ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - June 3rd 2025
Episode Date: June 2, 2025On todays episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod: Haylien News - Flashes in space British Canoe person Only fans SLP - On a flight do you want to be woken up for food? Stranger Things trai...ler and release date Top 6 - Better ways to transport Bees Taylor Swift got her Masters back Fletch deeply offended someone Jacinda's new book What is the thing you'll never do Hayley's apology Shannon's achieved a new goal Fact of the day When did you sleep with someone for the perk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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From the ZM Podcast Network, this is Flash, Winn and Hayley's Big Pod.
Thanks to Animate, making happy happen for pets.
My nail ripped halfway down the bed, right?
And then I was trying to hold it all together over the weekend.
So I wrapped some bandage around it and I had an allergic reaction to see bandage.
So now it's blistering on the sides.
Wow.
Can you see that?
Yeah.
Gnarly, eh? Like get off, I think. Like I think, Ambietake. so now it's blistering on the sides. Wow. Can you see that? Yeah.
Gnarly, eh?
Like, get off, I think.
Like, I think Ambietation could be one of the very real solutions to this issue.
And look how ugly that is.
I mean, you can't really tell.
Yes, you can.
Not from here.
Not as a boy, no.
Not as a boy.
I think your career as a hand model's over, though.
Yeah, yeah.
I've lost so much work over this.
RIP.
Special guest around 7.30 on the show this morning.
Yeah, I was school-minded, I got a bone to pick.
This is a former school friend.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Student council, fellow student council representative.
Yeah.
Half in question how close you really were.
Well, she later became New Zealand Prime Minister
and has a book out today.
Guess who doesn't get a goddamn mention?
He's not happy.
She's got 100% know this question's coming too.
She's got to know exactly.
I mean, I've read the chapters about Moran's wife.
I could have been squeezed in there easy peasy.
Yeah, and didn't happen though, did it?
Okay, well, yeah, former Prime Minister,
Jacinda Ardern, 7.30 this morning on the show.
The top six is coming up.
Yeah, how good is this? Earl's done my work for me.
This is Earl the listener.
This is Earl.
Long time listener.
Oh yeah, really long time listener Earl.
He messaged me over the weekend.
He's just like, hey, I know you've got a Monday off for King's birthday.
I've written you a top six right what they're you're outsourcing
your work now yeah he's like a real-life AI yeah okay interesting
early
play ZM's Flashborn and Haley
welcome back to Haley and news it's a while, been a hot minute since we've had some news
straight from space. Now this is something that they've given a name to in space. When
I say they, scientists, real scientists, I've asked them to chime in on this so I'm giving
accurate information. The name they've given it is ASKAPJ1832-0911. Now I just feel like...
It's not catchy enough.
It's not catchy.
Nah, it's a mouthful.
I think we could brainstorm that
to be something cute like Sandra,
you know what I mean?
When they call like a tornado,
like a woman's name.
Yeah.
I like that.
So what this is,
is it is 14,700 light years away.
It's a mysterious space object.
Interesting.
Okay, interesting, here we go.
That is emitting radio waves and X-rays
every 44.2 minutes on the dot a pattern never seen before.
Okay.
Like this, basically flashing in space.
Every 44 seconds.
Every 44.2 minutes it's a
it's a light flash yeah like rays. I reckon if you got close enough it might be a noise.
Could be yeah maybe. Space is very large. If it's travelling that far through space it must be one hell of an
explosion. What do they think do they have any idea of what they think it is?
Here's some theories about its nature. One ancient magnetar. So this is basically like an old star, trillions of years old,
producing a bright light that is,
that basically we're only just getting now.
But why would it do it every 44 minutes exactly?
Well, here's the second theory.
White dwarf binary system,
two closely orbiting stars
could be doing something together.
So that when the star passes it flashes?
It's going wha! Like that.
Oh.
So it's kind of on a loop.
Yep.
The third theory, not written in this article, but here it is.
Okay, is this your theory?
It sounds like it might be a you theory.
Yeah.
Sounds to me like it's aliens.
Switching the porch lights on and off.
It's their snooze light.
It's their snooze alarm. Because you their snooze alarm. Is that okay?
Yeah.
Because you know ours goes off every seven minutes
if you snooze.
Yeah.
Seven minutes.
Theirs is 44.2.
And they are tired, man.
But that seven minutes is because we're so far away
by the time it gets to us.
It looks like 44 minutes.
It looks like 44.2 minutes,
but it's really them just being like,
oh my God, I need a little bit more.
Little bit more.
Oh my God, it was a long weekend.
I crammed a lot in. I just need a little bit more.
It snooze like that, on like, like clockwork.
Yup.
That's my theory.
Cause all of the, I don't understand,
you know, those sort of flashing lights
and two stars passing each other,
it just sort of seems unlikely.
Fantastic.
Yeah.
Aliens flashing lights.
Well, I just feel like that,
it just sums it up nicely.
Mm.
Play ZM's Flesh, Born and Haley. You've long spoken, Haley. Yes. About wishing to make money from OnlyFans Well, I just feel like that just sums it up nicely.
You've long spoken, Hayley, about wishing to make money from OnlyFans without having to do anything gross or naked.
It's just sitting there up for grabs.
You know what I mean? I'm a bit of an exhibitionist.
I like the attention and I like money.
Free money. Free money. Free money.
Well, a couple of stories in the news.
An Olympic canoeist chasing his Olympic dream, a British guy, where he's based in the UK, originally from Latvia.
What kind of canoeing does he do? The white water, or the speedy one, or the nearly one?
I don't know, what is that one?
That looks like white water.
Yeah, it looks like white water.
It's got a helmet on.
Yeah, well that's white water.
Yeah, because they have to, because they have the rocks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's a 22 year old, he is like gunning
for a spot in the UK Olympic team.
He's going. Wow.
But he also has an OnlyFans to raise money for the training.
Cause he said they only give them like 14 or 16,000 pounds.
And he supports.
That's not enough to live and train
and fly around the world and kind of compete.
God no.
So he's had this OnlyFans for a while
but then he gets a call from Paddle UK. Dumb name. It's the name of the British canoe association or
whatever it is. I thought that was his only fans handle. He's been suspended. Oh come on.
What was he doing on there that was bringing the sport of white quarter canoeing into disrepute.
I think he had his paddle out. Did he? Wow, was he dipping apeat. I think he had his paddle out. Did he?
Wow, was he dipping a keel?
I think he had a paddle out.
Is he, what kind of content does he make?
Is it for the homosexual eye or for the woman eye?
I don't know.
I think it's for everybody's eye.
Anything's for the homosexual eye if they try hard enough.
If you try hard enough, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure.
But another OnlyFans creator, she is an adult star,
has been for over a decade now.
Yeah.
She has spoken about how she makes all kinds of money
with custom videos on OnlyFans.
Yeah.
And one of them included a 20 minute custom video
just measuring her nose.
She said, I wasn't even naked.
She's done an interview about all the kind of I wasn't even naked she's done an
interview about all the kind of weird requests and things that she's done
because you remember that time my friend was asked to blow up a balloon yeah
talked about and not even inflation people yeah yeah yeah you know there's
inflation furries now yeah yeah there's inflation furries right they wear the
furry suits but they're also inflatable furry suits.
Right. She also said she has done a video in which she spends the entire time pretending to be swallowed up by quicksand
and she's even got her snout involved.
Her snout?
I don't know, I guess.
Is she got a prominent nose?
She just go behind the couch and you're like, oh, it's got me.
Can we see the honker on this thing?
That's just a normal nose.
Well, let's just point out that she's got lovely.
She's a hell of a rack.
Hell of a rack. Thank you.
Nothing else to say about it.
I didn't want to say that.
Very, you know, sort of objectively beautiful.
Photogenic.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I've got quite a eunuch nose.
That's what I'm saying, like you've got the tape measure.
Yeah, can I?
Go on. Go measure how he's over. What you've got the tape measure. Yeah, can I?
Go measure Hailey's nose.
What are we just going to do? Not record it?
No, we'll record it.
I just don't know who's going to pay.
I'll just take a production fee.
I just don't know who's going to pay, to be honest.
I think you have to go side on maybe.
Hi subscribers.
I'm here with my friend Vaughan.
Oh, you're measuring it from the base to the tip.
Yeah you've always got to go from the base. One and one half inches. Okay. From tip to cheek.
And what about from mono to tip? What have we got? Oh two and a third. I don't know about you guys but just watching that from this distance that wasn't at all sexy.
Oh you've stopped recording.
Oh sorry.
That just wasn't sexy to watch.
I'm sorry.
You don't know good content when you see it.
Hi sorry we're back now for the width nostril to nostril.
What have I got Vaughan?
One and a half inches.
Now that's a honker.
I don't know why it's an inches but the only thing you measure in inches is the penis. The body parts. Yeah yeah. And subways. Well that's a honker the only thing you measure in inches is the penis
the body parts yeah yeah and subways that's content I might put that up on
Instagram for free okay just to see how it goes just to sort of a seed and then
I'll create the only fans play ZM's Fletchv Fart and Haley, 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
Silly Little Pole, if you fall asleep on a flight, do you want to be woken up for food and drinks?
If it's a long flight, they'll often ask you, right?
Yeah. Whereas a short haul, like'll often ask you, right? Yeah.
Whereas a short haul, like going to Aussie,
they won't bother.
Nah, totally.
But a long flight, they don't want you pissed off
that you wake up and you've missed the food
that you're gonna get on the 16 hour flight.
Yeah, for a day.
But you could probably just ask them
for something when you wake up, right?
Like, excuse me, I was asleep during dinner service.
Normally I have snacks.
Yeah, could I possibly just get something to nibble on?
As a flight attendant, I'd definitely eat all the leftovers.
Yeah, I always eat.
Because what else is there to do?
I always ate way too much at an airport
before a flight anyway.
Same, and then the meal comes and then you eat that,
and then you're like, what have I done here?
Yeah, and you're eating it because it's here.
Yeah, what meal would you call that?
I have opted, on a recent flight,
I was like, no, I don't want the meal,
but can I have two ice creams please?
Yeah, yum. What? And they just gave you two ice creams. That is wild. Well somebody on that flight's gotta be
Dairy free, lactose intolerant. Get some of that sweet carpety ice cream.
Oh when it's carpety are you like, man this is living. This happened to you. You actually slept both flights. Oh yeah.
The flight coming home,
in which I was probably more tired,
I kept catching myself like jaw open,
like snoring myself away.
Yeah, do you know what?
They came around and offered like a chocolate linted ball.
And Hailey was asleep, so I got hers and I ate it.
A chocolate linted ball.
You just used me in this moment.
You could have just left it for me.
I know, but I didn't. You could have just left it for me.
I know but I didn't.
You didn't know that it even happened until now.
What is that individually wrapped linden balls?
So like the linden version of a Ferrero Rocher.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Heck yeah.
Delicious.
But on the way over you were pissed
because you missed the drinks.
Missed the drinks, missed the food, woke up.
And the cart was like maybe just past me
and I was like, damn it.
But then you did wake up and you were snoring on that hot guy, you kind of rested your shoulder.
Oh my god, on the flight over, crammed flight and I was middle seat, gutted about it.
I'm sorry that you had to go through that.
Yeah, no thank you. Actually thank you, yeah, thank you. It was really hard.
We've all been going through some stuff.
Yeah, yeah, that's right, we've really been going through it.
And yeah, I sat in the middle seat and I was like God who am I gonna be sitting next to and then
jeepus creepus. Some type of brown and
just bright eyes
Bright eyes brown skin
Yeah, anyway big boy which usually when you're crammed in the middle you're a gunner but oh yeah
And I did I kept sort of like, ugh,
like shuffling towards him.
Oh, that's the worst when you're on a plane and you're like,
ugh!
How embarrassing.
Yeah, so horrible.
Well, would you want to be woken up?
Yes, wake me up, 73% of people.
Wow, okay.
Crazy, huh?
We hungus, we hungus, we thirsty.
Oh, and you know what?
I don't even think it's that we're hungry, we thirsty.
It's like, we're paid, we want it.
We're Kiwis, we're like, we want our money's worth.
We'll eat it all.
Is that included in the ticket?
I'm gonna have it, I'm gonna eat it.
And 27% of people said no, let me sleep.
Some feedback, Tripty says,
please as I'm not that pleasant when I'm hungry.
So wake me up.
Oh yeah, okay.
Well imagine waking up and she's hungry.
Neve said, depends how long the flight is.
Short flight, bugger that and bugger off,
but long flight, wake me up
or put it in a doggy bag for me later, please.
Doggy bag?
Doggy bag.
Can I get that to go?
Can I get that in just, pop it in my overhead.
I'll grab it soon.
I paid for it so they better bloody wake me up
and let me eat it, said Carlina.
There it is, there it is.
There it is, there's the kiwi.
Elan says, most airlines have a do not disturb sticker
you can ask to put on your seat or on your eye patches.
On your face mask.
Yeah, I've seen some of those.
On your face mask?
Yeah. Embarrassing.
Do not disturb.
Little sticker.
Heck yes, I love plain food, said Corey,
who must not have taste buds.
It's never.
It's always salad.
As long as it's in a gravy slop, I'm okay with it.
Sometimes it's not though.
And for our breakfast options this morning, we've got a lovely egg roll omelette with
something potatoes, what's that?
Rustic.
No rush or something potatoes and they'll describe it and you're like, man, that sounds
good and then they just get plonked in front of you and it's just shit.
Yeah, potatoes with skins on. just scrub it, and you're like, man, that sounds good, and then they're just plonked in front of you, and it's just shit. Yeah, potatoes with skins on.
Yeah, real cold, chewy potatoes.
Meals are how I break up the hours, said Logan.
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah.
Casey, oh my god, I had this from London to Auckland
literally two days ago.
I was lucky as I had the road to myself,
and every time I was just drifting off to sleep,
while lying down, the air hostess would shake me
to wake me up
and say, would you like something to eat?
Shake you?
Shake you.
Also a road to yourself, that's posh.
Yeah, that's posh.
Oh, Dana.
I barely sleep in business class.
Even by the grace of God, I fall asleep on the plane.
Don't you dare wake me up.
Business class.
Must be nice.
Must be nice.
That's Dana the dairy farmer.
Fonteras. Oh yeah, must be a good payout this month. Wow. Must be nice. That's Dane to the dairy farmer. Fonterra's payout.
Must be a good payout. Great payout. Nice. No, the butter prices are up. That's why we're
paying so much for bloody butter so Dane can go business class to barley. And I can't make
a bloody cookie. No. I got woken up recently to ask if I wanted a lolly from the flight
attendant. No, no, no. We're not doing that. I honestly almost murdered her.
Don't wake up for a lolly.
We don't, we don't, waking up for lollies.
Maybe for a linden ball.
Yeah, for a linden ball I'm waking up,
not for a boiled sweet meat.
Not an easy one, not even the green ones.
Oh, the green ones are the best.
Maybe a couple of green ones are the best.
Yeah, but honestly, by the time I took off my eye mask
and my ear pods to see lollies, I was f-
F-rope-able.
Jimmy says, last time I fell asleep on a flight,
I got woken up by hostesses
because I was snoring too loud
and there was complaints.
Oh, really?
Having a roar.
Didn't you wake yourself up with a snore?
Yeah, definitely, but little c-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h That is Silly Little Pol. Play ZM's Fleshborne and Haley. Play ZM's Fleshborne and Haley.
Stranger Things Season Five is on the horizon.
It is set one and a half years after the end of Season Four.
So 1987.
I didn't watch Season Four.
I just realised.
Oh, you simply must.
I forgot.
You simply must.
You know what I mean, like these shows,
they have such big breaks and then I'm like, I just forget. Yeah, you forget about it and forget which one you simply must. I forgot. You simply must. You know what I mean? Like these shows have such big breaks and then I'm like I just forget.
Forget about it and forget which one you've seen. Yeah. So this is part of the trailer. I think about that night all the time.
The night it came for you.
The night it came for you.
Classic One-Owner writer. Yeah, a little bit of a...
Well, warbly acting.
Wildly anxious.
It's the night it came for you.
So there's going to be eight episodes in the final season.
This is American dates, so I guess we just add one.
Yep.
That's how that works.
That's American to New Zealand date maths.
Four episodes on November 26th, so November 27th.
Is that Thanksgiving weekend in America?
No, minus one for America.
No, we add one.
Do you add one?
We add one to them, because we're in the future.
Because we're a day ahead.
But if they're the 26th, it'll be-
We're the 27th.
Yeah.
It'll be our 27th.
Yeah, it'll be our 27th.
Apologise to Vaughan, because he's-
Apologise to Vaughan.
That's not how you apologise. Yes it is. You don't just say. Apologise to Vaughan. Apologise to Vaughan. That's not how you apologise.
Yes it is.
You don't just say apologise to Vaughan.
She said apologise to Vaughan.
Apologise to Vaughan.
Apologise to Vaughan.
Apologise to Vaughan.
Well that's all you're getting.
Four episodes, I'm just gonna go with our dates.
November 27th.
Okay.
But yeah, when's Thanksgiving in America?
End of the third Thursday of November or something?
I don't know, but why are the, it's so far away.
So four, yeah, cause August, my daughter and I,
massive Stranger Things fans,
we watched it together.
We were of the opinion it was going to be like July, August.
Now it's just disappointing.
And now it's November, the end of November.
Then three more episodes on Christmas Day in America.
Okay.
Meaning Boxing Day we're viewing here.
Yeah.
We're just going to get to Christmas.
Just gotta get to Christmas. Just gonna get to Christmas.
Just gonna get to Christmas.
And the final episode on America's New Year's Eve.
What? Why are they doing that so staggered?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Yeah. Keep you with that Netflix.
Keep, keep warranting that Netflix.
Yeah.
Subscription for another month.
That's it. You just like, well, we'll just,
stranger things is soon, let's keep it going.
We'll just keep it going for another month.
Come on, come on.
What's your Netflix up to?
Mine's like, what do you mean?
I haven't got it.
Yeah, I think I've cancelled Netflix for now.
I've just got neon at the moment
and then I'll just cycle through.
Yeah, yeah.
When there's enough stuff built up on there, I'll watch it.
You don't have to donate to all platforms at all times,
but only be watching one thing and probably on the Plex.
You know, so.
Right, so really watching it.
But then you know, you can't get in trouble
because if you watch something on the Plex,
but you've also paid for the subscription.
People don't know what Plex is.
Hailey. Neither do I.
That's why I think it's so strange.
That's why she always calls it the Plex.
Right, it's just a media server
that you have on your TV that if you've downloaded shows, it pops up on there.
You don't even need to download them.
You could be attached to somebody else's server
and watch the shows.
So do I need to go back?
It's like Handmaid's Tale, all these ones, they take so long.
Oh my God, Handmaid's Tale,
I watched like the first two seasons and then I gave up.
Yeah, and I sort of don't know where I'm at.
It's not a bit much for me.
So do I have to go back?
It was a lot. It's a bit too close to actual reality. Yeah, we're sort of don't know where I'm at. It's not a bit much for me. So do I have to go back? It was a lot.
It got a bit too close to actual reality.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're like, haha, this would be so absurd.
Then we're like, wow, it feels on brand.
It's happening a little bit.
So yeah, Stranger Things coming out in three separate drops.
November 27th, Christmas, ah, Boxing Day rather,
and the final episode on New Year's Day here in New Zealand.
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From the Flesh, Von & Haley group chat, this is the top 6.
Hi there!
Did you guys hear about this disaster?
Or you could say buzz-aster.
Actually if I'd had more sleep that would have genuinely made me laugh, but I think
it's a good joke.
So this was a truck in the US near the Canadian border.
Initially it was thought 140 million bees were on this truck.
Yes.
But it's, no sorry, 250 million.
It's been now said closer to 14 million.
Jeebus.
Well, that's, I've got, the weird thing is
it's got truck accident on it, it's 250 million.
14 million, 14 million.
Like they just seems to be so such a variety.
So a lot of bees in a truck.
A lot of bees in a truck.
I don't know if it was one of those trucks
because in America they'll literally like
put all the bees in there.
They'll all go with the queen bee
and then they'll shut the hive
and they'll transport them around for pollination season
to take them to like different orchards.
Yeah, they were active honeybee hives.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Almond apparently require a lot of bee to activity.
Almond?
Almond.
Almond?
Almond.
Okay.
How much activity do almonds require?
The almond groves of California require bees to be trucked in.
Well, we all need bees. The bees are in. Well, we need, we all need bees.
The bees are integral.
If the bees die, we die.
Well, I love almonds.
The top six bee to ways to transport bees.
Oh my God, who wrote this?
This is Earl, the listener.
Listener Earl, long time listener.
Well, let's not roast it too hard.
Number six on the list, a honey da accord.
Okay.
Honey da accord.
It's really taking your style of writing, isn't it?
He's got you.
We love a thick pun.
We love a real thick pun.
Number two on the list of the top six, B to Ways to Transport B's, a B-52 bomber plane.
Yep.
That was a sitter.
It was right there.
Yeah.
Because B, I didn't even have to change anything.
B, number four on the list of the top six, B to Ways to Transport,
R, Bs, the Metro Pollington Bus Service.
Good.
Yeah, not bad.
Not bad.
The Metro Pollington Bus Service.
I'd be roasting. If you'd written this, I'd be roasting you more.
I'd be going harder. Why are you going easy on Earl? Yeah. I'm going easy on Earl. I don be roasting. If you'd written this I'd be roasting you more. I'd be going harder.
Why are you going easy on Earl? Yeah. I'm going easy on Earl. I don't really know him.
You know. Number three on the list of the top six B to A's the transport B's.
Benighted Airlines. No that's the weakest one. That's the weakest one. No I like that one better than the pollinator one.
But it's not even United. It was the Metropolitan. The Metropolitan.
Be-nited is not a great take on United.
No, it's not Earl's strongest work.
Number two on the list of the top six,
B to Ways to Transport Bees,
Hot Air Beeloon.
That I like.
That's that I like.
Really good.
That I really like.
That's really good.
Really clever.
Yeah.
And number one on the list of the top six,
B to Ways to Transport B's
After the truck overturned and all the B's got out a BMW converter buzz
Really? I don't think he needed the buzz. I don't think he did either. I don't think he did either. He overcooked it. He overcooked it. You've gotta know when to pull back. From a guy who's constantly overcooking a pun. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. From a guy who's constantly overcooking puns, Earl.
Sometimes less is more. Yeah. from a guy who's constantly overcooking panzule, sometimes less is more.
Yeah.
That is today's sub-sign.
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All right, all aboard the Swifty Express.
Oh, I love this.
Now, Shannon and Cowan, we did talk to you guys last week
that you were looking, theorising, deeply diving into the fact that it was reputation, right?
Taylor's version was going to be coming out all these signs. It didn't happen. We mocked you relentlessly.
Now does it need to happen because over the weekend something major happened?
Well, guess what? This whole time, she's never had recorded it. She'd never recorded it.
So we were all like, it's going to come come out on this day she's dropping all these hints. Bates has only recorded like two of the songs. She literally walked in and was like I don't want to talk about my ex Joe and she's like I'm gonna do anything
possible to not have to record this album. Right. So there's no more Bate of Blood. She's
brought back all of her masters. Yay! So this was the whole thing right there. The reason she started doing these Taylor's versions is because this Scooter Braun guy
took the masters, she didn't own her own music anymore, so she said screw you, I'm going
to record them, re-record them all.
So this is great because now I can admit that I never liked any of the Taylor's versions,
I always liked the originals.
Crazy.
Now I can go back to the Sink Them scores.
Yeah. Wow. I'll be honest, to the serious stories. Yeah, wow.
Yeah.
Okay, that's, I'll be honest, within the fandom, that's a hot topic of...
Yeah, I bet it is.
We're now going back to listening to some of the originals.
Yeah.
Because you, you'd listen, you'd fall in love with the originals.
You love them.
I know.
And then they're slightly different.
You're like, not really.
Yeah, it's there, but it's not there.
And it's always like, the Taylor's versions came came second so we got used to the original ones.
There's a particular song where she changed one lyric, it's a song called Better Than Revenge.
She changed the lyric because it was a little bit woman shaming but we all as fans admitted we liked the original better.
But woman shaming.
She's like,
Sit down fatty boom boom, you shouldn't be wearing those shorts.
And we were all here for it, you know.
But no, that song has gone up in streaming.
I think I saw over 600%.
So as soon as we can admit that we're allowed to stream it again,
we're all back.
So what does this mean?
Like she owns them again.
Yeah.
Are we going to play them again?
Yeah.
Are we going to?
That might be like...
Again, because they were better.
Yes, we will.
Yeah.
How much does she pay for them?
So originally they sold for about 300 mill to Shamrock. Again, because they were better, yes we will. How much did she pay for them?
So originally they sold for about $300m to Shamrock, which sounds, that's US, so insane
amount of money, but it's reported that she's only spent $60m more than that.
So apparently she spent around $360m.
God that'll piss you off, how to buy your own music.
But I feel like she got a great deal.
And the person would have made money off them
when they owned them, right?
Not as much as you'd think though,
because everyone stopped streaming.
So we have all actively, as fans, well, aside from Fletch.
Yeah, I was secretly listening to the original.
To shake it off Scooter's version.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This whole time.
But everyone's saying, literally,
she waited for them to stop making money on it, the stocks went down time. But everyone's saying literally she waited for them
to stop making money on it, the stocks went down
and now she's finished Eras Tour
and she's just swiped them back
and now she's gonna make all this money back off them.
So the Eras Tour was basically fundraising
to buy her music back.
Karwin helped buy.
Yeah, yeah guys, I actually have a share in the music now.
Good girl, good girl.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh good for her,
because I know this was actually like a bit,
I mean an awful period of time for her.
Totally.
And then she made it into something,
do you know what I mean?
She spun it into a positive and basically
said she's got all this new music,
but it was the same music, just with a different hat on.
And it was fine, we all just, cause it's Taylor Swift,
we all just said that's fine,
you can do whatever you want in the world.
Yes.
Play ZM's Fletch Fawn and Hayley.
We went to beautiful Melbourne over,
it's not beautiful, parts of it are alright.
Do you know what I mean?
It's a bit of a mess sometimes in Melbourne.
You reckon?
Yeah, the CBD man, it's so, it's so,
it's all, every street is the same.
And there's so many people there.
Anyway, we went to Melbourne over the weekend,
Fletch and I.
I have nothing but rave reviews, this is a beautiful city.
Oh, I had a good time.
Why do you think everyone's moving there? Is it your favourite Australian city?
I reckon if I had to choose one over Melbourne
and Sydney it'd be Melbourne.
Oh, it's definitely Melbourne.
Sydney's pretty soulless.
Well, like great for a weekend
and the beaches are amazing.
They've got too many people there.
There's a lot of people there.
Yeah.
And there's more people in Melbourne now than there.
There's more people in Melbourne.
Yeah.
See, I think I'd be a bit of a rogue unit
on the favourite Australian city.
I haven't been to Adelaide or Hobart yet, but I reckon Hobart and I will have a spiritual
connection.
Hobart looks beautiful.
I want to go to Hobart.
You've got, sorry, but you've got Brisbane energy.
That's fine too.
I do, but I went to Brisbane a couple of months ago and I loved it.
Actually, you've got Newcastle energy.
Yeah, I do.
My brother lives not too far from Newcastle.
Yeah, I found a connection there when I went there once too.
Yeah, yeah. Well, we were there and I when I went there once too. Yeah, yeah.
Well, we were there and I tell you what,
travelling afletch, as you know, what a ride.
Oh yeah.
God, I hate slow people.
Okay, we both hate, we had to deal with a lot of slow people
at the airport.
Yeah, particularly yesterday, just like,
what is this tempo?
What are we doing?
Aren't we going somewhere?
That's why we're at an airport.
I experienced this on the roads of New Zealand. Someone driving a near brand new Range Rover at 80 kmph on the open road.
Now you don't spend that much money on a car to drive at 80 kmph.
Open road too, not like, not windy.
No.
Oh, right. Okay.
That is a danger.
Did you get it?
I ran them.
Yeah, I ran them.
Yeah, that's great.
Because I was using your car over the weekend. Yeah, so you had a bit of speed behind you. Yeah? I ran them. Yeah I ran them off the road. So I was using your car over the weekend.
So you had a bit of speed behind you. Yeah yeah yeah.
Nice. Well we'll talk about the car situation later but
there was a moment after post security where I get pulled over every single time eh?
Every single time. I'll get pulled over.
Because it annoys me now that the machines they're like leave everything in your bag.
And you leave everything in your bag but because it's all jumbled up,
the computer's like, no, I can't, no, it looks too jumbly.
And I can't work it out.
They pull it as-
You're like, well, I was happy to just take it
all out of the bag.
And then you're waiting, there's that moment
where your tray's gonna come straight down the ramp,
or is the mechanical arm gonna push it
into the screening line?
You're like, no.
And you're like, come on, come on, come on.
Well, mine got pulled over.
Shoes off, jacket off, jewelry off,
like the bags of part, all this kind of stuff.
And we were making good time.
Yeah, we were making great time.
And that meant we were flying through,
we were trying to get, you know,
get a bit of spritz of a thing and have a drink
and all this kind of stuff.
Tom Ford spritz.
We did get a free, we had a free spree.
Of course we did, yeah.
He drowned himself.
Apologies to the people that sat next to Fletch.
You went crazy.
I went a bit crazy.
Anyway, so we're doing that and then you're waiting for me,
you're waiting for me and I'm like putting together my outfit again, shoes on,
he's going at Fletch pace.
And he just chucks a comment my way.
I just said the state of it.
Like she's an absolute hot mess of a thing.
Yeah.
And it just happened at the exact moment I said to Hayley,
this state of it, this incredibly, how would you describe her?
Just like well put, she's like a glamorous older woman.
And her husband diagonally walked past us
at a very hot speed, we were both all walking very fast.
Yeah, they were our people.
And she just heard this comment
and thought I had said to her,
the state of it. The state of it.
About her. About her.
Oh no.
Imagine that you're just trying to go about your life
and then you see some stranger look at you and say,
the state of it. The state of it. But I didn't look at her. I know, but she doesn't know that. I was your life, and then you see some stranger look at you and say, the state of it.
But I didn't look at her.
But she doesn't know that.
I was looking at you, and then she,
and I could, out of the sight of my eyes,
see she'd seen.
I know, you were mortified.
And was taking her back, and I was like,
keep walking, she thinks I'm talking to her.
She just said that.
Now she's gonna go, she would've gone about,
maybe she was flying off on a holiday.
Do you know there was so many-
I told you, David, I should've won my pose.
Do you know there's like many... I told you to have it. I should have won my pose Yeah, there's like this like
Generations, I guess like yeah millennials
Where we're in Gen Z and like even Gen X like track pants at the airport
What do you know what though like the we saw some like boomers
Glamorous man, like why they still dress up to travel a there was one woman that had like We saw some boomers at the airport that were glamorous.
They still dress up to travel.
There was one woman that had like bleach blonde grey coiffed hair, crisp white button up shirt,
a nice slim leg black pants, fashionable glasses, proud of this.
And I was just like, that's a bit of me.
That's how I see myself being in the future.
Get all dressed up to sit in a seat
that someone spent eight hours farting right.
Yeah, farting straight.
Play ZM's Flashpoint in Hayley.
It's Picks and Bones.
We're joined on the phone by an ex prime minister,
an author and someone who, until I read her book,
I would have considered a close friend,
but Jacinda R. Brunner's on the phone. Dame, I do apologize. I do, I would have considered a close friend. But, um... Justyna Rardoon is on the phone.
Dame!
I do apologise.
I do... I humbly apologise.
Dame Justyna Rardoon is on the phone.
Hello?
Hi, please.
That's very ageing.
Justyna, please.
Dame. Just Justyna.
Do you book your...
When you book a flight now,
do you select Dame on the pull-down menu?
Course.
Did you just say course or...?
I am just Jacinda.
Dude, I do doctor, I do doctor and I have zero qualifications.
I would, I would.
If you've got a Dame, would you gotta
I would be.
I would be using it.
Just take it.
Just next time you book a flight, Fletch.
Dame, Fletcher.
Dame, Kyle Fletcher, I love that, yeah.
I was just thinking maybe on the re-release,
I could write the foreword because I'm looking through,
we went to school together, for people that don't know,
we went all through like intermediate and college together.
Not a mention, not a, like where you were the leader
of the student council at Marlins on Tamita,
I was the year, oh, we called it form one representative.
So I was like, you know, the next two I see.
All I can do is apologise,
but I think perhaps people who might anticipate reading the book
are probably quite pleased that there's no lengthy discussion about the Form 2 student
council.
We vigorously debated what we were going to do with, we called it Muff-ty Day back in
the day, but what we were going to do with the Muff-ty Day money and I believe we went
guide dogs.
The reason I didn't write about that is because I have to be honest, I can't recall that pivotal
moment in our political career. This is rude. Yeah very rude. You've had many more pivotal moments in your
political career. Yeah. For what it's worth, I remember you very well from
high school and I apologize deeply that you are not mentioned. Mr. Fountain gets multiple pages. Yeah and do you know what he said before?
F***ing Jesse Mulligan gets mentioned. Jesse Mulligan gets a mention! I've already just messaged him and I said I cannot believe you got a mention.
And I didn't. To be fair that's because he asked me about my future conception plans. It was a relatively pivotal moment.
That was yes indeed. It kind of covers, the book kind of covers everything, right?
Starts at the start and works through and...
Starts at the start, as many a book does.
You said, I mean, it starts at the start of your life,
but okay, you said that putting Dame
on your airline ticket agency, you've released your life.
You've written a memoir.
Yeah, it's quite a, I mean, one of the things
that I've learned is that people will look for themselves
as you've demonstrated.
I'm just saying, Fletch, not even in the acknowledgements.
Yeah.
But one of the things that I've learned
about a book like this is that you just have to leave
so much out.
All those really important people in your high school years,
yeah a lot gets missed out. Yeah, yeah, no we're very well aware of that.
Me and the rest, the rest of the people who aren't missed the fountain. I don't know if I knew about
this but you along with everybody else in Wellington auditioned to be in Lord of the Rings, but you never made it. Yes, I did not make the cut.
That is correct.
I don't recall, actually, I actually think I did.
I did in the end mention this
when I had the opportunity to meet Peter Jackson,
not in a way that was a grievance,
just more one of those little stories about, you know,
when I was, I don't know,
I would have been probably what, 19 or so?
But I auditioned to be a hobbit.
It's a tall for hobbit.
To be fair, you're correct.
They did have a tape measure on a wall
and I was right at the cusp.
But yes, I did audition to be a hobbit
and they asked whether you could joust
or whether you could ride a horse bareback
as part of the audition.
Oh wow.
Well, that means you were gonna be one of the main Hobbits
because only like five of them, four of them left the Shire
and ever did any horseback riding.
Yeah, maybe they were just covering their bases,
but no, I was definitely auditioning
to be an extra, I can assure you.
Have you been to Hobbiton as it is now?
I have, it's amazing. Yeah it rules. It's amazing. I just went recently, it's such shame that you didn't
get to be in Lord of the Rings. Yeah but um. He's still flicking through it with nothing but Nellis
on his face. Because you know you can always spot your own name easier because it's your name
and you're used to seeing it but it's not in their board. Did I see you posted a story you were recording your audio book?
Yeah. Because we say on the show audio books is reading.
It's the same. I will say that if I've listened to an audio book, I will say I just finished reading
a book. Someone who just watched something on TikTok said, I've been researching.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I've fallen into that trap.
I think it's a totally legitimate way to consume a book.
How long does it take?
Yeah, how long does it take?
You'd listen to an audio book, it might be like,
it says it'll be like six hours to go.
You're like, God, recording that must be a punish.
Yeah, it took, so I did it across four days.
Wow.
And from starting at 10 till five,
and you don't, you know, I think one of the things
that I became, you become so aware
of whether you're a heavy breather
when you're reading aloud.
I say, no one wants to hear me breathing.
So you find yourself just holding your breath
while you're reading the book.
I know, I listened to an audio book
and the person had a really wet salivary mouth.
Oh!
And I couldn't stop hearing the,
Every time they open their mouth.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wet mouth.
A wet mouth.
Yeah, we're gonna wet mouth on her again.
Yeah.
I was worried about whether people would understand me
and whether I needed to slow down.
And someone told me that most people will speed up
their audio book to 1.5.
Yeah.
I think it's best to read it slow
so people can speed it up
and then that makes it easier to understand
at a faster speed.
Yeah.
I thought, who's to know with a New Zealand accent?
Who's to know? It's Zealand accent? Who's to know?
It's going to be something.
Not on that page either for anybody who's just in.
He's still looking.
He's giving me a strong vibe that he hasn't actually read the book.
He's currently, this is his first point of consumption right now.
I think I got up to about here.
Okay, so yeah, half of three quarters.
Yeah. Or two here. Okay, so yeah, half of three quarters. Yeah.
Or two thirds.
Yeah.
Okay, well maybe next time you're in New Zealand,
Jacinda, you can, in the acknowledgement section,
maybe write in pen.
I can write something in.
Hand write something for Vaughan.
Just something short.
I would be more than happy.
Okay.
More than happy.
Son of a.
I will make an amendment that gives you at least a para.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
That'd actually be really nice.
Well, the book is a different kind of power.
Yep, out today, Jacinda O'Donnell.
Thank you so much for talking to us this morning.
So nice to chat.
Really, really nice to chat with you.
And thanks for, thanks Ford for skim reading the book.
No, no, no, no, no.
I skim and I look for my name, and I stop when I see it.
And guess what?
I didn't stop.
Play ZM's Pledgeborn in Haley.
Right now though, we want to talk about the things
that you will never do.
You're like, nah, not in my bloody lifetime
because this is an awful story.
And this is like, I've heard of this before.
There was a paraglider who was sucked into the sky,
8.5 kilometres up in a rare cloud suction event.
And we've listened to a podcast on this before,
a woman who survived.
That's survival podcasts,
and people who have survived horrendous things.
Yeah. Really?
And a woman was in the same situation, just sucked.
They estimated, how high did they say this woman went?
8.5. That's insane, that's Everest.
8.5 kilometres up.
That sucks. That's Everest.
You're like above the clouds.
Like if you're in your car driving now,
press speedo the odometer reset,
and in 8.5 kilometres,
that's how far up someone got sucked.
And if you're in Auckland,
you'll be actually travelling so slow,
you probably won't get there by the end of it.
Yeah, that might lose the effect,
actually, if you're crawling in traffic.
Yeah, like that took a long time.
She went real quick, way quicker than anybody on any state highway. Is power lighting the effect, actually, if you're crawling in traffic. That took a long time. She went real quick, way quicker than anybody
on any state highway.
Is paragliding the one, it's not the fixed wing, eh?
Is paragliding the one with-
I thought paragliding was where they tow you behind a boat.
No, that's parasailing.
That's parasailing, yeah.
It's the, yeah, it's not the full parachute,
it's just the like rainbow.
I've done that one, yeah, I've done that one.
So, and so the reason that,
so it's this crazy weather event right,
where the pressure does this and it pulls them up.
8.5, but the thing that nearly killed the guy,
this is over in China where this happened,
is hypothermia, because you're freezing,
you're just hanging out there and you can't
get back down through the clouds.
So the woman in the podcast we listened to,
it was like 45 minutes or something,
that she was above the clouds, passed out.
And so then you're like, you can't really land properly.
And then luckily came to her, she came back down.
So this guy.
That's crazy.
Because it shoots you out the side as well.
It goes up and whoom.
They land miles away.
See I've done that and I've done,
what song were you jumping out of the plane?
Skydiving.
Skydiving.
So paragliding is jumping off,
it's what they do off Mount Maunganui. You run off the cliff. Yeah, yeah. Right, that's paragliding. And you can do that as a tourist quite a bit. Skydiving. So paragliding's jumping off, it's what they do off Mount Maunganui.
You run off a cliff.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, that's paragliding.
And you can do that as a tourist quite a bit.
Parachuting.
And paragliding's the one with the fixed wing.
No, paragliding's the one we're talking about.
What's the one with the fixed wing?
Microlights.
You know, and it's like paragliding,
they hang gliders.
Hang gliders.
Hang gliders.
Cause they're hanging.
Okay. They're hangers. I don't know why, but hang gliding is a bit, I don't even want to do gliders. Hang gliders. Cause they're hanging. Okay.
They're hanging.
I don't know why, but hang gliding is a bit,
I don't even want to do that one.
It's off.
What's this heavy contraption on you?
I don't know.
Paragliding feels very 1980s to me.
Like the stand up guys, you know, what are they called?
Not the kite boarders, the kite boarders is anyway.
Kitesurfing.
Kites, no, the ones that Barbara Kendall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Barbara and Bruce Kendall.
Wind surfing.
Wind surfing.
Jeez, we really struggle with our sail sports here, don't we?
We really do anything with the sail.
Any sort of fabric.
We struggle.
Listen, the thing is, this has gone viral on social media because there's a video of
it, of him getting sucked up into the atmosphere.
And narrowly avoiding frostbite and all that kind of stuff.
So everyone's like, and I guess I will never paraglide.
What, the clouds are sucking me up?
This is what I wanna know from our listeners this morning.
What is the thing you will never do?
Do you know for me, it's going into the depths of the ocean.
Dude, I was just about to say,
scuba diving into a wreck, absolutely never not know.
I love snorkeling, and I've snorkeled around a wreck. I love snorkeling and I've snorkeled around a wreck.
I love snorkeling, I love swimming,
I've done ocean swims, I love the water.
But something about going all the way down
and then you've got to trust this equipment, you know?
And me, I'd want to be like, I've got to get up there now.
I don't do things slowly, like coming back up slowly to like...
So you don't get the bends.
No.
Mine's got a space or never ever ever.
If someone was like, hey, we're doing a trip,
Katy Perry's going back.
Do you want to come?
I'd be like, hell no.
We don't belong there.
Stay down.
Even if it was free?
Yeah, no way.
I think I would do that.
I'd go to space.
I'd love to go to the International Space Station.
It'd be incredible.
Oh no.
But I'd constantly be waiting for that thing
that happens in every space disaster movie
where you go through an asteroid belt or you know,
there's a meteor shower and it blows through the solar panels first and you're like
Sandra Bullock and then
But I think it'd be a quick death wouldn't it?
Producer Shannon, there's something because it doesn't have to be something crazy. No, it doesn't have to be wild adventure sports
She doesn't ever want to touch a monkey
No, it doesn't have to be wild adventure sports. She doesn't ever want to touch a monkey.
That's your one.
You don't want to ever touch a monkey.
My worst fear ever is being like in one of those Indonesian countries where they come
up to you and they frottage around you and then they like try to touch you.
Frottage around you?
Yeah, like sort of.
I understand what you're saying.
I've been in Bali and they've come up on your shoulder.
Yeah.
I'd like, even the thought of going within a kilometer of a monkey makes my
skin crawl that like I would just never want to touch one or see one at close
proximity or anything. Now you've rocked me up.
Where do you think this comes from? Where do you think the fear of, because space and the deep sea is sort of like
primal human fears. I think it's the uncanny valley thing that I feel like they have thumbs
and they could be smarter than me
and that we kind of are related and like, I don't know.
It's Planet of the Apes paranoia.
Have you ever watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies?
Oh my god, no, I can't watch Lilo in Stitch.
He freaks me out, cause he's a bit monkey-like.
He's an alien, he's a blue alien,
which apparently the new one is awesome.
No, there's something monkey-like about him.
But yeah, I just can't, there's something human about them.
Do you know what I don't want to know?
I don't want a float tank.
I have a panic attack.
Oh, really?
Float tanks are cool.
This is what we want to know.
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What is the thing you're just never gonna do?
What is the thing that you will never do ever?
Never, no thank you. I don't want to do that you will never do ever never no. Thank you
I don't want to do that. It's a no from me. It's a no from me
Someone went paragliding got sucked up eight and a half kilometers into the sky because of a weather event and now everyone's like
I'm not doing that then didn't even know that was a thing
I thought we're just jumping off a cliff and then landing nice and soft. What's pot holding?
No, I don't know. It's the exploration of underground caves is a pastime. Vaughan, please be really careful
when you just say a thing out loud.
Because it could have been.
That could have gone either way.
That could have gone really filthy.
That's another caving one.
Caving seems to be a massive one.
Hearing from lots of people,
they're like, oh, never go into a,
I love going into a cave,
like a stand-up cave.
Yes, big, wide cave.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
With a little swimming hole in it.
Yes. And nice steps down and back up. Ro A big wide cave. Yes, yes, yes, yes. With a little swimming hole in it. Yeah, and nice steps down and back up.
Ropes, ladders.
Yeah, okay, we're not really doing caving anymore.
We're just going into a cavern.
You know, someone's jibbed it, do you know what I mean?
Yeah, it's got a nice drywall.
Yeah, it's got some lights in there.
Yeah, yeah, lights, sky roof, that kind of stuff.
The only helicopter I'll ever willingly get into
will be the Westpac rescue chopper, should I need it?
Otherwise, no. I've done helicopters a few times. They do feel weird
But I liked it. I will never go horse riding or touch horses. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that
I agree. I love horses. Just casual though. Like just walking on them. I don't need to jump things. Okay. Yeah
Oh, yeah, I'm not jumping. I'm not jumping
Die I'm never Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah, I'm not jumping. I'm not jumping. Die.
I'm never gonna do that.
Same.
I'm never gonna die.
I've just got the worst news for you.
Oh no, Horn.
That's like an inability.
No. Inability.
I'm never gonna do that.
I'll be the same, I'm not gonna do it.
My husband knows that helicopter rides
and hot air balloons are not romantic ideas.
I am not meant to leave the ground in such a fashion. Like how many pilot hours a hot air balloon
operator's clocking up and choppers mucking around
near pylons, no.
Mucking around near pylons.
I'll never go shark cage diving.
Some friends watered up as a possibility
of something to do once and I was just like absolutely no.
Although there was a video, was it last week
of a shark that got through the gap?
There was another message,
someone else said the shark tank one.
And they said that they went in
and the bottom of the cage was dented.
And they were like, why?
And then suddenly the sharks
like ramming themselves at the bottom.
And then when their brother went in afterwards,
they cracked the thing.
You are rocking them up.
Yeah, why are you rocking up sharks?
You're rocking them up.
It would be the equivalent of, you know,
if we were just standing around
and then in the middle of a cage,
someone put an almond gold.
And we're just slamming our faces into that.
And we'd be running into the wall.
Yeah, and you wouldn't be angry at us
because we are basically almond golds, the sharks.
Yeah, we are.
We're gonna give it a break.
Get pregnant, be pregnant, give birth, have a baby.
It's a hard no all around for me.
Killed us.
Yeah, okay.
Same.
Same.
Same.
Somebody said the thoughts of the wild food festival,
just all these foods that aren't really foods,
surrounding me, I don't like.
Yeah.
It's fair.
Surrounding you, like they're all ganging up.
A cruise, I will never go on a cruise.
How is something so heavy floating?
I don't trust it.
I don't trust it and it could fall over.
It is, it blows my mind seeing boats, cruise ships.
I know how they float,
I don't know how they don't tip over.
They're so tall.
Yeah, they're so tall.
How do they not?
I know, I know.
They just go.
And then even when there is big waves and stuff, you see those ships, you're like,
why are you not going over?
Spookers, I'll never do spookers.
The history of the place and the stories you hear freaks me out, I don't need that.
Well, we did hear a story, didn't we, on Weird Tingly Wingly Wednesday?
Weird Tingly Wingly Tingly.
Yeah.
Freediving.
Somebody said never go freediving.
Oh no.
Someone said I will never go spelunking.
That's like, don't again don't.
Absailing into caves, eh,
and jumping around down in the caves.
Oh right.
It's what Batman does.
Okay, yeah right.
In the first Batman movie,
Christopher Nolan, the first Batman,
he goes spelunking.
Remember?
I'm a hard dog, I must go and pee again.
Yes, yeah, yeah, okay.
In any context.
Steak tartare.
You know steak tartare?
Yeah, yum.
I had some the other day.
Someone said, I'll never do it.
I mean, eating raw mince is a really crazy experience.
Ew, is that what you had?
Raw mince?
Yeah, that little disc thing.
Yeah, with the egg on top.
With the egg on top, yuck.
They didn't have a raw egg on this one.
Oh, they didn't put a raw egg on top.
No, no, no.
I know, did you think it was a bit man-cooked?
Yeah, I was like, we're at a pub,
get something deep-fried. Grow up. didn't put a raw egg on top. No, no, no. I know, did you think it was a bit man-cooked? Yeah, I was like, we're at a pub, get something deep-fried.
Grow up.
Batter that thing.
Batter and cook it.
You know they've got batter out back.
Yeah, hello.
Play ZM's Fletch, Bourne and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletch, Bourne and Hayley.
So we went away this weekend, Fletch and I,
popped over to Melbourne.
And when we came back to the airport yesterday.
Okay, yep.
I wondered.
I noticed something.
This is why Hayley has to issue an apology.
And this is gonna be from the heart.
And this is to you, Vaughan, this apology is to you.
Yeah, I just need to address something
before you go downstairs.
Now to set it up, Vaughan, you were also away
and we swapped cars because you needed a bigger car.
For transporting.
For transporting people and Fletch and I were just
driving to the airport and parking there.
Yeah.
She had parking by the way.
We've got a really good deal.
God, your car goes slow.
Jesus, it was a driving for drive.
I must say driving Hayley's car was...
I felt the need for speed.
Because Hayley was in the fast lane thinking she was driving her car and people were overtaking in the middle lane.
I was like, oh my god this is where I live in the fast lane.
At this amount of revs I must be doing 120km an hour.
I was like, oh my god I'm at 90?
Literally making that noise and Hayish going, 98, yeah.
Is that meant for speed baiting?
Yeah, I know.
And do you know what, when we were feeling the wind
moving around, both Fletch and I acknowledged,
God, we gotta stop roasting him for going slowly.
We want him to go slow in this thing.
Yeah, that's not a car that's meant to go faster.
No, no, no.
Anyway, so to paint the picture, over the weekend,
Fletch and I had the little Jimny,
and it was parked at the airport, and Vaughan, you had my car. I had the CX-6 and I had the little gymney and it was parked
at the airport and Vaughan you had my car. I had the CX-6. You had the CX-60.
Oh CX-60. Embarrassing. It's got a sunroof darling. Anyway so on Friday before we went to the
airport upon Fletch's advice he was like we're gonna smash out a massive workout
we're gonna lift some weights for 45 was like, we're gonna smash out a massive workout.
We're gonna lift some weights for 45 minutes
and then we're gonna do a 30 minute spin class.
Then we're gonna get on that plane
and we're gonna feel good
and we can just like go into our like slobby weekend.
We did, didn't we?
Yeah man, we did.
We like smashed out.
You did the mahi and then you got the treats.
And then we got the treats.
But the mahi, man it was sweaty.
Like.
Okay. Man oh man, she sweat.
I sweat a lot doing weights and spin class
and then we had a 20 minute turnaround to leave the gym,
get back to Fletcher's, shower at Fletcher's,
get in the car, get to the airport, get on our flight.
So I packaged up my gym gear in my little tote bag
and I popped it in the gym knee. We're at Fested. We're at Manukau.
We're at three and a half days. Started somewhat of a kombucha. Yes, some sort of vinegary kombucha.
A crotchy kombucha. A crotchy, vinegary kombucha. Man, so yeasty.
But that's all you need is a yeast starter. You do need it.
No you need sugars. I know you need sugars.
Don't you need sugars?
Yeah, well the sweet...
I thought, you know, man...
Selling the sugar.
I had an almond gold that morning.
I can't believe I just said that.
Now I've vomited in my mouth.
Yeah, it's upsetting that you did.
So yesterday we land and it's late afternoon.
Get back to the car and the Fletch...
I bipped it and it doesn't make a noise.
It's a Jimny. And Fletch opens up the back to put in our stuff and he fletch, I bipped it and it doesn't make a noise it's a gym day and
fletch opens up the back to put in our stuff and he's like what the hell is that?
The smell. It was it's so bad. It's like have you ever done a gym class and you're
like on the ground and your face is pushed into the carpet yeah and you're
like how many years of men and women's sweat has dripped into this without it being properly cleaned?
So I drove home yesterday and was like, I'm sure just with a day with the bag out, it'll clear.
I got in this morning. I believe it's gotten stronger.
It's gotten into the most personal test of the sub furnishings.
Wait, did you not spray it with anything?
No, I forgot. It was raining when I got home last night
and then I woke up this morning and I was like,
damn it, I didn't.
Oh God, it's bad, it's bad.
It's sort of like an industrial.
I was riddled with guilt when we stopped to get petrol,
filled up your car by the way.
Did you?
Tippy top.
I didn't.
Oh, you did a big drive.
I only drove to the airport and back.
Yeah, it's five Ks max.
Five Ks max?
And then when I got back into the car,
I was very farty.
You farted in my car.
I didn't, but my daughters apparently had some sort
of gassy treats at the weekend and had been-
Your daughters had filled my cars with farts.
Had been tooting the entire way back.
So we've stuck out each other's cars,
this feels like a fair exchange.
It's sort of a neutral exchange of sorts,
I made them drive the rest of the way home
with the windows down to try to get out the smell.
No, I see, I think that's, you're gonna be fine,
whereas your car isn't.
Yeah, your car, I just think it's gonna need
some sort of industrial attention.
Yeah.
Well, I do have the Akoya car diffuser.
Oh no, you did.
You did, it fell out of the vent
and I couldn't get it back in, so I just left it on the floor.
Yeah, we don't know where it is.
Because it wouldn't stay in.
You've shown me nothing but disrespect all weekend.
So it's got a giant crack in the window.
It's embarrassing.
Oh yeah, it does have a stone inflicter.
And crack the windscreen.
Yeah, but it's like all, you've got to get that fixed.
I don't think you can.
I think it's a new windscreen.
Oh no.
Okay. I think it's a new windscreen. Oh no. Okay.
I think it's a new windscreen.
Well at least there's no windscreen
and it'll ear the car out.
Just remove it.
That'll sort it right out.
Just don't put the new one in for a couple of days, mate.
Play ZM's Fletchporn and Hayley.
Shannon, that was lovely.
That was me getting excited for the Revlon range.
Shannon at the producer's desk has an accomplishment
she'd like to share with us all.
And here we love to celebrate each other's achievements.
We do, celebrate each other's successes.
Thank you.
I've actually done two achievements
in a moment for each if possible.
Okay.
Now let's hold and see.
Yeah, let's not commit to something
we can't follow through on.
I, on the greatest app of all time, Candy Crush.
Not what I thought you were going to say, but okay.
Yeah, I know a couple of way more fun apps.
I have surpassed...
You should say them.
No.
Okay, carry on.
In the last week, I have passed 511 levels on Candy Crush.
So was that your long weekend?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 111 levels on Candy Crush. So was that your long weekend, was that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We went off on sort of adventures with friends
and like traveling abroad.
Yeah, I sat there crushing candies.
Yeah, on your broken 1.5 person couch.
On the floor.
Yeah, on the floor, on the floor.
And your screen time, does it say how many hours
you played Candy Crush in the last hour?
Well, so while I pull that up, my second achievement is I've finally surpassed level 3000.
So I'm on 3143.
How does this...
I was going to say, you're an auntie, but you are now.
Oh my gosh, I am.
You are an auntie.
Auntie Shannon.
I'm a mum playing Candy Crush on the plane.
I've never played Candy Crush.
I only ever see mums and Hayley and Shannon playing Candy Crush.
I haven't played for a year.
It does get harder though.
So every level gets progressively harder.
Yeah.
Same premise though, you've got a bunch of whole lot of candy together.
Yeah, but then there's different sort of thing.
I mean I'm so into it.
I've never played it in my life.
Grow up.
I used to play a bit of Bejeweled Blitz, which I believe was just a reskinned Candy Crush.
Oh, I've justjoral blitz. P-joral blitz.
Oh, I've just seen my screen time.
Last week, in the complete week,
I spent just under eight hours on candy crush.
Oh, that's not that bad for a whole week.
For a whole week?
You had an hour and a bit.
No, not bad, that's right.
For a whole week!
No, that's okay.
I spent 19 hours on TikTok.
Do you know what?
Do you know?
That's confronting.
That's not bad. You post, you post. 13 hours on confronting. That's not bad.
You post, you post.
13 hours on YouTube.
That's your job.
Yeah, but not all 19 hours of his job.
I spent a work day on Candy Crush last week.
What does 500 levels in a week?
Is anyone going to back me up?
This is impressive.
I've just divided your 511 levels in 8 hours.
That means you were doing 63 levels an hour.
Is that possible?
That's less than a minute per level.
Yeah, some of them are quick.
You can get through them.
And the thing is, I've had to disconnect my card
because I started spending quite a bit of money on this
a year or so ago.
So you spent money on Candy Crush.
Do you buy more energy?
You can buy energy, but also you can buy like perks and stuff.
And then I truly had such little self-control that I had to disconnect my card.
And that's good. That's smart to know that.
Self-aware.
You know, you can only stay on for as long as you can afford to.
So how would you like us to celebrate you? Would you, just some well-dones?
Yeah.
A round of applause.
A round of applause.
I was thinking like- Get you an arm in gold. A round of applause. I was thinking like-
Get you an arm and gold.
A king's honor.
I saw those getting handed around.
Yeah, it's kind of a bit more selfless.
Did you know all those hours on TikTok and Candy Crush?
Yeah, yeah.
People actually, instead of sitting on their phone,
they go out and help the community
for those amount of hours.
Yeah, or like services too.
Like, we know my friend Di got one,
or lovely Suzy Cater got one.
Yeah.
She helps the community by making you guys
look relevant on TikTok.
Yeah.
Sorry, makes us look relevant.
Sorry, that actually felt like you were...
Wow, that was quite...
Yeah, that felt scathing.
Do you know, as of 2024,
the global mobile gaming market generated
107.3 billion US dollars in consumer spending.
Have you seen all the celebs doing ads for some of these apps? Is it two of the
friends who is it Courtney Cox and Phoebe are doing it for what's that app?
Block Blast and all those. And then Jimmy Fallon's doing lots at the moment too.
And Shakira, she's like dancing in one of them. I think it's AI, right? I think it's legit.
I don't know.
If they've got all that money they'll be paying.
But since I disconnected my card,
sometimes you can watch an ad to get a perk.
So I'll watch these ads.
They've started targeting them different.
So the only ad I received yesterday,
and I watched this hundreds of times,
was for calendar girls.
And they were asking me to come,
not only to attend, but to work.
It was like a scouting thing.
Oh, okay.
I still got a screenshot,
because I was like, research.
I'd be so stoked if they asked me
to work at Calendar Girls.
I was going to say, they must have
access to your Ford-facing camera, Shannon.
They'll be like, look at this beauty.
So yeah, it says you can earn $3,000 a week,
and then there was an apply now button.
$3,000 a week.
Pump that straight back into Candy Crush.
It's a great cycle.
That's a great hell. Hell of a cycle.
Play ZM's Blitchborne and Hayley.
Fact of the Day Day Day Day Day
Day
Day Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
Today's this week's Fact of the Day theme, bananas.
Bananas!
And this is Tom messaged me.
Tom heard us talking about banana flavouring
and hold your horses.
Because that's gonna be today's Fact of the Day.
And then he said at the end of this,
he's like, Fact of the Day theme should be bananas. F for word. Yep. They are
interesting for something so run-of-the-mill that we just don't even
think about it we take for granted. Ross Boss is dressed like a banana today.
You've got it Tom. He has just walked in looking like a big tall banana. A big minion. Look at him, oh he's cute.
What happened to your yellow t-shirt Fletch? It's there.
It's in rotation.
And I said, great idea, Tom.
I've screen capped this to remind me.
And he said, and then he messaged me on Saturday saying,
reminder that it's gonna be banana week.
And I said, dude, it's Saturday.
And he's like, I thought it was Sunday.
And I said, and it's a public holiday tomorrow.
So here we are.
God, he was really keen.
Wasn't I?
He was really keen.
Are you sure, wait, you sure he doesn't work for Chiquita?
He can work for Chiquita Bananas.
Or Bonita?
Or Bonita.
And they're trying to,
Bonita and Chiquita.
And they've tricked you into,
I don't care.
Promoting bananas.
Talking about bananas.
I don't care.
Because that's something that Vaughan would do.
I went to an op shop in Melbourne
and I honestly, I just needed everything
and I found one and it's a ceramic bowl.
It's a bunch of bananas,
but it's a ceramic bowl and then you put bananas in it.
Did you buy it?
Yeah.
Do you know what, she had 24, her bag was 24 kgs.
Yeah, how?
Who goes away for three days, exactly,
what was in that suitcase?
What weight so much?
She goes away for three days, buys a banana bowl,
and has 24, like they had to put two heavy stickers on it.
Two heavy stickers?
Well I bought a couple of other things and just treats.
Oh what are bricks?
We've got them here.
Yeah, no I just think the Melbourne bricks hit different.
Melbourne bricks they do, they do hit a bit different.
Yeah, yeah they hit different.
Right well, Tom's suggestion for a fact of the day is why does fake banana flavour taste
so weird?
It does.
The intense described as almost perfumey banana flavor and candles gum and banana flavored lollies. I love it. It's based on a compound called isoamyl acetate
also known as, yep, isoamyl acetate also known as banana oil. It is a flavor
compound that is naturally found in real bananas. It's used in artificial
banana flavoring because it's cheap and recognisable as a banana flavour. But however, it is based on an older variety of banana that is now extinct.
Oh, I wouldn't have liked those bananas because I hate artificial banana flavour.
Enter Big Mike!
Big Mike.
Big Mike the banana.
It was that Gros Michel is what the brand of, but it was a big nana.
So it got called the Big Mike.
And before the 1950s, the world mostly ate this banana
known as Gros Michel.
Yeah, sweeter and creamier than today's bananas.
Had higher levels of isomal acetate
and was more aromatic and banana-y in flavor.
It was intense banana.
Okay.
So it was wiped out by a fungal disease
called Panama disease in the mid 20th century.
It attacked the roots and spread through plantations
and wiped them all out.
But it is the banana that our grandparents
would have grown up eating.
Right.
As it was the banana most popular at the time.
So the thing, the acetylacetate,
that isomal acetate that flavours the banana lollies,
it gives it that distinctive banana, was more present in the original bananas.
And so fake banana flavouring actually tastes more like
a now extinct brand.
Oh, I'm glad that went extinct because it's too much.
I love fake banana.
I hate fake strawberry, fake banana.
It's just a fake fruit flavours.
I love it.
Fruit burst, banana fruit burst, yum, yum, yum.
No, yuck.
Yeah.
I wish she'd go extinct. You wish she'd go extinct. You wish I would die. No, yuck. Yeah. I wish it'd go extinct.
You wish it'd go extinct.
You wish I would die.
No, the fake banana flavor.
He wishes I would die.
No, the fruit burst.
To be fair, what fruit burst did they get rid of?
They probably should've got rid of the banana.
Peach.
See again, fake peach, it's all the fake flavors.
No, they should get rid of orange.
No one likes orange.
Orange is the one fake flavor they do well.
I think they do orange well. Yeah, I'll agree. Lemon, lime, lemon, lime. Lemon, flavour they do well. I think they do well.
You know, lemon or lime.
Lemon, lime, they do well.
And orange.
Because it's easy.
Citrus.
It's citrus.
Citrus is easy.
It's easier.
Nana, hard.
It's easier.
So today's Fact of the Day and the first of Banana Week after Tom's suggestion, and it
was Tom's fact as well, is that fake banana flavouring only tastes fake because it's based
on an extinct banana.
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,
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
When did you hook up with someone just for the perks?
Is a question we've asked on Instagram.
And also, Shannon told us a story that had us all laughing.
Yeah, so this is what we want you to tell us now.
Yeah.
0800 DALZM9696, who did you hook up with for the perk? Yeah because
Shannon when you told us the story, I mean it's a historical story but we were like this
is great. I can't even remember how this came up. No neither. We were just chatting in the
group chat. There was lots of back and forths. Yeah. That's. I think was it because your
kids wanted to go on to Rainbow's end. Yeah maybe. And I was like I'd love to go to Rainbow's
end. It's been so long. Yeah so a a friend of mine, and it is a genuine friend,
this isn't even me being like in parentheses,
a friend of mine a few years ago,
knew a guy who worked at Rainbow's End,
and basically, I don't know if it's still the policy,
but if you worked there, you got one pass a year
you could gift to someone.
So it was just like a free day pass.
Wait, so only one, you get one ticket to give to one person So it was just like a free day pass. Wait, so only one?
You get one ticket to give to one person a year?
Not like one person, it's not like a buddy system
where they can go anytime they want.
It was just one off, and she knew his buddy pass
was about to like come up.
She's like, I reckon I could just tidy that away
and have a little hookup.
Off I go to Rainbow's Inn for free.
Well, so any guy is gonna give away their buddy pass for it. No everyone would do it.
Yeah 100%. Yeah and so she hooked up with a guy from Rainbow Zen to get a free pass.
She got a free day. And that's a whole day worth of fun. Not only that, if he was working he would have got her the front of the line.
Front of the line and probably a punitive chips. Front of the line and probably a punitive chips.
Yeah, of the lard flow.
Probably a punitive chips.
God, yeah, you gotta have something in the gut.
That's such a funny story.
So she wasn't into him at all.
She just wanted the rainbow zine pass.
She schemed.
Like she knew it was good.
Wait, so she put, how much ever did she put into this?
Oh, as much as most girls have to.
Not much, but hey.
How many times did she sleep with them?
Just the once.
She secured the bag.
What a time.
She got over it.
I love that.
She wants to put, how old was she at the time?
She was like a high-end teenager.
Yeah, that was a few years ago.
That's an adult super pass.
Yep.
And one day, she can put the value of her sex at $75.90.
$75.90.
$75.90.
Yeah.
Okay, that's not a bad hourly rate.
How fun is a fun day at Rainbow's End?
Well that's cheaper than taking someone out for dinner
and paying or drinks.
Yeah, sometimes.
Sometimes, yeah.
What I'm saying is she was like,
I'm willing to make this exchange,
so she's put a monetary value on it
and it's only $75.90.
Yeah, I know, but $75.90, it's like,
that's quite a lot of money.
It's a lot of money.
Especially when you're like, if you're 18, 19 years old,
I don't have that money lying around,
I wanna go to Rainbow Zen.
And I like-
I'm not gonna dip into course-related costs
to go to Rainbow Zen.
Absolutely not.
And I like adult fun times.
Yeah.
You know?
Okay, so there's some pleasure to see,
maybe twice that, 50% of skin.
Let's start with some Instagram responses.
Whenever you're hooked up with someone for the perks.
My meat on chip man.
What?
Now this is where you get like a kebab,
but it's on chips.
You get kebab meat, it's put on chips.
Actually, do you know what?
I prefer that.
Yeah.
The kebab on chips.
More than the kebab on rice?
With the sauces.
I like an escander with the rice.
But yeah, yum. My meat on chips. I don I like an escander with the rice. But yeah, yum.
My meat on chips.
I don't like to do carbohydrates at 2 a.m.
But you just said you ate chips.
Yeah, but not wraps.
Wait a minute, a wrap is a less evil carbohydrate
than a chip.
A less bad than a hot, greasy deep fried chips.
This guy, I don't do carbohydrates after 2 a.m.
I have had so many carbohydrates after 2 a.m. with you.
My meat on chip man said I could get a free meal
but it turns out he was absolutely packing, 12 out of 10.
Oh bravo.
Oh wow, okay, goodness.
He's a lovely lamb kofta.
Get some meat on your chips if you know what I mean.
Oh Vaughan, oh Hayley.
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Yeah, hot.
Perks all around.
Thin mattress, camping at R&V.
Saw back after two nights,
so slept with the guy in the tent next to me
so I could sleep on his luxurious mattress.
Nice thick mattress.
He was a minger, but he had a great mattress.
Thick mattress.
Which was actually my Rock West band name
in my final year of high school. Minger with a mattress. Okay, 0800 D West band name in my final year of high school.
Minger with a mattress.
Okay, 0800 Dahls-Eddy, we want to take your calls.
You can text through 9696.
When did you hook up with someone for the perk?
We want to know this morning if you've hooked up with someone for the perks.
Many of you have, turns out.
Shannon had a friend that hooked up with a guy who worked at Rainbow's Inn because he gave her a free pass.
I mean, I get it.
This is going back a while, just in case Rainbow's End because he gave her a free pass. I mean, I get it. Yeah, this is going back a while,
just in case Rainbow's End are about to start an inquiry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, over a decade ago.
When do we even start?
Sleep with a girl on HR to get a written warning taken out of my work file.
But then I couldn't get rid of her, so the wife wasn't happy at all.
Wait, what?!
Layered.
Layered.
That was a whole storyline.
That was an onion.
That was a big layered.
Keep coming.
Let's go to Lucy.
Lucy, when did you hook up with someone for the perk?
So it was a Tinder date, date three,
and he asked me to go to New York with him on standby
because he's a pilot.
Oh.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes he's a pilot. Oh, wow.
And he had accommodation at the other end.
Yeah, what of?
Yeah, and it was business class.
So how can you say no?
Oh!
I would have said yes.
How many more dates?
How did it go down?
What happened?
Well, it's actually our anniversary
in two days of the year.
So we got it.
Yay! At least did you still get the cheap flights? I'm guessing yes. Well, it's actually our anniversary in two days of the year. So we're gonna... Hey!
Ladies, did you still get the cheap flights?
I'm guessing yes.
Yep, we've been to Australia and to Europe as well.
Lucy's like, I don't even like them.
I'm guessing...
Yeah, I just wanted to commit to a year because that's how long the past lasts and then so...
Yeah, really, that's good Lucy.
You keep him on his toes.
If he wants us next, you know, a whole other year,
if you want to get that whole other year,
he's really going to have to step it up.
Maybe, I don't know, LA.
Maybe we go to Hawaii next.
You know, that could be nice.
That would be really nice.
Lucy, thank you.
More messages.
Hooked up with a guy 20 years older than me
to get a free helicopter ride.
He was the helicopter pilot.
Best ride of my life in both senses of the term.
Oh, way! Man, these fly boys. Hey, these my life in both senses of the term. Oh, hey!
Man, these fly boys, hey, these guys getting in the air.
Man, people are getting it.
Getting the ladies.
I'm not reading yours.
Big Sandy, who signs off.
Signs off history.
Cheers, Big Sandy.
Oh, Big Sandy.
Our fourth message out.
Cheers, Big Sandy.
Big Sandy, shout out to Big Sandy,
but we can't read that on here. Oh, Big Sandy. Shout out to Big Sandy, but we can't read that on here.
Oh, Big Sandy.
Shout out Big Sandy.
Georgia joins us.
Georgia, have you ever hooked up with anyone
just for the perks of it?
I'm actually trying to think.
I mean, a guy that owned a New World,
thought that was pretty great.
Made free groceries forever.
Oh, lollies.
Pick and mix, eh?
Bring me home a little bit.
Wait, did his family own the New World?
Or he specifically?
He did, he did.
He did?
His family. Oh, his family owned the New World.
Yo, why'd you leave him?
I mean, I could've got free luncheon, couldn't I?
Would you hook up with a guy
if he gave you a discount at RM Williams?
Oh.
If you weren't married.
Like, don't burn down your marriage
for a 20% off at RM Williams.
I think that's worth it.
Oh, 20% ain't much though, actually.
Nah, no, not like that.
Nah, it's not much.
But you'd burn down your marriage for a 40% off?
Nah, it'd have to be over the other hum.
It'd have to be like 60.
Or free boots.
Who knows? So many messages coming in.
Anonymous, when did you hook up with someone for the perk?
Good morning, Anonymous.
Who was that?
That's who it was.
You can't hear the beep. Beep! That's me. That's you down to you. That is me. Hello. That is me.
You can't hear the beep.
Oh, okay.
Beep!
I went on a date with my sister's boss so that he'd be nicer to her.
I mean...
Did it work?
Well, to begin with, I didn't know he was her boss.
And then when I found out, he was not very nice about her
and I was like, hey, look, like that's not okay.
She did end up leaving just before COVID.
I think he kind of just left her alone after that.
I think maybe he was a bit like, oh,
I've like been on a date with your sister.
This is a bit awkward now.
And he kind of just left her alone.
So it worked, I guess.
It did work.
I mean, you could have actually made it a lot worse though.
Yeah, I know, yes. Do you know what I mean know. That's the risk because you could have complicated things so much that he was like
man your sister hurt me. Anonymous thank you message is in. Somebody else said I sleep with
my friend's boss because he said to her that he had the hots for me and I said I'll hook up with
you if she gets a pay rise she's got to pay rise the next day. Yep. I mean that's naughty isn't it?
That's real naughty.
That's just me.
This is how it works.
I know someone who dated a dentist to get braces.
Oh yeah, expensive.
That's a good shout.
Yeah, you just leave with straight teeth.
And then when they're straight, like what do you do?
Date a doctor.
Just following your teeth.
I reckon you could probably get the braces off by yourself
if you tried harder.
Okay. I think just go through it.
It's getting on that's the hard part.
Give them a tighten yourself.
Just get a little drill.
I hooked up with a teacher so she could tell me what to do and remind me I've been a naughty boy.
I wasn't at school at the time.
What is that? How is this a perk?
I don't think you should have read that one.
I did score a staple gun though
Lot of people want to know what big sandy had to say again
I will say I've run it past Fletch and even he was like good. I was a gasp
Yeah, and you know, I'm so innocent and oh my god
He's like, yeah Anything outside of Christian missionary.
And he's shocked.
Big Sandy gets up to some things.
Big Sandy.
I had a one night stand with a paramedic.
I was also chronically ill,
so it was great to have one to ask all my medical related
questions to.
What was he gonna just say,
I'll drop you at the hospital?
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, he's got the lights, doesn't he?
Just skip the traffic.
You need to get there in a hurry.
Yeah, yeah.
That would be a perk of dating someone from the emergency services.
Being like, come on, we're running late.
Do you know what I mean?
We're running late.
They don't get to take the ambulance home.
No, but if a cop, if it was a cop.
I don't think they get to take the cop cars home.
Handcuffers too.
They don't take the cop cars home.
And live in a small town.
Are they a community constable?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well you go, yeah, date a community constable then.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. But only if you live in a small town. Community constable's maybe just take the cop car's home.
Okay, well yeah, data community constable then.
Yeah.
But only if you can get handcuffed.
Yeah, handcuffed.
Right?
And the big C's.
Georgia, Georgia.
Georgia, Georgia got married.
Oh my god.
No, what?
Christian missionary.
Please.
Wait till Big Sandy hears about this.
Oh my god.
Wait till Big Sandy wraps her ears around it.
I hate til Big Sandy raps her ears around it. I hate til Big Sandy raps her ears around it.
Oh, I just... Who did Tommy do?
Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tums.
Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show.
Uh, not for me, Vaughan.
Oh, okay.
I'm nowhere even close.
Nowhere even close.
Nowhere even close.
You haven't been here long, have you?
No, I haven't.
No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun,, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,