ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 6th May 2021

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app, buy five McCafe coffees and get one free. And greeted with the news today that Pfizer has made 3.5 billion US dollars in the last three months. Any guesses why? Stiffies. Stiffies and the big vaccine. The female stiffies. I don't know. I don't think they're thumb. stiffies. I don't know. I don't think there's... Cliffies.

I don't think they've worked out the female stiffies yet. But yeah, mostly the coronavirus vaccine. $3.5 billion. Isn't that nuts? And it must be good for them looking forward like that because the majority of the world still isn't vaccinated. Well, yeah, and you'll need boosters every

year, won't you? Yeah, couldn't have the old booster row. We've just had the email around that we're getting the flu jab soon. I've never had the flu jab. I've had it every year. Does it actually do anything? I'm never really sick. Well, I haven't had the flu, so I guess it does do anything? Well I'm never really sick Well I haven't had the flu so Yeah

I guess it does do that Yeah But I think it's much like It's like Because it was one year we did get the flu No remember there was Because they They didn't know that the

1915 flu was coming back That's right It's just like The flu jab's like a guess of The most popular strains eh That'll be around Is that right? And they put them all in the jab? Yes jab's like a guess of the most popular strains, eh, that'll be around. Is that right?

And they put them all in the jab? Yes. Yes. They predict. It's the flu predictor. Yeah. Because it's ever-evolving, isn't it? Yeah. So that's where you've got to keep getting it.

You've got to go to the TAB and put some money on what flu you think's going to come in. But then last year, flus in New Zealand and a lot of places around the world were all-time low. Yeah, because nobody was interacting with each other and everyone was washing their hands and not sneezing in each other's mouths anymore. Nobody was going overseas and bringing the flu back. No. Yeah, so. Yeah.

Maybe I'll get a flu-y jab. Get the flu jab. Too late. No, you're already done. Isolation, please. And she starts coughing. ZM. Head music.

Lives here. Fletchforn and Megan. The podcast. Good music. Lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul. Two minutes past six. How incredible that that kid was found. Like, what was he, three?

Do you know what? I, four, three, four. He, I've been listening to, this is dark, but Case File on Spotify, which is just all murder, death, lost, you know, never showed up again. And so when I read this, I was like, my experience of Case File, this is... You thought he'd been abducted. I did. And I was just like, what a horrible, what a horrible night that would have been for

that family. And then what an amazing result. And he's fine. And he slept with the bunny rabbits. He said he slept with the bunny rabbits and slept up a tree. And the pigs left. Was it the pigs that left him alone? Yeah.

The pigs left him alone. He managed to escape the pigs. What a... Wow. That kid's going to grow up and be like, do you want to hear a cool story? I went missing when I was a toddler and I survived. He's going to grow up and be one of those guys

that can just go bush for like eight days. Yeah. Mate, he's from the East Coast. They all want to just go bush for eight days. Wow, amazing for that family. I think if you live anywhere near Tolaga Bay, you've got to be able to just go bush for like a week and walk out a week later and be like,

oh, yep, yep, pretty good. Pretty good week in the bush, actually. The top six is coming up in yesterday. The Prime Minister, in a radio interview, letting slip that she has a rough idea of when they're getting married. Yeah, no, she said she's got a date. She's got a date.

But she's not telling anybody. Yeah, no. I hope she hasn't chosen the same date as me. I think there'll be a lot of crossover with guests there. Oh, yeah, Grant Robertson was going to be your mate of honour. Andrew Little. Yeah. Trevor Mallard was off to be your mate of honour. Andrew Little. Trevor Mallard was off both of your lists.

Chloe Swarbrick, like, she'd have to make a choice. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? She'd choose you. You reckon? Yeah. That's nice.

That's what you want. So the top six dates Jacinda's wedding could be given the clues we've got so far. All right. Add to cart returns today and we had your cart yesterday, didn't we?

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Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. This is something quite amazing. Do you know that fashion, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions? Yeah. That's a really big chunk, especially like fast fashion. Yeah.

It was that Netflix documentary series Connected that talked about fashion. There was another one as well. What was the other fashion one about the factories? The jeans thing blew my mind. What's that? So when they take denim and they colour it, it's really super stiff. Like super, super stiff. They've got to like put it in effectively giant washing machines with rocks.

Yeah. And wash these jeans and that softens them once and then they'll take them out and they'll drain all the water and all this bluey, gunky water just gets pumped back into God knows where. And then they put more fresh water in and they wash it again and again and again and again and again and again and again. They have to do it so many times to soften the denim. Yeah. Oh, wow.

Okay. There's an amazing brand. I don't know if it's American or something called Reformation. And this is where I learned about it because they make sustainable jeans. I don't know how they do it. They use something, you know, tanks and tanks less of water. You buy them stiff. And the guy's advice is you've got to wear them every day for six months and then they soften. And he said at the end of that six months, you've got a pair of jeans that softened

specifically to your shape and your energy level. I don't love a stiff jean. I've got to say I love a bit of stretch in my jean, especially at the moment. Big fan of a bit of stretch in my jean, especially at the moment. Yeah. A bit bloaty, a bit bloaty. Big fan of a bit of movement in the jean. There's a team of researchers have entered like a competition, you know, like some sustainable awards. Okay. And they've used 3D printing to convert algae into clothing material.

So like seaweed using both living and non-living components of like algaes and seaweeds and stuff. What kind of fabric does that make? So it looks like this. It looks, it's kind of like a clear, what would you call it? Rice paper. Yeah, like a rice paper,

but it looks like- It looks like what you're acting, summer rolling. It looks like your sort of regular raincoat fabric. Right. So they bound it together with heat and poured it into moulds and then they put a thin wax on it so that it doesn't, because it's biodegradable,

so you don't want to be out in the rain for too long otherwise your jacket's going to start laughing. I feel like New Zealand winter would melt that coat in a day. Yeah, it would. Yeah. But actually it looks quite cool. I suppose if you were like, you know, whatever, if you had a cool design,

you could use the fabric to make anything. It's see-through though, so I don't know about t-shirts. I'm sure they can make it not see-through. Yeah, I know. Shade informed me the other day that I've moved into linen shirt territory. What do you mean? She said, I'll buy you a shirt

because we're going to Waiheke for the weekend. She's like, I'll buy you a nice shirt to wear. And I was like, I don't want one. And I wasn't even there to try it on for size. Yeah. And she was in taro cash. Is that how you say that? Yeah.

Okay. Taro cash. What's she doing in there? Well, she was buying me a linen shirt. And I said, what? For a start. What are you going to say? I said, don't shop for me in taro cash.

Am I a taro cash guy? I don't think you're in taro. I don't think you're in Tarot. I don't think you've landed there yet. Who shops there, by the way? I've always considered that an older gentleman's shop. An older gentleman who's, I think, more business-minded. Right.

And she's like, I don't know if it's leading the fashion stakes. I don't know that it is. I think it's a lot of practical shirts. Well, neither am I, so we're fine. And to be honest, the shirt itself I had no problem with. I wasn't there to try it on. That was my main issue. Right.

And I said, what material is that? And she said, linen. You've definitely moved into linen territory. I said, bitch, stand back. What? I love a linen shirt. But is it a compliment? I felt like she was telling me I was an old man.

No, no, no, no. You're not Richard Branson. That's who I thought of. That's why I associated it with being old. No, linen shirts, you think you're rod and guns. Yeah, there are some cool linen shirts. You're rod and gun to a linen shirt. Everybody does a linen shirt.

Yeah, even Helen Stones does a linen shirt. I love a linen shirt. Aaron loves a linen shirt. Okay, I'm not as insulted as I was the same. No, don't be insulted by it. But still should have been insulted at the Tarot cashmere. Yeah, maybe still be insulted at that, yeah. I'd be it. But still should have been insulted at the tarot, actually. Yeah, maybe still be insulted at that, yeah. I'd be filing for divorce.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The US has taken to bribing people to get the COVID-19 vaccine now. Everybody that wanted to get vaccinated is probably vaccinated or on the way to being vaccinated. I read an article a couple of days there. They're worried they won't reach herd immunity because it's such a politically divisive issue. Pretty much everyone on the left is like,

let's get vaccinated. And on the right, they're like, no. Down south is probably not. I don't know. Extreme left. Yeah, extreme. Extreme left might be a bit anti-vax. I think that middle section, regardless of what side of the political spectrum they fall on,

it's the extremes that are dickheads. A lot of extremes in America, isn't there? Yeah, there is. And it just seems to get worse and worse. So people, state employees who get vaccinated in Maryland are eligible for $100. Ooh. And in Detroit, you can get a $50 prepaid debit card. Like a Prezi card.

Prezi card, yeah. Ooh, I love a Prezi. If you give someone a ride to a vaccine site. So if you pick up someone, the only thing that's stopping them is their accessibility. Yeah. If you take them. New Jersey is offering a shot and a beer for a resident who get their first vaccine dose in May. New Jersey.

Well, that's what they should do. Have the vaccine places at bars. Yeah, exactly. Go to the people. So you take your vaccine card that says you've had your first dose and you take it into a brewery in state and they'll give you a shot and a beer.

Wow. So it's not like immediately. No, it's not like blood donation where you get a Bic and a cup of tea straight afterwards. It's go and do this at some other time. So they've turned to bribing people. Well, effectively. I'd accept a bribe for sure.

Yeah. Do you think we'll get to that stage in New Zealand? Because there are still some people, like there are still some people, like there are a lot of Facebook groups out there spreading misinformation. Producer Jared got a pamphlet the other day in his letterbox. I was going to say, producer Jared's been spreading misinformation. Yeah, I don't know because we said this the other day

that my grandfather who lives in Northland, like Northland is calling for people to come to Northland. They've got too many vaccinations because no one's getting it. Like there's too many people being like, oh, I can't be bothered. So they're like, they'll expire. So if you're not from Northland, go to Northland. But what, because people are just saying no.

I don't know. It feels like a casual attitude maybe in New Zealand. Like, well, we don't really have it. Like there's no rush to get it. Whereas in America, it's like, wow, it's really rampant. We need to get it and be done with this thing. Whereas we're like, I'll get it when we roll around to it.

Exactly. We saw America would have seen themselves with those refrigerated trucks for bodies and they've had all that shocking image. We've had some temporary fencing up around some hotels. Yeah, and 50,000 people at a 660 concert. It's not real. Should have vaccinated them on the way in and on the way out. temporary fencing up around some hotels. Yeah, and 50,000 people at a 660 concert. Yeah. You know, we're just like,

it's not real. Should have vaccinated them on the way in and on the way out. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. Baby names. Speaking of Megan. Babies. Baby. Baby. I'm really, I really, really, really want to master my Moira.

Moira accent. From Schitt's Creek my Moira accent. From Schitt's Creek? Moira Rose? No, I can't do it. I'm going to work on it and I'll bring it back. There's two aspects of the Moira, though. There's the voice and then there's the sentence structure. Yes. Because it's all full of superlative.

The superlative jet nerves and insane. Yeah, good. One of the greatest comedy TV characters. Truly inspirational. I look forward to getting older and playing roles like that. Anyway, so Moira is not on this list, unfortunately. But I've got the top baby names for 2021 as revealed by Nameberry. Okay. The number one sort of naming site that people go to looking baby names for 2021 as revealed by Nameberry. Okay.

The number one sort of naming site that people go to looking for names for their new babies. So the bottom of the boys. Bottom of the boys is Milo or Milo. I guess you could pronounce it. Famously the name of Art Green and Matilda's baby. I was going to say Art and Matilda's. A very cute baby.

Just above that, Leo, number four for the boys. Above that, Felix. It's changed wildly, hasn't it? Yeah. I look at this list of names and I'm going like, yeah, this is what's out there at the moment. So we've got Milo, Leo, Felix. Above that, number two for the boys, Asher. Okay.

Brimful of Asherana. 45. Familiar with the... I was thinking of MC Asher. MC Asher. You know, but sort of Asherana 45 Familiar with the I was thinking of MC MC Asher MC Asher You know But sort of Asher

Yeah An artiste And number one on the boys Is Arlo A name I love I do love Arlo It's a security system I was going to say

It's a motion activated security system Well there you go A secure person A strong person As someone who's going to look after you Yeah Or 24-7 watching you Number five on the girls' names list,

and I haven't thought of this, Mabel. Mabel? No. It's like those old school names coming back. So Moira's not far, is it? Mabel. Number four, Hazel.

I like that. I've got hazel eyes. Mabel, Hazel. Bit of a zuzzle. Maybe some twins there, Mabel and Hazel. Mabel and Hazel. Oh, great name for twins, actually. Yeah. Number three, actually. Yeah.

Number three, Ivy. Okay. Poison Ivy. Because of Beyonce? Yeah, maybe. Blue Ivy. Blue Ivy, maybe. Yeah.

Number two, Luna. Makes me think of Looney. Luna. That's an easy tease, isn't it? Yeah, Looney Luna. Yeah, Looney Luna. Yeah, Looney Luna. Oh, no. Well, that was like

Harry Potter. Harry Potter, Luna, Lovegrove. It's funny when you think about these things naming your kids because my parents wanted to call my brother Samuel. They wanted to call him Ben.

But then my mum very quickly was like Ben Sproul. Bean Sprout. Sounds like Bean Sprout. So she beat the bullies to it and went with Samuel instead. Yeah, you've got to do a bully.

You've always got to do a run through. Bully run. And if you. Yeah, you've got to do a bully. You've always got to do a run through. And if you perhaps don't, if you aren't a bully, maybe consult a local bully. Yeah, and be like, what would you do with this name? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How would you rip this kid down? I got Gailey Smells at primary.

Gailey Smells. Gailey Smells. It doesn't even make any sense. Number one on the girls' names, Aurora. Oh, okay. Aurora Borealis. Aurora Borealis. Aurora.

No, those are Arialis. I knew I was close to something. Yeah, yeah. Aurora's Sleeping Beauty. Okay. From the Disney princess. Yes, she is. And, you know, when you name, you know, a lot of people,

was it a couple of years ago, Khaleesi was like heading up the top of the list and you named them after a strong character. But what does Snow White do? What does Sleeping Beauty do? Kipped out.

Yeah, she's having a blaze of snozz. Yeah. A man doesn't ask for consent, plants a kiss on her lips. I mean, it's not a great story. Yeah. All right, well, maybe some inspiration

if you've got a baby. Yeah, Mabel. We're going to see a lot more Mabels out there. Little baby Mabel. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We spoke yesterday about there's like a TikToker that was sharing about fitting bras properly. Talking about, was it called projection? About how, you know, you might feel like you've got small breasts because they don't stick out very far,

but you might not fit into like an A or a B or a C cup. You might be like a double D and be like, what, because I've got big breasts, but it's about- It's about the mass, isn't it? Yeah, the mass and like where it's spread. And we talked a lot about it. And then I mentioned there's a website

that was then shared by this TikToker that my own best friend has used and recommended, abrathatfits.org. And then yesterday, my Instagram inbox was utterly blowing apart with women who were like, oh, my gosh, like, thank you for reminding me to go and get a bra fitting and asking for that website. So we thought we'd talk about it again. It blows my mind that, like, people just put up with something really uncomfortable and not bother about getting a fitting.

I know. Yeah, because this is me if the undies cut in. See you. Yeah. But breasts are so complicated. Like, it's not one size fits all. And actually, Bendon messaged me and they said to come in for a fitting because you should get

a bra fitting every six to 12 months because your body is ever changing. So I was like, oh. Every six to 12, so you could go for

a whole different size. That's true though. That's an expensive exercise though, every six to 12 months. No, bra fittings are free. No, but getting a different size bra every time. No, no, I mean,

I don't necessarily think you're going to have to get new bras every six to 12 months, but if your body has No, no, I mean, I don't necessarily think you're going to have to get new bras every 6-12 months, but if your body has changed, maybe, as mine has, as mine has, you should, yeah, you should be getting them fitted. And it's so easy.

You literally just go in, and I will remind people of this, when you get a proper bra fitting, if you're uncomfortable, you don't have to go topless, you don't have to be... Oh, I never actually thought about that. I thought you would have to go topless. You don't have to be... Oh, I never actually thought about that. I thought you would have to go topless because they'd have to do the measurements. No, they recommend it, but you don't have to if you're

not comfortable. They can measure you in other ways. How would they measure you in other ways? Like just in a t-shirt? Yeah, just over the bra that you're wearing. Well, they can flump your titty on a kitchen scale too. They can do that. They get a couple of kitchen scales and plop them under there. They get the kitchen scale out and you go flump. But then how do you measure it correctly

if you're in another, if you're in an ill-fitting bra, for example? Yeah, I know. You'd have to be in a loose-fitting T-shirt or something, right? Or like a singlet or... Yeah, and maybe go braless. But I would honestly recommend, like there is no shame in it.

This is what I think every time I get a wax or a pap smear or a bra fitting, they've seen everything. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And there's always someone worse than you, eh? You're always going to think like, my breasts surely can't be the worst breasts in New Zealand. So let's just get them out.

Unless they are. Well, someone's got to have them. And do you know, I watched a documentary about the sex robot industry. Do you know what? It sounds ridiculous, but I've also watched a documentary about the sex robot industry. Do you know what? It sounds ridiculous, but I've also watched a documentary about the sex robot industry. Did you?

Maybe we watched the same one. I'm waiting for the tie-in to bra fitting. So you were just saying about these can't be the worst breasts. I just want to put a little bit of, you know, there's no such thing as the worst breasts because in this factory, these men pay a goddamn fortune and women because you can get male ones

and you get to custom pick all like your nipples and stuff. Yes. And they said they'd go through, like you might be what your ideal nipple is. You probably like a small nipple with a pronounced middle. I'm this assumption of, assumption of, okay. He's a petite nipped man as well. I'm a petite nipped man.

They sell out on the big ones. People love the big ones. And not only the big ones like the big areolas. The width of the areola. They like the sausage length nipple point out as well. Some people like them long and low. What is this documentary?

What is this documentary? It wasn't on Netflix. I thought it was a vice doco. Oh, right. Maybe it was. Maybe it was. I am getting sidetracked yet again. But a friend of mine survived breast cancer

and she had a double mastectomy. Is that what you call it? Mastectomy? Yeah. And had her breasts removed. She got a small reconstruction, like back to the size that she was. And then she got her nipples tattooed on

and she got to go to the size that she was. And then she got her nipples tattooed on. And she got to go to the tattoo place that specialise in these reconstructive nipple tattoos and re-pick her nipple colour. So she was showing us. They look incredible because they put in all the texture of the pores. Is it like at Bunnings you get the colour chart? Yeah, you do. And she was wearing a lovely blushing pink and it was just absolutely. Have you ever seen a nipple on a person and it didn't match the colour

what you thought it would be? Like if you got a little bit predictive of what the nipple was going to be like and then you get to the nipple and you're like, this is not the nipple I was expecting. A lot more peachy. What a wonderful surprise. Well, a lot of messages in yesterday and that website again if you want to. It's abrathatfits.org and there's

a calculator and you just get yourself a, you know, like a soft measuring tape measure and you measure all these different things. Your lying down bust, your leaning bust, your standing bust and it will recommend your perfect size and some bras that you could purchase.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast ZM Flesh, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley and it will recommend your perfect size and some bras that you could purchase. Well, all thanks to the Cheesecake Shop every day this week giving away a cool prize for Mother's Day. Olivia joins us. Good morning, Olivia. Good morning. All right, now you're up against Georgia. You've both got to tell us why your mum is great. And we're going to pick one mum. So why does your mum deserve this prize from the Cheesecake Shop?

So three weeks ago, she gave her kidney to my auntie. What? She had kidney surgery. Olivia, you are coming in hot. Wow. Now, as someone who I've had a kidney operation, and I might need a kidney one day, I wonder if my mother would give me hers.

Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. They went through like 18 months worth of tests to make sure they're a complete match, because my auntie was down to like 8% kidney function, and they were a complete match. Wow. I think you bled your mum dry with private school. I think

she's done with you. I think she's done enough. I think she's done more than enough for you. Alright, wait there Olivia. Let's go to Georgia. Georgia, why does your mum deserve the prize this morning? My mum's the best because currently my dad, during lockdown

my dad was back overseas for work and so me and my sisters were at home for lockdown with my mum, but also my mum was good enough to have me and my other sisters partners as well. So there was five of us and my mum looking after us during lockdown. Oh, God. She's doing the Lord's work there. Too uninvited, let's be honest guests.

I would rather have given away a kidney, to be honest, than have my daughter's partners in the house. Mums, they're so good at opening up their homes, aren't they? They never turn you away. All right. It's a bit of a tough one, but I mean, giving up an organ is pretty intense. You've got the deciding vote. Who is it?

It's Olivia's mum. It's Olivia's mum. Sorry, Georgia, your mum sounds gorgeous, but... Olivia, congratulations. Your mum gave the kidney away. Awesome. Thank you so much sounds gorgeous, but... Olivia, congratulations. Olivia, your mum came to give me away. Awesome. Thank you so much. To the Cheesecake Shop, we've got for you a restaurant voucher for two

for Mother's Day this Sunday, and you can save time and order your cake online. The Cheesecake Shop this Mother's Day. She can take the auntie. They can both go with their new lease on life. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the dusty ZM think tank, this is the Top Six.

Hello there. Yesterday on another radio session, just around the corner, Jacinda Ardern was being pestered by some bothersome shock jocks. Shock jocks. I don't know if you'd call

Tony Strait a shock jock. Shock jocks. I don't know if you'd call the coast brick. I would call Tony Strait a shock jock. Yeah. I know she is. I would call, she is lewd, crude, and a little bit rude.

Yeah. She's always doing things to bait a reaction, isn't she? She is. Didn't she annoy... She's like about the loveliest person in the world.

She is absolutely lovely. Didn't boy George walk out, storm out of an interview with her? Which is so funny when you meet her. She's just the kind out, storm out of an interview with her? Which is so funny when you meet her. She's just the kindest,

loveliest woman. She offended him. She's cooking some good stuff for that New World ad. Is she? At the moment. Oh, yes, she is.

She's always making delicious things. Lamb, sure. Wreck a lamb. Well, maybe that's why because she is so lovely, the Prime Minister just opened up yesterday. Opened up like a can of tuna with a pull ring tab.

Yep. And there she was with all that. She has set a wedding date. She didn't give them the specific wedding date, but she did say it's going to be a summer wedding. Now, I may be wrong here, but only weeks ago did we not ask the Prime Minister the exact same question. No, she said that was pre-Easter and she was sitting down to it. Right. To do some planning.

It seems only fair with our next interview, we get some kind of hot, a week at least. I couldn't agree more. A year, at least. Is it next summer? We're talking the summer after. Well, no, I think they said it's summer coming, right? Yeah.

That's not a lot of time to plan a wedding. And you'd imagine it would have to be the Christmas break, right? But she could get any venue, because I'm going like, that's basically, you know, six months away. That's not, people book their wedding venues like years out. So if she's wanting your classic winery. You're getting cancelled by a winery if the Prime Minister wants in, right?

Absolutely. Oh, you're saying like you've got it all booked and everything and then they're like oh, we've got to cancel and they're like why asbestos? And you're like, oh my god that's terrible. Okay, yeah, fine. And then you see the Prime Minister getting married on your day. Absolutely. Unbelievable. Well, I've got the top six possible wedding dates for the Prime Minister.

Number six on the list. Fix the... I'm sorry. Have a little... I know, just my allergies are playing up. I'm always going like... Yeah, Hayley sticks her finger in her ear and wiggles it and goes... I pop it.

Like she's trying to unlock her... I don't know, like defrag. Boxing day is number six. As this year, boxing day is a Sunday. Oh, okay. And I think they'd boxing day is a Sunday. Oh, okay. And I think they'd be more of a Sunday wedding situation, wouldn't they? Yeah. Really?

I reckon. Quite a... They could even do one of those Thursday weddings. Don't get me started on Thursday. I can't get shit-faced on a Thursday. Absolutely not. I've got to get up the next morning. You're not getting invited.

Did she today praise the Lord? She praised the Mormon. The Mormon Lord, I don't know what Lord that is. One of the made up ones. Then I think they had a falling out, didn't they? They had a falling out. Yeah, he didn't like Clark. No, it was well before that.

It was well before that. Number five on the list of the possible wedding dates of the Prime Minister. Also falling on a Sunday, Waitangi Day. Oh, okay, yeah. Waitangi Day. Imagine that. No, but she's got responsibility. She's always got to be up at Waitangi.

Couple of hours in the afternoon, though. It's a beautiful spot. It is. It's seaside. And who else has been married on the treaty grounds? I mean, to be fair, it's not her day. It's not. It's not her day. But we could squeeze in a half hour in the afternoon. December 4th is number four on the top six possible wedding dates for the Prime Minister.

It's the first Saturday of summer. Yeah. And it also gives a good bit of chat before the end of the parliamentary year. You know, finish on a high note. No one can be angry at the bride. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

And then you go into that parliamentary recess over the summer break. Yeah. Oh, weddings. Yep. You know what I'm saying? Yep. And then you go into that parliamentary recess over the summer break. Yeah. Oh, weddings. Yep. Unless you just hate her regardless, then you're probably just going to be a moaning old white fellow anyway. Number three on the list of the top six possible wedding dates for the Prime Minister. It's got to be a summer wedding date and January 8th is that

day and it also happens to be a terrible day on the fishing calendar. Yeah. So Clark won't feel like he's missing out on anything. Free as a bird. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six possible wedding dates for the Prime Minister would be the 2nd of December, Britney Spears' 40th birthday. Oh, yeah, good.

Okay. And then you could play like a Britney Spears medley. That could be a dance. Yes. Oh, yeah, good. And then you could play like a Britney Spears medley. That could be your dance. Yes. And number one on the list of the top six possible wedding dates for the Prime Minister is the 24th of January. You might be thinking, Vaughan, that's a little unusual. That's a weekday, isn't it?

Yes, listen, it's a Monday. But it also happens to be Mike Hosking's birthday. Oh, he'd love that. Oh, yes. Do fan. Oh, yes. Do it. That would be hilarious. The 24th of January, 1965, this spherical orb we float through space on

was blessed with the presence of young Michael Arthur Bartholomew Hosking. And, well, it only seems right that she gets married on the day. The guy's a huge fan. Invite him too. Oh having to go to somebody else's day on your day. That's the top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Hayley has asked

me to open up the inch to centimetre conversion Google thing. So I've got that ready to go. I feel like it's my last day tomorrow. I don't want to leave you guys in a blazing ball of fire. So I'm going to try to be gentle here. You've already left us with a blaze of complaints. I have.

What's one more? Four months of just complaint, complaint, complaint. Yeah. Let me move my scone out of the way. So there's been a study that was done in Japan. And what I didn't realise when I suggested talking about this was actually it's kind of bleak because they wanted to, you know when you can donate your body to science after you die?

Yeah. So this is, they did this test not on living people but on cadavers. Oh, okay. So they had the cadavers of 126 men within three days of dying. How do you get 126 people? Anyway. Over time, not all on one day. Oh, yeah.

I was imagining this was over a couple of years, not just be like, there's been a terrible train accident. Great news. Right, we need to have a look at something. Cadavis are plenty. So I feel like in relation to the phallus. Yep. Is that good?

That's good, yep. In relation to the phallus. It's Greek, isn't it? There's a lot of connotations. There's a lot of connections between foot size. That would be the sort of stereotype, right? Big hands, big feet. Big hands, big feet.

That's always been disproven though, hasn't it? Big fellas. Yeah. Yeah, and it has been disproven. But now they're looking at the relationship between bigger noses and larger members. The proboscis. So if you've got a big nose, you've got a big...

Member. Member. Yeah. Okay. You must have quite a big one then. Because I've got a real honker. I've got the combination of my mother's Maori nose and my father's sort of broad Scottish country nose.

It's a good nose though. Thank you. It's a good nose. It's going to take a hit. Yeah. It's going to take a hit. And it's got a real flick at the end. Like a little ski ramp.

People pay for that flick. People like the flick. People pay for the flick. They pay for the little flick. It's like a little ramp at the end. But not a ski ramp. They pay for that flick. People like the flick. They will pay for the flick. They pay for the little flick. It's like a little ramp at the end. But not a big ramp. No, just a little ski. Whee!

Yeah. Yeah. I've got a bloody button nose. Just having a look. Brinley Stent is in studio to talk to us and was having a look at Brinley's nose. You've got a nice nose. You've got a good shape. Yeah, you've got a good one.

Good shape. Yeah. Okay, so you'd have a big one too. So they looked at, so men with smaller noses tended to have around a 4.1 inch boy. 4.1. Right. Okay. And this is in Japan, and bear in mind, this is in Japan. Well, you know, we're not playing on any of that, but she.

Oh, I didn't say that. No. But they're saying bigger noses, at least five and a half. At least five and a half. Right. And I tell you what, the way that they... I don't know if I can get...

I don't know if I can dance my way through this sentence. The way that they did it... No, I can't. I can't do it. No, I don't know, because in my mind, you know when they do a comparison of like a smoker's lungs and a non-smoker's lungs and they hang them up and they fill them up with air

and it shows how big they can go, the capacity of the healthy lung versus the other lung. But I'm imagining, and Fletch, you've just popped around for a read. How would you describe it? So the way that they measured it, because usually if this was a live study, you would do it based on your... Your shrower versus your grower. Your relaxed and your excited thing.

But they've based this on the SPL, the stretched length. Oh. So they stretch it out. By stretching it as far as it could go. I now understand why they use cadavers. This is why I don't want to be a cadaver. I don't think that's adequate. I don't think just grabbing and tugging

or pulling it to its maximum length, that's not. That's not a scientific study. That's not scientific. No. I've seen a lot of three-year-olds do that. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, pull it down.

They're learning about it, aren't they? They're like fascinated in that area. But scientists, you've got to come up with a better method. Yeah. But you can't ask alive people to, what kind of study is that? I wouldn't trust somebody if they said, excuse me, we want to measure this. Absolutely, pull it to within an inch of its life and we'll see what happens. Yeah.

Well, there you go. If it's something that matters to you, and by the way, they have included in this the optimal length for, and this is based on opposite sex pleasure. The optimal length is not very long at all. Around the seven mark for female. I just get a clarification there's centimetres

and inches. Pretty explains why. That's a lot of waste there. That would explain why Pinocchio was a no-go. An absolute no-go. Too's a lot of waste there. That would explain why Pinocchio was a no-go. An absolute no-go. Too much. Too much too soon.

But yeah, when you're looking, if it matters to you, don't go looking at the shoes or the hands. Have a look at the snores. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's very signing time in New Zealand. The New Zealand International Comedy Festival launched over the weekend. With the mayonnaise.

With the mayonnaise. Best foods. Best foods gala. With the mayonnaise. With the mayonnaise. Best foods. Best foods gala. So much mayonnaise everywhere. Every chance they're like, have some mayo. And you're like, I'm going to vomit. It's too much. But there's so many new shows out from Kiwi comedians.

Obviously, the international acts can't come over. So all the Kiwi acts are coming out strong with great shows. And one of those shows is Soft Carnage by Brinley Stent, who joins us in studio. Kia ora, Brinley. Hi, Hans. Hi, Bonnie. I want to start by saying I thought you were robbed by not winning Taskmaster. Oh, thank you.

Every week I thought you were a very strong showing on season one of Taskmaster. Yeah, and you're a Taskmaster nerd, aren't you? I am a bit, yeah. I think I was the only one in the cast that actually watched it. You had a bit of a head start. I did, yeah. No, but I think Angela was a deserving winner. Yeah, she did great.

She's a sly little thing. She's not here, so she can get in the bin. Suck it. Now, I want to say, Bryn, you look remarkably relaxed. I've done Comedy Festival a number of times. The most stressful moment of the year, creating a brand new show. I might look relaxed, but on the inside, I'm...

Crying. Yeah, I'm crying on the inside. This is my break from crying in the car. Oh, good. We're happy to provide that for you. Worth mentioning, Billy T Award nominee. Yeah. You were nominated last year.

No. No? Oh, sorry, yes sorry yes yes and then the comedy fest was cancelled it happened yeah and then so now the the nomination has gone over over for your new show soft carnage what's it about um it's sort of about using humor as a coping mechanism which I think a lot of comedians do but it's really just a frivolous mime show. Right. Frivolous mime show. Yeah.

Because it's sort of a mix, eh, of like sketch, some stand-up, characters. Yeah, so it's all in there. It's everything but stand-up because I did it once and I realised that I do not like looking into an audience and going, please laugh at my jokes. So instead, I just interact with things that aren't there.

Interact with things that aren't there. Some people get put in hospitals for that. Yeah, yeah. And I get paid for it. Some people turn it into a comedy show. My breakdown's happening on a stage and no one knows it's happening because they paid to be there.

Exactly. It says on your blurb. Oh, God, I wrote that like six months ago. Stealing free samples. What do you steal? Well, I've had a few jobs in my time being a freelancer. One of them was I had to fill goodie bags for the Go Green Expo and the food show.

Like muesli bars or something? Well, yeah. I had to fill goodie bags for the Go Green Expo and the food show. What did you skip? Like muesli bars or something? Well, yeah. But in my mind, they're already going to be free. You know, they're going in the goodie bags. The people are like practically giving them away. So I would just take a few extra goodie bags home and then I would go around the food show in my break and then take all the samples and then go back,

fill some more goodie bags, pop a few more goodie bags in my car. You're a thrifter. You've got to say thrifty comedian thing and be like, anything free, I'm going to take that. Yeah.

Do you take things at hotels as well, like all the shampoos? Oh, buddy, yeah. You don't need the sewing kit but you take it anyway? Yeah, yeah. I've got at home

in my bathroom cabinet probably about 30 bottles of little shampoos. Every time I go travelling I'm like, pop those in my travel case. It's the worst shampoo as well and every time you use it you go travelling, I'm like, pop those in my travel case. It's so handy. It's the worst shampoo as well.

And every time you use it, you're like, I've got to get rid of these. I always pop them in my gym bag. How about hotels, we're getting rid of the little bottles and it's for the environment. It's like,

no, it's not. It's to save you money. Also, another thing, being attracted to gay men. You've talked about this in the past. I have, many times.

I feel like it's my narrative. You have. You were deeply in love, your first boyfriend. Yeah, my first boyfriend dated him for two years, a comedian, Eli Mathewson, who is now very gay. I didn't know that you dated.

Eli told me and I thought he was, like, joking. I thought he was gold star. No, absolutely not. No, no. We're each other's firsts. He's just a silver hand. Tainted? It's each other's first. He's tarnished.

First as in the V-card. Both V-cards. Gone. Wow. I love that you exchanged that. Yeah. And you're going to share this on stage in front of the world through the medium of absurdist sketch comedy.

Well, I don't talk about him. I was going to say because you took this is all about mime and interacting with what's not there and then Hayley's like you're going to share this with the world. I'm imagining a sort of a one person reenactment. Nah. Oh no. That's another show. It's exciting to see this because

the Comedy Fest has over the last few years become more diverse in terms of its forms, hasn't it? Yes, it has. Like it's not just straight white men. Straight white men.

Mike talking about. His wife. Yeah, his wife. Bloody wife. Bloody wife. More wars. She's at home, more wars. Where are you playing, Bryn?

I'm at the Bas theatre The lovely basement theatre In Auckland It's absolutely amazing And you open on the 18th Till the 22nd Five shows Yeah Why should people come?

Give us your Give us your Your final elevator pitch Well you just heard She's stealing all the free samples Yeah I know She'd like to buy some food Are you going to throw out

Some free samples To the audience? I do actually I throw out some Cookie time cookies And Mexicano corn chips. What are you, the bloody Andrews Ellis?

Sponsored by Mexicano. Oh, my God. You can even dip those in the mayo. Both the cookies and the chips can go in the best show. Yeah, yum. All right, well, if you want tickets, comedyfestival.co.nz. Or head to the basement website as well. It's the best show in the festival.

The best show in the fest, you heard it here. Brinley, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, guys. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the festival. The best show in the fest. You heard it here. Brinley, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, guys. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Dogs. In the long list of things that dogs get to do that we don't,

like I know where everybody's been by sniffing. Yeah. How good would that be? That'd be great. Well, I can, though, sometimes, especially with the state of my stomach at the moment, I can absolutely tell where I've been by sniffing. Yeah. How good would that be? That'd be great. Well, I can though sometimes, especially with the state of my stomach at the moment, I can absolutely tell where I've been by sniffing.

But then people, apparently dogs can like walk into a room and be like, Fletch left here two hours ago. Oh yeah. Like that's how good their sniffers are.

And then follow me home. Yeah, and then work out how to follow you home. Or they can sniff narcotics in the mail, they can find criminals. Can they sniff COVID? Yep.

And cancer. And cancer. And they could smell, they can smell cash. Can they sniff COVID? Yep. And cancer. And they could smell cash if you're bringing foreign currency into the country. I know. Like you can't even smuggle bags of cash into the country anymore. There are dogs that sniff it out. I did once.

I did once. I left. Me and Aaron were going to Thailand and I was busy. I was filming Bake Off and I was like, you need to organise getting us some cash. And he got over the amount you were allowed to bring in. He was like, I panicked. How much money is this in New Zealand dollars? Thousands.

Thousands. What did he panic? Did he panic? He just thought, no ATMs. Also, in Thailand, you don't need a lot of money. You don't need anything like what we had. So then we were like, scrapping it in. I strapped some

into my fanny pack. Heaps in the luggage. Some in the thing. And I came in and I saw on the thing how many Thai baht you could bring into the country

and we had more than it. Really? Yeah, then we ended up exchanging it back to New Zealand dollars because we didn't need that much money. Famously a cheap case to go.

Anyway, we didn't get sniffed down by a dog. Well, dogs apparently also, I add this to the list, have better social lives than humans. Oh, dogs apparently also, I add this to the list, have better social lives than humans. Oh, what? I challenge that. I'm a real party girl.

Well, you were out last night. I was out last night. You went out for dinner. Did you see a dog out for dinner last night? I did not. I didn't see it in the spa pool afterwards either. Dogs love spa pools. Our dog will jump in a spa pool.

Really? Yeah, loves the warmth. Oh, okay. Literally just sit in a spa pool like it's just a human sitting in a spa pool. That's pretty cute. It'll just be like, tough day. Tough day sniffing every single thing that's ever existed here. Her nose is exhausted.

Do dogs need socialising in the same way humans do? Do they need to connect with other dogs? Our oldest dog was never like really socialised well and she's a dummy. She's never really dealt with other dogs well, whereas Ralph, our younger dog, deals with other dogs way better because he goes and has overnight stays. If we ever go away, he goes to like a kennel. He loves it, doesn't he?

Loves it. He plays with all sorts of other dogs. There's all those like puppy daycares now, you know, for workers. It's important to socialise. And well, dogs have better social lives than humans? It turns out the average dog has a better social life than the human it's attached to. Gosh.

Which makes sense because if I go, if we go away and the dog goes to the kennels, it socialises with 30 dogs and I'll socialise with two people. Yeah, that's true. That's not what I'm into at all. So your dog probably has spent more time socialising this year than you. Oh, my God. Easily.

And, you know, like dogs loved it last year when everyone was stuck at home for lockdowns. Dogs loved it. They were like, you're here all the time now. Yeah. And then they got out. I'm just reading this article that you're referring to and they were saying dogs, because of last year,

they were really welcome on Zoom calls, you know, and your pets would pop up. In fact, 57% of people said that when they were Zooming their friend, they were more excited to see their pet than their friend. They were more excited to see their friend's dog pop up. Dogs are better on Zoom, in my experience,

because dogs could be like, well, they'd sit there and like have fun. Oh, yeah, cats would hold up and they would call you. Yeah, and they didn't want to be there. Or they'd walk over the laptop you were on and like turn around and show their butthole to everyone in the Zoom meeting. Oh, I know, right there. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The divorce that's shocking the world at the moment.

Bill and Melinda Gates, after 27 years, was it? They're getting divorced. And then now this information's come out. We spoke about yesterday, eh? And that blew my mind was that Bill, that whole time, had an ex-girlfriend who he would have weekends away with. Like these organized weekends away. And apparently this was like from the start of the relationship

he said, this is my ex, we're still friends, we're going away every now and again. That's just life. One long weekend a year. Yeah.

A long weekend away they would go paragliding wasn't it or something like that? Some ponting, hand gliding. They would go to a little, went to Herb Beach Cottage

on the outer banks of North Carolina. They'd ride dune buggies. That's where they filmed Dawson's Creek, by the way. Is it? Okay. No, really. They'd walk on the beach. And so this is something that he had talked to Melinda about and said, like, this is what I want to do all the time.

How would you deal with that, getting into a relationship with someone? I just feel, yeah, I feel like it's bizarre. But it wasn't. You're allowed to maintain a friendship. It's the long weekend away privately, just the two of them. Like, meet up for a dinner, go out for a drink. Staying the night sounds dodgy, right? Yeah, bring your new partner over and we'll have dinner as a four.

But the idea of going, I'm going to go to her private beach house, you're not invited. Once a year, we're going to have a long weekend away and we're going to walk down the beach. But even some people say going away to have a dinner with an ex. Some people can't handle that. I'm not a very jealous person because honestly, if Aaron was ever, like Aaron's not capable of cheating.

He would, it's not within his capability. Right. Are you saying he's got no game? He's got no game. Right, okay. He just couldn't put two and two together. It just wouldn't cross his mind that he could have more than just me. He'd just be like, I've got Hayley.

But if he's listening now, you're telling him he can. He'd absolutely go for her. He's a big, tall, handsome man. How's this not come across as... A lot of my friends have been like, I've got a bit of a crush on your boyfriend. And I was like, I'm open to the idea. Me, oh my.

But it's bred in me that I'm not a jealous person. So if Aaron was to go, if fiance Aaron was to go and have dinner with an ex, I'd be absolutely fine. If he wanted to have a little private weekend on an annual basis with them, I'd be like, I'm finding it weird. Yeah, I'd be absolutely fine. If you wanted to have a little private weekend on an annual basis with them, I'd be like, I'm finding it weird. Yeah, that would be weird. I'm not

distrustful or whatever. I'm just like, it's weird. The trouble is, if you're with someone, say for example, you broke up with your fiancé, now you've had 10 years with them, 10 years of really close friendship. Memories, they know you so well. And then you move on with someone else.

You still want to maybe catch up with him, right? Like if it ended amicably. But I wouldn't book an Airbnb and head to the coast. Yeah. That is the weird bit, eh? Yeah. I don't think it's the relationship that I find odd because, yes, you get very close with people in relationships.

It's the privacy and the exclusiveness of that. So I wonder, could we take some calls this morning? Is there anybody listening that has a friendship with an ex that people find quite hard to deal with? Yeah. Or maybe they're accepting, but they weren't at first. I don't know. Or does your friendship with your ex sort of go beyond the norm?

You know, like, does it sort of, do you have something? And you might have kids with someone, and you might have been with someone for, like, a long time. So you're friends, and maybe that's all you are now. And you realise that's what it would become. Yeah. So then, but then either your new partners might find it weird. I just find it fascinating to, because this whole Bill Gates story,

that's, it's tricky. He even saw the ex-girlfriend's approval before marrying Melinda. He was like, what do you think of her? Really? And the ex-girlfriend's like, oh, she's very intelligent. She's a great match for you. I think, you know, you've found an equal here. So maybe they're just best friends.

Yeah. He said that they would play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology. So maybe she was just smarter than Melinda and he could talk to her about things that he can't talk to Melinda about. Maybe Melinda's that. She's a very smart woman. Well, she's a very, she doesn't like mini golf. Maybe she doesn't like mini golf.

She's also now the second richest woman in the world too. So after the Bill Gates and Melinda divorce, one of the richest couples in the world. Windows and all their humanitarian work, it's over. It's over. Amicably split. But it's come out that Bill Gates has an ex that he would spend weekends away with. Yeah.

And they were cool with it. Yeah. So we've been asking if anyone out there has a relationship with an ex that other people find hard to understand. Yeah. Greer, you live with an ex that other people find hard to understand. Yeah. Greer, you live with your ex. I do. Oh, wow. You break it down, Greer.

So do you have a current partner? Yeah, and so does he. What? Wait, and do they live there as well? No, they don't. Oh, right. Okay. So you go home and you guys are still together.

How did you end up still living together? Well, we didn't actually live together when we were together, but I moved to the same city where he lives when I started my new job, and his flatmates were looking for a new flatty, and I said, is there anyone else that you know of that's looking for a flatmate? And they said, no, join our flat. So it's been a year, and we're still living together. And it's not weird at all?

No, it's actually fine. Right, okay. Wow. What a dynamic shift. Yeah. I hope your walls have insulation, you know, they're not paper thin, my God. Brilliant, thanks.

You call Greer. So many messages coming in. I know, it's incredible. It's really, it's a sign of the times, I think, that people are so open and mature. Yeah, back in the I know, it's incredible. It's really, it's a sign of the times, I think, that people are so open and mature. Yeah, back in the 50s, you just used to burn

houses down, didn't you? Yeah. Did you? I don't know if you did. Talking about if you're still friends with an ex. Or there's some aspect of your relationship

with your ex that people struggle to understand. Yeah. Like you can, like Bill Gates, go away for a weekend with your ex.

Yeah. Hearing from him, this is quite common. He was with her for five years, by the way. So it's not like they were together for 15 years. Yeah. It was still a long time though. And he would have been much younger, right? Yeah, and five years younger than her.

Okay. So she wanted to get married back in the day and he didn't. So then the next partner was who he married, Melinda, and he just remained really good friends with this other lady, Anna. So we're talking about those things, relationships you might have with your ex that people struggle to understand. Somebody's messaged in, if you're still friends with your ex,

you're either still in love or you never were. That's absolute BS. I'm not with it. I'm not with that. That's a fiery quote. I think that's coming from someone who's been hurt before. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, they're not with the ex, are they?

No. Are you friends with an ex? I am, yes. Horny? Nah. Oh yeah, one of my like closest friends I used to date. That's because he got dumped on Christmas Eve. But I'm not, I don't even keep in contact with any of my exes.

Grinch. But then all, to be honest, like all of my relationships before show, they were like three months long maximum. Yeah, same. Yeah, right. Nothing significant relationships before Sade were like three months long maximum. Yeah, same. Yeah, right. So nothing significant. No. So there's no need.

Okay. No need. Danielle, what's the situation? Friends with an ex? Hi, guys. Hi. So I'm actually the partner in this. So my partner has a really good friendship with his ex and has been since we first kind of dated.

And it's been, at first it wasn't really the kind of thing that you really want to come into a relationship with. You know, there's boundaries with the person that they had this relationship with. But I think over, I guess, five years, the frost has kind of thawed. And now after this time has passed and you've sort of gotten used to it,

there's no trust issues there for you? No, there's no trust issues at all I think you've just got to I guess make boundaries and have open communication about it It's just something that... Very mature of you It is, yeah it is. Danielle, thanks for your call. Kieran, what's the situation

with you and your ex? We were together for 10 years We've got two children. We've been apart for 21 years and him and his partner have two little kids, nine and six, and they are like our best friends. Oh.

The kids call us auntie and uncle. So you're like, you've become family, like a bigger family. We, absolutely. And because his family was up the far north, my family, he's still as part of our family, and we have family get-togethers, and they all come.

Wow. That's cool. For the kids, that's really cool. Was it hard at first or not at all? For the first sort of probably year it was hard, but after that it just worked. And people can't understand how it can work. And the partners, like his partner, do you have a partner,

do they struggle with it at all? Absolutely not. They're all like, we're really close. She's like one of my best friends. Almost like I feel like she's close to being my sister. That's just amazing. Wow, brilliant. Kieran, thanks for your call.

Jean, you went on your honeymoon with your ex-husband. Yeah, that kind of sounds really weird. Honestly, I'm going to need some explanation. Yeah, so my husband and I got married a couple of years ago, and I have a 10-year-old daughter with my ex. And it was our first trip going overseas, and we wanted to take – oh, I wanted to go with my daughter, because how cool would that be to go to Rarotonga? And I just felt that it would be bad.

Like, he's by himself, so we just invited him. We didn't stay together, because that would be weird, but we stayed down the road from each other. And did he hang out with you? Yeah, we shared flights, taxis, everything. Like, we had our alone time, so we shared who had our

daughter. But then we did touristy stuff together, and we had lunch or dinner together and that kind of thing. We had game nights and that all the time. Wow, and new hubby and old hubby got on well? Yeah, they get on really well. Like school assemblies,

that kind of thing. They sit beside each other and yarn away. Oh wow. They're friends. Brilliant. Alright, Jean, thank you for your call. Riven, you're besties with your ex's mum. I am, wow. Yeah, they're friends. Brilliant. All right, Jean, thank you for your call. Riven, you're besties with your ex's mum. I am, yeah. Me and my ex were together for about five years when we were like teenagers. And I used to stay at his house all the time.

So I became really close to his family. And when we split up, I just continued to, you know, be close with his mum. And I hung out with her all the time. There's quite a few text messages saying that the relationship people struggle to understand is that people have with their ex's family. Yes. They really like the family. And maybe not so much the ex anymore, specifically, but the whole family.

Yeah. I don't have a lot to do with him, really. Like, we're on good terms and stuff, but we don't really talk. But I see her all the time, talk to her all the time. Like, you break up with one person, you don't break up with everybody else. Exactly. You get to know. Have you had new partners that have found that weird?

One of his exes did find it a little bit weird, but he's with someone else now and it's totally fine. She's met my new partner. We've hung out together, all three of us. So it's really quite cool. Wow. No one really gets it. No one really gets it. No one really gets it.

A lot of people really struggling to understand a lot of today's callers. Riven, thank you for your call. Yeah, overwhelming response. I suppose it's just like, it's individual. If it works for everyone involved, who are we to say whether it's normal or

not? If everyone's happy and okay with it and everything's open, who do you do you? Somebody, this text message. My mum, my step-mum and my ex-step-mum are all really good friends and kind of all played a part in raising us. So dad had the children with the first mum. Yeah, right. That's mum.

And then he was with somebody else who turned into the ex-step mum because they've acquired a new step mum. Oh, right. Three mums. And everyone gets on. Ma, three mums. And they all, yeah. Imagine the gifts.

Oh, yeah. Mum one, mum two, mum three. Thank you. They could just have something to share, I think, some sort of mum experience. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, I think, some sort of mum experience. Well, it came to my attention yesterday that, Hayley, you have offended somebody in the office here at ZM.

Have I? Megan is back from maternity leave on Monday. You've got two days left. You've left a slew of complaints in your time here. In my wake. I like that for you. I like that for everybody. But this person in the office said to me in confidence,

like, oh, Hayley said this thing. And actually I was kind of like. It's offended me. It's kind of embarrassed her. Like it just kind of made her feel a bit like, yeah. Oh my God, who is it? Yeah. So I thought we'd get this person in from the office and you can apologise to them.

No, I hate this. I like this. Okay. Could we bring in Celia, please? Now, this is Celia from the office. Celia? She's not like, she's laughing. She does find this very funny.

Celia, what have I done? How are you going? I'm scared. How have I offended you? Well, we went to the gym together on Monday and it was really nice. Fletch was there. Yeah, we've been doing the, like,

they're like F45 classes, eh? They're like at Les Mills, it's called Ceremony. And you, it's high intensity and you just sweat. So if you're wondering how F45 could get any more pretentious, they do it at Les Mills, it's called Ceremony. And it's high intensity and you just sweat. Wow, so if you're wondering how F45 could get any more pretentious, they do it at Les Mills. Yeah, it's like a sexier F45. Wow. So we did.

Yeah, you were there. Good class. Got very sweaty. I did find it a little bit challenging this week because I haven't gone in about two weeks. And then after the class, you proceeded to ask me if it was my first time. Wow.

Celia, how long have you been doing that class? Over a year. But Hayley, so you want an apology because Hayley thought you looked so unfit and out of your comfort zone that it must have been your first time. I did too. Now, look, this class, for those that have not been to this class,

and Vaughan, I won't hear a word out of you because we've invited you and you won't come because it's that difficult. Sounds hard. But everyone in there is utterly struggling. And there were a couple of times that I looked over to you and I thought, I feel you. I saw the look on your face and the sweat down your top and the struggle in you.

And I looked over in the skier and I'm going to say it, you were taking some breaks. You know, you only have to go for a minute and you were taking some breaks and I thought, I'm so proud of you that you were here, good on you for giving it a go. You were doing interval training, but you were taking intervals mid-training? Yeah.

It's a hard class. And then we passed each other afterwards and we were like, whew, big workout, that was tough. And I was like, yeah. And now that I've been like six times, I was like, your first time, babe. But it turns out you go at least twice a week. Maybe like once a week.

Yeah, for the last year. I sincerely apologise. Thank you. You are a fitness queen. Thank you. Even the mere showing up at a class that brutal shows that you are so fit. I can't even believe it.

Thanks, Hayley. I appreciate it. I'm really sorry I deeply offended you. Actually, if anyone ever asked me, because remember our first time, we were like, we genuinely don't want anyone to know it's our first time.

Yeah. But it was obvious. It was very, very obvious. Right. Look, just what I'm going to say is just keep looking at that ski pole. You know, like keep looking at it. It's the worst machine.

I hate it. Oh, it truly is terrible. Which one's this one? It's an upright rowing machine. Like the worst machine. I hate it. Oh, it truly is terrible. Which one is this one? It's an upright rowing machine. It's called a skiu. Oh, I've seen them. Yeah, they're pretty, yeah. You just yank on them and it's absolutely brutal.

Yeah, but what? It's only a minute, Celia. Come on. Hey, I was like, stop. It's a minute and then a 15-second break. And you were taking breaks every 15 seconds. You were sort of doing it backwards. High-intensity interval training,

you need to put more on the break part. What, like a longer break? Yeah. No, that doesn't make it high intensity. I'm a one for one ratio. High interval intensity training. You can just switch that. High intervals.

Yeah, do work for 15 seconds and then just chill for a minute. I like that idea. I really hate that I'm going to be leaving this place having left an absolute strew of hurt and pain through the office and the studio alone. Well, it's good. I think we've mended that bridge

haven't we? Is that an apology enough, Celia? Yes. Fantastic. Do you know what? Next time they do the partnership workouts we'll do it together. That sounds great. And then you'll see how much I struggle. I just have a real good sort of like view of you the whole time. Yeah.

Alright, next on the show I just had a real good sort of like view of you. The whole time. Yeah. All right. Next on the show, Karwin at the social media desk. Excuse me. How do you say her name? Karwin. Karwin. Karwin.

Karwin. I do apologise, Karwin. Karwin at the social media desk. Yeah, she was talking to a friend and has discovered a major turn off in a certain male. This could be a lesson for single guys listening. It can be.

And I don't think we should have to even go there, but we're going to have to just bring it up again. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's 20 past, eh? Don't give us an extra hour. I nearly daylight savings and went back there. Karwin at the social media desk. We were chatting this morning and she shared a bit of an anecdote

from a friend of yours. Tell us. So my friend hasn't been in a relationship for a while. She's finally dating again. And last night she was telling me she went back to a boy's house and found something in his bedroom which was quite a turn off. Really surprising. How old, age range?

Mid-20s. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I feel like this is unacceptable after the age of about 16. Well, yeah. Single bed in uni and... And it's not set in boxes, is it?

No, it's a single bed. Yeah. So he just has a single bed. Does he have a trundler bed underneath in case he wants to have a sleepover with a pal? I don't think she's stuck around that long. How good were those when you were a kid, eh? How good was going to your friend's house and then rip a trundler bed underneath in case he wants to have a sleepover with a pal? I don't think she's stuck around that long. How good were those when you were a kid, eh? How good was going

to your friend's house and then rip the trundler bed out and you're like, yeah, I'll sleep on that thing. That's pretty much the bottom bunk, baby. All the girls top and tailed back in the 90s.

We did the old top and tailie, which was a problem because I was a bed wetter. Anyway, that's for another day. So she saw the single bed. I mean, how do you keep that reaction in? Did she stay the night?

No, I think she just went to hang out in his room. Oh, yeah, I used to do that. Nice tiptoe around that. What did you say? Oh, come over and watch a movie. Yeah. Sure. But if you've got a single bed in your room,

you've not got a TV in your room, do you? You're not prioritising a TV in your room over a more spacious bed. Was it a space issue? I don't know. We didn't, to be fair, analyse the room much further. Oh, I need to paint a picture. You can get a double bed. No, you don't even have to get a queen. A double bed,

cheapest chips. 50 bucks. It'll be springy. My first ever double bed had a stain on it and she said I spilt coffee in the bed and I was like

I don't know that's pure human liquid yeah also a $50 bed on Trade Me someone's died in that bed oh yeah maybe that's what the brown stain was

yeah a single bed they're kind of awkward the first year I didn't live at home I went like boarding but were you in a hall

no I was boarding at these people's houses because the uni I went to didn't have like a halls and it wasn't anywhere near my hometown. So I went boarding and I slept in a single bed. When I first moved to Auckland, I moved separately with Aaron because we weren't really sure

if we were going to stay in Wellington or move to Auckland. So we did a little, I'll go up and I'll suss the waters and I stayed with his parents for a year a whole year and I slept in a single bed for a year but alone and not bringing boys over to have a rendezvous

I've slept in a single bed just like we've got kids so sometimes like you'll hop in and they'll jump in the double they'll sleep with Sade and I'll go and sleep and it's quite like it's weird. It feels silly and it certainly doesn't feel sexy

or romantic. Or like if you go away with friends and you're sharing a hotel room and you get the single bed and they get the place and you're like, oh my God, it's always,

you'll be Airbnb-ing and there's three couples and then you'll go to the Airbnb, there's a double bed, a double bed and two singles and there's always that moment where you're like, who is it? We've been in that situation where there was like a king or a queen size bed, so a big bed,

then a double bed, then two singles. I opted for the two singles because the double's not big enough for two adults. Double's the worst bed there is. I'd rather sleep in two singles for the rest of my life than share a double. Doubles are so small. I'm lucky because Aaron is such a big boy, six foot six, that we're always like, oh, to be honest, it's for his back.

He needs some space. So we always get the big bed. If he was my friend, I'd comically make him in the single bed so his feet would hang over the end. Well, single beds, I mean... So you're saying absolutely turn off? For me it would be. It just feels childish.

But Fletch, you're more of a once you're there, whatever, right? Like once you've started on that track, it doesn't matter to you. I've already gone up the lift. I've already been in the apartment. I put in the effort to leave my house. I'm certainly not going home. I'm certainly not staying the night if it's a single bed. Yeah.

No, you're not going to stay the night. No. Especially if it's so casual. Well, you're certainly not getting any cuddling in on a single bed. No, and not with a casual because you'll be so close to sweaty in a single bed. Text them.

I'm 30 and I still have a single bed. Hearing you guys talk about this explains quite a bit. I'm going to have to re-evaluate things. Well, go and see

our friend Lily at Big Safe Furniture. Oh, she's got so many beds. She'll see you right. She will. Fleshforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is that since the year 2012, there have been six known deaths that have occurred from competitive eating competitions. Oh, okay. As Hayley chokes on a scone. You gasped and choked on some scone. Oh, some scone. Let's start 2012. October 2012, a 32-year-old man died while competitively eating blank.

Hot dogs. Blank. The prize that he could win was a python. And this happened in Florida. Oh, America. He was competitively eating steaks. Nope. Hot dogs.

Nope. Live cockroaches and worms. Yum. Yuck. He choked to death. The coroner ruled a death by asphyxia. So he choked to death. Well, you've got to chew your cockroaches, don't you?

Yeah, you've really got to chew them. But I think it's when you vomit them back up. If you do speed eating, you just get them in, eh? Swallowing them so they were alive. Of 2013, a 64-year-old Australian man, Bruce Holland, died in a pie-eating contest. Pies. Yeah.

Oh, we're not guessing. Oh, we're not guessing that one. But you guessed it correct. I only did the guess one. Yeah, good boys. Okay, on July 4th, there's a massive clue. July 4th, 2014, a 47-year-old competitive eater died choking to death during a what eating contest?

American Independence. He was eating American Independence. Yes. He choked on his own freedom. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. A famous one. I don't know how you get that.

Because they're girthy like the bread. You've got to dip them, eh? In water. Practice does make perfect. Practice does. But they dip the bread to make it soggier like you do like a duck. I wonder if your dentist will be able to tell. Well, if you've been in a hot dog eating competition.

100%. Well, apparently they can. Apparently they can. Who knew that? At a Sacred Heart University event on April 2nd, 2017, a 20-year-old female died as a result of a competitive this is a hard one, pancake eating competition. Oh, okay.

That was also asphyxia. August 13, 2019, a 41-year-old man choked to death after competing in an amateur what eating competition at a Fresno Grizzlies

baseball game? Hot dogs. Popcorn. No. Tacos. Tacos. A taco eating competition. Wow.

And I can't find... I can't find... It would have been... I can't find if it was hard or soft. Tacos. A taco eating competition. Wow. And I can't find... Hard shell. I can't find... It would have been... And you know what? I can't find if it was hard or soft. Too bad. You ate a hard shell taco.

You're a monster. And... I don't want to say you deserve to die, but if you'd gone with soft shell... Don't eat that quickly. Yeah. Hard shell tacos. No. And finally, this happened in...

Sorry, Vaughn. Can I interrupt? Just momentarily. Hayley yesterday received her AliExpress taco holders. I did. Her taco holders. That I told her about. Yeah, and I think they're really going to hold the tacos well.

They look shallow. Send us a photo. They look shallow. They're not shallow. They're narrow, but I'm an overstuffer, so I think it'll actually help me and I could probably get more tacos in. We had tacos the other night and I classically overstuffed,

but then I like being able to just go around with another, what are they called? A tortilla at the end and just like mop it all up. But see, if you want to overstuff like some, you know, a device, you need a burrito. Tacos, you've just got to. Because you can overstuff a burrito because there's so much wrapping involved. Yeah, but tacos, it's all about the flavours, the different flavours, isn't it?

Yeah, but so is a burrito. I think I might have tacos tonight. I've got some mints in the fridge. I could do a mint taco. Tonight. He doesn't like mints tacos. No, neither, but I've got mints there. He considers himself a higher class of human than the everyday man.

Yeah, I don't do it. I'm a straight up fish. Okay. You're a fish taco. And finally, this happened just pre-pandemic. Oh, okay. January 26, 2020, a woman died in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia on Australia Day, which is a little bit of a clue, in a what-eating contest.

It's an Australian dish. Boomerangs. Not boomerangs. No. Kangaroo fillets. Notomerangs. Not boomerangs. No. Kangaroo fillets. Not kangaroo. It wasn't meat. It's a contentious issue between us and Australia.

Pavlova. Pavlova. No, the other one. You love them. Veggie mites. That horse. No. Farlap.

Farlap eating competition. No. Russell Crowe. You know, not a human. Eating Russell Crowe. No, it wasn't eating Russell Crowe. You love them. Do I?

Lammington. Lammington. Lammingtons. You can die eating lamingtons. So apparently what kickstarted it was the coconut. Because, you know, even though when you're eating a, slowly eating a lamington, if you don't want the coconut to like fall on your pants, you give a bit of like,

as you're eating, just give it a light vacuum around. Well, apparently that triggered the choking and then it was all over. Sometimes the cocoa powder they put on a moccacinio can do that to me. You know, there's a lot. And I'm just like. Because cocoa is so dry. It's because of.

Yeah. It bounces straight off the foam. Like cinnamon. Oh, yeah. Cinnamon off a chai. Yeah. So today's fact of the day. Just slow down your eating.

And think twice about entering a competitive eating contest because since 2012, there have been six recorded deaths of people who died during competitive eating contests. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Yeah, my next door neighbour has heaps of taro plants and he actually cooked us a meal and it was amazing. But I just like the way the leaves look. And so I was like, what is this beautiful shrubbery?

And he was like, it's a taro plant. So I found one on Trade Me for 29 bucks, a nice big one. And I showed Bourne, he was like, get it. And he encouraged me. He just sort of lured me into a sense of plant buying. Right, because I would say most days when I walk past your laptop, it's Trade me plants. Facebook Marketplace. I've seen her absolutely plant

fiending in there. There you go. Plant. And it's open. Every day I see that. I've seen photos of the place where you live and it looks beautiful, all the plants you have inside. But you must be getting close to a jungle. Yeah.

It's quite a small house. But the thing is, Aaron said to me, I feel like I... You know when someone says something to you as like, you need to stop this, but they leave a little gap for you to sort of manipulate what they've said. So Aaron said to me recently, no more plants.

And I was like, that's fair. We're really running out of space. Yeah, I don't see any gaps. Because how many square metres? 80. And how many plants do you think you have inside? 50 plus. But I tell you what,

you've got some oxygen in there. Oh yeah, you must have got some good oxygen. Do you hear that? My lungs are full of it. Yeah. But this is what he said. He was like, there's said. Living in the Amazon.

He was like, there's no more room on the ground. And I was like, there's no more room on the ground. So he said, no more plants, there's no more room on the ground. How have you taken that? Do you know where there's room? Hanging from the ceiling. He's not a fan of this either. He's 6'6", the roofs are 2.4.

So he's already up there. Ducking and diving around them anyway. But the thing is, we talked about this taro plant that I wanted to buy, and then I went and got my nails done yesterday out, where's Altia Valley Road? North Auckland. Very North Auckland. Right.

And in the same block that the salon is, is this amazing plant shop. I didn't even want to say the name. It's plant-based. So please don't go there and just like buy all the plants because I'm going to go there every three weeks. Yeah, buy plants. I want to get my nails done.

Yeah, right. And there's this amazing plant shop there. And I'm always a little early because I always think the north is further away than it is. So I always pull up there and just have a browse. And I bought two more plants. Two more, okay. two more pots and another macrame hanger and then I got my nails done and I came back and I just sat there and one of them is

so nice like it's one I've wanted for a long time what was it uh well the one I got the big one is the a rhododendron it's not a rhododendron it's a philodendron A philodendron Brazil So I've got lots of philodendrons But I don't have the Brazil variety Right So I got the Brazil variety And the other one I got was Is it a minica? Minica

Okay A merkin? Anyway So then I had to pull up my car And Aaron's working outside On the shed at the moment With his friend Logan And I had to like

Get them into the house And like Logan his friend saw me and was like he already knew he was like you're in trouble and then I took them into the house and I was like I'll quickly repot them and I'll just hang it and he won't even notice that it's new yeah and he just walked into the house he was like, how many? He was like, babe, we just don't have the space anymore. And I was like, Aaron, there is so much space around. He was like, I feel claustrophobic in here. Which is the opposite.

I'm living in beautiful fresh air. So I had to sort of apologize like I did last time when I left that very same store. And I rung him and I said, you love me, eh? I know that call. And I was like, good, just making sure I'm on my and I said you love me eh? I know that call. And I was like good just making sure I'm on my way home. What have you done? So look

I got in a bit of trouble but also he gets to live in a beautiful jungle. So I wanted to know from you guys what does your partner get mad at you for buying too much of? Could be clothes, it's another one. Because the clothes, if you can hide those

in the wardrobe, sometimes they don't know until you wear them. No, then he just lays that in you. I'm like, I've had this for ages. Done.

Sorted. Yeah. But the plant, he's sort of, it's an amateur eye. Joint bank account. But I just make it real busy. I just go and buy

a couple other small things. I can smell a purchase. I walk into the house, I'm like, something's been purchased. Closer. Because she'll throw out the Jujuba bags.

The Jujuba. Jujuba. Jujuba. Jujuba. Jujuba. Jujuba. Oh, yeah. That bag gets buried.

My recycling bin is just a myriad of country road and witchery bags. Yeah, exactly. Like, Sade thinks I'm not going to dig through the recycling bin to make a point.

Like, I... She doesn't know how much I love being right. Yeah, yeah. I Sade thinks I'm not going to dig through the recycling bin to make a point. She doesn't know how much I love being right. Yeah, yeah. I'll dive right to the bottom of the actual rubbish bin, pass all the scraps if I have to. Well, look, I have been particularly bad recently, so I need to feel better. I want to know from you guys,

what do you purchase that drives your partner mad? They're just begging for you. No more. All right. But you can't stop. Well, Hayley getting a telling off yesterday for buying yet another two houseplants. I've only got like three or four more on my list

and then there's one more corner to fill and then I'll chill. It's not the season for buying plants. That's what addicts say. Just a couple more. You should buy them for Fletch because you'd finished doing his apartment but the first ones you bought would have started dying,

so you could start just buying them all over again. That way. You could be helping me as well. He's getting plants and you're getting your fix. There would be nothing I would love more than to buy plants on someone else's dime. Okay. Oh, my God. I'm a plant designer now.

I'm not going to spend too much. Oh, no. They're so expensive. Oh. If you want a variegated Monstera, we're looking in the thousands. You need a variegated Monstera. I've always seen it. Every home needs a variegated Monstera, darling. A Thai constellation,

I'm absolutely telling you. We want to know what your partner always tells you off for buying. I buy vintage Polly Pocket toys. I'm 40 and my partner doesn't even like me mentioning them anymore and I have to lie. Does she display them? Or hide them in shame?

No. Somebody else said, picture frames. It's a compulsion. They're stashed all over the house, including the kids' rooms. There's virtually no wall space. There's because of all the arts and photos, but I keep buying more. Oh, wow. I kind of like a feature wall that's all frames.

The mural walls? Yes. I like those. I like that too, but if it's over the whole house, you'll be a bit like, I can't breathe in here. Yeah, yeah. All right, keep your text, your calls coming in. What does your partner always tell you off for buying?

House plants. Problematic purchasing of house plants. There's no more room. Yeah, you can always find more room for more house plants. Hayley yesterday told off by the fiancé for yet two more house plants. I'm hanging them from the ceiling now. The total 50. 50 plus, around the 50 mark.

And an 80 square foot house. Yeah. Some text messages in. Many houseplant anonymous messages. People who just keep buying more and more houseplants. And so much so that their husband downloaded that PlantSnap app. So he's got a catalogue of all the plants in the house. So if he thinks one's new, he takes a photo of it and tells him,

he's like, well, that's new because that's not on my list from last time. He's like, tracking. Clever boy. Clever. I need to get that app because I've, honestly, I'm a houseplant killer. It's terrible. Sam, what have you been told off for buying too much of? Well, I'm a gamer, so I buy a lot of games,

PlayStation games and World of Warcraft and collectibles. And your partner's not having a bar of it? No, he hates it. We've got kids, and now my kids are gamers, so that really... He's outnumbered me. He's outnumbered. He gets no say. No, no.

Are you able to sneak games in without him knowing? Luckily, on the downloading side, yep. But it depends. If I have to use his credit card, then of course he notices. Yeah, just take $20 a time out at the supermarket and the self-serve checkout. After a few weeks, you've got a couple of hundies. Yeah, yeah.

That's the stuff that strong relationships are built on. Financially defrauding your partner. Naked and hopefully he doesn't notice. Exactly. Sam, thanks for your call. Steph, you've been told off for buying what? Too many animals.

Oh, no! I like to collect pets and my husband absolutely hates it. Don't worry, he won't be around for long. Crazy old cat ladies. I started with rabbits, and I hid them in the veggie garden. Then I wanted a dog, and he hit the roof. Then I brought home the biggest dog you could get, which is a bull master. Oh, my gosh.

It's not a subtle pup. Hiding your rabbits in the vegetable gardens. It seems counterintuitive. I think men are dumb. Honestly, they have no idea. You just bring anything into the house, they've got no clue. Yeah, he didn't even know that I replaced a couple of the rabbits as well.

I was like, no, we've had these ones for ages. They don't know. Yeah, because they die quite easily, don't they, rabbits? Yeah, or like the neighbourhood cat kind of got one. So I was like, oh, I need to replace that one now. So I replaced it and he hardly knew. He didn't know for a while. Brilliant.

Steph, thanks. You call some text messages in. I tell you, we're hearing from people that work in tack shops. Now that's where you buy your saddlery for your horses, your bridles, your stirrups, your stuff that can also be used for sexy times. Brushes. Yeah, more of the brushes, some shin guards.

I should add marriage counsellor to my CV. Really? Because we've on multiple occasions had to talk down a husband who's just found out his wife has spent $7,500 on a saddle on a whim. Is that how much a horse saddle costs? Oh, probably a nice one.

I would just throw the saddle back at them with the receipt and be like, that's going to be put back into that account by the end of the business day. I would put the saddle on them and I would ride them. Well, I mean, that's... The person in the tack shop? Or your wife? Why?

You put the saddle on the wife. If she came home with an expensive saddle, I'd be like, well, that's our money. I get to use it too. On your pop. Yeah. And I'd hop on it and I'd take it for a blimmin' ride. And with one of those little whips just.

Yep. Yep. Come on now. It's the Melbourne car. See, the big purchase stuff I've never understood. People be like, my husband came home with a motorcycle. I'm like, oh no, no, that's a discussion. Yeah, that is.

That's an insane amount of money. One to $500 on plans. Yeah, but it adds up to be the cost of a motorcycle over time, doesn't it? Yeah, but we both get to enjoy it. Yeah, and that fresh air. And that fresh air. He gets to enjoy it. Oh my God, so much oxygen.

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