ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 13th March 2026

Episode Date: March 13, 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 at the lowest prices. I'm going to do my best to try to unpack this because it's so wild to me and I was trying to understand it yesterday. There is a fruit fly, just a classic fly. One of the little ones.

Yeah. Okay. That has had its brain connected to a virtual reality. by neuroscientists. How did they do a fly? That's a tiny brain. There's a little brain. It's a tiny, tiny brain.

They're just the smallest wires. They've connected this fruit fly's brain to a... Fruit fly's smaller, I was imagining a big blowfly. No, no, no, no, little fruity. Connected this fruit fly's brain to a computer system, they've put the fly with the physical fly in the realm that we exist in, in this tiny little place that has a moving kind of treadmill, so like almost like a mouse wheel, you know.

And connected its brain to this virtual reality. So as the fly moves, it is now seeing a virtual world. It is living inside of a computer world. And because it's connected, we can see what it's seeing in this virtual world. I'll show you guys, but, you know, it's like living in this, this little computer world. Like imagine like a PlayStation game. Like a really early. Really simple game. That's the fly there and when he moves, it updates what he sees.

How? How? Is just existing in this virtual reality and this fly now believes it lives in this environment here. So that's actually movement. Yeah. Like it is insane. Well, this is an argument that a lot of very smart people make and a lot of people believe is that we are just living.

In a simulation. In a simulation. So this fly is now And they say this is so early But this is now The first step towards being able to upload human brains And we could be like the Matrix Just lying in a place

But living within a virtual reality But why now bodies degrade without movement? Our bodies will still degrade And this fly's body will too What's it called when you don't move And you atrophy? Yeah, and you get bed sores and stuff. That's what the astronauts come back with, yeah?

Yeah, but this fly is in a treadmill. So when he moves in this world, he's moving in his virtual world, but he's existing in the virtual world and seeing it, even though he's moving here. Okay, that's scary. So the scientists have done it to understand how brains process space and movement,

and the reason they've done a fly is because they have, such abundant amount of neurons in their brain that it's like closer to humans than we could imagine. And then they'll do mice and then they'll do monkeys. But then so if we're living in a simulation and we then can make ourselves live in a simulation, we'll be in a simulation in a simulation. If we're in a simulation.

If we're in a simulation. So in our simulation, we're going to put ourselves in a simulation. Yeah. where are we now I don't know I don't know we might be in the simulation

we might be in the simulation apparently so this whole thing when I was told this yesterday I was like I can't understand it but apparently this is huge like this is really big like breakthrough news in the science world and it's

yeah it's like it's absolutely and crazy the human brain has around 86 billion neurons a fruit flies brain has 140,000 neurons so like Wow, when you squish that on the bench, when you're like,

H'a-h-h-a-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hundred-a. And there's a little bit of, and you're just like, wipe that up. It's a lot of neurons. A lot of neurons. We're killing so many neurons. Yeah. Yeah.

But because the fly brain is so tiny and its movements are so small, they can map the virtual reality much easier. Then whereas if we, like, think about everywhere we go, it's a much bigger virtual world to create. Yeah. So this is like this little baby step. It's pretty mind-blowing. So people are like,

fly can live in a simulated world. And by the way, apparently, this fly is so happy. He's just having the best day in his little park world that he lives in. Yeah, but are there some like oranges and apples? And they leave little food and stuff for him. He's just... He loves that. He's just walking around rubbing his little hands together.

What have I got tonight? And apparently he's just like living the best life and they're just going to watch him and see what happens. You can map a whole world for him and add obstacles and he'll just walk up to it. Well, maybe that's the kind of realization that we're not living in a simulation because most of us aren't living our best lives

are we're just kind of existing and... Some days I'm like if this is a simulation, what a shit system simulation. Download the patch to make it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's the cheat code to make this day better? The Fletchbourne and Haley Big Pod. From the Fletchbourne and Haley group chat, this is the top six. He's done it. Top six places Gollums hiding in New Zealand's today's top six

because the hunt for Gollum, the film, production kicks off soon. Kate Winslet on her way back to New Zealand. Yes, she apparently will be in New Zealand from May till October. Oh my gosh, you could come to my Comedy Fest show. She'll love it. She would love it. She'll love it. It's on tour.

Maybe busy. Also, back Elijah Wood as Frodo, Ian McAllen and Andy Circus. And potentially I was just reading Vigo Mortensen. Oh, wow, okay. Yay! And so directed by Andy Circus as well, produced by Pity.D. Jax. Yeah. And I always forget that Kate Winslet was in 1994 in Heavenly Creatures,

which Peter Jackson directed. It was one of her first films. Yeah. Like one of her earliest films. That was before Titanic. Yeah. Tatenac, which was 90. That came out 97.

Yeah. So, Mel. Amazing. Yeah, Melanie Linsky and Kate Winslet. I know, Melanie. So proud. We're so proud of our Melanie. We're so proud of our Melanie.

We're so proud of our Melanie. I love watching interviews and she still has her Kiwi accent pops through, doesn't it? Man, she's done so much American stuff. Well, I've got the top six places. Gollum is hiding in New Zealand because it is the hunt for Gollum. It's the movie that come into work on. Number six on the list inside the L&P bottle.

It's hollow. Is there? Is there a door there? I don't know there's a door. Go on through the top. Okay, right. So you fell in, can't get out. Screw off the cat.

Number five on the list of the top six places Gollum is hiding in New Zealand. That abandoned reading cinemas in Wellington Central. What are we doing with that? Oh man, I attached so many boys at the back of that cinema. Did you? How many? At least three.

At least three. So many memories there. That was my cinema. Pashing three people was not that. He's not impressed by his numbers. It was a lot. You just made it sound like it was like 10 or something. That's a quiet Tuesday.

I shagged one of the projectionists. Did you? What, in the room? No, no, no, no. At an outside time. Afterwards, we met out the back of Reading Cinemas. I always imagined projectionists are old men. No, no, he was a young man.

He was a young fellow. He was a young fellow. He was a projectionist at Reading Cinemas. And, yeah, we... Okay, I've found an article from the 15th of December at the end of last year. A complete overhaul of Wellington's abandoned Reading Cinemas complex is moving closer with resource consents lodge for the project.

The large earthquake prone building has been sitting empty since 2019, often referred to as an eyesaw. Oh, the pictures of the new one look lovely. Oh, they need to do it. They need to get it back. That's crazy that it was 2019. I thought it was post-COVID. It's been there sitting vacant for so long. I'd love to go for a look.

I don't reckon to be that exciting. No, but something's been sitting empty for that long. I wonder what it looks like. I like when you see those abandoned malls in America that have been abandoned. since like the 80s or 90s? Yeah. Crazy. They had a the CD store in there.

Cool. And I remember this... Yeah, with listening posts. I remember the albums I bought there. Yeah. Oh, what a memory. Number four on the list of the top six places, Gollum could be hiding in New Zealand.

Whitehall Caves. Perfect spot. Yeah, perfect spot for him. Yeah. Yeah, gorgeous. Doesn't like the sun, water running through it. They have to pay the fee to get in. He will have to pay the entrance fee.

Number three on the list of the top six places Gollums hiding in New Zealand. Gaw, because of the big, because of the bigger ass fish. He thinks it's edible. Oh, he does not fish. He loves a fish. Yeah. Sashimi, he loves a sashim. He would love sashimi.

He would love sashimi. Never got to the part with the knives, though, just kind of like gnawed at it with his teeth. Number two on the list of the top six places, Gollums hiding in Al Tiro in New Zealand, up Mount Nauru Hoi, trying to get his ring back. Oh yeah. Because that's the mountain they used to be.

Mount Doom. Oh yeah. Yeah, you walk past it on the Tongadero crossing. Oh really? Is there any of parks? I'd say this is Mount Doom? No, but I think there are signs like you're not allowed to climb it. Mount Doom.

You've got to stay off there now. No climbing. He's like, oh, I can't chuck the ring from here, can I? So I've literally come all this way. It's been a harrowing journey. You're not allowed to climb it, eh? I think people wear and they kept getting rescued. Oh, really?

It's, is it? I don't know. Did they venture off in jeans and jand? You wouldn't, you wouldn't. Remember those tourists that we just went into the Tongarido crossing? Oh, jeans and jandals? I mean, locals do that sort of dumb shit all the time. Oh, you aren't technically allowed to climb, but it's strongly discouraged and considered

discreet. Is it disrespectful as it's sacred to local Mardi. Rangers encourage hikers to say on the main alpine crossing. Okay, go ahead of. Sacred maunga. And number one in the list of the top six places, Gollum has been hiding in New Zealand, New Plymouth, he's been hiding in plain sight, just walking around New Plymouth. No teeth.

No teeth. Oh, boy. Skins all methie. Fitzrighten. Boyn. Well, I won't hear a bad word about him. No. Fitz right in.

And I'm, it's not as methie as Morinsville. Yeah, methiontsville. It's literally in the name. It's not, that's not its name. Methansville. That's not called Methensville. It's literally called Methinsville. Oh, Vaughn.

I'm not going to throw my own hometown on the, on the fire around. Yeah, well, you have. Got to roast your. Plummouth instead. That is today's top six. Breanclint, the Fletchborn and Haley, Big Pod. Wow. This story rules. This is a story about a man, a treasure hunter, shall we call it? Ooh.

Okay. His journey, he's been treasure hunting for a very long time. He's a deep sea treasure hunter and also a scientist, an Ohio-born research scientist. Okay. He, uh, Tommy Thompson. Perfect, man. Oh, perfect name. Tommy Thompson.

Tommy Thompson. In 1988, located what was known as the ship of gold. Now, this was a ship that was taking gold from the California and West Coast Gold Rush

around to, it was, they minted the coins and gold bars and it was going around to the eastern side of the United States. So I'm imagining

it went down and through, wow, there was 1800s. It wouldn't have had the Suez Canal. Oh, yeah. How would it have got? All the way around the bottom?

The whole shaband. Or maybe, went down and then trained across America and then was boating the rest of the way. Yeah, yeah. And off the coast of South Carolina, it sunk in 1857. 425 passengers and crumboats back in the day were chronically sinking. Love to sunk. Wait, I feel like we need some pirate music. Oh, okay, pirate music. I did have some pirate music teed up. What kind of pirate music do you want?

Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh, pirates are the cabin. Yeah. D-da-Din-Din-Did-D-D-D-D-D-D-Lin. But there's treasure. What is Captain Jack's, this is called Jack Sparrow? No, that's... No, you want some adventure.

Yeah, you want adventurous pirate music. It's quite ominous, that was quite ominous. Yep. Hmm. No, it's kind of... This is the Royal Friottel. full harmonic orchestra playing the main theme for Pirates of the Caribbean. Well, that'll do then.

There's treasure. It's all right. So it sunk in 1857. 425 passengers died and drowned. Oh, so bad, eh. I feel like we were making jokes for now. 30,000 pounds of federal gold. 30,000 pounds of federal gold.

How much would that be worth now? Dude, untold amounts. So in 1988, he found it. In the 80s. That's a year before I was born. 7,000 feet in meters is 2.1 kilometers deep. Wow. That's how deep this water was.

But in 1980s Tommy Tom Tom Tom, Tommy Tom, Tom, found it. Now, he had... That's deep. Why was he so deep? Well, he went searching for treasure. And it was out there. That was why it was so hard to get to.

That's why I don't want to found it for like nearly, what, 150 years at the time? Wait, did you say 3,300? No, I said 30,000 pounds of gold. Troy pounds? Pounds, pounds, my man. Sterling silver pounds? 30,000 pounds.

Not pounds as in British pounds, pounds, as in weight pounds. Weight, yeah, okay. 30,000. What, you've been a gold calculator? Hang on, can't be more than 10,000. Okay, go 10,000 and we'll times it by three. So, just some quick math. Quick maths.

US dollars, 752 million times three. Yeah. Whoa. So 2.1 trillion. No. Billion. No, billion. That's insane.

21 billion. 21 billion. Okay, so there's $21 billion. 2.1. There's 2.1 billion. There's so many. Trillions. Do you want to times it by three?

I'll just time the exact number. Yeah, I'm overwhelmed. It's 2.1 billion. To me, when I go treasure hunting, it's not about the value. It's about the thrill. 2.258 billion dollars. There you go. So there is 2.258 billion dollars.

But they found it in 1988. Now, obviously, getting to 2.1 kilometers. Oh, our pirate music's... Oh no, it's just reached her. What an ominous point of the music. Okay, sorry. Obviously, when you're going to 2.1 kilometres deep, in 1988, you need investors.

This isn't cheap. Well, it was as an investors that said, Tommy, where's the money? Show me the money. Show me the money, Tommy. We can't account for over 50 million. He sold some gold bars for $50 million. So they got to it.

They got the money, buddy. They got the money, buddy. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. Tommy Thomas and got the money, found the, found the ship, got the gold coins, got the gold. Got the gold out of it. Yeah. And the investors are like, Tommy, where's the rest of the gold? Tommy's like, I don't know what you're talking about.

Are we still in 1988? Yeah, we're still in 1998. Why are we talking about this now? Well, because it was in 2005 that they said that had enough and then like they started trying to sue him. Because he's like, where's the rest of the money, Tommy? Tommy's like, I don't know what you're talking about. He's hitting it. They're like, where's the money?

Where's the money from the stuff you sell? And he said, well, I paid you back. And they're like, we want the rest of the money. We invested it on the, we're all going to get a slice. He's like, there's no more. And they're like, where's it all gone? He's like legal fees and stuff. So they keep hunting him and hunting him and hunting him.

And then he goes on the lamb, changes his name. They find him in a Florida hotel. And he gets arrested because he skipped a court date. With $2.2.2 billion. Floating around out there. What's he got it in? Like, what's he converted it to? No one knows.

Except for Tommy Thompson. How do you lost a coins? Who has just been released from prison? What? He spent more time in prison than your average American murderer. Yeah, what that? For a business dispute. And they kept getting him.

They kept getting him on things like, so when he finished his initial thing for a breach, they were like, well, now you have to do two more years because you didn't turn up to that. Yeah, right. So they're just kind of like been trying it, and he's gone crazy. So I'll show you a photo of how sexy.

Oops. Vaughn, you've unplugged. Oh, it was just picking up too. Yeah, it's just picking up. In 1988, that's him with one of the coins. Oh, wow. And he looks like a sexy Paul Rudd. I like him.

He does look like a hairy, sexy Paul Rudd. He looks like a hairy sexy Paul Rudd when Paul Rudd grows a bed. This is his latest jail photo. The guy's gone gold crazy. Oh, Jesus. He's in his 70s now. He's just been released from prison. He's never told anybody where the gold is.

How long was his sentence? Wait, to how much gold is left? No one knows, sledge! But they're just like, everyone in the... Everyone that's done the maths is like, there's so much unaccounted for goal. Where is it? Well, either he got it at the time and hit it,

or he's going to go back. So the greatest conspiracy is, he's buried the truth. Oh my God, like a pirate. I mean, he certainly looks like he wouldn't be out of place on Captain Jack Sparrow's boat with that. Honestly, give him a peg leg guy. Yeah, with that prison photo.

In 2022, a ingot, so that's a goal bar. Yeah. from the SS Central America showed up at an auction. And it sold for $2.6 million. And in 2019, multiple little relics from the shipwreck showed up at auction and got more than $11 million. So there's also this theory that he's got somebody who knows where it's buried in every now and then when they're a little top-up of their pocket money that go and get something and just let...

And just like release it into the black market. What a wild story. How is this not a Netflix documentary? It will be. It's got to be. Like, it's got to be. I wonder if the story ever has been told. Yeah, I don't know.

It was all secret. Incredible story. Is there any movies about the recovery of the... What was it, 37 years ago? There's probably docos. There's probably been like little docos done. In 2024, a National Geographic documentary series called Cursed Gold, a shipwrecked scandal, covers the 1989 discovery of the gold.

Oh, watch that. It highlights expedition leader Tommy Thompson in the subsequent. Legal battles over the, over the, it's all on Disney Plus. It's all on Disney Plus. There you go. Put that down for a weekend watch. Oh. Isn't it wild like adults?

Everyone loves the idea of a buried treasure. Yes. I've never met anyone that wouldn't be excited about the idea of a very treasure. Oh my God, yes. I think that's my geocation took off a little bit. Do you remember that? Everyone was like, because it was kind of a bit like treasure hunter. It was treasure hunter.

Yeah. Great story, Vaugh. Great story. Well, someone's got to watch that on Disney Plus and report back. I'm my watch list now. We buried a time capsule in 2009 in Christchurch. Yeah, I've been part of two time capsules. One's been lost. My primary school can't find it.

What? It's just where they buried it. They did it in the year 2000. It was a news article and everything. They can't find it. It's where they buried it. They can't remember where they buried it. It was in a newspaper article.

It was 1999. They have no idea. And they were reaching out to previous Middle Eastau School Primary kids to be like, do you remember? And I was like, no. What the hell? No, I don't remember.

I think it was on the far field. Yeah, I know. But then what's the point anyway? It would just be some, like, shitty kids painting? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, what I put in was junk. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flash forna and Haley.

Chris and Dave are driving down to Wild Foods. They listen to us on IHart Radio. Oh, lovely. On the IHat app, fantastic. Yeah. And they're claiming the Doobie Brothers are playing, but I don't believe it. But anyway, drive safe lads. Three more hours.

on the road according to the sat-man. Lovely. Lovely. It's a good weekend. Great weekend. Now, the death of bar soap reads the headline. Okay. Good. Well, apparently it's the millennials mostly, and then the pandemic that well and truly put the nail in the coffin for

bar soap. Environmentally, it's still the friendlier soap, right? Because it doesn't come in the plastic bottles and people aren't constantly like buying new plastic. Because it's never cheaper. It is never cheaper to buy a refill than it is to buy a new plastic bottle. I know. And that goes across the board for like coffee.

Coffee, free fills everything. Yeah. Never cheaper. They're saying that one of the big reasons people love liquid soap is you know what you're putting on your body and the bar soap can be a bit. Like what's this made of?

Yeah, but then... Really? I would have thought the other way around. In this article, it does say, it's an Australian article, just does say that out of coal supermarkets they've seen a rise in bar soap, premium soap. Like people gifted or they put it in the bathroom looking nice.

So I like going to a... market day and someone's making their own soaps. Those are really nice. To wash your hands with it, but I don't wash my body with it, but if I'm washing my hands just at a sink, I prefer a bar soap, but in the shower I'm a liquid soap fella.

While Sprow's been on the prow, the amount of showers I've had in gentlemen's homes with that thin slither disc of a bar is unacceptable. And I would get in the shower and be like, how are we still here? Oh, yeah, see, that's not good because that's touched. Other body.

and bones. It goes for your bones. It's a pub. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And when it gets real thin, it gets lost in the pubs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're almost, it's got that tiny little disc nub that you're

going to run around your bits. Now I'm going to get it out of the pot. We've asked the question today, liquid or bar so. And 81% of people have said liquid over bar. 19% saying bar. Taylor, liquid or bar? Definitely liquid. Yeah, man.

Liquid. Liquid. Why do you like liquid so much? Fastly it has a weird, like, you know, squeaky texture after you use it. I feel like it dries your skinner. You feel dry. So dry. It's very harsh. Yeah.

Well, every caller today, Taylor gets 50 bucks free fuel, so congratulations. Free fuel Friday. Here you go. No problem. Wait there. We'll sort that out. Stay clean. Megan says liquid's so wasteful.

It's mostly water in the plastic bottles are no for me. It is a lot. You are paying for a lot of water. If you ever look on the ingredients, it's always Agua. And they put angla-gla because it sounds flashing the water. I think where I go wrong with liquid soap is I do too many pumps. I pump, pump, pump it up. It's amazing.

When you get a fresh bottle, you're five pumps, but then towards the end when it's going and it's half a pump, half a pump, you're like, I can wash with half a pump. Yeah, but then you put a bit of water in, you shake it around. Now I've got another week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neve said you can't get clean from liquid soap. It's not real soap.

Yes, what are you talking about? We've got a dirty girl on our hands. it for like forever. Liquid. Can't find your dad stray pubs on a liquid soap. Says Joel. That's true, yeah.

Mel says liquid soap for hand washing bar soap in the shower. Interesting. I'm the other way around. No, I don't want bar for the hands. I don't want bar ever. Totally. Lovely smelling art of farm bar.

No, but it goes all me. It doesn't clean you. It's got too many leaves in it. What? You know when people make this around and things have put flowers and stuff. Grounded up nuts or something. You know, that's good for exvaliating.

I like this. Fennel seeds? I don't want some. What is this? A seed on my hand? Yeah. A muffin. Emma Tito says, I don't know what.

Gave Emma's full name there. Soap bar user here. Saving the planet with less plastic and it looks and it works out cheaper. I get a delightful strawberry flavored one from Chemist Warehouse. Shows Fonny. Show Spon. Gies, have a strawberry bar side. Ruben Bar in a reusable washing pouch is way more eco-friendly and exfoliating.

I've seen these. They're like an exfoliating glove except you, put your soap in the middle so the soap never touches you but it foams up and you can like wash yourself and exfoliate at the same time they're using the bar so. That's nice. And that would stop that thin slithery disc getting jammed in the pews. Really jamming that in your pubs. It's a meaty sounding.

Yeah. It's the sound of the pub attaching to the bar soap. Liquid of course I, liquid of course, says Aisha I want to be a supple goddess, not a dry sack of leather. Yeah, so dry. Nathan, honestly, I use both but prefer liquid. washing farm hands take some effort Sometimes so juicing up a bar can be handy Yeah when your hands are really dirty

The bar rules Yeah Kendall I hate when flatmates buy a bar so It builds up around the bottom of the shower And goes gross Also I feel like a 95 year old Nana When I have to use a used one Both one

One wash with a bar Rinse off then liquid Says Gemma She's one She's double cleansing She's double soaping Double soaping Don't double soaping

She's dry She's dry Gem is in a drought So many texts in it's such a mixed bad A big bag. Love the squeaky texture. No, no, no, liquid only. Bar in the shower, liquid at the base.

It's a mix. So little pollas, what kind of soap do you prefer? And 81% of you said, give me that liquid. The Z&P Podcast Network. Because she loves shoutouts. Can I just do a quick shout out? Shout out to all the marching girls. It's qualifying day at Nationals today.

It all kicks off today. Good luck to everyone. Nerves will be racing. I'm very sad to not be there. It's in Wellington. Marching girls, a big day. Big day, big day. Apparently it's a sport.

Do you want to go there? Do you want to go there? Sorry, I just have to. It's just funny. Do you want to go there? On today of all days, qualifying day of nationals? No, good luck to everyone, particularly my friend here in him. Anyway, Shannon, yesterday we talked about this,

and I'm like very excited to hear your opinion because you said to us just this morning, off here, that while watching Age of Attraction, the new reality show where people come together and they don't know the age and they just date and then they reveal the age, While you were watching this, you literally put your hand to your mouth, aghast. I have never genuinely reacted like that, especially when you're by yourself.

You know, if you're watching TV with someone, you kind of bounce off each other a bit. Sitting there by myself, there was a moment where I literally went, and I've heard myself make the noise, and I was like, wow. That 248 p.m. yesterday, Shannon said in the group chat, this is television. I do. So I've watched so many reality shows, as you know, I love the Melf Manor, the couple to Thruple,

the really trash shows where you know. And then the intricate workings of Hitler's mind. Yes. These are the two ends of the spectrum. Do you know what I loved yesterday? You would have loved this, Shannon, and Karwin. Yesterday I was getting my nails done in the nail, Sophie's in a hair salon,

and we started, and Sophie just started talking about maths, and then a woman in the basin was like, what about Brooke? And then a woman with her, like, roots getting done, was like, how about that, Joel? oh my God and we just went off. It was like a perfect little goss. Well, this is the perfect show to gossip over this weekend with your friends.

So basically the premise of the show, it's on Netflix. The first five episodes are out. People who are open to dating from all ages, whether that's older or younger. So it's 22 to 60, right? Yes. They go on dates and they start like fully creating a connection, start hooking up even. And then when they feel committed to each other, they essentially propose and say, I'm committed to moving to the next stage.

and then they reveal their age. Now, the one that made me physically put my hand over my mouth, we as the viewer, don't know how old they are until they propose. So I'm watching along, also not knowing. Have a listen to this one. I am... I'm 27. What?

You're 27? I really don't know if you're ready for this one. You ready? It's 60. They have that same. 23 year age gap. Wait, did he... Does he even look 60?

No. I thought he said 16. He sounded 16. I genuinely, because I'm watching along, playing along, I genuinely thought maybe 48. My father was 60. I thought she was a little older than she is. But you knew this was coming because of the premise of the show.

You knew that the casting would be finding these people that do not look their age. And I will say it's all people of colour who age better. this. They don't crack. They don't crack. But it is one of the best shows and the reason I enjoyed it so much is because it doesn't feel frivolous and there's nothing pesty about it because

they genuinely are building these connections. It's not some of them being like, I want a 33 year age gap. Let me get with this younger woman. And it's all consensual and they're all adults. But it is wild and I highly recommend you watch it this weekend. I cannot way. This is my

brand of trash. I'll watch the Disney Nat Geo about the hidden treasure and you watch this because I don't still... And we'll compare notes on Monday. Oh, brilliant. So five episodes are out.

Yes, and we've got another one coming out the week after. So we get to see where I'm up to. I watched four episodes yesterday. This is all I did in the afternoon. Is after they propose, they go into the real world. They'll meet family.

They move in with each other. A lot of these people are now dating someone who has kids older than them. So this age gap relationship. He's got kids in their... mid-30s. And meet your new mommy. Yeah, imagine if your dad said,

I'm going on a Netflix dating show. I could be like, no. If Craig came and was like, I'm doing this and he's this 27-year-old, it'll be like, homie, stop it. Oh my God, brilliant. Great review, Shannon. Well, it's out now.

Next on the show, a band from the mid-2000s has a brand new song out. It's just dropped today. The first few seconds made us feel like we were in 2006 again. So we'll have a, everyone will have a listen to give the next. The Fletch morning, Haley, Big Pod.

This is, this is very exciting. Am I going to say it? Yeah. There is new music that has dropped from none other than the Pussycat Dolls. We're listening to this in the moment with you, by the way. Don't bring your boyfriend to the club is what it's called. Oh, oh. That is just, this is true to form.

Yeah. This is giving big don't you. Feels like, this has loosen up your buttons, babe. Fletch you can't hit the outback? What are we doing? So, Oh my God.

That? This is building up to something special. This is building up to something special. Trust me, I was there. This is building up to something special. We're dropping it live! Six years. I would have said,

I would have said, this is called club song, is that right? Club song. I would have thought that it was longer since they released new music, but did they trickle out a few sort of weird things? No, no.

So she, so Nicole, it's not all of them, is it? No. They had a falling out. Nicole Scherzger, yeah, wrote the song with producer Mike Sabbath and Teddy Swin.

Okay. Oh yeah. And Mike Sabbath has worked with Teddy Swims and co-wrote Jewelieper's song New Rules. Right. So the group is now, it's a bit sad when this happens.

It's like when S Club 7 just became S Club. I know. They're a trio. They're a Tate Club. And then we're going to S Club. And just S Club because the numbers keep twiddling. The Pussy Cat Dolls is now a trio. Oh, okay.

Great message here from, have we given away 10th of the week? No, we haven't. Ricky said, screw the anxiety of war all we need it all along was another pussycat doll song this is the vibes. Yeah, short text of the week.

Sure, let's do it. Someone said, does anybody else feel a calling in their soul back to the Bahama hut when they hear the song? This does make me want to drop it low. Well, Ricky, congratulations. We'll hook out with a $50 animates voucher. Animates making happy happen for pets. Did you know?

Did you know? Sorry, well done. Did you know? So the Pussycat dolls are doing a for a free. River tour marking the 20th anniversary of their debut album. The support on their tour is Little Kim and Meyer. Wow, like,

get me there. This is it. This is a vibe. That's a good song. Club song. Pussy yet dolls. Rip your ears around it all weekend. The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. 28 minutes away from 8.

Well, it is Friday the 13th. and we love to celebrate with your weird We did this last month? Yes, because it's not a leap year and that means the same date and day of the week happens in March as February

so we just did this a month ago but it was pretty fun last time You know I love this. I never believe any of the stories but they are great stories. I want to shout out a podcast I've been listening to that's quite wingly tingly the telepathy tapes

one of the best podcasts I've listened to What do you mean? It's about non-verbal autistic children and how they actually communicate and they can communicate. It's blown my mind. It's blown my world. A podcast series by documentary filmmaker Kai Dickens

that investigates claims that non-speaking autistic children can communicate telepathically, often via spelling on letterboards. It's absolutely outrageous. It won a Webby Award? Yeah, it's amazing. But a lot of wingly tingly-tingly moments and I was like, how do you explain it? How do you explain it?

And that's what we want to hear it right now. Okay, well, because it is Friday the 13th, We need you to give us a call. Oh, 800 or $1 at him. Text in, 9-696. Do you have an unexplained story, which I will normally say is probably due to the lack of airflow? No, shut up.

Yeah, too much. Carvando outside. Shut up, laying in. When I was younger, I had a lot, some text. When I was younger. Oh, God, no, there's a text in it. I had a lot of weird ghosty things happen. But one I remember is visiting my godmother in Ireland

and seeing a small girl on top of a barn in the next paddock. And she walked to the edge and started kind of... We don't say that word. She walked to the brink and started kind of free falling off and then vanish. Yeah, she died because she jumped off a bloody barn roof. There was no girl. She's like, oh, I've had a few or two or two men he gets us. Why am I? How did I point myself up on this roof?

Off, she goes, okay, this one's scary. Okay, go. Well, we might be actually trying to get them on the phone because it's so... That's so good. So tingly-wingly. This is what we want from you now, these unexplained weird tingly-wingly stories. That's such. a good text.

We know about the dates the same in February and March if you had paid attention during calendar week. In fact of the day. I wasn't paying attention because I was asleep. Fast to sleep.

It was so boring. We would leave and make a coffee. Well, keep your stories coming in 9-696.0.800 at M. Every caller that gets on today gets free fuel as well. The weird, the unexplainable, the ghosty stories you have.

Wingley, tingley. Friday the 13th is next. The Fletch morning, Haley. Big Pod. It is Friday the 13th. Oh, I love when we do wingly tingly. We just had a Friday the 13th. Yes, yes.

You can't get enough. I cannot get enough of these stories. I love it. Because I'm also a skeptic, but I'm a believer. I straddle the fence. Well, let's start because we want you today to message in or give us a call. Oh, 800 dials at M-669696. Do you have a ghostly, unexplained story?

Could be UFOs. Kevin. Kevin, good morning. What happened? Good morning. A number of years ago, I worked at any hang a police station here in Auckland. Yeah. And I was working a late shift at one night.

I finished about 11.30 at night. My wife came to pick me out from work. I was the last one left in the station, and she parked in the back car park, which you can look through one of the back officers through into the lighted hallway. Yeah. She'd see me perfectly as I was. coming out. I walked out, came out, set the alarms, jumped in the car, and she goes, where's the other guy? I said, oh, what other guy? She goes, oh, this other guy. And I said,

what do you look like? And so she described this person to me that was a senior sergeant at the station, but she'd never met him. And the thing is, he'd died about a year before. Kevin, Kevin, no. Kevin. But you'd set the alarm, so if there was someone in there, It would have, the alarm would have gone off, right? There wasn't someone in their flesh. Yep. She said he was walking along behind you as he came out. Oh, Kevin.

Did you tell... Yeah, that is a good one. Did you tell any of the other sergeants at the station about this? Well, yeah, because there's, at the station, there's a few other things that would happen during the night, like some of the other stuff like that. He had the door open and closed, but no one there and all sorts of that caram. And this guy was always a bit of a practical joker as well.

Right. Still joking in the afterlife. Holy Kevin. That's a great. Okay, that's a great story. Kevin, free fuel for you. 50 bucks free fuel. Well done.

We'll sort that out. Sam, welcome to Friday the 13th, tingly-wingly stories. Freaky-Dikey Friday the 13th. Freaky-Dicky Friday of 13th. What happened, Sam? So my brother was like cutting down trees by our house yesterday. Yesterday? Wait. My parents just bought a new house.

Wait, so this is fresh. What's that? This story is fresh. You said yesterday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Happened yesterday. Oh, goodness. Go on.

And so he's cutting down these trees by my parents' house, and he noticed something on the ground, and it was like a stone sort of thing. And he went up to her, and it was like a headstone, and he flipped it over, and it said, like, Mac, 1993 on it. Moved it away because he was trying to clear it. out the area, and our black cats started running over and started digging a hole right where it was. Oh my God, there's a body.

Mac, if it just says Mac 1993, that feels like a pet grave. But I've seen Pet Cemetery and... Yeah, I've seen Pet Cemetery. I think I'd rather it was a human. Yeah, I'm hoping it's a pet. Wait, so what's the next step? Pretend we didn't see that, or... Yeah, we're away on holiday now, so hopefully nothing else.

Yeah, I just forget it. Just forget it. You might come home and there could be a ghost cat. Cute. We actually do have a name for our cat. There's a stray cat that runs around. It looks like a ghost cat, so we've nicknamed it ghost cat. Okay, ghost cat.

No, that's Mac for cat. Have you actually physically touched the cat to see if it's real? That's Mac. No, you haven't, Sam. Oh my God, the cat just hung up on Sam. Oh, my God. Sam's gone. Sam?

Sam. Sam. Sam. Sam. Has the cat killed Sam? Sam. Anne Marie, good morning. Welcome to freaky-decky, Wingley, Tingley Friday, the 13.

what happened? Well, my friend's mum died during COVID and so we couldn't go to the Tungi so we drove down from Tarong and I picked up my sister and we went to the unveiling at an Urupah which was out in the country and we weren't sure if we were in the right place

because there was only one car in a distance on the far side of it you sort of had to go through a gate and then along and we were getting closer and I said to Lin oh I don't know if I recognise anyone do you think we're in the right place

and then the car It was my husband's car, started making those beeping noises, like you're about to hit something in front of you. Yeah. And there was nothing there. And so we kept driving, I was like, oh, my God. And so we were looking out the window, and I said, let's there, she's telling us we're in the right place.

Well, I go to one of those collision avoidance, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Yeah, yeah. She was in front of it. Do they pick up ghosts, though, these collision avoidance systems? Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. You know, Tesla's, when they see things like,

Project it. And they show, imagine seeing a bot, a human. People have posted like Tesla ghosts. Yeah. They have. Amory,

thank you. I'll wait there, free fuel for you because every call it today, free fuel, 50 bucks. So many messages are. So many messages. I love one.

I don't want to read them all out because I feel like next time we do this, so these could be freshies. Okay. But I might read a couple of that, right? No, there's always so many.

During the big Christchurch, earthquake, our house was absolutely wrecked. Everything fell out of the cupboards. The bookshas fell down, everything broke. But my daughter's ashes stayed on the shelf. They were the only thing in the entire house that didn't get dislodged from

the shelving. That's freaky-dicky. That's freaky-dicky. When I was four, my mum caught me in the bath playing with my grandmother. Apparently she was playing with the bubbles with me. Grandma had recently died. As soon as mum came in, I started crying because she'd scared granny off. That's freaky. 30 years ago, I was living in an old cottage with a bit of farmland around it. I woke in the middle of the night to clearly see a man. This was like my experience.

In a check shirt standing next to my bed, I sat bolt upright and screamed and yell, what do you want? Within seconds, he just disappeared. After some research, I found that the old owner had died outside my room chopping firewood. How did he die chopping firewood? Heart attack.

Yeah. No, he probably chopped his head off. Oh, he chopped his own head off. Slipped and chopped his head off. Slipped and chopped his head off. That's why act safety is very important. He put it behind him like that and then went to go down

but it just went in the back of his head. It's why I always were a throat and neckguard. When I'm chopping firewood. Oh, ooh! We have a haunted corridor at school. This is a teacher. I always tease the kids about it, but one day I was in one of the rooms in the corridor.

It was late in the afternoon. The kids had all gone home. I heard the piano playing down the hall. Oh. So I went down the corridor to see which kid had gotten in, and the room was locked, and no one was in there? Wait, don't pianos have the automatic thing? that could just come on?

Okay. Oh, my son was playing spotlight down at the pond with his friend. Classic guy. And he thought his friend was peaking around the tree. So he said, I found you in spotlight of them. And his friend said, no, you haven't. He was right behind him. And he said, who's that behind the tree?

And they spun around and there were two little boys eating out. Shut up, shut up. And then they looked at each other and looked back. They were gone. No. I'd never play spotlight again. I'd just never go out in the dark again. I woke up and saw my grandma at the foot of the bed.

She lives overseas. And then she vanished. I got a call from my family to say the next day she's passed away. Wingle and a tingle. Wingle. Wingle, tingly. Wingle. Fereaky Friday the 13th. Oh my God.

My brother was on his honeymoon and he woke up screaming my name. And his new wife was like, that was weird. It turns out at the exact time that he woke up and screamed my name, I was involved in a really bad car accident. That's the connection. That's the sibling connection. Were they twins? I don't know if they're twins.

817. Are you twins? They have a land network between them. Yeah. I generally don't tell people this because I'm scared everyone's going to think I'm crazy. But when a certain song comes on, I hope they tell us the song.

When a certain song comes on or sometimes when I'm in the bathroom, I get a very washed out feeling, go blind and I see a woman with dark curly hair standing at the bottom of a set of stairs. I nearly pass out and they feel sick and dry reach for about half an hour afterwards. It happens quite often when it's happening.

Then it won't happen for a month or two. It only started happening after my second kid when I was pregnant with him. And it took me a very long time to figure out what the song was playing in the background and what triggered it. Was it pit bull? Yeah, dude, Mr. Worldwide. It's Mr. World Wide.

And she's down the bottom of the stairs because she's like, I've got to get up to this club because it's playing my favourite football song. Imagine if that was your ghost trigger. Yeah. Mr. Worldwide. We've got a redact network. Play ZM's FlashForn and Haley.

Got a ridiculously old Friday flashback. Yep, I think this is too old. I would... It is... So this song's from 1976. Oh, it's too old, Lord. It's a banger. It's a 50 years.

Yeah, it's a 50 years. Oh, my God. You're going to play a song at 50 years old? Correct. Why? Because something happened to the... Well, absolutely. It's a vibe check.

Well, you've been emboldened by the Doobie Brothers this week. Dude, I've been absolutely. I've listened to the Doobie Brothers quite a bit since. Yeah, me too. As well. Right. But this is an old song. The bands went in the news this week.

They had a death. I reckon you need to wrap a 9-6-9-6 around this. Wrap a hot, what, tell them now. Well, I'm just thinking like it's Friday flashback. Do you want Pussycat dolls of a flashback? Or do you want a song that's 50 years old? and Friday Friday Jams.

Yeah. We've got to put up the tent pole. The central marquee pole is I think we're pushing this up. 9696. Do you want to sign it?

Do you want a bang it? Do you trust me? Oh, I need you to know, I need to know Nation. Do you trust more? That's very manipulative Vaugh. Do you trust me?

What you trust? You have 50 year old listeners, Fletch. Come on. I'm not saying that we do. 50 year old song. I'm not saying that. Go born play it. One vote for Pussycat dolls.

100%. Messages flying in in support. Do you trust me? 96, 96. Do you trust the postman? Is making a poll as we speak a text poll. We'll come back to that. Yes or no.

Just play the Doobie brothers again, man. No. Trust me. Well, I'm asking New Zealand is that you put your trust in my hands. Next on the show. There is something that has made a grand return. A new trend is back. The Fletchborn and Haley, big pod.

I tell you what, this is just nice to know as well. The nation trusts me. Bourne, I trust you with my life. We trust Vaughan with Vaughn forever. Do it. I'm turning 50 on Monday and I'm not old, so there's no way a 50-year-old song can be old. Well, Vaughan wants to play a 50-year-old song

for Friday flashback. I will say it is on Guitar Hero. And there is a reason we're playing that you would like to play it because the guy died this week. Correct. And this song has 1.2 billion streams on Spotify, and it came out way before Spotify.

So that is quite impressive. I'll give you that. Well, just before we get to your trend, Haley, 9-6-96. Do you trust me? Yes or no, do you trust Vaughn? Just text yes or no. We're going to do another poll. We've got a pie chart.

Great for that. There is no trust in a 50-year-old song. We will play the Pussycat Dolls. Buttons. Yes. Trust me. Well, we've got to celebrate the fact they have a new song out today. And we'll do the one with the Snoop Dog intro.

Big Snoop Dog with the lead pussycat. We love her. But I'm with both of you. So I'm... What do you mean you're sitting on the fence? Yeah. I'm straddled. That fence is thrustiff between me.

Now, here is something that was huge, I reckon two years ago. I tried it and I failed at it. And it's back now thanks to Margot Robert, who's been absolutely everywhere recently with her lovely long blonde hair, right? Promoting Wuthering Heights. And then she was in Paris for the Chanel Autumn winter show which you guys would have

Did you see the collection? Yeah, it was great. What was this? What are you talking about? The Chanel autumn winter, 226. Where was that? In Paris. You saw her.

I saw someone was there. Margot Robbie? No, I'm Tyler. The creator. Just before you said Tyler, I was going to say Was she Browning on Instagram? Correct. Yeah, so you did see her there.

She was there. The one that sings the song about the water. Was she up? Yesterday you got away with it. I've tried to update the app. I still don't have that algorithm thing. Show us. Show us your 4-U page.

No, why would you want to say that? Were your best friends? Come on, come on. Give us a little look. Just show me a snapshot. Yeah, Bjorn. Holy shit. That would get you in a lot of trouble.

No, I wouldn't. Oh, I would have. Okay. Bye for you, tattoo and protein. I'm proud of it. My is brown woman and aircraft and Guinness things and, I mean, I'm a predictable. Really? Because there was no Guinness or aircraft on that for you.

page you just showed us. Interesting. That's crazy. I just saw a lot of brown skin. So what's back? The lob. The long bob. Okay.

Because Margot Robbie was at the Chanel autumn winter and she's chopped off her hair. The lob. She's back. She was wearing like a very simple outfit and the talking point was her hair. Tramatic long bob with a wispy fringe. And our hair experts are saying it is the return of the lob. The long bob, we're doing it. Because we did short bobs for a while and then mermaid.

hair for ages and we were like, what are we doing? The lob. Is this the Rachel, the Jennifer Anderson? Nah. What was that one? The Rachel. That was just the Rachel. I don't think they had a previous name.

I'd say that was longer that sat on the shoulders. I say lob sits just above the shoulders. Just about touching. Just about touching. It's what moms get when they have kids and they don't want long hair anymore because the kids are putting Play-Doh on it. But I'm not giving up completely. And they go through a long bob.

Do you know, hairstylists were saying people often, They often have people coming to them asking for a lob or a bob, Bob or a lob, during periods of personal change. Oh, okay. You know when you're just like, you know what? I'm cutting it all off. I'm starting again. Love that.

Well, ask for the lob. It's back. Ask for the lob. Just before we go into the ad break and come back, the nation trusts Vaughn. I trust Vaughan with my life, Fletch with my cat, and hi, Haley. If we hadn't given away text in the week, Tennessee,

We'd be giving it to you. That's so sad. Brilliant. I mean, that makes you the fun one, though. That really hurt. Call now to get the Fletchborn and Haley, Big Pod. Friday. Flashback.

Oh, and we're giving to Emma free fuel because it's Free Fuel Friday. That's right, and she was on air. Give her some fuel. Give the girls some gas. There's so much to say about this song. I want to play for Friday Flashback. First of all, want to thank the nation for putting their trust. in me.

Even though they didn't know what song you were playing. It's 50 years old. I googled what movies has this song been in? It's been in Madagascar, Escape to Africa. Madagascar 3, Europe's Most Wanted. Kung Fu Panda 4. Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas caper. How does it mean in so many Madagascar movies?

It feels like they paid a fee. You're one-off fee and they could use it. Sad news this week, though. Sad news are the guy who's been the lead singer since 2007 passed away. After a long battle with cancer. This guy didn't even do the original song. No, he wasn't the original. That original lead singer we lost in 2007,

and then this guy became the lead singer and now. Right. He was like a massive fan of the band. And they did like this thing to try to find a new lead singer. And he was like, put his hand up, give that a red hot going, became the lead singer of the band. Wow. Okay.

One thing, it's been on, as you said, and it was a downloadable for rock band. Yep, guitar hero. The video game, guitar hero. Yep, you could play it there. And I had no idea that the guitar, in the song, Influence Nirvana smells like teen spirit. Oh, I didn't openly admitted.

Right. You wouldn't admit that these days, you'd be sued. No, they would have come from. They would have come from. Let's see. Got to number 15 on the New Zealand charts in 1976 when it was released. Oh, this is hell of a song. Are you kidding?

Is this the oldest song we've ever played from Friday Flats? It'd be up there. Boston, more than a feeling. It's your Friday flashback. Yep, you're on ZM, you are on ZM. This is ZM. Sorry, Sam, who works here, who just woke up, flipped on the radio and panicked.

You're all right. And the reason you play that song, Vaughn, is because he died this week. The lead singer died. Yeah. A lengthy battle with brain cancer. Had a billion streams on Spotify, which is impressive considering...

It came into 19776. Yeah, well before Spotify. Haley, far be it for me to be involved. I'll stay neutral on the feedback. I'll stay neutral on the Facebook. You don't want to take your own horn? Okay, I'm going to go through them fast because the text machine is on fire today.

Six songs to start the day. Banga! Songs like this is the reason I listen to you. Absolute banger, knew we could trust the deliverer. Okay, I won't read that one. It was a Friday. Thought I was on Channel X for a second. Great start for Friday morning.

Yes, to this. This has awakened my 38-year-old body. Thank you. Absolute banger. Trusting Vaughn was more than a feeling. I knew we could pull it off. This song is shit from a nine-year-old. Love, love, love, Friday flashback,

lifted my spirits tune. You've gone too far. Yeah, you have gone too far. Awesome, Vaughn. Awesome, Vourne. And the Postman just, oh, said another Aramax van on fire. Yeah, because I'm the Postman.

I'm not Aramax, you can trust me. Holy F, great song, day made, banger. Postman delivers again, absolute bang. brings back some fun guitar hero memories. What a banger. Thank you, Vaughn. One of my favourites of all time. Well done, Vaugh.

Banga, banga, banga, banga, banga, banga, banga, banga, banga, banga. We get them. We get it. And then the last, we've got to suck it, Fletch. We've got to suck it. Somebody said they taught their six-year-old, the intricacies of air guitar during that, and that was way more fun than time to time. It is a great air guitar song. It's a great air guitar song.

Great guitar song. Right a guitar song. Now, you may remember, we spoke to Sam, from Christchurch last week who mentioned that just in passing that she was having trouble making adult friends and it is a hard thing to do and we ended up getting Sam back on the phone

and asking people in the Christchurch area where to go to make friends what are the clubs that people are joining and the fun activities and stuff and we sent them Sam's way and then we got a message in from Michaela who joins us on the phone

Hi Michaela Jodafano Kete Pha-ha-Kosha Oh, Keite Nenge today, but also it's Friday. You're a-no, Phael. You're in Niko, Pha. So, Michaela, you live in Tauranga. Yes, the beautiful Tauranga. You are 30 years old, and you have mentioned you're a Capricorn, for those that.

For those that like to choose their new friends via star signs. So you... No, not really. Just, you know, some people can be particular about the people they choose via star signs. Yeah, so it's good to know. Just throwing it out there. Yeah, fair enough. You moved from Auckland to Taaranga.

What was the impetus for the move? So, funnily enough, my nursing degree. So Auckland just kind of wasn't cutting it for what I wanted. And then I went down to the beautiful Haiketani where they have a nursing campus at Tsupariwana or Awanui. I don't need a bit of a shout out there. And, yeah, basically fell in love with how they did everything. It's co-pop-Maldi, which is hugely important to me.

And then, yeah, basically just made the decision to pack up and go get my degree. Love that. So moving, have you found it hard then to make adult friends? Because this is what we found earlier in the week talking to Sam. It's just that people finding it so hard. Yeah. It is. I mean, I'm not going to take away the fact that I've got beautiful friends from my degree.

But when I moved from Auckland, My best friend at the time said, you shouldn't make this move. You're going to lose all of your friends. And all of a sudden I found myself quite friendless. It does happen because it's just so hard. Like when friends move away, right, you're always like, no, no, we'll be all good. But life just gets busy and busy and busy. And you've got a partner, right?

And you're studying. So there's a lot going on. So you're still studying, Michaela? No, so I've finished studying. So I've been a registered nurse for five years now, and I work at a GP practice down here. Thank you for you, Mahey. No worries at all. So, okay, so McAlish, 30 years old Capricorn has a partner,

loves concerts, movies, reading, board games, and loves a pub quiz. Yeah, certainly do. What's your area of... Yeah, what's your area of expertise in the pub quiz? Great question. Oh, so thanks to my dad being a plethora of trivial knowledge, but of a bit of a cross-the-board kind of person.

Yes, strong. I'm thinking this could be the thing. If somebody's had one of their pub quiz members move away and they've got a spare seat at the table, this could be the great in for the camera. Do you know how hard it is to get into pub quizzes around Todongen? Like, they're so booked in advance. It's not even funny.

Really? Yeah. It's like the whole thing. Really? I think you just turn up to a pub quiz and tried to get a table. No, but some of them can be quite competitive and it's like all the workplaces do it as a regular thing. Yeah.

But maybe someone's sick and they need a new, you know, a team member to fill in or something? Yeah, Todanga locals. Give us a text 96696. Are you part of some clubs? Are you part of, like, groups, any activities you know of? Yeah, any other? If you are also in Tohung, looking for friends,

it would be a great way to meet Michaela. Yeah, any other kind of hobbies or things you're into, Michaela? I'm actually a bit of an adrenaline junkie as well. So when I was 13, I got excited about putting a tow tag for a bungee jump. My mother was absolutely petrified. and then Ferdin'i jump. Wednesday went skydiving.

Oh, I love this. Well, maybe you could... We're in the right area. Taurong has got all of that at the doorstep, doesn't it? Does it? Yeah, heaps of stuff to do. I love that. Yeah, okay, all right.

So we've just put your Instagram up on our story. So for those listening and messaging in and being keen to make friends of Michaela and invite you to some clubs, oh my God, hang on. Good Brothers and Bethleh,

do quiz nights. We go to the Papa Mo's pub quiz and Papamoa Toong. I'm more than welcome to join. Very similar boat to Michaela Erin message in. She sounds great, very hard place to make friends, so you're not alone. Is it? I've wondered about that because it's small. There's tons of new families down in like the Papamo.

There's tons of new houses going and lots of young families going into that area. Oh, absolutely. Have you got kids, Michaela? Pardon? Have you got kids? Not yet. Not yet. Okay, well that's on the horizon

Okay, well, if you go to FVHZM Someone said you need to get into the rock climbing in Tohanga I haven't been there since I was like a kid When my auntie put me when we were on school holidays down here So that could definitely be a go Okay Also, here's another bit One shows a month, 7pm in Gretton

There's a book club at the social club Oh, also If you do a bit of reading Do they do audio books? No, you wouldn't be invited You can't sit in a club. You go and discuss the book, right? So he could listen to it as long as he's listened.

Imagine he's there with his earpods in. Thank you. Come to dance fit with Jen. Best place to meet new people. Dance fit with Jen. That's in Tohanga. Someone messaging, Nicole message it. Okay, well, if you're listening

and you'd like to message Michaela, it's super easy. We've made it easy on our Instagram story. Yeah, her Instagram handles on there. And Michaela, as we said to Sam, please keep us up to date with your friend-making journey. Absolutely. So many messages in too.

Long time listener first time. Oh, we love. We love. Oh, that's amazing. Awesome, McKay. How did that Boston more than a feeling give you? What did you feel about that? Yeah, I mean, you guys have been, well, flexions won as much as I love Haley. You guys have been a part of my life for two thirds of it.

No, no. No, no. Now you're feeling making me feel old. We're just sexy young men in our 20s. It's because I'm so young Michaela. I'm brand new. I'm shiny. I'm still shiny. Also, and it's free fuel Friday, Michaela. So wait there, we'll hook you up with some free fuel because every caller on here gets free fuel today.

You might make a friend of them on the petrol court. But there's no one on the court anymore. Considering the lines I saw in Auckland, like you call things. Thank you. Thank you. That's coming out with, you know, 50 days left of our resources of oils.

We're not meant to panic. Apparently we're not panicking. And I like a challenge. I am more than happy to accept the fuel was out to her right now. Oh, okay, well, there you go. Wait there, Michaela, we'll sort that out. The Z&M Podcast Network

Play ZM's Flesh for an Haley. So, I don't know if, I have, I feel like I've stopped talking about it and I want to bring it back. Five days ago. Per kilometer, this runs had a lot of mentions. Yeah. Yeah, the girl math ain't methin on this one.

But on Sunday, just gone, I ran the round the bay, and 8.5. And you've since retired from running, I believe. And I've since retired from running. Yesterday was my first, like, proper heavy day back at the gym because I, till then, couldn't walk properly. You were sore.

So sore. I didn't train. I didn't stretch pre or post. Yeah. I took the piss out of it. Yeah. And I paid the price. I met you at the pub afterwards for some warm-down-the-s.

Yeah, it washed a couple of guineas and ended up Ubering home. And anyway, I thought the journey was complete. I announced very formally, and even at the, at round the base. Instagram saw and they said see you next year and I said no thanks but I'm out it's not a name if you ever see me register again remind me that I hated this but I did get an email cross my desk yesterday last chance to buy the official photos now I missed the first chance I didn't see them yeah but the do you know what I'll screenshot because I'm not going to buy them because I know I am I haven't even see them I'm willing to put myself into noodles next week

for a couple days before payday to have a digital copy of this so everyone gets to see it. Do you know what? Just thinking we've owned that billboard out there. No! Don't you dear. I just think like we've got a billboard asset.

We do and it feels like it's underutilised. And I've just seen that we've got that big screen in the foyer too. I've got that big screen. It would just be like such a waste that no one gets to see these photos. Yeah, it would be. The photographer would put all that effing in. I've paid how much, I don't know how much, I don't care how much, how much,

a hundred bucks, I'll pay it. So they sent me the, and they give you the file, but it's got marathon photos written all over. Okay, if we put up, if we put up the photo, can it have the marathon photos watermark? Watermark. Because I love when people post their running photos on online.

Yeah, it's a screenshot. So you may remember that, because I did have to walk a bit. Like every now and then I'd hit a 500, made a stroll. But I could see the official photographers. So when I saw the photographers, I'd get a sprint on, big smile and like all of this. And I thought I was absolutely nailing it.

There's a photo of my dad in 1989, the year I was born finishing a marathon. He looks handsome. He looks like dashing. It's like brilliant. I was like, it's going to be great to have a photo like my dad. Generational. Generational. I'm just showing the boys now.

Nothing but sheer pain there. Look. I am in. I am suffering. How do they do it? Is it the number? It's your number. Okay.

There's one. Here's another one. I'm just strolling. You're walking. That's not a walk. That leg's not running, is it? There is no elevation. It is utterly.

All of those photos for $20? Come on. That's great money. That's great money. There's one. There's one where I was posing. Should we just buy it now with my credit card? Yeah,

no, let's get that. Let's get that number off the bit. That's a good one. But we're not doing that one. We don't like that one. That looks triumphant. Although you still don't look happy.

Your toy for cutting. So, Calvin's just bringing in the work credit card. There we go. Excellent. Got that. Excellent. Okay. Fantastic.

We'll be buying that. So stay tuned for this photo, dear listener, because we're paying for it now. Gritting it out. Like, there is no joy to be found. God, you don't look happy in that one either, do you? And I'm going to say as well, wrong choice is short, so prepare for a bit of camel toe as well.

They're just bad news. The ZDN Podcast Network. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, it's been a guide scouts, Pippins, Brownies Week here at Factor of the Day, youth organizations. Yes. And today I thought we'd touch on something that's synonymous with these organizations.

Badgers. Not badges, not the small woodland creatures. Badges. Oh, I love a badger. I love badges too. They're up there for me. I would love a taxidermy badgerhead. Like, that would be a real find.

I was thinking, can you keep an eye out for a taxidumid two can on your ride journeys? Oh, there's plenty of those around. Are there? Oh, be sure to book Mark and send me a few. Why do you want a taxidermid two can? Because they were the animal heavily associated with Guinness. And so I want to get one and then balance a Guinness pint on its beak like they did in the advertising and put it on a wind vane and have a real life one.

That's just a little personal bucket list item of mine that I've decided in the last 35 minutes. There's other things you should probably prioritize, I think. Nope. It's called a... What, my mental health? Are you kidding me? That two guns is going to drag me out of the depth. Okay, so I thought we'd cover the rarest badges.

Okay. That the scouts give out, the weirdest, the most unique badges. In the 1950s, if you were a scout, you could complete your atomic energy merit badge. During the Cold War nuclear boom, the Boy Scouts of America introduced the atomic energy merit badge. To get this badge, you had to understand. nuclear vision, radiation detection, atomic power plants and nuclear medicine. It's back in the day, though, we're all about the nuclear medicine. It still exists today.

It's been renamed the nuclear science badge. There was a pigeon raising badge where you had to breed pigeons, train homing pigeons, care for their lofts, and understand how pigeons navigate long distances. It disappeared as the hobby declined. People aren't keeping pigeons as much. A grave digging merit badge. Okay. This is considered a community skill, especially in small towns where volunteers helped maintain cemeteries.

Scouts would learn how to mark and measure graves, dig them, burial etiquette and cemetery maintenance. Didn't last long, it was a bit grim. Yeah, a bit grim, all right. The salesmanship badge was where scouts were taught how to sell things. To get the badge, you had to make a sales pitch, demonstrate the product, understand profit margins, and closing a deal. Wow, okay.

Bizarre. The bugling merit badge. One was to learn how to play a bugle. The little trumpet. Yep. You had to learn wake-up calls, the meal songs, and lights. out. Right. A real one, a hard one to get. And the one I thought

I'd finish on was the 1911 badge of the sturgeon fishing merit badge. Only available for a very short time they had to catch a sturgeon which is a prehistoric fish, a very old fish. They were only living certain rivers, very difficult to catch. Very few scouts have completed it and then the badge was

cancelled. So apparently if you've got a sturgeon fishing merit badge... Are there any modern badges now, like posting to Instagram, like four... Post five reels, get 100 likes. More like a social media badge. I'd say that would be keeping the Scouts off. Sort of the point, isn't it?

Yeah, but you've got to promote the Scouts, don't you? You've got to externally promote the Scouts. You said there was a business one there. Okay, so there's a game design merit badge. That's understanding how to not attempt to make a video game. Programming computers, robotics, digital technology, animation. Dron skills badge. Oh, wow.

Okay, yeah. And a genealogy. Merit Badge where you have to use online databases to trace your ancestry and understand how DNA testing works. Amazing. Weird. So you can still get all these badges. So today's fact is the rarest badge.

And the Scout badge collectors is the 1911 Sturgeon Fishing Badge. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. The Do-do-do-do-do-do-to-do-to-do-do-do-do do-do do-do do do do do do do do. The Flet's morning, Haley, B-Cododd. We want to know now, I'll wait a hint through at Diles at M. You can text through 9-6-96. When did the doctor get it wrong?

And they are only human. Yep, no disrespect to doctors. No, absolutely not. They had to put up with us coming in being like, AI told me. Yes. I googled this. I'm dying. I checked my encyclopedia Britannica.

Yeah. Do you think doctors had an infer encyclopedia Britannica? Yeah, of course they did. They'd be really interesting to talk to a doctor that existed before the internet. What was your... Yeah. Who you're dealing with back then. It would have been the Encyclopedia Britannica.

I've been to the public library. I was on the microfiche. There's a wild story from Canada. Stephanie Ferrer, F-A-U-R-E. How would you say that? Exactly how you just did. Okay. A Canadian woman...

Stephanie Ferrer-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-H. Stephanie F-R-R-R-R-R-R, she's had a hell of a hell of a hell of time. 14 months earlier she had a brain tumour. So doctors opened up her skull. Remove the tumours and then put metal plates back in her head.

So, what do they call that? A craniotomy. Again, I'm not a doctor. I wouldn't know. You guys are doctors, though? Craniotomy. Is that right, doctor? Correct, doctor. I performed one or two in my time, but... I never had the privilege right. And I had to get away to the bench. I'm more leg-based.

So I'm imagining she'd beep every time she went through the metal detector of the airport. She'd have a little medical certificate. Yep. So anyway, the Sunday just gone, there's a little bump on her head. And she's like, oh, that's kind of like, it's odd, a little bump. So she went to the doctor and she's like, what's going on there? Yeah. She's like, I think one of your screws is coming out.

Because, you know, they screw it into your skull, the metal plates. And the doctor's like, no, you're fine. Go home. It's just probably a cyst or something. And that's when her boyfriend has a closer lock and just pulls a screw out of her head. Yikes. And how does he pull the screw out of her head?

Does he make a small incision? No, so they went home and the boyfriend used a pair of tweezers to pull the screw out. The screw it unscrewed itself. What's that? The screw it unscrewed itself. She said, it definitely wanted to come out. She said almost laughing.

It was moving as the day went. So it wasn't too hard to remove by that time. And it's tiny. Like it's not a screw Like you put into a wall It's like really tiny It's millimetres So you'd have to use that

That screwdriver you get out of your Christmas crackers Yes, a tiny set Which every year I say don't throw those away Those rule for tiny glasses You know like have you ever taken screws out of a laptop Or some tiny electronic thing It's kind of a screw that size

And there's a photo of it's some tiny silver screws Smaller than a thumbnail The kind that holds a titanium plate Into a human skull So the body just pushed it out Yeah so And the doctors are like, no, you're fine, go home. It's very funny.

If I was a boyfriend, I'll be like, I'll just get a little bit of threadlock and we'll get that screw back in. Oh, you're going to go again? That blue goo, you put the whole screws. I put that back. Is there a blue goo that makes screws go? Yeah, screw tight. Since screw ties, there was a threadlock. It rules, man.

Because, you know, you've always got a loose screw. And it keeps working itself out. I've got some. I'll bring it in. Because I put a tube, you only need a couple of drops of it's all. Because old mates used to put, like, match sticks into, like, a hole. That was if you were screwing into wood and it was loose. Yeah, my dad does that packs it out with matchsticks and snaps them off.

Wow. You wouldn't want to leave the fiery bit on it. Nah. Well, anyway, we're not taking calls. How did you fill a loose screw hole? Oh, is that not the final? Could be the better phone. How did you fill a loose screw hole?

No, we want to know this morning, when did the doctor get it wrong? Like, this doctor just said to them, go home, you're fine. And a screw came out of her head. That's good stuff. Wild. So I went Hintraud down at him. I'd like to take your calls. 9-696.

Messages through already. When did the doctor get it wrong? The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZDM's Fletch for an haley. Now we want to know when the doctor got it wrong. And they are only human. No hate to the doctors. God, no, we respect and love doctors.

We are doctors. But, again, you're not doctors. But... This guy. The only non-doctor in the room. A Canadian woman that had like a plate in a skull went to the doctor and he said, go home you're fine, and then her boyfriend pulled a screw out of her head with tweezers

because there was a screw coming out. Do you reckon that screw's now, like, like the plates are bit flappy? You know what I mean? Yeah, it's when you get a lot of speed, it'll be rattle. Well, when she gets up a lot of speed, it'll be ruddler-d-da-da-da-da-rat. She'll be here. Making a noise. Anonymous, do you insist anonymous?

When was the doctor wrong? For me was probably a few years ago when I started having pain in my stomach and we had to hospital and, you know, it was a male nurse, birth. And, you know, he said I was having girl troubles. Okay. And then, okay, I went home. Well, he said, have paded all had ibupypirate. It had been fine.

Five days later, still pain, still sore. Went back to the hospital. And there was a female doctor that time and said that, oh, your appendix is about to rupture it. Shit, that's so dangerous. Oh, my God. Oh, no. To be fair to the male doctor.

The fanny's pretty close to their. The fanny is close to there. It's sort of under the boobs above the knees. The fannies connected to the appendix. Because when I went into surgery, you know, they did a little surgery and everything. And then when they, you know, woke me up and I was feeling grousey and everything, they gave me a full meal, you know, thinking I'll be all right. I was sick.

And then they said, oh, you must be contagious. You must have something on you. We'll put you in isolation. Lock you down. Oh, goodness. Jeez. Well, we got there. That was insane.

Anonymous. Thank you for sharing. Free fuel for you because it's Free Fuel Friday. Wait there, we'll sort that out. Chauvin, when did the doctor get it wrong? Hi. So it was with my son. He got injured in rugby when he was eight.

Yeah. And we took him to White Cross thinking that he had like a broken rib or something. They then transferred him to the hospital thinking he had a poke, punctured lung. So we got the ultrasound screen to come in and they couldn't find his spleen and stuff like that and they were like, what the heck is going on? We're going to have to send him off for a cat scan.

He's a ghost. They sent him off for a cat scan, called the chopper, rescue helicopter, to pick him up from the hospital, taking a mustache, and his whole stomach and spleen had gone up into his left lung cavity and his diaphragm.

So they were like Oh my God, what is going on? The hole in the diaphragm was a pre-existing thing. It's called a congenital diaphragm, diaphragmatic hernia. But they didn't know that he was born with that. So it was a tiny little hole.

Oh, wow. Everything went up. I've got x-rays. Oh, my God, I'll send it to you guys. Please do. Please do you're x-rays. I want to know what sound it made. Honestly, something.

She won't we can put this next to an x-ray of the fork in the guy's stomach. Oh my gosh, yes. We've got that x-ray. We should get one of those vintage x-ray boxes and we'll put all of our listeners. We'll put our listeners bizarre x-rays. And they put old shadow flaps up there too.

Yeah, I've got my shadow flaps when I got a power of that thing and you can see the flaps. Shimon, amazing wait there. But the doctor didn't get it wrong by the sounds. All they didn't know was he was born with it. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Sounds like they took all the... He got it right in a helicopter to two.

I don't care how old you are. That's cool. Yeah, free feel for you. Shimon, wait there. Let's go to Tony. Tony, when did the doctor get it wrong? Childa, I went on a holiday in January with family holiday to the Gold Coast and me and my daughter were playing on the aqua park

and she fell over and she fell into my head and broke her tooth off. Tooth off! Five four of months, her front tooth was broken in half. I went to the doctors multiple times because my head was not healing. And they kept telling me having antibiotics, it's fine, it's just infected, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, went home and had enough. of it. So I opened up the wound myself and her tooth came out of my head a month and a half later. I was going to say, please do not tell me who tooth was still in your head that.

I'm like, I've had enough I'm opening this wound. That is wild. Wouldn't you suspect that as a doctor? Like, you're telling the story. I'm like, well, where's the tooth if it broke off? And I'm sore. Right. Yeah.

Oh my God. Tony crazy. Free fuel for you. Free fuel Friday. Wait there. The Z&M Podcast Network. Right now that when did the doctor get it a bit wrong? We love our doctors.

We love our doctors. We're not having to go at our doctors. But your doctor's a human and there is a story about a woman that has a screw in her head come loose. She was like, there's a screw coming out and they were like, nah, you're all good. Went to the doctor, was told I had a side strain or a broken rib, went for an x-ray, no broken rib. What they saw was unusual, though it was a flesh-eating disease. What? Far out.

Hmm. Wow, I was diagnosed. I was trying different asthma inhalers. as they weren't clearing by asthma. Try to do a few different ones. Is it asthma or asthma? Asma. Isn't there a T in there?

Asthma. Well, you're saying as like it's a Z. Asthma. Grow on. Asthma. Asma. You've got asthma. A6-96. How do you do it?

Asthma or asthma? I think asthma is American. I think I'm saying American because I watch... But we're not American. I know, but God damn it, I watched the pit. And I need everyone to know. Wait, have you started watching the pit? Yeah, I watched the first five and then...

Then my mum wanted my neon log on because she loved it and then she all blew out my order of where I was up to on the pit. So on my list of things to get back into. Because I know season two is also. Yeah, I'm excited. Oh, $100 a DM if you have asthma. Is it? Asthma.

Yes, actually. I only want to hear of me with asthma. Well, how would you like to say it? It's your word. I'll just fall into line. Yeah. Yeah. My lungs.

My medical condition. I can blow up those balloons that people used to make animals. God, my best friend had asthma as a kid. It used to be terrifying when she didn't attack. Do you have a puff on the puff of those? Would you always jealous of kids that had had. I tried to fake it. I tried to fake it once

and I was in bed. We need to keep a list of all the medical elements you've faked. Glasses, knitting glasses, a sprained ankle. And asthma, you know, made my dad come down. I was like, Dad.

He's like, What are you doing? I was like, I think of asthma. No one of some doctors are like, go home, you're faking. No, literally, my best friend had the worst asthma.

She'd have a tax. You can die. It's terrible. And I was like, Dad. I've got it too. Well, anyway, this person had lung tumor had to have two thirds of their lungs removed.

Jeez, wow, okay. I did get refunded all the costs of the visits. Jeepers. Asthma. Asma. AS-based MA is how I'd like it said. Yeah, I say 304. Asthma.

Yeah, lovely. Asthma. You're overthinking it now, Vaughn. And every time now I, it's like when I go to say, toe-po, I have to have a little paws beforehand to make sure I'm going to have my toe on my paw. Yeah, yeah. And now I'm going to be like that, you know, are you okay?

Is it your asthma playing out? Asthma. Asthma. I have asthma. I like it pronounced asthma. Better living everybody. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much for that.

606. Doctor got wrong. I fell off a horse. They said I broke my collar bone, but I fractured my shoulder blade and my thumb and a couple of other bones as well. Yikes. Somebody said, I went to the doctor for a sore back. They referred me to a physio, a chiropractor first,

and then the chiropractor said, I went back to the doctor and they said try a physio because they thought it was faking. Went to an acupuncturist. Got halfway down my back with needles and the acupuncturist said, have you had x-rays? I said, no. I'm trying to put a needle in here and it should go in and it's not. Your back's broken.

What? Went back, got x-rays six weeks after the initial visit. I got the x-rays back and my back was broken in two places. Yikes. What? How are you even moving? How good are they with the pin? I do.

I love acroxygen. Yeah, I love acupuncture. It's so much. It's so good. If you're in acupuncturist, could you do it with a thumbtack at a push? 9-6-9-6. Say, prick me with a thumbtack. Traditional thumbtacks are all the ones that are blue, yellow, red, green.

Blue-yellow red for handling. Yes, nice. You can hold it and get it in a bit more. Otherwise, they're just doing a thumb-ram. I think they're also about eight times as thick as a... It's so thick. A acupuncturist needle. That's true.

Cash snap is next $300, and we're going to keep playing until... No, $400, isn't it? Yeah, because we started at three this morning. $400 and we're going to keep playing until it's one. The Activator is next. Going to kick off Friday Jams with the Pussy Gat Dolls, who released a brand new song today. And it slaps.

The Fletch morning, Haley, Big Pod. I think I might have a new show. And producer Shannon, I think you'll also love this show. Blue Therapy sees seven couples working through issues with a therapist on account. It's like, where should we begin? Estia Perales podcast where you just like fly on the wall in couples therapy. Yeah. So good.

All the goss. All the goss. So the reason I'm bringing this up is because there was one episode, Mike and Yasmam. Mike and Yasmine have been together for five years. Their biggest source of tension in their relationship is income inequality. Yasman earns twice as much as Mike. What? And he's got a problem with that?

I'd be stoked. Yeah, there's just a bit of tension around it. So this is what we're discussing on the count. Men don't like that, do they? Emasculates them. Yeah, yeah. Whereas like, who cares you're with this person? It's, you know.

And the earning money? Yeah, like, what's the problem here? Mean. Yeah. Mean. So, so we're talking about the money on the couch in this episode, and that's when Mike drops a bit of a bomb. Mm-hmm.

Because not only has you got bad spending habits that have put him $24,000 in debt. Oh. She thought the debt was only $12,000, half the amount. Mm-hmm. So it's double. the amount of debt. So now the tension's higher. And that's when Mike likes to reveal that he's actually was made redundant

two months earlier and he's been pretending to go to work every day, dressing for work and leaving the house. And then when Yasmin would leave for the day, he'd circle back home and just hang out at home. I've heard of this happening before. Unreal! Like because people are in TV shows. It's like happened in TV shows. This is not real life. No, in real life because people are so,

they have so much shame about it or they don't know how to tell their partner or their friends. That they lost their job. Yeah, it's like sometimes you hear people that break up in relationships and they don't tell their friends because they're embarrassed or ashamed. Or people that pretend to still study

because they've dropped out and they don't want to tell their parents or friends. Yeah, it's going good and they go to school every day and just fake it. So anyway, she explodes. Obviously, they've got a child. Like, this is a whole thing and she leaves and she says, I can't even look at you right now. Well, that's fair enough.

I'm on her side. Yeah. But I want to know, like, what was the secret that your partner was keeping? And was it revealed? How did it come out? why were they keeping such a big secret? I mean, obviously there's like cheating secrets,

but you do hear of like... Cheating, yeah, but like affairs blow my mind. Yeah. Like when you're like, oh, they had a slip up or whatever, you're like, okay, we're all animals. But... We're all animals. Sorry, that was a terrible thing to say.

That's what my stance on. Animals made mistakes. Baby ain't nothing by mammals, so let's do it like they do on the discovery. 9-6-06 if you'd like to hear that song. Oh, it's Friday jam. Oh, now he's on board. I was listening to some bloodhound gang.

It's a great song. They had so many classic songs at the time. 96696 if you want to hear that but also 96696 give us a text. Oh 800 dials at M. What's the name of the song?

The band touch? Yeah, that's the one isn't it? Yeah, that's what it's called. You've got the edited version of us here. It's in the system. Yeah, look on that it's not on me if it says rude words. Does quickly say,

feeling horny now. You're allowed to feel horny now. Okay. So it's half nine on a Friday. So stories that your partner was keeping from you. When were they keeping? a massive secret. Because you hear of people that have

gambling problems or like they're addicted to something and then they keep it from their partner and it's too late. Secret children. Secret children. Secret affairs. Oh 800,000 MIS number 9-696. Do we have a text go ahead for Bloodhound gang? Yeah, we have a little touch. Play that song or I'm changing stations. That's a threat. We take that source of things. Very serious.

We do not negotiate with terrorists and we do not negotiate with texts like that. I'll tell you that right now. But we are playing it and please don't change stations. The ZM Podcast Network When was your partner keeping a big secret? If you want to add to the list, 96696? Yes, because there's a TV show

called Blue Therapy and on it one man revealed to his wife that he was made redundant two months prior and had been pretending to go to work like putting on his suit every day and leaving the house and then waiting until she'd left

and then just going home and hanging out and then being like, wow, great day. We've heard some wild messages and calls it just will not make it to air. Why is it called Blue Therapy? I don't know. Is it blue? as in the colour blue?

I don't know. Is it a term? You're down and you're like... Blue therapy. It's blue's clues. Blue just now does therapy. Is it hosted by a cartoon dog? I'm going to say, why is it called Blue Therapy?

Okay. Ouse will know. Thanks, Ouse. The name Blue Therapy isn't officially explained. Ah. Feeling blue, maybe reflecting emotional honesty. We're all... You're meant to be boyconing chat, GPT, and going to...

Cloth? Else? Is it too close? No, not that one. One of them. Okay. What's the best? Am I?

Can you do the research? Can you use your consumer guarantees act? Or shall I ask ChatGPT? Yeah, why are we boycotting you? Apparently, we should be boycotting you. See what he says. Recommend another. What's, do you want to?

He said, ha ha ha, Ose, yeah, that pops up every now and then. The whole boycott ChatGPT thing usually comes from a few different debates happening online at the same time. here's the main reason why. Oh, okay, so they're trying to like laugh off. Yeah, the fact that... If you want, Ouse, I can also tell you the specific reason people are suddenly talking about. This leads us nicely back into secrets.

You're keeping, maybe when you discovered your partner's secret, they could try to laugh it off, just like chatchy, the teacher and laugh off. So some messages in. So living together, he told me he'd been married twice. Six months in, it turns out he'd been married three times, and she was in South Africa. Six months later, I looked at a Ministry of Justice letter that he said was a speeding file.

Now, I'm no detective, but I think that comes from NZTA. Yes, it does, yeah. Spending fine doesn't come from the history of justice. Unless it goes to court because you haven't paid it. He'd paid your fines. Turn out it was his divorce papers, and she was living in New Zealand in the same town as us. Oh, wow. Sorry.

Somebody thinks it's called Blue Thera because the information may have come out of the blue. You're being surprised by something. Oh, maybe. That's an interesting take on it. Oh, yeah, that's a good take on it. We had a mortgage approved last year And then When you apply for a mortgage

It really reveals a lot If you're keeping secrets It's going to be a ponder It's all going to come out My shopping Was alarming Because they look at the statements That you ignore

You said that was gifted But you paid for it And that other thing He said you'd have for ages You just got That was in fact Not old It was brand new from last one

Secret Security from your partner Oh yeah A whole lot of secrets are exposed When I applied for a mortgage And got all the information on it Yeah Oh that's a long one That might need a pre-read

Now we've got some instant Can you give that one a pre-read please Haley The big fat one I've pre-read it It's full noise Okay Okay We're on Friday buzz

I don't want something That's going to bring me down too much Anonymous please My partner had a relationship with their recovery therapist while in rehab. That's against the protocols, isn't it? Breaches protocols. I think it's a bit gross that text.

I'm not going to read it. 929, receive, but it's a little bit. Read receipt. Read receipt. Yeah, read receipt. We're going to leave you on read. Yeah. My wife was getting Botox and she didn't even tell me and I didn't even notice.

And then the next time she went to get it, I got it too. Oh, really? Oh, wow. Okay. Do you like my frown? Great hands to frown back on the show My partner kept her The fourth character

My partner kept her foot infection secret And it rotted her big toe off What? I'm sorry Why would you keep a foot infection Secret? What's that smell? Nothing. Is that your toe, Stephanie?

Is it your washing? I just haven't taken the bins out. Can you take the bins out? I'll take the bins out. No, no, no, no. What's that smell? I just, in your perfume. Why is your socks seeping green?

Because it's just to toenet, it's a thing in our polish. Somebody else said I found out my partner was 75,000 euros in debt. Yikes. Not enough for the news, news with Bryn next. The Fletch morning, Haley, big pod. To the studio, Bryn from the newsroom. Good morning, happy Friday.

Happy Friday. We're about to launch into the segment, not enough for the news news. All the news stories that don't make the main bulletin. Yeah, but it's so worthy of being hurt. Yeah, just says so much. Is it a grim, it's a grim time for you in the newsroom? Bryn, there's not a lot of good news, is there? Not a lot, no.

And this is why we do this segment, isn't it? Bit of light relief. A bit of a tidbit to talk about it, the water cooler. No Iranian a toilet. No, no petrol. No. Hiking. No.

Trump does not appear. No feature. Firebombing ships. No. None of that. No cost of living cry. No. Now, are we going to roll with the same jingle that we've been sort of using the last few weeks?

Well, did you have a, well, maybe. we put it out to the listeners. 96.96. If you can make a jingle for us. A news jingle? Yeah. Not enough of the news news news news news. We've got some very creative listeners. That's right. Yeah, but we'll see what people that can do it here.

Get on the garage band. There's actually a man who works here. It's a job. Oh, true. He's got a little cupboard over here. Does he have access to an orchestra. Because I'm thinking big fanfare. Oh, you want the open film.

Yeah. Chris, you don't know. Seriously about it. You've got. You've been waiting for a jingle for two years. Yeah, it's just not something we do, Bryn. It's very kind of proactive. We can make one arm.

Yeah. And let's just play the one we've got. Okay. Yeah. Good morning, I'm Bryn Rudkin. Oh, you didn't put a Qura good morning. I always do. Okay, well, let's restart. Sorry about that.

Stop that again. It was ignorant of me. It's really. Okay. And sorry to our Māori listeners. I said insert welcome here. That's up, that's on Brin. I don't want the white guy getting in trouble.

Yeah. Yeah, actually, just letting everyone know, Vaughn has written the script today. so you may notice some changes. A bit of soft of humor. Would you say funnier than when Haley did it? I'm making no comment. Okay. He's kind of what he said before.

Kielder, good morning. I'm Bryn Rudkin. Kilda. Firstly, today off to Texas, where voters may finally get the candidates that I've been asking for, literally anybody else. A Texas resident legally changed his name

to literally anybody else. Oh my God. And is now running for mayor of a Texas town. Yes. His competitors, old Watts's face and you know that old white guy couldn't be reached for comment

Did I deliver that? Was that the punchline? Yeah that was the Did I deliver that? I'm the writer I just write these things Haleysprowder.com for tickets to my comedy tour Alright next Archaeologists have discovered that Ancient Egyptians invented Twink

About 3,300 years ago No Fletch, not Twinks Did you write that? You were in trouble You little shit bags You sent me the story You're like, this one might be good. I was like, come on out. Oh, they invented back in Egyptian times.

Yeah. Yeah. Their little loincloths? Hey. Hi. I can't live the big blocks to make the pyramid. Daddy, I'll wave your fan. You'll give me kisses.

Daddy, can you roll me down the river? Daddy, I've got to go to work. Carry on. Carry on, friend. Okay, twink the white correction liquid. Yes, gotcha. Was used on the book. of the dead scroll to cover mistakes

and even slim down a slightly chunky jackal drawing. Historians say it proves that even in ancient Egypt when someone looked a pharaoh too fact, the artist simply said, quick, papyrus over it, obviously in denial about their mistakes.

It's got, it's dad, dad, dad's got born written all over at that script. And you didn't use chat GPT. Hayley's writing it next week. I'm actually quite happy to distance myself from this one, to be fair. I'm glad that we announced that When anyone anybody mentions Egypt,

you've got to say something about them being in denial. And any time someone says someone was Russian, you're like, how do you know? It's fine. That's just funny. I don't write the rules of funny. That's just funny.

You certainly don't. I do love hell we're stopping and explaining them all too. That's another good thing. That's a good time. And finally, a fishing tournament in America has become a whale of a scandal. One competitor has been arrested

after allegedly stuffing weights inside a bass to make the fish heavier and win a $10,000 prize. The angler now faces felony charges because the organiser said, they're all about the base, about the base, no trouble. It's all about the bass, about the bass.

Yeah, but it's from... It's about the same. I know, it's very confusing. It's about the same. It's so confusing. Okay. Do you want me to read that final joke that you've written? On the script. Okay. On the script. I guess some people will stop at nothing to tip the scales in their favour.

Was it a joke? Yeah. Because he's got weights in the weights of the fish. Again, I feel like if we're stopping down to explain jokes, it's not as funny.

You know, Vaughn? Maybe we do just get the comedian time. Next way. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations to you, podcast. Listen, you've reached the end.

So I would assume if you've listened all this way through, you're either asleep, in which case, wake up! Or you enjoyed it. So drop us a review and tell your friends. That's how podcasts work. Play ZEMs, Fletchhorn and Haley.