ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 28th 2025

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

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From the ZDM podcast network This is Fletchworn and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's Fletchworn and Haley Thank you Brin Good morning, happy Thursday Welcome to the show Fletch Fawn and Haley

Kilda. Secret Sound is at $40,000 I had a jackpot yesterday That's right At 8 o'clock so $40,000 if you think you know The Secret Sound, be listening at 7 and 8 for the next activators I wonder if anyone's guest at, you know, like in the text machine or on the Iheart radio app. I wonder if they've got it right.

Well, first person wins a cash prize, aren't they? I know, but they've got to get through. They've got to get through on the phone lines. That's the hard bit. Well, 7 o'clock, your next chance. The top six soon? Yep. Let me see what that's going to be.

How can you forget? You literally wrote it yesterday. You just said it as well just before. No, I didn't. Yeah, you did. You did. Oh, no, that was Carlwin. Somebody else.

in it. Cup six challenges facing the fruit and veggie growers. There's been a get-together of the fruit and veggie grow yeah little hooey before all the Dewey.

Before the Dewey. Because, actually, I will take this moment actually. I did an online shop and... He's upset about someone. And they said telegraph cucumbers, two dollars.

And I thought, that's pretty good. Yep. I don't buy cucumbers over winter. I don't mess with cucumbers ever. It's a waste of time vegetable. I wish they did half one. My kids love cucumbers So I'm like $2, it's the return of the

Telegraph cucumber in the affordable season Dude, I picked them up, they were pickles Like, it was tiny Wow Like Do you think the person packing the vegetables Didn't know what a cucumber was? No, no, no, no, this is just, they must have had these winter

These little spurty Oh right These tiny little embarrassing cucumbers Oh gosh Embarrassing cucumbers For being lazy, go into the supermarket next time see that they're $2 for a reason. Yeah, walk in, spend ten minutes.

Yeah, yeah. Well, there was a convention in the capital attack of the big, the big challenges of the sector of fruit and veg. They've got the top six biggest challenges facing fruit and veg. Well, I hope bigger cucumbers is on your list. Oh, bloody hell. So you're obviously riled up about it. And that place that wrapped them.

Oh, I hate that. Yeah. Next on the show. Let's talk about those viral ice creams everyone's buying. They look like a big tongue. You will not believe. Do they get recalled last week? Some of them? Yes, some of them did. The lemon one got recalled because it had

um, a dairy in it that hadn't been like labelled. Stated. Oh, right. But it's an ice cream, right? Well, um, one dairy owner is pretty stoked about these things and I'll tell you why next. Play Z-M's, Flashbourne and Haley. Why have I not tried one of these

fru-tay ice creams yet? And I say that I'm not, I'm not putting the spin on it. F-R-U-I-T-A-E. These are the viral ice cream. Do you would talk about these? Yeah, we've got all, tried all six flavors. Have you? All six.

Are you into them? There's six flavors. Nah. They went, they're like an online TikTok lemon. Yeah, I think there's an ASMR element to it. Like the, they look like the flavor. So the grape flavor looks like the shape of a bunch of grapes. The lemon looks like a lemon.

The mango looks like a mango. The schnarsberries tastes like schnazberries. And the outside's like a hard shell. So you like bite through that and then get the ice cream. Well, everyone's been going crazy for them on the top. Are they, they're imported, eh? Like, Yes, yeah.

They're mostly Asian supermarkets? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Okay. So there is a Christchurch dairy owner, John Patel. He, just before things were going absolutely crazy on TikTok with these, he has a dairy in Richmond in Christchurch. He got a whole bunch. He imported, like, 200 boxes of them,

which has 12 ice creams per box. He got them in, and then this New Zealand TikToker made them go, like, crazy. Yeah. and in one day he sold $20,000 worth of these ice crafts. Yeah, I know there was a thing they literally

were buying them and... How much are they each? $7.99. It's insane. He's got a thing on the freezer lid, TikTok ice cream. That's just what he's calling them. Right. So we got 200 boxes, sold those out in one day.

Then he got 500 boxes that took two days to sell out. He was thinking he was going to down $20,000 in one day. Okay, we're in the wrong business. We need to start an ice cream, a TikTok ice cream store. One that you can sell for $7.99. Oh, it's a Macon these days.

I was going to say, how much is a gooey, a gooey caramel? Okay, gooey caramel. I don't know. They're going to be getting up down. They'll be up over five. And also, have they shrunk those? Yeah. Oh, everything's shrunk.

100%. Because they're good. But you're telling me that one of those is better than a Memphis. Well, apparently. But they're all, they're all fruit. It's different. You could be comparing apples to oranges, $4.90 as a Memphis melted. Oh, yes, it's so expensive.

They used to be like a couple of bucks. They used to be 50 cents. They used to be 50 cents. They were never 50 cents, but... So it was the lemon ones, eh, that got recalled because they had dairy in them and then it wasn't... It wasn't listed. It's crazy there was dairy and ice cream, eh? It's literally in the title, cream.

Wait, if there's no dairy in them, what's in them? No, there's dairy in them. definitely dairy in them. I just think that the... Was mislabeled. The lemon one, yeah. Didn't specifically state, and you've got to state what's in there because people who are dairy and tolerant might have been like, well, that's the... And they shat themselves. That's the one I can take.

Yeah, and they shat themselves. Then they shit themselves. Sort of immediately. Well, if you want to make some quick, easy money... I've definitely seen them at supermarkets and stuff. Like, they aren't... You can get your hands on them. But this guy, I mean... Good on you, mate. That's amazing.

$20,000 worth of ice creams in one day. Fletch Vaughan and Haley. Oh, Flea! This is the Top Sex. The fruit and veg, fruit and veg growing growers have got together. They've convened in the Capitol. But they bloody hated having to go to the big smoke. Gout, the pollution in the air.

They'll be like, when they've got their parents growing. Yeah. Or the highlights is a nightmare to park in town. Yeah. Oh, God. Hey how. We'll go, we're going to go into the bloody Wellington. What don't want to go there, a whole lot of jerk off politicians.

Oh no, where's that bloody cafe? Where's a bloody muffin break? Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, I'm not going in the bloody mall. Absolutely, get stuffed. Yuck. So, uh, they got together.

They spoke about all the, um, the issues facing the industry. Uh, and just the delectable display of fruit and veg, to be totally honest with you. Did they bring some along to the meeting? Well, they're grapes? Not like that. Not like that pathetic cucumber that I got. Were there any grapes? Were there any grapes?

Of course of grapes. Good. Grapes is one of our big ones. Yeah, good. We do. We do grapes good. Yeah. Mostly for wine.

That's my favourite form of grape. What were they winching about? Everything. Okay. The farmers of a sword. Right. It's what they like. And you might think, God, they're miserable.

No, they like it. Right. That's how you know they're happy. They're having a winch. All right. So I've got the top six biggest challenges facing the fruit and veg growers from the conference. Okay. Number six on the list.

Bloody Catapullus. Oh, man. Bloody, bloody caterpillars. Holes and everything, isn't you? Have you seen how hungry that one was? How's bananas rhubarb? Thriving. He came and he rescued it.

That's good. Thank God. Not caterpillars. I haven't seen any caterpillars on it. Those caterpillars are up there. Those hungry ones, they'll eat apples, five apples one day, 18 oranges the next. And then we make them the hero of a book.

Yeah, they're hungry, hungry. And then they goo themselves up in a sack. Come out looking quite pretty. And then piss off. And then make more caterpillars. I want to see hungry caterpillar go up against hungry hungry, hungry hippos. Oh, they don't stand a chance. I want to see hungry caterpillar go up against hungry Monsanto spray.

That'll be the end of the hungry caterpillar. Number five on the list of the top six biggest challenges facing fruit and veg grouse. Bloody weather. Yeah. That'd be right. And the bloody with a man. Oh, he's always getting it wrong. Yeah.

What do we listen to him for? Bloody dad. Bloody weather? It's going to be rating, is it? Oh, bloody weather. Four on the list of the top six biggest challenges facing the fruit and veg growers. Bloody kids stealing oranges off the tree. Yeah.

Bloody kids coming in helping themselves. We used to do that, though, as kids, steal Fijer's left, right and center. Oh, but they're everywhere. Yeah, Fijos... As someone with a Fijer tree, you're like, man, I can't wait for the Fijas. And then when they start falling off, you're like, I wish these Fijas. Oh, I know. There's too many Fijars.

Number three on the list of the top six biggest challenges facing fruit and veg growers. Bloody possums. Have you seen these things? Do they eat the fruit and veg They eat everything Cute though And really nice You know

Wrapped around your neck Oh yeah Dead A little bit of possum I wouldn't want one round my throat Yeah All possum nipple warmers Yeah I've got some of those

They're big Aren't they though Nobody likes a cold nipple That was a great They actually know They're the best they ever look When go Bingo

Huge fan of a cold nipple Can we just get across the board Yeah I take that back Everyone's a big fan of What? What? You prefer a warm

Puffy nipple? Yeah I don't know I've never thought about it Like We'll think about it now. They're too puffy. They're soft and puffy.

They look out of place. Cold, cold. Yeah, cold, tight. Toit. Number two on the list of the top six biggest challenges are facing fruit and veg growers. Those little bloody stickers being too easy to eat. Well, they're edible now, aren't they? I've eaten a few of those in my time.

It's actually my favourite part of the fruit. I leave it to last because I'm like, yum, yum. Yeah, I eat your little edible sticker. Oh, yeah, I've got some zest berries in today, actually. I think it's a bit overkill. We put a sticker on everything. Every single piece of fruit. You've got a pre-packaged

Love your use of single plastics, by the way. I'm a huge fan of how you continue to just use plastic packaging. They had them loose. When a paper bag would have done. Yeah, they had them loose. She's a guy with two kids bleeding the earth to resources dry. Yeah, that's right. Don't come at us singles with your bloody. We've done our part. Don't use plastics. We've done our part. We're choosing not to repopulate.

Hey. Whoa. And I've got a bicycle. I'm allowed to use as much plastic as I want now. I'm actually in deficit. Am I in credit? Oh, you're in carbon credits. I'm in carbon credits. You're trading carbon credits. I've just got so many carbon credits.

May I rinse my black beam tin last night. You best believe I did. I sit on the wing of the plane going overseas. Do you? You sit on the wing of the plane for? Well, because I'm not paying, am I? Because that's wasting fuel and carbon. No, that's right, actually.

You'd actually be wasting more fuel outside as you'd reduce the plane's aerodynamic ability. And you'd also be dead because it's minus 50 degrees. Sousiest up there. And number one on the list of the top six biggest challenges facing the fruit and veg growers. People putting bloody gold Kiwi fruit through his green Kiwi fruit to save themselves some money.

Yeah, you don't do that, please. Or this time of year, taking the stalks off the truss tomatoes and putting them through as loose. Oh, very naughty. Very naughty. Very naughty. That's the day's top six.

Play. ZM. Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. Now, it's New Zealand Fashion Week at the moment. I've been enjoying watching everyone else go. I haven't gone, it's my first show tonight. More on that late. I'm a bit nervous.

Okay. Today's fashion look that I've pulled is I'm bloated and I don't want you to know. So just, you know, like she could be pregnant. A big sack. Big sack. Big sack. Big black sack. My favourite thing.

It's a famous brand of Kiwi rubbish bag and also what a family's wardrobe. Haley's favorite dresses. Wardrobe staples. Yeah. Big black sack because she's a bloaty queen. Now, so you know fashion by passion. there is a girl who shares fashion trends on Lyme and she uses a bell curve type thing of pre-trend,

coming into trend, then when it peaks and when it comes out and becomes irrelevant again. Right. And then the things that stay at the top, that's your, that's your jeans. That's the things that never leave, your T-shirts, your jeans. Her new prediction, Sailor hats. Oh, okay. And I don't mean like,

Like captain's hats, like the little white sailor boy. Like the steady the ship hats. Yeah, right. You see it all the sporting games. Oh, okay. Like a World War II sailor hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a Donald Duck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sort of on the reg. They've been all over, God, fashion. I, sometimes I just don't get it. But it's been all over the, you know, Milan fashion weeks and Paris fashion weeks and whatnot. And it's slowly making its way into the main. straight where the girl is a rock and a sailor hat. Now, are we still doing a fedora?

No. No? Okay. Just double-checking that. You see the guy on like Instagram and TikTok with the fedora and he wears the glasses and he's looking down at the start of the video and then he pops up, he's like, ho-o-ho-ho-o-pun-swiss. Oh, I hate that. It's, yeah. Oh, I don't like that. The fedora was doing enough. I don't need the voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think the sailor hat's back mainstream.

No, but it's like... I don't think people are going to... It is. Look, there's like normal, like, streetwear brands that are releasing their kind of version of the Sailor Hat. Oh, really? It can be coming into the main strait. Now, you guys, we've got a be beanie over here.

We've got a cap here. Yeah, classics. Classics. I don't think I'll be dipping a toe. You don't think you'll dip because of your hat boys. We're hat boys. Yeah. Even if I was out on a boat, I don't know if I'd...

I probably wouldn't wear it. You couldn't wear it because if you were out in a boat in a disaster struck. Everyone's going to turn to a boat. I don't want to be mistaken for the captain And everyone's like Any kind of responsibility Can I get a feeling from the girls

Because I think this is more For the lay days I just feel like Tumblr fashion's coming back And it's not the good parts Of Tumblr fashion What's Tumblr fashion? What are you mean?

Is Tumblr still a thing? It was like the original fashion bloggers We're all over Tumblr, right? I thought Tumblr was just porn Oh it depended on what side of Tumblr Your Alvary on. Oh, okay, right?

Right, okay. No, we're talking. And then they got rid of Tumblr. Yeah, no, we're talking when we were like 13-ish and like... Yeah, when we were 13. Yeah. It's right. All of us are, am I right?

Yeah, that's right. Like big mustache fashion and like there was such an era of Tumblr and there was the really cool Tumblr girls would wear a sailor hat. Yeah, totally. It was like plaid shirts. Yeah. Little skirt, stocking. Carkey jackets.

Bando tops. Bando tops. blending 90s grunge elements with Indian emo influences characterised by rip jeans, oversized flannels, banties, combat boots, skater shirts, fishnet tights and pastel haircoloured. And sailor hats. And sailor hats. Oh my God, and then like standing real cute.

Yeah. Like your knees are like buckled. Yeah. Pigeon towed. Oh my God, Tumblr fashion. Let's bring a back. So the sailor hat's part of that. There's someone out there that still has a moustache tattered on their finger, you know?

Yeah, totally. I just want to meet them. Two of my friends. Really? Two of my friends Do you have that Play ZM's Fletchborn and Haley

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Haley Sillie Little Poe It is so silly silly, silly, silly that a silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole

Silly little pole Today's silly little pole Today's silly little pole Do you fill out random surveys? Like, we're asking a small group of people for their opinion. Could you take a few minutes to answer the short survey? We asked you, do you fill them out with the options yes? Or yes, but only if there's a prize on offer.

Yeah, that's me. Or flat no. Or sometimes I fill them out, like the gym ones they fill out. Oh, flat no. Every now and again. No, because I'll go places all the time. I'm like, oh, that could be a little bit better so you can tell them. That's all they need to know.

I can't be bothered. If nobody tells them, they can't get better. Yeah, I suppose so. So, results-wise, the most popular one was no. 43% of people just said straight up no. 38% just behind saying yes, but only if there's a prize. And 20% of people, just do it. Do you know what?

We should have had an option for, yes, I'll do it if there's a prize, but skip out halfway through because it's way too long. Yeah. Oh, you're starting. That's like next question. Do you want to go in the draw to win a $100 prize card? Eight hours later, you're like, this is just not worth my time. I've lost a hundred bucks.

It's never ending. Jordy said yes, because I'm bored and nosy. Borda nosy. Borda nosey. What a combo. Jane said, I'm an analyst, so I'm often the one analyzing the random surveys. I'm here for that data. Is that how that words pronounce? I've been saying it wrong. Yeah, you always are analyst, don't you? Yeah.

Yeah, wrong. Data. It's potato patiti. Yeah. As the saying goes, You say potato, and I say... Petitty. Petitie.

Petit. You know, potato, patitty. Analyst, analyst. Laura said, I love a survey. It's just oversharing without annoying someone. Yeah, great. She's an oversher. Also, like, who's winning the prizes that...

They're not real, Fletch. They're not. You never get the email saying, oh, Janine from Teymaru won the $500. We should get fair go on this. I don't reckon there is a prize. I don't reckon they're lying to us to get us to do this. Yeah. Sam said after a couple of cold ones, I try to get creative with my answers.

Who's having a couple of beers and filling out a random server? Okay. Wow. Wild boy. Wild boy. Bad. We've got a bad boy on our hands. Mark said no, because they're short surveys usually 100 pages in question. So if that, nothing short about that survey. Lou, no, no, all that data, mine. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. She's a data hog. She's a data hog. Bridge said, except this one. So she said no

Except for I'm answering you're so little poll The irony is exquisite here Oh yeah Caro said yes And I won a prize yesterday And then immediately thought it was a scam So Oh okay well I wonder what price she won

I don't know Maybe the $100 prize card It's always like a presi card Yeah I mean I guess if you're then having to give out Your bank details And then yeah it's a scam Yeah Angel I remember being in high school

And instead of doing classwork I'd be on valued opinions filling out random surveys to get subway vouchers surveys equal free lunch what actually that's good hustle life yeah because people actually make money doing this full time no they have the surveys yeah do you want the opinion of someone who's that

morin? I would love your opinion would you? And this person's like I'm the sort of person that does surveys for fun I'm the person you want to market to and then brands change their whole thinking based on people that just sit at home filling out surveys exactly who don't want to pay for anything because they can get things for free

by doing surveys. Well, but I've filled out some of these. You heard me a survey company. I've filled out some of these. Am I boring? Just sit at home. Logan said, um, mince in the fridge.

I said yes, but only if there's a prize. But to be honest, for me, the prizes usually I get to tell the business something about their product app slash whatever I find annoying. Never give me a platform to complain if you don't want negative feedback.

Yeah, I'm not a big complainer like that. I know. I think, like, a bit of criticism, or feedback. It's good. Yeah. Otherwise, nothing changes. It's like potholes.

Everyone winges. And there's a pothole. Has anybody reported the pothole to the council? Are you hearing? Wow. Are you hearing the age comes through? I'm just saying, it can be helpful. Don't put it on the local Facebook page.

You're never going to see that. Report it to the council. He just went full boomer. Full boom. Full boom. Daniel, I'm just laid out there. Some companies use them for employee reviews. So I always fill it out.

And if someone's been good, I give very high marks and their name. Oh, yeah, I do love positive. I hate when people beg you to mention them on TripAdvisor. Oh, yeah. When you're at a restaurant or something. Like, that happened traveling just recently. Please. Please. And mention my names.

I was like, oh, my God, this is desperate. I don't know. I've forgotten your name long ago, darling. Yeah. What was your name again? I forgot at the moment you said it to me. What was your name again? So we asked for Cicilla Little Pole. Do you fill out random surveys?

And 38% of you said yes, but I don't know if there's a prize on board. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Haley. God, I know we've scoffed down our fair share of delicious Dan Heath's Custod Squares. Every now and then, they'll

crank a box in the courier and send it up to us. Yeah, over the years we've certainly consumed a lot, I'd say. Sure have. I mean, here's the saddest music of all. Great throwback to this today, actually. I just opened up my own computer and that was the last song I played on it.

I really liked that. If you listened to us every day, you would have loved that. You would have really liked that. You would have really liked that. Saddest song ever written? I could not believe when I saw this news. Neither. So, Den Heath, I've asked chat GPT for a summary

because I never understand what it all means. It's gone into liquidation. Now, liquidation in New Zealand is when a company goes into... It'll make them a lot harder to eat, won't it? good from you good from you thank you it was delayed though liquid custard squares

the company cannot pay its debts and an independent liquidator takes control of the company the liquidator's job is to sell the company's assets to use the proceeds to repay creditors once the process is complete the company is usually removed from the company's register it effectively ceases to exist

so it's not like we're not getting delicious cancer squares anymore well listen to that and I'm going to give full credit here where it's you on the seven days live chat group I just want to shout out Dai Henwood for this great joke he said this is terrible

Tomo no everyone was like oh god Paul Tomo Josh Thompson he loves and he loves them and then Di Henwood said I wonder who will get custody that's pretty good that's why the guy's a legend

but I also so is it like someone can take it over or are we done I don't know. The application was originally filed in March by the estate of minority shareholder, Brian. The majority shareholders, Donald and Lisa. Donald, Lisa, what's happening? He had already put the business on the market at the end of 2023

because Lisa is not in good health. Okay. I desire to spend more time with the company. Okay. They've exported to Korea, Japan, Australia. They're in Costco. For Franz, Joseph. plans Joseph Glacier.

Oh, that's really sad. Yeah, I know. They made such great desserts. Yeah, they really did. Remember they sent us a whole tray one? Yeah, they do that every now and then. Yeah. That's probably why they're going to look right because we're going to pay for it.

Maybe you should have paid. I know, I did. I went to Costco. We had the money. We could have paid for it. Oh. God damn those are. Look, look.

I know. Oh, boy. You just war dog pulled that out. Yeah, that's delicious. Oh, yeah, raw dog. Jesus, that hurt. Sorry, I wrote it on. Sorry, I wrote it on.

Wow, jarring. On a day like today. Yeah. What our thoughts impressed. Avoid. I did it again. Oh, my God. We're trying to have a nice moment.

It's one of the... We've got a dicky ox again. We've got a dicky hox. Oh, boy. Sorry, guys. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. So,

there is a spring fling festival coming to Weipawa in the Hawks Bay region, central Hawks Bay town and this means it's time to roll out their mascot that apparently has really divided people over the... Now, Carwin's up, our Hawks Bay gal, do you know what I'm talking about here? Yes, the duck. The big duck.

It is a large, concrete, yellow duck. Like a little rubber yellow ducking. Yeah, that duck is my child. childhood. Really? Yeah, I love that duck so much. And if you're about to be mean to him... I would not.

You know I love tacky shit. Do you know what I mean? It used to be the best part of like... Because my papa and grandma lived in Waipako, so you would go through Waipawa to get there. And when you saw the duck, it was like the sign of like, we're nearly there. I'm not going to be cassock anymore.

Oh, okay. So this was... Oh, my God. Of course Carwin was a car sack kid. She gets a vegetarian. She's constantly feeling nauseous. She's got big car sick kid, energy. She does.

Why me and not my mum's driving? Did you have one of those earthing straps? Oh my gosh. On the back of the cars? Maybe watch your road and stop putting your head down. Maybe I just want to read a book. Yeah. Get off your book.

So 30 years this thing's been around a two metre high concrete yellow duck named Powah. A lot of people in the town, they love it. They want to see it as a person. Permanent fixture. Because it used to be permanent. Used to be permanent, but now they just sort of bring it out around this time of the year as spring is springing.

Because I think they still do the duck race, right? They put little ducks in the... I mean, because now she's... Are you ready? Because it does look 30 years old. Now she's on a crate. It looks like that old... Do you remember that Auckland Santa

that was getting to the end of its... It was, you know, like back in the day, it would have looked okay, but now it's like... He looked so methy at the end day. Yeah. We can do a lot better now as a dud. duck. Yeah. You know for a duck monument.

We can. Just a fresh lick of paint. Yeah. So, yeah, she could do with paint. I mean, we all kind of get a bit blobby as we age, so don't we? Because some people, you, we spread. So some people think that this is an icon. Big lips.

She's got big lips. Big big. Oh, big lips. Yeah, but some people are like, it's an eyesore. Some people are called you a town iso. Yeah. So I want to know, is there something like this in your town that you consider to be an an eyesore that you would love to, you would love to, you.

you'd love to see gone. Or maybe it's just in your neighbourhood and you've got one of those neighbours that has a sort of eccentric front lawn. Like there was always the guy in Brooklyn and Wellington by the dump. There was like a dump kind of just out of Brooklyn. And he would make all these kind of weird sculptures out of junk.

Like Burning Man sculptures or something. Yeah, kind of like that. And a lot of people were like, oh, it's trash. It's bringing down the class of the neighbourhood. Maybe that's what you've got in your neighbourhood. There was the person with the giant Cartman in Auckland's partial. It was a letterman. No, it was a letterbox, wasn't it? A Cartman's a letterbox. It's still there, I think. Yeah. I thought it got removed. Oh, really? Amagga. Emigia.

But no, everyone in that neighbourhood was like, um, hello, we're like the poshest neighbourhood in the country. We've gentrified. Yeah. I love that. Okay, well, we don't watch South Park, y'all. Although I must say the new South Park season is on fire. That's the first time I've bought South Park in a long time. It's outrageous. Swing in for the fences. Swing in. Okay, 0,800,000, name is our number. We want you to give us a call.

Text in 9696. What is the eyesore in your neighbourhood? Give us a call. Well, Power the Duck is back in Wipawa to celebrate, well, getting ready to celebrate the spring fling in Hawks Bay. And a lot of people are saying, yay, and a lot of people are saying it's an eyesore. So I want to know what is the eyesore in your neighbourhood or your town.

Maybe you've got a giant faded duck. It's a bit faded, isn't it? She's a little bit faded. It needs that rubber duck, like really bright yellow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a dull sort of, it's off. It needs a bit more orange in the yellow. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm going to replace it with a new duck. It feels like it may have become a, yeah, like get one of those inflatable ducks. But you know that art thing? No one's going to be happy with. No one's going to be happy with whatever replaces it and they'll wish they had it back. Yeah, a concrete one. Okay.

Well, we want to know what is your eyesore. Vashen, good morning. Hey, how you going? Good, good. What is the local eyesore? I was like, there's a big giant ball in Christchurch on the way to a little town called Cliapoy. It's kind of like on the motorway on the side of it. It's been never about six years.

Yeah, I've seen this giant ball. What do you mean a giant ball? What is it? It's like an art. It's like a sculpture, isn't it? Yeah, it's like a sculpture. Do you not like it? No, I've never.

It's meant to light up, and I've never. never stand it light up. Are you going at night? Yeah. Okay, and it makes it run out. Is this the 25 metre tall fanfare sculpture on Shaney's Corner? Yeah, yeah, that's it. I'm looking at it.

I'm looking at it. It does look like it should light up. I actually like it. Maybe it's not meant to light up and you've been lit. Oh, Faisian, get a grip. That's fine. No, but maybe you've been lit it. I reckon it's the most pointless thing I've ever seen.

Okay, what would you put in its place? I don't actually know but not that I actually like that I actually like that It's a 25 minute tall sphere covered in 360 spinning metal pinwheels

And is one of the largest public artworks in New Zealand Wait but nothing about lights I think you've been lying to I think The little things are a little spin Yeah Okay

Yeah They're spin but There's little lights that you can see But I thought it was going to be Better than that But You want a full ball Light show

By the sounds of it Yeah Okay yeah Well, maybe, I mean, right into council. Maybe right into council. Yeah. As I've said, they might not be aware that you're so upset with the sculpture. Yeah, actually, yeah.

But they don't know if they don't know. In Christchurch city council's got a couple of things higher up the list. Yeah. I don't know if they do. Avation thank you. Some message is in. Someone said, Google the Khekehi gollywog. I just did.

I did too. What? It's a big corrugated iron gollywog. You can't have a gollywog anymore? So that's just outside of Tiaoamutu. Yep. Of course it is. Jeez.

That's just a straight-up. You can't even paint it any other way. No, yeah, wow. I already will get that time. The gollywog, Isabella's been there for 12 years, but there's never been one complaint about it as the owner. This was in 2020, so we had another five, so it's been up for 17 years.

When I first put her up, I was really nervous for a while, thinking people would vandalise it, but no, nothing. I've honestly had nothing but positive feedback. And then... Like, why didn't it need to be a gollywog? Yeah, just to a normal doll. Yeah. I think we're done.

I feel we're done with the gollywarks. My feeling is. You know, and what I always grabs me how much people love defending a golly wall. I know. Oh, that's not what they mean. Yes. Oh, no. How can I be a racist?

It was my favourite doll as a child. Well, some other messages that I saw is in your town. Any and all Wilson's car parks. It's been printed specifically in Christchurch. There is a turd-shaped sculpture in Westgate. Is there? Where's the turd-s? It's a turd-shaped sculpture.

That's my local shopping region. It's on my area too. I'd love to know that. Tird-shaped. It's got turd-shaped. Maybe it's a bean. Maybe it's more of a bean. Could be.

Yeah, I think it might have been a bean. Okay. We're the giant rubber duck in Huanganui. Like nearly two stories tall. It's on the Awa. It's on the Awe every once in a while, but definitely for the duck race. So they just leave that up the whole time, do they? Oh, and they've got the giant pencils, don't they in Fonganui?

Right. But that's not a nice. No, that's a beautiful. That's amazing art. Have you guys seen... That's a big duck, the inflatable duck. Yeah. Just seen this.

Someone said there's period cups on the Wikato Expressway, but I don't know if they're meant to, but they just look like moon cups. Moon cups. They look like Moon Cup. What are they meant to be? I've driven that road many a time and I don't know. Tell us where the moon cups are and you can look next time.

You've got them as Moon Cup. What are they meant to be? I don't know. Okay. Maybe are they meant to be thimballs or something? Yeah, I'm not sure. Tiao Mutu has a fruit and veg store called Fruit Monster, and the sign featuring a giant tomato with a face

is sun-damaged and deranged looking. It actually makes my kids very scared. On the way to Dargaville, there's an old Big Fresh that still has the fruit and veg mannequins up and they're looking pretty like tortured. I know where the turd-shaped sculpture is out by Westgate. It's by Bunnings opposite the KFC. Yeah.

There is a turd-sac. They're right. I've never thought of it as turd shaped I just thought it's an interesting sculpture but now that I've said turd I'll probably never be able to see it as anything I'm than the turd My neighbours put up a giant crucifix

that looms over the neighbourhood Wow Okay Why don't they put that up for There is that That's like Easter's Christmas tree Take that down Yeah

Otherwise it's bad light past like April Oh the moon cups Are supposed to be Māori spinning tops What's like period Drado? I didn't know that Yeah Oh God Somebody said

It's a very local ice saw My mum's got two gollywogs On the sofa by the front door And every time I go I'm like Bump please They just don't need to be there And she gives me a big talk about How it's more racist

To get rid of them than it is to keep them Yeah That's a boomer classic hey That's a boom I hate the stupid ice cream cone thing By the Christchurch Cathedral Oh no I don't mind that Also the fan thing that guy was talking about

Well they really hating the ball On the way to Kampoy I love the ball What's wrong with the ball? I can kind of see when they haven't rebuilt the CBD yet they're investing in a giant ball with spinning bits. You might be like, I feel like we should have finished in town. It's been 15 years.

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. We are always trying to understand, us three millennials. What? What? What? What, what, Chinsey? What? Oh my God.

I watched last night how my daughter, Gen Alpha, lead Gen Alpha. Oh God, don't even get me started. That's a whole new... How she watches TikTok. How? Like, remember when sci-fi movies would show how robots could read books

and they'd just be like, brr-r-r-r-and-it-done. Got it. This is how she watches TikTok. She'll give it two seconds, and if she likes the first two seconds, she'll like it and repost it, and then next. I'm like, you're not even watching the whole thing.

And she's like, I kind of get the gist. I'm like, how do it? you get to just two seconds in and she's just like like repost flick like repose flick oh no don't like that one uh like what if it goes oh my anxiety what if the end is racist yeah oh you've reposted it she's reposted 21000 tictox what i'm like what's a point what is going on oh god i don't even i was just like you've got this is not how it should be done she's like this is how everybody does it then i'm just like you're this this generation is doomed i know well We're always trying to understand our lovely Gen Z producers

and they help, God, they help us a lot. And it's a big moment for me to really accept that I am removed from relevance, you know? This is like, this is actually a day for me to accept that. It only gets worse too, doesn't it? Yeah, I can feel it, yeah, yeah. But we're often asking you questions, aren't we? Help us understand this or why is this a thing?

Like, why are you lining up for Lububoos? Why? Because they're cutie. Yeah. You guys like to avocado. We like Labuboos grow up. Yeah, totally. I love Avicada.

Wow. So we wanted to flip it on its head and wonder if you, Gen Z, is out there who we adore. You're so fun. You're just so quirky. If you've got any questions for us? That was so millennial. It was backhanded. Yeah, it was backhanded.

We grew up in a backhanded generation. Never a compliment was actually fully given to us. So we brought up a question box online to get us started. But if you're listening now, Gen Z, and you want to ask us millennials a question, have at 9669696. So these are the ones that we got online. Yeah, Jordy, Gen Zia, wants to know that why do we feel the need to hashtag every possible word on a post?

Oh my goodness. Because we've got a client obligation, Jordy. Because hashtag ad, Jordy. But if you don't have a hashtag ad, like, yeah, why are people still doing that? When people hashtag love? I feel like they're trying to get into the love.

I feel like I stopped hashtagging a long time ago. Yeah, I haven't hashtag for a long time. Oh, let me just, I'm just going to look at my last picture. Alright, there's a hashtag. Hashtag subtle comedy. That's so millennial. Did you hear the laugh? Yeah, they're laughing at you.

Oh, really, you're laughing at you. Yeah, I'm just going to look at the last thing I posted before that. Edit that and delete it. Hashtag weekstim. Weekstem. Hashtag genuine friends. Okay, that's unfair. You've got a hashtag genuine friends.

We can have an ironic. I was about to say, can we, are we still allowed to do an ironic hashtag? If it's obvious. Okay. But then sometimes an ironic is like, it's not that funny. Okay, what was the last thing I did? Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, hashtag genuine friends.

That was for your tattoo worn. Hashtag comedy. Okay, well, we don't do that. Comedy's embarrassing. Don't do comedy. That's the most embarrassing. Yeah. Okay, I'm so embarrassed.

Thank you. Okay, Emma's question for millennials is how do they still have side parts? So true. I'm centre. I'm cool. You've done well there. Though the other day I will say, I went out and I did my hair and I flipped it to the side. And I looked pretty.

I looked quite hot. I think the issue is, is everyone, including myself, I've done this, thinks that your hair looks more voluminous if you do a side part. Because you go, woof. You think. But then you thin out the other side is so bad. And it really ages you. I think anyone who's like, I look better with it.

You should have got Brie on the phone, eh? She rocks a hard side part. Well, she's swapped now and she looks so much better. Oh, she looks so much better. She looked at her. A middle pocket. She got from mid as center punch. I've never looked at Brie and notice where she passed in here.

I don't notice these things. I don't have any, hon. It's because you don't have it. It's because there's no puny. I've never seen someone go, I look better with a side part and then show me a middle and I've agreed with them.

I've never thought it. It's because a side part. Exactly. Middle would have done so much better. Okay, another question from a Gen Z to a millennial. Okay. The millennial pause. Just like speak.

Oh my God. Yeah, okay. Just like speak. Here's the vibe. Libby. When we were first looking at cameras, they took a little while to start recording. Yeah, and you weren't sure

Yeah, when we had the family can quarter And we pressed record It took a little bit for it to be like Red Light and one But here's the thing, Vaughn, oh my goodness You can edit Cut it out on the top I actually did at the weekend

When I was doing the When I was cooking the ox tongue I had to edit off a couple of monster All of these ones? And here's to start with it What I find out is you turn you start looking away when you turn and you edit it to where you're just

mid turn and you start speaking when you're mid turn. So we do the Gen Z shake that's the way to start it on a movement and then it feels less awkward. And it's that way to get a little Gen Alpha's attention

in 0.1 second. Yeah. You've got literally a second. So some new messages, Freshie's coming in on the text machine. Why do you guys try so hard at work? Yeah, I was going to say that one can really relate to you guys.

Sometimes, wait, do you, wait, I'm sorry, what did you say, Calvin? I was going to say, this one doesn't really relate to you guys. Excuse you. Why you try so hard at work? That's so funny. I totally agree.

I love Gen Z's attitude to big corpse. I love it. I hate it. They hate it, though. Corporations hate it. Of course corporations hate it because they finally met people who are like, I don't care. Yeah.

Oh, there's 100 other people that could do your job, is it? Well, go find one. Yeah. Love it. Love there. Someone's here, Millie asks, what's up with your humor and the way you use Facebook? No, we're done with Facebook. We're done with Facebook.

This is so savage. I love it. Yeah. I mean... I haven't used Facebook for, so. You still post, but I feel like you post... I mean, it's just an archive, basically. Because it's an archive for you, like a scrapbook almost.

Mine's just immediately connected to Instagram, so anything I post on there goes, or my professional one. But my personal one, who knows? Also, shout out to Zanier. No, that was the one I was going to finish on, because... it's the coldest Gen Z burn to a millennial. We'll leave that to the end. Jesus.

Text's coming in saying it's really crazy that you guys talk about where you were when 9-11 happened because they were not here. They were dead. But you've got to look at it back in the day, Gen Z. The world wasn't constantly going through major

political shifts and changes in disasters. Like these things used to be rare. They would have missed 9-11 because it wasn't in the first or second of that video. Nah, because they'd just have been like boring just a blue sky and blue sky with the Twin Towers. They didn't even know there was a second tower.

Or they would have been like, oh, yes. Or they would have been like, oh, great. What a beautiful day in New York. Like repost. Exactly. Not even checking. To finish up. Zinia said, I don't even really think about you guys that often.

So IDK. I think this would be a regular segment. I really love this. I think we should do this as a regular segment. We should know my ego hurts. Questions for other generations. Yeah. Questions for boomers?

Yeah. And then we could get boomers to answer the questions. Because someone message in saying, I'm exenial here, so kind of Gen X, Kaspin, we have zero farms to give about your opinion. Yeah. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Huge news yesterday.

It was the news of the, great to see Chris Luxon giving a shout out. And Christopher Luxem's invited Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey to get married in New Zealand, did you see? Oh, lovely. It's a great place to get married. Don't disagree. Yeah. On that, we agree. Now, huge news.

Travis and Taylor engaged. We were all a little bit divided on the ring. The Swifties are like, shut up. It's cute. Is it? I don't know. I don't like it. But Travis Kelsey's dad has been, I'll say,

running off his mouth on the podcasts. Well, it was a couple weeks ago that Travis got it done after a few weeks of prodding from myself and from Scott Swift. He was going to do it but want to find the perfect, you know, the perfect way to ask her and to make it special. And we kept trying to tell him when you do it, that's what makes it special. So don't spread on wear or just get it done.

Just get it done. So he basically let slip that it was a couple of weeks ago because that was the question that everyone was asking, right? People kind of figured out anyway, right? Yeah. The hair cuts, the shorter hair. Swifties. Swifty's in the booth. Everyone was matching up the haircuts, right, with the hair and now.

Yes, but also, like, now people are realizing that it was probably the same day as her being on the podcast with Travis. Oh, okay. They've matched up the times on her watch that she was wearing. That they recorded the podcast. She's got an indent from her headphones and her hair. Yeah, she had headphone hair. Did she? Yeah, you can just tell slightly.

but yeah people think basically they finished recording the podcast they had plans to go out for dinner and also while they were recording the podcast she's wearing noise cancelling headphones and is locked in on a screen it gave his team all this time to set up his garden without her being suspicious

he said alright before dinner let's go grab a wine and then surprised her I suppose as well it was like it was a big day you know because she was finally doing the reveal of her album and yeah and also during the podcast when she said boyfriend there was a few times he smirked at the camera.

And I think he was like, not for long, babe. Not for long. I just think it's so funny listening to Travis Kelsey's dad. He's like, he's been talking to so many people. And you kind of feel like he's the sort of dad that'll just like, one day he'll be like, so they're pregnant. Yeah, it's interesting because like Taylor's PR lady, TreePane, famously, a beautiful red-headed woman.

Tree-pane. Tree-pane, yeah, that's a... Not to be confused with teeth, teeth. And so she wants T-Pay, but it was taken all. Like, she is tight on, like, this kind of thing. So her dad, like, the dad must have been allowed to go and talk to these people, but, like, why'd they choose a random Australian breakfast show? And then, like, a random American outlet.

Like, it's so natural but also so planned. That clip we just played there was from Nine News Australia. Why is it? How'd they get him? How do we try? Should we try? Should we try and get them to? I don't know.

No, they pay. They can pay. Yeah. I could just DM him and say, hey, we'll give you a cuddle with a ceramic German shepherd come on the podcast. You're telling me, he's not going to be

lured in by Herman the German. I would think so. Oh, wow. Well, I guess if there's gossip coming out of their corner of the world, look to Travis Kelsey's dad. Yeah, it's big old mouth. Play Z-M's Fletchhorn and Haley. Yesterday, Spotify

announced that it will be rolling out direct messages to both free and premium subscribers as a part of an effort to attract more users. What, like, do we need to be messaging? Like, we've got eight other places to message people. We've got WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messenger, texts. Instagram.

Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messenger. Like, we've got enough. Signal. And we've got, literally got them all. Signal. Yeah, or she's in one of those underground. Deeply encrypted.

Yeah, she's a situation. Yeah, she's hiding from the government. She's on signal, yeah. It's encrypted into Envorn. You can't even know what's happening. And I tell you guys everything. Yeah. And you don't use 5G because you're against the towers.

I wouldn't even think of it. I have my own Wi-Fi. So, people, obviously, like, people, this is a plan for them to roll it out into different markets. So I'm not sure if it's in New Zealand soon. Their whole thing is they want people like sharing, like, their favourite playlist and songs.

But you can do that anyway. You can do that anyway. You just send the link, but you send it via messenger or messages or whatever. And people online are like, obviously just like, we don't need this. Someone said, I don't need social networking on my music player. No. Someone said, why is every app trying to be like all the other apps? What's next?

Spotify stories? Yeah. Genuinely, though, it will be, like upload listening to this right now. Yeah, 100%. And then, yeah, people are like, do we need it? No, no, we don't. So, yeah, kind of a mixed reaction. I don't think that's going to take off.

Do you know who would never do something so silly? I Heart Radio. They just know it's about the music. It's about taking us with you wherever you go. Good, and a chance to get to the I Heart Radio Music Festival too in Vegas. Yeah, that's right. They've got the talk pack feature. Now, that's a lot of fun.

That's a great way of engaging, but it's not the stupid messenger thing. We've got that covered Spotify. Enter ZM online if you want to win that trip to Vegas. That's right. Are we ticking off some KPI's here? I tell you why, you guys have really knocked some KPI's out of the park here. Fantastic. But they are upstairs like, oh!

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. insurance since the year 2000 has risen 916% Jesus It is the Of all the things consumer New Zealand track their consumer cost of It has gone up more than anything higher than cigarettes Cigarettes have gone up 600% Insurance 900%

Surely butter's gone up like Butter's gone up not Not that much I saw an ad and it was like buy three loaves of bread bread, it was an old like 1990s ad, buy three loads of bread and get a free 500 grand butter, or buy the butter for a dollar 89.

What? $1.89, block. Yeah. $500 grams. Yeah. Hell yeah. So they're saying, they're citing major disasters like the earthquakes, the

record weather events, the cyclone Gabriel was a massive one in the floods and everything. I mean, the good news is that like global warming is only getting better. So the insurance will come down. Yeah. But okay, so this is what's happening.

people are now getting rid of insurance because it's too expensive. Yep. In 2022, 7% of people gave up house insurance. Oh. God, you just lose everything. If there's a fire and or an earthquake or a, yeah. If you don't have insurance and there's an earthquake,

do you get like the EQC? Are you covered anyway? There were heaps of people in Christchurch that didn't have insurance that got absolutely screwed. I mean, yeah. How do you not have insurance? Well, you can't afford it No, no, no, but like banks, yeah, I've got a mortgage, I have to have

insurance. If I don't have insurance, they can fall close on my mortgage. So do these people have no mortgage? But that's when you sign up for your mortgage. Like, who's checking now that you haven't cancelled it if it's not through the bank? True, because they only look at it. Yeah, they don't communicate with each other.

You just show your insurance certificate. If you went to go ask for more money, they'd be like, yep, can we get another. Where's the insurance? Yeah. But yeah. It's crazy. Oh, no, it's. It just feels like playing with fire.

Quite literally, too far if your house burns down. But it doesn't need to be like people getting rid of health insurance. Do you know, pet insurance is the one. Then we plan to add a lot about pet insurance. I think you'd be kind of crazy to have a dog without some. Oh my God, I know, yeah. I've got pet insurance, yeah. But even my pet insurance went up like, oh yeah, pet insurance is crazy.

So much. It's crazy. $220 a month for two dogs. Do you? And it's about to go out because Richie is about to turn eight. He's a golden retriever, and apparently that's the magic marker of golden retrievers starting to die. Oh, God, yeah. I'd just save your money, and then if it worst comes to the worst, take it to a farm.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Hard when you kind of live on one. Yeah, it is. Where is he taking it? Hey, Dad, where's Richie? I need to go to a bigger farm. This is a lifestyle block.

That boy needed space to run. Yeah, this one's lame. We wanted to ask a question today. Is there a time ever in the past where you wish you had insurance because you didn't? Or, yeah, and like, you forgot to insure something, like you buy a new car and just forget, I don't know, or it lapses? You just cancelled it, and then you drop your phone or something. You know what I mean?

Yeah. You just cancelled your health insurance and then you break your leg. Yeah. Oh, God. I look at all the insurance. Travel insurance scares me. Yeah. People that go to America, especially, without travel insurance,

and then you see them on, like, GoFund me or, you know, like pleading in the media, you know, to pay for their, medical bills because they're insane. They're like six figures. Yeah. Did somebody read an article yesterday they're just messaging and the government's predicted by 2035 they'll no longer be able to afford to pay for the damages of floods as they are occurring

more frequently and more intensely. That's good to know. It's good to know. Yeah. The banks and insurance do communicate with each other on the regular apparently. We've got a lot of messages. And you need a fire insurance policy to obtain earthquake cover. Okay. Well, okay, so don't just

ditch your insurance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't do that. So, 0,800,000, we'd love to take your calls now. 9-6-96, text in. When did you wish that you had insurance? Side note, not quite on topic, but about insurance. My brother sold his car three years ago,

and apparently the people, the new people went to insure it, and they said, oh, no, we're still getting an automatic payment for this car, so they're like, okay, well, let us know when that stops. And the brother's been paying perfect strangers insurance for three years. Three years. What? No! Hey!

I mean, I guess if you haven't told... How much money is that? You just don't notice? I don't know. That's insane. He might have had like a big insurance package. The payment went out every month or something. Wild.

Okay, 0,800,000 Amazon number 9-696. When did you wish that you had insurance? Life and health insurance, the revenue worldwide, $5,531 billion. $5,000. So it's gone up 900% insurance in New Zealand since the year. 2000 and some people now are getting rid of it because you know everything's so tight

the cost of living and it feels like you don't use it yeah right it feels like it sits there there are so many messages from people who are messaging about the times they didn't have insurance yeah that's all we want to know those stories when you wish you had it uh Kelly what happened um

my dog got a really bad infection in his chest and needed um to essentially be cut open at a specialist vet in all costing us $22,000. Oh, my God. No pen, no pen insurance?

No, we were like, oh, we'll just put money aside into an account instead of getting insurance. Yeah, who does that? How much was in that account when the $22,000 surgical bill came in? Zero. Yeah, because that account pretty paid for a holiday. Yeah, it looked pretty good for some beers on front. Yeah. Oh, Kelly, did you seriously consider?

Did we have to weigh this up? Yeah, we did. He was only four, so he was still in a lot of life in him, and they initially thought it was like some awful cancer, but it turns out it was just infection, and he's made an amazing recovery, and he's happy and healthy, so... Worth it.

Some days it's not worth it, but other days, you're like, okay. Do you hold it over his head sometimes? Yeah, oh, absolutely. He pears on the floor, you're like, should have just... Yeah. What I could do with that 22,000 right now? Yeah, yeah.

What kind of dog is it, though? He's a lab cross-GSP. A GST? Yeah, a German Armed Goods and Services tax pointer. It's plus 15%. Yeah. Okay, a bit of the accountants love that, John.

Imagine have you paid GST on the GSP surgery. Kelly, thank you, Michelle. This is a friend that didn't have insurance. What happened? Yes. So she went on this big individual overseas adventure. She was in Bali, and before she left, we said to her, please,

get insurance. So she got her insurance for being a solo, poor traveller. She cancelled it just before she went over and she got insanely, insanely sick while she was over there. Obviously no insurance, so couldn't go to the tourist hospital. They took her to the local one, not an English word was spoken.

They took her into surgery, took out her ovary. Hey! Came out of hospital. Yeah, came out of hospital, still insanely, insanely sick. had to fly her emergency home. Turns out it was her appendix that had ruptured.

We said that she got a full body scan while they were in there to make sure no kidneys had been taken or anything like that. Just an ovary. Oh my God. Wow. If you don't speak English, ovary and appendix do sound the same.

Of course. Just the same. They're kind of in the same ballpark area. Down there, sore, isn't it? In the abdomen. You can see the mistake. Oh my God, wow. A lot of money had to come out of that

account, especially the flight's home. It was because they had to emergency fly her home. Yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. Wow, that is insane. Again, get insurance. Especially Bali. Barley insurance is not expensive. Compared to like America or all

Europe and stuff. Oh, my God, what a harrowing tale. Michelle, thank you. Some more messages. When do you wish you had insurance? Oh, my God. I think this is the greatest ad for insurance ever. I went for the police and the amount of people that come in reporting car crashes without having any form of insurance is insane. It's more common to not have it, apparently, than to have an insured car.

It's crazy that we don't do what Australia does and there's compulsory third party in... It's included in the registration. In your rego? Yeah. Because how many times have, you know, people have been hit by someone that's uninsured? It's just a pain in the aid. Pain, yeah, totally. Yeah.

I can't answer my health insurance after having it since I was 18. Oh, no, you'll never get that. No, because you're pre-existed. Yeah. And I was 34 at the time And I had never claimed on it And it was getting more and more expensive So I cancelled it.

It started 2023 And that same year six months later I got breast cancer. No! I could have gone through the whole thing privately to get my treatment Even though my breast cancer treatment Was free through the public

There was a little bit of a weight time And I believe I would have Yeah I would have put up That's crazy. We do have a good public health system But yeah If something really pressing happens

And you can go private With your health insurance Yeah Of course you'd want to do that. I've been the same I was paying my health insurance all the time. And I even thought, oh, do I need this? And then, like, recently, my shoulder.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've had multiple examples of not having insurance. Lost everything in a house fire. One. Two, medical that wasn't covered publicly in New Zealand. So that was a private situation. Cost me $15,000.

And my dog cost me $10,000 because I didn't have pet insurance. I've got every insurance there is available to me now. Yeah, yeah. I only took three massive lessons. Only took three expensive lessons. My old colleague had his motorbike stolen and he went to claim the insurance and it turned that his ex-wife had cancelled that insurance policy

without him knowing. A Tata, $30,000 bike. Oh, wow. I wish I had insurance when I crashed my brother's car. It was a three-car crash. I had to pay $15,000 to fix the other person's cars. My brother's car was intact but still cost money to get it fixed.

Paying that off a dollar a week. Jesus. Yeah, dollar a week, hey. Oh, okay, found out yesterday I have the gene that hugely increases your risk of breast and ovarian cancer. I recommended a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy as treatment. If I had the insurance, it would be $1,000 excess.

I don't, so I guess I'm off to Turkey. That's like, that increases it by, like, you've got a 50% chance of getting it. It's so, that gene is crazy. Does Sidney have that good genes? No, those, we don't talk about that ad. Oh, we don't talk about it. Even though it was about it.

We don't talk about it. My dad cancelled his life insurance policy. Two weeks later he died. No! No! He was insured for $150,000 that overnight disemapered. But I mean, sorry to hear about your dad.

But the problem is it gets old, as you get older, it gets so much more expensive. So you can see why people are like, a lot of people start tapping down. Like, who cares? Get your money out and just, yeah. My two Labrador puppies ate a punitive grapes each. Take them to the emergency vet to find out grapes are highly toxic to dogs.

Are they? Two hours and five and a half thousand dollars later to get their stomachs pumped. but I had to say goodbye to the Europe trip that year. Bye Europe. Hi puppies. Oh my God. Living as a nanny in the US and I didn't have medical insurance,

I put a knife through my finger. What do you do? Just cut the finger off and put a band of the john. You just put a bandage on it, get a knife back and fly back to New Zealand. You're like, you're right? Yeah, yeah, all right. I worked at Walt Disney in the early noughties

and they had health insurance paid for by, and had health insurance paid for by the, company. If I'd tick the box for trauma cover at an extra cost of £1.47 pence per month, I would have got 100,000 pounds when I was diagnosed with testicular cancer four months later. I'm good now though, thanks for asking.

Yeah, well we're... That was going to be our next question is. Yeah, how are the balls? Did you get them, keep them? Yeah, you get rid of A. With a testicular, you probably might only have to get rid of one. Get rid of one. Get rid of one. I had pensioners for 10 years was tightening up the budget. Cancel it. Oh, no, no, no.

I hate this. So much. Two months later, my border collie ruptured a cruciate. Yeah. Six and a half thousand dollars. But then you also hear the stories on the flip side of people that get insurance, like health insurance or whatever before they need it, and then there's a fire or they get diagnosed of something. And you're just like, wow.

Oh, totally. Well, someone said, hold on. Graves are toxic to dogs. Mine literally walk under the grapevine, pulling them off and eating them in front of me. And I always thought it was really cute. Well, not so cute. Yeah, maybe not. Maybe not.

Haley. Play ZDM's fleshed one 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 do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. It's accidental invention week here at Factor of the Day and we've covered a whole lot of things this week. Wish a sauce yesterday. Which now you're considering. getting as a permanent tattoo.

I might get a tattoo of wish-sized sauce bottle, one-to-one scale. Absolutely. We've also decided a wish-and-sized sauce bottle will now be a unit of measurement here on the show. How many wish-a-sized... I'd say probably about 20, and since that's a lot. Do you know what I mean? Is that how tall you think you are? No, no, not me.

I'm just saying, like, I was just using it in a sentence. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was going to say you'd be real tall if you were 20 wushed-s-sized source bottles. Yeah. I saw a beautiful house. High stud. Oh, what's the stud on the house? 48 wish-sized sauce sauce bowl.

Wow. That's a weird one. Okay, so today's accidental inventions, antidepressants. Oh. I enjoy those daily. Yum, yum, yum. We're searching for better treatments for tuberculosis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They were trialing drugs, isinized, and riparzeid.

Yeah, of course they were. Yeah, zibb-zibit zum zim-z-z-z-z-z-pip-loppy. Patients are trying those and began showing unexpected side effects. they were unusually cheerful and energetic for people whose lungs were riddled with tuberculosis. They said the mood elevation went far beyond just feeling a little bit better from illness and pointed to an effect on the brain chemistry.

So they studied them more and found that the compounds were inhibited monomene oxidase which has a medical acronym of Mao, M-A-O. That makes you instantly happier. M-O-M-M-O. Not a meow! That's not a happy cat. Now, it's got to be, mao, meow,

leading to the first class of antidepressant drugs, M-A-O, or M-A-O, or MOW inhibitors. So they just kind of like stumbled across this while testing drugs were to tuberculosis, and the chemical had a play on the brain. So then did they start trialing it in people with depression and whatnot? Yeah. And they were like, this is way better.

And it was like the era of the modern psychopharmacology. Wow, okay. That slipped out nice. Didn't that just fall out of my mouth? Psychopharmacology. You're a psychopharmacology. pharmacology. I've been called worse.

And the last four of our mouths, I've been called worse. So, yeah, today's fact of the day is antidepressants were an accidental invention. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, do do do-dood-dood-dood-to-dood-dood-dood-dood-d-d-doo-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. Play Z-M's fleshfwon and Haley. Now, this is going to sound so familiar to, I reckon. so many listeners. I thought we could start a new segment. A whole new world.

A whole new world. Will you tell us about the new things you're experiencing as you re-enter like the dating world? The dating world. Yeah. So I've been doing that. I've been doing that. Wait, are you single?

Yeah, I am. I didn't know. I had no idea. Didn't you? That's crazy. No idea. So, okay, I have been dipping a toe into just, having some nice times with people.

Yeah. Nicely put. Definitely not. What a lovely way to put it. That was so elegant. Definitely not looking for anything serious or anything like that. Just, you know me, I'm a social butterfly. And I like company and I like attention.

And I will go looking for it. And something has happened to me that I'm so aghast. And it's going to sound like I have a big ego. I've been ghosted. Get used to it Unbelievable Get used to it This is just how dating works

So I've net This has never happened to me before Yep And I was not anticipating it Happening so quickly And I've been ghosted Because you're Haley Sproul Who wouldn't message you back?

What the hell? I'm gorgeous and fun and funny Oh my God, I've been ghosted And I have been sharing this with the boys a little bit But, like, what did it happen to, I don't know, I'm not going to give him a code name. John. Okay. Terrible code name.

John. This tells us nothing about him. John and I matched on a website, on an app. Yeah. That are all new to me as well. Are they fun? Kind of. Right?

And, like, mad. Huh? Like, they're mad. Oh, like crazy. Yeah, crazy world. But I matched with John. on a dating app and we met up

yeah and by the way I really like this because he won't tell us the stories on here about his dating app you don't want to hear my I think I do

now they might get a few beers you do hear my stories yeah I know I know I know I'm sure people would want to but yeah there's a few messages coming in you may want to visit my Instagram there is a post

yeah anyway so and it's not born it's not it never has been in any aspect it never will be yuck that's like passioning his sister it's never happened it never will no offense no offense

but i'm i'm i'm work right way up to an eight i'm the only one that's had fun times on my couch not these two god's sake i won't make out with anybody on a couch that's been eaten by a cat to the extent that the lexious couch has been destroyed by a cat i have standards i hope this is going over so many people's heads anyway i matched with john on this dating app we met up for drinks and had a really nice night. Yeah. Then we went out for like a proper date dinner at like a nice restaurant.

John, what a swell. John paid. Did John pay? Did you pay where are we at? John chose. John paid for the whole thing. John. Gentlemen, can we call him, gentlemen John. Gentleman John. Well, not anymore. Gentleman John.

And then gentlemen John and I, I would say hung out maybe four, five times afterwards at, you know, in a lovely way. Four to five times afterwards. I am new to talking about this. Gentleman John. Gentleman John and I. Great. And then Haley got a bit busy, you know,

so it was like, we just sort of, and so did gentleman John. So there was like, oh, like, are you free here? No, I'm not, but maybe here. And then I was like, are you free here? And then I was like, oh, maybe I'll come back to you. And then I was like, nudge, are you free? Because I'm keen to hang out.

Nothing. And I was like, oh. okay, busy. Gentleman John's busy. Gentleman John's totally fine. Gentleman Jones joasted you. He's joasted me. And then that was maybe like two weeks ago.

And then... Oh, how many times can you message with no message from? Yeah, because I said, stop messaging, Haley. Jesus. I think I text one more time maybe a week ago saying like, hello, busy. Like, hey busy boy. Like, how are you? I hate myself.

I know, don't worry. Oh, my God, what a loser. And he hasn't. message back, thus confirming... Gentleman John has a josted you. Gentleman John josted me. How dare he? Anyway, it's like...

Also, just get used to it. This is what happens. And then, like, he'll just message you three months in three months' time. Like, nothing has happened. Not my gentleman, John. And you'll be like, okay, come over. And then he'll ghost you for another six months.

And then pop back up and you're like, yeah, let's do it. Are you okay, Horn? Are you okay, Fletcher? That's just what happens. It's like you're working through some drawing. I just was like, this is so fun. Like, it's so light and easy-preasy. And now, I'm like, this is harrowing.

What did I do? Was it me? Like, was it something about me? Anyway. Anyway, welcome to the world of dating. Welcome to the world of dating. A whole new world. Don't you dare ghost me, John.

And don't you dare joist me, John. Oh, John, you joisted me. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Well, this will scare everybody into going back for a Natalie Portman buzz cut or a Kieranightly. I don't know, was it Kira Knightley that had the Pixie cut? Yeah, I'm considering it. Really?

Yeah, I'd love to shame me here off. Bow, move with a face like yours. Now, scientists, I won't dwell on it. Scientists. That was savage. Wow. Scientists, come on, guys. Grow up, leave you alone.

George's in, Georgia Burtz, who does the day, On Zid M. For new listeners. I will, just before I get into the deep, you can play some songs today? Yeah, we are. Good. Every day she's back.

She's on her own. It's like deja vu, really, in it? Scientists at Purdue University have found that using heated hair tools like straighteners or curlers, when you've got product in your hair, releases a massive amounts of toxic nanoparticles. And you do have to put product in your hair because you should be using like a heat protector on your hair. They are the worst.

So you spritz it with a protector to protect the hair. But we're protecting the hair on. Leave in so you're like. your shampoos and products that you leave in, not your washouts like your shampoos and your conditioners, but leave-in products and heat-protectin products produce the highest emissions. 10 to 20 minutes of styling your hair using a heat product like a straightener or a curler. Can release 10 billion nanoparticles,

which is the equivalent of standing in the middle of heavy motorway traffic and taking big, delicious deep breaths in. Wait, but what if you use your leaving products straightening your hair for 20 minutes and then walk to work in heavy traffic? You've done it twice. So you double-banger. You're double-banger in your lungs. Right, okay, great.

Oh, yeah, lungs, because all we're doing is trying to protect the hair. We're not concerned about the lungs. You're going to watch the lungs because when you're at the heat at 150 degrees Celsius, which these things are because I've accidentally touched one when it was left on once. I mean, leave it open over the toilet flush button on and why wouldn't you?

Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? That seems a great place to leave it. It's like a real-life game of operation. It really wants. Well, the toilet's ceramic, so it's heat-resistance so you can just leave it there. Of course, just leave it on there.

Yeah, no, but the fingers have to go in to flush the toilet. Anyway, it vaporises volatile chemicals and hair products, especially silozanes, like D5-5-Sylosane, which I always say, D-5 is the worst silozane. Not D-5. This guy knows is silozines, by the way. Silozanes from D-5 through to E-17. Yeah, to D-12, all the way to D-12.

All my silozanes. Then form harmful airborne particles. So then they are in the air and you're, oh my God, I look great. I look so good. You're breathing them in. They can cause respiratory stress, lung inflammation,

cognitive decline, and potentially damage to the liver and nervous system. But here's my question. What doesn't? Yeah, like everything's killing us, man. Everything's killing us. Are we not allowed to have a nice wavy hair?

Do you know what I mean? Apparently not. We don't know how to have a nice styled hair. The recommendation is limiting product use, avoiding them with heat and always ensue a good ventilation while stalling your hair. so much like potting plants

and painting your car. Could you do your hair in front of a fan? Yep. No, but the hair will be moving. It'll be impossible. Your hair will be like this flowing back and you'll be like trying to get to the back thing with the tongs. You're here in a wind tunnel,

but like an oscillating fan just to get the bad juju away. You know, the bad things, particles. And when the fan hits you, you stop styling. Yeah, until it goes past and then start styling again. Just circulate it. Or do it outside. What, here straight and outside. Can I just say, when you straighten your hair, your arms get a workout, you get hot and sweaty, you're not going to do it out in the sun outside.

No, yeah. But you're huffing and puffing that means? Honestly. You're breathing in more of the toxins. Yeah, that's fine. Do you know what I'd rather? I'm fine with it. You get an arm workout, though, so surely you're getting fitter while you do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're getting jacked. So what's more important? Lungs or the muscles? I don't know. Or looking good. Yeah, yeah. The lungs are looking good.

I need to take all of this on board and have a good hard think over a vape. Yeah, actually. Oh, yeah, if you vape, don't even worry about these horrible statistics. What flavor you've vaping today, Ward? Oh, D5, Xenophane, psilazan D5. Oh, another one in the bag. And it's a Versace bag as well. If you enjoyed that, give us a rating and a review and be sure to tell your mates.

You don't sound sincere there, boy. I'm just reading what's written here. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.