ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 22nd April 2021

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morning Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by five McCafe coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. Guys, I took my neighbor dispute a step further. I like this. I like this a lot. This is great. We should have talked about this on the show today. A little podcast special. Yeah, I'm going to give it to the people.

I feel like I'm going to give it to the potties. Yeah. So I don't know if you've kept up with it There's a common denominator here You're the bitch in the neighbourhood My neighbours are They're boy racers Them and their boy racer friends park their cars up Outside the front of their house

Across the road from my house and play their music It's not that the music is their house, across the road from my house, and play their music. It's not that the music is loud, it's that the bass is very... And it rattles my windows of my 1960s home. And so we've had backs and forths, all sorts of things. The other week they asked me if I wanted to have a go. Pulled up the other week. Not a go in their car, a go as in like a fight.

A scrap. Yeah. A fussy. Pull pulled out the other week saw that they had a for sale sign at the front i got very excited didn't i turns out it was the the property behind anyway i was complaining to my mom yesterday as i sat there uh i haven't been feeling amazing this week as i sat there with the like rattling my house as i tried to watch tv and i was talking to my mum about it and she said, oh, what's the property behind?

And I sent her the link for the property that's for sale and they had an open home in 20 minutes' time. Yeah, I know where this is. And here the plot thickens. So I was like, I'm going to go to the open home because it's like the house in front is the number let's say it's number six yeah and the house behind is 6a if that was the number it's not um and so i was like then they've got to be tied somehow yeah um so i thought why don't i

go over and go to this open home as if i'm a buyer and see what information I can get. Aaron was like, well, why don't you just sort of say, you know, is the property in front owner occupied? Oh, good line. Oh, that's a good line too because, you know, you might be buying the place. Absolutely. And they're very close to each other.

I'd say there's 10 metres between them. So I went to the open home. I even put on some proper clothes, went over, let me look around. This is a five-bedroom, three-bathroom house. This is not my house to buy. Have a look around. Did the full swoop of the house.

It was absolutely ginormous. Went upstairs, no interest. I was more looking upstairs, looked down to the neighbors below being like, I'm going to figure you out. Yeah. And then I went downstairs and I asked, is the property in front owner occupied?

And then the real estate agent goes, no, rentals, because the people that own this house own the front house. Oh, so now you know they're renting. And I went jackpot. So, I registered my interest to purchase this property. Do you know if they're renting through an agency or the landlords? I couldn't get that information out without being obvious with my reason to be there. I was the only person looking through the house at this point. So I said, oh, yeah.

Is it a crime wasting a real estate agent's time? No. No, because they specialize in wasting everybody's time. Anyway, so then I went. I got home and I said to Erin. Oh, and then she said, I think they might sell that property in the future. And I went, oh, my God. So then I got home and I said to Aaron, oh, and then she said, I think they might sell that property in the future. And I went, oh my God. So then I went home and I updated Aaron.

And then this morning, because I registered my information with the real estate agent, she sent me all of the reports that I need in case I want to investigate purchasing this property, which I don't, I can't afford it. It's like $1.6 million. On there, I found the name of the vendor Who owns the back house And therefore the front house But it was a company

So I thought, bugger So then I went to the company's directory And then I found the name of the person I searched them on Facebook They are not on Facebook, they're Russian They're not on Facebook You know that Russian people do have Facebook No they don't

And then I went to another company's registry website where I found the director of the company. I found his email, and I am now just wording an email regarding your tenants in the address. Wow. So they're going to know that's come from you, though. Absolutely. They'll probably spray paint my house or something.

You're getting the ball rolling. It's not even about getting them out. I just want them to turn the bass down. They can stay in the house. They can stay in the house. They can listen to loud music. They can have their parties. But turn the bass down.

Just turn the bass down. ZM. Head music. Lives here. Fleece, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleece, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul. We've just learned producer Jared, who we were just mocking for starting the day with Red Bull. We've just learned that he used to pop a five hours before school. Jeepers creepers. You know when you're in the dairy and you see those little bottles? Shots. Those teeny tiny little five hour energies.

How often were you doing that? Every day. Oh my God. Are often were you doing that? Every day. Oh, my God. Are you shitting me, dude? No. I used to walk over to the school dairy. You smoked meth, right? No.

Jared, put down the pipe. You might as well. The people that were doing high-energy drinks before school, at school, they were all on a one-way path to meth, right? The dairy owner had no problem with selling a school kid energy drink every day. Wow.

It's not even energy drink. It's energy. Concentrate. It's like battery acid. Your insides will be like a lumpy stew. Nah, hard as rock, mate. Oh, God.

Calloused. Tomorrow I'm bringing in a sistema full of steamed broccoli for you, and I'm just going to watch you eat it. Yeah, pressed juice, maybe. A cold-pressed green juice, some steamed broccoli. Some bloody olive oil. Yeah. Oh, no, some nuts and some seeds, some chia. I'm going to sort your guts right out.

Some gold kiwi fruit. That'll go right through you. Kiwi fruit stuff. Let's clean out your body. Let's do a clean sweep. I just looked up five-hour energy. Launched in 2004, if you've never heard of it. It's basically concentrated energy drink.

It's like caffeine. So five ingredients. So five-hour apparently referred to five ingredients also. Okay. B6, folic acid, vitamin B12, sodium. Hold on. This is way more than five out of five ingredients. Oh, five active ingredients. Dignorolactonate, malic acid, and astylaltyrosine,

alphenylalanine, caffeine, citricoline. Don't they say if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it? But no sugar. Oh, okay. Well, there you go. I've gone sugar-free. There's sweeteners in there. And the psychoactive dopamine precursor.

So the amino acids precursor to dopamine, which is what you naturally produce, but the likes of MDMA really milk the gland, if you will. That's the Tuesday blues. So it's got two psychoactive dopamine precursors. Right. Precursor amino acids. Jesus.

You must have been really paying attention at school. Oh, yeah. I was very attentive. Good. I worry. My soul worries for yours. It does. All right, coming up on the show today, your chance to win.

Today after seven, about quarter past seven, we'll play Bluff or Stuff. We've got a five-day multi-pass to Gadrona or Treble Cone to give away. Also on the show, 8 o'clock, add to cart. It's our travel special every day this week. Already we've given away flights to the Goldie. Sydney. Yep, Melbourne as well and all kinds of travel goodies.

So make sure you're listening at 8. Also a special guest on the show after 8 o'clock. The author of the Bridgerton series is joining us, and I'm excited because these books are now getting an absolute resurgence because of the hot series. The popularity of Netflix show, yeah.

I'm hoping we might be able to get a little bit of insight. Do you know what I mean? Of the next season. After 8 o'clock. Coming up, the top six. Yes. Just a side note. The guy. Coming up, the top six. Yes. Just a side note. The guy that started 5-Hour Energy,

he's worth $1.5 billion. There you go, Jared. And he has pledged on his death 99% of his wealth will be given to charities. Well, here we are. That's nice. And to make the world a better place. Holy moly.

He's concentrating on making electricity free in India. He wants to get the systems in place like wind power, renewables. Someone needs to make a documentary about this man. What a fascinating man. He was like a child genius as well. Anyway, on your own time, please. The top six. Coming up, the top six things the Queen will do

on her first bachelorette birthday because this is this is people say people say widow but I find it's such a depressing

word it is widow you've been widowed what about babe she's like a rich bachelorette yeah free agent

ready to party to the top six things she'll be getting up to are you gonna be cancelled for this list no cause she's an old white woman you going to be cancelled for this list? No, because she's an old white woman. You can't get cancelled for bagging them.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. As if Amazon needed another way to make money, they have a new venture that is about to start. It's called Amazon Salons. And it's an experiential venue but it is, what do they call it? Bricks and mortar.

It's an actual shop. It's an actual shop. It's a salon to get your hair done obviously and they offer your usual salon experience. You can go in and get your trims and your fringes and your hair washes, your blow dries but you can also

do a number of other things using technology. So one of those is you can go and point to a product in the store, like have all these products and you hold it up to the little iPad screen mirror thing and it will tell you all about that product and how

you might use it or it'll look at your hair and tell you what products in the shop you might need. Wow. So it would look at me and be like, she needs a lift. She needs some. Right, some volume. Hair extensions. Okay.

Yeah. I won't, I won't, I won't. No, no, no. It's fine. It's fine. I was born with thin hair and it's all fallen out. It's not fine that you talk about yourself like that and your hair. Thank you for raising me up.

It's absolutely fine. Thank you. Most me up. It's absolutely fine. Thank you. Most of it's fake. But one of the great things, one of the coolest things available at the Amazon salons, and I would love to do this because I've made some mistakes in my time with some bald haircuts, is you can go in and you put yourself on like a FaceTime thing, and then you can enter information about styles and hair colours that you want to change, and you see it on yourself.

Oh, right. And then when you find something you like, then you take that to the hairdresser, and they'll do it. So you get to try it before you buy it. Right, weird. Which is like, for most haircuts, you don't get to do. And Amazon's going to have that technology, isn't it? So you can just sit in front of the screen and just change your hair.

Yeah. Like when you take a photo of your lounge in to Resene and they load it into the computer and then they're like, this is what your lounge would look like, green. And you're like. Yeah. They're also going to have tablets at each of the stations. So instead of having those awkward conversations about,

so what do you do for a living? So do you own your own house? What does your partner do for a living? You can just, so do you own your own home? What does your partner do for a living? You can just watch a film. Oh, great. You can just be like, yeah.

Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. I like hearing, because I don't go to a hairdresser's. Well, you get the beard trim. Yeah, they're not big chatters.

The lads that I've been seeing lately, they're not huge chatters. I had a very, very interesting chat and I went back, I wanted him again. This guy that I had a very, very interesting chat and I went back. I wanted him again. This guy that I had one time. He is from Iraq

and he moved here like six years ago and he was just telling me like a little bit about Iraq. It was fascinating. And then he left you hanging. I didn't get him next time. He was busy next time I went in. But Sade comes home from the hairdressers. She's always got some stories to tell. Oh yeah. My hairdresser's a friend and she comes over to my house and does it.

And we'll drink wine and have Uber Eats. I would have wanted someone drinking while cutting my hair. I mean, get the haircut early on. Oh, responsibly. We'll just have a glass or three. What does she balance, a curry on your head? We always have a curry. Always a curry beforehand.

All right, 12 minutes, see curry. How have I only just discovered this as we approach my last few weeks here? That bell had a hidden meaning on the show. Did it? Yeah, I don't know if we ever publicly said what it was. Yeah, I don't know if we ever. Did we say that? I can't remember.

Probably, I don't know if we ever said that. Well, I can't remember Probably I don't know if we ever said that Well sometimes if someone hot walked past the studio You'd ding the bell So everyone So you could continue to work And do your thing But you could Yeah yeah

Oh nice Yeah Okay well maybe I'll just keep that near me And keep my eyes peeled It rang for all It rang for all as well It wasn't like Don't think this was just lads lads lads

There was older gents, like attractive older gents. Don't even get me started on older gents. You love an older gent. Yes, please. You love an older gent. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yup. Over 50s. Grey hair.

An older man in a pair of chinos and an open shirt. Were you a bit of a Rob Phyfe fan? Former Air New Zealand CEO. Silver Fox. Good neck. Like he was in Good Neck.

Yeah, I guess I, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I like my older men, my much older men to have a ton of money. You know what I mean? I'm talking about a successful silver-haired businessman who would come home and cook me a fine cut of steak. I'm deeply distracted. I've just found 34 handsome guys

who will redefine your concepts of older men on the boredpanda.com list. I mean, look at this dude. Good Lord. He's like, good lord. He's like ripped hips to Santa. What we're seeing here

is like an eight pack with the most cut little chiseled stomach you've ever seen in your life. Yeah, and like a big hairy chest.

Alright, on your own time you two. Yeah, sorry, I'm getting on your own time. On your own time. On your own time.

On your own time's the theme of the day I think. You know the other day when I wasn't feeling very well? Not yesterday, but the day before. And then I went home and I slept for two hours, woke up, had some mints, slept for another two hours. Mints, the cure-all.

So I woke up and Aaron had cooked a lovely brew of mints. So I had a two-hour nap, slept for a couple hours. No, slept for a couple hours, had some mints, slept for another couple of hours, woke up, had dinner, watched TV and slept for eight hours. Like that was incredible. And obviously my body needed it as I'm adjusting to this lack of sleep. And lack of sleep is not only just going to make you distracted the next day

and easily distracted by things like hot older men, but it also could have some terrible long-term effects. And I'm really going to direct this at you two. How many hours of sleep do you reckon you get a night? Oh, like seven and a half. That's pretty good considering your 4 a.m. start. Morning? Six-ish.

Okay. Sometimes less. Is it what? There's been a study? Very, very more. There's been a study published this week that's saying if you regularly, regularly sleep six hours or less per night, you're at a much higher risk of dementia.

Sleep that one drop. There you go. Add that to the list. Add that to the list. Add that to the list of long-term issues you have from working these hours. So that's in New Zealand overall when we've done, I was going to say quizzes, questionnaires, surveys about our own sleep habits. That's one in three Kiwis.

Is it? That are not reaching the recommended seven to nine. What if we banked a whole lot when we were teenagers? No, it doesn't work like that. You can't just sort of go, reaching the recommended 7 to 9. What if we banked a whole lot when we were teenagers? No, it doesn't work like that. You can't just sort of go, I have one big sleep on the weekend. I know some people, though, they just don't need that much sleep. Yeah.

They literally get by on four or five hours. Yeah, but it's getting by. It's getting by and being able to survive your day and doing well. But there's the long-term wearing down on your brain from lack of sleep because that's the time when your brain regenerates, when your body heals itself. And if you're not giving it enough time, bit by bit, you're chipping away at your cells, you're chipping away at your self-healing process, and you're not going to quite live the same quality of life and lead to things like dementia. I always wonder about that.

The people that are like, I can function on four and a half hours sleep. It's like you can function, but would you function better or more? And what are the long-term effects? Like you might feel sweet now. Yeah. That's exactly it.

So yeah, you've got to get a little bit more sleep. So what you're saying is go back to bed right now. I reckon we should all pop a nap. Yeah, I think we'll just go ad free from now on. We'll go, we'll see you later. L.A. being 660 will take care of it, surely. You can't make these promises. I'm doing it.

We'll see you guys in a few hours. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Hey, you bloody dumb buggers, you stupid fools. When you said fools, I was like, I thought you were going to say something totally different. I was like, whew. You dumb conspiracy nutbars. Don't. That's all I'll say.

Don't. Have you seen India in the last couple of days? That's a true example of where, and that's a thing, India never denied COVID's existence, denied that it was a problem, but ill-equipped. A huge population, a lot of which are living in extreme cases of poverty. It's in a million and a half cases last week alone. Yeah.

Hospitals running out of oxygen, bodies piling up. Ted Nugent, that name might not ring a bell to you, but he's like this old american redneck super right wing dude he denied its existence and guess what he's got now covered covered and he said i can struggling to breathe so he's had to eat the humble pie well uh this dumb bunch of dumb ass fools the freedom alliance with the the biggest dumb ass fool this country's got at the moment, that Billy TK. What? No, I'm just loving the aggression.

Billy TK. Did you ever see the stuff thing that they did about him? Paula Penfold did? Yes, it was crazy. Paula Penfold is nuts. It was fantastic. It was beautiful. If you ever need a reason to see where he's coming from, you want a backstory, watch that.

Yeah. Basically, anybody starting a religion. So he had this Freedom Alliance, that's who's been named as responsible for anti-mask propaganda made to look like official COVID-19 information. So this was on public transport in Wellington. Yes. So it matched the colour scheme. It had Ministry of Health logos and even featured the Director General of Health.

It said that all the reasons masks were bad and said take this as an exemption card if you don't want to use a mask on public transport, which at the moment, New Zealand-wide, regardless of where you are, you do your part on public transport, wear a goddamn mask. So you can be done for like... Fraud? Well, you know, you do your part on public transport. Wear a goddamn mask. So you can be done for like...

Fraud? Well, you know, you can be impersonating a police officer and that's illegal. But can you impersonate Ashley Bloomfield and get done? I can. Tena kato kato. No cases. There have been zero community cases. Right.

Yep. So, yeah, this was on the train. Yeah, right. And people were like, well that looks official, but then read and were like, hmm, that's not the official message at all. So it's been linked to this group. Yeah. Huh.

God, it's, but they've done it so well, like it's so convincing. You know, the imagery of it. Well, yeah, that yellow and white stripe with that black font on the... I see yellow and white and a mask logo and I think, this is legit. Pay attention.

Pay attention here. Just like the sound for the COVID ads. Oh, yeah. This is a COVID-19 announcementop, bloop, bloop. Oh, yeah. This is a COVID-19 announcement. Triggering, isn't it? Very triggering. Do you think they could play that sound to us in like 10, 15 years? Just that little sound at the start of the ads.

Oh, my God, yeah. And you'll immediately feel like you're wearing track pants again. Yeah. You'll instantly gain 5kgs. Yeah. Where's my sourdough starter? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, yesterday, Apple announcing a whole slew of new products.

Some disgusting iMac computers. The purple iPhone. Do you remember the original bubble iMac computers? Yes. They've got that colour range, basically. The blue, the orange, the green. I wanted a nice jet black, but that didn't happen. There's a silver.

Would you go matte black or gloss black? I'll go matte black. Do you remember Shortland Street Reception had one of those iMacs? Those bubble ones. Everyone had them. It's so weird that I remember them. And the laptop as well was really bubbly. Because they were quite like Flash.

When they came out, those were like Flash computers. Well, you didn't need a tower. Everything was in the monitor. Yeah, you didn't need them. Here they are. Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at those. They had a handle so you could pick them up and carry them.

Yeah, that's right. Madness. Because everyone was constantly carrying around their computers. That's when Steve Jobs, Jobes? Jobs. Jobs. That's when Steve Jobs was alivees? Jobs. That's when Steve Jobs was alive. Jobes.

So also along with these horrendous coloured iPhone and computers, yesterday Apple. The purple iPhone. Oh, my God, please. Yeah, hideous. Apple announcing the AirTag, which are like tiles. And I've always seen tiles in, like, electronic stores, and I'm like, that's cool.

Yeah, so it's like a little tag that you can attach to your keys or put in your wallet or put in your bag that's what a tile is right yeah um and then you can you've got a tile app on your phone and then it you can help you can find it so it um pings your bluetooth right and then can give you an area that it's like you use find my iphone for the Apple ones. Yeah. And it will show you where, like, for example, if you put them on your keys,

it'll show you where you've left your keys. But I think, so the way with Tile is there's like a Tile network. So, because I always go like, yeah, but it's helpful if I've lost my keys in my house maybe. But if I've left my keys in some restaurant and my phone's not near it and it's not on Wi-Fi, how do I find it? So with Tile, it's whenever a person who is running the Tile app passes within range of your Tile, so another Tile user passes

within range of your Tile, their device will automatically and anonymously update your app so that you can then go. So it's not you having to constantly be near it. Tile only works if everybody's using it. So it's crowdsourcing the network. Yeah, it's like Ancestry. The more people that use it. Have you got your Ancestry kit yet?

Just remind me, where the hell is my order? On your own time, please. On your own time. So Apple's one is going to use Bluetooth. The range is about 30 metres. So if someone else with an. The range is about 30 metres. So if someone else with an AirTag comes within 30 metres of whatever you've put an AirTag on, it'll ping your phone with a new location.

And specifically GPS, not sort of like within this 30 metres. Well, I don't know how exact it is. Does it have a sound? That's what I need. You know when you'd use Find My iPhone and you say play sound and it goes bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

No, it's no sound. Because they're quite tiny. When you were a kid, do you remember those things? You'd hide them somewhere and then you'd whistle and it would go it was like a toy.

Oh, no, I don't remember that. So reading up as well, more on the ear tags. You're going to need at least an iPhone 11 or 12. They're dust and water resistant and they're able to survive a one metre dunking for

30 minutes. Oh, wow. I don't have, I'm an iPhone X. Yeah, you won't be able to use it. You'll have to upgrade. So the New Zealand Privacy... Classic Apple. Classic Apple. The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has taken to Twitter to express his concerns

and he raises a good point I didn't even think about. So he says, he tweeted, the consumer me, Apple AirTags look pretty cool and handy, to be honest. And then he said, the privacy advocate in me says, how long before they start popping up in estranged partners' cars and handbags? And this one, and this is what I didn't even think about, slipped into jacket pockets in the bar. Ooh, yes! That is creepy! But tiles could have also done that, right? Tiles, absolutely they could have, yeah.

But that's very calculated, isn't it? Also, you're having to spend $45 to hunt someone down. Yeah, because these tags aren't cheap. It's cheap for the hunt of a human, actually. I've paid significantly more.

But this is very Bond, isn't it? You know how they just drop by and drop a little thing into someone's bag and it's a tracking device and they can track them all around town. That's like another thing to have to worry about now. You're at the bar. Yep. You've got your phone ready to text your friends when you feel in danger. You've got your hand over your drink so someone doesn't put anything in it.

And now you've got to check your pocket. Just do a little pat down before you leave the bar. Okay, no trackers on me. I'm never going out again. It's pretty creepy, isn't it? It's a lie. Yeah, I was going to say. We're going out tonight.

We're going out tonight. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. From the muggy ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello. The queen turned 95 yesterday. Queen Elizabeth II. There is no way I want to be bouncing around this planet when I'm 95. Bouncing around, bouncing around.

I do if I look like her. Yes. She still rides horses. I would be her 95. I wouldn't have been like Prince Philip, he clocked out. I don't want to be. Yeah. I think the thing that makes the Queen look so good, one, money.

You've got to talk into the microphone. Yeah, I think. No, no. Yeah, talk to me. Don't talk into the microphone. Go past the microphone and lean towards me. I'm new to radio. I don't know what this is.

I think the thing that makes her look so good and what often is a giveaway sign for older people that are not doing so well is she's got a bit of plump still. Yes, there's a bit of something there. And her posture. And her posture, indeed. She doesn't walk fast, but she's not like curled right over. No. But you know what I mean?

She's got a bit of weight on her still. Also, she hasn't had an entire working life doing manual labour or chores. Not manual labour, but God damn, I bet sometimes she's just like, leave me alone. Everybody piss off. Yeah. I don't want to cut a ribbon at a bloody orphanage. No, I know.

Bugger them. Bugger them. What good are they to me? Tell them to move to Buckingham Castle? Castle? Buckingham? Palace. And they can work in the kitchens.

Yeah. The Queen's makeup artist does a stellar job. Like, she looks great. She always has rosy in her cheeks and good even skin tone, but not too heavy. I wonder how often she'd get it done every day, right? They'd just be there when she wakes up. Yeah, I'd say so.

Oh my gosh. Yeah. Spray some Elizabeth Arden on her. Imagine being 95 though and still having to wear a full face of makeup. I'm 31

and I've already tapped out. Yeah. I'd be bothered. I've never worn one and I wouldn't want to. What perfume does the queen wear? That was like

literally what perfume does and it was like the queen, the queen wear. That was like literally what perfume does, and it was like the queen wear. Because, you know, they put their royal stamp on things, like, you know, HP sauce and stuff. Like they've got the royal sauce. Do they have a royal fragrance? Oh, my God. Glan Leherbleu.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Sounds right. That is reportedly what she wears from someone who once gave her a sniff. It was created in 1912, this fragrance. Hold on. Tell you the price in a minute. Oh, not too bad.

Get a big bite. That's US $129. That's standard, isn't it? Okay. The Queen's makeup artist is Pat McGrath. Do you know Pat McGrath? Pat McGrath? Didn't she run the after-school program for kids that couldn't do maths?

Not quite. At Summer Bay. No, that's New Zealand. Is it Pat McGrath? Oh, Pat McGrath, yes. She got damed. She's very famous in the makeup world. Okay.

Right. Good. Okay, let's get on. On your own time, please. Sprout. The top six things the Queen got up to on her first bachelorette birthday. Number six, she watched The Bachelorette. Oh, yeah.

Because Philip was always in charge of the remote. Yep. And he always wanted to watch lads' shows. She needs tips now. So now she's watching The Bachelorette. What season? What country? British.

Oh, I don't know any of the British ones. Four. Yeah, right. I don't even know if there is one. Number five on the list of the top six things the Queen got up to on her first bachelorette birthday. She probably drank a little bit more than usual. What did she drink?

Have you ever seen her drinking schedule? No. It's like six standard drinks a day. Google that on your own time, though. On your own time, Sprout. I'm going to take my time now. But she, yeah, she's like champagne at lunch, gin and tonic, has another gin at some stage throughout the day,

has a martini. Ooh, up to four drinks a day. Gin, wine. Champagne. She's pickled, basically. She's pickled. She's doing all right. That's the key to a long life, pickling.

She's doing it. It basically stops you from going a long life, pickling. She's doing it. It basically stops you from going off. Number four on the list of the top six things the Queen got up to on her first bachelor at birthday. Googling herself to see what people are saying about her now that she's single. Oh, no. Yes.

You want the compliments. Number three on the list of the top six things the Queen got up to on her first bachelor at birthday. She did a big jump on her horse. Because Philip was always telling her to be careful. But now she's free to do what she wants. Any old time. Still amazes me she rides horses.

She's 95. I know. That's nuts. I know. Like, I need those little stairs things. They have to lead the horse beside that. And then I've got a big leg over. And then the hips stretch. And then your legs

are real stretched, aren't you? Just like, oh my God, this horse is wide. She'd have to stretch. But again, she's been doing it.

Like, she never stopped doing it. So she's probably, you know, kept the fitness. Number two on the list are the things the Queen got up to on her first

bachelorette birthday. She sent someone out to get her a 12-pack of Fosters and she sat down. 12 Fosters. It's her beer of choice. And watched some West Ham United best of games.

Yeah, okay. I Googled it. Apparently, that's the team she supports. Really? Apparently, it's this big, like, no-no. She can't pick, like, one football team over the other because she's the Queen of England. Yeah.

She shouldn't be showing favourites. But apparently, West Ham United. Oh, okay. Is her football team. Right. And number one on the list of the top six things the Queen got up to on her first bachelorette birthday party. I don't know what

this means from my in-palace source. It just says SP2. Bored. I assume that is like going over somebody's special privileges. Yeah, okay. Enjoying some of the special privileges of being Queen Elizabeth II. So that's the two.

Yeah, right. SP2 stands for special privileges of... Doesn't though, does it? Of number two. You're cancelled. You are cancelled. That's what I saw. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Scientists are diving into the important things, you know. COVID? No. Cancer? A cure for AIDS? No. HIV? No.

No, we're looking at hangovers. Okay, good. Something a lot of people deal with on a regular basis. And I feel like there's an old adage that hangovers get worse with age. I would agree with that. Would you agree? I would agree with that. Would you, Vaughn? Yep.

I've sort of had... 100%. I don't know. I weigh the, like... When I was young, I definitely had the ability to just wake up and go again. That's a terrible thing to say about our culture. Yeah. But then there was a period in my late 20s, like quite recently, where I was just not getting hangovers at all,

despite going out and, you know, still having some big nights out. Right. Anyway, so this new study suggests that hangovers actually do get better with age. My immediate reaction to that would be you're drinking... More responsibly? Not really. Better alcohol. Better alcohol. You can? Not really. Better alcohol. Better alcohol.

You can afford better alcohol. Better alcohol, that's good. I hadn't thought of that but I was just thinking more like you're in bed by midnight versus staying up till 4am

eating junk food on the way home. I mean, you might still do that but you're doing it earlier. Absolutely speak for yourself. And then you're getting home and then when do you drag yourself out of bed? Even if you drag yourself out of bed at, like, midday,

you might not have got bugger all sleep. There's three suggestions as to why this could be the case. Okay. So they did a proper study, like, following hangovers and looking at pain receptors and all that kind of stuff. But no cure for them yet? No. Oh, my God, did you ever try those hangover things?

You try to have them before you go to bed, you wake up, you're like, well, that did absolutely nothing. I'm going to take a couple of panties. Is that bad? Do you take a couple of panties? Have a couple of panties? Is that bad? I never remember.

I just hop in and down some water and go to sleep. I don't wet the bed. You know when you drink like two litres of water and be like, this will sort me out and you're like, that's dangerous.

Well, see you in the morning. I'm going to piss myself. We'll just see what happens here. You've got Fletcher who's just dropped two panties on a bloody guts full of alcohol and tape. No, I've got a guts full of nuggies

in there. It's alright. Yeah, they all soak it up. Soak it up nuggies. The nuggies are soaking up the booze and the panties come through and stop the hangover. I do want to reiterate, he's saying panties as

in panadols. Not pan chocolats. Although those would help because those would definitely soak up some booze. A couple of pan chocolats and a couple of panties. It would be the bougiest move to come home from town. You've been down at the Viaduct. You pop by the French patisserie. Because they're already out.

A couple of pannes of chocolate. Yeah, they're baking. Yeah, they are. I'll do a couple of pannes of chocolate. Anyway. It's how Citroën still play. You're drunk, but you're still respecting

the French language. Yeah. Do we have any? Or quoi? Piss off. We're literally making the dough. It's like 2 a.m. Bonjour.

The three reasons that this study found that this could be the case that hangovers get better with age. The third is, yeah, knowing your limits. Okay. That we're more likely as adults to know our limits and to stop earlier, make better decisions when we're drinking, not take it too far. Hence why I ghost, because I know that if I'm at that point

where I'm gonna have a hangover the next day, is it worth it? Right, you make a choice and you leave. Whereas like when you're young, you don't do that. You stay till the lights come up. The second reason could be that we genuinely, as older people, me talking 31, we as older people, have more responsibilities. We don't have a choice.

We don't have the time for a hangover. We've got kids. We've got things to do the next day. We've got responsibilities. You've got to take the girls to netball in the morning. You've got to get up. So the hangover feels less severe because you don't just wallow in it. You don't just lean into it all day

and order your pizza to your bed. You get up. You've got to look after your kids. You've got a cleaning house. You've got to do your responsibilities. And then the most important reason that they say is because as we get older, our pain receptors get weakened.

So we actually don't feel pain to the same degree as younger people. So we've just numbed pain to the same degree as younger people. So we've just numbed ourselves to the pain that we've caused upon ourselves. Yeah, and so we don't feel as much. We don't feel as strongly as when we're younger. It's like the opposite of Catholic guilt. Yeah. You've done nothing, but you've been told you've been very naughty.

That's also horrible to know that if we're ever in a torture situation, like we get kidnapped, you would speak first. I would. Being the youngest. I would because I'm more sensitive. My body has more pain receptors. Suck me again, bad boy. Yeah, I'm feeling sorry. Why don't you whip me like you mean it, you little

bitch. Wow, okay. I think I'd lean into being tortured. It sounds like it. Pretty hard. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Bluff or stuff. Snowline edition. Alright, so one of us is currently wearing a very hot, hot snowboarding jacket in the studio. Very hot. In fact, one of us probably wants this segment to be over very quickly because it's stiflingly hot. I'm seeing you've worked on your performance. Yeah, that was a good sell on you wearing the jacket

even though you are not wearing the jacket. I'm not finding it that hot, to be honest. TJ, welcome to the show. Good morning. Good morning, guys. How are we? Good. Bluffful stuff.

Now, one of us is wearing this snowboarding jacket. We're all going to tell you that we're wearing it, but only one of us is. Now, if you can correctly identify which one of us is, you win the five-day multi-pass to Gatrona Alpine Resort or Treble Cone. I'll start, TJ, because I am wearing it. In fact, Georgia just gave me a... Oh, listen to that. Did you hear that?

That's the Velcro on the jacket. That is the Velcro on the back of your cap. Georgia just said I looked cute. Didn't you, Georgia? You do look cute. And then you told me off for telling you that I wasn't allowed to say that about you. Yeah, she wasn't saying it because of a jacket. She was just hitting on you.

No, I just think it's inappropriate. You've got a boyfriend. Oh, no, but you just look really cute and kind of cozy. Thank you. Thank you. I am cozy. It's very hot in this. Not like hitting on you kind of thing.

Oh, there's the other jacket. Here we go. This is absolutely... The other Velcro. That's not as bad. That is not a Velcro jacket, TJ. He is literally holding his cap up to the mic and is peeling off the Velcro on the back of it. It's his shoes.

He never learned to tie his shoes. He's got Velcro shoes. Do I? Do I? Okay, well, I'm wearing it, TJ. No, he's not. I'm wearing it. And you're selling it like it's hot.

It's a light summer overcoat to wear on the snow. It is. There's definitely down in this. There's no down in it. It's what we call in the business a shell jacket. So you can choose how many layers you wear underneath. It stops the wind coming through and does provide warmth.

Great for a springboard. If you're boarding in spring where it starts to get a little bit hotter again. And I know this because I'm wearing the jacket. It's a light. It's a light jacket. Yeah, it's definitely light. Fletch oversold the... Well, you know because it's yours. I know, TJ, because I'm wearing it.

Okay, make a noise with it. A zip or a Velcro. Do it. Do a zip or a Velcro if you're wearing it, Hayley. I will. You just read. Okay, talk into the mic. You can't because you were just here.

What? She came over, TJ. Maybe she had to stand up to get to the mic. I can do a zip to prove that I'm wearing the jacket, obviously. That's just the little pocket zip. That was assaulting for both Hayley and I because you did that with your fly. That was. Oh, sir, I stand.

I stand accused and I shan't stand idly by. TJ, I'd like you to eliminate one of us now. Either me, Fletch, Vaughn or Hayley. Hayley. You're not wearing it. Hayley's definitely not wearing it. No, I don't think so. Yes, one person correctly eliminated.

Terrible actress. Terrible actress. You spent $40,000 to learn how to act that bad. Yep. Okay, so now you've got to pick, TJ. And please be quick because I'm sweating here. Oh, get over it. So I'll do the zip up there.

Oh, there we go. Okay, TJ. He's just got a school bag now. Fletch your vorn. Fletch your school bag up and down. Yeah, I'm going to go. You're wearing it, Fletch. Yes!

You did well. This is so hot. Like, it's ridiculously ridiculously hot but how cute do i look in this yeah you do look very cute in it i could just go and sit in the cafeteria up at kadrona and look the part right like i can't snow great cafeteria food right yeah no it is great and there's two oh go out west to the captain's run go down the cafe that one was hard actually because uh yeah it's a very rustly jacket. TJ, we have for you a five-day multi-pass to Kadrona Alpine Resort or Treble Cone. You can be the first

to ride a new chairlift and explore the willows terrain in Soho at Kadrona. Reliable snow, fewer closed days, more fun on the slopes for only $75 a day. The sale ends April 30, just, what, eight days away. Congratulations, TJ. Awesome. Thank you, guys. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. away Congratulations TJ Awesome, thank you guys ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast

Now if you were listening to the show yesterday You would have heard that My Apple Watch Pooped itself, the screen had a bright Line on it and then that bright line just turned to Nothing, like it's not working A lot of people were like this is the biggest First world problem I've ever

Seen or heard, including us These things like, this is the biggest first world problem I've ever seen or heard. Including us. These things happen. This is technology, right? But it wasn't that so much as the fact that I'm nearly at a full year of closing all three of the exercise rings. So for those that

don't know about the Apple Watches, when you close the ring kind of starts when you start exercise. When you wake up for the day, you put your watch on, and if you've got them on display, you can see the rings. Yeah. And one's for, like, calories burnt. So that's basically on how active you are and monitors your heart rate throughout the day.

If you do exercise, it starts ticking up. The green one is for time spent exercising. Yeah. And the blue one in the middle is for how many hours you stood for at least one minute. So it's good at like 20 to the top of the hour. If I haven't stood for a minute, I get a little buzz and then I look. Yeah. And it's like, hey, stand up.

Because I could sit here for four hours of the show and not get up sometimes. Yeah. And that's not good for you, is it? No. They're always saying sitting's very bad for our health. Sitting's a very, very bad thing for our health, sitting too much. Get piles. Yeah, what?

Probably get piles if you sit too long. Oh, goodness. On wet concrete. Yeah, that was always the thing. Cold, wet concrete. People were like, oh, you get piles. Or you get hemorrhoids. What?

And you're like eight, and you're like, they sound terrible. I don't want them. So because my watch died, I couldn't activate that I was at the gym or doing exercise, and I was like, I'm about to lose my heart strike. I'm like a month off the perfect year. You got to, what were you at? 325 days. 335 days. Right, and you're very stubborn. Yes. That's a very

big part of your character. Stubborn Vaughan Smith. Wildly stubborn. And so you couldn't just let this go. Oh my god, I could not. No. And people were like, log the workout in your phone in the app. I was like, you can't. It doesn't close the rings. No.

You can put it like you did a workout in there, but I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. So my watch is dead. And that's when Fletch, kind, generous, selfless. These are words people use about me a lot. I know. I've heard that a lot. These are the words.

And said to me, you can borrow my Apple Watch, that he's not religiously closing these rings. He's not a ring guy. And so he's... Grow. Come on, grow up, you two. So... She laughed first.

We're talking about that very much. But anyway, he said, you can borrow my watch while yours is getting fixed. And I said, are you serious? This is a very kind, kind offer. It was. And you were so quick to do it. I was there. You know, you were so quick to just be like, hey, what about this?

Because I love, you know me, I've always got a solution for the problem. Yeah. Problem solver. Problem solver. Solutions guy. Yep. So after work, Fletcher's like, come around and grab the watch. I went around and I grabbed the watch and then...

We did a factory reset. Factory reset. I gave it to him. I sync it to my phone, take my watch to get fixed, get home, get my sweat on again. You'll all be happy to know I closed the rings. Yes. I closed the rings yesterday.

Look at that. And I am in the good books. You are? I'm in the good books. How are you going to repay this selfless gesture? That's a very good question. I'm just thinking like a Gold Coast holiday. Well, I mean, we don't need, I probably, that's a lot.

That could be nice. What about a new Apple Watch? Yeah. One of the new ones. What about a new Apple Watch? Yeah. One of the new ones. One of the new ones when they come out. You can keep his old rubbish one. Use it. Do you want me to take it back?

No, please don't. Oh my God, that's on you right now. That's weird, isn't it? He's wearing my watch. One thing I did, and I know you would have hated it. What? When I was like doing the setup, I accidentally put it on bold font. Oh, no.

And analog, yuck. I was like, oh, you don't like my analog watch. Oh, no. And analogue. Yuck. I was like, oh, you don't like my analogue watch. No, yuck. What about that one? Yeah, I've got one similar to that. Which display did you have? I made mine like that. I like this one.

It's got all the information on it. So much information. I look at my watch and I'm like, oh, yes. Oh, yeah. 14 degrees currently where I am. I always like to know how many metres above sea level I am. I always like to know how many metres above sea level I am. I always like to know how many hours and minutes it is till the sun goes down.

10 hours, 17 minutes until sunset. Make the most of your day. What is that? Yeah. That's not very long. It's depressing, isn't it? It's really depressing. Another day gone by before we even know.

Yep, another day closer to death. How many days till death on the watch? Okay. Well, no, it's actually, I'm doing okay because of closing the rings. I'm pushing out the death day. How many days? Imagine if it was like 1,309. You're like, that's not that many.

Three years. Yeah. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. A study has been done and the outcome of the study has found that old people, older people. Yeah. Not old, older people are more likely to help strangers for non-financial gains.

Like say you found someone hurt on the side of the road or with a flat tire or. Yeah, someone getting harassed in the street. Their groceries busted open over the road. You'd be more likely to help when there's no financial remuneration for your time, the older you get. So these people were split into two groups, 18 to 36, and then 55 to 85. Oh, so you don't count. No, I'm right in the grey zone.

You're in the grey zone. I'm in the young zone. You're in the grey zone. I'm in the young zone. You're in the young zone. Yeah, hey, just enjoy it now because soon when you're doing pull down menus on web forms you start scrolling right down.

Let's get back to 82. You go, wee! Try to grab it at the right time. So yeah, older people The test basically They were presented with a whole bunch of different situations And how they would react They didn't know how anybody else was reacting to it

During the study They had no idea And they didn't know anything about the people that they were helping But older people had a slightly better Pro-social behavioural situation But that's the old people's fault That we're like that The younger people But older people had a slightly better pro-social behavioural situation. But that's the old people's fault that we're like that, the younger people. Because they raised us to be scared of things.

Yeah, exactly. Strange danger. Strange danger. We lived rurally. Growing up, even when we learnt to drive, mum and dad were like, if you see someone on the side of the road, don't stop to help them. Run them down. No, it wasn't run them over. Swerve to hit them. It was no, no, no, no. It was

like, remember where they are and come home, because we weren't that far away from home most of the time. Come home, call there or when we've got cell phones, it's like call, pull over up the road where you feel safe and call the police or call for help. Call the police on someone who's hitchhiking.

It might have been more like broken down cars or somebody that needed help. The big scenario was, and this wasn't so much with my parents, this was just with other friends who lived rurally, was you're driving home, it's dark, and you see somebody lying down on the side of the road. What do you do?

And I was like, well, I'm not stopping because I can't see what they've got going on. I'd like to stop and maybe just give them a little, like, a nudge with a stick. A poke. Oh, I just mean a nudge with the front wheel. Oh, just tap the foot. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or just, like, reach out with a broom. And give them a poke. Are you okay? Of course, brooms. I always carry a broom in my car. When I was 16, 17 in the Toyota Starlet, the broom would have taken up the whole car. It's a very small vehicle. I feel like if I was 16, 17, the Toyota Starlet, the broom would have taken up the whole car. It was a very small vehicle.

I feel like if I saw someone, oh, this is going to sound bad. I feel like if I saw a woman, me as a woman, if I saw a woman on the side of the road who was in need of help or hurt, I would stop. Yeah, you'd stop to help her. But then the guy that she's with comes out of the bush with the gun and he's like, give us the car. He's used the bait. He's with comes out of the bush with the gun and he's like, give us the car. He's used the bait.

He's used her as bait. That was by – And this is the paranoia that was put in our heads by the older people. Sure, they're willing to help. Their parents went to war. Nothing scared them. Nothing was terrifying to them. Oh, someone's on the side of the road and someone pulls a gun on you.

Big deal. I shot a Nazi in the face from three foot away Eight of my friends died They were raised by a generation that was scared of nothing They'd seen the worst And we were raised by these people that blame us Oh, wrapping your kids in cotton wool You wrapped us in cotton wool You were the ones that put bark under playgrounds.

Couldn't even take a bloody peanut butter sandwich to school. No. You know, this is where we are now in the world. It's their fault. It's their fault and now we're being blamed for not helping people. I'm also not being helpful. I'm also not taking any blame for anything. Does it have to be this dramatic,

like someone's on the side of the road at gunpoint? Can it be like someone drops an apple out of their groceries? Yeah. Because I'd help. I help that way. Yes, I'd help that way. Old glasses crossing the road. But see, I was also raised by people who didn't deal with that. They dealt with worst possible scenarios every single time. So we want to ask the question

now, have you ever been in a situation where nobody's helped you? And you're just like, why is no one helping me? I fell off when I had a scooter. This is going back some years. This was born at his white man arrogant best. Excuse me, I'm significantly whiter and more arrogant now.

You'd zip through. I'd barely broken the surface of my arrogance. Oh, you were traffic zipped. He drove through roadworks and the digger tried to get him. The digger tried to swing around and hit me. That's right. That wasn't the case when I didn't get help. I was driving home on the scooter and I hit the white line in the middle of the road.

And when you're on a scooter, those are super slippery. Yeah, very slippery. And I hit that and the scooter just skipped out from under me. And I skidded down the road and the scooter skidded even further. And I lay there in the rain in Kingsland and Auckland and people went beep beep and drove around. What is it with Kingsland and Auckland? I came off my bike, my cycle bike. Same thing, like onto

the road, bike skidded across the thing. I'm on the ground, people doing the same thing. Nobody stopped. Nobody stopped. Pretentious Kingsland and Auckland. I smell a scam. Someone's trying to steal our Audi. 0800DARLS.net.

Give us a call. You can text in 9696. When did nobody help and you just could not believe it? Maybe it was an accident. Maybe it was even something just minor, like dropping something, and nobody helped you pick it up. Maybe you dropped your baby and everyone just looked at it and went, hmm.

Beep, beep. Beep, beep. So it turns out, according to a study that's been done, older people are more likely to help strangers than younger people. But again, we blame the older people for making us so scared of the world. Yeah, making us scared of strangers. So we want to know, when you've needed help from strangers and nobody has helped you.

They've just, I don't know, watched. We've had so many text messages and it's refreshing. It's really sad, isn't it? Jen, what happened? When did nobody help? I fell down the stairs at work. Oh, God. Jen, how many stairs?

What were they made of? They were big, chunky stairs, but I think there were maybe like 10 that I fell down. Oh, my God. Jen, did you roll or skid? No, I just kind of knees first and just... Oh, Jen! Because in my mind, the roll,

at least different parts of your body are getting the rough up. So then what happened? Knees first, straight to the bottom. Oh, babe, what happened? Everyone just looked and went... Yeah, I, straight to the bottom. Oh, babe. What happened? Everyone just looked and went, eh. Yeah, I turned around at the bottom and had kind of papers everywhere. I turned around and looked up the top, and there was a girl standing at the top, literally reversing back into the hallway.

Oh! She's just gone. She's just like, I don't want to deal with this. I was like, oh, no, not my problem. See you later. Did she ask if you were okay, at least? Nah, nah. And was she...

I literally saw her just kind of like slinking back into the hall. I was like, okay, cool. And what was her age, do you reckon, roughly? Oh, probably in her 20s. See, that's when her parents probably brought her up, thinking that you were going to rob her. Yeah, but Jen's not a stranger danger. Jen's lovely. She's a workmate. Yeah, but Jen's not a stranger danger. Jen's lovely.

She's a workmate. No, because Jen just threw herself down the stairs. Off retention. Yeah. I haven't even met her before, so she didn't know me. What?

That's crazy. I want to be like, don't get involved. Don't get involved. So many messages coming through. Somebody said, when I was seven months pregnant, my car broke down

in a car park Like blocking traffic Yeah I got out of the car And I gave the whole I'm sorry Like look to the cars That were beeping at me

Behind me But instead of getting out And having me push They watched a seven month Pregnant woman Push a four wheel drive Out of the way Without no one

Getting out of the car See I couldn't do that Nah I'd be out I'd be giving her a hand But it doesn't surprise me Because you'll have accidents where, like, there's a fatal accident or someone's seriously injured and people will be abusing the emergency services,

like holding up the traffic. I'm five minutes late to my dead-end job that I hate. Who can I swear at about it? So taking your calls now, when nobody's helped you, those stories, those times when you've, maybe you've laid there in pain or you've needed help.

Nobody's helped you. So many messages in. And it's really sad. Do you think it's sad? It's a bit sad. It's a bit sad, but it's some of these text messages in. People are in such a situation

that people probably don't know where to begin to help. For example, I'll give you an example. I was walking out of the supermarket with one of those massive 25kg bags of dog biscuits. Now right beside the bottom of the car, the bottom broke and the dog biscuits went, as they put it,

unbelievably everywhere. I was scrambling to pick up the dog food, people just kind of like looked and then kept walking. And even some of the people at the supermarket walked out to grab a trolley and was like, that's a tough one. What do you do though? Where do you begin to help someone who's picking up dog biscuits?

Go in and grab a bag from the supermarket. I would just look for a broom. I would let the birds eat the meaty treats. What if you're in an inside car park? I would look for a broom. I would let the birds eat the meaty treats. I would just be like. What if you're in an inside car park? And just goes, we're rats. They'll get big and strong off those delicious doggy biscuits. Shelby, when did nobody help you?

I was about 12 or 13 years old with my cousin. And I was going on a bike ride to go get some lunch. And I got off the footpath to let some people walk past. i went to get back on i totally screwed it up and i just fully went over the handlebars like scrapped up my head my shoulder my side my leg my foot like everything like i was dripping with blood just wearing like shorts and a shirt it was the middle of summer so carried on went to the gas station to go get a pie. I walked in there just dripping blood, like looking an absolute mess. Got to the front, and the guy just served me. And I'm like, yep, $4 for your pie, please.

I paid him. I just looked at him like, are you going to help me? And all the people there, the old guy who served me, just looked at me like, well, are you going to leave? And so no one offered me help, and I walked out and fight back home with my cousin. Japers! And you were a child! Yeah, I was about 12 or 13.

I was dripping blood all off one side of my body. It must have been confusing, Shelby, because you were buying a pie. Yeah, you weren't like, hello, can I have some help, please? You were like, mince and cheese, thanks. That would confuse me. I knew my priorities, right? I was hungry. I was going out for lunch anyway.

I was finishing what I was doing. Did you say priorities? Because I thought that was pretty good. But I might have just been hearing things. No, you hear what you want to hear. I hear what I want to hear. I heard priority as well. Good priorities. Shelby Hayden, when did nobody help you? I was crossing

Castle Street at the bottom of town October last year on a Friday night and as I was doing it I slipped on a steel plate, fell to the ground, fractured my ankle and dislocated my knee. Oh my gosh. Those slippery plates. Those slippery shit. I had one on a lime scooter and I was literally, it was ice. I was like.

They're black ice for pedestrians, aren't they? So, and nobody helped you, Hayden? No, this was on a Friday night. So there was literally hundreds of people around. Wow. What time on Friday night? And did you look like you were pissed? Because I probably wouldn't help.

If I saw someone drunk fall over, I'd be like, you've done this to yourself. No, I was photographing that night at the event down there. So I was carrying about $5,000 worth of camera gear on me. So no, I was not drunk. Oh, my God. That's outrageous. Oh, good. And someone missed a great opportunity to rob you as well.

Look, I look on the bright side. You weren't robbed. Oh, boy. You're broken. You're ruined. You weren't robbed. Thanks for your call. So, my other text message is in.

I fell down the stairs on my first day of uni, and no one blinked. And that was when I realised this was the place that was going to ruin me. Oh dear. It was downhill from there. Somebody else said

that they were trying to get their three kids in the car and their shopping trolley rolled away. Oh, okay. So it would have had groceries in it? Yeah, yeah. It was full.

They said their full shopping trolley. I'm just trying to think like when you are going to... Yeah, it's hard now because I've got older kids and I'm just like, get in the car! Like that.

But when they're younger, you've got to like get them in. I think we used to chuck them in, slam the door, then deal with the groceries. Right. Then deal with the buckling. Yeah.

Sort of a multi-prog attack. Yeah. And they said they would just watch their trolley roll past two people and they were like, please stop the trolley. And the trolley just went plonk onto the road and their groceries all tipped onto the road. And nobody wanted to help.

Somebody said they were dog walking once, multiple dogs. Yeah. Dogs, they got tangled up around their ankles and then the dog bolted and they fell down and they were on the ground and they were getting like dragged around on their ass by the dogs. Like this pack of... And nobody helped. I wouldn't either.

I would have videoed. Yeah. I would have videoed because you got yourself a viral clip there. Yeah. That could make you thousands of dollars. That could have cut you in, if at all possible. Somebody said, I fell off my bike in a bike lane. Oh, yeah.

And I fell off. I was very badly hurt. But the majority of the sound I heard when I was hurt was just people being like, ring, ring, excuse me, ring, ring, please move, ring, ring, get out of the way. People are ruthless. Cyclists not even helping other cyclists. Not even in dodgy nighttime, you know, it's just like if you see a pregnant woman, stop your trolley.

Somebody said this is called the bystander effect. Once one person witnesses another person not helping, they also are far less likely to help. Nah, see, I wouldn't help if I saw one person helping. I'd just keep going. No, no, no, one person, no, they witnessed somebody not helping. Then they don't help. And then they're like, well, that person didn't help.

Maybe I'm not needed. Maybe I'm not needed. It's not my place to help. Hmm. And then it just snowballed. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Iconic TV producer Shonda Rhimes was on vacation when she was like, I'm a bit bored looking for a book.

She picked up from God knows where some book and it just so happened to be Bridgerton, the first of the series. She digested them all and thought, this is going to be an amazing series. And she approached Julia Quinn, the author of the Bridgerton series. And Julia joins us now. Thank you so much for joining us, Julia. Thank you for having me.

How amazing is it? Because these books did well when you first published them, didn't they? And now they are having an absolute resurgence because people are loving the series. It's been incredible. So the first book in the series, The Duke and I, came out in January 2000, which means I would have written that in 1998. Wow. It's just mind-boggling. Wow. I know.

People will ask me questions about, oh, how did you think of this? How did this happen? And I have to just say, I don't remember. Yeah, because it was 21 years ago, basically. So how did you get a call? How did this all start? Did you get a call one day and they're like, we want to turn your books into a Netflix show?

Pretty much. I mean, not the Netflix part, because when we started talking with Shonda Rhimes, she hadn't made her deal with Netflix yet. But I was just sitting in a Starbucks, you know, pretending to work on my computer, as one does. As you do. Free Wi-Fi.

Let's be honest. Most people are not actually working. And my agent called, and he said, I just had the most interesting phone call. And he said, have you heard of Shonda Rhimes? And I thought it was a trick question because, of course, I've heard of Shonda Rhimes. Yeah. And he just said, well, you know, her representatives called, you know, her people called and asked if the rights were available to the books. And if so, would I be interested in licensing them? And I said, I can't believe you even had to call me to ask.

Yes, get back on the phone with them. And that was the beginning. It was, you know, we weren't out there trying to sell the books to TV or movies because, you know, they were older. And more to the point, nobody was adapting historical romance. No. So just, she's a groundbreaker in so many ways. And she's obviously not wrong.

She saw, she picked up your books, she gave them a read, and she saw something in them, and look what it's turned out to. The absolute smash hit of the year. Four seasons now confirmed and as if they're going to stop there. I still can't believe that. I mean, I binge watched the first season

and instantly was like I've got to read the books because I'm always a book lover and I always think that books are slightly better. You know, the TV or the movies that they get made from. But I mean, it's the talk of the town bridgerton it's i i still can't believe how much into the cultural zeitgeist it's gone i mean every day it seems like a friend of mine will send me a meme or uh like yesterday three friends sent me there was some morning newspaper cartoon um

you know somebody you know people like look you can now get a, you know, a welcome mat that says, you know, don't come in unless you're the Duke of Hastings. Like, are you serious? Yeah. I mean, it was a sketch on Saturday Night Live. To me, that's when it's reached the peak of cultural reference. Oh, my gosh, yes. Well, I have to tell you, I have to give a shout out to my sister who I think right before the show came out, she texted me and said,

can you imagine if you get spoofed on Saturday Night Live? Wouldn't that be incredible? It's an honour, isn't it? Let all know I really made it. And then when I found out Regé-Jean Page was going to be hosting, I was like, oh my gosh. I do have to talk to you about this, Julia, because Regé-Jean Page has honestly just blown up the scene.

Everyone was talking about him in Bridgerton. And now everyone's talking about the fact that because the books kind of follow a different person, don't they, each time, each book. So it's you to blame that Regé-Jean Page is not coming back for season two. And I've really got a bone to pick with you, Julia. Well, to be fair, there were plenty of opportunities.

He could have come back for like an episode. He is in book two, but not in a major way. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sure that it's... And it is... No, no, so we're going to be following the brother now. Is that right? The older brother for series two.

Anthony, yes. Yes. And, you know, I know, I'm always telling people, I know we're all heartbroken about Regé-Jean not being in there, and he is. I have to flex for a moment and say that I have met him in real life, and he is utterly wonderful and delightful and lovely. I have a picture of the two of us on my phone that I occasionally pull out to show people, and, you know, people faint in my wake now. I'd put it as my desktop background.

I should set it actually as my phone, as my background. I don't know what your husband's going to think of that. He's a confident guy. He'll be all right. But I actually think the second book in the series, which is The Viscount Who Loved Me, the story almost is better suited to television than The Duke and I was. So I think it's going to be amazing. I think season two is going to be so much fun.

So what, can you tell us anything about season two, which is filming now and under production? Will it be quite true to the book or can you give us any little insights? You know, I can't really. I actually haven't seen the scripts yet. They're just getting started. I know they just had their first table read,

and I should be getting the first couple scripts very soon. So, I mean, I know a little bit. I am sworn to secrecy, but I can tell you, I think if you loved the first season, I think you also loved the second season. And the relationship between Anthony and Kate, who is the leading lady of this season, is just awesome. It's an enemies to lovers story, you know,

with a lot of great dialogue and bickering. And I think people are going to love it. I mean, I'm keen for the dialogue and the bickering, but I have to ask, I have to ask, is season two going to be it. I mean, I'm keen for the dialogue and the bickering, but I have to ask. I have to ask. Is season two going to be as hot and steamy as season one? I would think so. I'm not doing it, but, you know,

Shondaland knows what works. Yeah. My favourite part about season one was that people were watching that with their parents and then discovering how steamy it was. And then going, oh, my God, turn it off, turn it off. Yeah. But, you know, in truth, because I've been watching other TV lately, it's actually not that much more explicit than other stuff on television.

And the big difference is instead of sex being this sort of objectified transactional thing, it's now something, you know, between two people who care about each other and love each other. And that just seems to make it that much more exciting. And, you know, it's from the female gaze as opposed to the male gaze. And suddenly everyone's like, this is so different. I'm like, well, you know.

Absolutely. Well, Julia, I cannot wait to keep on watching and keep on reading. Thank you so much for joining us. What a bit of insight. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Earlier today, Fletch asked me,

he said, Vaughan, you are talking about this next. That you are to bring in a point on the show next. And I didn't say anything because I heard it. And he's like, please acknowledge that you wanted a read receipt. He wanted a read receipt of me acknowledging it because otherwise we would have literally got there and I would have been like, Fletch would have looked at me like that.

I wouldn't have said anything and then Fletch would have had to have. Like people ask me, they say, what does your job entail? You know, apart from playing the songs, you know, talking nonsense most of the day. I push the buttons and I control all the faders. And my other big job is to say to Vaughn, and normally Megan, when you're not here, Hayley, you're going to bring in this bit. This is you bringing in this bit.

And Vaughn will be like, yep. And then I'll see him engaged in Facebook, deep into a trailer, for example, a movie trailer, with two minutes to go on the song. I'll say, Vaughn, you've got that news story. You're all over that. And I'll go like this. Yep.

And then a minute to go. I've witnessed this. You've witnessed. And you wonder why I ask three, four times. A minute to go, you'll see the clock counting down. The song's got 30 seconds even sometimes. And you'll go, Vaughn, have you got the story? And you'll be like, yep.

And then you'll see him absolutely Googling it. Yeah, I know. And normally when Megan's here, the same. I'm like, she's a little bit better. But I have really appreciated that I don't even need to ask, Hayley. You are a consummate professional.

Thank you so much. Whatever, she forgot to thank Pepsi Max. It happened twice in three days. And we made up for it yeah with extra credits and can i just say a delicious drop pepsi max what all the taste zero sugar's given exactly now i just made up for it yeah i do a lot of making up around you do a lot of getting us in trouble she's like please acknowledge that you have heard what I have said. And I was like, yeah, I heard, I heard. It was triggering for me.

I heard. And I had a long-term partnership myself. That's what got us. And then we got to talk about it. Hayley's like, this is pretty much my. Me all the time. Yeah, with Aaron. Can you please acknowledge that you have heard that and taken it on board?

Yeah. Because then you get the read receipt and you can be like, well, it's not my fault. That break was terrible or that didn't happen because you said, yes, I'm over this. This is me. Yeah. So then we got talking about how it's, you know, in every relationship. Oh, Sansa's happening today. You didn't tell me about that.

This is a conversation that happens once a week and I ask, you never said that? Or Sade's getting ready and you're like, why are you getting ready? Where are you going? I told you, we're going out with blah, blah, blah. I didn't know that. I was like, no one told me. She's like, are never said that? Well, Sade's getting ready and you're like, well, how are you getting ready? Where are you going? I told you, we're going out with blah, blah, blah. I didn't know that. No one told me. She's like, are you kidding me? You've been told a hundred times. I was like, I don't seem to remember it. So we're listening

to each other. We're not hearing each other. Yeah, exactly. We're not hearing each other. Exactly. But it works both ways in our house. Like if we've got something on with work, I'll say, oh, next Thursday or whatever is the work thing. Yeah. She's like, okay.

And then it's like, okay, well, I've got to go to that work thing. She's like, what work thing? What are you talking about? I'm like, I told you about it. No, you didn't. And I'm like, recently she was on her phone and I told her something. She's like, huh?

It wasn't even like a yes. It was like a huh? Huh? So I videoed her saying it again. Yeah. Me saying it again. And then later on, I brought it up. She's like, you never told me that.

I was like, au contraire, mon ami. Oh, my God. Scroll back. And here's the video of me telling you. Because I know she wants to do it to me so bad. Because I do it way more than her. Yep. She'll say, so-and-so's this weekend. I'll be wants to do it to me so bad. Because I do it way more than her. Yep. She'll say, so-and-so's this weekend.

I'll be like, you never told me about that. I was like, well, especially when it's socialising, you've really got to write it down. You've got to write, we've got to have a meeting about this. Yeah. I'm home now. I'm in my castle. I'm just comfortable.

How did she take the fact that- She did not take it well. When you had evidence. No, I did not take it well. When you were wearing a wire, basically. Yeah. Except she was the least observant gangster

in all of history. I walk into the gang, he calls us on the phone, I'm like what's up guys? We still making all that meth and selling it to people and destroying society? And they're like, yeah man! I'm like, cool. Anyway, I'll see you later. Gotta walk out. That's how bad it was. I wouldn't

have to wear a wire. I had a phone in her face. So do that because here's the outcome. You get to be right. They have to be wrong. Yep. And then you're going to have a big fight about it. Fun. Yay.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about why eggplants are called eggplants. Because they don't. Look like eggs. Look like eggs. Also why, like a courgette zucchini, does it have two names? Aubergine.

Aubergine and eggplant. Aubergine's the. Aubergine or aubergine? It's an AU. Aubergine. Stop saying aubergine. Aubergine. But it's like that in the Maori language. Aubergine. AU aubergine. Aubergine. But it's like that in the Maori language.

Aubergine. AU. Tau. Aubergine. Yeah, but aubergine is not a Maori word. No. That's just like Australia. Australia?

Yeah. No. From here on. Aubergine. Yeah, right. Aubergine. Aubergine is a French word. Is it?

Okay. Yeah, so it would be aubergine. Aubergine. You're right. Aubergine. Aubergine is a French word Is it? Okay Yeah so it would be aubergine Aubergine You're right Aubergine Aubergine Yeah same thing I love it

I love an aubergine Slash eggplant I love it too How though? A grilled eggplant Same Miso Miso

And it's grilled with cheese Amazing It goes all soft Not in the place of things What do you mean? People get very Oh it can go good in a curry, like a Thai green or something.

Or a lasagna or something. Yeah. I'll stop you there. No, no, no. Lasagna is lasagna. I was just saying, when people make a replacement lasagna and they use aubergine, I do it like little pizzas. I cut it like slices and put some like, you know, base on it, a little bit of cheese, some oregano on top.

That's a good idea. And does it go all soft? But don't call it eggplant pizzas. Oh, no, I don't. Just like sliced eggplant with some pizza-esque toppings. Just leave pizza out of it. The Italians had things a specific way. Very heavy in gluten.

And that's how it deserves to be remembered and named. Don't call it an eggplant lasagna. I shan't. Please don't. No. That's a pasta-based dish. Okay. Call it a layered eggplant. Anyway, I shan't. Please don't. No. That's a pasta-based dish. Okay. Call it a layered eggplant. Anyway, on your own time.

Yeah, if you could just say on your own time, we're going to get into that. That'd be great. The aubergine or the eggplant, the reason it is called an eggplant is because before, well, not before, but a few generations of eggplant ago, they did actually look like eggs. When Jesus was alive.

Is that when? When Jesus was alive. Jesus himself feasted upon eggplant. Wow. Were they the same size or just the same shape? So I can show you here. I've got a photo of, you know, this is what eggplants look like now. They didn't have cameras back then.

Yeah, you liar. Big purple. No, because they've done their work. They've done like, this is what the majority of them used to look like. Oh my God, what a skinny eggplant. That's a skinny eggplant. That's a girthy emoji eggplant. Boom, a big body, a big face.

That's what they used to be. That's what they used to look like. Oh my God, they do. Why are they white? They look like the stalk of the eggplant has been put onto a white egg. Onto a white duck or chicken's egg, right? With the little tails,

little spermies. Don't you think? A little bit. Little swimmers. Did we genetically modify or So over time, they interbred different sorts. They got the colour from one,

the shape from another, but the one that kind of tasted like it and was the easiest to grow was the initial white eggplant that was spread so far and wide. Right. When Jesus was around. Jesus himself had a thriving veggie garden. Cooking up some miso eggplant.

Yeah. Yum! In his pizza oven. I don't know if Jesus preferred cooking method, but he himself was rocking out there. But, you know, it's like carrots were originally purple. You can still get some purple carrots. They were, yeah. And then just a bit of change there for whatever climate could grow them.

And then, you know, we're like, well, that one tastes better, so use a bit more of that. And over time, they went from the small white eggplant to a larger white eggplant, purple introduced. And now, of course, thanks to the emoji, everyone knows eggplants as the big girthy purple. Big girthy purple. Are you getting a bit flustered? Big girthy purple whipper. Big purple peeper leader.

So today's fact of the day is eggplants are called eggplants because when they named them, they actually looked like eggs. Fact of the day, dayughan and Megan, the podcast. This is an absolute, you're going to have to listen carefully. Whakaronga mai, guys. This is an absolute twisted tale. Okay. So there was a woman.

There's a woman. Oh, I don't know where this story's going already. It's got a female, it's female skewed. Wait, she's not the protagonist? Is she the main protagonist? She is the main protagonist. This movie's not for me. Some may say

the antagonist at the end. Is she Charlize Theron? No, she's more of like a Helen Bonham Carter. Helen Bonham Carter type. Oh, is Tim Burton directing this?

Yeah. Probably. Okay, so when she was a teenager, this woman had a friend. Okay? Okay. When she was 16 years old, woman had a friend. Okay? Okay.

When she was 16 years old, she had a friend. And she went around to the friend's house and met her older brother. Yeah. Who she ended up later in life getting with and getting married to and having children with, right? Even that itself. So she's married her close friend's older brother. In that time, she obviously would have known the whole family,

including her friend and her now husband's father. Years later, her and this woman, the protagonist, and her husband, who was the friend's brother, they split. They grow apart. Things don't go that well. So at this point she is 31.

So then she realised that actually she has feelings for their father who she met when she was 16. This is her ex-husband's dad. So she was 16. The dad was 46 at the time.

Now she's 31 he's, and they have married. Full father. Full father. To her ex-husband. So she has married her ex-husband's father. And I hate to say it, it's caused a bit of a family ruckus. Did she leave for the dad or was there a good gap in between? No, they realised

well, yeah, it says here that years later after marrying her first husband she realised that her relationship was going wrong and he realised that his relationship was going wrong and they realised they had feelings for each other.

So she basically did leave him for the dad. Yeah, so when she got divorced her father-in-law was her shoulder to cry on. They tried to fight it but both of them once both their divorces had been finalised, they confessed

their love and went public. They've had a baby. What? What? Really? So their baby's sibling, their grandfather would be? Their grandfather would also be? Their stepdad. Their step?

No, their full dad, if they've had a baby. God, Ancestry.com. Wait, who had a baby? She had a baby with the first husband. Yeah, so the baby she had with the first baby. Yes, granddad's stepfather. Yeah, yeah. Granddad's stepfather.

And auntie, stepsister. You reckon that'd crash the Ancestry.com homepage? I'd have been like... That is absolutely crazy. So people are talking about, there's so many things going on here. The age gap and the family web. It's an absolute cluster. So we wanted to know, has anyone out there ever left someone for their family member?

Has anyone left someone and then someone in that person's family, your ex-husband, your ex-partner's family, you've fallen for them instead? I always find it weird when people break up and then someone goes out with like their brother. The brother, yeah. And it's just like they're basically like the same people. Genetically, yeah.

You've had that. How's Christmas? Yeah. So 0800 DARS at M, give us a call. Maybe, I don't know, maybe this is like too much of an episode of Jeremy Kyle or some kind of trashy daytime talk show. I don't know, yeah. I don't know if we're going to find anything this scandalous in New Zealand,

but prove me wrong. Yeah, sure. 0800 DARS at M, Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696. When did you leave someone for their family member? Yeah, and let's be honest, it might not be you admitting this. Maybe you just know of it happening. Yeah. Yeah, tell us those

stories. So, quite a story. Yeah, a woman in the UK married a man, divorced him, and then married his father. Like way older. Way older.

30 year age difference. So obviously the family wasn't too happy about it. So we want to know from you this morning, do you know anyone or has this happened to you that's left someone

for someone else in the family? A lot of these need diagrams. I find a diagram like a family tree really helps. There's some real webs going on. Yeah, the solid black lines, they're biologically

linked. The dotted red line, that's the hookup. Okay, so in fact, we're going to get a professional wedding photographer next on the phone. They've just text messaged in. They've got a bevy of very interesting links of people that they have. Fantastic. Oh yeah, because they'd have to coordinate the photo. They've just text messaged in. They've got a bevy of very interesting links of people that they have.

Oh yeah, because they'd have to coordinate the photo. Who's this and who's that? Who's the granddad? Well, I'm the granddad but also the husband. Yes. I worked with a lady who was with her ex-husband's son. So her stepson. She is now with her

ex-stepson. She was now with her ex-stepson. She was now with her ex-stepson's brother and now they have kids together. What? Wow. Okay. She went for one stepson and then went for another stepson and that's where they've got

kids. Right. Okay. I mean, not biologically fused. No, so it's fine, isn't it? No, no. No, well. it's confusing. I think there's categories for this online. Yeah. Wow. I have a friend who married one guy, then divorced him and married his younger brother.

So that's two marriages in the one generation there. That's like kind of, you know, when your car's getting a bit older and you need an upgrade, so you get the newer model. Yeah, yeah. But similar? It's got, you know, electric windows and a reversing camera. Yeah. yeah. But similar? It's got electric windows and a reversing camera. Replacing like for like.

Yeah, maybe a bigger handbrake. Yeah. Gotta have a big handbrake. You never know when you get into a hill start. Dated a guy when I met his family, a daughter's brother who I got along with but a boyfriend cheated on me with his talks, with his ex.

A few months later, his brother and I connected, had a brief but intensely romantic, fiery relationship. Oh, fun. But then... Sorry, sorry. But then I left for a different city.

The brother still doesn't know. Oh, wow. Okay. Would you do that? If the brother didn't know. If the sibling,'t know. If the sibling, like, you broke up with somebody and then got with a sibling

but the first sibling didn't know. I mean, for sure she probably wouldn't care if they knew or not, right? Who cares? No, who cares? Because they cheated on you. Yeah, true. This is very confusing. We've got so many texts and calls coming through. We'll get to these next. So, we're talking talking about if you know of this happening,

when someone's left someone for a member of the family. Yeah. So they've been going out and they're like, well, I'm going to, now I'm going out with the brother. I'm leaving you for your cousin's dad. Yeah. So many messages coming in. I guess because like, it's like workplaces,

right? If you hang around with these people enough, you might get a connection. Absolutely. You spend so much time with a spouse's family, Christmas, you know, sometimes you go through emotional things with them. Then all of a sudden their brother becomes attractive to you. Yeah, I know. All of a sudden they're in the bed. We don't know how we got here.

What happened? How'd this go down? Joe, you're a wedding photographer. I was, yes. And you've seen, would you have seen most scenarios? I've seen more scenarios than I care to remember. Some things you can't unsee. What would the most popular intertwined coupling be? Would it be like wives leaving their husbands for?

It would be the mother-in-law running off with her daughter's husband. I think there's more of those than there was the father running off with the son's wife. How come they wouldn't do that? I did about three of each wedding, and there were a few more where I was doing the wedding, and later on I heard they broke up and that the son had run off with the other one or what have you.

Oh, and then that's awkward when you're photographing that, isn't it? Yeah, well, you know how you imagine a group photo outside a church or wherever? You've got to add the... You start out with a bride and groom in the middle and work your way out, and you always have to do my research and put the ones who can't stand each other on the very end of the group

and then take that one shot and they'd split. But sometimes it was too much and there would be a punch up on the church steps. Saw that a few times. Oh, what a mess to navigate. What would have been the most scandalous thing that happened when you were photographing a wedding, cheating-wise? Probably I was in Hamilton Gardens doing a local wedding, and I went back to the car to get film because we used RB67.

It only got 10 shots to roll in. So I went back to the car to put the film in the cooler, and I was doing the girls, you know, the bridesmaids and the bride and all the close-ups and things. And then the guys were by then, you know, you're almost finished, so you're having a few drinks. And I noticed the groom was handing it off with the best man behind a couple of trees.

And that was pretty shocking. Wow! What? We're in Hamilton Gardens. That place is always busy. Yeah. It's just always busy. Yeah. It's just quite a few things. One where the groom was late for the wedding.

He arrived drunk. They'd been in the prong of your pub all afternoon. And the car comes skidding to a halt outside the reception area, the wedding area. And the future mother-in-law came out and was telling him off. And over the car window, he punched her in the face and knocked her out. Oh, rubbish. The whole thing erupted into a brawl between the two families.

And I was taking photographs thinking there's going to be a court case here. You've got to provide evidence. Yeah, exactly. These beautifully, like, nice depth of focus photos for the courtroom. I still can't get past the best man in the room. The groom having it off, eh? And the groom. Unbelievable.

Wow, Joe has seen some things. And then go back to just happy families. Anonymous has called. Thank you, Joe. This is someone's left someone for their family. So my partner was sleeping with my mum, and now me and him are together with a child. What?

So you got with your mum's boyfriend? Yep. How's mum about all this? Yeah, she's a bit funny towards me now, but we got over it. So how long were they together for? Three years. Oh! Not just like a casual few months.

You said sleeping with. I thought you were going to say, yeah, three months or something. So who's more closer in age? Is he more your age or is he more mum's age? He's my mum's age. She's 21 years different. Wow. Okay. You years different. Wow. Okay.

Anonymous. These are the calls we wanted. Yeah, wow. Okay, and obviously mum's not like entirely happy about it, but she's coming around? Yeah, how's Christmas? Yeah, she's coming around because of her granddaughter. Oh, yeah, right.

Okay. Yeah, nice. Yeah. You know what? Get it. Good for you. Yeah, and she can't have a go about your partner because she's been there for three years.

Exactly. She'd be a hypocrite. Yeah, she would. What are you seeing her? The same thing I did for three years. Exactly. Anonymous, thanks for your call. Somebody messaged in,

between the ages of 14 and 19, I went out with three different brothers. Oh, right. From a family, each very different from the other. Like pass the parcel. Never at the same time. You get to take the first layer off. It's just like, no, just the sweatshirt.

Somebody else who's along the same line said I hooked up with two brothers and pashed their sister once. Imagine tearing through a whole family. God, it's like gastro. Yeah, it is. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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