ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - January 29th 2026
Episode Date: January 28, 2026On 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
They're starting out.
The jackass of our future.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Auckland.
City Slickers.
The jackass.
of 20206.
100%.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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,
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
12.
12.
They don't go to 12, Haley.
Nine.
Nine.
Okay.
Nine.
Well, yeah, we'll be in touch.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
Crossing.
That is today's top six.
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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.
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
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
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?
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That was a 2021 novel.
Elizabeth Moth.
Moth.
Moss.
Sorry, that was.
I know you'd.
like their word.
She said it twice.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Like, Janie, baby, please can we get a copy of your latest book?
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sprouten, just ask you for a friend.
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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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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.
You know what I mean?
Exactly. Fix it in Turkey.
Fix it in Turkey.
Turkey 2030.
Hashtag turkey 2030.
2030.
2035.
2027.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
It's going to be a great.
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
clear.
966 is
Bipanthin.
We need to hear
from our mothers
and fathers here
because it's used for
Nampi rash.
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.
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...
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shut up.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
original font.
And then, of course,
MH370
occurred.
Still haven't found it.
And that would be
how many years?
2014?
Yeah, since...
11 years?
12 years?
Yeah, because it was, what,
10 years last?
No, 12 years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was March 8,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look, AI's come a lot.
long way but you still can't trust it. No.
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not enough for the news news.
Every time you're on our show, Bryn, the people demand more.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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