ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - October 30th 2025

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Fletch & Vaughan can grow their hair back AI is being sued...again Average person spends 48% of their pay in 48 Hours Top 6 - Problems with a sky stadium FVH's Air BNB Review Sproull on the prowl AI stories SLP - would you nark on your bestie for cheating? What was you bad day on the job?  Vaughan's $10 Suburb Gen Z explains Fact of the day Did your ex go on to do greater things? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM Podcast Network This is... Fletchwan and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates, making happy happen for pets. Good morning, Fleech Vaughan and Haley, it's two minutes past six. Kura. Kira, good morning.

Now, you went out last night. I did. You don't have a late night? I did. Why? I'm tired, yeah. You were just sleeping on the floor. Yeah, I just...

I went out for dinner with a friend. quote unquote. Okay. And just ate too much food and then couldn't sleep. Right. Well, I'm happy for this because it has given us another installment of Sprowl on the Prowl. I know, it has. Which we'll talk about after 7 o'clock this morning.

I went on a date last night and one part of it was quite embarrassing. And then we just had to sit in it for the whole day. The top six is coming up and a wild story out of Saudi Arabia. They want to build a sports stadium atop a building. A skyscraper with a sports stadium on the top. How tall is the sky tower? Imagine if you drop your phone. It's tall up than the sky tower.

Yeah, because it's 300 meters. It'll be a skyscraper, and at 300 meters, there will be a 40,000 seat stadium. Yeah. How about... So the sky tower to the tippy top is 328 meters. No. Isn't that just insane? You'd feel sick.

Also, the AI generated images that they were. release with this story, don't make sense because the building's not wide enough to support that stadium. It wides out which is unusual for a building. It goes up and then it wides out and then a massive part of the stadium is literally cantilevered.

Yeah, I hate that. No, it's not going to be for everybody. I mean, it's hard enough pouring in and out of stadiums as it is. Totally. When they're on the ground. Shush now because I've got the top six reasons that there could be problems with the Sky Stadium. It's coming up in the top six.

on the show, though. Let's kick things off with some great news for you two. My bald brothers. Oh, okay. Things might be turning around. They finally invented a comb for bald people. Yeah, yeah, it just scratches the scalp. It's just a good your hand. Play. That ends.

Fleshhorn and Haley. My bald brothers, were able to grow your hair back now. What hairstyle would you go with? Probably just still pretty short. You keep it short. Because I don't, I wouldn't want to have to get it, like, styled regularly. Imagine having to go get hair counts all the time.

I know. So you just keep it like buzzed. That all long, I think, and every now and then just get it trimmed. Yeah. I think I would maybe, I don't know, it's so weird. I couldn't imagine having hair now. I can't imagine, because, like, here for guys is a big thing. I follow, like, a few, like, male hairdressers.

And, like, they've, I can't imagine. I can't imagine a guy styling his hair every day. Do you know what I mean? So I get it as well, like, just have it long or bust. Well, even when I had it here, I wore a hat every day. Did you? Yeah. God, you bet you regret that.

Maybe you rubbed it off. Maybe I rubbed it off, yeah. Dax waxed a fair bit out. Well, no, there was a time when I did fudge a little bit. Yeah, oh, a bit of fudge. A bit of fudge. Like that thick balm? Yeah.

Oh, God. Well, I'm asking you this because it's going to happen. And this is, you can grow your hair back if you want. They've tested in mice. Where do we stand on that? I don't know. Well, do you remember when we saw a rat? Ugh.

Oh, big rat. Big barley rats. I've been catching some monster rats out my place lately. Big Norwegian ship rats. Oh, yeah. How do you know they're from Norway? Because they'll like that. Haza!

Do you half hundred trees? And then the trap goes, bam! And they're like, oh no! So the National Taiwan University, there's some researchers that have been looking into baldness, trying to cure it. Yep.

And they've developed a serum that they say is like revolutionary. They did it in Mike. and mice re-grew hair within 20 minutes. Now, I want to know how they got rid of the fur... Within 20 minutes! Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. How do you stop? No, I think they...

Don't they genetically modify the mouse or the mice to... The mace. The mace. To pieces. Like, to make them like those bald cats? Oh, because I was like, do they take them to the Casey Clinic and get laser hair removal first? And then grow up back. This would also be...

Would this be good for women or any... Or men with thin hair? Yeah, my hair falls out. Most of mine is fake. and I use monoxidol, which is like the only current topical hair loss treatment that most people use. And then it's transplants. All that laser stuff.

Well, this is bad news for turkey, isn't it? Terrible news. So the serum, so they've created this serum, it triggers a biological response to activates hair follicles, stem cells using natural monosaturated fatty acids. Oh, but does this mean your back hair will go crazy? No, because it's topical. It's where you put it.

Oh, it's where you put it. Yeah, what if you put it on and then you're, you go outside and it's raining and then you get hairy titties. Shut. No, okay, what if you're putting on the cream and you drop a little bit on your cheek or your nipple? Yeah, and you get a hairy squash. And then it just grows here. Yeah.

Or as a joke. By the feet. Yeah. And out. Hang you up till it drips off. Until it drips off. Or as a joke. You could do it as a gag.

As your friends are sleeping, you draw like a D&B on the back. Yeah. Or like, girls get the serum and just like rub it on their upper lip. Rub it on their upper lip every night Rub it on the upper lip, rub it on the upper lip. She's like, oh my God, something's at it with my own eyes. And then they come out one morning and they've got it like a full police mustache. Yeah, full Tom Selleck, like slug on their lap.

Well, they're pretty excited about these advancements. I mean, nearly like 50% of men lose their hair. So, yeah. Rub it in. Rub it in. The ZM Podcast Network. Play Zat M's Flashawn and Haley. Fascinating stuff, the old AI.

It is, isn't it? And the rapid advancement. It's all happening so quickly It is, and soar is the AI Of the day Yeah, this is the The app, only available by invite Canadians, Americans

Where, you know, you'll be seeing all these videos online I can see where they're staying out of the EU You know how the litigious the European Union is? Well, they just have rules, don't they? Strict rules Strict rules and, you know See where they're staying out of that so far Because they're in like a minefield of legal

stuff at the moment And the latest one is that cameo the Celebrity shout out Yeah you pay Celebrities sign up They make a cut Cameo makes a little cut

And you can get Personalised videos from celebrities Paying different amounts For how famous they are And they're degrade reality stars Right There's not Pay big bucks to get some big ones

Yeah yeah yeah But the majority of people on cameo It's like Oh hon Horn I'm just jumping on cameo But So Camio is suing

Sora or ChatGPT the company that owns that because their new feature is called Cameo and you can take your friends and get them AIed to be doing things like you could take a photo, your friend, get a face scan and then have them doing for example the

world's hardest ice skating tricks the backflip on a stand-up paddle board. There's actual examples that I can see on the screen here. Backflip on a stand-up paddle board and then they can chuck that on their dating profile, yes. But how are you saying even dating profiles were going to be like,

is that person even at much a picture? Absolutely. Absolutely. But also how far can it go? Like, could you take a picture of me, you know, doing something illegal? And, you know, like, take a picture of me and make it look like I'm doing heroin, you know?

And then you send it to, and I lose my job. Right. Totally. Well, there was an influencer and they made, that's that sports reporter, and they made her flash her boobs. She's like, I didn't do that. I didn't do that.

I didn't do that. I didn't, I'm going to soothe it. Oh, but if you do that to me, make my boobs real nice. Do you know what I mean? Like, make them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's this also just cutting cameo's lunch. So no, it's, well, kind of because you can deep fake celebrities.

Is they're specifically saying the fact they've called it cameo is diluting their brand? Right. So it's a naming thing. It's the fact that they've used the term cameo. Yeah. But you don't need to pay a celebrity now to give your friend a shout out because you can just generate it. Yeah. 100%

Unless that celebrity opts out Because celebrities are opting out Of their image being used Right Yeah so if the celebrity opts out How do you opt out I think you have to legally serve it I think by default

You're included Oh God that's terrible Isn't that crazy Yeah it's a bit invasive It's a bit invasive It's wild eh So they are There's actually a really good quote here

That I wanted to find From somebody that works at Camio They're confusing customers who are associated with a Ursats hastily made AI slop and deep fake crap featuring celebrities

Slop and deep fake crap What is Ursatz? Denoy That's a word I've never heard It's six litters long So it's not going to be in Wordle Thank God Because every time now I see a five-liter word

That I don't recognise I'm like well that'll be word or that's weirdal So Ursats is a product made of you Made or used as a substitute Typically an inferior one or something else Oh yeah So you come around here with your flash. We say the teamer version.

Yeah, just say the teemoe version. The jube. Okay, if you could get your image AI doing something, what would it be? You know what I mean? Like if you could AI me, climbing Everest or whatever. Video I love every time I see it and I watch it and like I love them and maybe I'd like to be able to do it. And it's most because I can't. What?

Have you ever seen that dude who winds up the surfcaster when he's fishing? No. And he winds it up and it's got a glow in the dark synchran it. And he goes, woo, woo, woo, whew. And it just goes. I'm sure you could learn to do that for real. No, let's just AI that. A-I-that.

And you could stand on top of Everest. Yeah, doing the splits. I'm tight in the groin. I'm tight in the groin. I'm literally mounting Everest. You're sitting the top of the world. I think you'll be asking for frostbite. To be honest.

Oh, yeah. Flat spite. Born. Born, Ellen. The Fletchborn and Haley, Big Pod. So, it's payday. It's payday tomorrow. right?

Yes. Phew. It's quite a boy. Man, I had a big bill paying day yesterday and I really drained that thing. To the point where it was like at the end. Dregs.

Yeah, dregs in the internet banking. Yeah, yeah. So there was a study in America that looked at how quickly employed Americans how quickly they're spending their paycheck. And 48%, so half of the average Americans

are spending it within two days of getting paid. like it's all allocated and done. Wow. You want to make sure you pay your, you know, your mortgage or your rent straight away? Totally. So that's the bulk of it that they were saying it goes to necessities, like your mortgage, your rent. The beer.

The bare necessities. I thought you meant beer. I was like, no, no, no, no, beer's not a necessity. Oh, no, no, no, no. You want to pay your beer necessities. You need to pay your beer necessities. Grosities, necessities, your rent, your mortgage, credit card bills or everything. And within doing that, pay comes in.

She's gone. She's gone, yeah. So, I mean, then you've got your food sort of and all your bills and everything. But I'm trying to think about how quickly I would spend mine. Because it does, you don't spend it all if it doesn't, like, line up with your mortgage. But, like, it does go quite quickly. Well, yeah, if you rent or your mortgage is coming out, like, midweek. Yes, and you've got to leave it there.

And you've got to leave it there and hope that you don't get too drunk at the weekend and shout your friends. You've got to jack it up. If you're paying rent or mortgage, the day you get paid, that pays rent and mortgage comes out and goes into a separate account and no touchy-touchy-touchy. Yeah, but I can touch all my separate accounts. No touchy-touchy. No touchy-touchy.

No other round? Yeah, I'm paid out, I'm like, that looks nice. This is looking so nice. Your rink comes out on Tuesday. Shish, this looks so nice. So apparently, millennials, we're spending the fastest. Okay. We spend 40% of the paycheck in 12 hours,

which is the fastest of any group. Then it's Gen Zs, and then it's baby boomers. Because they were saying the reason is that they have much less financial stress at their point of life. Well, they bled the housing market dry, didn't they? Oh, they got a head. And they pulled the ladder up. They pulled the housey market up by the ankles and just bled it out. We were like, help, help, take me with you.

It's like the rapture. You know what I mean? If someone was getting raptured and I was being left on earth, I'd grab their ankles, take me with you. I reckon, if you had a look around at the people being taken versus the people that are still here, it might be worth hanging around. I think it would be more fun. It's going to be way more fun. more fun with us. Let's stay.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. Play ZDM's Fleshhorn and Haley. From the Fletchhorn and Haley group chat, this is the top six. Hello there. Saudi Arabia is set to build the world's first Sky Stadium. It is going to be able to boast a capacity of 46,000 people. Jeez. What's that?

That's Mount Smart. Yeah. Yeah. It's not Eden Park, because that's in the 50s, right? But 46,000 at an altitude of 350 meters above the ground is a huge no thing. So the new standing in the building in Christchurch for perspective is 30,000. That thing looks huge. And that thing looks huge.

So imagine that but bigger on top of a skyscraper. I don't want to imagine it's leech. You could not get me up there. It would be just slightly above the height of the sky tower. Yeah. 350 meters above the ground. So yes, from the viewing platform. Yeah, it's the Skytahs 330 something.

Yeah, yeah. So just above the skytale for perspective. I don't like it. 40 meters taller than the Shard in London, that big pickle looking. Oh, yeah. Insane, eh. So they asked, they've kind of put out the,

Saudi Arabia has said, Spido expense, we want your concepts. And they released 15 concepts of the high-tech stadiums. It are going to be completed. before August 234. I reckon it won't happen. No, but you know what happens

in these countries? They ship all the labour over from, you know, neighboring countries. The Philippines. You know, people go fall down lift shafts and catch on fire. And they just say, shush, shish, shish, shish. No, you don't. No, you didn't.

He didn't die here. Yeah. There's no, there's lacks health and safety. Let's put it that way. Yeah. So there's a few other designs with the sky top one is like everybody's favorite because it's so extravagant and it hasn't been done before.

but fraught with issues and here's Vaughn-Smith's top six problems with the Sky Stadium number six on the list who's the ball over the side I mean it's it's a six and out if they play cricket up there I mean if you play cricket there's definitely cricket balls

that have got on the roof and over stadiums but I've never seen anyone kick a rugby ball on the roof of like over there yeah but if you were playing football up there and you had a penalty shot you'd forego the point to be the first person to boot a ball off the top of the

but who's there in Saudi Arabia underneath being like, you know? Even Sky Stadium's 34 and a half thousand. So this stadium would be bigger than the cake tin in Wellington. That's nuts. Also, do yourself a favour and Google it. All you need to Google is Saudi Arabia Sky Stadium. And like the cantilever on, because, you know,

stadiums are more oval, this is a square building that kind of branches out to accommodate it, but there's still a huge cantilever on it. It gives me the screaming shit. Same. It makes me feel, it makes my skin crawl. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six problems of the sky stadium. Hot chips, get cold real quick because you're in altitude. Oh, yeah. Wind blows.

Yeah. Um, num, num, num, numb, num, numb, numb, numb. How they're even getting all the chips? Do you know what I mean? Imagine they run out of chips. They're like, go right back down. Maybe they can take the lift. Give you a foil container, you know, to keep them warm. It would be helpful.

It's actually a great idea, like a little thermus for chippies. Yeah. A chippy thermis. A chippy thermus. A chippy thermus. I think stadiums, even stadiums on the ground should look into that because they go so cold. Yeah, they do. Because they see, often in the warmer for a long time, too.

Yeah, they are fresh. It's just a great idea, really. Yeah, chippy thermos. Number four on the list of the top six problems are with the Sky Stadium. The wheeze from the urinal, when you go to the toilet, just go straight out the side of the building. Does it? Just sprits us out onto the city below.

Yeah. Could you imagine... It dribbles down onto the windows or the floors below. Imagine all the utilities that would need to come down from a stadium. It's just, it's... There's an infinite amount of things that are. This is not happening, this building is not happening. No, it's not.

Number three on the list of the top six problems of the Sky Stadium. You know the lines to get into a stadium when the game's about to play? Yeah. We experienced us when we went to the All Blacks with Badgers Brad. Now imagine those lines are for lifts. Oh my God, yes. Actually, because the building that it's projected on, like it looks skinny. It's not, it's not Skytower skinny.

No, it's not sky tower skinny, but it's not like... Fat apartment block, but it's got a stadium on the top. You'd need hundreds of lifts. Yeah, exactly, to get thousands and thousands and thousands of people in. Yeah. Well, number two on the list of the top six problems of the Sky Stadium. Drunk people just straight up falling off the edge. Yeah, you would.

It's like on cruise ships. Plough they go. Oh, God, did you say they found that person, that Australian woman that weren't missing from the cruise ship unaccounted for when, at the end of the day? No. They found her washed up on. Oh, no.

No, no, she didn't fall off the cruise ship. She just never came back from the day. activity. Oh, right. Oh, shoot. Oh. What happened? What happened? Hey, what happened? I don't know. And number one on the list of the top six problems of the sky said, and the only real sport that could be played there would be Quidditch. Yes. I'd watch a game of Quidditch at Top the Tower. We're already up in the sky. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what could possibly Harry Potter's bloody chasing the golden snitch over the side. Fletch has got no idea what we're talking about. No, I've seen that, I've seen the first one. I've seen the first one too. With broomsticks.

Yeah, and there's a gold thing, it's got wings. The golden snitch. Yeah. And there's a wizard. They're all wizards. If you're at Hog Wars, you're a wizard. And then that guy with no nose. I need to keep watching. He's not in the first one. He's not in the seventh one. But I know that he's in it. Because you went straight from the first of the seven. I think I might have. I think I've seen one five and seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of Harry Potter.

Harry Potter. That's the day's top six. Play. Play Z-N. Fleshhorn and Haley. We have received our Airbnb review for our best friend's holiday. Yep. To Bali.

We took, yeah, some days off, went to Bali. Is that a villa, which is a very popular accommodation style in Bali? You kind of walk down some weird alleyway, and you're just kind of like, ooh, we're about to be mugged, and then there's a little dog and a cat with a twisty tail and some rubbish and stuff. And then all of a sudden you're like, open a gate, and then you're in this beautiful... Paratry. That sums up Bali. That really...

That sums up... With a pool in the middle. You can see why so many Aussies and Kiwis go. Oh, yeah, should you? It's pretty close, and it is literal paradise. Yeah. So the villa was very lovely. A bedroom each.

Yeah, a toilet each. Yeah. Air conditioning. Sort of an open area, you know, for socialising and such. It was beautiful. So imagine one afternoon when I say, I'm just going to need a little nap. Time difference, bad sleep's taken out of me. I need a little nap.

And I go in and my two best friends decide to absolutely get all the piss. Music's super loud. I discovered a new drink. both really took a liking to it was a local barley made Mahito in a can. It was actually delicious. I did think about importing them into New Zealand. It's called barley syrup. They weren't pretty good because my problem with anything in a can is it's always too sweet. Yeah and they weren't too sweet. They weren't too sweet. Anyway so I go down for a little

light out and I put my ear plugs in and my eye mask on and I maybe get it a little hour and a bit tip. I remember it was an hour yeah. I come out music blaring these two shit face in the pool. Cans floating in the pool and I'm just like excuse you to what is going on and then their whole tirade about their new theory about recycling

is if it never goes in the landfill we're protecting the earth yeah because Fletch does this sometimes when you drink you just get this naughty mood and he just finished his first can and we were swimming and he just looks at me and just like hiff and like hiffs it in the thing and then that was just how he got rid of the dozen

The dozen drinks. Yeah. So I walk out, there's just cans floating in the pool, music blaring. I think there is a photo of that on my Instagram as well. It made the carousel because it just was a fun memory. Oh, we were laughing and laughing and laughing. We did clean up afterwards, and I think the next morning we had to, you had to dive in and get one pool, a can that had sunk.

Yeah, because cans, when they fill up with water, famously don't float anymore. When we checked out, I will say I cleaned my, I never leave a hotel or an Airbnb, like, dirty. I'll always clean up. I'll put things in the bin Well, we have received our first review Because the people who clean This is the other thing I learned The people that clean the villa

Kind of live on site Yeah, they were living next door Literally, and we were, our playlist The rule was no parties Yeah But we didn't have any parties It was literally just the three of us Listening to very loud music

Well, there wasn't just the three of us So a couple of people had some visitors, didn't they? And we weren't going to that here or now But we'll maybe... And, you know, have some coming and going Loud music and their drinks, they're picking up the stuff. I was just like, thank God this isn't, I don't have an air B&B account, but thank God.

How do you not have any of B&B? You've been booked one. Oh my God. It's madness. It's into somebody else. Okay, well, the review is in. The review is in from Matt. Okay, here we go.

I'm nervous. From Matt. From our friends weekend. Of course, a Balinese's name. A pleasure to host. Oh. The villa was left spotless. House rules were respected.

and communication was smooth throughout. Truly ideal guests, welcome back anytime, and highly recommend to any host. Worship, Max. House rules were respected. No, they weren't. It wasn't Villa Kiki that Max was thinking of there. Yeah, wow.

Well, we managed a great review. And five stars, by the way. Five stars? Yeah, I'm going to an exceptional. Did you give them five stars? Yeah, I did. Yeah, that was a five stars. I said it was beautiful.

Yeah, yeah, great. I said, although I did say the cats could have been cuter because they're very manky cats. That black cat that we saw on the last, that was exceptionally cute. That cat that hung out by the villa, they're like, it looked like a ghost.

I actually love when I go overseas seeing, like, cats in other countries. Me too. The dogs in other countries are always... They just seem so happy and they're just cruising around. Yeah. Just live in their best life.

Oh, God. But our villa cat was maimed you. Like, you were raiding the Bali cats and you gave that one at two out of five. Yeah. I would have preferred the squirrel. It was demonic. You're not a squirrel.

They were squirrels, they were bats And they were demons in the Airbnb as well But we can't talk about that The Fletchborn and Haley Big Big Pod A bit dry after barley You're a bit dry

I've been crisped Yeah just stall for time guys Because I'm still not paying for YouTube So there's just an ad playing for a gambling website Surely by now you've managed to It's a business expense It should be Yeah yeah

Okay yeah now I've got the music But I'm just gonna find the spot we always need I should mark that. I know it's well into the song before they first say. Okay. Okay, here we go. Hope you're having fun. Yes, I am.

Sproul on the prowl. Sproul on the prow. It's great stuff. She's out there looking to have some fun. We hope it's with everyone. Sparel on the prowl. You really should get into the... Really should get into the studio and record that.

Yeah, we really should, eh. God, there's so much to record. So much you do. So, there's only so much time in the day. It's around about this time that the text machine starts going, wait a minute. Are you single? She's cheating! No, no, no, no, no.

I am a single mingle. You're single, ready to mingle? Single and rather ready to mingle. In fact, I mingled last night. Oh. I don't know what that felt grotesque to say. It did. I went on a date as well.

what I mean. Okay. Went on a date, get some food, have some drinks, hang out with a gentleman. I chose a gentleman. Where did you decide to go for this date? Jamaisie Street.

Oh. In Auckland. Jesse Mulligan always chooses it as one of his top 50s. It's like regularly in the top five. Yeah, it's like Persian food. Rugs. Yeah, just Persian rugs, Persian food.

Yeah, they serve everything on rugs. Yeah, yeah. No, it's Lebanese. It's specifically Lebanese, is it? it? Because I, once we talked about it and I said I was worried about the dry land. No, the lamb is... No. The lamb is succulent because it's Lebedozy. Isn't this where you went on a date though and you saw the other guy that you'd been...

So do you know, it's so funny is I went on a date to Jamaisie Street before with a different person. And then I saw... You've got to choose a different place. But if I'm taking someone out on a date, I'm going to go where I want to eat. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. And I saw that guy who ghosted me. Yeah.

And he was at Jamaisy Street with his date. I was like, God, get a new date spot. And now I'm back at Jamazie Street with a new date. Get a new date spot. Get a new date spot. Anyway, so I was messaging this stranger to me. And, you know, I've planned the date. That's my date.

I've booked everything and here's the timing and whatnot. I'll swing past it this time in an Uber. Okay. And I'll grab you. And I put on an outfit. I want it to be cute, but not, like, too full on. So I just chose this, like, blue and white pinstripe shirt. Yep.

Little miniskirt docks and an oversized blazer. I'll say, here we go. This is perfect. Classic sprawl outfit. Lovely, lovely. This gentleman comes out of his door towards mine Uber. Yep. And he is wearing a blue and white pinstripe shirt.

Oh, my God. We had the same shirt on. Could he have changed? Or was he already in the Uber by the time he saw? Well, at that point I was like, this is how similar it was. Oh my God, those are, those could literally get it. Mansion cruise ship. Yeah, this is giving cruise ship old couple vibes.

I know, like it was planned. And I think everyone would have seen us at this dinner being like, cute, can't. And I was like, I barely know this stranger. And here he is in the same bloody shirt. And we just had to sit in it. Yeah. I tried to put on my jacket to be like, I'll cover it up as much.

But you run too hot. You run hot. And that restaurant's a hot. It's in an arcade. It's sort of in a glass dome. Yeah. Yep. So I went on a day with myself, it fell like.

Oh, you would have hated that. Oh, my God, I'd love it. She would have hated that. Do you know how good I am at dates? I'm a conversationalist. I ask incredible questions. Yeah, but do you let there be a natural silence? God, no.

Why would you want that? Because sometimes it just needs to be, it's okay to sit and it doesn't need to be It is my job on earth to fill silence. What was one of the questions you asked him? What was one of the questions I asked? I asked him what his pet peeves were and one of them was when you know you're on a seat with someone in there shaking their leg. Oh yeah and the vibrations

fidgeties. Yeah yeah yeah yeah and people being rude to wait staff so when the when the waitress came over to take my order I chucked a glass of water on her as a gag and clacked your fingers like oi oi oi like that so I don't know if I'll get a second age. Yeah. Ah, wow. Yeah. I don't know if this is like fortuitous, you know, like,

oh, they're so in sync. They wear the same clothes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if it's like, yuck, yuck, yuck, that's a weird little ick. Yeah. She dresses like a man. He's dressed a bit feminine.

It's not a great mix for either of them. Anyway, 10 out of 10 date. Oh, okay. 10 out of 10? Wow. She's in love. Oh, calm down Calm down

A little bit Calm down No Play ZM's Fletchborn and Haley Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley I have noticed a trend In media intake

In my house With two gen alphas Oh of course And you know we've got to be on our toes Here at traditional broadcast radio Yes We've got to move We're to hustle

Yeah We're going to adapt or die so I'm thinking this could just be what happens right now. I'm still playing our songs on CDs. I know. Well, I have been trying to tell you that there are digital ways of doing this and it's significantly easier. I just like playing the Ed Sheeran songs on CD. I know, but you scratch your Ed Shearons.

If you listen close, there's a skip. Yeah, you can hear it. Skip, skip, skip. Yeah. But every day, day, day, I love you just to. And you're like, we've heard it. And I'm like, Fletch, move with the time, adapt or die. And he's like, a CDs will never die, man.

So imagine, you know, my disgust as a traditional broadcaster that these children that can't watch, well, my oldest daughter doesn't like movies, because they're too long. Oh my God. What about the beautiful cinematic masterpieces that have been created? I should prefer to watch the Norris Nuts be like, hey, legends today, we're going to Starbucks 12 times. Oh, God, you've got to get them watching The Godfather or something. Yeah, they're coming to some classics. They've got brain rock or something. Oh, there's so much brain roll.

So they don't watch anything like long. August will binge, she's binge watching Modern Family at the moment. Great show. She's going through the Mono fan. I've sat down and watched some episodes. That was a, they packed the jokes into that show. Yeah, yeah, tight, tight.

Phil Dunphy. So good. Got to be top five TV fathers of all time. So another thing I've noticed is this drony voice. And one time I said, maybe last week, before I went away, I said to them, can you explain these to me? Right. And they're like, oh, they're stories.

They're stories. Right. Mostly, it's a long-form, like, Reddit post, and somebody copies and pasts this, like, long-form story and puts it into AI. The AI creates a story, creates it as a spoken word, like a long, read-out story. And in the background, because they watch these

or listen to these on TikTok, there's just, like, this, like, flurry of... It looks like... Remember when there was movies about communists making sleeper agents, and they'd, like, show them a series of flash. images and that would like brainwash them or awaken them. Have their eyes on hooks like that.

That's kind of like the 2025 version of that. So I am worried that it's communist China. Yeah, okay. Of course. It's giving big communist China. Big communist China brainwashing the children. So have you an example of what they're listening to? Yes, I do.

Okay, hold on. Kick me out at 18 and said, Be grateful we fed you. So I fed them something they couldn't swallow. On the morning of my 18th birthday, I walk up to my mom. Well, so they'll just listen to hours of this. So this one's, 50-something minutes long.

Now let me explain. You listen to these words and I'll tell you what's happening in the background. It's time to man up and move out. I sat up. Pelling a carrot and saw my stepdad pouring whiskey over an ice cube.

They've always been... Putting soil on a plant. A floating candle. But I'm your son. My mom laughed. You've been nothing but a burden since your dad died. Wasting our money on therapy.

Cutting a cucumber with a knife. Oh my God. The mom just said to the son you've been nothing but a burden since your dad died. I mean, that's just horrible thing to say to someone who's lost their phone. Rather.

But I think the last time I was like, I'm going to relax and have a bath. I was like, I guess. Love that. Do the truth of my, Nanny. Slay. Slay. Self care. Look after yourself.

As you got in the bath and India and I were watching the Silver Ferns play. And in the background, you could just hear this. We kept you fed and housed for 18 years. That's more than... There's something about the intonation of AI voices that I hate. When I went to and down to the bar. Is that what's comforting about it, though, that it's kind of like a joy.

It is a drone, eh? Because it's not like when you talk and you go up and down like this and things are going to change. Because I filled out the intake forms. Maybe we shouldn't ban them all from the internet. I just think we turn it off. Is it today the day?

I think we just turn it off. Unplug it. But why don't they listen to it? Why doesn't, she listened to an audio book? I don't. I've said to her. It's a professional narrator. Because I watched the Hunger Games.

Yeah. And I was like, the movies are great. The books are so much better. Yeah. And you could listen to the audio book. the Hunger Games. Yeah. And like actors narrate the audiobooks.

Yeah. Yeah. But that's so good. She doesn't want to do, she doesn't want to listen to the Hunger Games audio book. She just wants to listen to a story about a man who talked to his father

and then went into the thing. Shout out to the parents of, Jen Alphasid also messaging her. Somebody said, I empathize. My kids want to listen to that in the car. Oh no. Put you to sleep. We listen to ZM in the car.

We listen to ZEM in the radio. We listen to some high energy. And you can also listen on the IHart Radio app. There's been an update and you can make ZETM your preset and the Fletch Fawn and Haley podcast, your preset as well. We'll be at the top. Update the IHeart Radio app.

KPI's. KPI's. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Fantastic. Yeah. Somebody else said a lot of the time it's just Roblox or Minecraft footage in the background. I've seen those ones as well.

The long stories and the AI voices. This is why I don't panic about us losing our jobs to AI as quickly as other industries because that voice is so monotonous. Imagine if that was a radio show. Yeah but the gen alphas must love it Are we too vibrant for them?

Yeah, they're vibrant Okay, let's pull it back a little bit For the rest of the show Pleach Forne and Haley, that was Ed Shearing Acknowled voice Silly little poll is coming up Would you knock on your bestie for cheating Because my cheating, my bestie was cheating

And I said to them Are you going to tell them Or am I going to tell them Because one of us is got to tell them Because that's the way it's got to be That's right, after 8 o'clock We have the return of Vaughn's 10 dollar suburb Your chance to win $10 if you were in the

randomly generated suburb The ZM Podcast Network Play ZM's Flethawn and Haley SLEC silly little pooh, silly little pooh It is so silly, silly, silly, silly that the silly little pooh, silly little pooh, silly little pooh, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole. Silly little poke today, we are asking if your bestie was cheating on their partner, what would you do?

Yes. One of our respondents will get a $50 Mac Cafe voucher because still a little poll today is all thanks to Mick Cafe. Keep the show on the road, drive through Mick Cafe for your morning fix. Yeah, go on.

Go on. Well, the options were I would tell their partner at 7%. I would make them confess to their partner at 71% and 21% of people said I would do nothing.

Nothing? I know nothing. I know nothing. I see nothing. You wouldn't go behind your best friends back to tell their partner. You would tell them, say, hey, I know, fix it. Do the right thing. No.

Do the right thing. I'm not. It's your life. What are you going to? I'm not, you tell me that's fine. I'm not, I don't, you know, secret's safe with me. So you're of the 21%. Yeah, 100% is in my business.

How are you? Well, I'm not the moral compass of my best friend to be like, you simply must confess. Really? You do, you, boo. Okay. Okay, so secret safe with Haley. Christine, some responses. Christine said, it's none of your business.

Their life to destroy. They're life to destroy. But don't you... Yeah, but also, you're their best... That's the let them, right? Yeah, but you're their best friend. You're going to be dealing with the repercussions of this. Oh, I know.

Yeah. Oh, I don't know. This is... It's a hard one. I would say, says Jordy, that she has X amount of time to tell him or I'm going to. ultimatum to your best friend is that ever a good outcome I wouldn't

okay Millie said I saw this happen with my own eyes and confronted my friend and she denied it and then made me feel crazy and told everyone we knew that I had made it up and tried to tell my boyfriend I was the one doing the cheating that's called gas lamping yeah it is yeah close

classic gas lamp no it's where the gas is in the lamp and it makes a lamp and you're gas lamping them yeah I've put it a lot Close in front of their eyes, they can't see properly. Right. And then you're like, no, you can't see properly remember because they gas-lamped you.

It's been around for like the last few years. I've been calling it gas-lighting. Oh, no, it's gas-lamping. Like an idiot. Yeah. I feel so embarrassed. Like a damned fool. You would.

I would. Haley said, I would question why I'm friends with someone with such low morals. You are the company you keep. Oh, okay. Mrs. Perfect. Wow. Wow. I made, if that was a huge thing.

thing to you in your moral compass, then yeah, maybe. You're like, I actually don't want to associate with something. Say something to them. I'm like, tell me everything. Katie said, oof, that's so hard because I wouldn't force them to do anything, but I also wouldn't do nothing. It would massively depend on the situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'd suggest to them that maybe they

shouldn't be in a relationship if this is what they're doing. Yes. And hope they did the right thing. I don't know. Yes. Before I haven't read it out This is The one that's going to win the Okay, the voucher

The $50 Mac Cafe voucher It's going to win the voucher Okay Hang on, sorry Just before you read this one Someone said it is definitely gas lighting They've texted to let us know You're saying gas lamping

It's gas lamping No with this message 845 But also the gas is so close to their nose They breathe in and they get a little bit Whoa And then you're like Remember you remember it wrong

Yeah And you remember it wrong Because the fumes The fumes of the gas lamp Well, sorry 845, apparently we're wrong. We were all going to call it kerosene lamping. Too long. It's too long.

It doesn't roll. Gas lamping. Right, read us out the cafe winner. The timing of this, dot, dot, dot. I found out this week my husband's been having an affair with my bridesman. What? What? My husband has been having an affair with my bridesman.

So like her best friend? Yeah. Jeez. Get an original idea. Life isn't a movie. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that we posted that and dragged up

I often think that any any relationship silly little poll or any phone and topic we do about relationship like some tumultuous aspect of it. There's people listening to like in the car being like it's about cheating and then

sitting in the car beside the person that cheated on them and they're just like trying not to like turn and look at them I always think about that when it. How did you discover your partner was cheating and they're like oh man do we have any follow up on this like what's happened No follow-up. Oh, my goodness. I also didn't put a name in there because it's not like a super common name in a

one. Okay, well, enjoy the $50 Mac Cafe voucher. You know what? You don't have to share that. You don't have to share that. Going through a tough time, a Panini can be quite. Get a nini. Really?

I'm a muffin guy. Yeah, get a muffin. Get a muffin. A nanny or whatever. I'm like tough times come a knocking. Yep. I'm putting a muffin in MacGobbin. Yep.

Put that on a t-shirt. A slice from McCafee. Oh, yeah. And you know what? You'll forget all about that best friend sleeping with your husband. You know, I look, I love him at Cafe Panini. But I don't think it's going to make you forget that your best friend is sleeping with your husband.

Don't speak for me. I want to know if she's addressed it. Yeah, we're going to need a follow on. You know what I mean? Because she's just said I discovered. This week, that's fresh. Yeah. What's ony Thursday?

Anonymous please. And don't let him gas lamp you. Don't let him wave a kerosene lamp in front of your face. Georgia, it's gas lamp. It's gas lamp. Georgia, I thought it was gas lamp. It's gas lamp. Remember, you're crazy.

You can't remember. Remember it right. You're right. We've been calling it gas lamping this whole time. Yeah. If you've been calling it something else, you've remembered it wrong and you're crazy. Yeah. I didn't, I must be crazy.

You are crazy, Georgia. You are crazy. Oh my God, someone just texted in. I cheated on my boyfriend and the guy I was sleeping with died suddenly. So I was mourning. Wait, but you've got away with it. While I was still in a relationship. Wait, but you get away with that.

And my friends said nothing about it. Now, if they had responded, I would have hucked them the $50 voucher because that's a more interesting. You are cheating on your partner with someone who dies suddenly Who by the way If it's suspicious or if there's a coroner inquest Your name's gonna be in there because they're gonna like check their deeds Who was he with?

Yeah Unless he was just I gotta go to court today Unless he was in like a car accident or something Yeah but what if he'd been texting it? Oh yeah true When he crashed and died And then they're like oh my God

Lucy But then you'd just say to your partner I wasn't cheating on you Be like what about the dead guy Yeah but prove it Prove it. But also you're all sad and your partner's like, what's wrong with you? Let's go out.

Let's go to the movie and you're like, My boyfriend died. My other boyfriend, doored. He don't have a heart attack. Oh, Jesus. I mean, they're so... Okay. Anonymous, please.

It honestly depends on why they're having an affair. People love to hate cheaters, but life isn't black and white. There's many complications that come into relationships and children and love and these days also money. Yeah, true. On this show, we stand for nothing but my number. Oh, good to be. If it was the one-off, I'd say nothing. But if it was a continuous, I'd encourage them to tell their partner to be honest.

Yep. Oh, Renee said, I did tell their partner. I was obviously the worst person in the world for doing so, but I'm not going to stand by and watch that happen. She was being so baggy about it, too. I don't think she expected me to tell him. She's since spiraled, and he's married to a lovely girl now. Oh, that's nice.

You said, I wonder if they're friends. Doesn't sound like it. Doesn't sound like it. Been in this situation except the partner straight out asked me if my friend was cheating on her. Oh, see, that's the other thing. If your bestie's partner came to you and was like, is so-and-so cheating on me? Then you're like, oh, yes. I told him the truth because he deserved to know it.

It calls a riff with my friend and I, but we are still friends today. Oh, God, that's a hard get over, isn't it? My loyalty lies with my bestie, says Dana. If she's cheating, there's a reason. Might not be a good one, but we listen and we don't judge. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Wow. So good. Well, for silly little poem, we asked what would you do if you found out your bestie was cheating on their partner? And 71% of you said I would make them confess to their partner. What was your bad day on the job? Like, I want to know, expensive, costly mistakes. Oh, God. Like, when you mess something up and you cost the company a lot of money.

I love watching those videos, you know, security camera footage of huge shelves falling over. Or a forklift. Because the forklift nudges something more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are great. Those are good. Just everything smashing. Yes.

Well, the reason we discussed this this morning is because a Delta flight attendant accidentally deployed an evacuation slide. I thought you said bad day at work because that sounds like a great day work. Well, it does sound like fun. But apparently the repack, because they have to be repacked and there's gas involved. We've all stuffed it. We'll have to deal with a sleeping bag after a night camping. Apparently repacking an emergency evacuation slide on an Airbus A-220

can range between $50,000 and $100,000 US dollars. How? So, I don't know. I'm really good at doing the sleeping bag. You fold it in half. Yeah, yeah. You fold it in half lengthways, right? Yeah.

And then you're tight, tight, tight, tight, tight. And then as you're like pulling it, you have to keep adjusting so that you don't, doesn't get longer. Push down. I think there's more of a science to it. you know when you land in a plane they're always like bing bong. Yeah. Flight attendants cross-check and disarmed doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what

he had armed the door. Wait, what? And then went to open it. I thought they'd arm the doors. No, they arm the doors when they take off. Before the flight. They disarm the doors once they've landed. Yes. Because if you open the door like this flight attendant did and their arm, the slide

pops out. And the door opens. I didn't know that. Yeah. What would happen if you opened the slide mid-flight? Would it be like, well, you can't open the door. That would blow up. Yeah. You can't open the door mid-flight.

No. Okay. Because it kind of like... That's not the attitude. You've got a real can-not attitude. You need a can-do. Apparently they're saying that this flight attendant is like 26 years on the job. Or 20-something years on the job.

So this isn't a rookie mistake. And they may have to go to retraining. Yeah, because I guess they were just like, oh, just open the door. Weird, eh? I don't know. Going to retraining, not getting fired. I mean, there's a mistake was made. An expensive one. Well, this is what we want to know this morning.

$800,000. We want you to give us a call. Text in, 9-696. What was your bad day on the job? How expensive was the costly mistake? Maybe you screwed up an order. Like, a lot of people ordering, there might have been an extra zero. Or, you know, people in accounts that do payments. You add an extra couple of numbers accidentally.

The messages are coming in already about these horrific... It was horrendous days at work. Okay. Kick us off. I own a videography company, and I was moving a $10,000 cinema camera that was on a tripod. And as I tilted it,

the entire camera slid off the tripod and fell in slow motion onto a concrete car park. That's insurance, I? A $10,000 camera. That's insurance for like still not a good day. Yeah. Okay, 0,800-9-6.

Tell us about your bad day. on the job. We have so many messages and I feel like how our listeners have jobs. You know, like how did you remain employed after that? It's a very costly thing. Yeah. I mean, we're all human. We make mistakes, don't we? Katie, what was your mistake? So, we moved out of a commercial site around New Zealand. Yeah. And I forgot to delete the automatic payment in the bank for the rent. Yeah. And due to disputes with the landlord, we couldn't get it back.

How much did you accidentally pay them? 100K. Oh, Katie. Katie, were you employee of the month that month? Definitely not. And we had a board meeting in the office like a week later, and they were all giving me a very nasty look. But they didn't fire you.

Stinker that landlord not to give the money back, though. I was going on maternity leave, so they couldn't fire me. Oh, yeah. Katie, thank you. Anonymous. What was your costly day at work? I inadvertently sent a container full of food product over to the UK and forgot to put the health certificates with it.

So it got denied entry and had to come all the way back. Oh, no. And how long does it take to get a container to England? It's nowhere near as long as it used to. Only a few days. Thanks for the Suez Canal. Yeah, thanks to the Suez. What a marvel of engineering that is.

Shout out. Fantastic. Okay, and then it all comes back. How much do you reckon that cost? though, all up? Well, the loss of sale was about $150,000. Non-imus, non-imus. What was it in there?

The cost of getting it back, and then paying GST on the reentry and, yeah, it was a big foepard. But wait, you sent it out and then you have to pay tax? Oh, God, okay, what an idea. What was in there? Honey. Honey. Honey. Oh, yum.

Worth it. Well, can you redirect the shipping container to the ZM Studio, please? I know, honey. I think it would take us. entire lifetime to get through a shipping container of honey. Oh, bother, bother. Keep your text coming in. 9-696, how costly was your bad day at work? Bad costly days at work, because a flight attendant has

accidentally deployed an evacuation slide. Which apparently costs how much? Between 50 and 100,000 US to pack it back in. Thumb it back in. And that's a small plane. So I don't know like the bigger planes, maybe more. But I tell you what, wow, some people making costly mistakes and still like keeping their jobs. So, you know, don't even, don't stress. Yeah.

I'm a software tester. I found an error in our system that resulted into $200 million in unpaid taxes for a country overseas. What? No, do you think they, it sounds familiar, they found the problem. So somebody else's bad day was a software glitch that they had designed for a country. Yes. And so the country wasn't getting the tax or the payments that they shouldn't be. Being charged, yeah, the right amount of tax.

Oh, my God. Can you just text in more and tell us, we won't say on air, but give us some more. because I'm so curious about that. Someone else, Mr. & I was working in Australia when a worker put a caustic wash, like a strong chemical wash, through a full tank of Jim Beam. Oh my God. That was a few million dollars, I believe, because it was

30,000 litres of Jim Beam wasted. So what, they put into cleaning mode or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was full of the Jim Beam. I don't reckon people in Taranaki would even notice. I know they'd probably like it more. They could call it a Jim Beam Extra. Yeah, Jim Beam Supreme. I was in the army enrolled a $250,000 armed vehicle.

I was doing doughies in the car park. So it wasn't like I rolled it in active duty or doing practices or anything else. Funny. Just being a little bit dumb. My best, my work friend was ordering catering morning tea for 20 people. She accidentally ordered $5,000 worth of morning tea. What for like 200? I must have accidentally put in how many bit of their catering do, do, click, click, click.

That's funny. A work colleague charged a customer online payment, $15,000. instead of $1,500. Jesus. That was a big telling off. I worked for a cleaning company and needed to order 10 sanitary bins to fit out a commercial site bathroom.

I ordered 10 packs of 10 so my workmate had 100 sannie bins in his garage. I work for a bougie hire company. They somehow employed the clumsiest person ever. That's me. I've dropped numerous boxes of expensive glassware, plates and ornaments.

Somehow I'm still employed. Yeah. I mean, they've come a limit, right? When you keep dropping. stuff. Real estate fail. I had listed

the ventilation system as an HRV not a DVS in the Chattels list. The C-word purchaser of the house went legal once it had gone

unconditional and I had to pay to replace the the fully functional DVS system with an HRV because that is

what had been specified. Oh, I think they're the same thing different brand eh? Oh get a great. That buyer

a take a pass God get a always those people I'm just googling what a DVS As a home ventilation, yeah, takes it out of the ceiling and puts it into the house. Different brands, same thing.

Working in Australia, a cleaner decided she was sick of the beeping noise coming. This can't be real. Working in Australia, a cleaner decided she was sick of the beeping noise coming from the MRI machine after hours. So she pushed a big red button and all of the helium, $70,000 worth of helium was released. Because we need the helium for the MRIs. And helium's like becoming quite rare too.

And expensive. Yeah. My work mistake costs about $90,000. As I'm the lowest hanging fruit at work, so it's put on my shoulders were messing up some drawings for a building. Oh, yeah. I have now implemented things

so this can never happen again. Oh, okay. Yeah. Good. I work for an app. I accidentally added a promo code with $200 credit onto every person's account. Managed to revoke it,

but not before a couple of thousand people used it. So a couple of thousand people at 200, you're looking at about a $400,000 mistake. Oh my God. Okay, tell me what app that was. And also what the code was. What's the code? Haley 200. Haley 200.

Jeep. Wow. This is barely scratching the surface, by the way. So many people absolutely cocking up at work. I broke a $250,000 laser hair removing machine at work. I put in the wrong extension at work and used it and it blew the whole thing up. Eek. Eke.

What do you mean like an extension cord or a box? I don't know. My first job was at a movie theater and they asked me to turn the lights off at the end of the night. I accidentally turned off the freezers and all the chop tops melt. The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fleshhorn and Haley. Vons $10 suburb. We randomly generate a suburb somewhere in this beautiful country of ours.

Oh, it's gorgeous. And if you are in that suburb and you are the first call or throw, you win cash. Now, is this sad news? Yeah, I've actually just had a little heads up. What? Is someone spending too much money? From the Vaughn Smith accounting office. Okay.

So your accountant. Lovely Helen. Well, she's all about our account. We love it. We love $10 transactions. Lovely, lovely, we love, lovely Helen. What are all these $10? And then she'll see just one in mine for the one week that I had to.

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Just got to get in touch with the Caymans. This is fair because you have been paying all. It's so funny when we finish this. And then the listener stays on. We play a song or an ad break. And then Vaughan's like, okay, what's your last name? This is genuinely not coming from the NZMe or Zee Bank account. It comes from Vaugh.

Mass. Personal money. An instant payment of $10. Okay, where are we going today? Let's go to Rickerton and Christchurch. Oh, come on, that's easy. She's a big fat suburb. You're going to have to be quick.

First call her through. You've just got to be in Rickettin. You don't have to live there. You just have to be traveling through. You could be on the main route there. Quickly, $10, $10,000. $10 whole dollars is on the line. Oh, 800,000.

If you're in Ricketing, in Christchurchin, you. Church right now. First Caller Through wins. Rickerton's most busy, sorry, Christchurch is busiest, most contradictory suburb. It's posh and student-tee, leafy and loud, historical, and somehow always under roadworks. I love it. Great Mall. Great Mall. Big Mall. Everything you need.

Great Mall. Right in the middle. Yeah, Rickett. Big Mall. I will say once I got a terrible pedicure in Rickerton. Oh. Yeah, I went to her, just like, you know, like walk in place and went there, and, yeah, she smeared it all over my toes.

There's a lone star in Rickett and was that where you work, Georgia? Did you work at the loan? Because I'm just saying I've just got the suburb moment in the surrounding and one of the highlights of Rickett and apparently the Lone Star. Did you work at the Rickett and Lone Star? No, Pappanoi. Oh, wow. Papanoi.

Papanui. Was there a little bit of rivalry between the Papanoi and the Rookin and Lonester? No, we actually didn't really know them. We only really knew the Manchester Street one. Snobby. Yeah. Snobby. Snobby.

All right. Let's go and meet someone and see if they're from. Rickerton, shall we? No. Driving in, too. No, but that doesn't mean he's there yet. Taylor, good morning. Good morning.

She's there yet. Apologized. Taylor's a unisex. You all know. Now, you're not in Rickettin or you are in Rickerton. I am currently on Dean's Avenue. Okay. Deans Ave.

We're just going to... Well, basically... No, basically... Don't invite me in. Leave the... Leave the studio. I don't want my help. Leave the studio.

It's boring. Wow. Okay, whereabouts on Dean's Ave, Taylor, because if you're not in the post postal code of Ricken you're not winning. And we will hang up on you so quick you'll get whiplash.

I am on the corner of Dean's Ave and Ricken rode the intersection. Okay, that's technically in Rookeran. Is it? We'll prove it. We'll apologize to the boundary. Yeah, look me in the eye and apologize.

No one's not going to apologize to anybody for anything ever. Because I'm a white man. And I'm perfect. And I'll just change the rules so I was always right. Okay, now we are going to need to verify Taylor because people

Do you try to... Yeah, because the Hagueley Park side of the road is the boundary of Rickerton according to this. Okay, so we're about to you. She's on the corner of... I'm trying to see in a dress. Hold on. Okay. I'm dropping...

I can drop a street for you, dude, right in that corner. You can tell me about some buildings. Yeah, yeah, I'd do that. Okay. Okay, what's the... What's the name of the... Oh, okay, what cuisine, what kind of cuisines on the corner there? You have monster chicken and Thai chef

She's there She's there, she's there She was ready to go with that too She went straight away, so quick Kayla, congratulations You have won today's $10 suburb The penultimate What are you going to do with all this cash?

Wow Honestly, I didn't pack my lunch so And I'm heading into work That's beautiful You will have the $10 by lunchtime That's the Vaughnsmith guarantee That's beautiful What are you going to get?

Are you going to go get? some sate sticks from Thai chef? Oh, maybe. That sounds like a treat. Man, I love sartastic. You can't lose all the sartis sticks. I will never go to a Thai restaurant and not get sate sticks. Sometimes they overdo the chicken and it's chew.

Oh, it is dry as shit, but I'm still getting it. But the peanut sauce. The peanut sauce just wet up for the dryness. And obviously there's some left over and you can put your money bags in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then little shredded cabbage. Or just finger the peanut sauce off the plate. A straight into your mouth.

Yeah, I'll do that. God the peanut sauce. No, that's what I want to do. Congratulations. The ZDM Podcast Network What's going on? ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. I've got to say,

I take my head off to big companies that just hand over their social media rather than some dude in his 50s. Yes. Being like, trust me, when I ran newspaper ads, this is how he grabbed people's attention. And it'll work on your Instagram

and your ticotty boo and we're going to do it. Yeah, and they hand it over. I'll tell you who does it super well. Scrub Daddy. If you've not seen Scrubber. steady stuff. It is wild.

Mm-hmm. And they literally, I just think, handed the keys to the social media to a young person and was just like, have that, you know the internet better than I do. Yes. And they've nailed it.

Chulingo does it very well. Yep. And I will say, at home here, the Department of Conservation. Yes, that's one that you wouldn't... Yes, you wouldn't expect, like, the Department of Conservation, so you'd just expect to be,

he's a hut. The Department of Conservation, and that was kind of what they did do. The Department of Conservation handed the keys to somebody who immediately was like, it would be funny. if we did a reel of all the places called knob. Knob Creek,

knob, hill, knob, dusk, knob. And they did a reel on Instagram and it went nuts. And also, Carl, when you were saying, the New Zealand police social media, very good, and Invercargall. The Invercagel City Council is on my feed every day. Really? I'm not a rate payer.

Lots of the small towns in the South Island have started this. And I think it's fantastic. Also, fun fact that maybe no one cares about. The New Zealand police social media job is like one of the most coveted jobs in social media in New Zealand. Oh really? Because they do such a good job. But everyone wants it. Because it's so fun.

Yeah. Yeah. And also like sometimes they leave the door open to the confiscated items. Oh my God. I guess this little bag of of Marijuana fell into my handbag. That's a great way to lose your job. Oh yeah. Now I've lost the most coveted job in social media. You could be like, it would be really good for the gram if we could get some shots from the police eagle helicopter and of course I'm a person to charge of it. So let's get that whirlibirds.

And you cute doggies. Go for a little bit of marijuana falls into my hands. Haley, again, you lose the most coveted job. Damn it, for a second time. I know, we are giving you two chances and we're the police. It's a third strike you're out. So the Department of Conservation have been putting up some very good quality content. Right.

But I need one explained to me. What do you need explained? They put up one and I knew from the lighting and the way these two Department of Conservation employees were running through the forest and sloma. I knew it was a twilight reference. Oh, yes, because the twilight running is very funny. Yeah, and they like pounce on trees. Remember in twilight how they climbed the vampires, climbed the trees?

They kind of, it's... So I knew it was... But then it's connecting with nature, but it's hoa, hoa season. And I googled, I was like, wha. I said, hoa, it looks like a Māori word, H-O-A, hoa. So I googled hoa, and that means friend. Like, when you say, Ear-Hua. Air-Hua.

It's my friend. Khao Rhoa is friend. So I was like connecting with nature but it's friend, friend, friend, friend season? Right, but so you need the Gen Z's to explain this to you. Yes, please. So you are correct.

It is a reference to Twilight. Okay. So you half got it? But it's not what you think it is. It's, uh, roll the clip. We have a clip. Okay. Okay.

Oh, yes, this feels familiar. What is that? So that's a song that's used in twilight And it's become a bit of a trend at the moment Like when, obviously not for us But the rest of the world is going into like coldness And like it's pumpkin season They call it winter

Coldness Column they call it winter Oh but the coldness is the aspect of it So they're going to coldness And like oh when the wind starts sounding like Oh yeah like pumpkin spice Yeah yeah yeah Okay

But as Gen Zee we don't commit to much So we'll just be like It's ho ho ho ho season Right, yeah, the word economy Right Okay But it's kind of one of those things Because Americans don't understand hemispheres

That it's just like everyone celebrates Ho Hoa Hoa Season no matter where we are Right So even though it's getting warmer here We drink pumpkin spice lattes and enjoy Oh Love that Do you feel explained?

I feel adequately explained I'm just wondering the average Like 60 year old woman who loves the Department of Conservation. No, but they've got to target the kids. I know, that's what they're doing, that's what they're doing. Also, the funniest part about you asking Gen Z's to explain this to you is, like, famously, this is a millennial movie.

I've never seen them. I'm so embarrassed that it is a millennial movie. No, they were terrible movies. The second movie, was it New Moon, is the worst movie they've ever seen in my life and sat through it being like, people love this so much, it has to get better. Watch the whole thing at the end, it's like, oh, I hate this. I sort of feel like maybe if I had a few. drinks and some friends around for a giggle.

Oh my gosh. If you think that the movies are bad, you should read the books. They're terrible. Are they? I'm not going to do that. But I'll watch the bad movies for a chuckle. The ZN Podcast Network. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It's Japan It's Japan

It's a classic aspect of Japan The vending machine Oh Whoa I mean it is It is a pivotal point in the history For sure But there are approximately one vending machine

For every 23 people in Japan Wow. Yeah. There's so many. They're so fun. Because of that our friend Mike's brought a vending machine. He's just ordered one online. And he puts things in it.

But not for his house. Well, obviously not. Although how cool would it be? How cool? Hang on that. Just popped into my head. I could fit a vending machine. I could fit a vending machine.

I could fit a vending machine. But what are you putting in the vending machine? Treats. But why are you not just putting them in the cupboard? No, but I've got the key. So when I'm paying, I get the money. No, but then you might as well just have a cupboard. But if you didn't have the key

If it was time locked So you could only get the money once a month Then you could like Okay I'll have some chips And you're kind of punishing yourself For having the chips Because you're paying for them twice And at the end you've got a little stack of cash

What about little drinkies like The fridge ones And we could have like albers or something And then you come out And you're like oh let's go play a game of pool or something And then we go in a vending machine And people have to give you money To drink at your house

It's kind of cool It's giving real bachelor vibes Yeah Big Bachelor garage Okay, with 124 million people, that means there is a stack of vending machines, over 5.5 million vending machines across Japan. And known for their quirky vending machines also. Yeah, not just things like drinks and stuff.

Eggs, boiled eggs. Yep, boiled eggs, hot chips, spaghetti, noodles, like ramen vending machines. Yeah, you put the ramen, you know, you get the hot ramen dumped in and then you choose which broth you want, it's all in a vending machine. And 10KG bags of rice as well. And a vending machine. God, that'd have thump out the slot, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't that come down, folks? Babushka. A gooshka. Yeah. So vending machines are just become an essential part of Japanese life. Yeah, okay. A lot of people just, that's where they'll eat from, right? Like, as you say, the ramen ones,

and then you go and get a boiled egg from somewhere, and you can get a drink. You can get adult fun toys. You can get all sorts. That's what I wasn't going to touch too far on the, you can get in all manner of things. Now, why did they take off? Condense living?

In Japan. Correct. Condense living. space efficiency and crowded cities. Makes you quite smart, Haley. I don't know if... I didn't know this of you. I thought you were a thicky this whole time.

That's why when I talk to you, I slow down and I articulate. And I appreciate it. I speak loudly. I open our mouths a little wider. To make sure that you understand what we're saying. Like a boomer speaking to someone that doesn't speak English. Bingo.

Yes. So it's a... Two omelettes and two coffees. A cappuccino. Hot. Extra hot. And also, if you... you two have finished. I've got another reason, he didn't like that, did he? No, you

have your fun, but some of us here for facts. It was a perfect storm in post-World War to Japan. Labor shortages, so people needed to be not working in restaurants and stuff like that. In retail, they needed to be focused on rebuilding the country.

Urbanisation, so there was a constant flow of pedestrians, so they needed a quick way of dealing with things. And as Japan worked around the clock to rebuild the nation, they were all working sort of out of kilter with the traditional time that restaurants and food places were open so they kind of like turned to vending machines

and people were coming and going come in and going come and go and we don't have time don't have time to stop just want to get it on the go and so that's where they reckon Japan has such a vending machine culture amazing yeah someone did say their favourite thing they've heard is thumb out the slot and they said that would have been their

Rock Quest band named single Thumb out the slot how did we miss that now and we'd just say behind the scenes producer Shannon has been doing some stellar work on the 2026 Fletchmore and Haley calendar You're going to want to get this on your wall Rock Quest, bad names and the singles

Yes Do we have room for a thump out of the slot? I think we're done We're closed, okay? There's always next year There's always next year There's always next year There'll be a new theme

So today's fact of the day is Japan has one vending a machine for every 23 people Fact of the day Day day day day The Zatoo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-D-Doo-D-D-D-D-D-T-D-D-D-T-T-T-D-D-T-T-T-T-U-D-T-W. The Z-M Podcast Network. Play Z-N's Fletchornin-Haley.

Where's my little group chat? I've got a little group chat with my mum, my brother, and I. Okay. Poor Craig. We've left him out of this one. He's probably not a big replyer. I'll say he couldn't give us. and my brother sent through

oh no that was a different one oh my brother sent through oh my god Haley your ex is now the deputy mayor of Wellington I was like what your ex from Wend? The idea that Haley Sproul would date someone to go on so high up in our government in local politics

so I've heard you mention the name before No, no, no, no. So the X I usually mention is my ex-Ben. Yeah. This is not that X. This is literally my first ever... Two-Bens. She's a two-ben girl.

I am. This was my... To Ben or not to Ben? How many Ben's? I have to check my little black book. So, this is my first ever boyfriend. When I was 14 years old, I dated Ben McNulty. Now, definitely mere willing to...

Wait, how long did you date for? Like, can you even count this? a couple of months and then we broke up because I was 14 and it was like really there was a lot going on. I was a weird gauph and then we got back together when I was 15 and it was 16 and then we just dated for a little bit like because we were in the

music scene he was like an emo kid and now he's the deputy mayor congratulations Ben if you're listening I mean how are you? I think he's got kids and a wife right okay you're great yeah yeah and it's just so funny when you see these people being like what do you mean you're the deputy mayor of Wellington I always think that when you see

like think back to the teen years or the early 20s and like the straight-edge kids. Yes. What are we doing now? I'm just like running businesses and such. Like we respect, you know, like he's obviously gone on to do great things. I'm like, but we made out at the back of reading cinemas when I was first. Oh, Hayley, that's the mayor. I know you're the bloody deputy mayor.

Oh, it's just so funny. And then I love in this chat, my mum said, oh, hails, what could have been? I mean, not that you're not doing a right for yourself now. And my mum did say, gosh, he's had a glow up since you. were together, I'm like, I was 14. Yeah, no 14-year-old dude. If a dude's got it all sorted at 14, he's going to have a blowout by 19.

You want to be an awkward, gangly, not growing up to yourself at 14. Yeah, God, it's so funny. But it is funny to reflect on your exes and where they ended up. And this is what I want to ask this morning. Did your ex go on to do bigger things? So, like, become famous or like... Can famous or make the news or, I don't know, just... In a good way or bad way, do we want to take all the stories?

Yes, yes. My ex became a notorious murderer It's just strange when you're like Holy moly there they are And because it might have been 10 years ago 15 20 years ago It might have been a long time ago And now they're an all black

Or something That's someone who's already messaged that in Really? They went out with an all black late before they were famous Yeah Yeah when they were 14 When I was 6 then I dated a rugby player He later became an all black No word of which all black

Okay well we're gonna need to know which one We won't say on here But just because we love goss Yeah, totally. We just need to know for our own personal satisfaction. Okay. That's so funny, if you were like a teenager, your first boyfriend, if he goes and wins like Olympic gold, you're like, eh?

What? Wait, I should have stayed, then I would have been with an Olympian. We used to do burnouts in the back of your car, bro. I'll get it started with a colossal message. Okay, okay. I grew up in Western Australia, and when I was 13, I dated Heath Ledger. Get out! What the hell?

Are you kidding me? Imagine if your first patch was of Heath. RIP, by the way, turned too soon. Lost. I would say all the time I'd be like, oh my ex, Heath, you don't know if you're not. Heath Ledger. Oh yeah, my first boyfriend, Heath.

Oh, my God, how long did they go out with Heath Ledger for, do they say? Well, they were 13. Yeah, like probably a week. A couple of weeks. Or a lunchtime. I'd love to know if they dated Heath Ledger until lunchtime. Oh, yeah, that'd be cute. You'd get one passionate.

Okay, 0-800,000 M is our number. Give us a call. You can text her as well, 9-696. Did your ex go on to become great? asking if your ex went on to great things or maybe infamous things. Yeah, because my very first boyfriend from when I was 14 is now the deputy mayor of Wellington

and I can't help but feel like I somehow shaped him into the man that he became through dealing with my shirt. Yeah, he was like, if I'm down with Haley Sprout at 14, I can fix a city. I can deal with constituents. Anonymous has called up. Anonymous, good morning.

What did your ex go on to do? So we used to hook up when I was like 15, probably on the side of a mountain in Auckland. On the side of a mountain? Like Mount Eden. Which mountain? That one. Mount Eden. It's seen some humping, hasn't it, Mount Eden?

Oh, I've frottaged on the side of Mount Eden. Have you? I could only dream. Bad Maldi. Manifo or whatever it's called. No. Get out of the cone. Get out of the cone.

You're not allowed down in the cone anymore. Oh, yeah, you're not allowed to hump in the cone. Did you hump in the cone? Or on the side? No, on the, on the side, I'm trying not to give away too many details in case they hear it. Okay. Now, so who is this person? So, they are an actor, and they are now a relatively main character on the TV show, The Hunting Wives.

Oh, okay. The Hunting Wives. Well, I've figured out who it is. Well, it could be many people, couldn't it? that could be. What is the hunting wives? What is the hunting wives? It's a huge US drama.

She trades city life for East Texas and falls into a wealthy socialites magnetic orbit. We're a clique-clik-clik. Fousewives. High deadly secrets. A clique. A clique. Wow. Okay, well, amazing.

Okay, well, that's... I think the way that I found out was probably the most... I was sitting there, like, making dinner, having it on while I was watching it. And the first thing that he comes up on is pretty raunchy. And so I'm looking there and I'm listening And then I look, because obviously he's Kiwi But he's got an American accent on And I'm like, holy crap, that's also, what the hell?

How weird watching a raunchy scene on TV But you've also done like the side of Mount Eden? That same, that's wild. Okay, amazing. Anonymous, thank you. Let's go to Nadia Nadia. Good morning. Good morning.

Did your ex go on to Greater Things? Yes, I'm the Heath Ledger Girl. Oh, my God, there she is. So you dated Heath Ledger for how long? I was about six months. It was a decent stint. When you were 13, you dated him. Yes.

So we met at a school disco. I used to go to some Mary Anglican girls' school. Grandma boy. And yeah, it was about six months. It's quite funny because the amount of people that don't believe me, but my mum's always happy to jump on the phone in Australia. He was the nicest guy. apparently I ever dated when I was younger.

Oh, so Mom loved him. Oh, I loved him, yeah. I actually broke up with him because he did theater arts, which was quite a lot. No, yeah, wait, Nadia! You broke up with the Joker! You broke up with Heath Ledger. Yeah.

You don't have never seen any of his movies because I can't watch them. Oh, he's very, very good. Why did you not want to go with someone doing theater arts? Oh, you know, when you're young, you know, people pay you out because it wasn't an man. Yeah. What a poofy? Yeah, no, I always thought we'd cross paths again,

so it was quite sad when he passed away. You know what you would love. I would start with Brokeback Mountain. Oh, no, I wouldn't do it. I can start with two things I hate about you. Oh, nice tail. Nice tail. Yeah, do a night sale.

Oh, because what, how did you react when the news broke that he had passed away? Oh, I was absolutely devastated, to be honest. For so many years, I actually moved to Sydney and I became a journalist. and I used to do movie reviews when I was a cadet journalist. Right. And it used to be a joke in Channel 7 that, you know, if he ever had to go on the premiere, you'd have to go and interview him

because he would just drop all of his PR training because he knew me. Yeah. And so he remembered you and you'd just catch up. Well, I could imagine he would remember me. Yeah, we had some pretty cool times. It was, yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, cool. Well, you never forget your first laugh at you.

What a great story. What a great story. So much so, I think, cooler of the way. I'm just going to say, caller of the week. Congratulations, got a chemist warehouse price back for you, Nadia. Well done. Thank you, guys. You guys, have a great day.

You too. All thanks to Kimmiss Warehouse, home of the biggest brands at the lowest prices. So many texts and calls, we'll get to more of those next. I want to know right now if your ex has gone on to be great, gone on to greater things. My ex from when I was 14 years old, my first ever boyfriend is now the deputy mayor of Wellington. Getting prior to this, he would be like, I dated who, we'd see you on TV. I dated who and I swortened or you reckon he's trying

to politically distance yourself? I reckon keep that quiet. Politically, I got a fright as well though. I was like, what party? I think that would be a phone and topic for another day. Who are you distancing yourself from? Yeah, who are you quietly distance yourself from? I'm still reeling at the Heath Ledger

story. That was wild. I know. He's messaging and it's absolutely wild. Second from the top, from Donna. Okay, let's go to Anonymous first. I don't know if legally we can read that one out. Okay. Anonymous, who did you date that went on to better and bigger things?

So, well, my ex-husband went on to the Bachelorette in Australia and won. Oh, he won the Bachelorette. And did you watch the whole season? Wait, did you say ex-husband or ex-boyfriend? Ex-husband. Wow. Wow. What season? I'm going to look it up.

It was in 2019, and I was living in Australia, and then I moved back home, so Auckland. Yeah. Oh, he's handsome. We don't tell her. We hate him. We hate him on him. It's great.

We're a piece of shit. Yeah, we hate him. We'll lose it. It's all good. I mean, I did watch it. And we, I mean, like, when obviously things ended, it was a little bit not great. Of course. It became amicable.

That's good. I mean, I only wish him the best now. He's married, and I've got a new partner in a child now. He's not married to her, though, is he? No, no, no, no. It's shocking that a reality show relationship didn't last. What was it like seeing someone on a reality show that you were married to and then seeing them act on the show, were you like, that's not him?

Yeah. It was interesting because, like, obviously our relationship was, in the beginning, it was very much how he was on the show. and I guess with what we went through, I just hoped that he learned and learned things from each other and where we move forward. But if that worked out, yeah.

Yeah, it's so weird seeing your ex on a reality show. It just so trippy. You'd be stoked though if you broke up with them and they were like a douche and then they portrayed themselves as that douche. So afterwards they can be like, they misportrayed me and you can be like, no, they do. Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in.

I'm not going to read out that one I said before. We'll just read it to Fletchia though. Liturously. Just, we'll take that off here. You want to read it here? Yeah, you just... We won't be reading that one out. Nope.

On the radio. My ex became an Auckland's ghost house buyer. What? Ghosthouse. Wait, that's a thing. No, I don't know if that's a other thing. Because we've had, you know. Yeah.

Big names, bad outbreaks and stuff. Even a year later, he was in the paper. He went on to do big things. When I was 13, I held hands with Jamie Dornan. Oh. Who was my stage boyfriend in a community theatre production in Bengal, Northern Ireland. But there was a photo of it, and I told people, that's my boyfriend. So now she can be like, Jamie Dornan's my, what's my boyfriend?

Oh, my God, my ex. He's a handsome man. He's a handsome man. Yeah. Oh, God, look at that. There's my ex on that, Bill, Bois. Oh, God. My boyfriend on us 13 was that hot hipsster bodyguard

That was Jacinda's bodyguard with the beard Who went viral after he was so hot Yeah, but I imagine he didn't look like that when he was 13 God, you said that quickly, didn't you? Oh, I just, oh, I looked him up for sure When she was Prime Minister, I was just like, who's that, who's that, who's that? Who's that, who's that? And Haley was like, can we just keep interviewing the Prime Minister?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, in studio? Yeah, yeah, yeah, in studio, in studio. And then she'd, you know, make sort of like vague threats and I hope that should be cuffed, put face down and choked. Yeah, yeah. Oh, hey, I got you. Um, um, my ex featured in a woman's weekly for having a Lord of the Rings style wedding is apparently that bonded over their love for the movies,

despite the fact that they never wanted to watch it once when we were together and I kept asking. Oh, sidestep though, Frito bloody crashed a wedding, didn't they? Yes. At Hobarton. Yeah. And while I was like, oh my God, that was. would be amazing.

There was still part of me that the bride would have been like, this is my day! I know. And Elijah was here in his puffer jacket. Yeah.

Might have had an ex become an all black, another one become a professional boxer and another one's in jail. We've got to type. You've got a type there and sounds like.

And they all sound ripped, I'll say. I love someone saying I went out with Christy Brinkley's niece for a year. Now that's a stretch. Of the blood knees?

I don't know. It's got to be her. Yeah. Because otherwise if it's just like her husband's There's no brinkly. There's no brinkly. Bloodline. Big stretch there. Big stretch. Big stretch. Crazy that none of our exes have messaged in.

Come on in, please. You're next. You're on the radio. Get up for your plate. We're having our apple. We're handing over the show to you, Georgia. You must have dated some basketball imports in Christchurch just to annoy the parents in the day. Yeah, what? Sama on rugby player. No, I did date of rugby. every player though. But anyway, there's songs

coming up. But come on, become famous? I don't know. No. No, they didn't. No, no, no, no. Nothing too exciting. No. Nothing too exciting. Um, guys, let me guess. What songs are you playing today? How many songs? Not what songs are you playing any songs. Got that wrong, she's trying to mock us. No, I'm not. I'd never do that to you guys.

Hey guys, apparently being the company's most successful podcast isn't enough. They want us to tell people to tell more of their friends. So people are clearly liking it, but we have to tell them to tell others to like it. I would concentrate more on the shitter podcast that the company makes. Yeah, same. You know, the real losers out there. Same. No, no, no, we'll just...

Yeah. Maybe we won't say nice. Maybe we should even encourage people to listen to other podcasts that the company makes. Oh, no, but only after ours. Yeah, nah, no, don't do that. And not more than ours. Give us a sexy little review, though. Play ZM's Fletchhorn and Haley.