ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 19th March 2026

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

On Today's Big Pod, Sri Lanka has Wednesday off The jobs that won't survive AI Top 6 - Other things the cameras will spot Can you stop grey hair SLP - Do you upgrade your tech when the new model releases? Closing your eyes doesn't help you hear Shannon's hack When was the proposal ruined? Vaughan's nerd date Hot Debate - 50/50 or first in first serve? Fact of the day When was your partner embarrassing? What is the se4xiest gym machine? Not enough for the News News See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

from the ZM Podcast Network. This is Fleshhorn and Haley's Big Pod. Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. Fletch Fawn and Haley, how many of those speeding tickets were you to last year? I don't think I got any last year. Last year none. Oh, no, I did. No, no, I got one last year.

I remember I got done the Mustang on the way to my nan's funeral. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. And did you say he didn't care? That's right. Well, heartless. I don't actually know because I'm a man. a Mazbassadar.

Right. Mazda baster and I don't get my speeding tickets. Where do they get sent? They get sent to Mazda. The camera ones do. Oh right. Well, I'm sure they'd forward them on if you... Yeah.

I would like to come out and say I did get pulled over by a police person the other day and I got to speak to it. No, we talked about it. No, we didn't talk about it. What do you mean? No, you said you got pulled over for being on your phone. Mm. Yeah, I also got pulled over just a couple of days ago. Hot?

cop and I think I beguiled him he gave me a ticket so I didn't beguile him Oh right There's no be beguiling You can't be that hot then Yeah I was in an ex I was in a zone that used to be 80

Now it's 50 now that's a chomped down Man really That didn't put you a 60 No yeah I was hitting a 63 Right Oe, bit fast And I said you're right there And I'll take my punishment

Okay And I'll take any other punishment You're keen to give me What did he say to that He was like like what And I was like I'll use your imagination And he was like

This is getting inappropriate Can I see a license And I was like, God, just ask for my address if you want my address. Yes, I'm a donor. If you were a cop and they were hot, would you let them off? No, I wouldn't. I'm a law-abiding citizen, and that's a terrible question to ask. You absolutely would.

You would let them off. I'd be like, what are we going to do here? Corrupt, a corrupt cop. Is it corruption, though, if you're just letting someone off a ticket because they're hot, though? You're not taking a bride. What is the deal with letting people off of tickets? At their discretion? Because I've had a slap before.

I got pulled over by another cop. Jesus. On Sunday. Jesus, Haley. Listen to this. What do you want? I'm in Takapuna in the North Shore and we're going through some lights and there's a cop on a bike in front of me. But I'm not really paying attention.

I'm not breaking any rules. And then the lights go green and they kind of turn orange as the cop is sort of. And so I was like, I'll, you know, hitch a ride basically through this orange light. he goes through, bloop, bloop, and brings me forward like this. And I go up and he was like, I think you might have pushed it on that orange there. I thought I was pushing it. Wait, he said I was pushing it. Yeah.

Are you going to take it yourself for pushing it? This is what I was thinking. I was like, well, what are we going to do here? And he was like, just watch it. And I was like, okay. You watch it. You watch it. Bitch?

Not a hot cop either. And then he turns up the body cam and you're like, who the bitch now? And you're like, I'm foie. Toy Top six on the way Yeah The top six other things The cameras will still spot

We'll spot The new speed cameras Speaking of Haley's Inability to stick to the rules A cop just text in by the way It's at our discretion I maybe have given someone a warning Because they were hot lo

Yes The flesh morning Hayley big pod I You're right? Yeah Go I'm gonna talk about Sri Lanka's

New move Yeah Yeah You want to chat about it too? No, let's also, well, it's written down here. Well, Fletch, do you want to get into it with us? Not particularly. Yeah, I want to, what would you like to talk about?

Your mum's favourite dinosaur? Oh, my mum is T-Rex, but your mum said... I didn't ask. You didn't ask, I asked, mum said I absolutely don't have one. I don't want to think about it. I don't think I'll ever think about it again. I knew that's what your mum would say. It's bloody stupid question.

What a stupid question. Okay, well, back to Sri Lanka. Well, I've introduced a four-day work week, and this is my dream in life. Every time we have a three-day work week, a four-day work week and a three-day holiday weekend, I feel so good. I see, I prefer a three-day work week.

You're Easter's. Same. For example. Two-day work week. Easter with an A Anzac slapped on the back. This might sound all fun and games and all nice having a Wednesday off because that's what they've done. That's what they've done.

So Wednesday's a public holiday in Sri Lanka, but do you know why they've done it? Because of the war. Yeah, because of the fuel. There's just not enough fuel for everybody in Sri Lanka. pretty much import all of their fuel. That sounded like I was getting emotional for Sri Lanka. I did.

I actually am a little emotional. I think I would probably thrive. Well, we were just talking before. That would at Sri Lanka could be a really fun place for a besties holiday. I had some friends visit and it looked incredible. They just had tuk-tooks and drove around and stayed at the beaches. Beaches, the food. And it's not like crazy full of tourists.

Can you think of any other reason why it would be nice to visit Sri Lanka? Nobody mentioned brown skin like. in light eyes. Yeah. Yeah, delicious. So they are, they're doing Wednesdays off in the middle, which, God, it would just be lovely, to save fuel so that people are driving to work less

so that they can extend their petrol reserves for as long as possible. They've also put a kibosh on rocking up with a big tank and filling it up and taking it home. Oh, really? Because they said that's going to do nothing. That's just going to create, like, panic. Yeah. There was a 2022 crisis that they just still recover.

from economic crisis in Sri Lanka. Kind of for everybody, right? It was that tailing to COVID thing when interest rates went and they're still recovering from that. And they're like, we've only got a few weeks left. So if you'll play silly buggers, no one's going to have any.

So take Wednesdays off, work from home where you can. Yeah. They haven't done the carless days thing yet. But is Wednesday the best day to have off if you're going to have a day? Or would you rather slap it on a Monday or Friday? Monday or Friday.

Yeah. So do you know across lots of places they're doing this? across Asia in particular. Pakistan, four-day work week for some government offices, schools are shutting 50% work from home mandate. Vietnam's done? Yeah, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand. Monday, if you missed it, Monday.

Nicola Fueless. Phyllis. We did a presser. It was almost like a one o'clock conference. You know, like COVID days. It was about petrol. And they've introduced levels for the fuel here in New Zealand.

So we're at level one at the moment. moment which is minor, but then level two is moderate, level three, major and level four severe. So level four is only critical customers that supplied at designated supply points. So that would be like, I'm assuming your emergency services vehicles, some essential vehicles. Oh, I mean, I know it's all for terrible reason, but there's other place, you know, like the UK did the trial in 2022. Workers paid 100% of their salaries for 80% of the time and all of the companies kept up with their workloads.

Belgium compresses full-time hours into four days. So the four days that you work... You do 10. You do 10 hours. I'd absolutely love that. There's these people that work 40-hour weeks that work 10-hour days anyway. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

I'm more for trying something new because I don't know if you guys have noticed, I don't think capitalism's working fantastic. It's not really... Yeah, yeah. I reckon we give some other things a red-hot go. Do you want to go back to communism, Maybe. Do you want to try that? It's not the worst idea I've ever heard.

Just all work on the farms and... Dude, how a bit of communism be. That also hasn't worked famously born. Yeah, but that's because it was corruption. I'm giving me a shot and give me absolute power. You want to be the leader? You're going to be the leader? You're going to be the leader?

He just wants a statue. You want a statue. I'm a not statue leader. Well, you're just a man of the people leader. I'll take some giant posters. Some flags. Yeah, yeah, some giant, like, drops. What about some military parades? Would you like those?

No, but I like parades, parades. Collarless blazers? No, not really. It's giving. It's Korea. Is it giving Kim Jong? And I'm talking north. Yeah, not the good career. Not the fun career.

The Fletch morning, Haley, big pod. Like it or not, AIs put its claws in. What was our silly little poll the other day? Are you anti-AI? It was pretty much 50-50. I love chaty-chip-tee. People are, yeah, I think people are a little worried. I'm moving away.

This weekend, I've decided I'm going to spend a few hours deleting all of my information on chat-japite and then shutting down my account. It's too late. It's too late. You've shared everything. I know, yeah, yeah. Do you, how do you get it back? Because I have shared so much this year alone.

I'm starting afresh with a new one. I'm going to do some research on what's the most ethical one. And I know someone messaged in the other day when I talked about, there's no such things. It's ethical. Well, let's just do our best then. Well, they're all draining the planet's resources.

Yes. If that's your kind of ethical area. It rains heaps. Yeah. They want some water to power this thing. I'm happy to run a collection. Okay. I mean, I'm looking through my history here and I'm not too scared.

Best kebab on Dominion Road. That was one. Right. You asked, what did it say? Just scoured the internet. Best kebab on Dominion Road? Pasha! Turkish Kitchen.

I'm sorry, but it's it's. If you're on Dominion Road, you don't go cabad. I'd go dumplings or... I know, I know, I know. But I was really handling for a... Like a Turkish salad. And I was on Dominion Road. I didn't have enough time.

Right. So I did it and it took me to this great place. And I tell you what? What would you go to on Dominion Road? Well, there's that pancake place that does the... Duck pancakes. Yeah. Solid.

All kinds of different pancakes. I'd probably go Barilla or new flavour. Or you'd go, yeah, you'd go Chinese dumplings. Yeah. Is Mr. House still on, Dominion? Road? Yeah, I think it is. Mr. Zhao? They shut down H-A-O. They shut down their

North Shore one. That place rules. They've got that Sechuan. They've got that Sechuan chicken dish that honestly, your mouth just goes numb and you're just dribbling and you don't even know you might as well be at the dentist. Honestly, well, this Turkish I'll say, for a predominantly Asian restaurant place, delicious. Gotcha as well. Great. So I'm not embarrassed to have that

AI. No, I didn't give you that passion. It might have just given you a straight answer. But we hit it with a bit of hash. Well, Bill Gates is trying to make everybody forget he was on Epstein Island and has talked about AI. And he said he thinks there'll be three fields that will survive for now. Coders and programmers, biologists and scientific researchers and energy sector workers. I would have thought those three gone.

I would have thought because everyone's saying that a lot of coding is now done by AI. But someone has to check to make sure it works? or, I don't know. I mean, you're still going to need human coders, of course. But not as many, probably. Yeah. But what I would have thought if I said, AI-proof jobs, I would have said, yeah, doctors.

Surgeons. Or like, or like the trades and, like, emergency service, like. Yeah, let's see, AI step up when there's a natural disaster. And the power goes out. Just meaning in the tech sector. He's just talking about jobs, like jobs in general. But, yeah, biologists. kind of sit on the...

Missuses. Why don't you ask, your AI, why don't you ask it what job? What jobs are safe from AI takeover? I wouldn't trust AI

to do acupuncture either. Nah, they'll get it right in the wrong place. Dr. Wynne knows. Dr. Wyn does know. He's the show acupuncturist. All they flitch you yet to go to Dr. Wyn, I use another acupuncturist. I've sent a couple of people lately to Dr. Wyn.

Both have come back and said, where did you find him? I said, I found him. how you found him. He's incredible. He's to hit me when I said, Ow. Yeah, he smacks my bum

when he's giving me lower back needles before. I said Ouse, my Chachypitae, what jobs are safe from AI takeover? Unusual activity has been detected

from your device try again later. Now, I'm sorry. You questioned. I'm looking for a straight answer here. Yeah, it is not giving you one. Retry. Ouse, what jobs are safe

from AI takeover? It's thinking. He does not want to answer me. I'm going to say, answer me. Apparently translators are already, you know, feeling the real pinch of AI because it can literally, you can take a photo of anything with foreign language and say, can you just...

Yeah, I mean, that's one of the coolest things about the Google Translate at when you travel is taking a photo of a sign and it would just translate it, a menu. Yeah, live translate, right? But even the AirPods of it. It's in the clunky, like, live translating, but it's pretty incredible.

Oh, you're still in, eh? Yeah, so when that speeds it. Who are you speaking to who talks a different language? I mean, I've done it in Russian and Spanish. Kisses for Papi, I mean, I can translate that for you. And German. That's the only English he knows. I know some basic words.

Now, Isabella said... Chat GPT will not answer me. He is still just thinking. Be honest. Have we heard that we're going to Claude? He might have, yeah. Isabello just mess. Yeah.

To the show. Kilda. 96. 96. Message in any time. Good morning. Any, any thought. Yeah.

Is that our new tag? Like, anytime, anything, any thought. 966. 966. Love. I do end of life planning with oncology patients. AI's got a lot of learn a lot of empathy

for that yet. What do you mean? What do you mean? Like when you've got terminal cancer, I guess you've got to have a plan for what happens. Who gets your Pokemon cards? No, no, no. That's for a lawyer.

Right. Okay. he's finally come up with an answer. That took a long time. Good question, Ouse. Short answer, no job is 100% safe. That's a threat. I'm taking that as a threat. The safest roles tend to rely on human trust,

physical presence, creativity. Creativity, there you go. Complex judgment. Jobs most safe, human, heavy or relationship-based, therapists, nurses and caregivers, teachers, social workers, coaches and mentors. People want human connection. Skill trays, your plumbers, your electricians,

your builders and your mechanics. They told us not to do plumbing and the trades and that at school, didn't they, they told us. Yeah, complex decision makers, surgeons, senior lawyers, executive business leaders and engineers, creative people, creative directors, branch, just film TV, radio personality. Oh, we're on the list. We're on the list. Fantastic. Thank God. And roles requiring authority and trust, police judges, government leaders, compliance.

Right. So it's just going to be like emergency services. Military. Trades and radio announcers left. Yeah. Jobs most at risk for context. data entry admin, basic customer support, copywriting, transcription, translation, simple coding.

So Bill Gates, he lied to us. The ZDAM Podcast Network. From the unmoderated comment section, this is the top six. Hello, we're getting some new speed cameras. Are those average speed safety cameras? With our calculator vehicles, average speed over a length of row between two cameras.

I hate those ones. At least you know when one's coming up You can just slow down Yeah, yeah Oh, that's the idea though I just always drive safe Please Always drive safe Unlike Haley who has 40 Demeripoints

Okay Okay I have only two years' time And they'll go Yeah So there's already a few of these around Matacana Road in Auckland In Auckland

On Kakatir Flat Road And Pine Valley Road Pine Valley Road Is it? Isn't that always like The top five speed cameras Is that? It really gets you

A bit of a wit road situation. Northland's getting one. Waikato's getting one. Bay of Plenty, Hawks Bay, Manawatu, Wellington, you can find, although it's all listed where they're going to go. I look forward to it popping up in Ways.

Any in the South Island? Well, yeah, if you use Ways, you'll know where they all are. Between Lake Tikapur and Twisle on State Highway 8, flat. Gorgeous. It's always flat around the year. State Highway 6 and Kingston.

So between... Kingston. Kingston. Kingston. Kingston. You said Kingston. That's a different place. Dude, that's like we don't... The Kingston flyer.

That's a club. It's massive and black and blows smoke. Yeah. The Kingston flyer. The Kingston, yes. And between Allenton and Weihola on State Highway 1 down south of Eden. Yeah, right.

So watch the lead foot. But these are new speed cameras. They're very clever. I've got the top six things. The new speed cameras will also notice and the fine you'll incur. Okay. Number six on the list, if you're playing with yourself.

$400 fine, $85 demurit points. Why are you driving? Unless you're hot, because then they'll pay you $16.99 a month and you'll get zero demerits. I think you're mixing up only fans and speed cameras. A really different sort of cameras. Yeah. Do you remember that plumber that got caught,

someone took a photo from their office? Yeah, dude. On the on-raterly like a couple hundred meters from here. You know the on-ramping. Yeah, he was doing it. It goes down past an old draft FCB, the old advertising company's building. And yeah, because it's elevated and he was just like,

oh, this traffic sucks. Concentron on the road, just wait till you get home, dude. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's... How long's the commute? How long do you commute? Number five on the list of the top six things

the new speed cameras will notice and they're fine you'll get. If you're singing along to Creed, yeah, they actually give you $50 and you earn $20 to merit points. Oh, okay, lovely. Yeah, with arms wide open. It was a great roadie song.

Great, so. Oh, yeah. Higher. Number four on the list of the top of the top of the time. Top six things, the new speed cameras will notice, and the fine you'll incur. If you're doing your makeup on the way to work, ladies, that's a $100 fine and 20 demerit points. Men, no fine, and you get a compliment. Yeah, you look cute.

Wow. Looking good. Yars point. A little blanche, yars. Yars. Number three on the list of the top six things, the new speed cameras will notice in the fine you'll incur. Picking your nose, no fine, no demerits. Eating it, 250, demerits.

What about wiping it on the seat? Wiping it on the seat, I reckon. Flicking it somewhere anonymously in the car. No, flicking it out the window, no problem. Flicking it in the car or wiping it on the seat, that's $100 and $20 demerits. Oh, damn. It's my car. My Bugs.

My car, my bugs. My car, my bugs. Your car, your bugs. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six things, the new speed carers or notice and the fine are vaping in your car with kids. Are vaping in your car with kids $200 and $50 demerits? Yeah, that's fair. Sharing it with your kids, $300 and $75 demerits.

Is that how they're all getting addicted? Yeah. Having a hoon on mumps. Great, babe. Yeah, mum's the new ice grape. Raspberry purple flavour. Sure is, huh. Give us a hood, mum.

It's better than the Narees. And number one on the list of the top six things, the new speed cameras are noticed, and they're fine. If you didn't indicate for three seconds, $50 and 10 demerits, if you indicated for literally one flash of your indicator, but we're like, come on, I've indicated for three seconds, let me in. Huge aura points, no demerits.

Oh, lovely. No demerits. That is today's top six. The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Haley Vaughn, you've got a bit of grey in your beard Yeah, I have

Quite in the middle Oh yeah, look at that It's almost like this middle bit's bleached Haley So I'm just having a look If your hair was to grow out If you were to grow out Hailey's brow

What? Just noticing the hair pattern Just particularly around that area lighter. If you were to grow out your hair that you still grow in your head, what colour is it? I don't know,

because my dad went bald, young, but went grey late. Like, he was well into his 50s by the time he started going grey. Right. Right.

Fletch, you've got greys in your beard as well. Yeah, like a speckle. A speckle. Some speckles. Head hair? Nah,

no. I don't know. I don't know. No. But when mine gets like longer, longer, before I do shave it, I can't see any grey in there.

Can't see any grey. But it's short. What about those people like, that were in their early 20s and just had like a little... Yeah, I had lots of friends. Real grey, real early. Yeah, lots of friends.

It's particularly right at the front, just like little grey hairs. And you've never had one? Haven't had one. And you're 28. Eight, I think, this year? Yeah, 28 this coming October. Plus. 36. I'm 37. I'm 37 in October.

Okay. No, I haven't had any of my dad. So this is one of the biggest factor for when you go grey, which is good news for you've worn if your dad was late, is genetics. I just, it doesn't worry me in the least. I know. You said good news, like it's a, I just, it.

What is the good news? You can, you cannot stop it. Yep. But you can hold it back. Okay. How? Hold me back. Don't smoke.

Don't smoke. Don't get stressed. Get enough sleep. Okay. Eat a good diet. So, I'm, I'm, how are you not as white as a,

a ghost. Oh, go back to genetics. Because of my dad, white people, mid-30s is the average age. We're going grey. Okay. Asian people late 30s. Yeah. Keep that dark, lovely black hair.

And black people mid-40s. Don't crack. Don't crack. Don't crack, aren't. Cancer in your 20s. If only there was a downside. To being black. Yeah.

Probably society, sort of prejudice. Oh, God, really? Yeah. Yeah, still gone. I did say that in chest. I know you did. Yeah, I know. You just looked at me like I said something really bad.

It wasn't that bad, was it? I know, yeah. So there is no solid evidence that, because a lot of people selling supplements, like this will slow down going gray, no evidence, no scientific evidence whatsoever that any supplement, vitamin, anything like that. Well, it's like people fighting the baldness. There's nothing really worth. They haven't nailed that yet, do they? Not really, turkey.

I mean, unless you go to turkey. Does that last forever? Hair transplant? Yeah. I don't know. Does it? I think so. Or is it just the next time you have?

your hormonal change in like your mid-40s, it's just going to happen again. It'll still fall out again. I don't know. I don't know anyone with a long-term hair transplant. So it's just, it's, it's, there's, yeah, anyone who tells you

that you can prevent it as, is wrong. Right. So I think getting targeted advertising for the soap that you washed your beard with and it would not. A color. It stood some, bullshit,

probably. Yeah, it's just bullshit. You can't stop it, but you can, but stress is one of the biggest contributing factors. Okay, so. Other than, other than genetics. So if you're genetically going to go grey, you can go grey. So if you're listening now and you want to fight the grey hairs, you're in your 20s and 30s.

Don't smoke? Yeah. That's got the strongest evidence, by the way. Okay. Don't smoke. Yeah. Smoke is good for nothing. Okay.

Reduce stress. Apart from looking cool. Apart from looking swish. That's debatable. That's debatable. All James Dean. Reduce stress? Yeah.

Take a leaf out of my book. Sometimes people reduce stress by having a cigarette, though. And drinking. Get enough sleep. I can't. I'm so stressed from these cigarettes. These sickies are stressing me out. Anyway, no, I don't have any greys yet. And no, I colour my hair, but I do let it grow out enough that I would notice.

So that day is yet to come. Remember, I did find a grey arm here. I pulled it out. It hasn't returned. We'll just... So far, so good. So far, so good. How do you want us to act and react when you do get a grey hair? Like, what's the process going to have be, like, that day?

I think I'd like to be cradled. I think I'd like to be held. Do you have grey hairs? No. I don't have any... Is the pubs the last to go grey? That's a serious question. A friend of mine with blonde hair who now has quite a few greys

but her pubs went grey first. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big on the siggies. Do under a... Is she big on the siggies? Down there. She kept smoking her sickies the wrong way. She's really messing that up. The ZANN podcast network.

Silly, silly, silly that... Silly little poll today is, do you um your technology when a new model releases. Fleets does. Sometimes, yeah. Every two years for phones? Right. Is that right?

And then, I mean, it just depends, doesn't it? Like MacBook, no. My laptop, I wouldn't. You just do that until it falls apart. Yeah, I run that until it's like, you know, when you start it up and it takes like 10 minutes? And it wears, like, yeah. Yeah, same.

And that would really be it. phones, yeah, maybe every couple of two to three years. Yeah, it just depends. I mean, it depends if you can afford it as well. Like, that's quite privileged to be able to do that. Absolutely. Well, I mean, overwhelmingly, this agrees and it's one-sided. Only 4%

of people answered, yes. 96% of people said, no. Georgia messaged in, she said, begrudgingly, I just got a new iPhone 17 today because the 3G network in Australia is already shut off, and my iPhone 11 couldn't use any data while I'm here. So when are the iPhone 11 come out?

You wouldn't even be able to use a travel e-sum. The iPhone 11 wouldn't have an E-Som. No. I think I went from 12 to 14 to 17. Our good friend, Simon, at Samsung just helped my parents upgrade because they're going international, because they, you know, how people that age loved to go and spend you in. You're inheriting?

I joke, I've told them to. My parents go to Japan, and then they get back, and then a few weeks later, they're going to the Calgary. Rio. Hell yes. I'm sorry, why? Your parents go to Japan. Yeah, dude.

It's going to blow their little mind. What are they going to eat? What are they going to eat? What are they going to eat? Fried rice balls. Do you go this? Excuse me. My fish is raw

as the day it was born. What is this rice? Yeah. That's sushi man. What's in the middle of it? Salmon. I feel like they might say one of those things boomers saying like a lot of Asians.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. I think my parents, while they live in a very white rural area, are expecting to see Japanese people in Japan. Okay, good. Yeah, okay. But they're gonna love that.

I'm really concerned at what they're gonna eat. For the first time in ages. Yeah. Because they just, but they don't have Esims and, yeah. So, yeah. My dad's still gonna shout out of Simon. Yeah. Little one.

An X. Yeah, like a little. It's little, when I pick it up, I'm like, tiny before you. What is just a phone for ants? Like, it's so little. Yeah. Is that why you asked me for what e-sim I use the other day?

I wondered why you were asking. Oh, what do you think of it was for me? Like, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. At least somebody wants to take Right, and so are you setting that up for them though? Yes. Okay, good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

But Georgia, who is, had to get an iPhone 17, she said, I've never been up to date in tech. I've never had the latest iPhone. She's very nice. She said very nice. She said very nice. I like to keep my iPhones going as long as possible. I'm currently running a 2020 iPhone SE.

Oh yeah, okay. See, they are still working, aren't they? That's ticking along. I'm very wary every time I say, do you want to do the upgrade when you go to sleep? I'm like, it might brick my 12. Did our friend Mike message in about always upgrading his car? No.

That's an entirely different syllable for. I don't upgrade every time the new model releases. However, I do wait for the next model to release whenever I am due for once, is Zane. Okay. So if he's like, I'm in June, but you hold on until September because you know he's going to be a new model coming out. Yes, yeah.

Sophie says my husband upgrades and I get his old phone. She's got a phone hand me down. Well, why don't you tell your husband next time, hey, maybe I'll get the new galaxy or the new iPhone and you have my old one. Oh. Yeah. See how that goes down. Oh. I don't think it'll go down well.

Alicia said I find a newer model carrier pigeon to be lacking. They get lost, they're less sturdy and they have system issues. They definitely can't carry the slate messages that I'm used to. I like to wait for carry pigeon the new carry pigeon model to come out like six months, iron out all the kinks. Yeah, they, yeah. Oh man, those new carrier pigeons get kinky. They're so kinky. You've got to iron the pigeons.

Got to iron out the kinks. I didn't know when a lot of this week said Tessor, so it'll be a no from me again. Yeah. I like to use my phones until they die. My partner purchased an iPhone 17 for me for Christmas and I was kind of pissed that he spent that much money. But honestly, it is so much better. Wait, so he, like, who would be mad that you get that for Christmas? No one.

No one. Just take it. Take it. It sounds like it's a lot of money, though, isn't it is a lot of money. Brian said as a Samsung person, I do every second model. Keeps my phone in warranty. There's a two-year warranty. I still get great trade in value on my current phone towards a new one.

I'd previously done five years between some upgrades, though. Okay. Yeah. That's a good point with the warranty, eh? Yeah. I work in a phone shop, says Ash, and it's crazy. How many people update their phones every single year? Some people even update them every month or few months.

What? Every few months. What are you doing to that phone that you need to get a new watch? I'm rough with my phone, but not to that point. What are these people doing to their phones? Yeah. These sound like animals. Animals.

Well, today for Silicon Pol, we ask if you upgrade your technology every time a new model releases. And 96% of you said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Play Z-Ns, Fletch, One, and Haley. Big scientific study done. into something that I reckon we all do and we all think it helps. But it turns out it doesn't. So when you're trying to hear something,

you're trying to listen really intently, really closely. What do you do? I block out everything. I close my eyes. And I tilt my head like this. Yes, yes, yes. Yes.

Tilt your ear towards it. Yes. To my favourite ear, which is my left ear, I've tilted it towards the sound. Which is my favourite. Yeah, I'd go this one, my right. You go right. Yeah, I'd go right ear.

That's why I keep my left. right ear open. Oh, I'm a left ear. I'm a left ear. Yeah, you are. Okay, everybody, 966, 96, 96, if you think about something, you could try to listen to something quiet, it's straight in front of you. Yeah.

You shut your eyes. What ear do you put forward to it? I go, I move my right eye and shut my eyes. I move my right ear and shut my eyes. Yeah, same. Always shut your eyes. Always shut your eyes and you put my left ear in. I put my left ear in.

96, 96, you right ear or left ear, that's how you test. This is what they tested. And it turns out that closing your eyes actually, impairs the ability to detect the sounds. So they got a whole lot of volunteer participants and listened to sounds through headphones with background noise. They adjusted the volume of the sounds until they couldn't make them out over the background noise.

It was conducted first with eyes closed and then eyes opened, only looking at a blank screen and then looking at a still picture corresponding the sound. And then a video matched up with the sound that they were trying to hear. And yet they found that closing eyes does jackal. doesn't do anything. In fact, it probably makes it worse. Do you know everyone who's messaging so far as the head? Left-ed. Wait, why am I right-ed? Everybody said left-air, left-eared.

I don't go, that ear? That is weird. I'm surprised you're... But I'm right-handed, but left-eared, but sometimes I do things with my left-hand that people are right-handed-hand-to-do-it-to-your-old, but you're left-handed and you're right-hirt-eat. I'm quite right-handed-hosexual. Yeah, it's ambisexual. For sure. Well, I wasn't going to say it, but I'll come out. I'm ambisexual.

I'm handicosexual. I'm handicexual. I get to park right in front of the mall. I don't know if you do I don't know if that'll pass Yeah Oh someone said right ear Because they've got left ear tinnitus So apparently

What they've worked What they've kind of settled on Is that closing the eyes Makes your brain go into a state of neural Criticality Which more Which more aggressively filters noises And quiet sounds

Including the target sounds That you're trying to pick up Right So don't so don't close your eyes What about someone just text in? Yeah, when you turn down the radio because you're trying to make your eyes work harder. You're trying to park?

I can never park with the radio going. And you always turn it down. Turn it down. Just pause that. Or we're getting into the street that we're arriving at. Turn down. Turn down. Turn down. Turn down. Turn down. It would be the same thing, right?

I guess it's just distraction, right? You think it's helping. Everybody's left-eared. Apart from people who have hearing loss or something happening in their left ear. 100% I've got hearing loss. But I don't think I've ever No, I'm definitely right I thought I'd favour it

No, I'm definitely right Yeah Well maybe I'm not Okay, when you answer somebody Someone just said I'm right ed When you answer the phone What ed you put it to? Oh right

My right yeah That's more of a hand That's because that's the hand Oh because of my hand Yeah you wouldn't do that Because you're left handed Yeah Yeah

This has blow my mind I'm overthinking The airpiece doesn't work on my old phone I always have to answer On speaker phone like a boomer Oh my dear Why do you not have a moment I say hello

Hold on just a moment Is work not giving a speaker Your phone? I thought we were working through that. I thought works giving you a phone. I was sorting something out. It feels like he's not sorting something out. It feels like.

It feels like it's been months. Yeah. It's almost like I want to see how long it'll work now. Right-handed left-ed and I do my tics back to front. Wait, do you do the long stick on your tip first? What? She'll in your down up. No, I'm sorry.

Stop. No, no, short stick to the bottom in the middle and then a big flick out. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, stop listening. Shut. Stop listening, Sheila. Find in your radio station. We cannot have someone listening. We cannot have someone listening to us that does a long first, a long tick first.

We do not discriminate here unless. Unless. You do the long tick first. You don't know how close you're going to get to the word with that tick. Yeah. There's going to be a big gap or it's too tight. Whereas with a style point, I know exactly how far I am from what I'm ticking next to it. I'm really shocked by that.

Sheila. Someone said my cartoons the radio down as soon as I put it in reverse. That the range of is that too. How rude to radio? I know, really rude. Does it do it to podcasts? It does it do anything on the... Yeah, you would be like this, ha ha, laughing out louder.

Play, that ends, Fleshhorn and Haley. Now we have not got into the studio to record the intro. I haven't been able to get to that booth, have we? No. Oh, I've just got an email, but that means my computer's plugged in and it's ready to go. Yeah. Yeah, good. Okay, here we go.

If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to a show. Shannon's hack. Shannon's hack, baby. Well, it's time for another Shannon's hack, and today we've been promised something that will help you in the weekend at home, and it's got to do with cooking. Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, you know, notoriously I'm not the best cook. I'll admit it, it's okay to admit. What was that, those wet nachos you made once? Yeah, you know, I'm really not good at nailing the consistency. Yeah, it's too thick or too thick. I don't really nail that. But one thing I am not great at is pancakes, which is one of the greatest joys you can have on a weekend.

I just always get the shape a bit weird. The edges go too crispy. The middle goes a bit raw. And I just can't nail the shape and the thickness of them. Right, because the shape of a pancake is the shape of a pan. Yeah, but like that's a bit too wide. Like I'm talking if you were making like a stack of pancakes. Right.

My pan would make a crepe almost. Yeah, yeah, yeah, too wide. I'm talking pancakes. A hack I have seen online that I genuinely think would be life-changing is I want you to get a pot, just a normal pot. Sauce pan. Yeah. Yeah. And then pour your batter in.

This will then give it a beautiful round shape. It'll be even. The edges will be just as thick as the middle. Right, so that word on here. The size. The precipice of the pancake. The precipice. See, the pancice.

The pancake precipice would be just as thick as the middle. I want you to then keep it in the pan or the pot until it starts bubbling. You know, the bubble on top. Wait, have you put some kind of butter in? Yeah, you can non-stick it. You know, do whatever. Because all my pots are not non-stick. They're just famous of steel.

Once it's ready to flip over, you have your pan ready to go and you go blank and it goes into your normal pan. Now, yes, I can hear you. Double-dishing, I know. double-dishing here. The joy of an even thick pancake, I think undoes the double-dished drama. This will then make it perfectly even. I don't see how the pot is any different to the pan.

That's what I'm struggling with. It sounds like you've got a giant pan. Hot spots as well, but we don't even boil things in pots so we don't identify the hotspots. It's the size of it, you know, and then, yeah. Just pots and pans come in different sizes. You can have a really big pot, or you could get a smaller pan.

And then you're just in a one pan. I've got a beautiful small pan. Carwin's anti this hack. I just feel like buy a small pan. I've got one of those pans, you know, the ones that's like the handles heavier than the... Now, I do those for really good for scrambled eggs because they're not too big. For a single, lonely, miserable. I'm so miserable.

And I cry into my scrambled eggs to make them... Oh, scrambled eggs for one again. Yeah. It's just my life. Crying into my scrambled eggs. When will I find something to scramble eggs for? I just, I can see how, but I'm not sure. Yeah. There's some feedback.

Okay. Your problem is the mixture, not the pan. Well, she did admit that. She's bad at consistency. Your batter is the issue, not the cooking instrument. Breville Crape Creations machine is incredible for making pancakes. I don't have space for a machine. Do we need another machine?

Guys, I don't have space for a second pan. We've been over this. How do you get the spatula into the pot to hook the edge? No, we're just flipping it over. No, you just get the precipice of the bay. Flip the precipice. No, you just get the pot and just turn it upside down over the pan. So you're not needing a...

Oh, that's going to be so... That's just not going to work. No, it is. I've seen... People are texting and they've seen this video online and it has become a trend online. Is this a hack from the same woman that bought us scrambled pancakes? You guys love...

I remember scrambled pancakes. I do remember scrambled pancakes. Which was just, yeah, the pancakes missing up. The bad egg just kind of... Yeah, yum. There's an as-seen on TV pancake maker that makes two pancakes at a time and it is absolutely effing brilliant. Is that what someone said?

That's what somebody messaged in. But it's a machine or like a pan. Yeah, we don't need another appliance. No, we don't need it. Have you seen those, someone texted and look up air fry pancakes? How do you do that? It's got to be a thicker batter and you get a baking paper like that. Pour and then put another layer of baking paper, pour another layer baking paper.

And you get up with a perfect stack. But you couldn't have a runny batter and that's Shannon's major. Yeah, it would run over the sides. It needs to be a fat air. Are you saying? Are you saying when I'm... They're fluffy as, eh? Oh, this person's using a silicon tray, though.

That's cheating. Oh, yeah, well, you could do that too. I don't need more dishes. I don't need more dishes and I don't need another opponents. Sheila's just texting that she's upset that you guys are... Who pooed all over her ticks, but my hackers. No, Sheila texted them before. She was the one that does the ticks backwards.

Yeah. She's not going long, arm, little arm. She does, like, them's mirrored. Like a mirrored tick. Like a mirrored tick. Like a mirrored tick. Like, so we can't. Long arm and then flick to the right.

We can't take anything she says seriously now. I thought we told her to go and find another station. And yet she's still texting in. I text her, I said, I'm uncomfortable. Find another station, we're not happy with you listening. Unless she's going to do a correct tick. If she rectifies the tick, she's welcome back. Yes.

You can go listen to the parameter or the precipice. Shannon, someone did text and saying you're adorable. You know. Yeah, but we're not here to give. Five stars for adorable. We're here for the hat points. I'm giving it a two. It's a two because like technically if at a pinch,

you didn't have a pan and you had a pot, I'm sure you could somehow get a pancake going. Yeah, but then how are you getting the pancake from that pot into the next pot? Fletch, I don't know. I'm here for two. I'll take two. Okay, two starts.

Ricky is a messaged in. There's a pan that makes four at a time. It's literally called the perfect pancake maker. It's not another appliance. It's another pan. I don't, I've told you guys this. I have one pot, one pan, two, bowls four plates and that's fat.

Stop telling me to buy more. I love how you can so quickly rattle off the, uh, what's the, I think we just need to all ship in and get you one of these briscoes pancake pans. I don't have a base for it. There's a cambrook. Also, I lost a fork, so I'm down to four. Oh, four fork. I only have four forks now. I'm sorry you've lost this four. But I got five knives. Look at that. Cambrook perfect pancake press.

Oh, yeah, that's nice, isn't it? Fluffy. 1099. Oh, that's. You could wait for a red bag for a red bag. dot. No, they just finished their red dot. Damn.

I reckon they'll do another one. Back to the pot for Shannon. It's a two. How much are you doing? Two. What are you doing? I'll give two. I'll take it.

I'll take it. Yeah. Okay. Okay, it's a two. See your faded side at the side of the road that says two stars backs for Shannon's hacks. Two stars, baby. Play ZDN's Flash 1 in Haley

I want to know right now When was the proposal ruined 9696 Or 96 at 96 it Or 0800 dial Z emit We want to hear from you Because it happens You know

And there's a lot of pressure around these moments Lots of secret keeping So you would think that jewelers Would be a little bit more Aware Yeah That you Don't

contact the woman to say that your ring is available to be picked up. No! How did they even know? Producer Carl and you worked in a dual-level is, did this, did you ever do this or were there ever, like, rules or anything? I mean, I don't think we were ever

supposed to contact the other person. Like, it was always the person proposing that would come in and put the money down, etc., etc. Secretly do it. How would you have their details? Like, if the guys come in, How would they have the wife to be's detail? Yeah, this is what...

I'm looking at the comments. On this TikTok, this girl was sharing this, this happened to her. So she got a phone call from the jeweller saying, your ring's ready to be picked up. And she was like, I don't have a ring. And she was like, yes, you do, it's a da-da-da-da-da-carot with a da-da-da-da-diam. She was like, I don't think I'm supposed to know about this. By the way...

I don't think I'm supposed to know about it. Yeah. By the way, the jeweler, after the proposal, that gave the ring, the jeweler gave their money back. So she's got a free engagement. because they offered to like continue making it and they were like we've gone somewhere else the only thing I was thinking is if this person

has purchased insurance for this ring via the jeweller and you have to put her details down for that oh right and then it's just a genuine mistake they're like yeah oh no because I'm in the comments because people are going like how'd they have your number but maybe that is that that they've put I don't know some information that they've been to find her on but yeah completely ruined she was like

so I guess I'm getting Engaged. Anyway, she's had a good attitude about it, and it doesn't change the intention. Yeah, we want to know how the engagement was ruined, how the surprise was ruined. Like, did you find out before? And I always love, and I bet you there's someone listening now that this has happened to, the girlfriend always thinks she's been cheated on because the guy's changed his behavior. Yeah, totally.

There's sneakiness. I bet you were going to leave me. And all he's doing is just, like, freaking out because he's trying to hide some money to buy a or he's sneaking around because he's got a ring to hide. Yeah. So someone said, oh my God, girl, don't. My jeweller who had bought a lot of jewelry from, so they knew me, did something similar.

I went in to look at rings in the window and they said, oh my God, have a look, it's nearly finished. Did they show to her ring? This is in the comments. And then one up did and told me the wedding gift that my husband was going, saying, look at this as well. Oh, my God. What are you telling?

Come on, people. A friend of mine, they were in India visiting the Taj Mahal. and they, it's a beautiful, it's a palace, it's a tomb. It's the big one that looks like a power pile on. People go up it and they get proposed to up there. No, that's the Eiffel Tower. What's wrong with you guys? You know the Taj Mahal.

The one that's leaning, yeah. No, that's the Leaning Tower of Pizza. It's the 16th chapel. Anyway, so my friends were heading at the Taj Mahal, and at the Taj Mahal they've got security. Yeah. And they were standing there, and they went through his back. and they went like this and they pulled out the ring and she went,

oh, and saw the box. His security had to go through and make sure they didn't have anything dangerous. No. Oh, no. I think she kind of looked away and then pretended not to know. Yeah, yeah. I saw it come out. So that ruined that one.

Okay, well, this is what we want to know. It would love to hear stories. 0800, dials at em is our number. And if you want to text through, 9-6-96. When was the proposal ruined? We want to know when the proposal was ruined. Yeah, there was a chick. We still don't know how the jeweler got her number,

but somehow they did, they called her and said your rings ready. She said, I don't think I'm supposed to know about this ring. No. Jess, how was it ruined? Morning, guys. Morning. So I was bored waiting in the car. My now husband was, as the doctors or something,

and I was like, I'll just clean through this sloth box because I've got nothing else to do. And, yeah, the receipt was in there, so the engagement ring. Oh, no. Now, I guess at that moment you were like, well, I've got, two options here. I tell him I found the receipt or I pretend I don't know. And then just wait. And then just wait. Which one was it?

I pretended, I didn't know. I like slammed that thing shut and I was like, I'm trying really not to ruin the surprise. How long did it? How long between finding it and getting proposed to? Well, it wasn't long. It was maybe like a month. Oh yeah.

Did that month feel like it was really long? And every time you went out for late dinner, you'd be like, oh, oh. Oh. Oh. No, we had two young kids at the time, so we didn't go out to dinner much. Right, okay. Wow. And then have you told him to this day that you knew? Yeah, I told him afterwards.

Oh, was he gutted? Oh, yeah. He was a bit, but it was all good. Like, he was fine. Yeah. Well, in result, still the same. Yeah, yeah. Still together.

Still together. Still got engaged. Jess, thank you. Sam, when was the engagement ruined? Good morning, team. Long time listener, first time caller. I love that. Thank you, Sam.

Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. I, uh, I had my now wife's ring custom made at a local tourer here in Wellington. And, uh, they obviously called me to say it was ready. Yeah. And I always answered my phone on speaker.

And she was there with me. So as soon as they said, oh, good morning. This is X-Jolra. I quickly, like, jumped on my phone, took it off speaker. And then afterwards, she was like, oh, who's that? And my wife, this is around her birthday. And what she does around her birthday, she sends me emails from all these companies she signed up to with like discounts.

Oh, yeah. Where she wants me to shop. I love that. I love that. She's like, don't pay full price. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So I properly laid on the gaslighting and was like,

oh, you probably signed my phone number up to some. company and that's what it was because I had no idea what it was on about and she was non the wiser and so it was still a surprise when you did propose it was I did say to her after the proposal about what happened and she was like oh no I had no idea close call quick fingers larky good work Sam that was good from you thank you Sam some messages in no shortage of yeah no shortage of them um shea said both been married twice both Your proposals are absolutely disastrous situation, so should have known from there. It was no good.

No, it didn't find the ring or anything. Just terrible. Just terrible proposals. My expectations got ruined. My husband of 15 years asked me to marry him and wrote it in my birthday card, gave it to me and then went to the toilet. I farted as we were walking over to where I was going to propose and it stunk. She still said yes. Chris farted, didn't you?

Yeah. Chris, what happened, man? You couldn't hold it in? No, I was just too nervous. Oh, babe. Too nervous. Yeah. What kind of, because you said it stunk, did it squeak?

Nah, no sounds. No sounds, son of my. A lot of a deadly, yeah. So you're, like, about to ask you to marry you, but you've dropped one, and there's just this overwhelming pungent stench. From your ass. Yeah, basically. Okay.

We were waiting to, there's like a little, it was at the Christmas market to frog. Oh, beautiful. A little picture area where they had like a reef up and all sorts. We were waiting for our turn to go and take a picture and just waiting too long. Waiting too. Did she go poo? Did you fart? Yeah, so she was like, oh God, you fired and she was like turning around.

So then I got down on one knee. No, no. Oh, that's great. A bandit ship. Try again another day. You go down and you need to really get into the fart zone. You're not going to be. the zone. You're not going to be at the Christmas market

in front of the reef again. I don't know. Find another market, mate. You've dropped it and she said, pooh did you fart. Was she okay though when you proposed when she turned around? Yeah, she was shocked. And then every time she tells the story, she always

starts with. So Chris did a big fart. Jesus. That's a great. That's a great story, though. It's a great story. Thank you, Chris. Some messages in. My partner and I went to Queensland for our anniversary and we're going to Onsen for a soak

and a massage. I'm the planner of the relationship, so I booked everything. He rang them and spoke to them directly and said, I want the in special engagement room. I'm going to propose to her at Onsen. They said, yeah, we'll email you the changes and he went, yep, sweet. No!

Emiled it to the wife to be. He took me for a walk to the top of the mount, Mount Mong and Nui. I was in a shitty mood and hating life climbing up, bitching the whole time. So that brings, stayed in his pocket because he said later on when he did propose, I wasn't proposing to you

when you were being a pet. Yeah, do you know what, fair enough. Yeah. How many stories? I'm so over this. I don't want to go there. How many stories are there like this when someone's hiking to a special spot?

Come on, keep going. I don't want, I'm over this. I just want to go home. I proposed at the top of the Puky-Mooki-Mooki bushwalk at sunset. She said, yes, we walked all the way back to the car, kind of like high on life. I realized I'd left my keys at the top.

So I had to walk back up to the top in the dark to find the keys. Funny. my husband was so nervous he forgot the ring the way he proposed was by saying oh shit I forgot the ring and then she said what ring and then he said ah will you marry me I found the ring three years

before he proposed I had myself convinced it was for someone else who had been overseas twice between finding it and being proposed one of which was in the beautiful on Mountain Shalet in Canada and the whole time I was like it's gonna happen it's gonna happen

I set up escape room puzzles at our house for my proposal and when they solved the escape room puzzles, it would lead to the ring and that's when I would propose. Turns out I'm the only one in the couple that actually likes or any good at... It just got stressed out. She couldn't solve any of the clues.

And then you just ended up being just shitty and then they propose? You're like, oh, I guess so. Will it get me out of this room? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes. Where's the key? The lady at the nail salon told me that my mother-in-law had called to make sure I was getting my nails done on my hands and not my feet

with the voucher that she gave me. Oh, there's somebody else. My mother-in-law was telling the nail tech the plans for the night when we were getting them done. My son's going to get it. My son's going to get it. And overheard everything. Shut your mouth, ma. Great stories. I was looking for our monthly power bill, how much it was, but I went to his email and I found the ring receipt.

Aw. It is nice to get an eye on the number, though. Not that it matters. Not that it matters, but it is nice. Not that it matters, but it does. Not that it matters, but it's like, you see it and you're like, okay. What am I? $900 to you?

All right. What am I? Sorry, I thought it was gold. Turns out I'm stealing silver to you. The ZM Podcast Network. I've got, it said on the Fletch, Vaughan and Haley, Instagram, T's for what's on the show, that I had a nerd date. I've personally liked to say, it's not a date of the romantic variety. Oh, okay.

It's a, well, so last, August played in at my youngest story. If you do you do the show, I'm the one with the children. My youngest daughter played in a softball tournament, and they won't. Don't want to break about it, so they get to go to the regional. The regional. Don't they all win these days? No, it's not equally. I don't think young people can handle losing, so they don't do points and goals.

They just run around. That's why all the JNCs are like, ooh, every time you tell them they've done something wrong. Yeah. So, like how dare you? So they, through the originals, now at the, the, The last one, I got chatting to a fellow dad on the same team because I was wearing a Star Wars t-shirt and he said, you'll be looking forward to the Star Wars content coming out this year.

And I immediately was like, is he hitting on him? Brother in arms, brother-in-arms. Did he give him on you? Did he give gay? No, well, he's got children and a wife. But, I mean, that doesn't stop. Some people, does it? Literally means something, dude.

Some people just have to be a bit more subtle about it. Yeah. Snick it around and such. So, what are you laughing at? And so we got talking about Star Wars. And then we got talking about others. And he's like, have you played it? Did we start a kissing?

The remastered, have you played the remastered Pokemon leaf green and fire red? And I said no, but I've downloaded on the switch. And then he's like, blah, blah, blah. We started talking about it. He's like, I've got fire red. I've got, I've got leaf green. I've got what? There's exclusive Pokemon to each of these games.

Right. And then during the week, because we found out that we got this thing again today, he messaged me said, how inappropriate would have been to propose we both bring our Nintendo switches? To the game. To the game. And we have a little tradie Pokemon trade. And I was like, dude, this is great. So you're going to stand there with another growing man.

Dude, I'm not sitting. I bought two chairs. For me, I'm a friend. Oh, my God. Last time I took a chair and he didn't have a chair and I felt bad I had a chair. So it seems like right. So you're both going to be sitting on a chair at your kids sports game, playing a game. On your gaming fans.

Well, no, I would imagine between the games, there'll be different rounds and there'll be periods where they're not playing. It's giving like absent father, you know. When the games are playing, we'll be concentrating on. I mean, why even be there if you're going to be like, your daughter's like scores a goal? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, sober and dance with another man playing Pokemon. Kissing and playing Pokemon and stuff. There's no kissing.

It's weird. So, so I've got a Charmander and he said he's got a squirrel and a vulva saw for me. And I'm right out. So where I've got up to in the game, I'm right at a trading centre. So it's just going to be trade straight away. Charmander is orange and blue. No? Charmander's a lizard fire.

Lizard thing. He's orange. With blue spikes? Charazad. Charazard doesn't have blue spikes. I don't know. Ultra Charazard. You could be talking a different language right now.

He is. No idea. He is. So today's my... Are you going to giggle and stuff? Probably. Probably. When I've got...

Because then I've only just started the game, Haley. You don't understand. I've got the three-starter Pokemon. Right. What a formidable trio. And from there... Well, that's the thing. I haven't been playing.

I've been time poor. So, like, nothing to trade him. I've got a, I've got a, I've got a pidgee, a pidgee and a wheedle. Oh, that's so embarrassing. There's so many pigeons near my house. He's literally coming in with a pigeon and a wiggil. I'm coming on with the pigeon.

And we know that the trades, how does your daughter feel about this? Well, I said to what I was like, Andrew and I are going to trade Pokemon tomorrow. She looked at me and she's like, if you're going to, if you must, can you go and do it behind the bush or something. Yeah. She's mortified. Now, see, that looks, that looks dodgy. But then that even looks even worse.

We go into the bush. we set up our chairs and then we're like. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Okay. Here's the debate, raging online. If you are with a partner, boyfriend, husband, wife, whatever, lover, date, you're dating, you live together. Yep. And you go to the supermarket and you buy, say, a four yoghits.

I always go for six yogurts. Six yogurts? Just got to be an even number. It's going to be a 12 yogurts. I just like to break one bottle off and just pay for that. You... Are you son of a bitch? Who are you? A dairy?

Breaking open things from a pack saying not for individual resell? This is like Vaughn's got a five pack. Yep. So you buy your six pack or your four pack or a two of something. Do you expect, is your expectation that we're going half and half? You'll get three bottles of yogurt and I'll get three. or is it more take as you feel because maybe I'm going to want more yoga

and you're not going to want as much? One bottle a day take as you feel. One bottle a day take as you feel? If I have one bottle and then the next day I'll have another bottle and then have a third day day. If you haven't had a bottle then that's on you. The pottles are there. And you're entitled to one pottle per day.

So wait, so one bottle, two pottle, three pottles. You've had your three pottles. Why are you buying also buy, why are you buying pottles? I buy a big tub. I buy a big tub. Yeah. Well, let's say a six pack of fridge six. Diet Coke.

Okay. Well, no, I'll buy a big bottle. Okay. Let's say a dozen eggs. Okay. You can't buy an eggs? It's one, big one, can you? You can't buy a big egg?

And then we can all share the ostrich egg. We've got a dozen eggs in there. But I get the point. It's just individual items in the fridge. Is your expectation that half of these eggs of mine and half of them are yours? No. Your expectation is I'm going to eat eggs as I want to do. What about like a bag of grape?

Half of them are yours. No one's counting individual grapes. It's just a handful of grapes as you go. Yeah, a loaf of bread you wouldn't do it either. You wouldn't say, I've had my 10 slices. No. Damn it, I have to get another loaf because you haven't consumed your 10. No, you just...

Yeah, no, you just use it as you want it and then get more. What is the debate online then? It's just that you should stick to your half of allocated... No, no, no, no. What about a block of chocolate? Ooh. One row each, row by row. You go row by row.

But then if someone says, no thanks, I don't know. one a row. Then your chocolate eating is complete as well. No, no, no. It's not. No, it's not. I'll eat until I've reached my fill. Have I ended up anymore of the block of chocolate? Because you kept denying it. That's on you. Yeah, I hate when someone's like,

that's enough. I'm like, half a block left. Messages in, I get one and my wife gets the rest. Oh, okay. Six pack up and goes. So we've got an up and go problem in our house. Two daughters. I love an up and go. and August was having two up and goes for breakfast because she was worried

she wasn't going to get her half of up and goes. I said, yes, but I got a 12 bag up and goes. Now you're having eight and Indy's getting four up and goes. Can you see? And you're going through far too many up and goes. And she's like, but what if Indy drinks my up and go? I'm like, no, she's not going to drink your up and go.

This is sibling maths. If you want, when I get them, I'll break open the 12 back and put I on six of them and I on six of them. And when you're ready, you're up and goes. Yes, so you've got L okay. Yeah, I think. you've got to allocate.

Okay, someone says, without announcing a full plan, text machine popping off. By the way, I love this without announcing a full plan. Without announcing a full plan, respectfully, you can eat half of them. Then when their half is still there a week later, that is when you can start having theirs. Oh, so there's...

Or split again. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, so if you're going to 12 back and you get through your six and they haven't touched theirs, you split the six into three each. And now you get three of theirs. Then what happens next time?

you've got an odd. I don't know. So they get the majority and you get the single? Have one and if the other two are still there, just have those two as well. Okay, someone said, okay, six mini magnums.

Now, which... Sometimes a mini magnum isn't enough magnum. If it's a four pack of full size magnums... Two each. Unless they're like, no, thank you, and then that's fair game. No, I think if you had a four pack of full size magnums and you ate three of them,

that's absurd. Yeah. That's absurd. But then if you were like, I'm not having one tonight. I'm not having a... Yes, because I'm a... of your magnum.

I will have my magnum when I want to do. You make me the magnums. I wish I stopped buying these magnums. A lot of people are panicking. They keep jumping down my mouth. People are panicking because they're like, I've got to be quick. The magnums are in the freezer. I don't want one.

Somebody said, try being having older teenage boys and a husband. I'll do the shopping next day. It's all just empty packets. It's gone. But they leave the empty packets in the cupboard because they don't want to be the person that took the last one. But you need to do what those moms online do and they have secret like mixed veggie containers or like secret fridges. Yes, and inside that, that's where they put the magnums and the chocolates.

Somebody is bringing in their problem to us, they want a solution. We get a 10 pack of sugar-free V. I take one to work every day, husband works from home and it has two a day. How's this fair? He's double. I would take two to work and store it at work. Yes. Store it in the car.

Buy a pack to take to work. Two for two, so it's 50-50, so it's even. Yeah. Isn't it funny that even, like, you enter a marriage with someone, you're like, I love you so much when you get married. but like heaven forbid you have more food than me heaven forbid you get more chocolate than me I shall not stand it

here's a trick here's a trick I do you get like a timetams like a biscuits slide out of one end yeah you slide it out you take the biscuits from the other end you take one from one end and then slide out and take a biscuit they're halfway through they're like oh it's time for a biscuit only one left they're like he hasn't really been eating that many biscuits

man these biscuits are great and I was hardly touching and also they'll think that you're not eating them so they won't as well but you are you just eating them from the other end. My dad buys a four pack of ice creams and my sister and I get one each and then mum gets two and he gets none and then he gets a bit sad. That sucks.

If dad's buying them and bringing them home, because mum's like, I'm all not buying those. No, my mom won't buy those. I don't want them in my house. I don't want them in my house. They're in my house. I'll eat them.

I don't want those in the house. I don't want those in the house. What have you done? What have you done? That's what my mum does. Mom try these chips. Oh, what have you done? Get me away from me.

Don't bring them in my house. I can't help myself. Don't give me chocolate for Christmas. Oh, look what you've done. No. Now you've introduced me to another thing I like eating. I have to start again on Monday. Well, the full of things I like eating that aren't good for me.

I'm going to go and have a healthy snack. A whole bunch of margarine on a cruscet. Yes. It's a crusket. The calories are zero. Play ZM's flesh-worn and Haley. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day.

It's Irish week here at Factor of the day because we celebrate St Patrick's on Tuesday. Yes. And today we're talking about Irish inventions. Oh, okay. Things that the Irish invented. Always the butt of the jokes, the Irish, aren't they? Yeah, well, they can have a good laugh though most of the time.

Yeah, they can laugh at themselves. why I guess it's, but, you know, like they were the blondes of the, uh, of the UK. People would always make Irish jokes. Right, yeah. They would at the expense of blondes. Well, who's laughing now? We are. We are.

At the blondes and the Irish. Here's some famous Irish inventions, the hyperdermic needle. Oh. Irish doctor Francis Rind did the first ever recorded injection using the hollow needle, which became the hypodermic syringe. A woman was in pain and he injected morphine under the skin. Do you reckon back in the day They would have been real thick, butty ones

Big vein busters are. Like a bike pump, one of those needle bike when you, you know, for net balls and rugby balls? Like the ones they do in your spine, the epidural needles, those are thickies. That's like a chopstick. Those are thickies. A thin chopstick, a Korean chopstick.

Right. They also invented the ejection seat, the modern ejection seat was invented by Sir James Martin of Martin Baker. Wow. After a fatal air crash in the 1940s, he became obsessed with finding a way for pilots to escape quickly. The system they developed using explosive charges or rockets to blast the pilot out of the cockpit. But now it's like compressed air.

Yeah. So they also invented early colour photography. A physicist, John Jolie and Jolie, invented one of the earliest practical colour photography systems. The modern submarine was invented by an Irishman. No, it wasn't. Designed the first practical modern submarine. His design called the Holland Six was purchased by the US Navy in 1900. I probably wouldn't have gone in a submarine in the early days.

No, neither. So it had an engine for surface travel, but then when they were underwater switched to electric motors and it also had torpedoes. The pneumatic tire. Numatic tire. I think of the peer a little something. Pumatic. Pumatic.

Pneumatic. That was invented by a guy called John Dunlop. Oh. I know where that's going. He noticed that his son's tricycle was quite hard going down Belfast's cobbled streets. Right. Just solid rubber. Solid rubber, yeah, right.

So he replaced the solar rubber with air-filled tubes. And then that went on to be used in, you know, bikes, cars, trucks, aeroplanes. And the tire giant Dunlop still carries his name for it. Wow. Bonus ones. The portable defibrillator was invented in 1965 by an Irish cardiologist. How portable was it then, though? portable to them now.

Like with a battery from a car or something, maybe. Backpack. Irish company Tato invented the world's first flavored potato chips in the 1950s. Previous to that, you added the flavor. It just came salted and you added what you wanted to. Cheese and onion. And cheese and onion was the original one. Yum.

And the Irish inventor Louis Brennan invented the wire guided torpedo. So you basically have to put the wire and then she'd shoot. off the torpedo off the end. All right. So plenty of Irish inventions. Well, down Ireland. Today's fact of the day is the syringe, the ejection seat, early colour photography, the modern submarine, the mimic tyre, defibrillator, pneumatic tyre, and the guy a torpedo, all Irish inventions. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

The ZDU-Doodoo-Doo-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. One of our best friends James' message saying, watching love on the spectrum is a humbling experience. And I said, is that because they're finding love and he isn't? Yes. Well, Carwin and I were talking about this yesterday, because the trailer came out for the next season of love on the spectrum. Yeah. And it's the only, like, reality love show off. watch and I love it. It's so beautiful.

It's so beautiful. Because it's beautiful, yeah. And one of the couples that have been on for a few seasons, they found love in the first or second season. Abby A. B. It looks like they're going to get engaged this season. And Carl won't see me the trailer and she's like, if they get engaged before I do, I'm going to be so pissed off.

And I was like, girlfriend, we are witnessing true love. A love of our times. They'll write about this love. Yeah, they will. They will. Well, speaking of love and relationships. Well, listen. This is all rumor, and I'm not fueling it. But since Sunday, American Time, Monday, New Zealand time with the Oscars,

of course Timothy Shalala La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La Ma was nominated for Marty Supreme. He lost the whole kind of season right to Michael B Jordan. Yeah. And it's fine. Yeah. Everyone else lost too. Yeah. But what was making it worse was one, he's kind of come out, and it's a bit of tall poppy.

He's come out being like, I'm a great actor and I want this Oscar. and everyone was a bit like, ooh, be humble. Yeah. And then he made a passing comment about the fact that no one cares about ballet and opera anymore and the world just went, thank you, this is what we need it. I still think he was taken out of context. Totally. If you listen to the clap, he's like, this is what other people think.

Yes, yeah. Anyway, and then at the Oscars, they brought out a very famous ballet dancer and she did a big performance as an effie to his face and Conan made jokes and all this kind of stuff. and he was wearing weird shoes and a white suit and Kylie sitting there looking honestly a gazillion bucks and I think the rumours were that after he lost and that was all very embarrassing that they've split but that's completely based on nothing.

I mean there have been rumours that they've split in the past and they came out and it obviously wasn't true. But I don't think it's because she was embarrassed by him. No, but this, I mean, you would be though. Like he was the butt of the joke. He's been the butt of the internet's joke for the last two weeks. Why do you have to say that? It's so embarrassing.

And this is what I want to know. When was your partner so embarrassing? Maybe it was a public thing. Or maybe they got like drunk. Oh, yeah, fooled themselves. And you had to deal with it. And you had to say, sorry about them. Yeah, Sandra's taking her top off again.

You go deal with her. Great tits, but Sandra please. Hey boss, your wife's in there. Sandra's popped her tits out again. Yeah, great tips. As we see great, because they're phenomenal. Phenomenal but, yeah. It's happened again.

It's happened again. Or maybe they did something so cringe that you just almost, you know, you're like, this is ick territory and I can't even believe. Or like there's like a work function and partners get invited, but partners might not be used to that kind of environment.

Yeah, and then so you're like, and then so they start saying things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you go to take, you go to work in a law firm and everything's a bit more. Yeah. It's a proper get-together,

and they can't. a little bit hot. Yeah. And you bring you a tradie partner and he's like, God. It starts. Jesus, we're here. How you get a bloody bourbon around here? Oh my God, please stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Or you like go to, you like, maybe can I come to golf with you babe one day? And you get there and you're like, ooh, yuck. What are you wearing? What are you doing? What is this chair? What are your hips swinging like that? Oh, I thought more that you take them to golf and then they get there and they realize how boring it is.

And they're like, can we go now? And all the boys are like, bring the area. Someone said this sounds like a topic for Matthew's partner. Matthew is getting it. We did already hear from Matthew's partner this morning on one of our other messages. Matthew, introduced to the show very recently. On the morning, on the day he met his partner said if I win at the poker's, I'll give you six.

I'll give you half. He won 600. She's been with him eight years, still hasn't seen this 300. Still waiting for that money. And he's got ghastly toenails. We're painting a real picture of this Matthew. Gassly. Gassely. Gassely.

Gassely. Gassly. You're saying nasty and ghastly. Gasty. Gasty. Yeah. Anyway, this is what I want to know from Elfellie. I love your listener. When was your partner?

So embarrassing. Oh no! What? Oh, go. We were at a resort in the Cook Islands and they said, we need someone to blow the conch and my partner was like, ooh me, me, me, me, me, for a start. Oh, me, me, me, me, me, me, grammatic. He got up. He got up. He's the guy who couldn't wait to ding the bell in Bali.

Me, me, me, I want to ring the bell. Yeah, you did. I wanted to bring them bell. And then got up in front of everybody at happy hour to indicate blow the conch happier. And he went, Yes, yes, yes. Okay, these are the stories we want to hear.

0,800,000, text through 9-696. When was your partner really embarrassing? When was your partner embarrassing? And I, do you, Fawn's reading the text? I just want to crawl into a hole and never come out. I love these. Somebody said, all I have to say is trading Pokemon with another growing manner.

Your daughter's sports game's pretty embarrassing. How, well, I've got no one to embarrass. Daddy! Big Sandy. here. My partner embarrassed me out for dinner one time, drop his guts and told the restaurant it was me. Lauren, Lauren joins us.

Lauren, how embarrassing was your partner? Oh, well, thankfully, my ex partner now. Okay, good. So what did they do? So introducing him for the first time to a bunch of my bestest friends. One of my friends

asked him where he was from. And his reply was from my mother's, you know what? Oh, no! He used the word, okay, right. The P word. No. Yeah, well, I've got kids in the car, so, yeah, it was the V word, and I wanted to die.

Oh, the V word? Oh, that's no, I'm sorry, yeah, okay. Miao, meow, meow. VP, same thing. Yeah. Oh, my God, Lauren. And these are, like, this is the first impression to your bestest friends. Yeah, you can't change that.

You can't take that back. How long did you? Should have seen the fine thing, guys. Yeah, how long did it last from that point to breaking up? Oh, we actually got married and had three children. So, yeah, probably... Quite a while! Yeah, yeah, quite a while.

Wow. I hope they never asked, and no one ever asked him where his children were from. Yeah. Well, God, who knows what the answer would be. Oh, yeah. Lauren, thank you for sharing Lauren. Phoebe, how embarrassing was your partner? Yeah, a little bit embarrassed.

thing. So I was about seven months pregnant, went to an in in adult class, and he fell asleep during the class. So this is pre-baby. No, no excuses at all. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and so, I can probably hear my child in the background. And, yeah, so he, like,

snored multiple times. Oh, no. Did you not give him an elbow? To be a wake up? I actually went and bought lollies at half time to try, like, keep him awake. I didn't know. What is he a child? Come on. To be fair, some of it was pretty boring. And then the girls who I'm now

I've now really good friends with for a while They were kind of like Oh so who's your partner again? Who's your partner? And then it took them on. Oh, she's gone. He's cut her off. Oh, you just...

Oh, bad reception. Bad reception. We've lost her. Oh, Phoebe. But I'm imagining it was referred to as Sleepy, the guy who fell asleep. Yeah, the guy who was snoring. Mr. Sleepy.

Oh, God. Thank you. Some messages. We went to a wedding and as guests the bridal party left for about two hours to do photos. Side note, that's too long. Hate it.

Hate it. Yeah. Get it done before or do it on thing. Or just do them quicker. There was big bottles or spades at the wedding and my partner took advantage of this. He had a few or too many and kept falling asleep during the speeches. Had to wake him about four times. Might have a big wig.

Dude. Big week. Okay, keep your text coming in. We'll get to the rest of the next. I'm so cringed. No, keep them coming. I love them. When was your partner embarrassing?

9-6-96. Oh dear. Oh, dear. When was your partner embarrassing? There's rumors that Kylie, Jenner and Timothy Shelomé, have quit because he's a bit embarrassing at the moment. It's not good for the brand. The brand is taking some damage, but Dune 3 is coming out and I think he'll repair it.

Okay. That looks so good, by the way. Looks really good. Oh my God. Get into it. Some messages in, my partner is notorious at weddings, plural. Oh, no. Honestly, he's always the drunk guy.

Last one who went to he trusted a fart and shit himself. threw his pants off a balcony, then his stags do rocked up on a beer cycle, started swinging the undies around. while we're all watching and dying from the balcony. Now they end up with a laughy face. I wouldn't be lovely. Maybe once. I don't. Like, why do these people not learn?

I'd be mortified and never drink again. If I say my... They don't have that ability. I don't think... I think the thing that makes them shit themselves is also... The thing you don't have that would make you recognise that. Yeah. Early on in our relationship to my now beautiful wife,

I went to watch one of her social netball games, apparently being quite the talented netballer in a past. She wanted to impress me, but proceeded to mark the reference. three for the first three minutes of the game. Not really, she wasn't one of the players. Wow, okay.

My sister's new partner, now X, came to a family dinner and medicine for the first time. Long story, short, he choked on a piece of meat. And when he went to spit it out over the deck, he ran into extremely clear ranch light of glass. My other sister's partner, then gave him the Heimlich maneuver. That's an ick.

Yeah. Choking is a joke. He was a joke. Running into the door. Yeah. Never to have another man. be like let me help you dislodge your food. Okay, you haven't chewed your food properly.

You didn't chew properly, how embarrassing? You can't eat properly? We're at a supermarket and my husband was waiting for me while I went through the chick at. He leaned against what he thought was the window and it was an emergency exit. The door opened and all the alarms went off and the staff came running from everywhere. I'd be like, I don't know that guy. Oh, no. Oh no. Attended a beautiful wedding on Wahekeh Islander.

Darling. Darling, Derrassette. I might be one of the exquisite. Vinient. No, absolutely. Hubby and a mate dropped a pink pill prior to the speeches. So at the peak of the speeches,

it's like he had Tourette's and was mimicking the bridal party during their speech. What's a pink pill? I don't know what a pink pill. MDMA or something. I don't know. It got worse and he combed

before the first dance. I put him in the recovery position, tip the water on him and thought, stuff it. And then I got drunk on bottles of red wine and we were both in quite the situation. But then imagine waking up and you've got no recollection

and then someone is like, And a wedding, it's embarrassing. This is what happened. This is what you did last night. We drink and get jolly. But no, we don't black out. Oh, no. This is what you did last night is a horrendous sentence to hear.

This is what you did last night. How are you doing today? Yes. That's the worst. That's when you know. You were the worst. I was the embarrassing one on a holiday to Turkey 25 years ago with my first husband.

So obviously, you know. That ended? He was dancing with a ballet dancer. He got pulled out of the crowd. It wasn't up to him. He got pulled out of the crowd and her boobs were all up in his face. I had a fit of the envies

and had the largest adult temper tantrum. I tried to rip her scarf off from her head. I'm sorry. I got dragged out of the restaurant and bar. We're just going to gauge, so didn't really appreciate him grinding with her. Yeah. He pretty didn't lose.

What? You pull you out of crowd. You got to go, eh, and you got to go out. Oh, that's my word. You drag, you rip the scarf of an entertainer in a row. restaurant and had to be physically removed. That's crazy. You crazy.

You crazy, girl. I had to crazy. Oh, okay. This has a musical accompaniment Fletch. Okay, sure. I need my, I need my orcs called, please.

Yes. Okay. He sang the crash test dummy song. At karaoke, but couldn't get deep enough. Oh, no. There's very few people in the world that could pull this off.

Got into an But even if you can get deep enough, if you look like a kid, how did you do? Hell, hotel from Black into bright way. Yeah, it's not, you shouldn't attempt this on karaoke. Nah, just something simple. A hotel California will do. See, I'm cringed. You don't get my boyfriend and I'm cringed.

This is an egg. Great song, though. Great song. I was with my partner in the supermarket when he saw his ex and he pretended to take a phone call so he didn't have to talk to him but he was like, hello, hello? It was really bad at taking a fake phone call, and it was so embarrassing.

That's embarrassing. The ZAM podcast network. Play ZM's flesh for an inhalate. Okay, what's the hottest gym machine? What gym machine do you feel a little bit awkward looking at people on? It's got to be that hip thrust thing where they lie down They put the weights on each side. They strap themselves in with Velcro.

And then just like, how did we get on to this? I know that we were talking about it yesterday. We got derailed yesterday. There was some sort of side distraction. Yeah. And then we said, we'll talk about it tomorrow. And here we are.

Here we are. Here we are. What's the hottest gym machine? What's one is it? Well, I said yesterday the one where you're lying down and you curl your legs. because it's hard because everyone's just there, aren't you? Yeah.

With the booty. The booty up. Jenny's down and you're curling your legs up, back up behind you. Yeah, I like that one. I like men on the cables. I like a man when he pulls it down and then tries go go doong. Yeah, gondong. Yeah, I like that.

That's nice. The abduction machine for sure make eye contact with someone when you spread your legs apart. Oh, that's the one where you... Oh, yes. You can do it two. Two ways you can either Or push it in Yeah

Yeah And you flip the little switch And you make the adjustment Yeah Someone said I like to I like making eye contact With people I'm on that machine

So I'm guessing that must Well that could be a male But How's that? I also love like a simple Bicep Curl You know what I'm Yeah

Yeah But okay So you like the bicep curl Mish that like That like bench That you sit on And it holds the arms And you go like that

Or do you just like Someone just rocking it Just someone just rocking it Yeah Yeah I just like watching men work out I mean, if I watch a man do pull-ups and he's got a belt around his waist

with plates hooked onto it. He's lifting more than his own weight. Somebody said my PT calls that thrust, the hip thrust machine, the good girl, bad girl machine. Oh? I'm sorry, what, why? I think this is an inappropriate relationship.

It feels a bit inappropriate. I mean, I'm not mad. Somebody said, pull-up machine, doing pull-ups on the pull-up bar, absolutely. If they've got that assistance rubber band, all gone. Oh, yeah, I need assistance. I'm so bad at pull-up.

I'm so bad at Pullups. I know Vaughn, you're pretty good. Are you still good at Pullups? Yeah, I don't understand. I'm still doing them. Yeah, good for your strength. It is very good. It's good for the grip strength.

I think now this is a chance for us to make the definitive list of the hottest machines at the gym. Stair climber. Nah. Booty for behind. Somebody said it's a bit icky. It's a bit icky.

A climb mill. Is that the stair machine? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely females look better on it than males because I do a lot of the stair machine. Because their bums go boom. Yeah, my mum,

and go boom, boom, boom, boom. No, his skinny little legs go, he minces up the stair climber. Yeah, I mince up the stairs. Okay, well, get your votes in, and I think maybe we should come up with the top five. Yeah, totally. Definitive list, hottest gym equipment.

966 is our number. You can give us a call 0800,000. Not like the machine itself. It's like people using it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is the sexiest gym machine or piece of equipment? Used by a human. Yes, by a human.

Sexiest gym machine. Like not to look at, sometimes you look at the design of some of them and you're like, nice pulley system. I love to watch a man deadlift. Yeah, which one is that? Big bar, bent over, up. Oh, and they just go up, straight back and they put it back down.

Nice straight spine. Yeah, yeah, good. And I'm like, use me as the bar. You know what I mean? Right, yeah, got you. I'm sorry, you've got 90 on that bar? Have a hoon, right. There's an awkward setup at a gym over the road where there's a machine right opposite the Roman chair.

You know where you do a back extension? What's a Roman chair? A Roman chair, you bend over your pickup thing and then you go. And so you'd be on the machine and then there'd be someone opposite you, maybe the opposite sex, just in like active wear. And it looks like you're purving, but you're not. You know, I saw you oogling my tush. I'm not looking at your ass.

And what are they doing there? So I think they moved it slightly to the left. I noticed it was moved. Yeah, I noticed it was moved. Because I was on that machine. I was like I'm just going to leave now because it just looks like I'm purving. But I wasn't.

Yeah. I wasn't. It depends who was working out in front of you. Squat rack. We'd exclusively go to the gym to purve. It's got nothing to do with health and fitness. I can't exercise with my glasses on tape these off cancer damn thing. Get contacts for the gym.

Get laser. Just get laser last time. You could be at one of those radio ads. Hi, I'm Vaughn and I couldn't see hot people at the gym. So I decided, and it changed my life. Yeah. Somebody said squat rack, both sexes. Yeah.

Let's see you hit. I'm reading the rest of that. Leg abduction and abduction machines. Yeah, that's one. Yeah, okay. That's what their gym instructor calls the good girl, bad girl machines. Oh, right, okay. Yoga mat and resistant ban.

Wait, can't be better for its simplicity. Should I be using that machine as a man? Would I be a good boy, bad boy machine? Good boy bad boy machine. What about the hip abductor where a woman literally sits there and opens and closes? That's the one. That's the one. That's the one.

That's the one. Right, right, right. Ski-Urug. Somebody said nothing's hot. Oh, no. Nothing says hot like someone ripping down. I don't think people look hot on the Skiurg machine. It looks a bit janky. No, I think if they've got muscles, though. Oh, yeah.

It's this action. Yeah. You know, if I'm there in two hands. Oh, up and down. I don't think it's making the top five, though, the ski-urg machine. No. Jesse said changing room shower, technically equipment, but not work out. That's not equipment, Jesse.

No. Cable toa, it's the jack of all trades. Which one's the cable tower? The one where you sit down and give that guy. The cable pool. Cable tower. Oh, tower. Yeah, right.

Okay. Is that just the everything machine? It's got everything. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's one of those. Your cables, your pulleys. Lat pull downs. Is that that one?

That's a bar. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Stairmaster, hot, sweaty face. I just don't think people look sexy on the stairmaster. Do you? Oh, okay. Yeah.

Me, not so much, women only. Alan said lap pull-downs are the hottest. Side note, unsexest is the hammie curl lying on your tummy looking like a dainty little girl. Oh, for men. Yeah, you're flinging your feet up. It looks like you're lying in a meadow being like, yeah. I just can't stop thinking of them.

Making a daisy chain. He makes me weak at the knees. Hip thrust machines. Hot. pull downs, hot arms, yeah. Tell you what, lads. The pulldown's getting some love from the ladies. So don't skip that one.

I'll be pulling down me, Pat. Platform reformer. I'm not sure if it's the actual machine or you only ever said good-looking people do it. Reforma Pilates. Reforma Pilates. You've got to have a good core for that, not you? A hot Pilates gal on a reformer for sure.

I always feel a bit on show with the leg curl in the inner thigh machine. I'll tell you what. Yeah. That's the abductor and adductor. an abductor. Because you're just quite vulnerable where your legs are literally

spread as far apart as they go. Well, the worst is the one where you've got to close your legs. Yes. Because when you're pulling it open, you get to the and it shuts. But when it pulls the legs open and you've got to shut them, then... So if we had to surmise the top five, would we say it's the abductor?

The hip thruster. The abductor. Laptor. Lapel downs? Squats, lap pulls. And just cables. Stem machine got heaps. Stem machine. Stem machine.

Stem machine. Okay. So if you see a hot person at the gym that you're trying to impress, jump on any of those five, really? Jump on those. Yeah. Yeah. And if,

Wait, nobody said the treadmill, did they? No. No. Get outside. No. Look around. Yeah. The Z&M Podcast Network.

Play Zat M's Flashborn and Haley. We didn't get in the both and get Brin a jingle either. We're behind on everything, aren't we? Yeah. But Bryn jing jingle. joins us from the newsroom. Good morning, Brian. Good morning. How are you? I'm good, thanks. Yeah, looking forward to

work being done eventually this week. I thought you'd eventually like, you know, in 20, 30 years' time. Yeah, yeah, retirement. Take it too early. It's probably a little bit early. Are you financially ready for that? Absolutely not. Okay, no way. Okay, so it sounds like you'll be working. We'll all be here next week then.

About 80. Yeah. Mind you got fingers crossed for a little win. Yeah. I could be 300, because we didn't in Auckland. Online playing at $300,000. But nobody won the big one. I mean, they must just be me and a couple of other people playing in Auckland. Are you going to check it now?

I'll check it right now. If you win the big 17 mill, are you going to give Brin any? Yeah. I don't want to promise an amount, but I'll like, I'll spoil you with something. Oh, thank you. Like a gift. What would you buy a reward? Brin, if you won like $17 million.

I don't know yet. I'd buy a little trip to Sydney. Oh, a house? Oh, get out. Just a full house. Yeah. I'll buy you the full house DVD box. Oh, okay.

starring Bob Saggett. And a DVD player to go with it. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Okay, well, Not a winning ticket. Yeah, okay. Well, back to work.

The lot of that signs you out willy-nilly, eh? Well, it is, it's got like your card details. Like, it's good. Bro, it's for safety, bro. Well, imagine, bro, if you're like $17 million ticket is sitting on there,

you want people just to be able to tap it and take it. Yes. Fair point. I think we raise fair points on. Well, it's time now for it. Not enough for the news news. These are all the story.

are that didn't make the main news bulletin that I haven't read yet so first go there's quite an intro on that isn't there yes okay Kiyo good morning I'm Bryn Rudkin starting in the sky

where a deaf woman has been removed from a flight in the US after allegedly not listening to flight attendant instructions or listen to anything at all for that matter this has sparked a backlash online with many calling it

completely tone deaf The airline, however, says the situation was made worse by the fact she was in fact most likely blind drunk as well. Deaf and blind. So right now, the full story is still a bit up in the ear or the ear. Make sure you really hit the different ear. Oh, that was a note for me.

That was a note. That was a performance note. It was up in the air or up in the ear. Try that again, I think. The performance nights are an italic sprint. Yeah. So right now, the full story is. is still a bit up in the air

or the air. Are they the same? Really good. Okay. Yeah, really good. Meanwhile, an 18-year-old woman has been rejected from a real estate job not because she was too young,

but because her car was too old. Oh, shame. She's since... You don't want your real estate agent rocking up in a $500 Honda Civic. 92 Mitsubishi Mirage. She's since listed her shitbox online, describing it as...

simply needing a coat of paint, calling it a cozy renovator's dream with indoor, outdoor flow in a multi-school zone. So it's small, rusty, the window stuck down, and it's broken down in a flash part of town, but the photos were taken from right in the corner of the car with a fish-eye lens, heavily photoshopped. She's a real estate agent.

They photoshopped in a lawn. She's asking for a $200,000 above RV. That's wreckable value. I feel like I'm not quite nailing the creative endeavor with the spell of a record ball there. This is actually a co-lab between Vaughan and I. She panicked and passed me in the laptop and I was like, I don't know what to do here. Fletching and you please go for the riding.

I might have to write it next week. Feedback 9696. Finally, a news that will absolutely ruin your fear of sharks. Scientists have discovered sharks have best friends. Aw! They swim together, follow each other. They're not lone killers any. They're just seocial creatures.

So next time you're scared of sharks, just remember you're not being hunted for food. You're being hunted for friend. And the lyrics to the Jaws theme song turn out to be... How do it do it again? Don't do it. Best friend, best friend, best friend, best friend, best friend. Best friend, best friend, best friend. Okay, that's the news.

I'm Mike McRoberts. Thank you, Bryn. Thanks, Brin. I won $15 on Lotto and four bonus lines. Oh, my God, $5 each, that's sick. So you aren't resigning or not? I might take the rest of the day. That's cool.

That's what that can afford you. Sure. Streaming's pretty good. Screaming's pretty good. You guys ever been to the... I think we've talked about... Haley, you went to a West Auckland. beach and screamed into the sea. I did scream into the sea.

Yeah. It's my, I call it my sad beach, but I mean... It's a lovely beach. It's a beach where I go to a moat and feel feelings. Yes, yes, yes. And I did scream. Do you know what you should... But I also, the same beach I did yell out, life is great. Yeah, I was going to say you've got to balance it out. You don't want a place, but just becoming, like, negative. Well, scream clubs, feels good to scream. And overseas, it's, it started taking off. Here we've had rage rooms, which I guess is the same, makes you feel like. Smash rooms? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I borrowed your gun to blow something apart in that. longer serves me. Yep. You borrowed the air rifle. It's an air rifle. It makes me feel cool to say I've got to go. You don't got to go. I'm actually too scared to even pick it up.

I shall be returning it unused. Just wrecking things feels good. I recently helped my dad take down a really old shed. Yes. I'm going to sledgehammer willy-nilly and he's like, you're going to bring it down on yourself? And I said, worse things have happened. Yeah.

Bam. Smash it by the rest of my life, Dad. Watch me do it, Daddy. Watch me down. You're proud of me now? So Scream Clubs, people will get together and scream together. Okay. So it says...

I'm going to release everything. Yeah, to release it and get it out and you're doing it as a group. So you're like, other people are going through this. We'll do some breathing exercises. We set the intention. Then we scream. Okay.

Does it help? Kind of, but experts saying, screaming activates your stress response. So you get your cortisol. Yeah. But then it does trigger a calming come down afterwards. Like exercise. You know when you're running and you're adrenaline and you're like,

and then afterwards it's like, You can rest. Yeah. So it provides a temporary emotional release. Long term, you might want to look into other things. Yeah, yeah, totally. My therapist did tell me the benefits of this, though, letting it out. She did say cry near a body of water, but it's whatever comes out.

Yeah. Because holding things in, that's the poison. That's the cancer. That's the tumour in 10 years. That's the stuff that grows within you. Should we scream together? We'll be too loud. No, it'll be too loud on the microphones.

Should we do a silent scream together? Vaughn hurts himself when he screams and gets carried away. I know they scream, my throat hurts and I see stars. What about just a... Wait, how much are these scream clubs charge? Nothing, it looks like, they're just getting together. Right, so it's more of like a therapeutic... A social getting to either of people.

Like a run club, a scream club. But that's not near my house. It's like bagpour, and you hear bagpipes in the park. Well, I'll be calling the cops. I don't think you'd be screaming in an inner city park. And it wouldn't be a murderous scream. It would be... Avoid the CBD if you're screaming in a group.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe go to a beach. No, but then again, people are going to think you need help. You're drowning. Yeah, maybe scream into a pillow. Screaming to a pillow is always a good feeling. Again, if you live in an apartment building, perhaps, knowing because it sounds like someone's muffling your screen.

Look, maybe this is a bad idea. Maybe write your feelings out and process them calmly. Journal. Are you saying journaling? And then scream into the journal. And then scream into the journal. Journal. Is that the podcast done? Because I'm busting for a poos.

Basting for a poos. Jesus. Give us a review. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.