ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - June 12th 2025

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod: Chinese banks are luring people in with Labubu's What we are thinking during adult time SLP - Do you like pickles? Love Island first episode review Top 6 - Ways Trump can get over Elon Uber lost index Fetch's surgery treat What did you do super young? Hayley's 8 am wake up How do  you know? Fact of the day What is your instant pick me up? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network. This is Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley's Big Pod. Thanks to Animates, making happy happen for pets. ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. Thank you Bryn Rudkin. Good morning. Welcome to the show Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday guys.

We've got a long weekend. Imminent guys. Not this weekend. She's not doing that to me. No I said imminent. It's on the horizon. Yeah, next week, imminent guys, not this weekend. She said that to me. So I said imminent. It's on the horizon. Yeah, next week is a short week. Yeah, Matariki, so Friday next week. Kelda to the stars, you know.

Shout out to the stars. Yep. Oh yeah, because it's all about the... The constellations. The stars. Because it's the Māori New Year, right? Yeah. Shout out.

Shout out. Good morning to our Māori New Year right? Yeah. Shout out. Shout out. Good morning to our Māori listeners. You start different times for different, you know. Yeah, China's like that. China's right, yeah we've got our own. It's like, okay. Māori New Year. Yeah.

Should we have a New Year? Fletch, Fjord and Hayley New Year. Yeah, we could do that. Just, you just want a party. I just sort of want to throw up. Sounds like you just want a party. Sounds like you. We could do it like January 7th, you know,

time to recover from the first new year. Too close to actual new year. February 28th. I think it needs to be like maybe September, August, September. No, but shit weather. Early March. March.

No, we could do our new year by travelling somewhere that will have lovely weather. Okay, great, July. That's also works, eh? The top six is coming up. Yeah, look, we've all got our ways of getting over breakups. Heartbreak. Yeah, look, we've all got our ways of getting over breakups. Heartbreak.

Yeah. And at the moment, we're witnessing two real powerhouses of industry going through a breakup. Elon Musk, Donald Trump. Oh my God. So funny watching it. It's a timely reminder that women are too emotional to lead. Yeah, actually it is.

And it really is. Their hormones will get the better of their behaviour. Yeah, yeah, they certainly will. They certainly will. But I've got the top six ways that Donald and Elon can get over their breakup. So Chinese authorities have banned their banks, luring customers in with gifts. Now...

Previously, I mean, that was when we were kids. Wait, does this include a plastic elephant? That's what I was gonna say. Yeah. Yes. Because remember they did the plastic elephant piggy banks. Well that was a way of getting you in when you were a kid. When I was a kid, the National Bank was still around.

It had the Black Horse piggy bank. Yep. Westpac had the helicopter piggy bank. ASB used to have an elephant piggy bank. What do they have now? Cash and the Elephant was their piggy bank there for a while. Yeah, that little yellow elephant. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they were all ways of luring you in. Yeah. And when it came time to open your first bank account. We just had a glass jar at TSB. Did you? Oh, shame. Like an old A-G preserving jar. Yeah, like an old preserving jar.

Like a jam jar. Why don't they hold it sealed anymore because it'd be used too many times. Keeping it real. Yeah, keeping it real in the Naki guys. That's good. Wow. Well, they were luring customers in China with Le Boo Boo dolls.

Now if you're just like, what's a Le Boo Boo doll? It's a monster thing. Like Hailey summed up before perfectly, it's the Beanie Baby of 2025. There's mass panic about having to have one. I'm just on the popmart.nz website. Oh, sold out. Sold out. How much much are they producing? She had a box here. They're you're all we've talked about these to you before

Yeah, we spent 39 on ours Those 100 ones that you're looking at are like special edition very very limited Did you say you spent 39 on yours? Yeah, I feel like you've changed the price from when we first It's almost like you guys are coming to the realization that it's actually kind of worth it and you want one. No, that's not what's happening babe. I saw the line of people waiting for these Laboobies yesterday and I looked at them and I thought, losers. Yeah but half of them are resellers, half of them are like going to go and pop it on. I did not say you were about to say resellers.

That's retarded. Do you know what though? Yeah but half about to say resellers. I'm fratatous. Do you know what though? I can't believe it. When we were lined up, my biggest fear was you scootering past us. Because I would have knocked you out. Loser. Lame on. I can stand here and be proud of my decisions, but I can't look Fletch in the eye while doing it.

Wasting hours of my day lining up for a bloody Labooboo toy. Yeah, so good. So you had to deposit around about 10,000 New Zealand dollars into a new bank account to get a Labooboo. Look, even Karwin's like, not worth it. Crazy, hey. How are you doing that? 10,000 dollars.

No, that's not worth it. I mean, I guess everyone needs a bank service so it it's just a treat. But $10,000! But then these are really hard to get in China, aren't they? Yeah. And a lot of countries with huge populations because people are going nuts for them. I mean, they're getting banned in countries. Yeah. They're getting banned at schools now, I think.

If you have $10,000. Because of the stealing. Because of what the Tama Gotchies did at our school. Yeah. Because they kept beeping and dying. Like I will say, if I had $10,000 and I had to pick a bank and bank A said here's a Labuba and bank B said no, well duh, I'm getting the Labuba. I think you better say if I had $10,000 I'd just line up and buy all the Labubas.

It does seem like an investment though. Does it? Tell that to Aaron and his Lord of the Rings figurines that he collected, all of them, not worth a dollar. Someone on TikTok the other day said these are the Beanie Babies of the new generation. And you know how everyone thought Beanie Babies were gonna be worth a lot of money? What's the most expensive Beanie Baby?

I'm not keeping mine as like an investment though. It's just a cute little child in my bag. First season. So there's a $500,000 Beanie Baby. Princess the Bear is a half a million dollar, this is US prices Beanie Beard. What? How much were they?

Is this one that you could get like randomly if you lined up one of these that's reselling for half a million dollars? The Labooboo's, yeah, some of it, because basically there's six main ones of the collection, at least we have, and there's a secret one, and you have a one in 72 chance of getting it.

Those ones are going for a couple hundred bucks. But the thing is that there's so much demand now that they're making like ugly looking ones like they're not, their quality control's not as good. So I think that they're actually gonna mass produce even more and they're not gonna be that. Wow, did you just hear that? Carwin wants to crack a whip in the factory. Come on kids, just go. You're missing a few stitches.

You've got an eye falling out. Come on, kids, you're missing a few stitches. You've got an eye falling out. Come on. Wow. Play ZM's, Flash, Vaughan and Hayley. Oh, I thought this was gonna be fun, but it's not. This little study out of the UK, what UK men and women are thinking about during sex, sexy times, they've put together some main sort of thoughts and then there's the graph that shows

what percentage of women are thinking about that thing compared to men, for example. And it's different, isn't it? It is different, it's very different. So down the bottom for men, just following this little graph, social media is quite low for men, but they are thinking about it a bit.

So this is in an intimate moment with their partner. This is one of the things- Not solo, men may are having intimate times with each other. They're thinking about their Instagram or TikTok. Women more than men. Okay. Right but it's low numbers low numbers. Your partner's siblings for women that was about 2% for men heading towards 9% of the time thinking about my brother. Right well I don't imagine if you were with a man that'd be thinking about your brother,

but if you had a hot sister, they would definitely be thinking about her. So a really big one for guys heading towards the 20% mark here is thinking about a mate. You're thinking about Vaughn. But not in a sexual way, you're just thinking about what he's up to. What my mate Vaughan's up to.

I must borrow his power drill tomorrow after this. I must remember to ask. Yeah, far lower for women. Another one where it's quite different, your partner's best friend, men, we're heading towards 10%, women we're about 2%. Bit of a theme here. Okay.

Let's get to some fun ones. Financial worries. Hitting the 20% mark for women, 20% of the time, thinking about, oh God, money, times are hard, financial crisis. God, do you think they'd just put that aside and just enjoy the moment? You would, men 10% of the time.

So about half, here's the one that I absolutely loved, an ex, that's about 22% of the time men are thinking about that, as opposed to 10% of the time women. But does it say if they're thinking positively or negatively about next they might be thinking this is so much better than the stuff with my ex. I don't imagine. Good defence I think. Good defence.

Nice try Vaughan. Really good defence but no. I was just asking. No no no no. Well you just like this is much better than my ex. No I think. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

That's what I'm saying. That works actually. She never did this. Yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa! What's that? Yeah. Whoa.

Now here's the one that really made it, that I was like, this isn't as fun as I thought it was gonna be to share. 25% of the time, women are worried about household chores and errands. This is during intimate times. Compared to 7% of the time for men. Is that the biggest one?

That's the biggest one for women. It was work, stress and household chores and errands. The biggest ones for men were an ex and a friend. Isn't that insane? Men are so simple. We're so simple. We're just like, yep. This feels nice. Yep. Hot friend. Imagine it's my hot friend. Imagine it's my hot ex. And the women are like, okay now how are we going to jungle the bills? God I hope he hurries up because honestly I have got to do the vacuuming. Silly silly silly silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole. Silly little pole.

I'm shocked we even had to ask. I know. Yeah, but you know we did. We did. I think if you don't like pickles, you really hate them. No one's neutral on a pickle. Nah, you love them or you hate them. You're passionate.

It's like coriander, right? You love it or you hate it. Yeah, yeah. Those sweet and sour pickles that you can get. You're passionate. It's like coriander, right? You love it or you hate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those sweet and sour pickles that you can get. Like there's the McClure's ones that are like, they're like bougie, top tier. McClure's are bougie and for a special occasion, but my kids eat them straight from the jar,

so we just get the cheapest pickles there are. I just get Del Main. Just that jar, the classic jar. What's the yellow brand? And it's got, they've got a sweet and sour one, and they're only a couple of bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, so yum. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah're only a couple of bucks. Oh, so yum.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, they're like super cheap. Oh, Golden Sun. Yeah, Golden Sun, and they do a sweet and sour pickle, and they're the best. It's such a problem in our house, we went to Costco and bought like a two litre, no, it was even bigger, a three litre jar,

and it was full of pickle, gone within a week. So good, aye, those jars, and what a jar to have. It's a beautiful jar. It's actually worth it for the jar. Yeah, big. You could make kombucha in It's actually worth it for the jar. Yeah. You could make kombucha in there. You probably could make kombucha. You could.

You could make it on sauerkraut. You could make sauerkraut. We do the German accent for sauerkraut. Do we do the Korean accent for kimchi? I'm scared. Dare you. No. Dare you.

Double dare. In Australia, just a little pickle stat. In Australia McDonald's. I almost swore. I was like F you sent me with a pickle stat. Pickle stat, in Australia they use Pile Family's pickles who produce 1800 tonnes annually, roughly 12 to 20 million pickles.

How do you grow the little cucumbers that you use? I grew them this year, you've just gotta pick them before they blow out. Oh right. They start growing and you've just gotta pick them before they blow out. Oh, right. They start growing and you've just got to pick them. When I do my garden, shall I grow some and I'll make us pickles? Pickles.

Sprouty's pickles. I used to love pickling beetroot. That was a real, I love a beetroot. You can pickle anything. I like pickling onions. Yeah. Oh man, how good is a pickle? If you eat so many pickled onions,

then your mouth's burning and all of a sudden your gut is like too many and you're like, evacuate the last four. Not a fan of pickled onions, like then your mouth's burning and all of a sudden your gut is like too many and you like evacuate the last four. Not a fan of pickled onions. Really? The little cocktail ones. Maybe, but no. Give it a blast.

Pickled onion martini, sorry, that's the last thing I'll say. Okay. I make a good pickled onion martini. What about a dirty martini with actual pickle juice from the pickles? That's the last thing I'll say. That is elite. That is elite.

That is the last thing we'll say. Do you like pickles? I think we should have one today. I think we should have one today. Deep fried pickles, that's the last thing I'll say. Okay, that's the last thing you'll say to deep fried. I will hear it, but that is the last thing we'll say. Do you like pickles? I think we should have one today. I think we should have one. Deep fried pickles, that's the last thing I'll say. Okay, that's the last thing you'll say to deep fried. I will hear it, but that is the last I'll say. It's the last I'll say, but deep fried.

Hey, what about dehydrated pickle slices that you then put in a blender and you make pickle dust? Pickle dust. It's the last thing we'll have to say. Oh, that's the last thing I'll have you say. It's the last thing I say, I promise you. We should start a company, pickle dust. Pickle dust. I want pickle dust on chips. Yes, of course you do. That's the last thing I say, I'll promise you. We should start a company, Pickle Dust. Pickle Dust.

I want Pickle Dust on chips. Yes, of course you do. That's the last thing we'll say about it, but just buy some. That's the last thing we'll say. Okay. Carry on. Salt and Pickle Dust?

Oh, yeah, I know. Oh my God, we can make a Pickle Dust salt that you just sprinkle on everything. Chips, fries, I bet you it's already been made. Save us the time. That's the last I'll say. That's the last I'll say.

Carry on. Do you have a deodorant? It's the last I'll say. Pickle Dust. Fletch one in Haley's Pickle you have a deodorant? It's the last I'll say. Pickle dust. Fletch one in Haley's Pickle Dust. Are you kidding me? It's selling itself. I think it'll sell out.

Okay, there's a number of companies that have pickle powder. Pickle, okay, this is the last thing we're gonna say, pickle powder on popcorn. It's the last thing we're gonna say. Oh, that is the last I'll hear of it. That's the last I'll have you say of that. That's the last I'll have you say.

That's the last thing we'll say. Now that's actually just a recipe for that. So we could make, look at that, pickle powder on popcorn. Oh, you're nice. Yeah, make her a pickle powder. Pickle powder popcorn. There's not any pre-made that we can buy? There is a bag, there is a company called Knife and Plow.

Is it in New Zealand? They have a pickle dust. I believe I'm in America right now. Who do we know coming back from? That's called pickle dust, so it's like a salt mix. Oh, yes. We need to team up with someone who's ordering like that, please. I've got $10. Buy it. That's called pickled dust so it's like a salt mix. Oh yes! We need to team up with someone who's ordering their equipment. Buy it. That's all I'll say, buy it.

We can team up with a local business. I say we need to team up with a local business. What's that brand that sent us all those powders and stuff? And the white jars. And they do powders and... Pepper and me! Pepper and me is pickled dust. We get a little cut. Pepper and me. Pepper and me is pickledust. Love it. Which one of you and Haley are picked at X?

We get a little cut? Pickledust. This is us. They might already do it. Anyway, that's the last we'll say now. That is the last I'll hear of it. Today's silly little poll. Watch this space.

I'm serious. I say a lot of things with zero follow up. I'm going to message them right now because I've met them before. He says this. It's the last I'll say but he has a lot of ideas. I'm happy to invest. That's the last I'm going to say. Nah.

Did we win lotto last night? No, it's 20 million. Okay. Oh, what? We not win. I was really hoping for an escape. We got it. An escape route. Out of this shit life. I was really hoping to live on a beach.

Oh yeah me too. With your pickle dust. That's the last I'll say. That's the last you'll both say. Do you like pickles? 72% of people do like pickles. Oh wait. Oh god damn it. Pepper and me already do a pickle dust. Yeah look I'm just loading up the page. Oh, just load up that page, this is the last one.

Yeah, take a dill pick. Oh my god, it's literally pickle dust. Take a dill pick is so funny. They already do it. They already do it. Of course they do, dill pickle seasoning. Oh my god, ordering. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not pickle dust guys.

Punchy dill and garlic seasoning for potatoes and stuff. It's giving the flavours of pickles, but it's not pickle dust. We're talking about dehydrating actual pickles. It's got dill tips in it. No, no. It's got dill tips. It's got dill tips, but it's not a pickle in sight in this.

I'm sorry. It's too white. We want it to be a green powder. This is seasoning that would go with pickles. No, no, no, this has no pickles in it. It's the last I'll say. I'm reaching out to them the minute we finish this stupid radio segment.

This is, I'm making millions. Today's question. Do you like pickles? 72% of people do like pickles. 28% of people do not like pickles. Grow up. Rebecca says, they grew on me. Always picked them out of the cheeseburger,

but then one day I saw the light. That's what is required. Yeah, I think that's what happens to most people as they get older. Mature and palette. You mature, you eat spicy food. I would say, if you've aged slightly from your teenage years and you did used to take out the pickle

and now you do by habit, give it a try. Give it a try. Last chance for pickle. You might have grown. Alex says my 19 month old, their favourite food is pickles. They'll just chow down on pickles all day. Oh wow. How does that come out the other end?

You're cleaning with the nappy. Yeah, good luck. Like that. Good work. Sarah says when I forgot to say no pickles I give the excess to my husband when he's not around I feel bad cuz I ain't eating them pickles grow up Sarah I didn't pick her Tony Anna says bread and butter pickles are elite. She is not wrong They're a great yeah, okay

Pickle juice and vodka if you said Drew Drew's making himself a little dirty pickle martini without all that with vodka without all the faffing Of a shakinister. Yeah, don't give him a move just vodka and pickle and England you can buy whole pickles from the pub sometimes Drew's making himself a little dirty pickle martini without all the... With vodka. Without all the faffing of a shake and a stir. Yeah, don't give him a mouth, just vodka and pickle. In England, you can buy whole pickles from the pub sometimes. I had this, where did I have this? At that Pastrami and Rye place. Yes, you got a whole sloppy pickle.

I got a whole sloppy pickle and gobbled it right there in the restaurant. Best breakfast ever. I'm that seagull pinching everybody else's pickles from their cheeseburgers at Maccas if they don't want them, I'm immediately on them, says Michael. Even strangers?

Strangers' pickles. Be weird just to go and ask a stranger for their Gives you a pickle? Excess pickle. Kat said, I'll even drink the juice. I'll take pickle, pickle, pickle sip. It's good for your joints and preventing muscle cramps. All right. I'll do it.

I don't need any more encouragement. Sounds like it would be high in salt. You wouldn't want to do too much of that. There's some salt. You do feel like a dick, eh, when you tip it down the sink. Yeah, it's such a waste. What are we doing?

And those little mustard seeds that are in it, you're like, that's not a waste. Well, you said you use yours for a chicken wing batter. If you keep all the pickle juice and you marinate chicken wings in the juice for two days in the fridge before you coat them and deep fry them, it tenderises the chicken

and adds a pickle flavour to the chicken. It's straight up, it's a bit more work, but it's the best chicken wings you'll ever have. Okay, do you know what we should put with our pickle, and this is the last thing we'll say, what we should put with our pickle? And this is the last thing we'll say. What we should do with our pickle dust? Put it in like a batter. You know when you're like battering something?

Yeah, like wings. So you do like your egg, your flour, then your egg, and then you've got a batter. And the crumb has got the pickle dust in it. And then the crumb has the pickle dust in it. You've always got to season the crumb. That goes for schnitzels, parties, wings or anything. Season the crumb.

Yeah. Season the crumb is also a Rock West band name. Season the crumb? Season the crumb. Yeah. Season the crumb is also a Rockwith band name. Season the crumb. Season the crumb. What's up, we're seasoned the crumb. I like pickle juice more, but my partner judges me for drinking it from the jar. You do you, boo. Also, my name is pronounced Neva.

You guys just called, I like the letter A, so Neve. Neve. Oh, because it's got an E over that. She said previously when you've read it out, you've just called me Niv. Love you guys. I'm so sorry, Nivay. Sorry, Nivay.

Um, Pickles with my pregnancy cravings, said Emma, well Emma, you get pregnant again because we're about to release Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's pickle dust. It's gonna sell out. It's gonna hit shelves very soon. It's gonna sell out. Mark my words.

I'm straight up messaging them right now. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Guys, we're back in the villa. New season Love Island UK. It's my favourite. I love it. It's trash, it's wonderful. And it was at launch yesterday.

TVNZ+. And you didn't watch the first yet? No, what I did was I instead had, what's that Korean wine? Soju, soju, soju. That's not wine. It's more of a vodka. It's more of a spirit.

No, yeah, but it's a wine. You were drinking about a glass where you're hot. Yeah, it was. No, it's a thing, a plum wine. Anyway, but I did that and I watched the musical theater and then I was like, it's too late. Oh, lovely. It's too late to watch Love Island

and I've been cultured having Korean. You can't go back watching. Korean drinks and Les Miserables. Yeah, you can't. Do you know what I mean? Can't go to Love Island. The French-Korean connection. That's right. having Korean drinks and laymas arrived. Do you know what I mean? Can't go to Love Island. The French-Korean connection. That's right.

But thankfully, producer Shannon did tune into episode one last night and I'm excited to hear what you think. Yeah, it was a good start to the season. You know, you gotta feel everyone out. But they have mixed it up a little bit. And this is a mild spoiler alert, but nothing too big. Okay. If you haven't watched it yet. So you know how normally for the first coupling the

boys and girls kind of stand forward if you think he's first or there's kind of been different ways of matching everyone up. For the first coupling, when they first get there, for the boys that don't know, when you first get there you've got to originally couple up with someone, everyone has to be in a couple. Oh no that's like when you didn't get picked. Pick versus PE at school. It's horrific. Precisely like that.

Oh. They'll go, oh, like, if you think he's hot, stand forward. And there's been some years where no one's been stood for. That's embarrassing. So they've mixed it up this year. I would, do you reckon I'd be okay? Yeah, babe.

Babes, you'd be okay. So thank you. Thank you, Carly. Thank you, Carly. I'm boosting them up. I'm sitting there just watching. Don't like me in that. Of course, and then you'd go next. Yeah, thank you. And then I'd be sitting there just watching. Don't want me in there.

And then you'd go next. Thank you. And then I'd be sat there and I'd be like, guess there's no one for me. And then last minute some real hot brown girl gets added to the house and she's like, that's my cup of tea. And I'm like, it's all coming up Smith. Something I love about those white skinny legs. Hey! I just was...

I was just boosting you up. I know and I tore you down. I'm so sorry. Why'd you tear me down? I don't know. You took me down to the knees and you know these skinny knees can't take much of that. I got weak, weak knees. Is there anyone on Love Island with weak, skinny legs?

I didn't really notice the legs. We do have a professional rugby player. We've got a soccer player. We've hit every trope. But to match up this year, what they did is they got each of the guys to write almost a dating bio, and the girls had to pick based on it. Let's move on to Dejon. 26, professional trainer, 6 foot 1, and his headline is,

I like to play hard and work harder. I love to play, so I work very hard. Very poetic. Is it poetic? I don't know, it's giving me a bit of a key. Yeah! Green flags, red flags. I would say green flags, because it means they take care of themselves,

and I think that's really important. But he said he loves to play. Is that a red flag? That's what I'm thinking. He loves to play. I know, what does that mean? What context? What context?

What context? That's right. So each of the girls then had to stand in front of a guy. So they can't see them at this point? Couldn't see them. So we're going based on, this is Love Island, we're going based on personality? Well, personality of a one-line bio

and one of the guys did admit he used chat GPT. Was it that guy? Was it that guy? Because it basically repeated the same sentence twice in a different way. I work hard, I play hard, and I like to play hard so I work real hard. I like that, is this Scottish, Lass? That's deep, that's Glaswegian. Yeah, that was thick. Yeah, there's some great accents. So yeah, definitely worth getting in, Hayley, get amongst.

Do you know what, today is one of the rare days that I get to go home and I don't have much on oh my god. And you could do a double then. New episodes every day at 12. I sort of need to because I love this show so much and it's every day basically I sort of need to do that thing where I sit out for a bit and then can binge sit out and binge sit out and binge. Oh I'm frothing. I always like to play hard. I like to play hard. I like to get out of this swamp. Everything's about me is hard. Play ZM's Fleshborne and Haley. Play ZM's Fleshborne and Haley.

I just wanted to now take a moment. My three year old pseudo nephew has just worked out that it's me on the radio. Oh wow. That must be trippy. He's like, is that Uncle Vaughan on the radio? And here I am. Well you can't use this time just to point your finger.

I'm going to do a personal shout out. Why not as my pseudo nephew. Right. He's my best friend's son, Hugh, who's just worked out. So good morning, I want to say good morning to Hugh. Good morning Hugh. Have a great day at daycare. This will be blowing his mind this wireless device.

Yeah, then we're on the radio pairing his name. This will be blowing his mind, this wireless device. Hearing his name, yes, and I know, isn't it? He's got access to all the YouTube and the iPad. Sometimes the old tech comes through hard with these kids. Yeah, right. I don't know how it works. So good morning to Hugh. Good morning to Hugh.

Have a great day at daycare. Next, the top six. Hope you make some Play-Doh, some sand castles. I played Play-Doh with a six-year-old the other day. It was so fun. Did you eat anything? We made monsters and we made snakes and we made a snake. Snakes are the best cause you go.

And you do that any. Yeah, yes. You can't go wrong with a snake. My pseudo nephew really, he was like, how do you get it so smooth? Oh yeah, did you go snake roll into a snail? Yeah, yeah. Of course, it's a clear sack.

Of course, it's a clear sack. And then it's easy and then you put two little boop. Yeah, we had pipe cleaners. I might, it was so fun. You had pipe cleaners? Yeah, that's a close-up. And then it's easy and then you put two little boop on the floor. Yeah, we had pipe cleaners. You had pipe cleaners? Yeah, yeah. C1 and Christchurch, shout out to that calf. Oh, they were all... With a kid's meal, they give you a little pot of Play-Doh

and some little toothpicks and pipe cleaners. Stop it! I was always real sad on Play School. They were like, if you've got pipe cleaners... Who had pipe cleaners? No one had pipe cleaners during Play School. Play School was using them willy-nilly. Oh, you shared pipe? Of course she did. I had sparkly pipe cleaners? No one had pipe cleaners during our high school. We were using them willy nilly. Oh you shared pipe?

Of course she did. I had sparkly pipe cleaners. Okay, we're out of time. My dad had massive dairy, like for the cow shed pipe cleaners, but we weren't allowed to play with those. The top six next. Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Hayley.

From the Fleshhorn and Hayley group chat, this is the top six. Hello there. Well, there's a hell of a breakup going on. Elon Musk and Donald Trump, very like teenage, emotional but it's for the world to see and they're in powerful positions. And I've seen a lot of meme chat about,

this is a powerful reminder of women are too emotional to leave. Yeah. They get caught up in the same thing. We just make it messy. Yeah. It's always nice and tiny like this. You really do. This was always leave. Yeah. They get caught up in the same thing. We'd just make it messy. Yeah. It's always nice and tiny like this. This was always coming. Yeah.

Like, you know, when one of your friends gets together with someone, you're like, this is not going to last. Yeah. Yeah. God. Any day now. They're those two personalities together, like cheese. Too much?

Yeah. The world's most powerful man and the world's most richest man have split. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The world's most richest man. It's interesting. The use of the English language there.

Most powerful and well, you say me and. most richest man. It's interesting. The use of the English language there. Most powerful and well you say me and. And the most. Me and August. You say me and August and I say the most richest. The most richest. Because me made dinner last night. Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah.

I've seen it. I've done it. I've done it. Well I've got the top six ways to get over a bad breakup. I've consulted the ancient tablets. Okay. Of Cosmo and Dolly and female magazine advice columns. Number six on the list,

the top six ways for Elon and Donald to get over each other, put a silly little curse on each other. You know nothing serious, just like a, I hope their ankle socks always slide down into their shoes. Well I was a teenage witch, I could help with that. Yeah, I gay. He used to do curses on people all the time. Marcus doesn't like me back.

I hex upon you. Wait, wait, Marcus was like, I know, I don't feel the same way. And you're like, that's all it takes, Marcus. Curse. Cursed. Wow. That's too much.

Not cursed, spell. Hex. And poor old Marcus just thought you were a minger. And maybe you were a bit... No, no, you didn't think you were a minger. Marcus was gay. He was too scared to tell everybody. And you're cursing the gays.

Yeah, well, he's celebrating Pride Month. He's waving his flag. Wait, did you curse your curse? Wouldn't be the first time. You might have, the hex might have been if I can't have a no woman shell. And that was kind of hilarious. It was a gay hex. Yeah, he was like, I'm already gay, horn.

And he's living his best gay life, thanks to me. So you're welcome, Marcus. Totally. Number five on the list are the top six ways to get over each other for Elon and Donald. Buy something ridiculous and justify it as like a breakup recovery. Now this is what healing looks like energy

when you purchase something like, I don't know, a new robe for yourself. A new robe! A little luxury face mask to do with the girls. Your favourite sweetie treatie. Number four on the list of the top six ways to get over your ex for Elon and Donald. Create bad art about them.

Your finger paint and your heartbreak. Or maybe you print out all the worst text they sent you and collage it into a surrealist masterpiece. Wow. Let your art express your feelings. Number two on, number three on the list of the top six ways to get over your ex for Donald and Elon, rename them in your phone of course.

That's a way to do it. It's changing their contact with somebody like do not answer or exhibition a of failure Yeah, or mistake number one or free trial expired or like orange loser orange ruffy orange loser loser Yeah, yeah big orange loser. Yeah Number two on the list of the top six ways to get over your ex write their name on a piece of bread and feed It some birds That's a good one eh?

It's like Valentine's Day or the zoos do like, we'll name this elephant poo after your ex. Yeah, or we'll name this steak after your ex and then feed it to the Crocs. Feed it to the tigers. And number one on the list of the top six ways to get over An X. This is for Elon and Donald. The only way to get over is to get under the next one, am I right? Yeah, what are we talking about? Who's he gonna get under? Well that's what I'm thinking. Elon goes with Putin. Yeah.

And Donald goes with Jeff, Jeffery Bezos. Oh yeah. You know the other reason. Imagine that. Imagine you're like Jeff, Jeffrey Bezos. Oh yeah. You know, the other, imagine that. Imagine you're like Donald and Bezos. Cause he's got spaceships and rockets too. I know exactly. Oh.

It would be the perfect rebound hookup. Yeah, wouldn't it? No good. They would be so angry. That is the next option. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Hayley. We have received as of 5 a.m. this morning, before which it is embargoed, this is how much we

look forward to it, the 2025 Uber Lost and Found Index for New Zealand. These are the things that people, our Kiwis have left behind in Ubers over the last year. All kinds of stats. What happens when it goes unclaimed? I don't know, I think Uber Christmas party? Yeah, or charity maybe, a lot of the airports do that. Yeah. With like lost and found.

Yeah, I've definitely left items of clothing and dignity in the back of Uber's. It's like, if you ever try to get something back, it's a pain. Cause like the driver- I think Uber's better than taxis. I've always, back in the day, if you left something in a taxi, it was,

no! Cause you can direct message the driver. Yes. Hey, I was in your car last night. And there's no denying that it was you that was in a taxi, it was, gone! Because you can direct message the driver. Yes. Hey, I was in your car last night. And there's no denying that it was you that was in their car. Well, you used to pay cash for a taxi. Gone burgers. You're gone.

So midnight is apparently the most forgetful time. Midnight. That's because you've got to rush home from the ball before you're- Turned into a pumpkin. Yeah, turned into a pumpkin. Followed by 5 a.m. and 1 a.m. So 5 a.m., I'm like, you've overdone the night or you're going somewhere early and you're

tired. Like the airport, people aren't used to waking up that early or they're coming home and they're fried. Massive night. And 1am just closely, you know, after midnight. I'm going to say booze probably plays a role in most of those. I would say booze. I've never left something in an Uber without being boozed.

If anything happens after midnight, I would say Booz has a heavy environment. When I lost my keys in an Uber, it was just loose pockets. Had a big sloppy pocket hole. Sloppy pocket hole? Oh, you got sloppy pockets? No, you know what it was? Sloppy track pants?

Track pants, sloppy track pants pocket hole. Wasn't that your nickname in high school? Sloppy pocket hole? No, it was my Rock Quest band name. Sloppy track pants pocket. Yeah. And they were like a funk band? Funk, yeah, almost like a...

...influenced by the early Chili Pepper stuff. I got keys in my pocket! ...now they're gold! You were influenced by the change of scenes in Friends. That's right. Ah, Seinfeld. Seinfeld, yeah. Friends did it as well. No, they had more stings that were not bass heavy. Right. Ah. Seinfeld. Seinfeld. Friends did it as well. Bang, bang, bang.

They had more stings that were not bass heavy. Yeah, right. You're thinking Seinfeld. Jaffas, they've called us. Aucklanders are the most forgetful. Honestly, stop the Jaffas thing. It's so lame. People don't really say it anymore.

People don't really say it. Occasionally an old maid from Christchurch. Old maids love it. Old maids love it. Flippin' Aucklander. I'm just pulling up the Friends scene transition music, but I'll get your remember due to cost of living crisis, I've had to cancel my YouTube premium.

Oh boy. Sign into mine. See more rock and roll and more rock and roll. This is a guitar cover. But this is, yeah. Yeah, this is basically my Rock Quest band in high school. Life with the Keys in the back of a jacks' hand. Okay, Auckland is most forgetful, then Wellington and Christchurch not far behind, then Hamilton,

then Queenstown. Again, Queenstown, you've got to assume, like we're out having a holiday. Okay, here, the single most forgettable day of the year was the 15th of June 2024. Okay what happened on that day? The Warriors. The Warriors. Ah the Warriors. Faced off against the Melbourne storm. Okay so a lot of people ordering Ubers. It was packed. Go Media Stadium was packed. Final score, well it may have been forgettable but phones, wallets, other essentials, after all that.

38, 24 to the storm, that one. Yeah, yeah, so we were upset. Did you just start reading out a PR blurb and then realise it was awful? Yeah, I did. So I just had to tap down quite quickly, quite quickly. Has it been attached PDF? To an email that said, you'll find this fascinating.

Yeah, I'm loving it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so the New Zealand 2025 Uber Lost and Found Index. Here are the most forgotten items. We'll do that. Okay. Clothing, I started at one. Oh my God, wow.

It's my fourth year in radio. Yeah, you'd think you'd know better by now. I started at one. Okay, well let's just pretend, listen we didn't hear what the number one item was. Top 10 most forgotten items. Forgotten? Forgotten, Jason.

I've done private school, I've done it real good. You forgot that you're forgetting your English. Laptops in 10, keys in nine. Laptops. I've done private school, I've done it real good. You're forgetting your English. Laptops in 10, keys in nine, I would have thought they would be higher. Laptops, yep. Vapes in eight. Oh yeah. Oh, that'd be so upset wouldn't it?

I'm sorry, if I was an Uber driver and someone left a vape, I'd just be like, it's not here and chuck it out the window. I don't know, I'd just finish the juice and go. You'd get someone's house. Headphones in seventh, umbrellas in sixth, wallets and purses in fifth, jewellery, watches and makeup in seventh, umbrellas in sixth, wallets and purses in fifth, jewelry, watches and makeup in fourth, and then your phones third. Back, whole backpack is second. I would have thought phone would be number one, but get this, and this is going to shock you. Number one.

I've got no idea what it could be. Clothing. Wow. Yeah. Jacket. Remember that Uber we got into Wellington, it was 30 degrees and he was cranking it and we were all just Something you take your jacket off and you sit on it and then you just get out then you get out clothing Okay, here are the most unique and interesting items that New Zealanders leave

Oh, I love this is here a fake leg wait for it. Okay, not quite but it's something that my dad has I'll start at the bottom because I think they've headlined the top one. Captain America Lego set. Oh. Left behind in the back of an Uber. How much would that be worth? That would be the shield, I think. Oh, some nerds just got him bought that,

and then he's on his way home to make it with his imaginary girlfriend, and he leaves it in the Uber, and he's like, I can't finish it now. No, I'll bugger it. Oh, I've lost my Lego set. So you'll see the Millennium Falcon again. Guys, this is serious.

Someone left their Lego behind. Lego's no laughing matter right, Charlie? Yeah, we got a Lego here. Chuckles and bozo the clown over here. All right, sorry. $269 on Trade Me at the moment. Oh wow, okay. On Trade Me?

We're going straight to Trade Me? Get a new one. Why don't I just search Captain America Lego Show because I don't think it's been made anymore. All right. Oh, trade me. You went straight to trade me? Get a new one. Well, no, I just searched Captain America Lego Show because I don't think it's been made anymore. All right, it's discontinued. Okay, here's the most interesting and unique items New Zealanders left behind. Chili bin, a Christmas ham, a bottle of champagne.

Now I'm crying. Yeah. A piece of paper with a contact list. All right, and there's some numbers and stuff. Oh, okay. Let's go written down. A hip brace. You know, like a hip brace. Like for the gym, that some of those gym bras wear.

Maybe, yeah, maybe a lifting, like a lifting belt. Yeah. Louis Vuitton sunglasses. A silver Walkman. Like a silver Walkman. An actual proper old Walkman. A Sony Walkman. Oh yeah, cause you know people are using these ironically now.

Yeah. A fishing rod. How do you leave that? And how was it in there? Golf clubs, a whole set, Crusaders jersey, and here's the most unique one. And my dad has one of these. A single toothed denture.

Left in an Uber. What, do you just take your denture out and leave it on the seat? Take your plate out. Or your fell out. Cause your brother's got one, so it's not necessarily like older people that have them. Someone could be a bit on the tipsy wipsy. Yeah, my dad's had his since he was like 20.

And they're like, have a good night. Have a good night, mate. Single tooth denture comes falling out. Anyway, remember, always check before you leave the Uber. Yeah, cause a lot of stuff is being left behind. A lot of stuff, including single tooth denture. Play ZM's Fletchporn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchporn and Hayley. I'm gonna have my shoulder surgery.

Yeah, this is great. Soon, it all got approved yesterday. What's wrong with it? Bone on bone. Is it gonna like shave some bone off or something? Cause it rubs. Oh my god, it's skinny. I know? Bone on bone. They're going to like shave some bone off or something? Because it rubs. Oh my god, skinny. I know.

Skinny bone. Marilyn Manson removing ribs over here. Remember that? Everyone thought that was real. The internet wasn't even around. I know. And somehow the world knew anyway. Yeah, the world knew.

And it wasn't even a thing. It wasn't even a thing. So you've got cartilage is gone. And bone on bone. Oh, I don't know a thing. So you've got cartilage is gone. And bone on bone. I don't know. There have been MRIs, there have been scans. ACC took like six months to say no. So now I can go private.

He doesn't care. I heard the rumors but I didn't think bone on bone. You didn't think bone on bone. I didn't think you were a bone on bone guy. So like I do this claim for my shoulder surgery and it only takes like five days and they email you and say it's happening. It's going to happen. We can do this. We can do this claim for my shoulder surgery and it only takes like five days and they email you and say it's happening it's gonna happen we can do this we can do this yeah so I email the the surgeon and I'm like you know I can do this and they're like okay end of July the 25th on a Friday

what a great day to have a surgery they're not inconvenienced they only do We do, I would have, I would have, I would have, Veginal surgeries on a Tuesday, okay? You sounded like you, Taco Tuesday. I'll see you next time, but I'm not, I don't know, it's not getting any better than that. I'm done. Just go. I don't know, see you later.

Just go, Fletch one and Hayley, that's it. Nothing's beating that, let's just go home. It was really good, really good. Vaughn's just gone home. Vaughn's gone, actually. No, come back, like you're being stupid now. He's being silly. Oh come on, we've still got an hour and a half.

He's walked all the way into the iHeart Radio lounge. Stop being silly. He's literally in the lift. Stop being silly. Oh gosh. I don't know, you've gotta do more than one joke a month. I mean, I explained to management and they said contractually, I'm not allowed to just

absolutely knock it out of the park and then head off. Oh damn. To just leave. So anyway, so I get this, it's all booked in and I get this letter from the health insurance saying, we're gonna cover the surgery. It's like fantastic. Fantastic, that's good.

I have been paying a lot of money every month for the last forever and I've had nothing out of you. As a matter of fact, I know. And we're very, aren't we lucky to be in the position where we can afford health insurance. Absolutely. Very much so. But when you want something off them, they don't wanna give it to you. Jesus. No problem. So I get this letter and when they, when you want something off them they don't want to give it to you.

Well there were no problems. So I get this letter and you know it's all like we're gonna cover it yadda yadda and I just get this there's this little line that I wanted to run past you guys because I'm sensing an opportunity for something free here. I'm actually sensing a bigger opportunity. For the old Fletchy. Good to see the old Fletchy coming in. So it says we'll pay the actual cost of the surgery and this also includes a payment for the following Items up to the limit shown below Yeah post-op support garment $150 now that's allowed $150 for you to purchase a post operation support garment This is a half a hoodie. No, it's not. No This sounds like a sling.

This is a half a hoodie. No, it's not. No, it's a sling. No, it's a hoodie. It's track pants. Is it track pants? For some reason, all I can picture is you in one of those post breast augmentation bras.

You know, they've got like the hooks and all the binding and stuff. Oh, I've never seen one. When you get cut tits. They give you one of those shoulder slings, don't they? For free. Surely. I imagine that's free. You should get a breastfeeding top,

and then you can just put your hand through the titty flap. A breastfeeding... Perfect! Wait, do they do a breastfeeding, because it's gonna be winter, that's gonna be the end of July, like a polar fleece? They do, yeah. Yeah, a feeding fleece.

Oh my God, how much do you reckon those are? I don't know, probably about 150. It's perfect. Can you get a merino? You can probably get a merino feeding fleece. Oh, yeah, lovely. You know what you should get is, and I've kind of toyed with the idea of getting one, but I feel like once I start down my Troy Kingie path, there was no return. One of those really warm looking ponchos, because then it can go over your arms and you'll be in a poncho and you'll be nice and warm.

And those real nice ones from those shops that always smell like weed and incense. Yes, definitely from Native American culture. Yeah, it's definitely from Native American culture. Yeah, beautiful. Fat potter. Cause I do have one of those, we were given those ZM towel hoodies. Yeah, that's a, is that a post-op garment? Or just cut a hole in the side? What about you saying,

hey, I think post-op, I'll need to feel good in a, say a moochie blazer. Do you know what I mean? And then maybe get it in a size 12. Rightie blazer do you know what I mean? Maybe get it in a size 12 because you're slight right and then somehow I've got it. You don't need anything. I don't want to buy something I'm only gonna use for four weeks after the surgery. I want like a hoodie. Somebody messaged in all the approved garments. Does it say approved? They have to approve it approve hang on a sec hang on a sec oh

Yeah, cuz then this includes payment for the following items up to the limit shown a post-op support garment It doesn't say approved doesn't have proof so I'll get them a receipt for a hundred and fifty dollar like Huffer or something I'll go like you know how far go nice. Okay nice and in key way, you know support local local local That's for your sling. Will you get a hoodie? I haven't seen you in a hoodie for a while. A sling! Someone says that's for your sling, you'll get silly. Yeah but the- Not paying for that.

No one's paying for a sling. No one's paying for a sling. Also you can get slings from Kem's warehouse. They're literally like, they're just right there, you can go like that. Oh, I'll talk to the show sponsor and get a free one actually. Yeah, get a free bee. Actually if we're out bludging free stuff from the show sponsor, if I could address the other show, it sounds like it. I'm not bludging. It sounds like it. I might go get out bludging free stuff from the show sponsor if I could address the other show

I'm not bludging I've got $150 to spend here I'm just saying yesterday I got an ad for Animates and look at these dog toys of a Shaggy Highland cow They look like my Highland cows Yeah you need a couple of those I wouldn't mind pulling on the old teat See now that's bludging I wouldn't mind milking the teat of the company for the show sponsor if you're gonna do it,

I'll do it too. Thank you, Animate's making Happy Happen for pets. Yeah, and Happy Happen for Bourne if you have a Highland Cow toy. I'll give you some yeast pills or something. Yeah, my flora restorer. Yeah, your flora restorer. I'm gonna keep my streak going.

Yeah, you're like a spa pool, we've gotta put a cup on every day. Yeah, but a chlorine. Yeah, but a chlorine. Yeah, but a chlorine. Play ZM's Fletch-Fawn and Hayley. What I know now, what you achieved super young. Maybe you were like way advanced.

Like you were six and you started uni. Yeah, okay. I'm a hitting $100 ZM if that's you. Yeah, or you were eight and you were beating adults at sports. I just saw a video on Facebook of a 12 year old driving a substantially sized tractor plowing a field. Holy moly. And they were like 12 years old, he's been doing this for four years.

So that means eight years. I don't know the legality and that was overseas, but that's pretty rad. Private land, private land, private rules. Private land, private rules. Don't come in here and tell me what to do mate. I pay my rights, it's my right. I don't think there was anything like completely remarkable about that. Right.

Well, there is a remarkable story about a Hawke's Bay teenager and I just like to see a positive news story about the youth. Yeah, me too. Not hearing about their- They have gone quiet on the ram raids though. Gone quiet on the ram raids. For a couple of years now.

Gone quiet on the ram raids. You know what, they've got lazy. They're not ram raiding like they used to. Get off your ass, steal a car and drive it through a dairy. Get off a tech top and start ram raiding. Play they used to. Get off your ass, steal a car and drive it through a dairy. Get off a TACOT and start ram-rading. Play in your PlayStation, get off your ass. Back in my day, we didn't have all these modern conveniences. So we stole, what's those cars they were stealing?

Equas. Equas, yeah. Equas, and we just rammed them into dairies. Carlin had whose stolen and put in a dairy. Put in a dairy. Parked in a dairy. Carlin's like, I don't even remember parking in a dairy. Jesus, how did I park here?

So 16 year old Tyler, both of his parents are volunteer firefighters at the Taradale station. Oh thank you for your service. To all of our firefighters, volunteers. All of them volunteers included. When the big siren goes off and we can hear it from my house, I'm always like, someone's just running for the car right now. Also, I feel like it's 2025. Just call everyone. I reckon too. We don't need the noise.

Like, you know when you're in Queenstown, you're like, oh, what are we getting bombed by the Germans? Yeah, just like Germans. And all the German tourists are like, not me, I swear. I'm just here to ski. I swear. Woo. I sort of like it.

I sort of like it. And it's got real rural New Zealand feels, the old volunteer firefighters. Siren going off. So he grew up with both of his parents being volunteer firefighters, and now he's 16, he's year 12, so second to last year of high school,

and he's like a volunteer firefighter. You'd be pretty cool at school, if you had a fireman's uniform. Yeah, and you were like, pfft, with the big hose. Apparently, even trying to work out a plan with school, if that goes off and he's at school, how he can leave to go and assist. Oh, I'm sorry, you can definitely skip algebra to go and like um save lives.

Yeah teacher it's your house you want me to stay? Yeah. As you have a twist of karma the principal's like absolutely not and then the house moves down as well. Could have absolutely saved the day but that's a young person doing a great achievement. I love that. Ticking it off early. Doing something adult. It always blows people's minds when we talk about learning to drive as like eight, nine year olds. On the farm.

Yeah, that blows my mind. My grandad taught me to drive a Toyota Hilux Ute when we were like, yeah, eight or nine. Manuals. Just learned how to do it. And then I think we weren't allowed to drive down the road until we were 10 or 11.

Jesus. That's, that's loose. Yeah, that's loose. Now, so we've had a 13 year old messenger and they got second in an Oceania e-sports tournament with their friends, 13 they said. That's like when you're an adult playing and someone kills you and they're like,

hey, I'm 11. Yeah. Yeah. And then calls you like derogatory words. Yeah, you fat loser. You old, blah blah blah blah blah. Well well done 13 year old. How does his hands fit around the controller?

When you finish a game and the 13 year old's like, hey man, good game, how long you been playing? And I'm like, 24 years. 24 years. I used to play Halo land parties dude, but nah, all credit to you, you smoked me. Okay, 0800 dials at MSN number, give us a call. You can text through 9696.

What did you achieve super young? Pretty cool, there's a Hawke's Bay teenager who was a volunteer firefighter at the young age of 16. Yeah, so we wanna know this morning what you achieved at a young age. There's a lot of messages coming out. Somebody said, does getting shingles at 21 count? I got shingles at 20.

I got shingles in my 30s. Yeah. It's rough, man. It's weird because- So yeah, congratulations. Yeah, it's more normally like an art, like a boomer thing, eh? It's an older person.

Yeah. Like over the age of- I was at drama school when I got them. And I picked them, I thought they were pimples. Ow. Now I've got a scar on my face. Oh, did you get them on your face? Yeah, over here. That's where these little alien things are.

Really? Yeah, I've had them lasered at the Casey Clinic a couple of times. That's why they're going down. I got shingles at eight. I think that's chickenpox, babe. Yeah, I think it... Yeah, because the first time you get them, they're chickenpox. And then it's that virus that goes back into the spine that comes out as shingles when you're 13. Someone got shingles at 15. Now, this is not the phone or when did you get sh the spine that comes out of shingles when you're 15.

Now this is not the phone or when did you get shingles? This is not shingles competitions. We can do that next week if you want. Do you remember when I got adult chicken pox? Yeah, that ruins you man. Oh no, that person got chicken pox at two and then shingles at eight. Oh wow, advanced.

A very commune system. So advanced. Very advanced. I reckon they're one of those kids that also wouldn't eat anything apart from nuggies. You're a nuggie child. It's given a nuggie child. If you could just confirm there, shingles would eat if you were a nuggy child.

That sounds like you can eat anything you want, child. Yeah. I've just seen this message from Hayley, who we've got on the phone here. Good morning, Hayley. Oh, hey guys, what's up? What's up, Hayles? What did you achieve at a young age? So when I was 14, I became one of New Zealand's

youngest qualified dance teachers. Oh, shiver. What's your go-to style, Hals? I was modern jazz and then kind of switched into contemporary towards the end. Modern jazz, jazz fingers? Modern. What's jazz fingers?

Modern jazz. Cha cha cha. Cha cha cha. Cha cha cha. cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha cha Yeah, where's the teacher? Yeah, pretty much. My mum had to come home and she kind of took charge and I remember being very angry with her for it because of course I was an adult, you know? I was unified. Are you still teaching dance? No, gosh no. No. Oh no. He's still boogie woogie every now and then though, should the... I don't know if they call it boogie woogie. I think they call it the boogie woogie.

Do you still tear up the dance floor, Hales? Oh yeah, you know where they are. Yeah, I can tell. When you hit the curbs, is it like Honey with Jessica Alba? Do you like blow everybody away with your street dance moves? In the curbs? In the curbs?

No, I did take it upon myself to learn the dance moves from those movies. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Haley, thank you, some messages in. Step up, you know. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Haley, thank you. Some messages in. Step up, you know? Yeah, step up.

Step up to the streets. I know my dance movies. You do. There was a real glut of dance movies in the 2000s. Never saw any of them. No, I wouldn't imagine it would have been your cup of tea at all. No.

Oh, I was all over it. Big Magic Mike fan though. What a story. Yeah. What a story. Jacob messaged us on Instagram saying, won a colouring in competition at the local video easy, peaked at six years old.

Wow. Yeah. Actually at six too, cause I used to do this for my kids and put their names on it and into the colouring competition. My mum did that as well. With most things.

We've heard from friend of the show, economist, Brad Olson. Brad Olson. Bad years Brad. Oh, I mean he's done so much young. He won an international community problem solving competition aged 11. What was the problem and what was the community? We'll have to ask him.

He is a phenomenal gentleman. Such an interesting boy. Rachel said I passed school C, maths in fourth form. Whip de do. Wow, that's one early. That's one early. A year ahead. Oh my god, someone's just messaged in,

at 14 I played viola in the Sydney Opera House. Davis. Viola Day, she played. No, no, no, the big violin. Oh, okay, sorry. Viola. At 14, played viola in an orchestra at Sydney Opera House. Oh wow, okay, that's a round of applause.

That's pretty amazing. My brother went bald at 20. Oh. In Kinggripped. We had a friend with a receding hairline that could buy us booze. Did brother went bald at 20. Oh. Oh, and Kinggraft. We're celebrating two months. We had a friend with a receding hairline that could buy us booze. Did you?

Uh-huh. Yeah, of course I'm not encouraging that. That's terrible. Not nowadays, you wouldn't get away with it. No. I designed the Fijian $100 note when I was 12. Oh! No, you didn't!

They're now 38 years old. So by my maths, that would be 26 years ago. Fijian, what? The $20? Is it still the same? 1999 Fijian design $100. Fijian $100 note. I bet it's crayon. I bet it's gonna be crayon.

Yeah, or some alien with the arms. Somebody else would have polished it off. It's gonna be like a whale or something. They would have polished it off. A bunny or something. What note did you say? Fijian $100 note. Well they did it. They said it was 26 years ago.

Here's a 100. Does it look like a child draw? No it doesn't. Can we get some sort of clarification there? We're going to need to see some kind of proof there. That's a big claim just to be making on the radio. Hey speaking of clarification. This looks like it was done by a child.

Whatever this one is. 100 cents. They've got a note that's 100 cents was done by a child. Whatever this one is. 100 cents. They've got a note that's 100 cents. That doesn't make sense. That's a dollar Fiji, hello. Shame Fiji. Hey, chickenpox at two, shingles at eight. Message back in, 100% a nuggy kid.

Yeah, I knew it. Yeah, I knew it. Only nuggies. Anemic looking thing riddled with shingles. I won't eat anything but nuggies. One of those kids, we have got another day off. Yeah. Yeah.

We all grew up with those kids, I guess. Yeah, we did, yeah. Always having a day off. Getting a lot of shingles texts. This could be a sitter for a fine index, well. When did you get shingles? I'm 11 and last year I became the fastest girl in Northland. Hells yeah.

And they can move up there. Yeah, they can move up there. Good stuff. Northland's a very quick part of this nation. I received my netball New Zealand umpire certification at 17 I wonder if you do they give you a like a proper real heavy nice whistle like one of those middle ones you know what's it with a court ball yeah on the Google I designed a New Zealand stamp at nine years old Google Lauren Baldwin Lauren Baldwin stamp stamp when stamp what if any relation to Alec sister you wouldn't Google Lauren Baldwin. Lauren Baldwin. Stamp? Stamp?

Stamp? What if any relation to Alec? Sister. You wouldn't admit that, that's for sure. Not in the moment. I also joined the Tahuna Fire Brigade with the Maidam one, we were both 16 and now five of us are on the brigade. They've been a volunteer firefighter at the Tahuna one for 17 years.

Now that's just out of Moran's Hall, I know that that would deal with a lot of state highway 27 incidences. Right. And the Hauraki Plains. So, Kia ora. Kia ora. Thank you for your time. Oh yeah, look.

Have we got eyes on the stamp? Oh hon, it does look like a child. It looks like he's riding a big black horse. Hey, this is from 1987. Don't roast her. Come and have a look. It looks like a big caterpillar, black caterpillar. What is it supposed to be?

Hey, stop roasting. Dude, you suck. How does that make any sense? And she was 19, what? They were 87. She was a teenager, was she? No, she was 9. They weren't self adhesive, someone had to lick the back of that shit. If they had to put that on their tongue and be proud of it.

We need to put that on our story immediately. Very abstract. So, world was conceived. I'm sorry Lauren, that was just a little roasting. A little light roasting there. Good on you, that's quite an achievement. Sorry. Qualified vet nurse at 18.

How'd you do that? No way, they must have known. Plot high school I reckon and then tapped out. Amazing. My son Ben was New Zealand's youngest. Sorry, that's not hers. Sorry that's not hers. What?

The stamp designer. Flying kite one, not the horse laughing face. There should be another one. Is there someone flying a kite? You keep looking. You keep looking. My son Ben was New Zealand's youngest lead actor in a movie when he was five.

It was called Everything We Loved. Oh. Yeah. Any kite flying thing? Yeah, look, it might be this one, but they look like seagulls to me, not kites. Is there a sun in the background? I don't know.

I don't know, this website's terrible. Now we've just roasted some poor kid who was seven in 1987. So that'd be 45 now. Yeah, there's an adult out there now. That would be already struggling with their sort of like midlife existential crisis. Like my life's not where I thought it would be. It's all fallen apart.

I'm going to have to completely restart. And now they're like, I'll tune into my favorite radio show where they always help me forget my problems. And then we're absolutely tearing into their shitty horse. It was. It did look like a shitty horse. Shitty caterpillar horse. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. So last night, I... It was, it did look like a shitty horse. Shitty caterpillar horse. So last night I, um, I was going to be on Seven Days. And then I pulled out because, man, I've been exhausted recently.

And so, uh, catch Josh Thompson on Seven Days tonight. And no, he was never originally asked. No. Anyway, so I got home yesterday and I sat on the couch and what I did is I watched some musical theatre. I was really in the mood for it, picked me up. Even though the play is Les Miserables. I would say you went dark in the group chat around five o'clock, four o'clock, five? Four o'clock, four o'clock.

That moment is when I fell asleep. I, you know, did that thing where you're like, I'm just gonna lay down on the bed for a little bit. Quick little, quick little five. Quick little thing. Woke up to Rolly, meow, meow, meow. And my immediate response was, oh my God, he wants his breakfast.

Look outside, there's a light, a slight lightness in the sky. And I was like, huh, huh, huh. Oh my God, tapping phone, tapping phone. Can't you like, phone, dead. Phone's dead. I was like, oh my God, oh my God,

I've missed work, it's 8 a.m. And so I plug in my phone quickly and I'm trying to find my watch to confirm what the time is. I just see eight. And I go, oh my god, I jump in the group chat and I go, oh my god, guys, I slept in. I'm so sorry. I was like, oh, home things.

Because she'd gone dark in the group chat. So I was like, someone's having a little nap. Yeah, I had gone to sleep, So I woke up to these messages. Yeah. I'd gone to sleep at just before eight PM. The confusion lay in the fact that my little lay down, I'm just going to have a little lay down, ended up being four and a half hours.

Which felt like an actual- Which felt like I had missed the evening, the whole big sleep and the morning. But then also how good that now you can go back to sleep and have a whole nother sleep. Dude, it ruined, I got a bonus half day. Do you know what I mean? Like I got up, I was like, oh my God,

realized it was 8 p.m., I went ha ha ha ha ha. Got up, had some dinner, hung around, watched something, and then went back to bed like a normal hour, then slept, and I'm back. Gorgeous. God, it was such a panic though, oh my God. So yeah. Yeah, embarrassing for you in the group chat though.

Really embarrassing in the group chat. It's like, oh, actually no, it's only half. Guys, I'm so sorry I'm late. Oh my god. So yeah. Yeah. Embarrassing for you in the group chat though. Really embarrassing in the group chat. Actually no, it's only hard. I'm so sorry I'm late. No, you are literally like a day early. We are ready to play. How do you know? Mackenzie is standing by. Mackenzie. Now, of course there's a theme song. You won't know this, but there's a theme song.

It's quite high pitched. It's bad singing because you weren't working here when this idea was born. I do the singing. You do the singing now. It's really high. I wonder if we could auto tune this. We could probably do something.

I mean, maybe we could auto tune it. Maybe the charm of it is. Or play it to me. Okay, well, are you ready? Okay. Did you say horrific? How do you know if it say horrific? Mackenzie! Actually didn't check it. Mackenzie, are your pronouns her? Things have changed since we did this.

Oh my god, yes! You could be she her, she her. Yeah, God, we actually should check before we do that next time. Otherwise we'll be cancelled, won't we? Yeah, we will, but I can't afford it. Mackenzie, welcome to How Do You Know? We're gonna get to know you now in this break, and then we're gonna ask people if they know you to call us.

So if you're listening to us, talk to Mackenzie now, and you're like, I know her. That's how this game works. We need you to call 0800 DALSATM. You can text her if you can't get through as well, 9696. So we get to know Mackenzie now. So Mackenzie, whereabouts in the beautiful country of Aotearoa are you right now?

I'm currently living in Christchurch, but I am from Wellington. I grew up there. Shout out, whereabouts in Wellington did you grow up? Funny story, Hailey, I actually used to work in Eastbourne at Chocolate Hair Company. Oh my God, did you? Chocolate Hair Company. I did, yeah, and I met all of you guys

at your Christchurch show, and I said I wanted to do your hair. Well, we can't play. Well, that's awkward because we don't, Vorn and I don't have any. Yeah, you went to Newshire counting cubes in a bed. Yeah. Oh, I'm not.

What? I'll make it a beard. Yeah. Yeah. What? I'll make it all shiny. Oh yeah. I actually prefer a match. One thing I miss about getting my hair cut was just someone touching my head and boobies. I'll be honest with you Mackenzie. The boobies on the back of the head

for a teenage boy. An awakening moment. Okay, so Mackenzie, you were a hairdresser, is that right? Correct. Hairdresser who worked in Eastbourne, Wellington. And where else have you worked? Have you snipped around?

Yes, do you mean hairdressing wise or otherwise? I'll just tell you hairdressing, cause that's way better. Okay. Basically, so I started my apprenticeship in Wellington and then I moved to Christchurch. I worked at a salon called Black and now I work for myself at a salon called The Studio Collective.

And that's your studio? Yeah, well me and my friend, one of my friends' salons, she bought the place so she takes on all the responsibility, thank god. You're the hairdresser? I rent, you know. Okay. Question, you said you had other jobs and you said hairdressing was more interesting.

What else have you done for jobs? Oh, well I used to work at the movies when you're in like school, you know. Oh, did you get free popcorn? Fuck yeah, and free tickets. Why not Mackenzie, just drop an F-bomb. Let's just go for it, let's watch our F-bombs. Watch our F-bombs. What high school did you go to in Wellington? Um, I went to Solway College in Masterton and then I went to Hidutonga.

Oh, kia ora, kia ora. I had lots of friends that went there. So if you know Mackenzie, right, is the idea that you call us now. The idea is that you call Mackenzie now. You call us now, not Mackenzie. Don't call her, she's on the phone. Someone text in, Mack is my hairdresser.

Hi Mack, do you go by Mack? I do go by Mack. Okay, so that means that, but we've got to have the phone call. I think we're going to need some more, some more clues as to your age. Like, do you play any sports or any hobbies or anything outside of work? Um, I build Lego. That's kind of fun. That rules!

Not a social school, though. What's the last Lego set you built? The last one I built would have been the burrow by Harry Potter. Oh my god, I'm so excited. Keech has got so many parts to her. Yeah, she does. I do, I do. Okay, so you went to Heretonga in Upper Harch.

What years were you at high school, Mackenzie? Oh shoot, okay, so I would have been there. Excuse me, watch your language please. This is a fan of scripture. How much I was explaining to my children, don't shoot. I'm gonna say my last name. No, I know, I'm just messing.

I finished school in 2017 and I was year 13 then. Me too, me too. So if we count back, I don't know. Okay, were you a prefect or anything? Mackenzie used to do my hair at Black, loved all her wedding excitement and their trip to Germany. Can you give us a call? I'm at 100 Dials Zini, we need to get you on the phone.

What if it was a trip to Germany? When did you go to Germany? I went to Germany in the beginning of 2023. Oh, you're a bit of a boozer, Max. Someone texted me and I work at Lick-A-Land next to Max Sallon. I know her well. What the heck? She buys a bottle of night.

Mackenzie, we can't stop what comes out of the woodwork. No, we can't. I'm getting stitched up here, guys. She buys a bottle of night. Hairdressers, all right? Oh, yeah, and constant one in the fridge at work on rotation. Okay.

Well you gotta give, look at them up a little. Okay well, this is what we want now. Do you know Mackenzie? This is how, how do you know works? Give us a call, 0800 Dials at Emecan Text Rue, 9696. We need to hear from you if you know her. And then we're gonna see if- Someone knows you yeah

That's just how the game Five year hiatus more than a five year hiatus it's back It was designed that jingle for a two syllable name. Yeah, it was. Really, Peter? Peter or Mack? Mack? Mack?

Or Vaughn, like a one-stop Vaughn. Yeah. Mackenzie, you gotta bluh bluh bluh. We wanna know now if you listening know Mackenzie, who we've just met, she's a hairdresser. From Wellington or Masterton, upper hut, head of Tonga College, moved to Christchurch, runs a salon now. Apparently got married, went on a trip to Germany. Drinks a lot of wine.

We're learning all about her, whether she likes it or not. Does that kind of sum you up, Mackenzie? Yeah, basically. Basically, I like you Mackenzie. Okay, well let's see if our listeners know you. Melissa, good morning, how do you know Mackenzie? Morena, she's my fabulous hairdresser. What's your name? Melissa, Melissa, okay. What kind of hair is she working with on you? What do you go for?

Medium length blonde with some, you know, experimentational bangs at times. Oh God, when you're having a mental breakdown. When we were having a menti bee, a fringy is for me. Okay Mackenzie, is this ringing your bell? Yes, I know Melissa very well. Well, that... and Melissa knows you, that means we do this. That's how you know that it's really Mackenzie! That's how you know that it's really her!

Again, I feel like we could auto-tune that singing. I don't know. Maybe we do, maybe we don't. It's now that we're in 2025, we've got better technology. Yeah, we've come so far. I might jump in the booth after this. Thanks Melissa. Yeah, thank you so much Melissa. She might be due to pop in actually.

She might be due for a boxed-eye. Sam? We're like three weeks ago. Oh, well she okay, so she's okay for a little bit then. Sam, how do you know Mackenzie? Hi, she's my lovely hairdresser too. I think I might be her favourite client. Sam, Mackenzie is your favourite client, Sam?

Yes, it is. Oh my God, well, that's Melissa. Wow, what's going on here? What do the giggles mean? What do the giggles mean? A long-running joke. Pardon me? I can't tell by the voice. Can you ask the Sam's last name? Pardon me? I can't tell by the voice.

Can you ask the Sands last name? What's your last name? Sam Taylor. I've got the Hayley Williams here with the... Oh my god, it's a bit of an embarrassing Sam. You had the Hayley Williams here with the... Exactly. If you know, you know.

If you know, you know, and I don't know. So Mackenzie, is that Sam that you know? I frickin' love Sam. I love Sam. Yes, here we go. That's how you know that it's really Mackenzie. That's how you know that it's really her. Oh, thank you, Sam.

Thank you, Sam, for playing How Do You Know. When Sam drew a next-de-wreckin' Mackenzie, when does she need to pop in for a She's actually doing a couple of Fridays. We did a couple of Fridays ago, but she's a regular Should we book that in now? Coming more regularly Mackenzie because of the Hayley Williams because of the yeah Tell her that she needs to wash her hair more. Oh, okay, wow.

She still hears you actually, Mackenzie. Sam, Sam, what are you using for your hair? That's why she needs to wash it, because she keeps putting pfft in it. Oh god, these two have a lot of wine. With the wine from the liquor store next door, those two are having a couple. They're have a lot of wine. Wine from the liquor store next door. Those two are having a couple. Sounds like they're having a great old time. Debbie, you're on the line with Mackenzie.

How do you know her? I know of Mackenzie, cause I work in the store next door and walk past them every day, watching them do amazing hair colors and cuts and hair extensions. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Now Mackenzie, do you know Debbie or is Debbie just looking in? I know of Debbie. Wow, we got a couple of no-loafs. And she at the Groovy Glasses shop. Yes, that's next year. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Wait, is it Groovy Glasses shop?

How groovy these glasses? Wait, are we talking drinking glasses or seeing glasses? No, seeing glasses. Well, I might need some groovy glasses. I thought she might have sold those, you know, New Year's. Oh yeah, 2025. Yeah, I love it. Well, I mean, she knows of, so that ticks enough boxes for me.

That's how you know that it's really Mackenzie. That's how you know that it's really her. Yeah, fantastic. Thank you. Thanks Debbie. Have a great day at Groovy Glasses. Pam, you're on the line with Mackenzie. How do you know Mackenzie? She's my daughter-in-law. Well, bloody hell, you do know her.

Oh, yeah. I know everything about her. Pam! Pam, I couldn't tell by your tone. big fan or one of those monster in law situations? Oh, a fan. A fan, oh good. So she's looking after your little fella? She's a legend, she takes good care of me. She takes good care of you too.

Does she do have you haircuts, Pam? Oh, absolutely. Oh, we like Pam. We like Pam. Mackenzie, are you lucky to have a mother in law like Pam? I really, really am. She saves me all the time. She shaves you all the time. Saves.

I was wondering. Saves me all the time. Because sometimes you do need someone to get the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's Pam? So you're with Pam's son, is that right? Correct. What's he like? Is he all right? Did Pam do a good job? Yeah, he's all right son, is that right? Correct. What's he like?

Is he all right? Did Pam do a good job? Yeah, he's all right. He's all right? He does the job, which is good. Do you two, Pam and Mackenzie, do you ever gang up on him? Oh yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes on the family holidays. Oh, family holidays. Pam, can I ask, what did you think of Mackenzie the very first time you met her? Oh. She actually did my hair the first time I met her. Really? And then when did she drop in that she was with your son?

Um, he told me when... Yeah, no, he told me that he'd met this gorgeous woman, and I was going up to see, what was it? Oh, Adam Lambert. And of course you were. How good is Adam Lambert live? Right, Pam's incredible. It was amazing.

So yeah, he picked me up and took me to Max Heeselham in Eastbourne and I got my hair done and met her there. Perfect. How beautiful is Eastbourne as well? Lovely. Yeah. What are we talking about 2014, 2015 there for the Adam Lambert show? No, 2017. 2017. 2017. Oh, how beautiful is Eastbourne as well? Lovely. What are we talking about, 2014, 2015 there

for the Adam Lambert show? No, 2017. 2017. Was it 20? I do apologise. 2019 I think. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We met him in the 2014.

I'm just imagining your hairdo for Adam Lambert. Is it quite spiked? Are we spiked and up? Pants are floofy, girl. Pants are floofy. I imagine floofy. No, no, no, yep, she's not doingofy girl. Pam's a floofy girl. I imagine floofy. Yep, she's not doing that. I love that.

Well, this is fantastic. That's it. We're going to sing the gender-winning. That's how we know that it's really Mackenzie. That's how we know that it's really her. Fantastic. Thank you so much Pam for calling up. Thanks Pam.

Have a great day. And Mackenzie, thank you. A very well-known, respected New Ze calling up. Thanks Pam, have a great day. And Mackenzie, thank you. A very well-known, respected New Zealander. For putting yourself out there. Yeah, I was quite surprised. Yeah. I'm not at all.

You sound like a bubbly personality. Yeah, there were other Texans as well. Yeah, that's my girl Mack. I know Mackenzie. Oh my god, Mackenzie. She's my hairdresser and has become a close friend. I was with her Tuesday night getting my hair done. I love her so much.

She does, my whole family's hair. Oh Liv. Oh Liv, thank you Liv. Oh my god, Mac is my hairdresser. Best three hours of my life every six weeks. They're just having a great time. Somebody said I- God, if anyone loves me, it must be nice.

Yeah, it must be nice. Cause somebody else messaged her and I don't know Mackenzie, but gosh, she sounds like a good time and all these people had lovely things to say. Yeah. Plug your hair salon say. Yeah, I know. Plug your hair salon again. Is that what you call it? A salon? I'm at the Studio Collective.

The Studio Collective. What part of Christchurch is that in? New Regent Street CBD. Oh we love New Regent Street don't we? Okay Mackenzie thank you so much for playing. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the Day, Day, 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 do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. It's Treats Week here at Fact of the Day. And today I'd like to talk about jelly beans.

Oh yum. Yeah they're yummy. Blue. White. Green. Ooh, you like the white, that's your number one jelly bean? What is the white flavor? Just sweet, sugar.

Just sugar flavor. Yeah, I think so. What about coconut? Green is like just green. Green flavor. Green is the best. Blue is belly gum. Blue. Vanilla. Red. Red. White's vanilla. Yellow, I'll go yellow. Is like just rain green green blue Red red I'll go yellow get out of here yellow one in black get out boy and you know what and orange orange

Get out what no oranges. Okay, you know orange suck. I'll have the orange Oranges you have a much jelly dinosaurs Yeah, yeah There's no black but the ones are young but no black, but the purple ones are yum. But your orange yellow can get out. I'll have orange. I'll go yellow. I'll take the yellow. Shotgun yellow.

Proving that you're trash. Who? You. That's actually rich coming from you. The trash is one of mine. Yeah, dude. Why don't you have some white chocolate? Why don't you have some white chocolate, you baby bitch?

I'm sorry, white chocolate is chocolate. How was your vagina chino this morning? Yeah, yeah, but a nice little mocha vagina. Excuse me, mocha-chinos are, I will remind you, many masculine men drink mocha-chinos. Sure, minch-chino. Who was the All Blacks captain that came in one time? Karen Reid.

Karen Reid wanted a mocha-chino, we were just like, what? I'm so embarrassed for him. Yeah, lucky he's tough. Lucky he's pretty. Thank you. Not you, Karen Reid. No, no, no, not you.

So I did not know this. No, no, no. Not you. So I did not know this. Mingachino. That's what we're going to call it. Mingachino. He's going to get a... A Mingachino.

A Mingachino. I did not know this. Now I can't drink them. But did you know... I love bullying, eh? Yeah, me too. Often works. Only you two.

No one else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Outside of this room, I don't stand for it. Neither do I. In here though. In here, this is the DMZ, this is demilitarized zone between North and South. It's no man's land. No man's land, anything else. All right, the jelly bean, I did not know this.

And you, I think as two fans of this other sweet that it's based on, are you about to tell us it's an off-cut? Shut up. That made it into a lolly? Jelly beans are a combination of two much older sweets using the technique used to make Turkish delights. Oh, it is the same consistency inside.

Inside, but with the outside of a Jordan almond. Now I've never looked up, I've never heard of Jordan almonds, but they are almonds that are put into a tumbler. And as they slowly tumble, a thing sprays more and more liquid sugar on them until they get coated in sugar. A Jordan almond is the thing that Kristen Wigg eats

in the bridal shop when she's trying to prove that she doesn't have the food poisoning. You know, she's sweating and then she brings her the little tray and she's like, I would love a Jordan almond. And she eats it, it's like. That's a candy covered almond. Oh, okay.

So yeah, the same technique is used to form the soft jellied centre of a jelly bean, as it is to make Turkish delights. And then they roll them around. And then they do a process called panning. Then I went down a real big rabbit hole of panning. So panning is basically candy coating thing. You put whatever you want as the core,

and the large rotating drums, and layers of sugar syrup and flavouring are slowly added and then they'll leave it till it dries, add a bit more, add another layer, add another layer. Little thin coats, how you should paint a wall. Thin coats, multiple thin coats. Yeah, so the air nozzles as modern technology now, the air nozzles or the spray nozzles will spray in

the sugar syrup and then the air nozzles will go in and heat it so it dries. Wowzers. Whatever go on that sugar nozzle gun. Spray me with a light coating of sugar. With a blue jelly bean. Yum. You'd just go hard on the blue jelly bean inside.

Yeah I would. You'd just go nuts on that. I wanna be sprayed in it like a spray tan. You know what I mean? Like I'm naked. And you come out like a blue jelly. And I'm in there and then I'm getting sprayed with this blue sugar.

Yeah. And it hardens. And it hardens. And then I'm getting sprayed with this blue sugar. Yeah. And it hardens. And it hardens. And then the fire department has to come around and chisel you out of your blue jelly bean coating. Yeah, but then like hot firefighters come around and I'm a sweet, sweet naked treat. Yeah, because they can't use the jewels of life

because they'll kill you. It's too dangerous. So they have to eat it off you. They lick it off you. They have to lick it. Oh my God. No biting. Death by 10 firefighters.

They became very popular in the American Civil War because of the harder outside, much like M&Ms. You know how M&Ms had the candied outside so you could eat them. Yeah. And they were durable and they lasted ages because they were nothing but sugar and they could be transported really easily

and they took off. And in America, I didn't know this either, but jelly beans are like highly associated with Easter. It all happens around Easter. Massive amounts sell because they look like eggs in the 30s when the depression was happening or a cheaper option than buying kids Easter eggs. Also a real go-to for people that have the hypos, hypos and hypers, you know, in like type one diabetes.

It's a balance. Quick sugar hit. That was a recession indicator. When was that? The 1930s. People were swapping Easter eggs for jelly beans. Just like Vaughan's got rid of his YouTube premium. So they're all feeling it. It's a recession indicator.

Jesse Mulligan messaged me, he loved that bit yesterday. Fan of the show, restaurant viewer, fashion icon. He does love us. Public broadcaster. He loved that part of the show. I said it's not funny that I now have to watch Wix ads before YouTube videos. It's humbling. It's humbling. It's not funny that I now have to watch Wix ads before I have YouTube videos. It's humbling, it's humbling.

It's humbling, man of the people over here. So today's fact of the day is that the lollipop, not the lollipop, the jelly bean, is actually a combination of a Turkish delight and a Jordan almond. Oh, fact of the day, day, 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 do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Yeah. Her new song. August 29th, so not long to wait. Yeah. New album from Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina Carpenter is such a breath of fresh air.

I love pop music at the moment. Yeah. And I'm saying that as some of the way to slipknot this year. Well, speaking of music, Vaughan, it was music yesterday that really picked you up. This was a pick me up and it has been a pick me up and I've seen it used on some reels and stuff and it's just the sound.

This part. This is Lynyrd Skynyrd, right? Yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freebird. I love this song. So you heard this yesterday. And it just changed it. Changed the mood. I got back in the car and I put it on, but I just went to this part.

Because you can do whatever you want here. Yeah. Air guitar, if you have the bass. Bam, bam, bam, slap the bass. Bam, bam, drumming. And just like lots of old songs, it's kind of having this resurgence now. It was that slow-mo transition into the beat. If you had the bass, it's like, bam, bam, bam, slap the bass, bam, bam, drumming. And just like lots of old songs, it's kind of having this resurgence now.

It was this slow-mo transition into an outfit thing running out the door. And this was the trending audio for it. Yeah. I was the same. I was like, oh, it just gives you a chill. It's a great classic. This was a hard rock band. Oh, yeah. Yeah, on PlaySong. Yeah. But just this.

This is an instant pick me up now and I've listened to it, like, I listened to it again in the way to work. Were you in a bad mood? When you heard this. I wasn't in a bad mood. I wasn't in a great mood. Meh.

I could describe myself as meh. I was meh. I was feeling a bit meh. Meh. I was meh yesterday. And the tide was turning. The tide was turning from meh to eh eh. Yeah.

So I had to turn it from a meh to a eh eh. To a weh. This is why I blasted turn it from a meh to a eh eh, to a weh. This is why I blasted musical theatre. That slipped for me, that little tingle where you're like, just feel something. Little dopamine hit. I couldn't imagine anything worse than watching musical theatre on my TV.

I cramped it alone and I cried. So in a good cry, like it'd be beautiful. I loved it. Love that. Okay, well we wanna ask this morning, 0800 DALS M, 9696. What is your instant looping? He says free boot and you're like,

he's gonna wrap it up. No, he's back into it. No, we're looping the audio babes. It doesn't do that in this. That was embarrassing. I restarted that. You restarted it. Can I say one thing?

Yep. Sparkly nails. This was my yesterday. Bad mood, turned up to Sophie who loves phoners. Yep, loves phoners. And I was like, I'm in a down mood. And I turned up to Sophie who loves phoners. Yep, loves the phoners. She's gonna love this then. And I just said to her, brighten me up, we've got blue jelly bean sparkles. Oh wait, he's back into it! Oh my god, he just...

I loped it again, I loped it again. Also, I would say if you've got, I took the UiBurman to the shower yesterday, hot, high pressure shower, cranked this. I've got a blue team speaker in my bathroom mirror so I don't need to take the ui boom and get it to stay in. I'm just trying to relate. I'm just tough Haley, he's having a YouTube premium. You carry a port his ui boom around. But you're in the shower. So nails for you and instant pick me up. Nails for me, music. Free bird guitar solo for me. I'll wait a hundred dollars at him. What about you? I don't know. How about you? Good little pick me up. Well, I mean, yours would be the gym.

I mean, that just keeps me. I know that sounds lying, but like. That just keeps me in a good mood. But no, I'm talking, it needs to be instant. It needs to be like. I know what it is. What? Booking a restaurant, like putting something in the calendar.

Yeah, that gets me out. This is you, you'll be like getting us a little bit like in a dine, feeling a bit like this, then you'll be like, let's go out on Saturday and we'll book us a restaurant, we have a good time. And now you'll pick me up. And then you're just for the week, you're just like, yep, looking forward. Whatever it is, whatever it is,

your go-to pick me up, what is it? 0800 dials at M, call us now, you can text through 9696 play ZM's, Fletch, Bourne and Hailey. We wanna know your go-to instant pick me up. Is it a song? Is it a funny video? Is it doing something? A little treat, like this person says,

Cinnamon Scroll from a particular place in Dunedin, heated on half power for 35 seconds. Okay, wait, we must know where the Cinnamon Scroll is from. It's Piccolo Cafe and Moray Place in Dunedin. Shout out. Dunedin Instagrammer, I want to see. I think all bakeries and cafes should have Instagram, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because I look at it and I'm like, take my money. Do you know what I mean? It's just marketing. It's just marketing. Literally doing that this morning. What was it called? What was that place called? Shout out little small mercies. Small mercies. Was that what it was called? Yeah, man. They had some treats. My god. Molly, what is your go-to pick me up? It's absolutely pickles. Pickles just make everything better. Dude, we were just talking about, you're not wrong. Did you hear us talking about pickles earlier this morning? Making pickle dust? Oh my gosh, I actually didn't.

Didn't you? Molly, so what we're gonna do, we're gonna revisit our business strategy here. I'm actually gonna touch. We're gonna talk about it. And then that's the last I wanna hear about it. I've reached out to Pepper and me, New Zealand food, spices and condiments and sauces and rub and flavours

and just the main stuff and I've said hey look we need to do this collab. We need to do a pickle. What we're gonna do is we're gonna dry dehydrate pickles Molly and then smush them up into dust so that you can like dip stuff in pickle dust. That's magical. Anything from a wet finger to on fries. Dude on fries, fresh fries. On roast potatoes, on duck fat potatoes. Potato chips. Yeah. Popcorn. Popcorn.

Popcorn. Well Molly. If you have a customer at Frank's on your pillowcase to help you sleep at night. Yeah, why not? Well, I mean I don't know if it's lavender-esque, Molly. I wouldn't go that far. I think Molly's on it.

That's the last I wanna hear from you on it. That's the last one. That's the last one to say about Molly. Molly, you're dead right, pickles. Thank you, maybe we've got a first customer here. I think we've did, I've got a first. Some messages in. Somebody said, for me it's watching a Friends episode.

Oh my god guys, this is the last I want to talk about it. I'm so sorry, just to come back to the Pickle Dust. Yeah. Pickle Dust rim on a Margarita. Oh good, yeah. Oh yeah, still that? No, Molly's gone, she'd love that. Not mad about that.

I don't want to talk anymore about that. She would have called it a Molly Reader, I reckon. Yeah. Because she lost her cool so much. Oh my god, cookie time, heat in the microwave for 25 seconds, then dipped into Lewis Road Creamery Milk. Yeah, I mean, treats, a lot of people, it's treats. It's going to a bag of Maltesers,

or a whole bar of Whittakers. But then there's that rubbing my face on a cat's belly. Oh yeah. I think specifically their cat's belly. I've got a good smelling cat. My cat smells so good, eh. Yeah. Oh, sniff, sniff.

So I don't leave my cat outside so it doesn't smell like dead rats. My cat goes out so many cleans themselves so well. Yeah. First coffee of the day. Yeah. Somebody said, it's actually hot. It's on my own.

No kids bugging me. Can every mama, can I get an amen? Amen, amen, amen. Someone said, when I say to my wife, I'm not feeling great, she'll just flash me the boobies. That's an immediate game changer. I love that. That's good stuff.

Yeah, she's gonna get onto you when you're doing that every 10 minutes. I'm feeling a little bit down in the dumps at the moment. I'm still down. Show me again, show me again, show me again. Keep your texts coming in, 9696, 0800, dials and email, go to pickmeup, go to instant pick me up, whether it's a song, a treat, whatever it is, add some great messages in.

I know, I won't be the only one with this, it's a favourite pick me up. By the way, I should establish this is from Renee. Oh, okay. I won't be the only one with this favourite pick me up, but that first sip of ice cold red ball will come to you by a puff of blueberry vape. Oh!

Breakfast of champions. That is not what I thought you were gonna say with that sexy tone. No. That's a good pick me up. Yeah. Little self-love. I have COVID and I've not left my flat since Sunday.

I'm gonna have to try all of these things you're recommending. Wait, we were just talking about this this morning. It's back. Oh, it's done. COVID is back, baby. No, COVID's back. There's a new strain. It's a little bit moldy, but it's super contagious.

Now, I'm nearly due my vaccine. Is it worth getting still? Yeah. You know, they updated it. That's what the V in Vaughan stands for, vaccines. You didn't get your flu, that's going around as well. You need to get your flu jab. I haven't had mine either.

Get into the show sponsor. Is there another vaccine? Yeah, get into the show sponsor. Yeah. They'll sort you out. They'll sort you right out. I'll pay though. Oh yeah, and also other show sponsor.

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Ooh. Oh yeah. He is hungous, malungus. Oh, like eating a lot. Insatiable, do you know what I mean? Yeah, he's got worms. He's got worms. Damn it!

You probably should go and get a couple of chocolate squares yourself. Drive worms. He's been nuzzling up to you. Yeah. Look at my butthole. All dough. Skinny.

Skinny. Oh my God. Eat up, little wormsies. Have you been going to the gym? No. My cat gave me worms. I've got worms. I've got the worms.

Some other messages in, someone said, if you're talking about parts of songs that get me up, that part of Rage Against Machines, Killing in the Name over goes, doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot and then bam. Glip glip glip glip glip glip. In the car we were listening to some Fall Out boys

in Panic at the Disco the other day and we were just eardrumming along. Oh my God. Those just pick me up songs. We're going down down down, in and around. Yeah. Yeah, music, isn't it beautiful? Anytime my husband wants to discuss financials

or if I should pay more towards our household bills, I offer up a certain service I can offer him. In the... Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? I reckon he's onto that. Yeah, it shuts him up real quick. Those bad boys make everything better, she said. And she has to, like, like, a thousand.

Wow. Doing cut and paste, someone said. What's cut and paste? Control C, Control V. Just when you go, uh, uh, there it is right there. Didn't even have to rewrite it. Okay. I get that.

Watching Graham Norton highlights, what's your YouTube highlight, mine's news bloopers. Oh yeah, that's good. I'm gonna kick out of watching those YouTube videos where they restore something that's rusty and at the end it looks brand new. Love that. Love those videos.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gravestone renovations. Dude, I love gravestone. It could be a gravestone. I actually want to get into that. Gravestone renovations. Yeah, love those. Do you know what I've been getting into? Lawn clean-up, says Carwin.

Oh yeah. All of that blasting. You're those pages. I like watching those. You know those things, you put a pen in a spiral and you draw and you keep on it. Spirograph. Yeah, I had one of those as a kid. Spirograph, we had one of those.

I could never do it. It was just slipping cogs. Yes. We had to pin it down properly. And then I think there was one, you know, pin the frame down and the paper down too, but the one that moved. Yeah, I nailed it into the dining room table. Got a huge ending.

My brother and I once mid-Spirograph got into a physical altercation and we were using them like ninja stars and they never worked properly again. Now someone has text saying vaccines are dangerous, they'll give us autism. So we've got to just consider that. How do you think the show stays so entertaining? Take the grave. That's why we need to go and get our winter dose up of autism. ZM. 79 of those too. Alright, well if you enjoyed today's podcast give us a rate and review. Oh f*** off.