ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley: Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 22nd September 2023

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The Fleece Vaughn and Haley big pod treat yourself to make cafe coffee with my Maccas rewards

Good morning. Welcome to the show Fleece Vaughn and Haley. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. Happy. Can you Vaughn?

Can you make the zoom? Yeah, thank you. It was looking at your crotch there. Oh, yeah

No, it's just adjusting my levels because I'm in charge of the desk here

Do I'm gonna control the show today because I can it'll be fun. You cannot you can control your levels

You can't control anything else. Do you have to give me the controls?

You can do it. We're keen to pop off. We're heading to the airport

Are you guys you guys are off to a Brisbane to support the Warriors? No, that's right. No, but the wires

Although we did talk about going to a pub. You might find a pub and watch the watch the wires

Absolutely, man. It is. Oh, it might be hard in Melbourne. You know, they don't like

Yeah, they are yeah

Last time I was there there was an all-black's vs. Wallabies game and I had to ask the pub to put the game on

Oh, yeah, rugby is below rugby league in Melbourne when it comes to sports they care about most definitely

But up the wires guys

I just want to give I feel like I maybe haven't been up in the wazas as much or nearly enough this week massive game

Tomorrow night's late nights 10 to 10 that it plays in New Zealand time

Yeah, and you can listen on SkySport 9 as well

10 to 10 was versus the Broncos

ACC commentators die Henwood and Maniah Stewart. Oh, yeah dies. I mean die Maniah a dynamic duo

Die sure knows his rugby leg. I'm always impressed with that man's. Yeah, deep well of knowledge always great to listen to the ACC commentary

Support the lads coming up on the show silly little poll

We all do this at concerts. We record videos. Yeah

Some people have their phone up every song. I know but how often do you actually watch those videos back?

I just recently I watched a video back and realized I'd never watched it ever again and that was like nine years ago

Queen concert and I was like, oh, yeah watching it back. I was like

Stupid taking these videos. I know because then you just not present in the moment. Are you well?

That's today's question for silly little poll. Do you rewatch your old concert videos? We'll delve into that soon on the show

but next

I've got a bit of a study about um, what we share and um, the majority of people absolutely

Don't mind uh, doing something for a bit of a discount

You know a bargain. Yeah easily. I love a bargain

Go on. I've got a I've got a lot of stats here for you

Lot of numbers brace yourself. There was a study out of america looking at how much we trust ai

I still don't get it

I don't see Steven fry. Steven fry's suing

Open ai because he reckons his voice got stuck. Was it the ai open ai that he's

He reckons that listened to the harry potter audiobook that he read and it was enough. He's stolen his voice

Holy

Yeah, well, that's a whole part of what the strikes are about at the moment, right? Like that that you can they can use your likeness

Yeah, massive willy nilly and all my extras and movies will be ai and they'll just duplicate you. Yeah. Yeah, it's a bit weird

So I don't really know what ai does what it is. Um, and a 46 of

No, 54 percent of americans are great. They don't really we don't really understand it

however

A lot of people are still using it in america people a lot of people are happy to let ai

Auto order household items when they're running low

So I guess like that would be your like supermarket shopping. Maybe they use that over there a little bit more than us

Okay, making reservations on their behalf

Choosing their clothes. Is that like some kind of elixir thing or surrey you just say he's surrey check the pantry book me a reservation

Because there are some fridges that have cameras and they tell you when you're low on yogurt and then they just can order it

But you're telling it. So that's not ai. I reckon ai would work out every

month you

It goes through what you've ordered online from previous shopping and it's like oh every month they need more toilet paper

Yeah, right

And so it would just do it automatically because otherwise because I remember do you remember what that

I really like this idea, but some people were a bit weirded out about it

But there was a button with a battery in it and it was connected to your wi-fi

And it was in your wash in your laundry and when you needed more laundry detergent

You just pushed the button and it self ordered it through your wi-fi

I want those buttons all around I want those buttons all around my house. Yeah, right

We need that we need that we need that we need that chocolate button

It's just like emergency like when you're in a hospital and they say press the button three times in an emergency

Yes, and it just uber eats you your favorite block of witticas. Yeah. Yeah now we're talking

So millenials are the most concerned with ai privacy

72% of millenials are like hang on. Why are we giving out information?

Well, baby boomers are the least concerned because they're just like sure you can have this

Well, that's why they're on the front page of the herald every day. Well, so they've taken a hundred thousand dollars out

I know exactly. He told me love me

So uh millenials, but however, even though we're the most concerned millenials

We're the most willing to hand over details

To an ai thing like online filling informed birthday full name name of spouse and partner email address name of children

Even social security numbers or like ird numbers just to get a fine percent discount on our first order

Yeah, a lot of people 87% of people are doing it as a in exchange for like enter your details here

And then we'll send you 5% because that'll be just like your um, you're gonna

Shopping website and they go sign up for this and get 10% off

I did that literally yesterday

I had it when you go to buy something and then you see that they give you a five or 10% off for a first order

And you fill it all out and then you and they don't email you the code and you're like i need to buy this

No, we're the coder. We're the coder. That's how they get you because they're like hey, it's cheaper today

Do it 10%

I love a little discount. Be careful with your personal info. Well, if I there's there we're all screwed anyway, right?

We've been on all these social media apps for the last forever

There is like nothing you cannot find out about me. Do you know exactly? Yeah on the internet?

Hmm. Yeah, but you keep sending the facebook help desk daily nudes as well being like this is what I look like today

They need to know am I ever changing?

Hey facebook help desk. This is what's up. So you know guys, this is what we're working with today

11 and a half years ago on the 6th of february

2012 at approximately 3 30 in the afternoon i became a father

No, remember the first time yeah to indiana harper smith who I love dearly and

Last night I got me. I had a couple of margaritas and I tell you what it got me

Oh my god

Well, it's been an emotional week, isn't it? Well, indy's gone to the longest camp she's ever gone to she's been away from home

But she's always been with like grandparents. She goes so like my in school holiday

She'll go to my parents place for a week and she'll go spend a few days at shudder's mum's place

and

This week she's been on sports camp, which has been she left on monday and she gets back this afternoon

massive long camp

Crazy like long days on monday playing sports. That's four nights on

Yeah, that's not that long

It's the longest i've never talked to her like even if i've been away or she's been away

We talked to her we would talk all the time now

For hella 11th birthday. I got her a cell phone

We got her a cell phone so we could stay in touch in these sorts of situations the cell phone of what she's taken

And is on and working because I can go on find my friends and see her live location

So she's ignoring you and not messaging you back

I don't know. She's ignoring me. I don't know. She's ignoring. Let's not say ignoring

But it has been so the last the last message I got from who was on monday night. Yeah, and it said

Um, oh

Yeah, we talked about how she

Part of this camp was like, um, because it's at a christian camp. It's a job less a sort of christian quiz

And I said on monday

at

5 54 p.m

How's it going indiana child of christ and she didn't reply for five hours five hours late night 10 a.m

10 p.m. She said i'm going to bed night

Good night xx

Well, that's cute. It was the last time I heard from her. Look at this. That's the last time I heard from her

And now I look like desperate dad because look how many unanswered messages. I've said

Tuesday oh my god, yo, how's it going because i'm cool. I'm cool. I can say yo. I don't know if anyone else is saying

Yo, don't don't say yo Wednesday

When unanswered wednesday heart emoji. That's all I said. I wouldn't know i'm thinking about her

yesterday thursday

Oh, it's thursday 18 p.m. So i've left that a day and almost two days

Love you, buddy. Hope camp's been fun unanswered. Oh, buddy

Dude, did she have read receipts on like can you see if she's read that? No, it just wouldn't I don't turn them on your phone. Yeah

She might be out of service. She might she's not out of service

She's not out of service

She's when you know she because she messaged when she first got there

Yeah, because you can see on fine friends if you're on your phone

Oh, because otherwise I won't find you. Yeah, it's like hailey jane sprawl is here now. Maybe she's met a boy

I think a pattern. Maybe she's met a boy. Well, maybe here in the other guys are just drinking and having a few drinks

Yeah, when I was a liver, someone came over to my house. They brought this sleeping bag and in this sleeping bag was one of those um

purple

guanas

Christabel, Christabel went over and I was like, oh, what are you doing? What are you doing? She's like, let's drink it

So she was she put the key in the door and unlocked

You were alcohol problem

Maybe maybe I mean the producer the room in the house was always there

Jared has asked, uh, maybe she's run out of her tx 2000

Oh, yeah 20 cents tx could be up. Yeah, excuse me. Jared. I do quite well for myself. My daughter's on an unlimited plan

God, this is

Wow, she's very special

Wow

This is just the

She still loves you. She's gonna. She'll come back to you

Yeah, but only when she's like mid 20s when she needs money years

Don't show me for a couple of years

Great friends and now we have a beautiful relationship

Unshun me. I want to be

Young woman. Let me tell you

This is nothing you're gonna get you got a hardened. Oh, yeah, you do

And then last night so after a couple of margaritas and um a duck aisle and ice cream

Fletch, okay. This is why I don't live in the city. You've got ice cream places all around you how you're not constantly eating ice cream

I know I do. Yeah, they're everywhere. Oh my god. Talk about temptation

We walked past and then I was like no and went back and got an ice cream

And then I was having an ice cream and there was like some young university aged girls

And I was looking at them and I was like my daughter is so close to that age and then

They might they looked at me and they must have been like, why is that guy got tears in his eyes and he's looking at us

So I

So I wholeheartedly apologize

And if you were like first year uni students watching a sad old man

Looking is looking at triple skit. He was having a triple skit. I'm having a tough day

I am in the middle of an emotional breakdown

Wow, okay. I'm and I'm here for we're here for a day. This is gonna be

I was a young woman and I just know it's gonna get so much worse for

I know and this is we haven't even touched on august. That's gonna be oh, she's a she's a hailey sprow

Yeah, exactly. She is I'm gonna feel like a caravan in a hurricane when that woman

Becomes a woman

Silly little

Today's silly little poll

Do you rewatch videos from concerts?

I just searched in my photos because you can search concerts and it comes up and there's videos

There's guns and roses never opened that

Ever there's a motley crew and never opened that queen. I've just never ever done it

You just I'm not opening them. Did you what about have you opened the videos?

Did you have your iphone in the 1980s?

How do you they are still very hot and very relevant? I was just about to bring that back to a uh chemical my chemical romance

Have you watched those do you even remember taking those? No, I've got them. I was hey

Florence and the machine. No, I don't remember taking those videos. Yeah, my chemical romance. I was lost at the whole time

Here's some queen video. Yeah, I just have never yeah, you know watch them back only concerts

I watch back a one time performed you read a concert everyone has their hand up the phone's on the like the

Entire arena is lit with phones. I get that you feel the need to capture it and remember it forever

I remember I okay now. I'm sounding really irrelevant and I and I

I saw neil young line. Oh my god. No listen listen listen listen. Listen. Listen. I'm not a huge neil young fan

But my dad is right filmed almost all of it for my dad

And then kept sending it to him and just I can understand. Yeah, but no he doesn't watch them

Or like just at least get out your phone for the favorite song, but then you're missing your favorite song

Well, what did the people vote tell us morning?

Do you rewatch videos from concerts 72% of people said no

Yeah, 28% said yes

I watched I got reminded by facebook memories that it was five years ago this week that we saw share in concert

Nassi now we're back to being relevant artists

And sorry

I personally brought down the relevance of the music references born so happy in all of his life

Apart from the wiggles the wiggles share in the wiggles

Share was wicked the wiggles concert. I reckon I've watched back a few times the videos we took on that night

Oh, that was a war routine. That was the r18 wiggles. Yes, great night because that felt like a dream

Yeah, so I can see why you'd watch that back. I watched the share videos back

And all it reminded me was is that I should not sing at concerts. Oh, yeah

Although I will say like phones have got way better at taking concert videos

Like especially in the last few years, but before then like 2000s

I watch other people's concert videos 2010s like that. You know

Sound yelling. Yeah

Well some messages in well some messages and jamie said uh, it's girl math, right though

Every view of the video the price of the concert ticket is divisible an extra time

Oh, yeah, we did actually say that to someone who was trying to girl math uh, Taylor Swift tickets. Yeah

I think Taylor you'd watch back

you'd watch back

But probably no one else

Taylor Swift. Yeah

Yeah, what's all relative to who your favorite artists also like how lucky that you ever managed to get there to be fair

Yeah

Hannah said I've stopped recording concerts now. I'm trying to live in the moment and all that nonsense. Oh to namaste

Yeah, big big namaste there

We went to something the other day can't say what it was

But we had to lock our phones in one of those bags

With a security tag on it and you couldn't get to your phone

It was like the same tag that they put on clothes to stop you stealing them. It was yeah

And then and they had to use a magnet to take it out club you two went to it was a sex club

That's what we were watching. Oh, sorry. We weren't allowed to say sorry. Sorry. Yeah. No, that's all right

Just don't say what kind of sex club it was. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a cut. Um, mostly cuddles. It was just cuddles and compliments

It's called

Cuddles and confidence. Yeah, that's my favorite sex club. Yeah. Yeah

And then afterwards you have pats that you go to the room that's pats and reassurance. It's okay. It's okay

Yeah, you're all good. You're all good, man. You're all good. You're all good. Yeah, you're all good

Um, my second cousin messaged in that's my second cousin. Kia ora

Deanna deanna. Um, she said no because my terrible singing second cousins. It's so weird. Is it a cousin's child

Or your mum's cousin. It's my mum's cousin's child

So it's my second cousin. Right. Okay. It's my mum's cousin once once removed. Isn't it that out anyway?

We've talked about it another time. You're related somehow

Don't say it together. Deanna, just shout outs to the living stints there of um new plumber from the surrounding areas

Should we just do shout outs all day?

Just to rogue distant family members. It's doing a show where all we do is shout out. Text us 9696 shout outs. It's the shout out show

It's the shout out show. It's Friday. It sounds like the

Yeah, it'll have to be a Friday because that sounds like absolutely dial it in. That sounds great

I'm down for the Friday shout out show. Last show of the year. You know when no one can be bothered

Not a single story. Not a single bit of music. Just shout outs. Shout outs. The Santa shout outs

Um, she says it sounds like radio in the uk. It's all they do. Shout out. I love shouting out to people

Um, Deanna says no because my terrible singing usually ruins them all so that's obviously a family trait

Um, Maddie says uh, I took videos at harry stiles and I was even telling myself as I was doing it

You'll never go back and look at these but I continue to record the best night of my life

Do you do that? I do that with like sunsets and mountains?

Yes, and you never watch it. I always take a photo and I literally go and I'll never look at that again

Yes, well, I'm gonna time lapse this sunset, which I will and it will mean I can't be on my phone for an hour

But I will never look at it again. Yeah

Play ZM's Fletchvaunailey

Play ZM. Is it mental health awareness week? Yes, it is

I am aware that I took my anxiety medication this morning. She says looking at her bag. Did she um

Good fun

Well, this is an interesting week

I guess for this study to come out then because I feel like we've always known don't suppress your feelings

Yeah, talk to someone they talk to someone they come into your subconscious

And they can wreak havoc in there

However, a study out of cambridge university has found

The using the term you actually just need to harden up

Which is the term that we've all been told we should we should stop saying and never say now

I would take this with a grain of salt because I totally go you talk to someone

But I think they're talking about like all all feelings that we're feeling all the time. Maybe we don't need to be

Expressing them all the time especially if they're uncomfortable and annoying

that you can instead sometimes just decide to swallow and like press it down and then um, just

Just um, just have a bit of a stiff upper lip and harden up

And they say that that's actually sometimes less damaging than expressing them. That's also very british as well, isn't it?

What to just suppress your feelings yeah to say yeah

But I can't

At the risk of absolutely getting cancelled before seven o'clock this morning. I can't really don't want to

I can't see what they mean

Because if you let the negative thoughts

Overwhelm everything it can become a lot bigger deal than it actually is. Do you know what I mean?

Totally. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So I don't think this is I mean

This is definitely not talking about if you're concerned that you've got depression or suicidal idea or anything like that

No, obvious you have to express that but the way they did it was they took people from 16 different countries

And were asked about 20 different fears and worries that they thought might happen

20 hopes and dreams and then 36 hum drum scenarios

They call drum just like you go to your car and there's a biscuit on the seat

It was my only hum drum scenario

Wouldn't you be delighted?

I'd be stoked. I'd blow the dust off and then eat the biscuit. So then data

Showed that those told to explicitly not think about the events or to distract themselves from thinking about them

Thought about their events less vividly and improve their mental health. So if you're going oh my god, like oh

I'm really nervous about this

Meeting I have you know where I have to say to someone, you know, I'm disappointed or I'm upset. I want to break up with you

or whatever

That the more that they expressed that feeling the worst their

Response was to it

I'm just gonna no not going to think about that actually and then just face it head on

Had a less of an impact on their mental health

I

I get what they mean

But like the the headline of the story being you need to harden up or take a concrete pill and harden up

Isn't quite the best delivery of it. No, definitely not definitely not

It's basically they said so same with people with PTSD. So think about your war vets or people who've gone through traumatic events

They there's therapy for PTSD where you pull you go through the whole thing

And then this study was like a lot of people that suppressed negative thoughts

associated with the event that gave them PTSD

their mental health

increased at a faster rate than those that were going through

more of a

expressive therapy for it

By at least 10 percent. I don't know how you measure your mental health. I mean, it's a fluctuating thing, isn't it?

Measuring up by percentages is be interested to see how they did that. Yes. So they're now they're calling it suppression training

burying it

Basically, but that's all being told all this time. I know because they don't they like it lives like a bloody tumor in your gut

Until one day it's all going to come out

But then I also you also see it on social media, right? Because you see people who

Maybe put a lot on social media and that's what gets them the the likes and the

Interaction with people and they're like, oh, okay, and then they put up a happy thing and it's like, well, they're happy

They don't need to be talked to and then they're like, well, actually

I liked it better when people were and that was the content that was sad. So then they put more

Sad stuff up. Do you know what I mean? And it feeds the beast

As the scientists have said they said it's very nuanced like it's very there's so many layers to it

It's not a blanket role, but it's just a very interesting sort of take on something that I feel like we've worked so hard to

sort of fight against

You know, we look after your mental health today and all this week and forever more

I cannot but you are joking. Hey, you are joking. I'm not this is just

To live like me

This is great. This is great. I'm loving this. We have been saying all morning

We've been talking about this for weeks how excited we are that we're going to melbourne this weekend

It's right here. We've got we're leaving straight. There's no liquids in my handbag at nine o'clock. You're organized

I say to hailey as a joke. Oh, you got your passport. Nope

Doesn't have a passport

I don't have it. Where is it? It's at home

It's at home. Oh my god, you are joking. It's at home in the renovation tip that is my house and

Um, my fiance Aaron is asleep and I don't have it. You're better than this. You're better than this

I'm not this is what it is. This is what it is to live like me

I am a whimsical

flimsy woman

Well, we'll sort it. We'll sort it. You're really well on this one. You really you really have I've won it

I expect this from born

He he he I've got everything together. If I was going with born this weekend. I would have said last night. Hey, have you got your passport?

Yeah, and this morning I would have followed up. Yeah, I did have too much faith in you. That's what's happened here

Look, we'll get it. We'll get it

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hailey

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. This is the top six

I

Hit it Vaughn

I can't hear anything. Yeah, I know you're on baby

Oh, I can hear you now step up. I bumped. I bumped something. I thought I didn't know what I bumped

Got a really fletched at didn't I?

No, you Vaughn that no that was a fletch there was a fletch Hailey Vaughn not bringing her passport

I fletched. No, so you've got to hailey it

You've got to hailey it something. You know to complete the triangle. You've got to hailey it in some way

It's okay. Give me a couple of drinks to that. Oh, whoa

Personal that's our person because apparently that's why she forgot the passport. I made mojitos last night

Yama, I knew I knew

Yama

Mint and lime and rum and I forgot my passport

Today's top six deals with an Auckland man a 68 year old Auckland man who

The story of how he ended up with a 15 ton armored personnel carrier tank

On the front lawn of his Auckland state house is a beautiful story in itself

You're allowed to leave a tank on your front lawn apparently

so kind of

Now this man Leonard he

Kated a wedding he put on a a honey for like a thousand people which isn't that's a lot of people

It's a lot of pressure too. Now. He was expecting a lot of pressure as a man who's bald

Hungy and packed an absolute sad one doing it again. You know, I think next white-hungy weekend

You should try the hungy again. No, it's a labor day. I might try it on labor day, but I might keep it a bit more low-key

Okay, because I kept everything. I kept my hungy baskets and everything. They're all just waiting for round two

So funny though, but it didn't so

It wasn't um

So so then when it came to payment for this hungy for a thousand people the guy was like, I can't pay

How would you feel about

taking a

Fv432

Armored personnel carrier as payment to which Leonard an ex-soldier was like, okay, you got a deal

cheapest

What is this story?

This is the person the person that gave Leonard the the armored personnel carrier a carrier bought

This off as well as a hammer a military hammer off a paintball place that was shutting down

Then the person that gave Leonard the tank got into some trouble

Oh, yeah, and through the proceeds of crime act had a whole lot of his possessions repossessed which included

This tank which is given to Leonard. So for the past three years Leonard and his lawyer have been trying to prove that that's Leonard's tank

Okay

Okay, wow

Now there was all these delays it got proven earlier in the year

But now they've been delaying and delaying and delaying and they said to be honest

We'd love to bring it back, but we can't get it running and he said well

It was running when it left here. So don't you dare bring it back without it running

Which I think was a power play great power play great power play because you know that probably

Update the spark plugs change the wheel really go the whole hog to get it going again

This already sounds like a Netflix doco. Yeah, it does

Everything has got a problem. Yeah. Yeah. It's got proceeds of crime. It's got some armored, you know vehicles and stuff

so

then

On wednesday afternoon

Congratulations, your tank is back and he stopped

Good word. Leonard. He said that his mokpoona were

Just blown away by it because one of them wasn't even born when the tank got taken and the other was like in a pram

And now can fully appreciate the fact that great

In here at this tank one day. Yeah, he wants he wants to get it road legal

I don't know how it's on very aggressive looking um tracks that kind of tore up his lawn as he drove onto it

but anyway

The top six things this man who finally got his tank back and finally do number six on the list park anywhere

He goddamn pleases. Yeah on on cars on cars over cars in the mall

Yeah through cars bunt someone like a forward rangers halfway across two car parks

Just push it back into one and then park beside it

Yeah, and then deny that it was you that put the track marks down the side of the forward ranger

Yeah, number five on the list of the top six things tank man can finally do now that he's got his tank back

Stop stop the neighborhood kids riding on their bikes over the his lawn

Oh, yeah

You know because it looks like he lives on a corner

So they always cut through the corner and they take a big chunk out of the lawn

Yeah, get that out of the way

Number four on the list of the top six things tank man can do with this tank now that it's finally back

Keep the door knockers from knocking on doors

You wouldn't knock on a door with a tank on the bloody lawn

The funny thing is the story where the tank's getting returned

Two Mormon missionaries stopped for a photo with the tank. They got off their

10 speed bikes

Okay, took a photo with the tank and then got back on their 10 speed bikes, and I'm imagining didn't try to

Gift a book of Mormon to

Yeah

Number three on the list of the top six things the tank man can do now that his tank is finally back

Keep those damn pigeons off his roof

Yeah, how you gonna do that with a tank shoot them with a 50 caliber

Right machine gun that's on the side. I totally forgot about the gun on it. Yeah

Number two on the list of the top six things tank man can do with his tank finally back in his position

Stop mr. Whippy from driving past and parking halfway down the block requiring you to walk

Yeah, in fact, you could just let's fear put your turret on him and he won't be leaving you ever you get free ice creams

Basically follow him. Yeah, totally. Yeah

And number one on the list of the top six things Auckland man

Who got his tank back and finally do?

Take down that speed hump down the road

multiple ways he could shoot it

He could just tank it

Yeah

Again and again and again just back and forth back and forth. Yeah, the world is his line arm and tank

Oyster that is today's top six

I announced yesterday that I'm I'm gonna up my aesthetic to elevated goth

It's sort of my new vibe I shared we're off to Melbourne. Well, hopefully if I get my passport so

We're off to Melbourne and I was showing you my suitcase. I was playing to get us a mouth. It's all black

What's what is what is the difference between a standard goth and an elevated goth?

So I can still be like a moochie girl with like designer goods

But it's just all black and a bit sort of like a bit more grown up. Right. So it's a growing up goth. Yeah, it's posh goth

If the spy skills were um goth posh goth. I'm the posh goth. Right. Um, what would sporty goth be?

Oh, I don't know

She doesn't matter. It's all about posh. Yeah. Gotts never played sports in my experience. I was watching goth

It was weird. There was sport adjacent. Oh, no, it'd be a it'd be a roller derby goth. Oh, it would be. Oh, yeah

They evolved into roller derby girls. Yeah tight. Yeah

Um, and then as part of that I was following a few posh goths on instagram and one of them was wearing a leather beret

And I was like

Because I used to be a real hat girl. I used to always wear a hat. Why brim hat? Yeah. Yeah, it's a real like

girl

And you know, I've got thin hair as well. So a hat's always good for that

And I thought maybe I could pull off a leather beret. So we put it to the people

About the leather beret. Also, I said I was going to buy a leather harness. I bought it

I bought one

When you also the harness you sent wasn't I was imagining like a multi-point harness

It's almost like a gum holster like the one that you're wearing on the on the bears parade

Floated the Santa parade board. Yeah

Our minds go to different places when we say harness flesh because you think of bears and harnesses like a large

Harry homosexual man

I think of guys who go down the side of buildings cleaning windows or guys who go up trees to chop the trees down

No, those are abseiling

Carabiner and whatnot

Yeah, yeah multi-point safety harness with adjustable leg straps. Whereas you're like do these are

Does this harness have the clips to attach to my arseless chaps? We're two very different harness wearers

We really are and I sort of fall somewhere in the middle

So I was devastated because I shared this on my page as well repose we put a poll up on the fvhcdm

page

And I reshared that and I had quite a lot of positive feedback how yes queen how yes like do it do it do it

Yeah, but you what you did is you entered an echo chamber of people who like you to ask them a question

They weren't being honest with you. They were being enablers. Yeah, people. Yes people

If you got the feedback from our I do yes should hailey get a leather beret

67 percent almost nice said maybe not hon. So like politely

33 percent said yes, justin beaver heart emoji baguette french flag

What I'm hearing is a third of people want you to wear

The photoshop what were you happy with the photoshop of you in the leather beret?

I think the photoshop of me wearing the the leather beret was done really well

I think I would yeah, I mean like, you know, I'd I'd work it slightly differently. Right

Okay, more angle well some feedback. Um, if you wanted some words from people Nicole said absolutely not

Okay, Nicole

Nicole is Nicole sounds like a prep. Yeah. Fiona said that's hot

Who said Fiona said that's hot Fiona gets it Fiona gets it

Um, tiana says you look like you're in a british comedy where they're doing some sort of dress up as the french and it's just not that great

She she without knowing because tiana might be too young

She's accusing you of being an aloe aloe

She's too young, but she knows that this this

Tiana you are gonna love aloe aloe

Hailey you are a very stale lady you don't need the public's opinion you will start a trend do it

That's from friend of the show jillian who to be honest is far too nice to tell you you look silly

And it's always nice to me actually though. She's always very nice. She's that's that's jillian's mo. She's one of the nicest people we know

Sam says wow. Yes

Now sam male female at the poll sam female

Yeah, I feel the poll results aren't reflecting the comments

I feel like it's a yes

Because people who just decided no decided no and no further comment required like they were so firmly in the no camp

They didn't felt any sort of there was no sort of

I'm convincing to do yeah

Um re says girl who cares about the poll running so that's already telling me that if there's women

This is women. This is what we do girl. You do you yeah, you do you and then they're gonna go. Oh god. Did you see that?

Well, uh, stay tuned because will it or won't it happen? We're gonna see how

Wait wait wait wait m said i am french

Oh, okay. Actually, I didn't even take it into account appropriation appropriations french culture

No thumbs down. I'm french and we don't even wear them. Maybe if it was the 1950s

Okay, uh 16 past seven joining us on the show next. Uh, we've got a special podcast out today

We catch up with brad bad news brad. We affectionately call him. Uh, you know every few months

Yeah, when he needed touch base on this, uh

Whole financial economic situation that we've been going through over the last couple of years

We asked you to uh put your questions to uh brad who's an economist. Uh, and he joins us next

Can't wait

We're joined in studio by our dear friend and sometimes brunch buddy. Yes bad news brad olson

Kia ora. Kia ora. Thank you for coming in now

We're actually uh, gonna record a podcast special for our little bit of pod where you can get anywhere you listen to your podcast

I choose i heart radio. That'll be that'll be available today on the podcast feed

Yeah, we asked a bunch of our listening questions music stores

I don't want to listen to the podcast on the listening post now. That is a reference that I don't even think brad is old enough to remember

Can you get can you guys appear on vinyl? Was that a thing? Oh, it would be very expensive way to listen

It's pressing every about seven individual you need about seven vinyls to do. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna pause

We're gonna flip over to the b side. Yeah

That's where I come in. There you go. Uh bad news brad as we affectionately call you. How bad is everything?

I feel like it could be a lot better. Let's let's be real

But it also could be a lot worse like the economy's not in that awful of a state

We're still seeing a lot of people in jobs. That's encouraging. It's just that stuff life is expensive, right?

Yeah, and it's your essentials. It's your food. It's your bits and pieces all of that sort of continuing to hit households

I filled up my car the other day from empty and I put it in as you do and da-da-da-da and then I was like

Excuse me and it just like kept going up at a past 100 and I was like surely any second now

It's shocked me and I don't drive a very grumpy car at all. Yeah, I'm in what 350 by christmas. I've heard petrol

That's the risk. I mean, it's already well above three dollars a liter

Again a little bit of the challenge at the moment is that a lot of this stuff's out of our control

You know, you're seeing internationally oil prices have been going up because some of the oil producing nations aren't putting as much out

That is a basic supply and demand. I say we invade them and make them. I mean

Can we borrow this army, please?

Yeah, it's a bit it's some good news if you are a terrible driver and you're finding the cost of petrol

Expensive there's a hybrid Ford Ranger coming so you can still drive like an absolute piece

And I've been doing it slightly cheaper

I'm just I is it time to get out the push bike and start growing our own fruit and vegetables

I mean the fruit and vegetables. Yeah, I think there's definitely options

I mean, how how good are you with keeping them alive because I like to do that and and yet just everything guys

Here's the thing. Okay. I've got the vegetable garden. I've started the vegetable garden

It's very expensive to buy everything you need to plant in the vegetable garden

Have you gone though?

What's that?

No, not bougie at all. Not bougie at all. So is it your basics that are going to be

When mine are growing at their prime and cheapest in supermarkets. So this thing is almost not worth it. I

bought

Seed potatoes. Yeah, and I would say

When potatoes are at their cheapest you'd be able to get a bit. I'll be able to get more potatoes

But I also have to put all this work in time and not to make this a girl math episode

But does that mean that I should just get Uber Eats all the time?

You should get fries all the time because those are potatoes that have already been cooked for you by somebody else

Because you're saving yourself the effort

Are things going to get better is the light at the end of the tunnel?

Yeah, I think there is we're starting again. We're getting inflation that's moving in the right direction

That's encouraging. You know, there's still I think a lot of cool stuff happening out there

A lot of people are getting jobs a lot of people are still thinking about new business opportunities and what have you

It's just that look we're in for a period of I think

Restraint is the way we're talking about you say people are still getting jobs that are the guy that famously came up with the avocado on toast

Retro rick saying yeah, that that's the only reason young people can't buy an Aussie guy property developer

He has come out this week or end of last week in Australia and said people need to lose their jobs

He said a lot of job loss needs to get to 50 percent

unemployment

50

I think I saw this I like I just I read that sort of stuff because he was also like

Oh, you know, no one like knows how to work anymore and everyone's just like real man

He inherited his money. Yeah, what I think my thing is like there always needs to be a bit more balance in the world

I hate this sort of everything goes to the extremes

What we're actually seeing and this is why New Zealand's unemployment rate is going up

Not because people are getting fired and walking out the door with stuff under their arms

It's actually because there's more and more people now who are looking for jobs. Just as there are fewer jobs available

Right, what we saw there's a lot of people that are coming into New Zealand looking for jobs

We also know that a lot of people because of the high cost of living they haven't previously been working now

They're going oh geez household budgets pretty tight. Yeah, I'm gonna get a bit of side money

Now I've got to go and get a job, but there were just fewer and fewer out there

So back in June we saw 35 000 more people looking for jobs only 28 000 of them got jobs

Right, okay. So that's gonna start to be pretty strong. But not us, we're not. We're good, eh?

For now, yeah. Great

Good, good, good, good, good, good

Yeah, and we'll go on and we'll go on to mortgages in the podcast special

But it's always a popular question. Should people like fix like how long should they fix for at the moment?

I think like again, we go on to this in the we'll go on to this in the pot a little bit more

But the biggest bit for me is that I think it's worthwhile shopping around

There are some big differences one of the banks has got like a 6.99 one-year fixed mortgage rate

One of them's got 7.45 for the same one-year fixed mortgage rate. You'll feel that

Go and go and find it. I mean that's thousands of dollars difference a year and that's that's money

You can spend on a whole bunch of other things. So yeah, I have no bank loyalty. I have I have every single bank

Why why would you? Yeah, they don't care about me. It's like having loyalty to a prison. Yeah

But it is primary for you. Well, I have to stay in prison. Yeah. I might as well try to get a nice prison

Yeah, that's your favorite one though. It's primary. It's close. It's close, you know, if I'm going to make a run

There's a there's a swamp nearby. I'll be able to get in there

You want a minimum security?

Yeah, minimum security is nice. Mounted in is a remand prison. Hailey. You can't say that that's effectively being on a floating rate

Oh, no

I want I want a nice medium one. How have you made prisons so relatable to mortgage rates?

And good morning to our prison listeners. Good morning to all of our prisoners. They're always on the wireless, aren't they?

Yeah, smuggled one in, didn't they? Yeah, they text in and they're smuggled phones

Uh, well, yeah, go listen to our big podcast with baddies brad out today are brad. Awesome. Thank you so much for joining us again

Thanks for having me again

We do this every friday we rank things is this because I was wearing my rl stein

Goosebumps top yesterday

Yes, and we said you had big energy of a kid that was allowed to get whatever they want from the ashton scholastic

Panflits when they arrived at school or when there was a book fair you would have been like I'll take these this this this and this

Yeah, so they still do that the book that book clump thing

They do a version of an A. Yeah, they do yeah

Because august is exactly like me by the time it gets home

She'd circled like the 5 or 6 that she wanted. Yeah, and then what I used to do. No, we can't afford it

No, you get everything she even wanted, didn't you?

I think we got her a couple of books from it.

Yeah.

Because it's books, right?

That's better than screen time.

Like, I was weighing it up.

I was like, Jesus, if she reads a book,

then that's good.

I think we're about to say it's better than meth.

It is better than meth.

Yes, I mean, if we were going to rank things better than meth,

books would certainly be on the list.

Books is up there quite high, quite high.

Because of your amazing great, it's a great retro shirt.

Thank you.

The Goosebumps shirt.

Today for final rankings, we're going to do authors,

children's authors.

Because this has just brought back so much joy.

I was a big reader as a kid.

And it reminded me of Paul Jennings.

Did you guys read Paul Jennings?

Dude, I loved what I think.

I read all of Paul Jennings.

He had like a series of books.

I was like, unreal, uncanny, uncollected.

Yeah.

Remember the Gizmo?

Yes.

Quirky Tales.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Paul Jennings was just like kind of edgy sort of dark humor.

Yeah.

He wrote the un-books, which there were many of,

were a collection of short stories,

and they all had like a lesson to be learnt.

Yes.

Oh, OK.

Or short.

Like this guy invented the world's most perfect fertilizer

that didn't smell.

Yes.

But flies could smell it.

And so when he invented it, like flies invaded the town.

And I was just, they were, I reckon I could read them now.

Dude.

There's something so good about them.

I'm going to try and go to an op shop and find some Paul Jennings,

because I just, I really want to read the Gizmo again.

Paul Jennings, I reckon is, I could be my number one.

OK.

What about Roald Dahl, though?

Yeah, I know.

Roald Dahl is like classic, man.

Like, do you think of all of the stories at Roald Dahl?

So they've all been made into movies or TV shows,

and they've all been pretty good.

Also, like what part of childhood?

Because I'll go, Roald Dahl was like younger,

whereas Paul Jennings was older.

Jacqueline Wilson was a real one for the 90s.

Yeah, OK.

Like kind of young, young adult fiction.

But then what about Beatrix Potter?

A classic.

Peter Rabbit.

Yeah, a classic.

And then, of course, we've got R.L. Stein, Goosebumps Books.

Yep.

Close to the home.

You're Joy Cowleys, you're Margaret Mahes.

You're Lindley Dodd.

Lindley Dodd gave us Harry McClary.

Let's not forget that classic.

But that's younger again.

That's like, you know, before school and the early times of school.

I want to.

Tough.

I want to.

I want to be patriotic, but I think I'm going to go

Paul Jennings, number one.

Then I'm going to go R.L. Stein with the Goosebumps series,

number two.

And then number three, I'm going Jacqueline Wilson,

because people of my age are going to love Jacqueline Wilson.

She's real for the girlies.

What were her books?

What were her?

I didn't read any of that.

Girls in Love, Sleepovers, Girls Under Pressure.

The Story of Tracy Beaker.

I didn't read any of these.

Little flirty, like, girlie stories.

Double X.

Double X.

How could it was double X?

We couldn't afford a Kindle when I was like six.

No, I need the books.

The book box.

The paper Kindles.

Paper Kindles.

I had weird paper Kindles.

I don't understand.

I don't comprehend.

What did you read as a child?

Oh, Dum Dum didn't read.

Dum Dum didn't read.

The phone book.

So Yellow Pages is the author.

Like Roald Dahl?

Yeah, Roald Dahl.

Yeah.

Yeah, Roald Dahl was really good.

What's your favorite Roald Dahl?

Charming the Chocolate Factory.

Of course.

Charming the Chocolate Factory is pretty legendary.

Witches was amazing.

I read James and the Giant Peach with My Girls, and it was way better than I remember.

I think you missed a lot of the nuances.

Well, I'll go Roald Dahl, and that's it.

You just read Roald Dahl.

Okay.

What are you going for?

I'm going to go...

I'm going to go...

For me personally, Paul Jennings is number one.

I've just learnt he's Australian.

I always thought he was American, but he was Australian.

So Paul Jennings...

Because I read so many of his books...

Should we get some board and then we'll exchange them?

You can read them again.

You did.

We'll start the Paul Jennings Book Club.

Oh, my God.

Somebody just messaged in saying,

Tell Haley I got the full Paul Jennings box set from Costco.

What?

Costco.

Now you want a membership.

Now you want my membership, don't you?

Oh, I was going to let mine lapse.

You've never gone.

I've literally never made it.

Maybe now could be the time.

Okay.

Okay, I might have to buy that.

Costco have weird shatay.

Like, weird awareness, man.

Why would they have poor Jennings?

It's so irrelevant now.

Like, caskets, giant muffins, and the whole Paul Jennings.

We forgot Dr. Seuss.

Now I know he's been cancelled for some cultural appropriation in the past.

Dr. Seuss was in my...

I didn't get over it.

It was a different time.

I'm going JK Rowling, Dr. Seuss.

And Bill Cosby, fatherhood.

He's caught in controversy.

He's you.

Whoa.

Okay.

What about somebody's messaged in Enid Blyton?

Oh, yeah.

Enid Blyton did the faraway tree and lots of, like, the famous five and stuff.

Yeah.

What about the old language in the wardrobe?

Who was that?

C.S. Lewis?

Was that C.S. Lewis?

Was that C.S. Lewis?

Oh, my God.

Fancy.

Yeah.

We'll see you, Lewis.

Thank you.

Great poet as well.

Ah, Jack Blum.

Wilson.

Enid Blyton.

Somebody said...

Okay.

Who did Artemis Fowl?

That was a big one when I was growing up as well.

Artemis Fowl.

Oh, yeah.

It's a TV show now.

Twilight series.

Grow up.

Shut up.

Get out of here.

Shut up.

We're older than you.

Shut up.

Get out.

Shut up and get out.

Get out.

Why not?

How old are you?

I don't know.

I'm 21.

4Gnings is number one.

I went rail down number two.

And...

You're a Goosebumps boy.

Come on.

No, to be honest, I wasn't a Goosebumps kid.

I was easily scared, so I needed to be...

A little bit.

Yeah, a little bit.

I was a little bit.

He was a big little bit.

Clay, Xurians, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Now, the legal age that you become a mature adult is 18.

Yes.

So America's weird, it's like no drinking until you're 21,

but you can do everything else.

You can buy a gun at 18, you can buy a gun at five.

But scientists, brain scientists have actually discovered

in general, it's different for everyone,

but in general, you don't fully become an adult

in your brain until you're in your thirties.

Is it more for men, like a men later than women

in these findings?

I'm not sure actually, I mean you can,

because don't they say men like are always a bit,

slower.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

We don't, yeah, we don't know some things.

They did this study, because they were looking

at criminal cases, you know, in like,

jailing 19 year olds for murders or drugs and stuff,

and then going like, eh, they're not really an adult yet.

And same, wasn't there like a 16 year old

in America recently, they got jailed for murder?

Yeah.

You're like, oh.

My mum had a rule, if you're old enough to murder,

you're old enough to be an adult.

See, because my mum said, you know,

just wait till 18 to get your murder in.

Right, yeah, stay right, yeah.

Don't start murdering until you can vote.

And I stuck to that.

Yeah, you did.

To the day.

Yeah, you waited until you were 18, 13.

To the day.

But to your thirties, and sometimes into your late thirties,

until you finally have a fully developed adult brain.

Well, this is you, you're.

This is me, man.

This is my father, like, I would say he isn't still

an adult, even though he like ran a business and stuff.

Parts of him are, but parts of him definitely aren't.

He's still a little child clown.

And I feel the same.

I love when people are like that.

Yes, same.

I hope I'm like that.

You can't take life too seriously.

I know.

But I don't feel like an adult.

And sometimes we get these adult decisions

and you're like, what are you looking at me for?

Is that because you left your passport at home this morning

and we're off to the airport in like an hour and 13 minutes?

I'm a baby.

And he's looked after by a group of men, apparently,

who have to all make sure I'm okay.

But I did have a moment this week where I'm cause I'm 33.

I'm not crying.

I just had a lump in my throat.

I'm 33 and I put, I literally put a roof over my head.

I paid for a roof and that, and I looked at the roof.

And you know, Vaughn, I mean, we are proud of this roof.

Yeah, it's great roof.

Aaron made long, long, long run.

Vaughn, go up and rub the roof.

We went up, man, rub the roof.

Yeah, it was good.

Rub the roof.

And I remember thinking like, man, that's grown up.

You're doing renaissance and you paid for a roof over your head.

I got a skylight.

I'm very adult.

It felt like the most absurdly adult thing to do.

The mortgage part of it, I'm all like,

that's whimsical, fantastical money anyway.

Like it's not real, real debt that'll ever pay back.

But the tangible things, I was like, that feels adult.

That feels really grown up to pay for a roof.

Anyway, I've wondered on the back of this study

that says you don't reach adulthood really until your 30s,

I want to know what the most grown up thing you did this week was.

I put on a tie yesterday.

Yes, you look like an act candidate.

Excuse me.

It was a black and white tie.

I know it was New Zealand first.

It was a gray, black and white, scraped tie.

You did look a bit like Winston.

Knocking doors for the New Zealand first party.

Oh, sir, ma'am, no.

You did though.

But you did, you went, we'll talk about this soon on the show,

but you had a day at use at government house.

I know that felt very grown up.

I had a high tee.

That felt very grown up.

That's a very grown up thing to do.

I don't know what grown up things I've done this way.

The most adult thing you've done.

I complained about some graffiti.

Yes.

Yes.

Yep.

You're an old man.

We are adults.

We are adults.

Hear us roar.

So we want you to share now, call us,

I'll 800 dials at him.

You can text her as well, 9 6 9 6.

Big or small, what is the most grown up thing

that you did this week?

Could be taking out a loan.

It could be fixing yourself some dinner.

Anything in between.

Making yourself dinner is the most adult thing.

For some people, that might feel like a real step towards adult.

That's all right.

Because they normally take away.

Because mummy usually cooks it for them or so does mummy Uber.

We are wanting to know the most grown up thing

that you did this week.

Because apparently, according to brain scientists,

you don't become an adult till you're 30 in your 30s.

Marie, what's the most adult thing you did this week?

So I lift my job in hospitality

that I've been in for fricking forever.

And I got a job at a bank.

Oh, my God.

There's so grown up, so grown up.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

I know, I feel like such a grown up.

We're like proper clothes as well.

And a pencil skirt.

I know.

And the first outfit.

Oh, my goodness.

When you got a pencil skirt.

Yeah, there's nothing that screams

adult in a pencil skirt.

Yeah, exactly.

I love that.

Marie, congratulations on a new job.

Yeah, well done to answer messages in.

I got Botox so I can be grown up

without having to look grown up.

Good for you.

Good for you.

That's good.

I was working at a Garden Club Spring Flower show this week.

And I felt like a grown up.

But I was also the youngest person there.

So that felt like a grown up.

That's pretty good.

I went to work to keep my three kids alive.

Very grown up.

We'll keep you two coming in.

So apparently we don't become adults until we're mid 30s.

Mid 30s.

Well, our brain doesn't.

The full brain arrives in adult land.

And now we're all hoping that never happens to us.

And then it goes down here rapidly.

And then you become a baby again.

Yeah, exactly.

But we wanted to know the most grown up thing

that you did this week.

I got a skylight.

I love this.

I put on a tie yesterday and Fletch complained about graffiti.

Here are your messages.

I had to go and meet my son's teacher.

I thought, should I take my mom?

Oh my god, yes.

I love that.

The first parent-teacher interview is weird because I'm like,

in my mind, I'm like, am I in trouble?

Should I have my mom in there, man?

Because I still feel like a child.

I made it through the work week without crying.

That's actually one of these congratulations.

Taki Taki.

I'm 33 and watch the political debate the other night.

And then at the end, I had a cry because I

realised what an adult I was.

Paid my rates the first time since being a homeowner as well.

Your rates bills, they're not fun,

but they do make you go like, oh, I'm a rate payer.

Yeah.

Then you can complain to the council.

You can say things like, that pothole, I pay rates.

My neighbor's not looking after his boom.

I paid a solicitors bill this week for our wills.

When someone said to me one day,

we'll get in touch with your lawyer.

I was like, I don't have a lawyer.

Bizarre thing to have, but you need a lawyer when you have things.

I know, it's crazy.

I told off a child at the park for being a bully.

Very adult, very adult.

He was very born, actually.

Oh yeah, I love telling other people's kids off.

It's a bit frowned upon, but at a park,

I think you get away with it.

Man, there's so many just people who have just text

and saying they've had a moment of realisation

that they are an adult, even listening to this.

Because they're like, oh, I did that this week.

Yeah.

Someone just texted and saying, oh no,

I'm wearing a pencil skirt and I'm 20.

Welcome to adulthood.

Welcome to adulthood.

Yesterday, I went to, I'm in Wellington

and I went to a government house for my auntie Sylvia's QSM.

That's the Queen's Service Medal for her,

what she's given to Netball all of her volunteering

over the years, which when they read out the list,

I was like, whoa, because going to my Nana's house,

growing up, Nana and Papa's house,

there was always Netballs everywhere.

So I knew that she loved Netball.

You'd better move all the balls on the floor.

She has a bunch of balls everywhere.

It's like a ball pit.

The house was an upscaled ball pit.

But yeah, she's volunteered a lot of her life to Netball.

So she got a QSM for it.

That's awesome.

And so that's why you're in Wellington.

You went to the ceremony yesterday.

Yes, and I went to government house and it was like,

I put on a suit and a tie and we went in.

This is where you look like a New Zealand first politician.

It doesn't look like a New Zealand first politician.

It's an interesting tie.

It was a gray and black and white stripes.

Diagonal stripes.

Yeah, weird choice of a tie.

Why did you get that tie?

I think I've got a photo of me

wearing that tie.

Remember he probably would.

I remember when we were going to the wedding

and I was wearing that same suit

and I thought I might need a tie.

And I went to the tie place at the domestic airport.

Not tie as in T8, HI.

I didn't eat tie food at the airport.

I'd go like a tie.

Cup on car and then you went in and you bought a tie.

So with the club and then I left after I got the tie

because you always must give the tie greeting

and the tie feel well.

And then I just never wore the tie

and then I just had it with that suit.

So I put it on.

But yeah, I don't like this New Zealand first comparison.

No, I found it.

There is a picture of him essentially.

Oh yeah, that's the same time.

Wearing your tie.

She's found a picture of Winston Peters wearing your tie.

The black white.

So he's also like needs a tie in a hurry at an airport too

then I guess.

Yeah, I guess so.

Okay, I hope he said so with the club as he left the store

though that doesn't feel too Winston.

What's the tie store at the airport called Tie Me Up?

I always love when they do a punny name for their place.

You've got to.

You've got to if you're going to have a tie restaurant.

It's got to have a pun name.

That's the rule.

No, it wasn't called that.

I can't do what it was called.

High tie.

So we went to Government House and Hailey,

you've been to Government House.

I have.

Thank you.

I'm the only person on the show

that hasn't been to Government House.

You're not fancy enough, you know.

We've got to these fancy things for now.

Okay, okay.

I mean once.

We're off and off to these fancy things for now.

When did you go to Government House?

Part of a Shakespeare dinner thing.

I was representing.

Do you want me to remember?

I won the Peter Vier Jones Award

for my outstanding performance

as Richard III

in the Queen Margaret College production.

Where did you go in the dining room

or did you go in the ballroom?

We went in the dining room.

Oh, the dining room.

It was the first place I ever had rare steak.

Like, I grew up as a Grey family,

a Grey meat family,

and we had rare steak there.

And I was like, it's too fancy for me to be like,

oh, good Lord, that's still bleeding.

And so I ate it and I was like,

this is how steak should be cooked now.

That's how steak should be had.

I remember the first time I had medium rare steak.

And I was like, that's not chewy.

Yeah.

Hang on, where's the grit?

Yeah.

Shouldn't I be like really chewing it?

Shouldn't it be like leathery in my mouth right now?

And nope, it's turned to nothing

and it's gone down my throat.

It's delicious.

But Government House was very posh, Fletch.

You simply must.

It's cool.

It's a stunning building.

Can anybody just go and turn up

and have a look around?

Do they do tours?

They have parties.

They do tours.

Oh, OK.

I met the Governor-General, Cindy,

Dame Cindy.

Oh, yeah, she's cool.

What do you mean you're mean?

Would you just went up and said hello?

Well, the idea was Auntie Sylvia got,

she got introduced and then Auntie Sylvia

had to introduce all of us.

It's very, there was a lot of protocol.

I saw the sword that they do the knighthoods with.

OK.

The sword that they like.

It's the same sword that's done Ritchie McCormick

and everybody, everybody that's got a sir.

Apparently it's the original sword.

Yeah, yeah.

I talked to a guy in the Navy

and he had heaps of badges and stuff from his time

as in the Navy.

Yeah, OK.

My uncle Roger said to me,

do you want to earn 20 bucks?

And I said, yes.

And he said, I dare to yell out up the was when Auntie Sylvia's

going to war.

Oh, my God.

You didn't.

Uncle Roger, there is a time and a place, Uncle Roger.

This is a once in a lifetime experience.

This is what I'm...

Uncle Roger!

Oh, no.

Please tell me nobody did that.

No, no, no, no, no, nobody did.

Nobody did.

And then he called me a wimp afterwards

because my daughter did it

when she was leading the school assembly.

It's slightly different, though, isn't it?

Slightly different.

Yeah.

Slightly different.

Slightly different.

Very posh, though.

Your Auntie Sylvia was getting this for netball,

services to netball.

Yes.

What were the other people there getting them for?

Everything.

There was like environment.

There was the lady the way before Auntie Sylvia was a lawyer.

She had done like, she had been to Rwanda

and worked on genocide cases.

And obviously, Auntie, I don't think anyone thought she was

getting a Queen's Service Medal pro genocide.

Pro genocide.

No, definitely.

Definitely, Auntie.

For genocide.

Did it make you feel like a real piece of shit?

Like, you do nothing.

Because of all of that service.

It's the service.

Everybody had been doing it for sort of like nothing.

You know, there was a guy there who had been,

had been a school principal and granted you,

he got paid for that.

But he'd gone above and beyond what was required.

He'd been to multiple schools, set up like bilingual classes

in schools.

There was a guy who was all about the environment.

It was very impressive to see people get rewarded.

And I think the highlight was when my Auntie Sylvia sat down

with her QSM Medal on.

They're nice.

And my cousin, very nice.

And my cousin Casey said, it looks

like the back of the old 50 cent piece.

Oh, Jesus.

No, it doesn't.

This is a nice medal.

Oh, my god.

This whole family from the morning

still really drink up time down safely.

A great time.

This is a classy of being.

This is a classy bunch of people.

My god.

Oh, well, one day.

I quite like one.

My marching coach had one for services to marching.

Really?

Yeah.

OK.

Changed a lot of women's lives, I guess.

Good for your Auntie.

Very proud of her on your behalf.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it was a proud family moment.

What would your services be for, though, Haley?

I was just thinking.

Services to bring joy to the masses.

Services to Prosecco.

Services to the Prosecco industry.

Yes.

But single-handedly keeping it afloat.

Actually served a very nice champagne as part of high T

as well.

Very nice.

Ghosting.

Very popular dating.

Not only a term, but action, I guess.

You can ghost your friends.

You can ghost anyone.

You could ghost your husband if you wanted to.

People do.

People do.

They literally just go, I'm out.

I'm not even there.

They just go, they go.

They go, they go.

Just easier, isn't it?

It is easier.

And particularly when it's in a dating term, we are like,

oh, we haven't actually formed a relationship yet.

We've just been seeing each other.

We've been sleeping together.

I cut you out.

I don't respect you enough to tell you why I'm going.

Apparently, we're not doing that anymore.

It's called anti-ghosting, which is literally

just proactively sending a message to the person

to communicate your lack of romantic interest in them.

Anti-ghost.

So this.

Just tell them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we go on a date.

Maybe we've even slept together.

And then I'll just text you and be like, hey, thanks

for the date.

Don't pull a face.

I would be, you would be lucky to sleep with me.

All of you would be lucky to sleep with me.

You've never really thought about it.

You wish.

Oh, as if.

You all think about it.

I can be honest, hasn't really crossed my mind.

I walked in this morning, the security guards

said, oh, looking good today.

And he's right.

I am.

And you've all thought about it.

At one point or another during this show,

don't lie to me.

Lie to my face like that.

Anyway, so say we've done that.

I mean, what we've just experienced

in the last 20 seconds is one of the reasons

why I've not really considered it.

And also, I didn't bring my passport,

and we're going to Australia in 30 minutes, so.

Where is your fiance?

Is he in the car?

Well, when Aaron sees he's in the car,

it means he's thinking about the car.

Do you not have him on fine friends?

No, no, no, we trust each other too much.

Aaron, if you're listening, stop for a coffee, mate.

Enjoy yourself.

Pop into McCafe where you can get a fletch hit it.

Drive through the cup of barista-made McCafe

coffee on the go.

Bingo.

He could do that, actually.

Should we take some orders?

We'll just slow them down.

I wouldn't mind some hash browns.

We don't know.

We haven't even left for the airport,

and my blood is boiling.

Anyway, so basically, you could do it like saying,

hey, thanks for meeting up last night.

You lucky, lucky boy.

Thanks for meeting up last night.

You were so lucky to sleep with me.

And having the privilege of making love to me.

You seem chill, but we're looking for different things.

I hope that you find what you're looking for.

Or like, hey, more of a friend's vibe.

Not came for another date, but good luck.

Well, it seems brutal, though.

It seems brutal, to be honest.

And then they say, if you receive an anti-ghosting message,

it can be a little bit like, ugh, oh my god.

Even if you're not even that interested,

you're just like, oh, my ego.

So the way they say that you can go about this

is if someone gives you a message like that,

and there's something in it that you agree, like, hey,

I had a really nice night, too.

Put that back to them.

And then you just say, thanks for not ghosting.

Like, I really appreciate that you took the time to let me know.

And thank you very much, and good luck to you.

OK, well, there we go.

Let's try the sound, people.

This sounds like it requires two mature adults.

Yeah.

Does feel like that, doesn't it?

You never get too mature adults.

Otherwise, they'll click, and they'll be like,

hey, you are another mature adult.

Let us be mature adults together.

Fact of the day.

Day, day, day, day.

Today's Fact of the day and the final fact of the day

in road sign week.

Do you know, I just have to say, Vaughn,

I'm just loving these themed weeks.

You're doing such a good job.

Oh, thanks, thanks.

Hailey, you're, uh, thanks.

You're also here.

That's important.

No, I wasn't giving that compliment

in order to get one in return, actually.

That was just for you.

But if you were, that was not a compliment.

If you were to say something nice, that was not it.

No, I appreciate your passion for Fact of the Day.

I do.

Often afterwards, you'll say that's very interesting.

Whereas Fletch has become complacent with my love

and unappreciative of it.

Well, I just need high standards,

and a lot of the time they're not met.

Ma, I do not toe-talk all that sentiment.

Thank you.

I think you do a great job.

Wow, though.

You come up with five fricking facts about road signs.

Work hard to impress me, daily.

Carry on, Paul.

There we go.

So, on today's Fact of the Day, takes us to India.

to the area of Darjeeling, which you may know

from the 2007 Wes Anderson film, The Darjeeling Limited.

Not one of its most popular, but I love it.

Express, or limited, limited, unlimited, limited.

They are on a train, which is why I had to Google it as well

because I thought it was the Express, but it wasn't.

It was the Darjeeling Limited, which was in India on a train.

Now that's correct, it is the same area of India,

but it is the road beside that very famous railway

that we want to talk about because it has some

of the most interesting road signs in the world.

It's a very unpaved, often unpaved mountainous

and remote road, but the road signs on it

have become a tourist attraction

because they're all a little bit quirky.

And by the way, they didn't start out meaning to be like,

hey, we're quirky.

They wanted them to be ones that the locals would read

and they're a little bit longer to keep them alert.

Right, because that is driving.

For example, some of the road signs says,

after whiskey, driving is risky.

Not wrong.

Yeah, and they often got a lot of spelling mistakes

in them as well.

Be cautious, life is precious.

Precious spelt very incorrectly.

The I, the O, and the U in the last part of precious

all muddled up.

Some of the other ones, and traditionally,

these were road signs painted on concrete or rock

so that kind of tells you how long they've been around

and how old they are and often marked with the elevation

at the site of the sign and how far down the road you are.

A cat has nine lives.

You only have one.

Use it wisely.

That's beautiful.

Actually put that on a T-shirt.

Please tell me they've got to make it click one.

Do they ever make it click?

They do have multiple ones about using your seatbelt.

Donate blood in the blood bank, not on this road.

Oh, ruthless.

Don't watch her behind.

Keep safety in mind.

Okay.

So don't perv.

Don't go looking around having to perv at a tush.

Yeah, keep watching the car in front of you

so you don't make any mistakes.

Yeah, actually, that's very heteronormative.

That is.

That the man's driving and he's looking at a woman.

Woman perv too.

We do, don't we?

All the time.

The rule of the road is a paradox.

Quite, keep to the left and you are always right.

Well, that's good.

What about make it, don't be a dick, make it click.

That'd be a good make click.

Yeah, that would be a good one,

but they don't have any.

Are these signs all in English?

Yes.

Yeah, because otherwise the rhymes wouldn't work.

Yeah.

Are they for tourists?

Well, no, not originally.

A lot of the people,

because you've got to remember India was a British colony.

Yes.

For many, many, many years.

So while people spoke a whole bunch of different languages,

primarily the written language they were taught

in schools would have been English.

I will say I hate the colonization of India

from the British, but I loved the aesthetic.

Oh, yeah, like Bangalore, Polo Club.

Yeah.

You know, all those sort of like,

everyone's in like white cottons

and there's always these bars and like.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But they've got a bit of like.

Beautiful, like, beautiful purgolis,

purgolis outside, often with a mosquito net.

That's terrible what they did to the country.

That was where Dune and Tonic was invented, right?

Because of the, what is that thing in June?

Wait, so now we're pro colonization?

Not June, but no, it's in the Tonic.

What's in the Tonic?

Juniper berries.

Quinine.

Quinine something.

Quinine was a mosquito repellent.

So you drink gin and tonic to keep the mosquitoes away.

Wow.

That's actually why you never get bitten, Hailey.

We're not trying to.

That's great.

Yeah, that's great.

Some of the more controversial signs on the road,

enjoy your ride.

Don't commit suicide, which obviously has been taken down.

Life is short.

Don't make it shorter and lots of them.

So if you're ever in the area in the high country of Dajjaleng,

keep an eye out for the road signs

because they are quirky and interesting.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

I do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,

do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

Play ZM's Fletchboard and Hailey.

Play ZM.

I mean, this is just a freebie for the girlies

because I have been on the hunt for the most comfortable bra

that doesn't make your tits look sad.

I'm going to say it.

What does a sad breast look like?

Like that.

Like, just like, nothing's being held right in.

They're out.

They're out, and they're down, and they're pointing down.

And it's just.

You're really our friend, James, a gay friend, James,

is in the studio, and he just doesn't know where to look right now.

James, please don't address James as gay friend, James.

James is just James.

No, because I've got straight James.

We've got two straight friends called James.

Yes, and gay James just said the name for his studio today.

Wouldn't be able to call straight your straight friends straight James

or is you just labelling, OK, if I had a gay friend called Vaughan,

you would be straight Vaughan.

I'm sorry.

That would you just turn to straight Vaughan?

Would gay Vaughan just be Vaughan?

Yeah.

It just depends who demands the name more.

Yeah, totally, yeah.

You know, who wants the name more.

Yeah, right.

Anyway, I've always, because I don't, I'm not here for an underwear.

Life's too short.

I don't want to deal with that.

Plus, I've always had a smaller chest and so I've never needed to.

And then in the last two years and 20 kgs, I have had a bigger chest

and still wear underwear, no underwear.

And then I feel like, oh, look at a bit sad.

And so I've found the best bra.

And I need to tell the girlies at the, at the, at the producers booth

bend on. Is it bend on?

It's been done.

Is it? It's been done.

Oh my God.

I just saw it.

I'm just, I'm taking notes.

Sad, sad equals out and down.

Sad equals out and down.

And happy equals.

How would you describe the opposite of sad breasts?

So they'd be happy breasts?

Happy breasts are like up, but, but comfortable.

Cause like an underwear bra that like really clenches in it,

you feel it the whole time.

It's in the, it's in the shoulders and it's awful.

Whereas this bra, I've just sent it to the group chat.

It's called the Bendon Comfort Collection Soft Cup Plunge Bra.

I have never, this was not gifted to me.

Unpaid endorsement.

Unpaid endorsement.

Right.

It comes in white, black that I'm wearing.

What are they calling this color?

Latte.

That's because of your nude goth aesthetic, right?

That's why you're black bra.

Cause you're a, what are you an upmarket goth?

What are you calling yourself?

Yeah, and I'm wearing black undies as well.

They have to.

All black.

Posh goth.

Posh goth.

It comes in latte, which I would call a pachiar nude.

Yeah.

And then it comes in mocha,

which I would call a nude for your darker skin tones.

Right.

It's unbelievable.

It's unreal girls.

This looks good.

No underwire, but it's not, not,

it's like got a stitch underwire,

but it's not a wire.

It looks on the website.

It's got a cross back,

which will give you change it.

You can change it.

You can change it.

You can change it.

You can change it.

How, how are the nipples feeling?

Uninterrupted.

Uninterrupted.

Not chafed, not rubbed up and pointing

in the right direction.

I can't believe I guessed the right brand.

Bend on.

Yeah.

And it's a soft sort of,

it's a bustling soft fabric.

Use it, name, name another brand.

You only see bend on

cause it is literally the only one you know.

Risen things.

That's a shock.

That's a shock.

Okay.

Pleasure state.

You know that one.

Bonds to Bonds.

Yep. Bonds to Zones.

Johnny Vegas.

Jockey.

Honey Vegas.

Yeah. Honey Vegas for the young girls

when they started wanting cheap,

racy bras.

Yeah.

I cannot, I cannot recommend enough ladies.

This is a game changer.

Cause I hate real bras.

That's why I always rock around with a cami

and then I always say to everyone,

like, God, look,

I give a little tip of slap and I go,

look how sad that looks.

Cause they do.

They're doing nothing.

Now when you say,

when you were talking about sad,

you said out and down,

but happy is up and comfy.

What about in?

Cause you said more up and in.

Not pouring to the side.

Forward.

And comfy.

But not squeezing together like Cleavage,

which is uncomfortable.

Ask my wife her breasts,

her breast mood.

Okay.

And just, you know,

to keep things balanced and fair for everybody listening,

Vaughn next will give us some,

a review on his latest jockstrap purchase.

Jockstrap purchase.

Absolutely.

Which is fantastic.

Looking forward to that.

Something for all the genders.

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Haley.

So that is our show today.

If you missed any of the show.

Also, we had bad news.

Brand on.

Haley just shut,

Haley just shut the laptop.

Pre.

The show wasn't finished.

We're mid-Zone.

I can still hear you, my friend.

And that's all I need.

I shut my laptop too.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Zoom over.

I was going to shut my laptop before and I was like,

I don't want to hurt Vaughn's feelings.

Cause I know.

It really hurt.

Yeah.

Really hurt.

We're audio only now.

Is this what it feels like when you're at my place

and I start packing up around you?

Yes.

Right.

See, you're clinging the bottles,

putting them in the recycling bin.

We get it.

Okay.

I don't like being on this end of it.

Drag it around.

But it's time to leave.

So get out of my house.

Big blank sack,

making us put our empty bottles in there.

And keep going.

Well.

So we had on the show earlier, Bad News Brad Economist.

We've recorded a special podcast with him

with all of your questions about the economy

and things like mortgage rates and savings.

All the fun stuff.

All the fun stuff.

Yeah.

It's real grown up stuff.

Have you seen the post on our,

speaking of the podcast,

our international podcast family,

which is a closed Facebook group

that you can request permission to join

of which I will see how long you've been a member of Facebook.

Because if you've only been a member of Facebook

for two weeks,

you're a spam bot.

You're pretty a dirty bot.

You're pretty a dirty bot.

You got a dirty bot.

But after our chat about Bad News Brad

and like we all wish we'd locked in our mortgages

and fought for five years in 2021,

a whole bunch of people who did it like I did.

And I'm like, shut up.

You get out.

Get them from the group.

You can download the podcast, wherever you podcast.

Also part of the ZM podcast network,

Hope is Real season tour is back with Jazz Thornton.

You can text Hope to 9696 for the link.

Your friend.

Elaine Matthews, the guest, I believe in the next episode.

And it's great.

And it's meant to help awareness week.

So it's a great podcast to listen to

because she talks a lot about that.

Yeah.

And I've really enjoyed the podcast.

So listen to it, wherever you get your podcast.

Hey guys, apparently being the company's most successful

podcast isn't enough.

They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends.

So people are clearly liking it,

but we have to tell them to tell others to like it.

I would concentrate more on the shitter podcast

that the company makes.

Yeah, same.

You know, the real losers out there.

Yeah, like hang on, I know.

We'll just, we won't, maybe we won't say no.

Maybe we should even encourage people

to listen to other podcasts that the company makes.

No, but only after Alves.

Yeah.

No, don't do that.

And not more than Alves.

Give us a sexy little review, though.

Zid Ames, Fletch, Vaughan, Highly.

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