ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 19th 2025

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

Man's wedding proposal in corn More adults are buying toy collectables Top 6 Things David Seymour wants to check New words added to the dictionary SLP - Do you feel inclined to buy the product after a tasting TV Shows we're watching Paddy Gower IV What are you targeted ads right now? Hank Greens Focus app What country is the sexiest? Fact of the Day Toastie Lords Taylor Would you nark on a shoplifter for a $2 reward?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network This is Fletchworn and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's Flethorn and Haley Thank you Brian, good morning Fletch Morn and Haley Happy Tuesday

Happy Tuesday Happy Tuesday Secret sound returns 7 o'clock and 8 this morning $20,000 is the jackpot Not bad Not bad, that would be nice I'd take it

I wouldn't say no Do you know what I It's a trip of a lifetime Oh yeah 20,000 I'd go fun money I wouldn't go practical There's many trips of a lifetime

It's a lot of cash Oh yeah Well $20,000 Thanks to Neon 7 o'clock the next Activator listen out It'll play just before the news The top six today Vaugh

Yeah well news has come to hand That David Seymour Wooden puppet turned boy Through the magic wish of his puppet-making father asked for the details on if cycle helmets, bicycle

helmets are really worth like, you know, are they worth it? Should we be making people wear helmets? We have for a long time. He's cutting through the red tape, you see, and he thinks this is unnecessary red tape. Look into that for me. Right. And someone said, yeah, he'd injuries. Save thousands of lives.

I'm guessing over the time that you know, helmets have been. Compulsory in New Zealand, millions of dollars. I still feel shocked when I go overseas and I see someone on a bike without, well, most of the places overseas, right? They're not wearing them, very fashionable bikes. And you just think, I remember it being drilled into my head. Yeah, but they, a lot of those places have like bike lanes.

Totally. It's a specific bike. Really good for biking. But still, you come off that bike. Well, it goes my mind, when a parent's biking on their bike, no helmet, but they're making their kid wear a helmet. It's kind of like you lead by example. You don't just tell them to do it, but you'll be sweet.

Anyway, that of course, ridiculous. So I've got the top six other things that David Semmel just wants to check the validity of. All right. Just to look into to see if they're worth it. Next on the show. One of the most romantic marriage proposals I have ever seen. Play ZM's Flashborn and Haley.

I'm all for a subtle, quiet proposal. One of my friends gave birth to their child. And then once the child was in the rounds, looked at her partner and said, we should probably get married. And that was sort of the proposal. Right. Do you know what, because he'd just realized

they'd had a bastard child. Yeah. And, you know, in the eyes of the lodge. Well, if you've seen Game of Thrones, it doesn't end well, does it? Oh, no, it doesn't. Not always. No, not always.

No. But I also love the grand gestures as well. And this one, it kind of doesn't get bigger. I will say they're 23. Oh, okay. So love will be dead soon. Yeah, it's going to fizzle. It's all going to start sagging.

You know, things are going to start slowing down. An Ohio farmer is the man who planned this elaborate proposal. He is a corn farmer, and he says that him and his now fiancé, fianc, are very passionate about corn. They love corn. They love corn. They love corn. I mean, if you grow it, would you be sick of it, though? Nah.

I don't think you get sick of corn. Corn on a corn stalk. You'd make corn stakes on that. How, like, corn stakes have really become a thing, eh? Corns. No, corn ribs. Corn ribs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We cut them and they curl. Yeah. Oh my God, so yum. Yum, yum, yum. So anyway, he's a corn farmer. And he, not only, I was like, you should have just cut it. But what he did was he planted, this is how far in advance, he planted all of his corn in a pattern using a digital plan.

So that's a, if I could just interject. Please farmer, the farmer of the show. I've seen these farmers, they get like a GP, they're planters and harvests and everything. be pretty much GPS driven now. Yeah. Oh, okay. And so, completely computerized.

He would have planned it out, put it onto his computer, and then the plant would have... Yeah, that's totally it. It would have gone in the shape of the words you want to write, or literally started and stopped planting seeds at certain parts. Wow. So from the seed, where I was like, wouldn't you just plant a whole farm of corn and then cut it?

No, that probably not, because have you seen, like, lots of murder? You know, like those, what do you call? horror movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They never go well in those cornfields. No one comes out of the cornfield. Well off.

No. We're getting murdered in there. So he planted, he used that, what Vaugham was talking about, the computerized thing, planted all the seeds, took a very long time to grow. I can't even see how long it took, but however long. I reckon it was corn grow. Wow, okay. Yeah, a long time.

And then once it was all grown, took her up in a helicopter. Oh, right. And what did it say? It said, Will you marry me, Caroline? Wow. And then three sort of, I mean, I want to say pumpkins or bobbles. Oh my God, that is insane.

But you can see how, like, it's not zooming in, but you can see how perfect it is. Yeah, yeah. The lines and whatnot. And the letters are all the same, like, length, didn't run out of space. It's really well planned. It's not murky.

It's not like writing it in the sand with a stick, which is still cute. Yeah. That would be a good. but we'll be washed away by a wave. Yeah, exactly. That would be a good ad for whoever makes that software or that planting. Yeah.

Yeah, look at me. Look at this. If you're reading this, you might want to buy X, Y, Z. Yeah. So he was saying that the one thing he was nervous about, because obviously you could see it there for some time before he got her up in the air, was someone like spoiling it, someone playing over and putting on the local Facebook page. Why someone written have, will you marry me, Caroline, and corn?

But no, wasn't spoiled. She went up in a helicopter, in a, and. And then I look down and saw it and cried. You guys say love is not dead. Yeah, no, but they're 23 and 24. Of course love's not dead. Do you know what I mean? Give it time.

Be young. Do you want to put in the calendar 10 years, see where they're at? Yeah, Carmen, can we chuck that in the calendar? We'll just do a corn chicken and I don't think, 10 years, 5. 10 years? 2 5. Chicken and 5. Okay.

Play Z-M's, flesh Vaughan and Haley. Adults, more and more people become adults, but then the adult numbers dwindle because when you get to being a really old adult, you die. You do, you care. But young people become adults. Yeah, they do. I'll not explain to you how ageing works.

Thank you for that, Vaugh. Thank you so much. I'm so lost otherwise. Because 35% of adults in the US purchase toys or collectibles for themselves or another adult at least two times in the last year. So that's 35% in 2022,

that same number was 28%. So that's 7% an increase. That's on the up-up-up. That's what I call that. Up-Up-Up. It's because Gen Z and Millennials are leading this trend and adults over 45

participating less in this trend so as more young people become adults they're buying stuff toys What's because they don't have a house Isn't it? They don't have a house So they're buying loboos

They're buying loboos Nostalgia is apparently a major driver Right For you buy a lot of adult You buy a lot of toys Is an adult? Yeah I do Same

Oh hey Wild Secret's not going to easy Producer Girlies, you've got how many Lububoos? I just have one. I have two. Okay, so a collective three. Yeah, but like we've got littlest pet shops out here in the booth and we've got a few sunny angels and such.

Are the Sunny Angels the naked baby thing? Yeah. Yeah, because Carwin gave August a ride to school and August when I got home was like August was very impressed at that. Oh, really? I was like, is she going to notice this? Sonny angel.

It's got a sunny angel in her car. Sunny Angel. I have so many. Does she want one? I have too many. We used to have... When the kids were really little, we used to have some of them. Right. I don't even knew what they were.

I think adults should get back into Sylvanian families. I've got them. In a big way. Really? I've got one in my backpack. That was the dream. I was just a joke. Yeah, I was like, that's crazy.

But they were the dream when I was a kid. So Silvanian families for those that don't know were like these sort of like... Animal families? What do you call it? Animalomorphic? where they would kind of make animals into human versions and they've got a Sylvania family

and they're made of like flocking they're really soft and velvet but they were like hard but soft I want a Sylvania family It's really the blind box culture that we're going for In like these Slovenian families Wait wait wait wait wait break down blind box

Basically You don't know what you're getting Yeah Yeah so you know like for Lubbos There's six different ones and a secret You open it and you don't know what you're going to get Our littlest pet shop, Sylvania families you're excited because you don't know what you want.

It's straight up gambling for kids. It's like there's Lego mini fig bags. Yeah. And you don't know what you're going to get. You get the same one five times. But instead of losing your money, you get a cute little toy at the end. So it's not really gambling. Because you're just paying for a little product.

Yeah, you just don't know which one. So what do you do if you open up, if you blind box yourself and you open up one and you've already got it? We're trading? Trade sales. Because remember like Pogs? Did you guys play with Pogs? you know, those little flat discs you would... Yep.

God. What about trolls? Are we still doing trolls on the end of pencils? Hey, here we are, here we are, old man. Trolls on the ends of pencils. You do, so good. But then if you trade, we're trading. Yeah, but like online and stuff.

Not, I don't think the girly pops are trading them. Right. Meeting in the playground. I mean, you put them on your handbag or like in your car and stuff, but like, what do you do with them? They decorate our desks. They just bring a lot of joy. They bring your visual joy. I want to mind.

It's a waste of money. I want to mock it, but I also have a vast collection of ceramic bowls that resemble fruits or vegetables. Do you know what they're doing? And they're just bringing me joy. At least you can put fruit and vegetables in them and use them. You don't use them. Okay, so you could drink a bottle of wine or we could have a Slovenian family. I'm sorry, we're happy.

Oh no. Bottle wine wins every time. Play. Fletchforn and Haley. From the Fletchforn and Haley group chat, this is the top six. Well, it was 1994 that helmets became mandatory in New Zealand. And not wearing one carries a fine of $55, although I have never heard of anybody actually getting a fine.

I thought it was $150. No. Is it? 55, according to this. New Zealand Herald article. And I'm a big fan. You never see them giving tickets for that, do you? No.

No. But then I feel like most people do wear them. Yeah, you don't often see, when you see someone in New Zealand, riding a bicycle and then not wearing a helmet you are like, what are you doing? Get a helmet on, get out of the cool kids, where lids? Whereas in Europe, where I've recently been? They don't wear them at all.

Don't wear their helmets. They'd be like, ooh, what are you doing that for? I mean, they do have a better setup for riding bikes. I know, but you still, you fumble off that thing. It was all about... Oh, that's the thing. We weren't told about getting hit by cars. It was like if you fall off and you crack your head...

You're a vegetable. You're a veggie. Or if you put your brakes on and you're on a painted line and it's wet. Yeah. Stand you go, smack your head. Slipty whip-de. Brain damage. So apparently when this came in,

adult helmet use in New Zealand went from 43% to 92% the year after. Wow, we are obedient. Yeah. Well, David Seymour asked, is it worth it? Should we remove this mandate from the nanny state? Who asked him to? I don't know.

There's other things to do. Yeah. That we can sort out, you know, like, I don't know, hungry kids. Yeah. He's got a big to-do list. He sorted out the hungry kids. Didn't you see the lunches? Oh, yeah, too.

Eat up, kids. The Ministry of Regulation told Seymour the risks of removing the requirements would outweigh any benefits, and it was determined no further action should be taken. Sorry, what were the benefits? You just look cool. Look cooler. Yeah.

Which I'm on board with. You want to look cool. But not when it comes to head safety. Yeah. How cool are you going to look when you're in a hospital drinking through a straw? Not as cool as I want to be. Do you know what I mean? It's not where I want to head.

Drinking your, eating your dinner through a straw. Yeah, exactly. Some gorgeous nurse coming in to change your diaper. Yeah. That's not my future. Well, I've got the top six other things David Seymour wants to check the validity of. Okay. And at number six, seat bouts.

A bit of a pain. And they do, they separate the breasts. You guys won't know this year, but they really dig between. And that's uncomfortable. And also, God, how annoying is it when you don't put it on, and the car's just like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Well, we'd have to get those removed. We'd have to get those removed.

Yeah. But these bloody seatbelts, worth it? Who knows? Number five on the list of the top six other things David Seymour wants to check the validity of. Masks at paintball. Can't we just shoot each other in the face with a high-velocity paint bomb? It always fog up.

It's hard to see the air. It just gets hot in there. You can't hear you properly. Your team, where are we? Yeah, I just want to flip that thing off and get shot in the eye and be blind with it, you know? Number four on the list of the top six other things, David Seymour wants to check the validity.

of bloody smoke alarms? How annoying are those when the battery starts running out? Cheap! Cheap! Let me sleep, smoke alarm. Through it all. Maybe I don't want to be woken up. Maybe I'm having a nice dream.

Yeah. Sure my house is a blaze. But let me sleep. Or you know, you're cooking or your toast burns a little bit. Wee, wee, we, we, we. Sensitive. T-tel, tea towel. Really is it worth it?

Let the houses burn down. Number three on the list of the top six other things David Seymour wants to check the validity of road signs. Ah, who cares how fast we're going? Who cares if we get to an intersection and we need to stop? Don't tell me it's a roundabout. I can see it's a roundabout. I can feel it. Yeah, take those white lines off the road.

I don't want a zebra crossing. Cross at your own risk like a game of Frogger. Yeah, like a red rover. Yeah. Yeah. Tell you what, get rid of road rules, full stop. Let's just vibe. Let's do like India does.

Yeah. We just toot around. She's vibe. Yeah. Vibe the traffic. Number two on the list of the top six other things David Seymour wants to check the validity off. Life jackets.

Yeah. On the water. Yeah. They don't look cool. I know. Often they're orange. Just, I'm devil's avocado here. Oh, don't go on a bite.

If you don't know how to swim. Don't go on a bite. Oh, but the water's for everyone to enjoy. I know it is, but. What about kids? They don't look as cool, though, eh? In the family photos with their little gay vests. Yeah.

Little flotation devices. Yeah. Now, number one, this is, by the way, I just feel like at this stage I need to reiterate it was actually a huge fan of life jacket. Oh God, if you just turned down. Personally, I think seatbelts, fantastic. You know, stats show, stats show.

Masks at paintball. I know someone that got shot in the eye and detached their retina. That's not fun. No. Mask. Smoke alarms. Nothing better. What a great invention.

That's what they say. They save lives. They do. They literally save lives. And they run on a little battery. And you can get those ones now that lasts for 10 years. Are you on what was life jackets? Three.

When I said, road sun. and road rules? Like, I'm a big, huge fan of road signs. I need to know all the time what speed I should be going and what's coming up and what's happening. Well, especially if you're on your phone, it's hard to know what the speed limit is sometimes. Yeah, sometimes I miss that.

You could be a hoon him. Life jackets, huge fan. Huge fan. I think they should be mandatory, you know? And helmets. If we could bounce back to the original thing, I don't think you should be allowed on the snow without a helmet either.

You can get cute helmets too. You can get cute helmets. Look cute. But number one on the list of the top six things, David Seymour wants to check the validity of it. And I totally get him on this point. this is ridiculous baby seats. Hello.

Hold on. Oh, and they take up so much, they're so bulky. I know. If we're going to have to have the seat belts, they're already there. Yeah, just hold with your baby like we did back in the day or chuck them in a banana box and put them in the boot. Life's nature's seatbelt.

Nature's seatbelt. Dad's arms. That is the day's subsex. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Haley. Well, the Cambridge University Dictionary has added new words, and in the last year it is putting in 6,000 new entries. Wow, that's going to become a really thick book.

Isn't that crazy? Like, you'd think we'd already have all the words, right? Yeah. Now, remember, we've all got a dictionary of choice. Well, what was yours? The MacGyver one. Macquarie. Macquarie.

The Australian Macquarie University. I'm the Oxford, because I love an Oxford comma. Yeah. Who's going to be Collins? Oh, got a knife. This is kind of the time of the year where they all add their words. We're going to wrap up lists already. Yeah, and it's only August.

I mean, it's nearly September. Which is basically the end. Now, lots of words have been added. The most popular ones would be the, well, a couple that have been popularized by GenC and Gen Alpha, Skibbony and Dulhu. Did it need to go? Tradwife. Oh, Tradwife. Yeah, there was a big TikTok movement.

Already been in the dictionary? I don't know if we call it a trad wife though. No. Traditional wife. It just would have been the phrase traditional wife. Yeah. Or traditional and wife. Yeah.

Which is honestly I make my biggest dream in life to be becoming trad wife, baked bread. I couldn't imagine you doing that. Serve my man's. But Skibbitty, yeah. I was wondering this. What is the definition of Skibbitty just out of interest? Oh, yeah.

Because I've never been able to really... If you were in a spelling burn, you said, Can I have the opposite? They use it in a sentence. You would say the dictionary also took a challenge, the challenge of defining skibbity, word popularized in online memes as a term, this is what they say,

which had different meanings such as cool or bad or could be used with no real meaning. So it shouldn't be in the dictionary. It shouldn't be in the dictionary. Because it doesn't have a definition. Like I was listening to this song, and it was like rapping, and it said no cap in it.

I was like, that's already gone. That's so quick. I feel like Skibbidi ain't around for a long time do we need to put it, immortaliser. Yeah. Another term that's been added to the dictionary. Brain rot. Yeah, okay.

That's fair enough. Bed rot. Or rotting. Just rotting. Yeah, rotting is a big one. What else has been added? Delulu. Did we mention Delulu?

Yeah, Dululu, I love. They talk about Australian Prime Minister using that in Parliament this year. Delululio. That's right. Don't you remember when he did that? It's like a cute version of delusional. Yeah. Inspo has been added, short for inspiration.

Mm-hmm. I suppose just slang terms. Mouse juggler has been added. What's your mouse juggler? That is a popular work from home. Oh, okay. You make it look like you're working. Make it a little like you're working.

And you can buy those things on like T-mill or eBay or whatever that you get your mouth. Yeah. So it looks like you're working. Sorry. Also the term for ever chemical has been added. What does that mean? To the Cambridge Dictionary Like the stuff that's in like non-stick fry pans

And yum Do you know what I mean? Like that's what's made our scramble eggs delicious For so many years Yeah Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Haley Fletch Foll and Haley Silly Little Poe

It is so silly, silly, silly silly that a silly little poe Silly little poe Silly little pooh Silly little pooh Silly little pole Well, today's still a little poll is about sampling. You know, when you're in the supermarket or somewhere and someone says,

Excuse me, sir, would you like to try a sausage? Yeah. Or a bit of cheese or a bit of honey. Tiny bit of cheese or a tiny bit of sausage. Just a tease, really. Yeah. So if you go to a tasting, or maybe you go to a wine tasting, because I think you went to a gin tasting at the weekend, which is what kicked us off.

Oh, guys. You were just sending us photos of the most amazing weekend. Well, shout out to. the Hetta Tonga Hastings, they're counciled, we're like, we'll host you. And our friend Mike was down there, and they were like, we'll just show you around some of the best food spots.

And it was amazing. And, yeah, one of them was the Hastings Distillery to try some gin and some vermouth. Vaughn, I thought of you. I mean, and then it was just beautiful. But I was like, each one, I was like, oh, I might get me one of those. And then I have the next one.

I was like, oh, no, I'm going to get that one. And then our friend Mike was like, you don't have to buy after a tasting. I always feel a little, especially if you get, If the tasting is free, like if someone's showing... But even if I pay for a wine tasting, afterwards, I'll never be like, thank you.

I want none of the wines. Right. I'll always buy a bottle. Even though I will say, like I loved the product, so you buy it. But, yeah, I always feel a bit obliged. And our friend Mike was like, God, no. No, you just have the tasting and you leave. So if you go to a tasting, do you feel inclined to buy the product afterwards?

55% of you said no, but 45% said yes. loads of the people pleases this morning. Yeah, they get you, don't they? It's me. Lucille said, I might fantasize about... Yes, Lucille, too. Oh, is it? Good.

Might fantasize about buying the wine, but usually I can't justify a $40 wine when there's a 13 buckler at New World that'll do the track. With a gold sticker on it. Yeah, that means nothing. I know, but I get lured into the experience. Alice, it was gobsmack that people have answered no.

Then I realized it really is just that people please a millennial coming in hot with the years. Yes, that's me. The people pleaser. That's why you're always signing up to all the charities. Every time. Every time. I'm bleeding money.

It's a no for me. It's that and all the hot guys that get you over the line, isn't it? Oh, I know. You can't say no to some of them. The men's mental health guy at New World the other day. Take it. The money. The money.

And it. Neve, Prime Minister's daughter, says, of course not. I'm there for a wee snack and then home. Yeah. Little snackies. Costco on the week. says a plethora of samples and my daughter and her friend Layla wanted to go just because they wanted to try every one of the free samples yeah love that can't fault that uh

madeleine says sort of the same when tasting the flavors at duck island ice cream I always get the one I tried even if I didn't like it it's one of those weird things that has no right embarrassing me as much as it does oh because you don't want to admit like oh can I try that you thought it was ooh the gelato place does us yeah and also what's that um the remarkable fudge sweet shop. They give you a slice. In Queensland, they give you slices of all the different fudges. We've got to go.

We've got to go back. And I know what I'm going to get when I go there, because I'll always get one. You've got to put on a performance. You've got to try a couple to get some free wines. Yeah. What's this? What's this product?

Oh, my got this one? Ruscian fudge? Yeah, I've never heard of that. The jelly tip? I'll just try it. Jelly tip fudge. I'm always buying that one. Yeah, I know.

It's the best. Ala said, I've literally never gone to a wine tasting to actually taste wine. It's just what to get it free wine? Yeah, well, no, you get the wines then, you can just get a bit on the plonk. Laura said, no, but I probably will end up doing it if they give me enough tasters and I'll be boozed. Yeah, that's the idea. Casey, absolutely not. I'm already paying through the nose for the tasting and likely extra for food that would have come near.

But if I like the wine, then I'll buy the product later. Yeah, okay. Sarah said, I'm too poor. Fair, cool. Also, somebody else who in a personal recession. Adele said inclined perhaps motivated absolutely and Anya says I feel inclined but I don't do it I do feel an obligation but I never bowed to the pressure

fights the pressure fights the pressure that is silly little pole where today we ask are you likely to purchase the product after a tasting and 45% of you said yes play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley Now I have been watching I love a Netflix documentary

God they make them good They make them good They do So the new one I've been watching Is Fit for TV The Reality of the Biggest Loser Now I've got I mean how long has that been off air for

The Biggest loser I feel like I sort of don't know that long ago Isn't it a 2016 Isn't the biggest loser a TV channel on Samsung TV? Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, you know how Samsung, if you've got a Samsung TV, they've got their own channels. They've got all their own channels. And one of them, I'm sure, is like the biggest loser and extreme makeover home edition and all of those shows. One of them's the nanny channel. Yes, it's just always, always watch an episode of the nanny. Yes, it is.

Every time I turn on my TV, it's either the nanny or, is it Dawson's Creek? McLeod's daughters. Our friend Mike was saying that his husband Matt, just watches the McLeod's daughter's channel. channel and you just jump back in you're like go what season are we at now I wouldn't know who knows I know because they're all out of order it doesn't matter chuck them on well the biggest loser

stopped in 2017 which I think is around about the year that we decided to stop body shaming people so horrendously for our entertainment on a TV show yeah so the Netflix documentary Fit for TV the reality of the biggest loser has previous contestants plus I haven't watched

the third one yet so the female judge who's caused the most controversy I'm not sure if she's on it But the male judge, the blonde guy, he's on it, kind of talking about it being like, oh my God, you know, like get over it. It was entertainment. And then there's people on there being like, we were traumatized. This was horrendous. And the way that they made them exercise like athletes going from zero to like athletic workouts all day.

So bad for their body. And then the trainers were doing psychology on the, because they didn't have any mental support on the biggest loser. So the trainers were doing it all completely. trained. Yeah, right. Produce the girlies, you've watched this. Yeah, it is so like shocking. It's so shocking. They were eating about 800 calories a day,

working out for over 10 hours a day. These are people who have not exercised in years and years. For reference, a toddler should eat around 1,200 calories a day. It is absolutely insane. And yeah, just they had multiple past winners and also someone who was helicoptered off a challenge, nearly dying. They had to bring her back to life in a helicopter.

But what didn't people say they wanted to go on the show, they wanted this, like, well... They didn't really know what they were signing up for, and they're vulnerable. She delved into this. You did after a few seasons, right? I mean, this was on for a long time. This girl specifically with the helicopter, and I won't spoil it or anything, but she talks about, you know, nearly dying and making the decision to stay on the show. And to bring her out for the finale, they put her in a helicopter just to be like,

remember how you nearly died? Yeah. and the trauma she went through. It's very exploitive, like, the whole thing. But then you can say that about every single reality show. Even the ones that are still on today, like, you know, maths and stuff. Why do people go on these shows? If you're going to come for maths, we can just cut to the song.

I would never let a friend go on a reality show. Neither would I. Never ever. It's such a good watch. It's really worth it. But also, speaking of reality shows, Carmen has promised me, the girlies actually, both, have promised me that they have my new favourite reality show. I heard you were so clever.

You made your ex-husband adopt your daughter. Is that not true? I don't even know how many times she's been married. Like, is it three, is it four, is it two? Wasn't it one of the biggest divorce settlements in the UK? She's gone for the jugular. It's this. What are these ones?

Which one's this? So this is the Real Housewives of London. Of London. This is a Hey You series. I will say, this series, this franchise is not the same exploitive level as what we've just been talking about, right? Like, these very rich women choose to go on this show, show off their lives, live it up for the cameras. We love to see it. Do they realize that they're coming across, like they're coming across?

Like, do people actually like them or not? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because you're watching these shows for the drama, right? Like, I love the drama. Okay. Who was the lady with the biggest UK divorce settlement? Because I just Googled that. And apparently it was a settlement of a lump sum payment of 251 million pounds.

So half a million dollars. Half a billion New Zealand dollars. Is it Amanda? So this is adding to the list. We've had Real Housewives of Orange County, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, D.C., Bivoli Hills, Miami, Potomac, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Dubai, Rhode Island. Potomac. Sorry, what did I say? Otomac.

Potomac. Athens, Vancouver. Toronto, Auckland, don't forget all right. Melbourne, Sydney, Sydney, Cheshire, Jersey, London, Auckland, Budapest, Johannesburg. Janisburg. They're really good actually. Have you watched that one? I've watched nearly every single season.

Have you? Yeah. So there's also Durbin, Cape Town, Pretoria. God, Pretoria. Oh my God. That's real, now we're getting the deep. Now I want the car. I want all the cars.

Napoli, Roma. Like, I'm not even halfway through the list, it's insane! You know how there's that TV show where you go on a game show and it's like, what's your specialty subject? This is mine. Real house. I say Desperate Housewives. Real Housewives.

So the London one, because yeah, I love the Brits, they get any better drama. Yeah, and this is a great gateway to the franchise. It's a new season. God, is this a gate I want to walk through, though. Do you know what I mean? I'm already busy. We were lucky enough to go to the first episode screening

and it's a very great show to get into. Like it's an easy walk in You'll get amongst the drama Okay I actually yeah Because I remember I was gonna love Ireland again This year and I was like I'm back I took a season off to recuperate

And then you were just like man And then I just didn't Click into it No get that Hey U subscription It's also like the best subscription Because it's so cheap and I've got one I've got one It just sits there

But it's got so much real house vibes on Like every single season You'll do this one First episode's already out You do this one And then you're hooked I was planning I'm going back to the gym today after quite a sojourn,

but I feel like perhaps... But it's raining. But it's raining and I watch this as where you watch all your best. Get yourself on, tell you, I'm telling you, get yourself an iPad, do some cardio, watch your shows. Yeah, I know that's how you can't. Well, I don't sit down to watch TV, but it's the only time I like literally get to watch

some good solid TV. Play ZEM's Fletchhorn and Haley. The wonderful Paddy Gower is in studio to talk about the new season of Paddy Gawa has issues. Hey, Patty. Oh, hey guys, how is it? You know, it's wild. Let's just continue our call.

Conversations just for having. The minute that he walked in, we're like, let's talk about Tom Phillips. Because tonight, the returning episode is covering what might be New Zealand's greatest mystery. Yeah, it is. The kids in the Matacopa bush. I mean, they've been there for nearly four years. You know, four winters, they've been out there in the bush. We can't find this guy.

So tonight, for the first time, actually, I've interviewed his family. So people listening will realize, oh, yeah, we've never seen his mom or dad or his sister or anything like that. They've kept quiet this whole time. they've been in a tricky situation obviously, you know, this guy's out in the bush I mean, I don't particularly rate this guy I reckon he should come back they're in the same position they want him to come back

but there's a whole lot going on anyway they finally decided to speak out because get this, they reckon that he'll be able to get to Wi-Fi because they've actually built a whole lot of new reception towers in the bush there or someone's helping him and they'll show him this so his mum

has written him a letter saying come home, bring the kids, home and his sister has jumped on an interview with me and read this out you know crying emotion everything like that just as a last effort to get this guy Tom Phillips

come out of the bush bit of a dumb move from his mum to write a letter without an address you know yeah it's like that's just going to chuck it in the bush in the bush north island New Zealand southern hemisphere yeah so he's been

bush for four years he has been seen yeah he's been seen a couple of times you know the hunters saw him last time around and he's been accused of an armed robbery and stuff like that but he hasn't actually been seen for nearly a year this time around but you know they believe that he's out there

and the family we've gone into a lot of detail about his skills as a Bushman and he's a very good builder and they reckon that he's built something quite decent, a decent structure or they call it a nest out there and they don't think the kids will be suffering but the sister Rossi

you know there's some or I've already put some of her interview out there very emotional saying come back will help you get through the challenges you get through and I just want to see these kids who by the way their names are Jada Maverick and Ember they want those kids to come home because they're growing

man four years. Four years! As someone with a teenage daughter too it's just like she's probably not in the bush on TikTok and stuff but like having a teenage daughter there's so much extra stuff they need all the sanitary products all these sorts of things like

you're developing rapidly these kids in four years how many pairs are shoes the kids grow out of in four years, like he's got to have someone helping, right? How do you build this nest that you're talking about and we don't see it? How are we not seeing it? Yeah, well, he had some sort of, we've actually sent

one of the reporters out into the bush for a night, and we've put the thermal imaging on him to see if you can find him. Thermal imaging doesn't work in the bush. People see it tonight. We kind of see this reporter taking a wee, Tony Wall, and he kind of disappears. The thermal imaging doesn't work. The bush is very thick. He could be out there

anywhere and if someone's taking them in and out stuff that's it but the family have made that constructive step and people will watch the show and see that the cops have also taken a new step in this case as well to try and get him out so there's a big effort to try and get him out of the bush so do you think they've done enough though like could they have sent in the army like specialist you know like our say yes it's like great training it'd be great training right yeah yeah who knows who knows why they haven't done what they've done but maybe this will work there's nothing like a mum sending you a message to kind of straighten you up in life, isn't it? Yeah, totally.

Yeah, the old letter from the mum. Because he can go back Bush, right? It's not really him that everyone's worried about family-wise. They want the kids. He'll have a few challenges in terms of, you know, there's a warrant out for his arrest. Oh, yeah. I mean, he could run away to the bush. Oh, yeah, he could drop them off, say goodbye and then head back in.

Yeah. Yeah, not a bad solution. I'm just going like, dude, we care less about you. It's more about these children. Get the kids out. Drop them off. Yeah, so pretty complicated issue for New Zealand. And yeah, you know, it's been pretty awesome to be involved.

And maybe something constructive, you know, and getting the family to talk and them trusting me has been pretty awesome. Has it got Ned Kelly energy to it though? Like, obviously not a hero now, but has it got folk hero vibes that in 20 years? Remember when that guy did that? That was pretty cool. Even looking at the, I put the promo up on the Instagram last night. And, you know, even looking at the comments,

there are a lot of people who think of him like that. You know, he does have supporters in the public as well. You know, personally, I just, you know, I just look at and just say, bring the kids back, mate, you know? Yeah.

But, you know, people think of him with that hero. Yeah, I guess a lot of people go through separation issues and have some strong feelings on that. Yes. On that. And so they're like, well, you know, maybe good on him. That's right. But, yeah, in the bush.

There is a lot of that, isn't there? Because people go through what he's gone through and there's some sympathy for him. But still, I mean, I mean, it's crazy. It's an amazing story in the hands of our very, very best, Patty. I can't wait to watch it. Well, well, you're making me blush.

But I tell you what, Karen O'Leary, my off-sider, has done something much bigger than I have. She has, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but she has brought down the price of butter. So let's talk about butter. Let's talk about folk heroes now then. That's right. She's the real hero.

If Karen O'Leary's put down the price of butter, she'll get a statue, probably made out of butter. She will be knighted for this by a lot of people. I can't give too many details away But she's got an investigator Like the questions everyone's got Why the hell is butter so expensive We've got to the milk

I've got a sandwich right here that I've just made For breakfast I know It's butterless Yeah butterless Well you've got to watch this Because that'll change tomorrow Tomorrow Yes that's right

So Karen has brought down the price of butter There's going to be an announcement Later today and tonight About where you can get it It'll be around this time tomorrow Wait she's not wrapping margarine And baking paper is she? No or shaking up a bottle of

like Shannon, we had that. We did it ourselves. No, this is a deal that New Zealanders will all want to get behind and it really shows up our supermarket duopoly and actually, you know, our milk company,

Fontera and all of that, you know, all these people say you can't, there's nothing that can be done with the price of butter. Well, there is someone in New Zealand that Karen has worked with who has figured out a way to get thousands of New Zealanders

a cheaper block of butter tomorrow and it is going to be much cheaper. Nice. Get stuff done. Patty and Karen. I didn't do it. Karen did it. Under your umbrella, Patty.

No, she's saying to me, don't you go claiming things. She's the one who's reduced the price of butter for thousands of New Zealanders. So she'll be announcing that later today. And this time tomorrow, there'll be thousands of Kiwis getting into this cheaper butter. And it'll be a lot cheaper. Well, you can see it all tonight. Patigawa has issues on three at 7.30. Patty Gala, thank you so much.

Yeah, sure. And it's already up there on three now. people want to find it where that butter is. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. What can you not escape in the targeted advertising at the moment? Because I tell you what? Bark, guard or something really wants me to buy one of those orange things that you point at dogs that won't stop barking and press the button and then they go,

can your phone hear dogs all the time? Maybe. Maybe that's why. And then I made the mistake of clicking on it, but not ordering one. Oh, the worst is when you're scrolling and you just look away because you're, you know, you're diverted your attention. diverted, you look down and you're just stuck or you've accidentally opened an ad

for something you don't want and then that's it. That's it. You're always getting targeted. Yeah. Sometimes I use that though like if I want, if I'm interested in something I'll just click and then click out. You know what I mean? And they'll be like remind me that I might be interested in looking at that. And then it starts showing you the rivals. Adjacent. Yes. And then that same thing over and over.

Over and over. Mine is Australian T-shirts. Like Australian brands Fun t-shirts. Nah, like slogans or stuff. What? Yeah, I know. You're not a slogan t-shirt person. I know.

I know. That's weird. Yeah, one of them said, have you drunk enough water today? Right. And I was like, what? That's funny. Maybe I will get that.

And I lingered on it too long, so now, yeah, slogan tings. And so you don't even need to click on it. I reckon you linger it. And it's like, yeah, they want to know all about this knife-sharpening thing I've got going on here. You only need to pause. second more than you normally would. He likes it. Yep. He likes it. Hit it with it. Double down. Hit it with

more. More more. Bring in the troops. Yeah. But it does get people frustrated and annoyed when they get the same ads of things. But I know you can click in and say I'm not interested, right? And it'll take it out of your feed. But you just don't generally. No. But I've definitely gone through periods of time where, like, t-shirts,

that's sort of a normal thing that I would linger on. Yeah. Where it's just been the weirdest stuff. And then it's on your Facebook. It's on your Instagram. It's on I've been getting targeted a lot of Japanese stationery lately. Stop it. Yeah, like really nice pens and stuff.

Yeah, but like, do you know what I mean? But like... I'm not angry about that. The Japanese do a good stationary. I know. And I think I saw it once. I was like, that's a nice pen. Lingered.

He lingered. And now it's like, do you want this other nice Japanese stationary? Like a writing pad? And then Korea and Korea's going to be like, you think the Japanese is going to know a nice stationery. Check out our stationery. And you'll linger.

And then China's like, you want stationary cheap. We got stationary cheap. Yeah. Mine's Japanese stationary, yours is a dog barking machine. Yeah, that stops dogs barking. And yours is slogan T's from Australia. Maybe yours is something different.

0,800,000, this is what we want to know this morning. Give us a call. You can text through, 9-696. What are your targeted ads right now? Maybe it's something you just do not even need. Yeah. Oh, someone's getting absolutely bombarded by Scrub Daddy. Oh, Scrub Daddy's good.

Scrub Daddy's good. Scrub Daddy's good. Langer on the Scrub Daddy and you'll get a Scrub Daddy deal. I really want one of those Scrub Daddy things that you stick. Yes. Behind the sink so your Scrub Daddy can sit on the wall. Oh. What are you currently being targeted in your advertising on your social media?

Instagram, TikTok. It's TikTok advertisers, do they? No. Some funny messages coming through. So good. Somebody said it's called a Scrub Daddy caddy and I can recommend that you get one because Scrab Daddy looks real happy. Yeah.

And is candy. Because I love that Scrub Daddy is a smiley face. Yeah. Have you got a scrub mummy? No. Scrub mummy is a scrub daddy on one side and a sponge on the other. But she's got a more feminine and she's got a bow in her hair. I've got a scrub mummy.

I've got to scrub daddy. I've only got a scrub daddy. You've got to get yourself a scrub mummy. Do they end up making a scrub baby? I think there was another scrub product. I'm not sure. Okay. Let me now Google Scrub Daddy and open myself up to end.

advertising. Scrub daddy variants. There was a time where I did get a lot of scrub daddy advertising. They do love an advertisement. There's a dish daddy. Oh, okay. Which is like a scrub daddy on a stick. Right.

Jade, what are you constantly getting advertised in your feed? Bloody Halara pants. Now, Jade, they're Lulu Joupes. Jade, I also was in the Halara. Target and I bought Halara pans and they're actually pretty good they're actually pretty good, babes. Yeah, they're babes Jay. Jay, they're pretty good. They're a good

jupe and I've got some lulus and I've got some halaras and they'll tell you what you can't tell the difference. I was looking at you at the gym thinking, God, you've really look great in those lulus but now I just know Halara. Halara. Oh, I think less of you now. Oh, she's cheap. Oh, she's cheap. They're not good though, Jade. Like daily. I didn't even know they did more than pants.

Oh, girl, they do skirts. They do. do dresses, they do tops, they do bras, they do leggings, they do fleas, I know that now. I know. Do they do scrum daddy jubes? No, they don't do a scrub daddy. Yeah, right. No, no, no, only women's lycra. Okay, Jade, thank you.

Actually, isn't it weird, all Jade needed was an actual human to say yes. It's good and she's on board. It's the same with me, because someone messaged is saying, Vaughn, I also got the orange dark stopping machine. Oh, yeah, Jade. It got me good. I ended up buying one. It's fantastic. Now I'm definitely buying it.

Yeah, I can. confirm it's worth it, Jade. Okay. I just spent Jade's money. It felt really good. Yeah, because you're not spending yours. I got the little dopamine hit of spending and I'd have lost no money. Maybe that's how we can curb your shopping addiction.

Yeah, thank you, Jay. Just make somebody else spend the money. Yeah. Somebody said, I'm constantly bombarded by inappropriate Tammu products. Why is it all gags, fake scroats and crotchless panties for men? I'm all for inappropriateness of all sorts of it. Tim has read the room completely wrong. Yeah.

Maybe one of your friends was borrowing your phone? No, Tima was a weird one. It is weird. I just did a big Tima order recently. I bought an urn off Ali Express and now my feed is just random advertisements for urns. They email me every day saying, oh, this will go away with your recent purchase. And it's just more urns. Okay.

Well, please, when I die, don't put me in an L'AXP Express, Earn. The Scrub Daddy Damped Duster is indescribably good. Whoa, Damp Duster. A Scrup Daddy Dump Duster. Dump Duster. Dump Dugster. damp. Oh, yes.

This is like one of those foam sponges that has the lines in it. Oh, a younger one of those. What are they doing? What the hell was that word? I've seen that. I don't know what they had to. Scrub daddy, damp duster.

Do you wet it or it's just already damped? So the ribs in it are for doing like skirting boards and stuff? Yes, skirtings, getting in the grooves of things, thinking of Venetian blinds. Because you know I'm going to do the skirting boards. The only needs to do a skirting board. You're going to get a damp dusted daddy on that thing.

I've got to get damp dusted daddy on that thing. God, they're so cheap. Tempestine. Also, I'm at scrubdadi dot com They've got um They've got GIF But it's spout with a CIF So they've got the Spanish

No, because remember that we saw the Spanish stuff At Cracker Jacks Yeah Siff My Oh yeah I've got We have been slightly due railway Yeah more messages in

Pregnancy tests and egg freezing But jokes on them Because I don't sleep with cis men So there you go And I'm too selfish to consider Having a child Yeah That's a hell of a message

Good on you, though. They're like, hey, 35. Every time I open my phone or watch a little dinner time YouTube video, I've got a five-minute ad of my job that I just came from, and it's haunting me. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, thank you. I get that miracle mold removal gel.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, for the bathrooms. A lot. And you just go, look, sparkle, sparkle? Not like the ads. I don't think it works like that, eh? And some black glass guard thing. Always get advertised that. This is also funny.

People are constantly getting targeted advertised products, but they still can't retain the name of them. Yeah. Someone else being targeted perimenopausal pills. How do they know? We all know. You're just the last to know. You've become intolerable to be around, to be honest.

We've all been kind of wondering how to tell you for ages. Clicked an Ouddy ad once, and it's bombed me ever since, even reported it because under the not interested whatsoever, and it still kept telling me I need an Odie with Harry Potter on it. Maybe you just need it give it and get a Odie. Apparently they're really comfy. Yeah, they are. It's just if you run hot, I run a little too hot.

I'm too hot. For some reason, I get a lot of targeted ads for information pamphlets for breeding cows and other bovine care products. I live in Auckland and I do not own cows. Maybe you went to a farm once and they were like, targeted. She froths a farm. Yeah. Somebody else said, to be honest, your scrub daddy chat is probably my favorite part of the show so far.

Yeah, it's quite a horny chat, isn't it? Lots of people getting to... You call it a damp daddy. That's a damp daddy duster. That's a damp daddy duster. I'm getting a lot of targeted ads for. for We Govi and weight loss products. Oh, okay.

Someone said Scrub Daddy Magic Eraser deserves a Nobel Prize. Dude, it's the same magic eraser as you buy at the supermarket? Those white foamy ones that gets all the stuff off of walls. Yeah, but did they invent that? Or have they just made their own? I think they just made their own. Good on sneakers.

Got on white sneakers. Okay, there's a whole Scrub Daddy family and it's eight different sponges. Can you just buy a pack? I just want the pack. The pack of Scrub Daddy's. Yeah, I just want the pack of all. the products. Scrub daddy does towels. I don't want a scrub daddy towel.

My skin's too sensitive to be scrubbed. Imagine if it was an exfoliating towel and you put on your body. It just shach, cha, cha, cha, cha. Rips it all off. There's a stove and cooktop cleaner with scrub mummy. There's a tangerine clean. Oh, that sounds good. And it's perfectly shaped to dip your scrub daddy in.

This is a scrub daddy with an ergonomic handle. We just want to reiterate. We are not sponsored by Scrub Daddy in any which way. In any way. But we would happily accept Scrub. There's a Scrub Daddy Caddy. my hope now is that because everybody has their phones next to them and they're listening to this it's going to be nonstop scrub daddy all day great text in

so are we saying tlc was wrong and we do in fact want scrubs yes play zm's fleshbourne and haley play zm's fletchborn and haley Herman the german's already doing his job actually look how happy he's made me already check out on instagram now producer carwin you have an app that you say could be a game changer. Yeah. But you want to share with us. Yeah.

And it's to do with focus. Focusing. Something that we all struggle with. Apps are famously not good things. You know, we just spoke about all the things. Oh, to Johan? No, no, we've been getting targeted advertising for. I've been getting so many ads for that brick thing.

Do you guys get those? It's like a brick thing that basically is bricks your phone. So you can't go on it for certain amounts of time. I wouldn't want to do that. There's a few apps like that. But it's like an ad. actual physical thing and there's a few different versions of them and you press it when you want to break your phone and then it will count down or something. But what if someone calls you? I don't

know. I think it still might allow calls but just not. What if you need to pay for something if you're out and a bit? What if you want to scroll on Instagram? What happens if an emergency happens if you need an Instagram hit? What if life's not giving you what you want so you just need a quick little dopamine hit and a distraction? Yeah look I don't know. Okay well this one's a little bit more fun. So this is called I'm in the app store. This is called focused friend and it is by the lovely the adorable Hank Green who you may know from TikTok he's also the brother of author John Green he wrote the fault now stars all that jazz oh yeah his brother leads like the charge on like making science attainable and easy to learn

and all that jazz taught us all about why candles just disappear like where does it go oh my god where do they go he said it just disappears so now no no no but like the wax where does it go it just goes away. Yeah, like, where does it go? But something can't be turned into nothing. Where is it born? We're thickening the air. This is very waxy air.

We've got a candle lit at the moment. It's very waxy in here. Well, anyway, you can go to his TikTok for that. This app that he's just developed is called Focus Friend, and I've sent you a little screenshot on the group chat. You've got a little pet bean. I've named mine Bertie. Oh, my God.

And so this bean loves to knit. Is this Neo-Pets? No, no, no, no, no, it's not. This is new neopets. It's not. This bean loves to knit. And he gets really sad when he doesn't get to knit. And do you know when he doesn't get to knit when you're on your damn phone?

So you click focus and you set a timer and then mine is called Bertie. Birdie starts knitting. And if you want to go onto your phone, you have to stop that and he gets really sad. I'll start torturing Bertie, though. Do you know what I mean? No. I'm going to do Sims level and take the bloody ladder out of the pool. And so he creates, he knits socks and scar.

and then you can use those socks and scarves to buy things for his bedroom. I've only so far bought a plant for him, but it's cute. I'm calling my band Flickma. Vaughn, Ellen Smith. Is that Norwegian? Yeah, it's Norwegian. Flickma band.

Owen, Alan. Carwin is trying to do something good for our dwindling attention. And you've come in here saying that. He's, what is it? He's like, flick my loaves. Flick my lady. What I'm not going to get him knitting done? Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley.

Now, apparently the Brits are claiming that they are officially the sexiest country in the world based on the fact that a lot of Hollywood people are hooking up with the Brits. Zendaya, for example. Olivia Rodrigo, Nicola Pounce. Who is she hooking up with? Who, Olivia Rodrigo?

I don't know. Some British guy. Some POM? Jojo Sewa even nabbed herself A British man No one saw that coming No I thought she was doing the whole gay pop thing

Anyway we love this But then they're saying like you Americans you think you're so hot You come over here and then you look at the Brits You were doing an American accent Talking about Americans You should have in a British accent Talk about Americans

You guys think you so hot You come over here all like Oh my God we're so hot That was good That was better Mid-cent switch Wow That was really worth

that acting degree, wasn't I? Let's add that to my logbook. Used it. Tick on the 19th of August. Anyway, so they're saying they're the hottest and I think worldwide... I mean, there are some hot British men.

I mean, Henry Cavill, you give me a British accent and I'll be crumbling. Ah, Raleigh. But I wouldn't say they're the sexiest nation. Has this been done before in like a study or any kind of survey? Yeah, I'm sure we've referred it before.

Because what comes into it? Accent. Accent... But it looks is so subjective and varies so much like, you know, Signor Papi over here, Fletch, he loves his South American countries, but there are some Mingas over there. There's Mingas everywhere. There's Mingers everywhere.

Predominently New Zealand. Are we judging the country on the hottest of the hot or their average? I think it's a per-I think, as you say, it's subjective. It's personal to the person. Here is a list I've found the top 50 countries with the most handsome men. I'll give you the top 10. France, England, South Korea, Canada. Yeah, there's South Koreans.

Yeah, that K-pop thing. Yeah. You're getting some chiseled tradies. United States, Australia. United States. Spain, Sweden, Brazil and Italy. Italy's number one. Italy's number one.

Yeah. Are we on that list anywhere? I can see that list is quite long. It's 50. There's 50. Can we on there at all? We are in at number 22. We're ahead of Columbia, 23.

That's wrong. I don't know about that. I've got that right. I've been there, it's wrong. This is what I want to know today because it is subjective. For you and I want you to tell us why who is the sexiest nation?

Okay. For me Oh man. Where was Ireland on the list? Yeah, Irish men are gorgeous. Somebody said, I put forward the proposal of French Polynesia as it has a French influence but it has the stunning bone structure overlaid with brown buttery goodness.

Oh! Hello! chocolate lovers. Hello chocolate lovers. It sounded like a rest of people. Yeah, brown buttery goodness. Yeah, I get there. I get there. I mean,

I do have a thing for the Irish and the Scots. You know, and like, especially if they're big and tall. Ireland are 20 on this list. The accents are doing a lot to have someone with Irish heritage I feel, I can say this

without causing offence. Yeah. The accent's doing a lot of heavy lifting. But if you combine a mildly handsome man with that accent, he suddenly is skyrocketing at his 12. He's a 10, yeah, totally. But you can keep all these things in account, accents, color of skin, anything. What do you like?

The Brits are claiming it's them. What do you think? 0,800 dials at him is the number text through, 9-696. You've got to tell us why. What country has the sexiest people? This is very fun, isn't it? Talking about sexy people. I like talking about sexy people non-stop

Well, the UK are claiming that because all the celebrities and musicians are hooking up... Yeah, nabbing themselves a Brit that it's them. It must be that they are the sexiest people. We're not saying they're not, but I believe there are some sexier.

I mean they are though as well. There's a lot that are... Somebody messaged you and wanted to know if we're talking about if we can include fallen empires as they'd like to put forward the Ottoman Empire. Beautiful. I would like to put forward the Ottoman Empire too.

I don't know if I'd say sexy. And Persia. Was Persia a country or an area? Oh, look, you're just being... But Persian, so you can be Persian. Yeah, you can be Persian and you're of an area. The Persian. Trying to be serious here, Vaughn, and you're bringing up old history.

Yeah, that's right. So Iran is historically known as Persia. Yeah, that's like Paxasani calls himself Persian. Yeah. Teresa, good morning. Good morning. Now, are you just a regular Kiwi Minger? Right in the middle.

It's really probably on the spot, but yes, an average dose to us. Oh, you sound beautiful, Teresa. Who's the sexiest, who's got the sexiest people? Well, you reminded me when you said, get on a plane. I thought of my travels back when I was younger, and we were just struck by the men in Stockholm and Sweden, and we couldn't quite work it out because they're tall, they're gorgeous, they're Nordic,

they look like they could swoop in in a Viking and... Oh, yeah. Save you. No, save you. Save you. Not another amount. Anyway, and we said, why are there so many men around... pushing babies and I had a Swedish friend

and she said it's because of the latte papa phenomenon and they get 50% paternity leave oh no they get

four years pay if they take 50% maternity leave and 50% paternity leave and so they'll get a

which is the best deal for them so you've got these really hot men walking around pushing babies going out for coffee all the time

and they just they're gorgeous yeah but they're off the market though they're off the market get yourself a single soul or daddy. Do you know what I mean? The mum gets six months

and then the dad gets six months. Is that how this works? That's right. That's right. Wow. Okay. Yeah, it's so good. That's why those countries are so happy. But if they take it six months each, they get full pay, whereas if it's like 70-30 or 80-20, they get less. It goes down depending on how much leaves each person pay. But if it's right down the middle

they get a full year. And they're hot. It's not fair, is it? It's not fair. This is my baby. Theresa, thank you. Chivorn. which country for you has the hottest people? Okay, obviously we're a little bit biased, me and Haley, but I'm going to say Hawaiian because of a Jason Marmower. Malo.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. One man cannot lift the nation. Yeah, but there's a lot of hot Hawaiians. Yes, yeah. So, no, hands down, I'm going to have to say that. Okay, okay. I mean, all of all Polynesians, to be fair, but yeah. Okay, Shobhan, thank you, message is in.

My 10-year-old daughter just said Australia because they grow the best mullets. now that's probably I'd ground her I'd take her phone off her and make sure she can't access the internet Oh we're not judging though No You find that sexy

Each to their own Right so someone's really here for the Saffas They're here for the South Africans Yeah I know Yeah Really Yeah right I'd hand some South Africans

Scotland and Ireland Although admission That it's the accents That take a five or a six to a ten Yeah but that's what I mean It's the combo Somebody said Czech women are absolutely gorgeous

I don't know if Slovakia got all the mingers in the separation because they haven't mean to Slovakia as they can't comment but they just wanted away every woman they saw in the Czech Republic was gorgeous. I'd say the Slovakian women are also very beautiful. Were you about to say the Sluvlaki was a Sluvlarki woman? Also delicious.

Give me a red-headed kilt-wearing Scotsman defending his clan any day of the week. Middle Eastern woman, shout out to the Middle Eastern woman. Lots of that. Lots of that coming in. Italy. Italy, they said it's not even up for debate, actually. Yeah.

That's just a fact. Haley will have my back on that one. Give me a red-headed kilt wearing Scotsman. I read that one. Oh, did you? Please pay attention to the show. I'm sorry. I'm just Sweden.

A couple of Swedes there. Somebody said, as a bisexual, Sweden's got something for me. Oh, yeah. The saying is it's got something for everyone. But bisexuals, of course, they can just have whatever they want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lovely. Very greedy.

Greedy guts. Oh my God, yeah, the Italian, policemen. Oh, yeah, yeah, I've seen it online. And their uniforms are quite nice and very tight. When you travel, like, around, if you're lucky enough to travel around, you realize how Dadal police uniform is? I know, it's so basic.

It's so old and me. Just the tight arms is all it's got gone for it, huh? Yeah, but in Italy, everything's tight, and they got these whopping guns, and they're there with their little piccolo, you know, having cigarettes in the morning. Good, you couldn't be a fluctuator in that police uniform. No, there's no room for it.

Not an inch to spare. You'd know as soon as you'd put on a centimeter. Yeah, you'd be like, all right, we're having a tight wig. Yeah. NRL players, well, that's not a nationality. Should be? So you'd just say Australians, right? Yeah.

Well, no, they say it's the Polynesian influence. So you might just want to say Polynesia there. Just the South Pacific. Yeah. Okay. No, that includes us. Okay, fair. So I said growing up, I used to say,

Aussie girls were hot and then they'd talk. Sorry, three. Sorry, Brie, yeah. I'm a, someone said, I'm a minger. Hello, good morning. Welcome, this is the radio show for Mingers. There are some absolutely stunning people of Indian descent, both males and females.

Yeah, I've admired both. I've long wanted to marry an Indian man. You just want the five-day wedding, though. Yeah. With all the frocks and the jewels and everything and all the attention. Yeah. But also, he'll be handsome. Growing up, he used to say Aussie girls were hot until they talk.

Well, I'm now ten years. I've already read that. Can you listen? Did you read that one? Yeah. Did you literally came in? Yeah. Has it come in twice?

No, I read it. Oh. But we're not listening to each other. We need to open our communications, guys. I think we need to have a moment. Play ZM's Fletch, Worn and Haley. Play ZM's Fleshworn and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

To do do, do do, do. Today's Factor of the day. It's size and scale week here at Factor of the day. Fletcher's just going to miss slice of apple. And he said, we've got 30 seconds. I said, that's plenty of time for an apple. And I ate the whole thing, but I didn't. It wasn't plenty of time for an apple.

No. No, no, no, no. Well, it's size and scale week. Yesterday we learned about shoe sizing. What can you remember about that, Fletch? Beans. No. Barley corn. Barley corns.

Yeah, otherwise known as beans. A third of an inch. Barley, that's how every shoe size goes up in a third of an inch. Because that's the length of a barley corn. Today, we're learning about the yard. Yards is a weird measurement. Oh, yeah. Yard stick.

Yep, that's right. I always thought it was a meter. It's just under a minute. It's 91 centimeters. See, that annoys me. God, Americans, eh. Yards. Just do metric like the rest of us.

Well, no, actually, it's the British we've got to blame for this. Is it? Yes. Because they use yards in football, eh? In the American football. Yes. No, so Americans use, they're still on the imperial system, which is weird because they literally went to war with their imperial overlords.

Right. And the revolutionary war. But they kept the measurements and everyone else's moved to sort of metric because it makes so much sense. Millimetres, centimetres, metres, kilometres, kilometres. 100. Tada, to da-da, ta-da-tah, 10, 10, 10, 100. So the yard is like a foot.

A foot is basically the measurement of the average size of a foot, an adult's foot, so you could measure things out with your feet. A yard, traditionally, is a measurement from your nose to your outstretched thumb. Stupid, we're all different. I know everybody's different, but it was the average size at the time. Which we are growing, so I imagine, has changed significantly, but that was the easiest way to do it. You'd be like a yard, and it was also because the same length from your nose

to your thumb is the same to your chest. If you were measuring something out, like rope, you'd be like, you'd pull it out, you'd hold one bit in your chest and the end and your thing, and you'd be like one yard, come in and grab it, two yards. Oh, yeah, like a seamstress. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they do do that when they fold the fabric, yeah. So that's how they can measure it. But now they'll hold like a tape measure to the chest and do that.

Yeah, and pull it out. Yeah. So they would measure it with yards. Then yard kind of became a generalized unit of measurement, so you would have, as you said, a yard stick. or a grid stick which is the same thing It's why it's called the grid iron

It's because it's gridded out in yards What about your backyard? What's that a measurement of? That's a bloody good question I wonder if there was a standard size For a backyard An area out the back Have you got a yard?

Do I have your permission Just slightly deviate To have a quick Google on this? Yes absolutely Imagine if your backyard Though was just a yard by a yard It's a little backyard It's a tiny cube

Yeah tiny backyard But maybe, yeah. Just be a party for one. All the people in the house, their yards added up to what your yard was. Yeah. That would still be small. Okay. Different word.

The word yard, in this sense, comes from the old English yard, meaning enclosure court or garden. Oh, okay. So the same word that gave us garden, gave us yard. Okay. The back yard. Because it's garden yard. It's a garden yard. Okay.

Enclosure or court, which would be fenced up. Learning. So yard a different. See, we aren't. We're learning. Aren't we having a little learn? So there are official yardsticks now. The original yardsticks were lost in a parliamentary fire.

We'd moved on from yardsticks, Gordon. We don't have time for this. What about a yard class? Is that a yard long? Is it a yard long? It's a yard long. Yeah, it is. Okay.

It's a yard long. So today's fact of the day is that if you want to measure out a yard, the old way of doing it was your thumb to the middle of your chest or your nose. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do do, tip to do, tip to do, do do do, do do do. Play ZM's Fleshforn and Haley. Fletchorn and Haley are bringing Herman home.

Now, if you've just heard this journey, or you know nothing about it, it all started when Haley made an extravagant purchase with the show credit card on Trade Me Yeah, it's a life-sized German Shepard ceramic Who I was told It was too expensive we shouldn't get But I just did it, we'll deal with that later But we called him Herman

As voted by the listener Herman the German Herman's the German And we got Stevie Involved the ZDM office took him out It took him out Lovely Day the Margaret Mayhee Playground and Crash Church

A little look at that at FVHZM Stevie has just picked him up and we'll be driving to Picked in today to get him on the Blue Bridge Ferry so you need to get him to Auckland where we are Blue Bridge Ferry's cancelled today due to weather right? Yeah the swells are like over four metres

crazy and he's ceramic Yeah we're not risking that We're not risking that Well they're not risking it either It's all cancelled today No actually they can't sort of primarily because of the risk of the dog Yeah I think they were like

We cannot have Herman Aboard the ship So we said earlier in the show Is there someone in Picton listening where he could stay for the night? And Taylor joins us on the phone. Hello, Taylor. Oh, hi, guys.

How are we? Really good. Great, thank you. Now, Taylor, you work at Toasty Lords, which is a very famous sandwich shop in Pickedon. Oh, absolutely. It would be rude for Herman to come to Moulbara and not experience the Toasties.

So we had to say yes. We've been fans from far for a long time. Whoa, speak of yourself. I've had a couple of Toasties. Have you? I've never been able to. I've never been able to. A little family trip to Marlborough region.

That's right. We drove up to Picton and went out to the Marlborough Sound. Totally, yeah, you did. But we're going to have to get the rest of you down. Like, we need to get you here, guys. Oh, honestly, every time I see your toasties, I'm like, I need them. What if we were to leave Auckland now? Get to Wellington.

Wait for the fury and we'll pass Herman the German and we'll get toasties. Well, you are going to, I guess, take care of him overnight until we can get him on a Bluebridge sailing tomorrow. Yeah, absolutely And look, let's try to show him a bit of the region Let's have a nice day out with him And we'll show him all that Mulberry has to offer I appreciate this so much

And yes, please, because he's a good boy Do they still have the little mini part in Picton? Oh yeah, we've got all sorts that we can do I'm thinking like a foreshore date We might take him up the coat hanger bridge I love it that Herman the German is It's now like a sort of New Zealand tourism spokesperson

him. I'm just going to put it out there now. No. No, Taylor. Don't even put that out there. No. We have had a few people messaging being like they want to get, they want to catch Herman on the way, Herman the German on the way. Why don't we like keep them on display? It's hosting and if anyone's in the town.

Okay, maybe chain him down though, Taylor. Maybe because he's got a collar on with an ear tag. And he's very valuable. We'll find him. Or he's worth a thousand, two hundred dollars. Yeah, yes. But yeah, maybe we'll send people to Toasty Lords and Picton if you want to get a picture with Herman the German, he'll be there.

Well, it's on the way, I think four hours away, four-ish hours away, four and five hours away. Yeah, Stevie's from Christchurched she picked in, so a bit of a drive. And then Herman... And we'll make sure also that we get Stevie a good hot to stay. Yes. Well, hang on. Now, Taylor, how could we package up some toasties? I don't know if they're going to last...

With Herman. If they're going to last three or four or five days. Hayley. I knew this was coming. I knew this question was coming. How can we ship these toasties ahead? A little polystyrene box for us with a couple of toastys inside. Taylor from ToastyLews, thank you so much for looking after.

Herman the German, really appreciate it. Absolutely, no, we're looking forward to having him here. We can't wait. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. A supermarket in Iceland has gone viral because they are asking shoppers to dobb in shoplifters. If they catch it? Well, they just have to see it happening and alert staff.

They're not saying you need to intervene. They're just saying if you see someone put a pack of mints down their pants, alert the staff. See something, say something. See something, say something.

Yeah. And then you will earn the equivalent of a two New Zealand dollar reward that goes on your like, you know, like they have their shopping cards like one card or the New World Club card.

That's so late. Whatever the version of that. Such a lame reward. Yes. I just do it for nothing, rather than. Oh, that just sucks. I've seen people shoplift and I'm like, you know what? It's not my problem.

Yeah, maybe they need it, you know. Yeah, I'm not there to narc on anyone. It's not my job. I'm no modern day crime father. No. You know what I mean? I'm not a crime committer. But, well, this is, we put up a little poll.

Would you narc on a shoplifter for a $2 store credit? Because that's basically what comes down to. That's what you're getting. 74% of people said no. Okay. 26% of people said, yes, they would. We're looking away. Georgia?

Yeah, you're about to host a day show. What would you do? Well, what's the saying? Snitchers get stitches? Yeah, we can't be doing that. Unless, guys, now think about this, Whitaker's Armand Gold. They were stealing the Whitaker's Armand Gold.

What would you do in that case, huh? No, but that's all... All our Armagolts were stolen. You're pretty much getting an arm and gold for dobbing in a shoplifter. Yeah, aren't you? So I would just wait to catch a shoplifter, dob them and get the credit by the Arm and Gold.

Well, true. See, so you would do it for the Arm and a war. It would take $2 off a block of butter, making it, like, last year's price. Yeah. Well, so how good, so getting credit, no matter how much it is, is pretty dee on one of those cards, though.

$2 from the supermarket is a kick in the teeth. It takes it ever to get the rewards. Yeah, it takes so long. Vivian replied saying, if no one reports it, then we can all steal and save more than $2. Wait, what? She'd like an alliance with all of us.

Vivian wants some sort of anti-establishment alliance where no one narks. We all just steal. Oh, God, that's not the way. But then Mal on the other side of it said, I dobb them in for free. Yeah. I dobb in thieves for free.

I mean, I guess we all pay when prices get up because everyone keeps knicking stuff. I know, but the supermarket's not going to feel that, are they? I wouldn't, not for $2. 10? Okay, what if it was 10? Rotissory chook. Free rotissory chook.

In exchange, I'll say that girl there in the knitted jumper just stole. Two rotissory chooks. Two rotissory chook. Wait. You get one back. If Georgia... Chook and the buns, though, because otherwise you're doing it.

Yeah. You know? You just finger the chook in the car. Yeah, sometimes you just get straight hand and chook. Yeah. In the car? I figured the chook so hard. Definitely not.

That's a wait till you get home, sit. I'm with flitch on that. Oh, okay. I'm sorry, we're going to live the life of luxury. We're having a premium hot chock in the car. Yeah. If Georgia was a shoplifter, what would she steal? Oh, this is good.

This is good. I reckon like you should hit up moisturizers and shampoos, you know? Do you know what it was born to be? Lank's deodorant. I love slinks. You think I'd steal Lank's deodorant. Because I stop and have a little squirt mid store. You're not allowed to do the top of.

You're not allowed to do that. Take a bit off the top. But when you buy deodorant from the supermarket or wherever, you always go to the back of, grab one. Oh yeah, you never take the front one because people have a little sneaky squirts. Hold on a squirt. They have sniffs. No, you never buy the front one. Always ice creams underneath from the very, very bottom because they're the most frozen.

Frozen is frozen. No, because they're opening the lid. So in the top part, they're probably more... I've never done that. Smart, honestly. So you've got a tub of ice cream from the bottom? Yeah, from the bottom. It's actually not a bad theory.

And what about frozen veggies? Same thing. I really care about the old peas. They could be a little bit mushy. They can be a bit crap. It's just peas. Ice cream's different though. Yeah.

George is up next playing songs today. Guys, I've got so much to give away today. What about? You've got to change clothes with everybody if... Yeah, who wants to... Anyone willing? Anyone willing? You can have my jumper if you want.

You can switch jumpers. Yeah. Like bra, I need everything Sox, undies, actually I've got I'm wearing a nice comfy bra No, not undies, though Yeah, well go because mine's well up there Oh yeah, no, God no, no

So this was the challenge Soundkeeper Brooks said if you can change Every item of clothes apart from underwear With before midday, we get a jackpot For secrets out Come on, Haley, do the right thing Well, this is, again, is this worth the jackpot? Are we swapping? Are we swapping jumpers?

You can't have my top because I'm wearing a dress. No, I need your whole fit. What am I going to wear? My fit? I can't fit your jeans and I'm just going, I'm just going home in my undies and a jacket.

Pretty much. Actually, this net would be pretty hot. Oh God, I don't. Find someone. Oh, I got nothing on underneath. Find someone in the office. I counted 79 all rights today. Fletcher, but that's a new personal record.

Oh, fuck off. How many of those did you count? 79 of those, too. All right. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rate and review. Oh, fuck off. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.