ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Cat Fest!!

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn and the gang cough up some hairballs for a week of cat festival facts. It's time for... Fact of the Day theme is cat celebrations. And I thought I'd leave this in your capable hands. Fun.

Because you guys like cats. We love cats. We're cat people. Cat people. My cats smell so good at the moment. What kind of smell? Just cat people. Cat people. You know, my cats smell so good at the moment. What kind of smell? Just like... Cat.

Clean cat. I've got a great smelling cat. Yeah, man. Your cat never goes outside. Never goes outside. It just always smells delicious. When Rolly... After Rolly cleans himself...

Oh, it's so good. He cleans himself with saliva. Whatever, you share ice cream with your dog. I do? Yes, you do. No. He goes lick, lick, and then he gets his No. I don't share anything with the dog. Yeah.

I'm actually the dog having human food. It's disgusting. I wouldn't do that. We're talking cat festivals this week. And I hope you struggle to find more examples of cat festivals. Oh, my God. Now, there's a link in my email with a few different cat festivals. Okay.

But then from there on out. What do you mean? Like Coachella, but for cats. Well, there's all sorts. Well, you could find Catchella if you cat festivals. Okay. But then from there on out... What do you mean, like, it's Coachella, but for cats? Well, there's all sorts. You could find Catchella if you wanted to, but I don't think cats would enjoy music festivals that would be too loud. Unless they do that thing where all of a sudden they're like...

And then scatter. Unless, like, the headline was Jelly Meat. A tin of Jelly Meat. So today's cat festival is Kattenstut, the Festival of the Cats in Belgium. Kattenstut, the festival of the cats in Belgium. Kattenstut. Okay. It's devoted to the cat, been running regularly.

It happened this year, May 12th, but won't be happening again until May in 2027. A lot of festivals are doing this. A lot of festivals are pulling back from being annual to less regular. There's a parade and a giant cat gets marched through. Each time there's a new giant cat I'll just load up this picture of this giant cat

his children dressed as cats really? it's like two stories tall yeah a giant cat float gets dragged through and they celebrate the cats of the town

the background of this cat festival is that it marches through town one story it's connected to witchcraft and the killing of the evil spirits. And so basically the cats were thrown out of a bell tower into the town square below to kill them.

That's terrible, but they always land on their feet. They always land on their feet, but you can land on your feet from a huge height and just do yourself irreversible damage. So they thought that they were associated because cats, of course, black cats are associated with witchcraft. And another story suggests a celebration of the cats

and the throwing of them from the bell tower because that's an undisputed fact. Cats were thrown from the bell tower. Is that before they could make these buildings rodent-proof, over winter they'd let cats live in there. So the cats would parade around these storage areas of the hall where they stored grains and such and town reserves to eat the rats. Right.

Yeah. And then there was wool in there as well. And so the cats would go in, keep the rats out of the wool because the rats would go in there to be warm and also be fed. And then when springtime came, they're like, what are we going to do with all these cats? We can't afford to feed these cats. Oh, no. Out the bell tower.

So obviously they feel bad about it now. Oh, dear. So they started in the celebration of the cats. They were wearing like little cat outfits and stuff. Yeah, they parade through town. Yeah, that'd be fun. Kind of drawing attention to it though, isn't it? To the fact that they were throwing cats out of the bell tower. Yeah.

But why didn't they just take the cats somewhere and bring them back in winter? Where would you take them? On a summer vacay. Yeah, summer vacay. Where do they go on a summer vacation that's rich with rats? Catalonia. Yeah. Hello.

Great name for it. Cat Stellarizzo. No, too flash. Too flash. Catalonia I've heard of. What about Catagonia? Catagonia, if that's a Patagonia play, that's South America. That's a long way from your cats from Belgium.

And also, not all cats are into hiking, Hayley. What about Catland instead of Thailand? That's really good. But it's not even close. You could go there on a catamaran. You could take them to Paris. Yes, they go on a catamaran. You could take them to Paris. Yes, they go on a catamaran. From Belgium.

Paris, did you say? Yeah, you take them to Paris. Beautiful gay Paris. So today's Fact of the Day is there is a cat celebration that happens in Belgium where they celebrate cats because they used to throw them out of a clock tower? Play.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Okay, today's fact of the day has been handed over to us, of course, in Vaughan's absence and because he's away

for three days this week, he gifted us a theme that he thought that we could get excited about Fletch, which is cat celebrations because we love cats. We cat people.

Man, how good are our cats smelling in the moment? They smell great. I just can't stop sniffing it. Next time you're around at my place, you can smell my cat. You can smell mine. We have a little sniff.

We have a sniff off. Today I want to talk about the New York Cat Film Festival. Okay. Now we know there are film festivals all around the world. New Zealand's got a film festival. There's the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, huge festivals. And they always have those little olive leaf things on the movie posters. Yeah, the laurels.

So if you're part of these festivals, you can have a film about anything, a horror, a drama, a documentary, a short film, a long film. But in the New York Cat Festival, as you can imagine, it's all about cats. So all of the films that you can be like, as you can imagine, it's all about cats. So all of the films that you can be like, that you can submit or that are selected have to be at the centre of them. About cats.

Are there many films that are Garfield? The Garfield movie? So just scrolling down, so this year in 2024, in October will be the seventh annual New York Cat Film Festival. Okay. Containing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 films about cats.

Oh, wow. Okay. Here's some of the titles. Yeah. Trace of a Cat, Cat Kingdom, Cat's Eyewitness News, The Battle for Swan Lake, King of Cats,

Mikey Hammer, Private Eye. What? That's about a cat that's a private eye? Private Eye with a cast of actual cats from Paradise Ranch Cat Sanctuary who have the dialogue of a 1940s film noir set in New Orleans.

Mikey, the private investigator, is hired to find a stolen million dollar cat collar. Okay, none of these sound great. Kitty Crusade, a biographical documentary about a passionate TNR cat rescuer, Danny, and the joys and heartbreak of her efforts. That'll be a good watch. Do we have any IMDb ratings for any of these movies?

No, because this is their debut. Okay, right, so they haven't come out. This is a film called Nine Lives by Jesse Davidson from California. A heartwarming documentary about a cat who has an entire neighbourhood fooled with several people believing they are the only ones who love and look after this cat. Okay, this is what cats do. This is good. A New Home for an Old Cat is the name of another film from New Mexico.

A Chronicle of the Adventure of Gotterland, an older feline who got a second chance when adopted from a shelter. Just like you rescued your cat and I rescued mine. Not quite. Yeah, similar. And here's another one called Cat in the Box, a short animated film by a Lebanese student filmmaker at NYU about a cat who hears noises coming from a box and decides to investigate.

So there's 20 films. You can go, you can buy tickets in New York to like one film or a whole festival pass. Could you imagine the cat ladies there? And then if you have a film about a cat to our filmmaker listeners, if you go on catfilmfestival.com forward slash submit a film and you can submit a film to be part of the New York City Cat Film Festival. So today's Fact of the Day is on Cat Celebration Week

that there is a whole film festival in New York that is dedicated purely to films about cats. Play ZM's Fletch Vornanaly. Play ZM. With Vorn away, we are in charge of his chosen theme of the week, Cat Celebrations. Now, he talked about a parade in Stuttgart. In Europe somewhere.

Europe somewhere. And yesterday we talked about the New York Cat Film Festival. Yes. Today I want to talk about the biggest cat convention for cat enthusiasts in the world. Now, you've heard of Comic-Con. Yeah. Which is all your comic books and your marbles

and all that kind of stuff. There is a Cat-Con, which is a ginormous event that happens every year in Pasadena. The people that would go to this thing, like you can just imagine, what, you would go? What? 100% I'd go to this. Is it just like a cat show? It is huge. Okay, so we've just missed it.

It was three weeks ago in Pasadena. Pasadena? Pasadena. Pasadena. See you next year. Date's venue to be announced for 2025. But it was absolutely huge. There's meet and greets with celebrity, like, Instagram cats.

Oh, get out. Like, your famous cats. Like, say, Grumpy Cat. He used to go to CatCon. R.I.P. Yep. Wait, could you like hold it? Yeah.

Because some cats don't like that. It depends on the cat. Some of them you can hold, some of them it's just a photo opportunity and you pay. So you get your pass, you pay. Now, one of the parts of CatCon that I really like is they get some firefighters in because firefighters save cats from trees

and these firefighters are sexy. And they get the firefighters in there to talk about saving cats from trees and they take their shirts off so i've found why you want to go to cat i want to go to cat con yeah uh if you go to cat con worldwide.com there's a list of things you need to bring to cat con to get the most out of your day uh there's games one of the games is called the kitten game don't look at this kitten and then if you look at the kitten you you lose. And the kitten's cute. It's really sweet. There's like

things about rescue cats. There's exhibitors showing off cats. Merchandise toys for cats. There's workshops with experts in cat health and culture. There's nutrition workshops.

How much are you paying to go to this cat con? It's about a hundred US dollars. What? But there's also tons of surprises. And is it lots of cats? Lots of cats. Okay, good. But this is the main thing. Oh, there's firefighters are Australian.

The heroes of the Australian firefighters calendar. And they flew them to a cat conference. Yeah. How did that go down? Like they're like, hey, lads, we've had a request here to go to a cat convention. A cat convention. It's huge apparently.

A lot of chicks there, a lot of cats. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, mate, let's go. If it's for the cats, we'll go. But like the main part of this is the celebrity cats. So cats of Instagram, cats of TikTok, you can go and hang out with them. So as part of Cat Celebration Week on Fact of the Day,

today's Fact of the Day is that there is a massive convention held in Pasadena every year called CatCon. Today's Fact of the Day on this Cat Celebrations Around the World week. Vaughan is back tomorrow. He kind of stuck us with a bit of a dud one, didn't he? Because there's not a lot of celebrations for cats. There should have just been facts about cats. Yeah.

Cat facts. He really narrowed it down too much. He narrowed it down too much. He's actually stitched us here. In fact, tomorrow when he's back, he's going to struggle to find a cat. Fact. I actually considered for a moment running through about 10 cat celebrations

so he had nothing to do and we'll just watch him struggle. But now I found an article about world... Cat World Domination Day. Okay. Which is the day supposedly that your cat will come out and take over the world, basically.

Oh, right. Okay. Not come out as gay. I think all cats are a little bit gay. And they're all pans. Do you know what I mean? What makes you think that all cats are a little bit gay? Just the way they walk. Right. The way they clean themselves so elegantly. Right. And the way they cross their paws. I don't know.

My cat does that. He crosses his paws. He's a bit gay. And he'll just watch the TV. And I'm like, maybe he is a little bit gay. He's a little bit gay. I think your cat's definitely gay. Mine isn't a flaming homosexual. I actually think he might because the kitten down the hallway, my neighbour's kitten, female, he's scared of it and runs away. Could be gay.

Could be gay. I think we've got a few gay cats on our hands here. So Cat World Domination Day is celebrated every June 24th. And they say on June 24th, every year, you need to be vigilant. You need to be looking for signs that your cat is plotting an overthrow. This is the day after my birthday. It is too. It's my dad's birthday.

It's June 24th. Sorry. Now I know it is. Sorry. Now you know it is. Now I know it is the day after Fletcher's birthday. Yeah, thank you. Your dad's birthday is the day after mine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how you know it. Yeah, right. That's birthday. Yeah, thank you. Your dad's birthday is the day after mine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how you know it. Yeah, right. That's right. Now. So you've got to be vigilant. There's actually some signs to look for, some behavioral stuff. When you're walking up the steps, they're sort of coming up towards you,

ready to attack. When you laugh, they're staring at you, just waiting for, they're plotting their demise. This is just every everyday having a cat yeah basically but on June 24th here are some tips to help avoid your cat's

I guess world takeover okay don't leave the food bowl unfilled yep because you know that they go absolutely crazy and on world cat domination day this could be the straw

that breaks camels back God Vaughan is really going to struggle tomorrow we're scraping the barrel with this one excuse me this is the top of the barrel this is the froth on top of back. God, Vaughan is really going to struggle tomorrow. We're scraping the barrel with this one. Excuse me, this is the top of the barrel. This is the froth on top of the bed. Is it? Okay. Yeah, this is the froth. This is literally right at the top. I didn't even dig that deep.

Offer them lots of snacks. You're giving them a gift. Hey, hey, hey. No need to take them to the world. I'm on your side now that you're our leaders. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm with you now. Consensual affection. Okay. Now, you know on World Domination Day they don't want a bar of you. When the tail starts flapping,

that's when I'm like, stop patting Murray because I know he'll just leave. Sometimes I like to grab the tail end and be like, what are you flapping that for? And he's like, So you want some consensual affection. You need to on June 24th, World Cat Domination Day, you need to provide adequate entertainment

to keep their mind distracted, I guess, from taking over the world. Yep. I don't know what that is for you. For you, it's like putting fishes on the TV. Yeah. Or a toy to play with or something to watch. Yep.

And then no matter what, no matter what your cat says on World Cat Domination Day, just say, yes, I want food, yes. I want pets, yes. I want to go outside, yes. I want to sleep on the I want pets, yes. I want to go outside, yes. I want to sleep on the bed with you, yes. Right. Yes, yes, yes.

Otherwise what they eat you. They'll take over the world. They will take over the world. We thought it was going to be monkeys or aliens. It's cats. It's cats. So today's fact of the day is that June 24th is officially World Cat Domination Day. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and.

Now what are cat celebrations did you guys do throughout the week? I left you some homework No you're on your own Oh no I've got one but I wanted to just Vaughn it was harder than anticipated

You should have I know you did that on purpose It was almost right up there with calendar week for us It was a bit lacklustre It was a bit of a dart actually A bit lacklustre I think you should have

just left us cat facts Would have been easier Well not cat celebrations Well to round off the week, I thought we could touch on National Hairball Awareness Day. Okay, that's great. We didn't do that one. A celebration of cats falls on the last Friday in April every year.

And I know here you were. I just missed it. Thinking, what a fool, I've missed it. Well, mark it in your calendars now. Okay. For the last Friday in April 2025. Are you looking in April? What will it be?

Oh, what are you not? You're not looking at your calendar. Oh, I just went on Instagram. Sorry. So I'm in the middle of talking and you've just zoned out and gone on Instagram. No, no, I'm enjoying it. I was just having chicken.

Kind of doing two things at once. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Because the two things could have been listening and also partaking. Oh, man. Ray O'Leary's funny, eh? He's just posted a clip.

It's not Ray O'Leary time now, although Ray O'Leary is a very funny man. He's a very funny man. He's a very funny man man I'm with you now Yeah okay cool thank you It's an awareness that it's a day To make sure your cat is not In pain from hairballs

This is the worst fact That they wake up there The weird part about it is someone kickstarted this A cat food company has kickstarted this Because you know you can buy the cat food That stops with the hairballs. Well, it doesn't. And there has been proof that they've found very

ancient cat remains with hairballs. So they've been choking on those things since day dot. Do you know Rolly doesn't get them? It's so weird. He's vomited once in his life in our house. And he doesn't get them. Short-haired cat, I guess. Not that much. We've got a long ginger puss at home. And it doesn't get them. Short-haired cat, I guess. Short-haired cat. We've got a long ginger puss at home.

And he doesn't do hairballs either. Yeah, right. But then you hear of some people and their cats are constantly like. And they're like. Well, that wraps up quite a lacklustre week. I thought I might touch just one more thing about hairballs. We really have no time. We're moving on. Egyptians used to keep them

because you know how they love their cats? Yeah. They'd keep them as little trinkets. Oh, yeah. You know how gross. Egyptians. Oh. Hey, whoa, whoa, don't shame a whole nation.

You said I know, comma, Egyptians. Also, the pyramids are tiny and real wide. Oh, right next to the main road. Yeah, like if we're just going to get a boot into Egypt. They just walk like normal people. Yeah, I know. They've got a song about how they walk. Left foot, right foot.

Just like that. Opposite arms and legs. It's normal. Yeah, none of that. So today's Fact of the Day's National Cat Hairball Awareness Day is the last Friday in April. Mark your calendars. Fact of the Day, Day, day, day, day.