ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - December 11th 2025

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

On todays episode of the Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Big Pod,  Man has been on Disney ride 15000 times Top 6 - Quotes of the year The study of Obituaries TikTok song of the year SLP - December Babies: Do you like your Birthday? Most complained about ads Londoner is judgy of our gym habits Shannon's Hack When did you steal, just a little? its break up day Vaughan cried at the movie Fact of the day What do you still get your parents to do for you? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network This is... Fleshwoman and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. Good morning, Fletch Worn and Haley Vaughn coming to us from his home studio this morning. Yeah, it's where I recorded

a couple of pretty high-profile duets with Fergie. From the blank-eyed peas. From the black-eyed peas. Not the Duchess. I thought she'd ask you to stop talking about that time, Vaughn. She has. but you know while it's in the courts I will continue to until the courts say otherwise

yeah you've got to make a living to be honest I'm probably not going to listen to the courts I won't be told what to do by the law we're going to look at a bad boy we've got a sovereign citizen on our hands you have a sovereign citizen I'm taking my number plates off coming up on the show boy and you've got the top six yeah the quotes of the year

this is Massey University yeah this is the New Zealand quotes of the year I'll tell you what they are but then I'll also I've used some very advanced technology to see what quotes were said the most on our show this year. Oh, okay. So I've got...

Sorry, the actual quotes of the year that Massey have chosen it, the doozies, they're pretty good. Yeah. They dozies, yeah, the frontrunner from our very own Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon. Christopher Luxembourg.

Christopher Luxdens. For the mispronunciation there. It's a real doozy, and I think it's a front runner to take it all out. but I've got the top six quotes from our show this year. Next on the show, though, a man who has gone to Disneyland more times than probably many. 1,100 times this man's been to Disneyland.

He says... Isn't that insane? 1,100 times. That's insane, but how many times he's ridden one particular ride? Even more insane, and I'll tell you what it is next. The Fletchhorn and Haley Big Pod. Now, as a fuller-grown man that has quite enjoyed his time at Disneyland, and the three times I've gone as an adult.

Yeah, nice. Three times. Three times. I think, yeah, I went in 2008, 2022 and then 2023. Nice. Yeah. I haven't been since I's 17.

Well, people have annual passes and go all the time when they live in California. Friend of the show, Justine Smith. She's a feat. Goes every year, yeah. Goes every year at least to Tokyo or to the L.A. one or anything. Just loves it. She's, she loves Disney.

Yeah, she's got Disney tattoos, Disney Christmas tree, Disney everything. Okay, right, yeah. So I think even Justine Pails in comparison to John Hale, California, local, who has been 1,100 times. Does this go have a job? Like, how would you fit this into your, like, week? He might be retired. He looks like an older gentleman.

Okay. He had gastric, he went, underwent gastric bypass. and knee replacement surgeries in 2010 and 2011. And then he was like, I've got to make the most of life. Get out there and, you know, do it. He lost a lot of weight and he's like, I've got to, you know, get out there. So he went to the happiest place. I mean, you could easily put the weight back on at Disneyland.

If you said it's insane. It's hard to get a salad in Disneyland. Hard to get a salad. Well, if you did get a salad, it would be one of those American covered in yellow cheese and ranch. A cheese bacon and dressing salad. But that would actually, would that be a fun way to get you. your, like, cardio in, you go to, if you live near Disneyland, you just go to Disneyland, walk and walk and walk and walk, walk, go on some rides, walk, walk, and then you're done.

That's sort of 30,000 step days when I went and you're walking around and you're tracking your steps on your watch or you can get to the end of the day, you're like, man, my feet are sore and you look and you've done 30,000 steps. So, yeah, it's crazy. But here's one particular ride, Radiator Springs races, which is one of the best rides on the California Adventure. It's based on the movie Cars, the Pixar movie Cars. And it starts, like, you're just cruising and you're in like this car.

And then it just turns into, it's kind of like, it moves around slowly and you get in the story and everything. And then you enter a race and it pretty much becomes like a roller coaster and you race against the other car. Yeah, I'm just having a look. Yeah, two cars side by side running. Oh, that looks great. That looks fun. He has been on it because he started taking notes and he carries around a notebook, putting a little mark every time he went on it. 15,000 times.

What? 15,000 times. Wait, if this is one of the most popular rides in that park, yep, the line is we went, first thing in the morning, first ride we went to it, and we still waited for about 45 minutes to now. No, I'm sorry. So he's waited what? On average, even if you, okay.

No, he's got a loophole, single riders. Oh, yeah, yeah. If you are going to go and you don't mind like riding in a different ride, but, you know, still basically doing all the same stuff, just not together. get the photo together. Yeah. Single rider lines is the way to go.

Yeah. I've experienced that. Oh, really? Yeah, it's amazing. But you are at a park on your own. Yeah, I know. That was the first time I went to Disneyland. I was like, well, I'm here by myself.

I'll just do it. So that's around about 13 to 14 times a trip? Correct. He averages 13 times each visit. Thanks to, he says he wouldn't have been able to do it without the fast moving line for single riders. And he's like, all the people that work on the ride know him. He remembers when he reached his 1,000.

ride and they all like clapped and stuff and now it's up to his 15th,000th I don't know if the enthusiasm's probably still there from the staff or at this stage he's just like, dude like get another ride or get a life like do you have a family back home done the Guardians of the Galaxy ride dude like it's just around the corner you should go and give it

a blast. Then credit coaster come on man but yeah he's done it 15,000 times. Wow. That's insane eh. Does he any signs of stop in? Don't think so he in his notebook where he keeps a track he also writes down which color car he's in because oh my god is he on some kind of spectrum he's deep on it what lane he was in whether he won or lost

because one car always wins in the race he's got stats on this thing yeah the funniest thing I remember just remembered about this ride is when your car like wins it's like yay and then you hop off but whatever you've had the same ride as the car that loses there were kids crying because they were in the losing car. Oh, my God, brats. The ZDM Podcast Network. From the unmoderated comment section, this is the Top Six.

Today's Top Six is about the quote of the year. This is every year, it's New Zealand quotes. It's run by Massa University. This year, mostly politicians. Every year, most. A few sports people, maybe if there was a big event. There is a sports person, actually. Hamish Kerr, friend of the show.

Yes. Friend of the show. Asked about jumping. He said, the next goal is that, hi jumping. The next goal is to jump 2.4 meters as that's quite a key height. And also it's kind of cool to be able to jump over a ceiling. Because, of course, 2.4 is your standard stuff. That is a standard start.

Yeah, wow. That would be amazing. Yeah. It's just quite something to even think about. Dominated by politicians, the list. Yeah. Christopher Luxon's famous If you're unhappy with it

For God's sake Go make a Marmite sandwich And put an apple in a bag Just like I had Yeah About your school That was about the school lunches My girl Chloe Swarbricks in there

If we find six of 68 Government MPs with a spine We can stand on the right side of history Oh that was good I like the one They're not killing Sorry they're killing our native birds They're not shagging them

That was Matt Bailey Organiser of North Canterbury Hunting Competition when asked of trapping, neutering and releasing feral cats would be better than culling them. That is, I mean, he's got a point. He's got a point. Yeah.

I will not be sitting a precedent the way to get a meeting with me is to don an adult napi and chain yourself to a door. That was Nicola Willis. Okay. About protesters, there's a whole lot. One of the quotes of the year has the C word in it. Oh, yeah, right.

The C word. Turns out you can have it all so long as you're prepared to be a C word to the woman who birthed your kids. Wow. Okay, well those are the finalists and they'll announce that before the end of the year.

But the top six quotes of the year from our show, I've used a very advanced technology to see what things were said most often on the show. What was your advanced technology? Sorry, I just want to check the crediting shows. The human memory and act of recalling.

That was the advanced technology. Number six on the list is from Haley. Neck Minute is. Because she's really trying to bring that back She's trying to revive Nick Minut Well because it was very very popular Once upon a time And Nick Minut people stopped saying it

You know And Nick Minut, it's come back And it just works It's simple, it's easy, it rolls off the tongue Thank you Happy to be a nominee Number 5 on the list of the top six quotes Of the year from our show

Is I'll just ask chat GPT That was me I'd say that a lot You do say that a lot You do love it Rely on Alan He's very clever Would that be the relationship of your year

I think so I think me and Alan where well you know helped me keep my pool blue who knew the chatchipity I just took a photo

at the pool I said what do I do here and it's giving me the um you know the guide wait you didn't have to put in like the pH level or whatever

did you have to like do a test I did one of those little dipty sticks and I can never read those by the way have you ever do you ever have to hold

one colour up to another colour and see if it's the same colour I love doing it with the spot I can't do it yeah it's a real

first word problem this isn't it Not even like pool, not even with like, but if you're just given a colour sample and they're like, work out what that is, I can't hold it next to another colour and like identify that it's the same colour very well. Yeah, you're kind of a bit special though, so. I am so special, thank you to say. I think you're special too.

You like trains a lot, so. Dude, love trains. Love trains. I was just about to tell you a train story just then. I'll save it for later. Save it for air, I reckon. You sit on that. Hanish us with it, not the listener.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, we'll absorb that one for the listener. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Number four on the list of the top six quotes of the year from our show is da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da from Haley. I don't even know if she knows she's doing it, but she does it. What do I do? Like if you're like, oh, you know, there was like a blue one, a red one, a da-da-da-da-da-da.

I do, eh? You do heaps. So when they are there and then there were da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Wow. Yeah, you'll notice it now. Now I'm going to notice it. Oh, no, now I'll notice it and I have to stop. Okay.

Number three on the list of the top six quotes of the year is as we are want to do. Yeah. From the show, we've said that a lot this year. It has agitated some people. It has agitated some people. I know, but some other people have adopted it. Yeah. As they want to do, that's right.

Number two on the list of the top six quotes from our show for the year. Dark skin, light eyes. Fink. Blah. We have a little math. They do we hard reset every time. Hello, fain. If there's someone with dark skin and light eyes.

What a combo. I mean, just a moan. It's unfair. It's an unfair. Yeah, it's not. It's just not fair. It's not fair. It's beautiful.

It's so beautiful. Hey, I'm glad they exist because I can see them. Dark skin, light eyes, man. I should have asked that guy on the plane for his number. I'll regret that. I'll regret that for the day until the day I die. Yeah, yeah. Maybe you need to get a hold of Air New Zealand.

Oh, my God. Say you've got measles. Say you've got measles. I got measles. I was on this flight. I was in two. And then say, I'm more than happy to contact everyone around me to let them know I'm having measles. Yeah, in New Zealand, this is not your problem.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was my problem. You're having trouble keeping your planes on time. Let's face it. You've had a shocking year. You've had a shocker of a year, guys. I'll take care of this. I've got measles.

Let's get the number of that guy. I mean, everyone around me. I practically slanced on the guy, you know? And number one on the list of the top six quotes of the year. It's another Haley Sprow. Oh, yeah, here we go. You know what I mean? Yeah, you know what I mean.

Do you know, someone said that I do that a lot in my stand-up comedy as well. You know what I mean? So, just do my little joke, you know what I mean, and then I did it a little, you know what I mean. It's just touching, it's just touching base. That's how you do it. That's how you do it, and you roll it off the time. Yeah, you know what I mean. You know what I mean?

Let us stay, stop sex. The ZAN Podcast Network. 38 million obitories over the course of 30 years were studied and collated. I'm assuming with AI, right? Yeah. Because that sounds like backbreaking. No, someone painstaking we went through 38 million obituaries. Yeah, jeepers.

Yeah, it was from the National Academy of Science in America. Right. That's going to be interesting going forward. Like, we're going to have... Access to so much data, right? With AI is going to be able to go back so far and through so much that humans could never go through physically. That's a cool part about it.

Yeah. Getting to know more. So 38 million obituaries, and they try to work out kind of on average how lives have been summed up. And this just hit me just now, how the average life of 4,000 weeks, which I know there's a book, right, 4,000 weeks or something like that. Right. Which is about like, live it, live life. How often you just like, it's got to get through another week just to get through to the good weeks? I know.

Like holidays that are coming up? I know. I was literally just reflecting with Fletch, like, oh my God, this whole week I've been like, God, I can't wait to get it over with. You're like, no, no, there's one of your 4,000. Yeah. If you're lucky.

If you're lucky, exactly. Drink a while it's fizzy, capi d'am, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so the average life of 4,000 weeks is summed up in around about 175 words. Do you know why I was thinking this? And I don't know if it's different now,

but when death notices went in the paper, you're paying by word or letter. Is that correct? Yes. So you had to keep it. quite short, didn't you? So it wasn't like you could just write like a big paragraph.

No, no, yeah, like sum them up completely. So this is from America. So 80% of the obituaries contained religion or tradition. Okay. Which I think would be very different in New Zealand. Yeah. Caring for others, which is called benevolence,

appears in 76% of it. So that is a lot more talked about than things like success power. Okay. So they'd never be like, he was such a good boss and he did so well. It'd be like he was a caring father. He was a loving son.

Da-da-da-da-da. Men... He was one. What? Da-da-da-da-da. Oh, no. I'm going to become so aware of it, Vorni. Okay.

Oh, my God, he did. Anyway. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Oh, no, I can't talk anymore. Don't make me overanalyze talking. It's both of my jobs. Okay?

It's all I have. It's all. Literally talking is what I do. There's a split between men and women. Men more remembered for achievement, power and service. Okay. Women more remembered for warmth, care, and joy. Harder and softer.

Yes. Yeah. Do you think a lot of those would be military? Because I think there'd be a certain, just sort of like, template for military servicemen, right? It's always mentioned, like, even they're few and far between now, but when World War II veterans were, you know, dying and always had their soldier, their soldier number, their military number in it?

Yeah, and I also think, this is very American, you know what I mean? Like, they really stand for that, like, the country and pride and faith. Also, like, no one speaks ill of the dead. Like, when, you know, someone dies, you're not going to be like, oh, they're actually a bit of a... A bit of a bit of an a hole. Yeah, yeah, totally. You know, like, no one, so people are always going to... Like, you're not going to get a real representation.

are you? It would be so good if you were, like, if you had your tombstone and it said, like, here lies, Carl Peter Fletcher, generous, caring, blah, blah, blah, blah, da-da-da. Bit of a bitch. You know what I mean? Bit of a sassy bitch. Yeah, yeah, it could be an absolute sassy beer. The management sandwich it.

You'd have to put the bad thing in the middle. Yeah. Top and tail it with some compliments, but put the critique in the middle. Yes. I would love, genuinely would love, once I am buried, for it to be like, you know, a warm and a loving daughter and da-da-da-da-da. A bit much. A bit more. Could be a bit much.

Yeah. Could be a bit of a tornado. A bit much. An emotional tornado. Great Nungers, though. Now, do you still want us as your tombstone to use your ninja slushy? Because I know how much you love that. I want it there full time.

You are going to have to run a cord. Okay, right. from the Keataker's office. Yeah, there's the little that's at the Marai so you have to run it down into the... I reckon we hollow out the tombstone and put like a battery in there,

a deep charge battery, like people off the grid live on and just the top of your tombstone can be solar panels. Sounds good. And then the ninja slushy. And then the ninja slushy. And you know, all the time.

Yeah. We just go to lay flowers and have like a beautiful, spicy frozen mug. The Z&M podcast Network. Play ZMs. Fletchhorn and Haley. TikTok's UK song of the year has been announced.

I don't know if we get a New Zealand song of the year. I don't know. I haven't seen any news articles. But this story has, I guess, gone big because we all know this song. We all love this song, especially in the last year. There's no surprise.

It is TikTok's biggest song in the UK. It is a song that is not new. It's actually from, I believe, is it 2015? Yeah, 2015 single. 2015. Any guesses? 10 years. You know. I know what it is.

Nothing beats a Jet 2 holiday. And right now save 400 pounds as a family of four with my Yes. Jess Glynn. How good. And all because of the Jet 2 trend. Which is all about just how crap it can be on holiday when you're on a budget. Yes. began using the audio to make a joke out of their holiday fails, traveling chaos

and mishaps. Now, I wonder and I have Googled if this has been good for Jet 2 holidays, which are like a holiday package budget airline. So how many people have heard of Jet 2 holidays that have never heard of them before? You could

not buy the kind of market. No. No. But then the whole trend is here's my shit holiday or here's my budget holiday or my fail. But apparently, it has driven massive brand awareness and it's attracted younger customers, which they reckon, you know, will stay for life. Have they responded?

Well, it has contributed to record passage in numbers and all-time high revenues for Jet 2 in 2025. So, yeah. They would have done well to have hired a young, Gen Z social media manager. You know, like, who were you, who are you sharing for me that you love who does the socials? the Department of Conservation and New Zealand's Department of Conservation has stepped up lately there's a couple of one's

New Zealand native bird accounts that are like official accounts that are being run by Scrub Daddy did it um Juolingo does it Like how good if Jet 2 did this and they responded with equal humor

you know? Yeah totally I just I'd just love to know if anyone's kind of done a breakdown of how much value could possibly be attributed to this meme Like when something becomes meme

It's like you couldn't You just can't Like I'm kind of skimming through Forbes Forbes.com Had an article about this And yeah it's just crazy They're just like it's insane You just can't buy this kind of

publicity But yeah It's the song of the year Play that ends Fleshfallen and Haley Fleckford and Haley Silly Little Pooh Silly Little Pooh

It is so silly silly silly silly little poll silly little poll silly little poll silly little poll silly little poll Today's silly little poll

and it was we asked people voting if to please only vote if your birthday is in December. Yes and we ask do you like your birthday? Do you think that exactly 112th of all people were born in December? No because there's higher

Around summer. People conceive the Christmas New Year period. Yeah, there are actually more popular months. September, more September babies, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not evenly split across the year. But there'll be plenty of December's.

People shag all year. Yeah, I think they do. You know the thing about people who were born in December. They love telling you. And they're like, I only got one big gift as a kid. It's one of the least, I just Googled this as one of the least common birthday months globally. Oh, wow, okay.

Primarily due to fewer scheduled births around major holidays. Right. Well, our poor friend James, he's Christmas Day. Yeah, yeah. That's one gift, eh? He's our little baby Jesus. Yeah, one big gift. Do you like your birthday if you were born in December?

59% of people said yes, 41% said no. Yeah. Gwynnevere. Oh, my God. Winifier. Love that. Wait, Gwynnevib Paltrow. Close.

Yes. Okay. Gwen, a very close fletch, but not quite. I'm a Christmas baby, and I love it. I know no better, and I genuinely love my birthday, and yes, I get two presents. I just, I'm going to go out there and say, as a kid, I would have hated if my brother had his birthday and Christmas Day, because he would have got all the attention.

Yeah. Yes. Too much. Yeah, you would have hated it too old. Why did you make this special day about you? How would your parents have handled it? I reckon my parents would have said, like, hiding. Christmas, morning is for Christmas, and Christmas afternoon is all about your birthday.

I think my parents would have moved it Yeah, they would have had a separate day Yeah, because my parents also love Christmas Well, they want to make it about me either Abby said By damn, Abby's such a plain name To follow up after Guinevere, I feel like Abby's a cute name though

Abby's a lovely name, it's a lovely name But it's no Guinevere Everything pales in comparison to Guinevere Gwynavere is the shining star of names We're probably ever going to mention on this show Gwenevere Gwynnevere. Planning a dinner out anywhere is such a pain everywhere is full of work party booking, says Abby.

Oh, yeah. Of course. Sproulian, who runs Haley's fan account. Who's definitely not Haley. I'm a boxing day baby. Thankfully, born a day late. Didn't bother me as a kid. I like the fact I never had to go to school on my birthday,

but I now realize that would have been a privilege, literally getting to spend a whole day surrounded by friends. Yeah, it was the best. I just, if my birthday was Boxing Day, just ask some vouchers and then just go straight to the box. Day sales. Just be like... Genius.

Presid card me. Prezy card me up. I guess that's why I always make a point of having a little celebration on my half birthday, a true sign of someone born between Christmas and New Year's. Oh, yeah. The old half birthday. Do you remember when James last year or the year before, our friend, who is a Christmas Day baby, made his birthday party really early, but it was the same day as Dr. Shawne's, and it was not happy.

There was tension and the gaggle. There was ten shone. There was gaggle. Dr. Shawnee. It's not even... his real birthday. And do you know what? He still goes on about it.

Yeah, bless them. When is Dr. Shawnee's birthday? Exactly. Um... I didn't think doctors were entitled to birthday. I thought the national government took that away. I don't know. Okay. Casey, who certainly isn't any Guinevere,

says presents, cake and attention, what's not to like about a December birthday? Yeah. Libby... Again, a Guinevere. 13th, still within two weeks of Christmas Day. Ideal, in my opinion, just enough time to separate presents, but also a great haul after both days heading into New Year's.

That's a festive month. Yeah. Born the 27th of December, hard as a kid, all the presents in two days, then nothing for the rest of the year. A feast or famine there. Hannah, birthday money ends up getting spent on Christmas presents because I have three kids with hell are expensive wish lists. That's selfless.

Yeah. That selfless. That's really, baby Jesus would actually be very impressed by that selflessness. I was born on the 23rd and people are always like, wow, that must suck. And I'm like, no, it's summertime. Everyone's on holiday. There's Christmas decorations and the vibes are high. I always have a party in November because I know people will get busy on my actual birthday.

Silly little poll today. I'm being told to wrap this thing up like a Christmas present. You certainly are. Only answer if you're born in December, do you like your birthday? 59% of our December born listeners do. The ZDN Podcast Network. Is this a show real? Play Z-Ns, Flesh Forne and Haley.

The most complained about ads of 2025 have been released by the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Well, no, sorry, the advertising standards authority. Not broadcasting standards authority. That's where you can go to complain about us. If we say something offensive of like, beep, beep, beep, beep. Or you're a beep. Yeah, you beep, and beep, beep, beep. But ads, they deal with the complaints about the ads.

Advertising standards authority. Most complained about ads of 2025. Would most of these be still television broadcast Or like would they be on streaming? They say TV ads but they all play on streaming Or your news websites or that kind of stuff You would have seen them Oh sorry there was a big sniff into the microphone

I really apologise about that Because we actually did roast Vaughan earlier this morning For sniffing too much during prep Yeah I had two I had two um hard boogies Hard Yeah they were hard boogies That's a finger that's a finger such

No they were too deep for a finger Wet boogies go into a tissue Hard boogies get dug out with a finger Get some tissues Please both of you Okay anyway so Fifth of the top Complained about ads

Was the Tina from Turner's Ad Just because she's so annoying That character The character Complaints about offensive lyrics And a burnout Can't have the burnout

Scene happening there Right She was singing a song They see cheeky borderline offensive lyrics People were upset illegal driving behaviour Because of the burnout Possibly encouraging dangerous conduct And yeah

They up the What is it? Advertising Standards Authority upheld the complaint About the illegal burnout Which means it was Right which means that when they say upheld It means that it was Dealt with basically

Then above that was the BNZ pay app Complaints around misleading surcharge messaging I haven't seen this one A digital payment feature called pay app Showed quick transfers card style payments Split payments made it look simple instant and free But it wasn't it was full of surcharges and fees Okay naughty

Yeah naughty Rexona the whole body deodorant Now I have seen this as well And I was like what on earth are we you know, putting deodorant on our bits and pits. Pits, yes, but not the bits. Focused on sweat in non-arm pit areas, but the visuals showed a lot of boob and inner thigh, bum. Hot.

Yeah. Yeah, so what do they say, sex sounds? It's for groin sweatage a lot, you know, and bits where it gets a bit sweaty. Is that a bit of a, like, we don't need a whole body deodorant, right? No, you don't. Your body's supposed to do that. Yeah, push the idea that only a small,

percentage of sweat came from the armpits. Viewers said it was crude, sexualized and gross for peaking. Right. And then above that was lotto. A promise is a promise. And it's the guy who's in the ski, he's skiing. He's got long curly here and he's nude.

Oh, so that's why. Wow, some people really like quite prudish, aren't they? Very prudish. Yeah, full view of beer adult nudity from behind. Yeah. So at bottom, we just I think bodies. They're basically not even nude.

You know, I don't think it's... I'm not British about a botty. I mean, there's so many botty's at the beach. Everyone wearing the g-string little botches. It is what it is. Indecent and unnecessary, they say. The most complained about ad of 2025 was the KFC Colonel Hacker. And the ad opens like it had that the, um, your app or whatever you're watching it on had been real life hacked. by like Anonymous or something

Yeah, and then a digital glitchy version of Colonel Sanders appears on the screen calling himself the Colonel Hacker intercepting your ad break and then a lot of people said it looked and sounded like a real cyber attack some thought that their TV or internet had been I know for God's sake

Parents said it quote terrified children and others say that it glorified hacking that had 67 complaints in total this year And that's if you're the advertising agency or KFC that's a win and it was upheld and KFC had to pull the ad completely.

Yeah, but great publicity. Yeah. I didn't know that was one was upheld. I thought they had a lot of complaints but I didn't know got upheld. I think for people, I mean, I get, I mean, you're entitled to say what you want to say and these authorities are there for good reason,

but get a hobby. I know. Get a hobby. Maybe get off the couch. Close the screen. Yeah. If you're offended by the botty of the guy in the lotto ad going for a ski.

Yeah. The Z&P Podcast Network Play ZDM's Fleshwon and Haley Well, a Londoner Who's living in Australia Yeah, what she want? She what she want? Well, she has highlighted a part of Australian

And I would say New Zealand gym life That she has just absolutely gobsmacked over And that is the fact that at gyms in New Zealand And Australia, a lot of them We have boards for your car keys. Yeah, I use ours sometimes. And cubby holes. We're, like, I know that a lot of gyms will have lockers,

but some have just cubby holes. Like, open cubbyholes. Yeah, open cubby holes and you'll just chuck in your car keys and your sweater and a towel or whatever. And then go do your workout. Huck a bag in there? Yeah. And she is like, you would, in London,

you would never do this. Really? Yeah. Why not? People steal it. I think people steal it, yeah, like we're more trusting. Aren't there cameras and gyms around that? Yeah, but what are they going to do once it's gone, right?

They're not coming back. She said, like, the trust Australians and New Zealanders have for each other is crazy. London could never, she said, showing, and she was like filming the gym and showed a cubby hole full of car keys, handbags and wallets. She was like, it's just pick and mix a car from the car park. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Where there's a little hookboard for keys, because it's like if you arrive at the gym,

you're in your gear, all you have is your water bottle and your towel and your phone. Yep. And your keys, you're like, oh, yeah, I don't want to. and carry the keys around. I've done it before at our gym. And I have thought about it when you're like, is that a Mercedes? I know because you see someone's like

Audi key ring hanging up? You're just like, oh, okay. Yeah, should I leave my little Mitsubishi behind? Is that like breaking your insurance if someone just took your car key? Oh, that's interesting. You don't have your car key on your possession. Like when we spoke yesterday,

or was it the day before? Yeah. Leaving your card. Leaving your card behind the bar. because that New Zealand couple left their car behind the bar and they couldn't get their money back. Yeah, because they had technically

just given full access to a thing which is the same thing when you're like if you leave your car basically open, unlocked and drive awayable which is if you have the key, would it be 9-6-96 if you work in insurance? How would that work? Yeah.

It's said that someone stole your key from the gym board. Because she also said like it's not just gym's like she said like just the beach and stuff like people will go or even the cafe and just leave their phone and keys on the beach or on the table then go order or go to the bathroom and just leave stuff.

She's like, again, in London or the UK, you'd never do that. I mean, we're very trustworthy and then sometimes you get bitten, right? Yeah, I think about this all the time. I'll just be eating something like you'd be at a food court or a cafe and you just leave your phone on the table. You'd never do that overseas. I do this. I have a cafe that I like going to a lot and I have my laptop.

You know, I'll do some mahi there and I have my phone and laptop and your coffee and you're like, I need to pay. I'm by myself. I just like close the laptop and just walk away. Yeah. And your phone's there. Yeah, you're like, who's going to take it? Yeah, exactly.

We leave everything unlocked and accessible, and I just leave my work emails open with access to the whole wider company. Okay, great, yeah, nice. I don't. I don't, okay. We have very tight security here. Very tight.

Did you guys change your passwords? No, but do it before we go on Holiday Horn. Yeah, because they've got to be 12 characters long now. Yeah, they're being fatties. Which is going to be hard, because what were you, Vaughn 1-2, how many is that? I guess I just go Vaughn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Yeah.

And then when it needs to be changed at a year time, you bet it's going to be Vaughn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. I think it needs a special character. No, it needs a special character. Does it need some special characters? God damn. I'm back to the drawing board. The Z&M Podcast Network.

Oh, no, no, no, no. I was too early. Here we go. If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to a Shannon's hack. Shannon's hack, baby. Well, Shannon's in studio to give us a what she's calling a summer hack this morning, Shannon.

And why did Shannon, did you just come in through the door and you were holding a microwave and saying, help me, help me, help me. And now we've plugged it into the wall. Yeah, and I'm a bit nervous because we do have a history of tripping wires in this studio. We do. The great drug race, drug race,

of years gone by. Yeah, a lot of kids. That was like a lot of kettles at once. We had six kittles. I bought him one microwave. I think that'll be okay. Yeah, I told security to take her for 20 minutes. I'm just going to unplug my laptop charger.

Good idea. You know what I mean? Just like, take a little load off the grid. Yeah, just in case. I'll do mine as well. I might just turn off the screen. Oh, yeah. No, no, you need that. I need that.

I need that. Okay. Should turn off the mics. We can turn off more. Zoom. No, let's keep him. Yeah, I reckon turn off. Turn me off. I'll just come back later.

No, sometimes Vaughn's the nicest with his rankings. I need Vaughn here. Okay. Right. Okay, well, maybe if we do go off there, just a, I guess, a pre, we'll be back soon after technical difficulties. Or if we go off here, we could probably just call it a day. We've sort of done half the show. I reckon we call it a year.

We could call it a year. It seems if we're going to call it a day. We might as well call it a year. Okay, well, we've got the microwave ready for Shannon's Summerhack. What are we looking at this morning? And why do you have pieces of salami on a plate? Everyone is talking about on TikTok's salami chips for their shakutery boards this summer. We love a sharkyard.

Yeah, we do. I don't like where this is headed already. Really? You're a straight cracker man? I'm not in studio. I'm at home and I can't see. But explain to me, she has salami and a microwave. Yeah.

It's on a plate with a paper towel. I bought a pack of cheese and crackers, but Haley ate the crackers and the cheese. Okay. Well, we didn't need to call that out on here. I was hungry. Okay. Okay, so I've got four pieces of salami. What I'm seeing people do on TikTok

is putting this on two paper towels on a plate in a microwave for one minute. So I'm going to start that going. Wait, one minute. One minute. And we are going to create crispy salami chips so you can dip them. Okay, you go get that on.

Do you know, I was... So my mom, who is a fantastic... So a bit of microwave, I'm a... Okay, that's one minute, is it? Okay. That's too long. I hate everything about it. Shannon, you're going to regret not cutting me off.

Oh my God, it's already crackling and we're five seconds in. This is going to blow up. Oh my God, listen to that. Can you hear that? Dear listener, get the mic down there. Because salami's just blood and fat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's steaming.

It's steaming. Oh, no. No, maybe stop. No, leave it, leave it. Okay, all right. My mom does her bacon in the microwave sometimes, and it goes crispy air. Oh, no, look, it's steaming a lot. Yeah, because it's just the fat.

It's okay. We've got 23 seconds left on the countdown there. I mean, I'm nervous. I didn't try this at home first. I mean, maybe shut the door quickly when you tell. Oh, it is actually, yeah. There's smoke coming up, but I think we just... 10 seconds, it's fine.

It's steam, it's steam. It smells it in here like pig. It's very big. Smells like pig, does it? Yeah, it smells like five seconds. We're five. Oh, it does. It sounds quite nice now.

It smells delicious. It's quite delicious. It's quite young. Okay, and now, when you take it out, shut the door quickly to To get the, yeah, okay, all right. This studio, Brie and Clinton are not going to be happy with us this afternoon. It smells like pig in here. It does, smell like, three, two, one, doesn't I?

Okay, all right, just getting it out there. Hop, wait, wait, why are you giving it to me? I don't know, it's you, you, you. Okay, all right, okay. Now, the plate is in front of Haley, four bits of salami. Please describe, please describe. It looks. Okay, I'm going to try to tap it against the mic.

Okay. Bree's going to hate this. Okay, okay. Ready? Oh my God, it's rock hard. isn't it? No, I'm going to say, yeah, Vaughn, yeah, Vaughan, you're right. It's tough. It's not crispy. If I'm going to try to snap it and pause for ASMR. Okay.

Oh, that's a chip. That's a chip. That's a chip. Okay, and now I shall try to consume. Here's a little bit. Is it too. Oh, no, it's not hot. It's not too hot to be shown. Carwin, our resident vegetarian. Don't come in here, Carwan. It's very fragrant. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Imagine that in a dip. And then imagine you've got some dip, some cheese, you've got some cheese, some olive.

Hang on some cheese, dip. Going into like a queso or something. Yeah, that's amazing. Is this, is this? Shout out to our keto listeners, but I're going to love this. This is in placement of a cracker. I don't know about this. Vaughan, but that's microwave and could you do this in an oven?

Could you do this in it could? I reckon you could. It would take forever. Yeah, I think you could, but I think you could. think the fact that it's just two paper towels in a minute, and you can host an easy yum cheese board. I mean, I will say that

Waiper crackers are like one or two dollars, three dollars a pack for the bougie ones. Salami's quite expensive. Whereas salami's very expensive. My pack of cheese and crackers was three dollars. Yeah, but you've got four slices in it. You got four slices. Tess is messaged in on 9-6-6.

She does this. She microwaves salami for 30 seconds before putting it on top of the pizza. Okay. And Emma wants us than I, an air fryer does it better. Yeah, I reckon in air fryer, it would be nicer. But proof of concept. I... Now, I'm going to give it five stars.

Oh my goodness, are you serious? Yeah. Vaughn, your face is saying otherwise, but you're not in studio. I'm not in studio. I have a taste. I have a taste thing of Vaughn being able to contribute. Yeah, see... Listen, one more time, one more time.

Like, that's the snapping of it. That's good. I've got a lot of salami at home. With long salami sticks. This is incredible. And then you're not having carbs when you have your crackers. No, you're just having a whole ton of salt and fat. Procese meat.

Brat. Bra, bra, bra, bra. This is giving five stars. Oh my goodness, this is the best Christmas present ever. It's giving five stars. It's five stars for me. Vaughn, what are you giving it? He doesn't get two. I just don't feel like I can contribute because I haven't been in studio.

Like, from afar, it feels like a two at most. If you see your faded side. at the side of the road that says five stars today for Shand. It's ha! Five stars, baby! I think it's because we just got to eat the delicious smelling meat. I mean, and I'm sorry, Vaugh,

and I just sort of, I just made an executive decision on behalf of all of us. No, that's fine. Listen, one more time, listen, listen. Yep, that's, guys. That's salami. Salami chips. Five stars.

Embrace this summer. Thank you, Shannon. I think what a way to end the year with a hack. Hang on, let me just get on the checks machine. You guys are making me hungry as it smells yum. Yeah, it does. Air fry does it better, a lot of people saying. Yes.

You guys, this hack is the best. Top tier. Love it. There we go. Great stuff. Five stars. Congratulations, Shannon. Do you reckon Shandog, that's our final hack of the year?

You want to stop at five? I reckon end on a high. Yeah, I'm happy. It's been a hell of a year of hacks. I mean, there's been some lows, Shannon. I'll be honest. Let's just stay. on the high.

Yeah, let's just remember the highs. The ZM Podcast Network. We would like to know right now when you, listener, have stolen just a little bit. Just a little tiny bit. Don't message in I stole a car. That's not a tiny bit of car. How much is a little bit? Because the tease of this has already drawn a text from Dylan, who said, I used to

work at the supermarket when I was a teenager and I'd pocket cash from the register and steal smokes. No, no, Dylan, that's stealing. That's a lot. That's just stealing, man. Please wait until we open up the phone lines another day for when have you stolen a lot? I love, from Dylan and Daneda. No, we want to know a tiny little bit because...

There was a girl who was at the pub, you know, at the pub, oven of pain with her friends, and she was about to leave when she remembered she had no toilet paper at home. And then rather than just stopping at the corner store or the dairy or whatever, she was like, I'll just, why I was going to pop into the loo and I'll just get one of those big industrial-sized rolls.

Do you know, I always think this one and go, to a cafe or somewhere like and you just see all of them just stacked up you're like I could just take one of those and put in my bag I know and you're like that would really last I know that had really last a long time especially the big ones but I'm thinking more the little ones yeah there's some cafes that have those nice

like individually wrapped ones and I'll just put a handbag there those individually wrapped one are always two ply tops though they are always they're like wiping poos of baking paper it's not you're going to get finger break through Yeah, yeah, your finger's going through. You're more of a handy towel level kind of wipe. I like a thick, I like a thick towel.

If you could flush handy towels, I reckon I'd wipe with handytow. I blow my nose with handy towels. I don't waste my time on weak tissues. I blow straight through there. I might need a big handi towel. Too rough. Yeah. But, I mean, it's just, it's, it is stealing because she didn't pay for it,

and it's not its purpose. Yeah. It's just a little, little bit of stealing. Do you think when I take the box of tissues from the hotel, do you think that's stealing just a little bit? Or you paid for the room, so technically they would let you use them all. I'm stealing a little bit. That's the thing.

I reckon if you were entitled to use them all, as far as they know, you could have just used them all in room. Exactly. But then that's like going to the cafe and seeing rolls of toilet paper there. You could literally stay in that toilet and poo all day and use them all, and that would be fine. but then taking them, that's stealing. Okay.

Slightly different. I, okay, we're getting messages in. So this is what we want to ask. Because this is a good one, like, maybe you've got a real nice stationary cupboard at work. You know, maybe your work comes and they've got just a little bit of a couple of courier bags. And maybe I saw a couple of things on Trade Me, and I'm just a little bit going to take one of the bags.

What about when a bar has a really nice glass? Oh, you know what, Vaughn? How many handbags, I was going to say, you've done that, haven't you? Yeah, yeah, I've taken it. I've got shock glasses to this day. I could walk around the corner into my kitchen and I open up a pantry and grab shock glasses that I stole from like the Outback in the early 2000s. I'd probably say a bar that wasn't around, Vaughn, I'd probably say a bar that's not around

anymore. I didn't say the Outback. I didn't say the Outback. I said it all now it feels like we've said the Outback ten times. Now we've just stopped talking about the Outback. But where do you even buy shock glasses from? I've never seen shock glasses for sale like nice, heavy-bottomed, heavy-duty shocklasses for sale?

Yeah, shockglass.com, I don't know. Shot... Hey, hon, I'm just going to go, shockglass.com... No, that's... Shockglass.com is not taken. Wait, did I just start a shocklass.com? Business. Am I going to start shockglass.com?

Business. Well, oh, my gosh. Oh, 800 dollars at end. We want you to give us a call this morning? This domain is for sale. Okay, I'll buy it. It's going to cost us 35. thousand US dollars though

absolutely not okay we're not buying it I'm assuming that's why no one has that website yeah text in 9696 well give us a call 0800 dial ZDM literally just said that but yep carry on you said text in 96196 no I said the call

I said the call as well well I'm going to say it 0800 dial ZDM if you want to talk with your voice yeah but text 966 if you want to text with your words if you want to write us a letter to Graham Street Central Auckland

Postcode 1010 10 thank you we might be finished this phone and topic by the time you later arise but we would appreciate the mail. If you'd like to enter our colouring in competition, you can send those in as well via courier to 2 Graham Street attention ZM. Yeah.

When did you steal just a little bit? And we're not certainly not condoning this kind of behaviour but a woman has gone viral because she was at the pub and she needed to buy toilet paper on the way home after the pub and she just saw it in the toilet and she was like, well I'll just take this. But I will say it was one of those big large industrial roles that come, you know, in the big... Thanks. She was sorted for weeks.

Yeah. So we want to know from you this morning when you stole just a little bit. Erin, no places, but what did you steal? Oh, more than the team. How are we? Really good. Good. So there's a little story behind this as well. So my mum, who unfortunately was passing away from bowel cancer at the time.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear it. She was coming down for a bucketless trip to see her family in Christ. church and we took her out for a lovely lunch at the sushi train because that's what we just loved it all and she's sitting there we're all enjoying our lunch and she is admiring this little mini teapot that they're serving their soy sauce from oh yes yeah yeah and I mean admiring she kept going on about it going wouldn't this just look so cute sitting on the sitting on the bookcase at home Mums are good at doing that, eh, when they want to tell you what they want. Very subtle.

And so she kept going on, and we're going, yes, yes, mum, yet we know. And we walk out, all done, happy, lovely lunch. And my husband, as we're pulling in to go to the car park, pulls out the mini teapot from the way. Good boy. Oh, he's a good boy. I mean, she had cancer. She was, you know. I tell you why, if I ever get and touch what I don't, but boy, you're going to be hearing about it.

I'm going to be using it for all sorts of. of scandalous behavior. Oh, God, yeah. Because what are they going to do? Yeah, I'll steal things like, what? You're going to deprive a dying man of this. A small teapot. Erin, thank you so much for sharing.

We're going to Steve, Steph. What did you steal? Just a little bit. When did you steal just a little bit? Good morning, team. Good morning, I would like to admit to my criminal behavior. And I'm dobbing my sister in as well. Okay.

We do this. We steal toilet rolls. The racked individual ones that are in restaurants, cafes and shops but we only ever do it when we're also with our mum because it drives her insane because she genuinely thinks we're going to get caught as criminals

and shoplifters. She's like, stop it please! She yells at us when we get out to the car park and we've been doing this since we were teenagers and we're now both in our 30s I've got three children, she's about to have a baby, like we're role models. That's so funny and you're just winding mum up. It's not even about the toilet paper. Yeah, we're not going to

And like, you know what it's like as a girly, you never have pockets, and most of the time we don't take our handbags to the toilet if we're in a restaurant, and so we have to try to hide these toilet rolls, like, in our clothing on our body. That's so funny. They're going to start putting those electronic tags on. Uh-huh. Or I'm going to be enough as a photo on the wall. Yeah, today's lucky customer.

I love that, Steph. Thank you, Jess. When did you steal just a little bit? Oh, well, I work in an office, and just yesterday, I took home some scissors and some cellar tapes. I wrapped some presents. Oh, yes, Christmas presents. Whatever, man. Just get it.

Oh, my God, I love it. Were they good scissors, Jess? Or they just go straight through the wrapping paper in one go? Yeah. Yeah. They're like those old school school ones you got with a red handle. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, good stuff. Good scissors. Jess, thank you. So many messages coming in.

We'll come back and get to those next. When did you steal just a little bit? We want to know right now, when did you steal just a little bit? And we've got to power through because we've got a lot of TV. Just a little bit. So many messages. Hit it, Vaughney. This has to be your most shocking segment yet.

You have any idea how this impact affects people. Every cent counts. You people are proudly ringing up at a minute. Not that. Not that. What about my mate? My mate used to steal milk from his office. Every Friday he'd turn up at home with three to four bottles of two liter milk.

I tell you what, you couldn't do that here. Joe Riddell would be on your ass. She would be on you. She'd be on you. She knows the milk millimeters. Yeah, she comes down to the second. She'd know. She's installed the fridge.

And it's got a scale in it. And if you take too much milk, she sends you an email saying you're using too much milk. Yes. Just like emails when you go over 100Ks in the company car. Yeah. Oh, someone said, I might work at a supermarket that it does things where you have to collect stickers, and maybe I took some stickers. Oh, okay.

Many, many years ago, I got dared to steal a bowling ball. I was on Holiday and Wellington at the time. I took that bowling ball. Air New Zealand were very reluctant to let me take as carry on when I was flying back to Auckland because it made my luggage check-in luggage too heavy. Oh, right, okay, yeah, fair.

I travel a bit for work and I always refill my moisturiser at the hotel. Just like, you did that. I did that. Remember when you stole the soap? At QT, they had Kevin Murphy, and I was like, oh, I'm going to take that. Someone said, I work, I run a cafe, please don't steal the pepper grinders or the cutlery. People take pepper grinders.

Who is taking, come on, people. No, we're not taking that. And we're not, and I said at the start of this, we're not encouraging people to do this. No, God, no. And you especially like, think about the local businesses. God. Is it already steal from the multi-corporate, what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're going to steal, don't go in a smaller company. Hit the brands we know and love. Kelsey says, I steal nice chopsticks when I eat at Asian restaurants if they have those nice reusable chopsticks. Oh, okay. A lot of people messaging in that they propagate, they propagate plants at the,

at the, uh, the big hardware stores. Really? Just take a leaf at the note. I don't do it from the stores, but if I go for a walk, I take, yeah, if I go for a walk and I see a planter like, I'll lean over a fence and take a, take a,

um, bit to propagate, absolutely. I've got some lovely, um, things sprouting in the garden now that I've borrowed, shall we say. Being a nurse, sometimes, uh, things accidentally come home in my pockets and I've stocked up my first aid kids. I look into fribulate. Like plasters and bandages.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, good. Well, nurses don't get paid enough. I'm all for that. Yeah. Somebody said, back in the day, at a bar in Christchurch, it's no longer standing, they managed to get out

one of the Guinness serving trays, the metal Guinness serving trays. Oh, my God, I love those. Yeah. I used to borrow promo posters from the clubs in Hamilton, one's advertising specific theme nights. I had a feature wall in my shitty

Hamilton East flat. Wow. Oh, I stole the eight ball from the pool table at the local pub. Oh, don't do that. Don't be that person. Went back for years and years. They just had a white ball with an eight written on it and vivid to replace the eight ball that I took. Who do we know?

Do we know someone that stole an F-Post machine or a cordless phone from a BYO? Because they were absolutely boozed. That's outrageous. That's outrageous. That's terrible. I work at a pub in the kitchen. and if I need something and I know what I'm going to cook for dinner

that night I was grab an onion from the fridge you know what I mean like I'll make a ragu don't have any salary Just a little bit You're just a little bit At a restaurant once I asked where they bought their steak knives from I absolutely loved it And the waitress went away

And she tried so hard to find me an answer And then she came over And she had four wrapped up in a napkin And she said just take these Sweet My son and his mate steal turmeric from parties What You're just going over and topping up your tumour

I mean, it's great for information. You don't use turmeric. You don't use turmeric often, but when you need it, you need it. Yeah. I can imagine that being a real blow. Yeah, when you realize what you thought was a full packet of turmeric, has nothing in it. There's no turmeric and you're like, this needs turmeric. Damn it. Especially if the box is still there and they just take the bag.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. Did you read this from the builder? No. I always over order on timber. Oh. And I take, we know you do. I take it home for little side projects

at the end of every day and make sure the bag's full of nails and empty nails. Wow, I mean, we all knew that. We knew it. The ZAMS Podcast Network Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. December 11th is the day

not very far from Christmas at all. 14 days. Two weeks. Yeah. Two weeks to the Christmas is insane. And so that means what, three weeks till this hellhole of a hells scale. of a shitbox bumhole years

over. I don't know if you guys have picked up. I'm not having a great year. Why what happened? Why what happened? Look, that's a story for another time. Okay. Oh, we've got a time now.

You've got it at a time right now. You book us that group therapy with Virginia Fletch. I actually thought more on that group therapy, Haley, Fletch could pay for it. Oh, you can I'm sick of paying for my own therapy? I don't know if you guys know,

but I'm pretty sorted. I don't think I'm... Says the man who has not cried since he was a teenager. I'm not going to pay to make myself cry Put on Marley and me Put on Cat Stevens Oh yeah, I'll cry in a movie

Yeah, I know, I'm not about his own feelings Anyway I don't have any feelings And it rules Yeah, I'm doing it right, aren't I? It's cheap and it rules, you aren't doing it all right, I've actually had a great year So I don't know why you guys are attacking me No, and actually thank God one of us did

It's been great by, like, you've had a good year, but that comparative thing has made your year so much better. Yeah, but you don't compare yourself to other people. That's the problem these days. It's actually very wise. That's a wise thing to say. When you're scrolling through Instagram, stop comparing. Well, we're talking about the fact that we've had a crap year, and someone's year still might be made crap today, considering the fact that December 11th is Breakup Day, National Breakup Day.

Now, is this out of America? This, or is this a northern or a southern hemisphere thing? It's a southern hemisphere thing. Okay, because America does it in February. This is later. Yes, and it's always a few months before, like summer, right? Yeah.

But it is technically summer now. Yeah, there's a reason. So December 11, there's many stats on this as to why this is the day. But some of the stats come from Facebook users changing their relationship status. Oh, okay. From together to single. Are people still doing that? Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if I've updated mine. Does it pop up like it used to? I think you can turn it off. Should I have a little looky? Haley Jane. I don't think I ever had mine. Have you changed it? No, though I do have a new friend.

Oh, yeah, nice, okay. Was that a soft launch? Why, was that a soft launch? No, I'm just saying I've got a new friend. Right. I've got many new friends this year. I don't even use Facebook. You mean you've got like a request on Facebook?

Facebook or a, what? No, I just, in my friends on Facebook. No, they've just become Facebook friends, soft launch. Wow. No, there's just on the top of my list of my friends on Facebook. Soft launch. That's a three-point launch. There's Patsy's Brow.

There's dye, d-cushioned. Tell everybody who you're taking to the tennis. My dad. And? My dad and my dad's friend. A friend. Soft launch. He's already thonged your dad.

That's a, you know, my dad. Wow. Soft launch. Soft launch. I was about to be a hard launch. Anyway, anyway, shit, it's coming. December dumping. Wow.

Wow. What's happening? It's so hot in this show. Wow. Wow. I just got a text. Is he listening? That's got, that's such a hard launch

against Christopher Walkenwell. Wow. I pulled a handbrake. Wow. So basically. That's a hard launch. This can arise from the stress of the end of the year, the stress of the holiday season.

Also, is it like, does it come down Okay, who am I buying Christmas presents for this year? Yeah, if I'm going to be cutting. If I'm going to, you know, I don't see this lasting. Why keep going? Yeah. Most likely to call it quits in the middle of Christmas, hitting it a desire to call time before a big event.

So you don't want to be like starting the year with someone who you're not into. Like, and you might be going away for New Year's or, you know. Yeah, you're making your big holiday plans. Like, we're family's about to arrive for Christmas. Do I really want this jump here? Now, Vaughn, you famously, word dumped on Christmas Day. Yeah. Do you have any kind of

tips for people listening that maybe are about to be broken up with? If this is like you say, Haley, quite an important day today. Well, for me, it was cranking Travis as white as it always rain on me, which was a big song at the time. Yeah. Have we got that, Haley? Have you got that?

Well, let's get that on. Yeah, get a bit of that on. Get a bit of that on. I need that to really set the mood. It was raining and I remember driving and just screaming why sort of thing. Sweetie. Oh, hell of a day

to drive Christmas, not much traffic. Yeah, and you're just there, the wipers are like, poop, it was in a 1986 Toyota Starlet, a four-door one.

Yeah. Because that was a rare thing, our family had the four-door starlet, and the windscreen wipers weren't great flesh. Yeah. They weren't great. The blades needed to be replaced.

And it was just squeaking down there. Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Why? Can you sleep. A little heartbroken little Vaughn Smith

How old were you, Little Vaughan Smith? 18. Oh babe, that is, no wonder this sticks with you, pivotal age. Yeah, it was. Head full of hair, heart full of feelings, you know? It was, whew! Did she say it wasn't you? That's 25 years, it's 25 years in two weeks.

I get the strangest feeling long. Well, you didn't belong, did you? No. Why does it always rain on me? I might search her on Facebook. Is it because I loud when I was 17? Look her up on Facebook. I don't know.

Well, anyway. I'm not going to give her name out. She doesn't deserve that. No. I just think, I think this is a good PSA for someone who's sitting there right now thinking, oh my God, I don't want to go into Christmas with this person. This is not the person for me. 2025 can get in the dumpster.

2026 is going to be the best year of all of our lives. Save yourself that Christmas present money. Save yourself the money. Save yourself the hassle. Today is National Breakup Day. Get it done. Someone messaged it. I've been dumped two years in a row on December 11th.

Do you think it's because it becomes public and everyone's like, today's the day? And people are like, well, I guess I have to now. I've been wanting to. Yeah. Pull the pun. Someone said, you and me both for, and what an a hole of a year. I can't wait to see the back of it. We could do this.

Hang in there, guys, much love. from your fellow Sri Lankan. We, I forgot, we are Shrelankan. I forgot. So did my ancestry.com. Somebody else said they've been dumped two years in a row on the 11th for the same guy. Oh, babes, I just said that. Did you?

Are you even listening? No, he's listening to Traverse, sorry. Travis. No, I was looking up that person. She's not on Facebook. That's a weird move, eh, for a millennial. She could be dead. Well, you dodged a bullet there, because that would have been a hell of a year as well.

It's kind of the same idea right Everything's a competition And whoever lives the longest wins I think so I think so Play ZM's Flashawn and Haley I just sat I was thinking about this movie experience

I'm about to tell you about And I forgot to tell you I treated myself to a harito A what? At the movies Oh one of those colas Yeah those Mexican fruit flavor Those pineapple is my go to

Yeah those are amazing though They rule, hey. Yeah. They rule. I saw them and I was like, yes. It's a glass bottle. Yeah. Yes.

I think there's a grapefruit one that's nice. Oh, yeah. I got the green one. Oh yeah. The lime one. Okay. Classic. Yeah, it's good stuff.

Better go well in the ninja slush, I reckon. Mate, bring her over. I know, but they're, they're so small. Yeah. You put cheap stuff in the ninja slush. Yeah. Okay. We'd add that.

So I went to this movie, Eternity, um, with Elizabeth. Elizabeth Olson and Miles Taller and Callum Turner, Jewelope, his boyfriend. Oh, yeah, he's the bookie's latest favorite to be James Bond, by the way. Oh, is he? Be a good bond. He'd be a good bond. What's his name, sorry?

Callum Turner. Also, could they just... He's a tall glass of water. Could they just... Oh, no, he's probably too clean cut for you. Way too clean cut for me. Oh, yeah, he is. He was great in Masters of the Year.

Yes. Ah, that was an incredible show. Huh. Yeah, so he's in it. The basic premise is, um, Miles Taylor, and Elizabeth Olson married at the start of the movie They're old people

And I'm not gonna spoil anything But you know all this from the trailer But they die within like a week of each other And this is also a famous book Right, that's been turned into a movie Is it cool? It's not a book, okay It was written

It gives big book, hey It gives big book energy It gives in this age of books Being turned into movies Yeah At a rapid pace It does but it's not Okay

Basically there are a couple That have been married for like 60 years, 60 something years and they die and the idea is when you die, you go to this like hotel where you've got one week to decide where you're going to spend eternity and who with. Is it a nice hotel?

It didn't look too bad. Okay. Oh, not too bad. Like a Novital or something like there? Like a Novotel. An ibis or something. It's like a service department. Oh, a quest. A quest. Sort of a quest service department. It's not a quarter. Not a quarter.

It's not a court. And during the day, you go to their convention center and they're trying to sell you different sorts of eternities. Yeah, that sort of thing. Yeah. So, and the story is

when she gets there, so Miles Taylor gets there and you're kind of like, come back when you were at your happiest with your body and like your life, that's what you look like. 26. Okay.

I was unbeatable at 26. Okay. You're unbeatable now. I'm not arriving at 36, tell you well. You're unbelievable now. At 37. Unbeatable. Just you wait.

Just you wait. So he gets there. She arrived. but then also there is her first husband who died in the Korean War. Oh, my God, Canandro. Oh, and did she like him? Did she like him? She loved him.

She loved him. She got married to him, and then he went to the Korean War and died. She never got, like, a goodbye to him or anything. God, this is really giving big book energy. It's good. This is giving huge book energy. So, the whole movie is just about what she's going to do. But wait, how, she wasn't with the guy who died in the war for ages,

but she was with the other. The first love, though, that deep, first love. First Love and she never got to live out the life that they'd kind of thought they were going to have and plan and now she gets to see him again Yeah, but he might have been an A-hole. Yeah, but he might not. He might have been the one and she never got to experience it.

He's right. He's been waiting in this like limbo in this hotel for 67 years for her. I'm sorry, but who is paying for all that time in a quest service department? It's not, this doesn't, currency doesn't work like that. Doesn't work like that in the afterlife. Here's what you don't want to do because who I went to the movies with has not stopped thinking about it and has pulled it apart. Oh, right, okay.

and they've ruined it for themselves yeah so you've just got just enjoy it i can enjoy things at a surface level i'm learning not everybody can enjoy things at a surface level they need to dissect it yeah right okay deeply but um but yeah so that's the whole conundrum of it and there was just like lots of like i don't know lots of addressing different parts of life and stuff and then old and like there was the dying and i cried three times three times wow okay one was like a couple of road tears pull yourself together the next one was like full tears running down the face but no noise and then the third one was sort of a repeat of number two like no sniffling no like howling but tears rolling down the face sort of a wet a wet face situation i love a movie cry it's so

cathartic it obviously releases something within you that you're you know relating to it's good flet again it's good to cry you've got to do it feels so nice i have been crying by a body of water recently by the way and the other day I did take a banana yes and now's that don't be mental health what kind of body of water did you go river lake river just end of my road yeah live near a river lovely yeah there's a park bench there

that's a tidal river though did you go on low tide that'd be a yucky night I didn't go when it was sludgy and low no no I went high tide did you check the tides before you went of course I did I tied cry a cry tide you got a tide much like the tide you're crying can be sort of moon regulated. Play ZDM's Flesh Fawnan and Haley. Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day, Day.

Ah, do-doodoo 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 Christmas or holiday song week at Fact of the Day and Haley I'm going to need you to pull me up. All I want for Christmas is you. by none other than Mariah Kelly. That's crazy. We're here, man. On a Thursday, what's Friday going to be? Snoopy's Christmas.

Yeah, I knew it would be. Which is only a big song. I don't want to, I won't. Yeah. I think we've done, we've delved into Snoopy's Christmas before. I kind of was reading the facts I've got lined up. And I was like, I feel like we've done that. Or maybe it's a little too well-known.

Yeah. Do I not get Boney M's Mary's Boy Child? Because that's my favourite. I could look into it. Maybe could you just add a little mini fact for me on Boney M's... I could do that for you tomorrow. I'll do that for you tomorrow. I've got a friend in you, Vaughn.

I've got a post-it note here somewhere, and it's going to have your name on it, and Bonie M's name on it. And the song title, Mary's Boychild. Yes. One of the most well-known facts is how much money Mariah Carey makes off the song every year. You'd just sit down, eh? $4 to $5 million.

Not $45, sorry. I said it's between $4 and $5 million a year from the song. It's the reason being One of the reasons It's so heavily used in retail Yes So like we play it We're playing it now

She gets a little slice of it Spotify This hit a billion streams in 2021 Which is quite the thing For a song released in the 90s Yeah It hit a billion streams in 2021 But it

Spotify's not paying people much Are they Nah bugger all Bugger all So it's the royalties The streams The radio play The fact that's used in ads

And retail in public usage means that it's made over 100 million US dollars over 30 years since it was released. Wow. But today's fact is she wrote it in 15 minutes. Imagine doing 15 minutes of work

and making that much money. Millions, millions, millions, millions. So, the reason being she didn't put much time into it, her and co-writer, Walter Afanas Thief, you try saying it. Beautiful, beautiful.

They wrote it in 15 to 30 minutes because Sony said we really want Mariah to do a Christmas album to boost her sales and my team said Christmas albums are for washed up artists she is too young and we're not going to do we're not going to put a lot of effort into this we're just going to do enough to get it by so 15 minutes so not only was it 15 minutes but it was

half-assed yeah they're just like who cares just saying baby baby baby baby baby she half-assed the biggest Christmas song of all time this was also an episode of 90 songs that explained the 90 The 2000s? The 2000s? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So she, no, it was not... Because this came out in the 90s. Did it? Oh, I didn't know why. Yeah, 60 songs that explained the 90s. I thought it was the 2000. It was 60 songs that explained the 90s. And then didn't he do more?

Yeah, he did 120. That podcast rules so much. That's a great, yeah. She just said it took them 15 minutes. It was in the middle of summer. She was dressed in men's pajamas, jumping around, like, trying to imagine being a child at Christmas, tapped into pure joy and achieved writing this song.

That's incredible, eh? Absolutely madness. And she's made that much money from it. She composed the melody in a tiny windowless basement in New York. But yeah, danced around and acted like it was Christmas. It's so joyful. Like, even the grinchiest grinch could be like, oh, this is a terrible song.

But like, the little slave hours get into it. Yeah. Apparently scientifically, it's, Perfect, scientifically engineered air candy. Haley, you're our show's musician. So maybe you could weigh in. Rude, because I did the recorder at primary school, but okay. There's a couple of musicians here.

Thank you. Yeah. So it's in a bright key, the G major. Yeah, G major is a beautiful bright key, second only to see. It has a melody that encourages sing-alongs. Yeah. It sounds timeless. It sounds both retro and modern at the same time.

Yeah. And it has a perfect pop chord progression. Yeah. Beautiful. It's simple. It's effective. Yep. It's simple and effective, and she wrote it.

And today's Christmas song, Fact of the Day, is that Mariah Carey wrote this song in 15 minutes. Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day, Day, day, day, day. Ah, do-doodoo-dood-dood-dood-dood-dood-dood-to-do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-do. The Z-M Podcast Network, Play ZM's Fletch Fawn and Haley We want to know right now What did you get your parent to do for you?

Do you get them to do something as an adult Maybe this is a regular thing or a one-off? Maybe there's just something that you find really hard Like, I don't know You've got to break up with the gym or something or... You make your doctor's appointments You make your doctor's appointment So you're like, Mom, please can you do it?

Or maybe as an adult you got your mummy to call in sick for work. Oh my God, imagine that. Mom, can you call Ross? Yeah. really tired. I'm so hungover. He'll believe you. Yeah, yeah. I'm really hungover, Mama. I overdid it. Can you call him in second?

I've got really sick and I can't come to the phone. Well, the reason I'm asking this is because Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacob Alorty they did the variety actors on actors. We talked about Ariana and, you know, where they get the actors to interview each other. It's such a great series. It's so good.

And Gwyneth Paltrow revealed to Jacob that her daughter, Apple, who's 21 years old, absolutely in love with him. Basically, like, chucking her in there. Yeah. How old is Jacob a Lordy?

Can you look that up? His response to it was. No, no, Fletcher's looking at up. We're done. 28, and she's 21. Completely acceptable. In my eyes. Why do I feel like you've abandoned me here?

No, no. I just didn't think it needed clarifying. But you, see, but you know behind the scene, she's like, mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom.

Mom. Can you buy also imagine Imagine Oh I thought you're saying She's going to be like Mom knock it off But she's like no no I know she 100% wanted mom to be

That's why Yeah she 100% Asked Mom to do this 100% His response was Oh that's the thing that you always get Oh my mom loves you My daughter loves you

My girlfriend loves you It's never just I love you Because no one just says that to someone right Yeah which I was like A celebrity Yeah and then Gwyneth is like I love you Jacob and then they like curse and now they're together.

I added this last bit. This is a thing. It's like, yeah. If Apple was like a bit shy, she got her mum to do her shot shooting. I love this. And I want to know this from you this morning. What did you get your parent to do as an adult? For you. Whether it was some life admin, it was a call to someone.

Something difficult you didn't want to do. Yep. A difficult conversation with your partner maybe. I love this. I had to get my mum to book my ADHD assessment because I kept forgetting. Okay, as an adult, 0,800 dials at Emson number, text through 9-696. As an adult, what did you get your parent to do for you? Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter most definitely asked mum to just slip in that she's in love with Jacob Allorty. And I see what he does about that.

And so Jacob Allorty and Gwyneth Paltrow have done one of those actors' interviews. Actors on actors for variety. And it was a very cute thing. But I want to know from you, what as an adult do you get your parents to do for you? Or was it a one-off? Have we had any messages in of people trying to set them up? Like, oh, I'm going to send me out that guy at work that's on. Oh, I'm not sure.

None of those. Paige, what did, as an adult, what did you get your parents to do? Hello, guys. I got my dad to help me with an ACC claim because I don't understand ACC at all. I don't think anyone does. They don't understand me. No, and you're like, what is an accident? Yeah, and, yeah, so dad kind of just...

told them and I just sat and you look pretty and we went yeah okay and then it was right we've got someone

sitting there looking pretty we deserved to win though like it wasn't like a like you know we weren't mucking them around they were mucking us around so

right okay and then so dad got in there and was dad a lawyer or something or does he just no my dad tells cards he's just real good at talking

like that paperware yeah like just just making things go his way oh my god that's great amazing well you won

So we won. So it was just a hearing just via like a video call otherwise it would have been taken to further whatever it had to be taken to. Yep. Oh shit. Did it, did it. And we won and dad was a cute little daddy daughter moment

and I really really appreciated it, you know? That's nice. That is super nice. Paige, congratulations. We're going to hook you up with their Fletchhorn and Haley. Rockquest band names calendar for 2026. Oh, lovely. Oh my God.

Best news. Best news I've had all year apart from the ACC. it's second to winning a hearing at ACC page weight there we'll sort that out CEO good morning what was the thing that you got your parents to do for you as an adult morning I got them to pick us up and drop us off at a gig

there was 10 of us and so they both dropped us off in two cars and picked us up at about 11 p.m and they dropped us like a town up oh that is as adults that's like something you do when you're a teenager right but as an adult like you should get your own Uber just saying. No, no, C.O. I did this.

It's all the gigs are at Trust Stadium nowadays. Yeah. My mum dropped me and my bestie off at Metallica. It was awesome. I was like, this rules. Thank you. C.O. Wait, we'll hook you up with a calendar as well.

Some messages in. My mum and I have different last name, so I always used her as a reference when applying for jobs. I was a model employee, according to the woman on my CV. And also, mum's going to lie for you to get a job because they probably want you out of the house. You please leave.

My mum, I'm sorry, my dad takes my car to get a warrant every year because mechanics are scary. Yeah, and also I feel like some mechanics, if they see you coming, and you don't look like you know about cars, they'll kind of rip you off. Totally. Not always. I'm 31. I get my dad to do my waf every year. I'm an adult with my own kids in a mortgage, but mum still pays and organises my car registration.

Oh, I made my mum go to the chemistry get plan B. Do you think mum had to pretend it was for her? Yeah, and we had to go to three different ones because they were, out of stock. But what if I really wanted it to be plan A? She wants some grandchildren. Oh, I'll look after it. Yeah, I'll just take this and she just gives you a barley sugar.

Probably a sign that the guy that got you the plan B wasn't suitable as a father. We'll get to more of your messages next. Keep them coming in. 9-696.0800 dials it in. Want to know what as an adult you got your parent to do for you and there is no shortage. People are still relying on my dad. Some of these are so insane. I bought my mum to my doctor's appointment

to tell him I was pregnant because I didn't know how to tell the doctor I was pregnant, I was 23. Oh, gee, like, come on, you've got to be an adult at some time. Did you talk? I think when you were about to give birth to a baby is probably a pretty good time to start trying.

Yeah. I'm 42, so I do most things myself. But my mom asked me... My mom asked me to text in and make up a lie about things she's done for me just so I can get a calendar for her. So, wait a hold on a moment. Wait a second

Your mum is like I need you to lie about how great I am So I can get a calendar Well let's just give mum a calendar You have mum a calendar Can we give mum a calendar? Just so we're feeling Mom can we give mum a calendar

I call Carwin Mum She's the mum of the show She's the mum Yeah Yeah can we sort out that text That they were going to lie I saw you guys were on the phone Answering calls

But someone sent in a text They were about to lie To get a calendar To get a calendar But I think we'll just get them Their mum wanted them to lie for them. But so how do we not know that they're lying about the mum situation? Well, they think they want a calendar just for themselves.

They don't even have a mum. So devious, I think it deserves a calendar anyway. It is devious. I've got a question. If Carwin's the mum of the show, what am I? The auntie. Thank you. Is your auntie?

Yeah, I like that. Can I just shout out while we're here? No, I thought you were like, you were both moms and we were just children of a lesbian couple. Oh, no, no, no. Shannon's not the mom. Shannon is not the mum. Is she step-mom? No.

No, no, no, no, no. No, she's auntie. Like, kind of like, that flusy auntie. Yep. Someone said, I used to get my dad to fill up my car for me. I'd bypass my parents' house on the way home just so he could do it because I hate doing it. He's dead now, but don't worry, my husband does it for me. Okay, great.

I'm glad someone stepped into that father role of filling up your car after your father passed away. Sometimes I sit and think, what would an adult do in this situation? I'm 27. Now, at what point is it going to register that I'm the adult in the situation that I'm currently finding myself in? I don't think it really ever does. No, it doesn't, eh? It just doesn't. I was way too hung over in my last day of work before uni.

So, mum called in sick for me and then went and helped my friend set up the shared lunch that we were putting on for my last day. Still on this day, she thinks I was suffering from food poisoning. Oh, bless mom. Mom, oh, God, you just rest up. You're like, man, it had a rage a last night. Yeah. A few people getting my mum to book their doctor's appointment, even as adults. You literally do it online.

There's an online portal now. I know, but darling, they're terrified of phones. You're terrified of phones. You can do it online. You don't even need to call. I know. Mum removes every stain on my clothes when I get a stain on my clothes. Oh, same.

Same. And living with my mum now, my whites are white. Yeah. Oh, your whites are white. Oh, man. If you guys have any whites, you just drop them off to me. Patty will do it. I'll do it.

I'll do my own whites. I've got some white. on in the washing machine right now. They won't be as white as pets. No, they will be their white as white. What whites do you have? You only will be navy blue. Why do your sheets need a wash?

Midweek wash. Do you want to know why? Either. Something filthy has happened. Oh, no. It's three past nine. Or something filthy is about to happen. No, I'm going away tomorrow, so I'm washing my sheets.

There's nothing jubious or sinister going on here. Right. It's just my weekly wash. That is not what you told me about your day yesterday. What about last week? when you had the power cut? Do we have time for that story? Does that, to be honest, my jaw at the floor?

It's three minutes past nine. That is all the time we have. We run out of time on the show. Is that the podcast done? Because I'm busting for a poos. Basting for a poos. Jesus. Give us a review.

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