Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 31st August 2026 - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the ZM Podcast Network.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Big Pod.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Brought to you by Chemist Warehouse, the biggest brands at
the lowest prices. Welcome to the show, Fletch Vaughan and Hayley,
the last day of August. Today is August, Augustus. Augustus,
get away from now. September tomorrow, the year is flying.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I tell you what, wake me up when September ends. Actually, no,
I don't feel that way at all. I'm excited for September.
Love September.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's the start of spring, baby. Get that summer veggie garden.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
They're going to cook up the wows this morning too. Oh, yeah,
at the top of the table.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Man, that was a good game. Yes.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Feeding the Knights yesterday, 46-32. Should I jump on the
bandwagon now? We are straight up on the bandwagon.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm holding off. I want proof this is our year. Wait,
what's it going to take? A trophy. You're talking. We're
going to win.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
What about a minor premiership? We're one week away from
a possible minor premiership.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
What does that mean? I'm a major.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's where you're top of the table before the finals start. Oh,
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
We're not even in the finals?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, I'm not. The wagon can wait.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Were you at the game last night, Producer Carwin?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh, you lucky.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
If you know this about Carwin, she's a big Waz fan.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Huge Waz fan.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Books and Waz.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
She has season tickets. No. You just get tickets? We
just go.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
But she didn't know how hard she was going to
jump on. Now she's a true fan.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
She's a true fan.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
No, because actually, the reason we don't have season passes
is because you pick two seats and then those are
your seats for the season.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
What if you pick next to some mingers?

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, yes, but also if you want to go with friends,
which we usually do, they might not sit with us.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
But insane vibes. The first 15 minutes, silence around.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
The whole stadium. We were down. We were getting smoked
in the first 15 minutes. You get.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I always find, especially with the Warriors home games, when
it's the Australian broadcasters doing it, they kind of temper
the crowd noises. But last night it was so feral
sounding that it was like getting through on the TV.
You could just hear the crowd like booing and hissing.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, man, that was a good game.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, I'll jump on when there's a trophy parade.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Same. I'll jump on then.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Oh, you're going to get on then? Yeah, because you
don't have to be disappointed every other year.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
And Tohu Harris, he's well gone, eh? Yeah, dog. So, like,
what am I here for? No, he's not. We saw
the bloody Warriors in Australia. That was a different team.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
That was, what's the baby team? That's not the main one.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
That was that team. They weren't the main warriors.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
The junior warriors.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Hayley thought the warriors were on the plane and she
got very excited, but it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
The main warriors. And then they were all children.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
It was the under team. I'll pull some up. We
had a Cleary debut last night. Jack Cleary, Nathan Cleary's
little brother, Ivan Cleary's son.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now, who's the guy from Monaco counties?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
You switch codes. We'll switch codes. We're talking about the wax.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Who's the guy from Monaco County? Top six is coming up.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was just having a look at some of their worries.
Don't be a perv.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Have some respect. These are sports people.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, I'm respected in every part of it.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
The strength. The mana.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wow, the top six is dealing with this story. It's
a really wild story about the shakedowns that some supermarket
security guards were giving to alleged shoplifters.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, one forced cucumber. Because they're not really allowed to
touch them. How do you force a cucumber in their mouth? Forced? Apparently, yes. Apparently, yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I've got the top six foods I'd let supermarket security
shove down my throat. All right, it's coming up.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I can't wait for this to be handled with grace
and class. Next on the show. The wonderful Lisa Kudrow
from Friends has revealed the one thing she won't do
when fans come up to her.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
The ZN Podcast Network.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Now, the wonderful Lisa Kudrow, who of course, this is
the music video version of it, by the way. Phoebe
Buffay from Friends. Lisa Kudrow did an interview on Fresh
Air that said her hard no with fans. Right, when
people come up to her. Do you remember when she

(03:59):
thought this was her voice? And she didn't realise that
they dubbed over her voice? Do you remember that storyline?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
They finally did a video and she was like, oh
my God, I sound amazing. And all the friends were like.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's not you.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's not you. This is Smelly Cat. She was saying,
they were talking to her, obviously, about friends and the
legacy of it and, like, how does she feel when
fans come up to her all these years later being like,
we love Phoebe Buffay. She said zero complaints. Like, she's
not one of those people who's like, oh, come on,
you know, I've done other things. Leave me alone. Leave
me alone. I don't want to talk about this thing from...
So long ago. She said, but her hard no, the

(04:35):
one thing she says no to is singing Smelly Cat
for them.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Which she gets.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
All the time.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
She'll say lines from Friends.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
She'll repeat famous lines. She doesn't mind being called Phoebe
when they yell at her in the street. She doesn't
mind for, you know, to do moments and all this
kind of stuff and do her run.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
From the park.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
But she will not sing this. Yeah. So.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
A few years ago, do you remember she performed it
live with Lady Gaga at that Friends reunion?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Lady Gaga came out and sang it with her. And
then Taylor Swift on the 1989 tour, she did it
with her, which was great.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
But she's just like, in public, she's like, nah, I'm
not doing it.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
So unless you're Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Which I'd say that's probably not true of anyone listening.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
No, there's no way you're hearing her sing that.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're not hearing her sing it. So don't ask. I mean,
I kind of get it. It would sort of be
a bit like, it's a bit shame or whatever.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
But smell it, it's famous. It's like the greatest.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's a goodie.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
No guitar. You're just going to freeball it in the
middle of a car park? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Phoebe, Phoebe.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I've got a trolley full of groceries, some of it's dairy,
looking to get this back in a refrigerated unit pretty ASAP.
I mean, it's like the amount of people that come
up to me and be like, oh, my God, say
On Your Marks Get Set Bake. You know, I'm like, listen.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
You know?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
If you had to put a number on it.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Who say, no, my heart and my welcome back to
the great Kiwi Bake Off today. Bakers.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
If you really had to, because I've hung out with
you a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
The judges would like you to make.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I mean, maybe I'm blind to it. An opera cake.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I just don't know. You'll have 30 minutes in which
to complete your bake. I'm like, guys, I've done other things.
I'm at ZM now, you know? I've had a successful
comedy tour. Like, I'm happy to tell you a joke.
I'm happy to sing fact of the day.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I will say we did have, you know, some New
Zealand and, you know, some big celebs daffodil day on Friday.
And I'll tell you what, Paddy Gower gets it the most.
He gets, say it, say it in a video. Not
the effing news. This is the effing news.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
He did yell out on radio.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
He was just posting like with the county's Monaco team.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, I saw that.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
They were getting him to say that as well. It's
like everywhere he goes, he gets that.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, totally. Oh, it's endless for people like Paddy, like me,
that create a sort of legendary moment. Like Lisa Kudrow,
like Paddy Gower, like Hayley Sproul, where you create these
kind of iconic sayings and phrases. Let us be.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
I feel like I don't know how to say it. Sarface. Sarface. C-Z-A-R-F-A-C-E-R. Zarface. Zarface.
I'm so sorry to all our hip hop listeners and
fans if that means something to you. This is wild.
So I knew none of this information until yesterday. There's
been a new hip-hop album dropped overnight, and it is

(07:31):
from Zarface and Frankie Pulitzer.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Frankie Pulitzer, you say? That means nothing to me. It
means nothing to me either until you realise that Frankie Pulitzer,
by the way, this is a 15-track full album called
Zarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, 15 tracks. featuring the likes of
Busta Rhymes, Method Man, like well-respected rappers.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And the man behind Frankie Pulitzer, that is the alter
ego of Tom Hardy. Have a listen to this. This
is mad technology. This is Tom Hardy rapping.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
What?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
No, this bit's not. That's not Tom Hardy. No, that's
not Tom Hardy. No, it is. No, it's not. Go
to the later verses, him. It's British, and he's like that,
he's like that.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Hang on.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'll grab it. Careful, because this is a person of
colour who may drop a word that only a person
of colour can drop. Can drop, okay.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Let me find it.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I was just playing it before. His verse is a
little bit later, because there's three rappers on there. And
it's Tom Hardy. And people are like, do you know,
he was offered at 15 years old. Don't bring up
my thing yet because it is the N-word really early on. Okay, go, go, go.

(08:49):
Here we go. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
This is him.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
This is Tom Hardy. Sounds a bit like Old Dirty Bastard,
but British.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
If there's words. I'm just like watching the lyrics as
the video comes up.

Speaker 8 (09:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
So you can hear it there, right? That's Tom Hardy.
That's Bang. Man, I don't hate that. I don't hate it.
It's given.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Tom Hardy.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, weird. Okay.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
So I reckon get rid of it just softly just
because I just don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Don't know what's around the corner. He's not going to
say it, but the next guy might.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So that's got a few rappers on it, but Sarface
is one of them. And that song actually starts off
with Busta Rhymes. No, sorry. Method Man. In that song.
And then later on the album is Busta Rhymes in there.
He has verses about Willem Dafoe, a very not suitable
for work reference to Kathy Bates.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
You, the respect that woman deserves, considering. Considering, yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
We turn on Kathy Bates because she said that the
only American movie should win Oscars once. Remember when Lord
of the Rings was cleaning up and she's like, I
don't think. Remember that wild time?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Wild. Kathy Bates.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Wild Kathy Bates. I can't see her any other way
after that movie. What was the movie? The Stephen King
movie where the author that she's in.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
The Block of Wood.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
And the Sledgehammer.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Do you know what we're talking about?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
No.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
You should watch it. There's a very famous scene. She, like,
kidnaps a writer. He crashes his car, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
And she's like, I'll help you, but then won't let
him leave. And then he's getting ready to leave, and
so she puts a block of wood between his two ankles.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Ties him to it and smacks the nut.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
And sledgehammers the other side of the ankle.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Right. He has one song called Grim Visited War, which...
nerds like myself will know is from the opening speech
of Richard III because he's a respected British actor. And
he does the whole Winter of Our Discontents speech from
Richard III in his Bane voice from Dark Knight Rises.
And then people are like, it's pretty good. So this

(10:53):
is what I didn't know was in the 90s when
he was 15 years old, he was actually given a
hip hop record deal. Was he? So he always wanted this.
He said it was a very hard sale coming from
a middle class neighbourhood.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
He said back then he wasn't very good. He's got
like this lo-fi mixtape that you can find. It's called
Falling On Your Ass in 1999. This is like.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
When I found out Jason Statham was a common... Jason Statham?
Jason Statham.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Jason Statham.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Jason Statham. Jason Statham.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Olympic diver.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
No, Commonwealth diver.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Oh, Commonwealth diver.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, he was at the Christchurch Commonwealth Games. No, Auckland
Commonwealth Games.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
1990.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Christchurch was 1974.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
And you see him. He's really good.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Also, everybody doesn't know how tall Jason Statham is.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
He's very little.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Jason Statham is fatigued.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Jason Statham.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
So online, like hip-hop enthusiasts and rappers alike, I mean
Busta Rhymes wouldn't just jump on a shit album, are like,
it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So weird.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's pretty good. Tom Hardy.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Tom Hardy, like proper Tom Hardy, is a rapper.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
He's got range, that guy.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
He's so good in Peaky Blinders.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
He got range and he loves dogs.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, it's called- But didn't he get fired from that,
what was that, the mob show?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
What was that? Mobland. Mobland. Did he? Is he difficult?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
There was a big fallout there and then- Between Herman
and Helen Mirren. Yeah. There was fighting.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Shh. Helen.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
And then I believe he left or they were trying
to get him back. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
He gives big, like, hard to work with. But he got,
you know, a nice project. Well, if you want to
listen to the whole album, you can find it wherever
you listen to your music. It's called Zarface meets Frankie Pulitzer.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
From the Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley group chat, this is
The Top Six. Well, I'm going to go see a
movie tonight called By Any Means. Oh, okay. And it's
about when the FBI couldn't get the job done, they hired, like,
the mob to, like, rough people up.

Speaker 8 (12:44):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's got Mark Warburg in it playing this mob enforcer.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
And do they just sort of try to buy what
he's buying?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Just let him beat the shit out of people. Amazing.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, to get some information. Now, you might think that's
a true story, but it's set some way back in time.
But here in our very own little country, at the
Monaco Pack and Save, it's.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Kind of been happening. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Security guards who spotted people going through self-checkouts and either
meaning to... you know, cheat the system and not scan
items or, you know, accidentally doing it, I have been
taking them to the security office out back, roughing them up. Including,
but not limited to, shoving a cucumber in a man's mouth.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Jesus.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's been at the district court.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's quite full noise.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Like, two security guards have been found guilty. I'm assuming
the supermarket didn't know what was happening.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
No, no, no, no. They had no idea.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
They pulled the security footage for the trial, though, and
it's pretty, like, once they, like, turns off the.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Lights and, like, it's pretty full on. Extorting money out
of them. They're not really allowed to do... Oh, that's
very naughty.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
So they're shaking them down for cash.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Shaking them down for cash.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
So they're like, we'll call the cops. We've got this
evidence unless you give us some.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Because legitimately, they're not really allowed to do... Not allowed
to touch you. Not allowed to touch them. They can't. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I don't even know if they can detain you, can they? No, it's...
They can get you off the property, though.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think if you're being a rascal.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, but they can't.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
By reasonable means.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Punch you. No. Take your cucumber. So a cucumber down
the throat. Yeah. In the mouth. Telegraph or Lebanese?

Speaker 3 (14:12):
I think Telegraph. By the sounds of it, because it
was plastic wrapped.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I wouldn't want that prickly fat one.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
No. An apple cucumber. That whitey apple cucumber. Oh, yeah,
no thanks.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
No thanks. No.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Top six foods I'd let supermarket security put in my mouth.
Number six on the list. For free.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, lovely.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Number six on the list.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Because I was being good.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Chocolate Mercer in the can.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Oh, my God. Is that Tararua that does the... Tartua.
Tartua that does the.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
The chocolate mousse. Yes, good start. Because they do the
whipped cream, they do the chocolate mousse. I feel like
there was a caramel one at one stage.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
They do the creme fraiche in the packets. They do
a lovely creme fraiche. They do a lovely creme fraiche.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Creme fraiche, but not in a squirtable container.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
No.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Number five on the list of the top six foods
I'd let supermarket security.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Put in my mouth.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Banana, skin off.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Just kind of feed it to you. Okay.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Because it kind of... Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
You can do a whole one too.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
You can, I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, it's incredible. No tears.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
What can I say? Wasted. Eyes don't even want to. Wasted. Wasted.
Absolutely wasted. Wasted.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Like a snake on an egg. Number four on the
list of the top six foods I'd let security put
in my mouth.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Cheese.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
I actually love being fed cheese.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Just grate it.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh, because, well, at the weekend I was busy cooking
both my hands and I was numbing the chicken and
I got my hands in the busy and so I go,
cheese me.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Grr. Yeah, nice. You get a little bit of cheese.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
A little bit of cheese in the mouth.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Good boy gets some cheese.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Good boy gets some cheese.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Good boy gets the cheese.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Number three on the list of the top six foods
I let supermarket security put in my mouth, pick and
mix lollies.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yum. Yeah. The fizzy mix.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Because sometimes it's a peach heart, sometimes it's a beer.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't think my supermarket does pick and mix anymore.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Ours is very small. Ours has really gone down.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
There's that healthy pick and mix. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Get rid of it. No, I'm sorry. I don't want
a lentil crisp.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I mean, there is an entire aisle Two aisles dedicated
to chips and lollies and chocolate.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I know, but I like the pick and mix.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
She likes to pick it out, get all the ones
she likes.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I like to curate my mix.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
All right, I'm going to turn the list of the
top six foods I let supermarket security put in my mouth.
Chocolate log, that sponge one. Yum. Rolled up with some cream.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
A little bit of cream in it. You just keep
pushing it in more and more because the sponge is
mostly air. It's basically air. It's a diet food. Yeah, actually,
the girth on that, though. I'm proud of you.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Wasted. I'd like to put a chocolate sponge log or
a sponge log into one of those vacuum seal packets.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
All right. Like the... Yeah. Would it go like a noodle?

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Would it go flat? It'd just go flat. Or would
it go.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I'll bring my vacuum cleaner and some vacuum bags.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
And we'll pick up a sponge on the way home.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, we will vacuum pack a sponge log from the supermarket.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
9696, what do you want to see us vacuum pack?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Do you think it will go flat or will it
stay round?

Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, it won't stay round.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
It won't stay round. No, because the bag's flat. It'll
go flat. It'll go oval.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
But if you put... If you had a tube, like a...
Long balloon and vacuum pack. That it might stay around. Yeah,
but I think it would go flat. Yeah. Okay, well,
join us tomorrow. Oh, man, I can't wait. Join us tomorrow.
Join us tomorrow. I can't wait. We're just going to
vacuum pack some shit. I've got to go to Marte
10 after this.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
What else could we vacuum pack?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
The world's our oyster.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Do you know what would look cool? A bunch of
scrub daddies.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Vacuum packed.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
And then vacuum pack it. I don't think they would
vacuum pack.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
They'd push it down. I don't think it would be
as good.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
It won't.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
You don't think so? We need softer.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Look at our art installation.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
We should boil some potatoes. Soft boil. Put them in
the bag and then vacuum pack them. Mash. Instant mash.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
That's a good idea. That's also a good idea.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Join us tomorrow. We're going to vacuum. Join us tomorrow.
We're going to vacuum.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
What about a dense chocolate cake? How much do you reckon.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
That would vacuum? It would go fudgy. I reckon it
would go... Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
And it'd spread through the whole bag and you might
even get some choccy up your vacuum pipe.

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
What about vacuum packing a flake, Cadbury flake?

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Nah, I reckon it would hold.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think, yeah. It would hold too much.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
I reckon if you laid the bag flat and stood
the flake vertically like a tent peg, that would be cool.
Because I reckon it would just crush it down. It
would crush it, yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
What about meringues?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Oh, yeah, that crushed it down.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
A pavlova. Oh, my God, a full supermarket pavlova because
it's like eggy and meringue-y. Join us tomorrow. Join us tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
We'll eat vacuum-packed foods. Candy floss.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
Oh!

Speaker 1 (18:11):
That'll go real flat.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Join us tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
That'll go real flat.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Join us tomorrow. And 9696, get your list in.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Do you know what?

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I reckon there's already someone has a YouTube or a
TikTok channel on this. Am I going to need to
bring in the culture?

Speaker 1 (18:24):
We're more audio based.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, because we're not ruining my drive back. I've got
that big, powerful workshop back.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Actually, can I borrow that as well after the show?
Because I broke a pane of glass in my garage
and that's not going in the Dyson. And there's gold
leaf everywhere. Oh, shivers. Golden glass. Oh, shivers. George Rowe, 9696.
You can actually borrow the Ozito for that.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
I've got a wet dryer, cheap Ozito wet dryer.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
You can borrow that. I just don't want the car
chipping full of glass shards, you know.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, that's fair, that's fair. We can vacuum pack the
glass shards.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I don't even want to do number one because it's
not as going to be as exciting about all the
things we're going to vacuum pack tomorrow. Top six things
I would let the supermarket security shove down my, in
my mouth.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Oh, sheesh. I really would.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
I've wanted to. My dark passenger has told me multiple
times to swallow an ushi to see if it comes
out the same as it went in. Do it. I
think it would. Because there's one particular, I can't remember
one particular ushi looks a bit smaller and I reckon
I was like, I could get it down.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, I could swallow it down. I'm really good at
swallowing pills. So is Fletch. Wasted. Some text on the
text machine.

Speaker 8 (19:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
What do they want to see vacuum packed?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Hot cooked pork belly.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
No, that's just what you do in there is just
you've cooked the pork belly and you're preserving it for later.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Someone wants us to do a full fresh burger. We
can get a nonnies on the way in.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Let's do a Big Mac. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Love. Someone said your hand. But it's too much seal.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
It's too much seal around the hand.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get a list.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
9696.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
I love this.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
This is great.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Join us tomorrow. Join us tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, that's good stuff. That is today's top six.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
So there is a, it's sort of like an overall
sex survey. This is a different one that's happened in
Australia recently from a place called Body and Soul.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
And lots of information from this survey asking Australians, you know,
what they're doing in the bedroom and how they're mixing
it up and what their opinion is on different things. 75%
of Aussies happy with their sex lives. Oh, okay. That's
up 11% since last year. What's changed? It's more expensive

(20:31):
to exist, so we just go home and shag because
that's free. That's free. Maybe. One in three saying even
that they're very satisfied, which is up 12%. So the
Aussies are having a good time.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Lovely.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I'm going to come to that.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
It's pretty sad if you see your partner filling out
this survey and it says somewhat satisfied.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
And you're like, very. You're like, there's a bit of
a gap here. I'm having a great time.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
She's like, He's somewhat satisfied.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
They sort of broke it down by areas as well,
like Sydney. They're mostly driven by emotional connection.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Areas of the body, like penis and.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, that would be number one, wouldn't it? It was
very interesting. But the part of it that I wanted
to look into was the idea of open relationships. So
non-monogamy in all of its form. There's open, there's ethical non-monogamy,
there's polyamory, there's all sorts of terms for it.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
What's the non-monogamy where they don't know you're doing it?

Speaker 7 (21:24):
Cheating.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's called cheating. But just a little sidestep. I read
this other article about polyamory. What's that? So ethical non-monogamy
is like you've got rules, you've got guidelines, you've both
had a conversation about things and you stick to that
and you can do what you want within your guidelines.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Polyamory is just tolerating polyamory. Great as hell. So it's
just tolerating cheating. So sort of like you know that
they're doing it and you're like, whatever. If it makes
you a better person, then whatever. I will say a
lot of sex therapists have said, no. That's not the
way to do it. That's not the way to do
it at all. So here's some information about the open relationships.

(22:05):
There's a huge generational split across Australia. One in three
Gen Zs, that's us. No, we are not Gen Zs. No,
we're millennials. Because I just read the age bracket and
I was like, 29 still? No, hon, you're not. One
in three Gen Zs say that they would prefer an
open relationship. A third.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
So that doesn't mean they're in one. That just means they...
They would prefer it.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
So some kind of form of an open relationship with
more than one sexual partner, whereas it's just a quarter,
a quarter of millennials, so much less. Older generations, 10%
of boomers.

Speaker 8 (22:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Said that they would be happy... Gen X, so that's
sort of between your boomers and your millennials, just 7%.
So the boom is actually getting a bit freakier. I
think as they're getting closer to the end of life,
they're kind of going, I wish I had a shag
more people during this marriage.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
There's a lot of people in this rest time. I'll
open things up.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Technically, I'm still married, but he doesn't live here. I do.
So yeah, I mean, one third, one third of young
people Yeah. From, like, consensual age to 29 years old,
say that they would prefer an open relationship. Monogamous. This
could be the end of you. And I say see
you later.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
You were endorsing this message.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, listen, we're all animals. Life's too short. We're animals.
Your stance on it, Fletch, or you just pick one?
You just wait to find the one?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Oh, you know me. I'm just waiting to find the one.
Getting ready to find the one.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
She's out there. This happened over the weekend, the Daisy
Chain Fields Festival. That was Olivia Rodrigo's first ever curated festival.
And starring... Chapel Roan. Now, apparently it was hot. That
was the thing. It was literally hot. Everyone was referencing it,

(23:53):
including Chapel Roan when she sung Hot To Go. She
was like, literally. Everyone was melting. Sweltering, yeah. Sweltering. So
Chapel Roan was there. It was an all-female line-up and
they said that is exactly why the festival rung to
the team.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
On time, yeah. Men could go though, right?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Men were allowed to attend.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Yes, they were.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
We were happy to take men's money. Sarah McLachlan was there.
the one, the only Sarah McLachlan, singing Angels. Oh, you
can't bring the crowd down with that. Didn't they play
on the dying dogs in the strand? Well, they were
raising money. It was a charity event. Sarah McLachlan, what?
Sarah McLachlan comes to a festival and doesn't play in
the arms of the Angels?

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, you'd be like, I don't know any other song.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And then, so she was booked. Stevie Nicks was booked.
Absolute female icon. And also Olivia singing with all of
them as well. Yeah. And then Karen O was supposed
to be there, like an old rock and roller. And
she couldn't. And so Olivia Rodrigo came out and said,

(24:53):
I'm so sorry, she can't come here. And then she
announced this little gem. Alanis Morissette! Oh, wow. Surprise, Alanis Morissette.
They did Ironic. Together. Together. Do you know how good?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Alanis Morissette played a few years ago in Whitianga.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
And my mate Callum was walking through and he's like, man,
that amazing cover band doing Alanis Morissette stuck his head in.
And it was Alanis Morissette playing to like.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Next to no one. Yeah, no, she did like a
one or anything. And he's like, yeah, I'll grab a
beer and sit down and walk over.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
It's like up close and personal Alanis Morissette show. She's
still incredible live. I saw her last year at a
festival in Europe and she's incredible.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
So Variety magazine said that Olivia and Chappell's sets at
the Daisy Chain Festival make an indisputable case that we're
living in a golden era for women and pop. And then,
so here's the amazing part of this. This raised in
ticket sales in American dollars, $ 10 million American dollars from
ticket sales for non-profit organisations supporting women and girls in
the United States and around the world. Amazing. And then

(25:59):
Melinda Gates came in and was like, I'll match it. Oh, Gatesy. What, Gatesy?
Match that $ 10 million.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
She's probably dropping the Gates, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'd drop the Gates.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
After the Epstein fire.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
I'd drop the Gates. I'd drop the Gates, but the
Gates gives her, I guess, a little bit of power,
and then she can come in and do good things
like this.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
She does a lot of philanthropy. No, you've said that wrong.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Philanthropy.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Philanthropy.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Philanthropy.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Ferry. Ferry. Am I saying philanthropy or philanthropy? It's Jason Statham.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Guys, we've had a bunch of problems on the show
this morning when it comes to pronunciation, haven't we? Yeah,
he's been a bit lazy in our pronunciation. This is
our job.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Melinda Gates came out on stage in a... No, it's
not really. We're just supposed to make you laugh. Came
out and said she was going to double it, totaling
$ 20 million, 100% of Neat Proceeds. It was completely non-profit.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
45,000 tickets were sold. It's being split across 10 different
female-focused things like national domestic abuse things, Planned Parenthood, all
this kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Amazing. I know. Women, eh? Who knew?

Speaker 1 (27:01):
And finished on time. And finished on time. And finished
on time.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Can I tell you what?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
We can do more than make you a bloody dinner.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Hey, please. Please, that ends... Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Silly little pole.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Silly little pole.

Speaker 9 (27:22):
It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Silly little pole. Silly little pole.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Silly little pole.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Silly little pole.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Well, this comes about because this is in a pile
of which way do you draw a horse comes about
because Andy Field Hello is his Instagram handle and He's
running this thing at the moment. It was popped up
in the algorithm over the weekend, which was really interrupting
the flow of baddie golf Latinos. But he has started
drawing a horse every day until he can draw a

(27:57):
good horse.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Hard to draw.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Hard to draw a horse. So day nine is his latest.
Is he any.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Good at drawing?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Nah. No. So day, what was it, day eight or
day seven, he changed and he did the, like someone
sent him a picture of their horse and it was
just like looking over its shoulder. I'm like, no, you've
got to stick to the formula. But he drew a
horse and the horse's head was on.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
The left end.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
If you're looking at the piece of paper and you go,
the horse's head was on the left end. So if
I was to draw a horse, I'd put the head
at the right. Yeah, same. It'd be facing right. But
is that because I'm right-handed?

Speaker 8 (28:31):
No.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
No. And it's weird, I didn't think about it because
I'd start with the head and draw backwards across the
page because mostly you'd start on the left.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
You'd always start with the head.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
My girlfriend's left-handed and she said she'd start on the
left and I said that makes less sense because you
left-handed your smudges.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
But even if we, oh yeah, I suppose, so you
pull away from the head. That's the way the horse races,
I've just realised. When you're watching a horse race, you're
at the finish line, they're going head to the right.
Why do they not go the other way? Whereas I
go left as well, because I'm a lefty.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
They could be going the other way, but it's where
the camera's always sat there.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, true. But you, yeah, if you were inside the track,
it would be the other way. Exactly, but the camera's
never inside the track, it's always outside the track. But
I go the way that I would right. We write
from left to right, so I draw the head from
left first. But then I look down at my tattoo
of you, Vaughan, that Sammy did. Is that face, the
head's right, isn't it? He's pointing right. He's pointing right. Right.

(29:27):
But that's because otherwise he'd be sniffing my arse. Wouldn't
want that. I want him more face forward.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Okay, so apparently it's clockwise like in the UK, Australia.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Which would be right.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
And I'm assuming us as well. And left-handed counterclockwise horse
races run in America. And countries like France, yeah, they
run the other way.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
Really?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So there are different ways. So the Kentucky Derby's backwards? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Oh, how bizarre. Isn't that insane?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, I just had never even thought about it as
being a thing, but of course it was divisive.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Always go left to right.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
So if you were to draw a horse which way
it would be facing, left, front on, like a madman,
or right, 66% of people draw the horse facing left.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Head first to the left. Head to the left. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Heading left.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
32% head right.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
2% of people will draw a horse front on.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Pfft.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I'm sorry. Nobody's doing it.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
That's the hardest angle to draw in. Sure, it's easier
because you don't have to worry about the body. It's
like when you draw a cat.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
No, but the body isn't thicker than the head. You've
got to have the ass in the back.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
You see a cat front on all the time. Now,
unless you're a horse person and it's looking at you
at the fence, I just don't think it's the angle
you'd see a horse on too many times. I know
horses always go in that way.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
True.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Same for cow and stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
And dog.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Would you draw a dog and a cow facing the
same way as the horse? Yeah. Yep.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
All cats, if they're standing. Yeah, no, I'd go dog,
heading right too.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
We're just different and yet friends. And this was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Kate, how is it that I've never thought once in
my entire life about this, yet now that I've been asked,
I feel so passionate about the fact that the horse
must always be facing left?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Ruben, my boyfriend would start from the left because he
draws the face first. I would draw it front on
because I am both an artiste and a psychopath. Yes.
I'm so glad you've self-identified as a psychopath. Somebody has
messaged in saying, horse left, right. It depends where the
house is going. Because I'm assuming they're drawing a chimney

(31:36):
with the smoke coming out.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
On the right. The chimney's on the right of the house.
I'd put the chimney on the right of the house.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, that chimney's on the right of the house.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Chimney's on the right. Chimney's never on.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
The left because.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
The chimney's always on the right. Chimney's always on the right. Well,
looking at my house, my chimney's on the right. As
it should be, as was God's will.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
If you draw a house. I mean, that's a so
silly little poll in my mind. It is, but we
don't have that much time. We don't have that much time. FEH,
says Renee, solving the real important questions of the world
that no one had ever pondered.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
P.S., I voted left.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Karen, I can't draw, so I can't contribute to your poll,
but thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Lovely to have you here.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I can't draw either, but I'll give it a nudge.
This guy, Andy Field, can't draw for shit, but he's
giving it a go, and that's a lesson in itself,
isn't it? Yeah. I chose right, and I reckon it's
because I'm left-handed maybe.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh, okay. Yeah, so they're pulling.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
My whole career is drawing horses.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Piss off. Your whole career is drawing horses?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Your entire career is drawing horses?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
What is your career? What's your career?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
My whole career is drawing horses, and I can confirm
the correct answer is left, and I don't know why.
Are they a illustrator, maybe? Oh, the art of something is.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Their Instagram handle. Oh, okay. Well, there you go, then.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I'm going to go for a look and see how
well they're doing in their career.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Guys, apparently we also have counterclockwise tracks. Tarapa is left-handed,
right-handed as Ellerslie, for example.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, Ellerslie's a right-handed. And Christchurch is right-handed. I've never
even thought about it, about which way the horses go.
Felicity said they're going to be facing right because that's
the direction when they're passing the winning line. So she's
obviously not been to Tarapa. But they're not always passing
the winning line that way.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
They are. But are they not? No. This is upsetting.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Do you reckon we'd mess with a racehorse one weekend
there at Ellerslie? Doing a fat clockwise and then they're
off to Tarapa and they go, sorry guys, we're running
backwards this way.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
She said they have a lead side. They're like, shit,
it's left. Totally. I don't race well left.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
They corner. Lizzie said you start with the nose of
the horse head and then work your way across. Like
you're reading a book. So yeah, she's going facing left.
She's going facing left.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
All right.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Well, for so little, Cole, if you were to draw
a horse, which way would it be facing? 66% of
you said left.

Speaker 9 (33:55):
Now I'm.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Not about to drag Glassons through the mud. That is
a respected... I.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Was in Glassons in the weekend.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Were you?

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah. What were you getting?

Speaker 1 (34:08):
A little bandeau top.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, just some little crop tops.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Good for a singlet.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
I took my 12-year-old shopping. She's in this weird stage
of being too small for women's.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Clothing but too big for kids. Yes. I remember that stage.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it happened to me at seven. I don't remember
ever being in the stage between. I also never got
new clothes as a kid, just kind of given what.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I got given. Oh, shame. We used to have like
tween shops, like HBK.

Speaker 9 (34:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Or girl planted at farmers and stuff. You're like 12
to 14 and then you move to glasses.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Also, because I was like, do you fit anything at
Cotton On Kids?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I went to Cotton On Kids. There's like two pack
t-shirts for like, Six-year-olds. Yeah, bro.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, it's important to have an affiliation young.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
You're two-packing your B.I.G.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I mean, teach them all about his murder and all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
I mean, there's literally a trial going on right now.
I know.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, name me two albums.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Name me two albums.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, and then a kid rattles off some of the
atrocious songs.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, no, no, no. Don't say that word. Listen to those.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
So what am I looking for on Glassons? Because I
didn't see anything that really shocked me.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Kenny's saying it wrong. It's Glassons. What did I say? Glassons.
Why are you having an O? Glassons. It's so hard. Glissons.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
What are you, posh or something? You're not posh.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Don't up posh, Glissons. It is the people's shop. It's
not French. This is the whole purpose of Glissons. Nice, good,
affordable clothing. So Glissons is a New Zealand company, and
we're very proud of it. It's great.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
The same people that own Hellenstein's.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're the Hellenstein's bros. But they branched out,
and they have shops in Australia. It's not huge over
in Australia, but it's around.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
It's there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
And customers are divided about their new foots. Foots. Did
you say foots? Foots.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
I would call these.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Do I know what a foot is? T-H-O-O-T-S. So boots.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Representing the O-O-T.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Tooth. S. The T-H is, yeah, tooth boots. No, it's thongs.
Like jandals. So we'd call them juice.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Because we thongs, if we said thong, we'd be thinking
of the thong song, the G string. But that's what
they call thongs because I guess they do, they like
the G string for the toe. Now, correct me if
I'm wrong, do... Crocs to a jute? A jandal boot?
They've got a, isn't there some kind of croc boot?

Speaker 1 (36:23):
That's a croxtrosity. That is disgusting.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
So this is a jandal. So imagine a jandal flat
like that, but it's got a heel. So it's like
a high jute.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
A jandal with a heel, which we've seen now, kind
of a kitten heel, kind of a vibe thing. Yeah.
And then from the toe split bit is then a
big sleeve that turns it into a boot.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Where it becomes a jute and that sort of sits
up the leg.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
It's a bit weird, isn't it? It's a bit weird looking.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I can't find it.
There it is on. Oh, okay. Sort of like you're
wearing a jandala under a leg sleeve. Leg flare, like
a leg warmer. But you would wear those with shorts.
I just want to be clear. I would not wear
these with anything.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
No, you wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I would not wear these if I was, you know,
travelling across the planet and I had no shoes and
someone said, here, take my jutes. I'd be like.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Your feet are bleeding. Your feet are bleeding. I'm fine.
That is a monstrosity. You'd wear them with shorts or
a skirt or something like that.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
The jute. Now, social media, someone said this is the
ugliest shoe I've ever seen in my life. Yep. Someone said,
get me to the function, I'm pulling up, we're in
the foots. I reckon they'd be flying off the shelves.
Someone said, need these. Someone said, these are so cute.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Someone said, could we call them bongs instead? Boot thongs?
Boot thongs, better. Someone was like, that's been taken already.
Someone said, what is happening? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
What is happening is a great question.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Someone said, what the eff are these? You can probably
apply that to multiple things you see today. What is happening?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Just to the world in general.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, let's give him big Valencia and a great lap.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I didn't see any foods.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
But I think that'd stand out.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Well, this is in Australia so far. I don't know
if the food or the juice.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
They're making me feel something and I just don't know what.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Jandal, I'm going to go Jandal boots.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Am I into foot stuff now? No, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Dude, this is not the only one. There's a pair on.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Is it the hot models?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I mean, the legs are nice. There's a pair on
ASOS for $ 161, 000. Yeah, there's some expensive ones.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Oh, so we're going to see these this summer.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yeah, yeah, like multiple brands doing a jute.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
No. Oh, no, that one's weird.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Hot calves. Like warm calves. You've got to be leggy.
I feel like you've got to be leggy to pull
these off. Very leggy. You've got to have some legs.
It's not for us. I don't think it's for us.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
If you've got no legs, I don't think it's for you.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, I don't think you'd bother, would you? Well, getting
jutes if you were... If you had no legs, yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't think I'd fake legs. I don't think I'd
buy any shoes if I had no legs.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
There's so many designs of this.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Lots of different designs. Okay, well, look forward to that
this summer. Yeah, this summer, the jutes.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
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Speaker 3 (39:09):
There is a study out that shows Gen Z workers
are nearly twice as likely to take an unnecessary sickie
as those aged over 55. You know, I'm sick of
that generation working themselves to death and expecting the rest
of us to do the same. Yuck.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah, yuck.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yuck. Yuck.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Oh, I've got to take my blood pressure medication.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Why?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Oh, bloody work, mate. Stress.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Well, stop.

Speaker 8 (39:30):
It then.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
My heart's going.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
What are you doing it for? So four in five
under 25s took a sick day in the past year
when not too unwell to work. So they're like, you know,
I could have worked better. Just pulling the sickie. The
mental game, wasn't it? Whereas 55 to 64-year-olds, it was 43%.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Did you take your week this year where you get
the man flu so bad you'd have to take a
full week? It's coming. It's coming. It's coming.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
I think there's influenza in my household.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah. I've got the flu jab.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
So you could be all right. God, I love the
flu jab. It's wild how many people, and I'm guessing
it's a COVID hangover and online and conspiracies and stuff,
but so many people not getting the flu jab and
it's smashing our health systems.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Literally jab me with every single jab you can get. Yeah,
give me a couple of peptides as well. Yeah, read me.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Oops, I slipped on the redder needle.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
So four and five under 25 said I was too
tired to go to work.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Which I love. I'm tired, all right? I stayed up.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Way later than I should have. I was doom scurrying
till 2 a.m. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, leave me alone.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
And just under half of under 25 said in social
reasons I had a late night or I was hungover.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
I've not, because I'm out of annual leave, which I
worked out when I'm not going to be at work
next Monday. And I was like, can I take annual leave?
And my boss was like, No, you've got none of
that left. But I've got all my sick days. It's
a thing. It's like in our heads, this thing of
being like, not unless I'm on bloody death's door. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
What was it like when you were growing up to
have a day off school sick?

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Oh, you had to be sick. I had to be paralysed. Yeah.
I think towards the end when I was doing well
and I kind of found my way. My mum just
used to be like, are you going? And I'd be like, oh.
She'd be like, right, whatever.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
I actually had my arm cut off in a chainsaw
accident and mum was like, you take that arm to school. Yeah,
she put a plaster on it. She put a bandage.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
I died when I was 16.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
You got bandages.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah, I got bandages.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
And still had to go to school.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah. Yeah, well, after I died, I had to go.
And walk in the snow.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I had to bicycle.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
You had to bicycle? You got a bicycle?

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Oh, my God, you got a bike?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
I know. Dizzy, eh?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
I wasn't even allowed to use my legs when I walked. Wow.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
You had to crawl on your knees. I had to
drag myself, yeah. We could sync up for a nice
sick day off. We've all got bloody sick leave left.
Spit in my mouth quickly.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
I don't think I've used a sick day at this job.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Son of a bitch.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Can I have them?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
You took one for your shoulder surgery. No, I still worked.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
No, you didn't.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
No, he worked, and then he was like, book me
in for after work. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
And then I came on Monday.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
He's a boomer in disguise. I've been telling Gen Z
around here, I walked so you could run. I've been
sitting in these low bars my entire career. Well, we
would like to know this morning. 0800 dials at M.
You can text her as well, 9696. Your most piss
poor excuse for a sick day. Like, when were you
just like, no, and here's, and maybe don't, you didn't

(42:23):
tell work the real reason. Like vibes, sometimes the vibe's off.
I can see sometimes if you worked in an office
and the vibe was a bit.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Sick, you'd be like, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Just what did you pull a sickie for? Maybe you
just woke up and you're like, because you know, what
is the date coming up when Grand Theft Auto, that
is going to be a, there's going to be some
sick leave.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
My boyfriend's taking leave, I think.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Annual leave.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
How does he have any annual leave?

Speaker 1 (42:44):
How does he have any annual leave? He goes everywhere
you go. He must have no leave.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
He must be negative, negative leave. I don't even know.
November 19, 2026, Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out. We
should actually talk to Brad Elson, economist, about this because
there'll be a dive in productivity for the nation.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
But we're also, in New Zealand, we always get the
best concerts the weekdays after Australia gets them. So, like,
I went to Metallica and the next day you're at work.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Taking a sick day for a hangover.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Well, when did you pull a sickie and what was
it for? Some great messages already coming in. Somebody messaged in,
I'm looking forward to taking notes because I'm resigning and
I had to give four weeks notice, but I have
70 sick days accrued. So I'll be listening to your
audience to get good reasons to take off half of
those four weeks.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Do you know what I would do?

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I would, and it sounds really bad, I'd fake a
serious illness and take all those days and then come
back and give notice.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Well, you're talking about sort of like a pneumonia or
what's the one people get in anoxia? Glandula fever. Glandula fever. Yes.
That's the one that can knock you.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
So you're saying get paid for all the days technically.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go to Bali. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I mean, I hate to say it, but, you know, something.
Say you've got the old.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Dinghy fever. What are they used to call tuberculosis? Fluid
in the lungs. And they'd send you somewhere hot and dry.
To recuperate? We've got the bird. The horrors? Was it
the horrors? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, okay. Tell them
they've got the plague. Oh, yeah, the plague. Plague's back.
It is back.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Mad cow. Say mad cow. No one wants you in
the office and you've got mad cow.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
You went to the Democratic Republic of Congo and you
come back with a mild case of Ebola.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
I've got Ebola.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
I've got a mild Ebola. And they're like, when did.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
You go there? And you're like, on the week, it's
actually none of your business.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
You don't control me outside of those 40 hours.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Back off, man.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Okay, 0800 dials at Amazon number 9696 to text through.
What was your excuse for taking a sick day? Why,
you've had to pull a sickie anonymous. Hello.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Are you pulling a sickie today?

Speaker 6 (44:42):
And I'm absolutely not pulling a sticky today, but I
did pull a sticky nearly 17 years ago now.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Okay, why? How do you know the date?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Very specific that you know it was 17 years ago.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
Yeah, well, our daughter is about to, well, she's 16
at the moment, but, yeah, we were trying for a baby.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Oh, my God, you were ovulating. Oh, man, I tell
you what. Oh, my God, amazing.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
I bet your 16-year-old daughter, who definitely recognises your voice,
is stoked mum's calling up a radio station to say
when her and dad banged.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Wait, so you and your baby daddy were husband? Good,
just making sure you know.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Congratulations on standing the test of time.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
So you're tracking your ovulation. You've got that small window
of opportunity, and so you stay home to shag.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Well, I mean, I was 37 at the time, so
I think I pretty much had every ovulating kit on
the market. And.

Speaker 8 (45:41):
Yeah, so I peed on the little stick in the
morning and.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
It said I'm ovulating. So I was like, well, I'm
not going to work today.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
And I just hopped back into bed.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
And hubby had to call in sick as well.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
Well, yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:53):
Well, I can't remember what hubby did back then.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
I think we got the job done before morning.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
I would have been at work by smoke, I reckon,
and back home for another one in the afternoon. Poor
guy's like, I've got to stay home all day now.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
I've got to just shag my wife all day. What
a great sick day. I know.

Speaker 6 (46:09):
I mean, it was a real chore for him, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Yeah. A real chore, yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Emma, hey, it worked. It did, didn't it?

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Well, it did work.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Brilliant.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Well, everybody's happy. There you go.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
And what's a sick day?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
What's a sick day? And you've got a beautiful 17-year-old. Anonymous,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Sarah, why did you have a sickie?

Speaker 8 (46:26):
So I had a sickie last week because my kids
had their cross-country.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
So I was like, ah, bugger it.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
I felt left out because my partner was going.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
So I was like, ah, I'm coming too. Are they fast?
Are your kids fast? Or was this a waste of
a sickie?

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Oh, my daughter pulled.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
So she was, she's seven.

Speaker 7 (46:45):
So she got sick.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
And then my son, he doesn't really like running.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
He came 29th, but I was super proud of him.
That's pretty good. Hey, 29th. That's good, man.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
That's good when you don't like running, but I love
you take the day off and he's like, I wish
you had it because this isn't going to go well.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Wait, what excuse did you give work, Sarah?

Speaker 5 (47:02):
I just always give, oh, I'm not feeling well, but
majority of the time it is kids not feeling well.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:08):
But yeah, it just makes it easier saying that and
then it doesn't look bad on like, you know, it's
like more dependent leaves.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Not my own. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
I'm not using it for myself. Brilliant. Thank you, Sarah.
Some messages in. Why'd you pull a sickie?

Speaker 3 (47:22):
I had my period and I decided I couldn't be
nice all day, so it was a sick day I'll
get fired for being a bitch. It was a bit
of a no-brainer there.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
What place is doing menstrual labor? Because it's painful and awful.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Yeah, a few places do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well, by the way, that hasn't arrived yet.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
My work friend and I are having a sickie today.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Because it's a teacher's only day. We promised my son
a day of Fortnite where we would just play Fortnite
all day with him in the house with lots of snacks.
So we've chucked a sickie.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Actually, that's fun.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Because Gen Z is more likely than every other generation
to pull a sickie. It goes Gen Z, millennial.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
To use their allocated sick days. Yeah, do it.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I remember it. Somebody saying recently, like, why waste a
sick day when you're actually sick?

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Well, what about teachers?

Speaker 3 (48:01):
They get to bank them up, like how teacher Matt
has like a million. Yeah. And then they can just
use them. Like ours, if they don't, we get what, five?

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Ten a year. And then if you don't use them,
they go on, baby. They disappear. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
So that actually kind of makes an incentive to use them, right?

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Some messages.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
I fake vomit sounds when I rang my boss. I
didn't want to look after this particular child at school
when I was a learning assistant. And it was a
lovely day. Far too lovely to be looking at some
demon spawn.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
So what? You were like, hey, I'm.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
I feel like unless your acting's high grade, no one's
believing that.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
I'm pretty good at doing like a... Okay, I'd believe that.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
But you're an actor.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah, I know. We actually do a whole term on
pulling sickies at Toy Focardi.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Yeah, great. Told my boss that my pet goldfish had
a lung disease and needed surgery. They gave me a
final warning and I had a disciplinary for it and
I was fired. That was from Domino's Pizza 10 years ago.
Domino's ain't here to put up with your shit. He
has a lung disease.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Like, at least say a cat. Hi.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
How do I apply for bereavement leave?

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Goldie. I know. Classic name for a goldfish. He's just floating.

Speaker 7 (49:10):
Goldie.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
His whole stomach, he's like twice his size.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
I said I had COVID. This would have been about
the seventh time I had COVID. Went to watch the
Warriors play in Sydney. Got seen on television. Very funny.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Awkward conversation.

Speaker 6 (49:22):
Brilliant.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
I'm the boss, so I get unlimited sick days, but
because I'm a millennial, I feel guilty. Sometimes I can't
be bothered, so I pull a sickie, but then I'm
actually sick, I'll go to work.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, I kind of get it. I kind of get it.
When you are sick, you're like, man, I'm really like
putting everyone out. But when you're taking a sick day
as like taking the piss, you're a bit like, screw them.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
This is my right to do so.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
My 12-year-old cat was getting five teeth out and I
was very stressed. Had a sick day and sat all
day waiting to see if she was okay.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
I kind of get that. That's okay, I think.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Pulled a sickie to ensure I got Taylor Swift tickets.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Yeah, good.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
It's worth it. Someone said, some days as a teacher
you just wake up and think of that one kid
and you're just like. Do you think that one kid
was ever Vaughan Smith or Hayley's bro?

Speaker 1 (50:03):
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
He was cheeky but delightful.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
I think I was distracting but charming. Okay. Well, that's
what you think.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Distracting but charming.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Somebody said, by the way, it's trying to snow in Dunedin,
so seriously considering using some of these for a sick
day excuse today.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Do it. And build a snowman.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Or a snow person. A sleep man. Yes, actually. Thank
you very much. Wow.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Good morning to our feminist listeners, and we apologize.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Actually, more fun building a snowman with boobs.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Very true. What is gender?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
And my pronouns are actually snow and ice.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Okay, let's go back in time a little bit. I
was at the New World in Cumeo and I'd done
some grocery shopping.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
See, I went further back in time. I went to
the dinosaur.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
I thought dinosaurs.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Oh, you went that far. I didn't go that far.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
I went 1800s. Okay. Oh, whereabouts? Were you in England? No,
we were here.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Oh, really? It was rough, man.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
It was rough. Rough time. In the frontier. Yeah, God.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
I'm whaling, by the way, and that was where I
straight went. I was killing whales.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Wow. 1800s whaler.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
And he was buying all this farmland with just blankets
and muskets.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
You're seducing my family. Actually embarrassed.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Actually embarrassed at some of the things I said.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
No, not that far back.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Didn't know any better, did I?

Speaker 1 (51:20):
I'd say two, three years back, and I was doing
some groceries, and I came out, and there was a
stall there, you know, fundraising, and it was for wheelchair rugby.
And it was like, give this amount, pay for a lesson.
Give this amount, pay for a chair thing. Are they
the Wheelblacks? Yeah, the Wheelblacks. Our Wheelblacks, we won gold. Yeah,
we're pretty badass, the Wheelblacks. So I'd given money to

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the legitimate, the people collecting on behalf. And I think
it was just a tap kind of donation like that.
So that's fine. I didn't want to talk about it.
I do my charity privately.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
You don't want to just keep going on. I think
that's what we're going to do. We're all going to
sort of open the books and let everybody know how
much charity donations we've done lately.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
I keep mine private.

Speaker 7 (52:02):
Fecal.

Speaker 6 (52:03):
Same.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
So then last year, oh, my God, abundance. So last year,
you'll remember, and I shared this. with our listeners that
I got a phone call and it was a woman, like,
representing the Wheel Blacks or something like that, you know,
kind of muffled the thing. And I was like, oh, yeah,
I remember giving a donation to them. And there was

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something in my soul. I believe at the time I
was quite depressed, mid-breakup, I think. Okay, right. And was
feeling the need to feel good. And I remember I
got really up-souled on if you do this package, you know,
we're great, you know, $ 200. And I remember being like, yeah,
I can do that. And they said, now, you know,
I just have to ask. for $ 450 and I gave

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a $ 650 donation. I think at the time I was...
Jesus Christ! I think at the time, you know, and
I was like, hell yes, sports, we love this, off
you go. And I did a credit card over the
phone thing and it was like.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Yeah, because no one just has $ 650, Hayley.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
No, no, it was mad.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
I didn't have the money at the time. And I
did a credit card over the phone thing and then,
you know, and I was like, a day or so later,
I was like, I never got any confirmations. Never got
any confirmation for that. There was no email. And I
gave them my email address.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
That's a charitable donation.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
That's a tax write-off, right?

Speaker 3 (53:22):
I don't want to turn everything into a tax write-off,
but that's a tax write-off.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
But that's a tax write-off. Yeah, so like there was
no email and there was no kind of follow-up. And
I remember thinking it was odd and then kind of
Googling it at the time and being like, was that odd?
Maybe it was odd because it was an 022 number
or something.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
I've been getting these missed phone calls. endlessly from a
number that will ring and hang up, ring and hang up,
ring and hang up. And I was like, who is it?
Is it a doctor? You know, is it my doctor
saying you've got a prescription to pick up? Because I do.
And so I just rung it back the other day.
It was like, and then it went immediately to just
hold music. I was like, okay. And then I hear, hello?

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I was like, hi, who's this? Oh, yes, this is
Sandra from the Wheelblacks. You may remember you gave us
a donation last year, and it was all very, like,
kind of... KG. KG. Did your last donation go through?
It went through, but I never received any official thing.

(54:22):
In previous donations, you always get an email saying, thank
you for your donation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or, like, here's
the receipt or something.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Well, they have to give you a receipt.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Yeah, no, no, it was a full scam.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
What came up in the credit card thing? Or did
you get it reversed?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
I can't even remember what it... I can't even remember
at the time. I don't think I got it reversed.
But I think I looked into it... Oh, no, frivolous. Anyway,
so I was talking to this woman and then she
was like, you know, you've been a supporter before and
do you want to support again? And I said, I've
got to be honest with you. I reckon you're trying
to rip me off. She's like, sorry. I genuinely think

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you might be scamming me. And she said, well, what
makes you think that? And I said, oh, you know,
this is an odd number. And meanwhile, I'm on the
phone and I'm Googling Wheelblacks. I'm not dragging their name
into the mud because this is not their contact number.
They are a proper organisation. They have an 0800 number. Yeah.
And I looked at it and I was like, this
is not the number 028 something or rather, rather. And

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I was like, last year when I did this, I said,
I think you might have taken my money, Susan or
whatever your bloody name is. Oh, God, we would never
do that.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
And we're just looking for more donations. And I was like,
you know what? I said, if I see the stall
at a supermarket, I'll do it there. And she said, oh,
it's just so easy. We can just do it over
the phone. She's trying it again. It's very sophisticated. You've
got to be careful.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
What's sophisticated about this?

Speaker 1 (55:46):
The way it was like, I mean, she's just like,
this is like this Kiwi woman who's using the whole thing.
She gives you the whole, you know, thing about sports
for people in wheelchairs and everything. I called her though.
I called her though this time. Right. Okay, good. She
didn't get no money from me. So how did it end?
I said, I'm sorry. I said, if I see the stall,
you know, I'm happy to do it in person. And

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I said, but I'm going to be completely honest with you.
I think this doesn't feel right.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
But you don't know that the last one was a scam.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
It was the same woman. I know the voice.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
It was the same woman. I think it's like a
little internal New Zealand scam happening. Oh, then I Googled
the number and it was like, you know, there's that site. Yeah.
It was like, that's suspicious.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
You've got to report it to the police.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
To the po-po.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
To stop this happening.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Do a one-on-one this.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Somebody said that there's these large telemarketing or marketing firms
that run campaigns for places and they do come across
really aggressive because the person that calls you isn't involved
in the charity, they're in a commission. So that's why
she's like, it's easy.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
To do it over the phone. So it could be legitimate. No, no,
it's definitely not. It's definitely not. I've actually sent an
email to the Wheelblacks being like, do you guys know
that this is thing? It's people texting and saying I've
got the same thing. Dodgy as.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Yeah, right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
That sucks. I know. You've got to be careful. You've
got to be careful. But also support. If you do
see legitimate people fundraising for sports and wheelchair support, please. Yes, yeah.
They shouldn't suffer because someone else is using them to scam.
Literally September tomorrow. It is, yeah. Literally September tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Spring garden time, baby. Spring just as snow falls in Dunedin.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
But we're also heading towards like end of year wrap ups. Yeah.
Like people doing their like, like companies doing big, like
what was the year that we've just had? No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
September, October, November, December.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
You've got a third of the year left.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
It was last week.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
It was four months till Christmas. So we've still got
a while.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, still a bit, but it will go in a
blink of an eye and then you're dead.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
There'll be some. That's actually how it goes. There'll be
some save the date for the staff Christmas parties coming
through soon.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
I'm already booked out. I'm so busy. It's crazy. But
we'll do something of mine. So Pinterest has been doing this.
Pinterest has been doing this. They've been doing their like
2026 wrap-ups of trends and they've categorized them all. Like
there's like the 2026 wedding trends and what people are searching.
That one was interesting. It was like deep romance and

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over-the-top luscious red velvet. It's like people are going kind
of back to these big, loud things. traditional thing.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
This year was the first time I used Pinterest forever.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
I use it all the time. Put together a mood board.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
When I did the kitchen. Yeah, when I did my
kitchen rentals, I needed to choose some moods. I just never,
it's not one that I'll ever just peruse Pinterest.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
But you should never have autonomy over your home. It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
It's just me, Lego, I don't really need it.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
God, just more Lego, I think. But then you get
inspired by how, because I'm really heavy on Pinterest at
the moment because I'm doing shelf designing, you know? So like,
how do I want to, display these things or picture frames.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Put stuff on them.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
And that's why your house looks like yours and mine
looks like mine.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
When you say how you want to display these things,
you mean how you want to display the latest dead
animal you've acquired.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Yeah, exactly. So one of the other categories that they've
summarised that I thought was really interesting is hobbies. Because
people look up, you know, crafting, how to do this, or,
you know, your candle making. Babe, your candle making.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
You could do a whole Pinterest board of inspirational candles. Oh, okay.
And you could put that together. It would be good.
Or you could do your pub. You know, you want
to do your British pub, you can search backyard Irish pubs.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
I've got some Irish pub stuff saved, but it's just
every now and then when I think of it.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
So they were categorised, they put hobbies into nine different
categories that they named, which I quite enjoyed. Kitchen witch,
that's your sort of food, you know, baking and whatnot.
Kitchen Witch, Cosmic Reset, that's like crystals and, you know,
getting into sort of tarot cards and stuff. Home Cafe Engineering,
people got really into making custom coffees and custom syrups

(59:46):
this year apparently. Custom syrups? Yeah, yeah. Backyard Botanist, so
your gardening and all that kind of stuff. Weekend Equestrian,
horses maybe? Secondhand Sidequest, that's your thrifting ones. Handmade Hacker,
that's your crafts. Curated Clutter, that's sort of your home
stuff and casual crafter. I suppose that's grass. Anyway, so
this was the– they've had lots of spikes. Mostly Gen

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Z were enjoying unplugged hobbies, you know, trying to escape
the world of computers and whatnot. Oh, yeah, nice, nice.
Things like at-home coffee syrups, flower pressing. Astrology had sharp
growth this year. Crystals and meanings, herbal apothecaries, like growing
their own herbs and making– potions and ointments out of

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it and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Like that I love a barm well don't mind a
barm me you love a barm not a barm me
not a delicious Vietnamese.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Roll a barm we should get a barm me after
work actually we.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Should get a barm me it's been too long yeah
so have a kebab at the weekend haven't had one
of those for ages oh they slap right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Did you get it from kebab time or whatever it
is near us no they slap they do a.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Bowl big salad bowl yeah yeah that place.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Too big for one you could split it between two
that's just a salad Yeah, yeah, that is a salad. Yeah,
that is a salad. And also non-spawn.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
That's actually a red hot observation from you. Well, a
kebab is wrapped, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
So we had like lettuce, sauces and chickens. But with
a Turkish flair.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Well, then you've got a Turkish salad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Now, do you know what hobby? Oh, look, canning, making
your own spice blends, nature photography, crocheting, that's all up.
Do you know what had the biggest spike in searches
for like hobbies?

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
At home birthday magazines. So girlies are going in and
making kind of like a scrapbook mini magazine for their girlies.
So more than a card, like pages and pages of
crafting scrapbooky stuff. It's a lot of effort.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Don't expect this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
It's a lot of effort. Well, it's my birthday next,
isn't it? Here we go. I want a magazine. Do
me a whole magazine. You might get a zine. Yeah, well,
it has to be a couple of pages.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
I might make you sort of an artisanal three-pane Garfield comic.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
But you're meeting Garfield. That feels more of a you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
And Garfield's like, you offer Garfield a Turkish salad under
the guise of a kebab. He's like, it's Monday, baby.
I just want lasagna. But it's you, you see. We'll
just get the latest Woman's Weekly with JJ Feeney on
the cover and we'll sell a tape of photo of him. Well,
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Interested to know what's happening with him and Manu at
the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
I haven't seen anything lately.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
No, no, they've been sharing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
But not on the magazines.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
There's not much more to say. They're happy they're living
life and he's here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
The ZM Podcast Network.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Right now it's time for.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
Fact of the day, day, day.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Day, day. Okay. Just a quick thing. I thought the
skip driver came to pick up my skip and I
have just been busy and I didn't put anything in
the skip. It was empty. I just see him driving by.

(01:02:55):
He doesn't have the skip.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Did you do the thing where you paid a cheaper
rate for a skip because you have it for five days?

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
No, I booked it for seven days and then I've
added in four. Okay, so you had a few more days.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
But they obviously didn't send him out. Well, Hayley, you've
interrupted Vaughn because he does have to say that today's
fact of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Of course. Is what? Look at him. He forgot again. Fletch,
look at him. He forgot again. I didn't forget.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Today's fact of the day is brought to you by St.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Pierre's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Today's fact. Today's sushi of the day is eight pieces
of teriyaki chicken for $ 8. 40.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Now, call me crazy. That's my sushi of the day.
That's my sushi of the day, too. Teriyaki chicken. It's
a classic flavour. But did you see that he didn't
even have the paper open? He's looking at his fact
on his little computer. Where would we... I know. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
This week's theme is electricity. Ooh, okay. This came because
I was reading, and I've never thought about it in
great detail, but an American posted on the subreddit in
New Zealand being like, hey, why do you guys have
little switches at your power sockets? Yeah, because they don't.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Oh, my God, yeah, in Italy as well. They just
raw dog it in.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
They just ram it in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
And they don't have, and the basic idea is it
boils down to the fact that after World War II,
they didn't have a copper shortage when it came to
building new homes. Whereas Britain was rebuilding and copper was
scarce and expensive because they'd just been through the war
where all like precious metals were used for the war effort.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
And bombs and bullets and all sorts of things were
being used and copper for all the, you know. We
had to tank down the Nazis.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
We did.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Every time I switch my switch on and off of
the wall, I say, take that out of Hitler.

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Screw you, Hitler.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Screw you, Hitler. So there was a shortage. Now, I'm
no electrician, but apparently they switched to what's called a
ring main, of course. So instead of separate cables to
every socket, one loop cable runs around the house and
every socket just taps into that shared loop at two
points instead of one dead end.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
So it's just, and you're just touching in it, touching it,
the loop.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Yeah, so you're like, flick that off so the power's
not going up to that guy. Whereas America was just
running one wire to everything.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Well, that seems wasteful.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
So if they need to replace the fuse, they just
back on the fuse board. But we are, so it's
something like, it's used 30 to 40% less copper. And
they just needed a way. So that's why us and
the Brits have the switches on the walls. Really old
British places that, because they had the massive rebuild after
World War II, like London just got smashed. But if
you go to some of the older areas and go

(01:05:24):
to like actual historic places that had power before World
War II, often they don't have the switch in Britain.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
But if they have to build anything new now, it
has the switch just because, and that's why we in
Australia have it as well.

Speaker 7 (01:05:35):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Because of our close ties to Britain. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
After World War II. Amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Yeah. And you know the guy. You know how we've
all got different. We've talked about it on the show before.
Fascinating to go around the world and see the different
wall sockets in all the different countries.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
There's a website.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
There's a website you can use to travel. It's Sockets
of the World or something.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
And they're like, what are we, type J or type H? Yeah,
something like that. And I'll say it. I think ours
is pretty sexy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Ours is so hot.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
But it doesn't do that. The American one, the good
thing is the pins can fold down because it's just
two vertical pins. And their plugs are smaller. The Americans
is where it's at. It's Brits are the big fat ones, eh?

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
The big three prong like that. But then Italy had
the two prong, but then sometimes a third prong. Yeah.
And then if you've got an old plug that has
a third prong, they remove the third. They're a mess.
Cut those off.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Yeah. So the same guy invented multiple of them. And
he said he started with it. The first one he did,
Harvey Hubble was his name.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Harvey Hubble.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Harvey Hubble. Did he do the Hubble telescope? It's about
slightly different.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Did he do the Hubble bubble? He did the Hubble bubble.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Okay, great.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
So he invented the practical, the first one in America,
and he was like, that one. And then he's like,
I've actually perfected the design. And people are like, we're
kind of used to it, man. And so his different
designs got further and further down the track. So he
had a few of them. Interesting. But today's fact of
the day is America doesn't have switches on the wall
because they never had the switches at their power sockets

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on their walls because they never had the copper shortage.
that the UK did after World War II.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

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Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Join us now, please. 0100 dial ZDM. Give us a
text to Rooney9696. What did you screw up recently? You
just tried something and it just went really bad. There
was a woman, she went and got a spray tan.
We've all had them before. Famously, you take off everything
so that there's nothing covered. She left on eye patches.
You know, like under eye patches. Oh, that's silly. I

(01:07:48):
feel like she must have been a silly bint.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Can I say bint on the show?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
You can say bint.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
No, it sounds wrong. How offensive is the word bint
to you? I've never seen it on the... Have a Google.
I'm going to just have a Google and then maybe apologise.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Okay, I will.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
I feel like they were the trend a long time ago,
but are they still trendy?

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Under eye things? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
You always used to see people in videos and they'd
be the big black.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
I don't use them. Clearly. I don't use them. Clearly.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Because you don't need them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Yeah, because I'm so, because I'm 23. Is there a
peptide for that too? Is there an under eye bag peptide? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shit.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Man. There's a peptide for everything. Fold it into one
eye and jab me in the butt. Let's go. A
little bit every day. But, needless to say, she came
out too late.

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Because you go through the whole process. She would have
been in there and then you dry it and even
if you peel them off and start like rubbing, you're
too late.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
You've missed it. So she's got perma, perma eye patches.
Screwed that up royally. What did you stuff up?

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Could you cover up the whole like masking tape a
bit of your face off like you do when you're
masking out some door frames? Yeah, like use painter's tape.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Get your Bondi sands at home and just do the
half moons that you missed. You'd try something. You would, yeah. Yeah,
you would. But listen, you know. She messed it up.
She messed it up. That's what I want to know.
What have you messed up royally?

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
And you're the only one to blame, really.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Not me. I haven't messed up a single thing as
of late. I've been a flawless human and it's all
been going really well.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Actually, I don't know if that's true or not. Now
you're going, you're going, I reckon you're going okay.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
I think I'm doing, considering, quite good. She's doing all right.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Not doing too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
But maybe you just, maybe you had, you attempted something,
you know, you were going to try something new or
you're like, I'm going to do something around the house
or I'm going to do something for myself and you
just royally stuffed it up. I want to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Yep. 0800 dials at MSN number. You can text her
as well. 9696. What did you stuff up recently?

Speaker 8 (01:09:38):
So just over the weekend, I put a suction cup
on my.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Face for the lols.

Speaker 8 (01:09:46):
And about a minute later, my partner almost fell off
the couch laughing at me because I had a massive
hickey on my face.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You live and you learn.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Wait, so you've got a where's your head hickey on
your forehead? Not on my cheekbone. I'll send you guys
a photo on Instagram. That would be a great listen
to today's podcast to see why this photo makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
And also because everyone who sees it is going to
be like, you guys give each other weird hickeys. Usually
the neck. You're sucking on the cheek.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
And perfect circle hickeys.

Speaker 6 (01:10:19):
Yeah, my partner tried to do it on my other
cheek last night to even me up and I was like,
get away.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Rosie's. Hey, what you and your partner do at night,
that's none of our business. Yeah, that's all. Taryn, that's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Thank you. Let's go to Miska. Miska, what did you
stuff up recently? I put the California King duvet in
a washing machine.

Speaker 6 (01:10:37):
It doesn't fit the duvet.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Oh, of course not it doesn't. Wait, did yours flood?

Speaker 8 (01:10:43):
I put the duvet in it into a washing machine
and it definitely doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Why did you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
Put the entire duvet in it?

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
California King.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
California came into a standard house washing machine.

Speaker 8 (01:10:56):
I thought that 10 kgs might have been big enough.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
You've got to go to the laundromat for those.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Yeah, take yourself to a liquid laundromat.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Use the big ones.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Now that it's in pieces. It didn't tear apart.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
I wondered why it sounded like my washing machine was
running away.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
Miska, you sound, like, manic over this. That's so funny.
I've done something similar when I was like, I reckon
it can take this, and you're like, no.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Well, you do get it in, and then it goes
so uneven, it's like.

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
And it peaks every five seconds, like, come fix me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
And I'd say as well, California King duvet, not cheap
to replace. No.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
No, no, not a fun time.

Speaker 8 (01:11:32):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Well, good luck with that, Miska. 0800 dials at MQBTX
coming as well, 9696. What did you screw up recently?
We want to know what you've royally stuffed up lately. Emily,
what was it?

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Hi. Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Oh, hi, girl.

Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (01:11:50):
I've been up since 4.30.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
I've just finished work, so.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
You've been up since 4.30? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
And you've already finished?

Speaker 8 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:58):
What, who are you, us? What, you're rocking out on us?
What are you working on, a radio show?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
I'm merchandising.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I've always wondered what that's like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
What are you working on, a radio show? Who are you?

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
What are you packing?

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
I'm a fancy shelf stocker.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Yeah, what do you stock?

Speaker 6 (01:12:17):
Pads and tampons and toilet paper.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Yeah, nice. I was hoping it was going to be
chocolate and then I was going to be like, can
you give us some freeze? Send us some tamps.

Speaker 6 (01:12:24):
I have previously worked for Arnott. Highly recommend that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
I've got so many snacks from them. Yeah, I bet. Dangerous.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
I couldn't do that as a job because I'd take
home all the bickies.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
I'd be so fat.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
I'm not going to be eating the tampons.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Am I?

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
So maybe I'd be better as a tampon merchant.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
You know it's fine if it was bleeding or your
vagina if it was bleeding, but other than that, probably not.
Or a gunshot wound as well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Okay, so Emily, what have you messed up lately?

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Did you put the supers in the extra smalls and
everyone was like, oof, bit of a tight fit? No,
not quite. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Jesus. No, what did you stuff up recently?

Speaker 6 (01:13:01):
I broke my partner's steering wheel on his car.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
How did you do that? I got the grip on her. So....

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
I had like the aux cord and I had my
phone in the phone holder, but the aux cord got
like wrapped around the, like the, I don't know, the
cog where you turn the wheel.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
The wheel column. The wheeling cog. Yeah, cog. The wheel column.

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
Well, so I've soon learned it's called a clock spring
that I've broken in his car. And yeah, so now
he can't use the horns. And it clicks when it turns.
It literally is turning and it's like.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Oh, God. I don't love that. I don't love that
click on the turn. How much is that going to
cost to fix, Emily?

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
I think it's going to be like $ 700. $ 700?

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
That sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
It doesn't suck.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
I'd give that a red hot YouTube.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
And then it costs $ 7, 000. I'm a minimum wage merchandiser
and preschool teacher.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Wait, so you preschool teach and... stack tampons on shelves.
You're out here working two jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
And I own a business, so, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
And you own a business?

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Hustling. Every day we're hustling.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Every day.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
It makes me think every day we're hustling. We are,
we are. We're hustling your way to a new bloody
steering wheel. Yeah, God, that's, um. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
It sounds like it was a bit of an open
hole that has, is this car a bit of a
dark place?

Speaker 6 (01:14:28):
No, it's like a 2012, Wenty something Suzuki Swift RX.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Yeah, but it doesn't sound like a cable could bring
down a Suzuki Swift RX.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
We can't help you with our hookups, mate. We're mastering
Ford Ranger. Sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:14:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Well, good luck with that, Emily. Thank you for.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Sharing, mate. Good luck. You go to sleep. Some messages in.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
My friend asked me to video her wedding. That's a
huge responsibility to put on a friend. You pay a professional, right?

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Because then you paid someone and you expect. My friend
asked me to video a wedding. I agreed and got
the whole camera set up. Just reviewed the footage on
the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
It's all blurry.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
No. No.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
And that's not something you can fix. You can't unblur
an image.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Gemini AI that and say, I have seven fingers, like
a weird movement, and fly off to the moon.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
Just take a wedding photo and say to AI, make
it into a special day. I set up my twins'
cots in the lounge. My husband got home and I said, see,
told you I could do this. I don't need no man.
He said, you shouldn't have done it there. And she's like,
I'll do it where I want. I'm an independent woman.
He's like, how are we going to get through the doorway?
I had built them in the lounge. They had to
go through three doorways they wouldn't fit through to get them. Yeah,

(01:15:42):
that's okay. So we had to dismantle them and set
them up.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
I think they live in the lounge now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
I think the babies now live in the lounge.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
I love, what haven't I ruined lately? Drove into my
garage a little too fast and put a hole in
the wall of the exterior and I also took up
my entire clothesline with my car.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Sounds like you need to slow down a little bit.
I mean, I live life at a fast pace. Shit, yeah.
Was that also a Suzuki RX? Because maybe. A Suzuki
Swift RX? I put dishwashing liquid into the dishwasher.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
No, never do that. And throw it in the kitchen.
What are you, a moron? But when you don't have
a tablet, you are like, oh, it's just a small squirt.
How bad can it be?

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Aren't you better to just put in baking soda or something?

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Isn't there a.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
Surely.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
I don't know. Or just put it through a hot cycle.
It'll get rid of it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Yeah. My therapist recommended writing down all my angry words
about my dirty ex.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
Hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
And then setting it on fire. So I wrote all
the words and I set it on fire, but then
the wind gusts and the on fire pile of paper
got blown into my brand new caravan and nearly set
it on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
It's him. It's the ghost of him still haunting you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
That's actually 100% on him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
I think go next time by a big barrel of water.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Oh, I thought you meant a fire barrel. Lucky the
bloody caravan didn't burn down. Those things are expensive to
renovate and just end up not getting finished. I had
an event on the weekend for about seven different embassies
and I mixed up all the flagpoles in the stands. No!

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
No!

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
They were to salute their flag and it wasn't their
flag on the pole.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
I thought I could still skip. Nick Minnit, I've ruptured
my Achilles. Don't, if you haven't skipped in years, it's
like when I thought I could still cartwheel. And I
was like, I think I can cartwheel. You just do
and you're like.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Holy moly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
It turns out you can't. I was using the mandolin
to thin slice some vegetables.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
What a musical instrument.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Didn't use that. No, not that different mandolin.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Different mandolin. Oh, I was going to say, they shouldn't
be in the kitchen with Captain.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Oh, why not? Beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
Yeah, but the mandolin, the veggie slicer, didn't use the guard,
did I? No, use the guard. The top corner of
my thumb dropped out the bottom with the perfectly sliced potato.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
Always use the guard. Always use the guard.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Always use the guard.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
I always use a guard. Always use a guard.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
I went to a birthday party on Friday night to
somewhere I've never been before. Shout out, Goldies in Takapuna.
Have you been there? Mate, I haven't. No. True, I
don't know why I asked. I asked because... Hey, Vaughan, have.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
You been to a bar you live nowhere near? No,
I think you'd like it. No, I don't think I have.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
It's a Western cowboy bar.

Speaker 7 (01:18:06):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
So it had like– Wait, what is this, the 2000s?

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
It was so cool. But it was really– it wasn't
like we're all thinking coyotes in Wellington, you know, mechanical bull.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
And the grumpy moles were everywhere back in the day,
so at the end of the 90s, 2000s. Hey, the
goldies used to be something else.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Yes, it did. And I can't remember what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
It's around the corner from the– I don't know if
that one's still there. We did– Is it in the mall? No, no, no.
It's on Hurstmere Road. It's got the– Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
It's got the thing outside. It's got a courtyard.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
What did that used to be? That was a classic
back in the 2000s. I don't know, but it's got
two different things and it's got cool decor and stuff.
And I turned up, you know, news to me, I
would have worn cowboy boots. Yeah. But I turned up
and everyone's in like plaid shirts and whatnot. We were
there for a party. and went to the dance floor
later on in the evening where they had like coyote
ugly girls dancing on the bar.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
Retro.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Now I'd say as a Maori woman. Yeah. Oh yeah.
But the parking outside of me, Absolutely loved it. They
were amazing. They're up there and they're doing their boot
skating with their cowboy boots and everything like this. Anyway,
so I'm having a little dance-a-rooney, and then someone starts
screaming across the room to me, Vaughn, Vaughn, Vaughn. Wait,
that's what I get. Which makes more sense.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Yeah, because I probably get it less than anyone. People
get it better. People get us confused all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Yeah, totally. And yeah, I was like, why is someone
yelling Vaughn at me? We didn't sleep together. Anyway, so
they're yelling at Vaughn at me and then they come
up next to me and start pointing at my tattoo. One,
I was like, how have you spotted this in a
dark bar when I'm dancing? And then I was like, oh, okay,

(01:19:46):
they're obviously a listener of the show. And they were like,
why do you have a tattoo of Vaughn Smith on
your leg? And I was like, Because he's my friend
and I work with him. Oh, do you? They don't
know me.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
They knew you. Humbling.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Wow. They knew you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
And she just packed it and went straight home. And
on the drive home, she would have been saying to Mike,
she would have been like, great, can we back off?

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Get us an Uber.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
Stand down, sell our coffee.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
I've written a movie, God damn it. I was like, how, how,
how are they, what are you, you? How do you
know Vaughn without knowing me?

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Who was it?

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
Just some guy who likes Vaughn Smith and he couldn't,
he recognised your tiny little face on the little horse
on my thigh. On the tattoo. At this cowboy bar.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
I know, how good, eh?

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
Talk about grotty things that you've seen in food establishments
now on the show because Shannon sent a TikTok to
the group and it's somebody that is in a In
a bakery. And they've got a lovely big glass vase
to display, and it's full of oranges because they're so colourful,
except they're, like, not plastic oranges. They're fresh oranges, and
they're doing that thing where, you know, fruit sits in

(01:20:55):
the bowl too long, it gets the mouldy bottom.

Speaker 6 (01:20:56):
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
And I don't know if they can't see it from
where they are, but it's on show to the customers,
mouldy oranges on tops of... I baked baked goods. And
you said you saw a story about somebody washing their employees,
washing their feet in the sink. Last week on the
Staten Island ferry, there's a Dunkin Donuts and someone walked past.
It was like a side door and the employee was
washing his feet in the sink.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
Why were his feet dirty?

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
Do you know what's the worst is when you're eating
somewhere and And you need to use the bathroom like
a cafe or a restaurant. And the only toilets are
through the kitchen. And then you get to see it
and you're just like, ew.

Speaker 7 (01:21:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
It's classic. But those are the tastiest places. If the
toilet's through the kitchen, that food is yum. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Do you know what I mean? As long as it's
not a D, I'll forgive a B.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
No, D is delicious. C, give the floor a mop, but,
you know. B, you're always like, pick a side.

Speaker 7 (01:21:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
And then A, you're like, my expectations are here. I mean, there's, yeah,
I think we see a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
Well, yeah, maybe you've worked in the restaurant biz.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
There was that amazing, no, and let's not, we're not
naming a show. There was a famous place in Wellington
that someone leaked footage of them slopping the rest of
the chanai back into the chanai pot for those that
left over chanai. And, like, that place is, like, the
best chanai in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
And I think it's because it's a community chanai.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
That's what we call recycling.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
And this is love. What we need is a great
big melting pot of chanai.

Speaker 3 (01:22:27):
Yeah, I don't want anyone else's dribble in my meal. Oh,
a little bit of chanai between friends. Okay, well, 0800DARLSATM,
what have you seen behind the scenes of a restaurant
or in the food industry? Maybe you saw something grim.
Maybe you saw a chef pick their nose.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
And smear it. Oh, no. And they're smearing it on
the bench. Where are you putting it? Oh, you're flicking it?
Flicking it for high hope and just.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Seeing where it goes? 0800-DONALD-ZM-9696 to text us.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
What's the grimmest thing you've seen in a restaurant? Grimm
thing you saw in a restaurant?

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
No names. No names?

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
No names.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
No names. Oh, we think the D in a D
health rating stands for delicious.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
Yeah. Delicious and diarrhoea.

Speaker 6 (01:23:09):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
That's fine. Yum, yum. Sometimes, oh, it's a bit much though,
isn't it? Yeah, a little bit. Kayla, no names, but what.

Speaker 3 (01:23:15):
Did you see? Some gross behavior.

Speaker 7 (01:23:18):
So I used to work in a fine dining restaurant
and we had this apprentice chef who had really long nails.
And we asked him, so why do you have really
long nails? Like that's super unhygienic. And he said it's
because he could grip the food better.

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Actually, in all fairness, you know, you've got nails, Hayley.
Is it easy to grab the chicken breast?

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
You think of all the best eaters in the animal kingdom,
you know, they've all got claws.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
They do have claws.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Birds of prey.

Speaker 7 (01:23:49):
When he could hold the food better, when he was
cutting it, he thought the nails could kind of just.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Well, it's sort of like a fork, isn't it, if
you use three of them? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
No, I kind of get it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
That's gross, though. You don't need to see that, eh?

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
Especially if they break off into the meat. And then
someone has to eat that. That's not good. That's not good. Kayla,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:24:08):
Let's go to Megan.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Megan, what is the gross thing you saw at a restaurant?

Speaker 8 (01:24:12):
So my mum and I went to a takeaway store
waiting for our order. We were sitting in the car,
saw one of the employees walk outside to the alleyway
next door, relieve himself, walk back inside and continue cooking.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
No hand washing. When she says relieve, she means you're right, right? Yeah,
you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
And the car park behind the store.

Speaker 8 (01:24:35):
Just the alleyway next door between two stores, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Yeah, lovely.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Okay, lovely. Okay, yeah. Did you eat the pizza?

Speaker 6 (01:24:44):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Yeah, of course he did, man. It was pizza. Well,
it was hot.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
It's been cooked hot. It goes to the bugs.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Piss off. The urine bugs.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
It cooks the piss off. It cooks the piss off.

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
Hey, Megan.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
That's actually the key to a good sauce is just
reducing the piss off.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Cook the piss down a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
It's sort of a syrupy.

Speaker 1 (01:24:59):
You'll see it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
It's like alcohol.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
If it coats the back of the spoon, the piss
is ready. The piss has been reduced off.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Someone said, I saw a chef lick a spoon through
the little thing where they put the food up and
ding the bell.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
They licked the spoon and then went and put it
back into the sauce.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
Oh, no. That was a bit yuck.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Yummy, though. You know, it's going to be yummy because
he wants some of it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Yeah. I went for a company selling cleaning chemicals. Customers
would come pick up their products. One customer who owned
a Chinese restaurant would always pull up in their high-ace van,
open the door, and there'd be 10 to 15 open
buckets with whole chickens in the buckets, marinating in the
back of the van, no lids or covers or anything,
just slopping around back there in the back of the van.

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And then they'd pack the cleaning chemicals in around them
to hold them still in the dropper.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
But again, cook off the piss. If the piss is
getting cooked off, you know, it's still going to be delicious.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
You've just got to give it a low hate and
keep it moving every now and then. You don't want
the piss sticking to the bottom of the pan.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
But do you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
Like high-ice van chicken, anything is delicious with lemon chicken sauce.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
Oh, 100%. You know, or sweet and sour.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Get your garlic and your onions in there and cook
them through. Put the aromatics in and then deglaze the
pan with some piss.

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
Nice piss.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
You've got to get the piss. But it's not piss
because it cooks off. It cooks off.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Get a big scoop of the piss off. Use the
piss to deglaze the pan and then pour it in.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
You don't want to lose any of that flavor. It's
like alcohol over a sort of figgy pudding. You know
what I mean? It burns off.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
If you can light your piss, you've got a real problem,
and I'd say see your doctor as soon as possible.
Someone said, I will speak from personal experience and say
never send your steak back and tell them they didn't
cook it right.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
Because I've seen some chefs do some steaks.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Yeah. I would encourage, I always say to mum, don't
get a steak when we go out because they.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Don't want to cook it well done.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
They don't want to cook you a piece of leather crystal.

Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
It's disrespectful to the maid. She'll come back to you
and be like, what is this tang?

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
My steak's come back with this lovely reduced sauce on
the top. And I'll be like, don't say it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
It's probably piss. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Nine times out of ten.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Mum, it's probably piss.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
It's going to be.

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
But is it hot? Because it's probably cooked it off.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I'm flying by the steak. Amazing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
Remember, if you remember nothing else from today.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Yeah. Actually, can we just touch base on something we
talked about earlier in the show? Not cooking off piss,
because we've established 180 degrees, get that nice and hot,
cooks it off. Tomorrow we want to vacuum. Oh, yeah,
tomorrow on the show. Tomorrow on the show. So excited.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia from the day show. I don't
know if you heard us mention this. Tomorrow on the show,
we're going to vacuum pack some different foods.

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
This was around 6 a.m. You know those vacuum bags?
I was fast asleep.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
You know those vacuum bags and you suck your clothes
and they go real flat?

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
I've got them. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
They're so good.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Aren't they fun?

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
We're going to get small ones.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
We're going to put a sponge log into the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Like a chocolate log. A chocolate log.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
And vacuum pack it and see how flat it goes.
Pavlova or meringue, whatever's easier to come by. And then
I had an idea, a dollar loaf of bread, spongy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Super soft.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Oh, my gosh. I reckon the dollar loaf of bread,
we should lay the slices out flat.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
It's got to be a loaf.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Oh, you're saying the whole loaf, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
But I just want to say, because I'm... Wow, Lamingtons.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Yuck. Right, let's write a list, because I'm going to
the supermarket. I'm going to... Excuse me. What do you mean,
Lamington's are yum? Coconut. That's just my personal opinion. Do not.
I just got to your yum. You're going to get
reduced piss on your food. I'm going to piss on
you and I won't reduce it down. 9-6-9-6.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
A lovely piss reduction.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
Hang on, before we go. Marshmallows. Also marshmallows. You're going
to get marshmallows.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Marshmallows are big jumbo marshies we want to do. 9-6-9-6.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
What do you want us to vacuum pack tomorrow? Vaughn's
bringing in the Karcher. I'm going to get the ingredients.
I'm going to get a big fat Karcher back. Muffin splits.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Get out.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Get out of the studio. Get your own show.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
What a stupid thing to do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
Get your own show.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
Muffin splits.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
10 till 3. Get your own show. No, not ice cubes.
What would it look like when they're mounted though? No,
it's too liquid. We need more spongy, airy things. Airy
things that are big and then we make them small.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
Candy floss is on the list, right? Yeah. Candy floss.
Any other ideas, Georgia, that aren't stupid?

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
I'm not giving you any of mine. The company credit
card to the supermarket with me? Because I'm not footing this. God,
and this costs a living crisis. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Do we have the budget for these sort of shenanigans?

Speaker 1 (01:29:00):
I think ask for forgiveness.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Well, I'm undoing a couple of these vacuum bags. I'll
thumb a flat lamington into my gob.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
Yeah, it was time. It's not going to go to waste. No.
We'll eat this. We're not wasting food. And then join
us for F.E.H. 's flat morning tea. A pie! A pie. Oh,
now you like my ideas.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
I was thinking a pizza would go pretty hard.

Speaker 1 (01:29:19):
Nah, because a pizza is already flat.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
It's got to be flat. A lovely pie, like a
big bakery.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
A big family pie. A big baker or a bakery.
Or someone wanted a nice big pork belly. I mean,
I'm not cooking that. I'll come down to yours and
drop off the pork belly. You do the pork belly.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
And don't forget the, what is it, meringue. No, what
is it?

Speaker 6 (01:29:36):
Pavlova.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Pavlova, a big pav. Shop pav because they're nice and spongy.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Yeah, this is going to be great stuff. Well, that's
tomorrow on the show. I'm very excited about that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:42):
Oh my God, Matthew just said vacuum pack some of
Dee's nuts. Excuse you, vacuum.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Yeah, okay, Matthew, you turn up tomorrow and rip out
your scrotum and we'll whack it if it's so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
If it's so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
We'll put your nuts in a vacuum bag. We'll put
your nuts in the vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Suck them right off.

Speaker 4 (01:29:56):
It's a car, it's a baby.

Speaker 9 (01:29:58):
Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Well, it's election season. It is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Promises willy-nilly.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Promises, promises, promises.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
I've made promises, haven't I? Remember, I've got a bloody
huge Green Party thing coming up on my fence.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
Oh, yeah, because you were flirting with Chloe Swarbrick.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Chloe Swarbrick was there on Friday and I was like,
I've got some kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
I've got to say, the energy between you two was electric.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Let me tell that to a beloved long-term girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Fiancé?

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
You know these Greens? They might have an open relationship.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Probably!

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Probably!

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
You know those Greens? That was the most old mate
thing you've ever said. You know those Greens? Oh, bloody
smoke at the wacky backies. Well, there's been a promise
from National that the student loan repayments for people overseas
will be more expensive but less expensive if you stay
in New Zealand when you've got a student loan.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Now, back in my day... Back in my day, back
in my day. We had to repay it as soon
as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
Back in my day.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
But now there's no interest on it and they're going
to slow down the repayments.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
Yes, because what is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
The repayment amount at the moment and they want to
bring it down a percent or something or two? Yeah.
Because I'm guessing that's going to help a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
Really, when I first started earning proper money and didn't
have to elect to do payments- You're like, oh, my God,
it's so much. It's so much that they take. And
then if you've.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Ever had that incredible feeling of paying off your student loan,
it is like a pay rise. And you're just like, oh,
my God, extra money per week. Yeah, and I mean,
I had an acting degree. It was like $ 48, 000. I
was like, I'm never going to pay that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Yeah. And do you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
Like, I don't know if it's because I've always stayed
in New Zealand and I've never done my OE, but
I'm like, yeah, pay it back.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
Dude, my brother, my brother did a one-year course. He's
paid it around four times because he left– 15 years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
And the interest, if you're overseas, is four, four or five,
do you know how.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Four or five percent? I've got no idea what the
interest is. Why would I leave this beautiful country?

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
But whereas back in my day, it was seven percent,
even if you lived in New Zealand, and I paid,
I borrowed, I think it was $ 13, 000 or $ 12, 000 and
ended up paying $ 30, 000 by the time I paid it off.
And then Helen Clark came in literally the next week
after I paid it off.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
And said, no interest in student loans. We're not going
to do that. You're the future of our country. And
it's been interest-free since.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
Well, we chucked up a little question box on our
social medias and we said, how big was your student loan?

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Because this is always a little bit of an interesting chat,
isn't it? Pilots, you know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. Medical proficiency.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
Oh, yeah. Those are six-figure student loans, those ones.

Speaker 6 (01:32:27):
Callum, $ 47, 000.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Kylie, $ 60, 000. Geordie, $ 70, 000.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Gemma, $ 52, 000 to become a nurse. I'll have padded it
off this time next year. Oh, congrats. Yeah, it's a
good feeling when you do that. Jess, it was $ 50, 000,
but I went on an OE and ignored it. I
ended up with $ 56, 000 worth of interest and penalties.

Speaker 6 (01:32:45):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Okay, so the current interest rate is 5.6%. And so
what are they saying that they're upping that? Up overseas, yeah.
If you're overseas.

Speaker 1 (01:32:54):
Upping that, but lowering it if you're here. Yes. Ayla
said $ 120, 000 and counting.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Aayla said $ 120, 000 and counting. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
So she's still going into specialist kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
Somebody said, let me just, I'm seeing this $ 19, 000 for
a vet tech. They don't get paid enough. So now
I work in a solar panel production warehouse. Lisa said $ 67, 000.
And then she did the hands.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
I don't know if she was. Oh, please stop that.
Stop that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
Mine was about $ 45, 000, but my husband was closer to $ 100, 000.
Says Samantha, $ 20, 000.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
$ 36, 000 from the U.S. That was for a public university.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
That's expensive to go to university.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
$ 30, 000.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
I did an arts degree with honors.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
At Otago, and it was $ 42, 000. Sorry? An arts degree
with honors, $ 42, 000.

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
I thought you said $ 102, 000. $ 90, 000.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Somebody else said.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
$ 70, 000 a report.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
$ 68, 000 plus another $ 10, 000 that was funded by scholarships, says Tashi. Laura,
$ 40, 000 for a degree I didn't finish. Took 20 years
to pay off.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
Oh, my God. Without a degree to show? Yeah, didn't
finish it. No degree had to pay off.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
So if you are overseas listening to this, National want
to make it 6.6%. Instead of overseas. Yeah, so it's
adding 1%. And then so in New Zealand, they've given
an example of it'll be, so it'll be, it's 12
cents for every dollar. Now it'll be 10 if you
want to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
But if you are a New Zealand citizen living overseas,
you can still vote. You just have to do a
special vote. So I mean, that's not going to work
for them, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Yeah, somebody said $ 62, 000. I just paid it off last week.
Four years of uni took 14 years to pay for.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
Yeah, it can, man. It can.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Somebody asked me if I ever went to any form
of tertiary education. I can't participate in this, but I
want to let you know I'm enjoying the show.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
That's nice.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
We appreciate that. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
I'm listening from Belgium. We just get it free. Oh, unbelievable.
It's Belgium trying to get into that Scandi block.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Of the happiest people ever.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
They're trying to get into your Norwegians.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Nobody's rich, but nobody is poor. Happy, happy.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
Happy, happy.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Happy, happy.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
Happy, happy. If you liked today's podcast, tell your friends
you could send them the link. And if you don't
have any friends, just pretend you did. Yeah, great. And
rate and review.

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
And maybe get out there and try to make some friends.

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