ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - January 29th 2026

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

On today's episode of Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Don't swim in the mall fountain Gen Z are looking after themselves better Top 6 - Things you can't use your kiwi saver for (Brought to you by Hayley...) Movies SLP - Would you rather have spiders or flies in your house? Belly button piercings are back What did you learn later then everyone else? Hayley's unfortunate public park experience... Cheap as chips Fact of the day Bridgerton is out TODAY! Why we like this type of man When did googling go wrong? Not enough for the News News Nicola Peltz allowance See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 From the ZDM Podcast Network. This is Fleshwood and Haley's Big Pod. Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse. The biggest brands of the lowest prices. Good morning. Fletch Vaughn and Haley, we're down of Vaughn today. Down of Orne, you could feel like happening yesterday. Yeah, bad, sore throat.
Starting point is 00:00:17 Is this the first of the great illnesses of the year? Vaughan's one of three illnesses he has every year. Always a summer flu. Always a summer flu. It's the May, June flu, that gets him the worst. Man, that'll, remember when that knocked him out two weeks? Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:00:34 Although the flu that I had over summer on my break, which came from like London and the UK. Influenza. Apparently horrible. It was like some nasty flu and the flu jab didn't do anything to stop that. Oh well. So if that comes down here, poor. Good luck. Good luck because that was like two weeks of feeling like absolute shy.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Is COVID still around? I don't know. Vaughn mess just yesterday and said he did. I just did a COVID test. I was like vintage. Retro, very retro. What a throwback. Which would be great if you did get it because there are still a few places with the posters up so you can scan in with your QR code.
Starting point is 00:01:10 I'd let all my close contacts no to isolate just in case. You've got the top six for us today. I'll take care of that. Sadly, there's been a lot of people withdrawing their Kiwi saver. Yeah, the Kiwi saver is there for your retirement, your first home deposit, but you can withdraw it for hardship reasons if you needed to. which is great. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Right? You know, and it's not great that people are needing to do it, but there's been a huge rise in them. But above those three reasons, nothing else.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Yeah. So I've got the top six things that Kiwi Saber won't let you withdraw your Kiwi Saber for. Next on the show, Mall has a warning for people. Yeah, after a very silly stunt. Play ZM's FlashForn and Haley.
Starting point is 00:01:52 Well, you may have seen this video a couple of days ago, a video of somebody swimming in the rooftop pole of the New Market Mall in Auckland. And just to reiterate, it's not actually a pool
Starting point is 00:02:03 like it's a water feature. Yeah, it's just a glass. So the top floor of the building has like restaurants on it and there's like a glass kind of shallow pool. And you can see it below. You can see it all through the mall. And also I feel like it leaks
Starting point is 00:02:18 because I've been to the mall and there have been like buckets. Have you been to the mall and seen buckets? It's trippy. Yeah, it's quite trippy. And I feel like that's no good that it's leaker.
Starting point is 00:02:27 I'm no architect. I'm no good. a structural engineer. I mean, that ball's new. It's new. It's brand spanking new. Also, my favourite mall. I love the mall. I love that more so much. I've always looked up and thought, oh yeah, weird
Starting point is 00:02:42 they did that. Nifty. It's nice. I think it's good because if it had just been a glass roof, imagine the bird ship. Oh yeah, it'd be terrible. And eventually, after a couple of years, you wouldn't be able to see through it. And maybe it keeps it cooler. Keeps it cooler, keeps it clear. It's very pretty. The video
Starting point is 00:02:57 has gone viral. Posted couple of days ago by these city slickers. Slickers. Slikas. Two Ks in an A. Slikars. Slikas. Who are synonymous with this kind of behavior.
Starting point is 00:03:09 They've jumped off the harbour bridge. They've done various stunts. I think I saw one. They set someone on fire and he did a backflip into the harbor. Yeah, there's a water. There's a lot. There's not that many posts, I'll say. Like they're new.
Starting point is 00:03:22 They're starting out. The jackass of our future. Exactly what I was thinking. Auckland. City Slickers. The jackass. of 20206. 100%.
Starting point is 00:03:31 But yeah, so basically, the video they posted, just a daily reminder that no one cares. It's just like, you know, live your life. Don't do something silly. Is he doing butterfly or breaststroke? I think it's butterfly. A breaststroke in the first shot? Butterfly in the second change. Yeah, yeah. One of the hardest strokes.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Yeah, it's very hard. No, I can't do it. I've never butterfly. Never do it. It's terrible. Well, a spokesperson for Westfield Newmarket said that they are aware of the stunt in which a person climbed into a glass-bottomed rooftop and swam laps above a multi-level light shaft.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Yeah. That's what they're calling it. Oh, yeah. The spokesperson said, we are aware of the incident and vision. Do you think that, do you think they had a meeting to not say TikTok or reel to encourage further TikToks and reels?
Starting point is 00:04:18 Driving it there and getting more people in there. I wonder if the vision is that just the guy took his clothes off and so he's in like little undies. And as he sort of swims across, you're like, there's a lot. There's a lot going on. So apparently they go on to say that safety of shoppers is our highest priority and emphasise the water feature is not for swimming.
Starting point is 00:04:39 So apparently police were called after the incident as well, but obviously the swims had run away by then. The city slickers. The city slickers. I, okay, this is like, I find it quite funny, but I totally understand the safety thing. But there's something so embarrassing about a glass bottom pool. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Because you see their little, your little legs like wading water. Well, I will say the city slickers have a long way to go. Five posts on Instagram, 3,000 followers. But how many times has that been viewed? Because when this story came out, it was 2.8 million.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Yeah, millions. But why aren't people following the page? I don't know. Maybe it's more popular on TikTok. You know, I went to Instagram Reels. Yeah, you did. Yeah, well, they're across both. Yeah, they are.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Not that we're trying to drive traffic To these larkens We're not encouraging the jackass of our future Oh my God, no But if the next jackass did come from New Zealand It'd be pretty next day I don't think it ended well for most of those guys I think there's ongoing problems for a lot of them
Starting point is 00:05:44 Half of them are dead aren't they Why, hang on, one of them's sensitive content They're... Is that the one that gets set on fire maybe? Find upsetting, learn more No, I'm ready to see it. I can handle it. No, yeah, that's the one where they get set on fire, Haley.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Cereal. Okay, yeah, bro likes playing with fire. Yep, that'll be it. These are some absolute larican city slickers. You're sounding like a mum now. Oh, God, be careful. Be careful. The Z&M Podcast Network.
Starting point is 00:06:13 So, Gen Z, right, they get a bit of a bad rap and sometimes get called lazy. For some of their more, I'd say, work-based habits. Not our Gen Zs. And we just want to be clear, Shannon, Carw, Not our Gen Zs. Not our Gen Zs. Thank you. Oh, your vibrators on, hon.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, it's just part of being a Gen Z. We've got a healthy work-life balance. Sexual liberation. Yeah, don't... Yeah, what is that noise that turns on every morning at this time? I think it's something to do with, like, the air system, like, the aircon of... I remember when we got gassed out that one time.
Starting point is 00:06:47 That was fun. Yeah. I think it's some generator turning on the air conditioning. Right. Not being carbon monoxideed today. That's good to know. That's good. But you do, do you feel this, you know, from older generations,
Starting point is 00:06:59 a little bit of a sort of targeting towards Gen Z. You're lazy and you're sort of doing things half-ass. You don't do the hard grind. Yeah. I pick and choose how I present publicly. Yeah, I love this. Sometimes I'll opt-millennial vibe. Sometimes I age down.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I would say I'm very millennial presenting. You are millennial presenting. You're basically in charge of us. as well. Well, despite the fact that they sort of, yeah, turn them, turn them down. I'm just going to hear from you, but it's just the vibrating. I don't know if the listeners can even hear that much, but...
Starting point is 00:07:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're coming in. But even though they get called lazy for a number of their behaviours, in fact, they're doing so much better than us in terms of how they actually take care of their lives. Very much so. Right. So this is from Australia. people were looking at their key health goals for 2026
Starting point is 00:07:53 and how they, how Gen Z in particular, want to focus. I've just had a message from Dr. Shawnee, he's listening. He can't hear the generator noise. Okay. So we're making a big fuss. We're making a big fuss about nothing. Dr. Shawnee, listen. It will be quiet for a second.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Listen, I'll turn off the music. Can you hear that? Maybe he's dead. Sounds like to satisfy a pro. Like you've left it on the bedside table. Yeah, it's almost got a full of, it sounds like you've left the satisfier just out. On the table.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Yeah. How can he not hear that? Can people not hear that? 966. 966. Can you hear the vibrating? Can you hear the vibration? Can you hear the vibration this morning?
Starting point is 00:08:31 No, he's just messaged yes, I can now. Okay, well. But we had to crank it. Yeah, well, I had to turn it right up. Do you think he's lying though? Because now he's embarrassed? Because he caught him out. 96-96 to other listeners that aren't death.
Starting point is 00:08:42 9-6-96, can you hear the vibration and 9-6-9-6? Do you think that Dr. Shawney's lying to cover up his shame? But he can't hear it. Either one, text in 96696. So Gen Z were asked about their, you know, their priorities for 2026, and it's all staying healthy as I age, sustainable health habits, eating a healthier diet, reducing stress and anxiety. Galenaal. Melendez, we love stress and anxiety. We are stress and anxiety.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Things like losing weight, that's like way down the bottom over things like, you know, rather than things like achieving better quality sleep, they're focused on things like longevity and sustainability. fitness and health. They were all on their phones until 2 o'clock and couldn't get to sleep. No, they're actually focused on general overall health whereas we
Starting point is 00:09:28 burnt out we're just wear ourselves down with anxiety and stress and then we do things like crash diet. Really, really bad for you. Yeah. They're doing so much better than us.
Starting point is 00:09:41 Do you agree with those? Yeah, I feel like I actually do feel like this can be reflected in the popularity of Marcher because so, like all my life everyone older than me that has a job, has coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee. Everyone in our office, coffee, coffee, coffee. The younger girls do not.
Starting point is 00:09:56 I do. The younger girls do not. They're all like choosing a macha because it's more slow release. Coffee's so bad for your cortisol levels. And it's like slow release caffeine rather than coffee, which is like that. Oh yeah, but get them to wake up at bloody four o'clock in the morning. Let's see who's on. All right, Grams.
Starting point is 00:10:10 And how far did you have to walk to school? In the snow. In the snow. No shoes. With no shoes. And there were dinosaurs. I'm bollicking from my father. Well, that kind of backs up. Ministry of Health
Starting point is 00:10:21 New Zealand figures that three quarters of 18 to 24 year olds, 73% are drinking in a responsible way. And that's improved 18.9% in the past eight years. It is crazy whenever we have a ZM thing, you just watch the young girls and they have one and then they're done. And it's like, well, man, it's an open bar. Hayley's hoovering up the bar tab. I'm happy to absorb the gap.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Now, just some text in. Okay. No vibration here. Some people said, and someone else says, I agree with Dr. Shorty, and I couldn't hear it before you emphasize the noise. Yep. When I turned it up, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Yeah, Shannon, get a grip. Don't do that while you're at work. Maybe it's one of those noises, you know, the only young people can hear because the hearing hasn't degraded. A lot of people messaging them. But you can hear it. I can hear it.
Starting point is 00:11:09 I can hear it. Someone says they can't hear it because we're talking too much and they want to be able to hear it. Okay, well, hang on, I'll just turn it up. Okay. Imagine if you're turning into ZDM, Fletchforn and Haley for the first time, and this is all we're playing. What's that noise? Who built this radio station studio and put a generator in the roof or something?
Starting point is 00:11:27 I don't know. That's ridiculous. ZDM's secret sound, what's that noise? Do you think Mike Hosking has this? Do you think he's... Highly doubt it. Do you think this is Mike Hosking? Jerrini's vacuuming with his dice in above us.
Starting point is 00:11:37 He is. He is. He's got the dice and Mike. Shut up! Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley. From the Fletchforn and Haley group chat, this is the Top six.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Well, Vaughn's away today, and so the top six hath been passed on to me. Dealing with the fact that Kiwi Saver numbers, the withdrawals for hardship is up 10,000 from the year before, from last year. Yes, tough, yeah, it's a tough times at the moment. Cozy Lively, cry, everything's expensive,
Starting point is 00:12:06 and it's great that you can do that. Withdraw it for your home? Is it easy, though? I feel like it's still not easy. I feel like you've got to jump through the hoop. Yeah, so $514 million was withdrawn from Kiwi-saber because of hardship. That's why you didn't get that job presenting Lotto. Yes. All right, Al-Teroa, let's see our next number.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Trenti. Twin-9. Sorry, that's a three. So it's three and it's not nine. Just clarify? All right, New Zealand. Let's see what's coming next. Frant.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Fra, it's four. It's the number four. It's crazy I didn't get that job. It didn't work out for you, you did it. Nah. Yeah. Yeah. And your power ball is 12.
Starting point is 00:13:00 12. 12. They don't go to 12, Haley. Nine. Nine. Okay. Nine. Well, yeah, we'll be in touch.
Starting point is 00:13:09 Awesome. Do you mean want me to do it in any other way? We have you with that audition. That's fine. That's a great audition. We'll be in touch. Okay. Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Okay. So you're not great that people are withdrawing it, but it's awesome that it's there for you if you needed to do that. But I had the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi Saber for. Because it's like when you see your balance, because it just goes out of your pay and then every now and again, like I've got the app, I'll log on, I'll be like, oh my God. I, and then you're like mentally like, if I could withdraw that today.
Starting point is 00:13:36 Like, what would I do with it? What would you do with that? I know. Because I'm not thinking about 65-year-old, Haley. Screw her. No, I don't think I'll be around that long, to be honest. Like, I don't. That's so sad.
Starting point is 00:13:46 It's actually like not that far away. I know, it's not. It's miserable. Oh, God. I don't want to be in one of those rhyming buses, those rest home buses. You'd just see them. Hang on, though.
Starting point is 00:13:56 I went to a retirement village recently and I was like, damn. Good fun. I think you have to have a lot of money. Thus, a lot of money in your Kiwi say before it. Yeah, pool room, gym, swimming pool, lawn bowls, parties, bar car. And they're all bonking each other.
Starting point is 00:14:12 They don't even care. No conies. You know what I mean? Who cares? Yeah, who cares? All right, I've got the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi Saber for. Number six, all your streaming services.
Starting point is 00:14:23 They won't let you do it. You're just going to have to keep on creating new emails and doing the free trials for the rest of your life. Yeah. Until you're 65 and you can get the money legitimately. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi Saber for.
Starting point is 00:14:36 A helicopter ride to Waikki Island darling for a wine and cheese pair. No, well, you can get the ferry if you're over 65 for free, can't you? Yes, but you can't get the copter on the QEEE seven. You couldn't go. To your Kiwi-savans head, darling. Please. One, darling, I can't afford it. Number four on the list of the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi-Saver four.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Flights to Bali for another genuine friend's holiday. Sorry, born. Just can't do it, no. No, sorry. No? We can't. I can't afford it again. God, how many holidays have you just have your Kiwi-saber-A?
Starting point is 00:15:07 Don't, because now I'm like, where would I go? Where would I go? Number three on the list of the top six things that you cannot remove. your Kiwi saver money for. A life-sized ceramic dog. No. Sorry, Herman. You just can't do it.
Starting point is 00:15:23 You say that's not hardship. You'd love to complete the family, but... I know. It's not enough money. I mean, Shannon... We had a meeting yesterday. Shannon sort of floated the idea of getting his counterpart, which was a life-size Black Panther.
Starting point is 00:15:35 But we can, but we have to pay for it up front with our money, not our Kiwi-saber. Number two. On the list of the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi-saber for, a facelift in Turkey. Apparently that's more of a want than a need. Apparently. Yeah, you're just going to have to let it droop and sag and...
Starting point is 00:15:53 Yeah, and I'm like, you want to talk to me about hardship. Look at this furrow. Look at these lines. You're going to be just put up with this? And number one on the list of the top six things that you can't remove your Kiwi saver for tickets to Harry Styles in Australia. You just can't... No, all you're going to have to do is tune in to ZM
Starting point is 00:16:12 for your chance to win Harry Styles tickets every time. You hear a Harry-style song. Good from you? Yeah, it's really good, eh. Ding, ding, ding. A bit of a KPI there for listening. Crossing. Listening longer, yeah, that's good.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Crossing. That is today's top six. The Demand's podcast network. Huge news. 39 years people have waited for this. Will they won't they make a sequel? Dirty Dancing 2 is officially happening. Which was Patrick Swayze.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray as baby. Right. And Lions huge film producers have greenlit the sequel for 2026 they'll be making it I don't think I ever seen it I've ever seen dirty dancing
Starting point is 00:16:55 I know I know all the iconic images and the gist of it and the running and the lifting and his like hits but I've never seen it it's a great film it's great it's beautiful it's cute it's lovely and it involves dancing
Starting point is 00:17:09 like what more do you want and here's the thing baby's back Jennifer Gray is back as Francis baby houseman, which is her like famous character. But of course Patrick Swayze. He's gone. He gone, he long-go. When did he die?
Starting point is 00:17:23 What, yeah. I don't have a little lookie. They are saying that the film is going to honour Johnny Castle was his character's name. Okay, when do you think he died? You know, like five years ago. 2009. No, he did. He was dirty dancing. He was in dirty, famous for dirty dancing, ghost roadhouse
Starting point is 00:17:43 Point. Do you remember a point break with Cano Reeve? Did he die 15 years ago? That's insane. I would have said the same. I don't know, five or six years ago. Five, six years ago. Man, where does time go, eh? They're going to be, so she's back as her original character,
Starting point is 00:18:00 but obviously 40 years older. Yes. So I imagine they might not be the lead, you know? Like it may be there are, like she's around and someone else is the new thing. Because heaven forbid they put someone that old as a lead female or not. We don't want to see that. And so they're committing to honouring Johnny Castle, which was Patrick Swayze's character without CGI resurrection.
Starting point is 00:18:25 So just like they'll be mentioned maybe and whatnot. They say the character will be there for emotional weight rather than the gimmick of like, there's Patrick Swayze. Yeah, well, a lot of movies this year to look forward to. Yes, and some of the, a lot of them are based on books. Yes, because recently at the on, Oscars, there's been this big buzz about how there were so many original movies for a change.
Starting point is 00:18:50 As opposed to adaptations. As opposed to adaptations and stuff. And everyone was like, it's kind of refreshing. They weren't, there weren't remakes and adaptations. It was like, you know, the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. People raw dogging scripts. People like, yeah, it's like nice. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Well, the big one that I'm really looking forward to and all the sort of book nerds would be is Withering Heights with Marga Robbie and Jacob Allorty. That's like soon. That's two days before Valentine. And that's saltburn girl, lady, Emerald Fennell. She's done that. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 00:19:20 I was like, Jacob Allard is a man. Yes. Yes, she's done that. Marga Robby's production company. Yep. And... There's another Frankenstein. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Which was the 1818 classic, as you know. Yeah, of course. Oh, my God. I remember when it first came out and I was like, guys, we've got to get on the horse and get to Whitcalls. And you'd tie your horse outside Whitcalls and... Go in and it'll be Jones Book of the Week. Jones, number one pick of the week.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Maggie Gyllenhaal is doing that. Is she? Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell. That's being adapted and that will be on Prime. Patricia Cornwall writes a lot of great books. And that's Nicole Kidman. Colleen Hoover's got another one. Me, Colleen Hoover will be hoovering up the money.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Mate, she just has every single one of her books gets turned into her. That's a 2022 novel and that will be in Cinema. reminders of him on March 13. Do you know who's in it? Who? Tyrek Withers. From him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Who? Who? What? I guess I used to say. Femominal acting chops. I don't think you were looking at his acting, to be honest. I was looking everywhere. Perfect Strangers is a thriller and that is coming to Apple TV.
Starting point is 00:20:37 That was a 2021 novel. Elizabeth Moth. Moth. Moss. Sorry, that was. I know you'd. like their word. She said it twice.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Elizabeth Moss and Kerry Washington. That's going to be out in March. Project Hail Mary, that's an adaptation as well. Ryan Gosling's going to be in that, 20th of March. Oh my God. Do you remember back in the 8th century when Homer wrote The Odyssey? Oh, no, I don't remember that. Do you not remember tying up your wagon outside?
Starting point is 00:21:12 I remember docking my boat. there was no work calls in town. Oh my gosh. So I had to sail to the next town. That sucks. Yeah, yeah. Well, The Odyssey by Homer. That's going to be Matt.
Starting point is 00:21:22 That's starring Matt Damon. Yeah, yeah. And that's July 17. Margaret Atwood, the Testaments. Yes. That's a pick-up after Handmade, handmade tale. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:31 The Handmaid's tale. That'll be April 8th. Oh my God. Do you remember when Jane Austen, like, dropped sense and sensibility? And when? And we pulled up on our, and we've pulled up our frocks to go through the mud to get to work calls.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Another Colleen Hoover one in October 2nd. Yeah, Verity. That's Josh Hart, Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway. Colleen Hoover must be so... Oh my God, look, Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Show, my l'am-a-lam. Yeah, so a lot of books into movies this year. So if you want to be that person that's like, it's not as good as the book. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Do you remember when Jane Austen just, like, hit us with Pride and Pridge? and we're just like, we were like, oh my God, Jeeves, get the horses. We've got to go down to Paper Plus. Yeah. And then we got there and it was all sold out. It was all sold out. So we had to wait for the second run, which was like a year later.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Like, Janie, baby, please can we get a copy of your latest book? The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flashhorn and Haley. Flech funny little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly, silly, Today's silly little poll I'm quite surprised by this because so many people have phobias of spiders
Starting point is 00:22:58 but I don't really know of a lot of fly phobias. The question is, and this is simply because Vaughan was thinking about it because he has lots of spiders around his house and lots of flies in his house which would you rather have in your house spiders or flies? I went instantly spiders because in New Zealand we've got like white tails
Starting point is 00:23:19 and is it, and what's, we've got some red tail. And we've got that Avondale. Yeah, no, but they're not poisonous. No, that's what I mean, but they're big. They look scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're like, fine. But they're fine. Like, most of the time it's just daddy long legs and they catch the flies.
Starting point is 00:23:34 I have been losing my mind over the flies in my house because I just open up the whole house all day, basically, when it's nice. And there's like eight a room and they shit all over my lights. And now vintage. They're from the 60s, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't have that. can't be cleaning those too often. They're fragile.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah. I just hate them. They blow everyone. They're getting your food. Oh my God. I hate them so much. Well, we asked, which would you rather have in your house? Spiders or flies? 56% of people said spiders. Yeah. I'm not surprised because flies are so annoying. Annoying. And then when you've got food out and they're like, zzz-bz.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Okay, some feedback. Nubes says, I mean, the correct answer is neither. Yes, true. But at least the spiders eat the flies. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. CN, CNNZ says, I live in Australia enough, said flies. Oh yeah, I'd go fly.
Starting point is 00:24:27 If I lived in Australia, I'd say flies. Flies. And they all get the fly screens and stuff. Yeah, they do, yeah. Joanna says, Morteen, I would rather have Morting. Yeah, that's fair enough. We don't want any of them. Teagan says you often don't see spiders and they're easier to kill.
Starting point is 00:24:44 Flies are just annoying. Yes. Yeah, spiders do. Sometimes I'm just like, if you. you stay there, homie, I'll stay here, we're all good. If it's a little web and you can, it's not really that ugly to what to see, it's fine. Sarah voted flies. Flies are grottie little things that don't, and don't forget they were once maggots.
Starting point is 00:25:03 Yeah, maggots, I hate. Spiders are all good except if they're a white tail, then they are sleeping with the fishes. I haven't seen a white tail for ages. Sprawlian says, neither please. Spotting a spider gives me a fright, but at least they're silent. I can't concentrate if there's a fly buzzing around the house. So I'll stand around and trap it with my yellow butterfly catcher for as long as it takes Or chase it with the spray until it buzzeth no more.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Angela says you know where flies are so you can spray their ephers. Spiders are sneaky buggers and creepier, not to be trusted at all. No, but there's so many flies. Yeah, I know. Lee says spiders are self-sufficient, catch their own food and take care of the flies, which is cool. They do their own thing. Flies want to vomit all over my food, shoot on my ceiling and get their grotty yuck all over the place, not to mention their bloody annoying, pesty.
Starting point is 00:25:49 When you think about it, it's actually a phenomenal skill to be able to shit on the ceiling because they are upside down. Man. Think about that for a second. That's crazy. Like, if we had suction cups on our hands and knees or feet, the poop wouldn't come out.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Like it wouldn't, yeah, wouldn't. Because the diject, you'd have to really heave it out. Yeah. And then even then it would still rest on you more than the ceiling. Yeah, and go on the carpet. That's why that fly poop is so awesome. Wheely. So sticky. Yuck. It's grim, eh?
Starting point is 00:26:21 Ashley said, how is spiders winning in this pole? Where are my arachnophobes at? I had a vagrant spider in my house last year. You see how big and fat those things are. Flies any day. They die when you spray them. You know what doesn't die when you spray them. Big effing spiders. They're just going hide under your bed. Are they dead or are they plotting their revenge?
Starting point is 00:26:41 But one thing's for certain. You can't go to sleep now. Yeah. She's not a fan of spiders. Yeah. And Fiona says if these are the only two of two of, options I choose no house. No house at all. So for today's silly little poll, we asked you what would you prefer in the house? Spiders or flies? And 56% of you said spiders.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Play ZMs, flesh, for an and hayley. Flights, tickets and accommodation. So there is something that is back doing the rounds. All the, like, young girls are back doing it and they say what's cool. And so we just listen. Yep. What does Gen Z say is cool? Okay, you tell me, I'll consider it.
Starting point is 00:27:17 belly button piercings are back. Now, this... That's a no from me. When I, like, for me, my first encounter was it, the 90s, because all like the spice girls had them, you know, and there was a crop top era in the 90s, and used to look and be like, oh my God! And then my friend Shiloh was allowed to get one,
Starting point is 00:27:34 and I was like, Mom! Was Patsy a hard no on that? Hard no on the belly butter piercing. I wasn't allowed any piercings other than ears until I was 16, and then I went ham. And unfortunately, on the face. But, no, never my belly butter. I've got a deep hole.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Very deep. What? My belly button holes are deepie. I've got a deepie. I've never thought about how deep the belly button is. How deep is your hole? Mine, no matter what size I am, well, we fluctuate.
Starting point is 00:28:04 This is a show of fluctuators. If anyone ever puts their finger in my belly button, I hate it so much. I don't know why I hate it. No, it makes me feel sick instantly. But some people love it. No, I don't touch my belly button. No, I hate it so much.
Starting point is 00:28:19 No, I've got a deep hole. I can't pierce that. Also, I feel like, you know, and it's not to body shame anyone, but I feel like you've got to have a certain, it's like, what are those low-rise jeans? I know, when they were like, hey, the whales tails back with the super low-rise jeans, I was like, okay. For some of you it is.
Starting point is 00:28:35 There's only a few small percentage of the population that can pull off the belly button ring in low-rise. I know. I know. You've just got to be skinny. Yeah, for sure. It's definitely that kind of thing, people flashing around with their flat abdomens, of which I do not and shall never possess. Producer Girlies, what do you think of the return of the belly button ring?
Starting point is 00:28:56 Look, I just feel as though I have a little too much belly button and a little too much belly for a button. For a button. Yeah, too much belly for a button. I think it's fun. I love that Zara Larson's really bringing back the 2016 aesthetic. And I'm kind of here for it and, like, could be keen. Could be keen.
Starting point is 00:29:15 All I remember is, like, all my friends would. be like I need to plan this when, like when to do it because if it's too close to summer, then I can't go on the pool that we have a pool key for because of the cool rain and like I want it to be healed though. Yeah. The only thing as well that I think of is how many people get botched ones. Because when you think of a belly button piercing, you imagine it's going through, but it's not. Bully button is it always a few centimetres higher. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. They're not actually on your belly button. It's on your belly. Also, you wear a lot of your homemade, crocheted
Starting point is 00:29:45 Like Like clothes Hooking onto piercings You know what You've just convinced me not to Yeah there you go Should I cancel the show booking then None of us are keen or
Starting point is 00:29:57 Yeah That would be a fun day Everyone has to get a piercing Someone just text Feel free to text in 9669696 Just to say hi Or
Starting point is 00:30:05 What do you think of a belly button piercing Someone said my wife has her belly button piercing Man it's hot Then brackets Very fit body Yeah Yeah okay Okay, so is it the belly button piercing that's doing the heavy lifting there, dude?
Starting point is 00:30:18 Or is it? I think that's a woman. That's a woman. Oh, Becky Pat. Oh, my God, I absolutely heterode, you do, yes. But yeah, I mean, I know they can look hot, for sure. You know, we all remember Christina Aguilera. I'm a genie in about all.
Starting point is 00:30:36 But I will not be, the only thing that I've been reconsidering, someone did just message in and say, hi, hello. The only thing that I would be reconsidering would be rep piercing my nose, my nose ring. The septum or the... No, no, just the side. No, not the ball one. I'm not that cool.
Starting point is 00:30:55 I'm not cool enough to pull off a ball ring. Just on the side, I just think it, add a little funk to the face. Really? Yeah, well, you got to get glasses, and I don't need glasses. I get no funk on the face. Also, did you see Haley debuting her glasses again at the weekend? Yes. Because I have glasses now.
Starting point is 00:31:09 They're blue light blockers. They're not actually real glasses. description needed 20-20-Vis. Wild, though, that you're trying to get cool. Yeah, someone just message it. Okay, we've had a couple of hires and hellos, hello and hi.
Starting point is 00:31:20 And someone messages, where are my ladies with the child bear and hips at? No, I feel you, man. I haven't bared a child, but I could with these hips. Interesting. Sorry, just to refer back to our belly button things, we've heard from a doctor. Oh.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Dr. McKenzie here at plastic surgeon. Oh. It is interesting, R.E. the belly button piercing. Most patients I see for tummy tucks, we've had it done absolutely dislike the scar post piercing and they have it removed.
Starting point is 00:31:49 Like the little whole thing because it creates that little slit. Also, is that because if you put it on weight because you get it when you're like a teenager or early 20s? This will be my buddy forever. And then you realize it's not because aging, you know, whatever.
Starting point is 00:32:02 It's cruel. And then do you think it stretches? Stretches it and everything. So then you go in for a tummy tuck. You're like, get that gone. I would be fascinated to ask Dr. McKenzie. like what else they have to fix up like flesh tunnels.
Starting point is 00:32:14 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the puckered cats anus on the ears. Any like nose piercing holes. Septim ripped out the tongue ring splits. Also Dr. McKenzie, how much for a little, just a little tight little, just a little nip, nip. Is there a Haley 20 online discount code? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sprouten.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Sprouten, just ask you for a friend. The ZAM Podcast Network. Play Zat M's Flesh, Fawn and Haley. One of our beloved friends of the show, Eli Mathewson. comedian, legend, very funny guy was having a chat with the NZ Herald recently. My chosen news source.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Fletcher's on. Vaughn's away, I'm on the bell today. Fletcher's on the bell. On the KPI bell? He was talking about the fact that he's got a great career here in New Zealand, but at the age of 37, him and his partner, Sam, gay. It's a male Sam. Okay, yep, yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:05 I just wanted to paint that a quick picture. You sound like a mum and they're talking about the new neighbours that have moved. the new neighbours have moved in. I love that. Kevin and Brian, gay. Gay. Gay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Yeah, the gays. Why is it of interest what their sexuality is? Yeah, I know. Well, it's not, I'm just saying. I'm just... Yeah. Okay. Why, Eli and Sam, they had jobs and everything like that,
Starting point is 00:33:28 and they just at 37 went, well, let's go do our OE. And we're going to go over it, and we're going to do the London thing, set up. Obviously, like, you know, he'll be doing comedy over there. It's a great hub for comedy, but also just doing your OE. And he said he was like, it is very different. being 37 and doing this experience. Because I feel like you do have to do it earlier, the OE thing. Otherwise, if you want to have a career,
Starting point is 00:33:51 it can be, depending on what industry, it can be hard. Like, media and radio, like, you don't just leave a job. No, no, no, you could have just... Because there aren't many. No, and then you don't just be like, hey, I'm going to tottle off for five years. I'll come back, I can come... I'll be back on air, right? No. No, you're gone.
Starting point is 00:34:06 Yeah, totally. But, you know, it's worked for them. But the journalist was like, why so late? And it's just like, well, you know, I wanted to do it. We missed the boat originally because things just started rolling. So it's sort of now or neither. But it is hard because you're 37, you may be used to nicer things at that point. You've got a bit of a life set up in New Zealand that's all going well. Now you've got to go back to London and be broke.
Starting point is 00:34:31 Yeah. And like in a London apartment that's super expensive. Super expensive. Yeah. We've got heaps of people living there. Anyway, this got me thinking I want to hear from our listeners about what is the thing you did
Starting point is 00:34:42 much later than everyone else. Perfect example to start. We were just talking about belly-balling piercings being back in Trent. And Carmen was saying she waited quite a while to get a piercing because she had to wait for her mum
Starting point is 00:34:54 to get a piercing. And your mum, the lovely Catherine, didn't get a piercing until she was. 40. On her 40th birthday, she said, you know what? I'm going to get my ears pierced. And I was like, finally even.
Starting point is 00:35:07 She didn't have her ears done before 40. No, not at all. I don't actually know why. I think maybe she just didn't want. Wow. Maybe she wasn't allowed. But yeah, my whole life, she's that you can't get your ears pierced until I have.
Starting point is 00:35:19 Yeah, right. And then she did. Amazing. Someone messaged in already. They've did a lot late. Didn't get married until I was 40, which I guess is later. Maybe not so much these days, but, you know.
Starting point is 00:35:33 That's probably actually probably the best way to do it, I can wait until you're dead. Didn't get boobs or pubs till I was 15 and a half. The half is important at the time. And I didn't lose my V plates till I was 28. Oh wow. Yeah, also it was late to join Instagram. People as well like learning to drive late, learning to swim late.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Yeah, move out of home late. Okay, well these are all the things we want to know this morning. 0800 dials at em as a number. Text us as well, 9-696. What did you do later than everyone else? Right now, though, we want to know what is the thing that you did later than everyone else?
Starting point is 00:36:12 Lovely Eli Matheson, comedian, friend of the show was talking about the fact that him and his partner, Sam, have moved over to London to do their OE at the age of 37, not 18 or 19. When did they move? It was last year sometime, wasn't it? Just at the end of last year, basically. Well, I mean, it was always a good time to live in London.
Starting point is 00:36:30 I wouldn't be complaining if I moved to London then. Oh, yeah, no, neither. but I, it's just, I don't know that I could do the London thing now. Because you're just... I like my things. You like your house. I like my home and I can't have that home in London, darling. I'm not wealthy.
Starting point is 00:36:48 Yes. You know? But we want to know what is the thing that you did later than everyone else? Niha, what was the thing you did later in life? Hey guys. So I joined Netflix for the first time in 2020 during COVID, and that was the first streaming platform I ever joined. Oh wow, yeah, 2020
Starting point is 00:37:05 Is late What, how, how, do you mind if I ask how old you are? I'm 24 now, so back then I was 19 What, and you hadn't like been on any streaming? Yeah, what did you watch before then, just like TV? No, I still kept up today I just had no streaming services. Okay
Starting point is 00:37:24 So like broadcast television I'm not kidding, wow, that is so late Yeah, I know Yeah, because I was at some You know, like, it's really hard for, like, the boomer generation to adapt to streaming. Yeah, but they have. I just get them as they come out. It's like, we got Disney now?
Starting point is 00:37:43 I'm like, okay, I'll get that. And then we end up paying for, like, five or six. Have you got them all now, Nihar? My brother's Disney, but I have everything else now, yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. You've got to have them all. Thank you. Mary, what was the thing you did later in life?
Starting point is 00:38:00 Hi. I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was 10. 10. Okay. So when you were really little, why did your parents not get you on the old tricycle? We grew up on a really steep hill in Wellington. Oh my God, which hill? It was a long way. Enough said.
Starting point is 00:38:18 Yeah. I could imagine like just looking at the window and your toddler's on a trike, just like wee. Yeah. Screaming down a hill. Wellington Hills are actually outrageous. That's so good. Mary, thank you. Nick, what was the thing you did later in life?
Starting point is 00:38:34 I didn't eat a fast food burger until I was 35. Shut up. What? Yeah. How did that happen? Like, did you live in the middle of nowhere? No. It was a fussy eater as a child.
Starting point is 00:38:47 I worked at McDonald's in my early late teens and early 20s. You didn't eat a cheesy baby. You didn't even have a... I know they don't give workers free burgers, but you didn't on your lunch break think, well, I'll just have a quarter pounder or some nuggets. And now it's kind of... Nuggies, for sure, anyways.
Starting point is 00:39:04 but yeah, I've still never had a McDonald's burger. But they're really good. They're really good. What was your first fast food burger? It was BK, and it was disappointing. And it was at age 35? Yeah. And are you still a fussy eater?
Starting point is 00:39:23 Relatively. You know, I still have a lot of burgers and things now, but now it's kind of a point of pride that I've never had a fast food. I do know what you mean. Yeah, I sort of do know what you mean. Yeah. Oh, wow. Wait, will you do KFC?
Starting point is 00:39:37 I haven't had a KFC burger either. No, but will you do the chicken? Yeah. Yeah, so it's sort of a monster. Okay, I was going to say, like, how can you not do the chicken? Hello? No, no, no. I eat plenty of fast food.
Starting point is 00:39:50 It's just not burgers. I don't know. Nottles is my choice. Is that your number one? Yeah, yeah. My number one, like, takeaway burger of choice. You got to wrap your lips around. No, fill out of fish.
Starting point is 00:40:00 That's where you've got to starve. You don't, this guy's not. Jesus Christ. I know, she's a monster, Nick. She's a monster. Nick, thank you. Some messages in. I'm 37 finally getting married.
Starting point is 00:40:13 That's okay. I've never been married and I'm 30. I don't know how old I am. I've forgotten today. Spinster. Six. 36. I know.
Starting point is 00:40:21 Someone said to me the other day how old and I actually had to think about it. I was like... Is it six or seven? Yeah. I think I... Six, eh? No, because we're the same... Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:40:29 We're the same, remember? We're the same last number. Yeah. Six. That's why... And it's 2026 and we're the six in the six. Yes, yes. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Until our birthday and then we'll be a bit skewer. Yeah, never tried any drugs. Never tried any drugs until 39 and then, hello Molly. I had sex much later than my twin sister. Didn't say the age. I didn't get married for the first time until I was 44. Has there been a second time? It sounds like that has been.
Starting point is 00:41:01 I had multiple tattoos before I got my ears pears. at 22. Oh yeah. I went to university at age 34. Felt like a major career change. Shocked to the system from an IT job to zero income, but I don't regret a single minute. I'm graduating at April and now working in the health sector, loving my work life
Starting point is 00:41:18 balance. Oh, that's nice. Congratulations. That would be so scary. And also like... I have friends that are going back to study things that are like, I might do a bit of law and you're like... Do you think they were the adult student in the first row, are always asking questions? Yeah. Curse me.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Where's my plug in my charge? I didn't get boobs until I was about 16. I got bullied for it and now my boobs could replace the moon. I didn't get boobs until I started working here and then I never slept and then I gained a bunch of way. That was the only way I got them. I never had boobies. There's so much fun.
Starting point is 00:41:52 I'm a 57-year-old straight male who has just started to take dance lessons. Why not life's too short? Hell yes. Why did they put straight in there? Oops, it's quite a gay thing to do In the Mormon faith In the, I'm sorry, I jest
Starting point is 00:42:12 In the Mormon faith, I married late I was 25 Had my first child late at 30 And had my last child at 43 for Mormons, that's late Wow My daughter is off on her O-E and convinced me to get a matching tattoo It's my first one, I'm 55
Starting point is 00:42:28 That's so cool, I love that. A lot of people going back to uni late. At the ripe old age of 59, I left my kids my house in New Zealand and moved to Melbourne to start a new job and a new life knew everything. 59. Carpe damn.
Starting point is 00:42:45 Amazing. First tattoo at 30. That's not too bad. I didn't watch adult fun films until I was 19. Oh yeah. That's probably good for your development. I think it is. We're watching that too early. There's so many.
Starting point is 00:42:59 got my first tattoo at 45. I'm now 55 and have five of them. I learnt to swim at 37 after signing up for a half iron man. Okay, wow. That's incredible. I always said people, adults learning to swim when I swim at the pool.
Starting point is 00:43:16 Yeah. And it's so, it's so brave because it is, some people just put it off. Because it's like, it would be like learning to ride a bike as an adult. Yeah, totally. You just flailing around. It's, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:28 A lot of people learning to, to ride bikes late. I was in my 40s before I learned to stop caring about what anyone thinks of me. I think that just is what happens when you get older, right? And you care less and less and it's great. Oh, someone just watched Breaking Bad for the first time the other day.
Starting point is 00:43:43 It's incredible, right? His new show, the Breaking Bad Peribus. Pluribus is incredible on Apple TV. I joined the fire service at 50 years old. I'm doing the first Skytower challenge at 51. Good luck, good luck. So many. I still haven't had Uber.
Starting point is 00:43:59 eats. Someone said. Yeah, okay. You're just not missing paying extra money. Someone texted and said, oh my God, you have to try McDonald's burgers. I didn't until I was 30 and now I'm lock and load. The ZN Podcast Network. Play ZN's Fletch for an Haley. Anyway, so I had 20 minutes since I went for a little walk down to the local park. You know the one just down the road, Vic Park. Oh yeah. Beautiful. The sun was shining. Benches were open for me to sit on and whatnot on. I was just having a nice little time.
Starting point is 00:44:31 And two things happened. One I witnessed there were swings. Oh, yeah. I was like, man, I love a good swing. Capet damn, you know, just really bask in the glory of the day. Sat on a swing for ages, just swinging and swinging. It just feeling really good. It was such a nice little mood booster.
Starting point is 00:44:48 And I didn't realize that there was a mom waiting for the swings. She had the two kids. And I was on the thing. And she was sat behind with the two kids. And when I got up, I sort of turned around. and saw that as soon as I got up, she immediately went to the swings with her kids. Right.
Starting point is 00:45:03 Like she'd been waiting and I caught eyes as if to be like, oh, I didn't even see you there. And oh my God, the glare I got. What, like, disgust? Yeah, and just like, you grown woman, sucking joy away from children. I mean, technically anyone can use the playground. Show me the age restriction.
Starting point is 00:45:22 You didn't see a sign, did you? Didn't see one. Not for the swings. Yeah. So that happened, and I felt a bit bad. And then I felt a small urge to pee And I was like, okay, before I go to this voiceover drama, I'll pee.
Starting point is 00:45:32 And I looked around and there was public toilets there. And I was like, whatever, they won't be that bad. Surely where you were recording the voiceover had a toilet. Yeah, I know, but there was still too much time. Like, I didn't want to go that early. Yeah. So I needed to pee. And so I saw the public toilets.
Starting point is 00:45:46 I was like, perfect. And as I'm walking, the need to pee, you know me, increases rapidly. And I'm like, oh, no, I don't need to pee. I'm now officially busting. And as soon as I approach the door, two tourists, there's two doors, two tourists immediately come in and occupy them. Oh, these tourists I can only describe as outwardly American.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Okay. Like, later in life, we've got camo shorts, we've got walking poles for around the city. Oh, okay. We're off a cruise ship, I believe. Yes, it was a cruise ship in. We're an older lady and gentleman. and, you know, we're lost. Just really enjoying your country, you know?
Starting point is 00:46:32 Yeah. So I was like, damn it, so I've got to wait. They took forever. I was like, oh, my God. And I'm like wriggling around going, oh, this is getting dire. And then the guy comes out and he sees me waiting there. It was the man that came out first.
Starting point is 00:46:44 The woman was still going. The man came out, and as he saw me, his eyes told me. Oh, no. Yeah, no. What had occurred in there. There's nothing worse than locking eyes or someone coming out of a public toilet when you're going in next
Starting point is 00:46:57 and they know or you know what you've just done in there. So I have no choice. The urine is about to exit my body. I enter this toilet. Holy guacamole. I don't know what they're serving on that ship, dude, but you need to stop eating it.
Starting point is 00:47:12 There is no toilet seat on the silver bowl. Why do they not put toilet seats? There is no toilet paper because our American friend obviously used it all and what has been left smatted around the bowl was a disaster. I had no choice but to urinate on top of that. Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck.
Starting point is 00:47:29 And then it is the last time that I'd try to enjoy a park in the sun. Yeah. Never again. Have you thought about complaining to the council? No, next time I'm going to publicly pee in a bush and I'll take the penalty of cops walk by. You'll go to court for public exposure. I'm not going back in there. The ZM Podcast Network.
Starting point is 00:47:47 Play ZM's Flashawn and Haley. I was reading a great article yesterday about beauty items that people are wearing by for 2026. You know, everyone's starting their new regime. I'm really going to look after my skin this year, that kind of stuff. I saw an article yesterday linking to the face mask that Harry Stiles uses and all the celebrities. Yeah. You know the black ones? Yeah, yeah, the under-ey, the under-eyes. I've sort of given up on my under-eyes. Last year they really took, they just took a beating and that's never come back. I have four weeks of like the most immaculate long sleeps. Their head stay. Okay. Seems like a problem for turkey.
Starting point is 00:48:22 You know what I mean? Exactly. Fix it in Turkey. Fix it in Turkey. Turkey 2030. Hashtag turkey 2030. 2030. 2035. 2027.
Starting point is 00:48:31 2027. Okay. Okay. 2027. I can't keep waiting. Anyway, I was reading through a number of these lists of like the top beauty items of 2026. And at the top of them I keep noticing it's always, it's always set a fill and seriv. Both of which, by the way, you can get at the chemist warehouse.
Starting point is 00:48:46 Yes, you can. Show spawns. Yeah. So, and you look at all these lists that have these huge expensive brands. and yet Sarah V in Cedarville always at the top people swear by them, clearing skin and doing all sorts of miracle things and they're cheapest chips.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Yeah. And so I was like, you don't need to spend money to have greatness in your life. And then I was like, let's hear from our listeners, what is the cheapest chips thing that you just, it's just your go-to, the thing that you love, the thing that you swear by you have to have.
Starting point is 00:49:14 And we're just going to share it. Well, good in this kind of cost of living, I was going to say, year that we've been having, five years, decade that we've been, having. Yeah. You don't need, and you get lured in by the price meaning that it's better. This is like basically everything at the supermarket or wherever that's not a brand. It's all the same chemicals and stuff. Yeah, exactly. You just pay more for the label. Yeah. Maybe it's
Starting point is 00:49:43 like a jupe. Maybe it is a sworn by item of gym gear from Kmart. I was going to say the jupe leggings, like a lot of people swear by. And they're like so chaste. And they're like, when I'm a, getting $200 lulus anymore. What's the one? Hilara. That's the one that you get 40 bucks and exactly the same. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:01 Literally made the same fabric. The stamp's just slightly different. Nobody's at the gym's pulling back the waistband and seeing the label, are they? They are a little bit. With their eyes. With their eyes. With their eyes.
Starting point is 00:50:13 They're like, oh, jup. Oh, she's a jup. Oh, she's a jup girl. But, you know, cheap camp, oh, yeah, they're coming in. Okay, well, this is. Get your pen and paper ready, by the way, money savers.
Starting point is 00:50:23 It's going to be a great. list. 0800 dials at em call us you can text through 9-696. What is the cheapest chips thing that you love? What is the cheapest chips item or thing that you absolutely love and swear by? You don't need to spend a lot of money
Starting point is 00:50:37 to have good things. I love that we're getting so many great Texan, great tips for everybody. Good tips, get your pens and paper ready. First question someone wanted to know though is, do you guys still listen to each other when you have a sick day? Oh like I'll check in. Like
Starting point is 00:50:52 maybe if you were You're driving to the doctor, you might have a listen. Yeah, I have a listen and be like, oh yeah, it's lacking a certain. Haley. It's a lot like a bit of a Haley. It's kind of lacking me. And Fletch can't answer that because he's never taken a sick day in his life. All right.
Starting point is 00:51:04 No. Free fun, go to the beach. That is a cheap thing that you love to do. There's a detangler brush from Kmart. That's a dream. A detangler brush? No, you don't know. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:51:18 I don't know. The tangle brushes that like basically get out all knots. And they can be quite expensive. but not that one. Okay. But you have to get the spiky one, they said. $9. Love that.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Okay. Mco Beauty, illuminating CC cream. Out does the expensive foundations I've tried every single time. Can't look past an oil of Olai. Our mothers did it. Yeah, yeah. And look at their skin, beautiful. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:41 The way that I, the cheap thing I love, cheapest chips thing that I love is putting things in my shopping cart and then just not buying them. I mean, that's free. No, but then you get that emails from them forever. I know. Hey, leave something behind. $10 toasty maker from Kmart.
Starting point is 00:51:56 Is it like the old school ones that made those pockets? Yes, I think so. And then the spaghetti would come out and burn you. I actually purchased a toasty maker press in lockdown, and I used it like all the time. And then since COVID, I put it away in the back of the cupboard and never used it since. Get rid of it. Take it to the cellies.
Starting point is 00:52:17 But what if one day? Boy wants a to toastie. I need a toasty. The cheapest chips thing I love is. tap water. Why are we buying bottle of water? Yeah, I'm like that as well. Yeah. My fake engagement ring.
Starting point is 00:52:32 I like that. It all sparkles the same. I've never looked at something and been like, fake. I'm just like, ooh, it's not a ring. No, because I don't know what's fake and what's not. So I'm just like, oh, you're cool. And I don't care how much people spend on engagement rings. Yeah. I'd actually judge someone more if they had a really expensive over-the-top ring.
Starting point is 00:52:50 Oh, yeah. I'd be like, calm down. I'd be like, what are you? a Kardashian. Marga Robbie got me into Bepanthin nappy rash cream as a lip balm. It's bloody grey. Actually stays on the lips.
Starting point is 00:53:02 I've used that for tattoos. Isn't that white? Yeah, but I guess you'd absorb it in. But if you had chapped lips, wouldn't it be like you'd notice? It'll get into the cracks, yeah. You'd get into the cracks and be white. Oh my God, there's so many.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Got to be the two for $30 sunnies from Helen Steins. I'm never gutted if one gets lost or broken. I know. That's the thing. If you're a sunglass, a person that loses. sunglasses, yeah. Yeah, I've got expensive ones and then ones from Glacons, and I thrash the Glassens ones.
Starting point is 00:53:29 Yep. Glow mode from Sheehan. Thara Lulu Lemon Jupe. The bombshell jacket is exactly the same. They're both probably ethically not great. Probably, if I... Yeah, that's actually the tagline when you're on Sheehan. Probably ethically not great.
Starting point is 00:53:46 But at least I'm not putting money into a fatphobic white man's pocket. Yeah, true, yeah, exactly. The Lulu Lemon guy is real probably. Yeah. Oh, someone's shouted out, hair go in Newland Mall, $80 cut, color blow dry for a woman. That's very cheap.
Starting point is 00:54:03 No booking required. It is like faulty towers, but I don't care. It's fast and cheap. It is like faulty towers. So good. Dr. Bugs caramel popcorn, cheapest chips, and just as good as the Werther's original popcorn, but a third of the price.
Starting point is 00:54:17 Have you had the Werther's original popcorn? Is it good? Wait, so it's melted Werthers on popcorn. get out it is crunchy but wait is it better than the caramel
Starting point is 00:54:28 the classic caramel keyword I don't even know the brand you know that brand that's been around four years that's not the bugs one isn't
Starting point is 00:54:34 you can't compare them the weather's original one is so over the top because it's like the most melted toffee when has this been a thing ages
Starting point is 00:54:45 maybe like last year oh okay I don't faf with cleansing and toning no time for that shit wash with sidafel and moisturise of olae
Starting point is 00:54:52 face moist and I was at $10. Never get a spot, never have dry skin. My grandma and mum swore by it, light, non-greasy, perfect. There you go. They might just have great skin in the family, though, you know? Yeah, I don't.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Firstly, Haley, I am not a running girly, but I'm training for a 10K run in April, so you go Gling Coco. Thank you. Wait, is this, do you have competition? I'll race your beer. Secondly, all my active tights roll and slip when I run. So far, the only pair that have stayed put
Starting point is 00:55:21 on my $24K mark, Woman's full length training leggings. Oh, did you run yesterday? No. I've run for the month. You say on the 29th of January. Okay. Oh, Bepanthin's clear pseudo cream is white.
Starting point is 00:55:40 No, the Bepenthen I've bought for tattoos before is white. Because I've had some for a skin thing as well. Pantsham nappy rash. Yeah, it's white. It's not clear. No. Baby powder is dry shampoo. So much.
Starting point is 00:55:53 much cheaper. Sunglass fix, replace lenses, $30 instead of buying new sunglasses. Oh, yeah, right. So if your lenses are all scratched and stuff rather than getting rhythm. But you can get cheap lenses online
Starting point is 00:56:05 because I've done that before and I had one proper Rayban and one Riberne and you could tell. One Rayban can. You either have to have both cheap or, yeah, get an original.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Someone said not even baby powder is dry shampoo. Cornflank. That texture, but you're right, that's what it is. Someone said slacks smooth and soft pananoa 999 most weeks at New World. Oh, okay. Bepantham does rub in clear. We're having a big Bipanthin day.
Starting point is 00:56:34 96-9-6-9-6. 9-6, is Bepanthin white or clear? It doesn't rub in clear. It's why. If you have a rash or something, it goes white around the edges. Yeah, but if you eventually keep rubbing it in, I know it's, yeah, it goes white around the rims. Yeah, it does. It's not.
Starting point is 00:56:53 clear. 966 is Bipanthin. We need to hear from our mothers and fathers here because it's used for Nampi rash.
Starting point is 00:57:00 Yeah, and so Margot Robbie swears by this. Are we sure about this? I mean, she was Barbie. Look at her! She tells you something works, it works.
Starting point is 00:57:08 It works. Someone also said nothing goes down like a cold double brown none of this craft beer shit. Can't be 20 for 20. I tell you what, some great...
Starting point is 00:57:18 People are texting out it's clear. They're wrong. I think you're wrong. I'm upset. Are we the only, are we just, do we just have rashy skin or something? No,
Starting point is 00:57:27 I've bought it. It's white. It's the stuff in the, it's like a silver, it's like grey, right? That original, no, it's been a blue thing. That original text.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Sure, I'm thinking of another thing then. Hang on, I'm going to look it up on chemist warehouse. Bantan, it's in the tub, right? Nappy rash. It's in the tub. It's in that white and blue.
Starting point is 00:57:49 It's in a, you can get it in a team, you can get it. That is one. White and blue. Oh, no, I'm not thinking of that. I'm thinking of the other stuff. Aquifour.
Starting point is 00:57:58 No, it's like, it's a white, thick white cream. Oh, yeah, someone message in saying you were thinking of something else. Oh, yeah, okay, well that's... Hang on, hang on, pseudo cream. Sudecreme, that's what I was thinking of. I thought we were Team... Oh, no, Team ZM.
Starting point is 00:58:11 I'm with the listeners here. It rubs in clear. Totally, toddler mum here. It is totally white. Yeah, it rubs in clear. And it rubs in clear. And it rubs in clear. I told you that from the start.
Starting point is 00:58:21 Shut up. The ZDM Podcast Network What's going on? ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. Amber Pantham rubs on clear, like I said. Oh my God. You can get lost.
Starting point is 00:58:37 I didn't know this. This was the stuff I used after my shoulder surgery and it rubs in clear. Right now, it's time for Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. I reckon this today's fact of the day in this logo week, maybe somewhat of a shambles because usually when Vaughn's away, he'll leave us some, you know, he's put all this board into it.
Starting point is 00:59:13 But he's so struck with illness that he's just in bed, close to death. So I thought what I would do is some logos that had to change after scandals. Oh, okay. And I might just do a few of them. Yeah, I like that. And then what it'll be will, well, I'll say I'll stitch up Vaughn for tomorrow by blasting through a whole lot. And then Vaughn will be sick tomorrow, thus shooting us in the foot again. Yes.
Starting point is 00:59:41 But that feels like tomorrow, Haley's problem. Yeah. BP landed in hot water. They had an old shield, right? Back in the day was this old shield that said BP. Yep. And then they rebranded to a sort of floral flower giving an eco-friendly energy-focused future.
Starting point is 01:00:01 Is that what they have now? Yes. And they did that after that huge oil leak through the ocean. Yes. In the Gulf of Mexico. In the Gulf of Mexico. Or we say Gulf of America now. We do.
Starting point is 01:00:15 If you want to be into America in the future, on an Esther. we've been talking about that we want to go to America to go to this thing later in the year, right? And we're like, do we need to start raining in our kind of anti-Trump stuff now? And just be... So if you hear us on the... Our hero. Our hero.
Starting point is 01:00:30 Yeah, please know, we don't actually believe this. But we want to go to this like festival. So we stand with our leader. But people call it PR gymnastics. They were like, you can't just put a flower nature and, you know, and make it more green to undo the horrible. things that you've done. Uber actually came under fire because they had a hard logo that was cold and aggressive.
Starting point is 01:01:00 And after they were called out for a culture of toxic behavior, what they did was they rebranded to the softer, curvier writing here. Oh, okay. Basically, a lot of these have, in general, softened things after scandals. Yeah. Malaysian Airlines, for example. Okay. Had quite a hard, jaggedy
Starting point is 01:01:21 original font. And then, of course, MH370 occurred. Still haven't found it. And that would be how many years? 2014?
Starting point is 01:01:32 Yeah, since... 11 years? 12 years? Yeah, because it was, what, 10 years last? No, 12 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was March 8,
Starting point is 01:01:41 so we literally, yeah. It did an obvious rebrand of its logo after the disaster of 2014 to try to sort of, you know, all the imagery of Malaysian Airlines branding had been on of all the news, obviously not a good story. So they did it. And again, they kind of did a little softening of it all.
Starting point is 01:02:00 Still though, when you're at an airport, they didn't change the letters before the flight numbers. So you're at the airport, they're like, bing bong, MH-142 is leaving, and you're just like, ugh. We wouldn't do that. Volkswagen, they also did it. They made a cleaner logo after they had a dirty scandal. of their eco cars not being as eco-friendly as they originally did.
Starting point is 01:02:22 And so that, again, was everywhere with their V-dub hard thing, and they softened it and made it smoother. American apparel? Do you remember American apparel's like branding and whatnot? They had a hyper-sexualized of young people allegations everywhere and terrible stuff, so they softened and curved it. So it's a general thing, which is like when a company has a scandal or something that is really, really bad, they'll change the logo subtly by, making it often greener, softer and rounder.
Starting point is 01:02:51 So then we look at it and don't think, eh, bad company, we think, nice and gentle. Nice and gentle. So today's fact of the day is if a company has a, if you, a company owner, have a scandal, what you should do is rebrand your logo, make it greener, softer and more.
Starting point is 01:03:07 Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Haley Today is the day, season four, part one of Bridgeton drops tonight Behind the cover of a mask, anything can happen. We must find the owner of this glove. You sound as if you have been made a new mask.
Starting point is 01:03:41 What if he's looking for you? He does not want to find me. He wants to find the lady and the silver gal. And she's not real. Mr Bridgeton. Do we know one another? With a little imagination,
Starting point is 01:03:59 the impossible seems possible. No. Did I watch last season of Bridgeton? I can't remember. I tapped down after season one. I think. Yeah. Oh, the girls.
Starting point is 01:04:14 are upset. Oh my God, how? Grow up. Season two was Jonathan Bailey, right? Yes. What happened to that guy that, you remember that guy in season one that, the hot one? Yeah, who left and was like, I'm actually going on to bigger and better things now, guys,
Starting point is 01:04:30 and then didn't do anything? Everyone thought he was going to be the next bond, and then he just did that. I want to be part of this little world. He did that Netflix movie with Ryan Gosling. And he did that Dungeons and Dragons movie. Yes. And I think that was his downfall, let's be honest. Aye, aye.
Starting point is 01:04:45 Yeah, so season one was the original, and it just, like, it went crazy. Season two was Jonathan Bailey's season. Season three was Nicola... Willis. Willis. Whistlebottom. You guys are so good.
Starting point is 01:05:02 Big fans around here, I can tell. Big fans. Well, no, you are a big fan. It's a background show for me. Yeah. It's how. I know, I know, I know. It's so well done.
Starting point is 01:05:11 I do love it. I just... You know, last year wasn't great for me. And I don't think I had the capacity to watch it properly. I couldn't imagine with what you went through last year sitting down to watch Bridget and fixing any of it. Yeah, yeah. Of all shows, I suppose not.
Starting point is 01:05:25 But, Calhwin, you're a huge fan. You've even read the book that this season's based on. Yeah, I like to read them before the show comes out because they have changed a lot. Like, a lot of the storyline and the plots and things are very different from the books. Right. To be a bit more modern for us all.
Starting point is 01:05:40 So this is Benedict and Sophie's love story. Yes. Yes. Benedict is the last of the brothers? No? Gregory. So, Sophie's the sister. Yeah, there's seven siblings
Starting point is 01:05:51 and they're in alphabetical order. So that's the easiest way to remember. So Benedict is the second brother, but there is Gregory right at the end. Sophie is not his sister. Side note. She is a love interest. Right.
Starting point is 01:06:01 Who's in the season? Anyone new? So the woman playing Sophie is new. I actually don't know the actress's name, but she is gorgeous. They are around there. She's Korean, and so they've changed the character's last name, as they did last season,
Starting point is 01:06:17 which Kate Sharma instead of Kate Sheffield. Is that her, Yerin Ha? Yes. God, that is one of the most beautiful women of ever seen in my life. No. But, yeah, the story is very well known for being heavily inspired by Cinderella. So hence why I like the mask and the ball and stuff. Luke Thompson is Benedict Bridgeton.
Starting point is 01:06:36 Yeah, Horry is Sophie Beckett. And then Nicola Colon. Yes, who's been in from the start. It's a Cochlin. Cockland, I tried to, I tried to soften it for her. She's from Ireland. Nobody likes a soft, Cochlin. No one likes a soft Cochlin, you've got to hit the cane.
Starting point is 01:06:52 All right, Nicola Cochlin. Oh, Carwin, don't laugh at that. She's very immature. She's Penelopeatherington again. A lot of returning cast. Yep. And, um... When did you say it's not out until quite late?
Starting point is 01:07:04 7pm. Okay. Tonight. So that's a late one for you, gals. Yeah, that's past my bedroom. I just had a look at Netflix's top 10 most popular global shows of all time. Wednesday season one is still number one.
Starting point is 01:07:18 Adolescence is number two. Stranger Things, Stranger Things, Wednesday season two, Dharma. And at number seven, Bridgeton, season one, it's still one of the biggest all-time shows ever. It genuinely is like so lovely, so visually delightful. It's so well done. The acting's always great.
Starting point is 01:07:35 Like it's a bit of like light, romantic fun, which we need in this world. Yeah. So do you know Bridgeton's season one has been watched 990, just under 930 million times. I reckon at least 10 million of those of me. Yeah, I've re-watched all seasons multiple times. And Queen Charlotte, the spinoff season.
Starting point is 01:07:56 The sound, where they go to the Queen Charlotte sound. Yeah, no, almost. Where they talk about the Queen's backstory. Oh, right, okay. Oh, yes. That was one of the best spin-off seasons. And it's all based off, you know, the King in Hamilton, the one who's funny and he's a bit crazy.
Starting point is 01:08:12 Oh yes. He is the king in Bridgeton. And the crossover of history is just, you're a history buff. 7pm tonight, Bridgeton, season four, part one only. That could also be why in Vaughn's off work today. There's many theories coming out. There's so many theories.
Starting point is 01:08:29 Play. Play Z-N. Flesh, morning, Haley. Now, you know, I'd say women in particular, but I dare not speak on behalf of anyone if you feel the same way I do about this. Which is that there is a huge rise in women particularly swooning
Starting point is 01:08:50 over men and characters that we are watching either on social media or on like TV or dramas or whatever movies. And it used to be that we'd swoon over the like glistening bodies and the abs and the heroic things like extreme strength and you're James Bond's and that kind of stuff your supermans and whatnot.
Starting point is 01:09:15 Now, women are swooning harder over something as basic as competency. That is all that we are finding sexy now. The bar is low. The bar has dropped. We don't need your six packs. We don't need any of that crap.
Starting point is 01:09:32 You don't even have to have a nice face. You are competent. We're like, example, Jeremy Allen White. as Kami in the beer. Right. That man with a knife. He cooks.
Starting point is 01:09:43 He's competent, right? He's got skills that he can use. A bit of mastery. He's also a handsome man. He's a handsome man, but not like in the way we used to think of men as being handsome. Yeah, true. There's a TV writer who's coined a phrase, which I don't really want to say it, but it's like it's like your adult fun films.
Starting point is 01:10:05 Yeah. But the category is competency. Oh, right. That is all we're looking for. And it's bleeding through into what we're looking for in both our real men and our, like, TikTokers. Yeah. Like, example, we're all swooning over men just cutting things. Right, just doing jobs.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Doing jobs. Yeah. Like, men that, TikTokers that do, like, good cooking videos or cut wood or build something or, like, I follow a lot of guys that do their lawn to death. And you just watch you, you're like, look at you with all your skills. And it is. It's this thing we've been like, look how good. competent you are. They're literally just mowing
Starting point is 01:10:39 a lawn. Yeah. They're calling it the antidote for women's real life real life experiences of weaponized incompetence, which we've talked about a bit. We've been like, well, why would I cook when you just do it so much better than me? Or why would I do this? You're so much better. I don't know how to do
Starting point is 01:10:55 that. And so now I just love that the baseline for what people are finding attractive and finding sexy and alluring kind of big turn-ons, basically. Right. So if you Just competency. If you were trying to date,
Starting point is 01:11:12 just sending, rather than sending like a flirty message or video, send a photo of you doing the lawns. Oh my God. Like if you, on your profile, on your dating profile, rather than having a shirtless picture, and so it would be like muscle or like, boy, look at my face, show me you in an apron, cooking a steak, yep.
Starting point is 01:11:35 Show me you. Chopping wood? Yeah, crafting something with your hands. Oh, yeah, okay. Show me you crafting a bowl out of found River Cody, and I will marry you here now. The Fletchborn and Haley, big pod. Terrible news, a study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine,
Starting point is 01:11:59 and it says that people often trust AI medical advice as much or more than guidance written by human doctors. So you could go to the doctor and they'll tell you this is wrong, this is wrong. Do this, do this. But yet AI is now trusted more, even though we all know how rubbish it is. AI gets things wrong all the time.
Starting point is 01:12:23 But we all do it, right? As long as we've had Google, you Google your symptoms. Oh my God. All the time. All the time. Do you know how many times, how close I've been to death? The real answer is zero times.
Starting point is 01:12:37 Zero, but... But in my head, thanks to Google, it's weekly. Google's always the first thing that comes back on Google is cancer. Every time. Every time. Any symptom, it could be or it's cancer. Yeah, it's always listed. It's crazy.
Starting point is 01:12:53 Yeah. But, man, doctors must hate it. I mean, we obviously have a good friend, Dr. Shawnee. Oh, he must hate it. And I think he's... I know what I've got. I know what you need to give to me. I'm sure.
Starting point is 01:13:04 I'm sure patients come in and say, yeah, exactly that. I know what I've got. And I need a moxy-doloxyloxylin. Because it's the only thing that'll do it. I've already looked it up. You wasted my time. You were on the moxie-diloxy-luxilin. I had a moxidyloxy-luxilin.
Starting point is 01:13:16 It finally got rid of that staff infection. Yes. Because I was on a roxy-eloxy-coxylum. Did you, have you counted how many times you went to the doctor last year? Oh my God. Would that be confronting? From October to December alone, it was five. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:32 So. A few times. Oh, no, wait. And add three phone consults. That's a. You'd probably be like a gold elite at your doctors. I'd get caught at my doctors. You'd get free lounge access.
Starting point is 01:13:44 When I go to my doctors, I've got the waiting room, and they've got a smaller kind of nicer lounge. Yeah, for the frequent flyers. For the frequent flyers. I go in there. Well, okay, I wanted to ask the question this morning, seeing as, we all Google our symptoms. And, you know, we all use Google and AI for a range of things.
Starting point is 01:14:01 And it doesn't need to be medical. But when did Googling or using AI get it wrong? Yeah, maybe you were trying to fix something. That's an often, like, a thing that you'll Google, right? Like, how do I fix this? And it's like, take it apart. Or like fixing or cleaning something? Use this, but it makes it worse.
Starting point is 01:14:18 Yeah. Well, maybe you read something you didn't want to hear, you know? You found out something you didn't want to know. Yeah. So, 0800, Diles at Em is the number, 966 to text in. When did Googling or using AI get it completely wrong? What happened? Give us a call.
Starting point is 01:14:33 Let us know. So a new study has shown that. even if AI medical advice is wrong, people still trust it more than a human doctor. That's wild. Yeah. And scary going forward. Really scary going forward.
Starting point is 01:14:49 We want to know when did Googling or using AI just get it completely wrong. Yeah, maybe it was, you know, you were sick and you googled? Or you were trying to fix something and it got it completely wrong. Yeah. Someone said, I googled my symptoms when I was sick and it said I had diabetes. I didn't. and I don't, I had the flu. Oh, yeah, see that, yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:10 It's not there yet, is it? Michelle, what did you Google and get wrong? It's a bloody secret sound. Oh, my. What were you trying to go? What were you Googling all the clothes? I was trying to check GPT it, and I was putting all the clues in,
Starting point is 01:15:26 and I'm putting all the guest dances in, and because you can't upload an audio file, I had to try and describe what the sound was like. And honestly, the result. that we got were absolutely bloody wild. Right, not even... I didn't even think about this. Because that's the thing, like, we're screwed with secret sound of AI sucks in audio.
Starting point is 01:15:47 Yeah, because I'll break it down and I'll slow it and they'll... Oh, my God. It'll go on like the first day or two. Yeah, whether or not they take the algorithm of what I previously posted, and I previously asked chat GPT, but a lot of the answers were like R-18. Oh, wow. We would never. This is a family friend of station, Michelle.
Starting point is 01:16:08 We would never. Oh my God, I didn't even think of that. Yeah, and I know at the time people were because some people said they were trying to Google and AI the clues. Yeah, right. But thankfully, they're always vague enough that it could be anything.
Starting point is 01:16:20 Michelle, thank you. Some messages in. What did you Google or AI and it got wrong? Someone just said no more words other than hair dye. Oh. So maybe they like left it on too long or I don't know. AI told me it was fine to delete my Minecraft
Starting point is 01:16:39 and I wouldn't lose all of my saved worlds and then I did and I had a very angry little brother and when I told the AI had done that it was very apologetic which was kind of funny in itself someone said when I go to the doctor
Starting point is 01:16:54 sometimes they'll pull up Google but you've got to remember there's a million different things that could be wrong with you someone thought that they could take apart the motor of their vehicle themselves Oh yeah, okay. And they had to get a toad to the mechanics. Yeah, that's not a thing you do.
Starting point is 01:17:08 Who then looked at it and said, what have you done here? And they've Googled it. Do you always think that when a doctor has this computer screen facing you, it's quite brave? Whereas they should probably sit in front of their computer and you sit at the desk looking at them. They look like they're looking up secret medical files. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a file of medicines or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:26 Not just Googling, like, what do I do for this lady? I had a stain on my Karen Walker dress that I was told by AI to use blood. leach to get out. No. That's ruined. Yeah, because was it a white dress? No, you can use a tiny bit of bleat, but anyway, don't ask me. Google told me I had bed bugs.
Starting point is 01:17:43 I went into a mental spiral and almost spent hundreds of dollars getting professional treatment. And what was it? 3-7-2? Just mozzy bites. Yours are just crumbs? Just crumbs. If you've just been eating in bed and that was just some leftover little black sesame crumbs.
Starting point is 01:18:02 Look, AI's come a lot. long way but you still can't trust it. No. The Z&M Podcast Network Play ZM's Fletch, Forn and Haley. Tell you what, glowing, glorious feedback about our segment not enough for the news news. Every time you're on our show, Bryn, the people demand more.
Starting point is 01:18:20 They demand more, Bryn. It's a pleasure to be here. We'd put you in the show full time, but it doesn't work with our silly little pole jingle. It's too many. It's too much. Fletch, Vaughan and Haley and Bryn's silly little pole. It doesn't work. That kind of worked, though, didn't it? It actually was easy than I thought. It was actually easy than you thought, yeah. Well, these are the news stories that weren't good enough for the main news bulletins,
Starting point is 01:18:37 but we're still newsworthy. And we think that the people need to know, but they need to hear it from their trusted news reader, Brinradkin. So it's time for another edition of Not Enough for the News News. Is this where I come in? Yes. Oh, yep. Do you want to do it? I think we'll do it again.
Starting point is 01:18:56 No, well, we haven't confirmed the segment full time. I'm doing this. I thought you would have been in the studio producing some. Or us, Shannon's had a. Not the news news. Yeah, Shannon's had a, hasn't had a jingle for a year. Yeah, so get in line, mate. Get in line.
Starting point is 01:19:13 Okay, well, here we go. Take two. Hio-do, good morning. I'm Bryn Rudkin. We begin in Florida, where a family disagreement has gone from heated to breaded. Just a reminder, I've not read these stories yet, so. Oh, sorry, yeah, we'll preface that again. Proof read them.
Starting point is 01:19:30 An 18-year-old has been arrested after allegedly assaulting her mother with a pork chop. During a drunken argument, police confirmed food residue at the scene, marking the first time leftovers have been entered into evidence. The pork chop itself has vanished, and authorities say this case is now being treated as a high-stakes crime. Good. Good pun. Overseas now and a warning for anyone feeling burnt out at work, your job may be turning you gay.
Starting point is 01:20:00 A Malaysian minister has suggested work stress could push people into the LGBT community. Oh my God, Fledge. Be careful. Because I work so hard. You work so hard. Alongside social influence and personal experiences. While officials admit they have no actual... This is a word that I hate... Statistics? Statistics.
Starting point is 01:20:21 Beautiful. Do you take that out of your normal... I do, yes. So what do you say research shows rather than statistics? Yeah. Wait, but what... Data? What happens when Statistics New Zealand run the census? I just don't run the story.
Starting point is 01:20:33 He's sick that week. Yeah. That's what. I pull a Vaughn. That's what I do. Love it. They remain confident the real culprit is emails, meetings, and that one co-worker who replies, as per my last message. Brilliant. To India, where ambition has taken a dramatic turn, a medical hopeful allegedly amputated his own foot
Starting point is 01:20:56 to qualify for a disability quota. After failing entrance exams, police quickly saw through the plan, confirming this was not a step forward. But a career limiting move. Authorities say this is a clear case of cutting corners, very literally. Good. And finally, closer to home, police in Tasmania, seeking witnesses after reports of a dog driving a yacht on the beach.
Starting point is 01:21:21 Yes, dog at the wheel, man in the passenger seat, there was alcohol involved. The man has lost his license for two years. The dog, meanwhile, has avoided charges and is believed to be on a loose leash. Jesus. That's the news. I'm Bryn Rutkin. Thank you. Well done.
Starting point is 01:21:40 All actual news stories, too. All actual news stories that just weren't good enough for the news. Yeah. But are good enough for our news news. Do you think eventually, Bryn, like, you'll read these and you'll think, maybe I should put these in my news news? Oh, 100%. If you could afford me that script, I'll chuck it in for the rest of the morning.
Starting point is 01:22:00 For all the stations? Well, yeah, because I also read on Coast and you know that the other audience. some of those stories. They might like the dog one. Yeah. The dog driving the Ud on the beach. Yeah, maybe. Might like that one.
Starting point is 01:22:11 We should thumb this into Hosking's news though. Oh, we should. That'd be so good. Absolutely. Where are you finding these stories? We don't reveal our sources. The Z&M Podcast Network. Give us a text 96696.
Starting point is 01:22:24 If you or someone you know, an adult, gets an allowance. It's something that I've never had as an adult. Wow, but yeah, but you did get your phone and insurance paid for until like, two years ago. That's technically an allowance. That was more just like an admin slip-up.
Starting point is 01:22:38 We just sort of didn't really get onto us. Well, you're not going to tell them they're still paying for it, are you? Shush. Shush, shush. This, okay, the reason we ask this, this is a wild story. So Nicola Pouts-Bekam, who was in the middle of the bloody Brooklyn Beckham, or he's Brooklyn Pounce-Bekam. He took the last name as well.
Starting point is 01:22:57 He did, yeah. Drama, separation from the beckhams, da-da-da. If you don't know all of that, you know what, where have you been? Drama. So it's come out though that Nicola, Brooklyn's wife, may receive a one million dollar a month allowance from her billionaire father. So someone was talking about this on a podcast. How do they know? They've just heard from people? Yeah, I'm not. That's why I was trying to get to the bottom of like, what is your source here? And they say maybe Nicola, maybe they'll deny this. but he is a
Starting point is 01:23:33 Treane Fund Management founder just like deals with money. Right, so he's like a billionaire. 1.6 billion dollars in net worth. Her dad's like quite old, eh? Like, is he 80 or something? He had said publicly, he's old as man. Like, sick.
Starting point is 01:23:48 You know what I mean? Like, you're about to be a billionaire. Oh my God, don't like sneeze too hard around dad. He might blow over. He said somewhere publicly, I give my daughter a million dollar month allowance, why don't you? He'd set it to someone else. A month. And month. When all this feud was
Starting point is 01:24:06 kind of blowing up last week, I was like, bold that they're just cutting off mum and dad. Of the beckoms. Of the beckoms. Because like, how is he going to get money? And I know they've said that they always want the kids to make their own way, but like they're nepo babies. Do they even have a job?
Starting point is 01:24:23 I don't know what he does. One of them is a footballer. Romeo. One of them, and he does... But is he a professional? models. Right, yeah. And one of them is Brooklyn. Who does a cooking YouTube? Yeah, but I'm sure they're not living in like, you know, student flats.
Starting point is 01:24:39 No, I think that even though they want to earn their own money and stuff, they're looked after. They're very much looked after, but not to the tune of a million dollars a month. What would you even do? How would you even... They're fine then if the Beckhams aren't supporting them. Oh, they're more than fine. She's getting a million dollars a month.
Starting point is 01:24:55 That's insane. How would you spend a quarter of a million dollars a week? Like, I don't even... It's insane. Because there's no point even buying up property because you don't need the money to own property. Do you know what I mean? You just want rent. You just rent.
Starting point is 01:25:09 No, no, I mean like buying up property, like creating a portfolio. It's the only way they could think of getting rid of that much money so quickly. But why would you need a portfolio of properties if you're getting a million dollars a month? You don't need to be earning money. And apparently the book deals are coming. Are knocking at the door because they... And apparently it's been like multi-million dollar offer for Brooklyn Beckham to write a tell-all book. about the beckons.
Starting point is 01:25:32 Well, we asked on Instagram, do you or an adult, you know, get an allowance? And so there's two responses. There's a lot of people for budget reasons, and maybe they're bad with money, who get an allowance. Like, say, for example, the couple pull all their money into an account, and then they get an allowance. So that's your fun money.
Starting point is 01:25:52 And that's your fun money, and that's what you spend. All the bills are paid. That's your fun money. Yeah, Gemma says my dad gets pocket money every week because he's a boomer and doesn't know how to use F-Boss. I'm assuming mum just draws out some money and gives it to him every week.
Starting point is 01:26:05 Yeah, when my dad goes out, he can't be bothered with pay wave and pin numbers and stuff. So my mum always tucks him a little cash. Renee message in, yes, a girl I work with had one because her spending habits were horrible. So same thing, like, you get this much, that's it.
Starting point is 01:26:20 Somebody messaged in, my boyfriend, he's 27, still gets an allowance for parents. Get an allowance for mommy and daddy. And also somebody message in, remaining anonymous, I couldn't possibly say, in brackets, for tax reasons, baby. And we shall not be providing this number of the IID.
Starting point is 01:26:35 It's been burned. That message has disappeared. It literally just blew up. Yeah, okay. So, I mean, it's happening. I mean, my hope would be, if I had very rich parents. Yep. Like stank and rich.
Starting point is 01:26:48 Like billionaires. Yeah. My hope would be that they'd give me the chunk that I'm allocated. Yeah. And then say, like, up to you what you do with it. Because in English, you're still learning how to, like, manage it, Maybe and make some decisions. You're still learning to manage money when you've got like, what, $100 million or something?
Starting point is 01:27:06 Yeah. Someone just messaged him. My partner gets his wages paid into my account because he is not able to be trusted with money. Yeah. I pay all the bills, divvy it all up and then leave a little spending money in his account for him. Okay. A different account. I'm 41 and I still get $100 a week from my parents.
Starting point is 01:27:24 So does my 46-year-old brother? It has never changed since the year 2000. Imagine if you never touched that. how much money you'd have. For 26 years. Yeah. With interest and everything, that would be amazing.
Starting point is 01:27:39 But I bet they've just spent it every week on lollies and food. You think the 46-year-old is spending $100 a week on lollies? I would. Free money. I'm 34 and my dad only recently cancelled the credit card that he gives me and pays off every month. What? What are these people? We're not judging.
Starting point is 01:27:56 I'm just like, this is. Don't get me wrong. If my parents are paying me $100 a week, since I was 18, I'd be stoked. I wouldn't say no. No. There's plenty of you out there getting an allowance. We'll enjoy it.
Starting point is 01:28:07 Well, no, yeah, enjoy it and no one's been in Nicola with... No. A million dollars a month. Shivers, guys. 10 out of 10 podcast, that one? Yeah. I think two of us were 10 out of 10 and one of us wasn't. Or who was that?
Starting point is 01:28:19 Which one? We'll just leave that. We'll just leave that there. Well, if you enjoyed today's podcast, give us a rating and review. Please do. Unless it's a bad one. Oh, yeah. Don't know.
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