ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - January 19th 2026

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley are back for 2026 with an even bigger show Jessica is the new Karen SLP - Do you watch shows weekly or binge? Angie K Interview Top 6 - Ways Vaughan will clothes himself now that EB Games has closed Catch up with Brin QLP - Is it too late to still have your Christmas tree up Bad News Brad When did you accidentally do something illegal Hayley has signed up to a race Fletch goes to hospital Fact of the day What was the brutal dumping? Trial Run - Unsung Heroes Biscoff Greek Yogurt trend Heated Rivalry  Goodbye with Georgia See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

from the ZDM Podcast Network. This is... Fleshhorn and Haley's Big Pod. Thanks to animates. Making happy happen for pets. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch Fawn and Haley. Hi.

Season... What season of the show is this? Season 5 for me. Season 5? Season 22. For you guys. Flash 5. I think it's just season 5.

Because it's fresh... Do you think this was a spin-off? This is the spin-off. It was the Real Housewives slash. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Okay, right. Okay, season five. I missed you guys when we were away.

I mean, we talked every day, mostly. We did talk a lot. A lot of photos. And goss. Lots of goss. Was spread through the WhatsApp, which, by the way, works in different countries, and even on the plane. Shocked.

Shocked to know. He couldn't even. Who knew, man? These planes, eh. Who knew? They just need to concentrate on staying in the air, I reckon. Yeah. Now, coming up on the show,

which, by the way, is an hour longer. Yes. So if you're listening now and you're like, man, I start at six and I go all the way to nine, we're going to 10. We're now like one of those. Did they still do the crunchy bars with 10% extra? Do you remember when they did those?

Yeah, yeah. I always thought it was a 25% extra, a 20% extra. We are. We are 25% extra. Yeah. 10% doesn't seem worth going on about. No, we're bigger. So we're bigger and better.

Season 5. Yeah. Coming up on the show, while we're away, producer girlies caught up with, I believe, a woman that is in a house. And she's a wife? She's a wife?

She's a housewife? Is she a Mormon one? No, I don't know what she does. What does she do? Which housewife is this? And who are we talking to soon on the show? Angie Kay from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, so that's a good one.

Oh, okay. So wait, does she have like... Well, no, she's a Salt Lake City. She's a Mormon. She's actually Catholic. She's Greek. But yes, the rest of them basically. She's great Catholic yogurt. And she's having Biscoff biscuits put into her in the new viral craze.

We'll discuss that later in the show as well. So she's coming up on the show. You got to speak to her. Yeah. We were freaking out. This was a big one. And they were like, oh no, Fletchewan and Haley are away. And we're like, crazy.

What if we spoke to her? Oh my God, sweet. You swooped. Yeah, we're getting shafted. Because we would have said no, right? Yeah. Yeah, we would have Next on the show

We have discussed this But has been confirmed The new Karen for 2026 The Fletch morning, Hayley, big pod Just a sign note Before we get into this situation The new Karen for 26 I don't know if the listener can hear it

But we've got a new light Yeah I think you can hear it Radiating through our voices Like a big Studio light Like square light It's like a cloud.

Yes, it is. It's like a light cloud. Yeah, so if you're looking on our socials, FVHZM everywhere that you're socials, you might see a wee sparkle in her eyes. And I think you can hear it in the voice as well. Or a lot more facial detail that we don't want you to see. We all walked in the set.

A down light, can we test that? Because that's really going to show up the bags of my eyes. Okay, we might have touched on this because everyone, the internet loves to sort of villainise a name. Yes. 2019 is when the name Karen really took a beating As you know 2019

I would just thought early but no that's Yeah 2019 According to this article was the year that it just like blew up And every Karen was a Karen And every it's like all the reels and the talks and that Were about Karen's So they're like it's time to move on Because we're all aging up

So they looked back at kind of the age range Of people that tend to complain Okay so wait, Karen's are still Karen's Karen's always going to be Karen. Okay, right. Yeah. My friend who's Karen is Karen with an I, and she lets you know it, K-R-I-N. Corinne.

Yeah, but it's pronounced Karen. No, that's Corinne. I know. It's like Sarah's who don't put an H. I'm like, sorry, Sarah. You're a Sarah. I don't know how to have. And it's like a Casey with two S's.

You're a Cassie. You're a Cassie. Yeah. Exactly. So, 1985 to 1990 is now the complaining generation. Hey, that's me. 1985 to 1990. Wait, is it, Haley?

It's not a Haley. No, Haley doesn't have that vibe. No. They've described it as a bitchy name. Okay. Jessica. Well, you've got a best friend, Jess. Yeah, Jess.

Is she a bitchy container? Jess isn't a bitch. Jessica is. Is that fair to say? Yeah. So my Jess, my besty Jess has never... No one calls her Jessica. Yeah.

She's Jess to her core. Does anybody go by full Jessica? The bitches. Them bitches. Them bitches. Jessica. Yeah. The moaners.

Jessica Simpson. Jessica Alba, you'd never say Jess Alba. No. Jess Chastain. I would also never call Jessica Alba a birge. No, I know, but she is now because that's the name. It's the news Karen. And you know who confirmed it.

And this is, and you know when this happens, you know it's right. Reddit. Factual. It came together and they said, what is the new Karen? And they've officially crowned Jessica, the new Karen for millennials. Were there any runners up? Any close? Oh, I don't think so.

Jess was a clear winner. And is there ever a man version? A Lisa? Lisa's having a win. I think Lisa's had a few more wines than Jessica. Right. I think Lisa's a bit more relaxed. Yeah, I think Lisa's a bit looser.

Looser Lisa. Was there ever a male version of Karen? No. Why did the men escape this? What is the male version of Karen? Because men love to complain as much as women. No, but with women, it's about the clip to and the kind of up energy.

The male vision, Karen, doesn't know there isn't a universally agreed name, but Brad, Todd and Ken suggested male Todd. Kevin often used online to describe an aggressively clueless or obnoxious guy.

Yeah. A David? David. David. David. Not Dave. Yes. Can I see the manager, please? And who may I say is asking? David. The Fletchborn and Haley, Big pod These silly little poll When you have a new show come out

It's episodic, when it comes out weekly Rather than a dump, how do you watch it? The options were Watch every new app as it releases weekly Like it's the 1990s and you'll watch it broadcast television Wait for a few eps and then watch some Or wait until the full season is out and binge it all Which I normally do

But this will surprise you The most common one, 50% of people will watch every new ep as it releases weekly. I think that's me. And afterwards I'm like, ah. I, when I've got like four weeklies on a go. Yeah, that's good. Oh, that's good. But then also confusing

because sometimes they all start to blend in you, like Yeah, yeah, yeah. The second most probably won't 33% of people wait for a few Eps and then watch some of them, and 17% have the patience to wait until the full season is out and then binge it all. Okay, so I'm in a minority there because I've got this exact conundrum

right now because of Pitt, season two, has just come out, which Golden Globes last week it won Best Drama, it won Active Noel, and a supporting actress. It's incredible. Christine loves it. You know, my mum's massive fan of the... She loves it. She was going to sit down

and get into that again. But then, so I start seeing things online, I'm like, God damn it. I know, that's the thing. What are you doing with Fallout Season 2? Because that's the same, that's weekly. We saw the first two episodes when we went to the launch. I watched the third, and I'm like,

no, I've got to wait till it's all out. Yeah, I think... The pit's not a show that's going to have spoilers. It's the Stranger Things and, like, we were watching Stranger Things as they dropped over summer because, you know, the internet was just so obsessed with it that you don't want to see the spoilers. So the pit is just a hospital drama.

Yes, but... It's very, very good. But it's incredibly realistic and it's insanely intense. It's like real time, right? Yeah, so it's... Every episode is an hour of a 15-hour ship. Right. Okay.

I'm just saying that hospital thing's being ticked off. I don't like Grey's Anatomy. I don't like Grace Anami. I don't like those kind of shows. Let's face it. Grace Anammy got effing stupid. No, people... They ran out.

They ran out of ideas and they were like, it slowly got so crazy. It was the frog and the boiling pot. There wasn't there a ghost? Dude. They did a musical. Yeah, I know. Crazy Anami lost the effing people.

I know. People love it. They still watch it religiously. That Meredith, what's her name? Meredith Gray. She is milking it. She's milking. Alan Pompeo.

Has she left or if she's still there? No, she's still there. It's her anatomy. It's her anatomy. Oh, yeah. It is too. She admits that she was never going to have a career in film, like become an actress actress, because she was so attached to that thing, but she was like, man, I'm paying bills.

Yeah, she'd be filthy rich. Like, we can't even imagine. Well, the people have spoken, but here's what they had to say. Oh, I like that line. The people have spoken about here's what they had to say. No. because they spoke by voting, but now here's what they have to say. No, it tells us.

The butt doesn't feel right. The butt doesn't feel right. The people have spoken and here's what they have to say. And here's what they have to say. Makes more sense. I'm going to remind me to do that every time. I'm still a little polo now. Have you come back in 2020, 2026 trying to be some kind of.

Yeah. Legendary broadcaster. I'm launching a church. Watch this space. Oh, wow. Yeah. What's at the core of your religion? Freedom.

Freedom. Boomies. That's an easy one. Hey, woo, whoa, whoa. Tits and freedom. I'm in. That's actually what? That's cool.

Yeah, Haley, you'll give you 10% of her wages. Yeah, absolutely, dude. Tive me 10 for Tits and Freedom. Yeah. M says the weekly release kills me. The rookie is too good for one a week. That's out, by the way, I think. Yeah.

We've got season 8 of the rookies hitting. Lauren, I like to fall behind and get some in the bank so I can watch a few at the time where I can. However, avoiding spoilers is where it gets tricky. Yeah. Also, glad you guys are back. I hope you had fun. Oh, thanks.

Some fun was had. Riannan, do you want to go into that fun now or should we do that later or is that podcast only? I feel like some of it's podcast fun. Pletch is fun. Podcast only. Right, witnesses this country has standards. Excuse me. Here it sits and freedom.

And bless. What do we say to God bless? Yeah. Bless you. Instead of eating the wafer, you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just a big, she goes out the front, and you're like, this big statues is just bust. She's just got her boobies out, and you just go, please me with you.

I can't wait. And instead of like, anointing you with Hollywood, she just spits on your forehead. Oh, no, that was a bit far. Thank you. Spitting back in 2026? I feel it was six years from COVID, I feel spittins back. Spittins back. Spittins back.

Moving on. That didn't take long for the show. I really did it, did it. I can't wait to have, I can't wait, blah, blah, blah. No, I'm gonna just go to a new one. Binging is where it's at. I simply cannot stand waiting a whole week to be drip fed in the episode. I need a whole season at a time.

Amy said, I'm never up to date on anything to watch weekly except for this new season of the pit, which is ironic because the format of the show is definitely better to be consumed in a binge. It is, it is. You're very much now. Someone message, where are you watching the pit? It's neon. Neon. Neon.

neon, yeah. While you're on there, give sinners a good hard. I'm halfway through sinners. I'm half movies because I fall asleep. Oh, don't want to get. Half movies. So I'm half movies. They're not TV shows.

Yes. Split them in half. Haley Steinfeld has a hell of a line about spitting in that one. After watching a weekly ebb, I'll go back and watch all the rest until the new episode drops. Oh, they just cycle. That's crazy. Watch another show. Yeah, there's so many.

Hooked on Landman and Fallout. The Misses and I now watch them as soon as they drop. See, Landman is drip feeding as well. That's not finished yet. Season two, yeah. I've been doing that episode. God, that's good television. All depends on how much I like the show.

I don't want to see spoilers on social media. Says Julie, so I watch it week to week to avoid having the surprises. Spoilt. Well, we asked you, how do you watch a new show when it's dropped weekly and 50% of you or watch it as it comes out?

The ZDN Podcast Network. You know, on this show, we love reality TV. And the producer girlies have always vouched for the Real Housewife series. like of this place, of that place. But of Salt Lake City, they claim is the best one. And it comes out every Wednesday, and this Wednesday, I believe,

is part two of the reunion from this very dramatic show. I saw something today about a mistress. What if I'm wrong? And I'm going to look like a fool. He humiliates me. There's things out there about bankruptcy and shoplifting. You questioned every single thing I have. Shut your fucking mouth.

going to shot my mouth. I'm going to come over there and pull your ears further back that they've been pulled by your facelift.

I don't have a facelip but I have 12 threads on each side. I want 12 threads on each side. Well, while we were away producer girlies Karwin and Shannon

were given the chance to talk to Angie Kay. Let's check it out. We are here with the Queen of Salt Like herself, Angie Kay. Hello.

Thank you. Hi. Great to see you girls. I want to kick right into it from this season has been so far. Ooh, there were so many. Going to Greece with the women,

and there was just this one particular moment where we turned the corner and this beautiful music played, and the women gasped when they saw the view of Santorini. Like, they had seen pictures, but when they turned the corner and saw it in real life right before them, it was just magnificent and majestic,

and there were tears. Seeing my dad on their sharing, his story. I have to say that also was very special as far as more a personal versus with the group. Yeah. It was like that that's a story that I was proud to have shared. It was so lovely seeing him on the show and we were hoping you would say Greece. And we did wonder if you could maybe teach us a little Greek word. I mean, your hair just keeps on Kokina. Your hair is red and it's so beautiful. So like the first thing, as a hairdresser, I just, your red hair stood out to me.

So I would say too, Orea, Maya, beautiful hair. Orea Maya. Good job. We are obviously all the way in New Zealand, and that's about a 20-hour flight for you. So I was wondering, if you had to do that journey with one other housewife, doesn't have to be Salt Lake City. Who would you pick? I can't pick one of my girls because that would be, that would make me feel bad.

So I better pick one of someone from another cast. You know who it was just fun that I'd like to take a trip with? Was Vicki Gunnelson? I got to chat with her this year at BravoCon. And she wound up, she fell, she was like, she got hurt there. I saw so much of myself and her. I hear she's very accident prone. So imagine the two of us on a trip.

It would be comedy. You guys can get a little bashed up on the plane and arrive and we'll take good care of you here, all right? Yes, I would love to. I would love to go to New Zealand. We need to get a girls trip. I just said that, yes. I want to mind their calls.

That would be a great cast trip, right? Yeah. Well, are your hair ins and outs for 2026? Okay, so that's a great question. The little ringlets out. Oh. I mean, that is so played out, really. It's like, I mean, it has been done and overdone.

And hair ends, gorgeous, full volume. You girls are really young, but in the 90s, the supermodels would have these round, like very full, voluminous blow drives. It would be called very sexy or sensual hair, but it's timeless, right? The ringlets, what we call the Utah curl, that is really not timeless.

That was a trend that's really been played out. So having your hair blown out with volume and not so like, you know, the six straight look is fun. I still do it. But just seeing a lot more volume and body in the hair. Seeing like these big full blowouts on these young influencers. And I think it's so cool. It's like I'm seeing hair come back the way that I wore my hair and I love it. That is so good because we have a lot of humidity in New Zealand.

So it's a volume. Yes. It's perfect. Yes. And then so lastly, speaking of the rain. reunion, what can we expect from the last two episodes coming up? You know, I think that there's some bombs dropping, of course, as, you know, Andy got frustrated because you've got a lot of loud, strong personalities that have a lot to

say. It's really hard. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to have a voice. And if we don't get our chance to speak, we leave their feeling with a lot of unanswered questions. without resolve. And that never feels good going into the next season or running into your friends, you know, after out on the street at an event and not having gotten that resolved. So, so yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of yelling, raising voices. But I think, you know, there's a lot of great moments too and compassion for friends that are going through things. And that's always special when our friends can kind of show up for us even when we're in the heat of the moment. Obviously, we don't get to see the full thing.

Is there ever a moment where you're like, oh, that's going to go viral on TikTok? Because for me, Lisa's saying she learned how to read at three and a half and now saying that's why she trolls everyone on Tritter with such a standout moment. Do you know those moments are happening? No, you know what I always think is funny? When you say something crazy like French Franchise franchise or the reading,

I didn't even remember her saying that. And so when it comes out, it's like, it's funny what stands out or our editors are obviously amazing and know what is going to be funny bit, that's their job. And they bring those funny moments out and they bring them to Cameron. You never expect what you think is funny, isn't funny. And then the stuff they bring out, you're like, oh my gosh, that's hilarious. I don't remember that.

Oh, amazing. Well, thank you so much for chatting to us. It was lovely to meet you. Thank you to our producer, Girlies, for doing that in our absence. And, of course, you can watch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really well. done, girlies. Because I would have had no idea about that show.

Yeah, yeah, you would have stumbled around. Well, if you want to learn all about the show, Vaughan, I forgot your name for a second, call you Fletch. Real House Wives Solac City, season six, currently playing now, new episodes. Wednesday's first on Hayer, which, by the way, is the same day as the United States of America. The ZN podcast network.

Play ZDM's Fletch Worn and Haley. From the Fletch Vaughan and Haley group chat, This is the top six. Hello there, sad news, E.B. Games, and I knew, I was saying to people, remember when E.B. Games is called Electronics B boutique? Yeah, it was. No. That's where the E.B. comes from. It was like early 2000s when it changed to E.B. Games. So they just shut down last week. Yeah, man. And New Zealand. I thought the nerds loved the shumping. Yeah. Or is it just because people get games online and download them now?

Well, you don't need the physical copies. No. But then you could get the games there secondhand. So much cheaper. Yeah. And it just had heaps of, like, fun merch. I just like always just going in for a look. Bubby. Where am I going to go?

Where there's Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and Pokemon and Stranger Things and all the other nerdy stuff I like. Oh, it must be so hard being a nerd now. It's hard being a nerd. It's so hard. Hard being a nerd. So, eB games has been. established and pulled out of the New Zealand market entirely due to poor performance and multi-million

dollar losses, making it unviable for them to stay. EB Games, New Zealand was the largest video games and merchandise retailer in the country. I mean, that sort of feels right. I love... I loved a Pokemon shirt. Love to... For an award ceremony. I still do love a Pokemon shirt.

How many t-shirts and clothing options did you own from EB games? Yeah, I noticed in like the last year they stopped doing like the specials rack. You used to be able to get a t-shirt there for 15 bucks. And they kind of got rid of the specials rack. He shops at the specials rack at EB Games. Yeah. Wow. I've got to have my nice Pokemon shirts.

You do, you do. For a award ceremony. Well, the top six. Top six ways I'll close myself now that EB Games is gone. Okay. I'm number six on the list of some high-quality sheen purchases that don't seem flammable at all. Yeah, but I don't smoke a diary. Don't go near an incense stick.

No, I wouldn't even say don't stand in direct sunlight. Yeah. It feels like it's going to melt. Number five on the list of the top six ways I'll clothe myself now that EB Games has gone. Kids section at farmers. I'll just have to get an OZNPick like everybody else. There's a lot of OZNPIC going around.

There's so much. All right. We govies and the Jovi's and the Jovi's. John Bon Jovi injection. But no, but just general people now are doing it. Not just celebrities. No. Number four on the list of the top six ways

I'll clothe myself know that EB Games is gone. I go to Spotlight. I get some material felts. Yeah. and I get a t-shirt and I'm at my own. Okay, that's actually an infringement on the trademark and copyright of Pokemon.

No, because I'm not selling it. Are you any good? Technically, it's fan art. No. One wash and that's gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember puffets? No, Vaughn.

Do you remember puffets? You'd get a t-shirt and you'd draw on the material with a puffet and then you'd put a hairdroar on it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I do remember those. My brother made a Bart Simpson t-shirt with puffets. Use his entire puffets on one t-shirt.

And you're right, as soon as it washed it, it lost its puff. Yeah. The colour stayed on. Lost its puff. Lost its puff. Bring great puffets. Number three on the list of the top six ways. I'll clothe myself now that EB Games has gone.

I guess I'll just buy smelly pre-worn clothes from other nerds and like hot wash them. Yeah. Got your save marks. I know, yeah. A good couple of washes. Oh, yeah. You've got to give a couple washes. And some sard.

Sard soak. Yeah. We love Sard. We love Sard. We're here at the show. been aiming for years to have Sard on board as an official sponsor. Now that my mum lives with me and she's been doing my

laundry, she was like, oh so you're a sard. What is she, who's she an APSA? A pink one. Oxy? Oxy. Really? Action or whatever. Yeah. That's expensive. Oh, Patsy. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, this is a Sard household. You can't be spending a retirement money on Oxy. No. Oxy. Oxy. I know. Oxy. Oxy. Any kind of oxy. OxyCodin.

OxyCode. OxyCubes. Yeah. Oxy cubes. No, she likes the pink one. I mean, it's very expensive. It's very expensive. Just get yourself for sardstick, that's.

She's going to be a pensioner soon. She is a pensioner. She's a pensioner. She's spending a pension money on that pink stuff. She needs to tighten her belt. She needs to wrap her hand around a bloody sardstick. Number two, those are the top sex ways I'll clothe myself now that EB Games has gone.

I guess I'd just go to Japan and get Pokemon T-shirts from the source. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Welcome? Okay. Show trip to Japan. And number one. that are Zempic though because of the sizing.

Yeah, I know. They're going to... Godzilla! They'll say when I work in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll be like, I know, I've had a fun summer. Yeah. Today I return to Anytime Fitness.

Yes. Let's see how that goes. Godzilla. No, please. Anytime Fitness in his EB Games Pokemon T-shirt? Yeah, yeah. No, I don't work out in cotton. I don't work out in a...

Or not after the stink incident. In a cotton. No, I've always worn the breather ball. What does that stuff sweat? Active wear. Yeah, active wear. Yeah. I see people in some inappropriate gym attire and I think you're going to stink.

Yeah. I have one on the list of the top six ways I'll clothe myself now that EB Games has gone. I guess given that this is the year I turn 44, it's time I start wearing college shirts with stripes. Oh. No way. I just got a guy in a shirt and thing the other day. I was like, A, you're back at work. What a sucker.

And then B, I was like, oh, yuck. Imagine having to. Yeah. Wear a shirt to work? I'm angry. I'm wearing a T-shirt today. I want to wear a singlet. Like, I've been wearing a singlet or something.

Yeah, I'm allowed to wear my sly little shorts to work? No. Yeah. We don't want anything poking out the bottom. They do, too. Oh, God, yeah, I don't win a testy in the workplace. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, then, that's the day self-sakes.

Play, Z-Ns, Fleshorn and Haley. Bryn Radkin joins us in studio. Hey, Brinney. Hang on. Oh, God, I'm having a... Sorry, Jet lag. Oh, first day. Sorry, jet lag.

Jet lag. He's still in the plains of Africa. How are you? How is you? Happy New Year. Yeah, you too. No, it was good, thanks. Yeah, I was just at Mount Munganui.

Oh, we popped down at the same time. I love that. We were all there, and none of us called up. I don't have you on fine friends. Ah, that'll be it. Which is a good thing, because I don't know if I want you to see where I am all the time. What is the one friend that's like, what are you doing there? Oh, if I might address, Bryn, if I might address.

This guy going to South Africa for the break, he goes to South Africa, sees a couple of big animals. All of a sudden, he's in Brazil. And then, did you notice, a couple of cheeky days in Colombia? Yeah, I did. Oh, I must be nice. I open up fine friends to see if my friend Haley's still at the Mount. Fletch is in Columbia.

I'm like, yeah, why wouldn't I be? This one was quiet. He kept this trip quiet. Oh, no. Yeah, no, it was good. I was actually going to go to your show, Haley, at the Mount. Oh, yeah? But didn't.

So, sorry about that. Not a fan. No, I'm a big fan. Big fan of yours. Thanks. Right. But not the best holiday, Bryn. What happened?

No, well, have you heard of COVID? It's done. Yeah. We fixed it. Well, apparently not, because I caught it. Did you get COVID? How old school? I know.

Retro. Which COVID? 19? Because it's 2026. Brin. She'll get so out of fashion. That's so embarrassing. What?

We were talking about COVID. of someone. Remember when we would just name the strands after the country? And then it was like, oh, he's got the Indian COVID. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's got the Italian COVID. He's got the Mount COVID. Yeah. Yeah.

How did you get it? Do you know? Or do you just say, just. Passion, open mouth, passion. Because spittin's back. Yeah. I've never heard in the six o'clock hour spitting's back. Yeah, well, there was a bit of that going on on, on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve. On New Year. What else do you do at the mouth? That's one of the lyrics. For old anxiety, my dear, for old anxiety, spitting my mouth. spit in my mouth, spit on me, old angine. Instead of holding hands like, you just spit left and right. Have you done some contact tracing?

Do you know who gave it to you? Did you open the app? Yeah, well, I've deleted the Bluetooth app. Right, yeah. I always still scan it every morning, I'll get to list. I love when a place has left their sign up for COVID check it. It's so funny. Yeah.

Well, there was someone else in this office who also got sick and we were together on New Year's Eve. Right, okay. And I'll let you guys. piece the puzzle together, yeah. Are you romantically involved with somebody in the office? No, well, you said spitting. Oh, right.

Okay, let's leave that. Okay, but you've recovered. But wait, did you test yourself? Did you go to the hospital? Yeah, well, I went to the doctor because they had such a, like a spicy throat. And I was like, this isn't good. And then just in passing, the doctor was like, oh, have you done a COVID test? I'm like, no, can you still get them?

Turns out you can. The chemist warehouse is still trying to get rid of them. Yeah, you're trying to get rid of the... They're really invested heavily. That's right. And he had the Vird. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

And so, yeah, I was at the Mount. I just went to the beach. It was actually the best time to have COVID because... Just at the beach. Just at a crowded beach. Yeah. Yeah. I also was at the beach, you bastard.

Just surrounded by families and small... Well, then I had the other issue of the Mount Mawler. Oh, dude. That thing's... Was it Mount Moller or was it sea lice? I don't know. What are you talking about? Dude, there's this bug that lives at the Mount,

but generally not at the main beach of the Mount, which is why it was surprising. My kids got mauled, my nieces and nephews got more. One of those pests in the sand dunes. Yeah. That shows his penis. No, no, no, no. It's a little bug.

Now, the bug may or may not show. It's penis. I'm not sure. It's right. It bites. Well, we're going to have to take this into account at our million-dollar beach dig. But then I thought it might have been the sea lice

because it was always, did you get bitten under the talk? Well, there was a lot of jelly. where the material sat. Yeah. I got home after swimming and I like emptied my pockets out. It was just full of jelly.

Yeah, the jelly, the jellyfish. Yeah. Is that what it was? Yeah. I didn't get any of us. No. But I thought it might have been the sea ice or the Mountmore. They might have been attracted to your COVID-19 body.

Possibly. Yeah. Quickly, how's you, any updates in the dating world or any clairvoyance on the horizon? No, no, no. No, I'm going to be really normal this year have decided. Wow, that's your resolution.

Your resolution is to be normal. Yeah. After many years. So far, so good. The CNN Podcast Network. So it's, what is that, the 19th of January? Christmas, well-dorn. It's my Uncle Murray's birthday today.

Oh, happy birthday. See the one that imported fireworks? He did used to import. That's right. imported a bit of fireworks. Not anymore, though. Well, no, that was a long time ago. Oh, I could have got my hands on some of those.

I have pretty good. Do you? Pretty good Sky Rockets. Oh. Well, 19th of January, I think well and truly your Christmas tree should be down. Obviously. It's supposed to be down the old... January 2nd?

Fifth. Because that's the 12th day of Christmas, right? Yeah, right. Well, the Christmas happened and then the New Year's happened and the New Year's day doesn't exist, obviously. And then there's a few sort of dusty days around Jan, and then I was like away a little bit, and I came back. And I'd just been busy doing things. And I got home from Sydney quite late last night. It's still up.

Which is surprising because you live with a couple of superannuitants. Yeah, I know, and I sort of did. And they kind of don't have anything to do. But they just potter around and they endlessly potter it. You'd think that they'd love to unpotter the Christmas tree. Oh, I have much. I have much to share about living with my parents. In general, incredibly positive experience.

But yeah, Patsy gets sent to. I really would have thought that she would have taken it down by now. I even left the box. Now, this is an artificial Christmas tree. It's artificial, so there's no chance of it. I'm dying technically clear I could leave it up all year. You know, I've got the big, three-meter-tall Christmas tree. You're going to have to blow it.

No, so, boy, by the time I took that down, Jan third, the pine needles through the house. Oh. The pine needles. I gave it to the cows, and the cows played with it and destroyed it. Oh. That had got a lot of good fun. And then what just left it as a scratching pole and now the trunk's just lying in the paddock, yeah. Right.

But, yeah, that's what I was thinking because it's artificial. Yeah. If you had left a real tree up this long, I'd be brown. Well, quick little poll we asked online. And I mean, I don't think we needed to ask it. It should be down. I know it should be down. Still have your Christmas trip.

91% of people responded saying yes, 9% with a no. Because a lot of people spend so much time and effort. They put their tree up in October. They take it down in the fib. I got mine up a little bit later too. So you want to give it its due, you know, like to shine. And I did a good tree this year. But yeah, no, no.

It's got to come down. Today, by the way. Caitlin said mine's still up due to a combination of laziness being time. and getting food poisoning. Oh. You can't be shitting yourself or taking your Christmas tree down. Also, it just becomes part of the house

and you just kind of don't get on with it. Notice it? Yes, I know totally. Yeah. And I've got outdoor lights that I did for the first time this year. I'm like, I quite like them. I'm leaving mine up.

Yeah, I'm thinking of leaving them up too. I've got some solar powered twinklers. Yeah, I've got solar powered twinklers. And I'll have them as part of the house. Yeah. I also did. You're going to love this when you come over for a barbecue. What are you in alley with bars and cafes?

Yeah, I am. At the back, I set up some poles and I did backyard festoons. It looks really nice. Leave those up. Snap on. Oh no, they're staying on. The front sparklers

and the Christmas wreath, that's got to go. The weird thing about, as you say, with the fairy lights up, I've just had food trucks pulling up to my house. Yeah, people, yeah, constantly. Some guys built a wood-fired pizza oven. Yeah, where do I plug in the...

Some of them have already gone under. They've only been up three weeks. Social media... Social media influences just getting photos under the fairy lights. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. It happens. Yeah. My partner, still has his tree up, says Eve.

It's a huge act. Yeah. You know, I'd probably look at... Tell them, breaking up with him, actually. It's going to be the first thing I do want to get home. Yeah, okay, good. It's coming down. It's more than I'm disappointed that my live and caretakers...

Having taken care of it. Haven't taken care of it. Play that ends, Fleshhorn and Haley. Bad news, Brady, in studio, principal, per senior CEO economist for infometrics. Good morning. Is that close enough? I said we just say big dog.

That's exactly what it says on this business card. I say it's a little jumbly brat. Yeah. Look, I've told you guys before, I'll respond to just about anything. People yell stuff in the streets. Sometimes it's abusive. Sometimes it's not. It works.

We don't encourage abuse here at the show. We won't stand for it. They're simply not a listener. No. Now, for many people, 2026, they will start the year with a financial goal of saving. Yeah. And that is why we have you on the show today, because you're an economist. How do we do it?

How do we do it when everything is so expensive? How do we do it? Says Haley, who has, how many shopping pay? I was going to say, stop shopping, bro. I have one, and it's closed. I'm just, no, I'm, I'm reining it in this year because, Brad, this may shock you. I'm doing another renovation. Oh, my goodness.

So I've got to, I've got to, wait, I've got to hold onto my money. So, sorry, are you saying that I should block you on Instagram now so you don't message me every now and then with, like, say, hey, what should I do with my, you know, money at this point? I'll be intolerable. Mm-hmm. Oh, more than normal. Cool, cool, good, good. Shivers, it's coming. I like this task.

I like it. Look, when it comes to saving, look, it is tricky, right? Because life is expensive. I get that. But I think there's a combination of coming down up with a few rules, if you will, when it comes to your finances. So you want to make sure that you're putting away enough for the bills at the start. But then you want to effectively, instead of leaving your money

or your savings money as your leftovers, so you say, look, I earn whatever a week I pay for my food first, and then I pay for my rent and then my power and then whatever is left over at the end is my savings. A lot more of my friends these days are going, actually it's a budget item. So I need to pay for my food and my electricity and my rent and my savings.

I'm putting a very specific amount away each week. That's a better way to do it for some of your long-term stuff. Because some people do that thing where, and maybe not all workplaces do this, but you can ask payroll to split off a certain amount of your pay into an account that you don't touch. You never get it. Like you never see it.

Effectively. Although I think a lot of people, I mean, again, you can do that yourselves, set up an automatic payment of whatever that dollar amount is the day after your pay run. So, you know, pay comes in on Wednesday. Thursday, there's a $30 automatic payment that goes off to account savings that you never check, you never look at. Or, and I think this is the other thing, people are often thinking about their savings in different ways, because some people are saving for a house, some people are saving for renovations. Sometimes you're just saving for a trip, and sometimes you're saving for long-term retirement. Or just life. Exactly.

You know, your emergency fund. I'm saving for a $1,200 Pokemon Lego set that was announced, Brad. It's got Venusaur. It's got Blastoyce. It's got Charzard. Oh, my God, it's got Venusaur. How quickly are you needing to purchase this rather impressive Lego set? Immediately, Brad.

Well, because, see, what you could do there is you could say, look, I'm going to put some savings into my short-term account. You know, you have sort of a couple accounts. You put some into your short-term account, which buys the Lego. You put some into your sort of slightly longer-term account, which is for your Japan trip next year so that you can go over and buy your shirts. and then some more into your long, long-term stuff so that, you know, when you eventually retire. I don't think I'm going to live there more. Okay, well, for your kids then.

Screw them. He's like, they're going to stand in their own two feet. Cheapers. One of them actually going to job in a coal mine over summer. I've never been more proud. Yeah, she's coughing up a lot of black. Yep. Sort of the other ones are chimney sweep.

But she's earning money. They're earning their money. They're earning their money. It's got to get a job, you know. Have a job. In this economy, it's good work. It's good work. Do you have a savings goal yourself, Bradie?

Oh, it's starting to... Well, a little bit more. So, I mean, this year, I'm turning 30 in a year's time. It's your birthday day. It is, it is. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Braden.

Happy... Thank you. That sounded so coordinated. We didn't get you a present because that's, it's not in the budget. Because you've got your own savings goals, right? You'll just tell us off. That's true. That's also true.

But I was talking to some friends last night and they were like, what's the big plan? You're going to have a whole bunch of stuff, you know, 30 before 30. And so there's a few ideas. You know, I could make it to 30 countries before 30. That is going to be quite expensive. So the savings goal would have to be set high. I could do 30 new dishes to learn to cook before 30.

One of my friends said 30 dates before 30, and I thought that was a little bit too much of a push. It's lofty for a year. That's all so expensive too. You can do four coffee dates a day though and just sort of like, you know, over a couple of years. You're going to be jittery by the end of the end of the day for all these coffee dates.

Just do what Fletch does. Ah, let's just move. Get a man, get it out. Get a moon. Batababababab. I have no comment on that. Moving swiftly along. Yeah.

They're not really dates though if you don't know. One. Starting the show. This guy, honestly. What are you, what are your hopes and dreams? for the financial future of New Zealand for 2026. Is it going to be a good year? Like, is everything going to get cheaper or is it better?

Remember he said this before. Nothing gets cheaper. It just stops getting more expensive. I mean, but see, here's the interesting things. I was looking at the food data before I came in because I'm very studious. I've got my Excel spreadsheets. The likes of your fish and your beef and everything

got really expensive last year. Love fish, love fish. But the sea is full of them. But you know what didn't change? Chicken breast, up 0.3% of the last year. That's a worse. Because everyone's caught in the fact that thigh is the better cut. Chicken thighs are crazy expensive.

Like $19 for four of them. Oh, but see, good protein, good protein sauce. Oh, you know, true protein. They're not wrong. Try. Yeah, but edible. But edible. Edible.

If you do a stir-frying goop with a chicken breast, you've got to have extra goop. Oh, you've got to eat extra goop. Yeah, and you've got to barely cook it medium rare. Maybe the 30 dishes before 30 is not on my list now. Sounds difficult. Okay. But yeah, no, look, I think. things will be better. We got some data end of last week that showed that the end of last year

was a little bit more of a pickup. Manufacturing activity has started to rise, a few more jobs, starting to be advertised. I think the big one, which is interesting, right, for households, is that the likes of boxing day spending came back quite a bit, down 12% from where boxing day was in 2024. And that says to me, I think people are going to be focused a lot more this year on experiences and smaller stuff. So not the big, big, maybe not as many Lego sets to my friend over in the corner, but it might instead be, look, you know, know, we're going to schedule a weekend away. We're going to do smaller stuff, but we're going to make it really, really sort of intense

because we want to have, you know, a lot more time with friends and family instead of the sort of big material pieces. Brad, can just, final question, financially is saying it's going to be better. Personally, are we hoping for a better year just for your friends? I think I've chosen to focus on the positives. Yeah, 100%. Look, I think the only way is up. Only way is up at this point.

Things are going to continue to improve. You continue to talk to me. I'll continue to talk to you. We'll discuss it. It'll continue to get better. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZDN's FlashForn and Haley. A bit of an embarrassing way that I've committed a crime.

And I want to ask our listeners now, when did you accidentally do something illegal? Because I was over in Sydney. Just I got back yesterday. I was doing some gigs over there. And catching up with lots of friends and having plenty of drinky poosies. And I'm going to have to admit,

I'm cutting back on the darts this year. What, you're cutting back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say. Last year I got a bit carried away. We let you go. I just sort of, you know, it's a hard year. Yeah.

I got, my party darts turned to sort of day darts. And then it was just darts. Really. I know, and I know. And I was very disappointed in you. I know you were. He'd do this, if I was around him. And so I was over in Melbourne and I was like, I'm cutting back on these darts.

And so for the first time my life, I thought, oh, you know, I'm going out tonight. I'll get a little vape. Oh my God. I can't believe. This is yuck. When you mentioned... When you message this in our WhatsApp group chat,

I was like, who are you? I know. I know. Because I never vape. And I just, you know, but I was like, I know I'm going to go out and I'm going to be like, oh, you know, maybe so. I'll get a vape.

Went into this store and the guy was a bit dodgy about it. And I was like, I just want to get a little vape. And he's like, oh, yeah. What kind? And I was like, I just... The normal. kind and he brought out a little book like this and then like went under the counter and I was like

it's so weird in New Zealand they're just like behind the counter. Well there's a shop every hundred metres. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so I walk out with my little sweet stick. Yeah. Jesus. What flavor did you get? I'm so embarrassed. Oh oh it's menthol or something wasn't it? No no no no no because you know I like my minty darts it was um you're so disgusting. I know It was cherry pomegranate.

Yeah. I hate you. I'm sorry. Do you know why? I'm disgusted. I'm so disgusting. And I was like, that's a delicious little sweet treat.

Anyway. In no way endorsing this. This is disgusting behaviour. This is just a vehicle to get to something bigger. Anyway, so then I was looking at the packaging and I was like, what's the equivalent to darts? You know, like how many darts per thingy? And then I just suddenly realized I'm in Australia and very

are illegal now. Yeah, you've got to have a prescription. What? You've got to have a prescription. You can't just go in and buy it in this. Which is so good because it's meaning that people aren't vaping as much. Yeah, because they're not getting hooked.

Because we always say it's so weird. Do you need a prescription to smoke six? No. So it's just making people go back to the cigarettes. Yeah, because the cigarettes they're sorting by them being really expensive. So anyway, I was like, God, I've just spent bloody $30 on a lollipop, essentially.

Because it's got no nicotine in it, that's fine, whatever. And then I was having a little drinky poo and I had a little suck on my cherry pomegranate. You are just, who are you? You're trash. I know. You are. You are. And then I get a massive

head rush. This thing's patched with nicotine. So how many, what's the equivalent? I don't know anything about nicotine. Neither do I. But I was talking to someone later in that night and they were like, oh no, no, no. Heaps of places in Australia are doing them illegally. And that's why he was doing all the under-counter

stuff and all the things. They're selling the nicotine vase. So you broke the law. You trash, you're trashed and you broke the law. I'm tra-I-that, I don't know which ones more embarrassing. I just feel it so icky. I don't know. So do I.

I just, I'm made because I've just never, ever smoked in my life, but I just find it such an egg. I know. I don't know what I was doing, and then it was all illegal and sweet. Anyway. Cherry pomegranate. I know. Okay.

Listen, but I accidentally committed a crime, and I didn't know that I was doing it. I did something illegal, and I didn't realize I was doing that. And this is what I want to ask from our listeners. Right now, give us a call or a text. When did you accidentally do something illegal? Tell the story about when you accidentally robbed the bank. Okay, so... I don't know.

I think that we're not clear to talk about this one. Yeah, well, I got away with that. So, should I talk about it? Well, it's been more than seven years. Yeah, yeah. Statute of limitations. Oh my God, that was crazy, man. Millions.

No, so, okay, I went 100 dials at Amazon number. You can text the show as well, 9-6-96. When did you accidentally do something? Unbeknownst to you, illegal. Like you accidentally had something in your suitcase and you brought it back. Into New Zealand. Like a banana.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you still minions? Yep. Kind of felt, I felt like we were leaving minions behind. This is a show for adults. Is this a show for adults? No, but aunties do love minions means.

Well, I think aunties love minions. They do love minions. We call them Monty's. This is an 0800, Dile ZM, do you like minions? Yes. It's 0800. Dahl ZDM, text 9696. When did you accidentally do something a little illegal?

Right now, though. When did you accidentally do something illegal? Somebody said I was just recently in Australia and board of vape. I know, Icky. But I had no idea what I was doing was illegal until Haley said it because it was very cagey as well when they purchased it. Now you can buy them just with air in it, a little flavor with no nicotine, but the nicotine one's illegal.

Someone said I accidentally stole a Wiggles Track suit from Kmart for my one-year-old, put it under the pram just that because, you know, getting around the store, purchased the stuff I had on top of the pram, Got to the Food Court, notice the Wiggles' Tracksuit sticking out. Now it's about what you did next. Didn't go back. It was too far away.

I'm still waiting for the cops to turn up and arrest me for a Wiggly track suit. You're always looking over your shoulder. Like, you know, 20 years down the track, you're just in a restaurant and the FBI bust in. You know, put you on the floor, gun point. I don't know if it would go that hard. And they're like, gun to the back of your neck. And they're like, we've got you for the Wiggles Tracks. Cod's big any now, bitch.

Now, listen, I'm not proud of it, but I'm this week, this year. Not just this week. This year, I'm laying off the darts. Good. Okay? And in preparation for that, I may have acquired an illegal vape when I was in Australia. We don't need to talk about it.

It got left in Australia. It's not my business anymore. You know what I mean? We're done with that. So we're just cold turkey? Yeah. Good. I'm not like, it's not that much.

I don't smoke that much. So it's fine. It's just, you know, we're just done with it. Anyway, so we want to know when did you do something accidentally illegal. You weren't trying to commit a crime, and yet you did. Some absolutely astonishing admissions on the text machine. I wouldn't, no names. You would admit?

I wouldn't admit. Okay, well, it's anonymous. Charlotte. Oh, God. Boy! This is, this is, I accidentally... Is this the murder one? No, this isn't the murder one.

That's anonymous. I accidentally smuggled in soil and seeds in a grow your own bonsai from Japan. Completely forgot that wasn't okay. Mum loved her gift after she panicked it how I got it in. Oh, my goodness. I was really surprised. wasn't on the shift that the cash dog was on. I saw the cute bagel yesterday at the airport.

I'm really surprised. I didn't get a bag screening after going to Brazil, Colombia. South Africa. No, you just strolled right in. Just trod right in. Back in the day, I'd been in New York for about a week on holiday. Then I was flying to Canada for work and went all the way through the airport. In New York, got to my gate from my flight, put my hand in my pocket and realized I'd

carried a small bag of cocaine all the way through the airport. Oh my God. I have a friend. I know someone that did that. It was in their wallet. I was like, what are you insane? You wouldn't go to prison, right, if it was just like clearly a thing. But that, oh my God, that...

My partner accidentally took a little bag of cocaine to the Gold Coast. Why did everyone take any little bags of cocaine? Oh, I couldn't possibly imagine why. Good God. I accidentally bought an apple back from Australia. I got fine, but what they didn't see was the live spider. My son had put in a wee container and hidden in his bag. Oh, my God.

Did he like it like he wanted to keep it as a pet? I'll take home a little spider. Now that's why we have tarantulas. That spider would be so confused, eh. Imagine coming out and being like, what the hell was that? What was all that noise? Where am I? It's so cold here.

Yeah. It's always raining. Right, Kim are going to bite. Yeah. Right, let's get hungry. I'm going to make a funnel web. I'm going to catch me one of those Kiwis. I walked out of a store with a bunch of clothes on the pram

when my older kid had to go to the toilet all the way across the mall. And I realized I still have the clothes. I didn't buy them. I did go back. Yeah. Because I did want to be able to shop on cotton on and get a night. I had my photo in the window. When you accidentally stole an avocado?

Yeah. And I think we can talk about it because that supermarket burned down. That supermarket did burn down. New World Victoria Park. By the way, I feel like the fact that they overcharged me for so many years, I was due an avocado. But I did that thing where I was like, I'm not going to need a basket. I'll just put it in the hand.

And then my hands got full and I put the avocado in the hoodie. Yeah, in your pocket. And then you forgot. It was a genuine mistake. It went under my sort of, I had a bit of a gut at the situation at the time. And it went under there and it was. Did you go back? Well, yeah, many times to continue shopping.

Oh, right. You didn't admit to that. No. No. I went to the warehouse one day and bought a whole pile of stuff like potting mix, etc. And fortunately, I put a whole pile of garden utensils and other items at the bottom of the trolley underneath the potting mix. When I got to the car, I realized I probably hadn't paid for it. So the warehouse staff member helped me load everything into the car.

It wasn't until he removed the potty mix that we both looked at each other and were just like, oops, I didn't pay for those. But it was so embarrassed. I was so embarrassed, but they never let on. I just, oh, okay. Yeah. I accidentally once stole some sugar baby fake tan from farmers on Cuba Street. Accidentally? Like it was in my hand and I just walked out.

I don't, it wasn't stealing out. I'm always so, like, are you always real paranoid when you walk out of a store and you've been trying stuff on but you didn't buy anything? That you're going to beep when you walk out? Yes. I'm always like, I'm always just like, okay, just before you walk through, have you got? Is there anything on me? Yeah.

Yeah. I got fined $459 when I arrived in Fiji with Kiwi D. the condensed milk tin. What's $150? What's banana rum got going on over there? I don't know. I thought you're allowed to take food into Fiji. Encouraged, in fact, if you're heading out to the island.

Maybe all the butter I had to smuggle into Italy for my mum? Yeah. Surely that's not, you know. Condensed milk. Not a reduced milk. It's not condensed milk. But Kiwi onion tip with condensed milk. Yeah, that's reduced.

Onion, sweet. And condensed milk and dip in chips. plays plays plays that ends flesh one and Hayley turns out I'll do anything

to impress a boy and this time it is sign up for a run I'm doing round the bayes this year in

Hayley two months oh god now listen it's only 8.5 kilometres that's okay further than I've run in a long time

but I have was asked by a handsome man with sparkly blue eyes. If I wanted to join his... Brown skin? Blue eyes? Uh, tan skin. Blah!

Norwegian in history. Okay. Yeah. Right. Right. My mum only just learnt over summer that my dad has hazel eyes. They've been married for 40-odd years.

God, does he not look at it? Is she not staring into them being lost? She never really notices people of eye colour. And I said, well, what colour's dad? She's like, I don't know, brown? And I was like, no, the hazel like that? No. Got the big hazels.

Yeah. Enjoy. Yeah, me too. I got the big hazels. Enjoy the big hazels. We're a hazel station. We're hazily. Well, I love all coloured eyes, but these blue eyes are particularly sparkly.

And so when he said to me, do you want to join this team to do round the bays, I was like, oh my God, yes, I love running. Now, you may remember at the end of last year, I went on a 4K run, and I was like, man, I was chuffed. Yeah. And I did that. Chafed and chuffed. Far out, I was chafed. I was chafed. I was so chafed yesterday.

walking around a market in Sydney and like my shorts rubbed up and it was wet and I was clammy and the chafe and now I've got to train. You can get a lotion or a balm for that. Yeah, I've got some chaf. I've got some chaf barme but I wasn't prepared for it. But now I've got a like, it's on the 8th of March.

I mean that's F all time away to get from being very sedate to running around the bays. It is exactly 48 days, Haley. That's doable. 48 days. You'd be able to get up to 8Ks and 48 days. Oh, but it won't be.

pretty, but they've made the t-shirt. They've got, I had to say yes, and give the T-shirt size. What do you mean they've made the T-shirt? It was a team T-shirt. Oh, okay, right. Team T-shirt, yeah. Are you going to run as a team or is it sort of like every man, woman and child for

themselves? I don't want to run with the team if this person's friends are. Round the base is it, it seems everybody's packed. Very much. So many people do it. It's so popular. It's a very packed run. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's flat, though. Yeah, it is. But I have to do this now. This is like a focus. I've put runs into my training program. Unlike when last year you did yoga. No, no, that's kept. So I'm going on Thursday for yoga.

Okay, but what about when you said you were going to learn skateboarding and you've got a skateboard? Well, it's just been hard. The weather has not been what I desired for it to be. Right, okay, right. Do you know what's amazing is like, I know lots of people doing this at the moment. My best friend said like, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. And I was like, yeah, I heard it all before.

I'm going running, doing Pilates and skateboarding. She's been doing it. Monday she moit tied. Tuesday she did a pole class. Pole dancing class. She's actually like walking the walk and trying new things and I'm going to be motivated. Yeah.

Well, I'm not going to be walking. I'm going to be running 8.5 kilometres and how long? 48 days. 48 days. Wish me and me and me is the best of luck. Well, should we check in tomorrow and see how you're going? My first run is Tuesday. Why not today?

Today I'm doing Upper Bobbod. But you can still do Upper Bodbod and then go for a way. Oh, Fletch, you're taking this too seriously day. I think you're just going to... I think you'll be walking. I'll be my first run tomorrow. Okay, I think this is just going to be more of a light jog and a walk. Any words of advice from our listeners?

You just let me know how I can get from. I reckon I could run two kilometres non-stop. One foot after the other. Yeah. Turn off the brain. Probably not putting it off a few days. Like, just get out there today. That would be my advice.

No time like the present. Would you want to sign up and do it and be part of our team? No, didn't think. I don't know. I don't know to be part of the team. The ZN podcast network. Is this a show real? Play ZN's Fletch, Fawnanley.

Now, you know, I've got this bloody great friend of mine who's gallivanting all around the world every chance he gets. This is, my family were like, when's Fletch leaving for his holiday? I was like an hour after the show finishes on the 19th of December. Yeah, I drove him. I live in 1120.

When does he get back? I'm like, the day before. Yeah, I landed on here. The guy. 9 o'clock yesterday. This guy lives. He can't pay's the bloody DM every day. He really does. Sure. So, I get a

message, I think I awoke to the message on Facebook Messenger that you had, and it said Smithy, red alert. That's not good to hear. That's not good at all. No. That's not good at all. And

I'm immediately, I panic. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine that's not what you want to hear from a friend that's in a foreign country. No, God, no. Hi, sweetie hon. Red alert, red alert. Are you home over the next few days?

Huge favour to ask. Again, code red. I said, I am. Are you okay? What's happened? My brother in arms. I'm expecting that we're going to need a bailout. You're going to need me to like pull a few strings with Jacinda to get you out of some sort of

Peruvian prison. He's woken up next to a dead body in Peru. Yeah. I need you, my brother. Haven't we all? Haven't we all. One of my TV show Torrance is wrong and I can't. continue the show.

One of the episodes was out of order and I needed Vaughn to send it. I've got a 10.5 hour flight in three days. Sweetie Princess. In Blue Light season three episode two. Oh no. It's not. Great season. Great season. Don't download the

1080p. 4500 megabyte one. It's cooked. Vaughan, we don't. Maybe rename it family movie or something. We're too pretty to go to prison for downloading Irish television shows. My heart's fine. I've gone from zero to 100.

Did you sort of? I broke the law from my pal over here. And I renamed it sexy, sexy movie we made together that special night. Yeah, beautiful. And I drop-ups. You're thinking it was perfect and I could finish my season. Okay, so that's not actually the big scary moment that happened on your holiday, though. No, because when this happened, it wasn't even Code Red.

It was just the casual mention. Hey, guys. The classic picture of an arm with an IV going into it and we're like, sorry? So I did have to spend nine hours in a Brazilian hospital during my trip. Another Brazilian nurse is hot? Yes. Yes. There was a mixed steamy with blue eyes brown skin.

Yeah, I know. Sorry about that. We're back. I'll tell you about him. We have to do a hard reset every time we. But yeah, I think it's been an absolute rollercoaster of a few weeks. Yes. Because I've got a dear friend of ours who has been in hospital, is still in hospital.

Yes. In ICU with meningitis. Very serious. And because I was a close contact early on in the holiday with this person, I needed to get checked out because I don't know if I'm fully vaccinated. Oh my gosh. Who knows? I mean, it's very scary how quickly this happens.

We got vaccinated, right? Yes. Like when you're a kid, you get it. You should get it. But then there are different strains as well. We might not be for all of them. I don't think we got vaccinated. Is it one of the M's?

No, that's Mons, measles and Rubella. But we got 10. two meningitis ones. Did we? At high school. Crazy how scary and quick it happens. Oh, I know. It's awful.

It's insane. So I was talking to Dr. Shawnee and I was like, ah, should I go to a hospital? And he's like, well, if it comes on and you just get very disorientated and confused. And you're by yourself. And you'd just literally die. Oh my gosh.

I'd better go to a hospital. And I'm in Brazil. If you're following along. This is a code red. This is a code red. It's like three season two of some Irish cops. situation. Blue lights or whatever it's called. Blue lights is a fantastic show.

It's not a red light. That's a, yeah. This is the red light, and this was approached far more casually. So I get to this, I'm in a Brazilian city called Salvador, and I get check into my Airbnb, and it's like six o'clock, and I'm like, okay, well, I better ring the health insurance, the travel insurance, Southern Cross.

I just want a nice cocktail to eat eat an empiata. But Dr. Shawnee scared me and said, you'll die alone in your sleep, and I was like, well, okay, I'll get it. Oh, for. Imagine we had to get his body back. But you would have to go to South Africa, South America to get it into Brazil.

Oh, it would tack on a holiday, poem. It would be rude not to see crust of the routine. Just what, like put me on ice. We'll get a photo. Okay. The Coppa, Copacabana. The highest club, the man.

I get the all-go from Southern Cross travel to go any hospital I want. They say, we'll pay for it. You're covered, Mr. Fletcher. That's right. Fantastic. So I put it into Google Maps. hospital? There's one up the road. Hospital question mark?

Hospital. I don't know. Hospitals near me? Going to Google map? No, it was literally hospitals near me. And so I Uber did this hospital, get out, and it's like a security, you can't just walk in. There's like a security thing. The guy doesn't speak any English. But there's like, I think there's... Luckily you've been doing a duolingo.

Luckily I've been doing duolingo Spanish, but they speak Portuguese. So, but there was like an intern or something. And he spoke English and he came over and he said, oh, this is a private hospital. Adaluk. Oh, darling. Doesn't he know your gold elite? Doesn't he know that I've got insurance, darling? But he said, look, they won't accept you here, but go to this hospital, they're really nice.

Oh, I don't want to hear, nah. Yeah. And so, well, I put in the hospital, the little clinic that he says, what I'm assuming is some kind of accident emergency mini hospital. In a tent. In a suburb. In not a nice area, I'll say. Anyway, so I get out of the Uber.

And I'm like, oh, wow, far out. Okay. Well, we hear, and all I could think of is Dr. Shawnee saying, you'll die alone. So I'm like, well, I'm going into this clinic, which was something else. Anyway, so I get in there, I get in there, and I'm like, I just, Google translate to the lady behind the desk. Oh, God, this is just. There's a desk in a big waiting room, and the waiting room is so full of people. Anyway, so she puts my details in, translates, and my name.

name comes out on the speaker, Bing Bong and says to go into Room 2. There's two rooms next to the reception. And before you go into this hospital, you have to go into one of these rooms. Right. So I go in and there's, I don't know if he was a junior doctor or a nurse and they assess you, but he had a hickey. And he had his medical coat on. I will allow my checkout girls to have a hookie at work. My retail assistants can have a hookah.

Someone at Maccas can have a hickey. Macas can have a hickey, but chuck a blue plaster on it. Liquor store workers. I don't want a medical profession. I don't want it from my medical professionals. I don't want it from my dentist. I don't want it from my physios. At one stage during the nine-hour visit,

he had put a plaster on it. But then hours later, that plaster had come off, and he still had the hicky there. So I don't know if someone pointed out. Anyway, so he does my vitals and assesses me, and I use Google Translate, and he gives me a green festival wristband. And so I go and sit in the...

Mean who's playing main stage? All kinds. Well it's in Brazil. And so I sit in the waiting room and I look around and most people have a green wristband. And from what I can work out, it's not urgent, urgent. Right. I'd start coughing. So I'm in this waiting room, I'd say six and a bit out of the nine hours.

Would have made you feel at home. And oh my God. Fletch loves waiting too. But do you know what? It went so fast because it was so wild. At one point, this woman just came in screaming like, ah! Ran to the front desk, and I'm like, what's happened?

And I look out, and there's just a man, unresponsive in the passenger seat of the car. Jesus! Pulled out outside this hospital. So it's like you're now, you've gone from watching an Irish television show to being in a Brazilian medical drama. Yes, it's like the pit, Brazil. Wow.

But poorer. But way poorer. But way poorer. And so I'm like, oh my God, why aren't they rushing out with a stretcher to get this man? Well, they're not rushing the Brazil. No. It was good. No.

No. Rushing. Rush is sick of that job. I was like, why aren't they rushing to help this man? He's dead. No, but she had to... He doesn't have a wristband. She had to check in and get him a wristband.

Was his wristband red? No, so they push him on a stretcher into the door, into this little room so that Dr. Hickey can check him. Yeah. And the door keeps banging up against the stretcher. I'm like, rush him. this guy into a doctor he's like not moving. Anyway, they finally get him in.

Was Hickey doctor hot? I don't feel like we did he deserve a Hickey? Could you have not helped yourself either? You could sometime hang on and I want to get in there. When I saw him clock out of his shift, he had a real kind of like a Japanese schoolgirl backpack. Okay. It was odd. It was very odd.

Yeah, it was odd. Anyway, so, but this guy, they just leave him there on a stretcher in the waiting room. Like me. And anyway, he's dead. He's, he's, he's. I saw him later, he was okay, but he was just still, like, sleeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then there was a girl who was just screaming and spitting on the floor for about an hour and a half. Spitting his back in 2020. Spitting his back. They just, they just, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. They just lay down paper towels

that she could spit on and she was screaming. I don't think she was all there. But most of the time, most people were just sitting there waiting and then dwindled away, like to about mid, night, one o'clock in the morning. Oh, screw this. I get cool.

What are you doing? Do you have a book or something? I had my phone that was slowly dwindling in power. And I had to save at least 10% to Uber home. Otherwise, I was not walking home from the middle of nowhere. Anyway, so I finally get through to a doctor and I say, here's what's wrong. And they're like, okay, well, you go through, wait here and then you go get some tests into this room. Yeah. And that's when blue eyes, brown skin.

I think he was a technician. How old? Not a doctor, maybe like 30 something. Yeah, so we'll call him Mick Drimmy. Mickey Pinata. Because he's delicious. It's a sticky little package. Yeah.

And so in this room was where you get all, they put an IV line into me. Nice. Into my thing. And then what looked like white duct tape. Yeah. Yeah. I sent a photo of that denial.

It wasn't the standard fair. No, electricians would use it. It wasn't private. Well, that came in the cross down for Southern Cross and Shet. Yeah. Well, no, so this is the thing. It's all free. I think Southern Cross owe me a lot of money.

just putting myself through this. We're going to a shitter. Yeah. So they put in, like, the IV line, and then he inserts some... Into the IV line. I get some liquid. Not the insertion else.

I've been four out of the hospital. Yeah, not with hot doctor. Mickey Penaata, he, like, squeezes the needle of stuff into me, and I can feel like... Is he told you? Has he told you what it is? Well, no, because I don't speak Portuguese, Haley. Yeah, but surely be, like, fluids or like...

As soon as he inserted it, my butt-hole. starts tingling. And I'm just like moving like this. If you just turned on your radio and all you heard was as soon as he inserted it by buttholes, I would tingling. Into the IV line. And he could just see me and I was like, oh my God, do I need to poo like all of a sudden? Like what's happening here?

Oh my God, you can't shoot yourself in front of Mick and Paniata. No, no. No, if you've got any hope of giving him a mackacket. He could see me like squirming around and then he got out his Google Translate and he was like, this will affect your intimate parts. Oh, what is it? Let's get the name of this. It's steroids.

I've had steroids before they haven't made my anus tickle. So it just stopped tingling and I was like, sweet. And then I have an IV, a saline line just for like a while. Boring, give me more of the tingly anus. No, so no more tingly anus drugs. And then, so I'm just sitting there with this line of saline going into me of fluids. And then I do a swab and blood tests. And so the swab, they do the swab.

and then this other nurse, not Mick Epanada, she comes in and does it on top of my wrist, onto my hand, sorry, on the veins of your finger. So she inserts one of those little needles, pops a thing in, it takes blood, and then when she goes to undo it, she has to put the plaster on my hand, but she's holding the needle.

So she sticks a needle into the chair next to my thigh to hold it. Into the chair cushion. Into the chair cushion next to my leg and then puts the plaster on and unsticks the needle from the chair. Gives that a little wipe. Gives it a little wipe. And then just chucks it in the bin.

She puts it in the chair. And I just looked down to the chair and I'm like, oh my God, there's just... The chairs rid of blood holes and blood all over. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to die from this hospital. But in the end, so I got my... The swab was influenza and the blood tests were fine and they gave me some drugs for meningitis exposure.

And I left that hospital after nine hours And you know what? They were all so lovely And I didn't have to pay a thing You didn't die I didn't die Because someone did mention it In the Christmas cocktail special

We were like oh this whole thing We aged poorly if we die on holiday Yes Close, you came the closest Nine hours in a Brazilian hospital It was absolutely white And it didn't feel like nine hours Because it was just like

And all you got was a tickly a but hole And all I got a tickly butt hole And some incredibly strong antibiotics I got a, I mean I don't have an exciting story to share You didn't get a tingly butt home at all? I just said it's had wiped problem then. Yeah, it's more of an inch.

More of an edge than a tangle. Yeah. Okay. The Z-N podcast network. Play Z-N's flesh for and haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do do do. To do do do do do to 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.

Tung week here at fact of the day. Tongues are back. Okay. For 2026. I don't think they'd gone away, but... They had a little break and now they're back. Tongues. We got them.

They're very handy. Today's fact of the day about tongues is hairy tongue. Have you heard of hairy tongue? Yes. Have you seen the photos of hairy tongue? Yeah. Like actual people with hair on their tongues? Yes.

I don't know why I've looked up a photo of a hairy tongue before, but I have. It is a common harmless and temporary condition that affects up to 13% of humans. Wow. That's a lot of percent of humans. Yeah, the top of the tongue is covered with tiny projections called philiform papali. Now, normally they're like less than a millimeter long and they're constantly shedding. They're constantly like, we eat, it's worn down.

And a hairy tongue, they don't shed properly so they grow longer and have a hair-like appearance. So it's due to lack of abrasion or stimulation of the tongue. And if you're not stimulating your tongue, you're not living. You're not. Get out there and use that thing. Leads to a keratin buildup, the same protein as in hair and nails. And it traps food and bacteria and sometimes yeast. So I can lead to a little...

Thresh-thrush-tong. A little bit of thrush tongue. Yeah. A little bit of thrush tongue. It can go. That's why when you go and ask for the cream, they say, oral or vaginal. Mm. Gets in the mouth.

Really? Yeah, oral thrush. I have no idea. I think, does I'm whispering, be itch? You had a bit of... Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I'm whispering about my... oral. It's vegina. Oh, sorry, I thought you were saying you'd once again. No, no, no, no. Got thrush. I'm all right. Okay, that's good. It can appear white, brown, yellow, pink, or black. Black hairy tongue is caused by a certain strand of bacteria or yeast.

But again, still harmless. And you can get your tongue scraped, which is gross, but I'm imagining you just have to do it. Laser hair removal. How much is a tongue? Surely it wouldn't be much. A couple of zaps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it can happen at any age but more common.

In older adults and older men specifically, and they think it's because you eat less, like, abrasive foods. Like, you're eating a lot more pud and soft. Oh, yeah. Moshi junk when you get older. It can be also smoking. It's linked to smoking a tobacco use. Heavy coffee or tea consumption.

Antibiotics can cause it. Oh, okay. And soft diets are people with no teeth. But you can just get it. That's why you get the toothbrush. You can flick over and give the tongue the old scrape. Yeah, I love a tongue scrape. I've got a scraper.

I just crush it. I just brush the tongue. Is that okay? Yeah, I brush and then scrape. I brush the tongue. You'd have a scraper. I like the scraper. I like it.

It's fine. No one's judging. You've got a good tongue. You're right. Thank you. Very wary of the tongue now. When you talk about the tongue, you go, it's very aware that it's living in your mouth rent-free. And it is huge.

It's too wide and abiding on it now. See, now you feel about it. It feels hairy. It fills out my mouth. So today's fact of the day is the tongue can get hairy. Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day, day. Doodoo, do, do, do, do, do do do do do. Do, do do do do do do.

Do you. The ZEM podcast network. We want to know the brutal way that you were dumped. Not just, you know, a lovely coffee or something like that, but the harsh slap in the face. Perhaps you didn't see it coming. Or you just turned up and they were with someone else. Is that an example?

No, no, that's sort of getting caught training. They probably thought they were getting away with it. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the brutal way you were dumped because there's these toys. Valentine's Day is on its way. I know. I was in a store like two days ago and they had a massive display for Valentine's Day.

I was like, hold your horses. I know. So with Valentine's Day, yeah, the shelves are filling up with romantic toys and, you know, all those kind of fun things. And this has gone viral. It is a flamingo who has a heart,

excuse me, a heart that. That was yuck? Yeah, that was yuck. I've got real bad IBS at the moment. And so all the gas is coming out everywhere. Oh, right. It's going to see the IBS generally at the other end of the yard.

Yeah, I know. So you can't yourself lucky that was a small burp. So we could have gotten away with it too. So he's holding it. a heart. This is a toy. The toy, it's a toy flamingo. And the heart opens and rips open like that.

And he's singing, bye, bye, bye, bye. So you buy that on Valentine's Day. You give it to them and it says, bye, bye, bye. That's not. That's heartless, actually. That's heartless. That is heartless, isn't it? Unless it cheated on you, then that would be acceptable.

Yeah, I know. But just to break up with someone that way is pretty brutal. Yeah. Well, this is what we want to ask this morning. Oh, 800 dollars at M, you can text us. 9, 6, 9, 6, 9, 6, 6. Already messages coming through. Yeah, I'm loving this.

I was once dumped because he found me far too attractive physically and emotionally. Now that hurt on a whole new level. I don't understand what's going on there. I don't know. Sounds like excuses. I'm sorry, you're too hot. I can't be with you.

Oh, it sounds like you've got an intolerable personality. Big Sandy. First message from Big Sandy for 26. We love hearing from Big Sandy. If you knew of the show, one of our legendary contributors. Big Sandy here got dumped for being too embarrassing at his family barbecue. Big Sandy, we're going to need to know what you did. What did you do, Big Sandy?

What did you do? What did you do at the family barbecue? Whether it was the message they delivered or the way they delivered it. We want to know. What was the brutal way that you got dumped? Asking now about the brutal way that you were dumped. Yeah, there's this new toy going viral and it's just a flamingo singing, bah, ba, blah, with love being broken.

Megan, what was the brutal way that you were dumped? So it was my first love at high school. and he just turned me on our way out of school that day and said, can you ask your friend? Well, it was actually my best friend at the time for me and for some reason I did it and just got the hint. Wait, he asked you to ask your friend if she was into him. Yeah, and they ended up dating.

We stayed friends, but yeah. That's like passing the baton. You're like, there was no gap. You just sort of passed the baton to her and off you went. Yeah, things got better. life for me though so it's okay. That's good. Where are we at now? Are we in love?

Oh, 17 years together and 13 Mary. Oh, nice. You didn't answer my question. Are you still in love? After 17 years together, don't be absurd. Love is alive, guys. Also, side note, you sent us to Ed Shear and we won tickets to ZM from ZM on the weekend. It was

epic, so thank you. Oh, you're high. That's great. Amazing. Amazing. So we're going to the crush at show, aren't we on Sunday? about that in the corporate box. Megan, thank you. Nicole, what was the brutal way that you were dumped? Hey, Payne.

I had been house-sitting first parents while they were away, and then they came back, and I get a text from his mum saying, I'm so sorry to hear about you and insert name here. And I met with him, and I said, what have you said to your mum? And he just replies back that we broke up. That was a first matter. That was so young.

So he just failed to tell you. Yeah. Bruttle. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. That's so embarrassing. Where are we at?

Where are we at? Now, Nicole, are we in love? Oh, God, no. Coming up for life. Yeah, great. She's hung out the boots. They're ready to mingle. So what are you?

You're on the prowl. Oh, always. Yeah, good. Love that. Yeah, love that. Welcome. Welcome. Go get out there in prowl.

Yeah. Join Sprow on the prou. Yeah, I'll find someone to eat here on Saturday and crush it. Oh, okay. All right. So, keep an eye out. Can find us. I'll prow with you.

Thanks, Kylie. I'll prowl around. I'll pray around. Yeah. Love it, love it. That could be a new segment as well. Thank you, Nicole. Keep your text coming in.

9-6-96-0-800-m is a number. The brutal ways that you were dumped. I'm just getting a roasting about my new breakfast. Cacao! I've got a new breakfast regime. Trying to get more protein in the mornings. Same. I hope the nation's prepared for us to be pretty ripped in 20.

26 guys. Watch out. Watch out. We want to know the brutal way that you got dumped. I don't, I, I've never brutally been dumped before. Once I, when I was 14, I put in coloured contacts and wore a wig and pretended that I was someone else to a man who was now the deputy mayor of Wellington. Wait, so you pretended to be somebody else to dump him. You didn't some of your early character work. Isn't that mad?

Wait, wait. Wait, so you turn up, where was he? Was he waiting for you? The bus stop heading from after school to Eastbourne. Okay, and so you go up to him. And we were there and I decided that I, Haley Sproul, was going to break up with the now deputy mayor of Wellington penalty. And instead of, I was 14 at the time.

And we did go on to date properly after this. Yep, okay. And I was 14 at the time and I was like, What if we pretended it wasn't me and I was another girl from the school and I would go and tell them. The whole thing was stupid and they had these bright blue contact

and we had this like blonde wig. And I remember him just looking at me and being like, yeah, anyway. And what did you say? Hello, Ben. I don't remember what I see. I know. I can't even believe you'd admit that story.

Oh, it's a mortify. I'm just here today. It's completely embarrassing. Yeah. Wow, okay. Some messages in. We were talking about getting married and then his church told him to dump me a week later

so he listened and he dumped me. Yikes! Come on now. He's obviously not a member of the Tits and Freedom Church. You've got your own religion. That's my church. That's a throwback to Vaughan's new church that he announced earlier this morning.

In Tits we trust. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to make wheat bicks, too, aren't you? Sure, I'm going to make so many breakfast cereals. And not pay any tax. I'm a church. I had moved overseas with my off. Obviously now X over to Canada and lived there for two years.

We've been together for six years. Then without any warning at all, I went to have my wisdom teeth out. And I came back and she ended up saying, I think we need to take a break. And a few weeks later, that was the end of it. Oh. Came all the way back here for the wisdom teeth out. I would have zoomed.

Was this pre-Zone? Zoomed a wisdom tooth extraction. No, zoomed a breakup. Yes. So you're going to get the pliers on the back. Yeah, yeah. Now, I know you feel a little groggy because you've administered yourself sedation, but we need to get them teeth out.

I got dumped because my absente. attitude at work was different to being at home. Oh. What they were loving work because they were escaping you. Maybe. Maybe. That's what it sounds like. Sounds like you're intolerable.

It's from one intolerable person to another. Okay. Yeah. I got dumped. They were leaving my house and I thought everything was okay as their electric window wound up on automatic. You know, when you pull up the window and it just goes up all by itself. As it was closing, they broke up with me and then just drove away.

By the way, you dumped? Yeah. By the way, we're going to stop see each of the book. Oh, that timing would feel so good, eh? Yeah. It would be no chance for a witted retort. No, because you've blocked them. Unless you had a pot plant in your hand and then just throw it through their back window.

Yeah, I would have hiffed something at the car to shore. Absolutely let them have it. Somebody said the caller before that had been together 17 years and we said, are you still in love? They felt that her heart wasn't in it. Don't say that. We can't be planting. Ruthless.

Just because you're not in love. We all express love differently. Yeah. Oh, one's just come in, but it's quite long. So I will need a period to read that. Or dogg it. Somebody else said, I was dating a guy in 2017, fell pregnant. I was only 20.

He was a couple of years older. Anyway, told him and he broke up with me the next day by citing. He wasn't ready. Okay. Sighting. Siting. I'm not ready to announce. Yeah.

I'm a father. Don't say on air. Oh, you can't send us a text and say don't say on ear. Okay. Well, completely unrelated texts has just come through. Yeah. Backstory I knew I was getting dumped

because he was going to Australia and he didn't even tell me until we were at dinner with his family We were still together When he went to Ozzy And then he flew back I didn't even know he was back in town Until I saw one of his mate's stories

Saying oh this old legend's back Oh okay And then yeah It turned out that's not worth your time It turned out I was supposed to have picked up On the fact I was dumped by the fact That he just stopped talking to me

And telling me things Right I think it's quite important To get that sort of thing in writing Get a day Do you what's nuts If this was if this was last year, we'd be like,

well, that's our show, you know. Yeah, that's... Georgia with Georgia. But no, we're going until 10 this year. We're sticking around. Despite our protest. Now, I believe, Vaughn, you've got a new segment that you want to try soon.

Vaughan's Unsung Heroes. Yeah, because we've got to fill this extra hour. Okay. Every day. So we're going to try some new segments. I love this idea. So you're going to do like a trial week. Yeah, we're going to do a trial week

for some different segments. Some work, some strengths, some work, because this is so much opportunities. What kind of stories do you want? We're not going to hear people whar on about how they, I don't know, did some charity work on me. Unsung heroes. If you need to toot your own horn, if you've done something and not enough people have noticed, that's where we're going to do Unsung Heroes.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Worn and Haley. Right, we're just going to try a whole lot of new things. We're up this extra hour to fill on the show this year. This is nine to ten hour. Oh, yeah, we're back. So try a run. We're going to trial some new segments on your idea today.

Unsung hero. Okay. Now, I assume this was a self-nomination thing. Like, you'd ring up and you'd be like, look, I did this thing. And, you know, I kind of didn't get the praise I felt due. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like every time you clean the house.

Mono, because he tells us. And he sends us photos as he does. He does, genuinely. He's like, look out clean, the skirting boards are. Look at the bathroom. It's like, okay, cool, man. Yeah, man. No, it came off the fact that I stopped and helped rescue that sheep, remember?

That's right. And I felt like this guy put up, the guy's wife put up the post of her husband Muddy from the sheep, but failed to mention that we kind of rescued him as well as the sheep and we were just these unnamed other people. Right. So you didn't get the recognition. But at the time you gave me enough praise.

The segment isn't really about those people who have devoted their life to like, you know, helping. No, because they get sung. They get OBEs and NZM. Right. This is about selfish individuals that didn't. get the credit they deserved. I always thought it was sort of a self-nomination thing, but we've had a couple of text messages nominating other people.

Okay, well, that's acceptable. It wasn't sung here. Yeah, okay. I've got one from Christmas. Okay. We all contributed a dish to Christmas. Yeah. My brother and his partner were doing dessert.

I paid for the ingredients. And everyone went on about how nice a dessert was. Well done, Sam. Well done, Nina. You know, delicious trifle. Yeah, yeah, I like it. I love that. I love that.

And I was like, yeah, who collected. And paid for the ingredients. You paid for it and shopped for it. Yeah, mate. And popped it on the bench and all they had to do was construct it. Yeah. Recipe? Because these MFs turn up bloody Christmas Eve late.

I sure heard about her brother over Christmas, isn't it. I tell you what, it was nice. It was nice because we bitch about our brothers. And she's always like, I love my brother. And I do. But I just feel like it could have been like, and well done to you, Haley, for the selection. You selected the selection. You selected the pudding.

You selected the jelly. Okay, well, this is your chance now to nominate an unsung hero or yourself for something you did that no one cared about. Yeah, why didn't they care? Oh, we will, we'll turn it right on. Absolutely. 0,800 dials at Emisoma.

Text through, 9-696. We're going to sing for those unsung heroes. Unsung heroes is the little trial we're doing today. I feel like unsung heroes should have some kind of triumphant music. Now, are we starting 2026 with YouTube premium? I was, yeah, well, are you still on the family plan? I'm still on the Christianson family plan.

Okay. You missed the end of last year. They've invited me to part of their family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is why you may hear me referring to myself as not Vaughn Smith on all occasions. Sometimes as one. It's still weird that you accepted their invite to be on a family you don't know's plan. It's a bit of all.

I'm actually open to being on everybody's family plan. If it's Spotify. Don't sell yourself out. Yeah. Yeah. Netflix. Any kind of phone plans? Any sort of, if you've got a spot.

Okay. You know, maybe you're a family of three, and these things generally come in four. I'm also available to attend sort of like events. Like if you've got a family pass to Rambo's End. Oh, you'd be nice. I'd happily play the fourth person. All right.

Well, maybe some kind of triumphant music. We'll see, you've got a lot of breakfast in your bed. So much. Almost all of us. I've actually perhaps got the best hero song of all time ready to go. Okay. Cheapers. It's not playing. Why is it not playing?

You're not on the premium. Here we go. It's called hero. It is, yeah. It's a nickelback guy, isn't it? It isn't... Look at us. Get that out.

Yeah, better. Now, so, born's unsung heroes, a chance for you to nominate yourself for something you've done that you didn't get recognition for. Yeah, maybe you busted your ass. And people were just like,

oh, your thanks. And you're like, excuse me, this is so much. much more than a thanks. Hit it, Chad Kroger. Unsung Hero Appreciation Awards should go to my neighbour. My husband's away for work at the moment. Life's hectic with three small children. Oofed.

And he puts my rubbish bins out and brings them back in for me each week. He's like 95 years old. He's an absolute ledge. 95. The old mates love looking after a solo broad, don't they? Yeah. Oh, the old boys. It's so lovely.

The old boys. It's lovely. Okay, here's one. And I'll be interested to see what the team thinks. Okay. Shout out to me and my partner. We're unsung heroes. We talked our friends into getting married when they wanted to cancel the wedding four days out.

Oh, what? There's a reason they wanted to cancel it. And you force them into it. Wait, what was the reason that? Have it, Chad, Kroger? And they're there to hear all save us. I mean. So, but what happens when they divorce, which sounds like it is not.

going to take long. No. Then you're going to have to say, I'm so sorry I made you go through with that. 4, 5, 3, what was the reason they didn't want to get married four days out? Yeah. Is they not in love?

Why did you force them into it? You can't cancel that late. I think people would be traveling, people have spent money. I'd go through with it too, but knowing I was going to stay in marriage. Just don't sign the paper or submit the paperwork and you won't actually have to be married.

Yeah. I don't know if that's an unsung hero. You might just be sort of like making someone's life a whole lot more admin-heavy. years down the track. Does being a young toddler mum, now they've worded that wrong

that makes it sound like they're a toddler who's also a mother. Impossible. They're a mother to a young toddler. Yeah. Who's pregnant in the third trimester and a primary school teacher count. Oh wow, yeah.

It's a hero. It's a character. Hero save us. I'm not going to stand here and wait. Gahe Bart's messaged in. Gine Bart. Even though I'm like St. Simpson.

Yeah. Mike Bartholome. It's incredible. Even though I am ZDN's grumpiest old man listener, I frequent am a very courteous driver and let people in or let them merge when the road is busy. And I don't feel like that's appreciated enough.

Yeah, hero. He's a hero. Hit it, Chad Kroger. Watching us. Watching us. Watching us. More and born Sunsung heroes. Somebody said, I picked up, I'm rubbish.

Somebody else is rubbish and I put it in the bin because I couldn't stand rubbish just being blown around. Oh my God. So over the break. I went on the Glenbrook vintage steam train Out and tick a tizum there Dude, oh my tickle, my tizum was tickled top to bottom

Do I want to start the song again? Yes, I believe so Or do you want to go and then a hero son comes along What is this? I can be your hero baby Enrique on Glendixio on Glacius Oh yeah, okay I'm going to hear of glenbrook vintage steam train

Run by volunteers Gorgeous like I was buzzing all day Yeah watching the locomotive If they asked you're good steam, all of it. Did it chew-choo? Did they have a tutu? Yeah, nice.

This bitch lit it out the window. What? Okay. This, I'll say it. Bich, bitch, littered out the window. More than once. First time I saw some, and I said, was that lit?

What did she look like a Wither's rapper or something? She was eating like musli bars and stuff and hiffing it out the window. An older woman, too. Did you say something? I did. What did you say? He's a hero. What did you say?

You don't throw your rubbish out the window? Yeah. This is Al-Teroa. Yeah. Clean green, Al-Tierre. As seen in Lord of the Rings. Yeah. When they were taking the hobbits to Isengarde,

was there a rapper being chucked off the horse? Was there a straw sleeve scattered around the gates of Mordor? Was there glad rap in the Shire? No! Beeswax rap. Would be quite funny if you just saw an Uncle Toby's Musley Bar, You're like, oh my God, spotted it! Spot it!

A monster energy can. Outside Rivendale. The Z&M Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. We love a viral food trend. We love food in general. I've loved it too hard this summer. And now I have to love it a little less for a bit.

You've got a run coming up. I know. So don't even worry about it. You'll burn it off. I know, but it all kind of jaggles down as I run. I've really got to like strap the paps up him. Yeah, right. Okay. Anyway, but there's a Biscoff-based

viral food trend, which, Vorni, I believe you and the girlies are going to be trying soon. Yeah, thanks to cover me there, guys. I just went to the bathroom. I forgot we were around until 10 now. I dooddle, A, I doodled, B-I-Dilly-Dallied, and then three, I had a chat.

And you're silly-billy. We patted so well that you didn't need to acknowledge that. Like, you came in as I threw to you. It's the year of honesty. I've got to be honest with the list is here. I dropped the ball on that one. That's all right. Strike one for me. So this involves, and producer girlies,

we'll bring you in as well because we just bloody adore you. But it involves Biskopf as well, which... Is the base of the famous Shannon's lolly cake? I've got Biscoff in the house right now. Because I went to make it for our last show and then remember I couldn't be bothered. That's right.

Great attitude. That's okay. We had a bad last week. Yeah. I was sick. You didn't want that. But no, this is going everywhere. I'm not going to try it.

You get a tub of Greek yogurt, natural Greek Greek. Can I say Greek yogurt really entered my life with a hiss and a rule last year? Did it? And he hadn't previously been part of my existence. I'm a kiffir yogurt, guy. Yeah. I know, but you're also worth a billion dollars. Gut health, guys.

He's got a billion dollars in the bank. It's a net worth of a billion dollars. The cat. That doesn't exclusive apartment. He made some wise investments. And he's worth a billion dollars that he can afford kaffir yogurt, where I literally buy the cheapest Greek yogurt, than whatever is on special.

If I had a billion. none of us would be here. Yeah, thank you. I would hope you'd chuck us a coin or two. Come with, come up. So, you get Greek yogurt and biscoff biscuits. Yeah. And I'm imagining you would have to scoop some Greek yogurt out of the container because you want to ram as many biscoffs in as you can.

Yes, I'm saying a lot of people forget to do that and then have a great mistake. Wait, I'm sorry, do you crunch up the bag? No, like fingers. It is. Crucial you don't crunch the biscuit. Wait, so you open up a bottle of yoga and finger in biscuits. Yes, that's exactly what you are your finger in the biscuits. That is disgusting.

Can you not pop them in with a spoon or don't? It's like two or don't. But what's wrong with your fingers? Yeah. Give them all. God's spoof. Do you know what my fingers in base? Yes, I do.

Yeah, point. Yes, I do. There might be some immediate reaction with the kaffir probiotics. So you put it as many Biskof biscuits into the Greek yogurt as you can. I'm not in a refrigerator. It's spilling over, though. Yeah, that's when you get to empty some out. And then you refrigerate it for eight nine hours.

Oh, I'm sorry. got to do this before work. Got to prep it. Okay, right. And then does it go... Soggy... Soggy biscuits. Like Turamisu lady fingers.

Yeah. Okay, so it does say soggy biscuits. The finger's your soggy biscuits. This is an easy fix for a cheesecake. This is like, it's a cheesecake. But you're right.

I feel like get some coffee in there, it's going to be more like a tiramisu. And then put a bit of cocoa on top. Yeah, it's going to be more like a tiramisu. And then afterwards, you just eat it. And the biscuits have absorbed the moisture from the Greek yogurt. Now, I've just turned into this. What about?

instead of Biskof, you just finger in squiggles. Yum. But they've got a casing. I've got a chocolate casing. Crumble them. Hang on. Guys, we're about to get an offer for shame to do this for us. Would you like me to bring in some Greek?

I can make it this afternoon and bring it in tomorrow and we can try it. Yes. Not against it. All the things I've seen, it just looks like it's lacking a little bit of cheesecake. Like, you know, cheesecake's always got a drizzle on top. All a passion fruit drizzle. I would go coffee, put a bit more. coffee through it, a bit of cocoa.

I'll make the base a new B-Y-O drizzle. Or we could put a berry compotee on top of it. Yes, I believe that's the prentise. Competee, yeah. A berry compotee. My question is the consistency wouldn't change because that's how you store Greek yogurt, no? What, in the fridge?

Yeah, the consistency is not changing. I'm sorry. You've just put biscuits in it. Over the holiday break, when did Carlin become an expert on yoga? A Michelin-Star Yogat Shears. I'm sorry, when did she become an expert on yoghets? Guys, for the last two years, I've had Greek yogurt for breakfast every single day. And that makes you an expert on yogurt.

Shut her mic off. Shut her mic off. Can I have this as last minute? Can I introduce you to a chimchuri I made using carrot greens? No, it's not a cooking show. I've made a chimturi for a steak. I want to say, proudly so, on Saturday I cooked a meal for some very good friends of mine. And everything.

Because we went there. Actually, crazy. You weren't in the country and you weren't in the country. Otherwise, I would have extended an invite. You wouldn't have. I would have changed my flights. Everything on the plate was from my garden. That meat was home kill for my parents.

Well, you should have done that in the earlier segment. Vaughn's Unsung Heroes. You've missed a chance there. Have you brought us a slice of steak to dip in the chimcherry? I've got steak in my bag. That's good stuff. Come here. Wow, that's amazing.

I'm going to finger it. Dear listener, it is delicious. You've really missed out there. Not far apart. Now, that's carrots. So I grew the carrots. It's a decorative carrot, an ornamental carrot, I would say. Purple, orange, white and yellow carrots

And then the greens from the top were finally sliced What are you doing with that today? Because I'm actually cooking steak for dinner I might just take that. Play ZM's Flesh, Forne and Haley. What are you guys still doing here? You might be asking yourself. We go to 10 now.

We go to 10 now. Thank you, Warren. That was subtle. That was very subtle. Yesterday on my flight back to New Zealand, I got up to go wheeze. It was like New Zealand time, like 5 a.m. And I noticed it.

Not everybody was asleep. I peered over on the way back from the toilet. I'm so nosy. If someone's watching something, I'm like, what are they watching? Watching, texting, messaging, reading. Oh, you do it too. Oh my God, I love it. Yeah, always got to have a like a little peak.

Anyway, this woman who I would say would be, if I had to choose a night, 65, 60s. It's like my mom's age. Yes, a woman my mom's age, your mom's age. Christine, your mom, Vaughn, that kind of age group. She had an iPad on her trade. table. She takes photos with it. Obes, that thing is loaded. It's full to the brim

with holiday photos. Zoomed in as well. She was watching this woman in her 60s, and she's allowed to, there's no judgment here, but I did find it odd that she was watching heated rivalry. Now, if you don't know heated rivalry... The show that everybody is talking about at the moment,

especially women. Gay hockey smart. Gay hockey smart, basically, yes. Was it a book? Very popular. Producer Carwin, Carlin reads on Instagram. You were telling us about this ages ago that this was coming. Yeah, so this is a book series. Heated rivalry is actually the second book in the series,

but they're standalone, so it doesn't really matter. The show came out, and I don't think the series was like around, but it wasn't super huge. And I don't think they expected the show to pop off like it has because you could not buy these books anywhere. I have been waiting for a pre-order for over a month. It just arrived. But you couldn't buy the show.

books anywhere. I don't think they saw this show popping off like it has, but the girlies are loving it. So did the book and the TV show come out at the same time? No, no, no. No, books have been out for ages. So it's an HBO show. I mean, it's low budget.

It's low budget. In New Zealand, it's on neon. And it's about, yeah, closeted hockey players that kind of had this like decade long. Because we talked about this as well that hockey hockey is its own complete subgenre of smart. Yes, the best. And I last night I watched the first three or four episodes.

So I'm like three or four episodes and I'm like, okay. I mean, that's not the... You don't like hockey. You don't really read books. I'm doing it for the story, hey? Yeah. And the fake Russian accent. Oh, yeah.

Oh, wait. It's one of them Russian. You're one of them Canadian or American? Canadian. Oh, get out of town. Yep. It's fun. Have you seen the whole show?

No, so I'm waiting to watch, to read it before. watch it because I am annoying like that but I will be sewn but there's so many clips everywhere the fan edit so over the weekend Saturday Night Live did a incredible parody so funny heated wizardry for the whole part plays Harry Potter I can't remember the tall ginger guy's name

who's a regular plays Ron Weasley and it's about them oh it's it's on Instagram on NBC SNL as the account it's so good it's so good do you know a real life I don't know, NFL or a real life like hockey player came out like, end of last week. Yeah, I know, yeah.

Because of the show, they were like inspired by it. The two actors are saying, like, they're getting a lot of DMs from closeted, who want to stay closeted, but are getting messages being like, thank you. Isn't that insane? But why, because everybody's like, why are all these horny women watching this TV show? Yeah, but men have been watching lesbian porn for years and thinking it's for them. Exactly. It's exactly the same.

I mean, I think there's also a lot. Sorry, Shannon, what was that? I think also one of the things that's been talked about a lot, this show is obviously quite smarty, but there's also a lot of communication around that. Like I think it represents a good dynamic of communication between two people and all of that. Yeah, right.

So maybe that's what the girlies are loving. It's not the boys. No. I mean, they're very attractive boys. Yeah, but are we going to see it? I don't think you get to see it. Oh, you see it. I saw some bottoms.

You know how ice hockey players have big bottoms? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bigg bottoms. Yeah, pro dumpers, they call them. Yeah, pro dumpers. So these people acting, do you think they're using butt doubles? Or is it actually like the actors? I don't think so.

One of the actors said that he spent like the majority of the filming on all fourth. Yeah, that's right. He was, I'm in this position a lot. Everyone was like, well, I tell you what, it's streaming now. Neon has it. Heated rivalry.

And, yeah, it's, everybody's watching it. Get amongst her. Georgia, the lovely Georgia. Guys, I know you missed me. Were you back at work last week? Yeah. You were back at work? Yeah, it was slightly covering for you guys, you know?

Oh, right, okay. But I was just keeping it mellow. Tennis and Fiji and all sorts of things. Oh, good. From you look, gallivanting around. Thank you very much. Gailavanting around. Gosh.

Did go to Ed Sherrod on the weekend though. Unreal. What was your review? I will say that song, camera, was pretty cool. Like, he did reference the fact that he's not Coldplay. He doesn't give you a flashy wristband or anything,

but he got us all to take a photo with our flash on. And it was a pretty cool moment because it, like, flickered throughout the stadium and he did make a thing about that. It was pretty cool. Are we going Sunday? Chicha.

Yeah, we're doing this Sunday show. I think the surprise has been ruined about the old bridge that retracts in and out from him. Oh, Georgia! Everyone, not weird. I mean, get on social media, losers. I thought you would have changed in 2026. Yeah.

So, better. Spoiling everything. Thank God we've taken an hour off of her show and put it into ours, honestly. Hey, remember how you just gave that Uber driver five stars because you wanted five stars back? Yes. Let's do that with this podcast. Oh, yeah. Review it five stars.

Tell your friends. And we'll do the same for you if you have. ever need a review for anything. But where are you giving me my five stars? Well, I don't know. Do you own a restaurant or something? Yes. If you give us five stars on this podcast, tell us where you would like your review and we'll review.

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