ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 9th June 2026

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

00.00: Intro 03.30: We're one step closer to having a chip in the brain 08.30: The best biscuits for drinking 13.40: 81 Jobs expected to be halved because of AI 19.00: Top 6 - Signs the Napier Aqurium is going through menopause 22.10: When did you do a DIY to save money? 30.40: Help Hayley know sport 35.30: SLP - Have you ever been a gold digger? 40.05: Tony's wrap up 43.00: What did you predict? 52.20: Fact of the day 56.40: How does Hayley choose 1.02.00: Double names are back 1.05.10: How hard did your house colour go? 1.15.20: Let's buy Taylor Swifts seat on the show credit cards 1.18.30: Gen Z are avoiding the pub round See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

from the ZM Podcast Network. This is Fleshworn and Haley's Big Pod. Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Fawn and Haley. One of us gets to scyve off early today. No, guys, I've got a bloody important meaning today.

Speaking of which, I'm about to have my... I had a call yesterday from the New Zealand Blood Service. Yeah. Just to get me prepped for today. Yeah. We'll have a while between donations. You're going to leave the show around 8.30 this morning. Just knock off early for this bloody important meeting.

Wild. And we're just going to get the blood sugar levels up, hey? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wild. Yeah. So I'm going to have an earlier breakfast today.

Well, don't you worry. Carrier. Yeah, we'll carry the show. We'll take care of everything. I try to smuggle your back, a Bucky. Oh, I won't say no. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll send a photo on all.

the biscuits and I'll choose? Yeah. Okay. Sometimes you might choose me a rogue biscuit. Yeah, you're a bit off sometimes. Yeah, well, yeah. Okay. I know that aren't.

I'm hoping there'll be some chocolate ones there. Yeah, me too. There's Arnets biscuits. Okay, speaking of biscuits, we must discuss next. And now this is, I will disclaimer, say this is from the UK, this infographic. Somebody's made an infographic of the best biscuits for dunking. Ginger nuts.

I haven't seen the infagraver, but it's got to be ginger nuts. But also sometimes a crispy. Well, I know. Quick. Quick, quick, quick. Quick. Quick dip. Those are on the list.

Waifer biscuits on the list. Well, that's crazy. I wouldn't dunk a wafer. But 966, if you'd like to contribute to our chat soon, the best biscuit for dunking in New Zealand. Yeah, get the ball rolling on that. Yeah. That's good. Oh, yeah, because then you get a little melty chocolate into whatever you're drinking.

I like a big, like a fat chocolate chip. Yeah. Oh yeah, like a farm bait cooking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also coming up the top six four. Yeah, happy 50th birthday to the Napier Aquarium. Our national aquarium push him up. Yeah, still going.

Didn't they get rid of a whole lot of, yeah, I went there when I was a kid and they had dolphins. I went there as a kid and I swam with gold. I touched it. You swam with the dolphins? No, I didn't swim with it. I touched it. Yeah, yeah. I only saw it.

Yeah, I loved it. Yeah. It's good fun. So I've got the top six signs that the Napier Aquarium's going through menopause. Oh yeah. Because it's at 50. Carl, when you're a nape your girl? Yeah, also wrong.

You're talking about Marineland. Marine land had the dolphins. Aquarium did not. Oh. Two separate entities. I do apologise. But on the same location? No.

Down the road from each other. Really? Yeah, my mum's worked at both. I can't really mean it. How wild that you would have two aquatic-based tourist attractions. I know. Marine land was like opened for a long time and then kind of was going a little downhill. aquarium opened and now the marine land is a skateboard.

Is it? Yeah. Crazy. Bring it the dolphins. I love dolphins. I love dolphins. I love dolphins. Dolphins are bloody good on a skateboard too. Yeah they are.

Slip through. They just lie on their stomach. Wee, weo, weo. Next on the show. We are living in the future and we are one step closer to something that I'd be so into. Yeah, this is some crazy tech news. Yeah, and Elon Musk pipped at the post.

Yeah. The Fletchhorn and Haley, big pod. Do you remember reading about Elon Musk's Neurrelink? Yes. It was a chip that would go into our brain and be able to help us in life, basically.

Would I be able to do maths without opening in the calculator? That's the vibe. School would be redundant. Okay. Teach you'll be like, no calculators, you're like, He like, sir, would he do?

I'm like, sir, what are you doing here? In your 40s, I'm at, give me the test. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is still awaiting FDA approvals despite the fact that they've actually done trials in humans for the last two years of Elon Musk Neuroling. But it's currently in nine patients,

which is insane that there's nine people. So is it to... I don't know we're up to human testing time. Yeah, isn't it wild? So it's to help people that have like, Spinal cord issues or some kind of paralysis or anything like that. So this has like been in the making and then suddenly China was like, boom, pipped you at the post, ran past you at the end and chopped the ribbon.

With less testing? They've done it. Oh, yeah, it doesn't matter. It's China, mate. They've got to do it with all those people they rehomed to build that super highway. Yeah, well, it's been approved. China's approved the world's first commercial brain computer chip. called Neo.

So it's a coin-sized device that sits between the skull and the brain because everyone was like, what do you slice up the brain and chuck it in? No, it sits like on top of the brain. They'll have to cut into your head. Into a skull.

Okay. And it presses... Do you reckon that they'll just end up doing this at the mall and you'll book a 30 minute slot? Yeah, you'll go from... Yeah, like a laser hair. You go from a fany's magic fingers, massage in the mall.

It's head naked. It's massage, by the way. I do apologies. I do apologize. Have a quick butter chicken before the operation at the mall. Yeah, well, you might have to be nailed by mouth. So you probably just sneak a Snick a Subway cookie and a tent juice.

You could ask for just the sauce. Yeah. Get a bit creamy bloody Starbucks because it might be your last. You might as well enjoy it. Yeah. A frothy grande. And then they just slice it.

Yeah. And then go get your eyebrows threaded next door. And then you walk past the ATM and it goes, just spits out money. What? Because you're linked to the ATM. Yeah, you're linked to the machine. No, I think if you've got a chip in your brain

and you get out money, it's still your money. So it won't just spit out money. So it goes between your skull and your brain It presses eight senses against the brain's outer protective layer So again it doesn't permeate the brain And this first version of it That's been approved Target's spinal cord injury and paralysis patients

So it will help them move Which is like incredible That is insane Like a spinal cord injury is devastating to people And it's all in the brain right That you can't get it gone So when I don't know how So if you have a spinal cord

injury, is that just your brain not connecting to... Oh my God, we're going to sound so dumb. It's like a fibre up to cable, right? And if there's any part of it breaks, it can affect any manner of things. So this is short, it's kind of

finding a shortcut now to then tell the brain to move. Yeah, basically. Like in the basic way. I don't know. In the most basic way. Now that's exactly it. At a deep scientific, it's just telling the brain move around. Right. So, Musk has called this Jesus level technology. The bigger picture is that, so this is like a, like very soon will be a $1.7 billion industry

could benefit 3 billion people with neurological conditions, including paralysis, but also Parkinson's, epilepsy, depression. Because that's in the brain. You know, some people have absolutely like, you know, awful depression. It could help that as well. So there's risks. These wrists. Oh, yeah, okay. Go. In theory. Okay, so like your immune system, like any foreign object,

like a breast implant or a new organ, could reject it. Okay. In theory, hackers could... Cool. In theory. Cool, cool, cool. Access thoughts and memories. What?

No. Not yet. No. Not yet. Wait, hang on, have they got a firewall in this thing? Yeah. Or a naughty. Let's get a Macafee on that bad boy.

I'm going to. and download the hottest macafas. Imagine your brain being fished. You get a message in your brain and it's like, hey, you've got a courier waiting. You're just got to pay this $3 fee. And you're like, oh yeah, click to pay. Oh, no.

And then you're like... Blink to pay. Yeah. And it's like taking your life out of you. And then you're a mindless soldier for the Chinese army. I mean, this is definitely like the most we are living in the future thing. But are we going to be able to watch Netflix in our heads?

Like, without worth it then? Imagine the zombies will become if we could just be pretending where it work, but actually just just. just like watching reels all day. Like, oh, that cat just slipped in its own vomit. Do you guys want to see it? Blink to share.

The ZDM Podcast Network. Well, I saw this infographic. You know, I love an infographic. He does. Anything. Dude, I love an infographic, too. Sometimes I stand having graphic, and it's a bit more than an infographic. I'm like, nice.

Nice. Love done wow. Yeah. It's just so, like, satisfying visually. Yeah, there's a real art to it, eh? There's a bit of appreciation for those that make infographics. Huge. Thank you to making things so digestible for us.

I mean, infographics don't work on the radio, but I thought we could talk about this and share this. Let's call them entertainment graphics. No, that doesn't work. And it's not graphics, really, is it? It's infotainment? Infatainment. I like infatainment.

Okay, great. Well, bitch, make it palatable. This infographic from the UK has the best. Best and worst Biscuits for Dunking and they have a start line and it weaves around like a big S and it finishes with the ultimate biscuit

in the UK for dunking and we share many of these Oh my God do you know I love Jeffer cake So they sell them in supermarkets here And I love them so much They're in the international Yeah they're so good

Well I like them Because I love orange chocolate Oh you're going to love it then Okay You're going to love it What about Terry's chocolate orange Oh no way So sweet but so sweet

Well, they make it the perfect size. That's a slice of chocolate. Yeah, we're talking orange chocolate. While you sort yourself out on your infographic. What about, you know, when you get your dollar mixes and stuff, you've got your little bags. Those orange chalk fish, they had the orange tail and the brown little mini ones. I'm giving you this look. The little mini, you know, those chocolate fish, that little, just flat, not marshmallow-filled, chocolate orange fish.

Hang on. I've never had one of these. What are you talking about? Yes, you have these. Haley, I've never had one. It's a lolly. Yeah, I've had one of those. Yeah, thank you.

I'm sorry, how have you were talking about biscuits? No, no, no, no, no, we're on orange chocolate. I've never even seen those. Yes, you have. I promise you. I have. Don't gas lamp me. I'm not, no, I'm not saying you, they don't exist.

I'm seeing a photo, I know they exist. I've never had one. Well, you don't lolly enough. You don't lolly as much as we lolly. I don't actually don't lolly. I actually don't lolly. Sometimes those will be in a $2 mixture and you're like, jackpot. We have half to you two children buying $2 mixture.

A lot. Couple of times a week. Okay. Okay, so top of the list, ginger nuts. Yeah. The best for dunking, chocolate digestives. Yum, I love a chocolate digest. A chocolate hobnob, which looks like a chocolate.

You're a chocolate hobnob. Malt biscuits, which are only good to be made into lolly cake. Who's using a malt biscuit for anything other than like a biscuity base? I don't mind a malt biscuit with, we used to do it with margarine on the member. That's a dad classic. Yeah. Jaffa Cakes, another malted biscuit. Pink wafers.

No, no. Who's dipping that? Near the end. And then all but a shortbread. Someone messaged in the farm baked country oak. Oat, you know, like a nice. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That's a, that's the only time, oh, like an Anzac biscuit, if you can dunk it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, what about my honey, Azac biscuits? They were delicious. They were good. Thank you. But the best. What about, what about, man, I can't get enough of those Pam's decadent chocolate? Pam's finest?

Pans finest, decadent chocolate. chocolate chip cookies. Dude. They, just a moment for Pam's and Pam's finest. It's so good. There it is. They do great crackers,

great biscuits. Those chocolate ones are... Those chocolate ones are... I've got to stop buying them because I can't say no to them. I'm like, Dad, stop adding the biscuits so quick. That's me.

They, I mean, they don't have a lot of exciting biscuits on this list, whereas we had the Tim Tams, the Tim Tams Slam. So Connor messaged in, Tim Tamslam in coffee, unbeatable. You wouldn't dunk a squiggle, would you? I had to say to squiggle. No.

No, squiggles is perfect as well. Frozen, eat frozen. Yep. Cold. Yeah. They're delicious. Yeah, yeah. What else is there? New Zealand biscuit wise.

It's good for that. Well, you could crack a cook. I'd bust up a cookie time and give that a dunk. Yeah, they're good. A big, thick ones. Because if you've got the big dog and you've cracked it, you could go right to the bottom of the cup, which is a rarity in the dunk to get that much biscuit. So you're just dunk in the tip.

Dunk in a hot chocolate hop knob. Some fantastic New Zealand. and journalists over the last decade or so have delved into the subject. Go on then. From 2011, September, 2011, the perfect dunking biscuit. And they make the argument for the crispy. You know, the coconut? The coconut one would did, was the crispy the one with a couple of sugar granules on the top?

No, you're thinking of short bread. That's a short bread. No, no, it's not. No, I think the crispy did have a slightly sugar granule on it. It was something in a sapler. Crispy's coconuty. Yeah, it is. We should get a sampler.

Should we just have a sampler in studio? A sampler box. I love the pink wafers. I thought we were going back to the gym this week and being healthy. I had one day on a diet and I woke up this morning and I looked at myself. I hate it. Why is it not working? Play Z&S flesh for an haley.

I think we're pretty far down the track in jobs that AI will be coming for. And I mean there'd be a lot of people in a lot of industries that are like, God damn it, I just finished five to six to seven years study. I know. To learn how to do something. And now a computer is able to do it for me. Like I was thinking the other day when I was listening to some of these podcasts and they talk about this and the impending AI doom and all the job losses.

It's like, what are your daughters going to study? Like, just become plumbers. Yes, trade. It's got to be. Vets. Like. Even vets. No, but a robot can't. It still needs the hands-on aspect of it.

I can't know. And it would be its pleasure. It would be its pleasure. So there's a list of like 81 jobs. Deloitte Australia has done like 81 jobs that they think is going to, that are going to be most highly affected. And in the next, like, we while. Yeah.

In the near future. Yeah. 81 ticket salespersons. I'm not going to do all 81. You pick some numbers, I'll tell you. 81. 60 times. Just pick some good ones.

69 are miscellaneous clerical and administrative workers. Oh yeah, for sure. Like clerical work. I mean, there's how many things that I do myself now using AI? Yeah. That usually I'd be like, oh, I need an expert or I need this. Survey. Also, though, you have to take this as a grain of salt.

I have a friend of mine that is really like trying to voice this and sharing so much information about it. Like, AI is often wrong. Yes, often wrong. And their number one used source for lots of AI is Reddit. Yeah. Can I tell you, I had my phone, plugged into the Ford Ranger, as I'm a Ford Basseter,

at the weekend. And the little chat GPT logo was, no, I don't use chat, but the app's still on my phone. And it was on the Apple Carplay. It was on the Apple Carplay. And I was like, what happens if I push it? I push it and it was like, hi. And I was like, hi.

And I was like, what caused you want to? And I was like, what causes fog? Because we were driving in fog. And I kind of might know it's like the warmer temperature is up in the lower. But then it started full real time conversating with me. I was just like, I was like, ooh, I didn't like it. And then it was like, what didn't you like about it? I was like, no, off.

You and me. Although if you've got a four-hour roadie and you're driving solo or you're a truck driver. Yeah, a truck driver, like tell me a little bit about this. Tell me about. I'm a pretty interesting, do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So some other jobs in here are switchboard operators, but who's operating a switch. board. It's not in the 1950s.

Yeah, exactly. It's already taken over. That's automated. Mail sorters, which I thought had also been pretty much taken care of. Insurance, money market and statistical clerks. Lots of clerks. I will go up a bit. And at 14, accountants. Oh, yeah, because it's, yeah. I won't get rid of Helen. I'll never get rid of Helen.

I'll never get rid of Helen. I'll use TIE to assist, but I don't want, won't get rid of Helen. I love Helen. I've used AI a lot more recently for accounting. Helen, my accountant, account, slash therapists, sometimes. Yeah, for sure. And treat her per hour

than a therapist, so I'll just ring her for a downline. Oh, so she loves her film festivals, doesn't she? Oh, she does. She loves an international film festival. She loves a little coffee. We must actually be due a visit.

Should we all meet up with her? One big meetup. Cool contact center and customer service managers, retail managers. Retail managers. Yeah. Well, who's going to fold the t-shirts when I put them back in a not the right way?

Not AI. No. No, but that's a retail worker, not a manager. Yeah, right. AI will be, hey, bitch, go fold that t-shirt. Yeah. Wait, so do you think that AI workers, I know, retail workers will just have to report to a screen

and get jobs? I don't know. And there'll be no manager of them. Yeah, I don't know. Probably. Top five. Supply distribution and procurement managers is number five. Production managers is number four.

Engineering managers is number four. That's all management. You've got to get your hands on. Yeah. You've got to get your hands on. I don't like this. Two human resource managers, how ironic. Yeah, the people firing in charge of firing everybody.

Yeah. But who's going to fire us, a robot? They'll fire themselves. That will be their last move. And corporate service managers. Okay, I'm just going to put in, I'm going to put in a real small prompt to say, tell me an observational joke about sleeping with an Italian man who sung Oasis to me. Because that's a story that's in my show.

It's a real hit every time. I'm like, is it coming for the comedians? Okay. This is what it came up with. I slept with an Italian man who sung a waces to me. Very romantic, very passionate. Absolutely no idea what was coming next. Ha ha ha ha.

Oh, that's good. No, it's a way off on that. It's way off. It's terrible. Tricacies of human behavior. But like if it's just doing numbers. Yeah. It's all over it.

Well, that's a depressing start. It's a depressing start to the games on. Hang on what's five plus seven. It means we get to be outdoors more. It means we get to go back to doing cool stuff outside. Guys, I just asked it what's five plus seven and it said 12 like that. The ZM Podcast Network.

Play ZDM's Fletchhorn and Haley. From the Fletchforn and Haley group chat, this is the top six. Hello, good morning. The Napier Aquarium is 50 and congratulations. Congratulations, happy birthday. I'd also hit that age.

It's going through menopause. Uh-oh. It's definitely happening for me, like, the peri. You get a little bit of peri-pery chicken. Yeah, for sure. Does the PCOS bring it on? I thought that made it late. I mean, it's different for everybody, right?

I guess it's different for everyone. I remember being told that menopause would be later because I hadn't menstruated as much with a regular, I don't know. But I'm definitely turning into a really sweaty bitch. You got to do it. And it's undeniable. Yeah, you've got to do that test.

I know. You keep missing it. What is it again? On the second day of your cycle, I've got to get this blood test because that's when they'll be able to see the hormones to see if I am a bit. Peri, peri mayonnaise. Peri, peri chicken. Wow, the top six, the top six.

The Napier Aquarium is 15 going through menopoles. Today's top six. And in it number six, on the signs it's going through menopause, the tropical tank set to 28 degrees, one minute, 14 degrees. The next, 32 minutes of the next. God damn it, why is it so hot and golden there? Oh, the fish are dead. The fish are dead.

Who gets swaying with that thing? Just up and down. Number five on the list of the top six signs The Napieryrieu is going through menopause. The octopus snapped at a child, then a volunteer, then burst into tears, then see that didn't mean it, and they're not the bad guy,

why are you making them feel like this? I'm so sorry. It's okay. Hopefully when I'm finished at radio before this really kicks in, for your sake. Could be interesting. Yeah. Could be.

Emotional. Make the people feel. You guys are just like gasoline. gasoline. Yeah, throw it on the fire. Number four on the list of the top six signs the Napier Aquarium is going through menopause. It can't remember whether or not it fed the fish.

It has fed the fish. I'll just feed them again in 20 minutes to be safe. Do we even have fish? I just can't seem to remember. Why don't I come in here for? What are you? What did I come into this tank for? Number three on the list of the top six signs

the Napier aquarium is going through menopause just suddenly can't sleep. So it's taken up a new identity, new hobbies. just really trying to make the most of that 2 a.m. wake up. I'm going to reorganise the gift shop. Well, let's just keep the aquarium open 24-7 in case. It just could be anything. If I'm going to be up.

Number two on the list of the top six signs the Navy Aquarium is going through menopause. The whole place has gone very dry. Tanks are dry, the rock pool's dry. The water fountain's gone dry. He's going to add more. It's going to be adding a lot, but it's just so dry. Yeah, it's constant. She's dry.

It's dry. And number one on the list of the top six signs the Napier Aquarium is 15 going through menopause. It's leaking from every seal. Sweeting through the night shift. Snapping at the visitors. And it still stand there saying, I'm not going to national treasure. Someone passed me a fan.

For God sake, a glass of wine. God, I'm really looking forward to it. And stop touching the thermostat. That is the day's top six. Play ZM's flesh, for an inhaler. What did you DIY to save money? This is the question we want to ask you right now. Yeah, so a girl online was showing how she was quoted $1,200 to install an Apple Car Play in her car.

Yeah, she had the Bog Standard car system that was a bit old, and she was like, 1200, I don't have it. I've spent that on the Apple Car Play system. So she was like, oh, just figure it out myself. You just jump on YouTube, jump on AI. You know what, as someone in the past who did get a mate of a mate to chuck in the car stereo for cheap, and then had electrical issues that needed fixing. It's not what you want to be,

especially cars these days with all the electronics. You don't mess with that. I had a theatre technician, so not an auto electrician, a theatre lighting guy do my car system once, you know, pull out the original

from 90-something and put in a thingy. And if you close the door of my car wrong, the radio wouldn't work. So then you had to keep slamming the door to get the system back and play. We got a loose one. somewhere. I saw a car there

with a removable faceplate. Now that took me back to the glory days. Glory days of car. Well, she followed this YouTube instruction and it worked and it works. It looks so good. Now it looks great and she saved the installation.

I think during this Cozy Lively cry we're going to see more of this. I mean, again, if we're doing our electrics, we want to really be careful. Yeah. Well, I fix my own lawnmower this year. Remember? Yeah, but if you're dealing with

motorised blades, you also would be careful. You know, it was off. I knew that enough to not have it on. You've got to turn it on and hope you've put it on, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's wild, man. And I fixed my own spaple and I broke it by fixing it, so then I had to get a guy in.

Right. So there was a long journey and a lot of money lost. We replaced the triggers in our dice and vacuums. Remember that? That's right. We did. Oh. That were fine, but the triggers were broken, which apparently is a problem.

Yeah, just got the screwdrivers and the new, button from Ali Express for like five bucks. Yeah. Oh, that's quality. Quality. It's going to be a quality trigger in there. You'd never know. Well, this is what we want to know.

And it could be bad stories. It could be great stories. Oh, 800 atoll. You can text in as well. When did you DIY to save money? Whether it's something in your car, something in the home, anything at all. Maybe you started to DIY your own Brazilian to save money.

You've ripped a lip off. I take it all. I just couldn't hold it tort. Even my legs. I can never wax myself. I can wax my own face and pits.

I've never wax my own bits. Because you'd get it on and you go, I don't want to do that. Yeah. No. Just sits there for the rest of your days. Bridget, what did you DIY to save money? So my partner and I

bought some land in for cargo and we wanted to plant 8,500 trees on it. Wow. Why? Why that number? Why not 10? or eight or nine why'd you go half?

I work in commercial forestry, so like plantation forestry stuff. Oh, okay, I like. Okay, I said you know. So we're eight and a half hectares of one. Okay. No further questions. So we wanted that.

So we wanted to plant that much, and then I contacted a contractor and he said it was going to cost a seven and a half grand in labor. And Invercargo has really good soil. It's like potting bit So I was like, nah Don't go on here and show off your soil

Some of us have rubbish soil Some of us have rubbish soil I just want to flex on the soil What are you planting in the soil You're planting piratist radiators Yeah, some PRADs Some dirty old PRAD It seems a bloody waste of good soil

To jam that shit in it isn't it? It's okay, it was goreys So we're doing it a favour We cleaned up the gauze put the PRAD in Okay. And then, so anyway, so seven and a half grand to do the trees. And so we decided we'd have a luxury weekend in Vicago and said. So we both took a week of annual leave.

And then we went and stayed in really flash accommodation and ate out every night. And we still, I think it only cost us three and a half grand. So we still save three thousand dollars. You're up. And you got a week away. But you had to do work. You had to do all the work. Like, that's so hard, planting trees.

Yeah, but they had a holiday too. Oh, Haley, it's as hard as you make it. Like, I'll make it real bloody hard. I'm just going to be behind him, just looking like I'm working while he's doing my foot. So he's working a spayden, pulling the earth, and you're jamming in the alpineus radiators. He's letting it go next, and we do that seven and a half thousand times, eight and a half thousand times. Yeah, so I've actually got my headphones on. I've gone to a different paddock.

I'm working half the speed. Okay. And then we're nice. Nice. Actually, no, I'm into this. I love this. I love this. Thanks so much, Bridget.

Jenny, what did you DIY to save money? We needed some carpet in the house, some new carpet, so we ripped it up myself. But I can't claim it all myself because I use the hinge date to pull out all the staples around the side. What? Okay, Jenny, did you match with someone because they were a tradie on hinge?

He said that he'd bring tools. Yeah. My name's Steve, and I've got a great pair of pliers for grabbing staples. I love that. I love that. Hell yes. Did he get a second hinge date? Yeah

Did he get a third hinge date? I needed the cap that removed And taken to the dump So yeah Right So how many dates did you see this guy on When he wasn't doing manual labour for you? I think like five maybe

Okay but it's not still going No Okay Now I was gonna know about the date Or does he get sick of your shit Like I'm not yet to work Can we do something Other than work on this house

You're renovating? I moved house I had to sell the house So I ran out of the job I didn't need him. Yeah. I love that. Better working on the bedroom than in the bedroom.

Jenny, thank you. Some messages. What did you DIY to save money? Painted a bathtub and tiles to save on a new install before selling our house. Replace all the tap handles as well. Go you. You paint a bath.

What do you paint a bath? You can paint baths. Yeah. You can paint baths. Like old baths and stuff. You know, sometimes a pink or green or blue or something. Just paint them. The automatic bootstraps struts on our Santa Fe stopped

working so you pop the boot and it goes up by itself. That stopped working. I was quoted five and a half thousand dollars to get them replaced. I went on a line and found two new struts from China for $276. China. China. I replaced them a china. I replaced them myself and they work mint. So if they crap out in a year, I can do that 18 more times before I hit five and a half grand. That's fantastic. Love that. My husband installed a reversing camera on the car, which works great. But now all the buttons on the steering wheel don't work. You know, which ones do you want more? Yeah, to be able to see what you're about to back over or...

Or indicate. Or indicate. Indicate. You don't need that. That's not essential. Flung a hand out the window. Yeah. Somebody said, my husband is Mr. Fix It.

He fixed the kitchen aid, vacuums, hair dryers and the lawnmow, which were all going to go in the bin, but he fixed them all. He does have this weird ability to give something a wiggle and get it going again. Even when professionals are tried telling us it would cost thousands. sometimes I think professionals tell us it's going to cost thousands because they don't want to do it. Like it's not going to cost them. Yes, 100%.

I had a tradies do that. They're like seven granulamp. That's ridiculous. Don't take the job. Because they don't want to do it. A couple of harrowing ones just at the top there. DIY Brazilian. After doing a test patch,

a little, it hurts so bad, I decided I'm just going to do it all in one go, applied wax over the entire thing, kind of waxing it shut. Then I just couldn't pull it off so I had to use a blow dryer. Blow dryer to the Fandango

to mount the wax and use scissors to cut it all away. Oh, you're never doing that yourself again. Unsure if this counts, but my dad had gout really bad in his toe, so we tried to cut out the crystals himself at home. That's an old mate, eh? I don't know how big the crystals.

I was always assuming they were in the joint. The gout crystals were in, around the joint, and they were about salt-sized. Yuck, okay. I don't know if you're cutting out of the crystals. I don't think we're cutting them out. No. I don't know, dad.

Don't get it. Don't be getting it. Don't be getting a sharp knife into your gouty toe this week. The ZN podcast Network. I just hailed with excitement. Game of two halves. Tell you who's chuffed about this, my dad, he's finally proud.

Nah, honestly, like, what an iconic game and I never thought I'd ever be on it as a, well, as a sports warden myself. Well, you're a marcher. I am a marcher. Apparently, that's a sport. So we're going to leave those jokes behind. I've made it very clear

where I stand on the sport. and I shall receive no roostings about marching. But they were like, yeah, man, let's get you on. So I'm on today. And, you know, I follow sport at this level, at a certain surface level, I'd say. Like if things become bandwagon popular. Like if the Warriors are in the series or they're doing all right.

So it's less, I want you guys to help me and give me a text, 966966. I just want more sort of generic lingo, rather than like this fact of this cricket bowler in the 197, you know, like that's just I'm going to win there by charm. I haven't watched for a while, but do they ask about current sports events?

Current sports, there's lots of games and stuff, it's pretty current. There might be something about the cricket. You know, we played England. Yeah, we lost, England. Yeah, we lost. The pitch was terrible. 150 run defeat. Yeah. So I want less of that because I just, I'm not,

my brain's not going to retain that. Do you know what I? Worry's second on the table. He had a buy last week. Yeah, I was going to say they had a buy last week. Did you see, do you know what I? Did you see our boy, Rhys Walsh, his genesis. plucked by her. Dude, I saw Reese while I was getting those jenny's plucked

and I was like, far up the waz. That didn't sound, that didn't sound. Shit, okay. Do you know what I mean? I just need more generic throwaway stuff like that. Do you want to see it? Sure. Who was the guy who did

research? I don't know who did the group. So it was ASLA, Ozzie Rules where the guy took a dive and the other guy dove over him and put his foot between his legs and pulled his pants off clean. Do you remember seeing that?

Yeah, that was good. That was good. Don't at least you don't remember. I thought that was the, um... That was AFL, wasn't it? No, I thought it was a Premier League. Was that football? So, yeah, it was football.

Just words like Premier League. Do you know what? Okay, so what do you want the listeners of testing? They're texting me now. Look at this guy, look at what he's doing. Hold on. Look, oh, just read Shrenner Graves, go in the head of his face.

It's a little. Okay, text machine's going crazy. I, um, oh, someone said I'll be your sugar mama. You could be my sugar mama. Why? Don't call me Mama. Please, we're going to try to say focused. Don't call me Mama.

I'm baby. Did this one of you're a hook. come school your mama? No, no, no, no, no, but he had a real age complex and he was seven years younger than me. Tim Payne? Do you know Tim Payne's? Yeah, mate, so he's got more... His Instagram followers now exceed the population of New Zealand? I know that. So I just need that generic. So people throwing them away. Haley, you've got to say up the waz at least 10 times. Okay, great. They're not executing the fundamentals? Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, that's a good one. Someone said, talk about the mental game. But it's not, it's not a commentary on sports. No. It's a game show. Yeah, it is a game show. Winning team, playing with a confident mindset. So if they mention a player, so say something about a specific player. He could also be Pacific. He could be specifically Pacific. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

A specifically Pacific player of a sport. Right. You say something. Tim Payne would be the man of the moment. Yeah, the man in the moment, but also he plays, he turns up with the right mindset. Haley, it's a game show. It's a game show.

You're not doing hot take on sports. You're not doing hot takes. The scoreboard doesn't tell the full story. Yeah. Yeah, shit like that. Okay, I love that. What about how Jacko Ford's not playing origin? I can't believe Jacko Ford's not playing origin.

And then the conversation will flow and I've sent my two cents. You started. This is great. This is all I need. Also talk about how the Warriors are a second on the table. Yeah, yep. What table? The NRL table.

Dining or console. Dining, outdoor or console. Silly girl. Tell me silly now. Which table? See, a joke like that would be. go great on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gave me two halves. Yeah, that would be great. Okay, I think I'll get away with charm and just, like, chiming in with no info. Do you think Sotitia will play for the Chiefs again after that, knock to the head? My, I doubt it. Not after a knock like that.

Pretty good. Pretty good. This, I reckon, out of any job I've done, and I was the lead of a bloody sitcom, this will be the most I have used my acting degree. What do you think about, quite a race at Monaco there for the Formula One last week? Yeah, did you see Kim Kay was there?

See, I've slipped into relatable burly. Lewis Hamilton chucked her a wink. Did you see that? Did he? Yeah, there were blind kisses and winks and all that kind of stuff. Diddy, did he? Just repeat what the other people say but with enthusiasm. Yeah, exactly.

Okay, great tips from all of the listeners. So it's filming today and then it's on. Yep. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's filming and then it's on. That's how TV works, baby.

Play Z-N's Fletch won and Haley Let's find a silly, silly silly that The little poll today is Are you or have you ever been a gold digger? She goes my man!

I'm going to be! 96% of respondents Say no. 4% admit to being a gold digger. Now it's that 4% that's going to have the interesting stories, I think. They are, yes, they are.

Goodness, man. We could have asked also, have you ever been gold Doug, you probably hear from more people on the other end of things. Because I don't think a lot of gold diggers probably identify as gold diggers. True? True, yeah. Hmm. Somebody just text messages into the studio saying,

I always told my kids to marry for money because you can always learn to love. None of them bloody listened. Wow. Yeah, but then how many people do marry for money and then they're miserable? It would wear so thin. Natasha message, too, am I digging gold from these man children that I've been dating? Sigh. Yeah.

Well, and feel free to message in in 9696 if you have ever been a gold digger or a gold douger. Yeah, if you've been gold dug or gold dugged. Mel says, oh my God, no, I made my own money. I don't want to be owned. Yeah. Is that implication?

Kept, maybe? Yeah, kept, but. I think they're running the show as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or just lazy, they don't want to work. My husband would like to think I married him for his money, but we earn the same these days, so I guess that's a no. Yeah, okay.

Healthy-sounding relationship. Sounds really good. John said, yes, I had a sugar daddy. He used to whisk me away to expensive hotels. I like that. That must be nice. Personally. Kaye said yes, but I'm not attracting the right people. I'm stuck with the broke boys.

Well, we didn't ask if you're a gold digger. specify. Have you ever are you or have you been a gold digger? Do you think she was like, finally, a silly little poll for me? Holy shit. Finally. Directly for me. Lydia said no, but I've been gold dug. She's been a dug.

Lydia's been dugged. She's been a dug. Of all the gold. Jimma, I was 18, he was 68. What? Okay. I was 18, he was 68. Rich A.F. met him through my F buddy was his dad. Oh, so her F friend.

Yeah. His dad was the 68 year old rich guy. Right. And you got treated like a queen. Obviously, strips to Bali, Thailand, got my boobs done. Oh my God. Wait, so the old mate was like, I'm going to upgrade these boobs.

Yeah, excuse me, son. Step aside. Come over here, Horn. Need some new tits. Here you go. It fizzled out after a year, but he was lovely. He hardly got a bloody guy. I hardly got a horn on the top.

Wait, so did she have to do anything with them? Yeah, just some sugar babies don't do sexual stuff. Yeah, it's just dates and company. Yeah. That's the one I want. Yes, they're hot. I don't know. I don't know, man.

Zoe said, no, I don't care to. My mum is one, and she hasn't had any successful relationship, so it doesn't seem all that great. Yeah, right. Someone's been dugged. I've been ripped off $20,000 three times. Wow. For me once. $20,000.

For me twice, $40,000. For me three times, $60,000. Wow. Nana used to, someone just message on. My nanny used to say, marry for love. But look for love where money is. And Liam said, my girlfriend hit yes,

because of the lull. She doesn't understand the importance of Salutele. I apologize on her behalf for skewing the results. She's now currently on probation, yours, Liam Esquire. Thank you, Liam. That's actually dead right, Liam. We take Solitaire Pol very seriously.

We do. It's a big sample size. Very seriously. So for Silletalpole, we asked, are you or have you been a gold digger? And 96% of you said no. Play ZM's fleshforn and Haley. Now this is Pink.

Hosting the Tony Awards last night. I had not seen this much of the Tony's on my social. before. Because we love it. People are realizing finally that musical theatre and theatre is hot. So this is Pink doing Lady Marmalade. But like a custom version. Yeah.

That basically paid homage to all the woman in the room. Yeah. It was so amazing. She was an incredible host. I saw a few comments saying, consider this her CV application to be put immediately on Broadway. Oh, like

immediately. Her voice, because she belt, like that theatre belt. She was so good at that Eden Park show. Do you remember, Haley? Parts of it. I remember one that being so deep in conversation with Big Heart of James. And then turning around and Pink was standing

next to us on that podium. She'd flown over and been like, holy shit. Like she is. She's so great. Leave me a little at the concerts. So anyway, Pink was amazing. She hosted brilliantly for TV and for the live audience. There was

Marla Mendel, who's an amazing performer and comedian, who kept turning up a Celendion and trying to like boycott the thing. It was brilliant. And then Pink also took part in the tribute to Chicago, which was celebrating its 30th anniversary. All That Jazz. It's the most famous

opening song. They did a whole performance of this in Selblok Tango, which if you know the movie or the musical, you know, it's like the great fun song with all the gals, but they had all these amazing musical theatre people popping up and doing it.

Now, what about for me? Because I don't, you know, I'm not a musical theatre guy apart from Booker Mormon. Yeah. Booker Mormon had a reunion of the original cast. Josh Gadd and Andrew. And Andrew Reynolds.

Yeah. Who were the original pair. It's the greatest musical of all time. I mean, it's written by the South Park, guys. Of course it is. Yeah. So. Go and Barboy.

Hasadiga Iberwai. Hasadiga Iberwai. So there was some big news. Queen Jean made history as the first openly trans person to win a Tony, best costume design. John Lithgow won for the third time in his career, playing Raul Dahl and Giant. He's such a great actor.

Yep. Death of a salesman was there, which was a classic. It was just an amazing night. And I love seeing like Drew Barrymore was there. Maya Rudolph, Aubrey Plaza, Rachel Ziegler, Megan the Stallion performed Annette Benning Sting was there And Megan the Staling came out during the Lady Marmalade

Yeah Yeah Nicole Shoshoshing-G-G-G-G-G-N-A Because you know she does a lot of theatre as well It's just, what a cool night for theatre And yeah, get pink on Broadway, Stash I want to know right now

Are you a little bit psychic Have you had a premonition Or a little gut feeling That proved to be helpful or right? Like you knew he was cheating Or like don't go there Don't have a good feeling about that And something happens

So one in five adults these days Claim that they're a little bit psychic Basically psychic they say 30% of people in their 20s believe this So the younger we are The more that we believe it basically Gen Zers are reporting two psychic moments a month Which is more than double the rate of boomers

Not crystal balls Like I can see exactly But just like a little something feels off You trust your gut Yeah so some story A nanny quit her job After a voice told her never to fly air India Months later the airline crash

Killing 260 people At almost the exact time she would have been on board To start this. Do I have this job? Right A woman I texted an old boss at 5am on a whim The boss was awake because her husband was missing He was later found dead

But what? But what? Don't question it too much She texted her boss at 5am Because she was like hey Are you all good? And the woman was like no my husband's been missing Oh, I thought she was just like, can't come into day sick.

She's like, I've got bigger fish to throw my husband's missing. No, on a whim just being like reaching out. That's suspicious. Yeah, did she kill the husband? Is what you're saying. A woman became obsessed with registering because she was like, in her head. She was like, I've got to get my baby registered at the dentist. She's like, I just feel like I really need to do it.

And then the day after she got it registered, the baby knocked all of her teeth out at a playground. Wow. So I shouldn't have laughed. But there's these little moments where you're like, hmm, you follow your gut. And then you're like, see? I was right. Or it's just coincidence, isn't it? Okay, some messages in

Don't be cynical. Crystal said I dreamt the lotto numbers. And then what happened? You lost? Yeah. Is there a follow-up to that? Yeah, did you win or did you not buy a ticket? Or you dreamt them and you wrote them down?

You're like, well, we'll see. And then it won. If I ever dreamt lot of, because I just get a ticket, random. Yeah. If I ever dreamt lot of numbers, I'd totally buy them. I can never remember remembering numbers or words written down in my dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all just like garbage when you're in there.

Yeah. I can always predict when we have earthquakes. They always happen within three days of me saying, I reckon we'll have an earthquake, son. Oh, really? Yeah, but if you look on Geonet, there's earthquakes every day. Wow. Yeah.

I had a weird dream this morning about my friend who lives in London, woke up, looked at my phone, and in that instant got a message from her. It is weird when you think of a friend and then they message you. Or you just like... Or you see them. I know. Yes.

And you're like, oh my God, I was literally just thinking about you. Okay, well, this is what we want to know this morning. Oh, 800, dials at em is our number. So many texts are already coming through. 9-6-96 to text in. Are you a little bit psychic? You followed your gut. What did you predict?

I mean, I would say, like, for example, if your partner's cheating, the gut feeling comes from the change in their behaviours, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, there's a barris. Yeah. You pick up on them. That's not psychic. That's just... But sometimes there is a little thing.

We just go. And then... Like twins. Like, well, someone just said I was a raging bitch last week and correctly predicted I got my period this week. Yes. So you knew it. You knew it.

But you didn't stop being a bitch, did you? Alicia, when were you a little bit psychic? Good morning. So my husband and I had found out that we were pregnant quite early on because we were done IV. Oh, what? Yeah, thanks. And I had a dream and I was like,

I woke up in the morning. I said to him, I had this dream. I was talking to this person from high school. and she asked if I had kids and I said, yeah, I have a son, which we already had, an identical twin daughters. And we laughed and we laughed and laugh and laugh. And then we had our six-week scan and they were twins. Yeah.

Identical twin daughters or just twins? Well, no, yeah, identical because one embryo, two babies. Gotcha. Oh. So it's science, isn't it? It's science. Wow. Okay.

So your dream was the premonition. Yes. It was true. Yeah. And then my husband was like, oh, they might. might not be girls. They might not be girls. They're not. I know they are. You do hear this, like, pregnant women get all sorts of special superpowers. And you are literally growing this thing out of your own self. So there's got to be something. That's amazing. Amazing. Yeah, absolutely.

Leisha, thank you. Esther, darling. Good morning. Hi, darling. Oh, hello, darling. Hello, darling. How oldie, darling? Thank you. Thank you, Esther, darling. Darlane. You bit psychic, darling. Some have said, yeah My story is I was, where was I? I don't know, I was a kid somewhere And I

unintentionally predicted Michael Jackson's death Some would say I had a part to play Wow Hey, I'm not saying I was to play Wait, is this Dr Esther That was overdosing him on the good stuff Perhaps, I'm in witness protection But yeah, I was just walking around

I'm being a kid and I was thinking, oh, it would just be so crazy. It's like a massive celebrity like Michael Jackson died and then he like died the next day. He did die. Yeah. He did. So you predicted it. Wow. You killed Michael Jackson.

Some would say. Wow. I don't think I do apologize. I don't think we can associate with you anymore. Okay. Bye, darling. You murderous, bitch. Some more messages in.

Some of these are absolutely incredible. I'm going to take over. reading these because I know that you two are like a little oh yeah lots of twins that twin intuition I'm a twin I knew something was wrong and couldn't sleep checked on her and she had an appendicitis

she was in pain she also couldn't relax during a movie and she knew she had to call me when she did I'd just been in a car accident that's a bit that's weird I've sort of inadvertently I've put up a bit of a tingly wingly Tuesday here years ago my younger sister wanted a ride into town I said no

that night her friend died in a car accident. If I picked my sister up and dropped her off, she would have been in that car. Oh, that's terrible. I was going for a trail ride. I had a gut feeling I was going to hurt myself. I didn't listen to it, fell off and broke my femur and wrecked my knee,

had to have over a year off of work. Trusted my gut ever since. Yeah, but if you had that kind of thinking before any sport like mountain bike you wouldn't go out. Yeah, your gut was telling you you're not a good enough trail rider. My dad had a dream woke up and told my mum Amy's going to call us and tell us there is a bus being held at gunpoint in Rickerton.

One week later, don't laugh. One week later, I called them and said there is a bus being held up by a gun in Rickerton. My mum was literally yelling. What if your dad told me this a week ago? That was about 20 years ago. He was an oracle. I predicted my friend was pregnant. She had no idea herself.

I told her, go take a test. I have a feeling you're pregnant. And she was like, oh my gosh, and she was only three weeks a lot. Who was paying for that test? The friend, definitely. They're expensive. Yeah, they are. My grandmother saved my cousin from choking to death when he was little.

Kids were in the shed playing. Adults were in the house. Granny just freaks out and gets up and runs to the shed where my cousin had turned blue in the face. She had a feeling something had gone wrong. It's the feeling that she just hadn't been watching the kid for 20 minutes? Oh, my God. Okay, 5-24.

I love this so much. I get brackets, I can't spell it. Deja-Javu. Desha-vo. Yep. D-A-Y J-A-R-L-E I love it

Deja-Vu a bit The most recent case Probably six to seven years ago I had a dream about playing on a hill With girls at a place Looking over the water And looking back at friends And family sitting at a bar

Earlier this year I sat with my daughter Which I never intended to have Which I never intended having Playing in the exact same spot Looking across the bar at our family So I've like seen this like well ahead of time There's so many

I'm gonna keep going Yeah Christmas morning brother not home. I'm adamant his car alarm was going off at a friend's place, so they came to picking him up. I just knew it, and I assure my mum and sister, turns out he had texted me to let me know that he was, let me know that his car alarm had been broken into

and his car alarm was going off. I heard it. Vaughan's gone for a poo, hasn't he? I'll keep reading these. Also about four times on different occasions, I dream one of my friends in the next day I'd see them. Yeah, yeah, I get that all the time. I dream that Liam Lawson,

got fifth in Monaco and what do you know? I'm 12,000 richer. What? They bet on it. Wow. $12,000? How much did they have to put on that? I don't know. I don't know, but that's madness. When I was younger I woke up at one o'clock in the morning crying and had a painful feeling about my granddad. When I woke up in the morning, my mum phoned to say that he'd had a heart attack at one o'clock in the morning. He's alive. He's alive. But you're psychic. You're a psychic. Not psychic here, but my co-worker's mum who's spiritually inclined. almost collapsed when walking into my work.

Apparently something about me overwhelmed her psychically. She was like, I feel a deep connection from you. So what people feel when you walk into the room. You psychically overwhelm me. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flesh, One and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.

Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. It's fungus week here at fact of the day. Fun. Fungis. It was going to be mushroom week. Giss us effect. Huh? Giss us effect.

Fungus effect. Oh, you've got to say fungus. No, it didn't work. That was embarrassing, I. Bit of a mess. It was a swing and a miss. I would tell you today. Swinging a gist.

Oh, I don't have my wallet on me. I did have a $50 note. Oh, okay. What? You just want to show off? Where do you have notes? Because I buy drugs and drug dealers don't take pay wave because it has to go into a bank account

and then they're like, oh guys. It's weird when you see someone with actual money and they're not a drug dealer. I love caring around a bit of money. I love having a bit of cash. A cash cash. You'll be good when the ATMs go down one day.

Yeah. When we have a cyber attack. Yeah, but then I figure I'll just get to Luton. You're going to go looting. Get to Luton. On one of a cyber attack. Yeah. Day one feels too quick.

What are you going to wait to day two for Luton? You're going to miss it on all the good stuff. It's too quick. Well, today I want to talk about the $50 note. I think it's fungus work. What are you talking about the $50 note for? Is there a fungus? There is.

We have the only currency in the world with a mushroom on it. It's got mushrooms on it, doesn't it? Of course we do. It's got a little blue mushroom that I actually saw in person when I went to Stuart Island recently, this little mushroom. Wedi, Wedi Kukaku. Okay. That's the Tareo Māori.

Weddy, coca-co. Blue pink ill or sky blue mushroom, as it's known in English. It's a beautiful mushroom, right? That's cool. Oh, yeah. It's a very, very rare mushroom. It's very smurf-like, isn't it?

It's not fat enough at the bottom for a smurf to live in. They lived in a red top, sort of a fat chody, toadstile situation. Are they blue like that? Sorry, it's yours and a little bit of it. Just ignore me. Is it, are they blue? No, no, I'm loving this.

I'm tired. Are they blue? Are they that? blue in real life. Yes, they are. They're a really bright indigo blue all over. They're pretty. First spotted in 1866 by an Austrian mycologist

who was pretty happy with himself. And yeah, it's the only mushroom in the world on currency because it is so rare. I saw one just as it was getting to the end of it. It was... Droopy. It was starting a little bit droopy. Like, you know, when you leave a mushroom in the fridge

and it gets a bit... A little bit slimy on the outside. but dry in the middle. I'll still chuck that in a stir fry. Yeah, I'd still stir fry that up with a bit of goopitohydar hydrate it. There it is. Yeah, nice.

Next to the, what's that? Is that the Piwakawaka, no? No, that's Piwakawaka. Kaka. Yeah, Kukakou. Okay. So that's the witty-weedy-kakle. Yeah, the witty-kukakal.

What does that translate to? Wedi-wedi-Wi-Wi-Wi-Wi-E is a spider. Yeah, spider bird. So it's on the back of the $50 note and it's voted New Zealand's National Fungus. our national mushroom. And it grows to a staggering height of four centimeters. Oh, that's little.

Four centimeters. So, apparently, I've just, the cook. It's called the Wediwere Kokako. Apparently, the Kokako bird got its blue wattles by rubbing on the mushroom. Not true, but that's the legend. I love all the stories about New Zealand birds. Maybe we could do myth. Wedi what means like nervous or like suspense.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Little scared blue mushroom. Little Gen Z. Not a magic mushroom, by the way. There's a persistent rumour that it's psychedelic. They tested it. They're like not psychedelic, not a blue meany.

It doesn't look like you should eat it. It definitely doesn't look like you should eat it. Definitely doesn't look like it. So today's fact of the day for Fungus Week is that the New Zealand $50 note has the only mushroom on any currency in the world. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Play ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Haley.

Just you and me, Bams. Well, Vaughn's gone to his bloody important mating, hasn't I? Yeah. Hey, yes. Better bring back some biscuits. I know. I mean, like, we support our friend going and saving lives. I'm going to be doing the same this afternoon.

But bring back biscuits. I genuinely feel very sad about this So my popper who's passed away RIP RIP my lovely popper had a little pool table smaller than like a pub size So you know you're big snooker tables

Then you've got your pub size tables His was a bit smaller And he had it in his garage And it was at a particular angle Because then you could open a cupboard And the queue could go back And if you opened that door Then the queue could go there

He'd had it perfectly angled so that you were never unable to play. Right. And we played on that thing all, like growing up, we just loved it. I think it was like, it wasn't expensive one. I believe he got it from the Darkoval Warehouse. Okay, yeah. And it was just his pride and joy.

And he was an amazing pool player. And he taught me how to play and all of this. So when he passed away, the pool table came to my place. And it's been in my garage. It's been enjoyed by friends and family and Christmases and all this stuff. But I am. God, I don't know why, but I'm renovating again. You're a sucker for punishment.

Oh, no. I am converting the garage into like a studio little apartment for my mum and dad. Yeah, so that they don't have to hear you live. Live. They don't have to hear me living. And you don't have to hear them living. Exactly. Yeah. I don't know why you've got three bedrooms and why you went next to each other.

Put them in the front bedroom or you. Oh, I know. Anyway, so that's all happening. And then I just realized the other day, like, I've got the skip, it's all kind of going. You know, I've got to empty this garage that is like chock, chocker blocker of all my shit, including Pops Pool Table. And so it's got to go.

Like, there's nowhere in my house. There's nowhere to do this. I actually reached out to a couple of local retirement villages, and they were like, we've actually got a proper one. You know, like, we don't need that. We don't need your crap. Yeah, we don't need that. So just yesterday, I was like, you know what?

There will be someone in my community. that will love this table. You know, for what it is, chipped up and all this kind of crap. I was like, I'll chuck in a couple of ball sets and some cues in the triangle and some chalk and everything, ready to go for someone to have a little hobby. And I just chucked up on Facebook Marketplace for free.

Oh, Haley, no. For free. That is like... I know. The worst place to even... Just to interact with people. It's the worst marketplace. I know.

But I put it on the... Not the Marketplace. I just put it on the community page. Right. You know, to go, is anyone local want this? Because my thing is, it's got to be gone this weekend. Like, I'm going to play a couple of games on it this week, and I'll say my goodbyes to the lovely memories,

and then it's got to go. So I put it up on Facebook Marketplace, just thinking, you know, the first person that messages may all arrange it, hopefully they can come this weekend, get it out. Oh, I've been flooded. Really? I've been flooded with messages. And now I'm like, I didn't realize this was going to happen,

but now I have to choose. I have 27 messages. Oh, what? And I have to choose. And people are like, I didn't realize, but they're like kind of like putting forward their case.

Well, what are there, what are some of the cases? Like, for example, someone said I've got six rambunctious boys who would love this. I'm sorry, you have six boys. Like, are you insane? Yeah.

How much do you spend on food a week? I know. At pack and save. When we say boys, we're like, these are going to be boys two men. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know.

See, that would be great because the boys could just, yeah, and then they could fight each other when they lose. Yeah, they can crack the sticks. Yeah. But they hit each other with the pool balls and stuff. So I was like, well, that's the one.

You know, this is fantastic. I'll do that. Yeah, yeah. That's a family. They'll love it. And then I got another message saying, oh, my God, my elderly pop used to love playing pool. I've got room in my garage. I'm like, oh my gosh, this was my pops. You know.

Yeah, yeah. But then they're, you know, we're around forever. You know, the boys, they're going to grow up with this. The boys, I know. People saying, I'd love to be considered. I was like, I don't know. I didn't know this was going to be some... This is why you can't give anything away for free.

You've got to do a dollar or $10 or $5 or $100 because then it's a deal and it's done. I know. And there's none of this. That's what my friend said he was like, you never put anything for free. Just chuck something, 50 bucks on it because it kind of filters out there.

And now I'm just like, now all it is, and this is something that I really struggle with is I get to make one person's day and then disappoint. 26 others. And I'm not good at that. And not only that, you have to, even if it's a copy and paste, you've still got a copy and paste to 26 people saying, I'm sorry. Sorry, it's no longer available, so it's not available,

so it's not available, so it's a long available. Well, my feeling is it's the family of the six boys because they'll get good use out of it. I don't want it to be some storage thing, you know, it's a well-loved table. Well, if you hear of some murder by Paul Q and brothers beat each other to death. No longer my problem. No longer my problem. The Z&M Podcast Network.

Clay Z-Am's, Flash for it and Haley. Now, this is a naming trend. You know, these like baby name experts. Yes, and people actually pay people, don't they, to name their kids? Yeah, they do. To send off suggestions and they'll go, oh, I want it to feel like this, or be classic but interesting, or be super quirky, or be music-inspired.

And these people, like, you pay them, and they send you, like, 50 options or something. Kevin. Would that be top of your list? No, I'd name a cat, Kevin. Keith? Keith. Keith.

Not many baby Keith's out. 96, 96. Are you a young Keith? Are you under 20 and your name is Keith? So this is a baby name trend that is apparently making a hard comeback. Double barrel names. Mary Kate.

Yes. Ashley Jean, Billy Jean. That kind of stuff. Something you tried as a 16 year old. Yeah, so when I was an emo kid at 16, you know, everyone had their like MySpace name. Yeah. And it was like, one of my friends was like,

Robbie Horror. And like everyone had these sort of little quirks with their name. And some of them like hotly, like some of them would stick. And I was like, oh, Haley Sproul, you know, it's sort of like me. So I'm Haley Jane. And so I just hyphenated. I chucked in a fake hyphen. And I was like, no, I'm Haley Jane.

Like it's one name. And then so all of my friends who were my friends when I was like 16 call me Haley Jane. Now my God, Haley Jane, Haley Jane. It's not. I'm not a hyphenated name. name. It's a first name and a middle name. It's just your middle name. It's not a double barrel. It's just a middle name. And yeah, I was like, Haley Jane. And then when did that stop, you were just like... Maybe when I was like, that's not my name? I don't know. I don't know.

It would probably lasted a year or something. So double barrel names, Mary Kate. But this expert who was posting online sharing great new darling double girl names. Some of these, I'm like, what? Ellie Bell? Allie Bell. No, no, it's like Ali Barber. There website. Elibaldi. Yeah. Far with the cheap Chinese website. Anne Douglas.

Anne Douglas. And Douglas. And Douglas. As a hyphenated name. Baker Lynn. Baker Lynn. Baker Lynn. No, I don't like that.

Betty Blythe. No. These all sound like out of the 1940s or 50s or something. That's kind of a making a comeback. Carter Ann. Chandler Sue. I'm sorry, this is going to be an American right. Is someone taking the piss with this article?

Demi Drew. Daisy Drew Davis Claire Elsie Scott Amelia Tate But remember not First name last name Double belled

Ever grace Ever hyphen grace No Frankie May I don't like any of these I don't mind Frankie May Greer Hadley Blake

Greer Eden Now I was going to be called Greer But do you get a middle name as well If you get a double barrel Yes you'd be Mary Kate Jermima Puddle Duck Puddle Duck

So Mr and Mrs Puddle Duck would call you Mary Kate, middle name, Jemima, surname, as with the rest of your family, puddle duck. It's too much to be filling out in forms. Yeah, it is. And a hyphen, you're like, what a mess. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZDN's Fletch, Forne and Haley.

Now, there is, I want to know right now, like, what was your schoolhouse colours? How, it is so bizarre that I remember this. Blue, Don Lee House. Don Lee House. I was blue and red glams. at high school. Glams. It was all Scottish.

Glams. Glamis. It was spelled G-L-A-M-I-S. Blum-S. Blue and red. Wait, you had two? Right. Oh, I'm sorry, private school with two house colours.

The house colours of glams. We had Lockeleven, Braima, and Bram... Who knows? The Glams was where it was at. Because anyway, there's a journalist who believes she can tell you, personality based on the colour of your house.

What was yours? Blue. Blue. The rule abiding perfectionist. Actually listened when the teacher explained. Voluntarily held the clipboard. Now, reads the agenda before meeting. Sends a follow of email, nobody else remembered, quietly saves every project while everyone else is still talking about it. Actually spot on, eh, girlies?

No, it's not. What are your schoolhouses? What was yours, Carmen? Mine was orange. Oh, that's not on here. She just went the classic yellow, red, blue and green. Oh no. Okay, I'll do it.

What was the name of your house? Too putty. Two putty. Is a silly billy but knows when to call it. Is super hot with a dump-a-boot and is kind to pets. Okay, Slay, I'll take it. Slay-O-T-Lubs reading. No, what was yours, Shevin?

Mine was pink. A pink house? So my school was big and so every house had two colours like yours, Haley. So we were pink and black. And it was the fun one because Very Everaldivine Yeah, for dressing up it was so easy Our house mascot was Pink Panther

We would just dress as fairies But we had a purple and yellow house Like we had fun ones Oh yeah And we were named after colonizers of course Yeah you always had to be named after colonel I think ours were after famous Like X

I don't know pupils That did good Oh nice When are they gonna update it with a car for you Oh piss oh you've done quite well for yourself No, like they were all like famous sports people or like they've made the X-Lax or something. You're a famous radio person. Mine was all colonizers, but they were also the streets around.

I went to how college. I was Minerva, but the school was one street away from Minerva Terrace. How it loves a colonizer on a street name, man. Yeah, it's just, it's good stuff. Yeah. Well, I just think it's so funny to think about how like at high school it was so important. What house are you in you like, Brayma? You'd be like, no!

And you get so gutted by it. Oh, and you couldn't state. You couldn't date across house. God. It was like Romeo and Juliet. Really? Are you sure? What if they were really hot?

I could not be seen with someone from Ingham. I don't remember caring that much about thousands. How did they choose? And then you had friends that were in the same house as you and then other friends would be like, ooh, you're in Sterling. Yeah, and if you were a younger sibling, so my brother went to the school before me. Siblings were the same. They gave me the option.

They're like, do you want to be in the pink house with him or do you want to be in your own? I was like, of course I want to be in the pink house. Let's go. Our school was always the same. Anyway, I want to know, like, tell us the name of your house and your colour. And, like, how hard did you go? Do you have a chant? Because someone just messaged in.

I was also glance, highly, but our glance was just red. They were what? Red heart. Like, everyone had their... Oh, my God. Had their chance. I want to know your chance. I want to know how hard out you wear.

What was your mascot? What were your colours? Like, what did you get dressed up as? Yeah. Let's go back in time. When schoolhouses mattered. 9-6-96-text-through. Want to know how hard out your school.

House when? What was the name? What were the colours? What, like, what did you get dressed up? What was the mascot? There's a lot coming in. Hillary House was yellow 1978. I dressed up in a top hat and was in a photograph in the Rotterua paper. Oh, fancy. Hillary House. Okay. Jess, what colour was your house?

Yellow and brown? Oh, yuck. Shame. Yeah, it was a bit of a shit time. Yeah. What was the name of your house? Somerset. It was named after like the English streets or towns. Yes, okay.

It's so bizarre that we still remember this to this day. It's so weird you just hold on to it, eh? Yeah, don't ask me to sing a chant because I won't do it justice. Brown, Brown, going down. That's what I've sung about your house. Brown sucks, bro. Okay. How shame.

Yeah. Yeah, it was, and we always lost. I think it was because of the colours. The colours, yeah. That's why. Yeah. I don't even know what to say about this. It's just embarrassing for everybody, really, isn't it?

Never call this show again. We don't want any association with the brown house. Yellow and brown. Who's yellow and brown's back. Can you save her in the phone system as Jess bracket's yellow and brown? Thanks, Jess. Charlotte. You were the house captain.

Oh. I was. I was during your house captain. year 10 and then senior house captain and what was that year 13 10th 14. Okay, wow. And so... Yeah, very committed, very committed. Right, and what were your colours

and what was the house name? So don't knock it, because mine was yellow too but I didn't have the brown, so just yellow. No, it's fine, yellow's fine, it's yellow and brown. That's disgusting. And McKeepree was the house. Mackeyfrey, named after a priest, I went to Catholic school. Oh, McKeeford. It's probably not that great, but...

Job less. Right, okay. So just, no, just reminded me of a funny story. So as House Kit didn't see it in the form, I was really committed to cause, I told the boys for our Carpaca competition, if we win, I would flash them, and we won. So I had to be called. Charlotte!

Okay, you can't tell high school boys that they're going to see boobs. I know, but you know what, it worked? Yeah, well, it did. I mean, yeah, it certainly got it done, didn't it? Caller of the Week, because that's, why not? Titties for the win, titties for the win. That's so funny.

All right, caller of the week, you've got a chemist warehouse price pack. Congratulations. Oh, thank you. Hey, look, I'm a police officer now, so I'm a little bit more set for these days. Oh, yeah, of course. Wow. Love that. Well, thanks to Kimmish Warehouse.

Home in the Biggest Brands at the lowest prices. So many messages in. Yeah, Ann House was purple. All the houses were Saints' names. Oh, purple. How good was house music? Did you guys do that? You'd all get together

and sing a song and stuff? I don't remember that. No? I don't think it was a big thing at my school. Like it was there, but it wasn't like, I was always jealous when I'd see other schools or other friends and they'd go all out. All out.

I feel it became more of a thing as you went on as well. One of the teachers for a rival house used to introduce his house like the let's get ready to rumbo. The house was called Matatua, and it always yelled out, Mata. Hell yeah. What a great teacher.

Also a QMC old girl, class of 2010. We had Berwick, Glom's Lockheed, Bramer and Sterling. Yeah, that were ours. I was in the controversial Sterling, black and yellow. Good at sports, not good at musing. I'll say it. Red House at Tiawamutu College in the early 2000s was called Cameron. And, of course, the Finn brothers famously attended that school.

So their chant was, I see red. I see red. I see red. I see red. I see red. That's good. That's good. Someone said, hey, I went to Howard College, like producer Shannon. To 1997, I was in Minerva. Was that you? Minerva.

Minerva. What a terrible name. They said, ooh, yuck. How old is that mascot, the Pink Panther then? So they had to replace it in my era, which was in like the 2010s, because he smelled so bad, the Pink Panther. And it was kind of like the worst part of it. We've also confirmed from 579. Maneuver sucked. Yeah, we did. But bad at athletes.

and swimming. Yeah, we never won the cup in, my school turned 50 in the school in the 50 years, Minerva had never won. But that's why it was fun to be in that house. Did they put all the people like you in that one? Well, we just saw like...

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, like the slows. Yeah. No, because we're like... Everyone that needed a ramp to get into the... Yeah. Classroom. Yeah.

No, we just looked cute in our little tutors and we were there for a good time in a long time, you know? So, yeah. Yeah, someone said Minerva sucked. Another person said, go Irvine. Is that another one?

Okay, yeah. Someone said we were the white house. Our house colour was white and all houses were named after influential woman in the Catholic faith. No mascot, but one time me and some friends dressed up at ghosts with sheets and accidentally looked like the KKK. Of course you did. Cancelled. Historically cancelled. Yeah, I was in a house which was black, which was rather problematic.

I do remember a time where someone painted themselves completely black. And that would be cancelled nowadays. Yes, it would be. Someone said what weird schools did you guys go to? No one gave a shit at our school, what house killer you were. No, that's the same at my school. We didn't care either. It wasn't a thing.

Oh. Like, there would be competitions. Like, I think there was a harker competition and that was it. Yeah. That was his, like even sports days. I don't even think it was a big deal. Yeah. Who won?

Wow, McDonald's House, which was red. Did you get free fries? Yeah, I wish so. Someone said I went to Miratai Primary That was my primary school Charters Green They were all right We had Charters

Sanson, Cook and King I was in Cook Right In high school was a red house Which was not ideal as a redhead They looked at you and they went She's already halfway there Well at least when you're dressing up on sports day

You don't have to Die the hair Or wear a wig You could just turn up You've forgotten they were like Oh thank you for getting dressed up I love it I love the House Pride.

The Taylor Swift sat on at a basketball game. The actual chair or your chance to sit in it at a basketball game? No, the actual chair. So they're not bench chairs. Like, you know, when you'd go to a stadium and it's bolted into the ground there, and they're just beautifully padded, black chairs. I genuinely thought this was an auction to get a court side seat at the NBA. No.

So this was a seat that Taylor Swift sat in next to her fiancé, Travis Kelsey, at the Eastern, game three of the Eastern Conference Finals. So, and they're doing it for a few actors and celebrities as well. So at the moment, the auction at the Rearlist.com for Taylor Swift's chair, the current bid with six days left, it's $6.5,000 US dollars. Jeep, is for a chair. It's about 10,000 New Zealand dollars. Do you know what you can do for real cheap is go to Tewade Fari, get a chair, and then when people come over and be like, guess what? I bought that at auction.

Taylor Swift sat on that. No, but look, this has the team emblazing, the logo in the chair. And that's actually, that's a nice chair. That's a nice chair. It's a pretty chair for courts. But they've got one chair. Yeah, well, Travis Kelsey's chair, 550. Oh.

It's embarrassing. Loser. Timothy Shalamey, who loves going to basketball games. He does. And bringing Kylie. His game four court side chair is current bit of $176. I mean, that's doable. We could buy that.

You can buy that? Can we get, producer Carwin, as our boss before the boss, can we, what do you think about us just buying one of these chairs? Because we've got the ugliest armchairs in this studio and we've made of kerfuffle about it for four years and they're still here. Are they going to be more comfortable than the ones in here? Because yes, the ones in here are growing mold. but we do catch something from these chairs, you know?

Yeah, whereas here we might catch a bit of like Swifty Magic. Or a little perfume. Are we getting Timothy Shallowice? We're not getting, yeah, we're not getting, we're getting Timothy Shallamays. Or Ben Stillers is $400. Oh, I'm a big Ben Stiller fan. Yeah, so these are the chairs that you can buy. Ben Stiller, Timothy Shallamee, Taylor and Travis.

How much is Travis? It's only... Five grand. No. His is $5.50. 550? Yeah. Travis?

Well, should we get Travis and... Timothy. Timothy? Well, there's six days left. Check the auction in five or six. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, I mean, let's be honest. Should we come back to this?

We'll return to it. Yeah, yeah. And see if we can afford at least two just to replace those ones. It'll be great. And then we'll be like, do you want to sit in the shalamae or the calcée? And then they'll be like, which one's tailors? We'll be like, we couldn't afford it.

Couldn't afford it. Sorry? Couldn't afford it. Couldn't afford it at all. Because 10 grand, that's ridiculous. It's weird. I know people are buying it and sniffing it. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, it's a bit gross. Yeah. Play Z-M's, Flesh, Forne and Haley. Fletch, you're going to love this. I think you stand by this. Gen Z are skipping. Georgia, you can chime in on this if you so desire. Mm-hmm.

They're skipping the round system when we're buying drinks. I love this. Oh, I love this. Because I don't want to be, if there's seven of us, I don't want to be there for seven rounds, and then some people are getting a cocktail, And other people's getting a beer. And someone's tapping out before round seven as well.

100%. Because there's always those ones that say yes at the start and then they leave after drink one because they never want to shout again. Oh, they're like, I'm not really drinking. I'm just going to have one. Which is fair enough. You don't have to stay.

So I just think, buy your own. It's a real millennial thing, the round culture, right? Like we sort of got into it, which was like, say us three are out. We're going like, I'll get the first round and then Fletcher, you get the next one. And then if you were born, Georgia, you wouldn't for ages and ages and ages.

And ages. When he just sit there. He'd just sit there. No, no. So we'd leave the pub. So we've just had two rounds, but there's three of us. And then he went here just every time we said, we'll come to the pub. It's you all around.

He was, oh, I'm busy. Clash. It's a real British thing to do, eh? So this is a British thing. There was a woman who was at a British bar and noticed that all these younger people. She was only 36, that's my age. So young herself, very young herself. The youngest, actually.

Basically, as young as you could possibly get while still being an adult. She saw these young ladies. And they just each got their own drink pay, got their own drink pay. She was raised in the like, lads, what are we having 10 points of bloody, whatever. No, I like this. Our Gen Z's, what do we think of this? Yeah, I mean, I think, like, if Shannon and I go out for a drink, like maybe I get the first round and she gets the second,

but then it wouldn't go any further than that. Like, no more people. If there's two or three of you and you agree, absolutely. So here's the benefit of it that I think, because neither of you are huge drink. I mean, none of us are. No, we're all done. Hayley, look that's on the eye. No, it's in the eye.

Hayley, look at you and I. Haley, if we're unattended, the two of us. Shannon and I have never been out on a one-on-one just the two of us. It's not allowed. It's not allowed. The universe is like the nebulous with a line. We're too much.

We take things too far in general. Sometimes we have a fun flirt and it just goes too far. Well, this is the thing with round buying is you're doing rounds of sprout. Like, I'm going to be pushing you faster. Do you know what I mean? And it actually encourages unnecessary drinking for those that just like, I actually just wanted to have a couple. Now I'm in a group of five.

She's explaining every time I go out with her in the afternoon. Get real, Fletch. I have heavy influence over you when we're having drinks. Do you know what? It also encourages you the expectation to shout around back or the people that don't. And this just reminds me, Radio Awards on Thursday. Yeah.

Oh, yes. Hello. I still owe Shannon around. Do you? See, this is why Gen Z aren't doing it because people like you tap out. The millennials bring them down. The millennials, you're skipping out on round.

You know what Gen Z does is that we've been taught works but I've never tried it. Zebra striping. Yeah. Drink on, drink off, drink on, drink off. Water. One water of that, one of that. I have done it and it's like genius.

But my only thing is, I've got one kidney man, I'm peeing. Yeah. You know what I mean? She's working overtime. The sprow. Yeah, the liver's going. The plate is going. It's all bloody going.

Drink in moderation and be safe, please. And I always will. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I have till this day. Mm-hmm. Oh. I just heard your tummy.

Yeah, that was my tum-tum. That was my tun-tum-tum. Hey guys, I reckon it was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Oh, not for me. Oh, no, no, we're even close. No, we're even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't.

Well, if you were listening and you had fun, won't you give us a little review and a rating? Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.