ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 12th 2025

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Starbucks is cracking down on working from there Fletch's Nightmare talent show for delayed flights SLP - Do you have emergency savings? Over or under - How many toilets have you used in your life? Top 6 Ways to make Luxon more popular Uber Naughty and nice cities A girlie recreated The Holiday What caused the smell in the car? Jonas brothers and Demi Lovato Vaughan and Fletch's AI wedding vows Shannon's Hack Fact of the Day What embarrasing thing keeps you up at night?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM podcast network This is Fletchwan and Haley's big pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's Fletchworn and Haley Thank you Bryn, good morning Welcome to the show Two minutes past six, Fletch Vaughn and Haley

Mine is Haley today Who's taking a personal day? Not Haley, no Haley, no Haley Some Haley? Some Haley No Haley today No Haley Oh well Who needs her?

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Yesterday, just after the show, I was eating a Kiwi fruit. Yeah. Hole, as I tend to do. Yeah. Like an apple? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was sucking the Kiwi fruit. Yeah.

And I bit down at the same time and I bit on the inside of my cheek. and it is just one of those... Every time I owe you... It sounds like I'm not opening my mouth really wide because I'm scared to re-bite it. Every time I've eaten since, I've bit the cheek. I'm just basically... It sounds a bit like...

To me, anyway, it sounds like I'm slurring and I'm not drunk. I'm not drunk. I'm not drunk. I thought you were about to say that the sound of you biting your cheek was the secret sound. It sounded like the secret sound.

I just wanted to get in early on the show and excuse this like slur-slur-slash sort of like light speech in here it now. I can hear it now that you've said it. It's horrible. The top six is coming up. Well, unfortunately our Prime Minister's popularity has dipped to an all-time low. And I don't know.

It's sounded like you had some joy in saying that as a mouthpiece for the left. No, it's because of my mouth, the piece in my mouth. It's making me slur. I find no joy in anyone's popularity dipping. And a huge popularity dip. I don't know if you know this, but I'm very popular. Okay, sure. So I've got the top six ways for Christopher Luxon to become more popular.

It's coming up in the top six. Next on the show, though, Starbucks is cracking down. On. People who work there just having a random guess or what your name could possibly think? No, this is some quite unbelievable behaviour happening in Korea. Good Korea. Good career.

South Korea. Play ZM's Flashbourne and Haley. Well, it is sad that Haley's not here today because she does this. I'll say it. She does take the mick a little bit when it comes to working in a cafe. Oh, yeah, she does. She may order some food from time to time or maybe a coffee, but, you know, she could be there.

She's been sometimes in cafes for hours. And one coffee for hours is not enough. And didn't she one time she was working in a cafe and she snuck in her own food? I feel like she took sushi to a cafe because it was an outside seat and she worked at it for hours using their Wi-Fi. Well, Starbucks Korea, the Good Korea, South Korea, is cracking down on people that work and study for long periods of time in Starbucks,

apparently it's a bit of a thing there for hours on end. And they've had to introduce new restrictions, which include desktop computers, printers, partitions, multi-power strips. Oh, yeah. So people are bringing partitions. Yeah. Like dividing their table, like putting up a thing.

And they're bringing a desktop box So they can plug in more than one device Yes I mean that's clever Are you always travel with a multi box And one travel adapter That's probably the best travel hack There's ever been

So good Although although some power Things aren't enough Valty wattage or whatever Oh I'm not enough juice That would work sometimes Okay But yeah so apparently it's a real problem

But like bringing a printer To a cafe Yeah that's wild behaviour A printer and a desktop computer Yes So, how are you carrying that thing around? I don't know. I don't know.

The one arm body of the computer under the other or... So there's a photo here, and it's got carry handles. The divider screen kind of like folds down to three. It's like a science fair. Yeah, they put it up. Yeah, it's like... The old fridge box science fair. Yes.

And then they put it... What in God's name? They put it up around the table for privacy. Do you know what? What? It's almost enough to make me think North Korea is the better career. That's terrible behind you. I don't know if it is, Vaughn.

I don't know if it is. Well, Remains to be, you know, solved. That's, I think there's a lot of evidence. Has this been happening widely or one time that happens? No, yeah, it's been happening across a lot of stores. And so they've had to put in, yeah, all of these rules. Okay.

Well, good luck. Good luck. I mean, I had a fine running cafe and someone brought a printer, a desktop, and a screen. I'd actually just be, I'd be impressed. I'd be impressed. To be honest. Yeah. especially if they were a compact workspace.

If they weren't taking up too much. Because obviously the divider is very much like, I'll keep all my stuff within this area. Whereas if they're sprawled out taking up a whole four-person table versus just one end of it, you've got to do it. Play ZMs, Flaj forne and Haley. Now, I have been the last person to board a plane a few times. Yeah, this really stresses me out this behaviour.

But I also hate rushing to a gate to just have to sit at the gate Yeah. When I've been luxuriously reclining in the lounge or at a bar or, you know, paying for overpriced muffins. Yeah, I'm relaxed. I've got a seat. I've got some space. And then you rush to the gate and there's just those weird seats and they're all taken because people like to get to the gate early and then there's a big queue. You've got to get your bag on, Vaughn.

This is where you go too late and there's never any bag space for you. You're talking about the carry-on. Yeah, the carry-on. Well, this is another reason not to rush to the gate. Somebody has put on TikTok, Jasmine, that their flight was delayed eight times, meaning seven hours. Jeez, okay. And they were in Baltimore and at the gate a talent show started. Okay, no.

Cancel my flight and I'll just go on another airline. Yeah, there was group line dancing. A man did a cartwheel. A child did some singing. Another man did some singing. Some people look like they're about to lose it And stab everybody involved in the talent show Because they are being tortured enough

With a plane delay And now they're tortured enough with Even more with people singing and stuff But yeah the passengers all kind of like Collectively lost their minds And decided a talent show was the thing to get Now imagine that. No, absolutely not

Can you go back to the lounge at that stage? Can you just like go home at that stage? Yeah, just chuck it all in and run Because where were they flying from Baltimore to Detroit So surely there's like another flight You can go on another airline I mean I guess you're paid right You're paid and you're waiting

Yeah So they waited and they put on a talent show And it sounds horrible No I'll say it again Noise cancelling headphones Yeah Are the best investment

When travelling Because no babies No talent shows They also all the chairs They've got there Have got armrests So you couldn't even like lie down across them I hate when airports do that

Yeah And they do it in some cities do it To stop homeless people sleep sleeping on benches, yeah. But like we're at the airport, we're not homeless. But it's to stop people from taking up too many seats when other people might be. Yeah.

Also, that would be a great place for a homeless person to get into. Like one flight. Yeah, like that Tom, is it Tom Hanks, that movie? Just live in an airport. Yeah, because people have always got change and stuff. Yeah. At an airport. What airport would you live in?

Auckland. Anywhere in the world? Yeah. I'd go to one with a good food court. Changi Airport in Singapore. Yeah. It's got fountains. It's got trees.

It's got trees. It's beautiful gardens, butterfly garden. But how long until they realize that you're just living there for free? I don't know. Airport security is some of the tightest in the world. So they're probably cotton onto it pretty quickly. But I reckon you get away with it for a while. I don't know where you'd end up sleeping.

Play ZM. Fletch Forne and Haley. Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole today is Do you have emergency savings? So this was a study and they asked

Americans how would you handle a $500 emergency like your car breaking down or I don't know something breaks and you need $500 to fix this right now. 62% of Gen Z had no emergency savings that was nearly double the rate of baby boomers 51% of Americans would use a credit card for that $500

emergency and students, 70% would. Gen X were the least prepared. Two-thirds of consumers have six. Yeah, two-thirds of consumers have six months or less in savings. Gen X were the least prepared group. Good Lord. I thought they were the... Maybe because they were all going through marriage breakups,

horrific mortgages, interest rates, I don't know, all that kind of stuff. Wow, okay. Well, we asked you, do you have emergency savings? And 65% of people said yes. Okay. 35% of people said no. Some feedback on it.

No, I don't, says Samantha, but my husband does. So yes. Marriage law is technically you do too. Yeah. Jane says, yes, but they're dwindling quickly due to post-breakup emergency holidays. What you're going to do? prioritising some holidays. That's an emergency.

That's a dire emergency. You must immediately go to the Gold Coast. Of course, especially if you're looking snatched. Get somewhere warm. Exactly. Get that bod on the ground. Just use them to go to a family funeral overseas, said Loughlin, so it's time to rebuild. Yeah.

We will rebuild. We will. Taylor, no, because I keep spinning them. And then a series of meltfaces where I can really see in Taylor's eyes that they're coming to the quick realization. And if it all goes badly, they're not going to have anything. Joe says it's called a revolving mortgage, crying face. I still don't know how they work. Your money's there and it offsets the interest.

So the amount of money you don't spend from your pay is what disappears from your mortgage. But if you spend it all, you never pay off your mortgage. And how long a bank's happy to keep you on that? Because it's not floating, eh? Forever. Yeah. Forever. So they'll just recoup that.

Okay. I think I kind of finally understand. Yeah. A vet says Yes I do But it's only $300 at the moment Looking to build Okay

Yeah good Keep it going All helps Samantha I used to It's all gone now Just on the cost of living Yeah

Samantha I think Samantha bought butter At the weekend Yeah the savings are gone Had to buy butter Huge wake up call that It's called a Oh shite fund For the same reason

Just like Oh shite Yeah And then deal with What are you dealing with Mate you're dreaming Single income With a mortgage

Pays last about four days 5% mortgage rate and 2% for savings so I tell myself it's not smart to save anyway so they're saying they're better to pay off the mortgage than they are to have savings but then if there's an emergency you need a little of something something because there's so much paperwork to put more money on the mortgage so much paperwork

Amy said we dip into it often to survive but we do have a little one that's good that's good Sean spent it all on a three month holiday because of burnout from work Yolo well that sounds like an emergency is that sounded like an emergency to me Three months off. Bree, I really should. I really should.

The $120 plus I spent, because I was sick last week, means this week will be skint into an expanse. How much does getting sick, like, you don't even think about it, but getting sick costs you so much money. I know. You go to the show sponsor chemist warehouse where you'll find the best deals on everything. But it's still just, you're like, I need that, I need that, I need that, I need that. And you spend a hundred like, she said, $120.

That's like, you know, whatever that is. 60, whatever bucks. for them to say, oh, do you want antibiotics? And you're like, well, do I need antibiotics? And they're like, well, do you want antibiotics? You can take them as a precaution. I'm here now. And I say, I don't know, man.

I don't know if I should be taking antibiotics willy-nilly. Isn't that how superbugs form? And they're like, okay, I thought I was a doctor here. And you're like, are you on Google right now, Googling my symptoms? Because I could have done that at home. And then they're like charging you $65 for the pleasure. Adam said no, because we bought a house and then discovered a major issue that the building inspector missed.

Sue them. Can you sue them? The building inspector? Yeah, can you sue them. Give them a sue. Give them a light sue? Can you sue light? I think you can sue them. If they missed it and you've got to pay for it, it sounds like you can sue them.

Well, we asked you, for silly little poll, do you have an emergency savings account and 65% of people said yes. Play ZMs, Fletch Born and Haley. Play ZM's Fletch forin and Haley. Shannon's pushing the buttons because Fletch's had shoulder surgery. And she just turned the microphones on and then said, you're on live. And that's what Fletch does to people. I do it all the time.

getting a taste of my own medicine. Yeah. The internet's got a question for you. It's one of those under over questions. But somebody wants to know how many toilets you think you've ever used? Different toilets. Not how many times have you used that toilet. Okay.

How many different toilets have you used? So what's the over under? Do you think you've used more? You travel. So this is what I don't think I have. I reckon I would have. No, but then that's so many. It's not really.

How many times do you pee? It's sometimes twice a day for you. Yeah, and you've got to go wheeze. This is very true. No, I use, and then it also counts like at work. So I've used all four at work. There's three cubicles and inaccessible. Well, I can use that now because of my shoulder.

Yeah, and I can use that too because I want to. And then there's two urinals. Do they count as their own toilets? Yes. Because I think men, we're in, where we in, the trees count? Or does it have to be a toilet? I think it's got to be a toilet. It's got to be a toilet.

I mean, I think, yeah, I thought no, but my immediate thought was no, but then. Like if you go overseas, say you go overseas for a month, every day you're going to use a different toilet. That's 30. Maybe you'll use a couple out and about. Like, that could be 40 toilets in a month. It's ticking it up pretty quick. It's ticking up. Surely you'd be over.

Yeah. It's got to be. And then you think I thought about urinating. And then you think, like, you went to school, you went to primary school, and then high school, you used all the toilets here. You used so many toilets in your life. You used the toilets at work. Get rid of wheeze, just poos.

Just poos. Just poos then. Then yes. I reckon even just poos, you'd be getting up there. You poo once a day, there's 365 days in the year. You've been alive for 43 years, or me. And, you know what, I'm starting to think, I've easily pooed in that many different toys. Producer Shannon, being that you're younger, do you think you'd be over 425 toilets or under?

I definitely think under because I haven't travelled much And yeah like school What about the movies? How many movies do you think I've been to? No, I know but you don't need to go to the movies that often And I go to go to ways Twice and if I use two different toilets There's two easy-peasy

And that's in within one and a half hours But I've only had one real adult job And it's here And there's only three toilets I use here Okay so that's three But then you worked in Dunedin before that So how many toilets did they have? One.

One. Which are a whole office. Yeah. It was rough, and, like, girlies used to get ready in there. It was a whole drama. Okay. So we're at four. Then I had your apartment.

Have you ever used the toilet upstairs? No. You've never used the toilet upstairs. Okay, your apartment has one toilet? I scare me. Wait, what about all the bars you've been to? The clubs. Oh, I've been to the clubs.

You go to the clubs frequently. I was a club promoter. Let's chuck 10 on. So we're already at 14. Yeah, no. I reckon have you thought about it, you've definitely used more than $425 toilets. 100%. Does it count if you yak in a toilet?

Because that adds quite a few. That's using it. That's using it. that's using it. That's using it. Yeah, then probably. If it counts yak. You were like, oh, maybe with wheeze and poes, I'm not. But then you're like, if you include spewing, oh, yeah, easy.

I'm hovering in the 30 mark. Spewing? Yep, 400, easily. Yeah, because I just spew in any of them. All of them. Pretty much. Any of them and all of them. Okay.

Well. You miss a natural out there. There is. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Haley. From the Fletchvorn and Haley. chat, this is the top six. Well, political polls are showing a surge for Labor and Christopher Luxon's popularity

is the lowest that's been since he's been Prime Minister and he said, I don't care. Oh, no. I don't care. I'm not going to comment on them and there's only one poll that matters on election day. I don't care. Sounds like you care. Sounds like you care. Is it because he shut down the luge for a private ride? So I, this is wild behaviour. Why are you whispering? I don't want to get taken out by government spies. But, yeah, so he

Wait, are you telling me they have snipers trained on us? On us during the show? Yeah. Wow. People think we're, you know, media shills and we're at control of the government. No way. They've got, we're scared for our lives. Oh, they just take us out at any moment.

Any moment. Okay. So, apparently him and his wife had Skyline Luzh in Rotorua, like put on hold and everyone had to wait while he had a private go. Was it the Queenstown? One of the... I thought it was Rotterua. Yeah. Oh, was it?

Yeah. Because he was at Queenstown. down to meet the Australian Prime Minister Yeah, I think he's shined him round. Okay, right. So, yeah, they, imagine that. Imagine, yeah, because he'd go, I think he'd take it slow.

He'd go so slow. He'd be on the slow track. Yeah, going slow. So slow. Yeah, you'd be working past and you'd be like, hey! Trying to get his money's worth by going real slow. Yeah. It's not about that.

You get a five session ride and you ride like a demon every time. Yeah, you do all of the track. And you nudge people off the tracks. Yeah, and they say no nudging, but you give it a little nudge. You give it a nudge. Give them a little nudge. Well, I like the top six ways he can get his popularity back up there.

Okay. Because it's bad, guys. It's bad. It's the lowest it's been. Number six on the list of the top six ways for Crystal Luxon to get more popular. He should go on hot wings. Hot ones. Hot ones where they eat the wings.

But he gives big that's too spicy on a butter chicken at the food court. So it might backfire. Yeah. And when you're a bald dude and like you wear a hat to stop the sweat running down your face. It all comes down. If you're bald and you're not wearing anything and then you start sweating because of the spice sweats, you're going to look real, just wet.

Yeah. So it might backfire. And red. Yeah. Very red. It's all running his eyes. It's all water. And, and, okay, that might backfire.

Yeah. He just doesn't give big spice guy energy to me. No. Not at all. Number five on the list of the top six ways for Christopher Luxon to become more popular. Get a dog and make it his entire personality. Okay. Like a golden retriever.

Do they not have a dog? Well, I don't know. Do they have a dog? They're not parading the dog around enough if they've got a dog. People love dogs. I think if you're a Prime Minister, you've got to have a dog. Well, remember the Obama's had that dog? Bow, and that was very cute.

Very popular dog. And then Biden had a dog, and it bit all the secret service. You don't want a bider. You don't want a bider if you're the leader of the country. They don't have a dog, eh? I've never even seen them talk about a cat. I don't believe they do. You've got to have a dog.

No, it's not bringing, Google's not bringing anything up. It's hard because if you live in Auckland, and you're based in Wellington at the beehive. There's a lot of touring and throwing, but dog, trust me on this one. Get a nice. Labrador or a golden retriever. They always look at that, smiling. It's at least with five points in the popularity stakes.

It's a comar brunt and bump. Yeah. It's what they call it. It's the pooch bump. Yep. Poach bump is also what it's called when you, when two fat people put their poachers together. Have a little pooch pump. I didn't say that.

Number four on the list of the top six ways for Christopher Luxon to become more popular as is popularity dips. Do makeup tutorials. Have you seen how popular those are online? Yeah. You can do makeup tutorials. Probably going to know what you're talking about though. Yeah, do a wingtip and liquid eyeliner and foundation blend and you know, matting the

shiny head as a fellow. I'm allowed to say that because I'm bald to it. Yeah. If you've got hair, you're not allowed to make fun of the shiny head thing. Yeah. Okay. So you're just not allowed. Yeah. And recently at my nan's funeral, when you're having family photos, someone said there's a lot of shine coming off the heads in this family. My brother and myself and my dad and my uncle

Orball, I thought It was a shot across the bar. No, we didn't mat up. We didn't mat up. Chemist Warehouse and get something to fix it. Nah, we could have. We should have done a matter. Okay.

Number three on the list of the top six ways for Christopher Luxon to become more popular. And he's got to trust me on this one. Grow a beard. Oh. Grow a beard. Yeah. It'll take away the...

I couldn't imagine that. Huh? Couldn't imagine him with a beard. We could get AI to generate that one up. Someone AI generated with you with a bed. And I think we should put it on our Instagram story. I don't know. And should Fletch grow a beard, should be the pole.

Yeah, I don't know. It gets it chee. I don't like it. I bet it looked good, man. Yeah. And head looked good with the beard too, and it takes away the whole thumb thing. You reckon that would be, what, five points in the preferred prime minister's the tax? I think it would be a two point bump.

Two point bump. Two point bump. Get a bed and a dog and you're up seven. Yeah, okay. You're up seven, and that's, but then don't go on hot ones because if you're a sweaty mess and you start crying because of spicy food, that's a dip. Yeah. That's a three point dip. Now we're back to four.

Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six ways for Luxon to become more popular as Prime Minister Get a Lubbubu. That's a libubu bump. Yeah, okay. That's a three-point bump. And he probably wouldn't have to line up.

He'd just shut down Queen Street and get a liboububu. And get a libibu. And get a libibu. And number one on the list of the top six ways for Christopher Luxen to become more popular as a prime minister

and this one's an easy one. Learn the dance to this song from K-pot Demon Hunters. I don't know. Yeah. You're my soda pop, my little soda pop. How many points would that be? Dude, this is a eight point bump.

You reckon? Dude, it would go viral. Yeah. And be able to be like, yes. Tell me this isn't the catchier song you've heard this year or so. Devilishly catchy, because they're demons. Watch the movie. It's really good.

Virtual boy band. That's got to be out. That is today's top six. Play Z-M's Fletchbourne and Hay. Play ZDM's Fletchhorn and Haley. Uber is a ride show. Okay, do you want to explain what TVs are as well? TVs are screens where entertainment programs are broadcast.

Well, they used to be. Now you just kind of stream them, I guess. Well, Uber's released their list of like Nautier Nice Regions, who's got the highest ratings and who's been behaving this year. Oh, I need to check my rating. to see if I've changed. Mine's exactly the same as Auckland's average rating. What is Auckland's average rating?

4.87, which is considered on the naughty side of things. Okay, because I was going to say that is really, because I'm at a 4.98. So you are the same as, no, you're way higher than the national average. These meds that I'm on are making my vision a bit blurry. Oh my God, you finally need glasses. That's a three, yeah, it's a three. I thought it was a three. That's pretty good, though.

That's still higher than, oh no, you're exactly. Sam's Deneiden. Oh, okay. Nauty students, so? No, good students. Okay, apparently. Well, they actually can't afford Uber. They walk home, don't they?

Yeah, yeah. I don't know, who's getting an Uber? So, if we look at the good region, so to be a good region, it looks like you have to have got 4.9 or above. Okay. Napier Hastings, Tooronga, Hamilton, New Plymouth, and Nelson, all at 4.9. Okay. Yeah, bang on a 4.9.

Parmey, a little bit better behaved on a 4.9. one. Okay. And Danedon at 4.93 is actually the best behaved region. Now the naughtiest? Mm-hmm. Wow. Auckland is the naughtiest at 4.87.

Okay. Followed by Queensland at 4.88, but let's face it, Queensland is Auckland. That's Australians. Yeah, but that's Australians visiting. Yeah. And entitled Aucklanders. Yeah. And Christchurch is at 4.89 just missing out on the green tick to be the better

behaved region. Okay. Yeah. So the national average is 4.88, which means I'm just... You're really low. What have you done? I know there was a vomit once in an Uber. Not me.

That wasn't you, but... Not bloody me, mate. Like, that's really low from you. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's disappointing. I don't know how to get it back to her. Might just start a new account. Maybe you need to start again.

Because you can never give back to 100%. 4.83, I do apologize, worse than Auckland, worse than everybody. 4.83. How are you on a 4.83? Even if you... I don't know what I did. That time that there was Vom and the Uber

on your account, if they gave you a zero or a one, would that have done it? Well, I mean, that's going to drastically drop. You're never getting back from that, though, are you? That's going to drastically drop it. Even if you've got a five from here on in,

it's not going to get... The minute you're not five, you'll never be five again. You might get close, but... Dangerously close, but you will never be five again. I can't be four. Yeah, you know what? You need to start again because that is, that is like, that's embarrassing for you. Can you just delete your account and start again, or do they see that coming?

And they're like, we see what you're doing here, Smithy. I don't know. Same credit card, maybe. Would be a flag? Oh, maybe, yeah. But it's not like I'm going to get banned. I'm not so bad I'm going to get banned, right? How bad does it have to be before?

They're like, sorry, you can no longer ride Uber's. What is the, the drivers have a limit they can't fall under? Yes, they do. What is that? What is the Uber? What is the, what would you call it? Uber driver penalty? Lowest, are you asking you chat or are you good one?

Lowest star to drive? Yeah, how low can you go? Can Uber drivers are expected to maintain a rating above a certain threshold to continue driving on the platform and that threshold is typically around 4.6. That's, I'm at 4.83 and I'm an absolutely, apparently, a piece of shit. So, that must be. terrible behavior. Yeah.

What are they doing? I'd actually be quite stoked if it wasn't an Uber and he's like, try me to drop a skid. I'd be like, heck you. Well, we were in that Uber once it ran over the curb. That was quite scary. Yeah, mountain curbs isn't fun. Mountain curbs.

That'll get you a couple of stars off. Yeah, not fun. Play ZEM's Fletchhorn and Haley. A woman called Sarah in Copenhagen. That's Denmark. Isn't it? Yep. Yeah, Denmark.

Yep. Copenhagen. That's the country, yes. That's the country. Yes. She has turned one of her favorite movies. into reality. Smurfs.

No. The holiday. The Smurf movies are actually really good. They wouldn't keep making them if they weren't. I mean, you're right, you're right. It's a classic tale. No, the movie The Holiday, which is a movie from 2006 starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law,

Kay Winslet, Jack Black. The synopsis, two girls from different countries swap homes for the holidays to get away from their relationship issues. Wait, but... Ah. So are they interrelated, they switch houses and boyfriends? I thought they were switching cards.

Have you seen this movie? I think they just find different boyfriends when they move or when they home swap. So Jude Law and Kate Winslet weren't together and Jack Black and Cameron Diaz weren't together and they did a house partner switch. No, no, no, no, no. They just swap houses and then they happen to come

across local men in the places that they've swapped too. Roger that. And this is like a famous movie. Everybody loves this movie. It's a classic. We've obviously seen it so many times. I've never seen it. You're making it sound like they're swingers. Yeah, that's why I was thinking.

I'm not born it. That's why I was surprised it was so popular with families at Christmas time. No, there's no keys in the bowl. It is wholesome fun. No, yeah, it's wholesome. So this woman from Copenhagen, she decided, well, I want to do this house swap thing. So she offers her house on Instagram. I don't know if she's like an influencer or she's got some followers,

but she ends up swapping her house with someone in Paris and does this house swap thing. And she's just, like, talked about it. And she just said, it's amazing. Right. It's free. I mean, you've just got to get to the city that you swap with. And then you've got this person's house or apartment. Right.

And she just did it for a week. And she said that it's amazing. Like, compared to how much, like, Airbnb's and hotels cost in Paris. Yeah. She's saving so much money. House Switch. Is there an app for this? It feels like they should be an app for this.

I think there are some, yeah, there's some websites where you can do this as well. Not swingers. Not just house. Just house. House swapping. Okay. Something like that. I'm just trying to find out who were their boyfriends, like before in this movie.

I don't think that matters for it. No, I think it really matters because I've been always of the opinion that they kind of swapped partners. So it would be good to have some clarification on who their original partners were. Yeah, I'm unsure. Do you pay, would you pay someone a little bit of power money or water money? No, because they're using your power and water. Oh, yeah, they are. What a great deal.

It's a straight swap. I'd run the dryer. I'd run the dry Okay so Ed Burns Edward Burns was He played Ethan And he was with Cameron Diaz

And Jasper was played by Rufus Sewell Who was in Man in the High Castle You'll see him and you'll be like Oh that guy He was with Kate Winslet Okay And they broke up

But then who does Jack Black get with Jack Black gets with Kate Winslet Okay And Cameron Diaz Because she's the British woman that goes to America. Gets with Jude Law. Cameron Diaz

and Jude Lord would, and I would say it, I think I'd watch them make love. Right. Right. With the cameras you left in your house

when you swapped it with the other people. I was meaning in the movie. I assume there's sex scenes in the movie. I don't know, I don't know. Because this would have been peak Jude Law and Cameron Diaz.

It was, yeah, it was 2006. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been nice. Kate Winslet and Jack Black, I would have, if that's part of the deal, I have to watch one

to enjoy the other, I would, of course, watch both. Okay, well, I don't know how we got here, but... I would also watch the two X's hookup. Okay. This is just me. This is just me. I'd do it.

I mean, this... Catherine Hahn's in this movie. Yeah, she's great, eh. Well, maybe you need to add this to your watch list. Perhaps I do. It's a Christmas movie, isn't it? No, I don't think it's just a holiday movie. The holiday.

I don't know if it's necessarily Christmas. Is the holiday a Christmas movie? Hold on. Wait a minute. Does it matter? Yeah, I don't know. It does. Well, if it's not, I'll rush into watching it now. But if it's a holiday period, I'll wait until Christmas.

It's the holiday X-Miss movie. I always thought it was because doesn't it snow? Or is that Bridget Jones? The holiday is generally considered a Christmas movie, although it's more of a romantic comedy set at Christmas rather than a Christmas story and a traditional holiday sense. So you can watch any time. So it is Christmas.

Yeah, they're swapping for Christmas, the two weeks of Christmas. Well, I'll wait. Okay, you'll wait to watch this movie then. Oh, wait. Okay. Well, if you do want to swap your home, It sounds like you can do this websites and, yeah, get on Instagram. And if you want to swap your partner, that's also acceptable.

Again, that's also. I'm not here to judge. You do whatever you want. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. What caused the smell in your car is what we want to hear from you now on 0-800 ZM, or you can text 9696. And we've already had a whole lot of responses to our Instagram post, and Shannon had to screencap them, and they made her feel sick. So what did you, what caused the smell in your car? This comes on the back of a girl on TikTok saying that she spilled a whole,

bottle of laundry liquid in her boot. It fell over. And it must have been one of those, like, she went to Costco or something. And it's like, like four liters or something. That's how I buy my laundry liquid. It's the cheapest way to do it. Well, I'm all about the pods now. I know the pods are booge.

The tithopods. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Typods. I'd go through them too quick. What do you mean? Are you still on that? Same collection of typos. I don't know. Did you balk buy every tripod? Yeah, yeah, I bought. I bulk by it. bought. What are we working out per wash? I actually don't know.

I'm all about the per mill now. But, you know, like when I go to the supermarket, I do that, how many per 100 grams? Yeah, but you need per wash. Because I'm in a personal recession. I know, yeah. I know, but I need no per wash because I go to gluggy. I go to gluggy on the Frangipani. Coldwater surfing.

Is that the brand that does the Frangipani? I don't know. Love the Frangipan. Right. And the Yolengue. But liquid or pods is where it's at, because otherwise you get the white powder on your t-shirts. Yeah, we've moved beyond powder. I do have a problem with them in a plastic waste

That's why I buy the biggest bottle possible Right Reduce my footprint Sure He says shrugging maybe This woman has a giant bottle of Concentrate Laundry Liquid In a boat and it tips over

Yes And the photo Is imagine that fabric Because it's like a fabricy board thing That covers the spare tire The whole thing is just blue But that's Got to be on the nice end of things

That's just gonna see your car's gonna smell like fresh laundry forever. Quite pungent at the start, but it'll eventually die down. How are you even cleaning that? Because you would be hosing that for weeks. You'd have to vacuum up with a wet vac as much as you could before you even begun the cleaning process. Because you add water to that situation, you're getting fine. But yeah, at least you're right.

At least your car would smell nice. Yeah. All right. Let's get the ball rolling with some Instagram replies to this. Jessica said a spilt protein shake. That's going to go rancid. That's milk. Mum had a mummified rat in her air conditioning says, man.

Mum had a mummified rat. Mum had a mummified rat. It'd be better for mum had a mummified mouse. Mum had a mummified mouse in her Mazda. Yeah. Mum murdered mouse and it mummified in Mum's Mazda. Yeah. Love it.

Yeah, that's actually Betty Maddie Maddie's mum. Maddie's mum had a modified mouse in her Mazda. In Marston. In Marston. Yep. She murdered it. Millie said the cat had explosive diarrhea. Yeah, okay.

What was the cat doing in the car? On the way to the vets. Probably for the explosive diarrhea. If they train them as kittens, they just sit in the car and they're happy. No. It's weird. I accidentally left some freshly caught white bait in the passenger footwell for four days. Not too much left on the fresh side of things.

Yeah, that's on you. Because you always hear of that prank or, you know, to get someone back, you put a fish in their vent or... Yeah. Well, no, we've heard from a friend of the show, Joel, who said, my friend's cable tied a whole flounder to my exhaust pipe. It was a combination of burnt and rotten fish. and he started that I'll remind you with my friends cable tied cable tied a fish

To an exhaust phone So it's like heating it It's like cooking it That's just another thing That cable ties can do Oh Campbell ties So versatile Always got to have a bag of cable ties

You can use them as handcuffs Yeah And you can put fish To your exhaustime Because the police use them all the time Right two looped together a night Yeah Or they have special ones

Yeah Hot Yeah It's the implication It's the implication hard, breaked, broke, slammed on her brakes and smashed some milk bottles while out delivering. So I've got the very lingering stink of stale milk. I left a block of butter in the Toyota Starlet's glove box in the heat of summer and it melted throughout the end.

It smelled like popcorn barbecue and no buttered popcorn? For a start, yes. But pretty quickly moved into the rancid dairy territory. Yeah. My brother accidentally left a burly bomb under the seat of Dad's Yoot in the middle of summer. Burley bomb. To explain what a burly bomb is, it's minced Because Shannon asked what it was, it's a minced-up fish that's put into like a net and then frozen. And then when you go fishing, you chuck out a little bit of barley. You chucking out just a little butto-bole. And you leave it floating and has it... And the other fish come around Shannon.

That's a show reference from before Shannon was part of the show. How have you never heard of a burly? I have a chunny over the side of a bite and they call me the burly machine, so I don't go fishing. Yep. But people love it. They feed me up and take me fishing and I kind of go, get a little bottle of barley over the side. son of the butt, mutt. This is what we want to know this morning. 0800 dials at him.

Give us a call now. Text through 9696. What made your car smell? We're talking about what caused the smell in your car. We started with a nice smell of a woman who lost a big Costco-sized laundry liquid in the boot. But now we're on to the manky ones that you've had. God, there's some great stories coming through. Ash said a rogue packet of chicken that had slipped out of the bag and under the seats

on the way home from groceries and then just lived there until, It started smelling, but then it had seeped. How did you get home and then miss the chicken? This happens to me all the time. Really? Really? Yeah, it falls out of the bag, slips under the seat. Was it a bachelor's handbag or a frozen?

I'm feeling flits. Oh, pack it off. Okay, right. Like a fresh. Okay. Thigh. Of course. Yeah.

Also, if it fell out of the seat, it might have also gone upside down. Oh, yeah. And then you've got seepage. Every time it rains, rain through it leaks through the roof of my car. My car constantly smells damp. That's from Aurora. Yeah. That's just old cars.

Yeah, left a gym towel in the car And then we went a six-week holiday And left it park and park and ride in the summer Okay, that's going to grow stuff Yeah, I reckon it'll be growing stuff That's going to grow mushrooms or something Well yeah, but then there's a delicious free mushroom A running banana courtesy of my toddler throwing it under the seat

Yeah, you want to check those things We've heard from Big Sandy You know, Big Sandy's one of our favourite members of the show Yeah Big Sandy here, the smell of my car Could be caused by leftover Maccas bags Siggies or the rendezvous I had in the back seat with Dirty Day Teddy they have in Big Sandy

What a combo I imagine they parked up somewhere You know like every town or city has a little park up spot Yeah Eat their macas Yeah Get down to it Get back in

Yeah I was going to say something so inappropriate Big Sandy I hope you have a lovely day A cucumber that got lost in my boot And he ended up down in the tire well And it went so rotten It was a green yellow liquid And caseed in plastic

And when it eventually popped It stank so bad I suspect it was in there for six plus months. Let's go to Tiana. Tiana, what made the car smell? Oh, I was driving out of town. I was traveling in a stop by a farmer's market and picked up a really delicious salami

and they just chucked it in a paper bag for me. Okay. And I rolled under the seat as I was driving, forgot all about it. And I stayed in a hotel for about three days. And when the valet came to bring my car out the front, he said, your car smell is really delicious. And I thought, what's going on?

And I got in the car, and it's just, the whole thing was very, very intense salami smell. And that lingered for about three, four months. You're talking garlic. Yeah, all kinds. Yeah. It was a high-quality salami, very pungent. What was the salami meat? Are we talking of venison?

Are we talking of traditional sort of a, maybe a pork salami? I think it was a dark salami. I think it was in venison from memory, but it was just a paper bag. Yeah. Bougie. Man, I love salami. Yeah, Farmers Market salami. Did you eat the salami?

Was it edible, or do we throw that out? Listen, I'm an Eastern European. I think I'd probably have given it a taste. I can't remember it was a bile bag. I didn't know that Eastern Europeans were loose with meat hygiene. No, Eastern Europeans, why it's not one-not? They grew up under the communist regime. Yeah, right.

Any meat was to be treasured, is that fair to say, Tiana? Yeah, a cured meat. You know, it's hard to chuck that stuff away, right? Yeah, it's fine. It's fine, isn't it? Yeah. So give it a rinse. What part of Eastern Europe?

Oh, God, I'm outing myself now, Croatia. Oh, lovely Croatia. Can you eat a whole hot chicken? Is that what Croatian is here? Years ago, I went to a Croatian family dinner, and they gave me a whole roast chicken. To myself, everyone had one each. We do all the meats, so, you know, you're not just getting one. It's meat clatters, so you get the meat sweets by the end, but no to tell for sure.

Okay, this sounds good, okay. Croatia, loving the mates. Fantastic. Thank you, Tiana. Ask the messages in. I used to work in a lab that tested Avon products. I took a liter container of peach smelling shampoo because I loved it and then spilt it all over my car, tried to give it out, it was awful, smell, stay there forever

and eventually turned and started smelling like vomit. Yeah. Better put you off your peach. My dad bought smoked fresh from a salesperson who visited offices. He put it in the boot. He remembered when he had to get the mechanic to strip his car to find the smell, and the boot was full of maggots because the... Okay.

No, you don't put smoked fish in the boot. No. That sits on the passenger seat. Yeah. So you remember to take it with. And put it in the fridge until you go home. Yeah. Yeah.

You're not putting you in the boot, Dad. That's madness. Someone said, I'm in my first trimester of pregnancy and this segment's making me gag. Well, let's try to get you the spew before we finish then. Challenge accepted. My son's goat ate something poisonous and took him to the vet. Held him on the front seat while he vomited rumen fluid up. Some went down the air vents.

So the car smout of goat vomit, which I can assure you is the worst type of vomit for weeks and weeks. Yark. Purchase a car which had a bottle of breast milk that rolled under the seat and leaked everywhere from the previous owner. The aircon stopped working. It was so foul in summer.

Safe to say we took my car everywhere. She was told about the milk spill and received a $200 discount. That doesn't seem like enough. I don't know. Doesn't seem like enough. Definitely not enough for that. That stink.

Play ZM's flesh for an inhalate. Now, more and more couples are using AI, like chat GPT, to write their wedding vowels, and they might not admit to it. According to it, you don't need to admit to it. Yeah, I mean, just keep crafting it until it sounds like something you would say. People are doing, like, a lot of their work and not telling people they're using it, right? Like, this is, Georgia, you just got married. George, Georgia, jump on the mic.

Hailey's away today. You just recently got married. I did. And did you use any AI to refine or cheat a little bit with your vows? Not for the vowels, not for the speech, not for nothing. What about Hayne? Maybe that's actually... Maybe I should have.

Maybe they didn't hit the market. You didn't even think about it, did you? I didn't. Do you know how long I spend making these, though, like months in the lead-up? How long? Time wasted, to be fair. Time wasted. Why is it over already?

Separation already. Everyone's just using chat. Deptis. No, but it came from the heart. True. This is the help people who maybe can't put into a way. words, how they're feeling? Like me? Like a robot. You're not a word of affirmation person. No. This is my top love

language. How did you do your vows? You started taking notes? Literally, if you go through my notes app on my phone, there's like multiple different notes started. Like eggs, milk, butter, I love you forever. I love you the first time I saw you, flower. And I also have written a note to blow the dust off my vows when it happens because I waited for so long so that was like there was notes for years in there right wait so you had vows before you were ever engaged i had notes for the vowels before you were engaged women are crazy a woman are crazy you go on the first date with this guy and you're like must make a note for my

vowels yeah oh he mentioned he loved the name emily first daughter woman i mean it's worked out though but honestly he was the same aim to be fair. Don't you all say that woman do this? I'll have you know. No comment. Now, we thought we'd put this to the test and Vaughn I have in front of me I put in to chat, GPT

I put write short wedding vowels for my husband who we're going to imagine as Vaughn who has a beard, loves Lego, Star Wars, mixed ethnicity women, farming. Wait a minute, we're getting married and barbecuing meat. That's me. That's me. Get it to a tea, baby.

That's you to a tea. You know me better than anybody. I didn't put in their tractors, but I put farming. Farming, under the farming umbrella, you find tractors. So let's have some nice wedding music, and these are the vowels, and I haven't touched them. I just wrote short vowels. This is what it's come up with. My love, from the moment we met, I knew you're the one, bearded, brilliant, and built like a Lego master.

Oh. I promise to stand by your side whether we're building empires from bricks, watching Star Wars for the 100th time, or dancing badly to K-pop in the kitchen. I vow to cherish every barbecue you make, every farm dream you chase, and every part of who you are because you've always made me feel

like your favorite flavor of everything, even though I'm just plain white. Through galaxies far, far away, and seasons on the farm, I'm yours now and always. And that's it? That's pretty good. That's pretty good, right?

Isn't that pretty good? Are you tears in your eyes fleets? He's emotional. It's the Tramidor. Yeah, it's my, a lot of men's right now. Okay. So I put in the prompt. I need you to help me write some short and sweet wedding vows for my husband to be.

I'm also a man, just so you know I'm gay. But I'm the top and he's the bottom. He likes cats, apparel spritzes, going to the gym, police procedural TV shows, has a lone time. The Minions, butter chicken, white chocolate, especially Maltese's. Mothuccinos and we've been together for 21 years and we don't live together but our love is never ending. Right. Oh my God.

What's this going to say? Okay. My love. For 21 years you've been my constant. My partner in crime TV shows. My gym motivation, even when I'd rather nap and the only man I'd ever share my white chocolate maltese is with, if you'd let me. I promise to always respect your alone time. Bring you butter chicken when you've had a long day and never judge for your love for the minions out loud.

You're the sprits to my ass. The Caparole, the cat to my lap, and the heart that makes mind beat steadier. We may not live together yet, but every part of me already lives for you. That's nice. That's nice. Forever isn't long enough, but it's a damn good start. That's nice, eh? I do, I do.

I do. It's going to the next song, which is dramatic four seasons from Vivaldi. This is divorce music, by the way. This is what they play when you're going into divorce court. Play ZM's. Fletch, Vaughan and Haley. Well, the girlies are very excited. George is in,

host of the day show on ZDM Radio Network. Wow, what an intro. Is that because of how excited? Vaughn's always worried about new listeners coming in and not knowing. And I'm Vaughn. And I say, do play songs. Are you going to play some songs today? I'm going to play lots of songs today.

Don't you want to go anywhere. Because in one hour, eight minutes, Georgia Bert's going to play some songs. Yeah. What songs? Probably this old situation that we've got going on. Right, what we're about to talk about, you reckon. Now, Georgia Arna, you're excited about this,

but Jessica Gurley's, you're also very excited about this. Some celebrities have reunited. I'm also pretty excited about it. I don't know if you are as excited. No, I'm jazz. Celebrities have reunited on stage. Oh, my goodness. Biggest news yesterday, absolutely everywhere.

Demi Lovado came out on stage with the Jonas Brothers and performed. The best song from Camp Rock history. I'm more of a high school musical guy than Camp Rock You can't be one without the other No, yeah Well I am You can't be I'm defying the laws of Disney

By being one without it Have you watched the zombies movie? No Okay The new one Fletcher you look lost on Camp Rock You looked even more lost on a high school musical Now I've mentioned zombies

You look even more lost again Is this where they went and became camp councillors For the summer They actually did that I don't know the storyline. I know. You know how every Kiwi goes and does Camp America? Yeah.

Wait, you're like you'll Camp Rock over high school musical, but you don't know what the storyline of... Because I know the storyline of high school musical. Let me educate you. Let me educate you. Demi was a character called Mitchie, and she was going off to a music camp for the summer, and there was this hot boy band.

They were the Jonas brothers, but they weren't the Jonas brothers. Shane, who was played by Joe Jonas, was the lead. They fell in love in the movie. No one's called Shane. Yes, they are. That's the most unrealistic kind about this movie so far. Uncle's a cool, Shane.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, uncles and dudes who smell like Siggy's. No, he was hot. He was hot. And anyway, they started dating. No offense, Shane. Shane's have mullets. They do, but they kind of did. That is hot.

No, not hot mullets, messy ones. And they just do it to keep the hair out of their face. But they like, yeah. Okay. So, Shane is hot in this fictional world where Shane's are hot. And Mitchie is Demi Lovato, and they fall in love, do they? To be honest, the only reason I was there for was not for the plot. No one's ever there for the plot.

Wait, which Jonas would be there for? Oh, this is a tough notion I've always struggled with, but probably Joe. Always Nick. Well, no, so who's the one that hasn't been named? Fletcher's there for the bonus Jonas. Kevin. No, Frankie. Frankie, that's Fletcher's time.

Frankie Jonas. I thought he was the quiet cut. Why's Georgia picking on me? I've had surgery, Georgia. I've got one arm. And I cut my thumb just to really. reiterate that Fletch isn't the only one going through some stuff. So why, this is a big deal because they obviously went, there's history there.

So they dated in the movie, then in real life they started dating, and they became the Disney couple, and we all were following them, and it was a big deal, and then they broke up, and they never were to be seen together again until yesterday, and they came out on stage together. Have they buried the hatchet? Well, it seems like it. Okay, okay. Which is very exciting for us.

Hopefully, maybe a collab in the future. Okay. I just still, for me, it's, oops, turn my microphone off a little prematurely there. I'm still a high school musical. Go Wildcats and Troy. Hard eyes. Gabriela. Gabriel and Troy, forever. As far as I'm concerned, let's get them on stage.

I don't know what's that. This show is off the rails. Hit it! Play Z-M's Fletchbourne and Haley. Hit it! CSO, Haley's on here and she usually does the singing. Yeah, she does the singing. Fifteen miles to a show.

Shannon's Hacks Yeah Shannon's Hatt, baby We do need to record that intro Yeah, we really do It's on the to-do list But you know, we just get so busy Don't we?

After the show I just can't be bothered Something completely honest If we're being honest Nightclub rolls around We can't be bothered Mentally, mentally emotionally I'm a drain man

Yeah Sure My husk of a human Well Shannon joins us for a hack Haley's away today So I'm just going to say You're going to have to work

extra hard for that five-star review Well, I was thinking, because I'm on the buttons, I can actually just turn off your mics if you don't agree with me. Okay. And that's quite a nice power I've got today. Wow, silencing men. Yeah, it feels good. Okay.

My, mate, hack today is a money-saving hack. Good. Good. Well, Vaughn's in a personal recession. Wow. This is a fantastic timing. Now, I know Vaughan. You're a very kind person.

Thank you. You care about people a lot. Kind of heart. Can be a prick sometimes. Yeah, real prick. I'm trying to get points here. I'm just focusing on them. I've got a prick face.

Like, I don't, I'm just, people are like, Like, what's wrong with him? Yeah, like, I've got the bitchy resting face. Yeah, and I'm like, what's his problem? Yeah, what's wrong with him? Yeah, he's actually quite happy. Yeah, yeah. Well, I know that you cared a lot about Fletch getting surgery, right?

Yeah, but I will say I also cut myself quite badly. Yeah, no. Yeah, he did. Today is my first day, no plaster. Yeah. You are brave. Thank you very much. But I know you cared a lot about Fletcher's surgery.

And one thing that's so nice to do for someone who's had surgery is get them one of those foil balloons that says get well soon. Are they the best? I didn't get a single one of those. Well, it's because times are tight, right? Yeah. Personal recession. Vaughn can't be shelling out for one of those.

No. He's in a personal recession. I could go to look sharp and get you a number. Yeah. What number would it be? One shoulder fixed. Yeah, one. Third surgery in your life.

Yeah, three. Yeah, three. My hack for you today is you've got to spend money to make money, right? So I want you to go out and buy one get well soon for your balloon, one congrats on the baby, one graduation. And then instead of blowing them up, you know, they don't like. last very long, is you cut off the bottom and put a regular balloon

inside of it, and you blow it up. This now looks like a full, for your balloon. You can give it to Fletch, once he's recovered from his surgery, take it back. This is the dumbest thing. No, no, no, no, no, no. The minute you cut the bottom of the balloon and put another balloon inside it. No, but it now makes it reusable. So you get back. You've

got to ask for the balloon back from the person who's asking for a balloon back. They won't notice. While you're there looking after Fletch, I don't know, staring in his stitches. Take your balloon back. That balloon's done. I'll put that in the bin for you. Wait till I take my sleepy tramadoles and I'm out like a life and steal it back. I do have a question about the balloon

why is it cut open and another balloon is going to put inside the balloon? You can't tell. I'm telling you I've seen this online. So then I feel like we're spending twice as much money on balloons now. Yeah. And helium. No, no, there's no helium involved. You just blow it up. So it's just flopped on the ground. Well no, because the foil balloons fill up.

But now you've got a reusable foil balloon. This might be your worst. Shannon. They're $8 at the warehouse. That's what I mean. A 45 centimetre get well, $8. Yeah, so $8 once for every friend's surgery in your life. Right, because the hassle of going and getting the balloon back, Shannon, it outweighs the $8 charge, let alone the helium. And I don't want a balloon if it doesn't float.

I don't want a floppy ground balloon. No, nobody wants a floppy ground balloon. You know the stick? The stick's not going to hold it out that you're asking too much of the balloon and the stick. No, I'm not. I've seen this. This is a money-saving hack, and you have a personal recession. This is another terrible hack.

I'm sorry. I just don't think you guys get my vision. No, I totally get it. I get your vision and your vision sucks. This is like, this is a zero. This is like extreme makeover home edition. They're like, you're not getting our vision. I'll give you a one because I feel sorry for you, but.

And that's the Tramidol speaking. You're getting one because he's on Tramidal. I'm completely, I'm full of pain with no meds. You get zero. And it's about goddamn time we played this song. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do it's chocolate week here at fact of the day.

Yum. It's about chocolate. Open to a Friday fact, by the way. What you haven't done? Because usually I'll get all five done on a Sunday. And then I just put my feet up and cruise through the week. Rest on my laurels. So you're now outsourcing your work that you're paid for.

I'm just saying and I'm more than happy to be bribed by a chocolate company. Should they provide chocolate and a fact about said chocolate. I'm open to bribery. Okay. Today's fact of the day is that prior to 1879, chocolate was gritty and not a popular snack to eat solid. It was always melted and consumed it as a liquid. Oh, yuck, like gritty like it was that coconut rough.

That's yummy, coconut rough. You said yark like coconut rough, but immediately I was like, well, don't drag coconut rough. Man, I love coconut rough. Do you know what I'm talking about at the weekend? Remember that cremelter mixed with chocolate and then rice bubbles and then set them in a... Yeah, that's yark. You didn't like that?

Too oily. Too oily. Too much vegetable shortening. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. So, um... But if it was a dairy milk chocolate and it was gritty, that would be weird.

Well, it was originally, um, when it was sold as a block or hard cake, it was melted down by the people who bought it as a hard block. But it was made by grinding cocoa nibs and sugar together, which made it particularly gritty in the mouth. It felt like sandy. Oh, okay. Like, I don't know a big sandy. It was on the show before. I'm sure it was a pleasure in the mouth to the tongue. Excuse me.

Didn't mean it like that. Don't look at me like that. Um, so it would be... purchased as a solid bar and then melted down, mix with milk and then drank. Right. Far more likely to do that, unless you didn't mind a little bit of grit.

Yeah. So it wasn't until 1879 that Rudolph Lindertr... Lindered Ball. It's a Linder guy. You got it. Rudolph Linder T. Accidentally left a chocolate mixer on overnight. Oh.

When home left the mixer on overnight, came back and was like, oh, my goody, good a gracious. And it was, let me guess. It had been mixing. so long it had gone into balls and he's like Lindel balls. No, he had a batch of chocolate in a mixing machine

which was likely a longitudinal mixer with a granite rollers so like a drum. Oh yeah. Like a drum mixer and the granite rollers. Legend said left it running overnight. Some say he left it running the entire weekend. Okay. And the prolonged mixing generated heat and friction

which broke down the particle size to a much smoother texture, allowed the cocoa butter to evenly coat the cocoa solids in the sugar and also apparently got rid of the acidic or bitter volatile compounds in chocolate that made it not as tasty as it was prior to the resulting chocolate was described as smooth glossy aromatic and melted beautifully and so then he set it into a chocolate bar yeah and ate it and immediately felt the sort of chocolate that we would feel these days a very velvety very smooth chocolate it was a pleasure to eat

because it melted in the mouth rather than gritty and feeling like you had it in your teeth I love when things are invented by accident yeah it's they're always the best stories That would be a good fact of the day. Yes. Theme for a week. Things that were invented by accident. Yes. Where am I going to write this down?

I don't know. You've got a laptop in front of you. No, yeah, I know, but it'll just get lost. This is a mess. Could you email yourself? Could you email yourself? I could and then I'll pin it to the top. Yeah, good idea.

Great idea. There you go. Well, that can be next week's. Accidental inventions? Yeah. I think that's a good. This is a lot of scientific or medicines. I might do that later and just have next week's work done on Tuesday.

Yeah, good. And that's two weeks' holiday. I mean, I've got to show up physically, but mentally, you can check out. I haven't been mentally for a little while. Yeah, it's been a long time. Where am I mentally? Lapland. I just thought, where am I mentally?

And the first thing that popped into my head was snow and a reindeer. Okay. And so I assume I'm in Lapland. Yeah, lovely. Searching for. Norway. It could be Norway. Somtee Claus.

Is it Lapland Northern Norway? I don't know. You've been? Yeah, but it's, I don't know. I just know they had snow and reindeer. I don't know where. Laplanders? I thought you went to Lapland.

Is it Finland? I went to Norway. I went to Norway. Next door to Norway. Okay. Labland is not solely located in Norway. Lapland is a region that spans across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and a small part of Russia. Okay.

Well, maybe I have been there then. Okay. You have been. Because I went right to the top. Right. It's like northern Scandinavia. Yeah, beautiful. Because they don't want the Danish to be involved.

Okay. They've left them out. So today's fact of the day is prior to Rudolf Lindita, leaving his chocolate mixing machine running all weekend chocolate was a gritty snack that was often melted to be consumed. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day,

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 play ZM's Flethorn and Haley. Play ZM's Fleshworn and Haley. So Phineas are the one in the Billy Elish band that doesn't have his name in the title. The brother. Yeah, because he's always there. It's never just there. Yeah.

But they just go, they perform under the name Billy Elish. And he's Phineas Eilish, which is a crazy name to say first and last name of because you always just say Phineas. But anyway, Finneous is Billy Elish's brother. And some say the genius behind, the beats that make Billy Eilish who she is. And he has revealed that something that lives rent-free in his head and embarrassment that he thinks about, when he's trying to go to sleep. I think we've all got a couple of these floating around. A couple or like a dozen.

A dozen, a Bible, a sort of a whole dictionary of them. He said he went to Taylor Swift's birthday party, and she said, thanks for coming to my birthday party, and he said, thank you for coming to my birthday party. And she looked at him weird, and he was like, what have I said? I do this on my birthday all the time. I say, happy birthday, and happy birthday to you too. And you too.

Yeah. I do this all the time at the airport when, you know, you give them your boarding pass, and they're like, have a good flight, and you're like, thanks, you too. Yeah. You're like, oh my God, they're not going anywhere. But they are sometimes.

Sometimes they follow you on the plane. Oh, sometimes they do, yeah, sometimes they do. Yeah, they follow you. But most of the, or the person checking you in, they're not. They're not going on the plane. And you might be, you have a good holiday too. I love seeing them on the plane because it makes me feel better about it when I say you too. Yeah.

Totally makes me feel better. I mean, that's on the light end of things. You're not going to stay awake at night remembering that because that's hardly embarrassing. But there would certainly be those moments. And that is what I think we need to take some calls on now. 0,800 Dahls at M, 9-696. What are those things that sometimes you wake up at 2 o'clock in the morning and you immediately think of that you, you know, did ages ago.

Do you know what, there's one of these, we were at, my dad used to do cycling, and we were at the, after the cycling, there was like the prize-giving thing and everyone was sitting around, and I was sitting in between Anne Bagnall and her daughter, Tina. Now they are my cousin's cousins, not technically related to me by blood.

Okay. And Anne is the mother, Tina is her daughter, and the Bagnol's there, into the show. I've talked about the Bagnalls before. Steve Bagnol. That's their dad for long-time listeners and you know, Eli train spotters of the show. Yep. I was sitting in between them and Anne went to pass her daughter a drink.

Yep. And I thought she was passing it to me. So I took the drink and I took a drink. And then after I did it, Tina had her hand out and I passed it to her and that was when I realized I put my lips on another family's drink. And I still think about it. Every time I see someone passing a drink, I'm traumatized. I'm back. I'm in Matamata because that was where the cycle race was happening.

I was sat in the grounds beside the swimming pools in Matamata because that's where the end thing was. We're sitting on the ground. It's a nice summer's day. I can feel that like the, you know when the grass gets dry in summer and it gets a little prickly and it's not like the soft grass of spring? I can feel that under my tush. Yeah.

Because I'm sitting in between the bag. You should let this go. I can't. I can't. I feel like Shannon, you would have some of these. Oh my goodness. Being an anxious, Gen Z. I will never forget this.

At my school, there was a very famous. Miss Teacher. Whenever I talk about how at college, everyone texts in about her. Her name was Miss Mepin and she was maybe four foot five. She was so so, so short. And one day we were going on a school trip to Wellington and we were at the airport and it was chaos

because it's teenagers and you know we were being annoying and she got like our gate wrong or something and I remember I jokingly said to my friends and I loved this teacher so much. Oh it's because she's got a small little brain and she was right behind me and she heard me. Oh Shannon. And she was... Why did you say that? I was because I was being stupid. because I was being funny because I loved her

but she heard me and she's like Shannon you know better than that and oh you got the I'm disappointed in you I'm not angry I'm disappointed mortified and for the rest of my schooling time every time I looked at her I felt guilt because I didn't mean it because I loved her and it was just a dumb teenage comment

and I just can't live it down anytime and will you be in bed at night sometimes and you'll think about that constantly because whenever we talk about how at college people texted and Miss Miffin I'm like I know I called her dumb because I said she a little I love with you well and you know what That's good, that's good, that's karma.

Yeah, shouldn't have said that. Okay, 0,800, Darls. Edm, I want to hear these stories. There's always some good ones. Okay, this is good. 9-6-96 is the number to text in. 0,800, Darls at M. What is the comment that keeps you up at night

that you still remember to this day? Let's go to Sophie, Sophie. What did you say to someone? I was with my best friends and their stepdad had a log splitting accident and he actually lost a couple of fingers and without thinking I was like, fingers crossed, you can get them sewn back on.

He didn't actually have the fingers. He didn't have the fingers. He didn't cross them. He'd just have to lay them in an X across the top of each other on ice while he was going to the hospital. Yeah, how often do you think of that comment? All the time.

Any time anybody says fingers crossed? Like, pops into my head. Yep, yeah. Yeah, oh, that's good. It's mortifying. Yeah, Sophie, thank you. Camel. Camille? Camille. Yeah, hi. Camille. Yeah, what's the comment that you still remember saying to this day

that keeps you up at night? Well, so I was hairdressing at the time, and I had a client come in for a hair color. Yep. And after renting me hair color, I put them back to the station, and I offered them a blow, and instead of a blow dry. You said blow out. You said blow job. Yeah, okay. Yeah, and then I figured out, she found out that the client swung that way anyway, so it was a rather interesting conversation that I had to drive back out of.

Was the client a female? Yes. Well, I don't think it matters what way she swings. She can't receive one. Well, let's say, well, okay, Camille, stay on the line, we'll see how that works. Okay, wow, okay, and you'll still remember, yeah, I mean, you just put your foot in it.

It sees embarrassing moments, Camille, thank you. The headdresses would do it all the time. Yeah, some more messages. Oh, I'm an Uber driver And people tell me to have a good flight After I say it to them When I drop them off at the airport I say have a good flight

20 times a day, I reckon Oh God, okay A couple of people say Mrs Mffin's a legend They just saw her recently Yeah, this is a teacher that Shannon said Hey, she has a small brain And then

Yeah Curse her ever since Do you reckon she remembers? Because that's the thing You remember saying it Or doing it And a lot of the time people Wouldn't remember it

No, they wouldn't. I think she would remember it Just because she knew How much it affected me She watched my soul crumble Yeah And how upset I was that I got caught being stupid. You said it.

You said something like that. My cousins, Nana, told me she worked at a rest home when she was nine. I said, shouldn't you be in a rest time? Not my finest moment. I thought it was pretty funny. Nobody else laughed at all. No one else laughed at all. At a girlfriend's work function, we were talking about travel with their boss.

He said he'd been to Poo Kett. And I said, is it Poo Ket or? Oh, yep. Say it with an F because it's a pH. Horrentously awkward silence. Wow. I used to cheerlead I'm reading this one Raw by the way

I used to cheerlead for the Chiefs when Sonny Bill played and I saw him at a cafe and started talking at him and then proceeded to say oh sorry I thought you recognised me like why would he recognise me he's the famous one I sometimes think about it in my shower and I cringe

and I have a little sit down still to the stage he probably doesn't even remember my mum said to my friend nice MP3 player they were diabetic it was their diabetes monitoring machine they carried around

Nice MP3 player Mums were like I know what they call them They call them Mp3 players Hey Nice MP3 player Mom looks around Nowed it

No mom No you didn't Keep your text coming in 9696-960m Those things that you said That still keep you up at night Putting your foot in it And maybe a bad joke

An awkward moment I love that these are living rent free I wish I could release you all from the The pain The life sentence that binds you to one awkward moment. My husband is notoriously bad at taking compliments. The lady said to him, I like your tattoos. And he said, I didn't do them.

And so I think this person is... He just doesn't know what to do when he gets a compliment. And just say thanks. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody else wants to talk about some other teachers that Shannon had at school, but now's not the time nor the place. It was the 90s.

And in front of the whole class, I made. made a your mom joke to a kid who had recently lost his mom. And I think about it every single time I hear a your mom joke. Your mom jokes are just word for my day. That has come out. Yeah. Yeah. I used to work in a bar and a guy came in and he only had one hand.

He got a few drinks and I said, do you need a hand? And I think about it every day. I was getting a bikini wax and the therapist asked me if I was allergic to anything. Without a breath, my response was dicks. but I meant to say dickheads. I meant to say dickheads. I'm allergic to dickheads because that was my thing in life. I always said I was allergic to dickheads.

Okay. Oh, my God! This can't be real. When colleague and I was showing a delegation from Kenya around our office, went to the kitchen, we were showing them the coffee making facilities, and they said, are there any mugs? And I opened the cupboard, and my colleague said,

Mugs for Africa. That's good. No, that's too good. That's too funny. That can't be real That can't be real But I love it I hope it is

So much so Meeting my boyfriend's parents For the first time As mum made a dry Self-sourcing pudding And she was getting a lot of sick about it And I said Don't worry off but worse things in my mouth

And the whole family was dead silent And I think about it all the time I was getting to the edge of my internal vaginal scan And the guy said There we go, we're all done. and I said, yeah, cheers, mate. Like, he had just fixed my car or something, and I think about it all the time.

I can't something like, cheers, mate. When I was in hospital, I had an oxygen mask on, and I removed it and told the nurse, I needed some fresh air. And she just looked at me, and I was like, put the oxygen mask back home. Yeah, literally the freshest of ears. Good.

Oh, my God, my university professor and I had been chatting, and she said she needed to go home and get her husband some lunch. I laughed and said, what is he? crippled. And she said, well, yes, actually he is. A recent accident. I wanted to throw myself out a window. No way.

32 years later, every time I see a disabled car park, I think of that moment. Oh, my God. We were at a funeral. Meeting the person who had lost their mom doing the usual condolences. And I also knew it was her birthday. And I said, I'm sorry for you lost, happy birthday. And I think about it every time. I love these messages so much.

I went for a very posh English family as a nanny and the child had had a fluffy and ended up with a small chocolate mustache. I took a photo and sent it to the mother saying baby Hitler. Now, I wasn't to know that they had Jewish heritage. I think about it. Every day. Um, I was thinking you're going to get a candidate for a role

and they asked them. I said, if your mom could describe you three words, what's three words? And she said, my mom's dead. I said, not the three words I was after. And I think about it every day. Oh my God, I've got so many that haunts now being, I was being told about how a friend had to be taken and buy ambulance to hospital with a postpartum hemorrhage.

And I asked if it was fun running an ambulance and she looked at me and said, not really, I was bleeding to death. I think about it every time I see an ambulance. These are so good. I was working at a petrol station. and I thought a customer was about to leave before I could give him change. And I said, don't run away. And he turned around and he said, I can't.

And that's when I noticed he had two prosthetic legs. I was picking up a friend for New Year's. And her granddad had passed away on Christmas. I was catching up with her grandma. And I said, did you have a nice Christmas? And she said, did you have a nice Christmas? And I replied, yes, how was your Christmas? And she said, pretty shit, my husband died.

And I think about it, every Christmas. You would. You would. I was dating a doctor working for an obstetric. on Ecology team. The boss had the whole team over for dinner. Someone tried to break the silence by asking what's for dinner and without thinking I blurted out fish fingers.

What kind of joke is this? George liked that one, didn't you? You liked that one, George, a bit. That was quick too. Oh, my, my, my, my, mom, my, mom, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, um, oh my God. meeting my partner's family for the first time and there was a baby photo up and I knew it wasn't my partner

or her sister and I assumed it was just a baby and I said weird looking baby that was their dead brother I saw that link about it I think about it every day Oh my God Weird looking baby

That's our dead brother That's a weird looking baby Oh we're all going out I once asked the patient relative Is this your son sir? He said no that's my wife Oh my good Oh my good

You just want the ground to swallow you Wow Team meeting Icebreaker I asked the team members their favourite music And everybody was very quiet And it was really awkward And I was like what's the matter You're deaf

Turns out one of them was Profoundly deaf Never enjoyed music Born deaf as a child Right My mum was leading a funeral service And accidentally asked the wrong person's name She used the same templar for every service

and left the previous person's name in there. Luckily it was John, so she segued into a spiel about John the Baptist in the Bible. She got away with it. But I think about it every day. Yeah. I was telling some workmates how I didn't have eye surgery. I'd have a ridiculous bungalow

and I looked at my workmate standing right in front of me with a rather obvious lazy eye at a plank look on the side. These are so good. So good. Meaning parents of a son's a school friend and I said, which one which one do you take after?

They're lesbians. So, and I was just trying to work out which one he carried it and I wasn't quite sure to ask, but I think about it every day. Hey, remember how you just gave that Uber driver five stars because you wanted five stars back? Yes. Let's do that with this podcast.

Oh, yeah. Review it five stars, tell your friends and we'll do the same for you if you ever need a review for anything. But where are you giving me my five stars? Well, I don't know. Do you own a restaurant or something? Yes.

If you give us five stars on this podcast, tell us where you would like your review and we'll review. Even where we won't even go. We'll just review your thing. I don't want people to know where my restaurant is. I'm doing one of those secret restaurants. Oh, I was going to say that's exactly the opposite of how restaurants work. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.