ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - April 28th, 2025

Episode Date: April 27, 2025

On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod: Use a male name to get a bigger order Aussies didn't invent the shoey unhinged marriage advice New Netflix dating show Top 6 - Names for Peppa Pigs sister Shannon on the farm SLP - Is there something you're scared to ask your partner in the bedroom Aussie station called out for AI When did you faint? Nathan Fillion Interview Ice bucket challenge makes a return Fact of the day Weird way you meet your partner? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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this is Flesh, Fawn and Hayley's Big Pod. Thanks to Animates. Making happy happen for pets. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Thank you Bryn Rundkin. Good morning. Welcome to the show Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Thank you, Bryn Rundkin. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. We're back.

No, we need to talk to Bryn. Why? Pencil in a break with Bryn. What? What's he done now? Something popped up on his Instagram and I very much would like to talk to him about it. Because, you know, we love Bryn and his funny stories. He tells a good story.

He's as dry as a bone, that boy. Let's get him in. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, let's do that. Now, Hayley finishing up her comedy shows in Sydney last night. So she's taking a travel day today so she'll be back with us tomorrow

on the show. But I know a lot of people are excited about this. We put this on our Instagram story last night. Nathan Fillion, the rookie, season 7 premieres on TVNZ for us Kiwis tonight. And he joins us at 8.10 just after the news at 8 o'clock.

This is a massive show in the Smith household. I love this show. It's so good. It's a light police procedure. It's a light police procedure. It's a bit of comedy in the police procedural. Yeah, it rules. It's a good cast.

It's a great show. Yeah. And he's amazing. He's been on a million shows. I'm just a massive fan of Nathan Fillion. Have been for years. I feel like he'll be nice. I don't think he's been around for too long.

He's too nice. He's a nice man. So after seven, sorry, after eight o'clock on the show today for Nathan Fillion. Also at eight o'clock this morning, we start Add to Cart. A whole bunch of goodies. You've got to be listening each day at 8, midday at 4. And then if you're the first caller through with Bree and Clint this afternoon at 5 and you name all the items in our cart, you win them all.

All thanks to One Roof Property. So make sure you're listening at 8 o'clock this morning for the goodies. You got the top six for us? Yeah, they've done a gender reveal. Peppa Pig's mother is pregnant. Goodness. Now, obviously not sticking to the biologically correct procedure, which would see her give birth to a litter of piglets.

Yes. Just one. Also, I'm sure there wasn't an episode with the corkscrew. The corkscrew penis. Pig penis. No, I don't think pigs don't have a corkscrew penis. Ducks have a corkscrew penis. Oh, do they?

But don't pigs have a weird? No, pigs have got a corkscrew tail. I've been on a farm and seen a weird. It was weird. I'll just give that a quick Google. Right, some quick Google. That was penis. Weird.

Maybe put weird after that. Oh, there is a... You know, you're not wrong. There is a twist on the end. Yeah, yeah. There you go. There is a twist. You know your penises.

I should never have counted it. Was that from holiday? What penis knowledge? Was that on Pe? Fetus notch. Was that on Peppa Pig as well? The conception? There was no conception. There was no conception. But they all go for half an hour, don't they?

Do you remember that about pigs? I'm flushing. I'm flushing. Goodness me, mummy pig. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Now, Producer Shannon, you've come across some in-depth female research. Yeah, my aggressive feminism is showing. So girls have realised,

this is happening a lot overseas, that if you order food from a place online where they make your meal to order, so I'm talking like a, you know, like a little buffet set up and you say, I want... Or like a domboree. How good's a domboree?

Love a domboree. And when they pile the chicken on, well, sometimes they don't pile the chicken on and you're like, oh, they must own the franchise. Well, this is exactly what I'm talking about. They give a shit about... Whereas if I was getting paid whatever an hour to pile chicken on someone's plate,

I'd imagine it was my plate and I'd put more on. Yeah, yeah. Because I don't care. I definitely got a Subway owner over the break. Yeah. Oh, did you? I was like, extra jalapenos. And there were like two extra ones. I was like, that's not extra. That's the break. Yeah. What, did you? I was like, extra jalapenos, and there were like two extra ones.

I was like, that's not extra. That's the owner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the owner. I got the owner. I got the owner. Well, people have discovered that if they use their normal name, so if I went and used Shannon,

I would be served less than if I ordered under the name Vaughn or Fletch. A man name? Yes. A man's name? Shannon technically could be. But you know, the girl I saw do this, her name was Rachel. She's like, there's no denying I'm Rachel.

And she said she tried using a man's name and felt she got more. So she's now done a full TikTok series investigating this. Same day, same store, making two identical orders and she will go and weigh these two orders. She does it at Chipotle which is that American shop.

And she tested this so many times every time they gave the Matt more than the Rachel. Because what do they do at Chipotle? It's like burritos, right? Yeah, burrito bowls. So she would say I want beans, I want chicken, I want this. Every single time the guy's got more.

Interesting. And it burns a fire in my soul. I'm mad about it. Right. But would you eat it all? Well, save it for the next day. Yeah, dude. Yeah.

Do you know we intentionally made too much curry on Saturday night, me and the girls. Because Andy's like, is it just me or is curry good the next day? I was like, she gets it. Yes, queen. So we made so much curry on Saturday Night Me and the Girls. Because Indy's like, is it just me or is curry good the next day? I was like, she gets it. Yes, queen. So we made so much curry. It was ridiculous. Well, sometimes you do that.

You make so much because you eat it all. And then there is absolutely nothing left over. I'm reading here that they reckon the modern popularity of the shui might be linked to Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo. Oh yeah. Because he did it after a Formula One race.

Years back. Yeah, like seven years ago, I think. Has it been around for longer than that? Yeah, way longer than that. Yeah, but it's when it kind of popped off. Yeah. So, doing the Shoei, which is pouring a beer into a shoe, it's gross as. I did it once like 20 something years ago out of a child's gumboot.

Right. Okay. And a Hamilton garage party. I've never done one and I won't. I'm too classy. I'm too classy for it. You're a classy. I'll admit it.

I'm too classy. You're a classy bird. I'm a classy bird. Well, it's, you know, Aussies have claimed it. However, apparently Europeans have been doing similar rituals for over 4,000 years. This has been discovered at a Budapest museum. What did they find?

One of those Adidas... High tops. High tops. That's an enemy high top from the mid-2000s. A Nike Air Jordan from 3,000 years ago. Yeah, so ancient Hungarian civilizations including Roman and Celtic influences. Not

influences as in like, hi guys, everybody's been asking what kind of sandal I'm going to drink my wine out of this week. So yeah, they said that it's like this old, thousands of year old tradition. A crumbling boot and a recreation of a 3,000 year old leather foot strap

and it had alcohol on it and then they studied it more and drinking from shoe predates the shoe in Australia by thousands of years. So it's not an Australian thing. Not its ancient origins. Yeah, right. But what is it? It's endemic. Yeah.

It's that way something, you know, kind of moves in and you're like, oh, yeah, that's kind of ours now. It'd be hard doing a shoo-ee for Roman Sandal. It'd be more like a slide. Yeah, more like pouring it down. You know, you see those ice slides with shots and they pull the haggle meister at the top. But, I mean, every musician that does a show in Australia,

Taylor Swift didn't. Again, she's a classy bird like me. Everybody does a showy on stage. This isn't a rite of passage. Yeah, it's yuck. It's gross. If I was a musician, I'd ask for a brand new shoe. A brand new shoe. Side of stage and just use that.

And maybe with some sort of plastic liner on the shoe. Yeah, like a cup inside. Yes, yes, yes. You could put a cup in a high top etny. Yes. No one needs to see the cup. Yes. Perfect.

And then straight from there. Play. ZM. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. A TikTok user called Michelle Rosemary has asked people for their most unhinged marriage hacks. Let's get into them because there's 21 and they're all pretty good. So good. Some of the ones that people then replied to her saying,

this is what I do. I tell him made up stories about things my friend's husband does and finish with, I'm so glad you don't do that. But it's actually all the things that he does that I don't like him doing and so he'll self-correct. You hope he self-corrects. Yeah. I occasionally buy gift cards so every time he doesn't want to go out to eat,

I say, oh, but we've got that gift card from Christmas. And it works every time. That's my favorite one. Yeah. Because obviously maybe if your partner doesn't want to go out to eat, I say, oh, but we've got that gift card from Christmas. And it works every time. That's my favourite one. Yeah. Because obviously maybe if your partner's a little, doesn't want to spend money. Yeah. Well, you've already spent it.

You've got the gift card. Oh, you may as well go. Yeah. I wore the same perfume every time we would go to the mall. So now anytime I put it on, he asks if I want to go shopping. What is he, a dog? Yes. Who asks?

By the way, who asks? Do you want to go shopping? What sort of madness isn't it It's sort of madness Mad man is like Hello Would you just go and blow A whole lot of money on shit

We don't need Number four On this list Another use case For the perfume truck I Pavlov'd my husband Which is Pavlov's dog right It's conditioning

By wearing the same scent Only during intimacy For a year I then wore it To a family function And he became feral He glares at me When I wear it

because he knows it still works. You've taught him. How wild is that? That is insane. He went feral. When he asks me to find something he can't find but it's in plain sight, he just didn't look half enough,

I charge him a book. I have four shelves of books. So if she wants something, she's like, I'll find it but it's going to cost you a book. I jokingly say things like the dishes need doing and you need doing

and I only have energy for one of these things and he does the dishes. Brilliant. A book. I jokingly say things like the dishes need doing and you need doing and I only have energy for one of these things and he does the dishes. Brilliant. That works. And to be honest, you think you're winning that one. He's not. Yeah. He's not losing. I will out loud just boo him when he's not being nice, helpful, just a booing.

Boo! I like that. My great-grandmother had a home sweet home sign On the wall And she'd flip it over When they were fighting Oh I make his It was just blank

So he just turned it over So you know she wasn't In a shitty If it was home sweet home Yeah yeah yeah If it was home sweet home Otherwise it was not sweet nothing That's brilliant

I make his lunches and dinners Sometimes if I'm mad I'll purposely make a little off And tell him I made it with anger Instead of love And somehow that works Oh When we brought him a newborn We started playing finger guns At each other Instead of arguing out loud a little off and tell him I made it with anger instead of love and somehow that works.

When we brought him a newborn, we started playing finger guns at each other instead of arguing out loud. When he snores now, I roll over and hold a finger gun to his neck. And he goes, please don't do it. So when they're arguing now, they're like... Because they don't want to wake the newborn. I kind of like that.

Sometimes my husband and I randomly pretend not to know each other and start flirting. He could be mowing the lawn and I'll walk out and say what are you doing here? You know my husband isn't home and he likes to play along. That's fun. That's hot stuff. When he stops pulling his weight in house chores, I stop cleaning or preparing all the things including laundry, meals and

dishes. I'm a mum but I'm not his mum. He catches on pretty quickly. Yeah, but guys don't notice those kind of things. They're just like, oh, it's messy, whatever. Yeah, no deal. You know the way to get it done is like, oh, so-, Sansai's popping over in a couple of hours. Yes. And they don't want the house looking. Wear it.

I don't care. That's a good one. I'm introverted and my husband is a talker, so early on I instituted quiet time, which I can't, I can evoke at any time and he has to comply. We literally go about our day together just silently and it's been eight years of this and it's bliss. When we're planning to make a big purchase

I first show them the most expensive thing and then let them marinate then show them the one I really want which is cheaper but not the cheapest works every time.

Man, there are some people that works that aren't. There are some people that know their partner's psychological kind of point, say. Or when you're with someone

for so long you know exactly what the button is to get them riped up. Rather than get mad at each other at the other, the other one for not doing the thing that you expect them just to know to do, dishes, for example,

we place a stuffed elephant by the thing to point out the elephant in the room. That's really good. That's funny. That's really good. We refer to our innermost illogical thoughts as lizard brains so we can share insecurities without judgment. For example, I say lizard brain says,

you hate my haircut. Oh. And then, oh, okay. Oh, God. brain so we can share insecurities without judgment for example i say lizard brain says you hate my haircut oh and then oh okay i don't want to start this conversation yeah no because you do but you don't do anything yeah uh we wear party hats during arguments how can you possibly behave badly with party hats on well like costumes dress up in costumes that would be funny yeah um when we're in the car and the other person's driving is a little dicey, we go, wee, like it's a fun ride. I like to say, you know what I love about you, and list what I want him to be like. And he believes he suddenly has these qualities

and starts to build on them without question. Oh, again, that's another psychological one. That's warfare. Isn't it? That's warfare. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Juicy girlies are excited about this.

I'm sure if Hayley was here today, she'd be excited about a new reality TV show starting on Netflix this Wednesday. It's called Cheat. Are you telling me that you forgot that you were intimate with somebody? Do you think there's something that's worth rebuilding? Do you stay and continue your unfinished business?

My 10-year relationship is on the line tonight. Or is one of you finished for good? We're lying now. Are you serious? No one did it. Oh, my God. Welcome to Cheat, unfinished business. There it is.

There it is, the screaming. Vaughan's face says it all. Good girl. Whereas you, producer Shannon, very excited about this. I am eating this up. I've just finished Temptation Island, and this is really just playing into a really sad part of my brain. I just love this.

Trash. Yeah, absolutely trash. So how is this reality show different? I'm imagining it's called Cheat. Are they all cheaters? They must be cheating. Are they allowed to cheat? I reckon it's cheating.

Is cheating encouraged? No, so it's basically couples who have had issues with cheating in the past. I think there's eight couples to start. Right, so everyone on the show has trust issues. Yes. Great place to start. Yeah, that's perfect.

Well, let's put them in front of issues. Yes. Great place to start. Yeah, that's perfect. Let's put them in front of cameras in a high-pressure environment and produce the hell out of it. Yeah, with a bunch of other hot people and, I believe, alcohol. So the idea is, yeah, all these people who have trust issues come in. Amanda Holden's the host from Britain's Got Talent. And there's also the maths expert from the UK. Wait, is Amanda Holden the one I like? She does...

The blonde one. She does renovations with Ellen Carr. Does she? Yeah, have you ever seen the show? They buy like an Italian villa and then they spend like the summer renovating it. That sounds great. And does Ellen Carr say like funny gay things?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of funny gay things. The guy, he's very funny and gay. Lovely. Okay. And she's, I don't know, just like their besties and they do a house.

Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. Well, it seems like this is her show. She's kind of like the face of it. Do they film it somewhere exotic? Yeah, I think it's going to be some European,

probably Spanish villa. Okay. Yep. But yeah, it's basically seeing if these couples can work through trust issues. Are they going to end it? That girl in the trailer, they've been together 10 years, so

seems like absolute trash. Wait, so it's existing couples that go on the show? Yes, seeing if they can work through it. But the fact that there's a bunch of other couples there who are hot, who are also cheaters, seems like a recipe for disaster. Yeah, and no doubt the producers have found out your type, hey?

Of course. Of course. And they'll set up dates. And yeah, it's going to be scandalous. Okay, so it starts Wednesday. Yeah. It's a Netflix show. And is it weekly or are they dumping it all at once?

Recently, Netflix has been doing like two dumps. So I'm hoping it's that. So if that's not your cup of tea, Amanda and Alan's Italian job Is on TVNZ Plus Best mates Amanda Holden and Alan Carr Are back in business Having purchased a

Deliberated 17th century house For one euro An idyllic Well this is pretty much What Hayley's parents did Yeah isn't it So they did Sicily in season one Tuscany in season two

And they're doing Spain in season three They're turning a crumbling house into a chic boutique. I'm sure they don't have to experience the actual stress of paying for it all. I think the production company probably helps out a little bit. Also, speaking of TV shows today,

seven o'clock tonight, Nathan Fillion is back with the rookie season seven for Kiwis. Yeah. And he is on the show with us at ten past eight. We've got the top six for you next. Play ZM's Flesh, One and Hayley. Peppa Pig was my kid's Bluey.

Like, when they were little, it was all about Peppa Pig. And now I think Bluey's taken that over. I love Bluey. Yeah. It's one of my, I would seriously rank it among one of my favourite TV shows. It's seven minutes long. It's always got a good message. It makes me, yeah, it makes you happy.

Makes me happy, yeah. Right, what happens in Peppa Pig? They're just a family of pigs. The dad's inept. They're a family of pigs. There's lots of other animals that are families as well. Okay. There's Rebecca Rabbit.

There's Pedro the donkey. It's pretty good stuff. It's pretty good stuff. It's pretty funny. There are some very funny moments in Peppa Pig. There has been the latest sort of like get up and go bit of Peppa Pig news is that Mummy Pig is pregnant again. Of course she is. Yeah.

Yeah. And so they've found out that the gender of the pig is going to be a girl. So Peppa Pig's going to be having a little sister. Of course, she's got a little brother called George. Yeah. Peppa and George. And today I have compiled the top six names for Peppa Pig's new little sister. This was Shannon's idea for top six.

And number six is also Shannon's idea for the name that she thinks would be. Sometimes you've just got to let Shannon get a top six. She loves getting a top six. Well, I top six. She loves getting a top six. Well, I don't... She'll suggest a top six and if I say, I like that top six idea, she always fist pumps it. She gets really excited. And then sometimes when I say one and I feel like he didn't hear me

or catch my vibe, I'll wait a beat and then I'll pitch it again. And then we say, no, we did hear that. No, and I'm like, no, you don't get it though. I don't think you get it, man. I'll give you some ideas of what to say. I thought you could say that the Pope vapes up the chimney to do the smoke. The new Pope. Yeah.

This was her other top 60 suggestion. What was it? Gen Z ways of announcing a Pope or something? What else goes on during the conclave? I thought a pizza party. Well, they're in Italy. They'd be mad not to have a pizza party. Do you think there's a pizza oven?

A proper pizza oven inside the... There better be. Is that what the smoke is? Well, no, I was going to do Pope-based top six, but let me tell you now, an hour and a half out, Fact of the Day is Pope-themed this week. I've got wild stories about Popes for Fact of the Day. I've got the top six names for Peppa Pig's little...

And the number six is also Shannon's suggestion for it, Porkina. Was that what you were suggesting? Porkina. Okay. Like Porcupine, like Patricia. Yeah. Porkina.

Porkina is number five on the list. Jesus Christ. Are the top six names of Peppa Pig's little sister Porkchop? Okay. Porkchop's a good name for a pig. They should do a range of Peppa Pig's tricky bacon at the supermarket. Imagine that. Yeah. Daddy Pig Middle tricky bacon at the supermarket. Imagine that. Yeah.

Daddy Pig middle bacon. Yep. Yep. Number four on the list of the top six names for Peppa Pig's little sister, Spamala. Yeah. Not just Spamala, but Spam. Number three on the list of the top six names for Peppa Pig's little sister, Hammer. Like Hannah, but Ham.

Hammer. Hammer. Okay, yeah good good hammer number two on the list of the top six names of Peppa Pig's little sister Rebecca

it's like Rebecca okay yep it's Rebecca but Re Re Rebacan yep Rebacan

so this is why I probably would have said no to the Shannon idea it gets a bit it gets a bit hard number one is we're really pulling it all the strings

number six number one on the top six names of Peippa's little sister, Suzanne Ossage. Suzanne Ossage. Again, it's a real stretch there at the end. Suzanne Ossage. That is today's sales search.

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Hayley's away today. So Bryn from the newsroom is in. We've actually just been talking about our favourite air crash investigation episodes. Geeking out. Yeah, yeah. The one where she gets sucked out the hole in the roof.

Oh, yeah, the Hawaiian one. Did she die? Yes, she did, yeah. There's a statue of her at the Hawaii airport in Honolulu. Yeah. There is. And then the plane landed and the whole front half of it was ripped off. Yeah.

Insane. It looked like a ute, hey? Like a plane. Like a convertible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Convertible plane, which doesn't work. Great episode. Yeah.

I mean, people died, sure, but yeah. Horrible. Great television. It's interesting. It's very interesting television. But Bryn, you're not into talking about air crash investigation, although fun. I want to ask you what the hell the situation was with on your Instagram

where you put up a story saying vegetarian option and you looked like you'd been catered to. I didn't know you were vegetarian. No, it wasn't actually for me. I was full on meat eater. Oh, good. Definitely not mine. But there was a plate on the serving table,

just the solo plate that said vegan on it. And it was just lettuce leaves and one slice of tomato. That's so good. Can we say where this happened or who? I don't want to slander a local RSA, but it was on Anzac Day. Yes! That sounds like a classic old mate. They did not wake up

before dawn and charge the Cliffs of Gallipoli for you to say I'm a vegan. They did just did it. They really didn't.

They really didn't. So the owner's like this is your vegan option. That's it. And it didn't even look like the nice letter C there.

What's that mescaline Oh yeah. It's a mixed bag. You think they just gotine? Yeah, the mix. Oh, yeah. It's a mixed bag. You think they just got a mixed bag from the supermarket? That was it. It sat there the whole day.

No one touched it. Nobody touched it. Gorgeous. Were they expecting a lot of vegans at the, what was this, a dawn service? Yeah, it was,

you go to the dawn service, pay your respects, least we forget, all that, and then you go back to the RSA because they encourage everyone to go back,

you know, go and chat to a veteran. Yeah. Which is a really nice thing to do. Keep them company. And then maybe have lunch. And there was a lovely spread on and just the solo plate of grass for a vegan.

That's grass. Well, at least they're thinking about maybe vegans that are coming along to pay their respects. Well, you should have seen the gluten-free option. What was that? I don't think there was one. Dust. Dust. Dust.

That was the empty part of the table with a little bit of dust on it. Okay, so the local RSA was who advocated for vegans in such a manner. The meat degustation. Let's talk about that. That was RSA for me. A full-on barbecue vibe. Yeah, it was great. Yeah.

What about starchy, starchy veg? They're not afraid of a potato. I love a potato. You used to be a member, didn't you? I still am a member of the RSA, but I just don't live near an RSA. There is an RSA, but they only do it every now and then. But yeah, it's awesome. I love the RSA.

Well, we've covered the meals. Let's talk about the cheap drinks. Oh, absolutely. And the meat raffles and the everythings. The RSA is a fantastic institution, and I hope it never goes away. And I think they want more members. They do. They always want more members.

It makes it work. The more people that join the RSA, the better it is, the better it works. And as you say, great community feel. Talk to a veteran. I've never had a bad time at an RSA. Neither. Never. Always a good time.

I've only been once with you when you invited us. Yeah. It was amazing. It was so much fun. Always a good time. I've only been once with you when you invited us. Yeah. It was amazing. It was so much fun. Such a good time. And then when the old boys that are members of it pass, sometimes they'll donate their war paraphernalia, their medals and stuff.

Right. And so there's always something to look at and read about. And so you don't need to have been in the army to join. Nope. Nope. Because I don't have any of those stories. No. I've just got stories about.

It's easy to be in the RSA these days. You don't have to go out and fight anything. No. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And there's always plenty of stories. No. Just got stories about... It's easy to be in the RSA these days. You don't have to go out and fight anything. No. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And there's always plenty of parking.

Yeah. Good. This isn't a paid advertisement. It sounds like a paid... It's absolutely not, but join the RSA. I think at like 6 o'clock in the evening,

they turn the lights off and then you stand up and you put your hand on your heart and you... We will remember them. Okay. Yep. That's what happens

at sundown. You probably mic on it hours too. Yeah, dude. Definitely. Yeah, done by like 8. Yeah. that's what happens at sundown. You probably mic on it hours too. Yeah, dude. Definitely. Yeah, done by like eight. Yeah, and there's pokies. Yeah.

You've sold me. You've sold me. Absolutely sold me. Silly Little Pole is next on the show. Is there something that you're scared to ask your partner to do in the bedroom? And there's a reason why. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley Silly little pole, silly little pole

It is so silly, silly, silly That silly little pole, silly little pole Silly little pole, silly little pole Silly little pole Today's silly little pole comes off the back of the final of the White Lotus. A journalist has recounted that they were watching the White Lotus when their husband made a confession. Which was?

Actually, it wasn't in the final episode. It would have been the penultimate episode where there was a, I'll keep it clean for the radio, but there was three people. Ah, yeah. And they were like, well, that would be fun. And then this kind of opened up this couple now because they've never spoken about that. And one of them has always wanted to do that. And that has led to the question for today's silly little poll.

Is there something you want to try in the bedroom, but you're too scared to ask your partner? 37% of people said yes. Isn't that amazing? 63% said no. I hope we got some elaborations. We did get some elaborations.

Okay, great. I used to be, I don't think I'm going to mention names. Just do that thing where you say it and you're like, only joking if they say no. Yeah.

You'd be into doing that. Only joking. Oh, yeah. Just. You'd be into doing that. Only joking. Oh, yeah. Just testing. Neither. Neither. Yeah. Who would put their mouth there?

I used to be, but listening to Sex.Life changed everything. I'm so grateful to Morgan and Hayley, and I can't wait for the next season. A lot of people have said that, Cam. It's how they're just so open about it. Yeah. Oh, no, because I already asked and he said no.

What did guys say no to? What did he say no to? What did guys say no What did he say no to? We need a follow-up

message. I just don't think there's anything that I'd say no to. We say yes to everything. We say yes to everything. We're just happy to be there.

Yeah, dude, so happy to be here. Absolutely. Whatever you want. Can happy to be here. Absolutely. Whatever you want. Can we follow up with that one? We need to know what he said no to. Somebody else said, he'll just think I'm a little freak when I say I'm keen to give something a go. He's super vanilla.

Nothing wrong with that. But I'd like our fun times to be less predictable sometimes. Okay. Again, what do you want him to do? What's he saying no to? What's wrong with putting a bit of that chocolate sauce on the vanilla? You know what I mean? The stuff that goes hard.

That goes really, oh, I don't like that. Do you not like Chocwhiz? See, this is why you're saying no to Chocwhiz in the bedroom. I'm not saying no to Chocwhiz. I'm not saying no to any chocolate. You should say, hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. White chocolate, dark chocolate. Dark chocolate, Ghana chocolate.

Yeah. A mix of chocolate. Fruit and nut. Oh, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. White chocolate, dark chocolate. Dark chocolate. Ghana chocolate. Yeah. A mix of chocolate. Fruit and nut. Oh, yeah, that German stuff. Yeah. Oh, the German stuff's a bit out there for me. There is a German stuff a bit much for you. Swiss?

Absolutely. Wow. Give me a Toblerone any day. Yeah. Oh, well, I'm just saying. You know, pick a side. Maybe not an airport 2D free size. You're working well.

Carry on. That took you a second. Okay, what else? Quinn audios have taught me many new things about myself in my bedroom once. I just don't think husband will be into these things. He doesn't like to share. I know. Hayley's away today, but I know Morgan and Hayley have talked a lot about how you approach that kind of stuff. Ah. I know, I know. Why is it? Yeah, Hayley's away today,

but I know Morgan and Hayley have talked a lot about how you approach that kind of stuff, eh? Yeah, yeah. With your partner. Okay. Um,

how would you paint that as maybe not sharing? You've just got to maybe structure the question differently. Yeah. You know what I mean? Off your chat. Um,

nothing I'm too scared to ask my chat um nothing i'm too scared to ask my nothing i'm too scared to ask my partner about now i don't know whether or not this means nothing or there is nothing i'm too scared to ask my partner about um somebody else said i wanted to ask you i want to ask her to stop snoring so loudly it's a real turn off yeah dude Yeah Married for over a decade Ain't nothing we're afraid to ask Love isn't dead Love is nasty

Oh Heyo Yeah good stuff Yeah him sleeping in a different room So I can get some peaceful sleep Would be my question A lot of people doing the sleep divorce Yeah

When I bring it up He thinks I'm joking Or eye roll Mouth face I think you've got to You've got to drive it home A lot of people doing the sleep divorce. Yeah. When I bring it up, he thinks I'm joking. Or eye roll, mouth face. I think you've got to drive it home. Yeah. I ain't kidding around here, bucko. Not afraid to ask fellas.

Not afraid to ask fellas. She just won't do it. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Well, you tried. You know. Yeah. What more can you ask? You gave it your best.

Get out there and ask them. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Well, over the break, there has been a bit of drama in Radioland in Australia. Yeah. This is a wild story. Now, Georgia joins us from our ZM Day show. What is it? Hosted live by a real human.

Is it, though? Real human radio. Do I really hear? Don't give them ideas. I know, I know, I know. You are by breaking this up by the way. So this happened for six months. I think the major controversy is that...

This is basically what it sounded like. Listen to this. This is on an Australia, Sydney based radio station called Kata that's kind of like hip hop and new music. And this is the announcer. This is the AI announcer that's been on here for six months. Take the Cater music survey at cater.com.au and you could win a digital download for the

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This is Lola Young on Cater. You know what? What? LoliXCX was incredible at Coachella on the weekend, so let's see what she does for week two. Hear her on Cater after Tate McRae. I mean, she's pretty tight. She keeps it tight.

She does. She doesn't waffle on, Georgia. No, she's not wiring. I mean, she's pretty tight. She keeps it tight. She does. She doesn't waffle on, Georgia. No, she's not wiring on. Yeah, she's not. There's no added like, yee-haw, Morgan Wiley. No, she doesn't, you know, add in her own personality. So one of the major controversies of it was there was a picture of this person online.

But wait, she's not real. Is she real? So the picture they used online was an Asian Australian girl who worked, I think, in the finance team. So worked there somewhere, but they were like, this is who's doing it. Diversity. Dude, dude, I know.

Diversity hire. It gets worse. Okay. She did the voice sampling. So she was the one that said all the series of sounds that they put into this, I think it was 11 labs. Right. And that pumps out the AI.

However, the guy typing up the script and everything she was saying, white dude. So the idea is- Somebody's still got to type out what she's saying. Why don't instead of just spending all your time typing out what she's saying, why don't you just say it? I know.

Wait, so, so wait, hang on. That doesn't make any sense. So the AI learns this lady's voice. Yeah. And then someone types the script, which what you heard wouldn't have taken long to type that. It was all fairly short and like nothing. But she may as well just go in and do the voicing herself.

Exactly. But then you'd have to pay her. Well, is she not being, so wait, so how does she not get paid for this now? Well, because she was probably just working there and you know what it's like.

They're like, hey, we need someone to do something. Who wants to do it? Hey, young person, you're lucky to have a job. I'd be dark. I'd be fuming.

Or even just like a couple of hundred bucks just to say, I don't know, five minutes of scripts. Yeah, yeah. And it learns your voice. Yeah.

Guys, please never do this. No, we never do this. Now I've got the hot sweats because it's like one of those things that could be a potential. You know? Right. Yeah, but how will people request Friday Jams and say all the silly names? They'll just know them by now. AI is never going to read out the silly names like you do.

And no one's ever going to have my personality. No, exactly, Georgia. Thank you. Exactly. I'm just whipping up a little script here. Is this something that could replace Georgia or us? Well, I don't know. I don't know what this is going to sound like.

Oh, okay. But this is the voice. I think this is the same place that did the one we just heard, Eleven Labs. This is Callum, who speaks English. Apparently. I'll just click play and I'll see what happens. You're with Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

It's 7.30ish. I wrote this up before I knew what the exact time would be when this played. Yep. But yeah, I am a radio station announcer and blah, blah, blah. This is easy. I really should be concentrating on the destruction of the human race. Did you add that part in? No, that did it itself.

That did it itself, yeah. Guys, he does, I have to say, a little bit sultry. I can speed it up. Okay, I can speed it up and let's make it. Make him sexy. Well, this one's called Brian and I've never been non-sexy Brian. Have you? Okay. Okay, thinking about it. You're I've never been non-sexy Brian. Have you?

Okay. Okay, thinking about it. You're with Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. It's 7.30ish. Would you? I wrote this up before I knew what the exact time would be when this played. But yeah, I am a radio station announcer and blah, blah, blah.

This is easy. I really should be concentrating on the destruction of the human race. I like it. Wild, eh? That's wild. I remember in 1994 at the Omega 500 typing in swear words and it would be like, shit.

And we'd be like, yeah. They all still sound like robots, though. But, man, it's just getting better and better all the time. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. At the weekend, I had a faint. I haven't had a faint. I haven't had a faint since I gave blood that time and I had a faint. Yeah, I remember.

I had a faint. I haven't had a faint. I haven't had a faint since I gave blood that time and I had a faint. Yeah, I remember. I had a faint. I was out in the paddock on the Le Petit Farmlet, my lifestyle block, and I noticed my piggy, Hamlet, he had his tusk stuck in the fence. And I was like, buddy! That's what I always say to him when the animal gets stuck.

Goat's horns have been stuck in fences and I go, buddy! Like that. And I go down to help them. His tusk was hooked around a wire and I was like relax! And I was trying to get him to relax but pigs don't speak English. Yeah I was going to say you realise they don't speak English. I was like relax and I was trying to push

his big fat head towards it so I could pull the wire out because he just had it hooked on the tusk. Stupid. Silly boy. And he'd had it hooked on the tusk. Stupid. Silly boy. And he'd been there for a while. You could see he'd been walking around. And I was like, buddy.

And as I pushed his head and I grabbed the wire, he ran, pushed forward. And my hand got caught between the wire and his tusk. And you could have lost your fingers. I thought they were broken when I got them off. And immediately it was just like, ah. And it was just like my hand and then So it crushed your fingers between the wire and his

task and he pushed forward and then the wire dug right into my finger across there. You can see how I was holding it like that because the wire dragged right across my three fingers. It doesn't look as bad now as when you sent that photo of when it happened. Oh yeah, it's bad but if you look across that cut at the top, there's definitely a divot there. That's going to look like a cool scar one day.

Should that have got a stitch? Probably. Did you message Dr. Shawnee? Nah, I didn't. It was Saturday. I don't want him charging. He charges extra on Saturday. He does charge extra on Saturday.

Even if it's a day in, it's still like 90 bucks or whatever. But I was like, ah. And I went inside and I was like, there was blood all over my hands. Of course, that's all go. And the kids were panicking and stuff. And I'm like, I just need a plaster and some Dettol. We didn't have any Dettol.

What's the household we run in here? Everybody knows you need Dettol. I've got a Dettol cream. Oh, do you? I don't have the antiseptic wash. Should I have that as well? I think so. I just use vodka.

Yes. That would have been a great idea. That would have been so rock and roll, pouring whiskey on it. Yeah. I've been like, do your work, Jameson James That's how I do all my at home surgeries Yeah Vodka So I was like paper toweling and stuff

And trying to get it all sorted And then I reached up into where we keep the big plasters And as it went past I was like And I looked right through the cut And I think I saw a little bit of bone or something And it definitely wasn't flesh that I saw Okay And then when my hand went up I I was like, oh, whoop.

And then lightheadedness, and I hadn't eaten. And then my hand came down, and as my hand came down, I went, and I did that thing. And I bumped into my daughter who was in the cupboard with me. And she's like, oh, sorry. I was like, oh, sorry. And then I just saw myself go. Dad's taken a fall. Dad's taken a fall. Yeah, so you I was like, it's okay. And then I just found myself going, dad's taken a fall.

Dad's taken a fall. Yeah, so you fainted in front of your kids. And dude, I just was kind of like lying on the ground. It wasn't like a full blackout, wake up 30 seconds later faint. It was just one of those ones you hit the ground and the shock of hitting the ground kind of brings you to again. Have a little head knock? I don't think so.

Okay. It's all right. I can't feel anything. Yeah. But Indy said she thought I hit my head on the bench on the way down. But I don't think so. Okay. It's all right. I can't feel anything. Yeah. But Indy said she thought I hit my head on the bench on the way down. But I don't think I did. Okay. But I just remember them screaming, dad, I'm dead down.

Did they call an ambulance? Yeah. I was like, pushed myself up into a sitting position and Shade's like, I'll call the ambulance. I was like, don't call an ambulance. I've just fainted. It's just a faint. What are they going to drive out of don't call an ambulance. I've just fainted. It's just a faint. What are they going to drive out of it?

Be like, oh, you've fainted. Yeah. And I'd be like, yeah, I didn't tell them to call you, St. John's. Yeah,

there'd be a bill for that till the weekend. That was rattling around in my head as well. I don't know how much this is going to cost me. I just need to sit here for a while

and have a glass of water. But yeah, I fainted. I hit the deck. I don't really remember hitting the deck. But apparently, I hit the deck quite hard. But that's I fainted. I hit the deck. I don't really remember hitting the deck. But apparently I hit the deck quite hard.

But that's what we want to talk about this morning. Oh yeah. When did you faint? Especially if it was at an awkward moment. When I fainted giving blood it was so embarrassing.

I was in the chair. But they would be used to that. Yeah. But if you faint in public that's even worse because then people call an ambulance. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you've just fainted. And it's one of those things that you just need a couple of minutes afterwards and some deep breaths and a drink of water and you're probably going to be okay. Maybe a sugary drink. Maybe a becky. So maybe you didn't eat all day for whatever reason. 0800 DARS at M. We want to take your call now.

You can text through 9696. When did you faint? Where did it happen? Oh, it was a whole thing. It was all of it. It's kind of a theme here, blood. You're not handling blood. No, usually I'm all right with the gory stuff and the blood.

I just think it was the pain and the blood and the not eating. Andrea, where did you faint? In Switzerland. Okay. And I was pregnant Living there My husband wasn't in the country I'd just come from the hospital I wasn't very well Went to the phone box

To call my mum To say This is what's happening But I fainted in the phone box I fainted against the door And so I couldn't get into me Which was a little bit embarrassing But then they just reached in

And grabbed the phone And started speaking to my mum, who, you know, completely freaked out because I was speaking German. And my mum called my sister, who lived in London, and my sister Googled the hospital and they called the hospital. Oh, my God. Wow, so they managed to track you down and you ended up in hospital. They did. In a phone box as well.

Yeah, in a phone box. If you were going to faint in a phone box, you could kind of brace yourself against the sides and slide down slowly. Andrea, thank you. Tanya, where did you faint? I was working at a suit hire place at the time and I was about two months pregnant. Yep.

And I had chronic morning sickness. And I had a customer that came in to be fitted for a suit. And when we fit our clients for suits, you've got to go down and measure that in the leg. So you've got to measure down by your feet. The insap. The insap, yeah. And you're getting stuck of every bad odor you can think of. Like BO, urine, like pro-dents.

It was nasty. And I'm down there trying to be really professional and, you know, not give off that you stink guy. And, like, no kidding, I stood up and looked at him and, like, kind of smiled, like, huh? And I just projectile vomited all over his legs. And out of pure embarrassment, I stood up to, like, try to, I don't know,

like, fix the situation and say, sorry, Jesus is spewing up on you. And I, like, fully cut it. I, like, blacked out, fainted. And I'm not a small girl. I'm a big girl, okay? My mate that was with me at the time, I told him, you know,

if he ever sees me faint because you're not pregnant, just drag me up into a corner. So he did exactly that. He grabbed me by the arms and he dragged me off the floor. Oh, jeez. Oh, my God. You vomited. You vomited.

Granted, he's smart. His fault. He started it. He wasn't funny, dude. Yeah. Oh, my God. So your advice would be if anybody is going for a suit fitting, have a good wash and make sure you're not, you know,

a putrid human before you do. Yeah, well, that's why I recommend for people that are going to get their suits fitted. But on that day, he was just a walk-in customer. Oh, God. And now my kid's like, now you can hear my kid in the background. I was going to say,

it sounded like it worked out all right. Tanya, thank you. Ask the messages in. Someone said, fainting during a mass is a canon event for most Catholic school kids. We all do it at least once. A lot of standing up and down.

Yeah, and it can get hot. It can get cold in that church. Somebody else said that their bestie fainted at the hospital. Their son was getting stitches. They sent the kid home and she had to stay for a few hours under observation. Vaughan fainted when he saw blood. Yeah. Again.

My own blood. Yeah. No, I didn't. Well, the other time. That turned out that when I was giving blood, that's when they said I was anemic. I was like, impossible. He eats too much meat. I eat too much red meat.

Are you sure it's not the opposite of that? I've got too much. Yeah. Yeah. But some messages in on when you fainted. Some of them, like, we can laugh now. I hit the deck at the warehouse. I was waiting to get ball photos printed, probably why I was sick.

Then came to, stood up, hit the deck again, sick and faint, pissed my pants. In the warehouse? Yeah. Where everyone pisses their pants. I don't know if that jingle works. That's why they've got the concrete floor. That's why they've got the polished concrete floor. Easy to clean up.

Nikki, good morning. Hi, how's it going? Good. When did you faint? So during my third trimester, I developed a fainting disorder because baby was pushing on a nerve. And so I started fainting up to 15 times a day whenever I sat down. Oh my, what's your thing?

When did you sit down? Oh, yeah. So like, as soon as I sat down, I had like two minutes and then I would just pass out for like 15 minutes. Oh my God. Jeez. Is it a lot of pregnant people fainting? Yeah. So many messages.

Black pressure and everything kind of changes. How many times a day were you fainting? Like 15. How many times did you sit down? Did you make this noise every time? Because when I fainted, I know I've made this noise. It's not how... Did you make this noise every time? Because when I fainted, I know I've made this noise. It's not help. I'd get like a two-second thing that I was going to pass out,

and I'd be like, babe. And then he'd hit my head. Babe, babe, babe, catch me, babe. So good, Nikki. Thank you. Some more messages in. I fainted in the shower when I was a teenager, and my brother and sister found me naked on the floor.

I don't like that at all. You probably made a hell of a noise when you hit the floor in the shower as well. And then the water goes cold because the whole water runs out. Yeah, that'd pretty wake you up. Yeah. That'd be all right. I didn't fuel myself for a basketball game. I got subbed off.

And when I was running to the sideline, I was like, and just fainted and just went down. Face first. That's terrible. Shouldn't be laughing. I fainted at the vets when I was 10 after pressuring my mum to be there with our dog as he got worked on. That had eaten something in the neighbour's garden that he hadn't.

First time I ever fainted, I got to stay home for two days from school because I hit my head on the bench on the way down. Stainless steel. Ouch. Yeah. Easy one of those benches for a reason, right? I hit my thumb with a cut-off disc on a grinder and ground a chunk. Yep.

No. I'd go straight down. Yeah, he looked at that and I was like, oh, that's bad. And then he was just like. I'm a serial fainter. I've fainted while serving a customer. And also mid-Christmas carols at the dementia ward of a nursing home. Down I went.

At least they won't remember. Yeah, that was harrowing for them to see someone go down. I fainted when I was getting my eyes lasered. Oh, no. The laser surgery. Don't you have to stay really still? Yeah, and they pull it. Well, when I had it done,

they pull your eyes open and you have to stay perfectly still. And they were like. They fainted in the chair. You overthought it. You thought about lasers hitting your eyes. and you have to stay perfectly still. They fainted in the chair. You overthought it. You thought about lasers hitting your eyes. You overthought it and it made you sick. Pissed myself. Oh, no.

And I couldn't feel my eyeballs. Oh, God. I fainted at work. I'm a nurse in a patient's room. Patient pressed the emergency bell and about 10 doctors flooded the room expecting the worst because the patient was like, help me, help me, but it was me that was in trouble. They had to lift me off the floor and then they put me in bed beside the patients. I had to lay beside the

system for 15 minutes drinking juice to get my blood sugars up. There's so many, I think we might do a flow over. An overflow podcast. A podcast special. Love it. Next, Add to Cart is back, thanks to One Roof. We've got some amazing goodies to give away. We'll explain how the competition works after the news.

And we are joined very soon by Nathan Fillion from The Rookie and many other amazing TV shows. Dude, Nathan Fillion's Firefly. Yeah. Gone as IMDb. It's hundreds of appearances. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.

Putting us on Zoom or whatever app we're using, Microsoft Teams, God knows. It's a screen and I can see him. And he's a good-looking man. You'll know him from the TV shows the likes of Desperate Housewives, Modern Family, Castle, Firefly. And way back, we're in Two guys, a girl and a pizza place, but we're here to talk about the rookie.

Nathan Fillion, good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. That was a tremendous introduction there. Nathan, I'm a big fan and a long-time fan. I'm a Firefly guy from way back. Robbed. We were all robbed.

What you're telling me is you suffer from excellent taste. Yes. He does. Not on all things, but on this he does. On this I certainly do. We're here to talk about The Rookie, which today in New Zealand we get the seventh season of The Rookie. Today? It starts today? Today.

Today is release day for a season, which is behind because I think you guys have... Is it done? Is it finished screening in the States? It's not done. We're in full swing. We're closer to the end than the middle. You're not that far behind. How do you guys avoid spoilers?

Carefully. We don't. Carefully. No, everything gets ruined for us, to be honest. You go on the internet, every show ever. It's just the cross to be a for living in beautiful New Zealand. Yeah. That's horrifying.

And maybe with the onset of AI, we can kind of go into our social medias and put like filters, like don't spoil anything for me. Yeah. Can I tell you how the rookie was introduced to our household? It was via my now 13, but at the time 12 year old daughter.

Did you know it had this like massive, it was she saw it through TikTok and her friends at school were watching it. And I came into the lounge. Thank goodness. Cause I thought you said, I thought you were going to say she got arrested. We need to set her straight.

Not yet, but it's on the cards. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, she's going to be on the right side of the law because she always likes the good. It's my second daughter that's often siding with the criminals on The Rookie. Right. Which is worrying. But I came into the lounge and she's watching it.

I'm like, what are you watching? It's so unusual to see a 12-year-old girl who hadn't previously watched any police procedural shows. And at that stage, she was like, season three, episode six. And she's like, it's called The Rookie. What do you want to know? And then she's like, we'll restart it. And we restarted it and kind of watched it all together.

So the onset of the, I mean, social media is so amazing. And these little TikToks, the YouTube shorts that come up, the stuff on Instagram, it's like a constant stream of teasers showing you the exciting bits and the titillating bits and the romantic bits. And people can really, they get hooked on the bits and say, what am I missing here? And then they track back

and they start streaming it. She has also got some questions that she can't be here. She's got to go to school. Boo. Boo for school. She said, she wants to know,

her name's Indy and she said, what was, can you please ask Nathan what his favorite season to film was? Season two, Indy, was my favorite. Thank you for asking, Indy. This is a wonderful question. She's going to film was? Season two, indeed, was my favorite.

Thank you for asking, indeed. This is a wonderful question. Because I got a new, very mean training officer who was very funny in her meanness. And it's really fun to play the part of being metaphorically kicked in the nuts i think i i don't think we can all relate to a lot of the stuff we watch on television certainly i can't relate to being a police officer but i can certainly relate to the crotch kicks of life and i think think that's enjoyable for people to watch.

And I got a lot of that going on in the second season, challenging this very... Was that when Harper was your T.O.? That's right. It was, yeah. Yeah, he knows. Guys, she gave up being a detective because she needed to spend more time with her daughter

and she wanted to, like, reform the bond. Oh, wow. And that's a character who has had a phenomenal arc. And I'm so excited for what you guys have coming up for you in Season 7 because she's got some fantastic stuff that she's just so capable. She's an incredible actor and that character's had a real arc. Indy, second question is who's the best special guest that you've got? Because hers and mine, Skip Tracer Randy. When Flew LeBorg comes on

as Skip Tracer Randy. I was going to say Flew LeB and mine skip Tracer Randy. When Flew LeBorg comes on as Skip Tracer Randy. I was going to say Flew LeBorg as Skip Tracer Randy. He's incredibly reliable. I love playing straight man to someone's lunatic. And he really sells the lunacy with sincerity. Like you can, I don't think those people exist in real life, but somehow I believe that Fleur Le Bourg exists. Because I thought Fleur Le Bourg was a character

because I've seen him on Conan O'Brien when he was coming up through. He's this German, super high-energy guy. I was like, this is a character? And it's like, oh no, he's not. This is just him. And then he brings it through on the show so well. I'm not going to say he's not an oddball

because he's an oddball but he's also incredibly reliable as far as both the guest on your show as far as the character goes and just being an actor on the show and the behind the scenes and how he helps scenes move on and how he

discovers things. So much of that is him. He's very fun to write for too, our writers will tell you. Yeah. Your character is actually based on a real person, isn't it? An older rookie at the LAPD. Do you run into like police in your everyday life? Are they like, oh, hello, fellow officer.

Being cops, right? Yeah. We're cops. We're all cops. Do you just go out arresting people willy-nilly? The radio codes and all the terms. Yeah, yeah. I do like

to hear from police officers. I mean, any of them will tell you like, hey, as a police officer, you guys are great actors. Yeah. But I don't think they would call on us if there was a real emergency. No. Which is apropos.

Did you have to do any shadowing? Like, did you ever go out with some real cops and like have a little lurk around? So while some of our cast was doing some shadowing and some ride-alongs with actual LAPD police officers and they've got some incredibly thrilling stories. I was actually off in Paris, I think, at the time when this was going down to further the interests of the rookie in other regions and affiliates.

But every season, we have two wonderful police consultants that help us out all the time. Every season, they put us through another aspect of police training and the last one we did was the most incredible because it was a gymnasium set up as a virtual reality training facility you put on the goggles the vests you have the guns and the tasers and then now you're in a restaurant now you in a bank. Now you're on the rooftop of a thing. Now you're on the beach. And you're running through scenarios.

And then you can go back through it and go play by play and say, oh, Richard, I can't help but notice how many times you pointed your gun at my back. Like that kind of. Real life video games. We actually had a bit where one of our. It was it was Richard. I'm going to, it was Sergeant Gray. I'll rat him out. Someone was shooting down a hallway and he ducked behind something for cover,

but went to lean against a virtual wall and fell straight on his ass. Wow. I've seen people on the virtual reality, like games where you're on a roller coaster, just absolutely eat it because they lean forward and it's, you know, eat it onto the floor. So I go, virtual walls are almost forgivable. Yeah.

Well, TVNZ... It's entirely true. Your brain is so tricked. TVNZ Plus and TV2 Season 7 of The Rookie is out today. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. We had some time off. We had a little break there. During which my daughters are like,

oh no, I've been challenged. I've been nominated to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. And I was like, what is the year 2012? Was that the year that it was? 2012, 2013. When did the Ice Bucket Challenge start? I know I Googled how much money did, so 2014. Right. 2012? Was that the year that it was? 2012, 2013. When did the Ice Bucket Challenge start? I know.

I Googled how much money did, so 2014. Right. Because I remember it was massive. Like celebrities were doing it and nominating three more celebrities. It was a pre-TikTok world. Yeah. Vines. Yes.

People were doing it on Vines. How much money did the 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge raise? It raised $220 worldwide, according to the ALS Association. And it actually, the Ice Bucket Challenge and the money raised actually did good, right? Yeah, it did. It raised awareness. Did they find a cure? Is that what happened?

What is ALS? It's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Yes. It's a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing. And so, yeah. It's a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement and breathing. And so yeah, it's a degenerative situation. So it was our

winter 2014 and US summer 2014. Right, that the ice bucket challenge happened. Yes, that was a big thing. Well, it's back. Now let's go to the social media desk, Shannon. Why? Why it's back? Why is it back? I believe it's more mental health orientated this time, isn't it?

Yes, it is. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to do it now that I'm an adult. I did it back in the day. Yeah. But it's too cold. I still didn't do it back in the day. My nipples are so small and they get, you know, with ice.

You didn't have to do it topless. You could wear whatever you wanted. The nipples see through. You know I get teased for my small nipples. Yeah. Ever since that embarrassing wet t-shirt competition you entered. At the Outback. Yeah.

It was a hot year. I don't want to talk about it. You just wanted to win a gym and be a bar tab and that's absolutely fine. That's your prerogative. I don't want to talk about it. Yeah, yeah. Did you do this Georgia back in the day? Did you ever do it?

No, I have to be honest. I have to be honest. My partner and I just met at the time, and he did it, tagged me, and I was like, this guy. It's not happening. And you just married him a few months ago. And I've never done it,

and I felt like such an arse because I haven't donated to that charity. But great to see they raised a lot of money. I don't think anybody donated. No one I knew donated. I did the challenge because it was cool. But I was never going to donate money. I was 14. I didn't think anybody donated. No. No one I knew donated. No, but it still raised so much money. I did the challenge because it was cool. Yeah. But I was never going to donate money.

I was 14. I didn't have money. But didn't you do it or you had to donate? Oh, maybe that was it. I didn't do that either. Wow. Wow. Guys, it was the replacement for planking.

So, I mean. It was. It was planking and then this. And so now, does that mean planking's back next? Probably. I could do planking. Should we start it? The Fletch woman.

It wasn't planking like the planking and holding it for 30 seconds for abdominal core strength. It was just literally lying in silly spots. In weird places. Yeah. So it's back. Raising awareness and money for mental health. Right. It's a good cause's out of America.

Yeah. But you know what? They didn't do it right. What do you mean they didn't do it right? They filled up a bowl. Oh, a bowl. No, it's got to be a giant bucket. It's got to be a bucket with lots of ice in it, right?

Yeah. And the ice dongs you on the head and it hurts a little bit. Yeah. But that's all part of the challenge. And then it's really, really cold. Now, they half-arsed it. I was disappointed. I've got to tell you.

They half-arsed it. Well, it's back. Yeah. Clanking is now leaning. Someone said leaning's a thing. Someone said, are we bringing back the Harlan shake? Remember that one? No.

Do you not remember that? Yeah, I do remember it, but let's not bring it back. I think I saw one of those, like, at the start of the year or the end of the last year. Yeah, okay. Ah! Yeah! Let's bring back Kony 2012. Dude, Kony 2025.

We never got him. We never got him. 2025, we never got him. He's out there on the loose. That was, I think, my favorite arc of a trend. I need a documentary about it. The guy that organized it went crazy and started naked dancing on the street. Do you remember that?

He was on the roof of cars and he was speaking in tongues and he had a full situation going on. Yeah. Yeah, it was all go. That was a wild time. It was a wild time. But again, they still haven't got him. And I reckon a drone strike now would take him right out.

Whoa. Go to 2025. Drone strike. Like, you get this shit done, Trump will do it. You know what? He will. He probably will. He will. Fact of the day is next. It's all about popes. Yeah.

This week. The pope died. The conclave is going to sit. They're going to elect a new pope, so we're talking popes. Fact of the day. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. Well, the Pope bloody up and died, didn't he?

Yeah. I think how many pipes have I had in my lifetime? It's all a bit much, isn't it? It's a lot. It's full noise. It's full noise. It's a lot. So this week I thought we'd delve into some stories of popes of the past. Okay.

Because the pope's been a thing for ages. Yeah, forever and ever. So the first one we want to start with is Pope Sylvester II. Now that's Sylvester Stallone. Sylvester the cat. He was the first cat Pope. No, he's known as the magic Pope.

Okay. Uh, he was born in France. Uh, he was a poor boy sent to the monastery, uh, to be educated by monks. Um,

he studied in Spain, which was at the time, uh, he studied math, astronomy and science in Spain, which was, uh, if that was like a thing at school. Next period, what have you got?

Astronomy. Astronomy, yeah. Cool. Learn about stars. So he went to Spain, which at the time was under Muslim rule, and they were advanced in the areas of maths and science and stuff. Learned Arabic numerals, how the stars all work, like the idea that the sky repeats itself on a pattern

and you can... It's called day and night. Hello. No, I was thinking more like the likes of these stars mean it's time to harvest. You know how the Matariki stars come up in the 70s? Oh, yeah, and you could be coming into money this weekend because you're a Capricorn.

That's astrology. This is astronomy. Right, okay. But obviously when he came back and was a leader of the church, people thought he was magic. Oh, okay. But obviously when he came back and was a leader of the church, people thought he was magic. Oh, yeah. Because he was like, oh, in three days' time,

there's going to be a star and it's going to rise there. And they thought he was some kind of witch magic. They thought he was a sorcerer. Well, they burned you for that back in the day at the stake. Yeah, well, he must have been sitting in that sweet spot of when magic was like pretty cool. Pretty cool. Yeah.

So the rumor is that he learned sorcery from Arab magicians. Right. And stole a forbidden book of magic from an underground library using a demon's help. God, people will believe anything like that. They will, they will, they will. So he became Pope in 999. 999, cool. Yeah, I know, right on the thing.

When I see the clock and it's like 111. 111 rules. Or 222. No, my favourite is 23 minutes past 1 in the afternoon. Oh, because it's 1, 2, 3. With 45 seconds. Yes. So good. It counts it. That's my favourite time to see on the clock. It's always a real treat so he became

Pope and he wanted to achieve a whole lot he had these Heidi dreams but he couldn't shake this idea that people had this

theory that he was a sorcerer and magic apparently he built he was he built something that resembled a head

that was mechanically moved the mouth. And he'd just be like, ask it a question. It's got to be a yes, no question. And people would ask it a question and the thing would move and say like, yes or no. Right. And people were like, he was probably just using ventriloquism.

But at the time, everyone's like, how is he doing this? Right. And they thought that he'd made a deal with the devil to get his magic powers. It's surprising they didn't burn him at the stake. Yeah, I know. It's really surprising. He got to being Pope and he ruled for a little while. And the legend is that the bronze, you know, the thing he made,

he said, you know, basically asked a series of yes, no questions in front of people. And they said, if you ever hold Catholic mass in Jerusalem, you'll die. And he's like, well, that's great. I just won't go to Jerusalem. But then he did mass in a Roman church and the church was called Jerusalem. And then soon after he died. That's the legend of it. So he invented the magic eight ball, basically.

Yeah, he invented the very simple. No, he invented 20 questions. When they ask you a series of yes, no questions. And then the app magically works out what you want to say. But he's considered the magic pope. So today's fact of the day is Sylvester, not the cat, nor the Stallone. Sylvester II was a pope that everybody thought was magic. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Okay. Do we need a moment? We just need a little moment before we get onto our topic.

Can you please not play any sad songs today because my boyfriend, Lockie, just cheated on me after our one year. Shout out to him. Piece of shit. Lockie. Lockie. Lockie. Lockie.

You need to take a good hard Lockie at yourself in the mirror. What's the happiest song? What's the happiest song in the world? Mr. Blues Guy by A.L.O. or Happy by Pharrell. I hate that song so much. I hate it so much. I hate it so much.

I think it's because it's telling me to be happy. Yeah, and it's like you're actually a song. You've got no business telling me to be happy. You should just make me feel happy. You should just make me feel happy. Yeah. What's the happiest song of all time? Happy. Don't do that thing with your lips again.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun By Cyndi Lauper Oh that's a great song Good Vibrations By The Beach Boys Walking On Sunshine I'm walking on sunshine What was the one with the baby In Ally McBeal

Ooga Chukka Oh that's a terrible song Ooga Chukka Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Yeah girls Why does my thing Is it girls just want Or wanna It's wanna It's wanna Cindy Lauper We don't have fun. Yeah, girls. Why does my thing... Is it girls just want or wanna?

It's wanna. It's wanna. Wanna. Cindy Law Purr. We don't know the name of the person. Oh, Instantly Happy. Instantly Happy. I don't know if it's going to undo the hurt that Lockie's caused,

but it's surely a step in the right direction. Well, do you know what? This might help because people are revealing the insane ways and unusual ways they met their now partner. Yeah. Because somebody posted this on Reddit. What's the most interesting unusual way? I had a couple of friends who met on the motorway.

They were making eyes at one another. One of them wrote their number on a piece of paper and held it up. And the other person wrote it down and, yeah, they messaged and they went on a date and stuff. You would need to have a Sharpie or a Vivid and some big, like a big old receipt. You'd need a big ass... I don't know if I could... I've got really good eyesight, but I don't know

if I could read a biro on a receipt. Unless it's... How badly do you want this? I'll probably move my car into their lane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd get real, real close.

Somebody said, my brother got a date the same way, but not a piece of paper. She pantomimed out her phone number to him. Oh my God. If you get that wrong, you're a piece of paper. She pantomimed out her phone number to him. Oh, my God. If you get that wrong, you're never going to see them again.

Yeah. That's brilliant. Is there any word if this has made her happy? Can she message in if this has made her happy? No texts yet. About the person. Lockie's really done a hard... Lockie.

Lockie. Is it Lockie? It would be short for Lachlan. I feel like in this situation, it's probably a Lachlan. Anyway. That's naughty. We want to ask now, 0800DARZATM9696. Yeah.

How did you meet your partner? The more unusual way, the better. So we don't want Tinder stories. We want my friend set me up. It's got to be like those crazy stories. Yeah. I was working at a sawmill and we were all going to be made redundant. This is on's got to be like those crazy stories. Yeah. I was working at a sawmill and we were all going

to be made redundant. This was on the same Reddit post. Okay, okay. So they bought an attempt for a day and a half to type up our CVs to help us get another job. At the end of the second day

I asked her out, we went out drinking. She bought me dinner because I was redundant and I bought her breakfast. Three months later we're getting married. Still together 21 years later

and laugh our asses off. Three months later that we're getting married. Still together 21 years later and laugh our asses off about it. Three months later that we're getting married. How good's that? Okay. BP, Marshall and Roden, Christchurch, 1am. That's all that somebody said. Wow. Do you think they were arguing over the last pie?

Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Maybe the last pie. Okay. They've messaged in. Ree Lockie. Yes, you made me happy. Very happy.

He wanted to cheat on me apparently because he didn't want to break my heart by breaking up with me. Lockie. Is that guy logic? Lockie. We've got to raise better boys. All right. She's happy. I'm happy. I'm happy.

We're happy. We're talking about the unusual way you met your partner. How did it happen? Here's a message. I got drunk at a dog troll and vomited over myself. He hosed me down, then gave me his shirt, which his mum then took back off me when I tried to leave with it. She didn't believe it.

Love at first chunder, obviously. I know we're still together, but that sounds great. Oh, we need a follow-up. Are you still together? Some calls. Tara, good morning. How did you,

the unusual way you met your partner? Yeah, so it was quite a few years ago, so not current partner, but I was working at Subway. Yep. And he just told me I'm pretty much at the start. Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, Tara. You just cut out, so you were working at Subway, and then what happened? Yeah, so... Oh, Tara, wait there. We'll see if we can get you in some better reception. Wait there. We'll come back to you, Tara.

Dan, how did the unusual way you met your partner? Yeah, so she was a fill-in for an indoor netball team. Oh, okay. And she was a friend of a friend, and when she walked through the door of the facility, I saw her and I paper-scissor-rocked my brother to see who would talk to her first. And I won the paper-scissor-rock.

So you got it. You got in there. So this is, you paper-scissor-rocked a woman. With your brother. With your brother. I couldn't imagine my brother or I doing that or even agreeing. No. No.

He's my twin brother as well. Oh, that explains it. That's twin behavior, what you did there. Yeah. You knew. Yeah. Wow, okay. Okay, so we've, thank you for your call.

We've lost Tara. Her reception got to the point. I know Tara's story. Okay. Okay, so thank you for your call. We've lost Tara. Her reception got to the point. I know Tara's story. Okay. She was working at Subway and her partner came in, her soon-to-be partner came in and said, can I get your number?

And so she took that vivid that they've got and she wrote his number on her number along the footlong. What if they'd been leachate? What if they'd opened up the bread and the Italian herbs and cheese was now Italian herbs and cheese and a little bit of sharpie. And a little bit of 021. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're kind of on the wrapper. That she went because I wanted to ask her if she secretly gets

pissed off when someone says toasted because it's extra work. I always feel they resent you a bit more when you say toasted. I feel like you're adding another step in their day and they're like, oh, do you need to? Yeah, or it's like when you ask for extra something and they kind of half-ass that and you're like,

I said extra. Yeah. I'm the customer. Sidebar, if I may. You may. Permission granted for a sidebar. You wondered if you'd be resented by Subway employees for asking for your toasted because it's an extra step

in the process and you feel like you're costing them time. Someone said, not a problem to toast it. I will tell you, we hate when people order double meatballs. It's impossible to close. Oh, really? And it falls apart because it's all the hot gravy and liquid. We just wrap that thing up and hand it off. Not a problem for me. I'm not a meatballs

sub guy. Oh, meatball subs is like on sub of the day, that's the cream. Meatball sub hungover? No notes. Who isn't out the gob? Yeah, who isn't out the gob? No notes. Now we're talking about the unusual ways that you meet your partner. Do you have an

unusual way you met Haim, the man that you've just married, Georgia Bird? Yeah, Springer. Used to be like the Spring Swim Pub in Christchurch used to be the student night on a Wednesday, went off. went off and he reeled me in like he fully reeled me in on the dance floor

and I shimmied in and it was honestly it's the most Christchurch story I've ever heard is it though the reeling in I don't know

yeah because you were both wearing crusaders tops and I was actually in my fishing pants I was really I don't know do we have fishing pants I don't know. Do we have fishing pants?

I don't know what you're talking about. Lots of pockets. I think just lots of pockets. Some messages saying, I met my now husband of 15 years when I was his divorce lawyer in his first marriage. Oh my God. And before you ask,

I'd made sure we concluded all of the legal matters before we got together so no ethical boundaries were crossed. Oh my God, that's amazing. But then you'd also know how screwed he was or how rich he was. It was probably the latter. Yeah. I met my, no, that's amazing. But then you'd also know how screwed he was or how rich he was. Yeah. That was probably the latter. Yeah.

I met my, no, that's a boring one. Why would you message in that boring story? Oh, Vaughan, can you please don't be mean? I met my wife playing laser tag. She climbed a barrel to shoot over the top of the wall, but then couldn't get down because she had a broken arm. I helped her down, married and still together 15 years later. Wow.

And she wasn't covering the lasers with her hands. She got up onto this barrel with a broken arm but then couldn't get off the barrel. I wonder if she's one of those people that also pees their pants when they play laser tag. As soon as you hide. 100%. As soon as it goes dark and the music starts and the laser beams start and I'm camping and I'm like,

I should have gone wheeze before I came in here. Guys, can we have a wheeze between now and the next moment? Literally though. At a party I was thrown into the pool, his mum gave me a towel and his sweatshirt. 35 years later, still together. That's actually wholesome. At a pool 35 years ago.

That's rich. It would have been a para-rubber pool. Wouldn't have been an inground one, surely. That's rich. My dad asked my mum out and she declined so we got a friend to sell her a raffle ticket

and got her number from there. Says he won her in a raffle. You wouldn't get away with that these days. You wouldn't get away with that these days. It's like when people remember the early days

of COVID, we had to sign in and put your number and be like, that person was hot. Even with a mask. Yeah. Although sometimes

they take the mask off and be like, mingin'. Put the mask back on. take the mask off, you'd be like... Mingin'. The mask back on. Oh, another podcast in the bag. The plastic bag. Are they back? No, no, still banned.

Okay. They never left. No, sorry. That's where you come in with the line, boy. Boy, man, if you enjoyed that. Okay. Oh, and if you enjoyed it, give us a rating and a review and be sure to tell all of your friends. God, I need some sleep.

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