ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 29th 2025

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

Gen Z like talking about money on dates Most dangerous places to take a selfie Shannon's Hack Top 6 - Reasons you should instantly donate Paul Douglas Interview Daffodil Song Remix SLP - Do you have a backup person Josh Thompson Interview What did you find in your food? Cohen Halloway interview Crazy note left at Auckland home Fact of the day Michael Galvin Daffodil Day wrap up See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM Podcast Network This is Fleshwon and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Haley Thank you Brian, good morning Welcome to the show Fletch Vaugh and Haley It's two minutes past six

Today Very soon, 7 o'clock we kick off The ANZ donation station, it's back A whole lot of celebrity guests And musicians Yep People joining us throughout the day on the station.

To celebrate, well, not celebrate, I'm going to celebrate, isn't it? Daffodil Day, raising money for the Cancer Society with A&Z?

Yep. Pretty bloody good. It's got to be one of the longest running 35 years. Days. Yeah, 35 years the partnership.

35, I remember. That's me. It's started the year that I... No, I think Daffital Day was even before that. That's the specific partnership with A&Z, yeah, isn't it? Yeah, right.

Daffital Day might even pre-day back. Supporting the one and three Kiwis affected by cancer in their lifetime. So we'll kick it off from 7. And today, Soundkeeper, lead detective Brooke, is on a fishing expedition. Yeah.

A fishing trip? Is this a clue? It feels cluey. It feels cluey. But no secret sound today. No secret sound today because we turn our attention to the importance of the... Of daffodal day. Of daffitle day.

And the ANZ donation station. How many times you were going to sing daffodoo? Daffodoo. Well, actually, Vaughon's got a treat for us. Oh, good. when it comes to the jingle. I thought you meant the daffodils you've brought in from your drive away. I bought in a bunch of daffles.

They smell lovely. Don't they? They do. They're underrated scent, the daffodil. Everyone's raving about roses. And friend Japanis. Yeah, but the daffodils are lovely scent. Play Zems, Flesh Vaughan and Haley.

So apparently Gen Z are kind of moving away from something. I reckon millennials, Gen X's, definitely boomers, were very anti. which is talking about money on a first date. And like... What, like your salary? Your salary and how much you earn, how much you've got in savings, that kind of stuff. What do they say it's always taboo

the hairdresser subjects? You never talk about. Religion, religion and war, was it? And I would have thought money as well. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would say as well, particularly women wouldn't talk about how much money they earn. Yeah.

But apparently now Gen Z are saying, 50% of Gen Z is. Now that's half. Yes. That's half. Good maths from you. Thank you. It's attractive when dates talk openly about income on a first date.

I wouldn't even know how to bring it up. Hi. Savignon Blanc or Pinot Green? How much do you earn? 8,200 or what are we talking? I wouldn't even know how to like get it into conversation. But is it that you're asking them how much they earn because you want enough their like long term. potential.

I don't know. And you're just doing this on the first date because you're like, well, I'm not going to, if this person's not earning much money, what's a point? A viable partner. I want to find a, like, you know, a richer daddy or something. Yeah, but they're also moving away from the traditional man pays at a date. Gen Z, Gen Z girlies. Would you talk about pay on a date?

I think it's an awkward topic to bring up on the first date. But I feel like it's quite important to kind of see how someone can approach that conversation. Because if they're not, like, mature about it, then we're not buying a house. together you know what I mean yeah yeah right you're asking eh to know if they're potential long term if I've got money in the bank do they also because I'm not letting them use all my money wow that's

so like you're so mature right thank you so much she's like man like we are Gen Z and she's only a year older than me but man she's wise yeah she's wise she's really wise I'm like yeah he got money cool I'm not gonna lie I'm six deep

six years deep in my relationship I still don't really know how much money my partner has Really? Yeah, we don't talk about it like that, but he doesn't have a salary, so I guess it's different. Yeah, yeah, freelance. Can you get into his internet banking? Can you, like, have a look? No. Do you reckon? No. I think you should try that. It's definitely healthy. Yeah, you should have a peek. Because what if there's lots is. Yeah, because you can just do that and then log in. Guys, this is great advice. Carmen's coming with the maturity and now we've come on with the debauchery. How much the magician makes? Just hold his phone over his face while he's sleeping, unlock the banking app.

And have a look. Just have a look. You're not telling you to take money. Just have a look at the balances. It would be interesting to know, wouldn't I? Love it. What if he doesn't keep his money in the back? What if it's down in his hat with the rabbits? That's why the mattress is lumpy.

Yeah, true. So we've got such a lumpy sleeves. Politics, religion and sex. Oh, yeah. Those are the three, apparently, that you don't talk about. That you don't talk about. I thought sex would have been on the table. Oh, my God.

Me and Shari talk about sex the whole time she's doing me here. That's all we talk about. Not so much politics That's less sexy Yeah, it is Play ZM Fletch Fawn and Haley Well somebody has worked out

A law firm I don't know why a law firm's done this But they've worked out All the Google News reported deaths From taking selfies Yeah Between the years 2014 to recently

There's some very famous spot Say like there's that one Where the train tracks go Yes out on a cliff and people often like lean out or kiss or something like that and get hit by a tree or just fall off.

Is it in Vietnam where you sit in a tiny little... Oh my God, I've seen videos of like... The train goes by. It doesn't go fast is that people sit and it goes quite slowly because it's through the markets where they fold down the market thing

because there's one of those in India as well. Yeah. There's those, what are those hanging rocks somewhere as well? They look... Over the edge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are like Oslo?

Is it Norway? Yeah, and it's a bit of a fjord. So out of all the death, out of all of the selfie-related deaths involved an overwhelming amount of young people, 89.2% of them were young. Many of them were men, 66.6% of all selfie deaths since 2014.

Men. Okay, what country do you, and it's funny because they do use the train photo as one of the images in this article. What country do you reckon is the most? I'm like, is it like, um, I was like, is it like Machu Picchu, you know, like one of those like mountain things or something? India?

Um, it'll just be, surely it's a numbers game. China. Yeah. It's what, because they're more populated. Okay, well, it'll just be where, I'll go from 10 backwards. Brazil. Brazil. Spain.

The UK, Kenya. Indonesia at six. Wait, I want to know with the UK. Is it the White Cliffs of Dover? Oh, yes. People get close to the edge of those, though, don't they? And do they know it's made of chalk? I know.

Like, it's crumbled. It's a crumbly thing, dude. Step back from there. So Indonesia is at six. Australia is at five. They've got some big, you know, beaches and rocks. I'm maybe trying to get a selfie with an animal. They've got many animals that will like to kill you.

Gets to close. Pakistan was next in the most dangerous countries to take a selfie at four. Russia at 19. And then it jumps up The second spot goes to the United States Okay And the United States 45 deaths

Since when? Since 2014, since they started 10ish And it jumps to 271 In India Is the country with the most selfie deaths Wow Guys, I'm just looking at Dover

I think we should go The White Cliffs Looks lovely It looks lovely It looks lovely From a distance looking in, flying in or... No, no, you don't want to be up there.

We could read out of our favourite scenes from Broadchurch. Yeah, yes. That was a great show. That was a great show. That was a vintage. David Tennant and Olivia Coleman. Vintage. Yeah. Champagne Coleman.

So what are the photo spots, selfie spots in India? They just say it's more for the fact that a lot of... I don't know, there's a lot of infrastructure that's like... Crap? That's a bit crap and people get access to and isn't maintained and yeah

so people just die more Right Guys I've been to India What a place Yeah I was still on my travel list Oh my God amazing Yeah You've got to see

The Taj Mahal But there was nothing dangerous About taking a photo there No You want your Indian wedding Of course one day I know If there's any eligible

Indian men listening I am actually Looking for an Indian husband Right okay I just want the five day You know, I'm not looking for anything. Oh, you don't want the actual marriage. We won't sign the paper.

Oh, you just want a five-day thing. No, I just want to have the henna and all the jewelry and the red dress. It just feels inappropriate. No, but that's why I need the Indian... It would be inappropriate if I was marrying a white man. And I just did that. Wait, so you want to use a man to appropriate his culture, but not follow through with the tradition that you are sort of using for your own entertainment.

Correct. See how that sounds? Did you hear it, as I said? But how cute would I look as an Indian bride? Do you know what I mean? ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. Well, we still, you know, we still haven't got Shannon an intro.

Every day we say, we've got to get in the booth. We've got to record that Shannon's intro. Look at her face. She wants it too. Maybe we should do that next week, guys. That would be nice. Tired. But you don't know how you're going to feel next week.

Probably tired. I reckon tired. Tired. But you know, like, what Annie said, the sun will come up tomorrow. Like, that's you. Okay, please find the music born. I'm just going to stop it. Yeah, what have you got?

What's this? It's Sing King. It's the karaoke version of Love Shack. Yeah, here we go, baby. Okay. Yeah, feel it. Okay, here we go. How do we do this?

If you see a big sign at the side of the road, it's 15 miles to a Shannon's Hack. Yeah. A Shannon's Hack, baby. I sort of like it live and kind of rogue and with an ad at the top Yeah, with the ad

Yeah Yeah Should we write some lyrics And then we can just do this every time Yeah, Shannon's got a hack for us Yeah, there's nothing better than stalking an ex on Instagram is there Okay

There's out of silence Wait, you don't have a little looking You won't sneak and look at your boyfriend's Back account, Dullins But now you're saying it's okay to go and stalk your exes Yeah, I saw one recently of my exes and he bought a house with a girl and I was like crazy he moved on

like I know I have for him for six years but crazy he's so funny he bought a house with someone crazy that he's doing this to make me jealous yeah

wow psycho behavior from him honestly my ex is looking he's looking good oh that's good oh that my first ever boyfriend that's who I'm looking at

Benjamin oh lovely is a Trump hat is that a Trump hat no it's a Trump hand it says major look Toy 2 to Tittiti Oh, yeah, it's quite good

That's good He's woke, he's woke as Yeah He had pink hair at one point Wow Yeah, not going So did you Did he go woke and go broke

Or just another case of not going to broke Yeah It's weird how you're here Go woke go broke so often But these people seem to be financially thriving Well how fun's it to look at your ex But sometimes you don't want them To know you're looking at them

You know, it's a bit like Oh, they've caught me stalking I've got a hack to make sure They don't know that you're having a sneaky look Don't like their photos that's part of it. Well, of course, but that's for a main feed. I'm talking stories.

You want to see what they're up to. Did they go out last night? Oh, yeah, but you don't want them seeing that you've seen the story. So what you need to do is make sure your Instagram is loaded. So you can either do this when you can see those bubbles at the top. It'll show you the three people. Or just search your ex on Instagram or whoever. This isn't an ex-specific hack.

Search them up on Instagram. So you can try this with FVH-ZM. And then once you're on our profile, turn your phone to error. You will now be able to watch our story because you've preloaded it by going to our profile. But we as your ex or FVH will not know that you have seen this. It will not register because you don't have internet at that time

to tell Instagram you've seen it. And then what do you have to do? Afterwards you have to go out. I'd close the app down to make sure. Yeah, and then turn the airplane mode off. Okay, so I'm on a profile currently. And so if I go aeroplane mode Yep

Tap on their story It'll be there because you've preloaded it Yeah it's there Cool So he won't be able to see this He will have no idea You've opened this now What if I message him being like

Hey how are you? If you send him off emoji You'll see that Yeah he'll see that Okay and then I would I'd just close Instagram And then go back Yeah

And then they won't know On the airplane mode Okay Oh that's not bad And the fact that you can search someone up maybe who you don't follow you don't want them to know. Yes, okay. So long as you're not blocked, you'll be

able to do this. This is brilliant. It's actually not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. It's actually not a bad hack. I'm feeling generous. Because how many times do you want to watch a story of someone's, but you don't want them to know that you've seen it? I, because I have some other... Oh, I've called someone

by mistake. Sorry, I've just popped on somewhere. Hey, Lee. Hey, Lee. See, that one won't be hidden. That won't be right up there. That's fine. That's fine. And don't worry, I'm not panicking. They're going to be like, won't they here. I've got a couple of other Instagram profiles. I've got my renovation one, and I've got a random one. So that's how I go and visit.

A random one. Do you have a burner account? She's got a burner. You've got to tell the world you have a burner? Is that who's going to comment on Haley's cute on all of our videos? No, that's a legitimate person. Okay, well, we need to give a, I was just about tap out there, but we've got to give a five-star or below rating.

You said five. I'm going to go four. I don't encourage this sort of behaviour, but four, it's really good. Yeah, it's not healthy, is it? It's not a healthy thing to do. Four only because, yeah, we need to move on from the past. Yeah, but like chicken nuggets aren't healthy, but five stars, you know? Yeah, five stars, you're right, actually.

It's five for me, based on the chicken nugget theory. Play ZM's, Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. From the Fletchbourne and Haley group chat, this is the top. It's Daffield Day today and you can text Donate to 3493 to make an instant $3 $3 donation to the Cancer Society. I normally do those because I sound a bit more sincere. Did you think that lacked sincerity?

Give it another guy. Text donate to 3493 to make an instant $3 donation to the Cancer Society. It's like you're reading it. We did a Red Cross ad years ago for some kind of relief thing and Vaughn just couldn't. Really? They just excused me from the booth. They were like, can you like try to sound like, you know, like you care about the dying children? And he was like, hey, it's just not in your voice, is it?

I don't think, no. But you're a father. I'm a caring man. You're a caring, loving father. That was pure care. But why can't you do it for like, it's bizarre? He's sick people. Yeah.

Okay. One in three, four. Well, let me approach this slightly differently to get people to donate. You've got to my humor in your voice. We know. I will say we're about to kick off the ANZ donation station where we team. up with the ANZ, who have been a partner of the Cancer Society for 35 years. Big success last year.

Yeah, it's such a great cause and it's, you know, so many people are affected by cancer. It's, see, that's, do you, you're hearing that time? I did hear that, actually. Yeah, okay. I do care. I know you do, but it's just bizarre, you don't know. Well, I might use humour to get people to donate them. Yeah, there you go.

If I might. Okay. Top six reasons. She's not laughing, people with cancer, do you know what I mean? Like, it's not funny. Top six reasons to donate to three-four-nine three and make a three-dollar donation to the cancer. Society number six on the list. I dare you to look a daffodle straight in the eye and not donate.

You've got a big bunch in here and God they smell lovely, don't they? Stunning. There's, I grew these. Hey, here's my new variant. Here's my new... Talking to the mic, born, that's how the radio works. Oh, no, this was just for you two. Oh, okay. This was just for friends. Off your chair? This is my new variety. This is my new variety. Yeah, so some of them

have an orange head. Yeah. And some of them are just yellow on yellow. I like the color on it. Did you see my picture of the one that looked like a fried egg? Like it was white petals with a... Yeah. I call them a trumpet and the middle. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, nice. Look at you go. My nana. God Rita grew. God, Rita grew.

And she recently passed away, didn't she? No, that was, well, she passed away 10 years ago. Yeah, well, here's so recently. It was Marlene that passed away. She was more of a hydrangeas girl. And they're just around the corner that season's just Yeah, but they don't last once in a couple of, definitely talk about it. But if you want to donate, it's 3493 to make an incident three dollar donation. To those that are. It's not Hydrangea Day.

No. It's Darryon Day. Hydrangea, hardringer. Number five on the list of the top six reasons to donate to Deffield Day right now, you don't pay for your own phone anyway. Nah, ours is work. I'm going to do it right now, actually. If you're on a company plan, yes, do it. Or, you know, maybe Daddy's paying for it.

Eat this bogsy. I wouldn't have, probably. I wouldn't have said that. I wouldn't have to lost my job. What's the number, 3493? 3493. 3493. Donate.

You text, donate the word to 3493. I've just done it Thank you for your $3 donation to the Cancer Society A&Z is proud to support the Cancer Society Every Defidel Day. Done. Number four on the list of the top six reasons

to donate to Daffield all day right now is if you wrestle around in your couch and car on my recommendation you'll actually come out better off so I'll tell you to donate I'll also tell you to search your car on your couch and you'll find easily more than $3. And you'll find more than $3.

Yeah. So technically you come out better off. Yeah. You're in a plus. That's maths. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six reasons to text donate to 3493 to make an instant $3 donation to the Cancer Society.

The cafe that you keep spending $8 on average coffee has had too many chances. Go to the $5 coffee place. You've got $3 left over. Donate the rest. My coffee's $8. That's great. Thank me later. Number two on the list of the top six reasons to donate to Daffertal Day right now.

You spent far more money than this on a Lubbubu. Far more money than this on a Lubbubu. Why did you look at the producers when you said that? There's way more than five Lububos. No, five donations. Five donations. Yeah. How much is the Labubu?

No, just get on the mind. $54.54. No. No, 39. I was trying to do a 40, but I'm not 40. Yeah, $40 for a lot. Lubbubis are 40 bucks? Yeah.

Well, 39. Let's not be nice. How much is your mortgage? Viral. Shut up. So many of those. She really is what she said. That was the most GENZ.

How much is your mortgage? Homeowner? Yeah. Please don't call me a homeowner. I'm so sorry. You can't call someone a homeowner. You can't call someone that. You're really going to watch what syllables you emphasize in homeowner.

Homona. Homona. And number one on the list of the top six reasons to text donate to 3493. Right now to make an instant $3 donation to the Cancer Society for Defital Day is, I know what you did this week and you need the brownie points. Wait, you'll know. bribing people? You need the car blackmail.

I know what you did. Because of filth. The filth we did this week. We all did the filth. And this is a good way to clear our palette. That's karma brownie points. Everybody listening has done something this week. They're a little ashamed of.

You can wipe the karma slate clean by making a $3 donation right now. That's the day's top six. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. Joining us in studio, one of my favorite comedians and a genuine friend of mine. So he joins the circle of genuine friends. I think you'll be able to hear it. Comedian Paul Douglas. Welcome, Paulie.

Nice to meet you. Meet me in a professional context. Yeah, this is weird. Is it weird seeing men as an actual job have a... In a way, just because we have been in actual jobs, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Seven days live and that sort of stuff. Well, Paulie, you are off on tour today.

Tour starts today. Correct. Around the... I'll just say around the world. Not the world. We're starting just in New Zealand. Paul Douglas could be keen to her. Oh, it says award-winning comedian.

What awards have you won? Not many. I don't know. Best live gag, best live show six years ago. Oh, yeah. Pre-pandemic before my whole life went down the toilet. Like one of those best fish and shops. Yeah.

Best fishing chips in 2006. Oh, you know, just kind of what you want. Most improved cricketer, Hillcress High. Well, okay. Now I'm coming to the shows. Yeah. Well, good for you. Are you a Hamilton boy?

Yeah, I am. Oh, cool. Hill Crest. I was born in Kaita. Oh, wow. Hamilton raised. This isn't about his, it's not a biography. It's not a, it hasn't written a book that we're talking about.

We were going to go through the book. The harrowing tale of Paul Douglas's life. It's not that harrowing, unfortunately. Anytime I think about writing a book, it's like, yeah, did good and then kept doing good and then life's pretty sweet. Really nice parents. You're really nice parents. They're still in love. Had all the talk.

boys I wanted, I think. Now, if you haven't seen Paul Douglas perform, this is how I vouch for his quality comedy. Is often, when he's on the New Zealand International Comedy Fest, Gala, they'll chuck him last because they know

he won't bomb. Wow, okay. That's my praise. Just a pillar. Yeah, yeah. Right. Tent poles. Yeah, yeah. Do you like going a super last in a line-up, Pauli? Yeah, well, I've spoken about this a bit before. I don't have that muscle in my or that whatever

in my body that makes me nervous to perform it's quite the opposite it's like letting a bull out of a cage so the longer you hold the bull into the cage the more I'm going to go out there and be like because you know they've sat there for two hours you're like I've got to grab them yeah they hate you at that point you're going to come out so you got to go out there and just

you know rip him a new one yeah in fact that last one that you were the wonderful host of went so tightly patched it sort of that felt just ingenuous when he said that wonderful and you tried again and it got worse don't worry about it

yeah but you were last on that one and no you actually did such a good job and everyone else did such a good job that one was a breeze yeah that one was fine absolute breeze so no I don't mind it put me last what's the could be keen tour about what's the show

what are you doing could be keen to it the elevator pitch I went to Australia I drank for 15 hours I had 12 panic attacks a day for three days I was like something needs to change here

but I refuse to be one of those people that goes from partying to like endurance sports you know what I mean there's a middle ground where you can drink less and do fun runs you don't have to do ultra marathons and stuff like that

Yeah yeah right People do do a big U-turn generally when they've had a I'll call it It was a mental breakdown I saw you shortly after You saw me very shortly after And we're kindred in our mental breakdown So we are we're often aligned

But you're right People often go, I'm going to go from rock bottom to, I'm going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and I'm going to do it one-legged. Totally. And I was like, there's so many people like me that are those people that like, man, I don't want to give everything up. I want to live that middle ground. So I came up with the could-be-keen system. So very shortly, there's four levels.

There's not keen, could-be-keen, keen, and too-keen. Ideally, you want to live your life between could-be and keen, because that's where the good stuff happens. Yeah. too keen is drug addicts just degenerates and if you get too keen you wrap round to not keen yeah right okay you tip over it's also very hard to get from not keen to too keen that usually involves drugs okay um so it's just basically a system so in my mind if i can keep between could be keen and keen yeah where are you sitting now at present present barometer check uh i'm at a high could be i'm saying no to a lot more

things than I used to. Good boy. And that's essentially how you do it. Because you know you have those friends and you go, they're too keen. Yeah, oh yeah. And you just say to them like, bro, just dial it back to a keen. And then I'm keen. But in the same breath you have those friends who are habitually not keen.

And you're going to be like, brother, we want you at the party. Just bring it up to a kid. Yeah. I'm sitting there and not pain. I love this. Well, if you could be keen to see Paul Douglas, you're kicking things off in Christchurch, going to Cora Mandel, Queenstown, Wannica and Wellington. That's the one.

Eventfinder.com.NZ, look up Paul Douglas. Paulie, good luck with the tour. Play ZM's Fleshworn and Haley. Beautiful, bro. It's daffodle day. And this is ANZ donation station on ZM. Yes, that's right. We're kicking it off the ANZ donation station.

Yeah. We are, yes, we are. We live streaming, and you can catch Fletcher's expressions that he forgets people can see when we do these sorts of things in front of people who are on a live stream. And it's sort of like his hand motion when he's like, hurry up, you're too.

Hurry up. I'm not in control of the buttons. I'm not in control of the buttons. Also, it's important for the three of us to remember that we are live streaming, so our off-air conversations are... We'll park those. PG.

We'll park them. Behaving. Yes. So A-N-Z, a proud partner of the Cancer Society for 35 years, so we're basically raising money today. This is the day daffit all day. We all know it. We've all grown up with it. Let's do it. Yeah. Coming up on the show, a comedian joining us. Yes,

Josh Thompson, the one the only. We absolutely love him. I think he's recovered from the news that the Custard Square The Dead Heath. We'll probably have to ask. We'll have to ask about that. As our Timaru correspondent. Yeah, it's really rocked his week. I thought we might start the donation station next, though. I've been back

in my home studio. I didn't even know you had one. Oh, I've got a fantastic home studio. I used to a lot of remixes. Okay. A P money of sorts. Yes, a sort of. A V-cash.

Yeah. I used to go by. Yeah, right. V-cash. P-mortgage. V-morgaged. That's your rap name. That's my, that's my, that's my, um, that's my DJ name.

I've got a remix. Okay. I'm going to play this remix of a classic. Play Z-M's Fletchhorn and Haley. I was pondering before how long Daffieldal Day has been in New Zealand. 35 years, but started in Canada. significantly earlier than that always associated with the Cancer Society

in different countries. Did they have the song in Canada? They didn't have this particular song, no. Can I just, before you share with us the fruits of your labour, do you know, so we're just kicking this off now, but together with A&Z, so far with our donation station,

we've already raised $44,423. Oh, that's fantastic. That's a round of applause. That's fantastic. Is it a multiple of three? What? 44,423. Man, well, I don't know, divide it by three. Well, yeah, that's what I want to do.

Can you just do it quickly then? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because otherwise, what? How did someone donate, not a three? 4-4-4-2-3. I've opened up my alarm clocked up my calculator. Now I'm with you. 4-4-2-3. 4-4-2-3. Oh, for God's sake you put in the wrong number.

Divor way three. No. It's, well, I mean, it's not exactly. But that's like nearly 15,000 people. Donation. That's amazing. We can make an instant $3 donation. Bless, bless, bless.

This text donate to 3-4-9-3, and that goes straight to the Cancer Society. Child bless. Now, I've done a remix. Okay. I've done a remix, Haley. I sort of thought I was the musical one of the show. I'm a bit scared to hear this. We'll see.

And because Daffodil Day, for me as a child, is, of course, the Daffodil Day song. Daffodil, daffodil, daffodil. Daffodee. No, I believe you've gone one short on the daffodils. Daffodoo. Day is coming your way. It's a classic. It was out and about before Daffodal Day to let you know.

Of course, this was the day before text donations. Yeah. We didn't have cell phones. We didn't have cell phones. Didn't have cell phones. Wow. Didn't have a way to donate. Didn't have internet.

Yep. We just threw rocks around. Through rocks and old building windows. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes we had a stick if we were lucky. Yeah, if you were lucky. Sticking an orange for Christmas. Yeah.

In an orange for Christmas. Yeah. A classic Christmas combo. So we got for Christmas. Yeah. Oh, you know, do you remember your first stick for Christmas? Oh, mine was huge. It was short.

We couldn't afford much. Yeah, I came from a life of privilege. She had a big stick. Big stick for Christmas. You'd almost call it a lock. Wow. Wow. It was such a stick.

It was like, anyway, we digress. We do. I've got a remix. I went into my home studio. Okay. And I turned on my Denon CD player. Okay. And imported some files.

to my audio editing software of choice. It's been a while since you remix songs. Yeah. What's your editing software? Are you a garage band guy? I'm a gigaburt. You're trying to see Georgia Burt? I did kind of think of her in a butt, but no.

Gigaburt. She's actually named after the editing software. And I've made a remix of the Daffield All Day song, which I believe from my research was by Graham Fordyce. In 1990. In 1990. Did you get permission from Graham? I actually haven't.

Okay. I'd like to see him complain and try to take down a charity. Okay, oh yeah, actually. I don't know him, but what a piece of shit he would be. 35 years after the song was released, come at a charity. Okay, here's my remits. Oh, that's a vibe.

Okay. I like what you've done there. It's up. Yeah. Do you know what that's made me want to do? Text to 3493. Text donate. I mean, text donate.

Yeah. Do you do the best thing about that remix? Did you not go on longer? It's eight and a half minutes long. Right. Because it's just loop. So we can just use it whenever you want. Right, okay.

Yeah. You've done a fantastic job there. Yep. Me and Gigaburt. Okay, what a remix? I've done another donation guys on the company dime. Okay. On the company phone, okay.

I mean, you're going to probably have to pay that back. Well, Bogsy's not here, is he? The boss? I don't think Bogsy's in charge of the phones. Ross, boss, am I right to keep texting donate to 3493? Yeah. He's giving it the big, great big, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley.

Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. I'm just watching us on the live stream. If we could get a bit more action out of you, that'd be great. You're very stagnant. You're very boring. You just want me to move a bit more. Just dreary to look at. It's on a delay, and I don't know if that's intentional.

Should we F something up so bad me? Right, okay. That they can, um, cut. Right. Okay. We're still live on here, so don't start. It does. It looks like we've got no friends. If everybody at the back, we'll just move

to the front, please. Yeah. It looks like we've got no... It looks like we're alone. It does look like we're alone. Coming up on the show, we're going to be joined by Josh Thompson, comedian. Yes, indeed. And genuine friend as well. Genuine friend for you and I, maybe not Fletch as much.

Fletch actually hates him. It's going to be so awkward. Yeah, you'd say light acquaintance. It is so silly, silly, silly that a silly little poll, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Well, silly little pole today, we took inspiration from a Daily Mail article. Oh, where a woman has written an article titled, Yes, Every Married Woman I Know has a backup man for when she finally dumps her husband. Here are the tale-tale signs your wife has one. Okay. That's true.

That's something. And also, I did journalism at school. That's far too long for a headline. Yeah. It didn't grab me immediately. No, it was far too long. Far too long. So we asked, do you have a backup person?

Someone on the, what do they call it, back burner? Some on the back burner. Yeah. You just know they're there, they're there. And, you know, one day maybe. Simmering. Do you have a backup person? 91% of people said no.

Oh. Well, of course you're going to say that because their partner could look at their phone. Yeah. That kind of trumps. the headline that said, yes, every married woman I know has a backup man. Contradictory. Yeah. 91% of people said no, but 9% said yes.

Okay, so what about those 9%? What are they saying? Let's try to find some. Okay. Let's try to find some. Tripti said, there's a reason I'm dumping the male species. Do not repeat the same process. Lesbianism. She moved into lesbianism. It sounds like it.

Is it easy to get a visa for? It's actually quite easy. Yeah, yeah. And the cucumbers are there. You just apply. Just fantastic. I've always loved Lebanon. Rose says, I don't even have a person,

let alone a backup one. Okay. Oh, Rose. Can we ever look at Rose? Oh, messing out. We could zoom in on Rose if you'd like to in your own time. If we could get Rose's username sent through to Haley, please, Shannon. Thank you.

I don't know. This breaks a real big lesbian turn, didn't it? Oh, Rose looks lovely. It just needs to get a person. I thought you were going to say personality. I was like, how can you get that? Jareem. This guy responds to every silly little poll.

Do we do. Hell no, that is some psychopathic stuff, he says. Okay. And that's good feedback. Haley, another Haley. My platonic male besties my backup husband. I know he would take care of me and my family if I ever needed. Let's hope it never happens though because ooh.

And then she says bestie dick. I will again say it. I don't know. I didn't say that. On a day like today. On a day, wow. In front of the deaf. Okay.

Haley. Cover your ears, deaf. Hayles. You don't want to hear what we're going to say. Sean said no because I'm now with my backup. I couldn't be happy. Did it? Oh wow.

They did it. They did it. They did it. They did it. That was their backup person. Steph said, oh God, no, I don't have the capacity to like any more humans in this world. Okay. Clucked out.

Ash said, yeah, my backup person's in my bedside table. Wait, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, way. Cover the daffodils ears again. I think she is the Satisfiardels. I'm picking up on that. Oh, hey. Oh, sorry. The daffodels.

Sorry, I don't want to hear that. On a daylight today. Jackie said, yes, I've got a backup person. I just haven't explained to Henry. Cavill that he's my backup person. Well that's crazy because he's actually my backup. He's actually wildly. I'm first than like that. He's actually got a line. There's a long line. There's

a long line. He can back up. He can back up into my person. Oh, Hayley. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Shay says we were right person wrong time. Both married other people but we'll end up together and we both know it. Oh! Do it now! Imagine that

they're both with other people. Just do it now, Shay. I mean we've said that their name a whole bunch of times. I'm mentioning there in so much trouble now that they're probably going to have to deal with that problem. And Robbie said that is the most ridiculous thing ever. The disrespect to your partner, just leave. My soul would be destroyed if I found out my darling did that.

But then says dot dot dot dot dot dot dot dot is telling a different story here, Robbie. Robbie, the dot dot dot dot is the disconcerting. Yeah. The dot dot dot dot's disconcerting, Robbie. Well, for silly little poll, off the back of an article that said every married woman has a backup man.

We asked you if you've got a backup person and 91% of you said, No. Play ZM's Fletch, One and Haley. Are you being funny again? I might be being funny again. You'd be funny again. I might, I like that.

Someone said to me that Fletch is actually the funny, the funny guy of the show. Yeah, he is. Because he gets the sleep, he looks after himself, he treats his body well. Because we drag our asses in. He's not in the middle of a personal recession or a mental breakdown.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. He's got zero stress. He doesn't have a family to provide for him. He's got timing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've recently been, yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. You're all right?

Nah. Zadem presents A&Z Donation Station with Josh Thompson. Josh Thompson's here on the couch with me. Hi there, and what a beautiful setup we've got here. Wonderful. I can't see you guys. There's a bunch of daffodles in the way. Well, you can move them.

Those ones are fake? Oh, there's a fake? Yeah, but Lorne brought in real ones from his driveway. I grew these. Well, that's lovely. Isn't that nice? That's nice. Yeah.

We'll do that this morning. You pick some of those as morning? Actually, so there's a mix there of last night. harvest them some from a few days ago. So you'll see some of the trauma stuff in a wrinkle. Very sad, but you can't have bundled them in it anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Why not? Yeah. We look great. I'm thinking of joining us. These are not comedians' hours. Oh, but you're a dad. I'm a dad as well. Hayley's not a dad. Hayley's not a dad. I'm going to say it as well. I would just like, can I just set the record straight? I'm not a father. I'm not a father. I'm not a father figure. I am a father figure. Put your

tiny hand in mine. Yeah, it's a big daddy vibes. I'm quite, I'm a little bit. I'm a little bit. I went for a run. I don't want to go on about it. Since we were all talking about it, I went for a run last night. Fitsby. Yeah, big, big fit guy. And I've just, I've just started wearing, as a big lad, I don't know if I'm meant to be talking about this right now.

It's fine, we're raising money, we're raising money for Daffan all days. I'm not going to wear it. That makes much more sense why there's so many flowers. And what a great cause? Daffin us. What are you wearing? What are you wearing where you're running? You said, as a big guy.

I've got big, my thighs rubbing together. Yeah. And it's getting all up for my business. So I got a bit of chafing. So I started wearing, I bought like a, like, I guess, black tights. Little leggings. For those who I want to the lightroom, you just indicated up under the bridge. Oh, yeah, you pulled it up real high.

Real high. Real high. Like I went like a skims. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. Skims. He's wearing kim, skims. I've got a corset that I run it. A Victorian corset.

Can I check, now you fit young men. Are you meant to wear pants over the top? Yes. Oh, my God. Okay. So I've made two mistakes. One is I'm wearing. tights pulled up very high, and the second one is I'm running

quite late at night. And it's not, I didn't realize it to I went out, just how cold it can be if it rains. Oh, sure. And it rained, and then the wind started blowing, it was not good. Wow. And it's not like, it's not like I'm running for the Jamaican 100 metres either. So there's not, you know, so I don't want to be on display. But, but anyway, so...

May I, can I put us on track? Well, I just were to say, I've ditched the tights. I heavily vacilline my areas. He vassies. I do. I buy Vaseline. I've got a bucket of petroleum jelly I haven't been there in a long time. I'm not loyal to the brand. I'll just go whatever. You've been pushing it pretty hard on the show,

but you've got a big listenership. And what a great product Vaseline is too. Okay. Josh, I'm just going to stop you because you've got to run on. Skabies. Okay, sure. I've got to run on. Yeah, so we're raising money today for the daffodal day with A&Z. Oh, great.

Which, of course, raises money for the Cancer Society. And we keep saying one and three people are affected by it, which could be, like, you've had it, you'll get it, or someone you love has been affected by it. What is your connection? Do you, anyone you, someone you love? Oh, yes, of course, of course. This is not you announcing that you have it, but...

No, no, no, no, no. Yes, a wonderful uncle of mine had it. It was an incredibly sad time as he went away, and I've had many people in my life have it. It's a horrific thing, and I'm so glad to be part of it. I wish I'd known sort of, I wish I'd really known about this inside my head before I started telling a horrific story about... Yeah, I just sort of wanted to reflect back to you.

No, hey, we're going to celebrate our lighter moments. We're going to celebrate our moments. We do. Yeah, but I mean, it's... If we don't laugh, we'd be depressing if this entire day we were just concentrating on sad stories of people affected by cancer. We've got to have the lying and the stories of the survivors and the people that have beaten it

and the wonderful work that the daffodal day does for the Cancer Society. That's right. Oh, my alarms are started going off. Well, if that's your alarm, you're late. Sorry. You're already on air. Oh, I wonder why I'd slept in. 735, is that your alarm?

Yeah, yeah, so at 6.30. No wonder you look so chipper. 7.34. Wouldn't that be nice, lads? Wouldn't it be nice? Yeah. I still reckon anxiety would... Boop, 4 a.m.

Yeah. Hey, buddy. Hey. I've been thinking. Hey, loser. Hey, big loser. Hey, you big jerk. What are you going to do today?

Nothing? Yeah. You big loser? Remember that time your life made no impact? Yeah. I'd be like, whoa, anxiety. Give me a break. It's true.

Josh, what have you got going on in that? What have you got going on at that moment? Apart from night training. Just some night training actually. Why are you night training and not day training? I've been co-opted into a celebrity rugby, a soccer match. And so I thought I could play, but I can't. Men of our vintage.

This is male arrogance thinking we can do this sort of thing. I played before when I was seven. but it's different. I will remind you that we're in our 40s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I talked to a guy, a professional guy, and he was like, what you've got to do is work on your intermittent speed,

run quickly back to forth and cross the field. He didn't have a 35-year gap between the guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said there's probably some other stuff I've got to work on as well in the meantime. But what I've chosen to do is to running super, like I'm talking 11 o'clock at night. So if you see a heaving Polynesian man running around your neighborhood

at about 11 o'clock at night, carbid and sweat and wearing tites. And I'll be careful what neighbourhood you did that. Yeah. And call them what they are, they're panty hose. But the other things

when you run, like, I get nervous because my hands aren't swinging anymore. Because I want a shield. So like I'm running with them in front of me.

What if your hands aren't swinging? That's terrible technique. Because it gets too cold. I've got to wear other shorts. I don't know you went to wear other shorts on the outside. Yeah, you have to.

And those ones are the flaps. Yeah, with the high breeds. No. Yeah. The L.P. Teacher short. Yeah, yeah, no.

Did you see, Josh, did you see? What was the race with that guy came loose. When did the hurdles? When it's the first one it popped out, didn't it? Oh, really? Fell up there.

No. We'll bring that up for you. What are we talking about? He was doing the hurdles and you know how they go, waf, waf with the legs? Oh, the legs, yes. Out of it can't. From the bottom of the shorts.

Because you were talking about getting these flappy shorts. I was like, they're more dangerous than the panty hose. And he couldn't poke it in. He kept trying. There's too much admin going on there when you're talking about. Did he win? I think he won. Did he won?

But he won and he won. Do you know what I mean? Because the internet was like, bravo. Not since the Frosby flop, have we seen such an update in a sport. Now, Josh, have you texted? Have you text donate to 3943? No. Sorry, 3493?

I thought I should have my phone off, but my alarm went and everything started going to custard. Now I'm sort of waking up and realizing what's going on. And what a great cause we're all here for. You know, it sounds like... You actually said things have gone to custard. Yes. Could we talk this just briefly about the loss of Den Heath desserts from your hometown? I gave him credit where it was due, but I did say,

I gave Di Henwood's joke from our group chat. What's that? I wonder who gets custody. Yeah, yeah. And we pause for applause and we shall again now. Di Henwood. There's a time and place to make jokes, and I don't think it's about custody empires that have gone down.

Are you all right? How are you on the news? I've never been sent an article more time. since I have never been referenced but people that I went to school with were sending me things and like some people were making jokes and people knew the gravity of what had happened

one time I made a joke about Dan Heathcock not a joke I just told about how wonderful they were on New Zealand television and the next week they sent me a dozen custard squares and they said Jeremy Corbett doesn't custom square Jeremy Corp wasn't even part of the joke didn't do anything to be the guy on the show

Jeremy joining us later in the day I believe around 5 o'clock yeah he's a waste of time don't bite muck around with him so he got don't send him any more Custed squares based on what I'm talking about so he got given a dozen

sending anybody anybody I'm pushing this Custit story okay don't you come on with you with your quick radio chat he got given a dozen Custard squares

I got given a dozen Custard squares and I went to go to reception and Jeremy had been in before at TV through reception and had offered his Custard squares

to everybody in the building Oh what a gentleman what a gentleman and they said oh here's yours and they all looked at me with her eyebrows lifted up so high

and I said thank you and I went and sat in my car and ate back. I looked out of my car window and I looked into reception and I said this is what you get. Yeah. Well, Josh Thompson we'll see you out on the road Oh yes, yes. See you on the road

seven days live touring later in the year? Yes, yes it is. And I tell you those dates are convenient for everybody and easily to remember. Yeah, yeah. Easily to remember. And if that story about the custard squeers has touched you you can text donate to 3493

to make an instant $3 $3 donation to the Cancer Society. That was seamless actually, that was seamless. Josh, thank you. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Custin and daffitles are yellow. Both.

That's right. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. This feels like a bit of a left turn and I really do apologize. I'm going to share a story with you about a woman in New York City. She claims she's been left permanently traumatized. That's what you've got to say

when you're sewing someone. Yeah, permanently traumatized. Oh, my God, I can't stop thinking about this. Yeah, yeah, it has actually impacted my day-to-day life. Until you pay me millions of dollars and I'll be actually quite fine. I'll be all right, yeah. I might go on holiday. So Mary Elizabeth Smith, God, they got that one straight out of a baby name book, didn't they?

Not very original. Mary Elizabeth, sorry, Mary Elizabeth Smith. My great-grandmother's name was Mary Smith. Well, I rest my case. And may she rest in peace. And may she rest in peace. she was having a meal in a... Just like my grandmother Mary

I used to, every day. She noticed something, she was having a chicken wrap and then she noticed something in her mouth from the wrap. Funny how when you eat things end up in your mouth. Yeah, they know, but it was a chicken or lettuce. She bit into it and she was like, something's not right, so she went to spit it out onto a napkin

and something came out wasn't chicken, wasn't lettuce, wasn't mayo, wasn't tomato, wasn't anything normal. No, it was a fingertip. There's a finger tap. Ooh, yeah. How much? Because you just took your finger... Look at that.

Like, I'm talking a real nib. Yeah, I've been really making a mess on my hands lately. My thumb's healing. Like a cross, like a little... I'd say it's bigger than a pee. You wouldn't have done that without a note. Like, the person who's lost that nose. Yeah, the tip's gone.

But also, you've made the rap, you know? Yeah. She does... You don't want these things going to waste. Yes. Waste it or not. So she's a lawyer, so she was ready to go. Oh, yeah.

So she took, you know, photos, everything, ready to go. She wants everyone to know she has actually been cooking more meals at home as a result. You would. Just the encouragement she needed to get that journey to health started. Also, not hard for management to find out if a staff member has lost. Hands up. Yeah. in case the fingertip was Manky.

Ah. It might have exposed her to that. Okay. And, yeah, she's been permanently traumatised. So what do I want to know right now, on daffield day, what did you find in your food? That wasn't supposed to be there. The way you said on daffod all day,

it made it sound like this would work on no other day. This phone and top of it would not work on any other day apart from daffit all day. Today on A&Z donation station, what did you find in your food? Because there's always a hair. Would you complain if there's a hair? I wouldn't. I pull it and eat it. You eat the hair?

Not the hair. The rest of the meal. Right. Oh, yeah, I'm delicious. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, I'd eat a hair. A pub is but a hair. No, but it's from a different region.

That's the south of France. It's from down under. It's from the South Pacific. It's Australian, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, so I'll wait a hundred dollars at end. We'd love you to call us now. You can text a 9-696.

What did you find in your food? that definitely shouldn't have been in there. What did you find in your food? Because a woman was eating a chicken wrap that she bought and found a fingertip of a human being in there. Here's a lovely one. I was at a restaurant. I'm not even going to say this area.

Okay. I found broken glass of my dessert. I found this after wondering why there was so much crunch and why it tasted a bit like blood. Okay. They were pretty good about it. Gave me a new dessert. Paid for our entire bill.

Table of eight people. Would you want another dessert? from the same place? Do you know when I was in Italy recently, thank you. I do travel and I get around. I had glass in my cocktail and then they brought me a complimentary shot of liquor and then made me pay for the cocktail.

I was like, it literally had glass in it. Anyway, there was a language barrier so I paid for it. No one to COVID ravaged them first. Yeah, I know, eating glass. With that attitude. Anonymous, what did you find in your food? We found a best before sticker

Yeah But the worst part was Was that the best before was actually a couple days out of date Oh no Oh God Anonymous So it was the same in you know I'll put your mind at rest here

Best before stickers only indicate a sort of a general idea A couple of days after a Best before Yeah but it should have frozen it They might have frozen it and defrosted Yeah but it shouldn't be in your food though No that's the definite bit Yeah Yeah thank you anonymous

I'm literally someone that weren't eat, it's like baked beans out of date. Oh, okay. Big bands never die. Banking is impossible. They'll outlast us all in a nuclear holocaust. I was going to say you would be impossible in a zombie apocalypse when they're raiding the supermarket. I'd feed it to the zombies. I'd trip you over as we're running away from them anonymous.

We'd break into a supermarket in the zombie apocalypse and you wouldn't eat anything. Well, tough. Yeah, tough anonymous. We'll eat you. You've got big chicken rugged cat energy anonymous. Big fries. Big fries and chicken nuggets. Fries at the Chinese.

Yeah. Another message here, my husband ordered steak with mushrooms, went to stab his fork into a mushroom, hard as a rock. He said, that's unusual. Licked the sauce off. It was the kitchen sink plug. I love that he licked the sauce off. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley.

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. It is, it's definite all day. We're here with the A&Z donation station, raising money for the Cancer Society. Where are we at? 45 grand or something like that so far. Text 3493, donate to make an instant donation. I'm so excited to welcome to the show on the phone, joining us. Cohen Holloway.

You're known from Boy, Hunt for the World of People, Egoverse Shark, every bloody New Zealand film. 80 films he's been in. 80. 80. Blumen films. And Cohen joins us. Hi, Cohen. Ki-a-a.

Khaoa. Now, how are you, Cohen? Just in general, before we dive into things. I'm shit, I've got cancer You were Haley, you did ask I did ask you. I sort of was just like More like Hawaii in general But yeah, we'll just go straight into it, Cohen

You do have cancer Yeah, I'm doing my chemo pills So yeah, I'm awesome You've got a gliblyoblastoma That's it, how'd you say it again? Glyglo glialoblastoma. Your brain You've got something in your brain Yeah, I do. Glyoblastoma. Nearly had it for two years

so that's um generally um the stats are that um life expectancy is 12 to 18 months so on nearly two years which is 5% of the population wow so cohen you like everyone you are the funniest man in any room you're in like and this is how i've always known you when i see you i know i'm in for a laugh i'm here for a good time and then one day i was just part of a group text saying heads up, you know, and it was a friend of a friend of a friend who was just saying, just letting you everyone know, Cohen's got, is it a brain tumour? Yes.

And basically, that's what's happening. Prognosis is not good. And then I saw you maybe a year later and I was like, oh my God, and you're making jokes, you're having a laugh, just the funniest guy in the room still with the brain tumour. Yep, someone's got to be. I think you

kill, I call it the sea word. because it's cancer, but I think I'd kill it with humour. I remember when I first, I was having these headaches for six weeks, and being a typical New Zealand male, I didn't do anything about it, and then woke up in hospitals because I'd had a seizure and basically got told that they'd put me in an MRI machine, and I had glibylostom, and I was like you, Haley, I was like, and then yeah I couldn't walk for about six months and I was about 80% blind in one eye

so I thought I was on my way out and the reason I didn't tell all my friends is because as you three know in this industry it's a bit um everyone will just text you and ring you and I just didn't have the energy I was just kind of saying my goodbye is crying listening to Batehoven you know And then I had this little bell, Kelly, my partner, who's my kids' mom, I'd ring this bell. And I said to her, how long's it been? And she said, how long's what been? I said, since I got put into palliative care, which I said I'd go home, and she goes, oh, it's been six months. And I said, I'm still alive.

from that moment I had this big urge of energy that I just wanted to live not that I didn't who doesn't not want to live yeah but when you're told that it might not be likely I'm sure it gives you

more drive yes it does yeah you're right Haley yeah it does you just go I'll prove them all wrong my oncologist Nicola Nidu is amazing and she deals with death all the

time, just a big, big, uh, all the oncologists around the country that deal with people all the time. So it's not a nice place waiting in a waiting room. I go once every three months to get my MRI looked at, which is your scan. Can you tell us what's happening? Like, I mean, it's, it's pretty, yeah, like, where are you at? You're not supposed to be here. You're still here. No, I know. Sorry about that. Is it annoying you? She was just saying how frustrated she finds this. You just hear, but I'm a pain of the ass going.

She'd like to be the funny one in the room, I think. Yeah, yeah, you are the funniest person. When I'm with you, it really hits my ego because I'm not as funny as you. You said funniest man in the room. You're the funniest woman in the room. Come on. Yeah, but women, you know, women, you know.

Oh, they're not that funny, ain't you? Yeah, yeah, famously. So where are you at now? Because you've outlived your prognosis. Yep. And so you go every three months. to have a little looky in the noggin. And then what?

Excuse me. We're just, we're just, we're just, we're just, we're just, we're just, we're just, we're just, we're just oral chemo because what's the brain you can't, um, have normal, normal chemotherapy. So it's, it's pills. I just had my last dosage just before this phone call, actually. So that knocks you around, but, um, I'm still working. I did my life as murder and, um, educators. Educate, educators

And a few other things I was up for the best actor At the New Zealand TV awards last year Went up there And didn't win But I called him a bit rude A bit rude Did they know?

Do they know that you've got brain cancer? No, no I knows that But you can't gift it to the You know the brain cancer guy Yeah but with Heath Ledger and his Oscar Like as if they weren't going to give it to him Do you know what I mean? You'd sort of think, oh, you know, Chuck it does Colin.

You never know. Yeah, well, you three would have given it to me. No, but it was Scottish guy in the after party. He was amazing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was good. You know, someone just texts us in Cohen. Cohen is the best part of Eagleburg Shark. I love him and wish him the best.

Oh, thank you. Do you want to go out with me, Haley? I was only joking. Ah! No, thanks. You're too much. You're too much. I mean, that is why we're doing the ANZ donation station,

raising funds for the Cancer Society and all the amazing work that they do. Helping people like the wonderful Cohen Holloway. Cohen, thank you so much for chatting to us, bro. And honestly, we wish you the best of luck, but I know you're going to beat it because you're just one of a kind. Thank you. Thanks, Sam. Thanks for having me in. Yeah, text 3493, and it really does make a difference.

Yeah, it'll be an instant $3.3 donation to the Cancer Society. Round of applause here from everybody at the I Heart Radio Lounge. Thanks, love you. Thanks, Donate to 3493. Thank you, Cohen Holloway. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Haley Fact of the day Day, day, day, day, day

Yeah, 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 do do do do do Well the fact of the day the thing this week has been accidental inventions and I actually had corn flakes up for today Oh what were they accidentally meant to be? Well they are, do you want a quick recap of how corn flakes are accidentally invented? Yeah, bonus fact, please. When he was invented by Mr. Callag so you wouldn't play with yourself? Yes, correct.

No, that was Mr. Dr. John Harvey Callag, superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, promoted strict vegetarianism and plain foods for health and morality. The morality part there is to stop you playing with yourself. Right. He believed junk food and naughty treats lead us to want to touch ourselves.

Yeah. Hey, jokes on you, Mr. Kellogg. It doesn't work. Ha ha! So they were preparing boiled wheat for bread dough, but they accidentally left a batch sitting out overnight, and waste not want-not, they rolled out the stale. dough and it broke into thin flakes as it dried

instead of the sheets of dough and then they toasted the flakes and they were crisp and edible so they were like ta-da corn flakes stop playing with yourself no the sugar would make you play with yourself oh sugar is that what it is yeah we're trying not to play with ourselves okay so we're doing a beer we're doing everything we're doing everything we can yeah to get our hands off it what year was that did you say 1800s did they believe some weird

things back in the day 1894 in Michigan oldie foe okay they were crazy yeah yeah But today I've changed tech as we're sitting here because during my research earlier in the week I found out that chemotherapy was also accidentally discovered. Okay, how do they do that? Well, during war, there was a little bio weapon called mustard gas, World War I. Okay.

Not my favourite. Well, they do call it the Great War. Wasn't that great to me? No. Not for me. So soldiers were exposed to mustard gas. It was like a weapon. that was used against the two opposing sides both had it,

and found out that their white blood cells were wiped out where they're being exposed to mustard gas. Doctors noticed that the immune system basically, like, collapsed because it wiped out the white blood cells that replicate quicker. Right. So later on, during World War II, when they were looking at this again, there was another exposure,

and they could study a little bit of science at advance, and they said it's wiping out all the cells that replicate quickly, and cancer is one of those cells. I've got some stats here on how quickly different cells split. So skin cells every two to three weeks will replicate liver cells once a year or so. Is that why we should exfoliate our skin? Yeah. Speed it up.

Maybe. Yeah, right. Nerve cells basically don't divide. Sorry, what was the liver? I'm disinterested. Once a year. Damn it. I was kind of hoping for it every day.

So nerve cells often don't divide it all once matured. So we get to a certain point and then basically we stop feeling. And they slowly fade. I've noticed that as well. I've been talking in therapy about it. Yeah, you've stopped feeling. Stop. This might be slightly different.

Cancer cells, however, replicate every day, 72 hours, depending on type of cancer, so up to 10 times faster than normal tissues around you. But the problem is that the chemotherapy often can't tell the difference between the cancer cells, the replicating quickly, and other ones that replicate quickly, like hair, skin, and gut. So that's why a lot of people lose their hair during chemotherapy treatment, or the stomach lining, the nausea and everything is affected as well. Right. So it's not mustard gas.

It's not mustard gas. It's like... It's mustard gas's friendly cousin nitrogen mustard. Right. Okay, wow. It is of the same family. That was the original chemotherapy. The drugs have changed and stuff since,

but that was the origins of the original cancer treatment known as chemotherapy. Which was an accidental discovery. Yeah, and it was called chemotherapy because it was also like chemical warfare. Wow. But it was therapy using the chemicals. So today's fact of the day is that chemotherapy was one of, I would say, probably the most important accidental discoveries of all time.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, day. A do-d-do-do-dood-dood-dood-dood-dood-dood-d-d-d-do-d-d-d-do-d-d-d-do-d-d-d-d-t do-do-do-d-d-d-td-td-tall. Play Z-M's Fletchvorn and Haley. Play Z-M's Fleshworn and Haley. Snob. Z-M presents ANZ Donation station with Dr Chris Horner. It's Michael Galvin. Please tell me that it's not your ****.

Hey. Still the best line on Shortland Street ever. Oh, iconic. No. Second only to, we're not in Guadabella now, Dr. Ropata. I'm not leaving. I was going to say, to us, yes, but the man that probably gets it yell at him on the daily. Probably not your favourite.

I don't. No, actually, I do. It is my favourite. I think it's fantastic. It's hilarious. I'm here with Dr. Michael Galvin. Hello. Now, does that line haught you?

haunt you? No, it doesn't. I really thought after that episode, I thought, okay, well that's me for the rest of my life. You know, people yelling at me out of car windows until I die, basically. But, no, it just hasn't happened at all. I would only yell it at you if, one, I was a man, and two, I was

at the gym and you were getting changed. And you actually had it out. And then I would yell at you, please tell me this is not your penis. Oh, really? Is that all your heart? Yeah, oh my God. I wouldn't have expected that. No, it's good. It's great, but it's great for the show that it got, you know, people

talking and... Now, Michael, you're actually on a bit of a break at the moment from Shorties. Yeah, yeah, well, we do things differently now because it's only on three... Do you serve small plates and you have to share? That's such a bad joke. You wouldn't have got that immediately.

We do things differently. I'll get a joke in about 10 minutes time and they'll laugh. No, you're going to be at a restaurant later and they're going to ask you, have you eaten here before because they do things a little bit differently and they're going to be like, I finally get a joke. Small plates.

Small plates and we're all sharing. I haven't got it. So I'm really looking forward to get. Okay, I know it drops, Michael, man, you're going to laugh. It's so good. It's just in all the restaurants. Is this where you stand up slow? Yeah, yeah, Michael, you've got to come along to my next one hour show.

No one laughs at the time and Haley stand up. Later on. Driving home, they're like, oh, that's right. It's a slow bird. So you do things a little differently, Shorty. It's me, I'm stupid. So we do things everywhere. We're only showing three episodes a week.

Yes. But we're shooting four episodes a week. So that means it only takes us about eight months. You're ahead. To shoot the whole. year. So we've actually shot the whole year. Yeah. So I've been unemployed since the end of June. Well, don't say unemployed. We're on a break. Well, resting, darling.

Yeah, resting, darling. I'm resting, darling. Since the end of June. And it's been absolutely wonderful. Because I haven't really had a break since I came back to the show in 2000. So that's 25 years. Yeah, so it's nice to not do anything. How long was your break from Shorties? I was off for four years, yes. What did you do?

Well, I went all over the place. I was in Sydney for a bit. lived in London for a couple of years and you just wanted to come back you got the whiff and you're like I've got to go no I went over to London to trying to get work and I didn't get any work my partner at the time got a scholarship to study at a very prestigious art school and I was actually born in London so I knew I'd have no kind of have you got that passport I've got a passport

nice yeah nice unfortunately they left the bloody European Union yeah I know but it's still more useful than the Kiwi one yeah better than nothing it's nice to have both yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah So, anyway, I was over there trying to make my fame unfortunate. Guess what? Harder, I didn't. It's harder than it looks. So you've been, so 25 years since you came back,

do you still just love it? Like, do you love going to work every day and getting to act? It's a terrific, it's a terrific job. You know, and it's always changing. There's always kind of new people coming and going, and they always manage to dream up new shit for Chris Warner, which just absolutely astounds me the way they're able to do that. You know, every year, I kind of go, oh, yeah, I've never done that before.

Or have you ever read a script and just said, no, I'm not doing that. Oh, no. Like, come on, guys. Give Chris a break. Not from a kind of a harumphi point of view. Harunf I'm not doing that. It's only if it contradicts something really strongly. I sometimes go down to the writers and you go, you do realize that I've done something or said something that absolutely contradicts this thing that I'm going to do now and maybe you want to, and they usually go, oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, you're right. Because you're a writer as well. Maybe some people won't know, but us from the theatra would have seen some of your works before, Michael. Yeah, probably not. Not many people came to them, but... It's a hard medium, isn't it? It's a hard.

I'd say it's harder than London. But you... Because you'll have that insight as a writer of, like, character and intent and... Yeah, I think it's more about... You were right. Yes, you're, that's correct, but I think it's more about, you know, if you've been on there long enough, you just get a real sense of what your character stands,

for and actually it's not even that it's as simple as consistency from week to week and because it's such a difficult show to write you know they're just having to come out with all these episodes things fall through the cracks and so it's more about that yeah it's more about just like hang on this doesn't square with what I was doing two weeks ago and but they didn't write the script that someone else wrote that two weeks ago do you think if someone ran into this into the iHeart radio lounge right now yeah yeah and that there was blood pouring from an open wound

and they came in and they just went I need a doctor sure yeah that's me how much what well yeah no promises how much medical knowledge do you think you actually like you just know just based on like male

confidence more than you playing a doctor I mean admittedly like we learn so much it kind of it's gone the next week but you know what I lack in skill and knowledge I'll make up for an enthusiasm. Yeah, you're great.

So I'll be really enthusiastic and confident. Yeah. I'll be very confident, but, you know, promises. Yeah, yeah, okay. About the consequences.

Because bring her in with a laceration to the arm. If you could just sign this document. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, saying that you're not actually responsible for healing them. Now, how close do you reckon Chris is to Michael? Because Chris is like,

is a womanizer? Not anymore, he's not. no no that just comes up to age yeah he's gone out of that one yeah yeah I guess over the years

it's impossible for the two to not kind of meld but you do you kind of it's fairly clear where one starts down there while other one stops

I mean I have such a I love my boring life when I say boring is probably the wrong word kind of uneventual no calm is the right word calm okay there you go calm life

and Chris has a very not calm life and he kind of has the me personally I seek out calmness and Chris seeks our drama you know he's always looking for the next drama he's always trying to involve himself in other people's dramas if he's not creating it for himself

so I guess that's the essential difference between us but yes well Michael thank you so much for joining us enjoy your period of fun employment thank you I will before you get back on set and bring us the beloved Chris Warner Dr Michael Galvin on the show Thank you

Play ZMs, Fletch, Vaughn and Haley It's the ANZ donation station We're live in the IHeart Radio Lounge Raising money with ANZ for the Cancer Society You can text donate to 3493 That's an instant $3 donation Where we at? How much money? Update so far together with ANZ

We have raised $46,412 Yes, fantastic And what time is it? 845! Yeah, it's early. Hell yeah, me. Early in the day. We're going to kick that 100.

I reckon quite early. And it's Daffodal Day. So if you see people out on the street as well with buckets or anything? Yes. So many ways to donate. Wait, not just anybody. If someone's just walking with a bucket,

they've just purchased them for a money into it. You don't just not people with a bucket. Especially if they're literally leaving like minor 10. Do you know what I mean? They've probably just gone in for a bucket. They've got a big gorgeous orange bucket. Oh my God, those buckets. That good buckets.

Good buckets. Great buckets. Now it's Stafford All Day, but it's also New Zealand Fashion Week. Yeah. And you know, fashion's my passion. I went to my first fashion. show yesterday, Karen Walker. Your first fashion show ever?

I think so. Maybe. I think so? Okay. Yeah. Even I've been to one. Yeah. Have you? Yeah. I have. Yeah, we went to that. We commented it, didn't we? Yeah. It was bizarre. It was bizarre. Yeah, that's right. I was like, here's people in their undies.

It just got right. It was a different time, I guess. God, it was so amazing, though. Like, I went yesterday, and I went with my pal and I put it together my nice, you know, Karen, and I look good, eh, Fletch? We will say... I didn't say anything. The skirt was short. Yes, very...

I really had to keep getting a check, didn't I? Yeah, you did. What can we see? And then I had my tickets, and I was walking in there, and there were so many seats. And then I looked at my ticket, and I was like, oh my gosh, she's shoved me in the back. Like, she's embarrassed to be associated with me.

Karen, I'm talking about. Yeah, well, you did break her one-of-a-kind Barbie. I did. I snapped the glasses right off. And then, guys, front row. Wow. Now, I don't know much about fashion shows, but if you're front row, that's a big deal. That's a big deal.

Yeah. And they were doing, you know, like taking photos. You know what I mean? When you see people at fashion and in the front row and taking photos and I was doing my best fashion gal. And then across the runway, so I'm front row, as I should be, Haley Sprow, fashion queen. Yeah. And then, tottle, tautil, tautil, guess who sits opposite me on the other side front row. So equal, I'd say, equal kind of prize position, Taika Waititi.

Oh, wow. Okay. this is what I've deduced from this. Of course. Karen Walker holds me in the same regard as National Treasure, Taika Waititi. Wow. Yeah. And I'll say he looked fashion.

Yeah. Was Rita Aura there? Rita Aura was not there. Though I do believe she's here, no, he was with his daughter. Me and Tykes, I didn't even say hi. He doesn't know who I am at all. Well, you don't need to say that part next time you tell the story. Okay.

Me and Tykes, we all like, so up. And one of my favourite parts, and I thought you guys would have actually enjoyed this of the Karen Walker fashion show they had a hobby horsing you know that the girls that prance around on the horses on the stick and the broomstick

with horse head on yeah they had the champion world champion hobby horsa in the as one of the models of the Karen Walker

oh that gives me the ick and they had all these hurdles and you know little jumpy things and she was frolicing about wearing Karen Walker obviously

have to have sensible shoes the shoe was very Well, it was Adidas and Karen Walker. So no, like heels or anything? No high heels, no, no, no, no. But she was frolicking about. So it was an absolute, it was a lovely show. What was on the runway?

Like, what kind of clothes? Yeah, yeah, I know, but did Karen Walker do some three-stripe Adidas pants of the stirrup foot? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had a stirrup foot. We had, um, it was sort of like Karen Walker's suiting meets Adidas athlegia. So the matching track suits that are worn by people to walk up to you and they're like, all right, mate, all right, all right. You want to go, bro? All right.

Yeah, like that. It was your 40 team. It was high fashion. It was really high fashion. Okay. Yeah. It was really good. But yeah, me and Tykes, man.

I don't know. It doesn't know who you are. He sat right opposite me. He probably spent the whole show watching me being like, I know her. Know her from somewhere. There's a star rising. I don't think he did. God, better put her, chuck her in my next film.

Oh, another podcast in the bag. The plastic bag. Are they back? No, no. Still banned. Okay. They never left. No.

That's where you come in with the line born. Boy, man. If you enjoyed that... Okay. Oh, and if you enjoyed it, give us a rating and a review and be sure to tell all of your friends. God, I need some sleep.

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