ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 29th May 2026

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

00.00: Intro 00.20: Half of American's don't have fun in their lives 07.30: Top 6 - Ways to catch a kangaroo 13.50: Horse sized duck debate 19.35: SLP - Have you ever been tempted to start a new life...? 25.55: Schapelle Corby 33.55: Bad News Brad 40.35: What do you consider lunch time? 45.15: Is it weird? 49.35: Lets make this happen 56.15: Fact of the day 1.02.20: Why are you single? 1.10.40: QLP - Do you regret what your study? 1.15.30: What was your dumb injury? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 from the ZDM Podcast Network. This is Fleshwood and Haley's Big Pod. Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse. The biggest brands of the lowest prices. Don't worry, we're here. We're here. Guys, don't worry about it. We're here.
Starting point is 00:00:15 We're here. Guys, don't worry about it. We're here. Everyone's listening. We're like, oh no, we're just Fleshwood and Haley. We're here. They're dead in a ditch. They imagine we'd been gassed in here
Starting point is 00:00:22 and we're all lying flat on the floor. We did have a gas like that one time. Do you remember we had headaches all day? Yeah, and then we tried to protest and go outside, but then we were like, we won't let the listeners down, we're here. That was a sort of a... Do you have lip balm? No, you guys are frantically applying lip balm.
Starting point is 00:00:39 I just thought, you know, I think it was the gas thing. I was like, well, maybe I don't want my lips to be dry. If I'm going to die, I want a juicy, juicy kiss of the lips. It's important to start the show with lip balm, Vaughn. I can tell, I think the audience can hear that your lips are dry. Now, today on the show, deal or reveal 8 o'clock this morning, we've given away thousands of dollars. Do you know, it's interesting looking at the stats.
Starting point is 00:01:05 Oh! Yeah, since we re-loaded the board, most people are taking reveal. I know, and we've had a shuffle as well because obviously case number four went, and it was the Olivia Dean tickets, but she'd already taken the deal. Yes.
Starting point is 00:01:21 So then it was a big reshuffle, and I see $1,000 in front of me. Yep. I know. That better have been one. I also see $3 behind me, though. So, you know, it's a fun. Now, the way, still $3,000 in there and those tickets to Olivia Dean.
Starting point is 00:01:33 The top six more than coming up? Yeah, are the top six ways to catch a kangaroo. How to Catch a Kangaroo has been a problem for Australians this week, because there's been a rogue kangaroo on the loose. Well, aren't they always on, they're just a ways out? They like people. Yeah. They do have a car lever every now and then.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Yeah. Tasty. With a car. Oh, he had an accidental car. Floodunk. Yeah, those big boys, those big muslily. Haven't seen a jacked kangaroo on the news through a little. while. You know, there's every now and then, someone's like this absolutely rich red kangaroos
Starting point is 00:02:03 been spotted. I love them, eh? Next on the show. I think we need a little bit more whimsy. We're going to start off the show with a reason to get more whimsy into your life. You only get one life. The ZDN Podcast Network. Fatty show on our hands today. We love a Friday. Do you know what I'm looking forward to? I'm looking forward to having some fun today. We're going to go out for dinner as genuine friends. Yeah, I think tonight's going to be fun.
Starting point is 00:02:30 I'm going to have fun. I'm having fun already today. He's got that mischievous look in his eye. I can feel it. I can feel. Dare I say it, he's got a mini blowout in him. And you know me, I'm here for it. Well, because we've got a long weekend, and I have absolutely cleared the schedule for the rest of the weekend to do nothing but homesteading. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:02:48 I'm homesteading all weekend. Well, I'll see you over at mine for that hedge. Oh, my God. I couldn't even drive up your driveway yesterday. As it pushed out. It's pushed out. He was just like trying to, and he was like, and he was like, I've got to stop at the end of the driveway. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:02 It's quite bad, born. It's really bad. I'll be over as soon as possible. It's embarrassing as well. I share that hedge with my neighbour, and he did it last time. Patsy, oh no, I'll get Patsy up a ladder today. I'll get Patsy up a ladder. The day before she flies away on a trip,
Starting point is 00:03:18 I'll get her up a ladder teetering up there. Have a-hmm, have a-m-m-patsy. Have it, mm. Well, we're going to have fun and tell you what, fun is very important. It is genuinely the reason I live is to have fun, not to raise children or, you know, better the world. It's genuine, just I'm here
Starting point is 00:03:35 for a good time and then I'm out. He's a good time in a long time. Yeah, no, well both. A good long time. Very afraid of dying. The problem is most people are lacking fun in their life. This is a study out of America, but I'm sure this would be a global trend. Though probably being in America, you'd be a bit more miserable.
Starting point is 00:03:51 48%. Now I'm going to round that up to 50. Half. Half of America. say that their life is lacking fun. 12% can't even remember the last time they had fun. But I guess there's so much, like people are struggling, so much stress at the moment, constant living. They know. Half of them wish that they could do something fun and social daily
Starting point is 00:04:10 or at least a few times a week. You're going to make time for just like one little fun thing. It doesn't have to cost money or leave the house or anything. You've got to have things to look forward to, eh? When people reflected on the fact that their life is missing fun, Their feeling was that they needed 17 extra hours a week to fix that. Like, that's the average on like, okay, if I could get some time to allocate to fun, how much time would I need?
Starting point is 00:04:36 Yeah. 17 hours a week in addition. That's the thing you work all week and then you finally do get some time off. Yeah. And then you've got to do chores or, you know. Yeah. And then so when they were asked like, what do you do for fun, there's great things in there like spending time with family and friends,
Starting point is 00:04:50 dining out, outdoor activities, some hobbies, some games. But the number one thing was watching TV. Which is fun It is fun but don't It can't be the peak of your week No no Unless you're really Haring out for a show
Starting point is 00:05:04 And you get to watch your show Sometimes you find that show And you just binge it And you're just like oh this is great Oh you love that Yeah Obviously I was gonna
Starting point is 00:05:13 I was gonna hit the new Nicholas Cage Spider-N-Wi I've heard it's incredible Apparently it's amazing Yeah Like even people who aren't fans of Spider-Man
Starting point is 00:05:23 Fletch I'll give you a quick catch up Yeah because I'm not fan. Is that one the one with the webs come out of his hands? You've nailed it. Spider-Man's so he's not a fan. He knows everything about him. That's it. So he plays Spider-Man in a different reality where he's like
Starting point is 00:05:36 a middle, well, older gentleman now who's like an investigative reporter. I love Nicholas Cage. And so you can watch it in black and white or like Technicolor. And everyone's saying you've got to watch it in black and white. It's phenomenal in white. It's made to be watched in black and white. And it's set in like gritty
Starting point is 00:05:52 1930s New York. And people are like raving about it. Because Nicholas Cange is brilliant. He is, and he's having a renaissance. Yeah, that movie he did with Pedro and Pascal. Oh, God. What was that called? Unbearable way of talent. That made me laugh so much that movie.
Starting point is 00:06:07 Or the one where he's the center of everyone's dreams? I haven't watched that. Oh my God, seriously. It's amazing. Oh my God, what is it called? Hang on, because the listeners will want to know. He's just gone in 60 seconds if we're going back to some, conier. Dream scenario.
Starting point is 00:06:21 The Rock, yeah. You've got to watch Dream scenario. Yeah. It's this world in which he's just like an average kind of normal professor. What's your favourite, Nicholas Cage, movie and or TV series? I don't think he's done much TV. No, I don't think he has. So he's just this professor and then suddenly everyone's dreaming about him.
Starting point is 00:06:41 And they see him, they're like, that guy was in my dreams. It's great, it's great. And he's like, fame gets to his head. It's brilliant. Love it. How do we start this break? Fun. Fun.
Starting point is 00:06:50 Have fun. Just have like even 10 little minutes of just something silly today. A big go-fee. But a whimsy. All about that whimsy. Frolic in a field. Do something spontaneous. Don't you just take clothes off and go for a run or something like that.
Starting point is 00:07:04 I don't know. Well, don't get arrested. No, no, no, don't do that. It's quite insane, to know of us. He was raising Arizona, the Nick Cage movie that... Yes, and he had... There was a baby? There was a baby.
Starting point is 00:07:14 Yeah, yeah. And what was the one of leaving Las Vegas? He wins massive... Face off? Yeah. He switches with John Travolta. He's brilliant. The Bees!
Starting point is 00:07:23 It's just brilliant. Play ZM's Fletch, Fawn and Haley. From the unmoderated comment section, this is the top six. Literally just adding La Roche Posee to my cart right now. Excuse my ignorance. What is La Roche per se? It's a great... This sounds so like...
Starting point is 00:07:40 Because Fletch says it every time, and I've always let it wash over me, but I simply must know what La Roche is saying, I'm glad you asked Fawn. I get La Roche Posei, but genuinely, it's like a really good, respected, dermatologist recommended skincare brand that's really affordable. Yeah. And there's this one dermatologist that I follow. And I will say, I'm a dry
Starting point is 00:08:02 human being. And he recommended one of the roughness smoothing lotion. And so I'm buying some roughness. She's rough. A roughness? She's rough. Have they gotten anything for your cracked heels? Yeah, mate, they will. I get the sick of blast on that.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Anyway, that's a little additional non-spon there. Right. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Well, there is a kangaroo on the loose. Yeah, so it was in Waco, Texas. Correct. I do apologize. I may have insinuated that it was in Australia,
Starting point is 00:08:29 but a kangaroo was on the loose in Waco, Texas. Famous for its cult that where everybody drank. Cool. Later was at shooting. No, Jim Jones was the Jones Sound Massica. That was the Kool-Aid. And wasn't there a big FBI raid? Yes.
Starting point is 00:08:45 Shannon's nodding, eh? Shannon's all right. The Branch, DeVore. Ask me. Ask me. The Branch Davidian cult. Quick. It was.
Starting point is 00:08:51 was one of the longest held FBI standout, like shoot-offs. And it was really, really tragic. That's right doco on Netflix. A lot of women and children died. Oh, no. Yes, that's really sad. But great doco. Great doco. The branched of
Starting point is 00:09:07 it was a sort of a tragic 51 day standoff between the religious sect led by David Koresh. He's doing so well with his New Zealand comedy now, though. Oh no, that's David Kouraos, who just won the best show award. You say carouse, I say caress.
Starting point is 00:09:24 When you said there's a kangaroo on the loose in Australia, I was like, what? But they're everywhere. They are on the loose. Like, you go to a golf course and they're just there. They're just there. Get out of the way. It's an Australian kangaroo that now lives in Waco, Texas. Why is he there?
Starting point is 00:09:41 Heroin journey. I mean, it's hot. It's hot. I know. Leave them at home, though. So the video of attempted catching of said kangaroo shows a man running after. a man running after it with a net repeatedly failing to catch the animal.
Starting point is 00:09:54 And then another two joining and trying to catch it with a net. And everybody said it was giving big wily coyote chasing the roadrunner. So yeah. And then somebody said it to rap as delight. It's a whole very funny video you can watch. So there are no wild kangaroos in the United States. They're native to Australia. They estimate, though, there are several thousand kangaroos
Starting point is 00:10:18 living in Australia held in captivity. They can be found in licensed zoos, exotic animal ranches, and as private pets. Right. And famously, it's why I've got cockatoos that fly past my house. People have pets and then they get sick of them and they just set them free. Well, it's like the Colombian hippos. Pablo Eskimal wanted a couple. And now there's thousands and they can't get rid of them.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Yeah. So I want to talk about the top six ways to catch a kangaroo. Number six on the list, you've got to go for rocket skates. Okay. Strap some rockets on your skates. Okay. the kangaroo. How do you stop yourself? Yeah, that feels really
Starting point is 00:10:53 like knee jerk. You know what I mean? Going straight into a cliff or a tunnel painted on the side of, said cliff. Okay. In splatting. Number five on the list of the top six ways to catch a kangaroo. Wait for it to run under a cliff and push an anvil or a boulder off the top of the cliff. Great, you've got to get your timing right though?
Starting point is 00:11:10 What about a grand piano? Would that do the job? That would also do the job. Probably sound pretty good too. Yeah, yeah. The best part was, of course, you'd push it off and wait for it to hit the ground. It wouldn't hit the ground. you'd miss the kangaroo, you'd go down onto the ground and look up and some weird things happened and then the piano hits you and then when you stand up, your teeth are piano teeth now.
Starting point is 00:11:27 That's crazy. And they play a song. Number four on the list of the top six are ways to catch kangaroo, challenge it to a boxing match. One, kangaroos do box. People used to box the kangaroos. And two, they're Australian. They can't say no to a fight.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Yeah, but you'll lose. Have you seen these things? Yeah, but they're reaching. And then they lean back on their tail and they like kick box you? Yeah. They kick and they box. I don't like them. actually. I don't like them. I think they're horrendous.
Starting point is 00:11:51 I like the little ones. They're bouncy. I don't like them. They're not wild bees. They're just off. I've got a really cute photo of August standing next to a kangaroo at an Australian wildlife park where you just walked around with them. And she was like two or three. I was like, I hope this kangaroo doesn't like boot her. Nah, those ones are pretty.
Starting point is 00:12:07 They were like docile and small. Not like those, is it a red kangaroo? Is that the biggest kangaroo? Is that the biggest? Yeah. Speaking of, I number of three on the list of the top six ways to lure a kangaroo into a trap. protein shake for one of those jacked. Yeah, because they're jacked. Because they need more protein. Bruh.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Are they on the protein, bro? How are they getting so jacked if they don't eat, they only eat grass? Surely it's the way did they walk, maybe. Those jacked fighters and they're like, I'm a vegetarian. Yeah, those MMA fighters and they're like, I'm actually vegan. There was a documentary on that actually.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Are they doing pea protein? It was headed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, famous bodybuilder who's now vegan. Right. Is he a vegan now? I don't know if he's vegan or if he's vegetarian. Okay. Number two on the last. list of the top six ways to
Starting point is 00:12:49 catch a kangaroo cheese. Do they like cheese? No but you know when people first got to Australia they thought a kangaroo was just a giant mouse? Did they? They do look like a giant mouse. They do look like a giant rodent. Very rodent tea them asso peels.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Ugly in the face, eh? Oh yeah, total manas. They're mingers. They're cute. They're cute. They're a capy barra face. No, they're just scummy. They're a zimpic. Happy Barra face. I'm just going to show you a kangaroo. You think that's cute?
Starting point is 00:13:22 That's ugly. It's got possum face. No, I don't know. It's got a pricked me. I don't like that. And number one on the list of the top six ways to catch a kangaroo. Promise that a case of two is in a trip to Bali. Oh, they'll love that. It'll be straight on the plane. FIFO kangaroo. Oh, sorry, I just saw it.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Oh no, it's AI. I just saw a baby kangaroo and it's cute. No, they're ugly. They're mingers. Okay, she's on record. Kangaroos and Mingers. That's the top six. Now this is actually a debate Would you rather, if going into battle, fight 100 duck-sized horses versus one horse-sized duck?
Starting point is 00:13:57 It's one of the internet's original questions, I think. 2003. Yeah, it dates back to. And then it went viral again in 2012 after Obama didn't ask me anything. Oh, and I asked him. And that came up. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:14 He left it unanswered because he was just like, what? Recently it's been Reignited in New Zealand because Labour MPs were asked the question in a training session and Barbara Edmund's called Nicola Willis a duck-faced horse
Starting point is 00:14:30 She's apologised Kieran McNulty said Labor was already up against 100 duck-sized horses Because horses are full of shit Anyway, there was a whole thing And these are the adults running our country Yeah
Starting point is 00:14:43 The idea when someone asks you a hard question either answer it to the best year ability or say, I'm sorry, I don't know. I'll get back to you. And then go and find out and then get back to them. Lots of celebs have chimed in on this. Bruce Springsteen said a huge duck will eff you up. Justin Trudeau said a large duck would be fairly unpleasant.
Starting point is 00:15:01 But this is what I love about the spin-off. Because this has been back in the news, the spin-off took it a step deeper. I want to share it with you now, and they asked a bunch of experts on actually what would make the most sense. What experts can you ask about this? I've got them here.
Starting point is 00:15:15 So 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. They are Shane Cameron, a boxer. Two words he said, numbers kill. Take the duck. Yeah, you've got 100 duck-sized horses. They could overwhelm you. Yeah. Like crawling up you, biting at you like that.
Starting point is 00:15:35 So a boxer, take the duck. A veterinarians chimed in. Love this. A 500 k-g duck versus 100. two-k-y horses. I don't think a duck would be 500 k-g's the same size as a horse because it's got hollow bones so it can fly.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Oh, okay. They say the weight alone favors the horses, 100 horses plus a duck nip a duck nip scaled up 500 times would be very intimidating. And the duck can follow you on land, sky and water. I'm sure you're saying there's no escape.
Starting point is 00:16:13 So she's going are all the little horses. Okay, we've heard from a self-defense instructor. I love this. You would likely end up very much dead or with a major concussion either way, but would kick away the tiny horses like the end of a zombie apocalypse movie.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Yeah, you'd get a bat. So you're kicking all the horses away. I'd get a bat. Against the horse-sized duck, this self-defense instructor would say, go for the eyes. But it's got those eyes on the side of the head, So don't go like you would for the human, like, boom, like a fork.
Starting point is 00:16:48 You've got to go around the sides. Okay. And they said, but they were like, they just feel like those major wings flapping at you. A horse size dart. That'd blow you over. They're like, almost unbeatable. A duck rescue operator was asked. I bet they were stoked.
Starting point is 00:17:05 They opened, the answer to the phone. They're like, good morning. Duck rescue. Duck rescue. Daryl speaking. Well, she owns a Paradise Duck called Fuzzy Gregg. She said already very. very terrifyingly territorial.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Oh yeah. Oh, okay. Charges at her. This is a duck-sized duck. Head down. Attacks feet, food buckets, car wheels. A horse-sized version of that, absolutely not. We'd go in the hundreds of duck-sized horses. Really? Okay. Now, a horse farm co-owner was asked, Ruth.
Starting point is 00:17:34 Anyone with horse experience can say that herd psychology rather than brute force would be terrible. Yeah. Because they've got a pack mentality. there. So she's going horse-sized duck? Yeah. She's going horse-sized dark. Yeah. An author was asked Rachel King, tiny horses would only
Starting point is 00:17:52 fight you if you were threatening to them. So just go up to the little horses, get them little pets. And give them some little hay. They give them tiny little apples like that. What if it's a wild stallion? Brush their little mains, they were saying. Leave them the hell alone. She's fighting in the horse-sized duck.
Starting point is 00:18:08 And a Canterbury Equine was asked. Probably be like, what? They say they have the best. response. Yep. One of the great philosophical questions of our time up there with does God exist? But then they said our staff are too busy saving genuine horses' lives to answer the question.
Starting point is 00:18:27 But if push, they'll take the duck. Yes, okay, great. So I think that's a really in-depth discussion. What are you going? I'm going 100 horse-sized ducks. Same. No, sorry, 100 duck-sized horses. To clarify, they're attacking.
Starting point is 00:18:40 They're attacking regardless. Yeah, they are. What are you doing, voice- Am I allowed weapons? Yes. What's the weapon? We're allowed, what is available to us as the animal we are? A sword.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Sure. No, I don't think a sword would be great against 100 ducks. No, no, I'm fighting the big duck. I'm finding the horse-sized duck with a sword. Can I just bazooka the horse-sized duck? You've got to get away from it because you can't fire a bazooker at point-blank range. Don't tell me what I can't do with my efforts.
Starting point is 00:19:11 Are you making a noble sacrifice to save the rest of humanity from this giant duck? I wouldn't have expected that from that. Neither. Someone's message in. Think of the size of that roast duck though. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZDEMS Fleshhorn and Haley. Otero Music Awards last night.
Starting point is 00:19:30 I know. Georgia when, Brooke when I believe. Yeah, it looked like a good night. Marlon Williams. Marlon Williams cleaned up, man. Ward won Best International, best pop. Yep. Great performances.
Starting point is 00:19:42 And today it's if you've got a Kiwi music, t-shirt of your favorite band or artists, wear it because that is what today is all about the last day of New Zealand New Zealand. Is it, no. Is it? No. Technically not the last day of New Zealand. It's the last day Sunday. It's the last working day, the last business day of New Zealand. No, it's always the last Friday of May.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Yeah, it is. Do you know what the t-suit I've got? Yeah, split ends. My parents went to split ends a couple of weeks ago. My mom got a t-shirts. It's very cool. T-shirt. Warns his hair wearing nothing because he's naked and famous. It's his famous. Oh, yeah. It's really good. That's really good. Oh, have you ever been tempted to walk away and start a new life?
Starting point is 00:20:38 Just throw it all in. I saw my algorithm decided to serve me up. A young lady who did this, she moved to, she's like, what's Catherine going to do next? Here's Catherine, and this is her speaking in third person. Catherine's swimming in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Crete because she decided to sell all of her things and throw it all in and move to Crete. Does she ever plan?
Starting point is 00:20:58 No, not really. Sounds like a quarter life or midlife. It had that energy. Love it. And then the next, right at the end of the reel, she linked to her only fans, which was a way you could help her. Live her life.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Right, okay. You've got to pay the bills if you're leaving your corporate job and eat prey loving. You do. I mean, I've got one planned, but I haven't had the thought yet. You've midlife crisis. Yeah, I'm going to move to Thailand, remember, become a lesbian. That's right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:24 And there's cats involved, isn't there? I'm going to work at the Animal Welfare Center in Colanta. I tell you what, I'm supposed. prize to tell you 72% of people have been tempted to walk away from their life and start a new one. I know.
Starting point is 00:21:39 I just think people just Nigh on three courts. End up in these life, in relationship, in these situations. I actually don't like it, but I'm here. I'll make it work. So many times you're like, hey, you're just at high school
Starting point is 00:21:50 and you don't know what you're doing and then they're like go to uni and you're like, oh, okay, so I guess I'll just do this. And then you get to the end of that and then you're like, well, guess I'll just get a job in there. And then you get to 40, you're like, I hate insurance. You don't know,
Starting point is 00:22:01 I mean, I hate this. What am I doing? Well, 28% of people said, no, they haven't, but 72% said they have. Let's get some feedback. Isn't that wild? Love it. Dan, yep, I've considered it,
Starting point is 00:22:11 but that Catholic guilt keeps dragging me back. Don't. Yeah, okay. Be gone the shadows of Catholic guilt. I cast thee from thy Dan Zankos. Oh my God, you just released him. I just released, Dan. Okay, that's great.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Well, Dan's probably off now to move to Bali. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brian said, yes, my wife and I did this when Trump was elected. We thought about life in a different country. This is one of our American list. Oh, wow. Yeah. Angie, that's when I chose to study in New Zealand, the country where I knew nobody, and I could reinvent myself.
Starting point is 00:22:42 How cool. Wow. No, I don't know anything about Angie, but she's, her profile pictures, it's coupled up. Oh, yeah. She found love. She found love in a hopeless place. She's found it. Chas.
Starting point is 00:22:51 We're not a hopeless place. You know what, we're the bottom of the earth. We're the last for everything. We found love in a hobbit's place. Yeah, that works. Chaz said I literally did this on a whim. I sold my house and everything I own and moved to the UK eight years later.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Literally actually nine years today, I'm still here. Wow. Nice to have you. Beck said I'm 25 years married and I only ever had one partner and a mum of three and have worked full time throughout at all. What do you reckon? I reckon she's had a thought of two over a rosé. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:23:24 I reckon she's when it's all screaming and chaotic and... Mum! Where's my shirt? You're wearing it. you'd just be like, Where are my car keys? I'm just going to drive. Who can say where they mean it goes?
Starting point is 00:23:38 And they just find mum's car at the parking ride and it's unclaimed after three months. And they don't know where she's gone. She left all the belongings. She'll start again in Czechoslovakia. Lydia said, I did this. I was a corporate girlie now I'm a full-time acrobat.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Love! That's insane. Oh my God, I love that. Amen. Every single day, I want to, this is anonymous by the way. Amen, every single day I want to run away and become a lesbian. Being married with kids makes it feel impossible.
Starting point is 00:24:07 For the love of God, please do not read my name out. Amazing. And they're like, Mom, was that your name? So this is a little peek behind the curtain, a little half of sausages made. We put these up on our social media account. If you've always wondered, you want to vote on them, they're on our Instagram account, like, daily,
Starting point is 00:24:25 usually movable polls. Shannon curates the cream of the crop. Now, when people are like anonymous, place, she always crops out their name. Yeah, because she knows your... And their social media profile. Rebecca says, or whatever the name is. She just knows that you'll try and peek at their name and their profile.
Starting point is 00:24:41 Shannon's just putting this all in a little folder somewhere. One day she's going to write a book called Anonymous My Ass. Yeah, Shannon knows more about New Zealand than the government. No, she's very trustworthy our Shannon. Yeah, she is. Who trustworthy? Yeah, this is why she crops out names. Why, she does it so that we don't say it.
Starting point is 00:24:58 staying in New Zealand is hard right now cold working long hours feel like you just can't keep your head above water watching friends move through Australia and love it is getting pretty tempting Laurie said all the damn time but I can't leave my cat here's my life
Starting point is 00:25:11 Bring him Admin but Admin to bring him Wait till your cat dies They don't live forever Oh, Vaughn Ellen A call to the cabins inside a bubbling brook Has been loud lately says ash
Starting point is 00:25:21 Ash That sounds like the dream I get so many algorithms Of like this and some quiet and it's just like a cabin beside the river and I'm just like, wouldn't that be nice? Yeah, but wildfires. It's a very wet bush.
Starting point is 00:25:34 But then dampness, you know? Yeah, mold. You can't win. You can't mold. You've got to trek eight hours to the shop to get some exit mold because your cabin's moldy. Moldy cabin. It's never going to be easy. So we asked for silly little poll.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Have you ever thought about just walking away and starting a brand new life? 72% of you have. Play ZM's flesh for one and haley. Household name in our generation. For sure. Millennials or no Hership, Cal Corby is because it was the great like warning from our
Starting point is 00:26:02 scared Boomer parents and maybe Gen X parents that the world's out to get us, everybody wants to plant drugs on you when you're going overseas. Don't be a drug rule you'll end up in front of a Balinese firing squad. That's right. She flew into Bali and... From Australia as
Starting point is 00:26:17 millions do. Millions and millions and billions of Australians do go to Bali. And it was a boogie board bag. Correct. And it had four and a half kilograms of marijuana in it. Now, I'm no marijuana expert, but that's a lot. Is that?
Starting point is 00:26:32 Of marijuana. Yeah. That's a four and a half kilograms. I just imagined like a dehydrated salad. How much dehydrated salad you'd need a pack? You'd need so much. Big sleigh. So much oregano. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:43 It is why there is that whole industry at Australian New Zealand airports of people plastic wrapping their bags. Yeah. They're scared of this happening. Yeah. Or such a waste of plastic. Is that stuff made of cornstarch yet?
Starting point is 00:26:56 Because that can totally. be made of that stuff the bin liners are made of we only need it for one trip. Yeah. And then it can get put in some compost. So it was the 21st anniversary of Chappelle Corby's arrest this week. Sentencing. And we were talking about it
Starting point is 00:27:11 in studio and Shannon was just like, what are you talking about? And we know she loves her this is producer Shannon. She loves her true crime. So we sent her on a Chappelle Corby mission. She's watched some stuff including this clip we're about to play from a
Starting point is 00:27:27 2004 60 Minutes interview when she first got to talk to Australian media about the situation. I opened it up and I've just seen I don't know what it was but I saw it's it's not I didn't put it there and as I closed it. You knew instantly it was
Starting point is 00:27:42 no no I just knew there was something there and what worried you about that? It's just an instant click oh my God I've seen this kind of things in the movie but I did know what it was at the time I just knew that all I'd put in there was my boogie board and my flippers. She didn't even get to go to Finn's beach club.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Oh, she would have loved it. Nine years she was in prison. Yeah, nine years. How many times do you reckon she got barley belly? Dude, an Indonesian prison. You become accustomed to the water. I wonder if she's got a iron guts now. Someone's like, don't enjoy that.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Chappelle, it's dirty. She's like, I don't give a shit. Obviously, she still claims that she didn't put it there and someone else did. She did the time. And producer Shannon, you educated yourself yesterday, as you do you love your true crime on Chappelle Corby.
Starting point is 00:28:29 What do you think? What's your take on the legendary Chappelle? So you guys kind of top lines this story for me when I told you I hadn't heard about it and you said there was four and a half cages of weed in her bag and I was like, okay, sure, whatever. I watched the 60 minutes. I had not comprehended like you said how much volume that was. And when you see the footage of it coming out of her bag, it was more of a surfboard
Starting point is 00:28:53 bag. She had a boogie board and a surfboard bag, which is kind of embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for it. Yeah, that's embarrassing. But it literally was like the size of like a European pillow. It was so big that I just can't comprehend how you wouldn't know. It's just so funny. But yeah, watching her family was in this.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm just getting the take on this. So your take is that it's so large you would have known it was in there. Yeah. I think she's so silly. That was everybody's take at the time. How do you have four and a half Ks added to a boogie board bag, which wouldn't weigh that in total,
Starting point is 00:29:31 so you're doubling the weight and not notice? But it's so big, why would you have it just so readily available there? For me, it gives big someone slipped it in. Free Chappelle, by the way. Free Chappelle. She was so, like, it's honestly, it was Bell Gibson 2.0 for me. It was so funny the way she spoke.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Her family was in the 60 Minutes doco. They were like, and she's just so sad. We hadn't been to Bali in years, you know. and her sister lived in Bali and basically they were just saying it was the mafia and it was just this whole thing but there is no way the mafia would want to plant four and a half
Starting point is 00:30:06 pages of crackle water if I may digress momentarily have you watched or read anything about this mafia control in the olive oil industry and yes yes what's going on there what do you mean what's happening they're giving a substandard olive oil
Starting point is 00:30:19 it's not extra virgin but I buy the extra virgin cold pressed no where is it coming from it's been hot pressed and it's not Are you telling me it's been around? It's slut. It's slut. It's slutty olive oil.
Starting point is 00:30:30 It's hot slut. It's monstrously hotly pressed slat olive oil. I don't want to be pouring hot slut onto my salad. Dude, I'm sorry, you're rumpy. Yeah. That lovely little kale spinach salad you're whipping up with anchovies. You're making your own dressing for it with hot slut oil. Wow.
Starting point is 00:30:50 Because of the mafia. The mafia. Oh my goodness. Okay, wow. First of hell now this. I know. So, did you find the whole thing fascinating? I found it so wild.
Starting point is 00:31:01 One of the things I found most crazy, I've never heard the name Chappelle before. That was just a wild start for me. You've never heard of anyone called Chappelle? Never heard of it. Dave Chappelle, but that's a surname. She got back into Australia and then didn't she go on some reality show
Starting point is 00:31:15 or she's done interviews and stuff? She also made resin clocks for a while. I've gone on a deep dive on her Instagram and it is a wild, like she is just a very interesting person. It is, yeah, to me, It's on par with Bell Gibson. Yeah, and do you think she did it? Yeah, 100%.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Well, I think she's just a big, like, was bigger than her boots, thought this was going to be fine. I reckon she talked to a boyfriend maybe and was like easy peas. You know, I read a lot of dark romance that involves the mafia, and all I have to say is,
Starting point is 00:31:45 hot. How did they know? Yes, hot. But also, how did they know that she was going to come through with that surfboard to put bag, to put it in there? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:31:53 If it wasn't her. Okay, so if it goes, some messages, in. Shannon, you must read the book. It's amazing. It answers all the questions in full. It's really, really good and it's clear. I have no doubt after reading the book. She didn't do it. There's so many things like Qantas losing
Starting point is 00:32:05 the video of her coming into the airport with her boogie board bag. And someone came out. That's where you would have noticed a large bulge. Someone came out in 2013, right, saying that someone who worked at the airport at the time had been talking about planting marijuana in a bag. It's just a lot to plant.
Starting point is 00:32:22 You know what I mean? Yeah. How long was she actually imprisoned for? Nine years. Was that her whole service? She was like, at the start, they were going to kill it. Yeah, they were going to fire a squab. They were going to shoot it. Yeah, she was up for the death penalty.
Starting point is 00:32:35 And then afterwards is the Barley Nine. Yep, yep. They don't muck around over there. They were they meth or heroin or something? They were going to, I think there's this couple of them that still might be tied to a post. So what crime are we getting behind as a show? Is it Chappelle or is it Coney? Cooney.
Starting point is 00:32:54 We're still back to Coney. Connie, we don't have any answers. She tells home. She's making resin clocks. Text Coney to $9.6.9. $9.6.9. $3 donation to a $13-year-old internet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:06 Well, I'm glad that you could learn some internet crime. Somebody true crime. Fletch and I will remember this very clearly. Somebody said Shannon's next investigation into some historic New Zealand crime. It's got to be those twins that were based out of Nelson. The Ingham Twins. The Ingham Twins. I was going to call them to.
Starting point is 00:33:24 Teagle... They were they? Fascinating lives, though. They jumped off the back of a... Korean trawler or a boat? Containership or something? Yeah. Oh, you'll love it.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Oh, you'll love that. And they got invited to a rooftop party. Holmesi invited them to his famous TVNZ Holmes Christmas party with Evang Gratforst. Are rested, rest in peace. Also, Holmes and Evang Grafors were really different to some New Zealand history here. The Zandhast Network. Brad Olson, Economist. And let's start first, Brad, Brad, with...
Starting point is 00:33:54 Any news for people like me, single men with cats? Oh, you know what? I didn't see a budget line for that. Surprisingly, you know, normally there is something, but no, single guys with cats is, um... Look, next time I see the finance minister, I'll ask specifically, hey, anything on the cat front going forward. What is interesting is that if you were thinking of doing some big, big charitable donations,
Starting point is 00:34:17 then by big, I mean, over $100,000. Which he is? Now capped. Well, yeah, I mean, that's probably how much, yeah. you have to spend on the cat right each year. That's basically a charitable donation. But no, look, to be honest, you're not going to notice a lot from the budget as an individual.
Starting point is 00:34:33 It's more that there's a whole bunch of other changes behind the scenes around funding for councils to do a whole lot more in terms of infrastructure. There's more for education, something like $2 billion over the next four years into education. There's a lot more hospitals being built. So all of that good stuff is coming through, but you're not going to notice any real money in your back pocket. I had a little look at winners and losers of the 2026 budget. Winners, Winston Peters seems to be sort of at the top there.
Starting point is 00:35:02 Very much so. I mean, especially given the man got a billion dollars for rail. So, you know, I sort of expect that we should be all. We do like trains. We can all be able to go and, you know, have a bit of a train ride at some point, right? Surely, you know, a billion bucks is a lot. Yeah. Surely you can sort of get one free ticket each over the next couple of years.
Starting point is 00:35:20 but yes, I mean a huge amount there. Also a lot more for international development, aid and our sort of diplomats overseas. So, you know, if you become an MFAT staffer and go over and represent the country, hopefully things will be a bit better. Again, slim pickings, though, in the government services in terms of government sector cutbacks,
Starting point is 00:35:39 probably one of the bigger losers or at least changes around was fees free has been scrapped, which I actually don't mind because it wasn't very targeted. The replacement for fees free is a whole bunch more funding for... What's Feast Free? What's Fess Free? The first year of uni.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Oh! Yes, that's gone. I paid for mine. Did they not do that in the art, Paley? No, they didn't do it when I was at uni, no. But is that gone? It's gone. It's gone. So it was there for a couple of years.
Starting point is 00:36:09 It was changed last year from paying for your first year of uni free to paying for your last year of uni free, and now it's gone in total. And instead they're replacing it with a whole bunch of additional training, but more specific on certain areas. So there's like, I think, 10,000 additional places for trades training. So instead of sort of just
Starting point is 00:36:27 saying, look, we're going to take literally any university degree or any tertiary degree, now it's a little bit more specific on the skills that we think we might need. I love that we're training up the next generation of tradies to move to Australia, Brad. Yeah, me too, send them off. I thought they were all getting trained up so
Starting point is 00:36:43 they could help borne on with all the heavy equipment. He's got to move and do in recent times. Oh. I can't afford to trades people. It's a lot of DIY. I see, I'm just looking at my little list here. Correct me if I'm wrong. Not great news for the arts sector.
Starting point is 00:36:57 Ballet Film Commission, Music Commission, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. More cuts? Yeah, everyone's having to take a fair bit of cutbacks. We're safe, though? That's good. Yeah, well, for the minute. I mean, again, this is sort of just budget 2026.
Starting point is 00:37:12 There's still a lot of big difficult spending decisions in the future. Now, what's happening with fuel prices, like our rents and mortgages, the cost of living, Brad, because the Iran thing still, they were just firing at each other again today. Yeah. I know. I mean, look,
Starting point is 00:37:27 clearly things are still mad over there. The government has set aside $450 million in a sort of emergency fund if things were to get even worse. Remembering that again, you know, as bad as things are at the moment, fuel prices have been a heck of a lot higher. They were, you know, diesel was nearly,
Starting point is 00:37:43 or at some places, was $4 a liter back in April. Mine's come down around where I am, am I little local one? So, you know, things are better. But the government said, look, if things get worse, we've got some more money that we can start to throw at the problem. The big question, one of the interesting parts is that fuel prices were going to go up anyway from the start of next year because the government was going to put a few more increases through to fuel excise duty in the road user charges and similar people buy. They look unlikely to come through quite as quickly.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Yay! You say that, you say that, you know, you know, you're going to... You say that, but $300 million cost every six months. So that might well mean that, yes, you don't have to pay quite as much, but you might encounter more potholes. That's right. That's a right. I've got an all-wheel drive.
Starting point is 00:38:30 I'll just crank it in. They need to do. Was it you telling me about the, what government was? Was it Uganda? It was an African nation and the warlord general in charge of the country said, if he hires a roading contractor to make a road, and then there's a pothole within six months. He'll fill it with their head.
Starting point is 00:38:47 I will raise that with Transport Minister Chris Bishop next time. I see him and just figure out if that's come on the camera. I think even just one pothole, but there's so many. There's so many. There's so many. Yeah, so many. Also, they'll fill it with flowers. It's going to sell it too.
Starting point is 00:39:04 Yeah. I think next year you guys need to come down to budget. We need to get you in front of Treasury. Put in the green water. We're just sort of thinking through. Brad, it looks so boring down there. Bring down the price of wine. Bring down the price of rent.
Starting point is 00:39:15 That was my Christmas yesterday. Don't you but boo-hullet? I know, but do you feel a little bit, like, it was a bit bler, like people were saying it's an election year, maybe hoping for a few sweeteners, and it's a little bit no frillsy, kind of like, oh, okay. You're like single guys with cats. Where was my cat biscuit allowance?
Starting point is 00:39:30 Think about people like, Fletch, Brad. Government's got no money. I mean, like, and let's be clear, if they did want to spend anything more, they're going to have to sting you with higher taxes, so that's the trade-off. I do love that there's $5.6 million additional for musical instruments in schools,
Starting point is 00:39:46 even though we've cut funding to the symphony orchestra, so there's no point learning an instrument. It's a lot of recorders that the government comes right. It's a lot of recorders. Every parent was pissed off about that line in there. Yeah, and those shakers. Eucaleleaders, yamacos. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:00 And when do we eat the rich? When do we snack and Brad? What's the best way to eat them as a slow cook of the preferred option? Oh, yeah. I mean, it probably depends on if you've put them in a pothole or not. Wow. Actually, we should use the rich to fill poles.
Starting point is 00:40:14 I don't have gravel in my slow cook. politician. No, I think you make a choice, don't you? Put some in the pothole and some in the crock pot. Yeah. Brad, thank you so much. And Merry Christmas for yesterday, for your Christmas. For the terrible news. I will try and find some better news for single people with cats next year.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Thank you, Brad. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZM's FlashForn and Haley. I'd love your input now on 966 because... We are planning on hanging out this afternoon. We've got a lovely dinner. We're staying at the
Starting point is 00:40:45 at J.W. Marry, don't we? We're going to Trivet, taking our listeners. Yeah. One with apparently a particularly smelly gooch. I hope he sorts that out. Yeah, we missed the show yesterday. Yeah, he'll be sent up for a shower if, uh... Also, I believe we have ordered some Fletchhorn and Haley pajamas for the sleepover as well. Stop my God. Hang on. You, literally the text machine has gone nuts. Okay, since you said this. Well, this is the text I got from out, because we're planning on hanging out before.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Yes. In the afternoon, a couple of drinks. We'll go to my apartment. Because I haven't seen any of the reno updates. The renoes. We'll have a look at the reno. We've got a dimmer on the switch. We've got a dimmer on the switch.
Starting point is 00:41:24 It's pretty much done, guys. So we're going to look around. And so I sent a friend text to our friend, Dr. Shawnee. Who doesn't work. Who does the crosswoods? On Fridays, Mondays, every other Tuesday, half of Wednesdays. And he doesn't like to work on Thursday so if he can avoid it in a world. We want to have a nice day today.
Starting point is 00:41:42 I think they just lay off. Please don't. He loves her and I neg him. So he said, what are your plans? And I said, well, we're going to hang out. You're more than I'm going to join. And he said, I've got a lunch at 3.45, but I could meet before. That's disgusting.
Starting point is 00:41:57 I let it go. I didn't argue with him then. Oh, I will now. 345 is an early dinner or a late lunch. Last weekend somebody said to, oh, well, what if we do at lunch at about four? I was like, that's an early dinner. That's an early dinner. That's a dinner.
Starting point is 00:42:12 I'm fine with the time, but don't. Don't call it what it's not. It's not lunch. And then somebody's like, oh, brunch is at one. No, brunch can't be after 12. Brunch is going to be wrapped up by 12. Otherwise, you're meeting for lunch drinks. One o'clock is, that's just called lunch.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Yeah, producer Shannon, what time is your brunch this weekend? I literally have a hens do tomorrow, and it's a bottomless brunch at 2.30 a. No, it's lunch. It's afternoon drinks. This isn't me calling it that. The booking is called bottomless brunch, and there's two options for the booking. Bottomless bloody dickheads. 23 for my brunch
Starting point is 00:42:46 It finishes at 4.30. We're so many messages in. Someone's broken it down. It's from 2.30 to 430. That's not even brunch territory. It's early dinner. It's bottomless fries though too. Ricky has sent a really cohesive breakdown here.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Okay. Breakfast. By the way, please, please, 966. Tell us what you think. Because this is, we need a definitive answer. Okay, Ricky, Ricky, thank you for message. in. Breakfast, six till 10. Yep, yep.
Starting point is 00:43:16 Brunch, 10 till 11.30. Lunch, 11.30 to 1. Yeah. Late lunch is 1 till 2.30. I'll allow it. Afternoon tea is 2.30 to 4. Yes. Early dinner is 430 till 5.30.
Starting point is 00:43:29 Yeah. Dinner is 6 till 7.30. Yep. Supper. Maybe on a weekend, we could say ape at a push. Yeah. And supper onwards is that. I like, I like this Ricky.
Starting point is 00:43:41 I like this Ricky. Ricky from Prime Minister. Text of the week? No. Ricky Baker. Thanks to animates. I've got a $50 voucher for you. Animates making happy happen for bets.
Starting point is 00:43:50 Ricky. Someone says that's dunch. 345, Dr. Shawnee. That's lunch. That's dinner lunch. Nice. I mean, I find it a funny term. I might allow it.
Starting point is 00:44:01 Dinner lunch. I'd like Lina. My mum takes lunch at 3.10 so you can pick me up from the bus stop after school. I eat dinner at 3 o'clock. Sometimes. When mom takes a 3? Oh, mom's, oh, she's making the most of her lunch break. Hopefully she's eating before then, though.
Starting point is 00:44:17 Yeah. But we're weird because we start our days at 4.30. Yeah, we're at different times. But just a normal person. Somebody said 3.45 is when you feed your kids dinner. Yeah. It's no time to start a lunch. Lunch on a work day is 2pm, so I don't have to speak to any of my colleagues.
Starting point is 00:44:34 And the afternoon goes fast because I come back and it's already 3 o'clock. Now, I can understand the lunch break, but we're talking about, like, the meal term. Yeah. My lunch is 3pm. I start work at 8 a.m. That's too late. You start at work at 8 a.m. You're going to be having the 12 o'clock lunch.
Starting point is 00:44:47 You're going to be so hungry. 3.45 is clearly linear territory, but only just. Once you hit 4 p.m., that's dunch. I think 4 p.m.'s too late to even have an unch or a l attached to it. 4 p.m. you have a snack. Yeah. And then we're going to dinner at 6. Or you have a chakoterie board or a...
Starting point is 00:45:06 Some cheese and crackers with your first wine, you know, on a Saturday. It's snacks. Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flashborn and Haley. Is it weird? 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
Starting point is 00:45:23 because then people will think I'm weird. So tell me, is it? Is it weird? It's our new segment. Is it weird? And you message us, FVHZM, just slide into the DMs. Yeah. With a conundrum, a question. Is this weird? It all started with a guy who left his condom on his Willie. And then we were like, okay, And then this is born.
Starting point is 00:45:42 Yeah, that was unanimously weird, by the way. But that's a thing. People do that because they don't want people to have their babies. Anyway. Well, guys, I've got a message directly in my DMs. And it's interesting. This is a little bit of a grey area. And I feel like, let's give it a go.
Starting point is 00:45:58 Well, dear listener, you tell us, 9-6-96. Is this weird? Yeah. Okay, she messages. I don't know if this is even going to work for, is it weird. I don't know. Anonymous, please, and please don't judge. We would never.
Starting point is 00:46:09 We would never. My husband has recently cheated on me. He came clean immediately and told me everything, all the details. After some work in therapy, I've decided to forgive him. Here's the is it weird part. This is not the first time. This has happened numerous times throughout our 10-year relationship, and despite the damage it does, I love him in our life so much,
Starting point is 00:46:27 and the idea of leaving him just breaks my heart. So I guess, is it weird that I stay? Wow. Okay. Now, that's all the information we have. We don't know. The circumstance. But it is labeled as cheating.
Starting point is 00:46:38 So it's not like he, They have got an agreement. No, no, no, there's no. There's no agreement. Well, it sounds like they need to go down the road of ethical non-monogamy. It does, but that's not what she wants. So the whole ethical part of that is it's a two-sided thing. Then, yeah, it is weird.
Starting point is 00:46:51 Well, give us a 9-6-9-6-4 message or a call in. Especially if you've been in this situation, because a lot of people do get over this and, you know, go forward. Yes. I mean, once maybe. I don't know. Does she say how many times she cheated? She just said numerous.
Starting point is 00:47:05 In 10 years. In 10 years. Yeah. But she said, I love him and our life so much. The idea of leaving him breaks my heart. Yeah, I just don't think we're meant to be mahogamy, you know? I don't think that we're a mahogany. Somebody said, is there any mention of kids?
Starting point is 00:47:20 Are they married? Married, yes. Keynes your relationship, no mention of kids. Okay. Okay, well, what? Is it weird? Like, have you been in this situation? Is it weird that she stays?
Starting point is 00:47:30 She loves him a lot. What do you think? 9-6-06-0-800-M. Let us know. So tell me, is it? Is it where? We've got our next. Is it weird setup?
Starting point is 00:47:41 Oh my God. If you have a question that you want the nation to help you answer, just slide into the DMs, FVHZM. I'm starring that message. That's so funny. Anyway, this isn't funny. A woman's husband keeps cheating on her. Is it where that she stays?
Starting point is 00:47:54 She loves him and their life very much. The bloody text machine. Yeah. Okay, let's fire through a bunch. She needs to find a new therapist. It's not normal as disrespectful. You are better than this. You're exposing yourself to pain hurt
Starting point is 00:48:05 and the possibility of life-changing diseases. Also, a few people are being like, Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, to the doctor. Someone just message in saying, run, bitch, run. Not weird, it's just sad. You're settling.
Starting point is 00:48:19 As a divorcee on the other side of heartbreak, it's not as scary as it sounds. Yeah. And there's happiness on the other side. She's giving them a free pass to just keep on cheating and seems happy with that. She's done 10 years already, so what will it be that crosses the line for her?
Starting point is 00:48:33 Yeah. Only live one life? I've been in her shoes, married with three children, and cheated on multiple times, so it was better to stay for our children. but in the end I had to leave for my own mental health and well-being. Now live a way less stressful, less worry and less anxious. Life.
Starting point is 00:48:46 I forgot the word life on the end, man. Yeah. It might have sounded like a dramatic pause. Yeah. He's obviously got something going on. Otherwise, why would you stay? You've been played for a fool. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:57 So just one other message, though. We all have our own ability to decide our deal breakers in lives. If infidelity is not a deal breaker for her, then that's fine. Yeah, that's a call. Why is she asking? Yeah, true. You know when someone asks the question, it's not sitting right, they ask the questions, it's almost like they just need the push.
Starting point is 00:49:16 Yeah. So if we just, if we have to rule it one way or the other. The jingle's too jolly, but I think we're saying it is weird. It is weird. God, it's a bit of a sad stitch to play this too. That's weird. The Z&P Podcast Network. Boy.
Starting point is 00:49:35 As far as highlights go. This is yesterday's highlights. for me. I think you can see it on our socials. You can see it on socials we had a countdown because it was a long tease.
Starting point is 00:49:43 We came back from the break laughing very loudly and we wanted to share it with you but we didn't have the time and we said, join us tomorrow we'll tell you why we laughed so hard. Long tea.
Starting point is 00:49:53 And it tickled my fancy when I saw it. I remembered, I'd forgotten about it I saw the thing on our socials. I laughed again. So here's what happened. Out of nowhere. Just before we're about to go.
Starting point is 00:50:05 Yeah, actually no warning or sort of, It didn't lead into anything that we were already talking about. No, it was out of left field. Fletch says like 20 seconds before we had you to go back on air. My friend thinks I should get an airing and the stud in my ear. Harry-style Z-M and we can't talk about it. And we just, because he wasn't like, how ridiculous is this?
Starting point is 00:50:28 It is ridiculous. No, it is ridiculous. I'd say it's ridiculous. It is. But at the time, when you said it, it wasn't like, it sounded like you were presenting it as like a possibility that it was going to happen. Oh no. And I just laughed. I just laughed.
Starting point is 00:50:40 I just laughed. A stud earring, right? Stud. Not a hoop. No hoop. Oh, not a hoop. Not a sleeper. I'm imagining you're not a flashy guy. It's going to be what, like a gold stud.
Starting point is 00:50:51 You don't wear jewelry so you haven't made. You don't know if you're silver or gold. Yeah, I don't know. I think gold. He's gold. I'm not a gold. Oh, you're definitely gold. No, because of your skin tone.
Starting point is 00:51:00 It'll go well with your skin tone and your eye color. I'm not getting like, it's ridiculous. So when we get Fletcher's ear pest next week on this show. What air are we doing? Because there is concerns. You don't want to get the wrong air. Or you don't want to get the gay air. If you were alive in the 90s.
Starting point is 00:51:16 You'll remember the gay air. The gay air. And if this is news to you, basically in the 90s, if guys got an ear pest, guys aren't even really got one ear pest at the time. Yep. One ear. One ear was the gay air,
Starting point is 00:51:28 but no one ever really knew which one of was. No, yes, it was. It was the right ear. Can I have Gen Z is there still a gay ear? When I was at school in the 2000s, there was definitely a gay year. Okay, there was a gay year. But which one? The left or the right?
Starting point is 00:51:42 It was whatever the person got. Yeah. That's what we did to do, a guy called Scott. He's like, I'm going to get my ear pierced and we're like, make sure you don't get the gay ear. And then he turned up to school with an airring. And we're like, oh, good, you did the gay air. So he took that out and got the other ear done, which coincidentally was the actual gay year.
Starting point is 00:52:00 Fantastic. That's so good. It was a different. type of bullying. You're 46 years old. You've never had a piercing. I don't have a tattoo or a piercing and I never will. I said that once. No. Yeah, now you've got a tattoo.
Starting point is 00:52:14 And then he was on my couch getting a tattoo at a party. I was like, who is this guy? I think this is always a moment where we just try new things. I have a friend that is a piercer. And the thing's piercing... You can take it out if you don't like it. This is the thing. He's going to throw it. Haley, he can't hear us if we cover the mics.
Starting point is 00:52:33 We're going to cover the mics quickly. He's going to love it. He, I think this is the man he was born to be. Yeah. I can hear you. I can literally hear you. I think we'll get it in the gay air. Yeah, we'll get in the gay air.
Starting point is 00:52:46 I told you because I guess, they just asked their teenage sons, both of them, they have confirmed they're still a gay air. Okay, but which is the gay air? 9-6-9-6, it's your right one. Which is the gay ear? If you're looking at someone. It's their left. It's on the left. No, it's your left.
Starting point is 00:52:59 It's their. Stage right, right, right? So if you, if you right now, put your right hand out, yep, that's the gay ear. And grab your ear, that's the gay. What if you're left-handed? Someone said... Then you can't be gay. The true revelation here is that Fletch is 46.
Starting point is 00:53:13 Now, Hamish says as a gay... He'll be 47 next month, my dude. Oh, pass on. Look at him. Hamish says, as a gay, it is the right ear. So we're right there. Right as the gay ear. Okay, it's not happening.
Starting point is 00:53:24 Now is this like bananas at the supermarket? Is this like a practiced? Is it yelling out? I don't know. Gay. Right. Well, I have lots of male friends. hetero and gayerow.
Starting point is 00:53:37 I can't wait to meet a gay. They're still exclusively our social social circle. You literally always hanging out with them. Who? Who? You've been to two gay marriages, three gay marriages. No, that wasn't a wedding.
Starting point is 00:53:52 That was just a party. They were friends. Fletch, tell him, tell him. It's Dr. Shawnee. Oh, no. Maddie and Ryan. You just thought they were friends? I just thought they were very good friends.
Starting point is 00:54:02 Burt Nernie, I called them. No. Jira, do you know, who you? like so much? Wait, he's got a stud? Which side? I'll have to ask him.
Starting point is 00:54:11 Because if he's got the left, but he's gay, yeah. But he is gay. He's got to have it in the gay air. You can't be gay and have it in the not. So I said my husband has both ears pierced as this is making bisexual. Because I know straight men that have their ears
Starting point is 00:54:24 pierce now. It's very, like it's a different time. Of course it is. There's two earrings and they're not gay. Somebody said they remember at the time it was based off what ear George Michael had pierced. Straight, straight in the gay air. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:35 George Michael. wasn't gay back then, was he? Until he was. Yeah. Well, it's not happening anyway. No, but that's we've already put it in. The reason I told you is because it's so ridiculous. But I have a friend that constantly...
Starting point is 00:54:51 It's your birthday prison. It's his birthday prison. It's constantly saying you should get this done. And I'm like, no, that's ridiculous. Producer Carwin. Fletcher's birthday, sort it. Take it straight out if you don't like it. But just to get it done, get a photo, right in the gay air.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Literally, if you take it out within the month, it'll close up and you won't even notice. What was that message? Or is that private, is it? Hang on. Let me just jump into our group chat. Yeah. Anyway. Single, okay, somebody said, I've just consulted the teenagers.
Starting point is 00:55:25 Single piercing and either ear is gay, apparently. Straits get both ears done. No, they don't. I don't know. Straits don't get both ears done. Yeah. Okay. Someone's asked which of your ears feels gayer?
Starting point is 00:55:36 Gives a look at your ears and I'll tell you which one's gayer Yeah it's the gay air It's your right one It's the gayest of them all Okay well see So when are we doing this We will crown your ear the gayest of them all On your birthday 23rd of June
Starting point is 00:55:51 It's not happening Please hope I hope that's So the 23rd of June that is a Tuesday Join us No It's not happening Please We're going away that weekend
Starting point is 00:56:02 Down to your hometown And your Plymouth You can debut your new gay earring You're home town. You can break some news to your parents. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZDEMS, Flesh, One and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Do do do do do do do do do do. It's kids TV week, and we're looking at the darker side of them for fact of the day this week. And today we're touching on Pingu. Pungu. Otmar Guttman invented Pingu. And unfortunately, right in the middle of a season two episode called Pingu at the Funfair, and it was all plastered scene playmation style.
Starting point is 00:56:53 Incredible. Like Wallace and Gromat. Which is why they're only five minutes, right? Because it's painstaking. Like that's... Move, move, move, photo. Yeah, take a photo. Move, take a photo.
Starting point is 00:57:04 Do that a million times. How about no? So, how about AI just does it in a second now? Antma died in the middle of the clamation sequence for a season two episode called Pingo at the Fun Fair. Now. Did he fall on the plaster scene? Yes. I was joking.
Starting point is 00:57:23 I know. So, I was like, because it said he died right in the middle of the middle of it. of making it. And so I was like, I did the same, did he fall on the plastic scene? I'm searching, did he fall on the...
Starting point is 00:57:33 Unsubstantiated, yes. Wow. So he just had a heart attack and killed over? He had a heart attack and curled over. His long-time friend stepped in and finished the episode called Pingo at the Fun Fair. You can look that up.
Starting point is 00:57:44 You can find it online. Yep. His widow then signed over all production rights to a toy company in 1993. And if she'd kept it, she would be... She did get a bit of money for it,
Starting point is 00:57:55 but it was only on season two. It ran until the year. 2000. It was revived in 2003 in the UK, rebooted in Japan in 2017, and a new season has been announced, but yet to be made. I get to be released. I'm sure there's merch and everything as well.
Starting point is 00:58:09 Yeah, yeah, there's merch and everything. I've got more Pingu. Wait, hang on, how are we doing this without hearing your phenomenal Pingu? Oh, do you want my Pingu? Are you going to headline with that? I could headline with it. I think, can we get a clip? You do more facts, I'll get a clip and then we'll headline with your
Starting point is 00:58:25 version of it. I'll do my, I'll do him a pingo. David Hasselhoff recorded a pingu rap. Of course he did. Okay, well, I'm finding that first. Yeah, it's called Pingu dance, and it was released exclusively in Switzerland, featuring samples of Pinguish out.
Starting point is 00:58:40 Now, Pinguish is the language. I love that. Pinguish is the language that's spoken. It was invented by a man who did the, he was the Italian voice actor, Carlo. David Hapsulhoff, Pingu dance. That's just the themes of it. Oh.
Starting point is 00:58:59 Stop your feet and turn around Oh it's like a full-blown kid's song To the Pingu theme So the guy that invented the languages An Italian voice actor called Carlo Bonomi He did invent actual languages Like the guys that did the Game of Thrones languages Yeah, yeah
Starting point is 00:59:18 He invented actual languages And also noot noot Noot Noot It's officially spout NU with an omelot G No. You with the normal, like G.
Starting point is 00:59:31 Nug, nug, nuk. Nuk, nuk. We shouldn't be hinder with a T. Nuk, nuk, nuk. Like that. I've got some Pingu voice. That's so weird. Oh, so they're just eating.
Starting point is 00:59:48 Laughing. I'm going to get a nuk-nook. He's a real bad. He ate real rough, pain. It's the dad. Yep. Which was all the same guy, by the way. Really?
Starting point is 01:00:11 That's Pingu vomiting. Still throwing up. I want to hear a nook-knock. That's his feet. Slapping on the ice. I always really like that sound. I thought that was a great sound. I need a nuk-knut.
Starting point is 01:00:26 You find a newt-k-kut. Yeah. So there's a band episode as well of Pingu, a walrus nightmare episode where Pingu has a a nightmare. He's This is a This is a new
Starting point is 01:00:40 Newark compilation. You listen, it's not a T it's a G We've been newt-nut. Guys, this is on YouTube This is a one minute Newt-Newt-knut. Nook-knut.
Starting point is 01:00:53 It's nook-nook-nook. It's not Noot-noot. No-noot. So there's an episode where Pingo's mom slaps him in the face and Pingo smacks him
Starting point is 01:01:04 on the head and then Pingo gets stuffed in a cupboard where he pretends to vomit when he, and where he's, and where he, runs away from home and then
Starting point is 01:01:09 a walrus nightmare episode occurs where a walrus chases, I'm trying to eat him because that's what happens in real life, apparently. And yeah, this warrous nightmare gave kids nightmares as well, so they pulled the episode. You can probably still find it. So today's... Oh, yeah, good.
Starting point is 01:01:26 Yeah. Good. It's really good. It's really good. It's really good. And we'd stomp away, it'd be like, let's the real thing again. Wait, play the real thing again. Play the real thing again.
Starting point is 01:01:50 I love it. How good. So I think today's largest revelation from Pingo Fact of the Day is that it's not Noot-Nute, it's... It's... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Dib, do-tib, do-du-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-doo. Play, that ends, Flesh Vaughan and Haley. There is a woman who suspects that New Zealanders are very ageist when it comes to dating.
Starting point is 01:02:28 And that once you pass the age of 40, probably, it just gets harder and harder and harder. And then the older men get, because they're aging with us, they just want younger, younger, younger. This is very true for a New Zealander who's 71. She said she's tried on the apps. She's tried find someone, NZ dating. Like, trade me, everything. Retro. Trade me.
Starting point is 01:02:52 You don't want to pay the success fee. One old bird. Yeah, she's like, at my age, you know, no one's healthy. Everyone's got cancer, lopping bits off. She's like, I just want to find. Okay, aging is grome. Yeah, yeah. She was like, yeah, man.
Starting point is 01:03:06 Her last serious relationship ended five. years ago and that was you know like not a very long relationship but she was like it is just the pits being older she was like the only reason I'm single she's like I'm a catch I'm fit I'm fun I'm funny I'm beautiful
Starting point is 01:03:22 the reason I'm single is because I'm old and I can't have you know in this we live in an ages country but I was like when the moment she said the reason I'm single I was like oh we all know the reason and you know people like I've got a few friends that are like eternally single yeah against their will and sometimes you're just going to reflect.
Starting point is 01:03:42 You're just going to reflect within yourself and be like, why am I single? And this is what I want to ask our listeners this morning. I've got a text messages to get things rolling. I'm single because it's easier. I have a child and two dogs to tidy up after the man hardly helped, so I feel like I'm down a liability. Liability, yes. I hope you have some fun times in there, a bit of a service.
Starting point is 01:04:02 So to speak. Check in the old Warren of Finners. Pop the hood. Every 100,000 case? Oh, Jesus. No, no, no. Every 50. Every 10,000.
Starting point is 01:04:09 Every 10,000. Every 10,000. Yeah. Every 10 kilometers. I need a little service. Because it's actually hard to find someone you're physically and emotionally attracted to with similar morals and values. It is hard. It's very hard.
Starting point is 01:04:23 People just annoy me. I don't, I'm like happy. Why are you single? I'm just happy being, like doing my own thing. I like it. I was trying to find a joke to be like, but like, also how awesome. Because I think that that's a societal kind of. construct, I guess, of being like, oh, you want someone, you want a relationship.
Starting point is 01:04:41 You're like, no, no, I'm happy. Well, but you must miss the physical stuff, the physical side of a relationship. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. What was I asked how, I mean, you felt a loving touch? We're adults, you know, and sexuality and sex is very important to life. Yeah, but of course you must be in a solid, ongoing relationship to have that.
Starting point is 01:05:01 Yeah, you must be. You have really sorry that you've gone without for so long. Yeah, thanks, thanks. It is sad, really. Five hours. 0,800 dials at him. We want to ask now, and you can text through 9-696. Be honest with us.
Starting point is 01:05:20 Why do you think you're single? We ask this on Instagram, so I'm in response. I snore. Everything will be going well until I stay over, and then the text stop being free. Oh, no. I snore too. It's just starting the last year.
Starting point is 01:05:32 Welcome, it's trendy. I wish I make it cool. I'm being to be single. I'm trying to keep up with how much The gays are living. Yeah, dude, I tried as well. Just explain. Well, the straits, you see,
Starting point is 01:05:44 for generations and generations, millennia have been tying themselves to one person, or trying to, with the occasional slip-up. The gays, however. There's a book that will fix that. The gays have been living out there, living. Yeah, interesting. So this antrosexual is like,
Starting point is 01:05:58 I'm going to try to live like the gays. Can't keep up. As a woman who definitely tried that in the last year, it's a lot. It's a different sort of fitness. It's a different sort of fitness. It's a different sort of fitness. Fitness all in your mouth.
Starting point is 01:06:10 Yeah, I didn't go out. Oh, boy. Apologize. To who? The listener. I am sorry, listener. I saw an opportunity when it was a different sort of fitness, and I just had to say, based off the old joke about I'm doing fitness, I'm fitting all this cake in my mouth.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I can. The breakdown of the joke doesn't make it any better than the nervous of nature. I made it sensual and I'm full of regret. Yes. Some more messages. Someone said I've got very high standards that I don't even live up to. Same babes. I think I'm too hot.
Starting point is 01:06:38 other people. Yeah, I get that. Oh my God, I get that as a show we get that. We feel that deeply. I low-key hate men and haven't managed to gaslight myself into being a lesbian yet. Oh, give it a go. It's super fun. Really? It's great. Women are the best. How do you know? Fit and old is cake in my mouth. Okay. Okay. Because I want to be single. I ain't got time for anybody else's shit. I've better than I've got time for my own. I think happily single people, that's the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm 30. and I've always had relationships.
Starting point is 01:07:09 I'm over and even the good relationships have challenges. Bing alone is amazing. Absolutely. I love my own company and doing what I want all the time. Hell yeah. Some people just don't like their own company or they don't like being single and this is not for them. Sometimes in the quiet, the voices start talking. That's you.
Starting point is 01:07:26 That's actually, yeah. That's when your voice memo us for 15 minutes. Yeah, yeah. I've got to keep busy because the voices start talking to me. Okay, keep your text coming in, 9-6-0900-800-m. Why do you think you're single? Stephen, I'm single, 42-year-old dad, and the reason why I'm single is I'm just not looking for anyone
Starting point is 01:07:44 since my divorce 11 years ago. Yeah, right, just happy being single? Happy being single, or you're just like post-divorce still making you feel? No, not after 11 years. 11 years? Good on you? I'm not single, but I should be. I don't understand how my husband puts up with my neurodivergent, menopausible, raging personality.
Starting point is 01:08:03 I don't even like my self, let alone how I understand it. I could be loved by anybody. Dude, I know. Do you feel that? I feel that so deeply. I've been loved by multiple people. And sometimes I'm like, I wouldn't.
Starting point is 01:08:17 I love myself, but I don't have to deal with myself. I am myself. You know what I mean? My standards are too high, and every time I meet someone who I think has potential, I get the ick way too easily.
Starting point is 01:08:27 Then that's just game over. Yeah, it's scary. I don't like leaving the house. It's a short and simple one. It's going well until they use the wrong there, there or yore, And you're like, I think that's why I'm also single. When they're like, oh my God, guess what I've seen on the way over?
Starting point is 01:08:42 And you're like, oh, okay. We're all good. Don't know, you'll see it on the way home too. I've still slept with nine and tens that are like, you know, terrible. Oh, I sleep with some absolute hot dummers. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, pass cards. But you're not going to be with them.
Starting point is 01:08:58 You're not going to be in a relationship with them. I probably still would, to be honest. No. Oh, no. I mean, how hot are we talking? I'm too much of an empath. care too much for my own good and it's never reciprocated to the level so I've decided not to bother for a while.
Starting point is 01:09:10 You just haven't met a good match. Yeah. You know? I'm single because it took me in my entire 20s to sort my shit out with some good therapy. I wasn't ready to be a good partner or choose the right partner. Wow. I like how open and honest everyone's being with us.
Starting point is 01:09:24 Me too. So nice. I like people admitting to themselves, Stephen here, he's back. Just happy being single. You know, that's what I said. I picked that. Yeah, yeah. Good on you. I like people that reflect and be like, I'm not, I'm not. not in a place to be a good partner and do some work on themselves. That's bold.
Starting point is 01:09:40 It's sexy, man. I'm content and happy this way. I have other priorities in life and a partner relationship would be hard work, especially when I have many relationships like friends and family that provide me with all the love I need. Friends and Framry. Friends and Framry. Did you hear that? Friends and Framry.
Starting point is 01:09:55 You lose it. Also, it's called a Satisfy a Pro, do you know what I mean? Yeah, you've got everything else you need. They said, and regarding the physical aspect, I reckon I had enough of that in my youth. that my quote has been met. Cup full. The cup's been full. It's a different game when you get older, though.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Yeah. You should try it again. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I think on behalf of the show, try it again. You reckon? It's fun. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:18 Oh, it's the most fun. It's the most fun. It's the most fun. It's the most fun. Name something that's funner. Yeah. They are up there. Not wrong.
Starting point is 01:10:27 Well, thank you. 9-6, 9-6. What's better than sex? I would just message him. Stephen's getting late, eh? The Z-N podcast. Us Network, Lay ZDM, Flesh, Forne and Haley. A recent study out of America, 52% of professionals, people working in professional jobs, regret what they study.
Starting point is 01:10:45 They regret doing their degree. Yeah. I've definitely got lots of friends that, we talked about this a bit earlier. You sort of just like roll from high school into uni and then you're like, what was that? I guess I do this now. Yeah, I guess this is what I do. And then you're like, I'm still doing this. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:58 Or, you know, you went all in on a business degree or something really hard, like medicine. and then you realize you want to be a painter or something, you know? Yeah, and you've wasted all that money in time. Yeah, you realize you've been creatively stifled. I don't know if there's a, isn't there like a number of four or five or six, you change your professional, your kind of work, the average person? Oh, really? That many times.
Starting point is 01:11:21 That many times in their lifetime? But I don't know if it's because of AI in the changing world. People are like, well, heck, my job is going to be like a robot soon, so I do regret my degree. But we asked this morning. We all wish that we studied the trades. Oh, 100%. If I had a manual skill that was useful
Starting point is 01:11:41 rather than ha ha ha ha, any couples out there make some noise. I mean, what ridiculous. Do you know what I mean? It's not helpful to the world at all. Well, you could have been a tradie by day, comedian by night. How hot is that?
Starting point is 01:11:52 Yeah, it's hot stuff. You're running late, you rock straight up. Well, this study out of America, 52% of people regret their college degree. We asked our cookie little poll, do you regret what you studied? only 29% of people said yes, 71% of people said no. Okay.
Starting point is 01:12:06 $20,000, says Laura, for a journalism degree I never used and spent 18 years paying off. Now I'm training to be a midwife. Oh, yeah. Mrs. Dee says I'm currently still studying, and it's six months into my final year, and I can't be having any regrets now. Talk to you later.
Starting point is 01:12:25 Bree, haven't used it, but spent two years learning about and spending time in scuba diving in the ocean. Best two years ever. Yes, go work somewhere in the Bahamas or something. Yeah, man. My not sensible undergrad from Danielle was studying archaeology. That was a degree in digging holes.
Starting point is 01:12:43 My sensible masters, however, studied engineering business management and that pays the bills. Sometimes jobs can just pay the bills. They don't have to be a passion, but yeah. Accepted as an English major second semester they got rid of it as a major and forced me to switch to the liberal arts. So you're regretting that because he kind of got... What are the liberal arts? versus what, the conservative arts? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:13:06 I don't know what the... Versus the dark arts. I mean, that's your arts. You want to get stunned. That's the arts. In this time, you know, with what we've got ahead of us. I think the dark arts would have been the best arts. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:14 I studied history. It was fun. And my job isn't bad, but good Lord, what a useless degree. Let me save your life with this description of Paris during the occupation. Dude, so this is my best friend who got a classics degree. And I was always like, so are you going to be like an archaeologist or like a historian? She was like, probably just one of those like forever students. She works in payroll now But like...
Starting point is 01:13:34 Oh, really? Like classics, you're like... Yeah, like history. You're like... History has happened. You teach it. You teach it, yeah, for sure, if you want a teacher.
Starting point is 01:13:43 Yeah. You mean, I get that. I get that. Anya says, did zoology and now I'm a zookeeper, so deaf's no regerts. Yeah, that's cool. I am.
Starting point is 01:13:50 I started sitting at 26, so I actually knew what I wanted to do rather than jumping into it straight out of high school. Yeah, because I had friends that went to uni and did like two or three different things and don't even work in any of them now. Liberal arts can mean language, philosophy, literature, abstract science.
Starting point is 01:14:06 It's quite a broad thing. Philosophy's a big way. Abstract science. Science was pretty... That's what you're saying. Well, I mean, I'm not one to speak. I'm a master of the dark arts. Nursing, says Ali.
Starting point is 01:14:18 Enough said maybe. I'm not even a turning my own horn. Thank me for my service, please, flex. But also, by while we're here. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. I would encourage anyone I love or care about to become a nurse. I've been working for seven years.
Starting point is 01:14:30 the increasing expectations, constant pressure and stress, poor working conditions, shift workers all too much for some days. I moved to Melbourne for a bit of pain, working conditions. The grass is a bit greener, but I wouldn't study nursing again if I got a redo. Someone just texted, I love this. I had a mate who started training as a forensic scientist. Now that's a big fat degree. Do you remember when we talk to that guy?
Starting point is 01:14:49 Oh my God, I know. Who had the book? That was so fascinating. The blood never lie? Yes. Terrible. Sorry if I've misquoted that. Had a mate who started training as a forensic scientist, came out of the closet,
Starting point is 01:14:59 it became an air hostess slash trolley dolly happiest I've ever seen him. Oh, lovely. Hell, you're flying around. You'd be like, we've got a food stain on the seat. Yeah. Gareth, come sort this out. Yeah, look at that. Let's get to the bottom of this.
Starting point is 01:15:13 Who left that stain there? Just swab? Yeah. Looks like the fish. Doing a history degree is important for transferable skills. Research, no, critical thinking, informing arguments. Very useful in real life, says Rachel. Someone just texted.
Starting point is 01:15:23 Because I think I might have just belittled the history degrees. And I apologize. It's good to know. Well, Haley just thought it was like, I don't know, teaching people. people about World War II, was I? You know, I can't even remember last week. Do you know what I mean? The Z&M Podcast Network.
Starting point is 01:15:36 Play ZDM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Okay, a message in to kick us off from What was the Dumb Injury? I got smacked over the head by a chunky Jim Bean bottle. Because I turned down a drunk girl who was definitely not the friend I thought she was. Wow. Oh, God.
Starting point is 01:15:53 So the reason we ask, how did you get a dumb injury or what was the dumb injury? 0,800 dials at M-669696 by the way. Holy shit, that top text. Oh my God, you read that phone. So the reason we're asking this is because of something so much smaller than that top text. Oh, my God. It was just a funny video of a girl doing Pilates with a resistance band,
Starting point is 01:16:13 and then she like, is... You love these. No, because this has happened to me at the gym. You know, you can use a resistance band to help you do pull-ups. Yeah, I use them. Yeah, and it slipped off and... Smacked doing the goch. It's like a giant rubber band in the balls.
Starting point is 01:16:26 Yeah, yeah. Well, she's got her foot in... one like this and she's leaning back and it comes back and gets her right in the face. Oh, gosh. Okay. So this is what we want now. 0,800,000, 9-696, what was your dumb injury? And you did it to yourself.
Starting point is 01:16:43 I know, this is great. Or let's start the ball rolling. How did you just like that? No, you go, sorry. I'm going to do that text that Haley was shocked at. Dumb injury was I scalped myself. I took my seatbelt off before the car had stopped and the car was still going and we drove into a lamp post and my head just went forward and hit the
Starting point is 01:16:58 Windscrally just stouted. I got my friends To pull me down by my shirt on a flying fox for extra speed, I hit the end, and when I hit the end, I let go, and I went flying, and I snapped for my wrist when I landed. That was a bit dumb. My husband spilt my last glass of chilled wine on the carpet. I love a chilled wine.
Starting point is 01:17:19 Now, I went to flick him with my middle finger, just like, you know, boom like that. I guess I tried to power up too much, and I pulled the tent. on the top of my hand. Oh, God. Well, that'll teach you. That'll teach you.
Starting point is 01:17:34 We want to know how you injured yourself in a dumb way because a girl was doing Pilates, had one of those resistance bands, and it smacked her in the face. Yeah. Ah, she's fine. Yeah. She's not blind.
Starting point is 01:17:46 I broke my knee, twisting around and giving my baby a dummy. I had to have surgery and everything. I broke it. I remember I ran over the road in slides, and it was a little bit wet, and I was trying to be careful, but I like pulled my calf muscle.
Starting point is 01:18:00 Just like doing it like a half run across the road. Oh. Like it's, when you injure yourself, you just feel so dumb because you don't do anything. Catherine, how did you injure yourself in a dumb way? Morning. Morning. So silly, silly. I had a few cocktails at a lovely restaurant in Wellington and came out and there was a
Starting point is 01:18:20 Tuk-Took there and I thought, goodness. On the Cockatow bikes? Yeah, no, the Tuk-Took that's outside MasterComs. Oh, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We know it. Purely decorative. Yes, very decorative.
Starting point is 01:18:31 So I thought, oh, I could get a really cute photo on that. So I started climbing on, and it moved, and my husband said, that's not very stable, Catherine. Oh, you use your full name. He used your full name. You've been told, Catherine. Catherine, that's not very stable. You know what you like, Catherine?
Starting point is 01:18:47 Yeah, well, it was. Not very... So I caught my heel as I was coming down, and then I sort of, like, sat fully down on my bum, and I broke two vertebrae in my back. Oh, my God. Oh, Catherine. You broke your spine. It wasn't very stable, was it, Catherine?
Starting point is 01:19:01 Now, what did your husband say when you're in A&E? Or, like, no, who's going to cook? Who's going to cook? Catherine, that's a clop around the, I'd break his spine. I was hoping for something a little bit more. Modern. No, really? No.
Starting point is 01:19:19 There probably was a bit more. It was a wee while ago. Yeah, right. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, it was good. Okay. Do you behave yourself now after a couple of calls? cocktails? Yeah, the children
Starting point is 01:19:29 seem to think I'm a little bit clumsy and I should be a bit more careful. So, you know, they put a lot of pressure on me not to put myself in those kind of positions. Yeah, well, Catherine, it's a long weekend, that gives you more time for a couple of cocktails, so we'll ask you to tread lightly and be careful this weekend. Just stay at us. Catherine, thank you. Alex, what was your dumb injury?
Starting point is 01:19:47 Well, so I've been told, Haley, you've got a bit of a fear of moths, so he's prepared. Let's just say, let's call them flying bugs. Alex. I was having a little bit of late night study session, had the doors open, and a moth sort of started flying around. A flying bug, a flying bug.
Starting point is 01:20:05 Alex, you've got to call it a flying bug. You're fine. You tell the boys. You tell the boys. Hayley's just going to sit this one out. I'm still going to go headphones off. Like for the listener, she physically winces and spasms. I've got a tick.
Starting point is 01:20:16 She's got a tick. Yeah. Okay, so anyway, one of those flying bugs. It sort of had a small lapse of judgment. and as it started flying around my face, I sort of punched myself square in the face. I put the end, punched yourself in the face, okay.
Starting point is 01:20:34 I gave myself a broken nose. Oh, yeah, it's really. Broken nose and a couple of shiners. Also something Haley would do, I think, if that was that close. By any means necessary, that thing's getting killed. Oh, so good, Alex, thank you for a great long weekend. Some messages.
Starting point is 01:20:49 Got concussed by my toddler while toilet training. I was wiping her, and of course I was around, wiping and she turned around and slammed down the very old school toilet seat on top of the back of my head. I fell and I smashed my head on the toilet. Slumped onto the ground. Not looking good.
Starting point is 01:21:05 When people have a heavy toilet lid, I'm always like, what are you doing? It's heavy, but it's on the... That's how they just used to be though. Yeah, but I've worked... Those armatage shanks. Yeah, let's all go a bit lighter, please. Um...
Starting point is 01:21:22 Dund a dumb injury. My partner's carrying out. is off work due to a back flip into a phone put it. Ninja Valley, two ligaments in his foot on a children's playground. Not a child anymore. Yeah, you can't be doing that when you're that old. What subluxited? He's the prime minister. When I was to see, I Christopher subluxedited my pelvis while shaving my legs.
Starting point is 01:21:46 Oh, popped it out. Sublux. What, it came out of the joint. S-U-B-L-X-A-T-E-D. Yeah, isn't that when it pops out of the joint? It's like a dislocation. It means, yeah, a joint or organ is partially or incompletely dislocated. So you dislocated your pelvis by shoving your legs.
Starting point is 01:22:04 So they lifted your leg up a funny angle that way, just perfect to pop it out. God. It's like when one of your barbie arms comes off. Yeah, me like, do her legs go sideways? No, they don't. Slipped on a tussock? Did you see that one? Slipped in a tussock bush?
Starting point is 01:22:20 Slipped in jandals. Waring jambles. After taking. a bush wee. And I tore two ligaments in my ankle was in the way. Lying in your wies. Jess said I moved to bed around my room to get better. Fund shua.
Starting point is 01:22:36 Fung Shua. And then she says, is that how you spell it? Feng Shui. Fund shua. Now Dr. Shawnee's in. It's actually when someone partially dislocated. He's coming with what I said. We went to medical school for that.
Starting point is 01:22:46 Probably want $60 for that. I was going to say weird. Could he be telling someone this in person to relieve the health crisis or is he just going to have a day off work? Texas and Texas and his mates. It's a separate message. Why don't you group message us, Dr. Shawnee? I've just gone,
Starting point is 01:23:00 I'm going to tell him. He said I'm trying to help. He said, I'm trying to help. He left me out of it because he knows I would have said because you'd be telling someone this in person. I can't wait to see Dr. Shawnee today to let him know that I had a urine infection come on and I cured it without antibiotics. Where's the cranny, granny?
Starting point is 01:23:16 Had it harlinson cranny. Some ocean spray? I might get him to Nicklaus thing on my island. I've got a thing on my island. Island too. Bring your lancor to drink. Bring your Lance, Dr. Shorning. Famous last words. Don't worry, it's only on the eyelids.
Starting point is 01:23:33 Oh, God. I had a shower whilst having a couple of drinks. Now, I'll tell you, at the end of a long day doing yard work or something, or I imagine just a trade here. Cold drink and a hot shower. Cannot be beaten. I had a shower. I slipped and broke my ribs on the tiled bath as I was getting out. Proceded to go into town that night.
Starting point is 01:23:52 I woke up in the morning, struggling to breathe with the bruise. that covered my whole back and chest. Holy. Oh my God. Had to go to hospital. Two broken ribs. Lucky not to be dead. Lucky not to be dead.
Starting point is 01:24:01 Did I say this on ear? Just you guys. Slipped in a muddy puddle, tore all the ligaments from my foot to my hip. Whoa. Those muddy puddles are dangerous. I was holding my keys
Starting point is 01:24:09 and I tripped on a curb and when it went down... No! I counted 79 all rights today. Fletcher, but that's a new personal record. Oh, fuck off. How many of those did you count? 79 of those too.
Starting point is 01:24:21 All right. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rate and review. Oh, fuck off. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.

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