November 28, 2023 • 36 mins
- The fallout from our work Christmas party
- Date or Mate?
- Dom feels like he needs to get his dog-niece a Christmas present
- How long has it been since you’ve washed your sheets?
- Can you order an ice cream cake from McDonalds?
- Village Idiom: Beating Around The Bush
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A long time ago, in a lab far far away,
a science experiment went horribly wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Out of that, faker rose.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Zach and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have you ever.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like this?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Like strange? This this happens when second kids.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is Zac and Don Another day, another podcast, we
should start with that. That could be my line. I
was trying to find a new way strap in the podcast.
They didn't like any of the suggestions that came through
to be honest, somewhere inappropriate. But I reckon another day,
another podcast that could be it?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What was an inappropriate one?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm not saying them on the podcast. That's why they're inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm interested. Yeah, you saw the question whether or
not they're real.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You saw the messages that came flooding through on the
zachon on Instagram account for this one. When I said
give me a new way to start the podcast, they
came flooding through.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
People are really invested in that one.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think they were too, And he went off they were.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All inappropriate and he can't mention any of them or
of people who suggested it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But regardless of that, Another day, another podcast, what do
you reckon?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Another day? Another dollar?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I mean another day, another dollar has the d D alliteration?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Another day, another dom? What about that? You could say that,
You could say another day, another dom because you get
me every day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I guess it's the.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Same dome, isn't it. Look what we've done again to
kick the shelf. We're taking the off air on air,
We're taking the planning meeting behind the mics, and I
enjoy doing that. You don't always love it as much
as me?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Not as much. No, No, I've got a bit of
a stomach cramp at the moment. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Is that why you're looking at me like that?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're right? What's happened?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It could have been the I have my yogat amusedly
before the show. Yeah, you know, we were actually producer.
Maddie was telling us that she was a part of
our producers for them. Yeah, you had to go around
the room and they're asking how their shows get ready
for the show.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And what did you Well, let's buzz Maddie into this.
What did you tell them, Maddie?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Did I say about you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, it was more so the fact of what the
others were. The others were very like Edgy Okay, some
of the things they were doing were very not safe
for work, really very like, very like. It was like
a bit of rock and roll. And then, Maddie, what
did you say that we liked to do well? I
said that you guys like to make your tea and
make your little snacks.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but Maddie, did you mention that sometimes some nights
I have two cups of tea? Did that come up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I did say that you like to microwave your teeth.
Do you sometimes of radiation?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Whose longtimes the tea? The tea sits there too long?
Goes a bit cool because I'm running around to.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
An Yeah right, that's a very parent thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, so I put in the micro so I can
enjoy my tea. I like my hot beverages to be hot,
you know, I don't want them to be teppered. That's
rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you bring a tea from home?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, I did that once. That was a special treat.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was like a Crima one.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, it was. It was a good memory. No, normally
I just go the standard. Tetley.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I noticed that the other night. Yeah, it's good Tetley man. No,
it's just to feel about the tea bags in the
office being open.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, not great.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Shouldn't that be in a sealed thing? It's just in
like a vase.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Even I wouldn't mind. I think that was a vase originally.
Even in like a ceramic dish with a lid, that'd
be better than nothing. It needs a lid. It needs
a lid because the flavor gets.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Out otherwise bringing I purchased my own tea to bring
in Have you Peppermint? Because the peppermint tea that was
here was real low quality, like real bad.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I didn't know they sold peppermint tea that cheap.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And it didn't taste good. I was like, this isn't
from a peppermint ley. What's this?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, could it be the tea bag takes on a taste.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it could be. It's the quality of the
paper used, because they're really ritzy looking tea bags. They
look fancy, look like cushions, little pillows.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm a herbal guy, dom's more of a traditional I am.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That sums us up you like a black tea. We
should put that into the show.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Milk, Yeah, how much milk? Just a dash finger?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What do you mean? A finger of milk?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Like if you were, if you held your fingers up
to a cup. Yes, yeah, uh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Look we can promise that the podcast from this point onwards.
I don't think this has been our strongest start. I'm
gonna be honest. Cramp.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I've got like a bit of cramp, and you know, yeah,
it's important redoing it. We're only a few minutes in.
We can start again. It's not too late.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We could. But then people will always talk about the
podcast open that no one ever heard, and they'll be like,
I wish I could hear it, and then we're like,
you really don't, I reckon. We put it in there
because it's important to own your flaws.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, let's wrap it up and get things rolling.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, let's get to work with the actual show.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
This is second time.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is work Christmas party season, Zach, I reckon. This weekend,
there'll be heaps of them all over the country, people
heading to a pub with the coworkers that they maybe
barely tolerate and the couple they kind of like a
little bit for a few free drinks.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It depends when it is, I think, in my opinion,
if it's in work time, fantastic. Yeah, don't have to
work if it's after hours, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The Saturday night work Christmas fight is like, I already
see these people five days a week. Now we're adding
a sixth inn. Do we have to be doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The radio station actually through our Christmas party last weekend
and it was a great party.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Nothing wrong with the party.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The party itself was fine, but it's led to some
chaotic circumstances. Now, you and I tapped out early, so
for us, we were in there for an hour and
a half or so, got ourselves a bit of food,
bit of get out. But then we hear after that
that basically a plague has emerged from this Christmas party.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Producer Maddie was sick yesterday and Maddie, you're telling us
that you caught something out the Christmas party and it
seems like it's taken out like a big percentage of
the station.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A lot of people took yesterday off actually right, and
that was like three days after the party, so they
weren't like hungover, correct. I mean, I'm sure a few
people probably did have a hangover last thing till Monday.
Apparently people are out very late.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But yeah, it was a sickness.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, and it's so if you gave us rough numbers,
I reckon there was probably about one hundred at the
Christmas party all up. How many do you reckon from
what you've had? How many confirmed it down?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think confirmed it would have been about, like I
want to say, at least like ten.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I reckon ten confirmed down.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There's no way there was one hundred people.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, we were in a public area, there were other groups.
It was hard to tell who was our group and
who are other groups? Remember, we were like penned in
sort of a roped into our section.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Dom has never been to a venue before that had
up the people there. He kept bringing it up. He's like,
this is so weird. And I'm like, have you never
been to a function that didn't harrer out the whole place?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, I'm just saying it was a little bit odd
the way they called and us off into the middle area.
If you're on one of.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The statics, did you find that strange? I thought that
was very normal. I thought that was normal.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The previously, in our time working in radios act there
have been some radio stations that have spent way too
much money on the Christmas parties. And perhaps it's tempered
my expectations.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The Christmas parties are a good indicator of where the
industry is at. Haven't been in an aeroplane hangar for
a few years.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, that was a different time when I hired that
hadn't got the private jet involved. Hey, look what we
want to know though. Obviously our radio station Christmas party
has spread in illness throughout the whole place, and so
it's obviously a nominee for the country's Worst Christmas Party.
But we want to open up on thirteen one oh
six five. If you've got an entry, a nomination for
Australia's Worst Christmas Party could be this year? Could you're freshy?
(08:00):
It could be something that happened years ago that you
think this has to be an all timer.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
We got Nick in Melbourne. Nick, why was your Christmas
party the worst Christmas party?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
It was definitely the one and only Christmas party hadventry
and you're probably going to hold off on going any
two any more. Okay, got that drunk that I blacked
out into the toilets and everybody had their dinner and
sort of left without me and I to walk home
from the city.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Left without you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They abandoned Unick and there was only five of us there,
so they knew.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That you were missing, and they just pushed on.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And I didn't mention anything about it the next week,
just to save myself the embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh wow, I don't want to do that with colleagues. I mean,
you don't want to do that full stop, right, but
with colleagues, because that's the checky thing, isn't it. Then
you're peeking over the sort of the divider. On Monday
morning at nine thirty game here about Nick, let's turn
on there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We have Allen in Melbourne. Yours involved your boss? Ellen?
What was it?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Absolutely, two thousand and five. We went up to the
Christmas party, had a great night. He at the end
of the night he was drunk and it came on
and I just went, no, go away, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The boss.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Oh the boss.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
It was so embarrassing for the next day.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Did you were you able to keep working there with him? Ellen?
Or was that? Did you have to leave after that?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I kept working there. I had to, you know, I
had three kids to bring up and that sort of thing,
and on my own and just dismissed it.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think this is the thing about work Christmas parties
is like when you introduce alcohol, it can bring out
some toxic parts of some people. I just don't think you,
just from a colleague point of view, just leave it away.
Just have a have a cup of tea, Have a
cup of tea on a Friday afternoon to wrap up
the year and leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Adam in Sydney, what happened at your work Christmas party
that made it so bad?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Just quickly where we come from the closest things where
you had to receive restaurants from McDonald's. I thought it
would take your team out to a very well established place,
think Darling Harbor. Yeah, one of the lady cart not
food poisoning from a hot.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Oh no, so you've you've tried to do something nice
and splash out and you've gone and poisoned your staff.
How did they handle that?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I didn't poison but I won't mention it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But like I said, I'll.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Pick and I think that's I actually think if you
hide out the McDonald's party room for a work Christmas
party and said we're going retro, everyone's gonna have a
big McDonald's work Christmas funny, I reckon staff would love it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Depends where you work, ye looking out at like the
sales team here, Yeah cool. Do you think they're going
to the busts in their guts out selling radio ads
all year and yougo, we're going to McDonald's party room.
I mean, I love McDonald's party rooms the next kid
when I was seven years old, But as an adult,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What about is the first step of an evening and
then after that we're going to the pub? Would that
go down more? Well, that might do better? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Tom's in Melbourne on thirty in one I sixty five.
What happened at you work? Chris's party? Tom?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, So I've known for getting a little bit rowdy
on occasions and this Christmas was no different. So if
the pre the pre drinks didn't hit hard enough, by
the time we actually got there, there was so much
free beer hard Yeah. Yeah, we went. We went a
(11:24):
bit too crazy and it all probably about two or
three hours later. It ended up with me hit me
on the boss's wife several times and may not even
realizing the boss's wife and I was doing in front
of everyone and I was. I thought I was being great,
but I had I had no idea this is really attractive.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Check.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
I just kept going up to us and so, yeah,
that wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Was there any falling out from that? Tom?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
You know what? Like it actually went unspoken. Everyone else
approached me about it and said, did you know you
did that? I'm like, not really, and yeah, so he
didn't even even mention it at all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So there's a part of me, Tom, to be honest,
there there's a part of me that thought you might
have told us you guys are happily together. Now maybe
maybe she left him for you and life worked out.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh, it got it. It got worse than that, mate, I
liked there was like this DJ there, but he was
just playing off just like a off his laptop or something,
or his blasting over because we're an a warehouse sort
of thing and there was multiple stores there, and I
end up hijacking the thing and just blastomed to park
over the scene. I was just getting so loose and
it was just it was just so bad. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, it was just I mean, I think if you
did a say they have every Christmas party every year,
and every employee he goes to one, what percentage of
people having a good time and enjoying it? Do you
reckon you can eighty enjoy it?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, I reckon it's thirty percent at best. I reckon
put that money into providing more food and snacks through
the course of the year, and don't worry about a
big party.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And our party was enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And maybe I'm just antisocial.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, you are a bit anti social.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Maybe that's important. You're listening to the Zach and Dom
podcast d A.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This is a national vibe check. If you are currently
in the car with more than one person, give us
a call on thirteen one oh sixty five. We want
to see by asking you one question, whether we can
figure out whether you are dating, yes or just friends.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Is this romantic or is it just a platonic relationship
that we are witnessing thirty one six five if you
want to put your relationship with the person you're with
currently to the test. Chloe and Wesley are our first
contestants in Date on Mate. I got a question for you, Chloe.
Question is about Wesley. What do you reckon Wesley wants
for Christmas this year? If you can have anything for Christmas.
(13:38):
What would it be?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Money?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Money?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Wesley?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What about Chloe?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What is Chloe want? Do you reckon.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Alcohol?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, what do you think? Tom?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I mean, I feel like if you're in a long
term relationship with someone, have you spoken about it already? Yeah?
I reckon you would have. I mean, okay, do you
know what your wife wants for Christmas? Do you any sense?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, we had a discussion the other day that we
probably won't do your presents.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, So, but you've had a discussion about it. You're
not just now going Oh, probably money. That's something that's
more casual acquaintance. I don't reckon. There are a couple
I reckon they're just mates. Are you guys just mates?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yeah? Yeah, we are picked it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's how it works because the gifts that can be
normally so much more personal and thoughtful than just money
and alcohol. I'm not saying they're bad gifts, just saying that.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We have Cody and Crystal in Sydney. Hey, Crystal, my
questions for you. Does Cody prefer to drive or be
the passenger when you're in the car together the passenger
you're the driver? Yeah, Cody, can you confirm?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Right, okay, clear? Clear?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And again I mean as I'm single, so I can't
really help in this segment, but as someone who is married,
do you and your wife have clear roles?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I drive usually that, but part of that is our
cast so small, and the car seat for the baby
is so big behind the passenger seat. I don't fit
in the passenger seat.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, I did tell you buying the clown car was
an odd call.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
No, just a master too, Yeah, not really built for children.
I'm learning fair enough.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So what do you reckon? Now? Hearing clear delineated roles,
does that sound romantic to you?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because it kind of best friends?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You reckon?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But with best friends, I don't know what I'm best friends?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Are you guys just best friends?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
No, we're mother and daughter friends.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's not dating, that's just mates.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's just mates. So I was going to ask where sure,
but of course it's just mates, so that works.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Trudy Trudy and Robert in Brisbane. Hey, Trudy, how tall
is Robert?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Probably at one hundred and seventy you're about one hundred
and seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Is that true? True, Yeah, that's all right, that's right.
My thoughts behind this job, yeah, is I thought in
a romantic relationship you might know you might be interested in,
like someone who's tall, for example. Yeah, so you might
(16:18):
know how tall they are one hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And eight centimeters. Did that help at all?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Average?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What did Roberts grunt do for you?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Generally? I would say that Trudy was the one who
wanted to call, and Robert might not be super on board.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is that is that right? Robert? Are you happy to
be on the radio right now?
Speaker 9 (16:35):
You said you happy to be on the radio right now?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Definitely together, that's the impression I'm getting. Yeah, you guys
are a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Aren't you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What's the dynamic?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
That's my dad.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, that was some type of close relationship and a
bit of the playfulness of the dead daughter thing. And
that was the grunt I reckon. That was the classic
grunt of a dad.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's like, oh, Trudy, we'll call if we have to.
I'll go along with it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You've only had kids three years, Zach, But how have
you started to notice the dad grunt emerging in you?
Is it starting to grow yet?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well? I've had a sort neck for a week. So
I've been grunting a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's begotten. Once the process starts, you can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I worried about it. I was like, Oh, this is
going to laugh for the next forty years now.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Zack and Dom podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Got a bit of a Christmas dilemma, Zach that I
need your help with.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What are we now four weeks out?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, you know, under a month until the big day,
and I've got family visiting from interstate this week, and
so we're sort of doing a bit of an early
big family Christmas where we're going to give a lot
of gifts out and whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you still have passionate opinions about that? Because the
Dom fe of five years ago that probably was sacrilege. Yeah,
to even say Merry Christmas, not in December.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I have started to come around to understanding your critique
of my previous approach to Christmas. Used to be a
little bit strict about it. That's fair to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And have you come around with my idea that it's
unreasonable to refuse to work in December because quote unquote
wanted to make the most of the spirit.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, I did. I just said if I had I.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Remember one conversation we had. I said, what are you
actually doing? And you went through your Christmas list every
day and it involved driving around and looking at Christmas
lights every day every.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Night, not daytime. Daytime, I just sit near the Christmas tree.
I guess take up the first to serious fate. That's
a very common thing to do.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Is a dilemma. Well, referring to that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The dilemmas referring to gift giving. And here's the problem,
right is I had to run around and get gifts
sorted early, you know, because that's what you got to
do if you're doing it early. So I've got gifts
pretty much everyone. And it only just hit me. I
thought I was done. I took a deep breath, and
then I realized I haven't got a gift for my
brother and his wife and their dog. I've got a
(18:54):
gift for them, but not their dog. They've got a dog, yes,
And this is the issues act. I genuinely think it's
going to be a problem in my family now. And
they love their dog's ollar is adorable. They love I
loves olas OLA's great. The problems not with the dog,
the problems with the approach that the last few years,
everyone's given the dog a gift, and I'm worried now
it's become a precedent. But every year it's going to
(19:16):
be a problem if I don't shut with the gift
for the dog.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, dogs don't get gifts. Maybe from the owner, Yeah,
they'll get a Christmas gift, or if they are in
the place.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Of a child, right, okay, sure in those instances, Yeah,
if the dog is basically the person's child, yeah, maybe
you're give them a gift. But your brother, yeah, they
have a child and they've got a second one, Jue soonish.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So you can pass the dog mate. I'd be passing
your siblings as well. Once there's kids in the family,
don't do your don't the uncles and aunts don't get
presents anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But you guys are doing You do a secret Sanda. Don't.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You reduced it to secret Sanda, so you're only buying
one gift.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I used to hate that coming around, and I'd like
to actually, on the flip side, I wouldn't mind drawing
the dog in secrets because I'm telling you, dogs are
very easy to buy. Four you walk down Kmart, you
buy the four dollars, the squeaky toy, and it's easy.
They don't care. Have you got this one. I'll give
you the receipt. You can take it back. They don't care.
They'll have two of them. It's fine. Dogs are great
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to buy gifts for. I just don't want to have
to them. I don't want to be obliged to it
every year. So if I get to.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The family, well, here's the thing, Yeah, does the dog
give you a gift? True?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yep, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And if there's no present under the tree too, dom
from the dog, yes, then you don't have to return.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You have. What you've just done is given me my
line for this weekend's gathering. So if there's a bit
of a weird look my way about why I don't
have a gift for Zola the dog, I'll say where
Zola's gift for me? So thank you. I'll report back
to your next week on how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Thank you. This is second off boyfriend dumped for gross habit,
but apparently more than half of men are guilty of
it dump. The screenshots have been uploaded of a text
chain between a girlfriend and a boyfriend. This relationship is
no longer together, which you might you might be able
to see why after it's read out, But it's all
(21:11):
around bed sheets and how often they're cleaned or not clean.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Now, this is one of the old classic debates, isn't it.
It's like where do you keep the tomato sauce? When
how often you clean you wash your bed sheets?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Really, have you been in this conversation before?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think I have. I've certainly been paralleled to it
because when I was growing up, I remember there was
one particular person, one particular friend, who adamantly would say
things along the lines of, oh, once like once every month,
once every two months at most, to wash the sheets.
And we'll go, what do you mean, surely it's in
every week, every fortnight at most. Thing.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Here's what the girl says. She starts a conversation, hate babe,
do you think you can throw the bed sheets into
the wash for me? He says, why? Because they're dirty?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Low?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She says a bit of bit to I love that
she just threw that in there.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
He says, I mean, didn't we wash them just last week?
She says, yeah, I washed them once a week. That's
the point I was actually going to ask if we
can start alternating every week, so it's a little more fair.
It would mean a lot to me, he says. I
don't know how that's supposed to be fair to me, though,
they don't need to be washed every week. You're just
creating more week for me. Last lmfao, Wow, that theatrically
(22:21):
what you just did in the last minute.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You captured both roles, the boyfriend and the girlfriend. And
I didn't know you had the range to do both.
But I was just transfixed as you read out that
tests conversation. I felt like I was witnessing the relationship unfold.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Did you hear the number of red flags because they
go on with this guy?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Did I keep being controlling then and see how it
works for our in brackets in inverted commas relationship? Then?
I don't think asking someone to clean dirty sheets is controlling.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, I think that's called a partnership. You do something,
I do something because we're living together, we're making it well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, I know you won't relate to this don because
you're festivious when it comes to cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, I'm a hygienic guy.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Seriously. Yeah, I would say on the like, on the
bordering problem level, it's not bordering problematic.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I know, like I do love the TV show
Monk about the guy who likes to wash and clean
and disinfect everything. But I don't do that myself. I
just think if you can be clean, my wouldn't you?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So how often are you cleaning the sheets?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I aim for weekly, fortnightly at most.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What in your household?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, we have a baby, you know, who's thrown up
on the bed quite a lot, so probably unlikely that
would get through the week. Yeah, right, without a baby
throwing up on sure on the bed, So yeah, it
would be weekly.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm curious though, because I know there was there was
a sharehouse stage at the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's interesting when I was eighteen. I was eighteen, keep
in mind, and.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You're living in like the basement of a sharehouse dungeon,
a dungeon of the share house.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
This room. I once got home at midnight and it
was flooded, and I was too tired to do anything
about it, so I just went to sleep in the
bed with lak ankle deep water around me, like the
carpet was floating.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I never knew you in this time of your life,
and I sometimes wonder what you would have been like
I was.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Thinking about that. I don't remember I lived in that
house for nine months. I might have cleaned the sheets,
don't have any memory of it. Wow, gosh, I think
to be fair, the sheets were the least thing I'd
be concerned about in that house.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, and the floodwater would have given them a rinset.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It probably would have run over the bed before it
hit the carpet. That was probably fine.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Bit of a rince. What we want to know on
thirteen one oh six five is how long has it
been since you washed your sheets? This is like a
national survey. Now, if you have left your sheets, let's
where's the benchmark. We sating this like two weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh yeah, two weeks.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So if you haven't washed your sheets in the last
two weeks, give us a call on thirteen one oh
six five. We want to see how far back we
can go. We've got a fifty dollar red roost voucher
to give to Australia's dirtier sheets, because that's how you
can celebrate your wash them and then go some red roosts.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, we accept dobbing in someone you know, like a
friend or a boyfriend or or a boyfriend of one
of your friends.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, any if you know someone who hasn't washed their
sheets in a long time either, No, it could could be.
It could be a girl, could be anything, could be anybody.
Six fives the number. But what we basically want to
know here is how long has it been since you
wash your sheets? Can we find the set of sheets
in Australia that have gone the longest without without a wash,
because at some point, I'm guessing you probably would just
(25:27):
say these are unwashable now like at some point check
them out and buy a new set. These these have
gone beyond their lifespan.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Once they kind of start to go hard.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I think that's right. I think that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You're listening to the Zach and Dom podcast. We have
Alex in Melbourne. How long has it been since the
sheets have been in the washing machine?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I feel so disgusting saying this, but and it's definitely
gone for longer previously.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But at this stage I met two months, two months,
I mean not that bad.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't think about three four before.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And Alex, do you make sure that like you're clean
before you get in the bed? No?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Not always?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So you really?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I was trying to let you an exit there
you could take if you wanted.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And Alex said, slam that door. I'm quite happy digging
this grave for myself here. Barkley is in Brisbane on
thirty one O six five. How long has it been
since you washed the sheet? Sparkley?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Gooday, guys, I'm ashamed to admit it's my first time
moving out of home, living in a roomhouse with sham mates.
And I've got four and a half months July.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, and are you planning on washing them many time soon?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well? I need to buy a new set of sheets otherwise.
You know, it's just never really occurred to me. It's
really hot here in Queensland though, so I'm starting to
really really tell it's a humid climate.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I reckon, I reckon the humidity of Queensland.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Where did these people live in this new story?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That changes it?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It does change it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If you're in a very cold, dry climate, sheets longer
you might get away with it. In a human climate.
I mean, if you're in far north Queensland, you're probably
washing them every day. I would think after after a
night of sleeping cans, you want a fresh set of sheets.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Amy and Melbourne, how long has it been since you
wash your sheets.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Do you know what? I don't actually know, because I
have a queen bed, and I swapped from my just
either side. I interchanged, and then I swapped the pillows over,
and I just keep going back and forth to queens.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's interesting. So do you get double the length out
of it? You think?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:30):
And then if I've done either side, I go in
the middle, and I'm always clean when I jump in.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Kind of like when people wear their undies and then
they wear them inside out and then they wear them
back to front.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Kind if you had to take a wild guess, Amy,
are we saying it's more than four and a half
months more than Barclay's.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
It could be longer, but I genuinely could not tell
you memories.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Amy makes a good point that if you in a
double bed, but you're only there by yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
When you're washed the sheets every week or every second week,
there's fifty percent of the sheet that's still clean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What you should do is sleep on one side for
a week and then the other side for the next week.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He says, you can trying to find another perk of
being single. And I've told you this, no aints mate?
Oh great, Oh what a win. Great, I can I
can lie in bed not at all having an existential
crisis about being lonely. But I can do it for
twice as long in the same sheets. This has worked
out perfectly for me.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Glad you've taken it well. Jennifer and Bruceban how long
has it been since you wash your sheets?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Not me personally. My sister refuses to use sheets because
she doesn't like to wash them, so she just has
a doner on the mattress.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, hang on, so it goes mattress douner. Your sister
another doner.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
No, no, it just doesn't lay on anything, just lays
on the mattress and her kids and that are the
same because she doesn't like to wash sheets.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But hang on, but then the is going to get dirty.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And the mattress too.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
He doesn't get washed either. My children refuse to sleep
at their Arnie's house.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Wow, Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, that's that's another level. And we I mean, I'll
ask this is sensative as again, Jennifer. But he's does
it release a smell?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Her house stinks?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, absolutely stinks.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Like it's we it's rotten. Yeah, it smells because she's
also cleansing.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Vinegar, no producing Maddi center message through. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
There's no way we're reading that, Maddie. That's Maddie's used
to colloquial phrase that Jennifer's sister might be doing. And
we're not not saying that that's not at all appropriate.
MATEI lift your game, Jennifer. I mean for having to
put up with that, you can have a fifty dollars
red Rooster voucher. So that's just a small gift from
uster you. I know it probably doesn't make up for
having to visit at the house.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Maddie. We're not We're not. I'm not saying that she's
raw dogging the bed now, totally inappropriate, have to. She
just won't stop having that message through.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now I'm talking to Maddie. Did you have to? Maddie?
Did you think that would be a funny thing to
say on the show?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I thought it might be okay to say no.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well it wasn't okay, And I want you to take
the next song to reflect on your actions.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
This is second Tom. Apparently you can order a McDonald's
ice cream cake from the McDonald's parties in the drive
through dom.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
This is the thing you might remember going to McDonald's
party when you were a kid, and you'd have your
McDonald's food. You'd have your nuggets, your burgers, your fries,
and then they would bring out at the end of
ice cream cake for the birthday child. And it was
always kind of exciting. But you always though wind they
get that cake from. That's not on the menu.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Now here's the things I know about McDonald's. I've been
told by people before. Anything you can think of they
can do with those machines. You know, the register. It's
like you want extra something, you want to take something off,
you want to add things together. There's a button for it.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They'll make it work.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So it does make me think that if there's food
in the store, would be a button for it. So
I think like that might be true.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
We've sent producing Maddie down to the local McDonald's to
put this to the test. Maddie joins us, Now have
you entered the drive through yet.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Maddie, Yes, I'm just pulling up to the drive through
right now.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Guy, let's listen to this. Is you try to order
a McDonald's ice cream birthday cake.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Predictions.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Hi, can I please order one of the Macca's birthday cakes?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Please?
Speaker 9 (31:27):
To give you a second I'll.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It sounds like that that can happen there.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
She's heard this before, so she's just checking out the
back if they've got any I think it is going
to be fifty dollars, Maddie. It's going to be quite
exy if you do get one, so hopefully you can
cover that cost. Did she look hopeful? You're on the
speaker box. You can't see her face. What am I
talking about?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But from the tone of her voice, I mean it
sounded hopeful. It wasn't a flat out no.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
What I want you to do for us, Maddie is
as you wait for her to come back, if she
gives you a yes, tell us what comes up on
the screen. I want to know. I want to know if, like,
they actually have a button for this or it's like
miscellaneous item fifteen. I don't think I have. I'm not
getting somebody all right.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
I don't think our store has stopped them in a
little while.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
I do know some others probably do. Hey, that's good
to know.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Maybe Indros or.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Double check first asked to call ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Fine, thank you, Maddie, you did your best for us.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Anyway, I'm just really hoping for yeah, an ice cream
cake there? Well, I mean mixed message is there, yeah,
because it seems like it is possible, but they don't
have any.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Part of me would love to and we can't, and
I understand why we can't, but just stay on all night.
Sending Maddie to McDonald's after McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
This is earlier in the show we were We say, Maddie,
don't come back unless you have a McDonald's ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The Zack and Dom Podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's time for the most beloved segment in Australian radio,
the village Idiom.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
This is kind of hard to explain, do.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You mean the segment or the fact we're still doing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I was just a little put off by the way
that you introduced it saying it's the most beloved radio
segment in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There are people driving home right now going they're doing
village idiom. Come on.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
There's sayings that we use every day, Dom. There's phrases
idioms yes, we use in everyday speech. We know when
to use them, we know what they mean. But where
did they originate? So each week our producer Maddie gives
us a phrase, an idiom, a common saying.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's our word wizard.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And we have to try to guess what the origins
of it are.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's it. So, Maddie, what is today's idioms?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Today's idiom is beat around the bush? Beat around the bush? Well,
how would you use that? You know in a conversation
it means to circle the point, to avoid the point.
No use around the bush?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You might say if you were breaking up with someone,
you might be like, look, it's been a busy year
and I'll just I don't know, and you you're beating
around the bush. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now? Instantly I'm thinking this could be I'm thinking it's
more modern day that it's not medieval. I think bush
could even be Australian. This could be an Australian saying.
And I think of a bush basher. Did you ever
refer to an old car like that? Maybe it was
just where I grew up, So like an old you
would be a bush basher and it meant that you'd
(34:29):
like drive it through the paddick? Could it? Could it
be something to do with that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, I'll get it my I think it's more recent
as well. There's been two presidents in America with the
surname Bush.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
No, it's not that.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hang on a second. There was George Bush Senior and
George Bush Junior, George W. Bush and his dad. I'm
thinking maybe probably George Bush SENI because I think it's
been around for a while.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's not that that was only like thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'll explain my logic. Wait, my logic's this. I reckon
the aides would have been, like, you know, his secretaries
and the ministers, but I mean throwing ideas around in
the White House, like.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Do you reckon we should do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We should start a war with that country? And you know,
all these sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Probably how it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I think it is we need a war. Honestly, some
of the things America does. I think they might do that.
And I reckon they're having this conversation or watch who
show a war with? Oh weird? Want to throw on
someone with Ireland? But anyway, anyway, the throwing that around
and then someone says, why are we beating around the Bush?
Take it to the Bush, Take it to George Bush.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I don't think is that. What I think it is
is I think there was a time in Australian history
where you would go searching through the bush by beating
the bush, and there was easy ways of doing it.
Produce Mattie, what is it? Put it out there? Okay,
so this one actually originated in response to game hunting
in Britain back in the day. While hunting birds, participants
(35:51):
would beat the bushes in order to draw out the bird.
That's pretty close to what I said. Therefore, they were
beating around the bush before getting to the main point
of the hunt. That's pretty much what. Yeah, you you
did get there in the end.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I'm gid was there anything in there about George Bush,
the president the Gulf Forward?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Did that come up? No? Sorry, Oh it's a shame.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I have another shot next week. They need to have
got time for the show. You can get the Zach
and On podcast wherever you find your podcasts, anytime you'd like,
and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
By that's all for this episode of the Zach and
Dom podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Subscribe to catch the boys next time and follow them
on socials at Zak and Dom
A long time ago, in a lab far far away,
a science experiment went horribly wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Out of that, faker rose.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Zach and.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have you ever.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like this?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Like strange? This this happens when second kids.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is Zac and Don Another day, another podcast, we
should start with that. That could be my line. I
was trying to find a new way strap in the podcast.
They didn't like any of the suggestions that came through
to be honest, somewhere inappropriate. But I reckon another day,
another podcast that could be it?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What was an inappropriate one?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm not saying them on the podcast. That's why they're inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, I'm interested. Yeah, you saw the question whether or
not they're real.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
You saw the messages that came flooding through on the
zachon on Instagram account for this one. When I said
give me a new way to start the podcast, they
came flooding through.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
People are really invested in that one.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think they were too, And he went off they were.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All inappropriate and he can't mention any of them or
of people who suggested it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But regardless of that, Another day, another podcast, what do
you reckon?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Another day? Another dollar?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's it, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I mean another day, another dollar has the d D alliteration?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Another day, another dom? What about that? You could say that,
You could say another day, another dom because you get
me every day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I guess it's the.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Same dome, isn't it. Look what we've done again to
kick the shelf. We're taking the off air on air,
We're taking the planning meeting behind the mics, and I
enjoy doing that. You don't always love it as much
as me?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Not as much. No, No, I've got a bit of
a stomach cramp at the moment. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Is that why you're looking at me like that?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You're right? What's happened?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It could have been the I have my yogat amusedly
before the show. Yeah, you know, we were actually producer.
Maddie was telling us that she was a part of
our producers for them. Yeah, you had to go around
the room and they're asking how their shows get ready
for the show.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And what did you Well, let's buzz Maddie into this.
What did you tell them, Maddie?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Did I say about you guys?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, it was more so the fact of what the
others were. The others were very like Edgy Okay, some
of the things they were doing were very not safe
for work, really very like, very like. It was like
a bit of rock and roll. And then, Maddie, what
did you say that we liked to do well? I
said that you guys like to make your tea and
make your little snacks.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but Maddie, did you mention that sometimes some nights
I have two cups of tea? Did that come up?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I did say that you like to microwave your teeth.
Do you sometimes of radiation?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Whose longtimes the tea? The tea sits there too long?
Goes a bit cool because I'm running around to.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
An Yeah right, that's a very parent thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, so I put in the micro so I can
enjoy my tea. I like my hot beverages to be hot,
you know, I don't want them to be teppered. That's
rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you bring a tea from home?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, I did that once. That was a special treat.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It was like a Crima one.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, it was. It was a good memory. No, normally
I just go the standard. Tetley.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I noticed that the other night. Yeah, it's good Tetley man. No,
it's just to feel about the tea bags in the
office being open.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, not great.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Shouldn't that be in a sealed thing? It's just in
like a vase.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Even I wouldn't mind. I think that was a vase originally.
Even in like a ceramic dish with a lid, that'd
be better than nothing. It needs a lid. It needs
a lid because the flavor gets.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Out otherwise bringing I purchased my own tea to bring
in Have you Peppermint? Because the peppermint tea that was
here was real low quality, like real bad.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I didn't know they sold peppermint tea that cheap.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And it didn't taste good. I was like, this isn't
from a peppermint ley. What's this?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, could it be the tea bag takes on a taste.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think it could be. It's the quality of the
paper used, because they're really ritzy looking tea bags. They
look fancy, look like cushions, little pillows.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm a herbal guy, dom's more of a traditional I am.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That sums us up you like a black tea. We
should put that into the show.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Milk, Yeah, how much milk? Just a dash finger?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
What do you mean? A finger of milk?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Like if you were, if you held your fingers up
to a cup. Yes, yeah, uh yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Look we can promise that the podcast from this point onwards.
I don't think this has been our strongest start. I'm
gonna be honest. Cramp.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I've got like a bit of cramp, and you know, yeah,
it's important redoing it. We're only a few minutes in.
We can start again. It's not too late.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
We could. But then people will always talk about the
podcast open that no one ever heard, and they'll be like,
I wish I could hear it, and then we're like,
you really don't, I reckon. We put it in there
because it's important to own your flaws.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, let's wrap it up and get things rolling.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, let's get to work with the actual show.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
This is second time.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is work Christmas party season, Zach, I reckon. This weekend,
there'll be heaps of them all over the country, people
heading to a pub with the coworkers that they maybe
barely tolerate and the couple they kind of like a
little bit for a few free drinks.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It depends when it is, I think, in my opinion,
if it's in work time, fantastic. Yeah, don't have to
work if it's after hours, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The Saturday night work Christmas fight is like, I already
see these people five days a week. Now we're adding
a sixth inn. Do we have to be doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
The radio station actually through our Christmas party last weekend
and it was a great party.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Nothing wrong with the party.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The party itself was fine, but it's led to some
chaotic circumstances. Now, you and I tapped out early, so
for us, we were in there for an hour and
a half or so, got ourselves a bit of food,
bit of get out. But then we hear after that
that basically a plague has emerged from this Christmas party.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Producer Maddie was sick yesterday and Maddie, you're telling us
that you caught something out the Christmas party and it
seems like it's taken out like a big percentage of
the station.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
A lot of people took yesterday off actually right, and
that was like three days after the party, so they
weren't like hungover, correct. I mean, I'm sure a few
people probably did have a hangover last thing till Monday.
Apparently people are out very late.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
But yeah, it was a sickness.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, and it's so if you gave us rough numbers,
I reckon there was probably about one hundred at the
Christmas party all up. How many do you reckon from
what you've had? How many confirmed it down?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I think confirmed it would have been about, like I
want to say, at least like ten.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I reckon ten confirmed down.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
There's no way there was one hundred people.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, we were in a public area, there were other groups.
It was hard to tell who was our group and
who are other groups? Remember, we were like penned in
sort of a roped into our section.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Dom has never been to a venue before that had
up the people there. He kept bringing it up. He's like,
this is so weird. And I'm like, have you never
been to a function that didn't harrer out the whole place?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
No, I'm just saying it was a little bit odd
the way they called and us off into the middle area.
If you're on one of.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
The statics, did you find that strange? I thought that
was very normal. I thought that was normal.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The previously, in our time working in radios act there
have been some radio stations that have spent way too
much money on the Christmas parties. And perhaps it's tempered
my expectations.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The Christmas parties are a good indicator of where the
industry is at. Haven't been in an aeroplane hangar for
a few years.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, that was a different time when I hired that
hadn't got the private jet involved. Hey, look what we
want to know though. Obviously our radio station Christmas party
has spread in illness throughout the whole place, and so
it's obviously a nominee for the country's Worst Christmas Party.
But we want to open up on thirteen one oh
six five. If you've got an entry, a nomination for
Australia's Worst Christmas Party could be this year? Could you're freshy?
(08:00):
It could be something that happened years ago that you
think this has to be an all timer.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
We got Nick in Melbourne. Nick, why was your Christmas
party the worst Christmas party?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
It was definitely the one and only Christmas party hadventry
and you're probably going to hold off on going any
two any more. Okay, got that drunk that I blacked
out into the toilets and everybody had their dinner and
sort of left without me and I to walk home
from the city.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Left without you.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
They abandoned Unick and there was only five of us there,
so they knew.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That you were missing, and they just pushed on.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And I didn't mention anything about it the next week,
just to save myself the embarrassment.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh wow, I don't want to do that with colleagues. I mean,
you don't want to do that full stop, right, but
with colleagues, because that's the checky thing, isn't it. Then
you're peeking over the sort of the divider. On Monday
morning at nine thirty game here about Nick, let's turn
on there.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We have Allen in Melbourne. Yours involved your boss? Ellen?
What was it?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Absolutely, two thousand and five. We went up to the
Christmas party, had a great night. He at the end
of the night he was drunk and it came on
and I just went, no, go away, leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The boss.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Oh the boss.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
It was so embarrassing for the next day.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Did you were you able to keep working there with him? Ellen?
Or was that? Did you have to leave after that?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
I kept working there. I had to, you know, I
had three kids to bring up and that sort of thing,
and on my own and just dismissed it.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I think this is the thing about work Christmas parties
is like when you introduce alcohol, it can bring out
some toxic parts of some people. I just don't think you,
just from a colleague point of view, just leave it away.
Just have a have a cup of tea, Have a
cup of tea on a Friday afternoon to wrap up
the year and leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Adam in Sydney, what happened at your work Christmas party
that made it so bad?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Just quickly where we come from the closest things where
you had to receive restaurants from McDonald's. I thought it
would take your team out to a very well established place,
think Darling Harbor. Yeah, one of the lady cart not
food poisoning from a hot.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Oh no, so you've you've tried to do something nice
and splash out and you've gone and poisoned your staff.
How did they handle that?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I didn't poison but I won't mention it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But like I said, I'll.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Pick and I think that's I actually think if you
hide out the McDonald's party room for a work Christmas
party and said we're going retro, everyone's gonna have a
big McDonald's work Christmas funny, I reckon staff would love it.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Depends where you work, ye looking out at like the
sales team here, Yeah cool. Do you think they're going
to the busts in their guts out selling radio ads
all year and yougo, we're going to McDonald's party room.
I mean, I love McDonald's party rooms the next kid
when I was seven years old, But as an adult,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What about is the first step of an evening and
then after that we're going to the pub? Would that
go down more? Well, that might do better? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Tom's in Melbourne on thirty in one I sixty five.
What happened at you work? Chris's party? Tom?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, So I've known for getting a little bit rowdy
on occasions and this Christmas was no different. So if
the pre the pre drinks didn't hit hard enough, by
the time we actually got there, there was so much
free beer hard Yeah. Yeah, we went. We went a
(11:24):
bit too crazy and it all probably about two or
three hours later. It ended up with me hit me
on the boss's wife several times and may not even
realizing the boss's wife and I was doing in front
of everyone and I was. I thought I was being great,
but I had I had no idea this is really attractive.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Check.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
I just kept going up to us and so, yeah,
that wasn't well.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Was there any falling out from that? Tom?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:50):
You know what? Like it actually went unspoken. Everyone else
approached me about it and said, did you know you
did that? I'm like, not really, and yeah, so he
didn't even even mention it at all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So there's a part of me, Tom, to be honest,
there there's a part of me that thought you might
have told us you guys are happily together. Now maybe
maybe she left him for you and life worked out.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Oh, it got it. It got worse than that, mate, I
liked there was like this DJ there, but he was
just playing off just like a off his laptop or something,
or his blasting over because we're an a warehouse sort
of thing and there was multiple stores there, and I
end up hijacking the thing and just blastomed to park
over the scene. I was just getting so loose and
it was just it was just so bad. It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, it was just I mean, I think if you
did a say they have every Christmas party every year,
and every employee he goes to one, what percentage of
people having a good time and enjoying it? Do you
reckon you can eighty enjoy it?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, I reckon it's thirty percent at best. I reckon
put that money into providing more food and snacks through
the course of the year, and don't worry about a
big party.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And our party was enjoying it.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And maybe I'm just antisocial.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, you are a bit anti social.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Maybe that's important. You're listening to the Zach and Dom
podcast d A.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
This is a national vibe check. If you are currently
in the car with more than one person, give us
a call on thirteen one oh sixty five. We want
to see by asking you one question, whether we can
figure out whether you are dating, yes or just friends.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Is this romantic or is it just a platonic relationship
that we are witnessing thirty one six five if you
want to put your relationship with the person you're with
currently to the test. Chloe and Wesley are our first
contestants in Date on Mate. I got a question for you, Chloe.
Question is about Wesley. What do you reckon Wesley wants
for Christmas this year? If you can have anything for Christmas.
(13:38):
What would it be?
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Money?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Money?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Wesley?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What about Chloe?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What is Chloe want? Do you reckon.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Alcohol?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, what do you think? Tom?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I mean, I feel like if you're in a long
term relationship with someone, have you spoken about it already? Yeah?
I reckon you would have. I mean, okay, do you
know what your wife wants for Christmas? Do you any sense?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
No, we had a discussion the other day that we
probably won't do your presents.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, So, but you've had a discussion about it. You're
not just now going Oh, probably money. That's something that's
more casual acquaintance. I don't reckon. There are a couple
I reckon they're just mates. Are you guys just mates?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yeah? Yeah, we are picked it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's how it works because the gifts that can be
normally so much more personal and thoughtful than just money
and alcohol. I'm not saying they're bad gifts, just saying that.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We have Cody and Crystal in Sydney. Hey, Crystal, my
questions for you. Does Cody prefer to drive or be
the passenger when you're in the car together the passenger
you're the driver? Yeah, Cody, can you confirm?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Right, okay, clear? Clear?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And again I mean as I'm single, so I can't
really help in this segment, but as someone who is married,
do you and your wife have clear roles?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I drive usually that, but part of that is our
cast so small, and the car seat for the baby
is so big behind the passenger seat. I don't fit
in the passenger seat.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, I did tell you buying the clown car was
an odd call.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
No, just a master too, Yeah, not really built for children.
I'm learning fair enough.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So what do you reckon? Now? Hearing clear delineated roles,
does that sound romantic to you?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because it kind of best friends?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You reckon?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
But with best friends, I don't know what I'm best friends?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Are you guys just best friends?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
No, we're mother and daughter friends.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
That's not dating, that's just mates.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's just mates. So I was going to ask where sure,
but of course it's just mates, so that works.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Trudy Trudy and Robert in Brisbane. Hey, Trudy, how tall
is Robert?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Probably at one hundred and seventy you're about one hundred
and seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Is that true? True, Yeah, that's all right, that's right.
My thoughts behind this job, yeah, is I thought in
a romantic relationship you might know you might be interested in,
like someone who's tall, for example. Yeah, so you might
(16:18):
know how tall they are one hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And eight centimeters. Did that help at all?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Average?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What did Roberts grunt do for you?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Generally? I would say that Trudy was the one who
wanted to call, and Robert might not be super on board.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is that is that right? Robert? Are you happy to
be on the radio right now?
Speaker 9 (16:35):
You said you happy to be on the radio right now?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Definitely together, that's the impression I'm getting. Yeah, you guys
are a couple.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Aren't you.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
What's the dynamic?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
That's my dad.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, that was some type of close relationship and a
bit of the playfulness of the dead daughter thing. And
that was the grunt I reckon. That was the classic
grunt of a dad.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's like, oh, Trudy, we'll call if we have to.
I'll go along with it.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You've only had kids three years, Zach, But how have
you started to notice the dad grunt emerging in you?
Is it starting to grow yet?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well? I've had a sort neck for a week. So
I've been grunting a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's begotten. Once the process starts, you can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I worried about it. I was like, Oh, this is
going to laugh for the next forty years now.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Zack and Dom podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Got a bit of a Christmas dilemma, Zach that I
need your help with.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What are we now four weeks out?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, you know, under a month until the big day,
and I've got family visiting from interstate this week, and
so we're sort of doing a bit of an early
big family Christmas where we're going to give a lot
of gifts out and whatever.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Do you still have passionate opinions about that? Because the
Dom fe of five years ago that probably was sacrilege. Yeah,
to even say Merry Christmas, not in December.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I have started to come around to understanding your critique
of my previous approach to Christmas. Used to be a
little bit strict about it. That's fair to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
And have you come around with my idea that it's
unreasonable to refuse to work in December because quote unquote
wanted to make the most of the spirit.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, I did. I just said if I had I.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Remember one conversation we had. I said, what are you
actually doing? And you went through your Christmas list every
day and it involved driving around and looking at Christmas
lights every day every.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Night, not daytime. Daytime, I just sit near the Christmas tree.
I guess take up the first to serious fate. That's
a very common thing to do.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Is a dilemma. Well, referring to that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The dilemmas referring to gift giving. And here's the problem,
right is I had to run around and get gifts
sorted early, you know, because that's what you got to
do if you're doing it early. So I've got gifts
pretty much everyone. And it only just hit me. I
thought I was done. I took a deep breath, and
then I realized I haven't got a gift for my
brother and his wife and their dog. I've got a
(18:54):
gift for them, but not their dog. They've got a dog, yes,
And this is the issues act. I genuinely think it's
going to be a problem in my family now. And
they love their dog's ollar is adorable. They love I
loves olas OLA's great. The problems not with the dog,
the problems with the approach that the last few years,
everyone's given the dog a gift, and I'm worried now
it's become a precedent. But every year it's going to
(19:16):
be a problem if I don't shut with the gift
for the dog.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
No, dogs don't get gifts. Maybe from the owner, Yeah,
they'll get a Christmas gift, or if they are in
the place.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Of a child, right, okay, sure in those instances, Yeah,
if the dog is basically the person's child, yeah, maybe
you're give them a gift. But your brother, yeah, they
have a child and they've got a second one, Jue soonish.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So you can pass the dog mate. I'd be passing
your siblings as well. Once there's kids in the family,
don't do your don't the uncles and aunts don't get
presents anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
But you guys are doing You do a secret Sanda. Don't.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
You reduced it to secret Sanda, so you're only buying
one gift.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I used to hate that coming around, and I'd like
to actually, on the flip side, I wouldn't mind drawing
the dog in secrets because I'm telling you, dogs are
very easy to buy. Four you walk down Kmart, you
buy the four dollars, the squeaky toy, and it's easy.
They don't care. Have you got this one. I'll give
you the receipt. You can take it back. They don't care.
They'll have two of them. It's fine. Dogs are great
(20:19):
to buy gifts for. I just don't want to have
to them. I don't want to be obliged to it
every year. So if I get to.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The family, well, here's the thing, Yeah, does the dog
give you a gift? True?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yep, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And if there's no present under the tree too, dom
from the dog, yes, then you don't have to return.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
You have. What you've just done is given me my
line for this weekend's gathering. So if there's a bit
of a weird look my way about why I don't
have a gift for Zola the dog, I'll say where
Zola's gift for me? So thank you. I'll report back
to your next week on how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Thank you. This is second off boyfriend dumped for gross habit,
but apparently more than half of men are guilty of
it dump. The screenshots have been uploaded of a text
chain between a girlfriend and a boyfriend. This relationship is
no longer together, which you might you might be able
to see why after it's read out, But it's all
(21:11):
around bed sheets and how often they're cleaned or not clean.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Now, this is one of the old classic debates, isn't it.
It's like where do you keep the tomato sauce? When
how often you clean you wash your bed sheets?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Really, have you been in this conversation before?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I think I have. I've certainly been paralleled to it
because when I was growing up, I remember there was
one particular person, one particular friend, who adamantly would say
things along the lines of, oh, once like once every month,
once every two months at most, to wash the sheets.
And we'll go, what do you mean, surely it's in
every week, every fortnight at most. Thing.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Here's what the girl says. She starts a conversation, hate babe,
do you think you can throw the bed sheets into
the wash for me? He says, why? Because they're dirty?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Low?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
She says a bit of bit to I love that
she just threw that in there.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
He says, I mean, didn't we wash them just last week?
She says, yeah, I washed them once a week. That's
the point I was actually going to ask if we
can start alternating every week, so it's a little more fair.
It would mean a lot to me, he says. I
don't know how that's supposed to be fair to me, though,
they don't need to be washed every week. You're just
creating more week for me. Last lmfao, Wow, that theatrically
(22:21):
what you just did in the last minute.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
You captured both roles, the boyfriend and the girlfriend. And
I didn't know you had the range to do both.
But I was just transfixed as you read out that
tests conversation. I felt like I was witnessing the relationship unfold.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Did you hear the number of red flags because they
go on with this guy?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Did I keep being controlling then and see how it
works for our in brackets in inverted commas relationship? Then?
I don't think asking someone to clean dirty sheets is controlling.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, I think that's called a partnership. You do something,
I do something because we're living together, we're making it well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, I know you won't relate to this don because
you're festivious when it comes to cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, I'm a hygienic guy.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Seriously. Yeah, I would say on the like, on the
bordering problem level, it's not bordering problematic.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I know, like I do love the TV show
Monk about the guy who likes to wash and clean
and disinfect everything. But I don't do that myself. I
just think if you can be clean, my wouldn't you?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So how often are you cleaning the sheets?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I aim for weekly, fortnightly at most.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
What in your household?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, we have a baby, you know, who's thrown up
on the bed quite a lot, so probably unlikely that
would get through the week. Yeah, right, without a baby
throwing up on sure on the bed, So yeah, it
would be weekly.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm curious though, because I know there was there was
a sharehouse stage at the warehouse.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's interesting when I was eighteen. I was eighteen, keep
in mind, and.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You're living in like the basement of a sharehouse dungeon,
a dungeon of the share house.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
This room. I once got home at midnight and it
was flooded, and I was too tired to do anything
about it, so I just went to sleep in the
bed with lak ankle deep water around me, like the
carpet was floating.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I never knew you in this time of your life,
and I sometimes wonder what you would have been like
I was.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Thinking about that. I don't remember I lived in that
house for nine months. I might have cleaned the sheets,
don't have any memory of it. Wow, gosh, I think
to be fair, the sheets were the least thing I'd
be concerned about in that house.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, and the floodwater would have given them a rinset.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It probably would have run over the bed before it
hit the carpet. That was probably fine.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Bit of a rince. What we want to know on
thirteen one oh six five is how long has it
been since you washed your sheets? This is like a
national survey. Now, if you have left your sheets, let's
where's the benchmark. We sating this like two weeks.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh yeah, two weeks.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
So if you haven't washed your sheets in the last
two weeks, give us a call on thirteen one oh
six five. We want to see how far back we
can go. We've got a fifty dollar red roost voucher
to give to Australia's dirtier sheets, because that's how you
can celebrate your wash them and then go some red roosts.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, we accept dobbing in someone you know, like a
friend or a boyfriend or or a boyfriend of one
of your friends.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, any if you know someone who hasn't washed their
sheets in a long time either, No, it could could be.
It could be a girl, could be anything, could be anybody.
Six fives the number. But what we basically want to
know here is how long has it been since you
wash your sheets? Can we find the set of sheets
in Australia that have gone the longest without without a wash,
because at some point, I'm guessing you probably would just
(25:27):
say these are unwashable now like at some point check
them out and buy a new set. These these have
gone beyond their lifespan.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Once they kind of start to go hard.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I think that's right. I think that's probably what it is.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You're listening to the Zach and Dom podcast. We have
Alex in Melbourne. How long has it been since the
sheets have been in the washing machine?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I feel so disgusting saying this, but and it's definitely
gone for longer previously.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But at this stage I met two months, two months,
I mean not that bad.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I don't think about three four before.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And Alex, do you make sure that like you're clean
before you get in the bed? No?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Not always?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
So you really?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I was trying to let you an exit there
you could take if you wanted.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And Alex said, slam that door. I'm quite happy digging
this grave for myself here. Barkley is in Brisbane on
thirty one O six five. How long has it been
since you washed the sheet? Sparkley?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Gooday, guys, I'm ashamed to admit it's my first time
moving out of home, living in a roomhouse with sham mates.
And I've got four and a half months July.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, and are you planning on washing them many time soon?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well? I need to buy a new set of sheets otherwise.
You know, it's just never really occurred to me. It's
really hot here in Queensland though, so I'm starting to
really really tell it's a humid climate.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I reckon, I reckon the humidity of Queensland.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Where did these people live in this new story?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That changes it?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It does change it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
If you're in a very cold, dry climate, sheets longer
you might get away with it. In a human climate.
I mean, if you're in far north Queensland, you're probably
washing them every day. I would think after after a
night of sleeping cans, you want a fresh set of sheets.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Amy and Melbourne, how long has it been since you
wash your sheets.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Do you know what? I don't actually know, because I
have a queen bed, and I swapped from my just
either side. I interchanged, and then I swapped the pillows over,
and I just keep going back and forth to queens.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's interesting. So do you get double the length out
of it? You think?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:30):
And then if I've done either side, I go in
the middle, and I'm always clean when I jump in.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Kind of like when people wear their undies and then
they wear them inside out and then they wear them
back to front.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Kind if you had to take a wild guess, Amy,
are we saying it's more than four and a half
months more than Barclay's.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
It could be longer, but I genuinely could not tell
you memories.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Amy makes a good point that if you in a
double bed, but you're only there by yourself.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
When you're washed the sheets every week or every second week,
there's fifty percent of the sheet that's still clean.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What you should do is sleep on one side for
a week and then the other side for the next week.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
He says, you can trying to find another perk of
being single. And I've told you this, no aints mate?
Oh great, Oh what a win. Great, I can I
can lie in bed not at all having an existential
crisis about being lonely. But I can do it for
twice as long in the same sheets. This has worked
out perfectly for me.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Glad you've taken it well. Jennifer and Bruceban how long
has it been since you wash your sheets?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Not me personally. My sister refuses to use sheets because
she doesn't like to wash them, so she just has
a doner on the mattress.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, hang on, so it goes mattress douner. Your sister
another doner.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
No, no, it just doesn't lay on anything, just lays
on the mattress and her kids and that are the
same because she doesn't like to wash sheets.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But hang on, but then the is going to get dirty.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And the mattress too.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
He doesn't get washed either. My children refuse to sleep
at their Arnie's house.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Wow, Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, that's that's another level. And we I mean, I'll
ask this is sensative as again, Jennifer. But he's does
it release a smell?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Her house stinks?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah, absolutely stinks.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Like it's we it's rotten. Yeah, it smells because she's
also cleansing.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Vinegar, no producing Maddi center message through. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
There's no way we're reading that, Maddie. That's Maddie's used
to colloquial phrase that Jennifer's sister might be doing. And
we're not not saying that that's not at all appropriate.
MATEI lift your game, Jennifer. I mean for having to
put up with that, you can have a fifty dollars
red Rooster voucher. So that's just a small gift from
uster you. I know it probably doesn't make up for
having to visit at the house.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Maddie. We're not We're not. I'm not saying that she's
raw dogging the bed now, totally inappropriate, have to. She
just won't stop having that message through.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Now I'm talking to Maddie. Did you have to? Maddie?
Did you think that would be a funny thing to
say on the show?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I thought it might be okay to say no.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well it wasn't okay, And I want you to take
the next song to reflect on your actions.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
This is second Tom. Apparently you can order a McDonald's
ice cream cake from the McDonald's parties in the drive
through dom.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
This is the thing you might remember going to McDonald's
party when you were a kid, and you'd have your
McDonald's food. You'd have your nuggets, your burgers, your fries,
and then they would bring out at the end of
ice cream cake for the birthday child. And it was
always kind of exciting. But you always though wind they
get that cake from. That's not on the menu.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Now here's the things I know about McDonald's. I've been
told by people before. Anything you can think of they
can do with those machines. You know, the register. It's
like you want extra something, you want to take something off,
you want to add things together. There's a button for it.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
They'll make it work.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So it does make me think that if there's food
in the store, would be a button for it. So
I think like that might be true.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
We've sent producing Maddie down to the local McDonald's to
put this to the test. Maddie joins us, Now have
you entered the drive through yet.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Maddie, Yes, I'm just pulling up to the drive through
right now.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Guy, let's listen to this. Is you try to order
a McDonald's ice cream birthday cake.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Predictions.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Hi, can I please order one of the Macca's birthday cakes?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Please?
Speaker 9 (31:27):
To give you a second I'll.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It sounds like that that can happen there.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
She's heard this before, so she's just checking out the
back if they've got any I think it is going
to be fifty dollars, Maddie. It's going to be quite
exy if you do get one, so hopefully you can
cover that cost. Did she look hopeful? You're on the
speaker box. You can't see her face. What am I
talking about?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
But from the tone of her voice, I mean it
sounded hopeful. It wasn't a flat out no.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
What I want you to do for us, Maddie is
as you wait for her to come back, if she
gives you a yes, tell us what comes up on
the screen. I want to know. I want to know if, like,
they actually have a button for this or it's like
miscellaneous item fifteen. I don't think I have. I'm not
getting somebody all right.
Speaker 9 (32:11):
I don't think our store has stopped them in a
little while.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
I do know some others probably do. Hey, that's good
to know.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Maybe Indros or.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Double check first asked to call ahead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Fine, thank you, Maddie, you did your best for us.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Anyway, I'm just really hoping for yeah, an ice cream
cake there? Well, I mean mixed message is there, yeah,
because it seems like it is possible, but they don't
have any.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Part of me would love to and we can't, and
I understand why we can't, but just stay on all night.
Sending Maddie to McDonald's after McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
This is earlier in the show we were We say, Maddie,
don't come back unless you have a McDonald's ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
The Zack and Dom Podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's time for the most beloved segment in Australian radio,
the village Idiom.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
This is kind of hard to explain, do.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You mean the segment or the fact we're still doing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I was just a little put off by the way
that you introduced it saying it's the most beloved radio
segment in the whole country.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
There are people driving home right now going they're doing
village idiom. Come on.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
There's sayings that we use every day, Dom. There's phrases
idioms yes, we use in everyday speech. We know when
to use them, we know what they mean. But where
did they originate? So each week our producer Maddie gives
us a phrase, an idiom, a common saying.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's our word wizard.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And we have to try to guess what the origins
of it are.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's it. So, Maddie, what is today's idioms?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Today's idiom is beat around the bush? Beat around the bush? Well,
how would you use that? You know in a conversation
it means to circle the point, to avoid the point.
No use around the bush?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You might say if you were breaking up with someone,
you might be like, look, it's been a busy year
and I'll just I don't know, and you you're beating
around the bush. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now? Instantly I'm thinking this could be I'm thinking it's
more modern day that it's not medieval. I think bush
could even be Australian. This could be an Australian saying.
And I think of a bush basher. Did you ever
refer to an old car like that? Maybe it was
just where I grew up, So like an old you
would be a bush basher and it meant that you'd
(34:29):
like drive it through the paddick? Could it? Could it
be something to do with that.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
No, I'll get it my I think it's more recent
as well. There's been two presidents in America with the
surname Bush.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
No, it's not that.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hang on a second. There was George Bush Senior and
George Bush Junior, George W. Bush and his dad. I'm
thinking maybe probably George Bush SENI because I think it's
been around for a while.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's not that that was only like thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'll explain my logic. Wait, my logic's this. I reckon
the aides would have been, like, you know, his secretaries
and the ministers, but I mean throwing ideas around in
the White House, like.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Do you reckon we should do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We should start a war with that country? And you know,
all these sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Probably how it happened.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I think it is we need a war. Honestly, some
of the things America does. I think they might do that.
And I reckon they're having this conversation or watch who
show a war with? Oh weird? Want to throw on
someone with Ireland? But anyway, anyway, the throwing that around
and then someone says, why are we beating around the Bush?
Take it to the Bush, Take it to George Bush.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
I don't think is that. What I think it is
is I think there was a time in Australian history
where you would go searching through the bush by beating
the bush, and there was easy ways of doing it.
Produce Mattie, what is it? Put it out there? Okay,
so this one actually originated in response to game hunting
in Britain back in the day. While hunting birds, participants
(35:51):
would beat the bushes in order to draw out the bird.
That's pretty close to what I said. Therefore, they were
beating around the bush before getting to the main point
of the hunt. That's pretty much what. Yeah, you you
did get there in the end.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I'm gid was there anything in there about George Bush,
the president the Gulf Forward?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Did that come up? No? Sorry, Oh it's a shame.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I have another shot next week. They need to have
got time for the show. You can get the Zach
and On podcast wherever you find your podcasts, anytime you'd like,
and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
By that's all for this episode of the Zach and
Dom podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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