are the origins of that? Oh, well, actually, it's from my dad's friend who had broken English, and my name was meant to be Marie, and he said, what day Daymarie on? So, meaning when I was going to be born, and my dad goes, oh, yeah, that's good.

What day Daymarie on? You are named after broken English. Yes. Lovely, lovely. His name's Max. Shout out Max. Wow. I love Daymarie.

It's brilliant. Okay, well, Daymarie, welcome to the show. It's a long-time listener, first-time caller. What was the complice salt that you received? Oh, my granddad's full of these hidden gems. So he just tells me, don't worry, Cobb, your sister might have got looks looks but you've got personality. Grandparents are brutal like this.

They'll tell you you've put on a bit of weight or they tell you you've lost too much weight. There's no pleasing them. Yeah, he tells me I'm six set, but I'm strong. Six set and strong. We need more girls like you down on the farm for crutching the sheep and such.

Oh my God. Your bloody sister wouldn't be able to roll a little you like you and rip those dags such. Oh, my God. Your bloody sister wouldn't be able to roll a liu like you and rip those dags off. Oh, God. Damn, Rick. God, I'm pretty. Oh, you've got to be strong in this Southland weather,

I tell you. Oh. You do. You do. Yeah, good day. How are you for your tan in Southland? Because we've got Shannon coming down soon, and she's worried that she's not tanned enough

for the Southland fight. Oh, well, actually, I heard that this morning, and I sent Vaughan a wee picture of our weather yesterday, and the tan's on because she's not tanned enough for the Southland folk. I heard that this morning, and I sent Vaughan a wee picture of our weather yesterday, and the tan's on because it's beautiful down here. Oh, yeah, yeah. The tan's on. Okay, well, there you go. Well, there you go, Shannon.

You look lovely in Southland. Yeah, Shannon can get her pins out. Yeah. Top up the tan. Great pins. She's got great pins. I reckon get her in some Canterbury shorts. Yeah.

Get some stubbies. Swazi. What are those jackets called? Swan dry. Swan some stubbies. Swazi. What are those Swazi, what are those jackets called? Swan dry. Swan dry. No, Swazi's there. Swazi. Yeah, that one as well.

Yeah. Or one of those camouflage. It's a brown car one. Car one just thought I was talking about Nazis. The Swazi. Oh, yeah. I've been calling it Swazi this whole time. Yeah, definitely not the Nazi brand.

No, no, no. It's not that yet. No, no, no. Okay. Thank you, Dave Murray. Let's take some messages in. Thank you, Dave Marie. Let's take some messages in. Thank you, Tim. When I sat...

When I sat... I didn't say when I sat. When I sat my full driver's license at the end, the guy said to me, not too bad driver for a girl. I had to hold it in as he hadn't yet given me the license. So I thought if I pop off on this... Are you kidding me?

...chauvinistic piece of shit. Please tell me that was decades ago, not like recently. I hope so. You'd be surprised, eh? I know. Got in a new relationship and gained some weight and a work colleague said, you really do suit being bigger.

You look great. It was nice that she said it, but she didn't need to. I've had people saying, I didn't even recognise you. You left me wondering what they meant. Do they look old and haggard and now I'm young and fresh or like what's changed? Yeah. When you're wearing a new dress and someone says, I like that even recognize you. You left me wondering what they meant. Did I look old and haggard and now I'm young and fresh or like what's changed? Yeah. When you're wearing a new dress and someone says,

I like that dress on you, it's very flattering. You're like. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah. So everything else I wear is not? Yeah. Yeah. Is it me? Is the dress, is the compliment for the dress in the back hand for me?

I love you're not, you're not bad looking for a lesbian. That's nice nice That's good Oh yeah there are some hot lesbians God yes Do you need a moment The internet's full of them Yeah In fact I would say it's never ending

Oh I know I dropped 15 kgs I was just drinking water there Not like mmm mmm I dropped 15 kgs and I was just drinking water there, not like, mm, mm. Sounded bad. I dropped 15 kgs and somebody said to me, you'll be so desirable now. What? Yeah.

Come on. That's great. Lost a bit of weight, someone at work I hadn't seen for a while said, oh, my God, what's happened to you? Are you on drugs? Oh, God. No, I'm just going to the gym. I'd still be the compliment.

My friend was talking about wrinkles and I said, you don't have to worry about, and I said, you don't have to worry about your face. It's too fat to get them. I was thinking it, but my mouth was like, that's a good thing. I'm going to say that.

And I did. And then it just came out. Oh my God. I shouldn't have said it. My mother-in-law said to me, oh, you've got new glasses. I hope you didn't spend too much. I like the old ones better.

It's nice, eh? Oh my God. my boss from Sydney was over for a meeting and he said, you look like you know where to get a good meal. Oh my god. Nanny used to say I was built to handle winters. I didn't really know what it meant until I was a bit older

and I was like, I see what she's saying. Some of these people. Just think. Just think before you say anything. Okay, one night, this is, we're going to finish on this one because this is good. One night in bed, my wife and I decided to try something new, so we were giving each other compliments while dirty talking.

Okay. While getting frisky, my wife was getting intimate with my little fellow, and I heard her say, look at you, you're so yum yum. Yum yum and a little cute, aren't you? Cute, cute, cute. I was like, excuse me. Don't baby talk my penis yum, a little cute. Aren't you cute, cute, cute? I was like, excuse me. Don't baby talk my penis and call it Lil' E. Why did you read that one out? Because it's funny.

I liked it. It's a strong end. That's wild. That would really ruin the mood. Yeah, it would, wouldn't it? Don't do that again. Don't do that again. Don't do that.

Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. So there's an ongoing trial at the moment about Meta. The company owns Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram. It's a trial that says they have a monopoly. Once they, excuse me, purchase Instagram and WhatsApp, the FTC claims Meta created a monopoly in their social media and messaging areas. Right, and they could break them up maybe. Yeah, they're saying no.

No? No. Significant competition from TikTok platform and iMessage. Yeah, you know what I'm always saying about iMessage. What? Boy, I can't wait to get on iMessage. And chat with my mates. And chat with my friends on iMessage.

Yeah, I feel like WhatsApp's definitely way better for group chats. Yeah, iMessage is just convenience. And Messenger, yeah. It's just a convenience. It's texting for people who don't use other ones. So if it goes against them, they maybe force a sell off Instagram or WhatsApp. Now, one of the things that's come out is in 2022,

apparently Mark Zuckerberg, in the face of declining Facebook usage and relevance in the social media scene, with the likes of declining Facebook usage and relevance in the social media scene with the likes of TikTok and that coming to the front, he suggested wiping all of the users' Facebook friend networks to force re-engagement. So you just go on. One of his ideas was that you just log on one day

and all your friends would be gone. So you would have to find them again. Okay. And add them. But how do you do that? How the hell would you possibly have to find them again okay and add them but how do you do that? They're like how the hell would you possibly have marketed here's a fun game we've got rid of all your friends

and would have I know and especially because you have if you click on a friend that you're really good friends with you've got photos and stuff memories over the years yeah I know

over the years yeah that's one of the main reasons I don't want to leave Facebook because I wish I don't really use anymore, is like just the memories that pop up and the photos. Just a digital photo album at this stage. Hey, guys, speaking of, sorry,

I just wanted to see how many friends I had on Facebook. I've got 1,001. I need to delete one. What? Oh, yeah, make it nice and round. 1,001. 1,001. Because I, every now and again,

people have the birthday and they pop up on Facebook. I'm like, sometimes I struggle to even know who it is. Yeah. Because it's a friend that you met once at a party or twice and then that was 10 years ago. Or they got married and changed their last name so they need to be punished. And you haven't talked to them since. Yeah. I could easily, if Facebook wiped my friends, just not use Facebook.

So apparently internally met with a lot of skepticism when he floated it. And it was a part of an email entitled Option One, Double Down on Friending. So it's like in this antitrust trial, it's been presented as evidence. Right. Yeah.

It's a response to concerns about Facebook's declining relevance. Yeah. And he said it was kind of also part of this greater shift from base. Like it wouldn't be friend-based models. It would be more like followers. Like, you know, TikTok, you follow people. Yeah. And he said it was kind of also part of this greater shift from base. Like it wouldn't be friend-based models. It would be more like followers. Like, you know, TikTok, you follow people. Yeah.

And they can follow you back. Yeah. Similar to Instagram, I guess. Yeah. But what if they wiped all your Instagram friends? You'd be pissed at that more than Facebook.

Oh my God, I'd be. Yeah. Because you curate that so much more. And how would you say those hot models? I would like to reset my For You page if I could.

What's on it, babes? What's on it? What's on it? Let's have a wee geezy-geez. Oh, there's a Robert Downey Jr. That's nice. Nice to see him. Alan Richardson, the dude that plays Jack Reacher.

Nate Bugazzi. Some Spider-Man cartoons, a couple of Landrivers, and that's all. Okay, I did Google, is there a way to reset your For You page, Instagram? Apparently you can. There's a few ways you can reset your Instagram For You page, otherwise known as Explore page, clear your search history,

reset suggested content, or even uninstall and reinstall the app. Reset suggested content, you said. Right.all the app. Reset suggested content, you said. Right. And then it'll start, I guess, give you some wholesome content like cakes and mountains. I've got to say it's actually not nearly as bad a mix as I thought it would be. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

Right. Well, there is an option. I haven't been able to find my one person to delete yet. Why does it need to be an even number? Because it would just be nice to have 1,000. I'm deleting. I'm going to unfriend. Goodbye, Andrew.

Oh, Andrew's gone. I'm going to unfriend you now so you've got 999. Fletch, that's so mean. I might finally become your friend, so I'll put it up to 1,000 and one. Thank you for that. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Now, there is a- I love that he said every day this week and every day it's good. It's got you. It's really tickling you every time. It tickles me. Every time. It tickles me. Bunny's hot.

Now, we want to talk about this morning the strange places you got engaged or saw an engagement. Yes, or you saw someone getting engaged there and you were like, what a spot. Wouldn't have chosen that. What a spot. Not a hilltop or a cliff or a, you know, heart in Bali. The reason I'm asking this is because there was a retail assistant. It kind of looks like one of those American clothing stores like Abercrombie and Fetch.

Yeah. Hollister, like that, you know, The Gap. She was working at the store and suddenly spotted at the corner of her eye a man getting down on his knee for a woman. And so the staff was secretly filming this because they were like, in our clothing store? Like, what's the significance or the romance here? Do you think maybe they met there and that's the significance? Or she really loves their, I don't know, T-shirts? Zip-up hoodies, yeah.

I don't know. What kind of clothes do they do? I'm not overly familiar with it. No, literally just you kind of, it would be like our version of a Helen Steins or Glassons. I love it. I love the $200 suit with the shirt. It's an interesting way.

If you're going to propose in front of, you could be like, this is a suit I want to marry. And we can get a suit now. I'd be like, I'll do it now. We'll do it now. And then pop to Glassons and get a dress now. But you know what I mean?

It's just not kind of your typical place for an engagement. Even, you know, like a hotel or a home or a beach or a holiday or something. Just in the middle of a retail store. Yeah, it's odd, isn't it? It's not what you'd expect. Maybe he was playing a song. You know how retail stores are always playing loud music? Yeah.

And it was the song. And he had an agreement with himself. Next time I hear this song, I'm dropping a knee. Do you know that's what I loved most about that TV show Superstore? Is that the music they used to play was always just like classic songs you would hear at a department store. Oh, yeah. It's so good.

It's so good. It's so good. I still haven't watched it. Oh, it's brilliant. Yeah, hear great things. Wrap your eyes around that one. I haven't heard a bad thing about it. Okay, well, on the back of this today, we want to take your calls.

0800-DARLS-AT-HEM-9696. around that way. I haven't heard a bad thing about it. Okay, well, on the back of this today, we want to take your calls. 0800-DARLS-AT-M 9696. Where was the odd place you were proposed to or you saw a proposal happening? Because some people were just at home, eh? And the guy might just be like, here you go, let's get married. Yeah. Which is fine.

Which is fine. You're in your happy place, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Your shared space, perhaps. Yeah, that works. You've got privacy. Yeah, yeah. Your shared space, perhaps. Yeah. That works. You've got privacy. Yeah. Or maybe, you know, they were too nervous to do it at the beach or somewhere romantic.

And then just on the way back, they're like, we'll do it here. Do it now. Okay. Just to kickstart us, we've received a text message in. I was traveling in the US. I saw someone getting engaged in the food court of the Chicago train station. The food court? That would be a deep dish pizza. Yeah, it could be. That would of the Chicago train station. The food court of the Chicago. That would be a deep dish pizza.

Yeah, it could be. That would be a Chicago style pizza. Or a deep dish one. Yeah, I'd be feeling quite in love and romantic after a butter chicken with naan and Coke. Medium. Oh, yum. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Medium. Medium. Yeah, yeah, nice. Medium, yum. Okay, 0800DARLSATM, text in 9696. The weird place you've seen an engagement. We're talking now about the weird places that either you or other people you've seen have got engaged.

Yeah, because a retail assistant saw in a shop someone just dropped to a knee in the middle of a clothing store. And they filmed it because they thought, quite odd. Not overly romantic. So many calls. Jules, good morning. Whereabouts did you, was this you or someone that you saw? No, no, me. So 20 years ago, my

husband was in the Auckland Marathon, his first marathon, and crossed the finish line with the ring tied to his shoelace, which he had engineered with my mother. She met him at the Kmart and he asked me to marry him at 36K mark. And he asked me to marry him at the end. And of course, you've got the person in the tower announcing

the runners as they come in. And so before I knew it, literally a thousand strangers were like, oh my God, congratulations. And I was so overwhelmed. Like I didn't realise what had just happened. I was like, um, okay. Wow. It was an amazing, yeah.

My husband always wanted to be original. Yeah. But that was still, what, six or so Ks of tying the ring to the shoelace? Yeah, and then running. Stopping at 3,400 Ks, it's hard to get going again. I was going to say, yeah. That's getting to that wall they talk about in marathons where you hit the wall and you can't.

That's right. And when I tried to pull the shoes off, he was like, no, no, no, under the legs, under the legs. And I was thinking, please, you've been running for five hours.

Get these damn things off your feet. But he wanted to, yeah, but he was, yeah, he was, he'd planned the whole thing. It was,

it was awesome. And I still am just as in love with him today as I was 20 years ago. Oh, darling. See, Hayley, love is not dead. Love is dead,

but good for you. Jules, thank you so much. Have a great long weekend. That's sweet. I think that's cute. That's so cute. Char, this was your proposal? Hi.

Good morning. Yeah, so my husband and I had been talking about getting married for a little while. And I don't know, he just wasn't popping the question and I thought why not because I've been married before I was like why not just do something more low-key um so I wasn't sure what he'd think about the idea and we both work in the same organization so I sent him a link to the courthouse on Microsoft Teams basically just saying, hey, what do you think of this idea? And he was like, awesome, let's book it. And that night we went home.

We called the family just to make sure that they knew and they wouldn't get offended and they understood. We just decided to do it. And four weeks later we got married. All thanks to a Microsoft teens meeting. It's the most unromantic thing I've ever heard in my life. And when he was in the office, he said to all of the people in the office,

he's like, what about the message I just got? Did she just propose to me? And they were like, just say yes. And so, yeah, and they were married. So he just clicked, like, yes, attending. I'll be there. Amazing. Thank you.

Josh, what was your proposal story? Well, I went into Michael O'Dillard and asked the question there because I didn't want to get the wrong wedding ring. Right, okay, so you're there. Was she like, why are we going into the Jewelers? Oh, we're in town just walking down the street. Oh, and we just went into Michael O'Dillard. Okay, and then did you say, what ring do you like,

or did you get down on one knee? No, no, no, no. I just said, what ring do you like? And she said, I like this one. So I said, well, do you want to get married? He's a simple man. We've got a simple fella on the phone, and I like it. Carwin used to work at a jeweler's.

Did you ever see any of this? Did anybody ever propose in-store, Carwen? No, I don't think anyone proposed in-store. Okay, with the ring, with the person just fresh picked? Why not? I like that. Also, I love the efficiency.

Yeah, dude. It's saving time and then you don't have to be like carrying a ring around and worrying. But it's not like pick your own strawberries where you get to eat some strawberries before you pay. You kind of have to pay for the whole ring, eh?

Well, it's the one that she wanted. Yeah, no, you did right. It's going to fit perfectly. It's the one she wants. I love it, Josh. Thank you. Some messages in. My brother proposed in a gravel car park out the back of the cinema after a movie to his partner. No word

whether or not she said yes. It's one of those Christchurch gravel car parks. There's still a lot of gravel car parks. A lot of gravel. We're not paving those over in a hurry. China Inn, a Chinese restaurant and karaoke bar in Palmerston North. Oh my god. Have you not been to the China Inn? No. Chinese food

and karaoke. It's like it is just one of the most famous, incredible places I've ever been in my life. A merging of two great cultures. She said no and then ran away. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, no. Sorry, I jumped in too early.

Oh, Papa, no. I saw a video of someone proposing at the base in Hamilton by the Build-A-Bear shop. Okay. It's like bears. My husband proposed at an alpaca farm because I like animals. Okay. My best mate proposed at Wildfire because that was their first date.

She was a hard introvert and mortified at making a scene. Worse still, he knocks over the table, food and plates everywhere when he gets up to propose to her. Follows through, pops a question and she said yes. Gosh. Whole thing there, isn't it? Oh, God, yeah. Whole thing.

Yeah. Fact of the day is next. Yeah, and all this week it's about... Redheads. Redheads, yeah. Lovely friends today, undercover redheads. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Day.

This week's theme here at Fact of the Day has been redheads. Our ginger compatriots. So today, celebs you might not know are actually redheads. Oh, okay. Oh yes, great! Oh, yes. Great. Okay. So these are people who died of their hair for roles,

and their big roles led us to believe that they weren't redheads. Oh, I know one. I know one. Go, go, go. Okay, number one. Well, not number one, but the number one on my list because I was so surprised by it, Benedict Cumberbatch. What?

Shut up. Benedict Cumberbatch is red. He first dyed his hair black for the Sherlock series. And then, obviously, Doctor Strange, that he plays in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has had black hair. No. Is there a photo of him with red hair? Let me just search.

Benedict Cumberbatch, red hair. Yep, hair, look. Oh, my God, yes. What? He's got the same colour hair as Eddie Redmayne. He does. Whose name is Eddie Redmayne. He actually, in that photo, looks colour hair as Eddie Redmayne He does Whose name is Eddie Redmayne Like a mane of hair

There's no real He's actually in that photo Looks very much like Eddie Redmayne Yeah they do It's kind of Eddie Redmayne hair They've got a look So Wow

So Benedict Cumberbatch is one Michael Fassbender is another Yeah I think I've seen Michael Fassbender with red hair Yeah same Catherine O'Hara Moira from Schitt's Creek She's red hair but it's gone

That's the other thing I learnt about People's red hair, but it's gone. That's the other thing I learned about people with red hair. They don't tend to go grey. They either go white or a very light blonde. Oh, really? Yeah. I was having real trouble watching her, and she's in this season of The Last of Us.

Oh, I haven't heard that. And it's weird after loving her in all of her kind of mockumentary roles and then Schitt's Creek. She's not lovable in this one? Yeah, no, she doesn't play a lovable character. Oh, no. Wow. I love her. But she is so great.

She is still great watching her. So another actor with red hair, Ewan McGregor. Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think I knew that. He's got naturally orange hair. Did I know that? He's Scottish, right? Yeah.

Adele. Yes. Has naturally orange hair. Did I know that? He's Scottish, right? Yeah. Adele. Yes. Has natural red hair. Winston Churchill. I thought you were going to say Winston Peters. Winston Peters. Nah. Very slim chance.

A lot of ginger Maori. A lot of ginger Maori. Yeah. So Winston Churchill, when he had hair, he was red hair. L. Ron Hubbard, the guy that started Scientology. Oh, okay. He was a redhead. Willie Nelson.

Famous old pot smoking country singer who is like 96 now, I think. He's got red hair. Wow, okay. Chuck Norris has red hair. Yes. It carries on to the beard. Chuck E.

This is the one that'll blow your mind if you're familiar with historical figure and human rights activist, Malcolm X. He had ginger hair. Malcolm X had red hair. Really? This is Malcolm X. He had ginger hair. Malcolm X had red hair. This is Malcolm X. Yeah, like the revolutionary African-American. It's because all the photos are black and white, aren't they?

Black and white. But yeah, look at that. That's a colour photo of him. He's got red hair. Interesting. He's got red hair. Undercover ginger out there. And then there was other people on the list.

It was like Nicole Kidman and Bryce Dallas Howard. I'm like, everybody knows that they're gingers, though. Everybody knows that. Lovely red hair. Just like her father, Ron Howard. He's got red hair. Yes, he does. He does.

Famous ginger. So today's fact of the day, I'm going to go with the one that was the most shocking to you guys, is that Benedict Cumberbatch is a natural redhead. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I'm in Melbourne still, guys. And yesterday I realised I needed to do some laundry because I was running short on Chubb's rub shorts,

which I wear under my skirt. Yeah. To stop the rub. To stop the rub. My thighs are best friends and you just can never separate them. So I just gathered up all my stuff and then I'm in this big building, which is actually 18 floors. Right.

And it has one. What floor are you on? What floor are you on? I'm on floor 10. Oh, okay. So not quite at the top. Yeah, no, I didn't get penthouse. Not this year.

But I'll try again next year. Yeah, yeah. So I gather up all my washing right and I head to the laundry floor. Then I realize there's no washing powder. So I go to reception, I get the washing powder, I head back up to the laundry thing. And it's quite basic. There's just like five washing machines, all like brands I don't know,

but, you know, like kind of fine or whatever. So I put in my washing into the washing machine, close it, open up the thing. The drawer, even the drawer we put in the washing powder was like odd. So I don't know if I put the washing powder in the right bit. You know, I just sort of sprinkled it all through it. Okay. You know, like it wasn't clear. Yeah.

Set off the washing and I go and I put on a timer 52 minutes um so then uh I'm hanging out and my timer goes off and I'm hanging out with a friend and uh we head down to go and move the uh washing to the dryer and we just like walk into the laundry and it's like as the door opens, I feel some resistance. And I'm like, what's this? It's like whoosh. The resistance was like six inches of water. Oh, God.

Hayley. Oh, God. And the entire laundry thing is like badly flooded, like feet immediately wet. Yeah. I go in there and I'm like, what the hell's happened in here? And someone has just put, and I'm talking like a lot of water, someone's just put the like wet floor, like a little wet floor sign.

So they've gone in and seen it, just put that and done nothing about it. And I look and it's my washing machine and it is literally out of this little bit in the bottom like hosing water and obviously has been doing so for the full 52 minutes like I'm just like the washing machine

it's going it was like two minutes left on the cycle but it was just like filling a spa bath yeah Yeah. Oh, really? Really? Was there not a drain in the floor? Because I would have thought all modern buildings now have a drain in the floor. Yeah, safety drain. Yeah, there were three. There were three of them

and it wasn't draining. So I was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. So me and my friend, we start like getting there. There's all these like rags and stuff. We're like scooping all of this. And we're, like, trying to, like, fish it into this, these holes that are, like, jams. And then we're going to, like, unclog those.

There's all this crap around. And it's all gone. Like, the floor's, like, tilting back. It's quite an old building. Okay. I don't feel particularly safe. The floor's tilting back? The floor's, like, tilting back.

The floor's supposed to be almost flat, aren't they? One of the most famously flat surfaces floors. But it's tilting back and so it's all pulled up behind the machines where all the power cords are. Okay. So we just start like rapidly unplugging

all of these things and scooping all this water and we get to the point where it's like, I think we've done what we can so I just put it in a dryer and left it This isn't your fault though in this story I didn't pick up that you use it

Well, like you know, have you ever done that thing in a flat where the washing machine drains into the tub and you chuck something in the tub? I've done that, I've flooded a couple of flats like that. Like a towel goes in and fills up the plug hole and it overflows. No, so when I, it was piped into pipes, right? Like the back of it was piped into pipes.

But down the bottom, I'd obviously kicked this like plate off. Right. Like there was a plate that had come off and there was some mechanics in there and that's where all the water was coming out of from the front, not the back. Again, doesn't sound like your fault. Do you know what I mean? And that's why I didn't tell reception.

I probably would have passed on it. Someone had put a sign up though. But someone else had gone in and seen it. Yeah. So it's on them, right? I think it's on them. I think the rule is it's the last person that touched it broke it. Yeah.

That was always my rule growing up when I broke something to balance it perfectly where it was, so somebody else touched it and believed they broke it. Are there cameras going into the laundry room? Oh, okay, so you might get a bill. Yeah, it does certainly feel that way because the damage felt significant. Yeah.

You know? But hey, I've got clean clothes and I've got a nice fresh set of chub rub shorts for the show tonight. Georgia Bird is in. You can jump in on this argument. Thank you for the permission. Discussion, Georgia. This is what a girl saw

at her gym. I've just seen this woman at Cycle get dressed, socks and trainers and she was, socks and trainers, and she was... Before anything else. And bush out everything. She was just stood there, like, naked. She doesn't like the floor.

She's got a fungal foot problem. So... Bush out. I... Socks. I will put socks on before... Yeah. Socks are good.

It'll go undies first first and if I'm wearing jeans or a suit pants, definitely socks first. Even if it's track pants. You go barefoot through the pants then sock up. Barefoot throughout. No, sock up before the pants and glides through.

It's like lubing up your foot. We're not Hugh Grant. That's the image I have. The majority of us No, we're not. It's like lubing up your foot. We're not Hugh Grant. We're not Hugh Grant in Love Actually. That's the image I have. The majority of us go undies and bra, because I don't want to look down and have the saggy tits. But undies and bra. Me neither.

And then pants and a top, right, Hayley? And then socks. Yep, that's my order. I go undies on first. Yeah, socks are last. Undies first, then bra, then bottoms, then top. If you've got suit pants or skinny jeans or jeans that aren't baggy, you have to put on the sock first.

Otherwise, you're fingering up the sock and it's all bunched up. No. I don't wear pants. But I would go undies and then I would go shorts, T-shirt. Like today, that sort of way. And then if I'm wearing shoes, I'd go socks last. I feel like... No, bottoms first. Bottoms first and then the bra on.

So you're around with the tops on last and then the socks. And then the socks. If you can't put your socks on after you put your skinny jeans on, mate, your jeans are too skinny and they're well out of fashion. I mean, sister. No, it just works good. Sock on. Undies, socks, pants, T-shirt.

But hang on. You sock on. You still have to go back down to put your shoes on. So why are we double downing? Exactly. Socks, then shoes immediately. No, no, no. Socks and walk around the house for a while and then put shoes on.

This psycho that's naked putting socks, then shoes on, that's weird, eh? It feels breezy. Yeah, but at the gym, I get it, because sometimes when I'm getting changed at the gym, I am like, I want to get my feet off this floor immediately. Yeah, you don't want to wear a wet sock. If I go swimming or I'm at the gym and I do shower there,

I will just, once I've dried myself, put my towel on the floor and then wipe my feet again and just do that. Me too, especially because having the air out there for too long, it feels much like if I'm putting my socks and my trainers on and I'm still easy breezy, that's... Full bush. I'm going to forget that.

I'm going to forget to pull the undies on eventually. And you're going to walk out with just a top and some trainers on. Yeah. That's a look. Somebody's messaged in socks, dress shirt, tie, pants belt, suit jacket. So when the undies go on. Yeah, you've got to tuck it in. Oh, yeah, they haven't put undies in there, actually.

You don't have to wear undies to work, Georgia. I've been there, done that. No, true, I've been there, done that. But shirt on first is that embarrassing moment for men when their diddle is hanging out the bottom of their t-shirt. No, I would go undies. If I was dressing formally, I'd go undies first, socks, and then I'd go pants but leave them open, shirt, tuck it in, do up pants.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perfect. No, I say I would. So I message in knickers first, then socks, then trousers or shorts, then do my hair topless so my long hair doesn't go over my top when doing my hair. Sounds like we've got a perky set on our hands here. I think we're about to hear a perky set.

No bra. F that. I stopped wearing those suckers about 28 years ago. I can get away with no bra as I wasn't a fool and had kids, so my bra full is a good as. Oh, Georgie, you look upset. Don't need a bra. Are you jealous?

I also haven't had kids and these suckers ain't great either. I wasn't a fool and had kids or do you think she meant didn't have kids? No, I wasn't. Yeah, didn't. Wasn't a fool and had kids. Oh, I wasn't a fool and I didn't have kids. Yeah, okay, right.

Same thing, same thing. Flammable, inflammable situation there. Yeah. Okay, so they don't need a bra and they stopped wearing them 28 years ago. So, you know, we're looking at someone well into their 40s they're probably

Jeepers I'm 35 and I've already looked at flights to Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey

Hayley I've told you you'll wake up and you'll have one less organ It's fine It's fine I have lovely

perky titties Is that the podcast done because I'm busting for a poos. Busting for a poos. Jesus. Give us a review.