ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - April 8th, 2025

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod; Hot chip bar in Aus  Top 6 - Colours that will heal you men are more distracted by sexy images Aussie baby name reports SLP - Do you have a career regret? Netflix are increasing their prices again!! MAFS or WW2 What can you not stand to watch someone do? Where should the next season of White Lotus be? What did you convince your new partner to like Fact of the day Hayley's plane buddy Deep conversation starters for dates See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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From the ZM Podcast Network, this is Flesh, Fawn and Hayley's Big Pod. Thanks to Animates, making happy happen for pets. It's ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Thanks, Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Flesh, Fan and Hayley. Thanks, Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Two minutes past six. Hayley is joining us from Australia this morning, where I believe it's 4am.

It's 4am. Why not, guys? You know, why not? It'd be better if it was 3am. Because of the song. How would that be better for me? It's 3am, I must be lonely. I must be lonely.

I've been awake since 2am. I can't sleep. Why would you wake up at 2am? I don't know, man. Daylight savings, I'll blame that and an overactive brain. And so I'm catching up on White Lotus. Oh, yeah, good. I'm catching up, baby.

The final was last night. You guys haven't caught up. Yeah, no, shut your mouth, Fletch. I cannot. I'm catching up, baby. Final was last night. You guys haven't caught up. Yeah, no, shut your mouth, Fletch. I cannot. I won't say a thing. You know, no spoilers because I haven't watched yet. Great end, though. Great season.

On the way, the top six. Yeah, the top six colours to cure you. There was an article yesterday, a colourist, a specialist in the field of colouring houses and picking colours. Don't they just call them stylists? I don't know, man. Yeah, Chowra. Yeah, Chowra.

She said colours can heal you. Okay. So when painting your internal spaces, it's important to remember colours can heal you and find your healing colours. I've got the top six colours that will heal you. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. There's a new tourist attraction in Noosa

and so my parents will be able to try this out. Well your parents love this. It's there or Port Douglas? Port Douglas, yeah. Parents love a Noosa. Love a Port Dougie. Get up there to Port Dougie. Oh they love a Porty Doug. Love a PD.

Chip and Mix in Noosa is the newest. And they believe the world's first because they didn't take this idea from somewhere. The inventor simply said, man, that's a great idea and made it happen. Chip and Mix works such as, this is how it goes. You go in. You pick what size plate you want. Okay.

Paper, takeaway plate. I'm going large. You'd be a fool to go anything less. But there are options. I'm here. Do you know what I'm going large. You'd be a fool to go anything less, but there are options. I'm here. Do you know what I mean? They scoop the chips in. You can choose what kind of chips you want.

Do you want crinkle cut? Do you want shoestring? Do you want waffle? I want a thick. Do they do like a steak chip? Yeah. Yeah, good. Yeah, I don't know why. I kind of pictured crisps.

No. No, hot chips. You stupid girl. You stupid, stupid girl. Well, I'm so stupid, boy. You didn't make it clear. I thought it was crisps. No. No, hot chips. You stupid girl. You stupid, stupid girl. Well, I'm so stupid, boy. You didn't make it clear. I thought it was crisps. Like chips.

No, chips, hot chips. Then you take it under a machine, and it's effectively like a frozen yogurt situation for hot chips because then you have 40 different toppings and sauces to choose from. No, this is a great idea. Every one of them is $80 a gram. So the price is based on the weight. At the end, you weigh the whole situation.

$8 for 150 grams. And I've got no, I'm not seeing any price scale that indicates the more it weighs, the less you pay per gram. Okay. Which I think you think you're going to have fun. Baked beans is an option to put on top. Heavy. Heavy? Heavy. Yeah, you want to go

but what about like bacon or meaty bits? Yeah, there's bacon and meaty bits. Are they the same price? Yeah, it's just the end, in the end the weight. Why would you go baked beans? That's going to cost so much more. Because you'd go cheese. If you were going to put weight on, right, you'd go cheese wouldn't you? Yeah, you would go cheese. There's avocado as an option too.

How heavy? Avocado's not super heavy. No. You're making a loaded fries situation. Is salt and pepper included in the weight? Because I like it quite a lot. Everything, everything that you put on. Salt and pepper don't weigh a lot, do they?

No. You don't know actually how much pepper I have. It's just like a frozen yogurt place. Yes. But instead of lollies as toppings, it's anything loaded that goes on fries. Yes. You could do your poutine.

You could do anything. Loaded fries. You could go vegetarian. You could go meat heavy. How do you think the fries come out? Because they come out of a chute, out of a machine. But are they sitting there for hours? That's what I would like to know.

How crisp are we? Because the minute those toppings hit, you're against the clock for sog. You're getting sog. You're getting sog. Yeah. So I wonder if it's kind of like an air fryer machine and it just cooks them immediately for you.

Yeah, do you reckon they're coming out crisp AF, super like double fried, so that you've got a bit of, you know, a bit of sog room? Yeah, they'd have to be. They'd have to be sog allowance. I would give this a go. I'd give it a red hot go. I would give this a go. But I reckon it's one of those places you go and you're like, this is going to be nice.

And then you're effectively getting hot chips for $35. And you're like, this was a one-off, kids. Enjoy it because we ain't coming back here. It's like getting the frozen yogurt because you just top up those lollies. Or go, yeah, like a really bougie ice cream place and it's $17 for a rolled ice cream and you're like, what have I done here?

I did a place when I was travelling in South America at the end of or the start of this year and it was like a buffet. It was like Asian buffet. Buffet. Sorry, buffet. It was like Asian buffet. Buffet. Sorry, buffet.

I was going to let him have it. Sorry, buffet. No, I just didn't correct you there. It's buffet. And you put it all on your plate, and then at the end, you put the plate on the scales, and that's how you paid. What, based on what you ate? Yeah. That's an interesting concept.

So, yeah, I'm assuming they take the cost of the plate as included. Yeah. The weight. And then they know what the plate weighs. Yeah. And then they just minus that and then add the food. Sort of like a weigh sushi train. Yeah, it was.

Huh. But there was sushi. It was all Asian. It was Asian fusion, you would say. Wait a minute. How many Asians are you fusioning? Sushi, it was all Asian. It was Asian fusion, you would say. Wait a minute. How many Asians are you fusioning? Sushi is never an Asian fusion. Sushi is never an Asian fusion.

No, but it was. And that's why, because I saw that you weighed the plate. I was like, I don't want sushi weighing down my plate. I'm going meaty bits. Yeah. You know, not a lot of rice. No, yeah. Rice is white though. Yeah, some greens. Yeah. You know, not a lot of rice. No, yeah. Rice is light, though.

Yeah, some greens. Yeah. Well, maybe, maybe. Well, now I just feel like a bit of Asian fusion. And chips, loaded fries. I feel way more like chips than I do Asian fusion. 12 past six. Next on the show.

Next on the show. She hasn't had a lot of, she hasn't had any sleep, has she? While we're dealing with a female here, heavily distracted, it turns out us men are more distracted. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Guys, this may shock you. There's two studies out of the UK, two studies, two separate universities that looked at the impact of sexual images

and who impacted more. Take a wild stab. As people who aren't part of university studies, men or women, who would be more distracted by sexual imagery? I know the answer's going to be men, but I don't want to say it. I don't want to say it. It's going to be men. It's going to be men, isn't it? It's going to be men, but I don't want to say it. I don't want to say it. It's going to be men. It's going to be men, isn't it?

It's going to be men. Like profoundly. Oh, really? Profoundly. You're saying we're easily distracted by, I don't know. Anything sexual. Anything sexual. Well, I don't know.

I'm on a Zoom right now, so I could hold up a sexual image, I suppose, to the camera and see if you guys can. No, absolutely not. What is it of? Well, that's the thing is that you guys would have different preferences, so I wouldn't be able to hold up an image. I'm just not going to look. I'm just not going to look.

Okay, hang on. What am I looking? Nobody wants to see this, Hayley. Wait, who is it of? Oh, no, I'm just trying to find a good sexual image that would distract you. You can pull up one of your nudes or something. I was like, I don't want to see that.

I don't want to see that. My nude? Yeah, no offence. No offence. But he would be distracted. But I'd be distracted. But he would be distracted. Yeah.

Okay, just to pause you, why would it be so repugnant to see one of my nudes? I never said repugnant. I just said I don't want to see it. Which basically is saying it's repugnant. It's not saying it's repugnant to see one of my notes. I never said repugnant. I just said I don't want to see it. Which basically is saying it's repugnant. It's not saying it's repugnant. It's saying we've got to proceed. You want to see one of my notes. You're just

nodding. That was a bad sell. That was a bad, now he's shaking his head. It's changed from up and down to side to side. Now he's just rolling his head around in total circles. No, because I'm focused on the show. You were also sort of choking. I'm focused on the show. I won't be distracted.

Absolutely not. Okay. It's not surprising, is it, though? It's not surprising. No, it's not surprising at all that men are so easily distracted by this. Emotional stimuli, they call them, sexual or threatening images. So there's like a fine line there. It's sexual or threatening images trigger quick reactions within men.

So they get more like distracted, bamboozled, like can't refocus on the day. There's got to be some primal wiring, surely. Oh, you think a caveman like is going, I need to protect for her and get her some. Or I need to marry that woman, you know, bring her to my cave and make a family. So it's not our fault we're primal, really. get her some... Or I need to marry that woman, you know, bring her to my cave and make a family. Yeah. So it's not our fault we're primal, really. Yeah, well, that's... I love this. You hated that flip, by the way. Anytime you bring her to my cave

and make a family, I hated that. I like how you also said you'll marry her before you take her to the cave. Oh, yeah, yeah, because I'm, you know, obviously, like, heavily religious. You know, I'm heavily religious and respectful. Very respectful. Yeah, very – pour me a wine at least and ask me about my day before you take me to your cave and make a family with me, please.

Do you remember as a kid there was this weird time – it was like when dinosaurs were really popular, Jurassic Park era, and there was a whole lot of, like – the study into, like, paleontology and the origin of human species and stuff was quite big as well. Yep. And there was this like ongoing thing that cavemen would donk women on their head and then drag them by their hair to the cave. And you kind of saw it everywhere.

What? It was everywhere. She said hot. Who's distracted now by sexual imagery? I was testing the mic. I was testing the mic. Right. I just remember it was everywhere.

That it was like, and so when you said you'd respectfully invited back to your cave I was like, that's not what I remember as the way that the caveman functioned. No, weren't you bringing us back to your cave so that we could show you our big fat hips so that you were like, she's got enough weight to bear a child for a winter. She'll be alright. That was the

thing. You're putting words in my mouth now. Anytime there's a thing where men have like a little bit of a bad trait, we're automatically like, cavemen, dude, sorry. It's the cavemen. I can't help it. I'm just trying to live my best life out here, but I've got some primal wiring in the cavemen. Yeah, it's probably just you, dude. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. From the unmoderated comment section,

this is the top six. Man, my top six is good today. Just rereading it. Pretty crack up. Here we go. Pretty crack up. I reckon we'll be the judge of that actually, Vaughan. Because we're the ones listening to it.

Yeah, well, you do be the judge. Okay, go. Oh, no, I've got to paint the picture first because it's about colours. He's already hitting some metaphors here. Colour Can Heal says paint consultant Meryl Southey. She's a New Zealander. She lives rurally north of Auckland.

She loves colours. She's a colour consultant. She talks about all colours. Why is she in the news? I believe this was a paid editorial. Oh yeah. Colours and, you know. Why is she in the news? I believe this was a paid, what do they call it? Editorial? Oh, yeah.

Advertorial? Oh, okay. For Resane. Resane snuck this one in. Oh, yeah. Well, Hayley, you love Resane. Yeah. You've done a lot of colours.

I have, but I didn't know Vaughan was on Big Resane. I'm not on Big Resane. This is my, I'm trying to get on Big Resane. Do you reckon one day when I repaint my entire apartment white, they'll be on board? Or will they just be like, you're too plain? No, because it's boring. Yeah, you're painting it from white to white.

So they might just be like, you're not really showcasing everything Rizane can do for people. Yeah, okay. All right then. Yeah. You got to liven it up. I was going to go slightly off white. I wouldn't go, say, Hayley's length of the colour scale.

But there is a happy Hayley one. Excuse me, my home brings me a lot of joy, that colourful range. And it's healing for you, isn't it? It's why you haven't been sick. Well, I've got the top. That's right. I've invented some colours for Rosanne. Okay.

The top six healing colours. Okay. In the new Rosanne range. Number six on the list, ibuprofen. Right. It's purple, but it, ibuprofen. Right. It's purple, but it's ibuprofen. Right. Okay.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, sort of an anti-inflammatory. Okay. So you just look at the wall and you're like instantly. Instantly. Yeah, give it a look if you want. Anti-inflammatory. Give it a look.

But it's a lovely purple. It's a healing purple. Like a grimace purple. No. I'm imagining. It's quite an aggressive purple. I was thinking more towards the darkish red scale of purple. Okay.

Oh, like a plum. A plum of some sort. Yes, a plum or a move. Okay. Sorry, a what? A move. A move. Move.

Move. M-A-U-V. A move. Okay. Number five on the list of the top six colours that will heal you in the new Vaughan Smith exclusive Rosene colour chart. Do your collab. Anti-histamine.

And it's just mint? It's a mint colour. Okay. But yeah. A minty pastel. It's a minty pastel. A greeny pastel. It's a greeny pastel.

You absolutely read it, but it's anti-histamine. Okay. So it will stop your hay fever being bad too. Okay, good. Yeah. Next on the list, number four on the top six new colours that Rosanne will hell you with, ruby tussin. If you've got a cough, go into the room coloured ruby tussin.

And I imagine that's a maroon. That's a ruby, you dick. Yeah, a deep maroon with some, like, brightness, you know, a little bit of tang. Ruby! Wow, okay, we've been told. It's Ruby. It's Ruby, Justin!

I'm sorry. Well, that's what we describe. Number three on the list of the tough sex colours that will heal you in the new Vaughan Smith collab, I mean, it's already pretty much, I'm ready to sign on some, yeah, the dotted line here, Razine, is Code Green. Okay. It's like codeine. It's a, the dotted line here, Razine, is Code Green. Okay. It's like codeine. It's a pain relief, but it's green. It's Code Green.

Okay. A forest green or a minty green? It's not minty. You're thinking of antihistamine. Sorry, of course. This is actually more of a forest green, yeah. A real dark, real rich, kind of like the green of your wallpaper, Hayley. Oh yeah, okay, I'll take that. That's already got a green name, though, doesn't's kind of like the green of your wallpaper, Hayley.

Oh, yeah. Okay, I'll take that. That's already got a green name, though, doesn't it? Without all the birds and stuff. Yeah. Well, the birds actually add a bit of magic and creativity, you know, so don't be square. As long as you like them. Wow.

You know I like that wallpaper. I'm just not brave enough to do that wallpaper. I know you're not. You're so brave. You're so brave. You're so brave. Thank you so much. That's actually not the first time I've been called brave as a woman. So thank you so much.

It won't be the last. Number two on the list of the top six colours that will heal you is Violet Agra. Okay. Violet Agra. Okay. Colour your bedroom. It's light blue. It's light purple.

Yeah. Well, it's violet. I mean, the name was a giveaway. I know, but Viagra is famously blue, isn't it? Is it? Look, Alice, I'm getting on me. I don't know. I thought Viagra was the little blue pill.

I have heard people say little blue pill. Little blue pill. Yep, look, there you go. Okay. Is Say Alice also blue? Wow, I didn't realise you guys also had acting degrees from Toy for Cars. Ew, I heard also. Oh, Say Alice is yellow.

That would actually be a disgusting colour for a wall. No, well, it's not. Both of them. It's more violet than it is light blue Viagra. I can see a laundry being painted that blue, to be honest. Oh no, here's a red one. Maybe that's a Thailand one. Oh, hello. Maybe that's an off-brand.

That's an all-weekender. That's a long-weekender. The blues are one-nighter, the reds are all long-weekender. And number one on the list of the top six colours that will heal you, cremotherapy. Okay. Just cream? It's cream.-long weekender. And number one on the list of the top six colours that will heal you, cremotherapy. Okay. Just cream?

It's cream, but it's chemotherapy. Oh, right. I feel like people aren't really painting their house cream anymore. There's nothing wrong with a cream house. What's wrong with a cream house? It's not white. Wait, what colours? Sorry, what colours your house?

I think my house is just white. I feel like it's cream. But Fletch, you could go cream. That would be something just slightly more exciting than white. I'm just going plain white. Plain white on white. Just like your Ancestry.com results. Pretty much.

White, white. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Baby names that are going down in popularity, right? These are the ones that have been popular for many, many years that now people are going, absolutely not. Vaughn. I will say.

Shut the fuck up. Yeah, Vaughn. Vaughn sucks as a name. Vaughn's never been a popular name. It's never ranked highly. It's kind of everyone knows a couple of us and that's that. And you never get a mug or one of those novelty person plates. I do have a mug. I use it every day.

It was made by one of our lovely listeners. Well, our lovely listener got it made for us. Yeah, but you don't get one. It's a custom made mug, but it counts. Sarah made my dreams. I thought this cup was empty and I just spilt coffee all over myself. That was brilliant. That was so good.

I'm so happy that happened. That's made my day. Wait, Vaughan. I'm glad! Vaughan, how do normal people spell your name? Well, V-A-U-G-H A-N is the best way to spell it because if you spell it V-A-U-G-H

I just think there's too many letters in there. I think there's too many letters doing too much work. What are you talking about? You're H-A-Y-L-E-Y. You're one letter less. Yeah, but Hayley's name is in a gift shop everywhere for merchandise, isn't it? We're out of town. I used to go, my name says Hayley. My name says Hayley, right?

Oh, right. You're saying mine's a weird, it's V-A-U-G-H-A-N. It's done a whole lot of. I think it's Welsh. Blame the Welsh. Well, you're silly. That was my Welsh accent. Here are the names that have gone down in rankings

from 2023 to 2024. Michael, gone. 32 points down. Michael, just your M-I-C-H-A-E-L. That's always been like a classic name over the years, so hasn't it? Mike, classic. We've got too many.

Snoring, boring. Ari's gone down a lot. Ollie's gone down. Hamish. Wow. Can I just stop? I've just had a very expletive message from our friend Michael. No, but he's a vintage.

He's a vintage, Mike. He's telling you. It's a great name. It's gone down in rankings, but that doesn't matter. That doesn't affect his vintage. He's a vintage Michael. He's telling you, he's very, it's a great name. I'm upsetting that. It's gone down in rankings, but that doesn't matter. That doesn't affect his vintage. He's a lovely man.

I want to say Ollie had a good run. Ollie, Oliver and Ollie had a bloody stellar 20 years along with your Liam's and your, yeah. They had a resurgence as well.

They had a complete resurgence. Ollie, Hamish is down, Owen's down, Reuben, Zachary. We're not meeting a lot of Owen's down. Reuben, Zachary. We're not meeting a lot of Zachs anymore. Reuben and Zachs.

Yeah, they're popular names. Yeah. Our other friend Zach. Yeah. Zachary at my primary school was the hottest guy. Like everyone wanted a bit of Zachary. It was a hot name. Right?

Yeah. Yeah, in the 90s everyone was like, Zachary's hot. Where is he now though? Where is he now? Probably a drug addict. You know, I can only presume. Maybe we should check that before we just get chucking around the fact that...

No, I think Zach's a drug addict. I don't even need to look it up. I just feel it in my bones. Okay, right. Charles is down as well. Here's the women's names that have gone down in the last year, and these are ones, again, that were really popular. Harlow, Quinn, Cleo,

Thea, Peyton? P-E-Y-T-O-N? Yeah. Okay. Never heard that. Have you never heard Peyton? I've heard it but it's not very popular. I wouldn't have thought it was American wise it would have been pretty popular. But this is Australian names

isn't it? This is Australian. Yes, it is. Peyton and Athena. Those are the girls' names that are like on the way out. Harlow and Quinn, I'm like, oh, those were around for a while, right? They were very popular. It's kind of like quirky, like fun names for a bit. They're on their way out. Harlow and Michael.

I remember Harlow being on our baby name list. Really? When we were naming humans. What else was on your list? Dakota. Carl, obviously. Carl or Carla. That was my, one of them had to be a boy or girl.

Imagine a baby now being called Carl. Or Carla, yeah. Or Carlo. It just wouldn't happen. It's like, you can't imagine a baby Mike now. You're like, oh, this is my baby Mike. It's like Keith or Kevin. Here's my baby Gary.

You couldn't imagine it now, eh? Gary almost you can imagine. You reckon that'll come full circle soon? Could have a full circle. Baby Gaz, yeah. I think about my parents like a patsy. Imagine if I had a child and I said, I've named it after my mother. Or imagine having it like

a baby girl now and calling it Beryl. Beryl? Nah. Probably not, hey? Probably not, no. I reckon give that one a miss. Nah, not Beryl. Au revoir! Shalala! Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Fleshborn and Hayley

Silly little po Silly little po It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Today's silly little pole. This was based on a Sikh study. 54% of New Zealand workers wish they had chosen a different career.

The career regret was biggest for millennials. Really? The job market has changed drastically between millennials entering

it and now. Yeah. You think about millennials were entering 50, 20, 15, 20 years ago? Yeah.

Like, well, AI, the internet, working from home, a global pandemic. Everything's changed. New York Times had an amazing article last week. I think it was republished in the Herald about like elder millennials and Gen Xs whose careers are just completely disappearing now. Especially like in media, advertising, those kind of industries. They're just like disappearing now, especially in media, advertising, and those kind of industries. They're just like, okay, now what do we do?

Yeah, we don't need you anymore. We've got computers and they're way cheaper. So we asked the same question for silly little poll today. Do you have career regret? What did you say the answer was there? 54%. 44% on our poll uh and 56 of people saying no they don't have career regret let's dive into some comments uh ashley said i landed a job on a

super yacht traveled the world earned more than i ever could in new zealand and haven't paid tax in years and got all the hot goss from the celebrities on board. Oh, my God. Give us the goss, please. And that tax. How do you not pay tax on a... Because I guess you get... Super yachts are all based out of the Cayman Islands and tax havens. That's how they afford to have the super yachts.

So I guess they pay you through the Cayman Islands. But how do you get that money back to where you end up living without paying tax on it? Smuggled in your socks. 10,000 at a time? Yeah, socks and bum hole. Socks and bum hole? Yeah, half in the socks, half in the bum hole. Can those dogs at the airport sniff cash?

Cash? They can. There's those cash dogs. No, my question was, can they sniff it in the bum hole? Yeah, dude. No, but there's all sorts of other things in the bum hole to help mask the smell of the cash. You're thinking of it by human scent.

Like the way we smell things. If something overpowers something, we can't smell the other thing. They can smell all the layers. You're saying the dog, even through a pair of undies? Dude. Even through your charcoal filter undies to stop your fart smelling, the dog will be able to smell the farts. Okay.

Alexandra said, no career, so no regret. Okay. Having kids youngish kind of stopped it for me. Well, you're going to have to do something though, right? Yeah. No? Dana said, no, but ask me again at 4 a.m. when I have to go and milk the cows. Dana's one of our Dairy Farmer listeners.

I often talk to Dana. She's got all the technology down at Dairy Farm. Shout out to Dairy Farmers. Oh, do you know what you would have loved actually yesterday? Dana had her parents' place was getting sprayed with a drone sprayer, a massive drone. What, they don't have planes anymore? It's all drones.

Yeah, I guess so. I guess you can get lower and closer without the danger of crashing the helicopter. I regret getting my pilot's license as well. Career agree, of course. There's another career down the drain. This is drones. Yeah. Anonymous, please.

I studied for travel and tourism. I'm now working as a travel agent. I'm now finding it not as thrilling as I thought it would be, and I wish I'd studied something else or that I could do something more fun. Okay. Okay. Buddy, it's never too late, right? Like pottery.

So much fun. I just changed careers Buddy, it's never too late, right? Like pottery. So much fun. I just changed careers. I spent four years studying. Now I'm a psychotherapist. It's one of them. It's a physio. It's a touchy one, not the mental one. I used to be an accountant. Didn't like it. So many numbers. Shout out to accountant this time of year too. You're doing your GST. You got into financial year. You got it all.

Yep. Early childhood teacher here. Kids are not the same as they were 10 years ago. From on the spot. Ratbags. Anonymous, please. I year got it all. Yep. Early childhood teacher here. Kids are not the same as they were 10 years ago. Oh. From on the spot. Rat bags. Anonymous, please. I was a beauty therapist. I've seen tons of vagas.

That's their words, not mine. Now I work in insurance, so I wish I did something like architecture or surveying, but I feel like it's too late and I can't afford to leave my job due to my financial situation. Less vaginas in insurance, isn't there? In general.

In general. I don't know. I haven't worked, I can't say. Definitively. If we weren't on traditional FM broadcast, I had the perfect joke for out. Well, don't say that now. You probably don't see many

badges, but I bet you see plenty of C's. That would have been my out, and it would have been punchy, and a good natural out, and then Fletch would have done this. Netflix is putting their prices up. Again? I thought they just did it like. Again?

Isn't it sort of weekly at this point? It does feel like quarterly. They're having their quarterly meetings and they're like, guys. Up again. More, more, more. I don't know. What have they had lately that's been massive?

Netflix. What have I watched on Netflix lately? Adolescence. Adolescence was huge. That was like one of the biggest shows. That was like number one in every country

around the world. It probably still is. But like, honestly, worth a subscription fee alone. I still haven't watched it. That was four episodes and like,

what does it cost an episode? A thousand dollars? Like, calm down. Black Mirror's about to come out. New season of Black Mirror is going to come out. Oh, watched it. That was four episodes. And, like, what does it cost an episode? $1,000? Like, calm down. Black Mirror's about to come out. New season of Black Mirror's going to come out. Oh, damn it. I don't know if I need...

There's heaps on Netflix. I don't know if I need Black Mirror after the pandemic. And, you know, it's just a bit... And the way the world is... A bit real. Yeah, it's a bit real. Love on the Spectrum is on there now. And Adolescence.

Look, there's no denying they have an incredible amount of shows. They've got wrestling now. Yeah, they do. I saw that. They just recently added wrestling to it and they've got like

this massive back catalogue. Movies wise, Jumanji. I mean, that's worth the money. I love those Jumanji movies. But it's coming up. So the premium plan will go from $27.99, which I believe is what I'm currently paying,

to $33.99. In the premium one, you get like extra screens, right? You get extra screens, but you have to, but if it's one of those ones where you're sharing it with someone who doesn't live in the same house and it's logged into multiple smart screens, which is, I believe, Carlin's situation with her mum. So adding an extra person did used to cost you $7.99,

but will now cost you $9.99. So is your mum leeching off you or you're leeching off your mum? So it's my mum's account, but I pay it at the moment because I'm a lovely, nice daughter. You are a lovely, nice daughter. But she has the standard,

I think it is, because there's basic standard and premium. Standard is the lowest one that you can add someone on to, add a household on to. So we're paying, I think the new rate is going to be like $25.99 and then another $9.99 for me to be in a different household. Right. It's stupid.

You're just moving in with your parents, I think. Well, yeah. Yeah, actually, I quit. I'm moving back to Hawksbury. So Disney Plus was also like, guess what? The average has gone up too. So a standard plan went from $14.99 to $16.99 and the premium's gone from $18 to $21.

So it all just gone up. Dare you add it all up? This is my thing. I have literally all of them. I have Netflix, Disney, Neon, Prime, every single one. I dare not add them up. No, you don't want to know. It's a lot.

Because remember when you were like, I'll cancel Sky because I'll get these instead. And now they all just add up to the same thing. To what Sky used to cost. Yeah. But that's all. That's going to be so much. But what Sky used to cost. Yeah. But that's all. Like, that's going to be so much. But I've been doing this for ages.

I just jump around. Like, at the moment, I've been, you know, loving White Lotus. I've got Neon. I don't have Netflix. And then I'll just kind of get them every couple of months and binge all I can. Unbelievable. But you're a loser and you put it in your calendar.

Sorry, you're a loser with no other friends or plans. Yeah. But you also, you put it in your calendar sorry you're a loser with no other friends or plans but you also you put them in your calendar so you know what to watch and then you cancel and then you watch it you've got a like forward thing yeah I'll just bank up shows that I want to watch and then yeah buy it for a month and then go to the next one

cancel and go to the next one otherwise if you have all of them all year it's a lot of money. Someone's just messaged in they've heard rumours that the NRL and the Waz are going to be on Netflix in 2027. Part of like live sport. The Waz.

The Waz. Did you say 2027? Yeah. Can I get a vibe check if we're still upping the Waz in 2027? Because I sort of if we're still upping the Waz in 2027? Because I sort of feel like we upped the Waz for infinity. Right. For infinity.

I just feel like I upped them so hard. By the time against the 2027 season, we're going to have back-to-back titles. Because this year is the year of the Waz. We're going to win this year. And then next year they're going to be so. I just feel like I'm upping and I'm upping and I'm upping. It's a side effect. You have the upping. We've got to up the Waz. We're going to win this year. And then next year they're going to be so... I just feel like I'm upping and I'm upping and I'm upping. It's a side effect of the upping.

We've got to up the Waz. Delusion, isn't it? The Waz must be upped forever more. Well, yeah. If you have Netflix, it's going up a couple of bucks.

At least a couple of bucks. At least a couple of bucks. Let's play a new game now World War 2 or maths Where I was Because I love World War 2 I mean I don't love it Like I want it to happen again

Don't misread me on that one I find it I certainly don't want it to happen again But I love it It's interesting It's fascinating The whole situation Yeah It's come to my's fascinating, the whole situation.

It's come to my attention, Shannon knows nothing about World War II at all. But she knows a bit about maths. Yeah, and I love maths and obviously I want maths to happen every year. So, you know, Shannon admitted yesterday that she didn't know anything about World War II but knew a lot about maths, which sparked an idea in us, didn't it? World War II or maths? We're going to ask three questions about World War II, three questions about maths, and see which ones she knows more about.

I've made mine very, very basic. Shannon. However, I think I have made questions about maths so basic that anyone watching this season would know. Okay. I haven't watched any of it, so I think I'm going to know more. But you're not answering the questions. No, this season would know. Okay. I haven't watched any of it, so I think I'm going to know more. But you're not answering the questions when it's just Shannon. No, I know.

But I mean, you can play along at home. How much of World War II do you know, Shannon? I was a big history girl in high school, but I'm how many years out of high school now? Like seven. Did you study World War II at high school? Yeah, well, we had a cool teacher, so we studied conspiracy theories and stuff.

The moon landing. The moon landing. Yeah, and I studied Marilyn Monroe's death and all that. What? But conspiracy theories aren't history. That's not the school curriculum. Well, ask me about Marilyn Monroe. Well, what did she die of?

How did she die? How long do you have? The mafia killed her. No, she died of a barbiturates overdose. Anyway, though, I love history, but I do think it sounds like your

history teacher was rogue there. That's not the curriculum. That's not the curriculum. That was great. Was your history

teacher wearing hemp pants? No, she follows me on Instagram, though. Shout out, Miss Mitchell. Oh, okay. Shout out.

No, she's great. No, no, no. Okay. I got my first World War II question. All right, are you ready? Yes. Question one. What year did World War II officially begin?

39, 1939. Oh, she's nailed it. I know that. No, how did, wait. No, it's 39 to 45. I do know that. That's correct. She's Googled that though, hasn't she?

No, I haven't. She's pre-Googled. She's pre-Googled. She's pre-Googled. Okay, we'll give you that one, Shannon. I was watching her eyeballs and they didn't look down, so I trust her, actually. Okay, I have a maths question for Shannon. Which maths star did an act this season so abhorrent

the police were called? Wait. You know this. You know this, you know this Three Her brain's full of Adolf Hitler facts The police were called Three, two

I don't know One It was poorly punched a hole in the door Oh my goodness, of course You fool I double screen while I watch maths, I will say What event... World War II question number two.

What event led the United States to enter World War II? They... I love the movie. Pearl Harbor. She's got it. Two from two. These are too easy. When they had sex in the parachutes.

I remember it. I beg your pardon. Okay, I don't... Again, that was a movie. It's a great movie. That's a great movie. That's not historically accurate. Okay.

No. Shannon. Imagine having sex in the parachutes. They did. And then you're jumping out of the plane and you're like, what the hell's that smell? Okay, Shannon. In Normandy? What's that stain on my parachute?

It smells like sex in there. Shannon, at the end, shush about the sex in the parachutes, please. Have some respect for World War II. Shannon, at the end of the current season of Maths Australia, who did Jackie ultimately end up with? Clint. They just got engaged.

Correct. Correct. All right, so that's two final World War II questions. Shannon is nailing it. If you get this, you win. I feel like you should go harder. I feel like you should go harder. Yeah, step it up.

I'm ready. Okay. Who was the leader of the UK during World War II? He looked like a pug, right? He did. He did. He had pug-like features. Bulldog.

They called him the British Bulldog. Yes. Oh, my goodness. No, I know it. He has an old man's name. He does have an old... Winston Churchill! Yeah!

Woo! You won World War II! I did not see this coming. I didn't see... I'll be honest. I did not see that coming. I would have liked some harder World War II questions. How hard? I actually think, Bour honest, I did not see that coming. I would have liked some harder World War II questions. How hard?

I think, I actually think, Bourne, you underestimated her. Yeah. And I think you went too easy. Because everyone knows when it started, right? Like, I feel like if I didn't, you should be sad with me. No. I don't reckon people would. Oh.

Because it kind of, it was all bubbling throughout Europe for a little bit before it officially kicked off in 39. You'd say from 36 on. Didn't someone get stabbed or something? The Prince of Hungary or something? No, that's World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I'll stop talking, actually.

I did good with my assassination. Fletch, can I ask my third maths question? Absolutely. Just to see how she'd go. My third and final question for maths, what word did Lauren use to describe Jamie's behaviour? Boganic. Boganic. Boganic.

So two for maths. Three for World War II. I'm actually really proud of you, Shannon. I don't think anyone's been this proud of you. Really, really proud. That's incredible. Thanks, guys. Incredible.

Do you think we branch out into different topics? We could do different topics. I'm not doing Marilyn Monroe, though, because she'll be like, mafia! ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, Hayley joins us from Melbourne today at an Airbnb. The wonders of technological broadcasting. Look, we're figuring it all out, aren't we?

We're figuring it all out. But, guys, yesterday, so I flew to Melbourne yesterday. I haven't flown international for a while. You know, I've been grounded in New Zealand for a while. And it was a packed flight. I was middle. I was middle. You were a middle seat. Absolute amateur not booking a seat

earlier. Just saying. Yeah, I'm embarrassed. I'm actually embarrassed that I did that. It was fine. I was like, I've got my headphones. I've got my game. I've got, you know, I've got things to do. And I was like going to catch some Zs and stuff. What game? Oh, don't make me say it.

Candy Crush. He's still playing Candy Crush. He's still playing Candy Crush. I'm sorry. I am still playing Candy Crush. Auntie. Auntie. And then when she runs out of energy.

When she runs out of energy, she's just got to pay the little $2 just to get some more lightnings, you know. I'm on a bit of a streak to her. I'm on a streak. Why not? So yesterday I was on this plane and I had a guy. It was fully packed.

The guy in front of me, you know, he can see through like the slots in the seats. Yep. He was playing solitaire. On the screen on the back of his seat. Yeah, you know, like if he didn't want to watch a movie or something, you can play games and stuff. He was playing solitaire on the screen, on the back of his seat. And he

just kept missing moves. And I didn't want, guys, I didn't want to get invested at all in this. But it was like he'd click the deck and four would come up and there'd be a red five and he'd click the deck again. I'd be like, you've missed it.

No. You've missed the four to the five. And I witnessed him miss so many moves. By the end, I was nearly punched in the back of his seat. Like I just. How many times in the version of Solitaire he was playing, because I know there's a little bit of flexibility on how many times he can scroll through the deck.

You know, the ones where you flip it over and you said he'd missed the red five. Sometimes you can only go through that once. No, he was playing beginner. I could tell. I could feel it in my soul. You know how you can like tell. But he played... So the flight was four hours. He played the entire four hours and I watched all four in my soul. You know how you can like tell. But he played, so the flight was four hours.

He played the entire four hours and I watched all four hours of it. How many times did he actually complete the stack? Like not enough times. Just not enough times. And I, you know me. You didn't have to be watching him play. Nah, I'm with Hayley. I'm with Hayley.

I hope the best for humanity, you know? Yeah, and also, what am I going to watch, Fletch? Like, I was like, this is what I'm watching. She was out of her candy crush stamina had run out and she didn't get a top up for 24 hours. Yeah, I couldn't. Honestly, it ruined my day. And it still has.

This will haunt me for the rest of my week. I could not stand watching him do it. It was just basic solitaire, my bro. I wanted so much to get involved in that. It annoyed me so much. This is what I wanted to ask this morning because, oh my God, how much it annoyed me

is so stupid. I want to know this morning what is it you cannot stand watching people do? You know when you just watch something, you watch someone do something that you know how to do and you go, how do I tell you that you're doing it wrong? How do I? What's your thing?

You just got to let them. The Mel Robbins. Shut up, Mel Robbins. I know, shut up, Mel Robbins. I'm trying my best to let the Mel Robbins, but I'm surrounded by incompetent people who can't do it as well as they could if I told them how to do it. No, my finger was poised to be like four on the five.

Tap them and be like that one. The nine on the ten. The nine on the ten. It's right there. I've been doing that. What's that word game I play when I've got no reception on my phone and can't play my usual game? And you've got to like solve word puzzles here. What's it

called? It's here somewhere. Wordscapes. Puzzle. You ever play wordscapes? No. It's like an empty crossword and there's like this wheel of letters and you've got to make all the different. No. I've been on a plane playing that before and had a tap and someone's like you're missing steel. S-T-E-A-L. Yeah and as they should have.

As they should have. And I stopped playing because how did I miss steel? Yeah. It was right there. It's embarrassing for you, isn't it? And I literally spouted teal and then tried to do teals, but that's not a word. There's probably people as well that don't like watching people do sudoku

and crosswords as well. Yeah, anything. Or even like trim a hedge and you're just driving by being like, you are trimming that so wrong. You're doing this so wrong. I want to know, what can you not stand watching people do? Maybe you're like my wife and you can't stand watching me travelling behind a car that's 400 metres away without being like,

ah! Does she want to drive? Wait, no, apparently not. Even though I'm pulled now over on the side of the road saying, if you think you can do better, feel free to drive? Wait, no, apparently not. Even though I'm pulled now over on the side of the road saying if you think you can do better, feel free to drive. Okay, 0800 dials at M is our number. Give us a call. You can text through 9696.

Oh, my God. Someone's just messaged Will in. Wait, wait, wait. I need to see this. What is it? Load the dishwasher. Load it. Oh, it all gets cleaned the same.

You've got to wash the dishes. Half of those things are going to have to go in again. Okay, what? Half of those things are going to get in again if we did it right the first time. We wouldn't need to. We're starting arguments. This is almost the end, guys.

Listening to this, also selling a few copies of Mel Robbins' book. Let them. Let them. No. I don't think we're letting them. I think we're getting involved. And actually this reminded me because I flew to Melbourne yesterday and I had to watch a guy in the seat in front of me

play solitaire for four hours. And the amount of times this dude missed, really easy moves. It just drove me crazy. And so we wanted to know this morning like what can you not stand watching other people do and that like this reminded me that like Aaron drove me to the airport and like watching him trying to navigate it was like the biggest turn off I've ever experienced in my life like like a nana she drives like a nana Yeah, yeah, yeah Change lanes now It just was infuriating

Slow but frantic Because that's how I'd describe Fletch's driving When Fletch occasionally drives He's slow but frantic He's like, and now I'm going to change lanes I'm not like, don't drive like that Slow but frantic Unbelievable

Coming from the tailgater in chief Tailgater in charge I got some frantic is perfect. Tailgater chief in charge. Okay, some messages in. Some beauties. Watching children colour in. Now I know it's for them to enjoy and work on their fine motor skills, but not staying in the lines and unrealistic colour usage. Tip me off whenever I'm at a restaurant and they've got a colour in menu.

They're so shit at it, eh? Yeah. They're literally the worst at it. Like that's the best thing is they suck so hard. I can't stand watching my husband set up a new phone or any technology. He mashes his big fat thumbs on the screen, won't let me help, and then loses his temper when it's not going right. My husband choosing a car park.

He drives past 10 good ones. Oh, because he's trying for the closest? No, he's going further away because he wants to be less trapped in. Oh, my God. No. Just like a comfortable one. Cole, what can't you stand watching people do? I cannot handle watching other people pack their luggage into a car.

That just frustrates me. I'm like a Tetris master and I can't handle watching someone else do it. Yeah, from one Tetris stacking master as I was taught by my father, senior Smith in the Tetris packing mastership. I absolutely know it. When they just start hucking things in willy-nilly. When people put a small soft bag in first. Don't be so stupid.

Hard big suitcases first. Put that down to the side. We'll deal with that later. Yeah. You guys are so worked up. This is so funny. I feel it on my neck.. I feel it on my neck. I can feel it on my neck.

I know. Look at you both. Cole, I need you to take three big deep breaths. Yep. And relax. You sound like a good, sensible person, Cole. I can't do it. He's a great man.

He sounds like a great man. We get it. Thank you, Cole. Adam, what can't you stand watching other people do? Hey, I'm a teacher and in charge of the IT support at school, and I can't stand my colleagues navigating the computers because what they should be able to do in two clicks takes them about 80.

Oh, that must be infuriating. Yeah, that would be. They're just like, you know, all right, I'm going to copy this, and they click up to the file, edit, scroll down to copy. I'm like, there's keyboard shortcuts, guys. There's shortcuts for that. And they look at me like I'm going to copy this. And they click up to the file, edit, scroll down to copy. I'm like, there's keyboard shortcuts, guys. There's shortcuts for that. Oh, God. And they look at me like I'm a wizard.

Like, how did you do that? Do you know what my kids do that drives me nuts? Rather than going, like if they need to do a capital letter, shift. Or do they go caps lock on, press the letter, caps lock off? Oh, my God, I do that. I do that. You do it. I do do it. I that. I do do it.

I've learnt it wrong. I had a colleague who, years ago when he was typing his reports, do the finger hovering over buttons and then looking and then there's the T, okay, and then searching and there's the H. Oh no, he needs

typing. Oh no, that's it. Okay, I get that frustration. Thank you, Adam. Some messages in. So many. We're hearing from the dishwasher people and I just want to throw my heart out there for all of us. I love someone messaging and saying,

I just hate watching my children try to do up a button. Fumbly. They get fumbly. Their little fingers. Oh, little fingers. Stupid fingers. And then fingers. Their stupid fingers. And then one day they can do a buttons without you

and they don't need you anymore. Enjoy the button days. Watching my partner put a nappy on our son. It takes him so long. I'm just like, quick. Hurry up. He's probably being careful. He's going to be careful.

Watching waiters carry drinks trays with two hands at restaurants rather than holding it with the hand and forearm. I feel like I'd be a two-hand guy because I wouldn't want to drop it all. Two-hand guy. Better be a two-hand guy harder. Watching my teenage boys fold washing. It seems to be more rolling than folding. And I refold all of my...

Oh, so they're folding the family's washing. They're doing them a favour. And at the end of it, they go back and refold all of their own clothes. Just do it. Just do it yourself. People are furious trying to watch people put their bags in overhead lockers on planes. Yes! You know how they're just sort of like

not quite sure. Yes! They're just standing there like monkeys. Monkey fit! It's not going to fit. The wheels are sticking out. Yeah, yeah. I literally, my kid buttering, my husband buttering toast.

It's like, what are you doing? What, like you can't do it? What are you doing? Get right to the sides. I can't watch boomers try to screen share on teams. Now, how am I, am I doing that right? Can you see where I'm showing you here? Can you hear me?

Can you still hear me and can you see where my mouse is? Watching anyone parallel park, the smaller the car, the more infuriated I get because they're in a small car. It should be a piece of cake. Oh, yeah, totally. What? My mother-in-law tips liquids into the dishwasher instead of the sink. Even a full pot of Bisto gravy.

What? She'll be like, no, no, no. What are you doing that for? It's not a drain. It's not a drain. I mean, it does drain. It can handle it. It can't handle it.

It can handle it. You guys are it does drain. It can handle it. It can't handle it. It can handle it. You guys are so precious with your dishwashers. Always rinse before you add. Of course you rinse. You rinse everything. Rinse the lot. Put it in. The sensors don't know what they're looking for if you rinse.

There's no sensors. What are you talking about sensors? There's sensors, you idiot. There's not a computer AI scanning the plates being like, yeah, that way. The jet just whizz, whizz, whizz, whizz, whizz, whizz. Mel Robbins wouldn't have been able to write this Let Them Book if she was dealing with all this bullshit.

Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. The White Lotus-y finale was on Neon New Zealand time yesterday. No spoilers. Although if you, like you, Hayley and you, Vaughn, have not seen it, it's going to be spoiled for you everywhere. No, I think I'm literally, as soon as we are off air tonight or today, this morning, I am going to watch it because I, yeah, there's spoilers everywhere all over the internet

and I cannot have been invested in this season. It's been so good. And it's the big thing is who you always find out, because every episode of every season starts with someone dead, and then you find out in the last episode. But there's already talk about season four of The White Lotus, and rumors, nothing has been confirmed yet, but apparently some of the producers

have been sniffing around because they're always filmed at four seasons. So far there was Maui in Hawaii. The second season was in Italy. Yes.

This season was in Thailand in Koh Samui. And apparently they're sniffing around Morocco. Yeah. Which I've never been. Also, apparently Australia... I think I would thrive around Morocco. Yeah, yeah. Which I've never been. Also, apparently Australia... I think I would thrive in Morocco.

Would you? From what I've seen. You've got a great character, don't you, Fletch? A Moroccan rug merchant? No, I don't. Are you sure? Are you sure? You're thinking of Vaughan and his comedy stand-up about the...

His comedy stand-up. Moroccan rug merchant yeah exactly yeah but apparently sources at HBO in the US

have had meetings and yeah Morocco followed by Australia has also been rumoured but yeah also a lot of fans are calling for a snow edition

they want to see like that's I've thought about that but it would be very hard to film it would be very hard to film. It would be very hard to film. Because how long were they there for? Seven months and they've always filmed in somewhere with like a constant climate.

Whereas if you go snow the variables are too much. And they basically hire out this entire resort and then shoot there for months and months and everyone stays there. So you're not only pretending to stay there but actually staying there. So yeah. Casab pretending to stay there, but actually staying there. So yeah.

Casablanca, that's a city in Morocco. Marrakesh. Such a good show if you miss it. Also, Brianne Clint managed to get to Aussie too. They had a little precedent over there. Some of the stars from White Lotus were over there. So if you miss that, catch up with the Brianne Clint podcast on their socials. They interviewed Patrick Schwarzenegger, right?

And asked him all about who's going to die and to try to see if he would give anything away. So anyway, I'm going to watch it today. So please don't see me. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. I reckon producer Carwin's done the impossible. We're always trying to get our partners invested

in the things that we like and love and often they just don't match. But Carwen has told us that she has succeeded at doing this with her partner. What have you done, Carwen? Look, I'll just start off by saying I'm a superior girlfriend. What can I say? You know? I've done

the impossible. Wow. I've done the impossible and I've convinced my partner to love reality tv specifically the real housewives franchises that is that's impressive at this yeah this is i'm just disappointed i'm so disappointed this man comes from a long line of wealthy castle-owning Europeans. Very wealthy European family. And I'm sure back in the day they had just as much juicy drama as the housewives

of 2025. Perhaps. Probably even more so. The jousters and the jesters. What's the deal with housewives? It's just like a few rich women and we just follow their lives and them screaming at bars and screaming at really nice restaurants and screaming at holidays. So poor behaviour.

I'm watching rich people behave poorly. It's not a good episode if someone hasn't thrown a glass of wine. Really? That sounds problematic. Jeez. You know, they're just in their 40s living their lives. How long have you guys been going out? Is that what you say? Going around? How long have you guys been going out? Is that what you said?

Going around? How long have you two crazy kids been going around? I don't actually know. Maybe a year? Oh, okay. It's because this reeks of early days, dry guy trying to... Oh, like the first three months? Yeah.

See, that's what I would have said too, right? And at the beginning, sure. But now he's like, oh, it's housewives day. Oh, so he's looking forward to it he's leading you've got him hooked i tried this i tried this so hard with aaron with married at first sight like i was like get invested it's drama this is shakespeare aaron and he just thought it was just it's the worst and he came and he would ruin it he'd be like just leave so you've done well carwin really really really well thank you well and on the back of this we want to ask the question this morning what have you convinced your partner to

like won them over i wonder if as well if this like would go as far as food. You know, if you were like, this is the food. I'm an oyster girl. I need oysters in the house. Oysters. Okay. All right, private school. That's not a. This is the thing.

Crayfish in the morning, darling. You know, this is what we need. Right. See, I can see it in a new stage, the early stages of a relationship. People would totally do that. And then they find themselves actually liking it. It'd be a sports as well, like being like, I'm a huge hockey fan.

I'm a huge Formula One person, right? And you're going like, okay, I can totally get into NBA or something. With Formula One, I'd rather spend the time with you while you're watching Formula One than not spend the time with you. So then you by proxy get involved in

Formula One. There'll be some hard convinces on like I've never I could never ever be attracted to someone that's into gaming, like full gaming. If they convince me to be like get on the remote, I'd be like no. On the remote controller. Get on the controller.

Oi hon, pick up the remote. I'd be like no.i, hon, pick up the remote. I'd be like, nah, I'm good. Controller, controller. Controller. Oh, do you want to play double with me? Here's a remote. I'd be like, nah. But maybe it was a hobby.

Doesn't need to be a TV show. A hobby, a food, anything. We want to take your calls now. 0800 DARS at M. What did you convince your partner to like? We are talking about- Honestly, Bridget- No, please. Oh, no, you go. No, no, Vaughn, please. I was going to like? We are talking about Honestly, produce... No, please. Oh, no, you go. No, Vaughn, please.

I was going to say, we're talking about... Oh, I'll go because I'm the lady. What you got your partner into, what you managed to convince your partner to be into. No shortage of people getting into some things that they never saw themselves getting into. TV shows or something. Well, producer Carwen managed to convince her boyfriend to like one of that Housewives shows,

which is very unlikely for a guy like him. Bravo to her for doing so. He actually works quite a serious job. I'd imagine this sort of gets into the ethos. I want to be bad for the rep. Terrible for the rep. Terrible for the rep. So we want to know, what did you convince your partner to like?

Some messages in. Someone said fishing. Oh, okay. Because I was like, well, what do you exactly do? And he fishes from the beach. So it just involves sitting in a chair

drinking heaps of beers. So I was like, that's something we can do together. Not really about the fishing, is it? Nah, not a lot about the fishing. Oh, okay. I missed the start of it.

My ex-partner got me into fishing. Oh, okay. So I didn't want to keep them together. Rachel, what did you, did your partner get you into this or you get your partner into it? No, I got him into it. I was one of your original cheerleaders way back when.

That's right. What, like ZM cheerleaders? Uh-huh. This is back when, you know, you were allowed to do things like this, eh? Yeah, and wear hardly any clothes. Yes. So were you a cheerleader with Wendy Petrie?

Because I believe she was a ZM cheerleader. 100%. Yeah, we danced together. Oh, this is... So ZM had a cheerleading team, and before the rugby was played, was it the Auckland rugby team? Yeah, yeah. Before the Blues, it was the NPC, right?

I don't know. I wasn't really into rugby. Oh, my God, I love that. I love that. Okay. And so you got your partner into this? Yeah, into Dancing with the Stars. Right.

So I would be, like, fully critiquing and going, oh, they haven't done this right, they haven't done this. In the end, would be like fully critiquing and going, oh, they haven't done this right. They haven't done this. In the end, he's doing the critiquing and I'm looking at him going, you've got it all right, mate. You've taught him well. Rach, you've taught him well. You've taught him well.

And now he's into Dancing with the Stars. He is, but he still can't dance. Oh, right. Okay. But he can critique. He can critique. He can critique. Totally critique. Yeah. That's brilliant. Rach, thanks so Okay. But he can critique. He can critique. He can critique. Totally critique.

That's brilliant. Rach, thanks so much. Gemma, what did you get your partner into? So I got him into designer handbags. Okay. What? How? Does he have one or is he just into yours?

No. So I convinced him that they're a really good investment. If you buy an Hermes handbag over time, it will increase in price. Yes, you're right. You are right. Are you right, Gemma? No, you are right. It's a good investment. I mean, it's not a commodity, is it?

The good thing about it is when the world goes to hell, you'll be able to carry stuff in your handbag when you're running from zombies or whatever. Yeah, that's true. That's exactly right. And if you look online, you'll actually see there's a list of things that do increase in value, and sometimes Hermes handbags beat out gold. Really?

They do. Yes, they do. That is insane. And when you get hungry, of course, you can eat them. You can eat the handbags. So your boy, at first, was he like, this is ridiculous? It's a handbag. Yeah, but then I showed him all the data on Google that's always correct.

And yeah, he's on board. So I have one now. It worked. Wait, sorry. Did you just say that Google is always correct? Because I feel like that's not quite true. Don't tell him that. Don't tell him that. Don't tell him that.

Wait, so all of this work was just to convince him to allow you to buy one? Well, we have a joint account, so I had to convince him it wasn't just my call. Right. You've got a shared handbag portfolio is what you're saying. That's right, yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. Gemma, thank you.

Some messages in. Got's right, yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. Gemma, thank you. Some messages in. Got my husband into Lego. He now doesn't complain when I drop $450 on a set of Lego. That's a big set of Lego. If you get your partner on board with your hobby,

you can get away with the spending. Yeah. That's right. Or just having time. I've been trying so hard to get Aaron into buying leather jackets.

It's just not picking up. It's not working. Not working. It's not working. My partner was a chef in his former life and I got him into buying that frozen mashed potato

that's already mashed that you just need in the microwave. I'll never peel a potato again. It's just as good as a real thing with hardly any work.

Really? Yeah, but the idea is that Is it like the hiking dehydrated potato? No, no, no. It's the frozen mashed potato. It's the peak of human laziness. It's the absolute peak of human laziness.

And you pay it. If you compare what you're paying per gram for this stuff. It's exorbitant. It's exorbitant. Right. But it's outsourced. But is it yum? The peeling, the cutting, and the boiling, and the mashing.

And then you put it in. It's delicious. Because you put it in the microwave in one of those glass trays with some butter and stuff. And then you stir it up. It's ready to go in like four minutes. That's pretty good time stuff. I got my now husband to drink coffee. When I met him, he didn't drink coffee at all.

I convinced him to try it. He started with mochaccinos, moved on to cappuccinos, and now he just drinks short blacks. I'm still on mochaccinos. Yeah, Fletch never got coffee. But also, when someone says they don't drink coffee, do you think they're a little bit psycho? I didn't drink coffee when I first joined the show, did I?

And now I have my little icy Oti laugh. Yeah. Or people who are just like, I don't do hot drinks. I've got two mates that don't do hot drinks, and I'm like, what's wrong with you? What are you doing when it's cold? Yeah. It warms you.

It's so lovely. It warms you. My girlfriend was a vegetarian when we met, and I'm a sheep and beef farmer, so that wasn't going to last. Had to bring her back to the meat eating. Two months into the relationship, I was like, it's time to start eating meat.

Country music and Formula One. My girlfriend hated country music when we met. 18 months later, we walked down the aisle to a country song, and now it's all she listens to. And I have to credit Drive to Survive on Netflix and Charles Leclerc's beautiful looks for the Formula One turnaround. They did a lot for Formula One, didn't they? Or that movie.

Oh, Storytime. The TV series Drive to Survive totally did. Yeah. Gherkins. After 30 years of being with my husband, he's always behaved like a three-year-old. And I said, ooh, I don't like them. And always threw them out dramatically off every burger.

Six months ago, a friend made him a pulled pork burger with a gherkin bun so he couldn't throw the gherkin away. Oh, yeah. And now he can't stop eating them. Wait, the whole bun was a giant gherkin? I think the gherkin was in the bun. Through the bun. Cooked in.

That sounds good. Like muleyed up. I don't know if muleyed up or diced. Or sliced. But the gherkin was in the bun. Wow, we're going to need more info on the gherkin bun. A gherkin brioche bun. A gherkin brioche.

Yum. Yum. Yum. Good thing your husband. A gherkin brioche bun. A gherkin brioche. Yum. Yum. Yum. Good thing your husband's eating gherks, though. Great. The sweet, tangy, what are the sweet and sour gherks? They're the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

From the supermarket, those ones. All right, so good. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, Day, Day, Day. It's Teeth Week at Fact of the Day. Yesterday we covered why beaver's teeth are orange. Yuck teeth. It's because their enamel on their teeth is iron-based and it rusts like ours.

I thought that fact was yuck, just through and through yuck. You thought it was a bit yuck. Well, today I want to talk about hippos' teeth. Okay. I don't have teeth. What? I don't have teeth. I'm just making that statement with no backing, actually.

Such a wild claim. Such a wild claim about hippos' teeth. I just never really thought about their teeth. They have three sorts of teeth. They have up to 40, but they have three sorts of teeth. They have got the incisors, which is their front teeth, which have a chisel shape like the beaver yesterday. And that's used for biting and stripping vegetation.

So to bite, grip, pull. And then it goes back to the molars, which are the size of soda cans. What? Each tooth? Each tooth of a hippopotamus is the size of a soda can, and that's where they grind the grass, and they grind it down to a point where they can then swallow it. Yeah. Like other herbivores.

Then they've got their massive teeth, their canines, which some people think look like tusks on a hippopotamus. Yeah. They're the big, fantastic ones. They serve no purpose to eating whatsoever. They are purely for fighting other hippopotamuses and defending their territory.

They are self-sharpening because when they shut their mouth, the teeth slide past each other. Like that thing on the infomercials, you slide against your knife. You slide your knife through it, you put it on the fridge and you suck it on and you run it up and through and then the two surfaces, so they rub against each other and when they're chewing, those teeth are just constantly shut,

keeping themselves razor sharp. Ready to attack another hippo. Ready to go or bite. And in another case, crocodiles, they have such a bite strength with those incisors, those teeth, sorry, those canines, that they can bite a crocodile in half. Whoa.

They can grow up to 50 centimetres along those tusks, and as I said, they're razor sharp because they sharpen against each other, and they bite down with 1,800 PSI, which is pounds per square inch. It is the equivalent of dropping a car, a small car, but when it lands, it lands on one square inch. So the entire force of it is one square inch. Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. Meaning they can- It's like concentrated.

Yeah, so they can like literally bite, and it has been seen before using those teeth, bite a crocodile in half using them. They can shatter the largest animal bones. If they got a hold of an elephant's thigh, they'd be able to crack it with the pressure. They can bite harder than a lion, a tiger, and a grizzly bear. And they fall just behind saltwater crocodile and great white shark.

Wow. Are they the ones that kill lots of humans or is that rhinos? No, no. Hippopotamuses kill more humans in Africa because they'll sit just below the water and they're very super territorial. And their mouths can open 150 degrees. Rhinos. No, no, hippopotamuses kill more humans in Africa because they'll sit just below the water and they're very super territorial and their mouths can open 150 degrees. Well, yeah, obviously.

Hungry, hungry hippos. Yeah, fine. How else are they going to gobble up the balls? In real life, the balls are small village children. Right, right, right. They'll just keep going. The children will be running, but they'll be surrounded by four hippos,

just gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. Right. Until they get them all. And apparently they, gobble, gobble. Right. Amazing. Until they get them all. And apparently they have very, very clean teeth. Right. Because they live in water so much of the time. No, they live in the water so much of the time.

And the chewing and the stuff in the grass because, you know, the old chewing stuff. They're eating grass and stuff. They're not eating lollies. No, no lollies. No lollies in Africa. We eat lollies, yeah. No lollies at all.

So today's fact of the day is No lollies. No lollies in Africa. We hate lollies, yeah. No lollies at all. So today's fact of the day is whilst a hippopotamus might look like a big, fat, goofy horse whale, it's actually got one of the most dangerous bites thanks to its massive teeth in the animal kingdom. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. One interesting flight for me over to Melbourne yesterday.

I'm here in Melbourne for the Comedy Fest. My show opens tonight. Good fun. Don't come because you're listening in New Zealand right now. So don't fly over. Probably not worth it. Not that funny. People might be listening on iHeartRadio in Melbourne.

Yes, they might. Dare I say. And you just told them not to come. Don't come. It's okay. Fine. And I meant it. And I meant it.

Okay. I love this reverse psychology. Yeah. Now they're going to come. I'll show you. Yeah. I don't want an audience. Now, on the fly, I mentioned earlier in the show I could watch someone playing solitaire the whole game

and it was absolutely driving me mad. To my left was a guy who was reading a Kindle. Do you do this when you see someone reading a book or a Kindle? You have a little... Yeah, I try to look at what kind of genre it is. I end up watching other people's movies on their screens, on their seats, because I'm just like,

I should have watched that. And so I just watch it on these, no sound. Sometimes you didn't think that person would be into action or romance. I'm always just like, you don't match this movie. Yeah, so the guy to my left on his Kindle, smart.

Really? Full smart. I was guy to my left on his Kindle, smart. Really? Like full smart. I was like, my dude, like proper, like girly smart. I was like, okay, dude, like whether he's studying or I don't know. Well, obviously studying to get some insights. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Bravo.

And then to my right was a lovely, like older woman, like older than my mum but younger than my grandparents would be. Do you know what I mean? Like 70-ish. Okay. I'm going to project my age on her. Yeah. She's there and I look over as the meal comes and I will say it was a delicious Fijian chicken

curry. It's always a curry. It's always a curry. It's just easy on mass. Airlines love a goop. They love a goop sloth. They love a goop sloth. Airlines love a goop They love a goop They love a goop slop Airlines love a goop And a hard bun And then you dip your hard bun in the goop slop

To try to soften the bun To make it a soft goopy bun And then you've got your goop slop And then you spill a bit of goop slop And you try to wipe it up And then that's when you realise it must have a lot of colouring in it because it kind of stains anything it touches. And the airlines will sell it as a chicken or beef,

but it's really a slop. It's goop slop. A goopy slop. They'll say, yeah, stew or stroganoff or, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. It's always a goop slop. Well, it was the Fijian goop slop. And the woman next to me, as the Fijian chicken goop slop was coming,

turned to the woman to order her meal, whether she wanted Fijian chicken goop slop or the beef stroganoff goop slop. And as she did, it was revealed that she was weeping, like weeping tears down her face, and I hadn't noticed. And she turned to the woman and she said, Oh, have the woman and she said, oh, have the Fijian curry, please. And then the flight attendant was like,

oh my gosh, my darling, like, are you okay? And she said, these movies, they always get me. Oh, emotional flyer. I know people are like this. You really get ruined by movies of all kinds. Why are movies more emotional in the sky? It's like drinking. Two drinks on the ground is one in the sky.

One in the sky. Yeah. Totally. I was the same. I was watching and then I was like, I wonder what she's watching. Amalie and me. A Schindler's List perhaps.

It was like I didn't recognise a single actor in it. I couldn't, you know, it was very kind of hallmarky. And then I sort of thought maybe she'd watched a sad scene or something like that. But, like, she wept for four hours. Oh, Jesus. Mind you, I'm not one to talk because remember when I watched Back to Back, Inside Out on a plane, which ruined me because I had a baby daughter at the time.

And then I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary. Oh, that was sad though. That was so sad. Taken before her time. I was just so upset on the plane. Well, I think this is what she did. She watched this like hallmark-y film and literally, like not just

like, you know, a little tear brush. Yeah, yeah. Weeping like this and then put on another film and wept the entire time. So I was like kind of watching this older woman being like, the poor darling, she's emotionally vulnerable. And the only thing that I could offer to her was my carpety ice cream that I wasn't I wasn't really personally

interested in eating at this time and I just gently tapped her on the shoulder and I said oh my love, you know you seem so emotional, would you like my ice cream? Because she didn't get a meal with her ticket do you know what I mean? And I did get a meal with my ticket and so I

just, you know, I was sharing my riches with her. Was it worth it for the good stuff? Where did you get what I mean? And I did get a meal with my ticket. And so I just, you know, I was sharing my riches with her. Was it worth it for the Goop Slop? Weird that you got a meal ticket. Why did you get a meal? Because you would have eaten it in the lounge before you went. Dudes, don't ever get me started. I didn't book this ticket. And I was like, who ordered me a Goop Slop?

You don't have to get the Goop Slop though. It's a four-hour flight. I'm fine with an hour. I'll survive. Yeah. No, no, no. Well, did she take the ice cream? She took it and she was like, this would be the perfect,

you know, antidote for these emotions I'm having. She only wanted the ice cream. Oh, you're saying she played me. I'm saying she played you. She played you for the ice cream. Hook, line and sinker. She got that ice cream. She didn't get the hard bun and the goop slop

but close second. No, I'd hoovered the goop slop and the hard bun. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. I reckon my relationship with Cosmopolitan will be lifelong. You know, like you can always rely, you can always rely

on Cosmo magazine to give you the best stuff. They've given me deep conversation starters for someone new on a new date. Now, they've given 70 of them, so pick a number, boys, and I'm going to give you the conversation starters that cost a bulletin.

70 conversation starters. Georgia's in here as well. Well, it'll be rude not to go 69. Oh, Georgia. Oh, you were always thinking it. Can I set the scene with a little musical accompaniment for this journey? Because we're on a date.

Are we on a date? No, but this could be for just friends catching up, right? Or is it just dates? No, this is date. Okay. Why are you being such a prude? It's not friends, you're square. Okay, number 16. Number 69. Nice. How would you

describe our relationship to others? Too much. That's not what you're asking a stranger on a date. You said it was a date. It is a date. Is it a first date? Too much. Whoa, that's intense. This could be like a second date or a third date. You might be like, so like

rather than being like, what are we? It's as if you're trying to force a label on us, you know? I'm out. I'm throwing down my napkin. Choose another number. 52. Okay. Oh, what's your love language?

That's lame. I'll go to the next one. Oh, I like that one. That's wholesome. That's so obvious. Gifts, giving gifts. Okay. What do you think makes us most compatible, Fletch?

Too much. Too much. Too much. He's got first date. Too much. Okay, go one, Hayley. We've got to start easy, I think, surely. Okay, number one.

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you want to live? Too much. Too much. Tokyo. We've just met. Tokyo. How is that too much? Everything's too much.

Just feel like we're on our first date. Did you like Ace Ventura? Vaughan. No, that's a shit question. Hey, Vaughan. Yeah, that sucks. You know immediately that I've got a fine taste in quality comedy. Vaughan, I'm having such a nice date with you.

If money was no object, what would you do for a living? Good question. That's a good question. That's a good question. That's a good question. That's a good question. Thank you. I think that's a good question too.

I do a lot of travelling, but I also think I'd just like a nice big plot of land to potter about on. Oh my God, so boring. Crap answer. Fletch, I want to ask you because I'm having such a nice date with you and this is really

Wait, why was that a crap answer? It was just there was no like follow on. You didn't even ask Hayley Yeah, you could do anything. Yeah.

And it was just you were ticking boxes. Okay, Fletch, I'm having such a nice date and I just want to know from you who is your hero? Oh. Who's my hero? Oh, who's my hero?

Oh, be deep with it. Everyone always wants you to be deep. Oh, Nelson Mandela. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Martin Luther King. The Statue of Liberty. You've got to hook, line and sing it. Yeah. Okay, can I ask one for Georgia? Georgia, this is crazy. I didn't even know you were a Les. What is... This is crazy, but I'm actually really delighted

because I've always thought you were beautiful. Okay, Georgia, what are your hobbies and why do they matter to you? I hate the hobby question. Because you don't have any? I don't have any. The gym. Ooh.

Ooh. What a loser. Okay, give Georgia another one. I'll give Georgia another one. Okay, Georgia, this is crazy that we're both like gay ass. Oh, my God. It's so hot. Georgia, what is your most prized position and why?

Oh, that's a good question. Great question. Great question. That's a good one. I was going to say a pair of earrings. Shallow. Shallow. They were my granny's.

Oh, okay, better lead in with that. You've got to lead in with my granny's. No one says my granny's. She was my granny, not my grandma. Where's the granny, granny? Where's the granny, granny? Where's the granny, granny? Remember that? Granny.

My granny gave me some earrings. She did. What are they? Little hoopie. I've actually got them on. They're Toofie Loopies. Hoop earrings? Yes.

How nice. Boring. She died. I know they keep doing that, don't they? Grandparents, buggers. Yeah, wow. Make us all love them and then just go and die. Yeah, you start off shallow and then you go deep.

That's how you get, like Hayley was like, oh, shallow. And then she goes, wow, tell me more about your granny. Well, Cosmo had the full list of, how many were there? 70 thought-provoking deep questions for a date. You can check those out. Hayley's frozen Hayley's stalled end of the show there

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