ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 11th March 2026

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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from the ZM Podcast Network. This is Fleshwood and Haley's Big Pod. Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse. The biggest brands of the lowest prices. You know the old NATO alphabet? The phonetics? You ring up somewhere and you've got to spell out like your number plate. And they're like H for hotel.

Tea for tango. Yeah, all the time when you call the airline or something. Some of them are dumb. I don't understand them. I always make up my own. Yeah. How'd you speak your name? H for horrendous.

Yeah. A for abhorrent. Abhorrent. Yeah. Yeah. Why did her parents bother? Yeah, yeah. Al for loud, loud, loud loser.

E for energetic, but it's a bit much. And Y for. Why are the hell are we back here at Y again? Yeah. Two Ys seems excessive. Miller. Okay, got you. Yankee or something, isn't it?

Yeah, I've found your booking. You found your booking. So I've got the top six new phonetic here. Letters. Oh, fun. He's watching out some of the old ones. Next on the show, though, a woman wants to sue a tree. A tree?

Yeah. The tree has done her wrong. A tree has done her very wrong. If you're a silver birch, if you're a silver birch tree and you're listening. Watch your back. I'm going to put a bit of a chainsaw to your trunk at a minute. The fleshborn and Haley, big pod. There is a woman in Sydney who has absolutely had it,

and she's actually threatening legal action against a tree. A tree. Yeah. Yeah, she's had enough. Can you do that? No, thankfully, and the council's been very clear with that from the get-down. Right, because that's not a human... It's not a thing, you can't see a tree.

Right. Do they, you know how we don't really sue here in Sydney? Sorry, in New Zealand? Yeah. Do they sue in Australia? Yeah, all the time. In the same way they do in America? Yeah, they do.

We've got ACC, right, and it takes care of a lot of sort of, like, incidental medical charges. Yeah, like if you would otherwise pass on to the person that caused it. Yeah, like if you were at the mall and you slipped in a puddle Yeah. Because at a leaky roof, you'd just ACC. Whereas in America you'd sue the mall. So sue the mall. For the costs and some more.

But in Australia, if it rains, my nieces don't play netball. What? Because of the amount, the exponential increase in kids slipping over on the courts and hooted themselves. This is P-C madness. What are they going to do at the World Cup if it rains? Well, that's what I was thinking we do at the World Cup. I put water on the floor. Oh, Vaugh.

But it's inside. It's inside. It's inside. How else we do it? we wet the floor. With drink bottles, Vaughn. Pump-boh. We can't waste data, right?

That's a sponsor product. Anyway, so there's this, the woman, she's really taken umbrage with said tree, because she came back, you won't believe this, after parking under it. And it had, you won't believe this. She'd its leaves on her car. Oh, no. And she was absolutely irate at the tree. I do want to say she is a self-described, quote-unquote, female empowerment coach.

Okay. So just, do know, I'm painting a picture. Yeah. We're feminists on the show, but. We've got a short little spikey to the side. It's giving spikey, yeah. Came back to her car, immediately was filming it, attacking the council, and she said she was demanding to have the tree chopped down.

Because it put leaves on her tree. Because it had, she had a ridiculous amount of droppings, she called it, after parking under this tree. So it was like those little, you know, some trees have little bobbles. Yeah, yeah. Little bitsy, tizzy bitseys. Yes. Her black car, covered in leaves and tisie bitseyses.

What's you going to do? She said to the council. Because if you've got silver birch trees around some of years, they're dropping their seats. Are they those spiky ones? No, that tiny and they're like flaky and they look like confetti. They look like confetti of the natural world. Just wash your car.

Also just drive and it just blows off. This is sort of what happens. Also don't park under a tree. In Australia, you want to park under a tree because it's like 400 degrees. Yeah. You get the shade. Yeah. Also, it was literally, I mean, I've got a dropy tree in my driveway.

It's like no more than I get every day. Yeah. she was demanding for the this is so good for the council to please explain please explain trees to her yeah yeah so she was demanding the tree was chopped down the city of Sydney responded

saying no no no we don't remove healthy trees because they drop leaves or make a mess they wanted her to know that is how a tree behaves in general and has always behaved

the council added that the health and cooling benefits of the tree to her and the car far outweigh the inconvenience and actually Sydney is trying to add more trees because of this very reason it's so hot. Yes, you need to park under them. Yeah, over the past

decade they've received a number of complaints about trees. She's not alone in this. People demanding that they'd be chopped down because people are parking under them and they're getting leaves on them. She was encouraged to drive off and the leaves to sort themselves out. That is really crazy. I know. She posted it online, this warm-it. It was like a TikTok being like,

to the council please explain and have this tree chopped down. She just been roasted? Utterly roasted. It was like one or two comments of support being like, I agree, Karen. Really? Yeah, yeah. But mostly people were saying, welcome to the world. This is how trees work.

Jacaranda trees, those purple, beautiful purple flowers on them. Yes, love. And people drive into the neighborhoods in Australia to see them, and then they just dump the purple everywhere. They're over cars and everything. Blocks up drains. Yeah. Yeah, but that's how trees work.

That's how trees work. Imagine if a tree never shed its leaves and it just grew more and more leaves It would be unbearable for the tree You're describing an evergreen Lots of trees do that Do they? Yeah That's crazy

Hips of them Are you sure man? Are you sure man? Trees drop leaves homey Oh yeah Trees drop leaves Have you ever heard of autumn bro? I have

This idiot I'm right The Fletch morning Haley Big Pod I may remember I shared that maybe like a month ago, I was asleep, and there was a cricket. Yes. And it was, we believed to be in the door.

And we sprayed the door and then it was gone. And then a couple of nights later, remember the cricket was back. Yes. And then we found the cricket. No, I saw the cricket with my own eyes. I saw it, was just like under this laundry basket. And I was like, there it is. sprayed it to death.

Cricket dead, no more cricket. That's like a month ago. Yeah. And that was not at my house, by the way. Okay. That it was some stranger's house. Yeah. Complete stranger to me.

And so to my surprise yesterday, when I was literally about to go to bed, in my own home, I hear this. What are you going to play this? Pause for effect. That's a cricket. There's a cricket in my room.

Yeah. Well, you know, there's more than one. No, no, it's the same guy. I know it. I recognize his crickety charm. I recognize it so clearly. He's haunted me. You know, there's more than one. No, I hear a cricket. I've never, ever had a cricket in my house, and now this is the third attack. There was a cricket, and I went looking for it, and I couldn't find its body, even though its sound was so clear. Oh, I love, they are very clever with a good sound reflection, are they a cricket,

or a cicator? Yeah, and then you're like, where I was trying to locate it, which has led me to believe this is the ghost of the cricket that I murdered. Okay, well there are over 900 to 2,000 species of cricket. While there's no individual census number because I don't fill out a census like we do.

Well, they should sort that out. Due to the high reproductive rates in worldwide distribution, their population is likely to be in the trillions. I'm sorry, but... The trillions. If someone had a word to ants, that kind of the trillions.

I'm just going to leave that there so everyone can just hear what I had to put up with for a while. Right. Because I was looking for it being like last time I found this little creature. Yeah. And I killed him. I saw he was dead. I looked in the morning. I looked again and I saw his corpse.

It's another one. No, it's not. I can recognize his, he taunts me. He's back from the graves. A ghost cricket. You've got a ghost cricket. You try to kill me in the door. I found another way.

You try to kill me under the laundry basket I found another way Now he's in my house He's followed me from one suburb To the next So he's in... I like you think he stowed away in Like a bag or something

Yeah Got back to your house But it's his spirit Oh Because he's dead I saw the courts So you're saying it's a ghost cricket Yeah

Ghost crickets And when Did you find this last night Did you see it? No I sprayed the room To smithereens And it went quiet for a bit And I was like

Got your ghost cricket Yeah You're gone Again round You can't stop me. Because fly spray crosses realms. Does it?

Living to dead. Okay. You can fly spray a ghost. Yeah, you can fly spray ghosts. Oh, okay. Interesting. They need to start putting that on the black flag. Yeah, ghost crickets.

It's like, ghost spiders, flies, mosquitoes, flying insects. Yeah. Including and or ghosts. Yeah. But no, I heard him chirp this morning as I left. Wow. It was like, as I left, as I was like getting, you know,

ready in the dark and nice and quiet, as I left, he'd. left one last F you. Really? Right. It's like you were saying, have a nice day, Haley. Should you be spraying the room? Should you be spraying the room with that much black flag before you go to sleep in it?

Oh, dude, I love that stuff. I can't sleep without it. You know what? Daddy's sleep gas. You're quite right, John and Ben. You're quite right. The Flet's morning, Haley, big pod. From the unmoderated comment section, this is the top six. Good morning. A man has seen his views go when he decided to redo the entire phonetic alphabet

as recognised by NATO. Yeah, this is what they use when you ring up the airline and they're like, Papa Hotel. Yeah, so Alpha Bravo, Charlie Delta, Echo Foxtrot, Golf Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lema, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Papa. Papa, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra Tango, Uniform Victor, Whiskey, X-ray Yankee Zulu. So you're listening to Flashwood and Haley on Zulu Mike. Zulu Mike. Lima's weird.

What's FVH? Foxx, Victor, Victor, Mango. Hotel. Hotel. Yeah. That'll teach you for making that joke before. So he's made it, I'll do it up to F because F's the F word he is. Okay.

Oh, okay. Yeah, so I'll stop before that. But here's his little take on it. Do it. The nato-phanic alphabet, if it was loads better. Al-A-Kazan, gosh, cowabunga, dangerous, explosive. I like his accent. I like it too.

It's posh, but funny. Fittinette alphabet. The main ones that always need confirmation is B and P. Sound the same. But you think of all the ones that sound like B, P, D, T, like all of those E. Oh, you find this all the time as a New Zealand are ringing core centres. M and M and M and M. And F and S.

Yeah, F in essence. Great band. Great band. Hey, can you? Yeah, love it. But they do need to be redone. Just things have changed. So I thought I just do six today.

Okay. I'm lazy. I mean, yeah, don't do the whole alphabet. Why bother? You only do six. You all at the top six. If it was like 24. Yeah, okay.

Also, it always blows my mind looking at the alphabet. Mm-hmm. I've been like every word we know. Hidden in there. Wow. Wow. Deep, man. It is, though.

You look, there's only 20, there's only 24 of them. And I'm like, every word we're not. Yeah. It's hidden in there. Different combinations in there. Isn't that someone? Discombobulated. It's hidden in there.

Okay, giant game of scrabble. Yeah, dude. Number six on the list of the top six, the phonetic, the new phonetic letters, alpha for A. I, vote, we change it to Apple. A is for Apple. That's one of the first ones we learn as a kid. It's actually on those little, like, graphics, right? Yeah, A is Apple.

A is Apple. If you go to a little kid's classroom, it's always AAS for Apple. And then in the Brexit would be like, Aporo. What's your booking? It's Hotel Apple. Yeah. Charlie. There's no confusing.

Apple. Yeah, Apple. It doesn't sound like any other word. Apple. Apple. Number five on the list is Q is currently Quebec. Yeah. For the ones I want to change it in the phonetic.

No other region has a spot like the area of Quebec. Yeah. So I want to change it to Queensland. Great for tourism. That's good. But it's kind of like, yeah. It's a long word, though. It's a queen.

Queen. Queen. Queen's good. Queen or Quiff? The quiff. Haley, Vaughn. Please. No, I was selling her off too.

Okay. But I just had to say the word to tell her off. It's just you can't mistake it for any other word. The moment you hear it, you're like, that's a cue. It can't be on a core. There's a very distinct sound to the quiff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't be coming in to land and air traffic control and you drop a cue.

Coming in, it's a flyder. What's your booking? Apple Quif. It's an Apple. Apple quiff quixing two. Haley. Or just queen. Yeah, queen.

Oh, queen. Yeah, apple queen. Apple queen? Number four on the list of the top six new phonetic letters. Lima? Yep. That's dumb. Lulu lemon.

That's my new suggestion. Because it's got so many owls in it. Okay. Apple. Quiefer. Loule lemon coming into land. Coming into land. That's just one L2, that's not three LLLLL.

Lululemon. No, Lululemin. If you wanted to say, if it was three hours, you'd say Lulimin, Lulu Lillum, Lulu Lillemin, Lillem. Except you were on flight LLL-L-579. Yeah, you're on. Lul-Len Llemin 579. Cuefer, Koefer, alpha. Koefer, quiver, alpha.

Number three on the list of the top six. Ah, new phonetic letters. A kilo, a K. I don't need to be reminded of my weight. No, neither. I want to change it to Kim Kardashian. Perfect. Kim Kardashian is 1K.

Wait, so what if your booking reference is A, Q, L, K-K-K, it's, yeah, my booker reference is Apple, Kwefer, all Queensland, but Kuefis now seems to I think, actually just going to change that right now. Quifu, Quebec, clear records. Just for our records.

Alpha, Kueh, Kui-L-L-Emm. All the top six is now. I just write in draft emails and then when I'm finished, I just shut the window. So literally my draft folder is just full of heaps of top six and stuff. Right. Love it. So you're booking service.

is, if I'm correct, repeat this back to me, Apple, Kueffer, Lul lemon, Lulimin, Lulimin, Lulimin, Kim Kardashian, Khmudu-Lamin. Sure. Yeah, that's it, that's it. Yeah.

Number two on the list of the top six phonetic alphabet changes. Charlie is C. He's already king. That's unfair. Yeah, Charles. Cocaine. Oh, no.

Cocaine. Cocaine for Cee. Cuepha. Coffa, Koefer. Lulim, Lillemin, Kim Kardashian. Apple. Apple. Apple.

Okay. I mean, Apple's looking really wholesome at this stage, isn't it? Probably not what people expected after, to anus. No, no. No, we can't have anus. It's too rude. Very rude. Number one on the list of the top six new phonetic letters, Sierra.

S is Sierra, which is Spanish for Mountain, like Mountains? Yeah, yeah. And also the Ford Sierra. Yes. Now, I'm not having, I'm not on my watch. If you want a car brand to start with this, it's got to be Sabaru. Shout out the lesbian listeners. Subaru.

They love it. And they're Subaru. And it's Subaru. out there in your foresters and your outbacks and your legacies and some of you are a little zippy and you're in prisons. Right. So if your booking references all of the top sacks. Yes, it would be, sir, can I confirm that your booking reference is Apple, Apple,

quef. Yep. Lul lemon, Lululemon, Luliman, Kim Kardashian, Kukin, Koukhan, Koppane, Subaru. Correct. Correct. Oh, Mr. Smith, we found you. Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome. You're on the third floor. in room 8 cocaine 8C 8C Lula lemon

Yeah That is the day stop sex The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Flesh forne and Haley People on Reddit are very upset In Australia in particular But this is also happening in New Zealand

I've experienced it At the Retail places Where you go into the changing room And they write your name On the changing room door This was my first The first experience of this was at Lulu Lemon.

Lulu Lemmon. And they write your name. So they say, well, as you go in, and I've got three pieces, they hang it up. And they say, what was your name? Say, Haley, they close it. And they write Haley on the door. So, as you're getting changed.

Why? As you're getting changed, they go, Haley, how are you going in there? Oh. Haley, how are you going? Haley, are you stealing? Haley, did you do skid marks in these? We told you to keep your underpants on.

This 100%, like, the cynic in me says this is not to get, better customer experience. This is just personalise you so you don't shoplift. 100%. They know your name now. Yeah, that's why they're doing it, right? Yeah.

So they're saying it feels more welcoming than generic terms like Dahl or Love or Babe. How are you, Dahl? How are you, Dahl? Are you any of those genetic terms that you hate being called? I don't love Babe from a stranger. Right, babe, how are you? And you're like, I just, what about babes from a stranger? Babe.

Habes. Habes. Babes is cute. I love Babes. Unless a gay guy sees it to you, then it's okay, right? Hun. Yeah. I don't love.

Hi, hon. I recently learned a friend hates Dal. Dahl. Champ. No, I love champ. How you going in there? You couldn't call me a single thing. Champ, boss, chief, captain.

You like those? I love them all. Yeah, look at that ego. I love them all. Even if someone says it like sarcastically, like, thanks buddy. I'm like, you're welcome, buddy. Yeah, cheers, champ. So shoppers are saying it feels invasive.

Like, how do you know my name? It feels awkward or embarrassing hearing your name. Like, hey, Ler. How's the, you know, XXL or you wanting to size up further? Stuff like that. People are saying people with non-anglo names are like, oh, thank God. You're going to have a Starbucks situation on your hands. Yeah. Yeah.

And Chiranda Hansa, are you going? You're like, oh, for God's sake. I'm just going to put, Cheney. No, no, you're not. But a lot of people are saying it's helping staff. Like it helps them to sort of bring things quicker and improve their service and everything. Also, most of those places have a curtain. There's like very few places have actual doors, don't they?

No, most places have door. Oh, no, they've been a big curtains. I feel there's been a move away from curtains more to doors. Yeah, because they get all... Because you can lock a door, you can't lock a curtain. But the curtains, if they are, they're bougie, you know, floor to ceiling. Yeah. Now, girlies, you have both experienced this recently at none other than glossons, House of G.

The House of G. I don't know, House of G did this. Yeah, they've been doing it for a while now. They have mirrored doors, so the outside is. mirror and they just write it on the mirror. Oh yeah, like a chore or whatever. Not with permanent marker. No, but like a whiteboard marker.

And it would say how your name and how many items you're taking in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm familiar with how many items. I've had that before. Yeah, but I always get nervous because I'm always like, how are they going to spell my name? Because Shannon, you can swap out any of the vowels for the end, and I always judge how that thing.

Yeah, Shannon with an eye in the shirt. Yeah. Who's spelling it any differently than how you do it? I lived with a Shannon who was with a why, and then I know an I in and I know an A-N as well and I've met an E-N. Oh, I'm sorry. You've simply got the best vowel combination.

Thank you. It feels good. Kahn, are you a fan of this, names on the doors? Yeah, I mean, they always spell mine wrong, so I can't relate to. Carmen, Kowin, was an I. It's all right. It's just one of those weird things where I don't want to talk to a shop assistant really anyway. So let alone them know your name.

And then I'm like, yeah. But what if you did need another size would you find that? that handy then or you'd just rather go get it yourself? I like in farmers they have little buttons and you press the button in the changing room they come to you. They have that in some bra bra places too away when you're like

Bing bong come in fitty my tiddies. You can't exactly just walk out in a bra. But also like the fit they can come in and be like no this is because fits change all the time. Someone did say though someone's just texting at least having a name on the door saves you from that awkward moment and they go how's it going in there? And you're like

me? Are they doing it? Yes, true. The other other ones around. And then two people go, good, thanks. And you're like, gosh, what's talking to me? Wasn't talking to you. Yeah. It's embarrassing, though, when they write how many you've got because I've taken four of the same dress with me

because I don't know what size I am. Because size is so stupid. Yeah, you're like you grab the 8, the 10, the 12, the 14. Can I get the 16 just to see if I like it in a lucifer? Yeah, I'm not against this. I'm into it. The Z&M Podcast Network. It is so silly, silly, silly that's a silly little poll

Silly little poll today is money, a point of contention in your relationship. It's one of the big ones, eh? Yeah. Most common fights in relationships. I just typed that looking at my keyboard and didn't make a single mistake. No typos at all? Not a single one, my man. The most common relationship fights centre on money, household juries.

chores slash division of labor, lack of affectional intimacy, communication, and children. But it all comes down to communication, doesn't it? I was quite surprised by these results. Yeah. 71% of people said, no, it's not a point of contention. 29% said yes. Do you and Major Murray's fight over the, you know, the splitting of bills?

No, sometimes he's like, you know, I want more biscuits and I'm like, well, we can't afford more biscuits. Why don't you get a job? Yeah. You get a job. I'm buying all of your biscuits. You're never contributing to the biscuits. There's no money for biscuits.

And then you go on an overseas trip for four weeks. And he's just like, where's he gone? You've left me with some stranger. Stranger and the same amount of biscuits. Yeah, but I earned that money, didn't I? Yeah, I know, but he's your dependent. You've told him there's no money for biscuits. The Z&Folkast network.

This is why we find. This is why, to be honest. Play, ZM's flesh for new. Haley. Yeah. He's going to be six in like two days. Is he? Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Time flies. But they just grab so fasties. It is weird your whole. homeschooling him though. I said it's a surefire way to lack social skills. I don't trust the education system, okay, Vaughn? My cat.

Oh, they're going to vaccinate him and he's like... He can't dance this way through law school, mate, you know? Some feedback on it. Libby said, my partner always thinks we're struggling and don't have any money, yet we live a comfortable lifestyle and the only money owing we have is a mortgage, which I view is like a student loan. It's a fake debt that I'll ever pay off. Couldn't agree more.

Couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. It's just an expensive fake. Let's sit there. It's not real. Fake debt. Well, it's not fake debt. It's not fake.

You do have to pay it off. Yeah. And if you don't, they do come looking for it. Janelle said, be single. Way less contention, but also less money. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's the thing you've got. It's the hot thing.

It's the hot thing. It's the hot thing. It's a lot. Split costs as much as couples. Yeah, true. Oh, my gosh. Anonymous plays. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. That's great. That's a great. For a segment. When did you get a list? Oh my gosh.

It's my new idea for a segment. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. If you've got got got got goss. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. My gosh. Carwin.

New segment. Oh my goss. Oh my goss. Oh my goss. Oh my goss. Oh my goss. Anonymous, please. It was one of the reasons I left.

I got sick of having to buy beer and vape juice for him because he ran out of money every week. Oh. That's a heck man. That's a gross red flag. If one of you's bad with money, that sucks. And you have to buy. I am like... And you prioritise...

Vape juice. Cinnamon, apple, vape juice. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh. Miranda said... You're better off by yourself, babe. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh. Miranda says, not now that we have our own No Questions Asked account. Every week we get $75 for coffees and lunch, or I can save it or spend it on trash. I love that idea. That's fun, a little allowance. Yeah.

No questions asked. If you want to buy a Pokemon. If you want to buy a Pokemon. What do we buy a Pokemon? I don't know. I want some Pokemon. You can save up your... You can buy a popcorn?

Coffee money. As long as it's out of you, no questions asked account and not our joint account. Yeah. Imagine no questions asked account. Also, just, you know, are you spending it on? Only fans. What?

Sorry, it's no questions. Yeah. Well, if that's a agreement... You're allowed to have a chicken Snitzel for lunch once a week. Yeah. I'm allowed to have an Only fans. I made a sandwich at home so I could have an Only fans.

Yeah. I'm eating last night's leftovers because I want to see some stranger on the internet's boobs. Faisie said he has no idea what I hurt That's always weird when couples are like I know everything's separate And we've got no idea how much each year And we just pay our half Those are couples that aren't married

Right or haven't been together long maybe Yeah I think after a while You've got a bit transparent What's been married Like more or less legally Like they haven't signed the paper But they're many of the 20 years They've got kids and everything

And their finances are still separate They just put money into Wow just being separate for sure, but knowing how much they earn. They earn. Certainly handy if you're planning on leaving that relationship, just to siphon that money out, you know, years before.

Trip faded into an account in Norway. In Norway. Somewhere like that. Famously tax haven't got to be a small portrait. Oh no, I just don't put an account. I think you should have said like Panama or Switzerland. Oh, Raritonga? Wasn't that Raritonga?

Wasn't that Raritonga been used as a little tax over there for a while? Ruby said we have a finance committee a meeting every quarter where we talk about our money goals and changes to our financial situation. It's punishingly boring but it stops arguments. Wait, so you have a meeting with your partner and you call it the financial committee. I love that. It is good. Probably

write off, if you went out for a meal afterwards you'd grow it off as, you know, catering. But that gets back to the communication. It's just communication. Yeah. Never has been an issue in the last five years but is right now. It's tough times in our house. Obviously that person anonymous, they don't need that, but they're just letting us know.

No, Mart says no, because I handle all the money and he lets me because he knows I'm a frugal queen and I'll get it done. Yeah, right. We love a lady this is all the budget. Harriet says he has significantly more money than I do, which means unplanned expenses aren't always easy for me. He never makes it an issue, but it does make me feel uncomfortable. It's a me issue, not a him issue. I'm sure he doesn't care like he's with you, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Getting the goodies. I'm expected. You want to give him in the goodies. He's getting the goodies. He's getting the goodies. be?

I don't think sex should be financially transaction. No, no. A financial transaction. Be like, can you, my car need to turn you tyres? Can I like... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then no, that's just prostitution, but it's the barter system. It's just a consensual exchange. Mm-mm. It's prostitution for tires, not money. Beck says,

only because my partner has constant debt, speeding tickets, fines, ignores, money he borrowed from me. That didn't annoy me. Yeah, don't know. Yeah. After many years of me having to cover the shortfall, it's become frustrating. Ooh.

Yeah. Wow. Anonymous, please. Not when your partner does very well off only fans. Okay. What? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Shannon sends these true. She goes through in handpicks. The response is a silly little time. And on the anonymous one, she crops out their username. Yeah, because... For this reason, because we're like, look at my butt.

Yeah, but just me. because she knows what you're like Now Smithy's going to have a bit of a deep dive You're a nosy Smithy's going to spend us no questions Asked money on it If you ever hear me If you ever hear me go

Anonymous And you hear that movement That's me leading right in to see their profile picture Yeah because it's so tiny on your screen It's tiny on the screen Yeah She knows you're a pest That's why she's cropping them out

She's aware she works for pests Oh my gosh Is it okay so I want to know Follower if this person listening, Anonymous, of course. How much do they make a month? Like, do you see the content? Are you involved in the content?

And what kind of content? Are we getting it all? We get it a little bit. Amazing. I mean, all power to you. It's amazing. Everybody's got my only fans. I'm thinking of starting one.

I'm thinking of starting one too. It's just me having a pint of Guinness trying to split the G every time. I don't pay out. But wang out. You can't see it because I'm sitting at a table, but you know it's out. I don't know, Vaugh. I don't think anyone's going to pay for that.

Who knows it's out? And if I split the G, I get excited, and you just see the end of it. Do you know, there's lots of comedians that do only fans? Yeah, but they don't put their bits on it, do you know? No, they just put like extended jokes and stuff. Yeah.

Content creators, Patreon's one way of doing it, right? Yeah. Patreon took more money than Only fans for people using Ony fans, something like that. Maybe just putting jokes on ony fans and people are there for the Tartas.

I could do jokes of Tartas out. You could do it lingerie. show. I could do a lingerie show. There's money to be made here. Are we getting a cut of this? This feels like you and we're just all brains for me. I don't want to be there.

You don't want to be there. You don't want my pimps. Well, when you get in trouble, who's going to slap a bitch? My piped daddy's. We'll come in. I'll slap someone. I'll slap someone. I'm not close fist hitting someone. That really hurts.

It's embarrassing if no one turns up or buys it. You know, like pretend it was a joke. That's when you pretend it was a joke. Your jokes are terrible. I saw your tatties. Yeah. So we asked us a little poll, is money a point of contention in your relationship?

29% of you said yes. Next to on the show, a great new feature if you love reading and audio books and or, I'll say. Fletch listens. The Fletch born and Haley, Big Pod. Spotify have announced a new feature called Page Match,

which is actually pretty cool if you are an avid reader of actual physical books, but you also love audiobooks. Yes. Like maybe you switch, both. Yes. Carwin, who has the Instagram,

Carwin reads, I'll plug my Instagram as well, Fletch listens. Actually, we probably need to chuck up another photo on Fletch listens. He hasn't listened to anything in the past 10 years.

I listened to a lot of podcasts, so I haven't listened to a book for a couple of years. Yeah. You could review podcast, to be fair, because you're still listening. Yeah, because I'm listening. You're just going to do a post.

I don't know, I'll just get a little picture. Yeah, really listening. No, you posed like that last time. You didn't look that way. No, wait, which way did you look? Oh, I'll just check. because you've got to check the grid. So you were looking. So you're looking.

Same shirt too. So I am. I'm looking this way. Right. So maybe you look this way this time. Yeah and really, I reckon hands on ears like, I'm really listening. Yeah, perfect. We also need to get a reel up at some stage. Okay, we'll get a reel up. Oh, God, social media is so demanding. It's so demanding. Okay, listening. No, look that way.

Oh, he's really listening. This is great. At Fletch listens. Well, your phone is beautiful. It took a beautiful. It took a photo. If I want to take a photo on my phone, I have to click and hold my phone perfectly still for a couple of seconds. Is that Instagram?

You did it? In Instagram. Yeah, it's a bug. It's a bug. I don't know why you've got to hold it still for a while. What music would you like in the background? It's suggesting Empire of the Sun living on a dream. What about listen?

I am alone at a crossroads. Who is that? Is Thomas with Dear Reader? Stop feeling my stuff. We'll leave Vaughn to manage. Listen to the music, the Doobie Brothers. Okay, yeah. Listen to.

Bang us. But it's not listening to music. Actually, that's a binger we should play that. It's not really on demo. What's a demo anymore? On Friday, we're playing on Boston, by the way. Yeah, totally. My Friday flashbag is more than a feeling, Boston.

Are we? Yeah. And we play the Doobie Brothers. We'll play the Doobin Brothers in 10 minutes if we get enough text messages. We're not playing that. If we get, okay, how many text messages do we have to get 10,000? I could try that poll thing. Oh, there's a text poll?

A text poll. Wait, let's look. Well, on the text messages. Wait, this is getting off. How long has this been a feature before? We have a new text machine. What's our question? Do you want to hear?

The Doby brothers listen to the music? No. No. Boy, stop this. We're going to text yes just to rile up. Fletch, please. How does this work? This is the best.

And you know the people love getting behind. You want to work on bloody coast if you want to play the Doobie Brothers. Excuse me. I want to talk about. Queefing and such that we talked about earlier on the show and play the Doobie brothers. Why can't I have it all? You can't. 2026 is the year.

Vaughan Smith has it all. He has what he wants. Anytime. Well, anyway. Wait, the poll's up. Text, text yes or no to 966 if you want to hear the doby message. Nobody wants to hear the doby brothers.

The poll says a different. No, no. Do you're speaking. Daniel, Charlotte, Chelsea. Daniel. The Doobie brothers? Yes or no to 966, do you want to hear the doby brothers? While that's happening and you're taking care of my

my audio book, social media. born, Carl and I would like to discuss the new feature that Spotify have launched. If you both read books and listen to the same audiobooks. Yes, this is amazing. This is crazy. Like, I don't know how it does it, but maybe it's not that smart. But I drive to work, I listen to an audiobook, and then sometimes I'm so wrapped up in it that I need to then whip out the book at home.

But wait, so will you buy, that's double buying? Because audio books aren't cheap. Oh, yes. But she's a book collector. She's at Carwin Reads. Sometimes because I'm a hashtag influence, I do get sent books. Oh, right. Okay.

So you'll download the audiobook as well. Yeah. Okay. But when your phone's on, hon. Yeah, dude. Turn it down. I'm a social media manager over here. By all means, you chat.

I'm taking care of Fletcher's thriving social media channel. Okay, but the most annoying part of this is going, okay, so where am I at in the audiobook? Because the chapters don't always link up. They don't always line up, no. And so where am I at? I skim through the pages, da-da-da, wasting time. Now there is a feature where.

you can go on to Spotify. You say you click the little page match button, which is on the audio book page. And it scans the page of the book that you're reading. And then it will just match up the dialogue. It fast forwards you to where you're at. That's so good. That's pretty cool.

Because I like to read. I like to at reads and I like to at listens. I'm currently at listenings. I mentioned yesterday that book that I'm at listening to. I'm at readings. And I'm going to be... What book are you at listening to? dungeon crawler Carl.

Yeah. It's a big book. The girlies love it. The girlies love it. The girlsies love it. I've got to say, I'm impressed with the girlies. Because there's high fantasy stuff with the elves and that. Just days after international women say,

Vaughn's impressed, what's can read? I'm impressed at the content. I did hear that. Sorry, I'm just looking at the text machine pole. The pole is crazy. It's so fun. Dude, you better crank out the Doobie Brothers song. I am not playing the Doobie Brothers.

I can't. I'm sorry. Donald Trump? I'm sorry, you just, the king over here, this authoritarian figure, we're already living a goddamn democracy that we ask the people if they want to hear the Ruby Brothers. No, no, that's the pie chart. Does it say how many?

There's a pie chart. Open Facebook. I've sent your pie chart. It's a new feature and I've been waiting to pull it out. And you thought you'd pull it out for the Doobie brothers. To the competition if we don't play it. By the way. Oh, God, they're going to sweat me.

Oh my God, look at that pie chart. It's overwhelming. And also look at the text machine. Look at how many people participated. I think currently the text machine's on something like 400 messages per page and it's full. It's nearly up to 200 votes. Sorry. And that's only the votes.

So, look, I don't know. Can we play 30 seconds? I've put it in. What do you mean? Play 30 seconds in the Ruby Brothers and sit the music. I'm not playing the Doobie Brothers born. I will physically restrain you. We'll only play 30 seconds.

No, no, no, no. Oh, you can't play. You can't. Okay, checks again, checks again, 9696. Whole song or 30 seconds? 30 seconds from now. What the people nearly in there and that day. Play ZM's Flash forne and Haley.

Well, the people won. The people won. Say a sentence you thought you'd never say. The Doobie Brothers on ZM. You well, overwhelming response in the new text poll and the text message is in. Do you know this is only my fifth year in radio, but I've never seen the text machine like this before.

Wow. It is popping. Especially when there's nothing to be won. Four? Apart from, your ears winning by hearing the Doobie Brothers listen to the music at 7.30 in the morning. Someone just texted in.

Vaughn has officially cleared his name after chess week. Wow. That's big. That's a big ball. I mean, it's a back. You had to insult me to compliment me. Okay, somebody said, honestly, I woke up so flat this morning. Oh.

And this has completely turned it. I have a full day of year 10 and year 11th today. This has got me ready to take it on. Yeah, good. My 13-year-old has never heard this song, but immediately thought it was one of the greatest songs I've heard. Just when we thought you guys couldn't get any cooler. That put a bit of pep in the step for the day.

People are cranking it. What a blast. So what he said, new song. Old-pulled songs, 730. Old-polled songs. Old-pulled songs. We say an old song, we poll it, we play it. The Fletchborn and Haley, big pod.

Sing that balvorn, because I was reading the, I was on n-Zherald.comod on nz, reading an article about herald readers who are holding on to household appliances, ones that have just stood the test of time, Nana's kettle, look at this dryer, like it's one of those old, Oh wow

My parents have still got a... 173 Fisher and Pichael Clothes dryer. My parents have a dryer that they never use, very rarely. And it looks like one of those drives that would catch on fire if you didn't put it on for more than an hour. Yeah. Oh, jeez. From the 90s.

One Herald reader, Rob showed his 1965 sunbeam electric juicer. Oh, wow. Electric juicer. Yeah. This is Susan's Sunbeam electric cake mixer from the 60s, the fridges. you know, people just holding onto these things, why not? We'd to hold onto a really old fridge

because that would churn the power. Yeah, compared to a modern fridge. Yeah, yeah. There has been advancements in technology. This fridge freezes that Stephanie has is from the 1970s. Yeah, that thing would be cranking. I think Bev's still got an old crock pot. One of those actual crock pots.

I don't know how much has changed in crop pot technology. Well, no, but it used to be white, but now it's kind of looking like, like the plastic's been cooked as well. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 30 years? My mixer, like... 80s.

Mom says the dry is actually 80s. Oh, yeah. My food processor was my nannas and it's that white plastic that's gone yellow. Yeah. So good. Cram. Cumber. Cumber.

Some people hold on to their like mixes, the cake mixes and stuff. Yeah, totally. Because they just don't make them like they used to and they just keep going. Is it a KitchenAid that brand? You've got one. I've got one. They're amazing. That feels like that should last forever.

Yeah. But maybe it's an appliance. I want to know what is the oldest thing in your house that you still use, you know, the oldest thing that you have. But it doesn't have to be an appliance. Can people dobb in their parents because I feel, or grandparents, because I feel like that's where the gold will be. Maybe it's the bed, had that since the 80s, you know what I mean? Like it doesn't have to be an appliance. Anything.

Could be an item of clothing that you've worn. And I'm not talking about. I bought a vintage. No, no, no. Somebody's just messaged in. They were listening to the radio with their parents and their dad just said to their mom, you're the oldest thing in the house I use. and mum's not happy now. Mom's not happy.

Sorry, Mum. Dad should have known better. I think Dad needs to apologise in the car now. Dad, Dad's... No, dad's walking. Dad's been kicked out. It's on the bus for this. The Fletch morning, Haley, big pod.

I don't know, what is the oldest thing in your house that you still use? Still the test time? Maybe it was a hand-me-down from Nana. They don't make things like they used to. Some Herald readers were sharing their oldest things. We've got chess freezers from the 1970s. Nanas mixer from the six. and it's all still going strong, still being used every day.

Hearing from anybody with an electric carving knife? No. They even still make dogs? I don't know, man. We had a one that was studded out cream but ended up brown. Yeah. Erica, what is the oldest thing you're still using in your house? Good morning, guys.

Good morning. Mum got given a, like a manual whisk from her mum. It's got like the two whisk on the end. On the cream. Oh, and you crank it with a little handle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You know the one. Yeah, we had one of those growing up. Yeah. That's how you whipped cream. And now you just put the magic stick in and you go, bz. No, you don't because you still use the manual ones. Still used it. Oh, wow.

You ever have to graze it up, you know, get a bit of... Got to loof it up? You got to loop it up. I remember they got stuck all the time, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's still going strong. Still going strong. Still going strong.

Yeah. I mean, why buy an expensive appliance when you've got that for free? Yeah, except. Yeah. Get a bit of muscle going as well. Erica, thank you. Some messages in. So many messages in.

We've got a dryer that's just about to celebrate its 36th birthday. See, I wouldn't be trusting that in my house. Yeah. Somebody said, my nana still whips out the electric carving knife. Every time we have a roast, and that thing has got to be from the 70s at least. We have an art deco style lazy Susan that was from the 1940s. It was a wedding gift for my grandparents.

It still gets used. I love when we go to the B.YOs and they have Lazy Susan. Canton Cafe. Yeah, and you get a bit drunger. When you go to young chast. There's only a group of four here, but the only table left is the six-person table with the Lazy Susan. God, you feel like King and Queen. Do you remember when I put something secret on the Lazy Susan and I was showing someone, everyone, the gag or something on my phone?

Yeah. Spun it around. I said you've got one chance to have a look, and I went, and that was it. My parents' toast that they still use is also featured in the Otago Toy 2 Early Settles Museum. What? Takes only 10 seconds to absolutely blitz a piece of it. bread and smells dangerous, but shit, it's a good toaster. What do you mean, 10 seconds to make your toast?

That's what you need in the morning. Yeah, God, yeah, that's great. That sounds great. There's some dud toasters on the market, eh? Yeah, there is. There is some, when you signed up for consumer website, did you look into toasters? Well, I've still got a login for the next three weeks. Do you want to borrow it?

Let's have a little hone on toasters. Go for it. Go for it. Some real dud toasters on the market. I've got a cheese slicer. It was owned by my grandparents, I inherited it. Is it like a manual or a cranking those? Well, now Mum's defending her 80s dryers.

saying it's simple technology, it's hot air, you keep the filter cleaning, you're fine. Well, she's cleaning out of her lint. As she says, she doesn't use it. If she cleans out her lint, I have a coffee grinder that says it was made in Germany, and it's so old that it must be before Germany... Because it doesn't say east or west Germany. Oh, it's from bad Germany. No, it's from Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany.

Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, bad Germany. Yeah, bad Germany. Yeah, bad Germany. Yeah. I still wear a sweater that my great-grandmother made in the 1930s from my grandmother.

I've got a 1960s milkshake maker. Does it still bring the boys to the art? All of the boys. But they're really old because they're from the 16th. Keep your text coming at 9-6th. There's red milkshakes in here. Many of people still using old things holding on to them.

I like this. Yes, same. We just live in this world now where it's so much easier just to buy something new. And everything's made out of dust. and then it gets wet, swells, chuck it into the land heap, and that's it.

Back to which the earth it came. Oh, no, not really. It's often covered in plaster. Also, I don't feel like some of the electronic stuff you buy now definitely doesn't last as long as it used to. All right, granted. Oh, yeah. It doesn't, though, does it?

It's like my 2006 GHD, going strong. Still going. Do you know, because I think I talked about this maybe last year that my 2006 GHD finally gave up the ghost, and I was like, devastated. And then since my parents moved in, my mum's been using it And I was like, mum, they're blue And she's like, no, that's great.

So she's had a second life. Wait, so there was a GHG resurrection in your house. Yeah, resurrection. It's Christ in hair straight and a form. Someone told me recently, GHD had to put out this thing telling everybody about the advances in GHD products because they made them so well the first time nobody's upgrading. And they're like, we've actually advanced it.

It's better now. It is better. It's not as hot for your hair. Yeah, not as hot. You can adjust the temperature. It turns itself off if you leave. and all that stuff. The old school was like,

no, mine's still working from 30 years ago, so I don't know. Sorry, they made the product too good. Yeah. Yeah. Is my hair straight?

Then shut your mouth. So straight. So, so messages in the oldest thing that you're still using in your house. Still using it. My grandmother's dish rack.

Oh, okay. My mother's singer sewing machine. She got it for her 21st in 1945. Oh yeah. Mum's sewing machines still going around the country.

Is that one of those that folds down into its own table? Only you remember those. Remember that you flip around and click lodger. Big pedal built in. That's something you'd put in your house as an ornament.

Yeah, I would, but I... And you'd put a taxidemi rabbit on it. On it, yeah, yeah, exactly. I live in my grandparents' old house. It's full of stuff they were handed down from their grandparents. I even have miniature 1940s ironing board that's perfect for long sleeves. Oh, okay. I've got a late 1800s copper, crumb, tray and brush we're used for the fireplace.

Oh, so just sweep up the... Oh, lovely. That's nice. I've got a vintage one, but it's ornamental. Don't use it. Don't touch it. An old toasted sandwich maker. One of those metal ones that you clamped together with the wooden handles

and you put it into a fire. You're not like a jaffel maker. You're not going to get the cheese squirting out of that thing. No, but you're locking it in. I like the sealed ones. That's the danger of locking in the cheese. There's lava hot in there and it doesn't appear to be. Oh, you've got it.

You can't rush into one of those toasties. Especially if dad's put spaghetti in it too. Yeah. Tomato? Yeah, tomato. Cheese. All these things are very dangerous. My husband sharpens his grandfather's knife.

Every month, though. We reckon they're about 60 years old. We inherited them. Well, because sometimes you see the old knives and they get so worn down from all the sharpness. Yeah. Changes the shape of them entirely. I still have my great-grandmother's Whistling Kettle.

It goes on top of a gas stove. Oh, I bet that's not annoying. For everyone else in the house, you're in sleep. I love my Whistling Kettle. I love it. I love it, too. It was a cheapie, too. I'd love a proper old one.

Is it one of the plastic orange ones from the 80s or 90s? Plastic. You'd remember those? Whistling kettles? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But it could go on a gas thing.

We've got a final of it when you were looking at the, remember the old whistling ones? Yeah. I've got a baking sieve from the 70. You turn the handle to sift the flour. My mum's got one of those. It rules for sifting. You just dump everything in there and you crank the side thing and it pushes it through the sieve. We don't crank like we used to.

We don't crank on. We're lazy. We just want to hold. We hold the sieve and we go like this. We should be cranking. Not just... Easy with those noises. The Fletch forne and Haley, big pod.

Three dear genuine friends, aren't we? Lucky to have each other. Genuine friends. Have fun, support each other through the tough times. It's very important to have adult friends. And I think... I will say that it would be nice to see Fletch fall on some hard times. Do you feel like we've been taking...

I was just about to say he's been lifting us up, but then I've decided to take a different view on it. I want him to suffer some hard times. So we get the chance to support him. I don't think you have the capacity to support me. You just don't know what you're capable of. What can we support you through? I don't know.

God, I hope your renters go bad or something, you know. Don't say that. I hope the renters go bad. I hope you've got a spest off. Don't say that. I would be so happy to support you through that. I hope your builder is a cowboy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

A rental is great. Yes. No. I hope the council. I hope there's so much council red tape and you cry and I'll be like, buddy, it's okay, and I can show you the support that you've shown me. Okay, yeah. I mean, or just wish it all goes well, like friendship.

Yes. What a horrible thing. as AIDA Renos. God, I hope those ridders are a nightmare. So we were talking yesterday on the show. Yeah, about this. And Sam called up. Sam texts up. I forget what we were even talking about.

Yeah, what were we talking about? Producer Carwin. The weird things that you'd searched on AI, like silly things. She said, because she asked how to make adult friends. Is it concerning that I can't remember what happened yesterday? No, neither can I? We get up at 4 o'clock in the morning. It's fine.

It's fine. But so, yeah, what is the weirdest thing that you've asked AI and Sam message? how to make adult friends. And we got Sam on the blower, like we have again this morning. Hi, Sam. Welcome back. Good morning.

Sam, would you prefer we said we had you on the blower or had you on the old dog and bone? Just the phone. Either one was. Just fine. Just fine. You're on the blower.

When we talked yesterday about you searching how to make adult friends, this was a topic that really had a nerve and resonated with people. Like, there was so many messages. The text machine went crazy with people going, oh my God, same. or suggesting how they've met adult friends.

Yes. And we were like, we've got to dive more into this. Yes. And then we were talking about the idea of step friends. So this is FVH's step friends. Sam, you are our first project, shall we say. Because a lot of the time you make friends by connections. That's how, you know, like a step sibling.

You meet someone by meeting through someone else. Because you're living in Christ. Church, is that right, Sam? Yes, I am in Christchurch. Yeah, did you move there or did you grow up there? I've been in Christchurch since I was about 12. Right, okay. Long time.

Wow. So we thought using our connections, FVH's connections, on the text machine 9696, we might be able to help you make some adult friends, Sam. Now, a bit about Sam. Okay. 29 years old. Gorgeous. Never seen her face, but I'm just assuming.

This is great because we can play your 30th as well with all your new friends. Oh, yeah. That's going to be a big... That's going to be a big night. Sam's a good night look like to you. Sam, you're a rager or more of a quiet night at home? Quiet night at home. I don't mind a little bit of a rave every now and then.

Not a regular rager. So you just got back into your fitness. You love doing weights at the gym. Oh my God. Hon, you're trying to get back into running. Don't. No, you've got Hagueley Park there. That is a beautiful.

One of my favorite spots in New Zealand to run. Now, I wasn't going to say it's because there's no hills, but it's because there's no hills. Because there's no hell. But Sam, I did a run on Sunday and I still have a sore foot and I've got a bad knee and I can't walk and it hurts. She didn't train for it though, Sam. I will say she's not exactly the poster child for the right way to get back into running. I mean, to be fair, like, I've done a few half marathons that I've never trained for.

I just kind of go for it. Oh, God, that's crazy you've done a half because I did a fifth. It's important you don't say that on when you try to make friends. Because no one wants to hear about the person that did a half marathon on no training. It hurts our feelings. Yeah, okay. Anyone wants to train with me. Yeah, we like this.

And you've been getting into line dancing and some crochet. So you're a little bit of everything. Yeah. Yeah. No real set hobby. Just kind of, you know, dabble in whatever I feel like. Sam, this is a personal question and you might not even know the answer. And it comes from a serious, I'm not, Vaughn Smith's about to be genuine.

Oh, wow. Okay. Why do you think you've struggled to make friends as an adult? I think that, you know, kind of what you said before, friends often lead to other connections and other friends. and I didn't really find my place in Christchurch at school. And so kind of left school not in a friend group. And then, yeah, just kind of struggled.

Yeah, that's hard. Yeah. Yeah. And I know people could. Because people move to cities, don't they? And then it's hard. You might work with people that aren't your kind of your group of friends. And then you're...

And, like, my work's got quite a young, fresh out of high school. kind of vime. Right, okay, so yeah. There's nothing. A bit of an age gap between us all. Yeah, totally. Honestly, Sam, I saw some like 20-year-olds out in town the other day, and it's like, it's not good for the soul to be near them at 29.

It was terrible for the soul to be near them at 36. You know, 29, you're kind of close. Well, we just saw it, 9-6-9-6, if you're in Christchurch, and you know of a place, or you've connected with people as an adult, and it's worked for you, or you know of some groups, she's into line dancing, crafts, fitness, or you're looking for friends. Someone just texts him, but I'm keen to be friends of Sam.

Oh, that's lovely. We could connect you. Now, there have been multiple messages in. You said you went to school on Christchurch, and we didn't ask what school. That's really triggered people from Christchurch who's screaming at the radio, what school did you go to, what school did you go to? It's inconsequential, of course. It is, but not in First Church.

Do we appease our Christchurch audience by asking? What school? I went to Papanoi High. Is that the one you went to, Georgia? She went to Burnside. Oh, Burnside. She was a cabbage. Okay, she was in the cabbage maths.

Cabbage tree. No, it's cabbage tree is their symbol. Oh, yeah, sorry. Someone's message in, Sam. So many people messaging, by the way, I'm new to Christchurch. I'm looking for friends too. Sam should go to West Coast swing dancing. She'd fit right in.

Bit of fitness, bit of your line dancing. Oh, what they do, fitness and, okay, right, that would be great. I'll have to write that one down. Sam, do you have Instagram? Oh, but you don't want to give that out because what if some creeps are. Yeah, I know, but we need to connect you with these people. Maybe we could do that privately on the text machine. Yeah.

From the text machine too. Yeah, look, I don't know. Sort of run a creep filter on it. Yeah, because we don't want to, yeah. Oh, someone said come out to the Rock Rolliston. Plenty of friendly locals. Oh, that's just Rollison. No, she's not just going to walk around the streets of Rolliston being like, friends.

Dangerous. I mean, that could work. It could work, though. I mean, you never know, right? We have so many people messaging and actually Sam saying, Sam seems lovely. I'm keen to be friends with Sam and I'm in Christchurch. Something said I'm too close to my period for this. Sam deserves all the friends. Why am I crying?

I'm in Christchurch. Someone said and I'm looking for friends too, Sam. So do you think a lot of people are messaging in groups? That's a good way to start if you are looking for adult friends because then you're finding someone that has a common interest. Yes. Like a sports group, a hobbies group. Yeah, yeah, totally. A reading group, a walking group, a running group.

Someone said Sam, the Meetup app. Have you experienced that? No, I haven't. Is that the, is that Bumble but it's for friends? No. Some people did yesterday mention it about that and that's a really good way to meet people because it's not dating. Yeah. That's a whole separate kind of bit of the app.

So there's an app called Meetup. I don't know. It's around the world, but it's also in New Zealand where you can go in and you put your interests and then it will show you local groups and stuff and then it will start a group chat with people. and then you make a time to meet up. Search Facebook groups as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that could be a good way.

Well, we've got so many messages in. I think we should maybe connect Sam up. Maybe, Sam, we'll get your Instagram rather than your personal number. And then we can send it to a lot of these people that are messaging in and saying, I want to be Sam's friend. She sounds lovely. She sounds cool. And then you can, I don't know, go on a, oh, God, then you've got to meet people, don't you?

Oh, the Rock is a pub. Oh, yeah. Olivia messaged in saying the Pilates' students. Studio Polite is in Sidnam. And Christchurch is a great way to meet people. And she said she'll also like to be friends with Sam because all my friends have gone overseas. Oh, yeah.

She's been left behind. That's lovely, isn't it? Everyone's so nice. Yeah, they're so nice. But this is the thing is that everybody is wanting to make friends, but like, you know, they're in the same boat, but they're just not putting themselves out there. They're feeling the same way.

I will remind you, Sam, even racists need friends. Oh, it's a run of filter. Is that what you're saying? You're saying everybody's so nice. We're not really asking. people are any questions. Yeah, no, we'll have it run some background jets. No, they can be like, I'll be friends of Sam as long as she's

blonde hair and blue-eyed, that sort of thing. Yeah, right. Some hitler youth in the mix. I hope not. I hope that I'll listen to the show personally. I hope so too. And if they do, they can take a running jump. Take a hike.

Josh messaged in saying, hi, I just want, I want to be friends of Sam. I'm also part of this. I've just started Southern Country swing dancing. Oh. And just wanted to clarify that it's swing dancing, not swingers who are dancing. Yes.

But if that's you as well, Sam, we can get numbers. We can. All right, Sam, we're going to hook you up and we'll make some connections. Yeah, I think, and then we've got to follow up, Sam, and see how it's going. Yeah. Yeah. If she loves fitness and is open to trying new things, CrossFit D-Day is one of the best communities to be a party. No, I don't know.

That's like recommending a church. We won't do it. We separate church and state and CrossFit. We do. Thanks, Sam, wait there. We'll sort out those details. I think we should keep in touch with Sam and see how this goes. Someone just message, because obviously, like, when you're meeting up with strangers,

that we're going to be safe. Maybe they're saying we can get the people who are interested, get their Instagram and then do a bulk, pass to Sam, then she just to do the same thing. That's actually great. That comes to us from NetNanny. And also a good tip is to do, like, even dates or friend dates with a stranger. Just do it in the foyer of a police station.

They have a lovely coffee machine. They do have a lovely coffee. You go away, you take your paper cut, you put it in or you press what one you want. No one's going to deemess with you there. No. That would be my date tip there for today. There's so many people messaging in. She sounds great. I'm coming running.

And I love a crafty night and with some cheese and wine. I know. It's so wholesome, isn't it? It's so great. Thank you for all of your messages. The Fletch morning, Haley, Big Pod. FH is stepfriends? Yeah, for all of those that wanted to reach out to Sam who's looking for adult friends in Crashchurch.

So many of you. Too many of us to go through. We're going to put up, we're going to share a post from her art page. And so if you want to reach out and become friends with her, you can message her on that. Yeah, send her a DM. So we'll be sharing that sometime this morning soon. Hi, who'd you on F the H?

I want to do. I want to run with you. I want to do some... Crocée. Some crochets. Yeah. Whatever it is. It sounds so lovely.

Yeah. And so many amazing messages, too. Yeah. We've got the best listeners. I've said it before. I'll say it again. Yeah. We've got the best listeners.

Yeah. Right. Yesterday, I went to the gym. Late afternoon gym session. Got my lawns done. Crazy. Very pleased to get the lawns done. And then...

I can't... I admire that you went. Late in the day. Late afternoon, I'm like, it's done. The moment's past. Everyone has a cutoff time where the gym, you just can't. Mine's like 2 o'clock and I'm out. Yeah, no, this was like 4.30.

Right. Sort of 4.35 o'clock. And then during the gym session, which I went to with a friend. A friend. A friend. Wait, is this a... It was a date. And went on the gym date.

And... Wait, are you both at the same gym? Yeah. Well, the same franchise. Embarrassing for her, actually. I've lost a bit of respect. How embarrassing? Why is it embarrassing?

I don't know you both at that gym. It's kind of... She gives big Les Mills. She gives big Liz Mills. She's hot enough for Les Mills. Just saying... That's why we go to any time. We really stand out.

See, people are like, Whoa! What are they doing here? A hard launch? So, um, we went to the gym. We were doing different workouts, and I messaged halfway through. I'm dying for a creamy pint.

Absolutely. All I'm doing for this workout is I'm earning a creamy pint. Lovely pint of Guinness, as I want to do. You're just like Jason Mamor. Yeah. Well, I just read he has three non-negotiable Guinnesses a day. I maybe do a few a week, but I'm not doing three a day. Yeah.

So founder afterwards, there was a pub nearby that did Guinness on tap. You've got to have it on tap. I'm not going somewhere and drinking Guinness at a bottle. So I went there and just so happened to arrive as the pub quiz was starting. like sitting there having the Guinness and the pub quiz was starting. But you weren't taking part in the pub quiz. No, but people were there and they were doing the pub quiz.

And anyway, round one of the pub quiz was called Turnback Time. Sorry, pause. Someone just texted. Have I missed a chapter? Yeah, you've missed a chapter. Do you want to... What did people miss? So much.

My marriage ended last year in March, just to reiterate that. Just to, yeah, in March. So it's, you know, there's been some time. And... Nothing to do with me. Zero. Zero. Carry on.

Z E-R-O. Okay, well, I'm not bad. But has everything... You don't know, if you were at any time fitness, people would be like... Yeah. Yeah. It's actually everything to do with me.

Yeah. And finally happened. Yeah, the Google rumors from the 2000s were true. Yeah. We are. No, he wishes. He wishes. He wishes.

He wishes. Excuse me? I could have you if I wanted. Wait, has everyone been thoroughly naged? I think so, yeah. Everybody feeling bad enough about themselves? Carry on. So, round one of the quiz night was turn back time.

Okay. And I don't know what that was, but it came up and it was baby photos of celebrities. Was this a believe it or not quiz? Yeah, was that believe it or not quiz that goes to heaps of pub quiz. So I can't say what it was. I'm just going to say because some... I can't say the answers. It's the same quiz around the country every week.

You could be ruining it. Because Tuesday, I know, most of them do it Tuesday, but some maybe do a Wednesday. Oh, does it change? Like an updates. It's the same one. No, no, it's the same one weekly, right? That place puts out one a week and they send it. out on like Monday nights.

Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Or whatever, and it gets done on pubs around the country that week. And round one was turn back time, it was baby photos of celebrities. And everyone that came up, I was immediately like, blah, blah, blah, blah. I won't see the answers. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Had an answer for, you know me. Got an answer for everything. Got to the end of it. And the ponderous puzzle came up, and I looked at it and I was like, oh, I've just had a message from someone saying, ah, the last year makes makes sense now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's just from a listener and friend.

Thank you. Listener and friend. And the ponderous puzzle, I looked at it, and I thought for a bit, and I just said what I believe the ponderous puzzle was. Yeah. What is the ponderous puzzle? The ponderous puzzle is really vague at the start, and it's worth 10 points, and then every additional clue you get, you get less points.

Yeah. So I had a guess at what it was, and then sat through the answers for the, this is whose faces these celebrity was, nailed all 10. Wow. 10 in the first round. And it got to the end and I was like, well, we should just Google the Ponderous puzzle. Yeah, Google the Pond, had that right as well, then left.

Now that was the perfect out because the next round would not have gone that well. Do you know, apparently it's a different quiz every night except for three questions that they post on Facebook? Because otherwise you could just go to every quiz. Oh, yeah, yeah, you could. Go to different quiz night and just get it right and win the bar tab or win with the meat pack. Yes, so they've thought of that. So it does change every night. Does it?

Every night. Wild, eh? Surely some of the loop. Who is going around to every pub and like hustling to win a bar tab? I guess it's a... You could literally drink your week for free. Work hard on the first week. Yeah.

On the first night. Pay for that. And then you're free. So no, no, they're on to it. Right, they're on to it. The great pub quiz robbery. But it did make it look like I was privy to the answers beforehand because I got all 10 in the ponderous.

And that was the, that was a sharp exit? And was your friend impressed? So impressed. Wow. Wow. It worked. Yeah, but then I can't remember what happened yesterday. I honestly think it's just full.

Like, I put too much effort into just remembering things and, like, factor the days from like 2013 and stuff, but I can't remember, like, a schedule or, like, what I've got on tomorrow. As long as you remember your own name and the name of your kids, that's fine. That's I can remember. And your pin number? Somebody said they go to the same gym as I, and I'm a respectable member.

I give each machine a thorough wipe down after use. Oh, God. I stopped doing that. like after COVID. I know you do. It's so hard. What are your machines. The ZDM Podcast Network.

Play ZDM's Flesh, Fawn and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. We're doing Scouts, guides, brownies, cubs, pippins week. this week. In fact of the day, youth organizations. And today's fact of the day

is about why boys are called Boy Scouts and girls are called Girl Guides. Why aren't they called Girl Scouts? Well, in some places they are in America's Girl Scouts, aren't they? They are. Yeah, because when I looked up the American Cookies, it said Girl Scouts,

and I was like, no, you've got that wrong. Oh, yeah. Well, Robert Baden Powell is the inventor of the Scouts. He wrote a book about Scouts, and he used the word Scout because he was a British Army officer who specialized in reconnaissance.

Oh, okay. Soldiers who traveled here to the army, observed the terrain, tracked enemies and reported information back. That wouldn't be my first job in the army. Neither. Because you'd be first to be killed when you find the army hiding post.

Yeah. But you do look good in a gilly suit. Do look good in a camo. Gilly suit. And there'd be a lot of sneaking. There'd be a lot of like, you know, undercover. Yeah.

Sneaky week. Stealth. Stealth operations. He believed the skills, Observation, survival, tracking, and self-reliance would be great character-building skills for boys. So he wrote a book called Scouting for Boys

and launched the... Terrible title. Terrible title. What I was the writing list? I didn't even think about that. Terrible type. Probably could have gone with a better title. Scouting for boys.

Scouting for boys. Yeah. It kind of describes your last year, Sprow. Yeah. Sproul on the prowl. The prout. Is that why you had a compass? It makes all the sense now.

Today I'm feeling north. But he was worried that the name Girl Scouts sounded too militaristic for the social norms of the time of the girlies. Oh, yeah. Sounds a bit too. It's a bit masculine. So Girl Guides was inspired by the Guide Corps of the British Army, which was a scouting regiment, but it was the idea that you were guiding others and becoming role models. And was this an idea to kind of get them into the army life young so that they were prepared and could be enlisted?

It was not really because, at... the time they didn't expect World War one was kind of on the horizon. Right. But it did play into that quite well. His sister kind of took on the official head of the Girl Guides organization in 1910.

So it was a sort of a brother-sister organization. So, yeah, they just felt, it was literally because scouting sounded too masculine at the time and guides would be better because you were guiding it. However, in America, a woman called Juliet Lowe

was like, nah, I like Girl Scouts of the So that's why she chose Girl Scouts. But in Britain, it's Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. And in America, it's Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. And what is it here? Girl guides. Girl guides. Yeah.

Although I think it's changed lately. You don't need to be a boy to be in Scouts. I think it's become gender neutral. Yeah. You can do either. I think you can be a girl in the Scouts. Yeah, right. Because, yeah, Juliet was like, mm-mm, scout is the way cooler word than guides.

Yeah, guides. It's a bit, flim-y-me. It's a bit guidey. so we want to be scouting out and about. So today's fact of the day is a reason in New Zealand and Britain is called the Girl Guy, it's not the Girl Scouts, is Scouts was just a little too masculine at the time. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, do-dood-to-to-to-to-to-do-to-do-to-do.

The Z-N podcast network. Oh my God. I didn't see this video, but it's wild. watcher. Mr. Beast is crazy, right? He just does the wildest things. I was just reading this article and scrolled down far enough that the next article was Mr. Beast, um, slammed for trapping man and burning house. That's right. Mr. Beast, as Fletch just pointed out, and having been there, I completely agree. Mr. Beast is just doing early 2000s radio stunts with a huge budget. Yeah, right. It is. So many of the things I see him do, the kids will be watching and I'll be like,

the station used to work for. We did that. Obviously, not. with this high production quality, but we did something very similar. Like, it's wild. Oh, God. So this latest challenge is the talk of the town. It was quarter of a million dollars, Americans, so like half a mill, let's say, where this guy, Grant, had to live on an island with five of his exes. Oh, not an island, a wilderness camp, sorry.

Okay. So he had previously been on Temptation Island where he was there with his ex, Ashley, and he'd cheated on them. The relationship ended badly. Yeah. The challenge originally posed to Grant was that Grant and his ex, who he cheated on, were to go to a wilderness camp. Right. He's apparently a real POS.

Because you know, Shannon's just absolutely lit up the group chat with a capitals. You're not a fan at all, Shannon. Of Grant? No, so Temptation Island, basically, you go there to prove to your partner, you wouldn't cheat on them. He did. And he had a very intense shower scene within three days. Yeah. So not only...

Was there a Lufa? There was a night vision camera. It was intense. Oh, okay. Yeah, but he's the worst. And then, like, played both girls. Yeah, we don't like him. I think you meant he was wearing night vision goggles in the shower

when he made out with the chair. Hard not to make out with a dude, night vision goggles. Yeah, it is. They're very sexy, yeah. So that's the premise right that Mr. Beast put to him. You're going to go into this wilderness with Ashley or ex, who you cheated on, and if you can survive, you win some money. Turns out, no, four more of his exes will also join him.

So this man's now in the wilderness with five of his exes. If whoever remains at the end of 30 days, blitz the prize money of half a mill. He gets to vote off one ex every five days, and so one of them basically remains. So it's him and someone else. Everyone was like, this is impossible. And you start thinking in your own head.

If I was trapped in the wilderness with five of my exes, how would I go? And why would it be so scary and awful and terrible? I mean, the exes for a reason, right? Yeah. Maybe sometimes it's amicable. Yeah, but sometimes it's just not. And it got us thinking, and I want to know,

it could be a bit juicy. A bit juicy. What is the reason that you and your ex couldn't stay friends? I mean, we're going to get a lot of cheating, right? Yeah, we have that. But maybe we are going to get some wild stories. Should we have a little kick-off? Yeah.

Let's kick off. Have a little pre-load. There's some messages we got when we asked on Instagram. Yep. Anytime I'm even remotely nice to him, he tries to offer sex. We've been separated 11 years, but share a kid, but if I ever show him any nicer, he says and maybe like, oh, do you want to hook up?

Are we doing that? So I cannot be friends. I'll be friendly with them. Yeah, right. She dumped me the day of my aunt's funeral after going to the funeral. I'll at least give it like five business days. Five business days. Which isn't a week.

So we're asking five business days? Yeah. We're establishing that as a show law. Same with birthdays and any big event. Five business days either side of a major event. Yes. Yes. Stamped.

Approved. He asked my close friend out immediately. after we broke up. She said no. He's now married to a different close friend of mine. Oh, okay. Get better game and don't just

at the same friend circle. Get better, yeah, yeah, get better friends. Get better friends. Bit of game. Yeah. Bought in the circle. He said he cheated on me

and then tried to get his mum to win me back for him. What? Sorry? I do love when a dude sends his mummon. Yeah. I love what anyone sends their mummon. When an adult sends their mum in,

it's good stuff. It's funny. We're going to have a laugh about that situation. Okay, well, keep your text coming in. 9-6-9-6-9-6. to getting some juicy messages. You can call as well. The Fletchborn and Haley, Big Pod.

We want to know right now what meant that you couldn't stay friends with your ex. Yeah, there's a Mr. B's challenge where a guy has to live in an isolated space. I've got a hiccups, sorry. Isolate space with five of his exes, and everyone's just like, I could not. One of the other Instagram responses was,

I can't be friends with my ex. He's dead. And then a shrug. Wow, ruthless. Routless, but not wrong. Not wrong. Laura, good morning. Why?

What means that you can't be friends with your ex? Good morning. So in my early 20s, I dated someone. I went away quite a bit for work and it kind of just naturally fizzled out. So it ended on, I thought, sort of pretty good terms. Yep. He then presented me with a scrapbook as it kind of means to maybe make me reminiscent. about our time together and taking back.

And I started opening it. Some pretty cute things. They glued in a dollar as like the first dollar we saved towards our future. And then as I slipped through the scrapbook, there was a little bag that had his belly button lint in it. Oh, no. And he must have been saving. Like, he had pre-saved this.

Like, he had already been saving it. was killing cows in mine And you dressed it in the scrapbook Was it blue? It was multi-colored It's always blue It's always grey or blue It's always blue and grey t-shirt

So that kind of explains it I don't know why mine's always blue. Yeah It's always blue and white Yeah Did you respond to this gift? He gave it to me in person And I don't hide my thoughts well on my face

I guess Yeah, I'm the same I have subtitles Yeah. Okay, yeah, maybe he was saving up the ballet button, like, fluffed him, felt you a hat. He could have felt you a lot. If you were together to get a line. There's nothing he could have done with that I think could have achieved his intent, right?

Nothing he could have made or done with it would have made me go, you know what, actually, yeah, let's get back together. Yeah, or let's remain friends. Oh, Laura, that's so funny. Thank you so much. Keep your text coming in so many. 9-6-96 I can't be friends He messaged my mum on Snapchat

Saying she was hot on our daughter's first birthday Hot He had a play at mum He had a play at mum And his daughter's first birthday Via Snapchat Yeah wow The sleaziest of them all

Wow He slept with my sister-in-law Oh yeah that'll do it Must have been the other side of the family Brother's wife or something Yeah yeah yeah There was overlap that my new boyfriend was not made aware of.

So obviously the ex-boyfriend can't be around to ever tell him about that. Yeah, no. The Z&M Podcast Network. Talk about the things that, um, the reasons you can't be friends with an ex. Yeah, it feels like we need an event today and we're happy to facilitate. Yes. Yeah. Listen, my mind, wow.

I thought I'd bumped my microphone off. Flet's just hadn't turned my slider up. I hadn't. Ha, why aren't you friends with your ex? Why do you hate Vaughn? Don't hate war. Don't hate war. Don't have the play.

I hate the game. Whoa. We had a business together and he told our clients he was divorcing me before he told me he was going to divorce me. I'm sorry. No, that's not on. That is not on. I got pregnant so he abandoned us. Okay.

You got a narcissist on your hands there. Yeah. I can't be friends with my ex. It turned out to be a narcissist and was caught cheating with a man. We had a two-week-old. Definitely not on my birthday list. Wait, so the guy. this is a woman saying that her, wow.

Oh, you cheated on her with a man. And she's just given a birth and he cheated on her with him. Yeah. You can't fight the moonlight. You know what? You can't fight the moonlight, but you should have seen the moonlight before you were impregnated a woman. Yes.

I can't be friends with him. Turns out he had two of us on the go. He tried to get us both pregnant and whoever got pregnant first was going to be the one he was going to keep. What? All I can say is, thank goodness for the pill. I can't be friends with someone like that.

Don't call me, but, That's always a great one. But I turned down my ex-husband's request for friendship because he had revenge banged my mum when I left him. No thanks, chap. I'm sorry, but what is your mum doing? Your mum should know better. Yeah, what's up, mum?

Yeah, there's a few of these. Isn't that insane? Ridiculous. He cheated on me and I took him back, silly, silly me. Then months later he broke up with me the day after his birthday once he got his presents. Rude. Well, again, five business days, please.

Five business days. either side. Yes. We broke up as I moved to London. During that time we both moved on, but when I came back to New Zealand and ran into him, I realized I was still in love with him. But we both had other partners, so could not be around him anymore

because I wanted to be with him. So you love him so much that you can't be around him. You can't be friends. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Couldn't stay friends with my ex because he was hiding in my garden outside my window all hours of night, trying to get my attention

when I said I'd never wanted to see him again. Sounds like you need some automated sprinklers. And a restraining order, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a slingshot. Yes. And a bag of marbles. Yeah.

Well, that could kill someone. That could kill someone. Yeah, well, I didn't know. As a person, I thought it was a fox. We don't have foxes. I thought it was a burglar. Fear, okay. I was trying to scare them off.

I mean, he's also intruding, so he might as well be a burglar. Yeah. Some of these are long and haven't had a pre-read. Some of them are terrifying. Some of them are just awful as well. Last is just really quickly pre-reading. Did you read the one that said that if I was with the ex, it would be fatal for me because I'm of the problem? Cheated on all of them?

At least you've recognised yourself there. They message in saying cheated on all of them. Now I was going to say he messaged and that was my assumption. Yes. I don't know the gender. Yeah. Someone said was very inappropriate with my mother. Another one.

Another one. Patsy just wouldn't. No, but I don't think this doesn't necessarily sound like the mother was inappropriate back. Oh, right. Just that he was very inappropriate about his mother. Right. Oh, my gosh. Imagine. Nothing too juicy, but he goes, my parents,

quite a bit of money from 10 years ago. Oh, my God. Goodness me. Three days after my C-section, he went to a golf tournament because the whole thing was just really hard on him. Again, find business days. He then cheated when our baby was four weeks old and left us. Wow.

Oh, God. It really does turn out. You've got to be quite picky about who impregnates you, don't you? What's your now, probably timely reminder for your old saying to get trotted out? Yes. By the way, I don't know if I told you guys, but at the start of the year, a teacher messaged me. Was it the end of, no, it must have been a teacher. A teacher saying they put it up on the whiteboard is the quote of the day for the kids. Never trust anybody ever, full stop, ever.

I was like, God, for kids. Wow, it's ruthless, eh? But again, dark. Great life advice. What about my mommy and my daddy? No one! Don't trust them. Not a damn person.

Well, especially if your dad's going to sleep with your bloody girlfriend. Oh, I know. Exactly. Fletch was right, wasn't it? Fletch was right. That's what they'll be saying. The Z&M Podcast Network. The Fletch Morning Haley podcast on IHeart Radio, on the IHart app, on IHart. On IHart.

If you miss a show, you want to listen to the podcast. You can even stream ZM while you're in the office or away from the radio. It's fantastic. Yeah. And if you're up north. Yes. Some of our radio broadcast towers have been invaded. Oh, right.

by Nazis. And they've stolen it. And so we're not broadcasting as far and is wide up north anymore. Now, we are doing our best to get the Nazis out, but they're probably there for good. Until we can remove the Nazis. Yeah, Nazis are like ants. Hard to get rid of ones to run. Really good to get rid of them.

But you can listen on the I-Hard app now. Again, another great fantastic KPI from you. Well, a study has shown that phone calls while driving, even if they're hands free, if you've got the Bluetooth and a microphone up by your sun visor or even if you've just got your phone on your lap, talking on the phone while driving delays eye movements by 20 to 100 plus milliseconds across all phases.

So they've done a study on this. But the great news is that listening to podcasts, audiobooks and the radio while driving produces no measurable delays. Fantastic. Isn't that great news for this? It's great news for the show and the podcast. Two of the three, we need an audiobook.

Oh, yeah, that'd be the same, though, wouldn't it, as a podcast? So we should release an audiobook where it's just us reading the paper. I don't know about that. It's pretty grim news every day. So we could just find the fun stuff. So even apparently hands-free phone conversations interfered with how quickly eyes spot and track objects. Oh, yeah.

Because the brain networks for speech compete with those controlling eye movements. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So when you're talking, it's competing with the eye. But if you're listening. If you're listening, it's not competing. Yeah, that makes sense. Isn't that interesting? Because I'm listening and I'm engaged.

In the moment I start talking, I'm on. What about watching something on your phone while you're driving? I saw that in traffic yesterday. I was driving past someone who was driving like 60 and in a hundred zone, so I went to overtake and they were slow because they were watching YouTube. No, see, that's going to cause of saying. I was saying it as a joke. I wonder if we could take some calls now, like,

What distracted you and caused an accident? Yeah, great. Like, was it a hot, were you purving at a hot person and re-rended someone? I mean, obviously, we don't want, like, horrific stories of... Yeah, I took a live, you know, ended up... Yeah, or, yeah. Running over a pedestrian. Yeah, we can keep those stories to yourself.

Obviously, just keep those to yourself. Like, you live, love, laugh. Yeah, but obviously, like, you know, like, you know, like, maybe a little fender bend because you were perving at someone, or you were texting someone. Or you were, like, looking... Not even in your car. Maybe you were walking and you rammed your shopping trolley into something

because you were looking, you know what I mean? You can cause accidents out of your car. Looking at the two minute noodles or something on the shelf. Wow, what a deal. Five for three dollars, boom. Okay, so what distracted you? The Fletchborn and Haley, big pod. I want to know what caused, what made you distracted and caused an accident while you were driving?

Because a new study has found that phone calls, even hands free, the brain is competing. With the eyes. The talking and seeing. Whereas the radio and podcasts. Just listening. Do not distract you. So download Iheart today and listen to the FVHZM podcast. Wherever you listen to your podcast.

Great. Now, so many calls and mess. This is fantastic. Ridiculous. Donovan, good morning. What are calls to distraction? Hi, guys. The distraction wasn't mine.

I was stopped on Greenwoods, and for those who are not from Christchurchs, It's one of the busiest roads in New Zealand. Yeah. And I just got arranged really hard from the rear, but all the traffic was stopped and met up with a guy down the road while he parked over, and he said a B flew into his vehicle,

and he slammed on the accelerator. I mean... On the accelerator, yikes. Can you be worse than that. I've heard of actual fatalities, like accidents where bugs flown into a car, and someone's like, someone messaged in, 7-8, 4.

Fiber B flew up my skirt while I was driving and I crashed into a pole. I'm alive, bad. Buzzy Fandango. That would drive you off the road, wouldn't it? Can't have that, Donovan. Donovan, thank you. Kesea, what caused an accident? What distracted you?

Hi, it was my dog. She was sitting on the passenger seat next to me. Obviously, all strapped in with a little doggy seatbelt. Cute. We were just in a bit of traffic and it was just kind of rolling slowly. and I thought I'll just, you know, give her a wee snuggle. She was being such a good girl. And no, the traffic, yeah, it actually stopped moving and I re-rendered someone.

Ouch. Was your dog all right? She was absolutely fine. She was just having a great time. Yeah, what did you tell insurance? Cute dog. Cute dog. Had to cuddle my dog.

Yeah. Yeah. partner was and we were playing yellow car and yeah yeah yeah and didn't see a car coming down 100K road and he pulled down we got T-boned. Oh my God!

Tea-boned! Because you were too busy what, discussing the car that you'd seen? Yeah. Oh my god, that was lucky. God, you could have died. Jesus. 100Ks, Claudia. Yeah, we were really lucky. We were told that if we'd been hit any further forward towards the driver's door then the car would have completely

split in half. And who won yellow car? I don't think we really ended up discussing that. I was being told that the car was orange. I was telling him it was yellow and he he was colourblind. Yeah. Now, are you playing the rule that you see the car, you punch

the person you say Spotto? We just yell out yellow car. Yellow car. Don't do the physical violence anymore. Punch them and then gall out yellow car. Yeah, Spotto. We shouldn't be punching the guy driving the car. No, not drivers are excluded from Spotto. Claudia, thank you. Any messages about hoties, distracting?

There's a lot of messages about people driving past people watching iPads, which is terrible. That's insane, yeah. My husband's mum was distracted by her meth pipe and crashed into a ditch. Jesus. Do you think she lost the meth pipe or she was like, man, where's that meth pipe? I think she was going to get the meth pipe and fumbled it and was like, damn, that's my own of my meth pipe. Jeez.

Okay. My sister was a broad range of listeners. My sister was rubbernecking and went up the ass of a cop car. Oh yeah. We've never let it. But then was the cop hot. And understand it. Bonus.

I was simply trying to change lanes, but I was looking into my blind spot and the cars in front of me stopped and I just crashed straight. Yeah. You were trying your best home. Yeah. I got passed by a car while going 130 kilometers an hour in Italy and the driver had an iPad resting on a steering wheel, FaceTiming someone because Italian, he was speaking with the hands. Oh my gosh. And I was just, I immediately slowed down.

I was just waiting for it. Scary stuff. I was doing 100 kilometres on the motorway and a bumblebee flew in the window. I had a lamp post on the other side of the road trying to avoid it. No. Did you read out the All Blacks one? No.

A few years ago, I nearly crashed after I was distracted looking at the All Blacks and their jockeys on a massive billboard. Because you're trying to see if you can see any outline, eh? Yeah, you are. Driv in their Photoshop out any outline? Some of them are going to be rocking a bit more outline. Yeah, yeah. I think they smooth the outline so you can.

Can't see like... Yeah, for perverts like you. Yeah. I once re-arranted... What? I once re-erended someone because I was laughing at a car that had been pulled over by a cop car.

So then I re-erented somebody in that cop, left giving someone a ticket and came and sorted me out. Jokes on you. Jokes on you. Next on the show. What an open plan office may mean for you? Yeah, if you're listening to the show right now and you're at work and it's open plan...

Could be bad news. Not great. Not great. The Fletchborn and Haley. There was a study from the Lingumping University. Linkoping. Where's that? Linkoping.

It's literally spelled link oping, svidan. Ah, yeah. It's linkoping and sweden. That makes sense, doesn't it? That makes me slightly more comfortable about the accent. Oh yeah. Yeah, scary. Yeah, that could have been cancelled.

Didn't want me saying Thailand, didn't you? No, I didn't really, didn't. No. Linkoping University. in Sferden, ran a study that looked at the way that we plan offices, you know, like open plan or individual little offices. Because normally it's, and now it's all open plan, but the boss gets an office. Yeah.

And you're like, what is he doing in there? So this study. Well, if he's a lawyer in Hamilton. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I saw that story. Send in all sorts of noughties. Yeah, I'll get a way. I know it's right as good as me.

Yeah. No, so it found that fully open plan officers. where there's no private spaces. So you've maybe got like long desks and you've each got your sort of little bit. I'd say our main big office is open, right? There's just long desks and everyone kind of has their posy. We're open. We're sharing a desk.

Yeah, because monogamy's debt. Oh, sorry, working. Yeah, we're open. Yeah, open in that way. Yeah, totally. We don't have our own individual booths that we broadcast from because we don't actually like each other. No, we're open.

It found that those fully open plan offices reported significantly higher incidents of workplace bullying. Now can you believe that you're too ugly... Because, well, it turns into a bit of a roasting session everyone's open and it's easy enough to make a comment to someone? I think that it appears to be because you don't have any chance to get away from people,

there's more rub. So there's no place for personality differences to be like, have a breather. You're constantly like rubbing against each other, annoying each other. Loud people on the phone. Loud people. Lack of private space to retreat to, so you're kind of acting out and you start bullying people. Like when someone reheats their tuner in the microwave for lunch? Let them have it.

Where's Georgia? You got to let them have it. So a lot of people saying that the open plan style, even though it was supposed to be, to create community and team, you know, and keep everyone connected and social, has actually just made everyone be really mean to each other. Not me, I get to work with my two genuine friends. Shut up. Old fatty, boing, boing and loser, four-eyes.

Hey, ah. Wait, I'm a four-eyes now. Well, I need not be fatty boing-boing. Which one's fatty boing, and which one's four-eyes? You'll never know. Another podcast in the bag. The plastic bag. Are they back?

No, no, still banned. They never left. That's where you come in. with the line boy. Boy, man, if you enjoyed that. Okay. Oh, and if you enjoyed it, give us a rating and a review

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