ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 27th 2025

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

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From the ZM podcast network This is Fleshworn and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's FlashWon and Haley Thank you Bryn, good morning Welcome to the show, Flesh Vaughan and Haley and Yessa, big news that I guess everybody was waiting for

Yeah It's happened. Taylor Swift is engaged. Love ain't dead. Not if you Taylor Swift and Travis. Cute. It looked like a big setup. I remember waking up on the morning of 9-11 and hearing the news on the radio. I'd imagine this is somebody's waking up now

and they'll always remember they heard on the radio first. Where were you when Princess Dye was announced dead? That was Tallytext. My friend Chris rang and said he's just been reading Tallytext and Princess Dian has been in an accident. Where were you when Taylor and Travis got engaged? Well, there are some details coming out about the engagement, including the ring, which we'll get into next.

because there are some guesses as to how much that costs. Just an elegant little thing from Levisa, I think. Just a tiny wee thing. I think it's cubic zirconia. You know? I think it's anything. I think it's anything but. We'll get into all the details we know next.

Play ZM's, Flashbourne and Haley. Love is not dead, guys. Guys, love Blumeth. Love is alive because Taylor Swift is now engaged. It's a big breaking news this morning. Yeah, but it is how fresh is the news? That's our theory here. We couldn't just announce they were engaged

and everybody be happy, eh? Immediately. How much that ring cost? When is that photo actually taken? He's shorter. How long have they been keeping the secret? Well, we go to the producer girlies, the biggest Taylor Swift fans in the world.

And people aren't saying this must have happened in the last month, but not like today. Yeah, which is fair, right? Because when you get engaged, you don't announce it straight away. You've got to tell your family, your friends. I like streamed. Yeah. Okay, you're just going to live stream it.

Yeah. But he has shorter hair in these photos. And for a while, up until about July, he's had longer hair. And then training camp started, he cut it. So everyone's like, it happened in August at some point. Okay. Right. Well, cute.

Good for them. Now, they are the textbook. They are our royal family. They are, exactly. You know? I don't know much about wedding rings, but I don't like that wedding ring. Yeah, that's a bit tacky for me. It's quite, it's big.

It looks like a turtle. It's garish. It's quite an old, like, 1800s type style from what I've Googled. Yeah. For the old mine brilliant cut. It's kind of like long and oval. How would you describe it? Ovula.

Ovula. It's very much in the theme of her next album, The Life of a Showgirl. Like, that is a showgirl's ring. Yeah, it's very brimstoney. Yeah. I thought you would have liked it loving all your vintage, Haley. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of vintage jewelry, though. That kind of era of it's a bit old fashion for me

But I like it Taxidemi Foxes, yes That's class Okay, so now that's class I did ask chat if it would Yeah, you're saying chat because you You always do it wrong And now in my head

You get it wrong DT I always get it right now You see CBD Yeah but he always gets it wrong And now in my head it's wrong Anyways I put in the photo And then said

Who designed it and the type of cut And depending on what the carrot is they're saying for a five to seven carrot, which that would obviously be on the seven carrot scale I reckon or more. It's huge. It could be like about 250,000 but if it's a big, good ring

it'll be a lot more than that. Surely it's worth millions. You can't propose to Taylor Swift and give her a $200,000 ring. I mean her legs are famously insured for a couple mill, right? So surely her rings more than her legs. I'm using one of my four free Forbes articles. Try to say that five times fast.

One of my three, four fours. They're saying somebody has estimated at $550,000 US dollars. Oh yeah, so about a mill. Yeah, about a mill. Mill New Zealand. So he, obviously, she announced her album on his podcast, but their next podcast is supposed to drop, I think, tomorrow our time. 27th their time, so tomorrow our time.

So that'll be all pre-recorded about the engagement. But then I'm also wondering, are they just going to ignore it? Because it's supposed to be in line with the sport starting up again the season. So are we going to get the story? Are we not? No, I mean, they do. It is a bit. It's a good sports podcast.

It's a good sports podcast. But is he going to tell us the story in there? Maybe. It's cute. Can we talk about the fact that there's a photo who I walked in this morning? Us three girls are like, oh, my God. Where there's a photo where he's like swooped her up, got his hand around her waist, and his hand is like the size of her waist.

There's like whopping hand. Everyone's like, HGGG. Also, apparently TNZ reporting that the dress that she's wearing, in the engagement photo has already sold out. It's a Rafflerin dress. But I will say

I have a very, very similar dress from the warehouse. Okay. Are you telling me the warehouse Duped Ralph Lauren? I mean, Bold move warehouse.

I mean, that's how it works though, right? It might not have been on purpose, but it's very similar. Okay, well, if you want to knock off Taylor Swift and Gayfriend dress, when did you buy it, though? Over summer, to be fair.

Okay, so, I mean, there might be one in the Tinkawitti store. Guys, I hate to say it. Hit up Sheehan. You know that's there. Timo, Sheehan, Ali Express. You've able to get yourself a quick little one of those. Well, that's kind of all we know about the Taylor Swift engagement this morning.

But we'll update you if any more details come to hand. See, offender text. It's a breaking news. We've seen her a congratulations text. On behalf of ZM, we wish you well. Play ZM's. Flash Vaughan and Haley. Spain.

C. Spain leads the world. Ola. With 49.4. organ donors. They call these deceased per million. 49.4%. How it's like 49.4, that's nothing.

No, 49.4 deceased donors per million. Wait, that's not right? It is. That's so low. Because I've been looking at hours. Wait, wait, wait. I was just looking. In 2023, ours is 64 donors per million.

But we can't need a lot of organs, right? What do you mean? We're constantly in need of organs. I'm one of them. So there's only 250 organ donors. Or do you mean successful? Donations of organs. Well, that's just this, the, um, DPMP is the number that they use.

Donors per million population. No, no, no, no. And New Zealand is 12.2 is the latest from 2023. Why is it so low? We're all donors. Yeah, I thought everybody was a donor. I'm a donor. Apart from, is it the Joho's?

And in Māori. Excuse me, the Jehovah's, and Māori. Some religions don't let you, do they? Do Māori not? Māori is supposed to keep your body untouched. that, so you don't embalm, you don't do anything. Oh, really? Don't know, and then just biff me in the hole.

Stitch me up, don't tell the... I don't know if people want the oldest, do you know what I mean? I don't know if people want you a pickled. Yeah, there must be something in there. Lungs? No. Kidneys? One. No, no one.

So it's probably a work to death. Heart, liver. No, you've got a good heart. Good heart, good spirit, my soul. I don't know. Sense of humour. Can you take that the funny bo? The reason we talk about donors and being a donor is a bizarre.

is a bizarre Sweden had low donator rates and they needed it to be higher and they also had a sold-out music festival called Way Out West. Now Way Out West ran a campaign

called the Kidney Pass where if you registered for the National Organ Donation Registry you would also go into the raffle to win a ticket to this festival and it worked. Amazing. So over the past decade they've seen

a significant decline in people in Sweden being organ donators. Because how do they know apart from your licence? Yeah, that's the only time they ever ask you. So if you go to renew your licence and you're not, you can just be like, yes. Is that how? Yeah, because I don't think I've ever discussed it with my doctor or anything like that. No.

Do you discuss it with your family, hopefully? And I mean, maybe that really low rate per million is how many successful they get out of people who die and actually are donated. Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Because it has to be also the perfect. circumstance right like if you're in a car accident and you die and by the time they get you in they're kind of like wow now there's a it could be fresh yeah they've got to be fresh and kind of kept together and ideally young and healthy in a hospital you could be kept alive till you got to the

hospital so they're all fresh yeah someone's pretty much got to be waiting yeah so maybe that's oh my god i have a friend who's waiting i have a friend who's waiting for a liver transplant at the moment i only just learned this really yeah and it is a waiting game you just sit around waiting until you get the call for a perfect match someone's died, they've got a great liver, and it's yours. What could have been tempted to push someone off a bridge, what?

What? What? Excuse me, sir, what a beautiful day, isn't it? What's your blood type? Oh, negative. Can I just... Okay, so that's why somebody said, donation rates are so low because so little of the population die in an ICU and are in a condition to donate.

Right. And please talk to your family about it, your license, your license counts for nothing. Well, if they can't get their hands on it immediately, if you die something, you know, like... And you don't have your wallet in your pocket. Maybe that could be your next tattoo, Hayley. Dona. Dona. Take it.

And then I'll be like brackets. Cabab. Comab. Mixed. Mixed. Play Z-M. Fletchforn and Haley. From the Fletchforn and Haley group chat,

this is the top six. Hello there, the New World Screw Worm. excuse you that's not when you collect stickers and then for every $20 spend a new world and then you collect the screw worm at the end right a cast iron screw worm

that you can cook a casserole in that's the name of the flesh eating parasite that for the first time in it's been eliminated from the US for 50 years but it's someone in the US returned from El Salvador El Salvador

and they had the flesh eating parasite in them good Lord Mostly they lay there. So it's a blowfly that lays larvae and open wounds of warm-blooded animals. Very rarely humans. Who was in El Salvador lying there with an open wound? Open wound in a fly land.

Yeah. So there's been recent outbreaks in Central America in Mexico, and they think it could be getting reintroduced to the US via the cattle. Right. But anyway. Put a plaster on. It's the first one for a long time. We're a plaster, yeah, totally.

Lave laid in your open wound. Ew. It's a bit yuck, guys. But I've got the top six pieces of feedback the flesh-eating parasite had about your flesh, because everybody's a food critic in 2025. Of course. Since Anthony Bourdain left us,

there's been this huge vacuum. And everybody wants to step into it as sort of a make-shift chefs slash food commentator. Expert of sorts. Top six pieces of feedback, the flesh-eating parasite had about your flesh. Number six, needed more salt.

Yeah. Need a bit more salt. I think I need a bit more salt. Yeah. You seem to have, you're dehydrated and you've weed them all out. Yeah. I'll have a dose up on electrolytes.

I think everybody will just be happier. Me, the flesh-hitting parasite, and you, because you'll be hydrated and you need the salts. Number five on the list of the top six pieces of feedback the flesh-eating parasite had about your flesh. To be honest, overcooked it. Yeah, chewy. You've overcooked yourself.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Too much sun. Too much sun, yeah, but leathery. Yeah, too many siggies. But overcooked. Number four on the list of the top six pieces of feedback, the flesh-hating parasite.

had about your flesh, it had gone cold. Oh no. Gone cold. Even though they used those big bulbs when they put your food under the bulbs in the rest of. Well, we've got a big bulb in the sky. Yeah, that's all we've got. We've been through winter, you see, so maybe not enough of the big bulb in the sky. A bit cold.

It had got a bit cold. It had got a bit of cold. Brank it up. Number three on the list of the top six pieces of feedback, the flesh-eating parasite had about your flesh. It had a real bitterness to it. Better. Yeah. Yeah.

Are you all right? You've got a real bitter streak. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a bitterness to you. it's just life It'll be, yeah, light It wears you down It makes you bitter

And number two on the list Of the top six pieces of feedback From the flesh eating parasite Are you too chewy? Oh, okay I think I'd be a bit tough and chewy Tough and chewy Left a little bit long

Yeah Just really had to use my teeth And I don't mind a chew But I don't want to have to chew chew Oh you'd have to use a serrated knife Yeah Oh yeah I just thought our cannibal listeners

Will be loving this topsox And good morning to them We are the chosen We're the chosen station Yeah, rest of us are a bit Queasy I think but yeah They're like finally Some representation

And they'll love this one As they'll probably agree With the flesh eating parasite And the top six pieces of feedback It had about your flesh Didn't taste like chicken Number one And you thought it would

Yeah It had a chickenie It had a chickenie look I reckon we'd taste porky I think we're porky Yeah I think we taste Okay well let's

Okay it's breakfast time Is it time to bring back That segment idea we had Of how would you cook this celebrity I still think it's got legs I don't know if it does. I don't know if it does. I don't know if it does. George Clooney. I would I call Clooney. Slow. Low and slow. You'd have to.

It's just an age thing. It's just an age thing. It's just an age thing. He's gorgeous. Yeah. That is, that. Got me thinking about that. Yeah. That is today's top six. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Haley. And now a 13 year old boy has died doing something after school that I did many times.

Yeah. And I'm sure you did, and people listening to it. Forgetting to get the chicken out. And then get a hiding from mum. Yeah, I'd be hiding mum for a mum for a mum was so savage, it killed you. Or forgetting to peel the spuds. You do you have to peel spuds as well? Yeah, why are we peeling spuds?

I haven't peeled a spud nature. They just scrub them now. Leave the skin on them, agriars. That's delicious. Just what you did, Vaughn. Yeah, you're right. A 13-year-old in Cairo has died after eating uncooked instant noodles. shit

like you did that right I didn't really the only time I did was when someone told me you spray vinegar on them and then like chicken salt and they taste like salt with vinegar chips oh that was pretty good you'd crush them up and you'd sprinkle the powder

in and you shake it you open the packet and you kind of create like a little bowl I did prefer cooked like always preferred cooked I didn't because I threw them up once and I still never forget the feeling of like ha la la la come out of my throat It was orange juice and two minute noodles

And I chunded the whole thing And I just remember that like Wow Undigested noodles You got to chew them noodles Yeah yeah So swallow the noodles noodles whole So this happened in Egypt in Cairo

The boy The 13 year old began feeling unwell About half an hour After consuming the dry noodles Now I will say at this stage He did have three packs Of dry uncooked instant noodles Too much that's bad

And complained of symptoms Of cleaning severe abdominal pain Sweating and vomiting He passed away. They did a test for, like, poisoning. Nothing? Really? So it was literally...

Were the Egyptian doctors in denial? From a distance. Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's quick. That was really good. The noodles, I guess, aren't the base of the food pyramid.

Not as much. Not as much. Still good, though. Still good. Still good. Did they diagnose him first? from up close or from far away? Yeah.

Pretty good. Was he an intensive caro? Caro. Piro. Yeah, he was, yeah. I mean, he's dead. Oh. Okay.

Shit. He's dead, isn't he? So maybe. Maybe enough with the jokes. Maybe enough with the punny jokes. All right. I'll apologize. Okay.

Well, yeah, he's, I mean, just, I mean, I don't know if anyone's still doing this, but maybe don't. Just trying to think of a Cleopatra. I'm not listening anymore either. No, I don't know. Cleopatra coming at you. Cleopatra coming at you. That's actually a really great song.

I might just pull that up. Bring that up, bring that up. Yeah, you bring that up. I mean, we should probably end the break with it. It was by Cleopatra, wasn't it? Yeah, it was, yeah. And they'd say Cleopatra. Coming at you.

Yeah, it's Cleopatra, the artist. So is this a bit of a public service announcement? I think it is. Yeah, I mean, watch out. I don't know if people are still doing it, but I mean, maybe don't. Yeah. Let me hear you say it. Cheopatra.

Kriotra, coming at you. Kliopatra, come in at you. Do you guys know this song? They're way too young. JNZ's not another song. No. Wait till you hear Daphne and Celeste. I mean, we're going to blow you away.

No, they'd be cancelled. No, they'd be cancelled for saying ugly now. Oh, yeah. You can't say. And your daddy. Some people don't have a daddy, Daphne and Celeste, so watch yourself. Yeah, so cancelled.

Please you've gone mad. Z-M's Fletch, Vaughan and Haley. Fletch Foll and Haley, silly little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly, silly, silly that a silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Silly little poll, silly little pole today is do you actively use the Threads app? Like, threads. Instagram's always trying to get you on today. Yeah.

Posting something in your feed and you click on it and you have. to go on to, no, no, I don't want to go to threads. No, back up. So threads announced this month that they reached 400 million monthly active users, which is the same nearly as Twitter. And everyone's like, huh? Who's using this? I've got to threads.

And like you said, Fletch, if it's in your feed and you accidentally click on it and then it opens threads, does that count as an active user? Do you have an app? Is it an app? I don't know. If you can compare that to Instagram, they have two billion monthly active users. Yeah.

So it's a lot more. Yeah, yeah, totally. So someone, I read this great article, Threads is the Big Bang theory of social media. It's bland, it's boring, largely unoffensive, and somehow it's quite popular. And everyone doesn't know who's watching it or who's using it, but it's still very popular.

Yeah. I don't know anyone who Threads is as I don't. Mine's not on my thingy anymore on my Instagram. I disconnected it and deleted it because I was like, there's no point. Yeah, yeah. But I also don't use Twitter. Yeah.

Oh no, yeah, here's threads. Get threads. You know, I don't have it. No threads. Not now, threads. Well, we are amongst a huge majority because 98% of people said no. 98% of people said, nope, don't use the threads. 2% do it?

It's the LinkedIn of Twitter, says Jeremy. Is it? Okay. It's the LinkedIn of Twitter. Because people also went to blue sky, didn't they? Which is meant to be the lesser-effective. or the lefty version of Twitter. Right.

Oh, blue sky thinking. Yeah. Because you hear about people. But then that's apparently just a big echo chamber for the lefties. Oh, gosh. And then you've got the echo chamber for the righties on Twitter. Yeah. It's the whole thing's divided.

Yeah. So they've got 38 million total users. Okay. Blue Sky's so way down the list. Yeah. A minority. Victoria says threads is so fun. So she's in the 2%.

She's loving us? So fun. So fun. Julie, I do because it appears in my Instagram Dern scrolling with interesting things directly related to things that I'm interested in. So I click it in and then I'm a user. They've got you.

Brooke says it's the most ridiculous, stupid thing. Tell us what you're really. I remember when I did use it for the first month or so. It was all out. It was bizarre. The algorithm was bizarre. Do you remember that? It was all over the show and it.

I never used it. Yeah. Mason said it's just more of the same shit I'm already seeing on other platforms Stephanie I don't need to see the same BS people post on Facebook which then copies to Instagram and then repeat it on threads

also I don't need another app to add to my doom strolling road Yeah no good call roster yeah no and I always get a bit cringe When I see your friend just posted on threads I'm like ugh Says Ash No because the only people I see on that

A middle age woman going through divorce This is Felicity Wow is that where they are That's where they're all gathering Goodness. I'm always clicking on it by mistake, said Caroline, so I guess that makes me a user. Yeah.

Fick the slips. Haley said too many apps as it is. Yeah. I don't need it. And I agree with that, Haley. No, and every time I get a notification for it on Instagram, I get irrationally angry when it tells me that somebody's posted something I'll be interested in, and I will not be interested in it.

So it seems they're just be making people more sort of frustrated. Yeah, I write. Well, today's silly little poll, we said to you do you actively use the threads app? and 98% of you said no. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. 25th anniversary of Gilmore Girls. 25 years since that iconic show

graced our screens. So started in 2007 seasons. Seven seasons. Yeah. I never watched it. They talked too fast and had an unrealistic relationship. Between mother and daughter. But it was the stuff.

of legend and so many people particularly my age grew up watching that show. Millennial girls. Did you like it? I didn't watch it. No, I definitely like tapped in and out of it. I didn't get obsessed with it, but the girls I know that did watch it. Just absolutely loved

it and now it's kind of made this like cult return, you know? Yeah. What's got... Is it on Netflix or something? Because that's, you know, those shows. Yeah, it is. And I think Disney as well, depending on what country you're in. Right, gotcha. 8.2 out of 10 on IMDB. 92% of Google users like this show.

Yeah. So it's loved. So to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Gilmore Girls, this October, there's a documentary coming out called Searching for Stars Hollow. Is that the... What? Searching for Stars Hollow. What is that made me?

Stars Hollow is the fictional town in Connecticut, which is where the show is set. That makes sense, does it? That's coming out, a documentary all about the show, its impact, the beloved show's role in American cultural history, which is coming out. And never before seen interviews with cast members, behind the scenes stuff, a whole cast involved.

Yeah, nice. People are beside themselves. It was a real, like, moment in time. Kind of like Dawson's Creek, you know? Like, you're always like, that was the show of the generation. Yeah, or the OC. Yeah. That always had great music, great soundtracks.

The OC soundtracks were legendary. Oh, absolutely. Did Gilmour girls must have... What you say? That was so good. So Gilmore Girls must have run alongside the OC. I'm just reading here it was on air from 2000 to 2007. Correcto?

Yeah. So that must have been OC time. Could this be? Because I've been considering, I want to watch an old show. Yeah. I've been considering a revisit to something. Sopranos. Last time I did it was 2021. I mean, Gilmong Girls

is vastly different to Sopranos. That's what I mean. I don't have a vibe for what I feel like. Could I get into Gilmold Girls? Well, the O.C. started in 2003. You know, there was... And you can watch seasons one to four on neon.

Oh yeah. That means there was a moment in time where Gilmore Girls, the O.C, and One Tree Hill and Dawson's Creek were all on here. And the Sopranos? And they told us when to watch it too. The sweet spot of like 2003-ish, 4-ish. Yeah, good TV.

Well, keep an eye out for this documentary. It's coming out in October. I'm not sure. I imagine maybe it's on Netflix. It doesn't say where it's going to be. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. Now, this is a Gmail. I wouldn't even call it a hack.

It is so easy. It's like it's been here all along and we just haven't known it. Yeah. Now, talk me through this, Carmen, because you've tried this this morning and I'm going to do it right now. as you are...

I've got my Gmail open to... Yeah, we're gonna do it. We're all included, okay, don't worry about it. My Gmail is grew underscore V-Bad-89 at gmail.com. Can I say this is a great hack for those, people that have those bottles on their phone with the unread messages. My friend has 456 unread texts.

Aye! I saw it on his phone and I can't deal with these people. Yeah, it really... They're the kind of people you message and they don't message you back for four days. They're the kind of people like you, you don't hear from them for a couple of years and they're in jail. Do you know what I mean?

You don't know why. Anyway. Okay. Okay. So if you have like an influx of emails, specifically like brands, coupons, all of those that we sign up for to get 10% off and then we're like, I never want to go shop there again. Yeah. You can hop onto your Gmail and on the side where there's like inbox da-da-da-da.

Yep. There's a little arrow to show you more. Click that. Yep. Scroll down a little bit, manage subscription. Yeah. Boom. It shows you every single email thing that you'll see.

Subscribe to. Oh, it's new. See, I'm in the Gmail app, and if you just go down on the side, it has a little new bubble. A little new blue bubble next to it. Oh, wow. So I only subscribe to one thing because I...

One thing! No, so a couple of years ago, did we decide to do this morning every day that I got a spam email? Unsubscribe. But this is what I've been doing, but it's a slow process. It's a slow process.

Oh my God, I have not read that article. Goodbye. Yeah. I have not shopped here for a long time. Mucci, you can stay. And so next to the brand, there's a button and it says unsubscribe. And I clicked it and it said, cool, you're now unsubscribed. So I don't know how that works.

I don't know how it works. Because if you've got Apple, if you've got Apple, if you've got Apple. There's a little blue bubble next to it. You should be able to see it. If you've got Apple mail, quite often when you get a email at the top, it has a little unsubscribe if it knows it's from a mailing list. So you can just click that without then going to another website. Or doesn't have it.

So maybe it's rolling out. Oh. What if I don't have, what if I just don't, I know, so embarrassing. You might not be subscribed to anything. Unsubscribe. Do you normally get emails or spam emails? Are you not subscribed to Zidim's emails? That's crazy.

Actually, oh no, I'm, yeah, that's not subscribed. Don't unsubscribe to that one. No, don't answer, because you'll miss out on all the exciting competitions. And, like, concert announcement? Mine's a lot of clothing brands and it's like, all they do is tell me things that I didn't know I want it. And now I want them. They're all going. Bye she and, bye.

Okay. I noticed she didn't read that one out. Did you guys hear she didn't read out that company? Yeah, she just said bye. Yeah, she just said bye. What was that company? Just a website. It's just a website.

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. God, I thought this was opinion-based, but this is actually through Tinder who have collated information based on success rates, white rates, you know, matches, and the emojis you have in your Tinder profile. Oh, okay. So they've been able to, what, work out the best and the worst. Yeah, the most common and the ones that are most likely to sort of turn people off, basically. The most – this is from Australia, so I imagine we're pretty similar. The most common used emojis in Aussie Tinder bios. The shrug.

Yep. The red heart, the wink, the ghost, and the laugh cry. Seemingly innocent emojis. Right. Well, I mean, the ghost will be people linking their Snapchat, right? or don't ghost me or begging not to be ghosted or like hey swipe with me but I'm a ghost yeah

how do you link your snap do you just put your Snapchat name and you just write it yeah yeah put the ghost and then a word and then that's like is that a get around like are you not allowed to say my Snapchat is I don't know they try to keep it an app I don't know if they care

to know anyway so they are saying that those are the most used ones but Tinder's data is showing that a lot of that can be a little bit off pudding. The shrug showing like, I don't really G-A-F, you know what I mean? Like,

they're sort of a bit casual. Oh, okay. The ghosts sometimes can make you immediately sort of correlate that to ghosting. Yeah. The heart's a little bit like, kind of fine and whatnot. The wink face is a bit sort of like cheap and easy. These are the ones that they

say to avoid using the biggest turn-offs. Okay. Face with steam from nose. because you're what you're angry and you're yeah you're bitter too intense like you might be a bit of a bloody emotional rage head or something like that which is a giant red flag from the outset yeah sleeping face like like what because it's just like what you're just like lazy yeah are you sleepy all the time are you going to be half into this yeah totally uh pleading face you know the big wellie eyes like wheeze oh yeah that's yeah it's give a way Please, I'm just here looking for worse. I want to find myself a boyfriend. Yuck, yuck, yuck. It is just immediately, it gives you...

Love me, Daddy. You, that gives your chances of scoring a good match. I think you need to apologize to Shannon. She's feeling quite overwhelmed by this voice that you're doing. She actually flipped you off the bird. Shannon, I want to let you know he's committing to it and his eyes are welling up. Yeah. Oh, he's blinking fast now.

Oh, it's yark. For upsetting you, I'm just a little guy. You're just a little guy looking for a hug and a kiss. Yuck. Do you think this is worse than the office? Yes, it's. I'm going to turn off Horton's microphone. I've just turned off Orden's microphone.

I just got a little chill down my spine of like, guys, it's me on peak. You know that pre-bomit. I got put it in a naughty boy corner. Okay, here are the two that significantly, the top two. My work there with the simp faces put it to the number one most undesirable emoji to put in As of five minutes ago, though, these are the two that would severely drop your chances of getting a match.

Can I ask, is one of them the egg plant emoji? Correct. And what's the other one? The peach. Oh, yeah, okay. What's wrong with them? They're just saying it's like it's 20, 25, be more original than like, oh, I'm here, and yeah.

And I guess it just shows like, it's big one-night stand vibes as opposed to like, or just sort of, like, puts you up being like, like, but stop, hey, way. You're ruining, you're ruining, this. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Fresh news, Travis

Kelsey, Taylor Swift, engaged. Congratulations to them. I know they're big fans of the podcast. They'll be listening after the broadcast today. A lot of people now sending, you can't escape it. The news is everywhere. A lot of celebrities sending their well wishes, hearts from Sabrina Carpenter.

We've got, obviously, the Kansas City Chiefs have shared. Today is the fairy tale, hearts and rings. Beautiful, thank you very much. Averill Levine has chimed in, thank God. Fantastic. All huge congrats, tagging. A lot of celebrities just wishing Charlie Puth. Charlie Pee's.

Charlie Peeze. Charlie Pith, Swadey. Say congratulations, Taylor and Travis. And they reckon the engagement was in his backyard? Yeah, yeah, it's a beautiful. garden scene. He's obviously he's been paid for an archway and some roses. It's stunning. He's done well. And a lot of people talking about the

dress. It's a Ralph Lauren. Everyone's like, oh my God. And as we... That's sold out already. Sold out, but as we mentioned earlier, producer Carmen actually does have a dupe from the warehouse. Was that summer though at the warehouse? How much was it at the warehouse? God, I don't know. Maybe like 30 bucks. Yeah, yeah. 30 feels right.

Okay, well, I mean, maybe there could be someone trade me. Yeah. Have you bought... Hey, you should resell it. Oh, no. I want it. She's a Swifty, she would. Yeah, you'll never get rid of that. We would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, the ring is, it's an odd, I mean...

It's vintage, vintage looking, old-fashioned thing. You're telling me, Fletch, if someone handed you that ring, you'd be like, oh, blah, blah, whiz. Oh, look at it. It's worth probably half a million dollars. Ah, I bet, no. You can't take it off and sell it. She had an involvement in this ring, right?

No, apparently he designed it with that designer. That's what the design is. It's ugly, though. Did he had the besties involved? understand how people are saying it's ugly. It's just a diamond. It's just a diamond and a band. There's not much to it. Really, I thought it had like a border around it. It's just a thick band. It's just a normal setting. Oh, it looked to me. I mean, it's garish inside. It's just a massive rock.

Yeah, I think as well in New Zealand, like if you had that in New Zealand, you'd be like, what? Oh, yeah, because it's so big. How much do you reckon it cost? Yeah, definitely half a mill. Half a mill. US. These are some of the most expensive celebrity engagement rings in history. Mariah carries 10 million rings. $10 million. Kim Kardashian's $8 million ring from Kanye West. Beyonce's $5 million ring.

See, Taylor's our humble queen. Surely it's a mill though. At least. It's got to be at least. Do you know who would have loved to have been around for this? What? Michael Hill. Jewel.

We could have quartermarked. RIP to the King. Yeah. Who would have happily... Now, do you know, everyone's happy. Swifties are happy. Everyone's so happy about this news. But do you know who's not happy?

everyone else that's engaged. It's been overshadowed. Or imagine if you were planning on asking your partner to marry them this weekend and they're a Swifting. They'll probably be stoked because they get to share like an engagement time with Taylor Swift. But at the same time they'll be like, you only did this because Taylor did it. No, you've got the ring.

You've obviously planned this out. There'll be a lot, I reckon there be a lot of engagements completely recreating that. Right? Getting the same flowers, the same dress, the same photo shoot. You could rent out your warehouse Raffler in Duke, Taylor Swift engagement dress for people's engagement. Get that on a higher website. Yeah.

Oh, this is perfect. We're making a money. You're welcome. Do you think people will postpone their engagements? No, don't do that. On behalf of all the girlies in the world, don't do that. Oh, I do that. But we thought this morning, with this huge news overshadowing, basically every engagement

recently, we thought if you've been engaged recently. I say this year, if you've been engaged in 2025, call us. And we want to just give you a little bit of acknowledgement. Yeah, we want to hear about how it happened. It doesn't have to be spectacular. How did it happen? When are you getting married? We're going to celebrate you.

We're going to give you some words of wisdom. You won't say love is dead, though. Love is clearly not dead. It's alive and well. So she's also resurrected love? She has. Put that on the list. She dragged the country out of a recession.

Yeah, she did. With a concert. And now she's saved love? She saved love. What next? She's Jesus amongst us. Okay, 0800,000 Emison number, 966 to text through. Did you get engaged this year?

Call us up or give us a text and we're going to celebrate you. Well, it's the biggest news of the morning. Even Donald Trump, who said he hated Taylor Swift. Yeah. Has come out and congratulated her? Wait, so he's being contradictory. That's crazy. That's crazy.

He doesn't do that. He's such a sound man. So wild. Taylor Swift is engaged and we thought we would give some love to everybody else that's been engaged this year because now you're not the wedding everyone's talking about. We got engaged in 2025, people were like, oh, my God, that was the year that Taylor and Travis got engaged. You know, we want to celebrate you. We do.

Jose. Is it Jose? No, Jose. Jose. Jose. Jose. Jose. Jose.

That's Jose. I like that. Jose and the puss cat. Yeah, there you go. Joss in the Puss cat, I reckon. Now, when did you get engaged, Jose? We got engaged in April. which was, we were actually buying a house at the time, our first home,

and he was like, let's go take a photo in front of the sold sign. I was like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll just wear jeans and a t-shirt. He's like, like, streetcar, let's see all night, and I was like, oh, okay, I'm real stressed about buying his house, but yeah, I guess I could take some time away. So we go and take a photo in front of the cell sign, and he gets, like, a whole photographer, our friend, to come out, and I'm like, this is a bit much, like, we're just taking a photo.

And he's like, okay, and he's like, I'm going to stand in this right, I was like, okay, this is a bit much. What are we doing? I need to get back to the paperwork. And then he just pops me and I'm like, F off. Like F. Oh.

Well, he totally had you. You had no idea. I love. I was so surprised. Yeah, Jos, I love that. You're just like, come on, come on. He's probably going like, I don't know. That's so good.

Congratulations. The most, like the best surprise ever and then I cried. And then I jumped around like a frickin' jack-in-the-box. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. the wedding? Next September. Okay, see, that's probably when Taylor Swift is

her. Yeah, I know, that's what I was thinking. She's probably going to get married in autumn because that's kind of like her month. And I'm like, oh, once the football season finishes. I think also, I think Joe's out of the, April was a long time ago when you think about it. We're almost in September.

I think you, you've, you've, you've celebrated your engagement enough. Taylor's not stolen too much of your... No, but she could steal the wedding. She could steal the wedding, but we haven't got a date yet. So let's not panic about that, bridge. Thank you, and congratulations. Renee, you got engaged two weeks ago. Yes, I did.

Oh, okay, now we're talking. That's fresh. So, I mean, we're really in the territory of Taylor Swift to overshadowing your big news. Yeah, but how was it done? So it was done in Raritonga. Oh, it's over there on holiday. Lovely.

Yeah, so on the beach, at Murray Beach. Oh, lovely. Oh, I've never been. What I'd give for a trip to Murray Beach right now. Yeah. Yeah. And did you say yes? Yes.

Imagine if Renee's like, no, I said no. No. I was on Haritong, a beautiful beach and I said no. Wow. Okay. And so when do you reckon you'll do your wedding? We're not sure yet. No, you've still two weeks in.

Calm down, Fletch. You've got to start getting bookings. Oh, yeah, you've got to book well in advance. What are we thinking for a wedding, Renee? Big, small, rural vineyard? I'm not sure. yet. We do live on a farm, so it may be rural, but...

Oh, yeah. Get a marquis. Get a marquee up. How long have you been seeing this bow of yours? We've been to give her for six years. Okay, great. That's a great amount of time. It's a great amount of time. Well, can you give our love to your fiancé? Are you getting used to saying that word?

No, not at all. It's really weird. The fiancé. You're writing down and you're right, finance. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes isn't untrue. Renee, thank you. Look at that. Love is in life. It is.

It's actually thriving. Oh, no. Somebody says my daughter's 16th birthday today, and now everyone's just talking about the engagement and not the fact that it's their sweet 16. Okay. We'll wish her a happy birthday. We don't have a name.

We don't have a name. We'll give us a name and we'll do the song. Because this is what we're doing. We're trying to highlight the fact that other people too have got engaged. Yeah, exactly. Not just Taylor Suir, who's now stolen the entire year. Yeah, she's stolen marriage this year. If you have been engaged this year, you want to talk to us,

0800 dials at M, 966 text through. We'll get to more of those next. Next, biggest news of the day, Taylor Swift is engaged. To Travis Kelsey, but it's huge. And we want to celebrate those of you that got engaged this year because you might feel a little bit overshadowed today. And you're still reveling in your engagement. And we've also got birthdays happening today that have been overshadowed.

It's Amberley is turning six. Tell you what, we've opened up the birthday book at Ambley is turning 16 years old today. Sweet 16. Happy birthday, Abley, that's from Bub. Nobody's going to be talking about her birthday. Well, we are. We are. Yeah, we've heard as well

and somebody's wife's 30th birthday. She listens to you guys religiously. If you can do a shout out to her, it'll be a nice surprise. Happy birthday, somebody's wife. Georgia Kumar. We had a beautiful Indian-eat wedding, and she's a Kiwi. She looked amazing. You know it's my desire.

That's what you want. Well, to the person who texts a night, if that doesn't work out, do you know? Just because I've always wanted to be an Indian bride. Are you allowed more than one five-day wedding? I don't know. Probably the second time around. You probably just get it done quick.

Quickie. Adelaie, you recently got engaged? Hey guys, how are we? Super good today, thank you. That's good. Yes, I did. So I've been with my partner for four and a half years. And I've been hinting for the last four years.

My parents have and his. And so he finally took me away last month to Franz Joseph. So I didn't think anything of it. Oh, lovely. I know, right. You didn't think anything of it. You didn't think I'm going to see a glacier. Oh, well, yeah, but we go away quite often.

So every few weeks we try and go away somewhere Because we live on the coast Must be nice Every bit's really close Lovely Yeah I know rub it in Rubbered in

No row about's on the coast If you don't mind me out of Are you buy the pancake Are you buy the pancake Yeah you are at Punakiki Poonika Yeah I keep saying to these guys

That love the bloody Puppado a track down there Oh yeah You guys need to come for a visit Honestly Yeah I'm on my list It's on my list I was actually

of staking a claim to a gold mine down there. Okay. I don't know if you can do that. Get myself a little sluice. So what? So how did it go down in Franz Joseph? Okay, sweet. So we got there. So we left quite late in the day. So Friends Joseph is about two and half hours from where we are. So by the time we got there, it was about seven o'clock at night. And he turns around and he goes, oh, should we go look at the glacier? It's dark, homie.

Are you being serious? Like, at seven o'clock at night, it's dark. Yeah. And he went, oh, no, we'll go walk it tomorrow, but we'll just go have a look. and I was like, okay, whatever, men. Men, am I right? Like 15 minute walk and the last part of it's real steep and I'm telling you, I've never been so goddamn unfit in my life.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm feeling it. But the time I get to top, I felt so nauseous, I'd turn around and go, I feel sick and he's down on one knee. Oh, my God. Wait, was it like a nice night? Like, could you see, like, was it a clear night with beautiful stars in the moon?

Oh, okay. It was actually really nice. And you'd see the glacier glistening. He's done well. He's done well. Can I not? He did so well. The ring's stunning.

It's rose gold, but I can't wear it out to work because I'm a drain layer, so my hands get really dirty. I think you're going to say it's a West Coast. Someone could just steal it off you. Yeah. It's low crime on the West Coast. It is. Low crime, isn't it? I was going to say, what are you saying?

I thought it would have been one of the lowest crime areas. Yeah. That's a beautiful country of this. Can I nominate Natalie? I thought just that's a good yarn for caller of the week, please. I like Natalie. You've got a good attitude. Love that, Natalie.

Thank you. Thank you. We're sorry that your engagement's been overshadowed by Taylor Swift. Not in our eyes. No. That's fine. Can I just say happy birthday to everyone? Absolutely.

Because I feel like everyone's getting a little bit cut up that they're not getting a happy birthday. Should we sing happy birthday to everyone? Happy birthday. So I don't even get a bloody birthday. Mine's overshadowed by Christmas. How are you, Natalie? What was that? How close to Christmas are you?

I'm the 9th. Oh, that's all right. You're all right. No, but everyone's doing staff Christmas parties, aren't they? Mine's work-do week. Yeah, work-to-week. Yeah, she's not wrong. Oh, God, she's a clever cook in this one.

Caller of the week, Natalie, we're going to hook you out, thanks to Kempis Warehouse Home at the biggest brands at the lowest prices. We've got a chemist warehouse price pack. Well, done, have a great day. Thank you, Natalie. Some messages in. Oh, do I love it, Natalie. Somebody said, killing me listening to your engagement segment as I recently

disengaged myself. Oh, you've disengaged from an engagement. There's a button, you go, ping, ping! As recently disengaged myself from the love of my life, no one else for me, completely heartbroken, but they disengaged. Oh. Well, maybe they were disengaged. They may have been disengaged from the love of your life.

Do you know what, if it's set it free, and if it was the thing, then it would do that, you know, and then you just hold on to that, and you'll be a right. Pick a penny up and all day luck you won't gather any moss. That's the bugger. I don't know if you guys are saying, more than one way to skin a penny. That's right. Mossy penny on the ground, you skin that thing. Do it.

You know what I mean? And if you want to throw glass pennies in mossy houses, then that's on you. You shouldn't do that. Mum's just reminded me, and I did say this earlier, so I haven't just been reminded, but it is my brother's birthday today. Oh, he'll be gutted. He can't be further from a Taylor Swift fan than you... Literally couldn't be.

...than you can get. Literally, yeah. Polar opposite. Well, happy birthday. Somebody said, Steve here. Okay. What about this situation? for an engagement, I asked my boyfriend to marry me

and he said no, because he doesn't want everyone knowing he's gay. Can't want him all. Okay. Can't want him all. Okay. I want him all. Okay. Can't want him all. Okay, okay, yeah. Okay, we're just getting some interesting messages in, actually. Some people are just bragging.

Steve here, I just asked my boyfriend to marry me. He said, no. 10 seconds ago I read that out. Oh, did you? Where were you, home? I was sick. I was sick. Go on, where were you?

I was just, I was enjoying with these messages, but I got it. There was another one that someone else got engaged, and then four days before the wedding, they got dumped. I've been to get the 12 years, still no ring. Is this going to happen or not? No. Well, I mean, Talas have got a ring on the day. Yeah.

Didn't she? Well, no, they've been together. They've been together 12 years, but I don't think there's been the Will You Marry, Matt. You thought they got engaged 12 years ago. And then she's just waiting on a ring. No, no, no, no ring. Come on, get it. Yeah.

Somebody else, anonymous, they want to keep anonymous. Bloody hell, she got engaged quick. Some of us have been waiting forever. Yeah, so it's just basically turned into a windline, isn't it now? Yeah, we've got... We're opening a big whinge. Wings having a whinge.

Man, if you're with them and you want to be engaged and they don't, then pull the plug. See what happens. Hey, Brogan here. My fiancé, Ben, proposed to me at work while making a footpath. Not at all romantic, but I said yes. Okay.

And then they put their initials in the cement. In the concrete, yes. They should have done a little ring too. No, these are labourers here who are supposed to be making a nice footpath and they've put their initials in it. We've got another whinge. My partner's still married to his ex

and we've been together three years and have a baby in a mortgage and he's still married. Oh, yeah. Sort that out. Get the paperwork happening. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay, well like, happy Taylor Swift Engagement Day

or whatever day it is. Yeah, whatever day it is. If it's your birthday or engagement or whatever. It's just a whole day in it. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. There is a British woman who is living in Australia and she's calling

out Australians for being snobs and apparently she says that they gate keep friendships down under and I went So including New Zealanders including New Zealanders she said you never fully get invited to anything groups are pretty much like

shut off yet it's hard to sort of penetrate as a new person to get into a group and be accepted I reckon she sounds like a punish she sounds like a punish and She's saying they're gatekeeping their friends, but really they're just, people are just like, I'm not introducing this punished to my friends. I have to work with it.

Why would I want to socialise with it? Like maybe, but I've heard this before. And you know what we are? We are like this. New Zealanders and Australians are. She said that in the UK, like if you were heading into town and you went out to the clubs and you met someone in the bathroom, they'll be like, come out with us, we're going to this next bar, come. Yeah, you did it.

And then next week and be like, oh my God, we loved meeting you. Come to this barbecue. Now you're in the friend group. You're expanding all the time. Whereas Australians and New Zealanders, she's like, it's the opposite. They keep their friendship circles tight. And if you're not introduced to all of that, there's no crossover, she can't, like, get in. Well, if one person in the group doesn't like them, they're like, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that's fine, isn't it? If one person in the group's like, I'm not a huge fan, here's why, they're the OG, and if people like them better, they get to stay and the new person doesn't get to join. Yeah, I mean, like, Fletch, you had your whole circle of friends before I met you, and then slowly but surely have been allowed. Establish myself in as a core member. And now I'm like, now the gates are up. I will, I do remember when somebody wanted to add somebody to our group chat

and I vehemently said no. Yeah, yeah. And I was proved right over time. You were proven right over time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very much so. Yeah, very much. Hayley's picked up on her talking about one say it's no idea, but I've been very, very, very, proven right on that one.

Gaggle closed. Giggle closed So yeah I reckon we do do this Because you know me I've got so many friends But definitely the groups are very established And not to be expanded But I haven't lived overseas So I don't know how hard it is to break into a friend group

Or how easy it is overseas compared to here Yeah But even here like in New Zealand and Australia You do hear of people struggling to make adult friends And it's hard Yeah well then they started doing like bumble You know for friends and all that kind of stuff But also we get a bit like

Oh, yeah, we might just do a party, but you, maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got the opposite problem. People keep wanting to be my friend. Yeah, I know, we're desperate. I must be hard. I'm done. I'm full.

I'm full of your fault. Get closed. Get closed. We did put up a little pole. Would you let new people join your friendship group? 87% of people said yes. Only 13% said no. So there you go.

People are open to the idea. Maxine message said, just going to a wedding in the UK for a new friend. who moved to New Zealand from the UK. I only been friends two years, but I know how hard it is making new friends in a new country, so I always include her, but we are genuine friends now. Yeah, but is she in the group,

or have you just adopted this new friend? Yeah. You know what I mean? Jeremy, this is Jeremy, he's a regular contributor to the show. It's Jeremy, but no Y on the end. It's just an E. It needs a little something over the E. Okay.

A normal lot or something. He said, they aren't ready to join my friendship group. Yeah, wow. And Amber said, I'm over 30, I barely have time for the friends I have now. new friends, that sounds exhaustive. Exactly. Quality over quantity.

Yeah, but I've got both. I got both. I've got a lot of friends in the quality. Maybe we just need to open up and, you know, invite some people in. Play ZM's Fletch, Worn and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchworn and Haley. Flethorn and Haley are bringing Herman home. This is the live-sized ceramic German Shepherd that Haley purchased on trade me for $1,200 on the work credit card.

A steal. A steal. I will say I have actually been Target advertised his sibling that we haven't really talked about a lot, the life-size panther. I'm personally considering it. I love the life-slave panther. It's very cool.

It's very cool. But considering the, I don't know, treacherous, adventurous journey of getting him in the German home. Well, he has lost a leg. And we are getting him home. From Christch, we started out with the help of our listeners, you're the listeners. We're getting him to Auckland.

We're getting close. We are getting close because he was in Napier visiting our beloved Dame Judy Drench. The fire truck. The fire truck. Yes. Had a great time. You see the photos there.

But he has spent the night in Topol. Yes. With Jade and your accountants agency, I believe. Yes, yeah. At DPA chartered accountants here on beautiful Toeeport. Thank you, Jade. So much for looking after him. How's the broken leg doing?

Look, it actually is a feature It is sad because Herman is actually quite majestic looking I know he is very We haven't seen him Jake And all the photos I'm just like God this is a good purchase I must say when I heard about it When I even saw him I'm like oh really

But then I see him in life and I'm like Actually okay I get it Yeah okay good good we've made a good purchase Yeah we have actually made a good purchase And also how So what have you been Has he just been sitting in the office? Has he been a good boy?

No, he has been a really good boy. So he sits down in our reception area, greeting our clients. He's been out to the love tople sign, obviously. Good, yes, good. Thank you. Yeah. Did you take him in the McDonald's plane? No.

Oh, my gosh. You didn't think of that, did you? I want to bring him home with two legs guy. Because you remember last time he was in a McDonald's? Oh, when he lost his leg. Oh, so are we banning him? Oh, my God. The old trauma, actually, for him.

I really want him to come home at least with one leg. So we'll probably flag that. But today we're going to go visit the town centre. You know, do what the tourists do, have a coffee. I may even go see boom boom. I don't know if you guys have heard boom boom boom. That's the big dinosaur. Oh, yes.

That's beautiful. What about to the gold sculpture to another? What about the whole in one? What the whole one's under construction at the moment? What? I don't think it'd be any good as well. He's literally, you know. What about craters of the moon?

Craters of the lake. Yeah, probably. Jay, there's only so much that we can, you know, that Herman can do it. That's right. We've got a really busy day, guys. Okay, okay, okay. Well, this is, I'm very excited. Me too. Thank you so much for looking after him.

We really appreciate this. Now, did you see that Herman the German's actually been given a position? On the website? On the website? Oh, yeah. He's part of the team, guys. So on your website, our directors and client partners. Yeah.

Herman the German is right there at the top. His title, a really good boy. Love that. Love that. Honestly, Jade, you can see how happy it's made him. Jade and DPA, Chartered Accountants in Topor, thank you so much for looking after him. Steve is going to pick him up today,

and he's taking Herman to Hamilton. Yeah, and we really appreciate this, because I believe Steve actually wasn't going to be on this route. So he's going out of his way. Going out of his way to come and pick him up from Jade. Steve. Steve's getting it from Jay. I'm so sorry, Herman from Jade.

And then taking him to the Tron. So we need somebody, if you're listening and you're in Hamilton now, we need somebody to look after him. Look after him. Do you know what, while he's there, heaven forbid. Are we taking him to the gardens? Do you know what? Oh my God, that would be great.

We would need a local because the locals don't get charged. That's right. So you can use your free locals pass or whatever you get. So Stevie is going to take him to Hamilton. We need someone to look after him in Hamilton, maybe show him around. Heartbreak. No dogs allowed in the enclosed garden area of Hamilton Gardens.

But he's not technically a dog. Excuse me, what is he then? What is he then? What is he then? What is he then? What is he, excuse you? Wow. Okay.

Slapped. Dogs are permitted in the outer areas only on a leash. Is he allowed? Assistant dogs are welcome throughout Hamilton Gardens. He's a guide dog. He's an anxiety dog. He's an anxiety guide dog. Yeah.

Loophole. Is he going to, I want to see him next to the drive. We all barrow and door. So if you're in Hamilton and you have a certificate that says you have anxiety and you need a dog. I don't think we, I don't think we're. I don't think we need to worry about that. They'll let Herman in, but show, if someone to pick up Herman, show him around Hamilton.

Yep. And then we'll, if you can, bring him to Auckland, or we'll find someone to get him from Hamilton to Auckland. I think we'll find someone next week, yeah, for the last few days. So if you're in Hamilton, you can help out text in right now on 9-696. That'd be fantastic. Or email carwin at ZMonline.com. Fact of the day is next.

ZM. Play ZM's flesh for one and Haley. Fact of the day. Tay, Tay, Tay, day, day. Oh, do-da-do-do-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-to-do-to-to-do. God, I sounded horrible in there. I really apologise. No, I think you sounded great.

Thank you. It's accidental inventions week here at Fact of the Day. Okay. Whoops you do, they said. Today, I think this might be my favourite accidental invention. Okay. Because I love this. Warchester Shire Shores.

Was she's just a shy I thought you were going to say Viagra or Shesda Shishishish Because that was an accident I was going to do Viagra But it's so well known That it was an accidental invention

Yeah It was invented as heart medication To open the Pumps the blood It pumps the blood Opens up the veins And of course it opened up the veins Alright

Yeah We've both tried today Well I mean it was A Thailand Thailand blue I saw blue And I was like I'm going to die And I had some parallel

I really regret doing this. I really regret doing that story so great story. It's such a great story. Yeah. You saw blue. Apparently it's a side effect. No. Well, let's talk about something that I consider better than Viagro. Okay. Which is the Shire source. You can't even say it. Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcestershire Shores. Lord Marcus Sandy's, the former governor of Bengal. Of course, that was of the Indian territory before. before it was known as India.

Asked local chemists John Lee and William Perrin's to replicate us. That's the famous. That's them. They were chemists. So there weren't even like food manufacturers. They were chemists.

Do you know what they would love? The chemist warehouse. They would love the chemist warehouse. They'd be like, I don't understand. They'd walk in and be like, all of these concoctions and tonics in one place. They'd got everything. They'd walk in and say clear sinuses

with Vic's vapour shower tablets 4-pack for only 1899. We use heroin to clear our cytoses. No, it's changed, Liam Perrinz. It's changed. Amazing. I know. Now I just want to spend the day

pretend to be John Lee and William Perkins. Yeah. Just experiencing modern things and just been blind away by everything. Yeah. Look at this nasal spray. What? What's the applicator alone is mind-boggling parents?

It sure bloody is, Lee. That's them. Yeah. They're fun. Flawless. I bet they were racist. Oh, yeah. Oh, 100%.

I think it sounds terrible saying that. The tests. The tests. When you're testing the medicines. Are we still using the Orients? No, we use mice. We use mice. The poor bloody mice.

No, we use mice. We've got all these immigrants who could use. We're using mice. Bloody hell. What did the mice did? They may not have been racist. I'm better. I miss this the old time, wasn't it?

No, come on. It was a different time. It was a different time. Come on. They were racist. Come on. Feel bad saying they were racist. You know, it's just a time.

It's a gut instinct. You know what I mean? It's a gut instinct. They were asked to replicate a source that Lord Marcus Sandys had enjoyed in India. Okay. Their initial attempt produced a source so pungent and inedibly disgusting. They abandoned the batch in a barrel. You know, when you've got something in the fridge and you put the lid on it and you're like,

I've got to remember to chuck that on a rubbish day, but I don't want to put in the bin now, like a bachelor's handbag if it gets a bit past it and you sell out the bag and you leave it in the fridge you put in the freezer and you're like, that doesn't go in the bin because it'll pop the bag. and then there's going to be maggots. Yes. So they basically did that with this barrel of goodies and they hid it away in the back of the that Lee and Perrin's warehouse.

Not to be confused with the chemist warehouse, Shos Hansa. Months later they stumbled across the barrel and said, what's in this, and cracked it open? And the sauce had mellowed and also fermented into something tangy and complex. It's tangy, eh. They bottled it and began in 1837 selling

Lee and Perrin's Worcestershire Shorosh. And a great, gained popularity in England and abroad. Because it was in Worcestershire. Because it was in Worcesterhire. Yeah, because I was going to say they'd be like, is this name a bit different, difficult to pronounce? Yeah, yeah, disorse, you know, something like that. Brown's horse.

Sandy's Indian knockoff sauce or something. Yeah. Yeah, because it was first made in Worcestershire, specifically in the town, in the city of Worcester. So it wasn't anywhere close to the sauce they had in India? No word. No, we'd lost in the anals of time. Yeah, because I would love to know.

I don't think it's pronounced that way more, no. I would love to if we could go back into the anals of time. If I could turn back time. But if I could find a way. A sauce. To find out the sauce recipe, and if it was anything like Lord Marcus Sand is original sauce. How good would it be to try that original sauce that he was so obsessed with? Yeah.

I know. What was it? It's probably just buttered chicken sauce. It's probably a curry sauce. It's just a rich sort of a curry sauce. Yum. Anyway. Well, imagine the world without it.

It's kind of essential to lots of things. It's just in the bloody mirror. Imagine having a bloody mirror without a splash of why you wish the flowers. A lot of dressings and things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's a salad. It needs a little bit of something. So today's fact of the day is that next time you're splashing a little bit of

Wustershire, Worcestershire, Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcestershire, Worcestershire, on your steak and shellage. It was an absolute mistake. 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 do do do do do do do. Play Z M's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Now I got home a little bit late yesterday.

I had a long, long day. and I missed Rolly my cat's dinner time Okay, so... What times it's dinner time? His. His. Is six and a snack at nine.

I know. You are the... You were to blame here for these behaviours because if the cat gets away with it, what? Pot kettle black. Yeah, there's a lot of pot kettle black here. What do you mean?

My cat eats, when the machine feeds him... What else does your cat do? Eats the couch. Scratches everything. You can't teach him any different. Can. So he eats it in the morning and then he eats at six dinner

and snack at nine and I got home at like 8.30 so we'd missed dinner. Oh wow. And we were close to snack so I just bloody whammed him with both in the bowl. He's in there, right?

Like I'm gonna go. Then I'm in the kitchen and fixing myself my dinner. I had jam and cheese on toast. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah. You toasted the bread? Yeah man I toasted that bread.

I put jam and cheese on it What kind of tea? Strawberry. Raspberry, sorry, raspberry jam. Okay, I don't know if I'm not mad about that, but that's a naughty food for that late in the day. Oh, 100% but what was it going to do? Shut up.

What was I going to do? I took a lovely lemon garlic chicken with broccoli and beans. Yeah, no, but not at 8.30, did you? Didn't start that. I was earlier in the night. No, no. So I'm making my food, and he comes in, and he's just like looking at me. And I was like, well, he's like,

meow, wow, wow, crying. I was like, I just gave you food. What on earth could you want? And so I go to move, and he sprints towards the bowl in the laundry, which is the, different room and he looks at me and the bowl's full and I was like dude there is food there and then as soon as

I'm watching eat eat eat eat and I was like okay he's gone he's eating I'll go back to my jam and cheese on toes yeah how he comes meow wow wow wow I was like have you finished already you gob like go run back in food's still there only starts eating I had to observe his food

I did observe him eating otherwise he wouldn't do it now you're teaching him that he eats when you watch I've created a fussy trait He'll go hungry if he doesn't eat, so he'll eat. He wanted my presents around as he consumed his food. Fussy. Fussy, that is outrageous behaviour.

Now, I'm in the mood to hear about some delicious, not delicious, delightful and cute pets. I want to know what is your pet's fussy trait? Because I think I've, I agree, I've developed something here in Raleigh. And now he'll probably only eat his food while he's been watched. I'll tell you what, if he's my cat, he'd be going hungry. I'm not watching you. Yeah.

You definitely get those pets. that have quite a taste for premium, like maybe you have to buy meat from the supermarket kind of pets. You know, I've just played hardball with our cat. I'm like, I don't get enough from you to warrant a $13 tub of veal. Like, you're just getting, and I worked out of the cheapest way to feed him, and that's just what he gets fed now. Yeah.

Oh, that's so horrible, is it? He can eat rats. There's plenty of them out there. Yeah, I know. He can do his goddamn job. But, like, maybe, like me, like my cat as well, sick and fussy trait from Raleigh, he has that cat door, very nice cat door. I remember you talked about the architectural council sign off by council cat door

and he just waits at the door. I would like, I would, I choose to be let out by my human. I want to know what is your pet's fussy little trait. Okay, 0800 dials at M. Give us a call. My cat now won't eat his dinner unless I'm watching him eat it. Which is really, I hope this doesn't last. Carlo, what do you have to do for your cat?

She'll only drink running water, so from the sink. Yeah. I went through this for a little bit. I've got a little water fountain for my cat, which he'll use, but if I'm in the shower, he'll meow and wait at the shower and I'll have to run the shower and then he'll play with the water. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's cute. Yeah, no, she's a pain. Yeah, I've tried those fountains. She's scared of them. So you're just going to tap. You're just running taps. So you're just constantly running taps. Well, she'll come inside, she'll eat her dinner, she'll jump up on the bench and just wait.

Sometimes she gets in the sink. Oh my God, I love when they look at you like, excuse me, biotch, turn that tap on. Kind of cute, though. It would be cute if you could teach it to turn the tampon. Yeah, like just whack it with his paw and then whack it down. Yeah, so good. Carlo, thank you. Jenna, what do you have to do for your dog?

So my dog won't eat unless he's given you a kiss. I mean, he's given you a kiss. Yes, so we've tried everything. we've tried go eat or okay but you have to lean down and give him your cheek and this is just something we've taught him Oh that's cute But what if you have to take them to a kennel

or like a dog sitter or something He's actually retired working dog So he's not very friendly And I think he's just become accustomed to home life And now this is just this thing Oh no he gets kisses He never got kisses when he was a working dog Are you never allowed to go away

Well we sort of write it in the instructions when we had... You must kiss our dog. Poor food into a bowl. Well, he must kiss you, actually. He must kiss you. Oh, my God. What kind of work did he do?

He was a time from the Air Force, so he was on the attack unit there. What? Air Force Dog! Oh, my God! That's so cool. Air Force dog! Wow. Now he's a softie and he's used to living in a house.

Those Air Force lads are always a bit of a soft dog. Oh, yeah. I love us. Kiss and a kettle. Jenna, thank you. Some messages in. Rude. Our dog won't go outside in the rain.

If it's raining, you have to take her out with an umbrella, otherwise she won't go outside to pink. And somebody else said, our dog will, when it's raining, refuse to go outside. We'll go and find somewhere quiet and dark to take a shit inside. Okay, if you've got a fussy pet, tell us why they're fussy.

0800, Darls at M-66. Fussy pets. Yeah, my cat won't eat unless he's being watched now. Georgia joins us. Petless. Have you ever had a pet? Oh, I did once.

Had a bunny, but we can't go into that. Okay. It's a bit traumatizing. It died. Rabbits are dumb. They just die for no reason. Do you know why she said it died because I overheated it? No, I didn't specifically...

30 seconds in the microwave. Tops for a rabbit. Sweaty. Oh, you go 20? No. You just like the chocolate chips. He was cold. Can I just, can I backstory this?

Because I'm going to get people will be like, you level. Basically, you know, Auckland will be so hot one day and then raining the next, like in the day. There's like four seasons in one day. It was so hot and I was like, oh. What's this in Auckland that you had this rabbit? Yeah. Wait, so you weren't a

kid? No, I never had a pet growing up guys, okay? Oh my gosh, she adult murdered a rabbit? This was crazy. No, don't. What did you do? Put it in a cardigan or something? No, I just like, it was raining and then it was sunny and I hadn't moved him and it died. He was just in direct sunlight. And I literally... See, that's a stupid animal. Oh no, too much sun.

Thank you. When I picked it up, I I was like, it was as though, like... Oh, we're not letting you off the hook. You should have taken better care of it. For sure. You murdered it. Yeah, you murdered it. Oh, shit.

What was its name? Joey. I thought it was funny. Because, you know, like, Joey's a kangaroo. This is a bunny. That's a shit joke too. Man, this just gets worse and worse. Why would be kangaroo, it's completely different animal.

This sucks. The messages in, your fussy pets. My old cat, RIP, don't want to talk about it, used to make me spoon her in bed. If I came in and had my back to her, I wasn't facing the right. She'd pour her at my face until I rolled over and we were in a spooning position.

Spooning your cat is so nice though. Yeah. Pretty what killed the cat actually. She wanted to roll over there. We overheated it, rolled on it, yeah. Classic Georgia. My kitty Mabel eats all the gravy from her wet food then throws a tantrum that she wants more gravy.

Oh yeah, okay. My big black cat, BBC, yeah. His boss is extremely... You need to calm down, Georgia bit. Extremely fussy. I do meal prep for him each week. 100 grams of fresh chicken breasts cut up for each of his dinners.

He needs the dinner. chicken to be microwave for 10 seconds for it to be heated to his liking and if it's not, she kicks the bowl and makes food go everywhere. Oh, okay. Wow. You'd be getting a one-way trip to the vets if you pulled that shit in my house.

Absolutely. Absolutely not putting up with that. Both our dogs have to be hand-fed or they won't eat and they don't do dog food at all since Steve. Okay. Magnum our cat had to have running water to drink. None of this water bowl rubbish for Magnum. Yeah, right. My pet, Penelope will not come to

sleep in my bed next to me without her two bedtime treats. Okay. Treats. My name Penelope and I'm not going to that human's bed for spooning, cardling, casino, smooching. I'm trying to have my treats. We've had my treats. Or a couple of other people

with retired military working dogs. What do? You do? They feel traumatised. I got a rescue dog. I said I wouldn't mind one of them. Oh, right. Who would Ritchie have worked for? Ritchie is the dumbest idiot. The garbage. The garbage truck removed.

Yeah, and he eats all the garbage. Yeah, yeah. He's a beautiful boy at an absolute heart of gold, and I love him to death, but he's dumb. Yeah, he's a thicker. My parents' dogs eat ced steak. What? Only either out of mum or dad's hands.

And they also like a snacks cracker, but they won't eat other crackers. Stacks. What? They won't do a water cracker. They've got good taste, actually. Oh, I love the, like, ooty ones, you know, the sort of square. Oh, no, they're a bit much. They crumble.

They're a bit much. They crumble. They're a two-and-a-half-year-old female Rottweiler called Luna who has learnt where the treats are kept and after every meal she'll go and sit at the cupboard and just tap at the cupboard To indicate that's where I know the treats are Honestly these pets have all been taught these behaviours

Yes Why you've got to be careful My cat is very fat and struggles to get out the cat door So she purchase her back feet on the ledge of the door Puts her front feet through and waits for her brother To push a fat ass for the flat Oh that is so cute That's teamwork

How me stepbrother cat I'm stuck In the cat door George is up next and Secret's our midday $40,000 now, Georgia. We did that? I heard. Actually, how did you do it though?

Well, we made specifically dairy. We waterboard a Gary. We watered up on Gary until he confessed to taking our arm in golds. I'm going to play any songs today. A few. Guys, I was just going to say, reading all these texts, Joe would never have been this fussy. Joe, the rabbit that you killed.

I guess we'll never know because you murdered him. Well, congratulations to you, podcast listening. You've reached the end. So I would assume if you've listened all this way through, you're either asleep, in which case, wake up! Or you enjoyed it. So drop us a review and tell your friends.

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