ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - November 5th 2025

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

On today's episode of the Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Big Pod, Hayley has a run in with law and how bad was your security? Women had to be held down on a Rollercoaster The Producer Girlies Sweepstake Top 6 - Thoughts your pet will have tonight Ridiculous 911 calls SLP - Do you like microwave meals? Romantasy is ruining dating Hayley and a cop Real life Squid games How bad was the security  Hayley is offended Jonathan Bailey is officially HAWTTTTTT Fact of the day How far did you go for a hook up See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network This is... Flethwin and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch Fawn and Haley. The top six is on the way and it's Guy Fawkes Day.

Yeah. Is it today? Today, yeah, yeah. Remember the 5th of November? The top six thoughts your pets will have during Guy Fawn. Yeah. Cats are not huge fans. I'm off to Tohanga tonight and I've given mum and dad the rundown

on how to look after Raleigh because he hates it. What is it, what do they lock him inside or something? Yeah, lock him inside, but a cow is under the bed. So you've got to sing to him. Sing to him. Gentle, soft songs, but from the 70s and 80s. No, no 90s or current hits? It's for, no, you can't get in there with TLC,

Destiny's early Destiny's Charlotties. So you're under the air like, take on me. Take me. Haught is it highway? And he's like, meow. And he's like, oh, good. Hotel California in the lines. Right.

It's an old kind of maybe... Very specific. Classic rock. El Don kind of stuff. Right. The top six coming up. Next on the show though. A Rainbow's End would never.

I'll say that. Rainbow's End would never. Yeah, this is a wild story out of America. This is insane. This is insane and some unlikely heroes. Yeah, something that happened on a roller coaster, which is a lot of people's worst nightmare. The ZM Podcast Network.

Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Just doing a cook. Translation, 75 miles an hour is 120 kilometres an hour. Now, that's how fast the roller coaster goes at Worlds of Fun Park in Kansas City. It's called the Mamba. It also... Mamba number five, or is it the first of its kind? It's the first of its kind.

It goes over 60 metres high in the air. Oh, I've been on one of those. God, I love rollercoasters so much. Same. Would you love it if you were on said roller coaster and lap out stopped working? and you're a child and you're sitting next to someone who means that the lap bar

can't come down far either all right because it goes over both of you Yeah So they're bigger, the person next to you Yeah And you're a little slim gym And you're slipping around And the lap bar is just not working

So that's basically the situation That a young lady found herself in Don't have her name But I do have the name of the heroes in front of her Chris and Cassie who was sitting in front of her Chris and Cassie Who regular fans by the way Annual Passes

And if you saw a photo, then you'd be like, yeah. Yes, they do. They're a big annual pass holiday energy. I'm going to be honest, if I live by six flags in California, I would have a season pass. I'd have a Disney annual pass. I'd just go get some dopamine. Mom would be Knottesbury Farm in L.A.

That's my annual pass. And if we've all got one, you can take a plus one, that's perfect. Well, we're all out in Anaheim then. Okay, sounds good. And we should, like, work from home, but just one day a week, we're at a theme park. We'll get an apartment in Anaheim. Make the most of it. That's what I do.

Are we planning our lives and we win Powerball tonight? Tonight? Oh my God, yes. But can we like... Anaheim's a bit lame, isn't it? Yeah. Should we go to Tokyo?

They've got a lot of theme parks. We'll do it all. God, I love roller coasters. Same. We'll do it. Should we go to rainbows in today? Right. So these, this couple...

So they hear a blood-curdling scream. Yeah. And they say they turn around to kind of like, look, because they're like, that's just not someone having fun. They turn around and the girl's seatbelt had come undone. on the thing, and the bar was not doing its part. Wasn't holding her in.

Chris says, I looped my arm underneath her lap bar, which had a pretty big gap between her and the lap bar. So at this point, I'm seeing a huge space, no seatbelt. I looked my arm underneath it and grabbed a hold of her wrist and my wife just pushed down on her legs. Far round. So he, like, looped around the bar and grabbed her. Now, and they said, they are very familiar with the roller coaster,

so they win the ups and the bumps and everything. You know, we're the ones where you feel weightless and you're going out of your seats? Because they've got the annual pass. They're regulars. So they knew when she required more oompha to be held down. Yeah. You know the best thing about this, this whole thing, is they, there's a photo. They went past the clucky photo thing that you buy afterwards.

And it is, you can see the horror. You know, normally on those photos, you know when you go and you see the screen of everyone and they're just like, ah! Like you can see the joy mixed with the scared looks. Yes, yeah. But this photo is just 100% horror. That's awful. Yeah.

He looks, he's Like half turned around The wife's turned around The girl's just like leant over screaming Holding her down Do you think that to pay him for the photo? I reckon they get a freebie They got a free one

Well do you think I mean it's America They sue in Nah but well the place have said They do regular inspections In the paperwork And then the seatbelt worked afterwards They just like use error

By the looks of things But I thought they wanted to check it Yeah they do they check it Yank on her phone I drink and she had a fiddle She might have had a fiddle She might have a fiddle It's gone ages I want to do.

Whenever I get, like, put in a roller coaster, I don't care if I can't breathe properly. I'd just rather be, it was time. Those ones where it comes down and it clicks over top of you where you go like yank and you're like, I feel so on. That's perfect. It feels tight, but it'll be fine.

Like, at least I'm in. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my God, that would be my worst nightmare as being loose on a roller coaster. Oh, my God, yeah. Roller coasters are so fun until they're not and you're loose. Do you know what I'm? And you're flopping around.

You're flopping around and you're loose. The Fletchborn and Haley. Producer Shannon loves to gamble. Gosh, she loves the sweepstakes. And she loves the ponies? No, no, the rugby's. I like, yeah, listen, this is not an endorsement for gambling. No, of course not.

Says you guys with your lotto tickets each week. Yeah, look, I mean, I think the country, lotto is bleeding the country dry when it comes to Powerball. 36 million today. I want to know how much people have spent every draw for the last couple. It must be. That information must be available. Doesn't it?

It goes to kids' sports. Yeah, that's why you do it. It does feed back into the community. It's my charity work. No, you could just go direct to the charity, but... Oh, did you ever want to do that? Yeah, but the charity is not going to let me win $33 million. Multiple routes.

Now, what are you gambling on, Shannon? So, Carlin and I are big fans of Dancing with the Stars. Every year it comes around, and it's just a lot of fun. I'm talking the American version. The American one, yeah. Of course, we've got Robert Irwin in there. Yeah, of course. who's been breaking the internet with his incredible dancing.

He has been so incredible. But this year's cast is incredibly strong. And so before it started, Carmen and I locked in and we were like, we're going to do a draft pick. So basically we put everyone on the board. And then we rock paper, scissored to pick. And I won. So I got first pick.

And then we went one by one and we got to pick each. Okay. So like you've just done a whole Melbourne Cup sweepstake. Yeah. Just like how all the guys get together and they do their like drafts for fantasy football. And stuff. fantasy NBA leagues and that kind of stuff. So we're a few weeks in.

Wait, wait, wait. What's surprise? How much money did you put in? We just did a Hello Mr. Lunch. Oh, cute. Yeah, Vietnamese is a little fah. So we're talking like $15 is on the line. I love a Vietnamese.

Oh, I could fah all day. That's I'm saying, there's one right under our building. I know, and it's so good. And Shannon and I. Is it actually under me right now? Yeah. No, it's a little bit more out there. It's under fun.

Shannon and I keep that place alive. I'll be honest. Yeah, I used. I haven't gone there for a while, actually. I think today could be the day. It's so good. So we're a few weeks in. Thanks.

And I've got a bit of an update for you. Okay. Carwin has lost one person off her draft. Okay. So sorry to hear that. I have lost six. Oh. But all you need to win is one.

All you need to win is one. You've got to be in it to win it. I have two people left and I'm sure one of them's going home today. Who's got Robert? Me, Carmen. Yeah. You're good. Surely they're an Ephron, isn't Zach Ephron's brother doing it?

You've got him, okay. What's he famous for? Dylan. Barry. No, Dylan Ephron. Dylan Ephron. Keith Ephron. He kind of was not in the spotlight and then he did traitors last year and then really everyone now loves him and he is his own person.

He definitely is like, yes, I'm Zach Ephron's brother. But he's his own guy. But what does he do? Look. He's Zach Ephron's brother. But does he act? No, I don't know if he's done any acting. But yeah, he was on traders.

That's how everyone knows him. embarrassing being famous for being someone's... I know, you know what I mean? Someone's sibling. But I also have Danielle Fischel. You'll know from... Topanga. Yep.

From Boy Meets World. He said a little too quickly. Yeah. Big fan. Wow, a sexual awakening of sorts. Yeah, right. Okay. She is beautiful.

Elaine Hendricks. Millennial lads from the 90s, know what I'm talking about? Elaine Hendricks. She was, um, what's it called? American actress. Yes. What? Parent trap?

She's your... Oh, yeah, she's a parent trap. She's her the step-mom. Oh, wow. Yeah, I also, and she is also great. She was in Romney and Michelle's high school wedding. Yeah. Oh, my high school reunion.

I also have Robert Irwin. I have Whitney from the Mormon mums. No, okay, great. The Mormon mums. And I also have Andy Richter. Yep. Who, like, we all thought would have been gone months ago. And honestly, he's crushing it.

Is it actually screening it in New Zealand, though? No, just online. I've been trying to get it on Disney Plus. because it is Hulu, but it doesn't seem to work. Right. So how are you watching it? They upload all of the dancers onto their own social media. We watch on Facebook on together.

We sit here and we'll watch them. Right. After the show, off the clock. Definitely not working. Yeah, that's just about to say, actually. There's a Vietnamese lunch on the line. There is simply, so I have Alex Earle, who I am confident will go to the finals. This is the only thing I'm resting on.

And when we paper scissors rocked, I went Alex Earle. That's my one person. Robert Irwin going to win though? I think I think it's between Whitney Leavitt who's famous from the Second Lives of Mormon Wives or Alex Earl

I think they're two of the frontrunners Right, okay It's a 10 times here in the booth So how is, it's done by public vote, right? So 70% is public vote 30% judges scores Because Robert's doing such a good job Remember when he ripped his shirt open

We all just got so confused Yeah He's 21 He was born in 2004 Calm down Healy The ZDM Podcast Network What's going on? ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley

From the unmoderated comment section This is the Top Six Empty shops Shipping Containers on the side of the road Stools Popping up whilly-nilly For a few days a year To sell Guy Fawks

Do you remember when they used to sell them In the supermarket? Yeah, dude. Yep Yes! Did they stop that? Yeah, did they stop that? We used to get the bigger boombox from the warehouse. Yeah, I never see them in my local supermarkets anymore. No, no, no, no, no.

Right. That's actually a really good question, though. Well, it's tonight on average. Because you think it would be a cash cow? You think they'd just do it for the cash. But I think maybe they made, did they make it legal? Or they just morally were like, we're not doing it anymore. I can't remember.

Well, ACCC say that on average, they accept 300 new claims every year for fireworks-related injuries. This is data based on last year and going back. Children under the age of 10 make up around a quarter of those. People getting injured. Please be careful. Come on. They say fireworks injury claims peak in November because we all know those West Aucklanders

that love to keep their fireworks for New Year's and birthdays at any time of the year. Listen, I'll crank a sparkler on New Year's. I'll admit it here and now. Yeah. So it was in 2007 I found a story that said supermarket chain split on stopping fireworks sales. But yeah, they stopped selling them

due to concerns about animal welfare, fire, safety and environmental impact and it was just the public, changing public sentiment. Yeah. Raleigh hates it. It's not his favourite day. Not his favourite time of the year. Don't have many animals that do. And we spoke about it last year.

A show sponsor animates, you know, getting behind the petition. Petition to stop public sales. The portician, thank you, Vaughn. Portition. It was very clever use of the word. And I think there's a private members bill in Parliament. So it's kind of, it looks like Winston Peters has spoken about it. Yeah.

Yeah. And it'll happen eventually. I just think the public displays are better. I went to one not too long ago. But then QMew Showgrounds, it was amazing. Also, I have been that person that's fired Roman candles, you know. Yeah, me too. In my hand, like, yeah.

Yeah, it might seem like we're pulling up the ladder behind us because we had our fun youth with Roman candles and buzzy bees and such. But that's exactly what we're doing. That's what we're doing. We've learned. Top six thoughts your animals will have during Guy Fawkes tonight. It's today's top six. And number six on the list, what is your cat thinking?

Your cat is thinking, well, at this stage, I'm thinking of encouraging my human to vote for Winston Peters. That's how bad this is. Wow. As Winston said, New Zealand first wants them ban. And I'm on board. I think my cat's too left to do that. Yeah, there's a higher out of the New Zealand first policies that my cat's not on board for.

Rale, such a greenie, eh? Yeah. My cat's just for whoever will let people trawl fisheries plunder the ocean. Oh my God. He loves tuna. He gets fish. He loves tuna and Maui dolphins. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He'll give him a Maori dolphin. He'll, that won't even last a day. Nah. She's really. Top six sorts of your animals. they're having during Guy Fawkes tonight. Number five on the list from the horses. The horses are thinking

well, one more of those bangs and it looks like I'm running full speed through that fence over there. Yeah. They do, don't they? They go crazy. They just go, they just bolt. That's why I stopped tooting it, people riding horses on the road. That's actually... Wasn't that in the road coach? So kind of you. Yeah. When you're approaching a horse, what do you do? Sound your horn

as an alarm that you're approaching was the wildest. I'd love to know how many people thought that was a good idea. Maybe they had to warn the horse. You beep, you beat to be like on your left. Number four on the list of the top six thoughts your animals will have during Guy Fawkes tonight. From the dogs, dogs will be thinking,

ironically, I bark and make more noise than anybody all day long, but I don't like this at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That little yappy shit dog down the right. And everything, then a firewarks goes off and it's like, oh, I don't like noise, since when? Number three on the list of the top six thoughts,

your animals go out. Topps? It really sounds like coiway. Oh my Koiwai. Have during Guy Fawks tonight? Goldfish. What are they thinking? Nothing.

Number two on the list of the top six sorts of your animals are having during Guy Fawks tonight. Giddip. Oh yeah? Gini Pig's thinking weird that you'd still be calling me a pig in 2025, you know, be better. But what was that? Dead. Don't they die of fright?

No, that's number one on the list of the top six thoughts your animals will have during Guy Fawkes tonight. Rabbits. Well, it's been a good run. I'm about to dive over stimulation. Oh, do they? Yeah. Why don't all those central Otago farmers just chuck on some heavy-duty speakers and just cron some death metal in the paddocks?

Oh, yeah, a bit of a darrood, you know. No, because then that's survival of the fittest, the rabbits do survival, have an absolute taste for Pantera. Yeah, you don't want a heavy metal rabbit. No. Pantera bunnies. You're sort of creating a super rabbit at that stage. Yeah, yeah. It is today's top six.

Fletchbourne and Haley. Police in the UK have reminded the bobbies. The bobbies. Does we see where the big bobby helmets? Yeah, yes they do. Yeah, they're very old-fashioned uniforms still. They haven't changed for years. Well, they've reminded people that 999, which is their...

1-1-1-1, is for emergencies only. They say one in seven calls is not an emergency. I beg a pardon, they don't wear those hats. Do they not? Well, now I'm getting a mixed bag Okay, like here's some there with the typical kind of flat cap Like we have now sort of Captain's hats But then there's some here

They've got sort of a baseball cap style You know on them to wear those hats But then we've got the bobby hats Maybe they're for like When they dress Maybe their dress hats Or maybe it's like you know a school uniform at a school Where it's like you could choose pants

Or short or skirt Because it'd be hard to run in one of those silly big bobby helmets. I know. Well, they've reminded people that 999 is for emergencies, only one in seven calls, not an emergency. One in seven. Do you know what I love in the UK and the US is that they release one-one-one calls, like the emergency calls? Are they public domain or they just release them? And it's the same as mugshots.

Like America... I've heard lots of one-on-one calls, yeah, 911 calls. America always released the mugshots. you get to, like, have you seen the people that robbed the Louvre? The Louver? The Louver. The Louver. The Louver Roof.

They're going straight to, um, a me-may. Well, remember James Meeks? Was that his name? Oh, yeah. That guy with the facial tattoos and the crisp brown skin light eyes. And he ended up walking for like Versacee once he got released. Yes, he did. Because everyone was like, hot prisoner.

Well, um, police have, uh, along with reminding people that, uh, the emergency line is for emergencies only, released one call. They went through a few calls. They said someone rang about a spider, stuff like that. Yeah, but if you don't like spiders, who's going to call, you know? Can you send the fire around or police? I've got a spider in my

shower. They released this call though, and this is a man that called 999 asking for police. Hello, police. What's your emergency? Hello, sir. The problem is I've made an order online on the Uber Eats app And the delivery guy is here, and he doesn't have my food.

Okay, then you need to bring this up with Uber Eats. Why have you called the emergency services? Because I'm trying to call Uber Eidt. It's not allowing me. I have nobody else to call this. No, call her. Call her. Call out.

This is not a life or death emergency. Okay. You need to contact Uber Eats for whatever number you can find. This is not a police emergency, and this will be labeled as a misuse call. Please do not die 9-9-9 because your food is. not that. But when you're hungry, eh... And you know what?

And that guys depends. Have you ever left something in an Uber? You can't call them. Oh, so hard to get a hold of. It's impossible to get hold of them. Yeah, completely impossible. Oh my God.

And when you're so hungry and Uber's stuffed in up. I know, but there could be someone else on the line who's, you know, got someone with a gun outside their house, you know? Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, totally. It is what it's there for. Yeah. Could you do that as a job?

No. And wouldn't that be the hardest job? Have you watched the... those, there's reality shows you know, of the emergency call center centers. Yep. And oh my God, it's awful because some of the calls will be harrowing and some of them people think they're

dying or, you know, there's terrifying things that. You have to say calm and calm is not a mode. I'm not empathetic enough. Where are you? Where are you? I don't know, I can see, for God's sake, open up Google Maps. Yeah. Get me a GPS, drop me a pin. I'm on a road.

Well, that doesn't help me. I see trees. I'm fine friends. Yeah. Are you on Snapchat? Turn on your location services on Snapchat, man. Let me on Snap. The ZDN Podcast Network. And it is all thanks to Mick Cafe. Start your day rolling with delicious coffee.

Yum, I will. Thank you. And the silly little poll today revolves around the microaweave, I believe it's pronounced. I've always said microwave, but yeah, microawebé, microwave. How do you feel about microwave meals? Do you, A, love them, B, have them once in a blue moon, or C, never have them. Okay? I answered, never have them.

I did too. Yeah, I do. Yeah. Yeah, it just reminds me of my parents being on Jenny Craig. Yes, huge. That was when I did Jenny Craig, I did the microwave meals. Everything was microwaved and it was like... Complete calorie controlled and...

So hot, but cold on an outside bit and... Oh, yeah. So these are the results in order of preference. Okay. 48% said I have them once in a blue moon. 41% said I never have them. 12% love them. Love them.

Okay. The reason we asked this is because the guy that invented the frozen burrito died. Oh. Like just a couple of days ago. It was in 1956. This was a guy called Dwayne Roberts. He's a California entrepreneur. Dwayne the Rock Roberts.

But this was like the middle of the 50s. That's crazy, right? Yeah. And so he was kind of getting on board this whole convenience food trend. Yeah. And he is credited as creating the world's first frozen burrito. I mean, obviously he didn't invent the burrito. But he turned the Mexican food staple into a mass market item

that could be stored for a long time and kept. And it made him a billionaire. And fun fact, his stepkids are on the hills, the MTV show. Oh, crazy. Because it would have been rich, right? Well, he's a billionaire, yeah. Oh, he's a billionaire. Died a billionaire.

Yeah, 88, he was. His stepkids were Doug and Casey Reinhardt Right Do you remember that? Kind of. I've watched it. I don't think they were mainstays.

I think that's popped in and out maybe. Right. Yeah, not like Lauren and Whitney. No. No. Ordrina. Ordrina. What was Ordrina's boyfriend's name?

You know with the Beanie and a hipster as? Yeah, he's a real piece of. Hills, hipster boyfriend. Hang on, we can't move on. We can't move on. Joey, Bob, something Bob? Something Bob. You think of Jay and Silent Bob.

No, he was. Was he Australia? Bobby? Bobby? Jimmy Bobby? No. Well, let's move on. Jimmy Bob is from Talladega Nights. Yes, I mean.

You keep working on that. I'll get some feedback from the dear listeners. Bernardette says microwave meals in the UK are elite. Are they? I don't know. It's quite processed, though, isn't it? Justin Bobby. Justin Bobby.

Justin Bobby. Mason said, love them. They've got me through many carvings over the years on. the farm and on nights and I'm left alone to fend for myself. That's the thing. I mean, it's zero prep, isn't it? It's a couple of minutes and you're eating. But so is a handbag chook, some coalsler out of the bag.

No, but not when you're on the farm and you can't go to the supermarket if it's nice or, you know. Yeah, if you rewarm your cold bachelor's handbag, I reckon she'll be a bit dry. Yeah. She'll be a bit of dry. Guys, Justin Bobby has aged like a fine wine. And we knew he would. Oh, okay.

He's bit of me, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, looks like he hasn't showered in weeks. Yeah. The long straight hair's a bit at, Chloe. Yeah. You like them almost homeless. I like them like borderline.

Barely renting. Yeah, I love it. Ryan said so bloody handy. They're not for living on, but a case of emergency, break glass and have a good one. Yeah, nice. Yeah, good.

Danny, I never have them. However, as I've moved back into a flat and sharing kitchen space, I do love reheating leftovers in the microwave. And on reflection, that's not the question. So maybe I'll wait for you to do the microwave leftovers in the microwave or in a pan or anti-leftovers at all. I'll wait for that week, thanks so much.

She's getting ahead of the fact that we were going to tell her off for, that's not the question we are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, she knew it was coming. Yeah. Does it count where my mum makes me freezer meals because in that case, yeah, otherwise I don't buy that. My mum used to do this if she was going away for a few nights and dad was at home,

she'd make him a series of freezer meals. Oh, yep. Even though he was very capable of fending for himself. Yeah, I think my mom. She'd freeze a meal it on a plate, glad wrap it. to hell and back more glad rap than God himself could require to glad wrap the earth

and then he'd take it off and reheat it but that's a different scenario also that reheated like shit too no offence yeah Samantha bleh as my partner reminds me my cooking is far better so why skimp on quality for convenience or feel free he can step up if he wants yeah

yeah yeah uh Lou can be handy after a long day but also spinies and what's actually in there Although in saying that a Marx and Spencer Cormor ain't half bad. Oh, yeah, see, there's another one of our U-Katiness. Yeah, okay. The curry get ready ones, there are some good ones. Yum, yum, yum, yum.

Tulsi, used to do a frozen butter chicken, and it was really good. Okay. Who's Tulsi? They used to have Indian restaurants around New Zealand. It was quite good. I'm talking like 15, 20 years ago. Right. They did a frozen.

Sonia said, oh, I'm only 25, I can't remember. Yum. Sonia said, my meal prepping for the world. week the last time I shifted house and it's just a series of frozen meals. Oh yeah. Single served beef casserole, roast lamb and veggie, beef casserole again, again roast lamb and veggie and then another beef casserole.

See, I would rather... Lamb and beef. I would rather... I wouldn't it be healthier to get one of those hiking, dehydrated meals? You guys love those. I still haven't tried them. I mean, they're good when you're hiking, but I don't know if they're being good at home. They're just expensive. They're an expensive

way to eat. They are. Dana said once in a blue boom, but never, meaty meals, microwaved meat, reheated or cooked gives me the ick. That's a fair call. The new making a mac, making a mug, mac and cheese slaps. Oh my God, yum. Just make it like soup. Neck minute.

Oh, we're not still saying neck minute. Neck minute, mac and cheese. Okay, it's epic. And Tony said, they just never taste nice. And for that quaint, five-word answer that sums it up so beautifully, I'd like to gift Tony the cafe voucher. Yeah, all thanks to Mick Café. Congratulations, Tony.

Well done. Well, today's a little poll about microwave meals. We asked, do you like them? 48% said, ah, I'll have it once in a blue moon. The Z&P Podcast Network. Is this a show real? Play ZDN's Flesh, Forne and Haley.

Might I bring in the producer girlies for this, actually, for a bit of a hooy around romantic-books that, you know, with fantastic men at their lead, right? Now we know producer carwin You absolutely You read and read and read A reader read a read constantly reading I've got a book open right now

She actually has her own Instagram At Carwin Reid's got to follow She's a book fluencer She's a book fluencer Yeah book florencer Shannon she's brought you into this world as well I'm reading a book at the moment What are you reading?

I'm doing a fletch way of reading a book No audio books is not reading Audio books is reading Yeah good What are you listening to Tress of the Emerald Sea Right What's that?

You guys wouldn't be able to it at all. It's not romantic. It's not high fantasy. No, it's not high fantasy. It's like whimsical fantasy. Oh, right. Okay. It's really cool.

It's really good. Romanticy, though, is apparently to blame for unrealistic standards when it comes to actual men in the real world. It's shifted dating expectations. So now it's set these new standards because most of the time, 90% of the time, right, Cowan. These books are written by women.

Yeah, they're men created by women. Yeah, men created by women. But also if we're talking romantasy, you know, 99% of the time, the guy that you're dating probably doesn't, you know, isn't a fay or like doesn't turn into a basilisk or stuff like that. What a basilisk? A snake person. Oh, right.

But it's less about that stuff. It's more the baseline stuff. So they're saying, you know, once upon a time, we used to get a good morning text and be like, oh my God, he's so thoughtful. Yeah. Oh my God, he's sort of me. And now we expect more

because women are creating these male protagonists. What do you want to be spat on? God I wish she wanted me to answer them. Just send them a text in the morning. It's just the spit. Children in the car. Yeah, sorry. Now women are writing these men as brave, loyal,

emotionally intelligent, attentive lovers. Yeah, yeah. I think more generous than a lot of men can be in the bedroom. Yes, real-life men are now often falling short of these traits, It's especially, I mean, like, yes, all the bedroom stuff, if you're getting really into the smart stuff, because, you know, women are literally tailor making this content. But it's more in the emotional communication and vulnerability of these characters

that we're like, oh my God, where's that at in the real world? So what I'm hearing is you've done this to yourself. Maybe, but like, are we happier, you know? I've got a few friends in the book community that are dating at the moment and they have the issue where, like, a guy comes over and opens the book and is like, oh, I was expecting more on this or what. whatever, or blah, blah, or, oh, I could do better than these men in these books. But is it a bad thing?

And they don't? Do you think is it a bad thing? Like, I get, you don't want to be unrealistic. But I mean, some of these traits when you're going communicative, attentive, good listening and emotionally intelligent. Those are all things that we should be looking for in a partner in the first place. And maybe we're just being more empowered to find those things. This is what I think.

I'm like, you're setting maybe not an unrealistic standard, but just a higher standard for yourself and maybe it would end up hanging out with those dirt bags I mean the bar is pretty low with some men remember that guy who lit it on my first date a fay would never do that exactly and you know what

men you could fix this by just picking up one of the books have a read it is literally a guidebook exactly it's literally a step it's a how-to boyfriend for dummies it's really worth guys doing this having to read a couple you don't have to read the whole bloody

acatar series but just like I would look at what your partner is reading or if there's a consistent author, right? Just have a little audio book listen. I'll say from our side of offence, you guys are doing a lot of reading. How about a bit of legwork? Pillow princess?

Yeah, yeah. You want to lay there and have this fairy prince to all the hard work? You're doing the reading. You've read the instruction manual. How about you give it a red hot? Go up there. I can't say my response to that on radio.

No, me too. I was like, I just don't know who you've been. talking to but yeah okay well I think that's how I've been talking to your boyfriends of who are going to talk to bring them in

down and they join us on the phone now please welcome to the show play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Haley play ZM's Fletchworn and Haley We were just talking about like Romantacy or like you know fictional novels and

romantic circumstances that are maybe unrealistic. Yesterday I almost had one I was down in Christchurch yesterday filming for a top secret project. Oh, is it top secret? It is top secret. Oh, yeah, good to, too, because you guys know.

Thanks for telling us. Like, we didn't know this is top secret. I literally told someone at the weekend what you're doing. Oh, okay. Well, let's not. Okay. Right. It just hasn't been announced or anything like that.

I put a push alert out on the Herald app. Oh, no. Oh, I've just done an I-heart radio push notification as well. Oh, no. Ding-ding, ding, ding. Listen to the show on the new Iheart radio app. You can add us as a preset, add our podcast as well.

Join us on the IHart Radio app. KPI's. KPI's. So I'm filming this top secret thing and I'm down on, where was I? Lincoln, Lincoln. Rolliston, just heading towards Rolliston

yesterday. You're in a beautiful countryside. Yeah, lovely. And we pull over on the side of a road to get a nice shot of the vast Canterbury Plains. Oh, okay. So it's a farming TV show. For this little piece to camera.

Well, it's in Lincoln, she says. So it's a farming TV show hosted by Haley Sproul I doubt it Sure And we yeah So we pull over on the side of the road Now our little cars over there

And we're trying to get a nice big Big long shot on a drone Oh yeah Lovely Of me walking down this road Got a permit for that Yeah mate we did Oh did you have a drone permit

Yeah of course we did Nice yeah good on you No Anyway Just on the approach to crush your airport No big deal Do you know We were trying to get the right shot

and we were in Rolliston and we were like, man, if we could just go a little bit further along and the drone pilot was like, we're really heading towards airport territory here, so we just won't do that. Anyway, so we pull over on the side of the road and I've got this dress on, and you know, I've got a microphone on

with all the cables and stuff. And you've got to have a battery pack? You've got to have a battery pack, and I had that sort of strapped to me little chub-rub shorts at the back, and I was trying to keep it all together. And the director and cameraman, they peel off to go and sort of set up the thing,

and so I'm quite far away from them and I feel the microphone drop from between my boobs where it sits and just sort of fall. And so I'm like, I bend over and I have to hitch up my skirt and I hitch it right up and I kind of hold it like this and I'm fiddling around with this cable and trying to like thread it up between my boobs.

And that's when I hear a car sort of like pull in. Yeah. And it was a cop car. Oh. Oh, I'm going to jail, going to jail. Go to jail, going to jail. I must. And I just sort of think, oh my God, yes.

I'm like on the side of this country road I'm bent over I'm, I've hitched up my skirt Not the bloody first sign She's been bent over a edge I was good on the country road And I'm fiddling under my skirt Sort of bent in half

Kind of looking quite meth Zombie-like Yeah like that You know there's methie people you see on the streets of America Fenty Fenty lean I had a bit of a fenty lean on And this policeman

pulls out and it pulls down his window and it's like, oh my God, excuse me, ma'am, you're right? And I was like, oh my God, I said, yeah, yeah, we're just filming something. And I said, I've dropped my microphone, which is when I locked eyes with them. Hot. Hot, hot, hot, hot. We've got a hot cop. We've got the T-shirts straining.

Oh, okay. And he was like, oh, oh, good, you have a good one. And I was like, oh, he took off. I should have been like, help. You know what I mean? When he was like, you're all right. If I had a clocked earlier. I'd be better with your number.

Yeah, yeah. Are you allowed, are they allowed to give out their numbers? No. On the job? No, but it's not like Haley was a customer. A customer? That's what they call them. Well, we've got another customer in need.

Oh, God, another dead customer. Customer with a break-in. That's what they call them. Yeah. Well, he was, yeah, he was very attractive. Tanned. Maybe like a little bit like sprawl on the prowl. This is a little bit like sprawl on the prowl.

We might need the music. I've heard of it's turned into, from a... Because now I'm like, where do I find this gentleman? Oh, hey. What I'm me? Okay, so he was heading from Lincoln

towards Rollerstein. I'm still not paying for YouTube, by the way, so you might just need to unmute that. Oh, God, it's clunky born. It's so clunky. It's so clunky. It's nice to get an ad that's not Wicks, but, you know, we live and we learn.

There's another ad coming up, so that'll probably be. Honestly, like, should we get a family plan? Yeah, for YouTube. Would that be nice? Just log into mine, but just don't judge what I watch and I won't judge what you watch. Because I pay for it. Let's not look at what.

what, each other watches? Yeah, and we're just like, you know, what's that thing? Hope you guys like trains. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's been watching a lot of trains, do you? Is it loaded? Yeah, it's at the right spot.

Okay, yeah. Fun. Sproul on the prow. Sproul on the prowl. Yeah, it was. He's out there trying to catch them crims, and she's going. Sproul on the prowl.

Because this could have gone so differently, right? I could have been like, hey man, do you need some help? But I'll be like, oh my God, actually. Yes, I'm totally lost. And they'll be like, who are those men over there? They kidnapped. Okay, that's insane. Now you sound insane.

There's a Kiwi on this show. So by the rules of being a New Zealander, we have to be interested. We do, we do. Whether we like it or not. Now, this is a big show, one of Netflix's biggest show. You've seen the first season?

Yeah, it's the Squid Games reality show. The Challenge. The Challenge. And I watch the first season and it's so funny because it's so serious and the sets are amazing and it's just like the real thing. And when they die,

they have these little blood packets in them. And they explode them like they've been shot. Well, season two is here and it's serious. money. The first team to finish will survive. There's $4.5 million on the line. They're struggling. You got it.

She can't build this house of cards. It's over for us. In this game, loyalty can get you pretty far. He's who I feel the closest with. By betrayal could win you $4.56 million. We're playing for ourselves, not for friendships. That is $4.5 million U.S. dollars. That is insane money.

I mean, it's going to be a pittance competitor when I won lotto tonight. And all I had to do is remember to buy a ticket. Vaughn, we're in a syndicate. I know we are. I'm going to get my ticket today. Fletch and I have ours. And so if you don't buy a ticket, missing out. You'll miss out.

I'll turn my back on you. I'll turn my back on you for sure. So the Kiwi that's on it, he's got an, interesting story. His name's Chris. He's got an interesting story in himself. He was kidnapped six years ago. That's right. In a Tanzania. Okay. He got into a taxi with his partner

and he thought it was like, an ordinary taxi. Oh, fake taxi. Oh my God. Fake taxi. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm going to pay. I've seen those documents. Yeah, me too. How are you going to pay for this ride? Yeah. I've been a couple of those. It wasn't one of those taxis. It was a gunpoint. They robbed them. Yeah. They took them and made them withdraw cash at various ATMs. They got like,

nearly $5,000 off them and then the kidnapper said act normal. So, yeah, they applied for, he applied to be on this after watching season one. He's like, a Gisbon-based graphic designer and it's just like, yeah. And I guess if you've been robbed at gunpoint in Tanzania,

you'd just like, well, I'll give anything to go. Yeah, totally, can't be damn, right? Life is for living. I can go into a massive, it's been filmed in London, in a studio, it has been filmed. Yeah, so the first four episodes are out. You watch season one.

I still even watch season two, Of the actual squid game. Haven't you? Neither. I think for me, I just equate it to lockdown. Squid games are so good. Like it was COVID times, eh? Yeah, it just felt like, oh.

No, I'm going to watch it. This is great because I'm feeling a bit dry. You know, I'm watching at the moment. I need a show. I totally get into this. You just get invested in it. It's done so well, like it's quality. You know what I mean?

And 4.5 mil. That's a lot of money for a reality show. And we've got a Kiwi in there. So worth watching. Sorry, who's logged into my Netflix? Your device isn't part of the Netflix household for this account. My device, your device. My device.

I thought laptops and iPads were exempt. No, you'd logged me out, remember? I've been signing into quite a few hotel rooms. Oh, Haley, you've got to go into your settings and log out of all devices. I was in a hotel room while. And someone had left their Netflix logged in. I was like, this is brilliant. Best part about checking into an Airbnb is just fingers crossed.

And where it was in there before you didn't log out of all the devices. their services. Why don't hotels you know like they always have sky sports and all these crap channels you never watch? Yes. But why don't they all just have Netflix? And have their own membership? And have like, why don't Netflix do hotel memberships and stuff? Yeah, that'd be good. It's so wild

that you can't do that. Oh, what have I done here? I'll have to solve all the world's problems. Yeah, yeah. It seems like I do. Well, you're out there doing it. So I go to my settings do I and then I can log out of other things. Yeah, yeah. Because I want to watch this in this

Better not. You've got to log out of all the hotels you've been saying. What even is that bank account that's coming out of? The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flesh, Forne and Haley. Lube Heist captured the world because it's... Captured my bloody heart. Well, it has now because the mugshot of a couple of them

have been released in their hot crims. Oh, we've got a couple of hot creams here. A couple of hot creams. Let's have a look at these muggy-wuggies. Tell you what, we've got a brown boy bright eyes. Yeah. Yeah, they're good looking. So they've now arrested four people.

And apparently they, for all the, you know, the boldness of the heist, they left behind quite a bit of DNA, which is actually what captured them. France has an incredible database of DNA. And they left, like, they didn't wear gloves and they left, they dropped things. They left stuff behind, which they had touched with their fingers. I mean, the jewelry they stole is in tense, say. Had they actually said if they've got any of the jewelry, back, like they've arrested them, but where's the jewelry?

This is just when I was trying to look up now. Like, have they, is it all returned? Because it is precious stuff. Now, there is a story that's going around TikTok and online, and I will say this has not been verified by major news sources, but there are

reports that are the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was Louvre. L-O-U-V-R-A. By the way, according to Chat G-P-T, just a quick little question ask. No, the eight pieces of Napoleon era jewelry

have not been returned yet. Not been fully recovered. Yeah, normally they're sold to like private, like expensive buyers, right? Black market stuff. Yikes. I mean, I doubt you'll ever see that again. The National Information Security Agency during several audits carried out between

2014 and 2025 detected numerous computer problems according to the French newspaper Liberation. Yeah. The password for the Louvre's video surveillance system was Luth. No. The name was a museum and capital letters

letters was all they needed to access the network. That is insane. No, it wasn't. No. There's more, there's more, there's more. And another report date, 2025, the security software,

which controlled video surveillance and access among other elements, had it not and could not be updated. Like, yeah, right. So the computer updates that made it more secure had been undertaken. If they investigate, and this turns out to be true, heads will roll.

Oh, it's insane. But, okay, so this is what I wanted to ask this morning. Because, like, here at work, we have to change our work email password every three. Three months? Three months or 12 weeks or something. And then every time you log in, there's an authenticator apps. But you'd face thing to get into the authenticated thing, and then there's a number, and then sometimes they send you an extra code.

And then every two weeks, you've got to do it again. And if you're in some countries, you can't even log in. And it's all good because it's all for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, there are some workplaces and some people that have some pretty lax security. And that's what we want to ask. Like, do you work at a place and the password's just on a sticky note on the computer screen? Oh, my God.

Or, like, is the password just password one, two, three? A company name. That's so bad. Are you rocking some loose security or someone you know? Yeah. That I'd love to take some calls on this because the Louvre had the password Louvre. Like, that's nuts. You are, how, what is the, what is the, what is the,

total value of what's in the loop. Yeah. Like I don't want to know like the name of the workplace, but maybe you've worked somewhere, the password was just password. I don't know. Have you ever worked anywhere where there's been some lax security? Or like you've had some. To get into the building is like 1-1-1.

There's no publicly verified figure of the total monetary value of the collection of the Louvre Museum. But the value would just, I mean, it's priceless. It actually is. Okay, well, that's what we want to know this morning. 0-800 dials at M. give us a call, you can text in,

9-696. How bad or how loose was the security? The rumours are that the password for the security system at the Louvre was Louvre. I know George's George's from capital letters and has been four years. For some time.

That's still rumour by the way. That's not confirmed, but if it does, like that's so... No, it's on like... Crazy. Now, official news sites and stuff. It's been reported by the National Information Security Agency. Yikes. Now, we don't want to give away any details. Anonymous. You worked at a place. How bad was the security? I'm not sure if I'm anonymous, but it might be me. Yes, you are. You are. You are anonymous.

So, when you first start, most workplaces, you know how they give you a temporary password? Yes. Mine was Welcome 1, 2, 3. And now I'm up to welcome 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. This is what I do Just keep adding numbers on the end That's what I do It gets better

I say I think I'm up to 11 Because it just remembers my password Oh yeah Okay so you don't even have to worry And you change it, update it and it just remembers that Is this workplace dealing with like important things? Ironically it's dealing with insurance So we're really invested in the Louvre at the moment

Yeah Um, okay. Well, I think it's time we had a little update on passwords. It sounds like it. Anonymous, thank you for sharing some messages in. And my grandparents' retirement village. You need to code on the keypad for after hours access through the gate. But it's a random number, but it's never been changed.

So after years, all the numbers have been rubbed off the keys. Oh, so you can figure it out. So it was just in order and you'd go through and, yeah, you could get in. They had to change it. They changed one number. And already that number is starting to rub off the keypad as well. So it's going to be a little bit easy to. My husband's having a right laugh at me currently.

He just asked, did you set the Louvre Password? Because all of my business passwords are business name. Oh, no. That's the first thing. It's the first thing people try. The company I work for as about 100 people plus nationwide, they all have exactly the same passwords for three different systems that we use every day. So if you've got one, you got them all.

And then if someone leaves the business? They can still get in? They still get in. Yeah. Ash, no good. Some of these are very specific to workplaces. Okay. You're trying to be...

Very, we're dancing around some techs here. I don't want to get in trouble. I don't want to get called by one of the businesses and said you've blown our... Oh, yeah, that one. I worked at... Mm-hmm, and mm-mm. And the guest log and computer was mm-mm-mm. Yeah.

At the moment you say, mm-mm, then you know what the business is. Yes. And you know how terrible it is that the password was... The mascot of the business, synonymous with the business. Oh, wow. Okay. Keep your text coming in, 9-696-0-800-10-Emmas-A-N-Number. How bad was the security?

We want to know how loose or how bad the security was because the Louvre, which recently was... Heisted. Heisted. Their password was Louvre. After watching Marnie Haister, it was really kind of rooting for the bad guys, the robbers. I love to root for the robbers. Well, they've been caught, haven't they?

And two of them are extremely hot. Really? Like, classically hot. Hot, hot, hot. Absurd. Well, tell you what, the Louvison is the only place that needs a little security update. Somebody said, I worked for a teleco, one of the big ones. We had a massive security order, and it turned out the most commonly used password throughout the entire company was password, one, two, three.

Great, fantastic. So easy to remember. Oh, my God. So easy to remember. After that, they started randomly generating our passwords for us. Okay, yeah, that's probably fair. I worked at a call center in Hamilton and the security was so bad

as shoplifter from Kmart escaped through a fire exit straight into a interconnected office through a fire do you reckon they went through the fire exit and then back into the anyway you probably shouldn't be able to get in those doors from the other side

I reckon that's that needs a little lock someone said they used to lock up the shop at the end of the day and put in the pad lock and pop it in and the combination

was one, two, three, four. It was a four number thing. To a building. They just do it and then click it one around so it was zero, two, three, four and they got robbed one night and they were like,

I don't know how this happened. How did it happen? I don't know how this happened. I currently work at quite a successful business. Oh, he forced. Hang on, let me jump in the text machine to support you, your brother. No, I'm just trying to think,

if I can think, yeah, no, I don't want to read that out. Let's just say the code to all the security is in the name. Oh, really? They don't say what? The code to all the security is in the name. Okay. So I don't know.

To decipher that how you will. Right. The password is that my company was your last name and your year of birth, but your username was your initials and your last name. So you pretty much had half the information. I mean, you could find that out about someone so easily. Yeah, yeah. How old are they?

Yeah. Do it, do it, do it. Okay, so the bicycle shop I used to work at at my last job would lock the front door but it was a weird ranch slider style door and if you pulled the opposite side of it with a little bit of a force, it would unlock. Ranch sliders, old ranch sliders were the pits, man.

They just did it. My parents, we had ranch sliders growing up. Great door. That's why you just open all the door. That's why people put a bit of wood. Yeah, put a bit of wood behind the door. Yeah, and you just don't access it from the outside. Your ranch slider in Bali.

remember it was like if you pulled hard enough it would just be like oh yeah yeah it's so hard being a ranch light a lock gave up yeah um so yeah they said we got robbed a couple of times and it was just because people go whack ranch laders are not a security door no they're not not a security door so there you go update your bloody security the zm podcast network play zm's flesh warn and haley i'm a little bit younger than the two of you Oh, well, biologically, not by much at all, really.

Well, Sigis and booze. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah. My birth year is like 10 years. What's our metabolic age is? Again, I don't want to know that. I don't think we should do. I just, you know, I kind of have always wanted to take that bio, that metabolic test.

I did it once. I did it once. And how old were you when you did it and how old did it say you were? I was 27, I think 28, 27. seven when I did it. Was it for a TV show? It was for a documentary made about PCOS

and I went to this person and they did it all for me and all of the crew as well and everyone was aghast. My friend Leon, Wadham, who you know him who's an actor on the Lord of the Rings things he was directing it

and his biological age was like 10 years older than he was. And he just thought he just had no idea. He was like, what the hell? Yeah, yeah. And what was yours? Mine was older

but it was only by like three years or something like that? And how do they do it? Is it blood test? It was blood tests, it was a whole range of them. Yeah, like, they weighed you, they did blood tests, they checked all these things and so. I want to do that so bad. It was like not great.

I didn't do the one where you like run or anything like that. Anyway, listen, I'm talking about our ages because I know that you guys, having worked in radio for over 21 years together, get this a bit. And every time you hear it, you're always like... Industry still walks. What? Oh, my God. I know, absolute pillars. Oh, absolute pillars of the radio community.

but every time that you hear a story similar to the one I'm about to share with you I know it kind of shocks you but it's my first time it's my first time this happened yesterday I was catching it with my friend Sam yeah I said his name oh well and he'll be alright and well that actually depends entirely on where the story goes whether he's gonna be all right no no no he was just saying that he's seeing someone oh yeah okay well just don't say their name maybe yeah yeah yeah yeah so my anonymous friend We were voice memoing yesterday

When can we catch up and do-da-da-da And he said, oh my God And he sent a voice memo in it with an arrow pointing to it Saying funny story That a guy I'm seeing told me And I listened to it And the story was that he was hanging out with this guy He just started seeing

And somehow I came up in conversation And maybe saw him a phone That me and Sam were talking or whatever And this man that my friend Sam is seeing said, oh my God Haley Sprout, I love her

and I'm listening to this voice member thinking Tiddly, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, validation, validation, love me, love me, love me. Oh my God, Haley Sprow, I love her. I grew up watching her on TV. Wow, you've joined the ranks of your Susie Kato's, your Jason Guns.

She's an old bird now. Simon Delos? I said to Sam, well, I cursed so. I was like, half off. And then I was like, hang on a minute. And I went back and I was like, when did I move? When did it my first? I've only been on TV since 2017.

That was when I first started doing seven days and Johnman been in the likes. And then I was like, that's not possible. And it is. Well, yeah, because that's eight years ago. Yeah, because this man is 22. So. He was 14.

Yeah. So he technically, he did, he did grow up watching you on TV. For me, young team, I've been on TV. He grew, I just have never heard it before and I'm a gut. I'm deeply offended. Yeah, and you haven't stopped mentioning it all morning. I'm so young. I'm too young to have people have been growing up watching me on TV and now they're grown adults in relationships with grown adults.

Yeah. Like that's just, the math doesn't math there. It doesn't make any sense. Maybe, maybe do you think? This will make you go to Turkey earlier. Dude, I said, I said tits at 40, phase at 50, shunting now. Are we moving forward? Are we shunting it forward?

Mate, I'm planning. Sort of a 3843 situation. I think it was 4843. The Fletchborn and Haley, big pod. Well, great news. Great news, people magazines. This was also, yesterday, everyone, there was a buzz pre-announcement as to who it could possibly be. Yes, the sexiest man alive.

Alive. Alive for 2025. Yep. Six is dead man? I don't know. What do you mean? Like that of all the celebrities that have died. Well, that's the sexiest man alive.

Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's pretty sexy. Like based on current looks or previous alive looks. Wow, that's also something we've got to take into account. I mean, embalming is pretty good these days. Yeah, you're right, actually.

You're right. Well, Jonathan Bailey won the sexiest man alive in 2025. People Magazines. Yeah. He's been everywhere, Bridgeton and Wicked. Fellow Travellers as well was amazing. Yeah, yeah. Also, he was in Broadchurch.

Remember that with Olivia Coleman and David Tennant? That was a brilliant couple of season. What was he in Broadchurch? Must have been like a lesser role or something. He's a great actor. He's a very good actor. Very funny. He played Ollie Stevens, a reporter for the local newspaper

and the nephew of Olivia Coleman's character. Right. Okay. So there you go, that's what he was doing in Broadchurch. Okay. But he was also in Jurassic Park Rebirth. Is that what it was called? The movie came out earlier this year.

Yes. Which we got to see. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And we got to interview him and we also got to flirt with him. Yeah, I think you were flirting with each other, to be honest. An important cast member is missing from this interview. It's Jonathan Bailey's slutty little glasses. Oh, that's true.

They're never too far away, though. Are you wearing around? point to hell. I'm wearing bigger sluggier glasses. Yeah. Not a sluttie but far bigger. You're a bigger slough. Thank you very much. It's true, Jonathan. It's true. Thank you for those kind words. Jonathan called you a big slar.

He really lit up when you talked about his glasses. Yeah. He, uh, sorry. There was a moment. Jonathan, I'm in board with us. Chuck that in the triumphs category for 2025, I think. Being flirted with by the world's 60s man alive. Yes.

So did you know, so 1985 is when people's sexiest man alive started. John Travelder. Mel Gibson. And it only started because there was a writer who was doing a piece on Mel Gibson and they had all the photos and she was like, oh my God, this guy is the sexiest man alive.

And then they were like, that's a great title for the article. Sexiest man alive and then everyone was like, oh no, and then it started to debate. And what year was that? 1985. That was before the anti-Semitic stuff and the drunk rants. For Mel Gibson, yeah. Brad Pitt, George.

Clunney, Johnny Depp and Richard Gere of all won twice. Because he, Jonathan Maley's gay, right? So would he be the first gay? The first gay? Right. The first gay? The first openly gay sexist man. Yeah. Love that. Richard Gere. I'm sure he didn't have a problem with gays sliding into his DMs

before this award. Because the People magazine sexiest man alive is very like female lens, right? Or like who the women are fiending over. So it is. I mean, we are all fiending over him, even though we know that he don't want us. It is because the annotator was the apple in the Garden of Eden, you You ladies love the forbidden fruit.

Denzel Washington, the first non-white winner in 1996. Okay. 2025, Jonathan Bailey, the first openly gay man to receive the honour. Who's been the last few years? Was Michael B. Jordan once? Give me a breakdown of the winners. Yeah. Of the last, shall I go, 10 years.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, Michael B. Jordan for sure. Yeah, Michael Bore Jordan is a good look. He's a good looking man. So last year, John Crescindon. John Cresinski, I am, 24. Everyone was a bit like,

oh, that's an odd boy. And like he's in Jack Ryan, in the action, he was very jacked and great in that show, but everyone was a bit like, that's odd. 2020, the year before that, Patrick Dempsey. That feels like that's like 10,

I mean, I know he's hot, but like that feels 10 years too late. McNuggett, yeah. Nick Nuggets. Chris Evans, the year before that Paul Rudd, 2021. Oh, that guy does not age, yeah.

Michael B. Jordan 2020, John Legend, 2019. Edress Elba, 2018. Yes, good looking boy. 2017 we got Blake Shelton. That's wrong. No, that's wrong. And 2016 was The Rock.

Yeah, that's wrong, hey, Blake Shelton. He's an attractive man, but I wouldn't say, sexiest man alive. Oh, it was a different time. Where's Jason? It was a different time. Has Jason Moly? No. No, he hasn't won it.

He hasn't won it. I'm sorry. It's odd. Crazy. Crazy. Actually, insane behavior from People magazine. Play. Play.

Plays. That ends. Let's morning, Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, day. It's fairytoo do do, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. It's fairytile week here at Fact of the Day and today we look at The Little Mermaid. Written by Hans Christian Anderson. Who?

I did not know this. Homosexual. Right. Okay. Does that change? everything now, does it? No, not everything. I just didn't know it.

Well, there was a, you know, this was back in the day. This was back in the day. Yeah, right. So, yeah, did he have a wife and stuff to cover it up? Did he have a wife? No, I don't think. Do you think he would have liked people's sexiest man alive this year, Jonathan Bailey? Loved a bit of Bailey.

Who doesn't? Would have loved a bit of Bailey. Literally who doesn't. So lived from 1805 to 1875 in Denmark's entire life wrote the Emperor's New Clothes, the Little Mermaid, the Princess and the P, the Snow Queen, which was adapted into Frozen, kind of roughly. The Ugly Darkling and Thumbolina.

Wow, he really had a big set of work set, didn't it? He did, he had a lot of works. Like a fatty, fatty body of works. But the little mermaid's probably the biggest one, and you've been to Copenhagen, eh? Yeah, there's a little mermaid statue at the harbour. On the harbour, on the waterfront, yep. I want to be where the people are.

That's her voice. It drives me nuts. In the original. I still haven't seen the remake. With Melissa McCarthy is Ursula. And Haley. Haley Berry. Yeah.

Hallie Berry. No. Haley. That was where everybody. Wait, there's two Hally and Haley Bailie Bailies. Haley. Don't rhyme your kids. If you're going into Hollywood change your name, you can't be Haley Bailey.

It's, I think, yeah, Haley Bailey. All right. Well, the little mermaid. She's sorry, we're wrong. Hallie Bailey. Hallie. So we've sort of mixed it. Yeah. Okay, we've got a little confused

and we're on the right track now. Hans Christian Anderson's 1837 story was never meant to be the stuff of Disney romantic fluff. It was supposed to be a spiritual tragedy. The mermaid longs for an immortal soul something humans possess but sea creatures don't. When she rescues a prince, so this is all fitting so far. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When she rescues a prince, she falls in love with the prince and bargains with the sea witch, her beautiful voice in exchange for human legs. Right, okay, the sea witch, eh? you do a great ursula the sea witch yeah you would but the witch says every step will feel like you're walking on knives

oh dear so there's you know you want this but there's you know a downside to it and if the prince marries another you'll die and dissolve into sea foam foam the worst part when you're at the sea and you're like is it just foam or is it pollution

is it fraud is it pollution frown I always think it's boat poos that's washed up Oh, it's poos is, poohs, it's poohs, the poohs, it's great. Seafoam, no one liked seafoam. So this is the original. This is the original story of Hans, Christian Anderson.

The prince loves her, but sees her as like a charming child that rescued him. And he's just like, she's cute and, you know, fun, but not obviously of romantic interest. Yeah. And guess what? He marries another human instead. She did. At dawn, the mermaid sisters rise from the sea with a dagger and say, kill him. His blood will return you to mermaid form.

Oh, okay. She can't do it. And at sunrise, she leaps into the waves and turns into seafone. That's so dramatic. Just like that, okay. Yeah. So now when we see seafone on the beach, it's a little mermaid. It's the little mermaid.

That's turned into seafone. That's how we get seafone. So with that seafone rubs up on your legs, you're like, that's actually aerial. Right. So it's kind of nicer than like boat poos. Yeah. Or poos, poos. Yeah, like human poo foam.

Or pollution. Or whalewees. Don't you hate it when your poos foams? Right? Am I right, guys? I'll go back I think it's time for another trip to the doctor Yeah like how many times have you been in the last month

Yeah I think now the phone and poos is Visit seven then It comes out like like a moose can Oh why are you going to ruin dairy with for us all Shake yourself out and get it out What's that space invader stuff Oh yeah Don't put it in the walls though

So it's sort of the summation that I got said Anderson was a queer man in the rigid 19th century Denmark. He poured his heartbreak in longing for unrequainted love into the mermaid's sacrifice. It's not about romance. It's about pain, transformation, and the price of wanting more than the world allows. Oh.

Bubba. Yeah, Bubba. Babba. So today's Fact of the Day is the Little Mermaid. She got the legs, lost the voice, but every step she took felt like she was walking on knives. Fact of the day, Tay, Tay, Tay, day, podcast network.

Play Zat-Ns, Fletheornin and Haley. Lily Allen, she... Lily Ellen's out on the prow. Tell you what. and she has been sharing all interviews, podcasts, anything about her breakup her breakup. It's all loudly. The whole album is basically all about it. I listened to it and I was like, oh, there'll be a song in here

about something else. No. Maybe just a lighthearted song about smile. No, no, no, no, about smiling. Yeah. Or what's the fun it is biking around London. No, no, no. She wrote it in 10 days and it's all about the breakup. It's like a story. It's pretty good. Just give it a listen. But she has revealed that she flew 6,000 miles.

What's that in kilometres? 10? I don't know how it works. 6,000 miles is 10. And I would walk 6,000 males. So she, did you say 6,000 miles is 6,000 kilometers? No, 6,000 miles is 10,000 kilometers. She flew, ish, 10,000 kilometers-ish for a hookup in Japan with a fellow celebrity.

Oh, does she say who? Do you think she's on Raya, the celebrity dating app? I imagine she is. Yeah. Because there was a news story about John Mayer. Why did she be on a dating app? Well, how else? Well, no, you're both saying she's, oh, you were saying that's how she met this person.

Was this pre-David Harbor or post? Post. Oh, okay, so very recent. So get over the breakup. She said she flew 6,000 miles, 6,000 miles for a man she had her set her sights on. She said, I've only done this a couple of times, but it was meticulously planned. And it was a celebrity and da-da-da-da-da-da.

Okay, this guy must have been hot, right? So she flew all the way to Japan. And she's not going economy, right? So she's booking first-class tickets. Yeah. Is she? Surely. She said both my celebrity hookups have been in Japan, but different celebrities.

She won't say her. She never will. Do you think it's the best place because no one knows her there? Mm. She said then, oh, oh, yeah, remember she hooked up with Liam Gallagher and told everyone about it, and they joined the Mile High Club on a private jet, so it's not the same. Yeah, right. But that's a long way to go just to have a hookup, plan it, plan it, fly to Japan, do the hookup, come back home, hookup, done.

I want to ask our listeners, how far did you go for a hookup? And maybe if it wasn't like miles, it was like logistics. Well, it could be like South Island, North Island, or like, you know, You know, in New Zealand you put the radius out to a few hundred kilometres, and all of a sudden you're matching from Auckland with someone in, I don't know, New Plymouth or Napier or... Or like, how legit...

Were you like, okay, so you've landed in Blenham and I'm in Wellington, so what I'm going to do is I'll leave you, I'll make an excuse, I'm going to get on the Picton theory, I'll land in Picton, you meet me near Picton, and then we're going to drive to here. You know, like, how far did you go? You've got to get a to go. Because you've got to get a to toastie.

And play mini part. Play mini part. Do it all. with it vistas, but the horn does things to people and we lose our minds. Okay, so 0800 dials at em, we'd love to take your call.

Text in, 9-696. How far did you go? Are we already getting messages? No, no, I'm just laughing at my own. Oh, okay, yeah, right. Last six months. How far did you go for a hookah? We're loving Lily Ellen's single girl era, aren't we?

We are. We're loving it. She is fiery and she revealed that she'd travel 6,000 miles, about 10,000 kilometers for a hookup in Japan. By the way, with a celebrity that she hasn't named. She said she's had two celebrity hookups since the divorce, and

both were in Japan. We want to know, how far did you go? No shortage. No shortage of messages. Anonymous, how far did you go? Is that me? That's you, hon. This always happens.

I jumped in the car in Tauranga, drove up to Auckland, jumped on a plane, landed in Sydney to hook up with my first love. Oh! Just for the weekend.

Was it worth just for the weekend? And was it worth going all that way just for the weekend, for the ex? Well, I had to get my sister to cover my tail, get my middle daughter to cover my tail because I was married at the time.

Oh! We see the anonymous label now. Okay, okay. But was it worth it, though? Yeah. Okay, oh, there you go. Wait, wait, how long had you been, how long had it been since you'd seen your first love?

Oh, 20 years? Whoa! Oh, my God, and had he changed a lot, or was it everything you imagined? Oh, no, tick that off. It was like, dun, don't. It was still good, but yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, yeah, nah.

It's the sort of review everybody wants with their lovemaking, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anonymous, amazing. Thank you for sharing. India, good morning. How far did you go for a hookup? I thought the call was you went to India.

No, she was India. So you went from New Zealand? I'm already India. Yeah. Where did you go for a hookup? How far? So I was living in Hawks Bay and I flew to America for a hookup. Oh my God.

I know. So I met this guy in Hawks Bay. We slept together a few times and it was probably, yeah, like best sex of my life. life. Yes, we never forget. But I knew he was moving. He was moving to the States. And after about a month, I just

thought, I just can't wait any longer. So can go without. Yep. I love that. I was like all my cash, just bit the bullet. Yeah, we went over there for a couple weeks. And did anything else come of it or just Wham Band, thank you, ma'am, and we part ways?

Yeah, well, actually, it was sort of the beginning of a love for him. We now own a house together, live in New Zealand. Yes, I was hoping that's what she'd say. I was hoping that's what she would say. That's so nice. Worth it. With the heart nose, India.

Yeah. And the body. But yeah, the heart. The heart and the body. But the heart is in the body. The heart is in the body, though, isn't it? That's true. The heart is in the body.

That's when her last I checked. And the heart pumps when the body is, you know, love having a good heart. I don't think there would be much of a body without the heart. No. We'll leave it at that, India. Thank you. Kate. Katie, how far did you go for a hookup?

I flew to Antarctica No, you didn't Wait, you can't just fly to Antarctica Katie How did you do that? Are you in the Air Force or army or something? He was in the army I worked for the New Zealand Antarctic program

Oh Wait, so you were going anyway Hey Were you going to Antarctica anyway I might have extended my triple weaver I love that I love that Oh my God, that's brilliant

And when you have coitus in Antarctica. Oh my God, Haley, it's not outside. There's so much worse than just say when you're in sex in Antarctica. Humpty-Rumpdies. Is it cold? Is it cold? No, it's not cold. You're inside.

They live in the... Do they have double beds? I do it outside. I've only ever seen the bunks. They have single bunk, so it's very cozy. Ah, yeah. We've all had sex on a bunk. Have we?

Oh, they rattle. Katie, thank you. So many texts and... That also made it sound like the three of us all had sex on a bunk. No, that definitely not. I don't think I've ever made love on a bunk. Put it on the list. Well, you know that it used to travel around with the military quite a lot.

Oh, right. Okay. Great. How far did you go for a hookup? Your horn dogs? Look at you. Well, it's all because Lily Allen, who is in her single girl era, has gone to Tokyo. Went to Tokyo from England to have a hookup with a celebrity,

celebrity unnamed, remains unnamed. Halfway around the world. Now everyone's like, who? What celebrities were in Tokyo? And it's nothing. We're hearing from so many people. Dana, how far did you go for a hookup? Hello, everybody.

Hello. Hi, Joe. Welcome. Thank you. Biden wasn't so much distance, but I got really, really shredded and jacked because he lived next to my gym. So I started going all the time

so I could be like, Hey, I'm in the area. Man, that rules. Oh my God, so you didn't make a single long-distance trip. You made several, several. Yeah, mini trips. And in the process got real hot. Yeah, but now we're engaged and I'm like not ripped anymore.

It doesn't matter, though. It doesn't matter. You let go over. The distance was, you know, down the scale and then back up it. Yeah, exactly. And that's why. That's a distance as well. God, Dana, I need this.

I need to fall in love with someone at the. at Les Mills. Right. And then you'd go more. Yeah, because it'd always be there. If they were flirting with me, I'd be like, man, I'm getting jacked. Dana, thank you. Some messages in. I met a guy a few weeks before I was moving to the UK, had the best

times of my life. Over a few weeks, on again, off again. And then I ended up flying back to New Zealand for a week after being in the UK for a few months to continue the fun times. Wow. He's now my husband. We've got three children. Oh, cute. I love it when he ends like that. That's so sweet.

Great stories like that. I know. Yeah. I walked from Harwood to Kayapoi and back. We're getting married soon though, so it would work. That's on foot there. That's quite a distance on foot. I drove from Tiao Mutu to Hamilton for a hookup once.

Look, it's not that far, but I was super low on gas, so it felt like a really long way. And it was actually quite generous of me. That's nerve-wracking, eh, when you're driving like that. Yeah, flew from Invis to Auckland, then drove from Auckland to the Tron for a Tinder date. Jeepers, in the car. And now six years together.

Oh, yes. Seven hour drive each direction in the South Island, spent three hours with him and drove back. So 14 hours commuting for three hours fun times. That's just the ratios out there. The ratios out, yeah. In the 1990s, I was an 18-year-old lesbian on the doll. Oh, lesbian on the doll is my Rock West Band now.

Lesbian on the doll. My girlfriend lived in Duned in, and no one knew about us because, well, it was the 90s. Yes. And that's actually the lead single from the album. Well, it was the 90s. I caught the intercity bus from Christchurch to donate it, had smooches and stuff, and then secretly caught the bus back home the next day.

Oh, that's kind of cute, eh. I hope you're living your best, you know, loud, proud 20-20s lesbian life. Yeah, out there. My husband came all the way from Montana to meet me. Wow. Montana in the States. Yeah. Staying.

Got a baby together now. Not a huge journey, but drove from Orpere to. Auckland a few weeks back to meet a guy I've been going back and forth with for months and he didn't show up Oh Not worth it Cut him out

Yeah no Cut that loose Cut him out I was newly single after an 18 year marriage And ready for adventures I drove four hours to hook up with a guy The best thing is I use my ex-husband's business fuel card To top up the car

Yes That will teach him That's good stuff I was talking to a girl in London and the airline effed up my flights and instead of sending me to Rome they sent me to London, they gave me business class for the troubles

so I let them send me there and I had my hookup What? You went and had a different, you got a fresh hookup? Yeah. Okay. Instead of sending me to Rome, they sent me to London. Queenstown to Auckland for a narcissistic butt wipe. So that doesn't sound like it was worth it.

No, that doesn't sound like it was. I once flew from Dublin to Auckland to spend 48 hours with a girl I'd only met once and then full all the way back. Safe to say it didn't work out, but New Zealand is now home, so with it in the end. Oh, my God.

You flew from Ireland to New Zealand. Please tell me that was... Please tell me that was pre-pandemic when airfares were at least cheaper. Chapers. How hot is she? Hamilton to Cambridge for me, but I'm a girl,

so that's in girl kilometers a long way for a hookup. Yeah, that is. Yeah, the girls shouldn't have to go that long. Yeah, that's girls. You're lucky I'm walking to the front door to open it for you. Yeah, I'm likely to just...

send you the pinco coat to let yourself in. I shut up moving from my princess couch. I took a $600 taxi from Palmerston North to Wellington for a man. What? Got to Wellington. He didn't pick up his phone. I had the loveliest taxi driver. She drove me all the way back to Palmy, although she stopped

10 times for a Durry break. I made it back to Parmy at 7 a.m. I'd left Parmy at midnight and luckily I never had to pay because he was the one who called the taxi. Oh, get out. What? Remember those days when you'd pre, you'd pre book your taxi and give your credit card

and stuff. Oh my God, I would have gone on a ticky tour with this, fuck, well I've been out smug and dourries with the taxi driver all night. Delma and Louise, should we go over a little burger somewhere, pull up to a late night joint? Oh my God. What's up with the no shows? That's crazy.

Falling asleep or just worried their girlfriend's going to find out? I don't know. Yeah, girlfriend came home, I reckon, and they're like, I've got a girl in a taxi from Parmy. Oh, I just realised I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards, so. Well, that means the show's backwards, then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse.

Well, should we speak in reverse, and hopefully they'll work out the other way? Give us a review. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.