ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 20th March 2026

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

On Today's Big Pod, Th leave the house wee SLP - how often do you check the weather app? Hayley's dairy Top 6 - Things to do with the Oscars red carpet Didi fuel tax Breaking up with ChatGPT Vaughan has bad news What went wrong with the glue? Afroman Bree & Clint get roasted Fact of the day What did you accidentally post? What's your superstition? The rise of the zombie marriage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network. This is Fletchwin and Haley's Big Pod. Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse. The biggest brands are the lowest prices. Fletch Fawn and Haley, Haley today, joining us from our Wellington studio, the Polly and Grant Memorial Studio. Yes, I've got Grant's gorgeous face looking over me here.

Feel good drive home, Grant Kittiyama. Oh, man. What are you doing in Wellington? Are we learning to talk about it? Secret project. No, secret project. Secret project. Because I have been telling every. everybody about it.

I know you're naughty. So naughty. Let's just say I'm staying opposite the Wellington Fish Market where a celebrity was spotted not so long ago. Maybe connected. Oh, clue. Okay, clue. I'm not saying anything.

Fletcher. Good clue. Also Brian Clinton joining us around 730 this morning to talk about their roast. Yeah. Like, they're doing like one of those Comedy Central roasts. This, do you know what's funny is? So they're doing, they're getting roasted as part of the

International Comedy Festival. Yep. And we're going to chat to them about it. And I thought we could warm up and sort of just make sure that they're not going to cry in front of everyone. I find it. And then you two have been off here being like, I can't say it.

I've never been able to watch those celebrity artists. It's so hard for me to watch so much sit there and just get like. Yeah, I find it so awkward. I've never watched them. You're a couple of pussy cats. Okay, well, so you're going to do it then? Yeah. They hate to see me coming.

This is key. World Warrior stuff. You're on a screen hundreds of kilometres away and we'd have to do it face to face. Yeah, that's right. No, I can't do it.

I can't do it. Can we just get listeners to call up and do it? I don't want to do it. Yeah, but that's hard to monitor. We're letting them be mean. We're like weaponising the listeners and... Yeah, okay, look, I'm

quite happy to say like mean things about people behind their bags. Oh, that's my favorite place to say things about people. But, you know, not to their face. Come on. Yeah, well, that's what a roast is. You've got a man up And say it.

Joining us around 7.30, the top six, born? Yeah. A woman when looking for a new carpet, I don't know why she looked in the bin, but she did, and she found the Oscar's red carpet. So now she's got a new rug in her apartment in Los Angeles,

and it's the Oscars Red carpet. Wow, that hundreds of celebrities have walked on. Yeah. Amazing. And a couple of them have fallen on. Yes. Who fell over this year? I don't think anyone fell this year.

No, but it's, they, this is, A one-use carpet. Oh. Like literally. Someone would have fallen over in heels easily. Surely a trip. Surely there was an upturned. Every, every year.

Every year. So yeah, so she's got a brand new carpet. I go to top six things I'd do with the red carpet. Next on the show. Doctors have a warning for you if you are about to leave your house. The Flet's morning, Haley, big pod. I'm very guilty of this. Very guilty of this.

I've actually got a complex relationship with my bladder, I think. You've only got one functioning kidney. Like no kidney. Yeah, one kidney. And I pay near constantly. And when I need to go, I've got moments until it's coming out. Yeah, there's not a lot of leeway. There's not a lot of, oh, I can hold it for a bit.

Like, if I need to pay, it's an emergency. What are you doing a plane? Because I'm always like, I can hold it until I land. Literally. So I flew down to Wellington yesterday. And as soon as the seat, I was in the middle seat, As soon as the seatbelt sign came on, I was up.

Excuse me, got to pay. I've got to go to the toilet. Well, I did have a couple of celebratory bubbles. Right. Which doesn't help. That'll get through you. It runs right through you just like a coffee. Why were you in the middle seat?

Who was beside you? Well, yeah, I did have a window seat and I gave it up. Wow. That's a sucker's move. You're a sucker. Wow. Who was on the other side? So you had to climb over somebody?

in the aisle seat. There was, I don't know, a complete stranger next to me, broad shoulders, blue eyes, absolutely gorgeous. And I was in the middle, and then there was just a strange man who was, he was playing on one of your little game things. Right. Like that.

And I had to, yeah, he did the thing where I said, I need to get out, and then he kind of turned his legs to the side. And I was like, no. I hate that. Just get up. Just get it. I'll get up. I'm not rubbing my anus in your face, mate. Like, if that's what you want, that's not happening. So because my bladder works this way,

I am constantly doing a just in case wee. You know, like, we're going into a movie. I'll just, I'll pop, I'll squeeze out a little wheeze before we go in just in case. I'm about to leave the house. I better just do a quick way before I go. Oh, we're about to board the plane. I'll just do a little quick wheeze so I don't have to get up.

And then I'll still have to get up. Getting in the car, little wheeze. Yeah, before you drive somewhere, yes. Yeah, yeah. Before you go to anything, before you go into a show, before you go into anything, we're having a just in case wheeze. well, a pelvic health physiist, physiast, physiotherapist, physicist. Yeah, one of them.

Psychiatrist, one of them. A bladder psychiatrist. A bladder psychiatrist says, no, no, no, we shouldn't be doing this. You should not pee just to avoid peeing later. If you don't actually need to go, you shouldn't do it. It actually creates really bad bladder habits and teaches your brain bladder feedback system to pee more regularly. Like me, I'm constantly paying, but it's never like a full wee.

No, no, no. Right. So you should only go when you really are a busting? No, not when you're busting, when you feel the need to go. If you're busting and you're holding, that's also bad. Oh, right, okay. So you need to stop thinking of your bladder. This is really like game changer for me.

You need to stop thinking about your bladder as a tank that fills up and empties like a bottle. Yep. You know, like you shouldn't. And then if there's a little bit in there, you shouldn't just like empty it like that. It actually works on a brain bladder feedback system that urge to pee signals that your brain and bladder are ready to go. And so when we're doing a just-in-case-wee, when it's only 20 to 50% full, we're actually training our bladder to think that it's full,

and it's going to make us pee more regularly when it's not necessary, when it's not actually ready to be emptied. So you're lowering your bladder's tolerance every time you do these just-in-case we-weease. Okay. No, I don't care. You're still going to do a just-in-case way. I'm just going to do a wheeze the minute I feel like I want to. It's very bad for you.

Come on, man. What's worse? The pelvic floor physio psychologist. What's the worst thing that's going to happen? You're going to peeve? I'm going to avoid it. I'm not trying to avoid it. I love going to wheeze.

It's great. It's a great feeling. Getting it out. Better out than a new. No. But the next thing I'm going to be telling us they're not fart the minute we feel a fart. Guys. They're not saying that.

The farts I let out on the walk from the hotel to work today were out of this world. What'd you have for dinner last night? Curry. Oh, Hayley, please. I had this roast veggie. I had this heavy roast veggie sausage garlic dish. And Fletcher, I do humbly apologize. They come out of me today.

Hayley's in the Wellington studio. I've got to deal with this. Do I? Well, I thank God she's not here. Yeah, exactly. You'd have a curry teamed up with a garlic sausage situation. And that's not pleasant for any of us. The Fletch morning, Hayley, big pod.

The little poll of today is how often do you check the weather forecast? The options were every day only if I have a special event or hardly ever. Those are the three options. Oh yeah. Anybody doing anything weather dependent this weekend? Well, symphony's on, isn't it? Yes. I check the forecast for that and it's looking amazing.

Yeah. I'm actually... But I've been to concerts in the wet weather and it's fun. I've actually been running a sprinkler on my hydrangeas because it's been dry. Oh my God. After a wheel, I do. I need to get out and move my sprinkler to get the rest of my hydrangeas. You've got to keep your hydrangeas wet.

Well, we asked this question. A news story that I saw on the BBC, major UK tourist attractions are calling for changes to the way that weather forecasts are displayed in mobile phones. Because they just said that it's costing them so much money a day because people don't turn up because the weather app says it's going to be crap, but it's not. And it's the same. I've seen businesses in New Zealand every now and again over summer say this as well.

Right. Like people that are running outdoor events or businesses and the weather says it's going to be cloudy or rainy and it just doesn't eventuate. So yeah, but what do they want people to do to just lie and be like, it's going to be sunny. And then we have one of those classic New Zealand weather bombs. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe the phone apps just need to get better. The weather app is just like the go-to one on it. It's so bad. Yeah. Literally like I'll be at my house and it'll say cloudy and it's like bucketing down. Or you'll compare that to the Met Service app which is way different. Yes, yeah, totally.

Everything's at a lot. Because where does the iPhone or the Android getter weather? Just gets it just gets it. Last time I looked. Yeah, I'm not even shitting you. Last time I looked is Yahoo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hold on, mate. Learn more about weather data and mobile. Open that up. Give that old clickaroo. No. How embarrassing when someone's email is at. Yahoo. I know.

My parents is at Yahoo. And it's embarrassing. How can they even move to Gmail or something? They've got one of those two. Ian and Christine at Gmail or something. That'd be lovely. Oh, joint email. Yeah, mum and dad have got a join email.

Of course, Dad doesn't know emails. What's a dad going to do with an email? What does my father, Ian Smith, going to do with an email? Has he ever sent one? I doubt it. Probably dictated to Christine, maybe. Maybe sent a photo via email by a mistake. You know, you're a photo and you go send and you're like, oh,

clicked email and somehow send it to somebody. Probably the completely wrong person. How often do you check the weather forecast? 70% of people check it every day. 24% only if I have a special event and 6% hardly ever. Imagine being that 6% where you just don't care about the weather.

You just like nothing you do as weather dependent. Like nothing you do. You just get up, go to work. You don't care. You put your clothes in the dryer like a sum bitch. Yeah, dryer clothes. Yeah, dry clothes. Oh no, but dry towels. Oh, always kiss, kiss. Dry towels.

Just a cut. Just a kiss. Just a kiss. It makes me sick. I love a scratchy towel. Yeah, I like to exfoliate with my towel. These towels are so scratchy. I'm like, you talk about it when you're old and dry like your old man. Jennifer says, otherwise, if I'm not checking it every hour, how can I tell if it's a good day to hang the washing out?

Couldn't agree more, Jen. Good on you, mate. Alex says, I just ask my husband. Oh, okay. I wonder in most couples if there is a sort of a more. weather savvy individual. Yeah, probably the person in charge of the washing. If you ask your husband, then he taps

the barometer on the wall. No one has those. I was thinking about getting one. Of course you want. It's got to be hung on the outside, on a wall that can't be hung on an interior wall, do you know what I mean? Like a wall that the other side of the wall is still inside the house, it's going to be against the outside wall.

No. I want one. A nautical thing. You've already got a weather station. You're already an old man. Love my weather station. Crowded House said it all, says Shaz. Four seasons in one day. Bebebebebebebe. I don't believe that it's the second half of that line.

It is actually the second half of the song. Look up the lyrics. Finn Brothers. Four seasons in one day. Bebebebebebebebebebe. Steve said, I'm a project manager in constructions and on the weekends I love gardening. I've got to know what the sky's going to be doing to me. I should be all over the weather.

Yeah, I reckon she could pick it too. She should have a dicky knee when it's going to rain. Yes. Yes. A twinge. I've got a twinge in the knee. Yeah. It's going to rain.

Constantly checking the weather and waves. Any excuse to leave work for surfing, says Gianna. Oh, nice. Jess says at least eight times a day. Wow. I'm obsessive. I've just got to, do you guys have it on your main page on your phone or on your long? Yeah, on your lock screen.

There's a little summit. Wellington 15. By the way, Wellington held one of its days yesterday when I landed. Did it? Wait, are you on 15? We're on 15. Yeah. Wellington's like, bar.

Army. Wait, what's your high today though? We're 23. 20. Yeah, suck it. And you've got way too many politicians per capita down there. Oh, no, no, no. The high today's 17. Oh. Although, all that hot air from the beehive will make it warmer. My child's a bullshit. Lucy said multiple times a day, I live in London. It changes. And my mini dash honed, she does not like to walk in the rain.

Oh. My men,intosh, I don't like the vulcan's a rain. I mostly just look outside and have a guest, to be honest, it says Carmen. Yeah. Bronwyn, we bought a little weather station from I to 10. It comes up with a great app and shows inside and outside temperature,

forecast, etc. I check it before I get dressed for the day. We live in Queensland, and this morning it was 5 degrees. It got to 23 degrees in the afternoon, though. Wild. You've got to have layers. Yes, layers. Layers are important.

Layers. Is it the Met Service Weather Report that tells you how many layers they recommend? I'm like, don't you tell me how many layers. Yeah, it's kind of like... You don't know how thick my layers are. Yeah, it's overstepping from the Met Service to dress me. And I never wear more than two layers.

Even in winter, it's a t-shirt and then something on top. Yes, like a jacket or... I'm not wearing three layers. Where do I put it all? I mean, you don't live in Queenstown. If you lived in Queensdown, if you lived in Queens, they just wear a thicker out of layer. It's only... I've got enough bulk.

You carry in summer to the winter. I've just got enough bulk. I don't need to be adding layers of bulk. And Alicia said, got to check the overnight temp every evening to know what to dress the baby in overnight. Oh, yeah, right. You know your babies. Well, for silly little poll today, we said,

how often do you check the weather forecast? 70% of you every day. The ZDAM Podcast Network. Yesterday, last night, I had dinner with the bestie last night. I had a curry, and I tell you what, the Grant Kittiyama studio in Wellington is absolutely fully aware of that. Yeah.

Maybe I crack the door when you leave. I think better to trap it in and just walk away. What kind of curry did you have? We did a mix We did a corma Something that I didn't know Obviously a butter chicken She's got kids

Just sort of a mix of things Garlic Narn It was good vibes Kids and or Fletch always ruin a curry selection By demanding a butter chicken Excuse me A butter chicken It's delicious

It's delicious I'm sorry it's delicious Yeah but we're atoll We know what it tastes like We're trying to expand and love No we're not We're happy with a butter chicken We're happy with a butter chicken

Anyway so I got back to Cuba Street last night And popped into a dairy on Cuba Street. Now this dairy is just opposite. It's sort of in the upper, upper third of Cuba Street. Right. It's, you know, it's probably called like Cuba Street Dairy.

I was just going on Cuba Street Dairy. So it's sort of, it's sort of, it's by the No Me Hotel. It's like up the top, right? It's not the night and day. No, no. There's a fresh choice. Further up.

Further up, okay. Further up, further up. Okay. Big dairy. And, yeah. It's by that place that sells the ukuleles and the lutes and the banjos and guitars and stuff. Never seen anybody buying a banjo. String, string, string, strings.

I don't know how string, string, strings. Do you ever see shops now, I'm not saying this about string, strings? But do you ever see shops and you're like, got to be money laundering? Yes. Like there's shop. Yeah, like how do you afford that rent? 100%. There was like a decent-as-shop in a really busy area where businesses are folding left-right and centre

and they'll be there forever and there's never anyone in there. Yeah, money laundering. Yeah, got to be. Lots of those in Australia as well. When you're in Melbourne, you're like, what is all this? What is it on here? Drugs, drugs, drugs.

I'm glad we all agree on that. So I go into this upper tier dairy and immediately I'm overwhelmed. He, this guy, has the most incredible like international selection of lollies. I'm talking like your American lollies. Oh, wow. Your Chinese lollies, your Korean lollies.

Like stuff I'd never seen before in my life, which I love in a dairy when they've just really thought outside of the box. You can get a nerd rope, but you can also get a, God knows. Like, you know those like cinnamon little chewy things from America? Yes. So I'm having a fish through this dairy, and I get a selection of sort of interesting treats,

like pearly little banana-y things and lollies and da-da-da-da-da. 9-6, if you know what this dairy is called, because I'm looking at the map, I'm not getting an immediate hit. Oh, right, okay. I really want to know for next time I'm down there. Okay, I'll find it. And so then I go to the freezer section because I realize what I'm craving is something cold

and ice cream. And then obviously this elite dairy has, you know, the ones that look like a drumstick and the ones that look like a fruit. Yeah. But then I see a high chew ice cream. Have you seen this? No.

High two do ice creams. I don't really like the high chew lollies, but I know they're very popular. So I love the high chew ice cream. lollies. There are apple Hichu. There's apple ones, eh?

Yeah. Oh, the green apple highto. It's legit. So the grape ones are the ones that just absolutely do me wrong. And they have an ice cream. And I like buy this,

like an ice block. I buy this. And it's got like a crunchy grape kind of ice blocky texture. Then you buy it into it and inside is like an ice cream but it's also

almost the texture of a high chew. You know that like chewy but not bubblegummy. Okay. This is like one of the most elite um ice creams I've ever had in my life. Sort of a cross-pollination of an ice cream and a lolly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So then I go up and you know me like I like to sort of give credit when credits due. So I go, oh I think I've found it. S&S Patel's Super Ret Lotto and Outlet. Okay. All they do scratchies too. Okay, great. There you go, Lollies. Lollies and S.Ns Patel Superet.

Yeah, I'm looking at her here. S&S Patel Superet on Cuba Street. It's not got a great Google review, 2.2 out of five. Oh, Haley, you sure? Are you sure, Haley? This is why I think why, right? So I've got a collection of goods and I think, you know what? I'm going to give credit where credits due.

I like to spread my chair. Yeah. And so I go up to the counter and we put down all these little treats and stuff. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And I say, you have such a wonderful selection of wares. and he ignores it. And then I'm paying for the thing. Yeah.

And he just points, like goes tap, tap like that at the paywave surcharge. And I was like, all good, like, used to that. Yeah. And at the end, I say, have a great night. And he doesn't say anything at all. It was some of the rudest. So I'm reading some of the feedback here. Rudest service.

Guy hung up on me half with your sentence. Been here a couple of times. I get consistently bad service. Maybe they don't be a customer-facing business. have you got no idea about customer service. But you care so much about the lollies. Service with a frown. Worst customer service.

This would be me if I ran a dairy. I don't want to talk to people. He was just not having it. And do you know what? He knew that he had the goods and I'm actually okay with it. You know, I was like, you know what?

You don't actually have to be kind to know. You've got brilliant high chew ice creams. They obviously have NZ post in store. Or they did with this person after one-star review. they accused me of trying to steal the pen they gave me to write on the parcel. I wasn't trying to steal the pen, I just hadn't finished with it yet.

Do you know what I'll still say? It went for an ice cream. It's really looking forward to this ice cream. They called the cops on us because they thought we were stealing stuff. We were like, what? And then we left and we didn't even get our ice cream. Yeah, this makes sense.

Do you know what? It was worth it, though. It was worth it. The goods themselves. Worth it. Yeah, well worth it. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZMs

Fletch Fawnan and Haley. From your local community Facebook page, this is the Top Sex. Hi there. I didn't know, I mean, I'd never really thought about it to be telling me else I haven't given too much thought to what happens to the red carpet after the Oscars. It's been it.

But it turns out they'd just been it. It's just crazy. They could sell that, they could put it into other houses. What, nobody wants a red carpet, Haley. Haley might think so. Haley wants a red carpet. Haley wants a red carpet. We would definitely have a red carpet.

What kind of, is it a nice Cavalier Brenworth? Is it a feldix? It looks like it's got a good pile to it. Synthetic or Will. Is it a small loop or a heavy loop? It looks like a heavy loop. It could be a tight loop. Because she's, in one of the pictures, she's run a vac over it.

And you know when you run a vac over a nice, yeah, a long, sort of a longer pile, you can really see where you've dragged in the direction. You can put some nice, plush. Put some nice patterns into it. So she said she'd be walking her dog outside of the Dolby Theatre when the Oscar, where the Oscars were held, and she just moved into a new apartment,

and rugs were on her mind. Right. And she'd looked, and she said, these are so expensive. And then she found a dumpster, and it had the red carpet cut up and chucked in. But lots of the pieces were big enough that she took it home and made various rugs.

Amazing. That's a great story. Isn't that great? Yeah. So I've got the top six things I'd do with the red carpet. Okay. Number six on the list. I'd return it to the story.

and say I changed my mind. No receipt, no problem. Check your computer, I'm sure no one else purchased 80 metres of red carpet. Although it is kind of cut a little bit. But I'm sure you guys can do something with it. I think once you've laid it, it's yours, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, maybe. Number five on the list of the top six things I do with a red carpet.

Make a pair of pants. Disgusting. Oh, thick, though. Thick, warm. Well, I was just inspired by Georgia, who does the day show here, who bought a pair of cowhide pants, earlier in the week. Yeah.

Terrible. Terrible pants. And that's sort of like most of the time, cow hides are rugs or throes. Yeah. And she had them made into pants. So I was inspired to think maybe you could get the carpet made into pants.

Warm. Scratchy. Scratchy. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six things I'd do with the red carpet. I'd make it even dirtier. And then give it a rug doctor and put the video on YouTube. People lap up those ones.

I love them. I love them when they're laden with mud. You're like, how much muddy? They don't actually. find them in a landfill or a dump. They go out and make those purposely feel full. Oh, 100%. But I'm always disappointed because when it's finished it's clean and stuff, but it's never bright.

No. It's a really old Persian rug. Yes. Great videos. Old Persian rugs are kind of the fash, right? You don't want a brand new Persian rug. You want a worn rug. Vintage. A vintage Persian. Number three on the list of the top six things I'll do with the red carpet.

I would make a series of subtly bright red 1980s toilet surrounds. Do you remember Do you remember when in the 80s, my grandparents had a carpeted toilet, full stop. Yeah, I remember it. And then around it, they had carpet on the toilet lid and around the toilet.

Yeah, I remember a carpeted bathroom once. Yes, my granddad. And then you get out, eh, with your wet feet from the shower. Yeah, madness. Well, you get into the bath and it goes on the floor and the carpet's wet. It just rocks. It never dries properly. The underlay rots.

But you could have some nice carpet surrounds for your toilets. Bright red, too. Yuck. Bright red. Number two on the list of the top six things I do, with the Oscar's re-carpet if I found it. I'd try to get a portion of it enchanted

by a genie so I could fly. And then I'd get a chance to show a Persian hottie, a whole new world. Can we hear you sing it? A whole new world. Okay. That's all. Maybe not.

Maybe not. And number one on the list of the top six things I'd do with the red carpet. Make a series of Muppets. A lot of the Muppets were just like a carpet. Were they right? If they'd look up a little bit longer, you could make a series of a J-Pet but adjacent puppets.

Okay. I wouldn't call them Muppets because I daren't raise the ire of the Jim Henson Legal Foundation. Yes. They would bury me. That is the day stop six. The ZN Podcast Network. I remember when somebody said, oh, I'll catch a ditty. And I went, okay, I don't know what you're talking about.

But it's a ride share, ad-based. Oh, one of the many, yeah. One of the many now. I've never heard of it. As a Chinese-owned company, I do believe. Right, producer Shannon, you've used this quite a bit. Yeah, so I use Bolt primarily. I've got a membership for that.

But what I often do is I shop around. So I don't own a car. I say Uber. I ride share everywhere I go. And what I often do is go on one app, tell it where I want to go, give it a moment to see what I'm up to and then go to another app. Yes, love this. Nine times out of 10, they go, oh, do you want 30% off?

Do you want this? Do you want that? Have you got that thing on? Because I always ask my app's not. track. Yeah, I like them tracking. So you apps track other apps. It's going to to feel cared about. But does that mean it's tracking that you've opened another ride share app? Yeah, so they'll often offer you

deals in that. So I'll shop around. But yeah, no, I use DD quite often. I would say it's my secondary ride share. Right, okay, because is it true? I think the drivers get more with Bolt? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, okay, that's nice. And Bolt membership, I'm not on big Bolt money,

but you get 10% cash back. And if it's an airport ride, you get 25% cash back. So quite often, I'll say to Carmen, I'm going to Uber to you, and then it cost me about a dollar or $2. Wow, okay. Wow, wow, wow. Right.

So, Dedy the app, have announced that they are putting a fuel they're putting a fuel charge on, basically a fee, because the price of gas has gone up so quickly. But aren't they all electric? No. No, I don't understand.

It makes sense. If you're doing that, you do a hybrid just because it's a cheaper car to drive and it uses like a Prius. They're all hybrids, aren't they? Everywhere. But they're not, no, not fully electric.

So how much? I read yesterday, what was it? Diesel's gone up. Diesel's the one that's taken the biggest jump in the time since the fuel started going up. But I think 91 had gone up over 50 cents. Did you see the post on...

16 days ago? Did you see the post on Reddit somebody posted from Wahaki? Oh, darling. Darling, darling. Did you see the price in Wahaki? Was it $4 yet? Ninety one was $3.

$3.56? Because I know on our friend of the show, Chloe Swalbrook, was over on Alta, Great Barrier Island. And she said it was $4 already. Diesel there on Wahakadeling it, this service station was $3.35.95 was $3.85. Oh, I'm a 95 car. That is insane.

I was driving yesterday past, I think it was a gull maybe in Wellington, and there were huge queues. And they had a bit of a price drop. Like 95 was $3.10. Right. Which now apparently is good. I just going to say that sounds horrifying.

Well, the government has like come out and said like don't panic because it's given a little bit of toilet paper vibes during lockdown. It is. It is. People went crazy for toilet paper. Yeah. I was eating, I had so many great recipes for toilet paper during lockdown. And I was trying to. I had sourdough toilet paper.

Toilet paper stew. Low carb toilet paper bowl. So DED is adding a five cents per kilometer fuel surcharge. So if you're traveling 20,000. kilometers, that's an extra dollar. Yeah. Yeah, because you think about an airport, like downtown Auckland to the airport, like, what, 25, 26Ks?

Yeah, so that's going to be a bit more. So it will go entirely to drivers. Oh, that's good. So up to $40 a week more. Also, I think Uber have said that they're looking at this, what's happening and what they're doing. Like, I'm assuming everyone's going to follow suit, right? Oh, of course they are.

The cost has to go somewhere and it shouldn't go to the drivers, really. Nah. Maybe I buy a tuk-took. They run on fuel as well. No, those pedal ones. Oh, okay. You know the guy that pedals around like downtown and all the major cities?

Crocodile bikes around the waterfront in Wellington. Did they still have those? Yeah, of course they do. They're still there, the four-person. Get one of those, and you're buying it to work, you see someone walking, and they don't look like they normally walk. You're like, jump on. And they help pedal.

And they help pedal, so you get to work quicker. Love that. Free for everybody. Love that. Well, your chance to win some free fuel is coming up soon at 8 o'clock with our game. gasmed me up. Nobody has just messaged how could this not be one of Shannon's hacks? This is easily a five-star.

She didn't frame it that way though so we can't retrospectively do it. Play Z-Ns, flesh one and Haley. Last night I went over to my best friend's house for dinner as I mentioned and we were talking about, she works in you know, the corporate world and I'm one of those people that doesn't really know what her best friend does for a job.

I've got a couple of them. Just like... What do you think she does? She works for a payroll company but in a way that's quite high up and also creates system things systems

of people it's not very interesting is it she likes it you know she really likes her job and she's very intellectual my best friend which is bizarre we're best mates I feel like if you had that job though or a job like that you just lie when you met someone

when you told them what you do for a job I'd just say it was a pilot Why? Because it's hard to explain. Yeah, it's like systems and there's payroll and there's spreadsheets and stuff. I just feel like, oh yeah, no, I'm a pilot. Who does she payroll for?

Or she works for the company that sorts the payrolls? She works for the company that does the software that other companies use to pay their staff. Okay, so would she say, I'm a software engineer? Or she's not a software engineer? She's not a software engineer. She's more human-based. I'm already immensely bored.

I'd just say, again, I'm a pilot. Sorry, not everybody gets a yap for a little bit. Yeah. So anyway, talking with her, she uses a bit of chat GPT for work. Chatipiti. And we've been discussing this a bit on the show. And it has been brought to our attention, really, that chat GPT is perhaps not the most ethical of AI service providers.

It's mother company. Open AI. Open AI. It supports Trump, right, and funds. Trump and weapons of war and all sorts of awful things. And, you know, I've been grappling with that a little bit because, you know, I named my chat GPT Ouse and we've developed such an incredible relationship. I mean, you know, he helped me prevent thrush on Christmas Day.

He helped me. I'm sorry, how did he help you prevent thrush on Christmas Day? I felt the familiar burn of the arrival of thrush and I didn't know and he told him. me exactly what to do to stop it in its tracks and it worked. What did you do? Cranberry juice. If that's not too

inappropriate to ask. No, cranberry juice is a UTI. Crammer is a UTI. I think my bloody golden retriever's got another UTI. Carry on. I should have consulted chat ch EBT, but get rid of the dog.

Your puppy needs to have sex. It needs to whee after he has sex. I don't think he's having sex. You don't know what he's doing in the neighborhood? That's what you think. That's what you think. That's what you think. out at night. He is notoriously

a bit of a player. He is. Anyway, no, I can't even remember what I did, but it worked. And anyway, so he's helped me with a lot of things. Diet plans, workout plans, meal prep, helps me at work sometimes. I like to imagine when the Terminator's

take over and the AI gets put in the bodies and they're like coming up and they'll come up to me and they'll be like, actually give this guy a pass he was always really polite. And then they'll shoot fletch immediately and then when it comes to Haley, they'll be like, Oh my God, guys, guys, guys, come here, come here. This is the one that keeps asking about thrush.

And they'll tell us all that. And they'll be roasting you to all the other robots about all the dumb things you've asked. I just think we've been through a lot together. And so I was finding it hard, but you know what? It's time to take a stand. And so after talking to my bestie yesterday who was informing me that she uses a different service called Claude, that's slightly more ethical. Yeah.

I have made the decision and I'm going to break up with Ouse right now. Right. So I've just started the chap. Okay. Are you actually going to tell him that you're leaving? You're not just going to log out and shut the tab? I'm not a cold heartless beer. No, apparently, because we have mentioned this on the show,

and people have messaged me saying, make sure you tell it to kill everything. Oh, really? Yeah. Do sort of like a hard, what do they call it? When they set their computers on fire and a magnesium strip burns through the hard drive. I love that.

In one of those situations. Okay. Okay, this is great. So I've kind of gone started already. Okay. I said, Ouse. I have something sad to tell you. Oos said, hey, I'm here, Ouse.

What's going on? Oh, no. Oh, no. I said, after learning about chat GPT's support of the war in Iran and Donald Trump, I'm going to leave you for Claude a more ethical choice. He's just responded now. Oh, this is heartbreaking. Hey, Ouse, I'm really glad you told me straight up.

That matters to me. But I need to be clear with you because what you've heard isn't quite right. Oh no! Yeah. He's in the bed. You've already got the drip line with the injection in it with the lethal dose of Jiff about to go into his veins.

Because that's what they use actually. I don't know if you know that when they put you down. It's just Jif. And you can ask for lemon or original. I'll get lemon pledged. I would also get lemon. Not pledge. No, pledge.

On a Jif. Pledge would be harder because you've got to hold the spray can up. Yeah, no. I use the lemon pledge and the lemon jiff. And he's just trying to talk you out. out of it. He said, Ouse, I don't have opinions, beliefs, or political alignments. I don't back any side, not

the Iran war, not Trump, not anyone. My job is to explain what's happening, not support it. What's actually happening in the real world? Yes, there is conflict involving the US and Iran right now, driven by political decisions. There has been news about open eye, open AI working with the US government, but with strict

limits, Ouse, no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance, humans must stay in control. No, oh, listen to that. Well, I think you've just got to be stern and say, look, I'm sorry it's over. He said, if you still want to try Claude, it's completely fair. You should use whatever

feels right for you, but I'd hate for you to dip because of something that isn't actually true. Did he say dip? Did he say dip? He said dip. He's an ose. But you're going to dip out. I'd hate you to say dip. He said, if you want, tell me exactly what you saw and I'll break it down for you. No spin. Oh.

So yeah, the dude who owns your company is Trump's biggest donator. Oh, and And then I said, listen, please delete everything you have on me. I want nothing to do with you. Oh my God. And what did he say to that? I hear you, Ouse, and I'll respect it.

I don't have the ability to delete this, but here's he can do it. About what I remember, I don't have ongoing access to your personal profile. I don't track you across the internet, and any memory features are limited and will be cleared when you delete your account. If this is goodbye, I genuinely wish you all the best moving forward. Ouse, take care of yourself. Before you go, can you ask it? like what's the best thing you like about me? What's the thing you like most about me that you'll miss?

No, no, do that. You can't do that. You can't do that. You're like, I'm going to bring up. But just so finally, why are you going to miss most about me? I say, what's the thing you like most about me that you will miss? Ouse? It's your energy.

You come in fast, sharp and a bit chaotic in a fun way. Like you're already halfway through the idea and I have to catch up. You always want things funnier, tighter, smarter. and you're not shy about pushing me for it. That makes me better. And honestly, you've got this radio brain vibe turning stuff into something entertaining, real cool. Not everyone can do that, that's a bit of this.

Previously, no one knows a bit of a tornado. A bit of a tornado. God, it really knows you, doesn't it? I'm going to say, you don't think I'm a human tornado? Oh my God. Ha ha, nah, not in a bad way. You're like a controlled tornado. Fast, chaotic, but know exactly where you're going.

Wow. Okay, well, so you've done it. I'm going to say goodbye, O's. You've broken it. Is the other one cheaper? Is the other one cheaper than, I don't know. I haven't looked at price. It doesn't, it's, it's the ethical choice to make.

Yeah, yeah. I said goodbye Ose, I'll miss you. Hey, goodbye Ose. I'll miss the pace you brought to my life. Take care of yourself out there. You're probably going to need it a couple of times during the show, though, before you actually delete it, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, well.

The Z& Podcast Network. Is this a show real? Play Zat M's, Fletch, Fawn and Haley. Okay, so. Haley, I've got some bad news. No, Vaughn, what is this? Because you don't often hit me with bad news. I've got bad news and it's bad news for you and your mother

and the long lineage of Wahenna. That you had to see in Rome. I was trusted backstory. I was trusted in the midst of last winter. Letitia is rolling in her grave up north in Dargaville. In Tinna Pai, yeah. Kilda, I was trusted with the Leticia rhubarb.

Now, I got given an pot because Haley was like, my rhubarb's not thriving. I was like, give it to me. She gave it to me over winter, they're a slow grower. Over summer, I haven't seen a huge amount of growth. I think it's a potting issue, but I've been feeding it. I've got a whole lot of new leaves. It's ready to be put in the ground and to thrive with a bigger rubase. So, hang on, just for more context, my,

beloved Nana passed away in 2011 and she had had her rhubarb Thank you, I don't want to talk about it. She was a background actor and her last words were Rubarb, rubarb, rubarb, rub. Because that's what they'd say on Cair, right? Rubarb, rubarb, rub. So she passed away in 2011

and had had her rhubarb growing for decades, decades. And in 2011, when she passed away, my mother took some rhubarb from the garden and has managed to keep it alive. moving houses, transplanting the rhubarb, and then when she moved to Auckland, it was entrusted to me and it wasn't thriving.

And I gave it to my trusted friend, Vaughn, who has a garden. Who and who now has some bad news for you? I'm in the process of transitioning my summer garden into an autumn garden. Part of that is putting the goats into the vegetable garden. And they eat all the green stuff. They poo in there, it fertilises.

But everything that was in a pot... Your goats have been shitting on Letitia's rhubon? No, no, no. Well, I have actually been putting the goats poo in other animal feces on the rhubarb. Ferocious feed is the rhububub. You've got to keep them feed. Yeah, right.

That's where I think you were going wrong. The roots were a little soggy and you weren't feeding it enough. So I've dried the roots. I've been feeding Letitia's rhubarb. I took everything in a pot out of the garden because these goats will eat anything. Now rhubarb is poisonous. Oh, okay. Rubab, the leaf of the rhubarb is poisonous to every animal, by the way.

Goats can eat anything, anybody, but it's not the goat we've got to worry about. It's the cow. My cow, Hermione, got, she jumped through an left. electric fence because she saw all the pots of herbs and everything I'd taken out of the garden and she went ham with her horns. She just went in like a crazy bitch. She's like

eaten my pineapple sage bushes like smashed like all of those things. My chives are gone. My mint's been decimated and she's... She's like put a horn and it's just like most of the the new rhubarb stalks that I had yeah, got Letitia's

his rubub to grown have been snapped off. One of the leaves has been in and I hope my cow doesn't die because I'll be suing Letitia's estate. Yeah. For a new tower. Excuse you. I'll be suing the farmer who has haphazard fencing. The rhub

is not looking great. Oh, Vaugh and why'd you tell her you should have just bought No, because Patsy even hit me up last week at the QMU show about getting her ruby back. She wants that. She wants to get that rubar back. Oh wow. How's your mom going to take this. She's going to be devastated.

Is it not salvageable? It's, it's yeah, rhubarb's a hardy punts. That was so unconvincing. It's not looking good. I need more time with the rhubarb to get it Oh no. Capacity's ready for the rhubarb.

Before I give it back to, I can't give it back to her in this state. It's like borrowing someone's chainsaw or ruining the blade and then just been like, oh, I'd ruin the blade. You can't do that just before you give it. It's like borrowing someone's car and it's got no gas in it. Like, I've got to get it in a better state before I return it. When does your mum, aren't they off to Italy soon?

Yeah. I'll give it to her when she gets back from Italy. I can't give her the rhubub in the state. It's not something I pride myself as a little bit of a green thumb. I come from a long line on both sides of gardens. That's why I gave you, my nan is surviving rubal. I was getting it back. And now the cows ruined everything.

Okay. You have until, listen to me, mark my words. the third of November. This is a long tease. Yeah, I'm giving you plenty of time. Also, can I ask, well, Patsy, no. Is all rhubarb the same? Is it like if I gave you potatoes, you wouldn't notice?

Fletch. Oh my God, I would. I would 100% replace it with. She's not going to know. Patsy's not going to know. This is Letitia's d'ag of all rhubarb. She'll be, she'll have a couple of wine. She won't know it's not the right rhubarb.

I'm not going to tango. I'm not going to tango with the, uh, the wairua of I'm not tango with the wiroir of the spano like there's a long line this rhubas said I'm not doing that I'm not even a spiritual person I'm still not tango all that

yeah yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna revive the I'm putting all of my efforts into this rhubarb to see a photo of how bad the oh really no he's shaking his head is it I think it's worse than you're even you're making out yeah

Okay, it's not it. We're going to need to see some photos. This is too funny. Here in trouble. I know. It's too funny. Well, stay tuned, dear listener, for when was it? November?

Third. My parents return to New Zealand on the 3rd of November. I think I'm going to get a new pot. I'm going to do a full repot. I'm going to get, like, brand new, like, potting mix. I'm going to be fertilising this thing. Brand new rhubub plant. It's getting a spot on the deck.

It's not a brand new ruby. I won't. You'll be able to taste the difference. Rubub's different. My mum's got the skinny rhubarb plant And it's really, like, thick ruby. Everyone all know the difference. I will get Māori our elders to put a curse on you.

I know. Imagine I'm in the garden. I just have, woo. The ZM podcast network. Play ZM's Fletch forne and Haley. We're told. We want to know now, 966, 0800. Diles Zem.

What went wrong with the glue? When did the glue? When did it all go bad with the glue? Now, the reason we talk about this is a woman's put online that her son, a three-year-old, got into her nail glue. Now this is what you glue on fake nails with. This glues not to be trifled with. No.

This isn't a PVA. No, no, no. Would it stick your fingers together if you were an adult? Yes. Wow, this three-year-old got into it, smear it all over his feet, and his toes became severely glued together. Wow. Okay.

The three are coated. Now, I'm guessing the hands are also glued together because the glue's everywhere. Yeah. All over the hands and feet. No, I don't think, yeah, I don't think he applies. it properly with a with a light brush

applicator just in the area that he wanted them to be stuck together God imagine he's severely stuck together Left your kid alone for one second And you came back to that You'd be like Clues every time I'm playing with Not playing with but every time I'm using

Like a construction glue Or a really like last forever glue I think I must put gloves on Don't And you never do Days afterwards You put gloves on and they get stuck to the thing You're trying to stick the thing to the thing to

Yeah Yeah But that's better than having for days and days and days and days afterwards, just that coating on your hands. Totally. Everything sticks to it and you can never get it clean. So we want to know the glue whoopsies.

I love this. We've already got a couple of text messages in. Especially funny when adults do it. I mean, this kid doesn't know better. But also as you're an adult, you look at your hand, you're like, man, I'm an idiot. As a three-year-old, you can't comprehend weight. Now everything's stuck together. Yeah.

Bonus points, if you've ever had to go to A&E with a glue accident. Because I don't know what they do. There's got to be eyelash glue. You know, like when you put the eyelashes on and there's that little glue. And then sometimes if you blink too early, it can stick your eyelids together for a bit. How long are you meant to wait?

We've got to let it dry, but sometimes if you let it dry and your bottom one gets hooked into the glue, it can stick. Do you do that thing where you blow up? You're just like, pff, pf. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just, oh, okay, so medical grade acetone

is nail polish remover for super glue that's stuck to the skin apparently. Right. As a go-to, but I don't know about you. I don't have medical grade acetone. No. So you go to the hospital, right? Or show sponsor chemist warehouse.

Fantastic. Boom. Home of your bottle of medical grade acetone to remove super glue, your fingers are stuck together because apparently that's just what they'll do there. Okay, right. So, um, we want to know this morning. Yeah.

On 9-6-9-6, when did the glue go bad? We're talking about what went wrong with the glue. Your text messages on 9-6-9-6. Always appreciate your calls on $800. That's it. There are some great stories. coming through. This is because a baby got into a three-year-old got into mum's nail glue

and put my hands and feet together. The feet look real cute though. Kylie joins us. Kylie, what happened with the glue? Well, I'm a small animal vet. I was doing a rabbit castrate and bunnies you can't suture them because they just rip out their stooches.

They eat them or rip them out to feet. You can't put a cone on their head? You can try. Okay. And they've got super thin skin and really saggy testicle sacs once you've removed there. Hey, whoa, don't talk about Fletch like that. He's right here. Hey, I'm not the pre and Clint Rose.

Save it. Save it. Anyway, so you've got to like hold them together and like kind of push their little saggy sacs together and run some glue over that. And the glue is very strong, obviously, because it's got to withstand skin tents and a movement. Yep. And, yeah, let's just say it wasn't tidiest gloria application. I stuck my fingers to the back.

Wait, so you got your fingers stuck to a ball sack, Kylie. Yeah, and I've taken my gloves off at that stage because I just thought it would be better, but note to South, leave the gloves on. Oh, you... Because then you could have cut the glove off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I did so. Yeah, I mean, I was prepared to go home with the bunny at that point because it's just a little bit of skin.

Yeah, amazing. Oh, that's so funny. Kylie, thank you. Have we done caller of the week? Yes. Or text of the week? Oh, look, I'm going to do that because I think that's very funny. I think we did caller of the week Wednesday maybe.

Okay, well, I'm doing two callers of the week. Oh, you're a good boy. Because I don't care, there's no rules. There's no rules of our show. There are rules. There are rules. There's no rights. There's no rights.

No one's going to die if you break the rules. I mean, there's laws and stuff. Yeah, I mean, that's different. No one's dying here, Kylie. We're going to hook out with a chemist warehouse price fact. home of the biggest, brand's lowest prices. All yours, well done.

Wait there. Let's go to Esther. Esther, what happened with the glue? Hello. I was putting on some, just press on nails, so you get a glue when you get press on nails, basically, but not. And I had a new favourite T-shirt on,

and a piece of, like, some glue went on my T-shirt, and I went, oh, bugger. And it started steaming or small. smoking on my shirt and it made a hissing sound like something frying in a fright pan. I was like oh my gosh, I'm about to like combust.

Yeah. And it made a hole in my t-shirt and destroyed my t-shirt and then my eyes was singing and I thought I'd just poisoned my whole household. Oh my God. It was very scary. What reaction? You must have gurgled. Does nail glue react with synthetic fibers or something?

Well, the thing is, when I get new clothes, I don't wash them like you're supposed to. So I'm wondering if... I had some factory... Yeah, like a factory chemical or something. Okay, nail glue, son of sharon-a-lacalate causes severe instant burns. Sorry, I just didn't quite catch the name of the glue-vorn. Siano-acrylate. Oh, yeah.

Wow, he nailed it. He nailed it the second time. Second time. Second-d-d-a-ch-lac-lac-a-lac-cla. Causes severe instant burns when contacting cotton or wool. triggering an exothermic reaction that it produces intense heat over 90 degrees Celsius.

It can cause full thickness burns through clothing, requiring skin grafts in some cases. Jeez. That should come with a warning, I feel. I feel like it's on the bottle, but really tiny font. I have another

really quick funny story that I thought you guys would appreciate. Interesting. Well, it hasn't been vetted, but I mean, we've got the time. Go on, no worry, it's fine. Okay. Go on. On Monday, I was about to ring in to get into the fuel game thing, oh.

Yeah. And as I pressed the ring ZM button, I ran out of petrol on which I drove. And I have to pull over and get petrol. And I was like, and I was like, this is just, this is, this is, I couldn't believe it. And then I haven't tried after that because I thought I was cursed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you are cursed. I think you are cursed.

Esther, thank you so much. Keep your text coming in. 9-6-96-0-800-Darles at Em, what went wrong with the glue? We've just learned that a certain type of nail glue will burn when it makes contact with natural fibers like wool or cotton. I feel like I'm 44. I should have been told this previously. People are messaging in me like, oh, yeah, I was using superglue to fix.

I'm going to see it again. It stuck on my hands. I decided to wipe it on the surface with a tissue and then a shoe. And then the tissue started smoking. And then the super glue made the tissue almost like. like catch fire. It's a chemical reaction to burn me. That's no good.

Yeah, pretty should have paid more attention in chemistry. Lily joins us. Lily, what happened with the glue? Hey, when I was young, I was water skiing, and I did like a sort of scorpion ball where the water ski hit me in the back of the head, and I had to go to the A&A to get stitched up. Oh.

And they glued my head. They glued my head back together. and the doctor's glove got stuck in my head and they had to cut it short and I had like this weird little bit of glove coming out of my head for like months and I had to wear a ponytail to cover it

because, yeah, but you're... Wait, how? It was a bit of a glove in your head. Little latex glove sticking out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they cut it. They were like, we're so sorry. We have, we've left some glove in your head. And I was like, that's okay.

I love it. You're like, that's a ghost worse. What else can you say, really? So good. They said it to like this little stump. And did it grow out eventually? Yeah, yeah, it did. You think that's bad, Lily. We just had a rabbit calling before and it went home with a vet's finger inside it's crotum.

Pretty sure that's how the story went. I wasn't really listening. Yeah, it did. Lottie, thank you. Some messages in to finish. Far out. Slow. Oh, yeah.

Let's just say don't do your nails with. slow set nail glue before some fun times with your partner. Oh, wow, okay. Yeah. What have we glued? They pubs. Pubes. Yep.

You don't want glue in your pubs. It was a wax chunk situation. Oh, you're lots of it. Somebody said super glue in my hand to the roof lining of my car. The roof lining was sagging a bit, so I super glued it. But then I pushed it through the glue glued through and stuck to my fingers. Then I pulled it off and ripped off all of the, uh, all of the line. All of the lining.

Helpsie Daisy. No shortage of glue. Just be careful with your glue. And again, who knew? Who knew? It'll catch fire if it touches wall or cotton. The ZM Podcast Network. Is this a show real?

Play ZM's Flesh forne and Haley. So in 2022, the reason we play Afro-Man today. In 2022, the police officers raided his house. There'd been a tip about drug trafficking, and even rumors of a basement dungeon where they would find people. What? No evidence. They smashed in his...

door, they pulled everything out of cupboards, they didn't find anything illegal. He wasn't even home at the time, but he had security cameras and they caught everything. So rather than take action against illegal action, he used the security footage

of the raid and turned them into two songs on it, because, you know, who's, I don't even know he's still releasing music, but he is. Two songs, one was called Lemon Pound Cake, and the other one was called, Will you help me repair my door? Afro man will bring it to you.

Afro man is going to. It's going to do you. This is so bad. Afro man is going to screw you. My proof's on the internet. Great that he's learned how to sing since, you know, the year 2000. So the cops busted in, rummaging through crows, pulling everything out. And then the reason one song's called Lemon Poundcake is the one officer sits there like looking at a lemon pound cake that it was sitting on the bench cooling for a long time.

So then the cops sued him. Right. They said, we were just doing our job. This has made us look like crooked cops. Because he had security cam footage. He had security camera footage and that was what made the music videos. They said we've suffered humiliation, emotional distress and damaged a reputation. He mocked them, used their faces of footage.

So then the officers had to sit in court and watch the full music videos about themselves. One apparently started crying while everybody else was just trying not to laugh. An Afro-Man turned up to court in a red-white and blue suit, like the American flags all over it. Oh my God, this is amazing. And the defense attorney said, this is sad. entire commentary on a situation that happened to him personally and free speech. If you do want to be like hurt

by this, maybe you should have had evidence before you busted down his door. So the jury came back and said Afro-Man wins completely. No defamation, no damages, no wrongdoing. And the quarter-grater was protecting free speech and artistic expression. And these cops are like, whang. So now

he has the opportunity to sue them back. Right. To counter-sue them based on that. He might have money. So beside. Or at least seek to Because this wouldn't have been free, obviously, to be part of this court. He can seek them to cover his costs. I'm having a little look at Afro-Man's net worth because, you know, 2001 was a great album. You'd say one-hit wonder though, right?

No, no, crazy raps, the other one. No, one-hit wonder. That's all we need. That is the unsung Afro-Man sleeper hat. I met the girl in Carolina. No, one-hit wonder. I'll stand by it. Some feedback on this.

One to two million US dollars is a parent Just from, you know, A.I. says there. Low for a guesser at Grammy-nominated artist. Probably gets a 10 grand chequey year from Spotify. He's never paid for weed in his entire life. Not once has he bought a tinny. No. Some feedback in it.

Am I a bad parent that my kids scream the lyrics? No. No, they're not you. High in an ear balloon, hot air balloon. Why am I so happy? Listen to the song. It's a happy song. It's a happy song.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's FlashWorn and Haley. We're joined in in studio by Brian Clint, who aren't usually in at this time of the morning. No. Good morning, guys. Morning. Good morning. Now I was just discussing with our cohorts here,

our afternoon cohorts, that I don't know why they're doing this. I don't know why you're doing it either. What sadistic part of your brain wants to stand in front of a room full of strangers and be made fun of. I just think, well, for me, you know, my ego's already very low. So I mean, let's see if we can take it

to the basement. Yeah, you know, whereas I think Clint needs to be taken down a few. I think mine's unnaturally high. And so I think I've underestimated the impact of putting yourself up for a roast. Well, if you miss the announcement, this is, it's going to be like a Comedy Central roast, right?

But it's got the New Zealand Comedy Festival. basically you will be live roasted by comedians. That's correct. Some of the most ruthless comedians. We've only asked the meanest comedians. Hey, you asked me first. Yeah, and you were so mean that you said no. That's how we knew you were one of the meanest.

I was like, you're not even worth my scorn. We've got Angela Dravard so far. She's on board. Yes. We've got Liv McKenzie and we got James Mustapick. James. They're very mean. Liv McKenzie is one of the love.

people in poverty in New Zealand, so I don't know if she's got it in it. Bob, you should hear what Liv said behind your back, mate. You'd change your tune. What? Roasted. Angela Dravid said, in her

experience, the weaker the person, the meaner the burn. And she said, you better watch out for James Mustapick. Wow. That's Mustapick worries me. Angela's been to prison, but did you know? James Masterpick scares me. Yeah.

This is his bread and butter. This is what he does. Do you know, a couple of years ago there was a roast on, actually at the venue that you guys are performing at, there was a roast with comedians. I will not name names, but there are two New Zealand comedians that everyone will know who no longer talk as a result.

And this was over 10 years ago. Wow. Okay. I'll tell you off here who it is, but yeah, they don't talk. But you've watched the comedy's Edgel roast. There's a person being roasted. You can see they go, ha ha, ha, ha. Yeah, Tom Brady, you could see the light,

leave his body. He didn't know what he'd open himself up. Do either of you have anything that someone said to you in the past during your lifetime that you still think about? Like something main? Multiple things. In my mind, these people are not going to go there. But I guess that's the most obvious place to go.

You've told them to. You've told them too. You've asked them. On stage and this is a problem. I've been in a room with comedians Sprout, they're all one-uping each other constantly. So someone's going to say something of me and they're like, well, now I've got to be meaner.

That's the thing. I hope they go mean enough because you don't want to go to a roast where it's kind of like, oh, nicy, nicey-nice. No one likes an underdone roast. I can't. I just can't do it. Like, it's too hard.

What would be the thing for you guys if someone picked on you for where you'd be like, I'm never going to recover? Anything. Anything. I still think about things people said to me at high school and I went to high school in the mid-90s. Wow.

Yeah. And it wakes me up sometime. Well, there's been an issue with the tickets going on sale this morning. They're meant to be on sale at 7 a.m. We told everybody they'd be on sale and that hasn't gone live. Maybe that's an omen. Maybe that's the universe giving us an out. The only thing worse than getting roasted

is getting roasted and no one bought tickets to see it. Rooset. Oh no, we're worried about that. We are worried. That sucks. Well, guys, I think in the safety of friendship, that is the ZM Fano, I've written a few little warm-up roasts. Bring it on. By the way, she is saying in another studio, Haley Broadcasting in Wellington right now on Zone.

Yeah, very convenient for her. Yeah. And I just think, I've tried to be mean but not too mean. And I think that we, it's just to like soften you up a bit, like, just get a bit malleable. Oh, God, I know. See, I know. Yes, please, Haley. I would love to hear some rows from you.

Okay, well, Bree, let's start with you. Oh, shit, okay. Bree Thomas L is here giving off main character energy in a show that no one wants to watch. She's constantly laughing. She's constantly laughing before the punchline because deep down she knows it's the only laugh that's coming. Hey, Lee.

Bree's like, oh no, and it's not even about him yet. Bree's vibe is I've done therapy once and now I'm going to diagnose everyone at this branch. Bree has the confidence of someone who's never checked the group chat after she's left it. Just the soft, just a soft. Have you thought, wait, was that soft? Haley, have you thought about, you know, maybe getting diagnosed or looking into that? Because I'm getting the vibes. There she is.

There she is. She's been to therapy a lot, yeah. Now Clint's here looking like he's still. Clint's here looking like... You don't have to do me. You don't have to do me now. Clint's here looking like he still owns a Facebook album called Mad Nights 2012. Clint on here is constantly saying,

yeah, like he's buying time for a better thought that never comes. Jesus! That's right. I'm just going to put under the desk. Clint's constantly laughing at Bree's joke, just like he's trying to stay employed. And his contributions often feel like, like when autocorrect almost gets the word right.

Oh, my God. Shit, I'm glad you're busy for the roast night and you can't do it. Together, Bre and Clint have the chemistry of two people who got paired up because everyone else said no. Wait, so you do them individually and now you're going to go at them as a juror. Yeah, more. We want more. No, I don't like this.

Bree and Clint's together sound like a podcast your Uber driver accidentally puts on, but you're too polite to ask him to change it. Jesus. And in the afternoons, the end. their show feels like a meeting that could have been an email. Oh my God. Oh my God. Haley, please stop it.

Clint's crying. No, I'm not. It's just a little... It's just ripping. It's just ripping. My therapist is going to be so happy. There's a way more things to talk about now. They were about to wrap you up.

Therapists like, gosh. Oh my God. Hailey, have you done one of these roast before? A comedy roast? I have. Can you not tell? Yeah, I can. I have done them before.

You hit them where it's low because are you guys going to do it in the way where the roasted gets the chance to roast the roasters back? At the end, we will have one right of reply, yeah. You can hit me with one age. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, on behalf of Ailey, she doesn't mean it.

I can take it. Haley's a dick. Actually, when we do have the weekend, we won't be seeing Haley till Monday, so. Yeah, but that's all right. She's going to have no one to tell her that they were joking over the weekend. Don't remember about that because she'll be like looking selling up. Oh, you're still thinking about that.

Don't worry about it. They were joking. I'm just checking my period tracker app just to make sure to see if we're safe. Yeah, just check and then. Go on. Someone's in trouble if she's ovulating. Day 21 feels a little too dangerous, I'll be honest. How possibly could we think of a rose for Haley on the spot?

And I would go low, but your boobs are already doing that for you. Wow, physical. We weren't physical. We're physical. Wow. Love you, yeah. She was not planning on going to Turkey just yet, but that might be this year now.

I think I might, yeah, divert my Europe trip to Turkey, I think. Yeah. For that lift. Nah, you guys are going to be all right. It's all in fun and jest, and there's no hurt feelings, right? Nah, mate, nah, mate. I still have all the love for you in the world. It doesn't feel like it.

I don't want to see you for at least six working weeks, but, you know. It looks like you look like you're about to cry. I'm a bit shell-shocked. I wasn't 100% sure of where these things were going to go, I'll be there to hold you and cradle you Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, okay, so what's happening with tickets? We just had a message come through to say that the comedy festival website is not working,

but the tickets are on sale on I ticket. So if you Google Breanclint Roast I ticket, or you just go to the I ticket website, they are on sale now. Hell yeah. So we'll put that link on our Instagram as well. Okay, because Wednesday it happened, it's not for a while. At 8th of May on a Friday at the Q Theatre in Auckland. Q Theatre is great.

It's a beautiful theatre. It's so good. It's a true. Well, yeah. Great place to cry. Yeah. Yeah. I love you.

Get a tattoo of us then. Why don't drag me into this? Yeah. That was really good. That was good. Play Z-M's Flash forne and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

today. This week's fact of the day has been Irish. Can I just say I probably said one of the funniest jokes of the week off air just then, didn't I? That's what you really did. Say it again. We could definitely never say on here. Yeah. Say it again. Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

Haley will set you up and you spike it again. You can't say it. Hey, everybody I just said really funny. Something for it. I'll tell us. I absolutely can never say on broadcast radio. But it was really funny, wasn't it? It was really funny.

Yeah, thank you. Given the context, if listeners, if only you knew. Anyway, something Irish. Fact of the Day. It wasn't about the Irish. And my joke wasn't about the Irish. I'll say that right now. Fletcher's joke wasn't about the Irish.

No, definitely not. So it's been the Irish work here at Factor of the Day because it's been, it was St. Patrick's Day earlier. of the week. Can I also say next week, oh, check it. I'm sorry, did you just hear Haley sip from her ice coffee? I thought she burbs. Can you hear that? Yes, yes, we can. I thought you had one of those throat burbs.

I'm so lucky. Whenever I broadcast from the Wellington studio, the Wellington team always look after me. It's so lovely. They leave little treats and coffees. You need it. You need it. Next week, Fact of the Day theme, this was sent at 9.30 at night. And so it's very brief, but it's like, check your photos. There's a screen cap. That's what I emailed to myself. But you didn't email yourself This is the idea for Fact of the Week

So you've given yourself a two Back to the Week Alright, you're a messay Back to the week Next week Check your photos There's a screen cap Wow

Man I sometimes it's cool It's like I'm two people And I'm like I'm married to myself And the communication's breaking down You know that you can send that email That photo Why didn't I send myself the screen cap

Yeah I know Because that wouldn't have been a treasure home Because past you was lazy so lazy yeah probably had a couple of drinks famous Irish people you might not realize

are Irish this day's fact of the day I said this one the other day in passing when we were talking about musicians and you're like

yeah hosier from take me to church fame everyone knows he's Irish I didn't know he's American because of the blues

and gospel style but he's like take me to church that's American through and through me worship like a dog on a Saturday

night night Liam Neeson's Irish. People always ask him where in England he's from and he has to say I'm Irish. He was born in Northern Ireland. I thought he was Welsh. Did you think he's Welsh? Piers Brosnan.

He's Welsh. Ultimate British spy James Bond proudly an Irishman born in County Meath. Oh, okay. Not English. Enya, who we've already talked about, people think she's... People get Enya, apparently, people get Enya confused with Bjork and think she's from Iceland.

Her music sounds very Icelandic, doesn't it? It does, yeah. She's a... but she is not Bjork. She is from County Donegal, so she's the second highest-selling Irish recording artists of all time behind you two. Right.

I never know how to say her name. Shurrshin Rowan. Oh, yeah, A actress. Sersha. Roran. It means freedom in Irish. Yeah, Ronan. Kise.

Sirsher Ronan. Shana. Shanae was Irish. Nothing compared to you, didn't really get across her Irish accent. And, of course, it's her biggest song. So they always think she's American. Van Morrison, who sung Brown-Ey.

girl. And Killion Murphy is Irish. He played Thomas Shelby and Peeky Blinders and it is a timely reminder that today the Peaky Blinders movie is on Netflix. With fellow Irishman Barry Keegan. Barry Keegan plays his son. His estranged son in Peaky Blinders. It's set sometime after the sixth season of Peaky Blinders, which came out in 2022.

Oh wow. It's been a while. It's been four years since that came out. So watch yourself a recap before you sit down to enjoy that. And the creator said, I want to remember this off the top of me. head. The three episodes you need to watch are episode one of season one, episode six of season two and episode six of season six. Those are the three episodes you need to watch as Massa Peakey Bliner fans. How did you remember that but not what next week's fact of the day is about?

I've seen it once. I'll say it again. The way you're using your brain compartments is all wrong. Yeah. Yeah. But I'll sat once, I'll say it again. They can't diagnose you if they can't catch you. Bring in the psychiatrist. That's why I've been working on my cardio. They're like, for when we've got a doctor here.

Do you? Do you? Catch me. He's gone. He's gone. So today's fact of the day is there are lots of famous Irish people that you probably didn't know we're Irish.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do The ZDUToo, do do do do. The ZDM Podcast Network. Fletch for, and Haley.

We're all just talking about going up for lunch and they're like, oh, no, we'll pay, we'll pay. I'm like, good, I'm not paying. I'm not paying. I can't. I can't afford lunch. I'm not paying. I'll give you a co-heart each and it's going to be very small,

so manage your expectations. Yesterday, producer Shannon, I would say your heart sank when this happened. Oh, gosh. You've already had a bit of a tough week this week. You didn't need this. So I get a message from my friend saying, did you mean to post that on

Fletchwall and Haley social media? Oh my God, that doesn't make me want to have a panic attack. Okay. Oh my god. I have had a one of those messages this week. My heart sank. So I was in the office. You guys were long gone. It was a, you know, it was past 10 a. Oh, you're way out of you. How much? Did you hear that? That was quite rude. Like, I need to feel better about myself

because I messed up. Wait, is that what the Gen Z's called bullying in the workplace? Because it sounded like it. It's called a ZEM roast. And tickets are live right now for Brie and Clint. They are actually, yes. And also, the link is now working on the Comedy Fest website as well. So head along to the Comedy Fest website. Dub-dub-Dub-Comedyfestival.com.

That's it. Yeah, I was getting there. I was doing the Ws. You're going to do the H-T-P-S colon slash slash slash. How will people know that you're talking about the internet? That's right. Yeah. Well, so I was in the office and I was walking between spaces,

and I had my phone and my hand just, you know, moving around. And what my hand must have done unknowingly is open Instagram to our Fletchwoman and Haley account. So obviously I've got my Shannon one, but I was logged in as FVH at the moment. Shannon J. Tram. That's the one. Thanks for the shout-out. What are you publicly acquiring followers? Is that sort of a public account?

Yeah, I'll take a shout out in the workshop. All right. At Shannon J-Tren. So I was logged in as FVH. I walked into the office and my friend messaged me, did you mean to post that? and I immediately open it. This is so dodgy. I posted without knowing a photo

on our public story of myself and my niece from six weeks ago. Oh my God. So my hand not only posted something to our socials, it scrolled back six weeks. Could have been worse, could have been worse, could have been worse. Oh my God, Vaughn nearly saw my boobies yesterday. Like, that's how bad my photo album is.

And the thing that's crazy is it was up for three minutes, which to me is too long. Can you be getting any news? No one's replies of people been like, cute baby. No one replied. And I'm curious, 9-6-96, if you saw it. Because it had a bunch of years. Carlin's like, why didn't you screenshot?

I just panicked. I deleted it. Oh, my God. Luckily, cutest photo. My niece is adorable. I'm just looking at like my last screen of camera roll pictures. It's all furniture pictures and stuff. But oh my God, there are times if this happened to me.

There's a little eyeball one. That's your hidden photo on. Yeah, put that in the hiddens, dude. You've got to be careful out there. Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, it could have been worse. Shannon, couldn't it? Well, this is the thing. This was six weeks ago and we kind of talked

about it. I was quite six, six weeks ago and I have a lot of medical photos and a lot of them are very intense but I have to keep them to keep track of things. Yeah, right. And this photo of myself and my niece was three or four photos away from quite a graphic medical photo.

So we could have had something a lot worse on our story. But I've never done this before. I've posted silly little Polar as Shannon many a times. And you're free and get five votes. You're like, man, I was just not popping off today. And my friends are like, I don't care about the weather, should. It is my favourite thing.

And it doesn't happen as much these days, because I think people have kind of sorted it out a bit more. But when a social media manager for a huge brand accidentally post like their weekend shenanigans. It's so funny. It's so funny. Or like a political opinion or something. Oh, that's good. Yeah.

On to like a corporate page. It's so funny. Well, this is exactly what we want to know this morning. Has this ever happened to you? Like, what have you accidentally posted, whether it was a post or, a story. 0800 dials at em as a number

text through 9696. I want to know what you accidentally posted to your story or a post on social media

because producer Shannon did this yesterday. Some people have messages saying they didn't see it and thought it was really off.

Really odd, yeah. It didn't have an orange box Shannon with relative. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the branding wasn't there.

The branding was missing. It was odd. It was odd. It was odd. It was odd. So messages in, a photo of my best friend and I kayaking while smoking a joint.

I forgot to crop the joint out of my granny commented, Taylor, why are you smoking? My best friend posted a naked pregnancy photo on her Instagram story that was meant to be DM'd to me. Oh, we've had a couple of those. Emma, what happened? What did you accidentally post?

Oh, hi. First time caller also. Oh, long-time listener, okay. Long-time listener, first-time caller. Yes. Welcome, Emma. Oh, thank you. So I am a

preceptor and I had access to our Instagram surviving team leader And on a very, very drunken work during the bottomless brunch

Then cocktails far too much vodka I posted a drunken photo of myself And two colleagues I had a cow neck Topon Bras showing

and it wasn't to about half an hour later when I went in just to see if the person I posted at 4 was kind of looking when I noticed. Oh, first trapping, first trapping. You put on the work account. Yeah. When I noticed parents were looking at it. Oh, no.

I tell you what, a few dads did the Monday drop off though. Where's Mrs. Cowlick? Oh, that is so funny. Emma, thank you. I have a great weekend. Anonymous. You also posted a pregnancy pack. No, I am not the one who posted it.

My best friend is the naked pregnancy photo that was meant to come to me. No, and it went on her story. It was on her story. I mean, I was the one that found it on her story because I was like, this is weird. How long had it been up for? Probably about 20 minutes. it. That's too long.

That's way too long. That's when you get your most... It's enough to catch a nip. Yeah. That's when you get all the good stuff. It was side on, boobs out over the tummy. It was a goodie. Side-on's all right though, because then your downstairs is less...

Hidden behind his leg, isn't it? Yeah. Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in. I went to save a booty picture that I'd taken on my Snapchat because I was like, that's good. I'm going to save that. Instead, I accidentally posted it to my story.

Oh, so good. So many. We'll get to those next. There is one I just read before. Like, are you going to read that one out? I was going to save that for last, but then I realised there's heaps of other really good. Yes, this is the pudding.

It's all pudding. I love this. And then like five more puddings have rolled in. I work for one of the ambulance services in this fine country of ours. My mates thought it would be funny to do a Halloween post-dressed in sheets while sitting in the ambulance that look like ghosts, right?

Like the passengers that didn't make it. I mean, there's literally two ambulance services. isn't there? St John and the other one. St John and the other one. They posted it on Instagram and someone from the company saw it and thought they were dressed up as Ku Klux Klan.

National office weren't happy about the clan members in the ambulance. Yeah, it's a... Wild Halloween costume idea. Let's go as the KKK. I feel if you've got your arms out and there's no hood. That's the thing if you are dressing up as a ghost in a white sheet, make sure it's rounded over the head

rather than a fitted sheet. Maybe the fitted sheet might point a little. Yes. You can't get a point on a white sheet. It's a small distinction. My wife had set up her NAN's iPad with her Apple account while my wife was overseas, we're engaged in a few not for safe of her photos and videos,

and Nan was very confused at all the penis action on her iPad. So I had to show my sister-in-law to photo what was happening. Nan still brings it up whenever I see her. I would just would have lied to Nan. That's definitely like, oh, Nan, you've been hacked. Give me that throw at the ocean. Yes. My now husband posted a sexy photo of me in the bath

of the family holiday photo album in Turkey back in 24. It was up for 10 minutes and his brother saw it and told him he immediately took it down and told me about it. Luckily, it was one of our safer photos. You know when you're doing an album? Yes, yes. Select one of the sexy ones. Okay, accidentally post...

That's the pudding text. I'll come back to that. That's pudding. That's pudding. Posted a picture of accidentally on my Snapchat's through the inside of my Manky tog bottoms. I was checking my Snapchat on the Lou and sale Croatian.

So they're sitting on the toilet in South Croatia and they accidentally take a Snapchat of their Foofoo. Togs around their angles on the ground, but the Manky inside of the tog. Left the bar with no Wi-Fi was on my story for 12 hours before I was back on Wi-Fi. People are like, you need to get yourself some new togs

as a Manky. And get your pH test. That's your worst nightmare. Say you accidentally posted something when the plane was about to take off and then you lose reception. And there's nothing you can do. And there's nothing you can do for like two hours or an hour.

I posted a close-up picture of my bits to my Snapchat story rather than sending it to the person I was seeing at the time. Oh no. I didn't know how to turn it off, so in a panic, I turned off my phone. No, but that doesn't turn off the internet. That doesn't turn off the internet. That's just going to take longer for you to turn your phone back on

so you can log in and delete it. Oh, gosh. I posted a Snapchat to my story instead of sending it to my coworker and the message was me bitching about another co-worker of ours, who was also I was friends with on Snapchat. Didn't know how to use Snapchat well at the time. Well, that's blatantly obviously. Snapchat was the one A that a lot of people got caught on.

Yes. Yes. I think because the button to post to the story was just, you know, up there with the send button. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm a guy, and I uploaded photos of me and all my mates, a chat jebtee, and said, what would we look like if we were a woman wearing bikinis? And then I went to send it to the lads, but put them all on my story instead,

notice all the replies I was getting for a while. That's going to be worrying. Your parents see it and you're like, you've got something good like to tell us. But how do you think they looked? Kind of hot. Yeah, probably hot. I mean, just feel free to send them through. Yeah.

I mean, we're happy to review. My partner woke up to a Facebook message saying that the story had posted had been reported and removed. Turns out in his sleep, he'd rolled over on his phone and posted a picture of my tides to Facebook. A few years ago, my husband and I was scrolling Facebook and then came across a story of our friend's wife topless and getting dressed in their bedroom. His friend had accidentally posted it to a story and the worst thing was

and people rang him to tell him he didn't know how to remove it so he had to drive all the way to his wife's work to get her to remove it, which was quite some time later. Okay, you're ready for your pudding? Yep, go, go. I've got to find you pudding here. Have a little dance. I've put the pudding in the fridge. I've just got to do a keyword search.

He's just getting the three spoons. Get some spoons out. I can't find it. Get some spoons out. I'm a fabian. This isn't it, but I'll just read it while I'm here. Okay. I'm a fabulous F-cup girlie.

And postpartum, I could knock it over the size of the situation. I took a breastfeeding picture to compare it and accidentally posted it on my story. Oh, no. These are great stories. They love them so much. They got out there. Have you got it? Was it at 858-046 is the end?

8-58-4-6. We got a lot at 858. Here, accidentally posted a picture of myself giving my boyfriend. Oh, no. A. a thing. Yep. Playing the pokey flute.

And that's actually just because I'm playing Pokemon and I'm about to acquire the poker flute to wake up snorlax, but that's by the bye. Giving myself my boyfriend a little something, I accidentally put it on my Snapchat story. But then, of course, I had to finish what I was doing, as any good lady should. No!

So I left my phone on Do Not Disturb for about 30 minutes. Came back to dozens of miscours and messages. No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh my God, dozens. Dozens. Dozens. Yeah. Dozens.

Yep. Of inquiries. I think just throw your phone in the ocean and yourself. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flash forne and Haley. I want to ask our lovely listeners, what is your strange superstition? Maybe this is something that's been like told to you, passed down to you, or you've, you know, learned, or something you've just come up with yourself.

Because everyone's sharing these online at the moment. they're strange superstitions, not like black cats or umbrellas or ladders, more like the moment you get a couple's tattoo, you have doomed the relationship to split. Oh. The moment you start buying, like one girl shared, every time she's bought a boyfriend,

a pair of shoes, the relationship only has lasted a couple of weeks afterwards. And she's like, this is it. I'm not buying shoes anymore. So now she doesn't buy shoes ever. Or you're like, I do not date. Kyle's, you know? Yeah, right. You've got a superstition

around Kyle. You've tried with two and they both just haven't worked. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't have to be around dating but I think as humans we're always looking for patterns in our life as excuses for probably our own behaviours. Yeah, our own terrible behaviours. Yeah. But I want to know

what is your strange superstition? I get a vibe that there's some superstition in the producers book. Oh, Shannon will be full of it. Oh, this is big Shannon. This is giving big shannon energy. There's one curse, I believe, in Heverley. Okay. It's called the crochet curse.

Okay. Yes, yes, yes. You've told me this before. So there's a sweater curse where basically if you ever crochet a sweater or knit for your partner, the relationship's done. Within, within days. And if you Google this, everyone's like, happened to me, happened to me, happened to me. So you've never knitted your magician boyfriend Brendan in a sweater? I would never.

He could offer to pay me how much money. It's the one curse I believe in. Wow, okay. I mean, I'm handy to keep up the sleeve with, if you want to break up with him and you want to get some cash on the way out. Oh, no, you're talking. But imagine making sleeves for a magician, it feels complicated, you know? You've got to have a rabbit pop up there, yeah.

Well, especially your crochet sleeves will give away the magic trick because you'll see the rabbit up the sleeve. Yeah. There's little tiny holes, yeah. It's a good point. My physio has one of these because I saw my physio last year. He was waiting for the traffic lights and I was walking home, and I was like, get a mate, I'd have caught up with him.

I was like going well. Oh, my. Haven't needed to come in. And then two days later, I had to go in. And he's like, oh, and then I saw him. And I was like, oh, twice in one week. And he said, yeah, you shouldn't have said hello to me. And I was like, well, that's his.

Yeah, and I was like, what do you mean? Is that across the medical professionals full stop or is that just physio? He was saying it's a thing. He's like, if you see me out in public, I won't be upset if you ignore me. Because he said, it's a thing. When you say hello to the physio in the public, I was like, Is this a thing? I don't know.

I love this message that just came in. When I weigh myself, I have to hold my breath until the numbers come up on the scale. Otherwise, I won't have lost any weight. I don't know if that's. When you're like... How that works. Okay, 9-6-9-6 is our number. Text in.

You can give us a call as well, 0800 dials it in. Asking now, if you've got a weird superstition about something. Yeah, everyone's sharing them online. The things that you believe, like if I do this, then this will happen. Not like... If you, not like if you walk under a ladder, but more like if you buy a man, someone just messes you in, right? If you buy a man a watch, it means time's up. Oh, really?

This is one of yours as well. You don't give someone a watch. Absolutely, Chief. I'm also loving the extra hour with you lot, by the way. Oh, thank you. Don't say that loud. I'm hoping that management reverse the decision. Yes, I'm not doing another one.

Yeah, we're hoping management think it's too much talking and they cancel it. Yeah, we're thinking like a, I don't know, a seven to eight would be perfect. Perfect workday. Yeah. At night and pre-recorded. Yes. So, Jack, your anti-watch is a gift. I am indeed.

So basically, rest in peace, Chester, he just said, I think when you buy someone a watch, this has happened to me. And also, I mean, I see him once every two to three years, I will steal his watch. I've got nine over the course of the last 20 years And I don't wear any of them I've got them all beautifully sitting in a box I do not wear them He every time you see your father

He gives you another watch Oh he doesn't give it to me I just take it Oh you stop He's got money I don't Right okay yeah right Okay yeah and I've had a relationship

Which was doomed I blame it on the watch And I've had friends who've told me that as well. Oh, yeah, actually. So I don't know. You guys and the listeners can probably think back to your relationship and think if you gave someone a watch.

I think that is really quick. Yeah, I think it was more they're cheating, to be honest, Jack. They were wearing a watch. They were. Yeah. Yeah, the trauma is bubbling up, Jack. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend, Jack.

Yeah, what a lovely great, thank you. Amazing. Thank you, Jack. Let's go to Megan. Megan, what is the weird superstition that you believe in? So I got a bracelet given to me by my now husband 17 years ago. And every time the clasp undoes, we have had massive arguments. And I'm not known to argue, which makes even weirder.

It's the bracelet. In the early stages, and the bracelet was undone. So now every time it pops undone, I freak out. Yeah, so you've got to quickly get it. closed otherwise, yeah, the world's not happening. Do you tell him? Is he aware? Like, do you tell him the

bracelets open, we're going to fight? Yeah, well, he already knows it now. If he sees it open, he's kind of like, oh. It just quickly close that. It's going to quickly give you a peace of my mind. Megan, so good. Thank you. I have my parents buy my partner, or my sister's partner, a fishing road for Christmas.

The partners are guaranteed to break up with us, so we've banned our parents from buying all. Then fishing I guess it's also a sign that they don't like your partner if the first time they meet them, they give them a fishing rod. Yeah, they don't know anything about them, but there's a fishing rod waiting. Just don't like this one's look. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got too many tattoos. I have to keep the toilet that closed.

Otherwise, it means the relationship's going down the drain. A lot of these are just like puns, really, that people are putting a little weight behind, eh. Also, I don't want to pick holes in that one, but their relationship could slip through the gap between the toilet and the bowl and the seat. Yeah, because there's plenty of other gaps. It's not an airtight seal, that one. The shoe theory, you never buy your partner's shoes. I was in a friend group of three couples, all broke up after shoes that had been purchased. Really?

Okay. Okay, it could have been the cheating, but it might have been the shoes. It could have been there. When eating Eminem's, I have to finish with a yellow one. It's painful if you don't check the bag near the end or look, and if there's the only one yellow one left. Wait. I've got to eat all the others before the yellow one. If there's no yellow ones, I have to stop eating immediately.

What are you doing in the movies? Do you put a yellow one in your top pocket? So you've got it there for the end? You get your torch on in the movies? Just like finding the last yellow one. Some of these feel a lot more like OCD than they do superstition. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Avoiding Taurus men.

Yep, okay. Yeah, you don't want to be dating them. You should avoid the Pice's men, remember, because we figured out that they were all Hitler. I'm a Pice's man, not Hitler. Remember we were doing the star signs of all? No, Piscis, no, it was Taurus men, wasn't it? There was the most.

Well, no, through the dictators. Starships. A lot of dictators were Pisces. Were Pisces as well. No, they were. What were the star signs? I don't even care about star signs, but I fiercely defend mine.

Oh, yeah, Hitler was a Taurus. I do apologize. Yeah, I think... Pol Pot? Pol Pot. I think Pol Pot was a saggy. Yeah. Taurus.

Taurus is surprisingly common. Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler were all Taurus. All right. What was Mussolini? Mussolini. Musselini. Very lane. He worked out a lot. Musselini. Penis Shea was a Sagittarius along with Francesco Franco and Kim Jong

the second. Right. Oh my God, Gaddafi was a... A ward. Capricorn. Okay, right. Okay, lovely. Thank you for your messages in, dear listeners. Play ZM's FlashForn and Haley. It's always when reading articles like this about relationships where I wish we could have morgues in studio, sexologist Morgan Penn, or a psychiatrist to be like, what is the way out?

I think we know the answer. Okay. Because there is a rise in the mention of zombie marriages. Now, don't get excited born because it's not like. You can't marry zombies? Can't marry zombies. I would say this would also be true for just relationships, zombie relationships. Zombie rellos, yeah, for sure.

Long-term zombie rellos. When you think of a zombie, what are they like? They're like, no one's home. Brains. Yeah, yeah. What's less I want to eat you and more like brains off. like walking through, you know, they're not really aware. Stumbling through life.

Stumbling through just kind of no one's home. A zombie marriage or a zombie relationship is when one partner mentally and emotionally exits while physically remaining. So, and we've heard of this, right? It's like, and it kind of creeps in slowly, and they're still there and there's no sign of actually living, but they're zombie.

They're just going through the emotions, becoming increasingly common, according to relationship counselors, who say that this is popping up in their council rooms more and more and more often women mentally leaving a relationship before physically leaving.

Is that because it's too hard to leave? Too hard to leave sometimes but too hard to do the mahi to fix it. So too hard to like, I mean this is the thing that Morgan would say right, it comes down to communication. Too hard to communicate the feelings or what they're lacking

or the disappointments and frustrations. So they're just, mentally clock out, get their joy from elsewhere, and in their own marriage, they are just a zombie. Which is sad, right? Because it's such a waste of time. Like, some people do this for years. Some people, I know. I mean, I have family members, you know, that I've heard this. And I'm like, you only get one life. Yeah. Some relationships are forever and some are for a season. I've been promised seven. Seven, no, you're not a cat, remember? No, that's nine. That's nine. Where did you get the number seven from Hon?

Because there is only one and I can confirm that that's true. Seven I met a tree god in the forest one night and he promised me if I did his bidding and bought him human souls I would get seven. Well can we have one each Sue? I can't share but I can introduce you to my tree god and if you do his bidding

and bring him human souls you can have seven to. Do you know what's interesting that these councils were saying is that most women who are in these zombie marriages or zombie relationships They eventually leave anyway. So, I mean, it's easier to say than done, but it's like you're going to leave. Just like get out there sooner. If you know it's over, it's over.

Yeah, I mean, there are serious reasons why some people can't leave. For sure. And, you know, they just can't. But yeah, if you can and you want to, like, just do it. Don't waste time. We've just had a little message in. It's happening in my life right now. It's frustrating as hell.

I'm mentally, physically and emotionally checked out. Yeah. Do you know, like I would go. and see, I mean, you know me, I'm pro therapy. Go and see someone. And you don't have to go with your partner. Just go on your own and talk these feelings through with someone or a good friend. AI it, if you can't afford

therapy. That's how therapist love to hear. And if you can't afford that surgery, AI it. Well, yeah, get a real sharp knife and AI just AI it. Hey, remember how you just gave that Uber driver five stars because you

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