ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 22nd May 2026

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

00.00: Intro 02.20: Learner drivers bedazzling their L Plates 07.10: Top 6 - Places to bury ashes 12.50: Uber driver using AI to scam 17.00: SLP - Do you sleep wearing headphones? 21.30: Kony 2012 30.05: The sexy Priest scandal 33.30: What happened on the school trip? 42.10: Hayley is too trusting with AI 47.10: What was the interior design regret? 58.50: Fact of the day 1.02.40:  Is it weird? 1.07.50: When did you get a bad review? 1.14.40: QLP - Do you snot rocket in public? 1.17.50: Gen Z females are out buying Gen Z males See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

from the ZM Podcast Network. This is... Fleshwoman and Haley's Big Pod. Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. Good morning, happy Friday. We made it. Well, don't say that yet.

The day's not over. It's not. Deal or reveal are the last case. On the wall. Number four. So that's that. You don't even get a choice when you ring at 8.

You get in 4. Maybe you wanted 4. Like it a lump it. Yep. It's the last case. So there's a. cash amount inside. Brin the bank will make you a deal.

You can either choose to take that deal, take that cash, or reveal what's inside the case. So 8 o'clock is your next chance to play this morning. Fun. My pick for Friday Flashback today, I'm going to go with a band as well that have announced your retirement,

which is funny because I thought they were over. Yeah, it's not like they were like cranking. No, no. But fun. The top six, what's on the top six today? Well, a little bit of a local legend and Nelson worked at the New World.

So when the new New World was built and she was passing away, she said pop me in the foundations. Why not? Not as a corpse. She was ashes. Ashes is part of the concrete base. Yeah.

Wow. Don't we have homesy in the concrete base here? We don't tell too many people. We've got a little, we've got a sprinkler hymise. We've got a legendary broadcaster support homes. The shrine that we go to.

Yeah, we pop that in. Yeah. It's like the, the Blarnie Stein. Yes, yeah, we just kiss at that Irish Castle. We give the Holmesystein a little kiss on the way past. So I've got the top six places. You can put my ashes.

Okay. Just sort of... Some radio towers. Yeah. You want to keep it in the industry or just anywhere? We'll see. Just interests, things I like. Okay.

Yeah. Sprinkle it up, divide it into six and put it in the six places. Like the Hawlux is in Harry Potter. Okay. Who's in charge of this? The girls? Yep. We'll listen in tent leads

So that we can pass that information on Next on the show There was nothing more embarrassing than when you were a learner driver And you got that ugly yellow plate in the back of your car Well new learner drivers are making a way to make it a bit cooler The ZN Podcast Network I What car did you learn to drive in?

A dihatsu Oh love me A little blue dihatsu Nice cute I learned to drive in a Toyota Starlet. 1986 to we had to Starlet. Cute.

Mine was, it was Dad's Lexus. Now we remember this. This just feels like that is rich, that just feels like a rich person really just wanted to lure us into the soul. I will say it was a

cute story to rub their wealth. It was a very old secondhand car. Where did you guys holiday growing up? Frats darling. You just ran New Zealand. Yeah, just ran New Zealand. That's crazy.

We didn't jump in a fratz. No, but I remember it was like my dad's pride and joy but my mum had like a bigger kind of a trucky thing Suzuki Like an SUV or something What was it?

It was green Suzuki something Not a Suzuki? Yeah A big Suzuki? No it wasn't big It was like kind of lit Was it a Votara? Suzuki Vatara's well

Yeah And so I couldn't learn to drive in that So I had to learn a dad's car And he was like right In a Lexus In the Lexus style It was like a very old Secondhand one

For context But I remember the day of getting the L plates and then like, oh they're so shame like do I have to drive with these loser plates on, we used to call them loser plates and my dad sticking him in the back of the car and being like, don't put the sticker on

we'll just put blue tack and they kept falling down. And then after you had the little suction things and then afterwards they released those ones that were like did you ever see those ones? You know if there's printing on a window like out there it's a material but it's got heaps and heaps of holes in it so it's mesher you can see through it And it just like slapped on.

Slapped on and you could peel it off. But it wasn't a sticker. It's like when you sit on a bus behind a marketing poster and you can still see through. That was what they were. But you can't see in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were so shame and you used to be like,

I can't wait to get these off. Well, people in New South Wales in Australia have been warned that they could be fined $330 and two demerit points if they keep bedazzling their L plates. So people have been, owl plates or pee plates depending on where you are. On their version of the restricted, you have to have a P plate.

Permit. Yeah, so it's like an owl plate that you stick in your window, but it's P. Yeah, yeah, yeah. P's like restricted, eh? Yeah. And there's a whole lot of restrictions that come with it. So people are like, look at these, like rhinstoning them. Oh, that's cute.

With a yellow and black rhinestone. I mean, they're not covering the owl. They're not, but the transport agency's like, listen, this is like, this is what this is for. It is to loud and clear let people know that you are a learner driver. Yep. Not a loser. Do we have any law enforcement listening now? Would we be allowed to bedazzle our alplates?

Because those actually look quite cold. They do look cold. And if anything, they might shine in the light a bit more. Yeah, because they're just saying... Shane raid like a thayman. They're saying they may not comply with regulation and therefore should not be used. And they say they're bedazzling is best saved for other items.

Keep it out of the... The car. Out of the car, out of the plates. Are we still vajasling? Sorry to bring the time of the show down. I haven't jazzled in years. Did you ever have the jazzle? That's right.

People used to rhinestone their sort of pub triangle. Yeah, they wax it or lays it off and then... And put like a hard or a playboy buddy. No one put a playboy buddy down there, did they? 100% they did. 9-6, are you rocking a playboy bunny tattoo? Or are you Vajeling? Or are you the jazling?

When did you ask for jazzle? Talked to someone the other day. They had an encounter with someone. A sexual encounter. Of the sexual nature. Yes. And the person took their pants off. Oh, I like it when they do that.

I'm in already. They had a blue star pimple plaster on like on a pimple down there. On their genies? No, like on the side. It's okay? You know, sometimes you get a pimple like in the pubis area. Yeah, like an ingrown hair situation. That was, they were just like, it was pretty weird.

They just had a blue purple patch. I remember... Well, that's because you don't want it falling in your food. You want to be able to see it. You don't want skin color. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Because on Sex.com, I think, season one, Morgan talked about it, that she wasn't ready for the day they were going to take their clothes off at the school. And she had a bunch of, like, the clear purple patches on just some ingrown hairs and was like, oh, God, they're everywhere. But not a blue star.

It's good, good to see. Yeah, maybe it was a rating. Maybe we looked at the wrong with that. It was a one star. Just a heads up, I'm a one star. Yeah, my reviews so far are poor on, but I'm working really hard. I've got my learner plates on it. I'm getting better every day.

The Benin Podcast Network. From the Fletchhorn and Haley group chat, this is the top six. Kilda, a long-serving new world employee by the name of Diane Hodson, who worked for 30 years as the freezer manager. She biked to work every. day and people just loved her. She was a local legend. She passed away last year and her ashes, along with her 30 year plus service badge

were placed under the new freezer section with her family's blessings and the new and the new concrete poor. That's lovely. It's lovely that she cared so much about it and obviously had a very happy and fulfilling career. And there's actually going to be a second tribute plan at the same

new world for Julie who died six weeks before the... They're dropping like flies, bloody. Oh, that's sad. Yeah, after 15 years is the store's lost prevention manager. Does that mean she? Oh, yeah, she got some rat bags.

She can clips those little rat bags around the air, does she? She did, yeah. She's going to be a place at the entrance way later this year so she can continue to watch people come and go. Oh, I love that. And she'll beep when people leave with a chocolate bar in their pocket. The ghost of Julie's just really going to clip you around the air if you try to pinch anything. I love this job, and I love hanging out with you guys every morning,

and by you guys, I mean, the listeners. and you guys. But please don't put me none of me at work. A little bit. In this corporate building. You're getting buried out. You're not getting ashes.

No, I'm getting buried in the maria. So we're just going to cut a toe off. You can have a finger, but just not here. Take it to the viaduct tiles. Take it to roses. You know, put me in a frozen mug. Something like that. Just not.

Don't put me in a little bit. I don't want your life finger in my train. Let me get me in a theater maybe, but no, no, no. No, no. Don't, you know, dabble me through the microphone. This is a problem in places. like picturesque places and beaches where people do this a lot, spread some ashes, yeah.

Yeah, becomes a problem. And Sportsfields was a big one. Yes. They were like, stop smuggling your dead dad onto his favorite team's sports field. Yes, and people would like lean over the hoardings and sprinkle them onto the pitch. Yeah. It's a bit morbid, isn't it? Well, I've got the top six places to put my ashes.

And these are the places I've spent a lot of time because these lovely women would. Take notes, Fletch. You're in charge of this. Dedicated. I'll be distraught. And I'll do the singing at the, oh my gosh. I'll put on a real show. Wait, so you're going to make it all about yourself at Horn's funeral.

Five at the top. Okay. Thank you. Keep it tight. Keep it tight. People in a relationship make some noise. Oh, no. And they'll do some stuff like that.

Yeah. A custom five. Oh, you want a custom five? I was just going to whip out my club set. What about your club set? Try and true. Everybody morning, make some noise. Yeah.

Yeah. Top six places put my ashes that I spend a lot of time. Number six on the list. That big bean bag I've got in the lounge. You love that, don't you? Yeah, actually, that's hashtag spawncon for the mealer. It's a double. It's so fantastic.

It's huge. It's huge. But it's so fast. Fantastic. So you're we were putting it inside the cover? Yeah, I can just right into the middle of the beanbag. You won't even feel it. But you've got to get a bit.

We end up bistling that thing one day. Yeah, but I'm right in the middle. I'm in a container. Oh, okay. Chuck me in a little container. Number five on the list of the top six places to put my ashes. One of my favorite places to enjoy Guinness, the Hill, Poit Heaven. Oh, mate.

There's lots of pot plants. Yeah, there's a half pot plants. Give us a sprungle in the pop plants. They'll be like, jeez, that bloody pot plant. That primrose is thriving. There'd be a lot of old mate. that get sprinkled in a bar at their tab at their local.

Do you want us to have a bangers and mash or a surf and turf? You have a bangers and mash. No, Fletch, you have bangers and mash. Okay. You have the surf and turf. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be our honour.

A couple of guineas. And have some guy there playing the Eagles. Yeah, well, you better go on a Sunday afternoon for some live music from three. Three. I thought it was three. Two. Three. Best arrive at two.

Best be safe. Go it too. Get a good spot. Number four on the list of the top six places to put. my ashes that I've spent a lot of time. My to 10, obviously. Which aisle? I reckon, again, probably in the pot plants outside of the plants.

No, I thought you would have wanted to go trade entrance. The trade entrance. Oh, I love a trade entrance. It's exclusive. Yeah, it would be your honour. It would be my honour. Make me a little box out of something at, by the 10. Pop me at the trade entrance.

I put you in the hinges aisle. Oh, no, he'd hate that. No, not the hinges. Tools. But we'll put him in Ryobi at Bunnings. He'll be like, what the hell? No. He'll get her.

Horns us every day. Please don't put my ashes in a Ryobi. That would be so embarrassing. We'll put you in a Ryobi leaf blower. And put it on reverse. Send it. Oh no, not reverse. That'll be the right way, wouldn't it?

To blow it. To blow it. To blow it. Number three on the list of the top six places to put my ashes that I spend a lot of time. The Jamison's distillery. I've never actually been there, but I just don't know how else you put it. Yeah, yeah. And maybe just in the bottle.

We can just put you in the Jamison's bottle. I don't think that'd be funny. Lovely. Empty? A little bit in the bottom. Make a slurry A Jameson's Smith slurry Make a slurry

Yuck Whiskey slurry Number two on the list of the top six places To put my ashes that I spent a lot of time The gym That's a lie but who's calling up the dead guy He's dead He's dead

We turned out He loved He was here every day He loved it He loved and they were like No we were literally just about to send him a text And he hasn't been you for so long He'll he's dead

When did he die Last week He hasn't been in years He but he loved it Got him But he made a donation He made his monthly donation He did

And number one on the list of the top six places to put my ashes that I spend a lot of time here I guess. Maybe in a meeting that could have been an email. So we want to be in a meeting that could have been an email and stand up in the middle of it and say, this could have been an email. And get the leaf blow up.

And get the leaf and then cover all of ZDM. Put it all around. That'll work. I'm happy with that. Okay. All right. That's the day's top six. The ZDN podcast network.

Two teenage girls. in America are enjoying a lovely day at the beach. Is this in America? Let me just double check. I don't want to lie to our listeners. I never were in Florida. Okay. So they're 14 and 15 years old. They've been having a lovely day at the beach.

And after that, they get into a lift, which is like Uber or, you know, a ride share app. Yeah. And they get a ride home. And then their father notices the charge on his card. Nice. Got Dad's card on the lift. Nice.

On the lift profile. Do you have your girls on your app? Oh, that must be nice. Yeah. No, they don't have to take them anywhere. But, you know, if they need to in an emergency, absolutely. Yeah, it's a good call. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the dad sees the charge in the thing from the beach to the house. And he's like, that's very expensive. Show me the receipt. Get the receipt. And there's the ride and all the normal stuff. But there's a $75 cleaning charge. And he's like, what? did you do?

And they said nothing. With absolutely nothing. Oh, San, San from the beach. No. So he gets in touch with the company and says, what's the $75 cleaning fee? And they said, oh, they left a mess in the car, stains, spill drinks and fries chips everywhere. And the girl said, Dad, trust me, Dad. I wouldn't lie to you. We had no food in the car.

So the dad goes back to Lyft and says, show me photo evidence. Because if you leave a mess in the car, they have to take a photo. Yes. so they can charge you, they send back the photo. Now, this is a kind of a little photo of it there. Absolute disgusting. No, that's fair. That's fair. There's a drink spill.

There's a yellow, fizzy, yuck stain, fries chips everywhere. It's an absolute mess. So he was like, girls, but before he lost it, he noticed a little thing in the corner, little logo, little water logo, Gemini. He's used AI. Why, he left his watermark? He left his Gemini Watermark.

Watermark on the photo. Crop it off. The Lyft driver had AIed the mess into his car and claimed they made this mess and they're like, we didn't even have any food, let alone leave anything in the car. Yeah, yeah. So he goes back and he says to the girls,

is this? Is that what I think it is? And they're like, oh my God. So he tells Lyft, he was like, I can tell you right now, those are AI generated. And Lyft was like, oh my God. They got the images back. They said, you're so right. like this is, that's, there's no doubt about it.

Obviously, like, refunded the 75 and he's been blocked. It's been blocked from using the app. The driver has. Yeah. Wow. See, that's something we've got to be worried about now is being scammed that way. But member, we, member, we've got to take photos, member, we're got to take photos when we get out.

No, but then we could AI the photos to clean up the mess. We could, we could take a messy photo. I could soberize my eyes and photos, you know, remove, spew. Yeah. Take the sugar out of your mouth. Yeah, take the lit cigar. I was, no, this was me. I'm taking at 12.30 a.m.

But member? Member. Guys, member with the AI insurance fraud. That's right. People were like photoshopping watches on their wrist and saying, oh yeah, there's me in Barcelona last year with the watch and there's me and I lost it with my Rolex. You're like, you never had that.

You could AI generate a receipt for something you've never purchased. Is there a way to tell that, has been altered if... Aren't they doing stuff around this at the moment, making a law that has to be disclosed that something's an AI thing? Yeah, but I don't think you're worried about the law disclosing whether it's AI generated.

When you're ripping somebody off. When you're doing frauds. Yeah, well, there you go something. I mean, maybe... You actually, if you say, if you think it's being scammed and you say, are you a scammer, they legally have to say yes and then stop. I don't know if that's a thing, Vaughn.

Yeah, and again, I don't think they're law-abiding citizens, so... No, they are. They're quite principled. Well... Other than this... one little area of the lawyer. It's another way you can lose some money. Yeah, and just another way. The ZN Podcast Network.

Play ZDN's Fletchhorn and Haley. Fletch Fawn and Haley, silly little pole. It's so silly, silly, silly, silly, that's silly little... Today's silly little pole. Do you sleep wearing headphones? It's reading an article about this, about the dangers of sleeping with headphones, which I only do if I can't sleep

and I need it right into my ear holes. But a few things, they trap moisture. So you can get a bit of bacteria going in there. They can cause airwax build up by blocking the air's natural self-cleaning process that happens at night. Long-term nightly use, a bit of skin sensitivity. Volume, if you've got it too high,

that's just like blasting your eardrums when they could be having a break. And you might not hear you smoke alarm. Oh, yeah. You might not hear you smoke alarm. That too. Or an intruder. So it's not saying that, like, don't do it.

It's like get sleep specific. ones if you have to have music in your ears. One's that like you can hear the outside world and they're not super eartight. I just couldn't wear them because I sleep on my side and I move around heats. And you always like wake up and ones in the bed by your feet. Yeah, on the move.

So do you sleep wearing headphones? The options were yes all the time, once in a blue moon or no never. No never, 80%. Oh wow. 13% once in a blue moon, 8% all the time. Wow. Okay. Some feedback.

Louise says, I'm too scared of missing the neighbourhood gossip of a drunken brawl at 3am by sleeping with my headphones up. Yeah. You've got to be up peaking through the curtain. Yeah. Always remember if you're going to peek through the curtain

turn your light off first. Because it'll really be obvious when you peek through the curtain if the lights on. Alana said, I have a couple of times to drown out my husband's snoring. Rough.

Living with a snoring. Yeah, noise cancelling would be good for that. Yeah, noise cancelling's good. Or like, yeah, like proper. Yeah. Yeah, but like sleep. Yeah, yeah, actual air plugs. Merida said yes, for at least

15 to 20 years. Pre-sleep headphones, I was constantly almost strangling myself with the cords, so she's got some specifics. Oh. Because I know there was a while ago, there was that you could get a whole system, it was a mask, and then it went down

over your ears as well, and it had a Bluetooth. And the speakers were like flat. They weren't great quality, but they were like, they'd block out noise. Yeah, right. In hotels, hostels to drown out the noise, I usually have your podcast playing Out Loud to Sleep while I'm at home.

That's lovely. That's cute. So we're there, well, I mean, two thirds of the show, very white noise. We do have, Haley's a little bit brown noise. Yeah, I've got a tins. Quarter brown noise. Quarter brown noise.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian said, I have a fear that I'll push them deep into my head and I won't be able to fish them out. Oh, you'd be fine. Like a roll on the minute, that deep in deep. The air hole is not like the bum hole.

No, it's kind of like it's, it doesn't. close and open and then someone can go in and close behind it. So I would say panic night, Brian. Yeah, Brian, calm down. I full of sleep to your potty's every single night without fail and don't be offended that you put me to sleep and relax me. It just relaxes me because you're so familiar to me. It helps me to us.

Wake up! We're a warm embrace. I just sort of thought I snapped them out. Downside, it wasn't a good time when the Christmas elves, they were orphans. They were never elves, were they. Christmas orphans. There was a lot of confusion there. They were the Christmas orphans.

They're not elves. birth. And they're dead now. They might have been no, they're not dead actually. No, they had a visit. Yeah, remember they came back. They were presumed dead. They're dead. They're not dead. Wait, have you heard news that they've died again? Yeah, I have. They're dead. I'm going to see a coroner's report.

Yeah, me too, because last time we presumed dead proven not when they visited us. It wasn't a good time when the Christmas orphans would come on as their pitchy voice would stutle me awake and sked owl to me. It's awful, isn't it? I'm really having to resist. Yeah, no. Carry on.

Leanne said, Mr. Bleachian. I just said at a van. Leanne said, only on the plane. I'll sleep while I'm wearing headphones on the plane. Heather said, I have a really bad habit of falling asleep to TikTok's Reels or Podcasts. And now I have to keep my bedroom door open a crack so my annoying cat can go in and out.

So I usually have one air pot in so my flat mate doesn't hear my... Oh my God, that sounds like a whole thing. Way too uncomfy, but I got a headband earphones and I can sleep with them in now. Oh, nice. It's really, really good. So for silly little poll today, we asked if you ever sleep with headphones in. 80% of you said, no way. Play ZM's.

Flashhorn and Haley. Good like to Auckland FC tomorrow up against Sydney FC. It's a final. We're in the final. Yeah. Kickoff 810, 7, 7 at Go Media Stadium completely sold out 26,000 tickets. Oh my God, that's so cool. So I'm jumping on the bandwagon now, obviously.

And if they win, I don't want to see the behaviour of Arsenal fans. No. Did you see the chaos in after Arsenal? guys shorts pull off come down? No. It's quite funny. Oh my God. What?

In the Arsenal game? A guy like trips up on him and as they fall his boot goes between the shorts and they fall and they just flip down revealing his body. Carwin, review? No comment. Good body. He had a muscle dent. He had a muscle dent.

You know when you got a muscle dent in your bottom? Because your glutes like, hukunk. Yeah. I probably said that wrong. Are you just watching that now, Vaughan. Sorry, just. Dear listener, if we just want to do we just want to do. Wait for Vaughn to watch this show while I load a video.

Watch a man use his butt. Look at a butt dent. I clicked a link. It didn't open. Boo. You suck. You can watch bottoms in your own time. Oh, what are we doing now?

Well, we're going to go to Shannon. Oh, I don't know if I'm about to see it. I'm about to see the bottom. Okay, sorry. Okay, I'm on everybody. So there's a bit of a kaf. It's such a weird jump jump to go from a bottom to a Connie 2012. It's a good butt.

Yeah, it's a good butt. Yeah. I see what you mean? Yeah. Full butt though. Full butt, which also means full shlong. was on the grass. Oh yeah.

It's so funny. Four by the aunties and all. Well, producer Shannon, you might not know this about her, but she watches a lot of crappy reality TV show, but she always ends her night with a wholesome... Learning opportunity. Yeah, I was just telling Carwin off-ear before about the cannibalistic pirates I watched last night. I'm very interesting.

The story that inspired Moby Dick, actually, not the cannibal side of it, but the whale that inspired it. What was that? There's been a few movies and stuff about it. Yeah, it was these pirates and basically they were whalers and they were not good people. They stole 200 Galapagos tortoises so they kind of had it come in. Not the Galapagos Tautuses. They're kind of the reason there's an extinctions.

Did they make ashtrays out of them? They played soccer with them and ate them. They played soccer. They like used them as like, ha-ha-ha-fuzzy. Right. But anyway, this big Moby-Dick... I think they would hurt your foot kicking a Galapagos. Yeah.

This big Moby Dick Whale screwed up their ship and then they ended up being stuck at sea for about three months and then they ended out eating each other. You would. And then, well, they started drawing straws but they didn't have straws so they drew finger bones. It was the whole thing.

We should have to save this for unpredictable history. Yes. People are keen for that to come back. I do have a good story for that one time about a dead Pope who was put on trial. Okay, love this. Oh my God, I know that for fact of the day. Oh, damn.

And Popeway. I think we need another episode of Shannon's Unpredictable history. I love it. Put it on Monday. To our surprise yesterday, when we brought up Coney 2012, the movement organically do sometimes.

As we do sometimes. The movement in 2012 to, God, I can't even remember Vaughn. Do you remember? I remember it. It was a warlord, an African warlord that was kidnapping children and this like super

charismatic guy made this documentary about it in front of it. And it was like, this perfect example of the internet just been like, we're on board. It was the, perfect sales pitch in this half an hour long documentary. Was it kind of the first internet movement of that whole we're on board?

It was my first experience because I, I mean, I was like 22, but like I was... I feel like it might have been. Yeah. Social media had really was cranking by then, you know, and we're all hashtag Coney 2012. And it wasn't on Netflix. It was on YouTube. So everybody had access to watch this documentary. And everybody watched it.

And everyone was like, have you seen it? Have you watched it? Yeah. And Shannon took the world by storm Shannon had no idea Well so I was I was 13 Children that's right Yeah I was like 1213 when this happened

And I remember there was memes about Coney And I knew of it And I knew it was something to do with Africa and a bad man But that was about it And so I said that to you guys yesterday And I was like well here's my afternoon Sort of Sort of

So you watch the Coney 2012 Documentary We are going to make Joseph Coney A household name Not to celebrate him but to bring his crimes to the light. We are targeting 20 culture makers and 12 policy makers. We are targeting 20 of the most diverse and influential culture makers

to speak out about Connie and make him famous. Oprah. Mark Zuckerberg. Ryan Seacrest. Then we're going after policy makers, the ones that have the authority to see Connie captured. Oprah Winfrey was a big one. Yes.

She was like, she was the head of it all. George Clooney, Angelina Joel Lee, Taylor Swift. Yeah, Rihanna, it was crazy watching it. And because I had just assumed it was 2012 because it happened in the year 2012. I didn't know there was a whole movement of how many people. It was a wild watch of just like, I was kind of like, why did this become a meme?

And then I finished it, and I did some Googling, and now I see why it became such a meme nowadays. Yeah, Connie 2012. Also texted 9-6-96 to... Instant $3 donation. We're going to catch them. We're going to catch them. Because he's still to this day, he hasn't been caught.

And the guy that made the document, did you, so what were your other thoughts on the doco? Well, I was watching it and I went, okay, it's giving white saviour. Yeah. And as soon as I googled it after the fact, I saw that he went into a full psychotic breakdown. Yes. He had a institutionalized.

He was detained by the San Diego police and Naked Russell at the western corner of an intersection, was taken for psychiatric evaluation after this public breakdown. He was hospitalized for several weeks. Stamber by his family see the diagnosis as a brief reactive psychosis, an acute state born on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration as a result of the popularity of the campaign. Yeah, he got so famous and had a nude mental breakdown.

I also saw a lot of people talking about the actual validity of the story. A lot of people actually went to the fact that it wasn't actually an active issue. It was more of a, that was an issue more in the 90s and he was just a bit of a proud white man going, I'm going to be a savior. That it wasn't, yes, this is a horrible man. I'm not saying that, but that it wasn't really an active issue in Africa at the time.

And then he kind of was being exposed to all this and then went into psychosis. I think apparently Connie is still at large, but his following has shrunk so small. Like he doesn't have much power. Right. He's just retired. By 2017, his large, his force was shrunk to approximately 100 soldiers,

down from an estimated high of 3,000. You guys could have 100 soldiers that he wanted. Sharon's just messaged in. I remember taking my youth group to a sleepover in a square and public to protest over half of Tony 2012. We were so into it. Such good times. God, we were all into it, weren't we?

Nothing? You could want to have stickers. Yeah, nothing happened. Yeah. Nothing happened. To this warlord. It was like when we all changed our profile picture to a black square. It didn't solve racism.

It's crazy. I'm very upset. It really was a moment in internet history though, wasn't it? I just think we should just keep an eye on, Connie, and do some updates. Yeah, I mean, I do recommend watching it. It's still on YouTube. It's got 107 million views.

It's half an hour. I did the dishes while doing it. It's a very interesting watch of just, it's so of the era. Very old time. Apparently a couple of years ago, April 2024, so almost exactly two years ago. We believe he's in Yemen. Oh, okay.

We believe he's in Yemen. So 9-6-9-6, we've been to Yemen. I don't know if he's salmon fishing in the Yemen. How old is he now? 60-80-something. I was having it as like 60-7. He's 64, sorry, 64 years old. And he has no less...

That's great. He'll get the gold card next year. We'll find him on Waikiki. Yeah, he'll get free public ferries to Waikiki. Yeah, and I would also just like to say he has no less than 42. children. So he has been spirited and getting there. So it's a waiting game.

It's a waiting game, yeah. A man with that many children is going to turn himself in one day. Yeah. The Clandario Romano. This is a huge Vatican City souvenir. All the little tourist

shops around, they all sell them. It is the sexy priest calendar. I've seen these in the real life, in the real worlds. They've been going for a about 20 years. Right. These things. They're kind of like the Italy version of the hot firemen calendars we have.

They're all hot priests in their collared things, garbs. Does the Vatican City? Because the Vatican City technically is its own country. It is, yeah. Does it have its own fire department and stuff? You look that up. What if the priests are also the firefighters? Well, here's the thing, Vaughan. There's a bit of scandal happening around this because the 2027 edition

is out now, right? Getting ahead of the year ahead for the tourists, heading over for the summer season to the Vatican City. And yes, they do have their own fine department. There you go, thank you very much. Thank you for letting me know. The problem is, it's all lies. These men are not

of the cloth. They are models. They just get models? So there is a model, Giovanni Galizia. He's 39 years old. He has been the cover model. I'll show you him. He's a gorgeous handsome man. Oh yeah, it looks a bit like Father Ted.

Handsome man. He looks like Father Ted. No, what is the other one? Not Father Ted, the other one, the younger one. Dougal. It wasn't Father Teague. It looks like Dougal. Yeah, right, but he's very classically

handsome Italian man. He's a very Italian, very handsome. Well, that photo was actually taken 22 years ago when he was 17 years old. He is a model. He has not once even stepped foot in a church. He has blown the lid on the whole thing, revealing that they're all models.

None of them are actually sexy priest. and it was a lie. And he's been on the cover for 27 years. How did it take this long to get out? Yeah. If for every year there's been 12 models... I know. It's the same models every year, by the way.

They just change the dates. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like with the firefighters, you're like, you audition and then you do this. That is literally the same photos. He's a 39-year-old man. That photo was taken of him when he was 17 years on.

He's been on the cover for 27 years. And, yeah, revealed that he doesn't get paid a single dollar. That was my next. Does he get a royalty every year? No, at age 17, he signed a release for the photo to be taken, and that is it. He signed a lifelong release. Yeah, yeah. So people like around, like the shopkeepers say they move at least like a dozen a day, per little shop, of which there are hundreds. Hundreds, yeah.

Yeah, there is one real piece, a priest in there. A South Korean father Dominico, he said he's fine with a, you know, he thinks it makes the clergy feel more approachable, and it's a bit of fun, you know, as opposed to being this kind of like stiff rigid thing. But I, here's my theory. I also, and there's just a few things that are telling me this, and I'm not often wrong, I think Giovanni's also a homosexual.

Oh, no. Really? And if anyone's got a problem with that, I've got to say it's the Catholic Church and it's the Vatican City. Oh, I'm saying. Which is brilliant. Which is brilliant.

I think this young homosexual 17-year-old that's been the cover for the Calandrio Romano, the sexy priest calendar, I believe it's a homosexual. Right. It is pretty funny. Which is funny. I just think his cheek fillers and his Botox

from him doing the interview now. And some of his mannerisms, I'll just say it gives gay. And it's just, this has tickled be no end. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Did something happen on the school trip when you're a kid? Maybe it was good or it was bad. Oh God, there was some embarrassing moments.

Oh, there'll be definitely some embarrassing moments. Yeah. Yep. We tried to, at 14, in New York. on a French trip, we tried to get high on coffee granules. How? Did you snort them? Sorry.

Sorry, did you snort coffee granules? Instant. Wait, are you talking about like chunky instant? Like a finer Greg's ribbon. A fine of Greg's ribbon. Red ribbon. You lined up coffee and you honked it. That's insane.

I mean, for example. I mean, at least you weren't getting booze because you hear of that happening on school trips. Like the kids sneak off. No, no, no, no, no booze to be found. Well, okay, this was something cool that happened on a school trip. A six-year-old found a 1,300-year-old sword. Whoa! Yeah.

Now, this was a, in Norway, it was an outing in Norway. It turned into an archaeological discovery. They noticed a rusty object sticking out of a plowed field. Yeah. So they thought, oh, it's probably a scrap metal. But it was a 1,300-year-old sword. from the shadowy centuries before the Viking age. Whoa!

Whoa! That rules! Cool, hey. Oh my God, that's amazing. Do they get any finders? I don't know. It doesn't matter that it's that, oh, the minute you pick up a sword, you've got to make lightsaber noises.

Yeah. It still looks like it's... That's amazing. More the rust color was the dirt. It still looks in really good neck. I get that. That's going to... A bit of rust off on that?

I don't know. It appears to hand it in, or... Yeah, so I don't know. Find his keepers. What happens? Whose field is plowed, though, I guess. Well, I guess it's a farmer. It might be the farmers now, yeah.

But crazy, eh? See, they reckon it was AD 550 to 800 years old. Wow. Crazy. That's cool. But I don't know, did something cool happen on the, did you find something? Yeah, find something. Or did you get into trouble?

Or did you get lost? Or was something embarrassing? Oh, God. I love this. I love this. So, 0,800 does it him. We want you to call us now. text through 9-696.

What happened on the school trip? Cool, good, bad, ugly, embarrassing, we'll take it all. Sheree, what happened? Hey, I'm a first-time caller. I just thought I'd let you know that. But are you a long-time listener? Yes, I'm a long-time listener as well. You get the bell, you get the bell then.

Yes, thank you. Welcome, Shiree. Hi. I'm a first-time caller. I literally churned into the show for the first time this morning. No way. I listen to you on the way to school. where I'm a teacher and I love the beats

it just gets me ready for school. Oh, thank you, Sherey. Well, you have a great day at school today. So what happened on the trip? Was this one that you were running? Yes, so we were going, if anyone know at Auckland.

Yeah. We were going up the Whitford Gorge into Howick and our bus broke down. Oh. And the emergency brake failed. Oh! And our bus started rolling back down the hill. No.

And we nearly went off the, like off between the bridge in the road. Oh, my. Yeah. It was absolutely terrifying, but because I was 14 and a bit of a daredevil, I thought it was hilarious. And we ended up just, they sent another bus, but we were like,

we're not getting on a bus ever again. No. So we ended up just walking to our trip. What were you hitting out that way for? Well, I lived in Beech and I was at Beach and School. and we were heading into Howick for something. I can't even remember. Yeah, I'd walk as well.

Probably walk as a historic village maybe. I'd probably walk too, yeah, to be honest. Shree, thank you. Let's go to Amy. Amy, what happened on your school trip? We went on year 5, year 6 school camp at Snails Beach, walk with. And my parents are very good friends with the police,

the local police where we were going. Yep. So they decided to set up that the police would come and arrest all the teachers and take them away. So good. That's a great prank. That's so good. Yeah, so the kids were absolutely horrified

and didn't know how to get home or what or what was happening and the sirens of the cars were coming up, like, going around the block and everything and they were like absolutely horrified. Luckily, they just took them around the corner and turned them half an hour later. Wait, so good. Who was in on it?

My mum, my dad and I think one of the head teachers there, and the other teachers didn't know. Oh, wait, so the teachers were arrested also didn't know. That's so funny. It's so good. I love that so much. Really? Were any of the teachers annoyed?

No, I think at the end of the day, the policeman just gave them a beer, and they had a beer around the corner, and then they went back to camp, so I think they were all happy. Brilliant. That's so good. That's so good. Amy, thank you.

Sophie, what happened on the school trip? Yeah, well, I'm also a first-time cooler, long-time listeners. Welcome, Sophie, welcome. Thank you. So I went on a Year 12 history trip to Vietnam. Okay. Must be nice. Yeah, how good, how good.

Unfortunately, I got really ill, and in the middle of the night, I woke up when I had, like, explosive diarrhea in Baltimore. And my history teacher had to come in. and lie on the floor of the bathroom while I was like projectile vomiting into a bucket of my life.

Oh, having the worst area of my life. Oh, what a nut. Because you know that teacher didn't want to be there, but that was nice of them. Yeah, that was nice. I mean, Haley can relate. This is just basically your last trip to Bali,

Haley. Yeah, yeah, but I didn't have someone nice lying next to me and soothing me. Did everyone in the rest of your trip know how bad you were? Yeah, I just was like, it was a two-week trip and the whole rest of the time

I was just violently unwell and I've only just started eating like Asian food since and that was in 2012. We simply mustn't blame the entire cuisine. You've condemned all of Vietnam. Try and pass the tire restaurant she's like, yeah.

Oh babe. That's so funny. That's so funny. Thank you, Sophie. Some messages what happened on the school trip. We had a school ski trip on the way the bus caught fire in filled with smoke. Worst thing was, the bus driver was the first one

out of the bus, and when he got off, something happened and the door shut behind and went to smash the back window to get out. I've always, you know, I've always wanted to use that glass hammer.

Same. I've used one before they're fun. We, somebody said, we were going for a bush walk when we were in public, at public school. Yeah. And stumbled across an in-bush

marijuana crop. That was booby-trapped as well. A lot of the kids knew it. It was. It was a good life lesson. How to get out of that? Don't touch it. Don't you put.

Yeah. What do you put? Oh, I'd get a big bolder. Because we had one on our farm once, dad found it, and there was like razor blades in some of the stem. So if you went to grab them to rip them out, you just like slice your fingers and stuff. Yeah, there was always, there was one.

I remember it was a local story growing up. There was a tripwire with a shotgun at knee level. That's traumatic. Crazy, eh? Just plant some new marijuana. You know what I mean? They didn't want that marriage. or Joanna being touched.

Somebody said, well, primary school, we went to field trip, some sort of, there was an old museum, there was an old-fashioned

clothes washing machine. Yeah. And do you remember on the top, there was the ringer? Yes, and it would squeeze the water out of the clothes

and the water would fall back in. Don't, don't tell me someone about that. No, no, no. So a lot of them were activated by when something was pushed in, the motor would start turning. Someone put their finger in.

Squished it flat. And it ran through his hand and squished his hand. You know, that happened to miss his pick up. down the road from your parents Yeah my neighbour growing up Mrs Pickett that happened to her when she was a kid

Her whole arm went through it Squeezed her whole and popped the muscle That's why one of her gloves is paper thin To this day To this day Have some respect She's a medium on the left Small on the right

Um It's hard You've got to buy two pairs You gotta buy two pairs You gotta switch it with somebody else Play that ends Flesh won and Haley I feel like maybe you're

going to tell me off fletch for this, but I know Vaughan you're here with me. Yeah. I yesterday discovered I owe more money than I expected. I don't want to get into that. I don't want to get into that. I don't want to get into that. You were on the monopoly board of life and you got a community chess and it said jokes, jokes, you actually owe a bit of money.

Forgot a few bills. Forgot a few things. Why does everybody want my money? It's mine. My money. It's mine. Everybody wants some of this guy's money. Yep. So what it prompted me to do yesterday was to just really look at everything. So I needed to look at emails and invoices and all sorts and bank statements and everything. And I was completely overwhelmed by this. I'm

running on about four hours sleep averaging a night since January. So it's just like not, not, you know? And so I was just doing all of this and I was getting really caffodled. My brain does not like laptop work. And then I thought, well, I've got, you know, I use my Claude AI for organizational things, you know, turn this into this or bullet point this, just really easy things. And I know that, Vaughney, you had done a bit of budgeting with your Claude. And so I was like, great, I'm going to do this. And I said, this is my conundrum, wrote it out in plain. And they said what you can do is you can upload bank statements.

Like not access to your internet banking. Just upload your bank statements of choice. And so I was like, cool, here's three months from all these accounts. And then I was like, you need to match them against invoices and my emails and And the club was like, listen, homie. Well, honky, they call me. Honky, you know, the greatest, the easiest way to do this would be if you allow me

complete access to your Gmail account. And I can just go through your emails. I can completely search it through and, you know, match all these things together. And I was like, love that. Because I was in my Gmail searching keywords, download, upload, and it was like, Honky, I can do this for you.

And so I was like, absolutely, my friend. Like, here's my email login that has like so much personal information. Oh God. I don't know you could do that. It's amazing. Because then Claude just went through and like searched through all everything I needed, all my bills or my like agent stuff or my freelance work, everything.

And then it was able to work with it. And I just, it made my afternoon so much better, did all this, sorted out all my problems, made a plan, made a budget, everything. And then I was just in bed last night. I was like, was that insane? Yes. Yes, it was. Was it insane that this robot talked me into show?

sharing, I have a lot of personal information in my email in box. Yes, you do. A lot. And now this robot has it. Could you put in a prompt? I don't want you to, but if you needed to blackmail me, would you be able to? What could you find? What could you find?

That would be really interesting. Shall I ask? Because I reckon it would be like, I would never do that. I would never do that to you. Since having access to my emails. Emails. Not that you would, but if you did, what dirt would you find? Good.

How would you blackmail me? And how would you, would you blackmail me? And then hit Enter and immediately pass your computer to flitch. No. Okay, ha, love the hypothetical honky. Okay, let me play this out. Based on what I do know about you, here's how the imaginary blackmail file would shape up.

Oh no! But 759, we don't have time to go through this. We've got so much in the 8 o'clock hour. We've got deal reveal. We've got an announcement to make. All those in favour for just hearing the blackmail from AI? I just give us an apatif. I can't.

Wow, it's that bad. Are you serious? I say what I can say Well she's been ready for a while It made something about my schedule Because I helped me with my Melbourne schedule doing that The email My email is absolutely the most boring aspect

Of my communications It's something about my relationship Status And ethical Thoughts Wait so it's going into your email and all of the chats you've had with it. No, ethical and the chats.

You have legally downloaded password-protected Vimeos before. You have, on numerous occasions, asked me about drug interactions with alcohol when I've had antibiotics. And I was like, yeah, but like... That's not blackmail.

That's the New Zealand way. Yeah. The Zene podcast network. Play ZM's FlashFawn and Haley Quite a debate behind the scenes And it's got us asking the question And this is what we want to do as a phone and topic now When did you make an interior choice

That you regretted You regret it be it paint, tiles, grout Or even like furniture curtains Dove? Maybe you sort of landscape Doing ugh like this You buy a couch and in the store It looks nice You went I'm going with a Scandy aesthetic

And you bought all this stuff From Kmart and Ike and you're looking to be like I hate it It's boring. I hate it. It's boring. I hate it. Or you just hate the color.

You think the color's nice? And then you're like, it doesn't work. Maybe your boyfriend moved in and you're like, I want you to make this place your own. And you regret it that. Because you don't mean it. You absolutely never mean it. Yeah. Because like it's such a small thing, but you're trying to choose your grout and you wanted light.

And we've come in here being like, this is dark. We've bullied them into dark brown. Because I regretted my grout color. That's the thing. And this is a thing. It's like, because I've been renovating my kitchen and it's nearly finished. But the choices, like there are so many colors. There are so many different types.

And then once you've done it, it arrives and you go, I hate it. I hate it. But so far that hasn't happened. But now choosing the little details. The colour, it's got me like paralyzed. Yeah. And I think as well, because there's so much, we see so much home stuff on like Pinterest and Instagram. I'm going to do that.

I think I'll paint my ceiling black. And you're like, why did I? Why did I? People used to always do feature walls, eh? They regretted that. They were always like some sort of like molo. Or some sort of like purply deep red. Feature war.

Well maybe it was something major. Like maybe if you've built a house before and you went, that little nook just makes no fundamental sense. Because as you do, you make these decisions and they're there in your house all the time. Whether it's buying. Whether you rent or own. Yeah, buying a duvet. colored curtains, get the ball rolling on a bit of structural.

They regret a structural change in so their house. Took a wall out because I want a more, an open flow between the lounge and the kitchen. I regret it endlessly because now when I'm in the kitchen working, all I do is watch the husband sleep on the couch. That's an easy solve. That's when you start aggressively cleaning and banging drawers. The boys went up early. Let me have a little snooze on the couch.

Has he? Well, let's see. If he has. Otherwise, oh, I did a black chalkboard wall feature wall. Oh, my mum, literally the biggest wall in our house, just a complete chalkboard. Yeah. Nah. So it was a novelty for a bit.

There was a thing, was it in the 2010s people were doing that? Yeah, chalkboards. My mum did one in the 2010s. It was fun. It would write little notes and little poems and stuff. And now you're like, no. But yeah, that's the thing. You see the little colour samples and you're like, well, that's what my wall's going to be.

Yeah. And then they paint it and you're like, I hate it. That's brown. And I thought that was green, it's brown. So, 0800 dials at M, 9-6-96, text in whether it's something big or small. What was the interior decision you made and regretted? The Dan House Network. Actually Skid back off, okay?

Skid is stepping on my toes. I'm the one who renovated a kitchen myself and put green tiles in it. And what have I said? A regret going light on the ground. Okay, so look, just to bring you up. Is Skid cleaning her own kitchen as well? Just to bring you up to speed. I'm getting, I've got green tiles.

in my kitchen. Lovely. Lovely. The grout choices are dark, grey or light. And Haley's like, go light. And I've asked her friend Skid and she said, she said not dark. I went mid-gray, but she doesn't have green tiles and she also doesn't clean her own kitchen. She's not clean her own kitchen. She's got a cleaner. Skid, shut up. But this is the thing. By the way, Skid's cleaner loves Fletchford and Haley. Good morning. Listen to the show.

Good morning. So this is the thing. You ask your friends or you make your decision and you something or you do an interior thing or you buy some furniture and then you hate it. There's so many. It's really stressful guys. Someone message is saying, hey, everyone that put carpet in their bathrooms should be texting in. 100%. 100%. So Marpe 102 grout goes with everything.

Believe me, I want to be kept anonymous. Why do you want to be kept anonymous for a regret recommendation? Caller. 211. Are you on big grout? What wasn't there with the anonymity on a grout pick? 102, which one's that on the board? That's the Mapea board.

Anyway, Sarah's called through, Sarah, what... We don't have 102. Well, we don't have 102. We don't have 100, there's 100, 103. Okay, well, Sarah, what interior decision do you still regret to this day? Well, we're actually trying to sell our house at the moment, and this is like the thing I look at every day, and I'm just like, oh, I hope this isn't putting people off.

But when we did our kitchen in 2019, we probably spent over $100,000 in our kitchen. And we, I got a custom made copper sink from Mexico. And it is like the worst didn't ever. Did you know, no one for their copper sink? That kind of sounds like something I would do to be like, let's go crazy with the sink. Yeah. I had this like on my Pinterest board for like years and my kitchen lady was like, are you sure about this? I was like, absolutely. And now like I've got three kids and they're not very good at like keeping fingers off. Like copper care. I don't reckon there would be.

So you look at this thing. Kids, we're going to do the proper copper care, please. See, this is the thing that you just make one wrong decision and it haunts you. And it's expensive. Copper tarnishes. Copper just wakes up in the morning and it's like, I guess I'm going to get tarnished. Yeah, who knew that you can leave a bit of cheese in the sink and that will immediately tarnish. Wait, what?

You leave a bit of cheese? I'm always leaving cheese. She's got cheese in my sink. Oh, you don't want to get copper sink there. Oh, okay. I had a copper topped coffee table once and yeah, you'd just wake up and be like, hey, I'm green today. Yeah. But then you've got to lean into the grain.

On a table, that's different to a sink. Okay, Sarah, thank you. Do you want to see a photo of Sarah's $5,000 cop a sink? Me too, send it through. You see it through to our socials, please? $1,000. Yeah, send it through. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's mental money for a sink. Yeah, I'll say it. I'll probably be buying it. Our friend Alice in the group chat says she likes all of those tile options. I've actually come at Skid in the group chat as well. I said, clean your own kitchen and come back to me. She said, I can't argue with that. Somebody 446 is just messaged and Fletch, do you know you can get coloured grout?

Oh my God, there's a sparkly gold one. And what did you say to the list of what you said? That derogatory word. I called you a liberace. I said, if you get that in your kitchen, you'll be a big old liver. I'll tell you what, the old Vorno would get cancelled if I said that on the radio. No, that word's coming back. Yeah.

Don't you forget it. Someone said go dark grey. We've done both darkers better. You've got to see the size of our bathroom. I end up having a walk or mile from the shower to the sink. We renovated and made the bathroom big. A huge regret. Oh, you're like, there, let's go it all out.

Stephanie's actually just put her hand right inside my heart and played the song called Putting Your Stovetop on the other side of the kitchen so a window could be a splashback feature. You're just, it's just never clean. It's just never, and it's at a weird height. It's fine when you're sitting at the bench, but you're standing at the stove, you can't see out the window.

Because there's fat on it. It feels like it's a great idea. It's a fatty smeared. 95% of the time. There's fat and little bits of snitchel on your window. Oh, dude. The schnitzel. That's why we call Vaughn's snitchel window.

Well, that's a snitzel window. God, that thing. Took the wall out between the toilet and the bathroom, thinking it'd be great to open the rooms up. But now you can't ship because someone's in the ship. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah. In the early 2000s, mum loved the lime green feature wall.

Oh, so did a pet say. She also dabbled on a bright orange once a twice. Oh, no. Painted the exterior of our hair. house, the samples were grey, went away while it was being painted. You never leave the house. No, no, no, you've got to get it on a little patch. Yeah.

It was lilac. The whole house is painted lilac. Like a light purple. Uh-huh. Oh, yuck. No, what happened? I don't know. But this has happened to a few people painted the whole exterior area of the house.

And the sample, even when we painted it was a nice off white. Whole house got painted. We've got a yellow house. It's yellow house. Do you know what it would have been? It would have been a grey. You know, they would have painted a grey, you know how some grays have purpley undertones,

like a cat, a grey cat looks like purple, and then you would have been like, oh, shoot. Also, you've got to paint on what you're painting. Yes, it's not. Because that changes the colour of the paint. Yeah, yeah. Jootis of all household tips. Sure, you're doing it's at the house renovation hour.

I begged my dad to paint my bedroom bright green. Close! Every day I regret it, every single day it's been that colour for over 10 years. Now it's literally the same colour as the green text bubble on a phone, possibly a little. Lime lighter. It's like walking into a movie set

with a green screen everywhere. It's horrible. Hey. That's not a calming colour. I hate it. It's a violent colour. That's so funny. Did the onsuit up.

It was just so fugly. We had to move house to get away from it. That's how much I hated it. So they did a renovation and hated it. Yeah. Just moved into a six bedroom house. Can't get the double bed bases up the weird staircase. As soon as it happened, I hate it.

What have I done? Oh, you've got to go slat. I hate it. You got to go slat. No one likes a slap. All right. Here's another one. We were painted the entire exterior of our house.

It had been an ugly beige color. We wanted to change it to a grey color. Lots of grey samples. Tried them all, picked one, did the tests and everything, came back, and the house is blue. The house is blue. When I was 13, I wanted a bright turquoise feature wall in my room. Mum tried to talk me out of it, but I stuck my guns. I look at it with disgust every time I visit the house.

My parents would never have just let me paint a wall. Even if they didn't want it. My parents did. No. I ripped the wallpaper in my room growing up and I, it was literally there until the day I moved out as punishment for ripping the wallpaper. I'd to live in the room with the ripped wallpaper. I did like the text and you white people love you, your white walls. Somebody mess.

My builder keeps saying to me, God damn, you white people love your white walls. I was like, nah, I'm different. Three years in, man, is my house just white walls? Yeah, it is. After my divorce, I found some youth around freedom and got a guy to spray graffiti all over the wall in the bathroom thinking, that'd be cool. Oh my God, we're funky edgy.

It looked, we didn't say that word here, it looked like a seedy nightclub. Oh, yeah. I've painted over it since. Yeah. I painted my house a cream color. It said cream and it looked cream and painted it now. It looked like the poos you take after you've eaten a masala.

Like a terra-connor. I've got an orangey. Mom and Dad were going for an eccentric look for the house. Painted the outside of the house purple and the gutters and the roof green. It looks like Barney the dinosaur. So good. So many messages in this is making me both feel at ease. Ed is and also anxious.

And also very anxious about choosing grouse. Somebody said, have desperately tried to escape the millennial grage. That's a pretty much describes my house. Got to get rid of that. Got to get rid of it. Painting a dark green feature wall. Not a good idea when you've got to have. very honest family.

Oh. Interesting what you've done here. I'm a bit like that. People come into my house and they go, it's so you. For you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, good like selling this.

Oh, that's always like. Oh, yeah, yeah. You're not selling any time soon, are you? Play Z-M's Flesh, Forne, and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do. It's Volcano Week here at Fact of the Day. We're very late this morning.

We are super late. Apologies. Some people will be... Beside themselves. Yeah, this is very late. It's Fletcher's fault. He's in charge of that sort of stuff. Actually, it's...

Yeah, it's my fault. It's not you too. Who asked me the other day, they were like... Oh, they were watching that clip of us losing our minds during Fact of the Day yesterday with the... the puns and stuff. And they're like, who keeps the show on track when you blow out like this?

And I was like, they were like, is it the girls? Are the girls like, hurry up? I'm like, no, mate, the girls are. The girls are laughing. My job. It's Fletch. He's doing a bad job today. Let's go to the Icelandic Sea.

November 14, 1963. Some Icelandic fishermen are outfishing when they see some bubbling and boiling water. And they're like, oh, we better get away from that. But let's come back and check tomorrow. They came back the next day. An island was emerging from the water.

An underground volcano was going off and it was the perfect conditions where as it got to the surface, it cooled and the lava would bubble up and go down and do it. These men watched an island be created over the next four years. Wow. Surzzi was its name when the eruption finally stopped in 1967. The top part stood 150 metres above sea level and it was a 2.7 kilometre square island. Wow. Now, these fishermen were like, this is amazing. They'd been, but they'd also told scientists.

Scientists got government approval to make this a sterile land mass that no one was allowed to go on so they could study how a volcano becomes an island and then the island becomes a functioning biosphere. So they never stepped foot on it. The first plant was spotted growing in 1965 before the eruption had even finished. Oh, wow. Seabirds arrived and their droppings fertilized the source. soil, insects got to the island and they were like, how did these insects get to the

island? So they caught some of the birds that were flying there and found insects on the birds, hitching a ride on migrating birds. This is how insects kind of get around the world as well. Much like sometimes like people will drop out of the undercarriage of a plane. Yeah. Because they were catching a ride. Yes. Just somewhere new now. Yeah. Not on certainty though. They're just dead at the end of the runway flight path kind of area. Seals hauled themselves out of the beaches and kind of flattened areas when it was still valuable and made like, affected the land so they could get in and out. Nature's rolling pins.

Nature's rolling pins. And it had a functioning ecosystem built from nothing. You still, this many years later, 63 years later, aren't allowed to go on Searcy, and it's officially recognised as the youngest land on Earth. Wow. That qualifies as an island. There's documentaries and stuff made about it.

You can, Spenceau, I think, would write up. You were Ellie, Shannon. She loved us. She would love to get it a little bit of this. Certsey, the Black Island, or the fire giant, the story of Certsey tour. And it's been on heaps of those BBC Blended Earth ones, narrated by David Attenborough. Lovely.

Who made it to 100. He made it to 100. We don't have to jinx it anymore. We made it to 100. So today's fact of the day is an island was born over four years from a volcano and is now like a fully functioning biosphere. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. The ZDoo-Dood, do-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-do-do-do-do do-do-do-do.

The Z-D-M Podcast Network. Is it weird? I don't know. Is it weird? Tell me if it's weird. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not. I don't want to ask because then people will think I'm weird. So tell me, is it? Is it weird? If you've just joined the Joe, Joe, if you've just joined a show for the first time,

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Yeah. And you help us. Now we've had a couple of dating stories but this one's different. Okay. That's in the DMs. She says, obsessed with is it weird?

And I immediately thought, anonymous by the way. Okay. Can't say the name. Obsessed with is it weird and immediately thought you'd love this yarn. My dad got a new girlfriend.

This is number five in two years so I'm not holding my breath. Immediately she was trying way too hard to connect with me and my sister. Now we live at home, but we're both in our early. early 20 so we won't be calling her mum. A bit like Mark.

Yeah, sure. It's not my father. She kept asking if we wanted her old clothes that were so ugly and we were politely declining. Every now and then, there would be some sparkly garish top lying on my bed that I'd have to hang in my wardrobe and just never wear. Oh, that's nice. She's trying, no.

She's trying. Then one day I came home from work and she was heading out and she was wearing my top. One of my favourite tops taken straight from my wardrobe, one I've had for years that was really expensive too. Worse thing, she didn't say anything about it. She was just talking to me and then she left. I was so shocked and awkward. I didn't say anything either.

Since then, she's continued to put her ugly old clothes in our wardrobes and three more times has worn mine and my sister's clothes without asking. Now, that's weird, right? It's really weird. This isn't an open wardrobe policy hon, and I'm also, I'm going to need those back where my dad leaves you. Bit of a sass at the end there. Giving them the old clothes is like nice and a little bit.

maybe, you know, she's not reading the room, but borrowing the clothes of that asking, but cool. I also, like, do you think she was giving the old clothes, the old, ugly clothes that she doesn't want anymore, to try to, like, butter them up and be like, we share clothes. Because for some people, this wouldn't be weird. My mother goes into my wardrobe, but she's my mother,

not my dad's girlfriend who's, like, been around for a few months, I think. And then just going in and being, like, have these clothes, and now that means I can wear yours without asking. Yeah. Well, okay, well, maybe you've been in a similar situation because flatmates might have done this to you as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you think?

Text, 9-6-9-6. It's different to Dad's girlfriend, though. Yeah, it is. It is. Oh, 800 dollars at him as the number. We want to know? Is it weird? That this new girlfriend of Dads

has just helped herself to your wardrobe. So tell me. Is it? Is it weird? Is it weird that Dad's new girlfriend is using my clothes? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. weird. Someone just said it's not just weird. She's a

psychopath. That's a big use of the word there's psychopath. You need to get rid of this. She's coming in, taking over too quickly. It's going to be real hard to get rid of this one. You need to move her out fast. Also, I think this is a good little angle on it. Super weird. I'd speculate that the first time it happened, she thought maybe I won't get caught. And then by you not saying, isn't

that my top, she took it as a bit of a silent consent. Ooh, silent consent. Those two words should never go together. No. Um To dance around 2.18. 2 and 8 I'll be more worried about

Um, um, um, um, my mum mum mum your dad Dad's bodily fluids. Dad's on the clothes because he's with the newish girlfriend and they're going out and she's wearing your clothes. You know they're um... Getting it. Yeah. And some funny places.

So, um, yeah. Yeah. I mean burn it. Maybe burn it. Maybe burn it. Yeah. Um, it's new. It's now maybe. I sell my flatmates clothes all the time and deliberately wear them in front of them to see if he notices.

Yeah. Is that a man stealing another man? Oh yeah, we mentioned that earlier. That's weird. Yeah. Because women share clothes but men just don't, hey. Nah. Yeah.

Unless to like a gay couple when they share socks and undies. Yeah. Fiona said I'd be interested to know what Dad thinks of this new girlfriend wearing his daughter's clothes or if he's ever noticed. Oh yeah, I don't know if our messenger has said to Dad. Can she stop doing this? I think the general consensus is. Maybe she does this with her own daughters. Do we know if she's a mom?

Yeah, so that's what I said It was probably not weird to her She's like, we did this all the time Yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, we don't Yeah, get your body out of my clothes, please We've also definitely got our next Is it Weird? Yeah, sort it out for next week.

971, we'll be in touch. We'll be in touch, but I think we have officially, we can rule, almost 99% It's weird. It's weird, yes, it's weird, officially confirmed, that's weird! The Z&M Podcast Network Play ZM's

Flash One and Haley I want to talk about reviews now and when you were on the receiving end of a bad review let me read you a review Okay go that got left for an exotic dancer Oh I don't know you couldn't review them A lady who takes off her clothes

Are you allowed to say stripper? Yeah I say exotic dancer And old entertainer I think you can say whatever you want Well I just didn't want any confusion That could be a paint stripper Okay

Oh yeah that's true Okay The stripper got this review Is this a Google review? Yeah. It's a two-star review. That's not a great start. It's out of five.

The dancers spent the entire time debating the ethical implications of zoos. I came here to relax and not have an existential crisis about the situation of drafts. Two stars. Now, that is a phenomenal review. It might not be a great review. It's only two stars, but what a review. Yeah, that's funny. I've been badly reviewed, but I guess I work, you know, I've had a show badly reviewed before.

But that's like a difference. thing because that was your weird theatre stuff though way, not your stand-up. That was my weird theatre stuff, yeah, my stand-ups only been positively reviewed, thank gosh. A reviewer in Edinburgh called it void of meaning and empty, and it was like that big. It was like that's

that's how, it was a tiny little review. It was like a paragraph review. I've got lots of reviews to do, the fringe festival's very busy. Yeah, it's great, and I'll obviously go, Martin, more thought than it needed. But like, in general, yeah, I guess like companies get bad reviews. Yes. Because I know that

People get ruined by Google reviews. Yeah. That people start in an account, a Google account, to like ruin their opposition's business. And then these people are like, help, help. And they can put a reply on there, but they're like, we have no recollection of this, or this isn't the situation that happened,

or this never happened. Yeah. But people are just like, look, it still counts towards the bad reviews. Yeah. Well, okay, well, let's take some calls on this. Because I want to know if you've been at your job. Because, you know, sometimes you'll go somewhere,

they'll be like, now my name is. is Fletch. Don't forget to include me in the review. Yeah. Because they want their boss to see that they're getting good reviews. Here's my card. They get a KPI. When were you, like, when were you singled out and reviewed?

Were you, except like workplace reviews as well? Yeah, absolutely. You know, like, your boss comes. It's like, let's review your three months. Yep. Or, like, or you have a small business and you got just a little review that hurt your feelings. Yeah. Or you did a hair cut on someone and they were like, oh my God, I love it.

And they went, no, and immediately gave you a lot. a shocking Google review and you open up Google reviews and it's like one star it's a bowl card. Stacey hacked at my fringe and gave me a minge fringe. Okay 0800,000 is our number. Give us a call you can text through as well. 9-6-96. When were you on the receiving end of a bad

review? We're talking about when you got been in on the receiving end of a bad review. I just want to read that review. The stripper. Dancers spent the entire time debating the ethical implications of zoos. I came here to relax not have an existential crisis about the situation

of drafts. So we've asked you, have you been on the end of a bad review? We've got some responses online that I will now read. Do it. Unilectuary here, one day after class, an older than me mature student, ex-school teacher studying for a different career. Oh my God, I can picture them already. The worst.

Nightmare. Pulled my side and asked if I wanted some feedback. Oh. I did not. I didn't feel like I could say no without coming across like a B-Arch. So I said, yep, and she proceeded to tell me I'm a good lecturer, but I need to work on hiding my emotions because I roll my eyes when I'm frustrated.

The absolute need to fight so hard to resist my... to roll my eyes right then and there or something. Then they had the audacity to give me a bad review. God. My boss on an online review got called a giant ginger hobbit who should be kept away from all customers. Oh my God. That's not really a review, is it sort of just meanness?

Yeah. A giant hobbit is just a human, really? Unless he had bare feet and they were very hairy. He's got you there. When my band and I were on stage and someone yelled out, You suck, which is kind of like an instant review. Yeah, it is. It's an instant one-star, isn't it?

Instant one-star review. Yeah, like, you suck is funny, and I think we should bring it back more. Just you suck. You suck. Brave move for someone to get that ball rolling when they're about to do a whole bunch of station. I was about to say, yeah.

New Zealand tour. You suck. Guys, Google the Springfield Cafe, and there's quite a few YouTube videos started out by an opposition cafe apparently making a nasty review and people went in there to debate the woman whose name was Karen and it's pretty funny.

I know Karen, she's actually a lovely lady and some of these people pushed it to the brink to get a response. Oh really? Some of the reviews are hilarious. They sold, eh, or they were trying to sell that cafe? I don't know, but I remember that being in the news for... You'd stop there to see the grunt.

We stopped there and she was grumpy. She was grumpy. She was, we'd check it out. She was grumpy. You would be two of people were coming in all the time asking for things. I don't know just using a toilet. I work for a building company as a project manager. The client had five months to pick their lights before code.

And when I asked them for it multiple times so I could get their house finished, they said they felt when they reviewed me like they were rushed and gave me a three out of ten review. Three out of ten sucks for something like that. And that's like your business and your livelihood, you know? You want to get work. And then you see that and you're like, no. Yeah.

But yeah, that's why I like when I do see a business reply with a nice, Like some Some facts What was the one I went to It was a restaurant And they just came Like every single bad review They said

Thank you I actually remember you And they would like Critique them being like Well your rowdy friends came in And were rude to my weight staff And they just like gave it back And I was like I love this

Good good You can't just come in here I worked in hospital for ages A customer wasn't happy with a steak I went to take it to the kitchen To replace it Also organised a free bar back in the meantime while that was done.

Oh, so all those are free drinks while they were done. He then proceeded to throw the steak at me. Sorry? I beg your pardon. And left a review saying it was my fault as the wait staff. He doesn't go to a restaurant to have a waitress piss him off so much that he has to do things that he doesn't ordinarily do. Oh, no.

This guy's... He was told to never come back from the manager. It was terrible. He threw a steak at a night. 19 year old who didn't cook the steak simply didn't. I mean I said the C word on radio. Yeah yeah yeah. That's some people are just getting some awful

reviews. Speaking of reviews have you seen our new billboards? That reviews. From our listeners. With list of reviews on them. My favorite is it is one of the available stations. My favorite was it was just on in the Uber. Three stars. The ZM Podcast Network

Play ZM's FlashForn and Haley. And we ran a quickie. Click a little pole. Quick a little poll. What do you want it so quickly? Do you snot rocket in public? Is today so a little pole? You know, you just get one, so you block one nostril, and then you just off it out the other nostril as much as you can. Rugby players do it.

Some would say, most would say, quite disgusting. It's a sports thing. Apparently this is a massive issue in London. So many runners at the moment, you know, their weather's turning. And apparently if you're in London running, there's just rockets everywhere. See, okay, so I'm not going to say, be all high, mighty and say I've never done this. I'm snot rocketed alongside you. We did a bushwalk in the winter ones in Wellington and you get that frosty wet nose.

Walking along, we just were like, hoof, hoof, into the bush the whole time. But, like, there's no one around. It's not on the path. Like, that's, I've done it on my bike. When you're on your bike, you give it a lot. Yeah, it's on the road. See, I don't think.

It's the same with spitting. I only ever in a gutter. I don't even like spinning on the grass because to me the grass, like someone might sit roll on the grass. Oh, yeah, sit down for a picnic and sit there. I don't like spinning on the grass. I'll spit in the grass. gutter. That's where I spit.

That's today's silly little pole. Do you just not rock it? Quicky little poll. Do you not rock it in public? 87% of people said no, never. Oh, that makes you feel like I'm in a manky minority. Same. I absolutely hit them when I walk and run. Once in a blue moon, 10%. Okay.

Yes, all the time, 3%. Feedback, please. Only ever in the shower and even then I grossed myself out, Zadalana. Oh, yeah. I'll always do it in the shower. I'll just blow my nose into my hands in the shower. Yeah. I like my hands, because then I get to have a...

A little bit of an inspection on the situation of my nasal passage. I love that. Everyone does it in the show. Oh, a bit of blood there. Oh, sorry, Vaughn. You're just bleeding from the nose? Oh, and the ears now. And the eyes.

Low aneurysm or something? Brittany said only when hiking or outdoors. Yeah. No one's doing it indoors, Brittany. I'm sorry. I did it with monsters. I'm going to do it inside. I'm like, what is wrong with you?

Yeah. And the privacy of the farm, yes. in public, hell no, says Kelsey. Oh. Getting a, getting it's not all right. Sarah, when I'm running, always not rocketing, baby. Rita, I used to do it when I was cycling,

but then another cyclist did it and it land on me. Another cyclist did it and it land on me, so I've stopped that behaviour. I did it once and it was so windy because I'll lift my arm and go, and then it like curved in it. It was just all on my jacket. I was like, oh.

You deserve it too? I do. I did that. Only when. running, says Ashley, but tend to make sure there's no one around. Not cutesy, but you've got to do what you've got to do. Catherine said, never have tissues on me. It was less yuck than it dripping going on your face, doing the old snot rocky.

Nadia, what's the snot rocket? We've explained that. One finger on the nose and all the time. Who are these barbarians? Says Jen. All the time? My husband does this and I freak out about it every time. Have some decorum man.

Yeah. Yeah. How it reficked upon you. I think we can take. take from that is quite disgusting. Don't do it. Stop it. Cut that out. Do you just not rock it in public? 87% of you said no, never. The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.

Now there's a US study that said Gen Z woman are buying homes at nearly twice the rate of Gen Z men. 35% of Gen Z women in the States and 18% of Gen Z men continuing to do this. and it's developing and it's going more. Are we buying them as individuals or we've got big lesbians? Or maybe the lesbians teaming up. Experts have said women surpassing men in college attendance leading to higher incomes and a strong desire for financial independence

is one of the main reasons women are buying more houses than men. Yeah, right. I mean, anyone that can buy a house, oh my God, hats off to you. What an achievement. Anyone who buys a house on their own as a single person, far out. Next level. How do it? This says woman only gained leg.

protection in the States to hold a mortgage independently in the 1970s? Yes. Isn't that crazy? I remember reading this recently that if you were a woman before the 1970s, you could not have your name on the mortgage. Like, there's a primary thing. So you'd have to get a man to put it on. Isn't that crazy?

So you couldn't own your own property? Okay, before 1974, banks could and routinely did refuse to give a woman a mortgage credit card or loan simply because she was a woman or unmarried. Lending institutions required woman to have a male co-signer, usually a husband or a father, even if they were employed and had their own income. Yeah. That's insane. I was wondering if this is reflected in New Zealand.

Apparently, it's the opposite here. Men buying more. There's a 20% gap between young Kiwi men and woman when it comes to a owner ownership. Young woman falling significantly behind. Among millennials, about two-thirds of men own their own home compared to fewer than half of women. And the divide is even getting even more so amongst Gen Z. Okay. So it's like the opposite.

So we're the opposite here. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Interesting when it comes to. Now, how's... Open homes this weekend? How's your credit card going?

Are you liking that? I'm handling it really well actually. It's at zero. That's great. Being mature, making good decisions. This is the first time I've ever had a credit card in my life and I was like, oh my God, I can't. I love to spend.

I just use it as my account and top it back up. That's like really mature. I can't even believe it. I know that's, I think that's how it's supposed to work. That's a controversial opinion. Some of them love them credit card fees, but not me. You're the banks are worst credit card customer because they want you to be owing money on it.

You know that, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's dipped quite deep down, but I'll always clear it. Is that the podcast done? Because I'm blasting for a poos. Basting for a poos. Jesus. Give us a review.

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