ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - June 18th 2025

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

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From the ZM Podcast Network, this is the Flesh One and Hayley's Big Pod. Thanks to Animate's, making happy happen for pets. ZM's Flesh One and Hayley. Thank you, Susie. I see Brynn yesterday was at a mountain. Is he skiing? Has he gone skiing? I don't know. I saw he was just driving past. I didn't see him on the mountain. He's having a little break, our Brynifer.

Okay, lovely. Well at least you got to see a lovely mountain. I love to put my eyes upon a monga. You would have heard Susie just mention the supermarket fire in Auckland yesterday. Vic Park, one of the country's poshest supermarkets. Tell you what, when you do your weekly shop there, you feel it. Oh yeah. I've made that mistake.

It's posh, isn't it? I've actually got to run it past my bank before I even go in the doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Vaughan, you've got the top six dealing with this supermarket loss yesterday. Yeah, well if you know anything about supermarket people, it's that they won't be stopped,

they can't be held back. So I've got the top six specials on today at Vic Park Newwood. Right, also thoughts and prayers this morning for Shannon who was I believe in the smoke. You were in the fume trail. In the trail, weren't you? Yeah. Your apartment.

It was strong. I will say my sadness stems from the fact that I won't be able to hold Hailey Ransom for stickers now because that's my supermarket. Yeah, that is your supermarket. So how am I going to get New World Stickers to extort you for money? You're going to have to go down to the little metro, the small metro on Queen Street. It's a bit further, and it's much, much smaller.

OK, well, you've had some fume intake, so. Yeah, it was hectic. And yeah, full civil defence. I could hear my neighbour's ones going off. It was a full thing. OK, well, you've got a conspiracy theory for us soon. Is this anything to do with the smoke intake? Well because she has had quite a lot of plastic through the brain over the last 24 hours.

I've always got plastic in my brain that's nothing to do with the smoke. We all do don't we? We all do. A teaspoon. Good teaspoon. A small teaspoon. You know big conspiracy about space and I want to tell you more. Play ZM's Fleshborne and Hayley. So on Monday night, for some reason, I cooked an entire roast for one person. And when I say entire roast, I'm talking full chook, 1.5 kg, chook, with stuffing. Potatoes, kumara, brus Brussels sprouts, roasted onions.

Yum. My God, you didn't. Full gravy. Yum. On a Monday night. Monday night. This is a Sunday thing, because it takes so long to get ready.

I know, but I had a roast on Saturday, remember? Is this what made you want to roast on Monday? Yeah, I was like, let's go again, like how good was that? And then I was like, it's a good meal to make. I'm busy week, you know, to get ahead. So then I had the roast, I ate the roast on Monday night. Tuesday lunch, what I did was I had some roast for lunch. Last night for dinner, what I then decided to do was

I was gonna have some leftover roast for dinner. So that's three, I'm three meals in. For lunch today, it's Wednesday now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have a bit of roast. The bird keeps giving the chuck. For dinner tonight, I don'm gonna have a bit of roast. The bird keeps giving. The chuck. For dinner tonight, I don't think I can do another roast. Wait, but you've still got roast left. There's still so much roast.

I roasted enough, like the chuck could do a full family of say four. Plus I did enough veg I'd say for a family of four, but one of them has brought their boyfriend. Right. Do you know what it means? Right. So a plus one's been invited and there's still enough food to go around. Why did you cook so much for one person?

Because when you do a tray, you're like, just fill the tray. And then I had two trays of roasted veggies and I was like, Mars will do that. Yeah. Look, as someone that lives alone, Yes. you've got to think about these things.

Like, it's okay to cook enough for a couple of meals, but you've got to eat this for the rest of the week. I know, and I'm getting to the point where, I'm like, do I rock a croquette? You know, a croquette for the chicken? What do you mean? Like, I need to start, I need something else. I need it, I can't just pour.

Oh right, but you want to use, I like the no waste here though. Oh, I'm not, this is what I mean. Okay, so available to me is roasted kumara, roasted potatoes. I could do some fresh brussies. Yep. And I've still got a breast, a thigh and a wing,

and the carcass of a chuck. How have you had this many wing, how have you had this many meals and you've still got a breast, a thigh and a wing? I'll eat a half a chuck for a meal. Nah, I'm tiny. I'm teeny tiny. Such a tiny thing. Do you know I'm teeny tiny. I'll eat a half a chuck for a meal. Nah. I'm tiny. I'm teeny tiny. I'm teeny tiny. I barely eat.

You've really bitten off more than you can chew. I have, but I cannot waste it. And I'm off tomorrow. I'm away for the whole weekend. So it's gotta go. Can you freeze the roast veggies? And then no. Yeah, but then defrost them into what?

Yeah, no, no, no, no. Waterlogged, mush, yeah, mash. Then I was like, maybe I could, I puree the roast veg and make a soup. Yep. Oh yeah, that's a good idea. And you could freeze the soup. And you could use the chicken carcass as a stock.

Oh, far out. But that's involved, it's so involved. Yeah, this is way too involved. I'd mash up the, I'd sort of make a pie situation, I think. Oh, yes. I'd strip everything off the chicken and the meat and then freeze the pie for later. No, I wouldn't freeze the pie. Stop freezing the pie.

She's going away. Stop freezing everything. She's going away tomorrow. I'd bring it in for my workmates. This is what I'm gonna do is I need to, so I'm gonna eat two meals today out of it and then I'll make a third for tomorrow lunch. Right, and then next time, I could do a wrap next time, when it's only you in the house, what are you gonna do?

Roast a whole? Sure. Roast enough for six to eight people and then not know what to do with it for the rest of the week and then be forcing it down my throat as to not waste it. I won't learn. And I actually do know the moment I had, I nailed this roast by the way, like everything was delicious. Oh, I put on some of that pepper and me chicken seasoning on top of the choc. That was really good.

And I put some of the potatoes. But the moment I did it, I was like, I think I'm gonna have a roast every Monday. Then I cook once a week. I hate it. But then you're, yeah you're... I hate it by this point. You hate yourself by Tuesday and Wednesday. Yeah I know, but honestly, cook once. Wham bam. Play ZM's, slash Vaughan and Hayley.

Don't... Don't... Don't you do it. I have been stopped. Are you Benson Boon they say? I don't think so. I don't think that's ever happened. Are you Benson Boon? I said if I't think so. I don't think that's ever happened. I said if I tried hard enough I'm probably old enough to be his father. How old is Benson Boon? Why do you do this? Stop it.

Let me be Benson Boon's daddy. Oooo. Yuck. Guys I'm just over here kidding. It's hot in here. It's hot in here. Oh it's at 15 quarter past 6 is when I reckon the aircon kicks in. Time check on that one.

You'll feel the cold air. Yeah, then it gets freezing. It's good fun. Ads are coming to WhatsApp. Oh, for God's sake, get out. For F's sake. I did wonder when it was going to have some sort of push ads on it because it doesn't have any way that it makes money.

Exactly. But people use it for all sorts of things. How does an app like that make money? I don't know. Because there's channels, right? Like no one even looks at any tab apart from chats and calls. Chats and calls. There's communities.

What's that all about? What the hell is that? Stay connected with a community. There's updates and then that tab's got things like I could follow around Madrid. Maybe they just heard me talking about it yesterday because I was talking about that. This is how WhatsApp's been making money.

Because if you ever had, like when you log on to Air New Zealand or a website, it'll send you a code on WhatsApp. Yep, yeah. That's how it makes money. So WhatsApp makes money primarily through its business API which allows businesses to communicate with customers. I did this yesterday with a delivery and I was like signature free. It's so good to use WhatsApp

especially if you travel a lot and then you want to log into say Air New Zealand or a website in New Zealand and you don't have roaming? Yeah. It's on WhatsApp, it's amazing. And so your customer, our businesses pay WhatsApp a lot of money for that. Mm. Right, so but up until now they haven't been making

any money off the customers, the regular Joe blogs like House at Use. No, free app to download, free app to use. Oh, get out. So the ads are coming to the updates page so where you can change, put your status and stuff which no one ever does. I never go to that.

But are they going to do that thing that they do sometimes on Messenger where ads will just be look like messages? I hate that. I hate that so much. Snapchat started doing that. Yeah. Oh Snapchat, I forgot about Snapchat. Snapchat exists where I communicate with my children.

And that's the only reason anyone over 30 should be on snapchat So yeah now it looks like it's in but it's a Ad for a game seeing it looks like a message on snapchat. Yeah, that's annoying. That's been a thing overseas for a long time But it's just I don't know why it's been in New Zealand. Yeah, I'm here. I was happy to be behind on that So yeah, well that sucks because we use whatsapp like every day don't we what's's been in New Zealand. I was happy that it wasn't here. I was happy to be behind on that. So yeah, well that sucks, because we use WhatsApp like every day, don't we? Where's our sacred spaces? You know, where's our sacred, untapped, unadded,

unbloody, you know, just stop selling me things. You don't have to buy them. That's something I've learned. Yes I do. You don't actually have to buy things that happen to you. But they've manipulated me. They've all got these young, hot people who have degrees in marketing, That's something I've learned. Yes I do. You don't actually have to buy things that happen to you. But they've manipulated me. They've all got these young, hot people

who have degrees in marketing, and they've all been sending brainstorming how to make me buy things. You've gotta be stronger. And then they target me and then I buy them. I know, but you've gotta be stronger. I can't, I've gotta be saving. And then I'm on my WhatsApp.

And stop buying things. So I've just looked up some, cause I was like, I wonder which country uses WhatsApp the most. South America. Key stats. Do they have WhatsApp all around the world? Do they have WhatsApp in Europe? Vaughan famously asked us if we'd be on WhatsApp in another country. Yes they do. Do they have WhatsApp in Australia? Because I'm going tomorrow. Do you know how they got a lot of people Facebook they offered in like poorer countries and countries like South America and you know India and all

Developing developing countries they offered them like with their phone plans like free WhatsApp and free Messenger. Yeah, right as part of plans. So it didn't use the data. So it hooked them in hot place So I guess they kind of subsidized that But yes the most popular messaging app in over a hundred countries, downloaded over five billion times on iOS and Android. 2.9 billion active users worldwide. Users spend an average of 34 minutes on WhatsApp every day. Yeah, biggest countries.

Biggest countries. There was a big list here. What happened to that? You lost it babes. I'll go back, India 535 million users, Brazil 139, the US 91, Indonesia 86, Mexico 69 million users. Nice. So you've got insane amounts, Germany 51 million user.

Anytime you ask someone, hey, do you have WhatsApp? And they say, no, I'm like, yeah, yeah what's wrong with you what are you doing? Yeah I guess like those people just don't have friends overseas because that's was how I guess used it and when you travel you're like you message everyone just on their normal phone numbers. Oh well when's this rolling out? It'll just roll out but it'll just roll out but people will start getting it and then more people will start getting it and then boo ads. Nice.

Boo ads. Anyway, here's an ad break. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. What was that? Are you doing the sound effects now? I love a throat spray, man. That's the throat spray.

I might pop into show sponsor on the way home and get love a throat spray, man. That's the throat spray. Might pop into show sponsor on the way home and get me a throat spray. No, it's more like a... That's way better than mine. I sound like a cat. Yeah. Great. Fantastic. What about that? Oh, yeah, that's not too bad.

That's it. Because it's tighter. It's a tight... Those... That diff-lam little nozzle. Oh, I'm so excited. It's past the tongue. It's a little... really narrow. It's 6.27. It is. Okay, producer Shannon, welcome to the show, lovely to have you here. Thank you. And we're sorry to hear that you've inhaled so much plastic smoke overnight. Yeah, it's all good. I think I'm pretty used to it. Yeah. Like it just

feels right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because when you bake your chicken breast that you get from the dairy across the road from your house anyway, she does it in the tray. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because when you bake your chicken breast that you get from the dairy across the road from your house anyway, she does it in the tray? Yeah, it's just quicker. Yeah, it's just quicker. Yeah, and like, it just kind of all tastes the same. Yeah, it does. From the dairy. Now you have a, well, you said you wanted to share something.

I'm calling it a conspiracy theory. Yeah, we're all talking, me and my tinfoil hat friends. Yeah. So currently there's a bunch of astronauts, allegedly at the Chinese space station. Now I probably asked some there. Well, no, see, there's a video that's going viral of them up there, and it looks pretty legit

until you look at them. It looks like a space station. There's 13 people currently in space. There's a video that I've seen where there's a glass of water like we would have here in the studio in the right side of the frame and it's just sitting there.

Now if I know anything about space, it's that there's no gravity. Okay, okay, I'm seeing this photo. Shannon has a very good point. It's space. The water wouldn't be in the glass. I just Googled it too and it said conspiracy theorists ignite online Maybe that is the name for the segment Shannon is a net

Because I've seen the videos of people up in space and when they drink water, they have those cutesy little hamster bottles and they like blob a little blob of water and it floats through the air and they go, and they eat a little blob of water. That's not what that glass looks like. Also, seems like a safety hazard. There's a computer right next to it. Yeah, I am seeing this photo.

And I see how your mind in particular has raced to believe that they're not in space. I would like this answered. How is this happening? Probably blue tacked. The glass is blue tacked to the table. You can't blue tack the water in the glass. Thank you Fletch. I'm glad you've joined the Tupuial group. Not yet. Not yet. Why don't you Facebook groups? I'm open minded.

Is he pouring it? I'm open minded. Zed pouring it. I don't know. I'm open minded. What if they... Has anyone tried to explain this? Hang on. This is what happens when the conspiracy theorists are right. This is what I like to do is when Shannon comes up with a conspiracy theory,

is slam it and be like, this is why, this is,'s the truth yeah it's a science yeah yeah like the fact that what's the one that you believe in Katy Perry is John Bernard Ramsey yeah and just you know what that really ties in with this because Katy allegedly went to space as well space thing at the moment here we go okay okay people are saying the water wouldn't stay in the glass it would be floating. That water should be floating around like bubbles. It's fake, they're not in zero gravity. So wait, they're not in space. Exactly. They're not in zero gravity. What does the Chinese space station look like? I'm familiar with the International Space Station.

It's obviously a set-borne. Because you see the ISS go over, I've never seen the CSS go over. No. However, I'm reading an article. This is live, this is happening live, and we're discovering it as you're discovering it. There is a rational explanation. The most important thing to note is that is exactly how an open... Well put.

A postdoctoral researcher in space historian at the University of Chicago. Now I'm going to choose Shannon just to pause listening to you and I'm going to start listening to Dr. Jordan Bim. That's crazy. Said that... Yeah, like why would you do that? Shannon's right here. Water molecules like to stick to glass and also to other water molecules more

than they like to disperse in the air. I didn't know that they had likes. I didn't know molecules had sort of preference in likes. So if there is no external force, water remains in clumps in the weightless environment and in this case inside the glass. Okay but then why don't they all drink out of glasses then? Has the hamster bottle just been for theatrics? You'd need a straw, right? I'm sorry, so they've been doing this for fun the whole time? And would the water be level in the glass in space? It doesn't look at, glump, gonna be all like,

It does, it looks like it's got, what is this thing called? A meniscus. Doesn't look like it's super flat. Do you know what I am seeing as well? Oh, do you know why? The why they use the hamster thing is because when it's in the glass, so I don't know why it's super flat. Do you know what I am saying as well? Do you know why? The why they use the hamster thing is because when it's in the glass,

so I don't know why it's in the glass in this photo, but you can't get it out to drink. No, that's what I'm saying. You tip it and it'll just still say where it was. Yeah, so you need to put it in a little sippy sucky. You'd need a straw. Could you use a teaspoon? I suppose you could break it.

No, okay, so the minute you put the teaspoon in and start bringing the water up, you stop the spoon, the water keeps going. So you don't have to spit it out. But don't they say when you go on water and space, you can also choke on it? Really? Because you go on and then it's in your mouth and it goes to... Oh, because you gravity it.

Your mouth gravity it. Or it might go up your nose. Yeah, because your mouth gravity it. You choke on it like when you're drinking a drink and it goes down the wrong hole. Darling, so yeah Shannon, I do think they are in space. You know what I will say? I think I'm right and this video has 666 shares. 666. It's real. Wait, so this is the devil's work? Wow, okay.

We've lost her, right? We've fully lost it. Yeah, you're pretty crazy. Well again, I never want to be... I think we're talking about different things when we say pretty crazy shit. Aww. Play. ZM. Fletchvorn and Hayley.

From the Fletchvorn and Hayley group chat, this is the top six. Yes, hello. Shocking scenes in downtown Auckland yesterday. Shocking scenes. I drove past it with all the cops and the smokes. The smoke was seen from miles away. All the fire fighters.

What did you need to go past there for? That's absolutely not on your way huh? Well I was just, I was being nosy. You know they told people not to be nosy. I know but I was leaving the gym and the gym's literally just around the corner from it so I was like I'll just pop down. I'll just pop down, see if I can help. For those that don't know, in Auckland, New World Vic Park is one of the nicest.

Ooh la la, it's second only to Thorndon. Yeah, one of the poshest in the country. I think it ranks in like some of the biggest money as well. Veggies are nice and stacked, do you know what I mean? Stacked. Beautiful supermarket. Yeah, lovely. But yeah, caught on fire yesterday. It's being renovated.

So they don't know the cause yet. Well now it's really bloody being renovated, isn't it? Do you get the feeling it was a lay down blowtorch again? Like the casino convention centre just up the road? That guy's finally got his career back on track, that apprentice. Yeah, and then he was like, oh, let's jump on this gig. Yeah. Oh, just might have a quick little...

Smokey! Smokey! Well yeah we don't know the cause yet but it was crazy. It started what just before lunchtime and then even coming back into the city yesterday I could see it from out west. Oh really? Like just huge plumes of smoke. The bubbling plastic wasn't great. Yeah huge plumes of smoke. It took them hours to get it under control. Plasticky smokey though. Reminds me of when I used to live next to an old lady and man, she burnt it all. Why did she burn some plastics? Man, she burnt it all. Blue. You know what was a bit blue-y and stinky? Yeah, yeah, blue smoke. Mm. Blue flame.

Mm. Drip that. It's had on the news, the plastic stuff and it looked like it'd be going... Yeah, drippy. Is a drip. I've got the top six specials on today at Vic Park New World. I mean, obviously we'll say this is tongue in cheek and that It's a drippy. It's a drippy. I've got the top six specials on today at Vic Park New World. I mean, obviously we'll say this is tongue in cheek

and that I don't think it's gonna be opening anytime soon. No, and no, it was hurt. Number six on the list, smoked salmon. Okay, right. Smoked salmon on special. Like smoked smoked salmon. Yeah, really smoked. Smoked smoked.

Number five on the list of the top six specials today at Vic Park New World is sun dried I do apologize flame dried tomatoes. Yeah, it's a quicker way of doing it than the sun. Yeah, the sun takes so long So much oil. Number four on the list of the top six specials on today at Vic Park New World flaming hot Cheetos Which may or may not have been the cause of the fire. Could be they were that hot. That hot. That hot. Caught the sharper blaze. Could have been a worker on their lunch break. Yes, they dropped one in it.

What will happen to all the food? It'll be chunked away. It'll absolutely get written off. Oh, that's awful, no. It would be good for a dumpster dive. You think about all the toxic fumes. Like they, Civil Defence, they sent out one of those Civil Defence whoops whoops on the phone yesterday.

I know, I got it. I was like, don't breathe. Let alone eat the food off the shelves. But what if it's like chippies in a packet? Nah, they'll all go to landfill. And they'll all get charred. Number three on the list of the top six specials onto the Advocat Park New World, roasted almonds.

Previously unroasted. Yeah, no, they were plain. Yeah, they were plain almonds. Well, that's a bargain, because they normally charge a couple of dollars extra for your roasting. Well, they're not honey roasted though, they're plastic roasted.

Well, what if the honey rolled down the aisle and did cover it? You don't know. I mean, a happy coincidence. Yeah, it'd be perfect. Here, here are the fire. Number two on the list of the top six specials on today at Vic Park New World,

heavily defrosted mixed veg. Oh yeah, that's soft and almost ready to go. You say mushy soft. It'll be mushy. Yeah. Okay. And number one on the list are the top six specials on today at Vic Park New World,

Twice Cooked Bachelors Handbag. Yes. It has nice, good skin on it. Great skin on it. Like a plastic skin over the original skin. Yeah. Yeah, like the plastic bag. And then you just peel the whole skin off.

They actually do a great roast chuck they did i should say everything that they did everything that they did that supermarket was i know upper echelon stuff the bakery and the bread and the everything yes it is terrible oh yeah the bakery was so good good bakery great bakery well you know what? They will rebuild, guys. We will rebuild. They will. That is today's top six. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. This honestly, this made my skin crawl in shame.

You know when you feel so like, such bad secondhand embarrassment for someone? Yup. Okay, this was on TikTok. There was a couple that shared that their friends announced they were gonna get married. And that their friends announced they were gonna get married. And then they said that they were gonna get married in Buenos Aires on this date.

Now this is not an invitation by the way, they're just saying, oh, we're getting married on the 18th of June in Buenos Aires. Yeah, beautiful. Oh my God I know. Lovely. So the male side of this couple was like,

well I'll just jump the gun here and I'll quickly book some flights, you know, So the male side of this couple was like, well, I'll just jump the gun here and I'll quickly book some flights, you know, to get ahead of it, book the hotel, book the flights. Yeah, if you know the dates. Very good friends. Yeah, and you gotta get in there with the flights. Oh, exactly.

The longer you wait, the more you're gonna pay. Books flights to Buenos Aires, the hotel and everything. They turn, they book these in advance. Turns out they're not invited. They're not invited to the wedding. And I'm guessing they can't get the money back for the flights. No, so they go to Buenos Aires and spend six days

hiding from the wedding. Because the wedding was immediate family only. So they only found out when they got there. No, no, no, no, no, they knew before they left. Oh yeah, because you paid. You'd look into changing. You'd try to change your flights, but even then there'd be a change fee.

Sometimes that can be hundreds of dollars. But to be fair, it would be easier to hide in Buenos Aires than it would be, say, in Rara or Fiji. Oh my god, yes. If you were on the same island, like, it would be impossible to hide. You were just like in your resort with your little chalet, like, we can't go out.

We can't. We can't go out. We just can't leave. They spent six days hiding from them at a resort until they left. And then they said, into their knowledge, they still have no idea that they were even there. Right. That I would be mortified.

Wow. Great work, hi, that's great hiding. So do you think they booked the same hotel that the wedding was at? Like was it a beach wedding or something? Oh I didn't know. Because it's very easy to hide in, like it's a giant, giant city.

Well they said we spent six days hiding from them on the resort until they left. So they must have been at the same resort, like on a beach or something. Oh wow. Like kill me. And what do you say if they see you? Yeah.

I'm so sorry. We just assumed we were going to be invited. We booked this. It's fine and it's fine that we're not invited. Oh no, that's horrible. It's fine, I've just jumped the gun a bit, but it's fine. Mortified, but this is so,

like just assuming you're invited. I just, oh yeah, I want to just pay to change. Was it like an open bar, do you reckon you could have? I like would have snuck in over. Because if it's just immediate family, we've got a small tab on, but I'll, I'll hoon for a second. Are they going to do some family photos where they're all out and then we can go in? Quickly, quickly, quickly, like eat the food. I know, but then imagine getting caught and you're eating the bloody food

and having a drink on them and they're like, what are you even doing here? Yeah, you weren't invited. I think don't book your flights and your ACOM until you have a hot invitation in your hand. Yeah. Yeah. Play ZM's FletchBorn and Hayley. Play ZM's FletchBorn and Hayley.

God, it was terrible. I'm just rewatched a little bit of the footage of this terrible plane crash, Air India's aviation disaster, the worst one in 10 years? Yeah. Basically since MH370, right? It's the first Dreamliner crash. Yes.

It's awful, it's so horrible. Now you are our resident air crash investigation specialist. They don't know yet, they haven't settled on anything? They don't know. Are we speculating on wild theories? There's a few theories going around. But yeah they don't know yet. But they've got the black box so it's not gonna be too long before they kind of get an idea. Oh that's like the computer rhyme. Yeah. There's a little black box standing somewhere in the ocean. That's all I can think about now whenever I hear black box. And also it's not black, it's orange.

It's orange so it's easy to find. And it's made of a near indestructible material. It's not low because the black box would be stupid. Are they in the tail? In the tail you could actually see in the crash sticking out of that building. That was like one of the things that was left. Well there is a sole survivor of the flight

where 242 passengers and crew died. Isn't it insane? This guy's given interviews as well. Yeah. Like from hospital. Although I don't know why I think it was in a hospital as like a precaution because he walked out of the crash. I saw the video of like the building on fire, everyone being like, what the hell on the street? And this guy like stumbling out and out and they were like, this is it. He's Moses. He's Moses. They shared his seat and he was in the first row

of economy on the- Which is an emergency aisle? Yes, and so it's right by the door and it had a, like so yeah, he was by the window. And they reckon that it must have just broke apart right in front of him. And because it was on a building, he was by the window. Yeah, and they reckon that it must have just broke apart right in front of him And because it was on a building he he fell to the floor below so escaped the fire in the light miracle Miracle yeah, I'm 7a tomorrow on my flight to Australia. How do we think odd fear 7a?

Have you selected that seat? Yeah, I've got a flight to Australia and it is select a seat I'm gonna go for the same seat as this guy. Yeah. Well, this had a business class. This is a bigger plane. He was the first row of economy. So, you know, that business class didn't save anyone. Yeah. Geez, but my mum. Oh, this is Christine's hot take on the air and be a disaster. By the way, my mum loves doing this. We literally met them just outside Auckland Airport before they went on their holiday.

Oh yeah, that was cute. I wasn't going to bring it up because I was like, they're about to go on a plane. They don't want to talk about this. And mum brings it up. Oh, she did? Yeah. And she takes us dark. My mother and I have got this weird agreement and we do approach death with a dark sense of humour. Right.

And she's like, I wouldn't want to have to walk out of a plane on fire. I just want to be one of the ones that went quick. Oh, far out. Really? But then she's like, and you know what? I don't believe it. I was like, what? What do you mean, doesn't believe what? She doesn't believe he was on the plane. The thing is, it's an international flight. His name's on the manifest.

He needed his passport to check it. We'll see, okay, all right, Christine. That's my love. How did he get? And she gets it the way where there's just no point. She's like, well, have you seen it? Because it did crash into, was it a doctor's facility? Like a trainee doctor facility?

Yeah, like a uni or something. So obviously the journalists have already fact-checked this. And it will be very easy to prove. That he was on the flight. That he was checked in. It has, he was on the manifest. Because he would have beeped in. Yeah, well we don't know that, do we?

Right, well. This is something my mum will argue with. We do know. We do know that mum, no we don't. She just, what, thinks he was at the crash site and just took a moment to be like, I survived. Yeah. Oh, like to walk out and be like,

I could get some money out of this. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like you wouldn't be like, oh, that... At this stage, we didn't have a name or anything. Right, okay. But she was just like, I was like, but he had the name, you know,

to be able to tell. And she's like, yeah, but how many names are there? Like if there was a plane crash and you walk out and you're like, I'm John, I was in seat 7A. High chance that there was a John on board. Yeah, but they've got his passport on. Like who's that? Another one, who stays in their own seat

for the whole flight? Also literally, I've got on flights now. I've got on flights with facial recognition at the gate. Like you don't even have to get your passport out. Like they know it's you. She's saying he's not on the, he was on the flight. He was in the building. Or just hanging about.

Okay, I'll take from Christine. She's like, have you seen how casually he just walked out? He did walk out. He did walk out. It is the most casual nonchalant. Oh wait, he's a British man. Yeah. He's a British national.

British citizen of Indian origin. Yeah, yeah, All right. Wow. My kids are all about the nonchalant. You know, like if you do something and you're doing it relaxed, they say, oh, so nonchalant. And that's when they saw this footage, they're like, look at him walking away from that nonchalant. Literally the bird, the bird, boom, it's all on fire. And he's just walking out and he's like, whew.

He said, I managed to unbuckle myself, use my leg to push through the opening in the fuselage and crawled out. And he just stumbles out onto the street and these people are like, where the f*** did you come from? I think that's why my mum's struggling to believe that of this entire plane and how graphic the explosion was, and how no one else survived, that only one person survived. I know you would, would you feel, would you almost, I mean people have been sole survivors of playing crafters before, and it ruins them.

Because there's this incredible guilt, like why me? And then, you know, they don't, they just sit on the couch all day and they're like, I'm not making the most of life. You know, they feel bad. He said for a moment, I thought, of course I was gonna die too, but then I opened my eyes and looked around and realised oh I'm alive I still can't believe how I

survived I walked out of the rubble imagine that bespoke being like okay well here it comes close your eyes and then be like wait what? Should we set up a zoom interview with Christine and him just so she can ear her? No she would hate it because she'd be proven wrong and that's one thing my mum hates, is being proven wrong. Is being proven wrong. Play ZM's Fletchborne and Hayley. Right now actually, I just see next is happening now.

This made my butthole clench at the idea of it. I'll say it. Okay. A new idea for a dating site. It actually launched last week and has had very low subscription numbers. This is not surprising. So it's called Browser Dating. It is created, I will say, by an artist and developer called

Drize, who is known for creating digital projects with an eye for mischief. Right. So it is being sort of... So it's more of an art, a social project. No, no, no, he is like, it is 100% legit. Like the idea is legit. Right. And for good reason. Okay.

The idea is for this dating site, you've got your hinges in your bumble, should the woman talks first or whatever, and then there's your, based on your Wednesdays or da da da. Everyone's got an idea for a dating site. This guy's idea, browser dating, is members sign up and they install a Chrome

or Firefox or whatever extension, which uploads your last 5,000 browser searches to its server. I beg your pardon. And matches you with potential dates based on what you've searched. Oh no thanks. Like you just have the dumbest, silliest idea of question and you Google it because you know it's just between you and Google. I know, it's a private relationship.

Also, just upload your interests. Like, if you're uploading my browser history, you're not uploading my interests, or what I'm into. As you say, you're uploading my dumbest stuff, my most embarrassing stuff, or my private stuffs. And he says, so since it launched a week ago, it's only had a thousand subscriptions worldwide,

which in terms of dating sites, is very bad numbers. Yeah. Cause people are like, no. No, I'm not giving over that info. How many people use, I'm like, ask me old mate, ChatGPT, what the world's most popular dating apps are and how many monthly users they have. So he said, despite my work as an artist, the site is not a gimmick.

I want to continue it to scale. But what about that time you thought that ingrowing hair was something more serious? Yes. So you're Googling that. Is that going to match you with another hypercontriac that thinks every lump or rash is like them dying? Yeah, I know. On Google? I would not.

And then what you're doing is you're trusting this app with your data as well. Yeah. Like you're freely saying, my name is Hayley. This is my photo of my face. And here's what I've searched the last 5,000 Google searches. Yeah, no thanks. That's a no thanks. Okay, I got them.

Tinder is the most popular with 75 million monthly users and 9 to 10 million paid subscribers. Oh wow. What is Tinder paid for? What is paid Tinder? Oh, I think you get more features like travel and More likes and super likes and stuff Bumble has 50 million monthly users are 4 million of those are paid subscribers That is and that is the key focus on woman empowered connections Yeah, kill her hinge has 20 to 23 million monthly users 1.2 are paying a little bit more

Relationship focused as its key focus. Then there's one called Badoo. Isn't that what that guy screams off the back of the train in that movie? Badoo! I don't know anything about Badoo, but it has between 28 and 60 million monthly users. Oh wow.

Big range there, huge fluctuations. Global social dating network. Okay, Cupid has 30 million diverse interests and identities. POF, that's plenty of fish. 12 million. We've been calling it poof. Poof. Yeah, that's tam.

Broad spectrum dating, like broad spectrum sunscreen. Okay, just covers everything. Bit Okay, it just covers everything. Bit of everyone, bit of everything. Grindr's slipping in there at 11 to 13 and a half million. Well there's just less gay people than there are straights. What less people admitting it? Everyone's a bit gay. And Happen has eight million,

location based and counter centric. Is that the one where you'd walk past each other? Is that the one? I have no idea. Is that the one where you'd walk past each other? Is that the one? I have no idea. What was the one where you'd walk past each other? I remember someone set off something. No, wasn't that like bracelets or something? Apple ear tags.

And they'd go off or beep if you were near someone? Oh, I don't know. Wasn't that a thing? No, but imagine, maybe you loved it. I thought it would be if you could only connect with people that you were in proximity with. Right. Was that happen?

And all of these, all the most popular thing about it is they just all just drop random, they drop these like Tinder, Grindr. Yeah they do. Yeah, but a thousand subscribers in a week, that's not great in the scheme of dating numbers. Yeah, I will be withholding from ever taking part in anything that uploads my recent search history. Tinder has four billion swipes daily. Geez, that's insane, isn't it? The whole world just looking for connection. Wow.

Connection? Wow. Connection? Yeah. Genitals. Play ZM's Fletchawn and Hayley. Fletch Fawn and Hayley, silly little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Hello!

Do you do a little character there? Silly little pole. Hello there! Silly little pole, have your workmates become your real friends? That's all right, we've got a genuine friend here. Genuine. We believe you can hear it. Yeah.

I think you can hear it on here. If you can't hear it, let us know. Was this based on anything? Was there an article or was this based on anything? Or is it just the friendship that you guys see through the window every day? No, there's definitely an article. There was an article. I thought there was an article. We've been having a chuckle out here, so. What are you guys talking about? Genuine friends?

There's this video of this kid who threw up three times on stage at a DaBaby concert. At a DaBaby concert? Yeah, in Moscow. What was a child doing at a da... In Moscow? That is single-handedly the weirdest sentence you're gonna hear today. A child shows up three times on stage at a DaBaby concert in Moscow. Yeah, and we're just... Please send me the video.

Yeah, it's good stuff. I like, they're saying about kids vomiting. It's pretty funny. I know, they get so upset, I'm... Well, the poll today, have your workmates become your real friends? I voted no. Okay, well you're in the minority.

17% of people said no. 17% of people said no. 83% of people said yes, their workmates have become their real friends. What sort of miserable workplace it would be if you worked somewhere where you were actually friends with people, not everyone. You don't have to be friends with everybody. I mean, it's impossible.

You can't like everybody. And you don't have to become like the closest of friends. I think we've almost gone too far. Do you know what I mean? We're so involved in each other's lives now. Just genuine friends. Just genuine friends. But you gotta have mates in your workplace.

It's gonna make the day fun. God, the day would be long. I know. And we have a short day. All right, some feedback on it. Dan said, in the past years, currently slim pickings. Oh no. Time for a new job, I think, Dan.

Sam, not genuine friends like you guys, but I'd say reasonably marginal friends mates, yeah, yeah reasonably marginal friends Absolutely says newbs. I've got several work aunties uncles brothers and sisters Definitely more like family than real friends incredibly similar to the genuine friendship that you three have that really comes across on here Really comes across on here. Yeah, I think it's really coming across on here. It really comes across on air. You can hear it. You can hear it. I think it's really coming across on air. If you can't hear it again, we'd love to know.

Yeah. We'd love to know what. Feedback. What and how we can make it more genuine to you. I see my work colleagues once a month at our... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Earl says I see my work colleagues once a month

at our monthly sales meetings. Oh, oh, it's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Earl says, I see my work colleagues once a month at our monthly sales meetings. Oh, oh, it's just a work from home search. Sounds like it, feels like it. You know that they're not in the office together. Ruth, whose name is Ruth Ruddock. What a lovely sounding name. Fabulous name. Yeah, lovely name. Ruth Ruddock.

Like an action star name. I would've messed with Ruth Ruddock. Movie star name. Starring Ruth Ruddock. Ruth Ruddock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or we cross now to Ruth Ruddock for her professional opinion. Yes, Dr. Ruth Ruddock. Starring Ruth Ruddock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or we cross now to Ruth Ruddock for her professional opinion. Yeah, it's Dr. Ruth Ruddock.

Dr. Ruth, great lady. And she does so much great work in the area of medicine that they give her a damehood. Yeah. And she is Dame Dr. Ruth Ruddock. Dame doctor. Many years of work banter and bezzies swung myself a groomsman position level gal best friend.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. That's next level. Wow, that is next level. Trip D says the only real buddies can hack this, only the real buddies can hack this crazy person friends for life. Oh.

The four of us just went to Greece together. The Brands Trust left the office. That's from Anita. Anita's off to Grease with her workmates. Very nice. We've been to Grease and we're workmates. We have. Remember that?

We do, I do. I wasn't there. Was well before. Yeah, I know, but I just wish you wouldn't talk about times before me. Okay. What is the FOMO version of that? You've had 17 years before me and it just feels unfair.

But I wasn't there. Okay, right. I'm fine with it. That's the most female shit I've ever heard in my life. I know, isn't it? I wasn't there, wasn't invited. I'm jealous of your life before I knew you. Yeah.

And I don't think it should exist. Insane. And that we should mention it. We should never mention it. There should be no mention. Never mention it, ever. Stephanie said, yes, real friends even was added as an emergency contact

for a work friends child. Oh wow, sir. If that's not real friendship, then I don't know what is. Wow. That's cute. Amy, we got matching tattoos after knowing each other for three months. Quickly became one of my closest friends.

Our dark humour always helps. Love that. Paula, we talk all day every day. We lunch together and we hang out outside of work whenever we get the chance where we have a shared trauma by the same workplace. Ah, trauma bonding. Yeah, very strong bond, the trauma bond. Nah, but I'm the boss, so I keep some distance.

X team members have become close friends, but not while they work for me. I would be a bad boss, because I like to be liked too much. Yeah, like, can I have a pay rise? Oh my god, of course! Oh my god, Hon, you should have just said absolutely. How much do you want?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god, leave it with me. Leave it with me. Big David Brent energy if she were to go off. Yes, yeah. I want to be the life of the party. I want everyone to like me and invite me to their thangs.

Ah, and Petra said, I thought so. We were close. Then they left and I found out they'd been saying mean things behind my back to a few people. It hurt like a breakup Oh That's not it. That's not a true friend. Yeah, I'm so sorry to hear that. It's not a true friend, but Don't whisper people don't hear it While I've got you I've just got to say about Haley she don't she's a lot you're in my headphones right now

Well, we asked have your workmates become real friends and 83% of people who responded to us said yes they have. Right now we want to know from you how much did you spend because you couldn't say no. I've done this before when you take something up to a counter and they tell you the price and you're like, that is not what I thought it was. That's not what it said on the label.

And then you find yourself swiping away. So a girl did this and she shared it on TikTok. She was shopping, she was looking at rings and she saw a nice collection of big stone rings and there was two labels there, 40 and 70. And she was like, oh, 70 is definitely the higher end that I'd pay for that ring. But worst case scenario, 70 bucks.

Best case scenario, I'm getting that ring for 40, tries it on, loves it, falls in love, takes it to the counter. They're like, oh, nice ring. Does that thing where they like put it in its box, close the thing, or like put it in a little bag, and then they ring it up, $130. She's already saying that 70's her max.

Where did 70 and 40 come from? There's obviously like a whole lot of jewellery there with lots of different labels, and she's just picked it from a different bit. So she's misread the label, 70. And she's too nice or too shy. It's probably more a fact that she's too shy, right? Yeah, yeah, too shy. To say, oh no, that's, I can't, I can't afford that. Which I think is a very New Zealand thing, which is why I think we'll get messages in about this when you just go, rather than being like, oh, I'm sorry, oh sorry, no, that's too expensive. It's like the people that can't say no to the people signing up for charities on the street.

Me. Yeah, I know. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. I mean, but I still don't have an answer. I still don't have an answer about that charity that rung me after I donated to them once, and they got my credit card details over the phone, and I gave a few hundred bucks.

And then I remember being like, was that scam and emailing the charity hey was this a scam and they never got back to me. Interesting. And did you it was a one-off payment? One-off payment. Okay. Anyway yeah but yeah but like that's the thing I mean also that could be the thing like what did you pay for because you couldn't say no when when they go like there's a $50 package, we could take that today. Or for $1000 you'll do this and then you just find yourself being like uh-huh, uh-huh. Because otherwise like a family's gonna starve and their dog's gonna die if you don't do this. So, oh sorry, so you're pro people starving and dying. Okay that's interesting.

No you can do the $50 package. Yeah and you're just like okay. You know I'll do the $1000 and you're like okay, well, just like put this bill on hold. But maybe you did, you picked up an item of clothing and it was on the sale rack, you've put it on, you fell in love, and someone had put it on the sale rack and it wasn't on sale. And now we're paying full price.

Like you also sometimes you feel embarrassed because you've messed up the price. I recently had that situation where I thought I'd messed up the price and I was embarrassed, but then I was just like, and I did say, that wasn't the price that was on, and they checked it and it wasn't. Yeah. I was right.

You were right. And they gave it to me at the price. Oh, that's good. Cause they legally have to do that, right? If they advertise it. I think so. Is that the law? So many messages in already, but this is what I love,

is I can never say no to the cotton on bags at the till. You know when you're like, I've got my thing. And they go, now $5 if you want to get one of the totes. And that's all going to go to starving children. You're like, what are they going to do with a tote? I've got 2,000 totes. Yeah, I need that bag. I don't need more cotton on totes.

You can just carry that to the car. You're going to be fine. It's a singlet top. You know, I don't need a fine. It's a singlet top. Yeah. You know, I don't need a tote. Yeah. $5 for an extra tote? It's like being able to say no to the,

you know when you buy shoes and they try to upsell you on the socks or the spray? Oh, I know. And you're just like, yeah, okay, yep. Chances are you've already got one of those sprays at home, too, you just gotta look in the cupboard. That's what I said. Do you need the leather conditioner?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. That's what I said last time, I was like, I've already got that and I didn't even have it. Didn't you? But I lied and I felt real good. What a liar.

Because I didn't get pressured into it. Oh, I've already got some. Okay, give us a call, 0800 DALSATM, you can text through, 9696. How much should you spend because you just couldn't say no? What did you spend because you couldn't say no? There's a woman who saw a ring, 70 bucks,

woman takes it to the counter, 130, she was like, yep. And she'd wrapped it all up, packaged it. Oh yeah, that's fine. Cause people are just too shy niche. What did you spend too much money on because you couldn't say no? Morning, I was a broke student, I had 33 bucks to my name.

Yeah. And I went to the supermarket and I saw some watermelons on sale, I thought. And I said 3.99 on the packet. So I got to the pill. The lady was very chatty and friendly and then turned out the watermelon was about 30 something bucks.

So it's my entire weekly budget on a giant watermelon. Oh my God. What does it mean 3.99 per 100 grams or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I neglected to look at that detail and I wish I had. Oh and you couldn't say no because she was so nice. Yeah she was so nice and I was like a little bit embarrassed I was like just wiped that card with a spit on my forehead. But Niche that was all the money you had and now all you have is a watermelon. I know I know I had to make it last.

It didn't last very long. It was like no calories in that thing., I know. The key is in the name, water. It's literally a melon of water. Niche, thank you. Anonymous, what did you spend too much money on because you couldn't say no? I spent $168 on a fringe trim. Wait, what? A fringe trim? Yeah.

They're like 20 bucks. So, I'm true, that's $18, Hayley. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And so I went in there, had my fringe trimmed, and then I've got long hair, so I was like, oh, well, okay, I'll just have it freshened up just a little bit with a blow-dry. And then I was like, oh, I need some blow-dry cream, Kerastase, because I'm bougie. Of course, Kerastase. You deserve the best. Then she said $168 and I said, that's precisely what I thought it was going to be and I left with my head held high. Liar. Tears in my eyes. For a little bit of air through the hair in a fringe trim.

Yeah. So needless to say, I've grown out the fringe and I'm in that beautiful in-between stage of having a manky fringe. Yeah, you've got manky fringe. You're trying to tuck it behind the ears. But you're saving money. Yeah, I know. Oh my God, that's a very expensive fringe trim.

Nautilus, thank you. Some messages in. I bought that Dubai pistachio chocolate because the kids were all talking about it. So I was like, I'll get them a little treat at the dairy. $18, please. For a chocolate? It's got to come from Dubai.

Yeah. Also, I haven't tried this. What's it? Pistachios. Yeah, it's pistachio cream in the middle. I haven't tried it. Maybe if Dubai make some white chocolate, I'll be interested.

Do you know what you think about that? Or would you just rather smash three king-sized blocks of Whittaker's? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Or how many Almond Golds we're getting for eight bucks. We're getting a few Almond Golds. We're getting a few triple packs.

This is a classic. I want a photography session for our family. What we didn't know was it only included three photos. They sat us down and did the big reveal with the photos and a video, $1,800 later. What? We got them all plus a DVD. I've never even hung any of them.

Yeah, but you do feel bad and you're like, oh, just get the package, I'll get a full package. It's like, you know when you go on any of those tourist attractions and they print the photos out. And you're like, here you go. And you're just like, but you've printed them. I've got to buy them. I feel bad. Yeah.

And then you say no, and they literally dump your family in the bin in front of you. Yes. A glass of water for $15. Is that the one you were going to read out? No, no. A glass of water for 15 bucks. At a fresh restaurant, I was waiting for my partner, wait, I said, would you like some of the drink?

I said, yes, I'm just waiting. I'll have a water. And then they said still a sparkling. I thought that's pretty posh sparkling water at a restaurant. They bought out a bottle of antipodes water. Yeah. Had one glass then switched to wine

because my partner arrived at the end of the night, got the bill, so I'd been charged for the whole bottle. $15. We did tap water at the weekend, didn't we? I always say water and then they hesitating. You're like tap. No, my, the one. Fill it from the tap. The message I was going to read out was, and you're like tap. Fill it from the tap.

The message I was going to read out was, and I'm like I do this all the time, my mum used to have a market stall and I'd always buy jam as I'd feel bad for the old people that didn't have any customers. You know when Nanny's there with Nanny's jam, I'm like well I better buy a jam. And you're like I'll buy a jam and she's like and what about a gollywog? And you're like no thank you. Yeah I'll tell you one. They're not racist.

I knew this would go off because it's such a Kiwi thing, eh? Yeah, it is. Not to say, oh sorry, I didn't realise that was the price, I'm not gonna buy it. I simply can't afford that. Yeah. That's what we're asking at the moment, what did you pay for, or pay too much for

because you couldn't say no. A chick did this online with a ring, thought it was 70, it was 130, said, yep, that's fine. And went with it, rather than just being like, oh, that is not the price. So many messages. So many, it's so good. Also someone wanted you to know, Fledge, the Dubai chocolate filling is made of white chocolate. Oh, where do I get this from? I've seen it around for months, everyone's talking about it.

I'm going to have to try it then. What about when you get grapes from the supermarket by weight and they ring it up as like $22 for a bunch of grapes and you're like what the? And then half of that. And you just have to. Some of those grapes are already rotten. Oh yeah, I hate that. And then the whole bag's gonna go rotten really quick.

I once went to buy some clothes and I saw a hoodie I liked and I thought that'd probably be a hundred bucks. I took it up to the counter and it ended up being $350. And I just ripped my teeth and paid for it. What? I'm sorry, what hoodie is $350? An eny bang. An eny bang. It'll be an eny bang. It'll be an eny bang.

That's trash. Paneny bang. It's shit quality and it's trash. Get yourself a nice AS color and pop down, you know the mall, that lady that does the screen printing? She'll put an eny bang on it for nothing. Wow, she won't charge nothing. 20 bucks. She'll know, she won't want to break the trademark. Oh, she'll hate to do that. It's going to be Panini Bing.

Panini Bing. Panini Bong. Panini Bong. We need to get our FVH Panini Bong. You know what he's printed. I got the olds a wine tasting for their birthday. He sampled us unlimited wines for three. I've done this.

And then you're like, far out, going to buy wine. Oh yeah, I don't understand. Unlimited wines for three hours telling us, you know, what we're like, far out, gonna buy wine. Oh yeah, I don't understand. Unlimited wines for three hours, telling us, you know, what we're gonna eat it with and da da da da da. Afterwards, oh and by the way, and don't spit it out and don't drink water, so we're a bit pissed by the end.

Afterwards he busts out the mobile pay wave machine. I buy $500 of wine. Whoa! At the start I said I'm absolutely not buying any, and also, I don't like drinking wine. Oh God. Yeah, they got ya, he got ya. My friend went to a very flash tea estate

and got talking to the lady at the counter about a very specific type of tea. She bagged it up, did all the nice lovely stuff and then said, that's ready for you. And it was $96 and she's like, In tea. In great. In tea.

And paid. Goodness man. $96 in tea. Get a big And paid. Goodness man. Get a big nice box of Bell, you know? Dilmar, go to the Sigmarket, get some Dilmar. Lovely bit of Dilmar. Do try it. Oh I will thank you. And it will be significantly cheaper.

Told the wedding dress shop my budget of $4,500. They gave me a dress to try on and it was slightly above my budget but I thought, yeah, I would like it. I tried it on, loved it. My bridesmaids loved it. Said yes to the dress before she told me how much above the budget it was. It was twice the budget.

No! I know, but then your heart has already fallen in love with a wedding dress and then you can't go back. They know exactly what they're doing when they get you in that dress. 100%. 100%. They do. We're gonna sell you on The Vision,

we're gonna make it all look amazing. Look, it's a little bit more expensive, but try it on. It's a big day. You only do this once. Yeah. Or three times. Statistically. Yep. My head dresser said that I've been to for about a year, and usually it was $290 for the entire thing. You should shave your head.

Yeah. To say it. It cost me next to nothing. Yeah, I mean, the razors are cheap. This time, I went back, she rang it up, it was $420. She works from home and I was just too embarrassed to say anything, so I just paid it and never went back. Oh, God. I'm first time printing at Warehouse Stationery,

the price here, $2.50 for printing. Now that was per sheet and I'm dumb and I paid $90 plus for some party invites. What? $2.50 is cheap? That's 1990s prices for printing. That must be like proper paper colour or something. I've done this before where I think I opted with a colour in that thick, nice thick card. Norse paper. Or Norse paper and I remember being like, I think I printed like a script and it didn't need to be.

Like if you ever print out photos and they're, oh, they're only a few cents each, but it adds up. No, no, no, no, no, I want the crap stuff. I went to buy a cookie pie with my coffee the other day. $9.80 and then for cargo, no, absolutely not. First time I've ever said to say, no, no, sorry, thank you, no, I don't want the cookie pie. I paid $16 for two tiny limes once.

That's embarrassing. Limes at the moment are cheap. If you're gonna get your limes, get them now juiced and put that juice in the freezer. You won't be able to tell the difference come summertime. Especially if you're at the self-serve and you put it through and then you're like,

you have to get the lady over to be like, oh, sorry, I can't, I don't wanna pay that because it's so expensive. These are tiny. And then they have to put in the code. I know. Void the line. And you're like, how much?

Yeah, it's embarrassing. Don't you be buying limes, you guys, by the way. That tree of mine. This is an open invitation to the listeners as well. If you just give out your advice, I can come around and just get them off the tree. Give out my address. So, okay, if you're a pen, two.

Play ZM's Fleshborne in Hayley. Yesterday, I think I might've gone full crazy. I think I went full mad. I'm so happy that I left work by this time when the messages started coming through. Oh my God, so you guys cleared out of the studio Oh, crazy. I think I went full mad. I'm so happy that I'd left work by this time when the messages started coming through. Oh my God. So you guys cleared out of the studio

and then me and Morgan were recording an episode of Sex.Live. Morgan and I, you would say? Yeah, you would. Yeah, you would. I've got that wrong twice this week. I've only got it wrong once. Yeah, actually. Who'd have done one?

Who's the dumbest? Yeah, and I done private it wrong once. Yeah, actually. Who'd a done one? Who's the dumbed out? Yeah, and I done private school. Anyway, so Morgan and I were recording an episode of Sex.Live where you can find that wherever you podcast. Oh, it's Humbday! It's Humbday today, a new episode today. New episode, new episode out today. And so I'm in the studio,

and what was I looking for in my handbag? A lip balm. Oh yeah okay. I need a lip balm. I've been dry. Especially with this dry wind these dry winter days. I'm dry. I needed my bloody Elizabeth Arden 8-hour cream that I got from Chemist's warehouse. I think I've forgotten mine today. Well you can't have any of my Elizabeth Arden. You don't you don't get a squirt of what's in my tube. Wait you're putting 8-hour cream on your lips? Always, you put it on everything. I didn't know, have you heard of this eight hour cream? Only recently.

Yeah, I didn't know it was a lip situation. Yeah, you put it on everything. I thought it was a hands. No, look at it. That's the most lip stuff. It's mostly used for lips. Most people use lips. Okay.

To put it on anything. Anyway, this is not about Elizabeth Arden eight hour cream. That's what I was looking for. I was looking for a while. Right, okay, well don't, don't you need to put it on now. Okay, so you couldn't find it. Couldn't find it, and then I realised, I was like, where's my handbag? Started looking around the studio,

not in my sort of big work bag where I have my like computer and stuff. Not under the chair, not in the office, not as, I started looking around the studio, I was like, it's not here. And then I realised, shit, May Fletch and Vaughan, oh Fletch and Vaughan, Fletch, Vaughan and I. Thank you.

Went for a coffee, just after our show. Yeah. And I was like, silly, silly cow. I've left it at the bloody cafe. Okay. Walk across the street to the cafe, look in the outdoor area, go inside. I said, have you seen my bloody handbag?

And they said, no. And I said, oh God, okay. if it gets handed in, let me know. Walk back over, I go into the bathroom, I go into the office, I'm looking around, I was like, it's gone. Someone has taken it. So then I'm like, okay, so we were sitting outside at that cafe.

Someone's, I put it on the bench next to me and someone's stolen it. We would have seen that though. Because if you were facing the way I was facing the other way on the other side of the table. I know but we often leave in a flurry. Yeah. Do you know what I mean?

We often leave in a flurry. So then I came back and I was like, well this, I can't record Morgan's waiting, we're all set up to record our podcast. I was like, I can't because I've got my car keys in it. Not only am I going to have to replace my entire wallet, but I have car keys and I don't have a spare car key. I've only got the one.

So now my car's stuck here and Heather DuPlacey-Ellen arrives at 12 to take over my car park. She's gonna be pissed off. She actually, she's got a little flamethrower because she's South African. South African. And it comes out of her car and it just torches anything around it.

And you know I've got a new car. And so I was like, oh my god. Yeah, she would have torched your Mazda. My new Maz. So then I was like, what am I gonna do? I can't get home, I've got a new car. And so I was like, oh my god. Yeah, she would have torched your Mazda. My new Maz. So then I was like, what am I gonna do? I can't get home, I can't move the car, I'm going to have to replace my entire wallet. I was looking around, I went to the cafe

three separate times. Then I messaged you guys, because I was like, maybe stupid Fletch picked it up and put it in his bag. Gunjan, our reception, our security at reception, and Jackie at reception, were like, looking, he starts looking at security Jackie at reception were like looking, he starts looking at security camera footage. Oh my god. And then I was like

what if I left it near my car, like in my car, go down to the car park, it's literally like next to the wheel of my car. What did you get out and put it on the ground? Yeah and then would have like opened up the boot and got a bigger bag or something. It was just sitting. It was literally sitting in the car park. Wow. Such a waste of a lot of people's time.

Did you go back to reception and apologize? Did you go to the cafe and tell them, oh wow. Okay, so you haven't told them that it was your fault. No, and that's why we can't get a coffee today. Right. Wait, we can't go back to the cafe for how long? Ever, because they probably had them the whole day looking. They're probably called police. Yeah, we can't go back to the cafe for how long? Ever, because they probably have them the whole day looking.

They're probably called police. They suspected all of their clientele of being thefts. Yeah, they started rummaging through people's things for me. And it was just set by a cyber serial. Wow. Well maybe next time before you panic and get everyone involved in your handbag. Yeah, I know, but I was like, I remember locking my car. So I definitely had my keys. I remember having it at the cafe.

Was your car locked? No. Okay, wow. No. Heather Duplisi-Ellen could have just stolen my car if she wanted to rather than flame throwing us. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Read a great article this morning on Refinery29. Do me a favour, stop sending happy birthday texts in the group chat. Let's discuss. Because I'm a part of lots of group chats, family ones, friend ones, we've got the gaggle of course. And the gaggle's bad at this.

Rather than individually messaging each birthday person's chat you know, chat, we do a big dump and it will be like, who's up first? 5 a.m. Happy birthday, James. Happy birthday, James. I'm first. Have a great day, James. And then if you're up late or you don't read the group chat till later, you could be like the eighth or ninth person in the group chat to say happy birthday. It kind of means less. And now you look like you weren't gonna say it, but you're like, I was actually gonna personally message.

And then, here's my question as well. Say we're part of a group chat, and we say, happy birthday James. Like, do I then also do a personal one? No. A private one. Or if I was gonna do a private one, do I do the private one, and then,

in the group chat be like, well I've already done a private. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do. Do a private one, I was actually first added to private. I feel like if they're a top tier friend, you private message, and you might not even bother with the group chat. No, but then the rest of the group's gonna be like, separate chat, no Fletch.

Oh my God, can you believe Fletch forgot James's birthday? No, but I didn't, I basically- But we don't know this, there's no proof. I'd love a roast too if you joined later in the day with a happy birthday, I'd be like, oh here he is. Yeah, or morning sunshine. Quick little poll today, is it okay to wish someone happy birthday in the group chat?

85% of people said yes. Yeah. 15% said no. That's lazy. That's just a stream of them. Do you know what as well, it's actually just a reminder most of the time it's even someone's birthday.

I'm so bad, I forgot a very dear, I forgot a dear friend's birthday yesterday because I don't go on Facebook anymore and as if I would remember all of my friends birthdays otherwise. The one good thing was the reminder about people's birthdays or unless someone posts on the Instagram story like their birthday wishes. Right. I just saw a story of him blowing out a candle on a cake and I thought what? And then I still didn't message. Well some feedback on it, Alicia said no because then everyone in the group chat feels like they have to say it and the group chat just gets flooded with messages or it makes the birthday person feel shit

when one person in the group chat says happy birthday and then no one else does. Yes! Um, Aisha, we go from Alicia to Aisha, spelt almost identically. This is pretty much all of my work chat is, to be honest. And it's so annoying, all it is every day is, happy birthday, because there's so many people in it. We have birthdays every other week. It feels passive aggressive, says Alex.

Seems like a follow-up to a private chat where the birthday person whines that no one remembered their birthday, so the other person says it publicly to remind the group. That sounds like it's exactly what happened. It's my birthday today says Bronwyn. Happy birthday Bronwyn. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. And the key group will only wish it this way. Those that forget get a nice reminder this way too which is usually me because I forget birthdays.

Kat said we do it in the family group chat it's a competition to see who get a nice reminder this way too, which is usually me, cause I forget birthdays. Yeah. Kat said, we do it in the family group chat, it's a competition to see who remembers first and who's the first up. That's it, it feels competitive, which takes away from the well wishing. Yeah, of the actual day. Of the actual day.

Yeah. Kayla said, my wee pathetic rule is that if I have your number, you'll get a text or a phone call. If not, I'm sorry, happy birthday's coming through the family chat, that is just not good enough. And Jessie said, if anyone remembers your birthday, it's a nice day, tear face. Oh.

Well what's your birthday? We don't know Jessie's birthday. Well Jessie, let us know your birthday. You've also gotta be, you've gotta be like Hailey and remind everybody constantly for the month. And the lead up. Every day leading up to it. Well we've got birthdays coming up,

it's Shandog's birthday this weekend, and what's your name? Yeah, but I'm at that level where we just ignore my birthdays now. No. You, your age, every year should be celebrated. Vaughn and I have got, we've gone mad this year. You better not have.

You better not have. If you think me getting a tattoo for Vaughn was insane. Oh my gosh. You just wait. You better not have. If you think me getting a tattoo for Vaughan was insane. Get out. Oh my gosh. You just wait. Play ZM's Flashpoint in Hayley. Fact of the Day. We're looking at why they're called certain things today.

I want to touch on NFL teams. This is the National Football League. Okay. Really skyrocketed in popularity here in Aotearoa in the last few years. You know, the Super Bowl. Yeah. Is the peak of sports entertainment. I'm only there for the music sports entertainment and ads and halftime performances. Totally.

So, some of the teams... I still don't understand how NFL works. You just run at each other. They've got helmets. They've got helmets. Just running at each other. Lots of timeouts. Intense game of bull rush with a ball.

Trying to get over the end. Well, the Los Angeles Rams is a well-known NFL team representing No surprise there Los Angeles, but originally this time I've ever heard that name. Is it? Yeah The Rams the LA Rams You've been to LA lots ever seen a sheep. No, I'm thinking of the Rodney Rams That's a local rugby team out my way, oh is that okay? Yeah, sorry. You always hear of the LA Dodgers and the Lakers,

but you never hear of the Rams. Are they not that good? They're okay. Are they shy? Are they shy? Originally from Cleveland, where of course sheep were raised more back in the day in 1936, and then moved to Los Angeles,

and then they lost them and they went to St. Louis. St. Louis?. Louis st. Louis Sometimes it's Louis and sometimes it's Louis and I think I don't come to some sort of agreement on how we're doing our Louis It makes me too scared to say it and then went back to LA in 2016 again We're people like welcome back, but it doesn't make sense. We don't have Rams. Yeah, there's lots of animals here They could have been the LA coyotes because they say coyotes not coyotes Hey, yeah, could have been them either Jacksonville Jaguars. Have you been to Jacksonville in Florida? No It's a well, I just told you where it is. It's in Florida. But of course no Jaguars there. No

There wouldn't be 1991 they put it to the to the fan vote saying we're gonna have this team the Jacksonville dot dot dot Sharks was very close because it is oceansideceanside yeah it was a very strong contender but Jaguars won and then they put that down to the fact that apparently the local zoo had recently acquired a Jaguar and it was like quite the thing people wanted to see. It was the talk of the town. No native Jaguars in the area. The Indianapolis Colts originally from Baltimore where horse racing was huge. So of course they had a massive horse racing industry so they were the Baltimore Colts and then they moved to Indianapolis and you know there wasn't the racing connection there. The Las

Vegas Raiders were the Oakland Raiders, then the Los Angeles Raiders, then back to Oakland and then to Vegas in 2020. Of course, no Vikings in the area. No. In any of these areas. And the Green Bay Packers, very, very well known. Often have won the Super Bowl. So they were food packers. Oh, I was joking. The Indian packing company,

where the founder of the team worked and where so many people who'd played in the first iteration of the team did work. Right. Yeah. So they packed things, all matter of foods, including cheeses. Well, so you'd pack foods and then go and play for the Raiders.

Yeah. No, no, the Packers. The Packers, sorry, yeah. You would raid and then go play for the Raiders. Yeah, right. The Green Bay Packers were named after the people who worked at the company that packed food. So crazy, it's like when all blacks used to be like accountants and farmers and

yeah you had actual jobs. Yeah had actual jobs and then you know you'd go play a test at the weekend, have a beer and a ciggy at half time. A nightmare to be a dairy farming All Black and need all that time off especially like in calving season it would have been so busy you would have needed someone to help out. I'm always busy calving season. Oh my god, same. Oh my god. You think Colin Meade is one of our greatest, you know, running a sheep and beef farm.

Yeah. What was his wife's name? Vera? Why do I know that? I don't know why you know that. Why do you know that? Well, maybe from the days- No one even knows about the woman.

Remember when he was hawking deer velvet? No. Deer velvet pills, and having to change them in Vera's life. The joints were running smoother. Anyway, he was a farmer and he had to take snark time off. So today's fact of the day is the Green Bay Packers, one of the most famous NFL teams, are named after the people that used to work

in a food packing company. 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, that half of Brits argued with friends while abroad and 16% saying tensions got so bad they lost the friendship entirely as a result. Do love traveling, seeing couples and friends argue. It's kind of funny. It's kind of funny. Yeah.

It's one of those things you kind of gotta check your travel compatibility. Yeah, I feel like you've got to do a local weekend. Like in New Zealand, you've got to go away somewhere like to a batch or a beach with friends before you go overseas. There's gotta be a yin and a yang. Cause we travel well together

cause I'm a yang and you're a yin. If you have two yins, it's too much yin and not enough yang. You've got to have someone that's cruisy and willing to go with sort of plans made. Unless the plans are made together and then it works out both being yins. No, because there's always gonna be a battle

for who's the yinest of the yins. Whereas the yin's, we'll just go with whatever because we didn't wanna have to yin, so we happily yanked. I'm so with you on being a yin as well. Like I don't even know where I was going in Europe when I went to Europe. Just follow.

I was just like, oh, we're going here? Come here, please. There's a girl on, I think she's Australian. She's posted a series of videos on TikTok about like travel compatibility and the questions that you should ask friends before you travel with them, if you haven't before. And she just basically brings up good points

like what time are we both waking up? Like it's not gonna work if you wanna sleep until two o'clock in the afternoon. And the other one wants to be up at nine so that they can get breakfast, get to the museums before the other one wants to be up at nine so that they can get breakfast, get to the museums before the rush, you know, check out the sites before they get busy. But as long as they're happy to be left behind, they can get up at two, that's fine, but as

long as they're happy to be left behind, as long as you don't get back and they're like, oh, you weren't without me. It was like, well, you weren't up and ready to go. That's what I'm saying. You got to yang your yens. Yeah, that's true. Because you don't want someone that's not independent as well. I couldn't travel with someone that always needed you there doing things with them.

Damn, we wouldn't go well. I'm so needy, I'd be like, Fletch, what are we doing? I'd be like, go check out the Trevi Fountain. I've just seen it already. You just go whenever. Yeah, but I want to see it with you, Fletch. No, you don't need to see it with me. Also, another one, points she raises is like the cost. Like, are we we gonna split things?

Because some friends might just be like, oh, we'll just do whatever. We'll get the smell. I reckon in that situation, that's like dinner, right? You gotta have the sustenance and be like, we'll just split it at the end. Well, split-wise is always good for a trip away with friends, kind of keep on top of things.

But yeah, this is what we wanted to know this morning, is has a trip ruined a friendship? Or a relationship. Have you guys ever ended up in an argument with anyone? Nah, I've always picked wisely who I travel with overseas. That's a testament to you. Yeah, like you know Morgan, Sex at Life, Morgan Penn, sexologist, we've gone on quite a few trips together, we've been friends for years and she loves, like I do, a power museum visit.

Like not a dilly dally. It's not a dilly dally. You get in, look, oh cool, next thing, next thing, next thing, done, yep, done. I've had enough. And we ain't reading the stuff. No one's reading. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,

you gotta read a plaque. If there's a plaque there, you gotta read it. Absolutely not. Born will read every plaque. You gotta read the plaques. Surely you're museuming by yourself. It's an old rusty fork they dug out of the ground in 1600. You do tell me who made the fork,

what's it made of, where they find it, who found it. It doesn't matter. Let's hypothesise. We're not gonna retain that info, Vaughan. That's rattling around up here somewhere. I bet you take a photo too, and you're like. We've got the gist of it. I take a photo of the museum.

We've got the gist of it, in and out. And that's what I love, you've gotta find those friends that you're compatible with. You don't need to be identical and alike, you just need to know that you're good traveling with them. But yeah, this is what we wanna know this morning. I'll wait 100 miles at Em, give us a call,

text through, 9696. Also, I think the closer to home the better, like if you went to a rarotonga and it destroyed you. Or you just went to Queenstown. Yeah, but I can understand, like if you go to a high stress environment, if you're like doing like an Everest,

a base camp or a, you know that. But you're not doing that with someone, I mean you might be doing that with someone you hardly know. I reckon people would bite off more than they could chew on that. They'd be like, yeah, I can do it. And then they're like, oh, I'm pretty fit. I don't think I need to do all the training.

Or just hiking holidays where there are some hikes. There's gonna be a few camping stories I can feel it. Oh yeah, camping. 100%. All I'm just saying is I'm very good at putting up a tent. Follow my lead. When did the holiday ruin the friendship or the relationship?

Give us a call, 9696 to text in. Half of Brits have argued with friends abroad. 16% saying tensions got so bad they lost the friendship entirely as a result. So they got home and never spoke again. You never saw them again. It's broken up friendships. The travel stress.

Hayley, what happened? Yeah, so me and my husband never really travelled much before we got married. And then we started taking yearly trips to Melbourne. Yep. And we very, very quickly found out while trying to navigate the trams in the city that we are not compatible in our modes of transportation discussion. Does he prefer an Uber or and you prefer a tram?

I prefer to wing it like if the tram looked like it was heading in the general direction I was like we'll get there eventually. I mean some of them... Where my husband likes to know the time, where we're going, where the stops are, like every single minute detail. You're better off... We're on holiday, it'll be fine, we don't have anywhere to be. You're better off just letting them book it and going with it in that situation I reckon eh? If you want us to go at this time you book it.

They're on rails though, the possibility is somewhat limited. Yeah, yeah. They can only go where the rails go. Yeah, fair call, fair call. Hailey, thank you. Some messages in. So many. My ex-boyfriend thought booking a bunch of golf rounds and not telling me on holiday was okay.

I sat alone in a hotel room feeling we broke up on the flight home. But also like where are you? Like go do something cool. telling me on holiday was okay. I sat alone in a hotel room, f'ing we broke up on the flight home. But also like, where are you? Like go do something cool. That yeah, how can you not be entertained? That is a bit like, you're just spiting yourself there by not doing something fun with that time.

Like if you're in a nice place, like go shopping or go to a beach. But I guess also if he had sprung that on you, that's bad on, I'm not saying he's totally blameless in that situation. Especially if she's planned them to do a bunch of things together and then you're like, actually I'm playing golf today, tomorrow and the next. Hmm.

Ah, someone said, had a falling out with a friend over whether or not we should leave the door open to sleep. Cause it was so hot when we didn't have aircon. I was like, no. Uh, and then in the morning we were all covered in mozzie bites. Cause they left, they opened up the door in The middle of the night for some cool air and the mozzie got in and bit us so we had a massive argument about that the next day Holiday and friendship were ruined when she booked our flights and booked me an economy and her in business

What? Okay, but I mean friendship you're paying for it right? Yeah like She can afford business and you can't. She can afford it. Oh yeah, but she might be needy again, guys. And then the afford you to travel with your buddy. Yeah, a needy trashy, you could be a needy traveler. It's like those couples that don't get seated together and they're like, how will I cope on this two hour flight? Away from my, get me a bucket.

My little pussy. It happened to me. Okay, Haim got upgraded and I was left behind. Yeah, but he deserves an upgrade. Why? Because he's a man. Yeah, actually, you know what? That checks out. Yeah, it checks out.

You're lucky to be travelling to be honest. Yeah, yeah. Someone said, you just explained my marriage travel issues. We're both Yangs. We're playing poorly. Who's going to do the planning? There needs to be a Yang in the game. I'm the planner.

I'm the planner. He's the into my Yang. I've got a lot of friends that just turn up to these trips. Does that fire you up though? No, I love it. I love it because I love planning things. Because if they plan it, if Vaughan plans things, oh. We'd have fun.

He would have missed out one key element wouldn't he? Vaughan's the kind of person that would book an Airbnb and you know, he's got a nice place, but yet the host is staying in there. Yeah dude, well that's their house. In the master bedroom. In the master bedroom. They're actually really nice

and they'll probably got some stories to tell. And we come out in the morning and the host is here. I'm like Vaughan, who is this person? Vaughan's like, well it was $100 cheaper. Way cheaper. And the host hangs out with you the whole time. Hey Steve, you're cool. Hey Steve.

Shireem guys. Keep your texts coming in, 9696. We're talking when a holiday, a travel, a way or whatever with a friend or a partner has ruined the relationship. No shortage of messages. Booked a romantic Melbourne holiday when the marriage wasn't going well. He went shopping six hours a day and booked a bike for a day by himself as well.

Oh, it sounds like he kind of made his mind up there. I walked half a marathon and had a great time with an Italian bar. Needless to say, I am single now. Yeah. Yeah. Also, he went shopping for six hours without you. Yeah, he went shopping. He went shopping for six hours. I would have been darky didn't take me there. Men can shop too Georgie. No, I'm just saying. The fact that he went and did that and didn't even think you'd want to go. Yeah. And booked a bike, just a single bike for himself. That's nice. Not a tandem. My best mate is a classic anti-french Brit so doesn't organise anything. I booked a bike, just a single bike for himself. That's not a tandem. My best mate is a classic anti-French Brit,

so he doesn't organize anything. I planned a trip when he came to visit me in London. I trafficked him into Paris and only told him when the door had closed on the train that we were going to Paris. He was a rage hulk for the next three hours, did not want to go to France. Really?

How anti-French can you be? I mean, I'd still go. I mean, it's not top of my list. Yeah. Traveled to Aussie not top of my list. Yeah. Travel to Aussie with some friends to do fun stuff. All they did was get really drunk and try to have sex with me. That's from Martin. Right. Martin.

Not who you're expecting that to be from, eh? You were expecting like a cow, like a Martinique. Yeah. Martin. Yeah. Martin. I. Martin. Um, I've never had an issue travelling with friends, but when their kids are in the mix, it can be a different story.

When your mates' kids are screamers or run around restaurants without any respect for other diners, you quietly decide you're never going to go on holiday with that particular family again. Oh no, you don't. Could not agree more. Parents of kids go on holiday with other parents with kids. You don't go on holiday with any kids. Yeah.

Oh guys, I feel like I've got to be bloody Switzerland here. I feel as though you got to be- No you don't. No you don't. No, you can go with kids, but your children should not ruin anybody else's experience. That's when they're like, they'll calm down, just let them run it out.

I'm just like, no, those are your children. You had them, you control them. You're ruining other people's experience. Again, don't stay or go on holiday with other families. Yeah, no, I'm kind of... And a lot of hotels you can book at adults only. Yeah. Without that. Yeah, yeah.

See, I'm a boss. I will take... I'll do part of the trip by myself and then I'll go with the family. So you've got to make your own little piece on the side, you know? Yeah. Took a girl away for a weekend, started poorly at KFC. She wanted to know if I was getting a combo

because she wanted some of my chips but didn't want to get her own chips. Took a girl away for a weekend, started poorly at KFC. She wanted to know if I was getting a combo because she wanted some of my chips but didn't want to get her own chips. People that do this, just get your own effing chips. You don't have to eat all of them. And if you do, you obviously wanted them. A red-faced argument followed. We've been together for 22 years.

Don't get me started on the ongoing fish and chip etiquette. Yeah, like, well, just get more chips. I don't want my own, my own chips, I'll eat too many chips. Yeah exactly, you just want one or two, maybe three, maybe four. Grow up. You don't though, you don't though, you don't. You want heaps. Four max.

You want heaps, you just want to tell your mind you're being healthy by not having heaps. But you're gonna have heaps, but you're just having my share of heaps now. Yeah, so then you're having these. Yeah. And I work real hard because I want to eat heaps, but you're just having my share of heaps now. Yeah, so then you're having less. Yeah. And I work real hard because I want to eat heaps of chips. If this happens to me, I just say, I'll go buy you some more chips. Just don't touch my chips. Big Sandy's message, Dan.

Welcome back. Big Sandy, I travelled to Waumauru where the mate once had a big argument over who was paying for petrol. I haven't spoken to them since. I want to know, Sandy Sandy, but more about that. Well surely you go hard. Because if it's Sandy's car and she started with a full tank, by the time she wears that tank down,

the mate fills it back up right? And then you're even Steven. Yeah, also are you charging the mate for wear and tear because extra kilometres? Yeah, are you charging them like 67 cents a K or whatever it is now? I got really sick on a trip once, my ex soaked and gave me the silent treatment in return because I couldn't do some of the activities that we'd planned because I was so horrendously ill.

But again, just go out without them. Yeah. If I was sick in bed, I'd just say go without me. Have fun. And then you'd soak? No, I wouldn't soak because I'm sick. Yeah, you can't help that. Yeah.

Guys, I feel like I'm the bad person in some of these stories. Good, that's good that you can self reflect upon that and become a better person. Not a full mirror, just a slight reflection. Right, just a hand mirror. Oh, I'm busting for a wheeze after that podcast, I'll tell you.

What? It's a podcast, you are allowed to listen to it while you wheeze. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a podcast. It just says here, listen to a while you're wheeze. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a broadcast. It just says here I'm busting for a wheeze. I read it. Okay? I read it. Give us a review.