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Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Fawn and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe, great barista made coffee on the go.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Rolly.
I'm not singing it for a cat.
Happy birthday to you.
How old is Rolly?
Seven yesterday.
Wow.
We know because we get a text from our pet insurance
Saying your premiers have gone up
Yeah because your cat's old now
Your cat's getting older
So seven because Rolly
You just think of them as a kitten still
Because Rolly is one quite a small cat
And two has kitten fur
Like he never got that kind of
Old rougher cat fur?
It'll come.
No, he just hasn't.
Really?
He's a soft little kitten boy.
But seven years old.
And he's never been better.
I actually saw an ad for, it was a sponsored post for,
hold on, because I screencapped it.
I've got it.
Hills.
This is not a paid endorsement.
Oh, I know Hills.
Oh, I know.
That's not my one. I'm a. We're by the Hills Dental Bickies. I've got it. Hills. This is not a paid endorsement. Oh, I know Hills. No, I know. That's not my one.
I'm a...
We buy the Hills dental bickies.
I'm a perina.
We buy...
Am I a perina?
Yeah.
Fussy cat.
We do a mix.
We do a custom mix.
Oh, no, I'm a royal canine.
Oh, okay.
A royal canine.
You don't have a canine.
A canine.
It's a royal canine or something, yeah.
And it says pets age differently from humans.
Yeah.
Well, cat years.
What is it?
Seven?
Seven or something like that?
Seven for every one?
Yeah.
So a cat that is one is the equivalent of a 15-year-old.
Far out.
So how old was Rolly yesterday?
Seven.
Seven.
44.
Your cat's older than you.
It's so weird to think
that he's been 44 years old
and we're like,
hey, yo baby.
Yeah.
I'm a good cat.
You should probably be
talking to your cat
like it's a senior.
Yeah.
Rolly, what would you like
for dinner tonight?
Because I'm going
to cook dinner.
Okay, well that's fine.
Yeah, we could do it.
For his birthday
because Rolly likes ham.
Yeah. If there's ham in the, because Rolly likes ham. Yeah.
If there's ham in the house, Rolly comes in,
and we always say that he says, I'm here about the ham.
Yeah.
And so yesterday I got ham, and we came in and...
Like some shaved ham.
Shaved ham.
Oh, yeah, I'm not doing.
You've got to watch his potassium sodium levels.
There's a lot of salt in there.
No, but on every now and then we give him a ham.
Oh, right, okay.
He eats dry biscuits his whole life, and then every now and then we give him a ham. He eats dry biscuits his whole life.
And then every now and then a bit of ham.
In fact, I actually cooked him up a little bit of shrimp the other day.
Not shrimp, prawns.
Whoa, must be nice.
He didn't like them.
Didn't like, yeah.
He doesn't like fish, doesn't like prawns, doesn't like chicken.
Fussy bastard.
Fussy bastard only likes ham.
Yeah, my cat will go crazy when I smash a rotisserie chicken.
Yeah.
And he'll pour it at the bench and and then I'll give him a bit,
and he just looks at it, and he just walks away.
I hate this.
I hate this about animals, inside animals.
Always around when there's food being prepared.
Rolly looked at our curry bowl the other night.
I was like, dude, that's not going to go well.
He won't eat fish, but he'll lick a curry.
Licked a curry bowl clean.
Wow.
Your garden will be a fucking mess. I know. How old is he? Your garden will be a fucking mess.
I know.
How old is Major Murray Fluffington?
He's, I would say he's 2.75.
So he's about 27.
Oh my God.
Wow, he's 27 years old.
He's so fast.
It's so crazy to think of that's their sort of development, right?
That's their maturity.
Yeah.
Made me sad, though.
I can't think about the end.
Well, Lulu, who's 15, will be 16 in February.
In human years.
Yeah, is 85 years old.
Oh, no wonder that dog who's gummy and...
Yeah, she's a mess.
Blind, cataracts, can't hear properly,
hair's falling out.
But is she happy?
Well, I don't know.
She doesn't speak English.
To best describe Lulu, like a dog walker in Game of Thrones,
like when they went all dead, like a white walker.
A white walker.
A white dog walker.
Yeah, a white walker dog edition.
Yeah.
But my other dogs are the same age as me, basically.
Wow.
They're about 40.
Ralph and Rich are about the same age, and they're in basically. Wow. They're about 40. Ralph and Richie are about the same age.
And they're in their 40s.
They're 40.
40s.
And so tonight I'm going to be going home and discussing my favorite battles of World War II with them.
Yeah, of course.
And we'll sit down and watch some Discovery.
Yeah.
I might see if Raleigh wants a single malt.
Maybe a Japanese whiskey.
I'm not sure.
He's going to branch out and try these things.
Yeah, he does.
Happy birthday, Raleigh.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Play ZM.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Thank you, Sam.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Well, that's good that we've avoided World War III for another day.
Yeah.
Yeah, put that off.
Put that off.
Do it.
Fantastic.
It's going to be a nice Christmas out of the way before we start World War III.
Yeah, it would be.
Upliver each other.
Yeah.
Yeah, fantastic.
Good stuff, good stuff.
Christmas.
We need an updated Snoopy's Christmas.
If war was running out at Christmas.
The Bloody Red Baron is Russian this time.
Yeah, right.
Not German.
And of course he's flying a fighter jet, not a, you know, a biplane with a machine gun in it.
Snoopy is Tom Cruise in Maverick 2.
Yeah.
And Top Gun 2, of course.
Have you heard the prequel of Snoopy's Christmas?
I did not know there was a prequel. There's a place like Aaron Find, but the same artist tells the same story,
but it's part one.
It was bloody good.
From the other side.
No, I can't remember the context of it, but Aaron's listened to it for years.
Famously, he hates Christmas carols.
Right.
And I think when I forced him to do it, he found...
It's like a prequel.
It's weird that that is only...
A big song.
A big song in New Zealand.
Yeah.
And Australia, maybe?
Is it?
But yeah, the rest of the world...
Oh, yeah.
So Snoopy's Christmas reached number one in New Zealand and Australia in 1967
and remains a very popular Christmas song in both those countries.
Yeah. But yeah, other parts of the world. Like if you went to see your friends in America and Remains, a very popular Christmas song in both those countries. Yeah.
But yeah, other parts of the world.
Like if you went to see your friends in America and you're like, let's play Snoopy's Christmas,
they'd be like, what are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
Right.
It's only, yeah, only kind of here.
It's a banger.
I like the one, Merry Christmas, you.
You know the one we The pose
New York Christmas tale
That's a very naughty swear word
Got a very naughty swear word
Am I allowed to say about that thing?
That's not really a spoiler
That song's in the
Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special
Which I watched last night
Is that?
Because we might be getting an interview
With somebody who's in the
Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special
Oh exciting Might we Might we indeed Well 37 days away from Christmas Is that? Because we might be getting an interview with somebody who's in the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special.
Oh, exciting.
Might we?
Might we indeed.
Well, 37 days away from Christmas.
We must be near 100% Christmas penetration.
Oh, we're very close. Any day now.
Very close.
Any day now.
Keep your reports coming in.
Coming up on the show today, 7 o'clock and 8,
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It's your chance to win free fuel.
So listen out for The Activator just before the news.
The top six coming up, the Paris Olympics.
Yes, they're saying that the, how do I delicately put this,
the mascot, all Olympics must have a mascot,
looks like a clitoris in trainers.
It certainly does, the whole system.
The entire system, not just the tip.
The entire nerve-ending collective.
Yeah, it does.
So I guess we finally bloody found it, eh, lads?
There it is.
Can't miss it.
There's bloody two of them.
So I've got the top six other options.
Top six other options for not-so-rude mascots. All right, it's coming up in the top six other options.
Top six other options for not so rude mascots.
All right, it's coming up in the top six.
Next on the show, though.
I'm just saying that's quite close to seven.
I feel like we should move that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should.
More early.
I think we should take away the shame from the clitoris.
Oh, there's no shame in the clitoris.
I was just saying some of my other answers are going to be dirty.
Oh, okay, it's more of a you thing.
Stop trying to hide the clitoris at ten past six. I wouldn't hide it.
I'd love to be actually showing whereabouts it is.
It hides itself.
It's got a little cape.
All right, well, it's coming up very soon.
Like Superman.
The top six.
Little Red Riding Hood.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley.
Well, from our very own NZ Herald,
one of our journalists has...
Hayley, you're not a journalist.
You don't work for the NZ Herald. I mean, you work for the same company. I'm a journalist. The mother companyley you're not a journalist You don't work for the NZ Hero
I mean you work for the same company
I'm a journalist
The mother company
You're not a journalist
I'm one of New Zealand's most highly respected journalists
Alright
I journal
Do you have any journal
Tover O'Brien
Vaughan Smith
Yep
Yep
Vaughan Smith
ZM
Yeah that's the one
Do you have any journalistic things in your degree?
What's your degree?
Mate, I'm on LinkedIn at the moment.
You can just make up whatever you want there.
Like, for example, Carwin made a post saying that she's been promoted
to executive producer.
You can just make up anything on there, right, Carwin?
That is so rude.
You can just make up anything. Dude, why don't? That is so rude. You can just make up anything.
Yeah, well, she just chucked an executive in front of her title.
I'm going to have the nameplate to prove it.
I might say I've been promoted to Executive Vaughn of the Flex Morning Hayley show.
Can I be Secretary Hayley of the ZM Morning show?
You can be whatever you want.
Or is that a bit sexist?
Chairman, it's a bit sexist on yourself, actually.
You should be Treasurer.
Okay. No, actually, don should be treasurer. Okay.
No, actually, don't put her in charge of money.
I was going to make Friday sales.
Chief financial officer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of Fletch.
CF.
Well, you're CF.
Yeah, CF.
You're CF, Carl Fletcher.
Yeah.
CFO.
Chief financial.
Chief financial.
Carl Fletcher, officer.
LinkedIn's great, isn't it?
God, it's just insane.
It's just about as un...
What do you call it?
Like un...
Un...
Not unqualified.
Like you don't check it
as much as you check
like an actor's profile.
Apparently I can ride a horse
at a high level
according to my acting CV.
Jeez.
Now that's not something
you should lie about
because you're going to get
to the set
and they're going to be like
well we don't need to train her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean,
you're good on a horse but you didn't get we don't need to train her. Yeah. Yeah. It's happened. I mean, you're good on a horse, but you didn't get
any part in Lord of the Rings.
Yeah. Wow. Because I turned up
on day one and they went, up you hop, and I said,
I'm what? I said, the horse. I said,
I'm not getting on that thing. Those things are bloody dangerous.
Anyway,
I can't remember how we got here. Journalists.
Ah, journalists. Well, they have
written a piece that
sort of defines your characteristics
if you live in the main cities.
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin.
Right.
What is your aesthetic?
And it's said to help you to buy a gift for maybe your sibling
who lives in Wellington or your young cousin who's studying down in Dunedin.
What are they into?
Right.
It's broken it down into categories.
Coffee order.
Auckland, Jaffa's love an into categories. Coffee order. Auckland.
Jeffers love an iced coffee.
Yeah, we do. Vaughan loves
an iced coffee. I love... Vaughan,
just a black iced coffee.
Not a creamy iced coffee. See, when I say that, I think it puts me
a... It puts me two
steps ahead of people who like a creamy, like
pink one. With whipped cream. Yeah.
Ridiculous. Wellington
flat white with oat almond or some sort of nut milk.
That's pretty right.
Christchurch, skip the coffee, straight to the monster energy drinks.
Look at Georgia's face.
Is that wrong, Georgia, or not?
I mean, if you head north Canterbury, then maybe.
Oh, wow.
Now we're getting regional within Canterbury. I am from north-ish Canterbury. Oh, wow. Now we're getting regional within Canterbury.
I am from north-ish Canterbury.
I'm like midpoint.
So I can say that, you know?
You have the blisters.
No.
You're the king in this morning.
Lyft Plus was a banger back in the day, though.
Cut her off.
Cut her off.
Okay, so let's just say an energy drink.
You need an extra hot, hot chocolate because it's cold.
Cell phone, Auckland iPhone 14 Pro with a Louis Vuitton cover.
Wellington, we've got an Android.
Oh, okay.
Absolutely terrible camera because it's not about that
because I've already got my film camera.
Probably a government-issued Android too
because you're government servants.
Christchurch, iPhone 11 or a flip phone.
Well, you don't want to spill your energy drink on it.
Yeah, and Dunedin, cell phone, never heard of her.
She's on her eighth phone this year.
Every weekend being like, lost my phone,
DM me if you need me.
That's probably true.
Clothing, I would have thought this was a bit more Dunedin.
Auckland Huffapuffa vest.
I've got a Huffapuffa.
It's too hot.
It's too hot for a puffer in Auckland.
Thanks to bloody global warming,
I can't get the cowboy aesthetic I'm wanting from Yellowstone
because it's too hot.
I wore my Huffapuffa once.
And that was when we were in Christchurch.
Yeah, you don't need one in Auckland.
And a Country Road Heritage sweatshirt.
I've got both of these things, goddammit.
Wellington $400 woolen knit.
That honestly looks thrifted but costs so much.
Christchurch, Canterbury shorts,, Crusaders, Jersey and Jandals.
And Dunedin, are they homeless?
No, they're just from Dunedin.
Who's written this?
I love this.
Macca's Order, Auckland, Nuggies.
Yeah, go to...
This has summarised me.
I call myself a Wellingtonian.
Yeah.
I'm an Aucklander.
Wellington, we're vegan.
We don't McDonald's.
Right, yeah.
Christchurch, large Big Mac combo. Dunedin, Hunger McDonald's. Right, yeah. Art Christchurch large Big Mac combo
Dunedin hunger buster.
Auckland car
either a top of the line
Mercedes or a Jimny.
Targeted.
I parked beside
a Jimny yesterday.
Right.
Two Jimnys beside each other
that was pretty cute.
I saw a middle aged
businessman driving
a Jimny and I laughed.
Somebody messaged me
saying oh where did you
get your accessories
from your Jimny?
My dad's just bought a Jimny and I clicked on this person's profile and
that would have been like mid to late 20s. So their
dad must be like 50s. Yeah, yeah.
So good. My dad would look so good in a
Jimny. He'd love it too. It's an exciting
drive. Two more categories.
Go-to cocktail. Auckland, Aperol Spritz.
Yep. I mean, it's always warm enough
for a Spritz. Yeah. Wellington Espresso Martini
because coffee. Yeah. Christch, it's always warm enough for a spritz. Yeah. Wellington espresso martini because coffee.
Yeah.
Christchurch rum and cola.
Trash.
Yeah, dude.
Christchurch loves a rummy sea.
Okay.
Do agree.
How good is a rum and cola?
It's got to be like Coke Zero or whatever, though,
because it can't handle the sugar.
Oh, you don't want all the sugar.
The old tacker goes hard otherwise.
Rum and Coke. On the Karub the sugar. Oh, you don't want all the sugar. Yeah, well, tikka goes hard otherwise. Rum and Coke.
On the Karubas again?
Yeah, no.
Well, you, Steve and I are watching our weight,
so we'll have a Diet Coke and Karuba.
Actually, Appleton's a bit bougier than that, all right?
Oh, okay.
Thank you.
Dunedin's straight to the tequila shots.
And finally, this is what you should buy.
The person from the city.
Auckland, a voucher for Mudbrick Winery.
That's a beautiful spot.
I got married there.
That's a beautiful spot.
Wellington, a book titled
How to Save the World,
One Nut Milk Coffee at a Time.
Christchurch, tickets to the next Crusaders game.
And Dunedin, a swan dry jacket
with a 24-pack of spades.
Pride of the South for over 100 years.
I'm insulted that Hamilton's not on the list.
Yeah, a little stereotypical in there too.
I mean, it would have been a long article.
I would have liked to have seen some of the regions, yeah.
What were the categories again?
I'll quickly run off Hamilton off the top of my head.
Okay.
Coffee order.
Mocaccino.
If it had to be coffee.
Cell phone.
An iPhone 10 with a smash screen.
Clothing item.
Redband boots and...
A free bourbon t-shirt.
Yeah, probably a Woodstock promo t-shirt.
A Woodstock promo t-shirt.
Yeah, a promo booze shirt.
Macca's order.
Oh, a snack attack, but it's just one person.
Car.
A ute.
It'd be like a clapped out old ute.
Cocktail?
Nah, no thanks.
A wackado draft, is that a cocktail?
And the Christmas present to buy Hamiltonian?
Just think about what are you getting your sister?
No, you'd get them like a pool inflatable.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, great.
To go in the river or go to one of the beaches or, you know, some blow-up pool that they've got.
Easy.
I'll be your guy.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
On the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six.
Oh, yeah.
Drama.
Dramatic effect.
Step down.
Meet the Figis.
The Frigis.
P-H-R-Y-G-E-S.
Oh, it's a French word, obviously.
It is a Frigis.
These are the mascots for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
2024 Olympic Games.
Yes, the mascots have been revealed.
They are based on the traditional Frigian caps, which are like hats.
Oh, okay.
But also have a triangular appearance that they said would also represent the Eiffel Tower.
Are they like berets, these hats?
Kind of.
Let me see.
A bit more triangular.
This is like they have described them as a cartoon version.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
It's a Smurfs hat.
Okay.
Like a little naughty.
Yeah, a little naughty's hat.
And so they're like triangular.
They've got feet.
Yep.
And arms.
So there's a human in there.
Yeah.
And the arms come out the bottom, but then sort of the legs come out the bottom.
And it's really cool.
They've got one that represents the Paralympics, and they've got a prosthetic leg.
Yeah, I saw that.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
Good little representation there.
However, for those that aren't familiar with the anatomy of the female body.
I've got one of those.
You've got one of those?
Yeah.
Well, the Frisiers have been the mascots. The mascots. I've got one of those you've got one of those yep well the
Friezers
have
been
the mascots
the mascots
have been called
clitoris and trainers
now
the nervous system
does
indeed
come to an end
at the
okay
okay yeah
end of the system.
The nervous system does come to an end.
At the end.
At the little button.
A very heavily packed.
Heavily packed.
Heavily packed nerves.
At the end of the mascot.
But behind it all.
At the head of the mascot.
Exactly.
Right.
A ginormous system.
There's a system. Now, the inner workings of
the system
looks remarkably like
these mascots.
Has there ever been a mascot that's nailed it?
I feel like every time there's a mascot, it's
weird. It's weird or it's inappropriate.
Just be like a superhero
or something. Like a human superhero.
Why are you going to be a blob
or a clitoris?
So, yeah, I'm looking at the history of
the mascots of the Olympic
Games. What did they have in Sydney?
When they had them in Sydney? Was it a kangaroo?
I don't...
I can't... Looking at the list
of them, I can't... Oh, okay, so yes.
There was multiple Sydney
Olympics. There was
a platypus, a kookaburra, an echidna, and a lizard.
Right.
So they had, that's all right.
Those are Australian animals.
Yeah.
Again, not a clitoris.
These ones were weird.
That was for the London Olympic Games in 2012.
They were like cyclops things.
They had one eye on the top.
Oh, that's right.
I remember that.
Always get so abstract with them. They had one eye on the top. Oh, that's right. I remember that.
Always get so abstract with them. Yeah.
Always so abstract with them.
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, they had a bear.
That works.
It was in Russia.
Yeah.
It was a bear.
That works.
But this one.
Oh, there was one for the Barcelona in 1992.
There was Kobe and Petra, but Petra had no arms.
And she was a human.
And Kobe was a dog that dressed in a suit.
So, you know, they should have just had a big glass of, no, not Prosecco, sangria.
Sangria.
A sangria jug.
A sangria jug.
Like the Kool-Aid jug.
Yeah.
And the person is like, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But in Spanish, which would be like, si.
That's what they could have done.
Oh, si.
Well, I've got the top six less rude mascots for the Paris Olympics.
Number six on the list are the Paris 2024 boobies.
Yeah.
Right.
Boobies.
Sandy and Mandy.
Yeah.
I mean, at least go with some French names.
Pierre. Claudine and Pierre. Yeah. but maybe at least go with some French names Pierre
Claudine and Pierre
yes
number five
on the list
of the top six
less rude mascots
for the Paris Olympics
the Paris Testis
2024
okay
it's a couple
of low hangers
well one could be
a high hanger
one could be
a low hanger
representation is important
number four
on the list
of the top six
less rude mascots
for the Paris Olympics
the Paris 2024
Weenuses
okay well Weenai I'm not familiar with the plural of Weenus Ween the Paris Olympics, the Paris 2024 Weenuses. Okay.
Well, Ween-I, I'm not familiar with the plural of Weenus.
Ween-I.
The skin on the bottom of the elbow.
Number three on the list of the top six less rude mascots
for the Paris Olympics, the Paris 2024 Nipples.
Okay.
Yeah.
Nipples.
Arianola.
Arianola.
That works for me.
Works for me.
Number two on the list of the top six less rude mascots for the Paris Olympics.
The Paris sexy back dimples, 2024.
Oh, yeah, back dimples.
What would the costume look like?
Indent.
Circular with an indent.
Yeah, maybe it's...
Are they sexy or are they cute?
Can we get a final ruling on the back dimples?
I think they're more cute, aren't they?
No, they're sexy.
You think they're sexy?
I don't have them. You've got the deciding vote. No, but if you see themples. I think they're more cute, aren't they? No, they're sexy. You think they're sexy? I don't have them.
You've got the deciding vote.
No, but if you see them on someone, are they sexy or cute?
Cute.
How is it that some people do have them and some people don't have them?
Yeah, I don't know.
Well, it's like cheek dimples.
Is it genetic as well?
Yeah.
I think it's probably more to do as well with your body fat percentage.
I don't think so.
Mine's so low, that's probably why I don't have them.
It's pretty lean.
Yeah, pretty lean.
Having back dimples, does it tell me anything about my genetics?
I don't think I've got back dimples.
They're called the dimples of Venus.
They come from the Roman goddess of beauty,
as back dimples are often associated with beauty and woman.
Because Venus, she was a curvy gal, and she had, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's more common in people born female.
You can't make them appear through exercise.
There's no muscle in the area to tone.
However, losing weight can cause back dimples to become more prominent.
Okay.
All right.
There's no concrete evidence to say they're genetic.
There is also a bit little research being done on the topic.
However, evidence suggests that dimples may be a dominant genetic trait.
Well, put all this research, you know, for cancer and long COVID aside.
Just momentarily.
Study the back dimple.
Study the back dimple further.
I've got some back pimples.
Are they Q or sexy?
Q or sexy?
No, no, no, no, no.
After the D, not the P.
All right.
Get a loafer on your back.
A loafer.
Yeah, a loafer.
A loafer.
A shoe.
Just get a loafer back there.
Just rock it up the back.
Get rid of them.
And number one on the list of the top six less rude mascots for the Paris Olympics,
the Paris 2024 feet.
Because you know this French, they're...
Oh, my God.
I would say surely.
Yeah.
Percentage-wise, per capita, they're into feet more than any other nation.
They've got real big feet energy, the French.
You make kombucha.
I used to make my own all the time,
and then my scoby went mouldy, and that was a lost interest.
I've made kombucha before.
Yeah, it's good fun.
And then every time you make a batch, like you get another scoby.
Yeah, and it thickens up.
Yeah.
And you can throw them away or give them away or whatever.
Or use them to make more and you just end up with a bench full of...
Fermenting.
Fermenting.
Tea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so yum though.
It's tea and then sugar and then the bacteria from the scoby ferments and eats the sugar, turning it into a fermented drink.
Yes, kombucha.
Kombucha.
Good for you.
Good for your belly in moderation.
Good for your gut health.
Good for your gut health, apparently.
So they say.
But the process of fermentation and especially with sugar, right,
is very similar to alcohol.
Yes.
And sometimes kombucha can have a small percentage of alcohol in it
from the fermentation process.
Now, one of my favourite brands, and I hate to call them out on this,
but hey, it's all in the news, Daily Organics.
Now, they're the one that do the big, like,
bougie-looking one-litre bottles.
Oh, brown bottles?
So yum.
Yeah.
Glass bottles?
Yeah, glass bottles.
What's this?
Is there a chai one?
Chai, spice and ginger.
That's where it's at.
And, darling, it comes out of Matakana.
Oh.
It comes out of Matakana.
Oh.
It comes out of Matakana.
We simply must go to the Matakana market.
We simply must.
Remember?
Why don't we make a weekend? Oh, well. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're sure. We're to the Met Economist. We simply must. Remember? Why don't we make a weekend?
Oh, well.
We're sure.
We'll meet you there.
I'll take the chopper.
Are you going to take the chopper?
I'll take the chopper.
We wanted to take the Porsche, and of course there's Ellen Rupert.
I'll take the chopper and meet you there.
We'll meet you there.
I'll put some gas in there.
Oh, dear.
We'll meet you there.
Are we used to running gas, darling? That's so awkward. Oh, no. We'll meet you there. Are you still running gas, darling?
That's so awful.
Oh, no.
We're going to get a new car next year.
But David's got his work car.
David.
Duh.
So, anyway.
So, usually you can have in kombucha like 1 point something percent alcohol.
1.15 percent or lower.
Right.
Means that you can sell it.
It's fine. It's fine. It's not even enough to get a little buzz on. 1.15 percent or lower. Right. Means that you can sell it. It's fine.
It's not even enough to
get a little buzz on. Right.
It's less than cough syrups.
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Well, yeah. Can't cough syrups run
at like 2% alcohol? Oh, yeah.
I had a really fun time in Edinburgh on a
cough syrup, but that's a story for another day.
Anyway, so it's sold as a non-alcoholic
beverage.
Combine a cough syrup with pseudoephedrine and I tell you what. I don't. but that's a story for another day. Anyway, so it's sold as a non-alcoholic beverage.
Combine a cough syrup with pseudoephedrine and I tell you what.
I don't.
You'll be riding the carpet.
It's terrible.
I know, I didn't realise.
You've got to be careful and read the instructions.
I know, I had a cold and then it was terrible.
Anyway, so they test them, right,
to make sure that they're meeting these standards
and Daily Organics Kombucha
did not meet the standard by a lot.
So their original flavor, 1.15 is what you need, 2.8% alcohol.
Lemon and ginger, 3%.
Chai, spice, and ginger, 3.2%.
Now, you can get a low-alcohol beer.
Yeah.
Well, Rhineg.
Rhineg. The original low-alcohol low alcohol beer. Yeah. Well, Reineck. Reineck.
The original low alcohol beer at two and a half.
So you'd need to still have a couple of bottles to be over the limit, though.
So if you had one litre, so one of those.
I could easily.
We were saying before, like, it would be a good mixer for.
Well, yeah, if you're adding vodka to it.
Yeah, it's not alcoholic anymore.
It is alcoholic.
But if you had one litre of the chai spice and ginger,
that's our flave,
it's the equivalent to two and a half standard drinks.
Now, you look at that as someone who drinks alcohol
and goes like, oh, well, that's fine.
But if you're driving, if you're pregnant,
or if you're a child
probably not great
to have two and a half
standard drinks
usually you wouldn't
drink a litre of
kombucha in a time
but it's yummy
I could sometimes
have a couple
yeah I could absolutely
lay a couple away
imagine you took that
because you were
sober driving
yeah exactly
and you're just having
a couple of glasses
drinking with your friends
yeah at a party
and then you go.
You would be probably over the limit
or knocking on its door.
And if you're under, because what,
if you're on your learners restricted
or under. It's a zero. It's a zero.
Yeah. So, wow.
Yeah. So,
basically, this was like done
by an external party. Right.
You know, not their own testing. So, Daily Organics was like, well, that by an external party. Right. Not their own testing.
So Daily Organics was like, well, that's what you think.
Well, that's what you think.
Literally, that's what they said was, well, that's your opinion.
Right.
And it's like, no, no, no, we tested it.
This is how much alcohol is in it.
Right.
But yeah, obviously people are really concerned
because you think you're drinking a non-alcoholic drink. Even mention
people who are sober. I was going to say
does that mean you've fallen off the wagon?
You've got to restart the counter? No, surely not
because it's not a conscious decision
to do it. Yeah. But two
and a half standard drinks, if you drank a litre
of it at three point something, two and a half standard
drinks, I can feel
two drinks. Yeah. You know what I mean? You feel
in your body, your legs get a little that's nuts, you know what I mean? You feel in your body, your legs get a little,
that's nice, you know what I mean?
Or whatever.
You just feel a little something, something.
Well, it's a great kombucha.
Certainly, I don't have a problem with it.
Yeah, well, you don't drive a lot.
Yeah, that's true.
And you love a wee tipple.
Yeah, it's pretty wild that it's higher than low alcohol beer,
but you don't need ID to buy kombucha,
yet there's stories of people buying like no alcohol beer
and being ID'd for it.
Or like that bubbly fruit juice in wine bottles.
You know, they ID people for that.
Grapefruit sparkling grape juice.
The grape teaser and stuff, yeah.
So you need ID to buy a non-alcohol.
I suppose it's weird if you had like an 11-year-old
come in and buy a dozen.
Can I just a zero, just this 24-pack of zero Heineken's please?
Yeah.
How do you want that for?
What's up, buddy?
Well, I don't want to get drunk.
Well, no, because I'm only 11.
I want to have a cup of brewskis.
But I want to look cool.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley.
Fletchford and Hayley, silly little poe, silly little poll.
How often do you wash your hair?
The options we provided.
Daily.
Every second day, every couple of days, once a week.
What do you do?
Well, when I used to care about my appearance more, it was daily.
I have been meaning to talk to you about this.
Yeah, of course.
Remember how I used to turn up to work in like February?
Yeah.
Not anymore.
Yeah, because I've got really thin hair, very fine and thin.
Yeah.
So it gets greasy quickly.
Right.
Whereas if I had luscious thick hair, you'd barely have to wash it that, like once a week probably.
Yeah, right.
So it's all dependent on quality of hair, I reckon.
Now, Vaughn, you answered based on your beard.
A beard wash, yeah.
That'd be daily, wouldn't it?
Nah, maybe a couple of times a week.
Do you wash your face every day?
With water.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, the beard gets wet
every time I get in the shower,
but shampoo and conditioner.
Oh, you shampoo and conditioner?
Yeah, shampoo and conditioner.
I've got shampoo and conditioner
in my shower for visitors.
I stayed at Fletcher's on Sunday and I had a shower and I went, what a generous guy.
He doesn't need shampoo.
I don't know if it's good shampoo or conditioner.
I was just like.
It was a little cheap.
It was cheap.
I don't think it was purchased for you.
No, it wasn't purchased for me.
No, it's just for when people stay because the people need.
The people need.
I know.
The people need shampoo.
The people need shampoo.
And conditioner.
Do I need to buy a bit of...
Look, it wasn't the worst.
Oh, look, I don't know what is good shampoo.
It was nice people, one of those nice eco brands.
Should I get a Fructis or something?
Or a Pantene?
No, you're right with the brand you've got.
Okay.
Fructis is good.
Smells like apples.
Yeah, because that's what I thought too.
It really strips the hair though, doesn't it?
Daily, 12%.
That's the least.
Okay.
It used to be me.
After that, every second day, 20%.
That's me.
Yeah.
Every second day.
Once a week, 25%.
And every couple of days is 43%.
Wow, okay.
Some feedback.
Courtney, curly hair gets extremely frizzy and dry if you wash it too often.
Needs to be oily to look nice.
That's Aaron.
He probably washes his, his like once a week.
And I just closed the window.
One moment, please.
Laura, when I go to the gym and get particularly sweaty, I wash it.
Ah, dry shampoo.
I haven't washed my hair in over 10 years.
Yes, says Fraser.
Man, don't.
I was oohing previously when you said dry shampooed after the gym.
Surely that warrants more than just a dry shampoo.
No, I don't. I shower.
Fraser says, I haven't washed my hair in over 10 years.
I'm a tradie, so it gets plenty dirty at work.
I just give it a solid rinse and I'm good to go.
Fraser, I'm telling you right now.
10 years.
Your head stinks.
Your head stinks.
Maddie says, this is my biggest dilemma.
My hair is so dry.
I could wash it once a week to be clean,
but the gym makes me sweat so much.
The gym, the gym's an issue.
Laura says, once a fortnight,
it doesn't need to be done more often.
It's also crazy thick.
Yeah, thick hair doesn't have to be washed.
Is it an actual fact?
Thick hair doesn't need to be washed as much?
Yeah, because it's not as close,
the hair's not as close to your scalp.
If you look at my hair, which is thin and quite flat,
it's okay to acknowledge that.
It's very close to the oils of my head.
Okay, but it stands up
a bit more. Yeah, it can take it more.
And Will says, never, my bald brothers.
Yeah.
Hey, ZM's, Fletch,
Vaughn and Hayley. Black Friday
sales, the Black Friday
is tomorrow, right? Yes.
Because I've been seeing Black Friday, like I feel like
every Friday lately has been something Black Friday, like I feel like every Friday lately
has been something Black Friday.
Every year.
And then it's Cyber Monday
and that lasts for a week.
There's like so much.
This is for Thanksgiving, right?
Yes.
Oh yeah, when's Thanksgiving?
Next Thursday?
No.
When does Black Friday start?
Today.
Tomorrow.
So it's Thanksgiving today.
They've already started the sales.
But it's Thanksgiving this week in America.
I don't know.
Because Black Friday was always the day after Thanksgiving.
Yeah, so tomorrow in America is Wednesday there.
No, 24th of November.
So Thanksgiving, so the starting Black Friday sales are a week before Thanksgiving now.
Yeah, they just last forever.
Why do they do that?
I don't know, but I've been seeing them online for the last few Fridays,
for the last few weeks. Why do we even get them?
We don't do Thanksgiving.
Well, we'll take them.
I'm not complaining. No, you're not complaining.
I'm on four different websites currently.
Well, Consumer New Zealand, and I feel like we
talk about this every year and we give this exact
warning every year, they are saying
you've got to be careful
because retailers are going to extra lengths
to entice
shoppers and investigations have found
many big box retailers
played fast and loose with sale price
comparisons.
And we've talked about this before, they
over time, the month or two before
Black Friday, they increase
the price slowly up
and then the discount that they give you sometimes is not actually that much of a discount.
Yes, they say you're saving $200, but we increased it by $180.
Yeah.
Well, I sort of don't care.
I said to Shade.
You still get a nice little buzz from buying something so heavily discounted.
I said to Shade, don't you get any ideas about Black Friday sales?
When an ad came on the TV last night.
You're a poop.
I'm a poop.
But then I realized that I have saved things on a watch list,
so hoping that they get heavily discounted for a Black Friday sale.
What a hypocrite.
What a piece of work I am.
So you save it and you go, I'm not going to buy that. Yeah. Yeah, I nearly bought a range hood yesterday. I need a range hood for the kitchen Friday sale. What a hypocrite. What a piece of worth I am. So you save it and you go, I'm not going to buy that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I nearly bought a range hood yesterday
and need a range hood for the kitchen.
Yeah.
And then I was like, well, stand by.
What kind of range hood are you getting?
We went good with our range hood,
but it's not sucky enough.
Oh, they never suck enough.
They never suck enough.
They never suck enough.
It's like a bathroom extractor fan.
It's not sucky enough.
Give me a hovercraft engine in there.
I want every piece of condensation or steam coming off a pot ripped from the atmosphere.
Right.
Well, if you are looking at a range hood or whatever it is you're buying for Black Friday,
use websites like Price Spy.
Oh, yeah.
Consumer New Zealand have used an example of things and they've looked at price by and they've
found that these items that have been, you know, offered for sale, for example, for $700
were selling three months ago for $500 anyway.
Yikes.
And so you've just really got to do your research.
If it's something you've been keeping an eye on for a while and it is a good price, then
absolutely jump at it.
Have a hoon, yeah.
But don't be fooled by retailers and their reductions.
Yes.
You're clever, isn't I?
Because they might not.
Pricify, if you don't know,
it's a website that basically graphs the price
over however long it's been for sale
and gives you options.
It graphs it.
And it's also handy if you're going to buy something
from somewhere that does a price match,
you can go on and see if it's cheaper somewhere else.
Okay, I'm opening it.
And then you can say to them, well, can you price match this?
Otherwise, I'll just walk down to the next shop and get it down there.
And then a lot of retailers will price match.
We know how you love to do a price match.
A price match.
But price buy is more electronics.
It's not hardware stuff.
So Black Friday is November 25.
Oh, so next Friday.
So next Friday.
But you're already seeing Black Friday sales pre-pre today.
Yeah, a lot of them have started today.
And they'll just keep going for a while.
Yeah, but yeah, do your research.
So I always feel like,
I feel like recently we're being provided the sequels we've wanted.
You know when people are like, bring this thing back, bring that back.
And you're like, no, they won't do it.
What was someone asking about the other day?
And they said, we'd never do a sequel.
I'll think on that.
Anyway, the...
Take your time now.
Take your time now.
People at home will be obviously playing along.
Yeah, I mean, we can just wait.
We've got the time.
We can just wait.
What was the sequel?
Is there anything we can do to help?
What kind of movie?
Was it action? Comedy, I think it was a comedy movie. there anything we can do to help? What kind of movie? Was it action?
Comedy.
Comedy.
Female driven maybe.
Bridesmaids.
It wasn't bridesmaids.
Well, she's already got married.
Unless another one's getting married.
Yeah.
Unless Kristen Wiig's character's getting married.
Kristen Wiig's character could be getting married.
Anyway, this is what I'm most excited about.
I saw this film in 2001, the first film.
And it was one of those situations where I bought a ticket to a film
and then I finished watching that film and then I just stayed in the cinema
and I just kept watching films.
You know how you just like get ticketed at the entrance
but not at every cinema door?
Oh, so you paid for one but got two.
Paid for one but got like three.
And it was, 2001, The Comedy Romance, The Princess Diaries.
Which, by the way, on Rotten Tomatoes is 49%.
Excuse me?
I knew.
Now, I have to say, and I don't know what happened,
and I read an article the other day and it made me feel really bad.
I'm not a huge Anne Hathaway fan.
Do you know Whitney Houston produced that movie?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it stars Anne Hathaway as an unknowing princess of Genovia.
And then the Queen is played, of course, by Julie Andrews.
And then there was The Princess Diaries 2, and then that was it.
And it's just been announced, Princess Diaries 3...
Is happening.
It's happening.
Now, when is it coming out?
So Mandy Moore...
Yes.
Who was also in the film
Said that she would be delighted to return for it
And then it got people going like
Return for what?
What's happening?
And then it's just been confirmed
Princess Diaries 3 is coming out
I don't think there's a date yet
But basically it's happening
Now this is one of those films
That it's like it's so bad
It's so tacky
Performances are terrible The storyline's it's like, it's so bad. It's so tacky. Performances are terrible.
The storyline's crap.
The script, it's pongy.
But for some reason, people have just loved it.
For years and years, it's become a bit of a cult classic.
So when people demand it, they get a third.
It's happening.
Wow, okay.
I'm pretty sure Disney's doing it again.
Yeah.
According to a report on The Hollywood Reporter.
Anne Hathaway's back
to do it.
Don't know about Julie Andrews.
She'd be old now.
How old is Julie Andrews now?
Let me check.
Old.
Is she not dead?
Is Julie Andrews not Julie Andrews?
87 years old.
Yeah, because she's Bridgerton.
Yeah.
She's Lady...
Oh yeah, of course.
Pinklebottom or whatever it is.
She's Lady Pinklebottom. Yeah. Whistle, Whistlethwaite. Whistlethwaite. Is that right. Yeah. She's Lady... Oh, yeah, of course, yeah. Pinkle Bottom or whatever it is. She's Lady Pinkle Bottom, yeah.
Whistle Thwait.
Whistle Thwait.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Whistle something, isn't it?
I stopped watching.
I haven't watched in a while.
Guys, watch The Space.
Is it because that guy left?
What?
That was why everybody stopped watching, right?
I think so, yeah.
Oh, my God.
Regé-Jean Page.
Yeah.
But then he did that normal movie and he was pretty average.
Was he?
He was in that movie, the action with Chris Pine.
Oh, yes.
The big Netflix one.
Yeah, he was a bad guy.
What one was that called?
The Grey Man.
Yeah, yeah, with Ryan, the gauze.
Yeah, but you put anybody next to the gauze.
It's unfair, you know.
You stepped right up Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling.
It's hard when you establish yourself as a character.
We just want to look at you.
Yeah.
We're like, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush.
Anyway, Princess Diaries 3.
It's on its way.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
ZM FM.
Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley's Community Notices.
Hello, everybody.
It's like my headphones aren't working.
I didn't have them plugged in.
You're a silly boy, aren't you?
I had them loosely set up top.
Hello and welcome to Community Notice.
This is a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand
according to local Facebook pages.
What have you got a smirk on your face for?
Just a message that a friend sent, but I'll tell you, it's an off-air message.
It's an off-air message.
Can I see it so that I'm in on this?
Well, no, because then you'll be distracted and I'll feel left out
and I won't be able to concentrate on the segment of the show
where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand
according to local Facebook pages.
He just showed her.
And now you're laughing and now I don't know what's happening.
And if I feel left out, you imagine how people listening are feeling.
I reckon you can imagine what the message says.
The problem is, it could be anything.
It could be. It could be anything. I apologise, listeners, for leaving you in the message says. The problem is, it could be anything. It could be.
It could be anything.
I apologise, listeners, for leaving you in the dark there.
It's best that you are.
We're all a bit silly today.
Let's talk to Rocky.
Rocky is posting on the Lower Hut, Upper Hut buy and sell swap page.
He says, selling a family heirloom.
These are the exact sandals when Jesus walked on water in the Sea of Galilee
and through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights.
Serious buyers only. Now, I can tell you they're not. I thought Jesus had Birkenstocks.
No, I don't think he was.
I thought he had a Roman.
He had a Roman sandal.
I mean, that's the cruel twist of the Bible.
He was wearing Roman sandals and later executed by the Romans.
Yeah, right.
You know, he was a big supporter of their sandal industry.
Yeah.
And they repaid him by crucifying him.
Yeah, that's rough.
You don't do that to your supporters.
No, you don't.
And then the bottom dropped out of the Roman sandal market.
Yeah.
Havianas came in.
Yeah, Havianas came in.
It took over for a while.
Hot, hot Brazilians.
Yeah.
Rocked on in.
And now the Germans are coming in with their Birkenstocks.
Are they German?
Do you reckon Jesus would have worn Crocs?
Much more comfortable for the long haul.
Jesus would have loved a Croc.
Yeah, comfortable and good in the kitchen.
And he would have had some giblets too.
Yeah, he would have had giblets.
Is that what they're called?
Giblets.
A couple of crosses on there.
Yeah, cross.
Those ones that are like balls.
You can get ones like little testicles
that hang off them now.
Oh, yeah, the truck nuts for Crocs.
Yeah, yeah.
One that says, like, who's your daddy?
And it's God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it says, oh, my father.
Yep.
Love that.
And a little Bible.
There'll be a little Bible.
Well, that hadn't been written yet.
Oh, it hadn't yet.
It's about him.
It's facts.
And on one foot, there would be a loaf of bread.
And on the other, just heaps of breads.
Yeah.
And water on one, one, one on one on the other. And I reckon a pride flag. Yeah. And water on one, one on one
on the other. And I reckon a pride flag.
Yeah, oh my god. Well, he loves everybody.
Yeah. You're telling
me he hung out with 12 dudes and not one
of them at least was curious about it? Absolutely.
All the long hair everywhere. Numbers. Statistically.
That's just statistically. Three, I reckon.
Statistically three. I reckon one solid,
two by curious.
And Judas. Judas is one of, two by curious. And Judas.
Judas is one of them because that little bitch was jealous full stop.
After a couple of vodka cruises, five.
Yeah.
That's how it went.
It went water to wine, wine to vodka cruises.
They don't talk about that as much in the Bible though.
No, they don't.
But anyway.
Lime too.
Lime.
Controversial.
The people who took great offense to this ridiculous post about these sandals belonging to Jesus
have also really enjoyed this part of the show where we've talked all about Jesus' footwear and choice of gentleman accompaniments.
Because people really laid into him.
Did they?
Yes.
Amongst them, Marie said,
Are you aware that Jesus never walked through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights?
Get to know your Bible.
That was a Josh Hartner movie, wasn't it?
Yeah, he wasn't allowed to have sex.
He wasn't allowed to play with himself for 40 days and 40 nights.
Yeah.
And then they're confusing them with Moses who walked the desert of Egypt for 40 years.
I mean, that is a long time to be lost in a desert.
Yeah.
With the Jewish people.
I haven't even lived that long.
And then he parted the seas.
Well, I have lived that long.
I can tell you it'll be
a bloody long time
to be dried out
and getting sandblasted.
We're slightly,
we're slightly off track.
Let's get back on track
with a classic Vic Deals post.
Oh.
Fifi said,
I know someone will be
absolutely heartbroken
that they've left this behind,
but I found this at the bus stop
on Grafton Road
and it is a Satisfyer Pro 2.
Who leaves it in a bus stop?
It's a gold, champagne gold.
I didn't know they came in a variety of colours.
Yeah, that's the collector's.
You've got the champagne gold, don't you?
That's the collector's edition.
No, mine's more of a sort of blush pink.
Yours is more of like a worn down plastic.
Mine's back, yeah, you can see like the inner workings.
It's got a pantina to it,
you know,
like it's really worn
like an old car.
Some bits are rusty.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's not even metal
which is amazing.
I don't know how the rust
has formed some sort
of iron filaments.
Yeah.
Not exactly sure but
corroded basically.
And there's a barnacle on it.
Yeah.
There's a barnacle, yeah.
Hot rod and suits
would love that patina
that you've got on your
Satisfyer Pro 2
on any of their cars that they're trying to look like, you know, old racers.
And this one from, actually, this is a Reddit report from r slash Auckland.
Okay.
This kid called James.
So long story short, this kid called James, not sure of his last name,
probably about the age of 16, walks past my house every day
and throws boiled and frozen eggs at my house.
Boiled eggs?
Boiled eggs.
Frozen eggs.
This is around Tuturangi, more into the bush.
Today I had enough of his shit and decided to go tell him to stop.
He turned around and called me a very rude profanity.
Okay, not one that we can repeat on the wireless.
And threw an egg at me, but I dodged it.
Please, if you know this imbecile, private message me his private information so I can have him charged.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes.
I did this on my phone.
Someone is just like, how do you know his name's James?
But that's all you know about.
Yeah.
And did they do anything to antagonise James?
Draw the ire of James.
To get an egg every day, that's silly.
I mean, that's an every day.
Yeah.
And that's not cheap.
No.
And there was going to be an egg shortage, wasn't there?
Are they free range, at least?
You'd hope so.
Well, if I was egging someone's house, I'd just go caged.
You'd go caged.
Yeah.
And finally, from the Nelson Lost and Found Pets New Zealand page, this is from inside
somebody's house.
It is a picture of a goat, and it says, is this anybody's goat?
All right, well, if you've lost a goat, someone's got your goat.
It's a little black and white goat, and it's obviously a problem goat because it's wearing
one of these things around its head.
It's a triangle to stop goats being able to push through fences.
Oh, okay, right.
It makes them extra wide.
I always felt really bad.
I know goats wear them
and goats must just be like,
I'm a pusher, you see.
But if anybody's lost a goat,
a black and white little goat
with little stubby horns,
Emma Joy's got it in Nelson.
Those are today's community notices.
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on your local Facebook page
or heck,
your local subreddit,
screen cap it and send it to us. We're FVH on all the socials. if you see anything on your local Facebook page or heck, your local subreddit. Yeah.
Screen cap it and send it to us.
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Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
I won't say where this happened
because I have to go back to this place.
Oh, secretive.
It's secretive, but yesterday,
and I wasn't going to say anything,
but I heard this person say they like podcasts
better than they like the radio.
Oh, true.
They weren't talking to me.
Right, okay.
Because I shouldn't be offended either way.
Because you've got both.
I've got both.
You've got both.
I've got both.
So, they came in.
Yep.
How do I say this?
They came in.
They were a sales rep.
Okay.
For a brand.
Yep.
Now, they said to the person, this is our promo.
Here's some stuff.
A couple of freebies.
You know, the sales rep's always got a couple of freebies.
Butter them up.
Butter them up.
Butter them up.
So, you know, they prefer their product when recommending to customers.
Yeah.
Butter them up.
Butter them up.
And then said, this is a cheeky ask.
And so my ears were like, nosy parker.
They said, this is a cheeky ask. And so my ears were like, nosy Parker. They said,
this is a cheeky ask,
but I was wondering if you've got any of our competitors posters around that I
could pull down and replace with these ones.
And then they were like,
you could tell this person was a bit like,
like that feels a bit underhanded.
I would sell more than one brand at this place.
Brand of this thing.
Yes.
Yes.
You might choose what brand from previous experience.
For them to put up their posters on the side or in other places?
Well, there was blank spots in the wall.
Yeah.
Because they went into another part and I heard them go,
and like pull it down and then up those theirs.
That's so ruthless.
I know.
It was savage.
I was like, that is.
If I was the other person, when they came in, I'd be like, oh.
Whatever, Joel.
The reason they're so ruthless is that these reps are on the money.
The more they sell, the more they make.
So you would do the same thing.
Hell yeah.
It would be all out war. Yeah. Ruthless, eh? I was like, man, the more they make. Exactly. So you would do the same thing. Hell yeah. It would be all out war.
Yeah.
Ruth, what's that?
I was like, man, that's unheard.
I don't think we've got a version of that in our industry.
No.
No.
Go and cut the cords at our competitor's radio station.
Well, I did work somewhere once where a guy with a reputation in this industry told me if I ever wanted to take down a radio station. Well, I did work somewhere once where a guy with a reputation in this industry
told me if I ever wanted
to take down a radio station,
I'd just have to put a pin
through the certain cord
and then he told me what the cord was.
I was like, why are you telling me this?
It makes me feel like you've done it.
Wow.
And I think he probably had.
Yeah.
He probably had.
Yeah, but we don't have that.
But that got me thinking about
what's the most sinister part of your job
that maybe people don't know about.
Like the cutthroat stuff you have to do.
Yeah, a little underhanded, a little ruthlessness.
Yeah.
Tearing down the opposition's posters and putting up yours.
Yeah.
Or like blocking out competitors somehow by signing people up to.
Because doesn't that happen in like dairies and stuff
with like fridges and like drink fridges?
One company will be like,
just have our fridge or we'll
burn your dairy down.
Was it Coke that was like,
was it Coke that was like, we'll buy you a brand new sign
for your dairy if you like. A nice big
beautiful sign and the dairy would be like,
that sounds great. It's got Coke on the end.
What did you say? Nothing. I was
telling you about the beautiful sign. Then we're going to put your name in the middle, nice and big got Coke on the end. What did you say? Nothing. I was telling you about the beautiful sign.
Then we're going to put your name in the middle, nice and big, with Coke on the end.
It's red.
It's red.
It's a red sign with white writing.
I hope that's okay.
Well, we'd love to take some calls this morning.
How competitive does it get in your job?
What's the most ruthless thing about your job?
Do you have any of these like underhanded tactics?
Yeah.
That you're, I mean, we won't mention companies.
We won't mention names.
The ways that you have to fight to the top.
Yeah.
Beat out of those.
Ruthless.
Maybe you're tearing down.
True business work.
Yeah, tearing down opposition posters.
Yeah.
0800 dials at MSN number.
Now everybody's trying to guess where I was.
You've got to go back.
So Vaughn's not saying.
He's not going to say.
Vaughan won't say.
I won't say.
0800 dials at Emerson number.
Won't you give us a call?
You can text as well.
9696.
What's the most ruthless part of your job?
We're talking about the ruthless part of your job.
Yeah, those competitive parts.
Yeah.
In terms of if it's tearing down opposition's posters of products
and putting yours up in place, which I saw happen yesterday.
Well, maybe it's even internal,
like within your own company.
How could I sabotage you for it?
Somebody messaged that in,
that they were going for a job
and they knew somebody else was going for a job,
but they also knew their printing account.
So they just printed off a whole lot of personal stuff
using the other person's print profile.
And then when they were looking, comparing their work history,
they're like, this person prints a lot.
They're clearly doing personal work.
And it counted against them.
Oh, that's so pretty.
It's insane.
Some other messages are,
we used to have fake Facebook accounts
to ask our competition questions about their products
on their social media.
And then we would log
on as our company Facebook profile
and answer the questions before
they could, making us look like
the super onto it product.
I always think this about online reviews.
You know, like, would I go in
and say, ZM is the best
show ever. And then you
go on a computer and be like, rubbish.
You know what I mean? Or like products on Amazon when you
see those terrible reviews, you're like, how do I know this isn't
a computer? But that's what, like cafes and stuff
as well with Google reviews. Yeah. Like other
cafes down the road can go on and like
badmouth them and all they can do
is be like, this didn't happen, but then
who are you going to believe?
We used to report opposition sales reps
for dangerous driving if we saw them out on the road.
I love that.
Wow.
Dangerous driving?
Within our company, I used to feed other sales reps fake information about clients. Like I knew, for example, one was gluten intolerant, just couldn't handle gluten.
But I'd tell them their favorite snacks were croissants.
So they'd turn up and be like, thank you so much.
Dave loves muffins.
Yeah.
Loves them.
Loves a scone.
And then you swoop in with a wafer.
What's a treat that doesn't have gluten?
Oh, a carrot.
A carrot.
A carrot.
A bunch of carrots.
Yeah, a pack of carrots.
A bouquet of carrots.
A bouquet of carrots.
And you win the contract.
And you win the contract.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you're the preferred sales rep.
Yeah, great stuff.
I love that. So you win the contract. Yeah. And you're the preferred sales rep. Yeah, great stuff. I love that.
So savage.
We wear industry standard headphones.
We do.
When I first came here, boy, boy, oh, boy, was I pushed into buying these headphones
because they are industry standard.
Industry standard headphones.
They are Sony headphones.
They're pretty good. They're over-ear headphones. Your standard, you know, your traditional headphones. They are Sony headphones. They're pretty good.
They're over-ear headphones, your standard, you know, your traditional headphones.
Yes.
And Leonardo DiCaprio meme from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where he's pointing at the TV.
Yeah.
That's what I do every time I see them on like a movie or if there's like a singer in studio wearing them.
Drummers.
Yep.
Yeah.
You always see podcasters wearing them.
You see they're everywhere.
And yeah, I always, every time I see one on a TV show or a movie,
I take a photo, I send it to our group chat, I say,
Industry Standard.
To show you that we weren't just telling you to buy any headphones.
No, no, no.
I'm wearing the headphones.
But I, because I'm not a real radio person,
I'm just posing and pretending.
I wear one ear.
No.
You're more radio than you know.
You're old school.
Boss jock.
Oh, really?
That's a real boss jock trick that way.
Ah, okay.
Because I like to hear the room.
It makes me feel more present.
If I go in here, I'll be like, whoa.
One ear in, one ear out.
Bloody Bundy that did the night show at the first radio station I used to work for, he
has a one-on-one-off.
One-on-one-off.
Bloody Bundy.
The thing with me is, like, I have my, this is too loud loud for me i'm sort of like three quarters to maybe half volume up when you guys take your headphones off and put
them on the table and the ads are playing i am shooketh at how loud and how loud it is coming
out of your headphones and when i come in in the morning brie thomasell has it on full yeah and i
plug it in i'm like holy, holy Jesus, Brie.
You've got to turn that down for me.
This is what you have to look forward to.
We have been working in radio our entire adult lives.
No, I'm all about ear health, safety. I did one of those Bay Audiology checks.
Yeah.
I'm good.
When did you do that?
I was at the mall once and they were doing like three tests.
Oh, yeah.
And Sade was in
shop,
glasses,
shop here.
No,
I wasn't glasses.
It was one of those expensive ones.
Sink heritage or something.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
And so I just,
there was no queue
and I walked over
and I was like,
I'll do this.
And you were fine.
And she's like,
you're actually remarkably good
for a man of your age.
I was like,
that really surprises me
because I wear headphones at work.
I wear headphones at the gym.
The minute I get home, the minute I go outside, I chuck
headphones on and listen to podcasts.
I spend a lot of time on headphones. So do I.
And it's not just us
and radio. This is a thing now for
everybody. You are one of an estimated
670 million to
1.35 billion
that's in that range
there of people, young people in particular, that are at risk of hearing loss.
Sade's dad was an audiologist.
Right.
And he said the worst sorts of headphones are the ones that create a seal.
Like these ones kind of sit over your ear, but it's not a hard seal, but like earbuds.
He said when it goes in, especially those ones with like a soft, pliable suction one,
which they all are now because that's how they stick into your ear.
And that's how it sounds best.
There's no escape for your eardrums.
Yes.
The pressure works on them.
So a huge team of academics across the world, over 20 countries,
they did 30 studies involving nearly 20,000 people between 12 and 34 years old, where they found that between a quarter and a half of those people regularly listen to devices and go to concerts where music is played at unsafe levels.
So you've got your headphones up too loud at the gym.
You go to concerts and standing next to loudspeakers.
Volume under 80 decibels,
I mean, it's hard to sort of picture how loud that is.
Yeah.
It's not that loud.
It's considered safe for adults.
Anything over that starts to cause hearing damage.
You overstimulate the tiny ear hairs
by listening to loud music,
which causes lasting damage.
Oh, God.
Yeah, I'm screwed.
Once it's kind of happened, there's kind of no going back.
I'm already, it's bad enough if I'm in a loud environment,
like a bar or a concert.
If people start talking to me, most of the time I'm like,
yeah, I'm guessing what they're saying.
I'm bad when there's background noise.
I feel like we have so many chats at bars.
And you'll find I was very agreeable in all of them.
Yeah, I've told you guys some really personal stuff.
The good news is I can't tell anybody.
Oh, my God.
So this is my brother, right?
He's an audio engineer and a musician.
And particularly when he was a bit younger,
he was a very heavy musician, like metal.
And so he'd play gigs, no headphones in, next to the speakers.
I'd go, like, in the mosh pit, head to the headphones,
out to the amps, and he wears headphones
all day, every day.
He's an audio engineer.
He's listening to the details
of music.
He's got tinnitus
from the damage
that's been done
over the years,
and my mum has it as well,
and she thinks
it's from going
to all of his concerts
for so many years
and going right up
to the speaker
to be nice and close
and having the amp
just going
with this really heavy music.
Some people wear earplugs to concerts.
Yes, I do.
It's way better.
Yeah, even yesterday I was at a cycle class
and some people had ear...
Yeah, I see them there, but I love the, like...
I love being overwhelmed by noise.
Like, literally, I saw somebody with ear...
What do you call them?
Earplugs in, and I was like, oh, that's weird.
And then my watch was like, dangerous audio level.
Yes.
And I was like, oh, okay.
I think you've got to take it seriously, though.
Like, oh, I'd hate to lose my hearing.
But it will be worse now because, like,
when as soon as you're young, you've got headphones, right?
Yeah.
Whereas we had, like, foam.
Oh, remember the cute ones we had growing up,
the little foamy headphones that went over your ears.
They weren't as good though
they weren't like
the ones that form a seal
like they do now.
Well we're all about
noise cancelling.
Yeah exactly.
Which is the thing
where you put them on
and go
and that's you.
You're in silence.
Yeah.
Just look out for it.
I mean it is good
the Apple Watches
if you're in like a
externally loud environment
it tells you it's too loud.
Friday Jams was too loud
apparently according to my watch.
Yeah, one of your girls had the little kid headphones on.
Yeah, earmuffs on.
She doesn't like loud noises.
Yeah, but it's also good for her ears.
How does she deal with you then?
Barely.
Yeah, she shuts the door on you.
Barely.
She wears those around the house a lot.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
A study, some research out of America
Asked active wearers how they
Were financially after
The pandemic
Not that the pandemic's over but
What? Why?
Shut up. They were like oh you're an active wearer
I care for your opinion. Would you say you're financially
Better or worse off than you were
Before the COVID-19 pandemic
That is what they asked
active wear wearers
of Lululemon. You're going to ask a big question.
Lululemon.
Maybe this study was done to see
if people would be spending
maybe they were finding out how rich
active wear wearers were. They asked people
that wore Lululemon, Under Armour
because that's big in America.
I know we've got Under Arm here, but it's quite big
in America. I used to wear it a bit, yeah.
Adidas and Nike. How do you exercise
wearing armour?
It's like wearing one of those weight packs.
Is it like a mithril chain armour?
Like Frodo Baggins got.
Yeah, but it's light, it's strong.
So they asked and they
said to people, do you feel financially
better off, the same or worse?
And overwhelmingly, people that wear Lululemon said they are financially better off.
Or just lying.
Do they have to prove it?
They just said, how are you doing?
No, they didn't have to prove it.
But then, I mean, yeah, 34% said of Lululemon wearers said they feel the same.
And only 21% say they're worse off.
Nike active wearers, 32% said they're better off,
34% worse off and 34% the same.
You're right, though.
Like, there is an image that comes along with a Lululemon wearer.
Yeah.
Which is like...
I dare and tell you that my husband's company is going to be there.
Yeah, Hubby is a big businessman.
So wifey doesn't work as much.
She rocks around in her lulus.
Yeah.
Having brunch.
What about those ladies we saw when we went out for lunch,
when you had COVID, Fletch?
And they were on a shopping trip, but they were all in like workout gear.
In their lulus.
Oh, yeah, they were.
Because they obviously were just shopping, you know. Right. Shopping, shopping. And were they lulu lemon wearers? Yeah. There was a In their lulus. Oh yeah, they were. Because they obviously were just shopping,
you know,
like shopping,
shopping.
And were they
lululemon wearers?
Yeah.
There was a couple of lulus.
Well,
you're a lululemon wearer.
Well,
I've got a few pairs
of lulutights,
yeah.
Right.
Also,
everybody overlooks
the fact that the guy
that started lululemon
called it lululemon
because he thought
it was funny
the way Japanese people
would pronounce it.
I did not know this.
Like,
it is mind-blowing that, like, yeah.
You were telling me in the...
I mean, he's long gone from the company now.
I think he stepped down in 2012, 2013,
after some other statements were made.
Yeah, about the size of women's bodies.
You can Google that on your own time, but yeah.
Because, Lulu, when I first started working out,
I just was, like, you know, I'd wear your Rebel Sports brands,
your usual sports brands.
And then I remember learning about Lululemon
and hearing that it was like the biz and you had to get it.
And I was like, $200 for a pair of leggings.
You're dreaming.
Is it $200?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
Like some of them are cheaper.
Well, no wonder people are financially better off because they wear Lululemon because they can afford it. They've got some of them are cheaper. Well, no, why do people are financially better off
because they wear Lululemon
because they can afford it?
They've got tons of money, yeah.
But I remember thinking
it was like
that was the brand to buy.
So I've got a couple of pairs.
You guys should go
to the bloody warehouse.
It's got it all.
Oh, I've got a little bit of,
what's their stuff?
I don't know.
Active?
The brand?
Intent?
Yeah, is it active intent?
Active intent?
The brand,
it was like a screen printed on and it came off after a couple of washes.
Yeah.
Well, that could be any brand, couldn't it?
But the pants are still holding together.
Yeah, good stuff.
I know.
The good thing about Lululemon is so many brands have just ripped them off.
Because it was all about, Lululemon was all about the fabric.
Yeah, right.
The quality of the fabric.
Can I get...
Made by the smallest hands in China.
Who's wearing the pants with the wonder bra for the buttocks?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
It oops the butt.
I would have wanted a bit of lift.
I've got a pair of those pants.
Holy shabat.
It makes the dumper pop.
What do you mean?
It's like a bra for your butt.
It's like a wonder bra for the bum.
Yeah, it's got seams around the top of the butt.
And it kind of shapes the butt.
Because I've really got no butt.
Do you think it would give me a butt?
Yeah, it gives anyone a butt.
Okay.
It gives anyone a butt.
And if you've got a butt
and you put those on...
Wonder bra for the butt.
Wonder bra for the butt.
Right.
But they aren't from...
Well, I haven't seen
any specifically men ones.
And I don't know if they're unisex
because if they're designed
for the ladies...
No, they're not unisex.
Well, then they're going to have
a packaging at the front problem.
Not a huge problem, trust me.
Just a relatively small... Oh, yeah relatively small, we'll call it a minor inconvenience at the front with the packing situation.
This could be a business for you.
I can't rock in with a bulge.
Yeah, right.
You know, it's my worst nightmare to be accused of being a gym pest.
Aaron sometimes wears like a men's legging under a short, right, at the gym.
And once he did forget his shorts and he came home and I said to him like,
well, you've got the legging, just rock them out.
And he was like, too rude.
Yeah, no way, no, no, no.
It's like when cyclists go into a cafe and they're Lycra shorts
and they're clip, clop, clip, clop.
Clip, clop.
Yeah, good lord.
And they're a little horny for a muffin.
Yeah, they are.
You can see, you can tell.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Today's fact of the day is we couldn't have got to the moon without cigarettes.
Here we go.
We could not have got to the moon without cigarettes.
All right, spin us a yarn.
In 1965, 52% of adult men in the United States smoked and 34% of women smoked.
Isn't that crazy?
Wow.
And the numbers were exponentially higher for people with stressful jobs.
Now, there was no more stressful job at the time than working for NASA.
Your calculations had to be perfect.
Your communication skills had to be perfect.
Yeah.
Everything had to be perfect.
It was a very, very stressful job.
And an overwhelming majority of people involved in the moon landing smoked cigarettes, including the astronauts.
When they announced the astronauts going to the moon
at the press conference,
they were all smoking.
That's a different time, eh?
Now, NASA...
Doctors used to smoke
in their offices.
Yeah, this is what it said.
Pilots used to smoke
flying planes.
Doctors used to smoke
while doing their rounds
at the hospital.
Everybody would smoke.
I love it.
It's crazy.
You could smoke in a courtroom,
in a court of law.
If you were a just finished
argument, you could sit down.
Why are you giving your argument like that?
Objection, Your Honour.
Objection.
Tap, tap, tap.
Everybody was smoking.
Now, they asked the astronauts to stop smoking in public,
not because it was bad for their image,
but it became everybody was like,
what cigarettes do the astronauts smoke?
I want to smoke those cigarettes.
And NASA said, we aren't getting any money from Joe Camel
cigarettes, so we don't want to be like
our astronauts smoke Joe Camel
cigarettes. So we need you
guys to, you can smoke, knock yourselves
out. But in public,
don't smoke because you're going to cause
this mad rush forever. Because this was
a space race. Everybody wanted it. What kind of
shoes are they wearing? What's their favorite beer?
What do they do to relax?
Like, everybody wanted to be like the astronauts.
So if NASA came out and said, okay, everybody's asking, stop asking,
but they smoke these cigarettes, the sales would have gone through the roof
and NASA wouldn't have profited and it was a government agency.
So they were like, can you guys please stop smoking in public?
However, everybody in the control room smoked.
And post the moon landing where they were asking people, like,
what kept you on task? You know, a little bit of a review of the workplace cigarettes was the most
popular answer like it wasn't always people's first answer but it was in most people's answers
oh my god so it meant that it was a very popular thing at the end for what in the workplace kept you going
to do your job well enough
to get these astronauts into space,
onto the moon, and back home again.
And cigarettes was the winner.
I love that.
Did they smoke on the...
Could you?
Probably not on a giant...
They didn't smoke in the...
In the capsule.
In the capsule, no.
No.
Because of the... Fire risk capsule. In the capsule, no. No. Because of the...
Fire.
Oxygen.
All the air and stuff that had to be taken up there with, obviously.
Right.
They must have been hanging out for a durry when they got back.
When they got back, they absolutely pounded the durries.
Now, when it was happening, also,
we've all seen the movie recreations of the control room.
Yep.
Go in, lock the doors.
What they don't often show in that movie is how many people were smoking.
Yeah, right.
Because they locked the doors, it was an airtight room,
no in, no out.
They were so worried about, you know, Russian spies
and people getting in and stealing their cigarettes
that it was an airtight room full of smokers.
Ooh.
Wow, times have changed, eh, so much.
Yeah.
To think that you could be
smoking on a plane
or at work.
Yeah.
It's good, though.
Obviously.
I wonder if this popped up
because I was Googling.
Like, you know,
we talked about people smoking
when they used to get their hair cut
and just smoking everywhere.
Oh.
But, yeah.
They literally have said
and asked me if I'm like,
yeah, people loved smoking
and it apparently kept them, like if they were hungry and wanted a break,
have a little smoke instead.
And just keep working through it.
Keep on task.
Keep on task.
Do all your calculations.
That's good for the body.
Great for the body.
That's really good for the body.
Yeah, foregoing actual nutrition for a quick nicotine hit and a hunger suppressant.
And a lot of coffee and ciggies.
Coffee and ciggs.
Yuck.
Coffee and ciggs.
So today's fact of the day is we couldn't have got to the moon when we did.
Maybe we could have.
Maybe it would have been later.
Maybe something would have gone wrong if it wasn't for cigarettes.
And this is a no-way endorsement of cigarettes.
Not at all.
I think they're a disgusting, terrible habit.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah. Now I teased a story about a very good boy
I've actually got a story about a very good girl
Rosie
The dog
Rosie the dog
Ten year old border collie
I love a border collie
Yeah they're cute A simple dog A is it? Okay. Ten-year-old Border Collie. I love a Border Collie. Yeah, they're cute.
A simple dog.
A farm dog?
Yeah, well, they are a farming dog.
They were bred to bear shepherds' accompaniments,
so they like a run, so don't get one if you, you know,
you don't like walking them and exercising them.
I don't like running.
If you're lazy.
If you're a lazy bum, they'll go crazy.
If you're a lazy bum, don't get a Border.
They'll go crazy.
What dogs are lazy?
Pugs.
Great Danes are pretty lazy, despite the fact that they have all leg.
Yeah, just a little walk, a little bit of exercise.
They'll be fine.
You can't over-exercise them because it's too hard on their bits and pieces.
Wow.
A lot of big dogs are not lazy, but, you know, don't do as much.
Can't move that much.
Well, if you were a big unit, would you want to go for a run at the park every day?
No, I don't know.
How would that help?
You're a big unit.
Think of a Tabish and master for a St. Bernard
or a Newfie.
Too hot
sitting on the couch
or the deck all day.
Well,
she's also a rescue dog.
Oh.
10 years old.
She is owned
by a lovely retiree,
Julie,
68 years old.
She was out for a walk
and she was walking her off leash
in an off leash area
when Rosie got a bit of a fright.
She ran off and bolted.
It was fireworks, eh?
Frantic.
Was it fireworks?
No, it wasn't fireworks.
Oh.
I think I saw the story in the news.
It was fireworks.
But she's done it before.
Just loud noises freaked this beautiful little dog out.
Oh, yes, it was.
Sorry.
Spooked by fireworks during a daily walk in her hometown of Loughborough, Lancashire.
And she bolted, ran for the hills.
Right.
And, of course, the retiree couldn't run.
68 years old.
She's passed it.
Nearly nine.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
So she ran away, went into a hedge and she was looking for her,
couldn't find her, was calling, calling, never, you know,
nowhere to be seen.
So, of course, the worried owner went home and was like,
oh, my God, I hope, you know, I don't know what to do.
And then Rosie walked herself to the local police station and handed herself in.
So there's footage of this gorgeous old girl walking through the electronic doors, walks
in, comes in, looks around for a little bit, goes right up to the counter and they're like,
hello, look around for no owner, realise she's lost, do the chip thing, find the owner and
return her.
Do you think the dog knew it was a PlayStation?
Because she's a very smart girl. Because you're a PlayStation? Because she's a very smart girl.
Because you're a good girl.
You're a very smart girl.
So she was just about a kilometre away from where she bolted.
So she walked for a while.
I mean, if she was smart, she would have just walked home.
Okay.
No, she was lost.
She was in new territory and she was scared.
Yeah.
So she handed herself out.
From the fireworks, yeah.
So I wanted to know, because Rosie is a very good and very smart girl,
how smart is your dog?
What is the smartest thing?
Have they figured their way out of, you know,
you see those videos of dogs and they jump up on a thing
and then they jump onto a thing and put their foot on the handle
and they get out a door?
Yeah.
All those dogs that go and get the paper.
Yeah, love that.
You know, owners are like, go get the paper.
I thought that was going to be happening a lot more.
With your dogs?
Yeah.
Your dog brings you a towel every now and then?
Oh, Richie's a retriever.
He's a real, he drags things outside.
And I think he's just like leaving them there for you when you get home.
Because he always drags them where you park the car.
When you get out, it's like, I got you a blanket.
I got you a pillow off the girl's bed,
I got you...
Here's your laptop.
Here's a shoe. I gave that a little bit of a chew
on the way.
You know, just to wear it in for you, make it nice and warmed
up for you. That's cute.
People love to show off and tell you how smart
their dog is. How smart is your dog?
Do they have great instincts?
You know, like those anxiety
dogs. Yeah. And they're like, hmm, you've got a bit
of worry in your brow there.
I'm going to jump up and give you a cuddle.
They put a paw on your hand to assure you.
Yeah. Oh my God, they're so smart.
Either that or it knows you're dying.
Yeah, it can sniff your cancer.
Dogs can do that, can't they? God, amazing.
Alright, well, we want to take your calls.
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You can text 9696.
How smart is your dog?
Clever dogs.
My dog runs into glass doors constantly.
Clever.
No, you call us next week for dumb dogs.
Then waits for you to open the door when the doors are already open.
Yeah, call us next week when we do 0800 Dalsit M Dumb Dogs.
Just hearing these stories,
we just asked a question
to our,
do we deserve dogs?
No,
and we've done,
we've done terrible things
to dogs.
Humans,
I'm looking at all of us.
We've bred them
so they can't breathe.
We've bred them
so they've got skin problems
and eye problems
and teeth problems.
Don't even get me started
on Rarotonga dogs.
No,
those are probably
the healthiest dogs.
What's wrong with a Raro dog?
They're very low and to the ground and weird looking.
Those things are so mixed up and messed up.
They'll live forever.
It's like barley.
Barley.
All the dogs are bred with corgis.
They're weird, aren't they?
Well, that's Rarotonga as well.
There's a rumour that the Queen's corgi got off a plane when she stopped over there once.
It's not true.
It's just absolutely weird.
Went on a hump fest.
Went on a hump fest.
Alana, how talented is your dog?
Well, I've got two.
One is an elderly beagle.
She's 13 and needs some soft furnishings in her kennel
because she's got old lady bones.
Oh, babe.
And then I've got a puppy.
She's now one, but when she was probably about eight months old,
she worked out how to open the older dog's kennel,
which has like a drop
down pin thing in it. So she learned to open that up so she could steal the bedding and
rip it apart as a puppy does.
Wow. I love watching people like dogs opening cages.
Yeah. A lot of people messaging in about dogs being able to open doors.
Yeah.
No, this dog is from a line of disability and service dogs. That's sort of her family thing.
So is her puppy a beagle as well?
No, she is a GSP.
So she's a German Shorthead Pointer and Lab Cross.
So she's a very energetic, beautiful, beautiful little thing.
Right.
Well, she's not little.
She's quite big.
But, yeah, no, we could train her to do pretty much anything
if we put the time into it.
Right.
I want one of those airport customs beagles that sniffs out large amounts of money
so I can just go around and find large amounts of money.
Yeah.
Oh, a very treasured dog.
He finds a very treasured dog.
A treasured dog.
Alana, thanks.
You're cool.
Pam, you've got a talented dog at home?
Absolutely.
His name's Jack.
He's a black lab. And he fetches my husband's underwear, his shorts, and his T-shirt for work every morning.
Fetches them?
How does he get them?
Well, let's say my husband's a bit lazy.
I hate to say that.
Yes, darling, they're on the floor.
So he just fetches them and gives them to him.
Is he a good designer?
Yeah.
He's like, come on, Dad, we're off to work.
Oh, so he gets to go to work.
Yes, he's a working dog.
He's a roofer.
Is he slobbering all over these undies, though?
No, I bloody hope not.
They've been on the floor.
They're probably yesterday's undies as well.
Poor dog.
Pam, thanks for your call.
Some more messages in.
We've got a Hungarian Vistula.
Where's a Hungarian Vistula?
I don't know.
I want to look.
I think I've seen one before.
Hungarian Vistula.
You show me.
I don't want to.
That's a Hungarian Vistula.
Oh, yeah. They're cute. They look like a... Well, hang on. How can we get a Hungarian Vizsla. You show me. I don't want to... No, no, that's a Hungarian Vizsla. Oh, yeah, they're cute.
They look like a...
Well, hang on.
How can we get a Hungarian Vizsla?
Because I could be interested.
What do they look like?
A little bit of a Labrador vibe.
Yeah, they're cute.
Oh, my God, I want one immediately.
Yeah, they're pretty cute.
Almost a greyhound-y back, though, as well.
Like, long and skinny.
Yeah.
So, they've got a Hungarian
Vizsla and if they don't want the dog
inside they have to lock the doors as he
knows how to open the doors when they're not locked.
Super creepy when you have visitors and you just hear
eee.
And then the dog's inside.
Quite a few people saying about
their dogs have learned to open doors
and one can even open a ranch slider.
Really?
Pushes up against it, wiggles the bum to get a little bit of a gap,
then the nose in, and then open the door.
It says here they enjoy vigorous walks more than two hours a day,
and they drool.
Oh, yeah, I don't want to.
And it's a quiet dog, but not a guard dog.
Somebody said, my sister's bought a collie.
We were down at the park.
We were throwing a frisbee
It went in the tree
The dog disappeared
We searched for the dog
For a long time
And when we got home
The dog was inside
Sitting on the couch
Looking at us like
Where are you guys been?
Yeah
Taking itself home
With the frisbee?
Well no
They were looking for the frisbee
I'd imagine
Right
We've got so many
So many stories
Our sausage dog
Runs to the top of the hill
With his ball
And drops it And it rolls down the hill.
It's very self-sufficient.
I won't have a bad word said against sausage.
Look, they're so cute.
Is that a winner for the $1,000 though?
No, I don't think that's...
No, no, no.
That's not saving a life.
It's just getting...
A ball.
Yeah.
Lots of dogs with the diabetes.
Really? Lots of people with the diabetes. Really?
Lots of people saying, our dog isn't trained.
But yeah, like somebody once, our dog wouldn't leave them alone.
Lick, lick, lick, lick, lick.
And we were like, what's wrong?
Maybe they had like mints on them or something.
And then they tested and said, oh my God, I've got low blood sugar.
And then they Googled and apparently dogs can like smell it when you've got low blood sugar.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'd love a dog that can sniff out when I've got a low bank account.
You know what I mean? And he comes up and he looks and he's like, no, no, no, no, no. Put. Yeah. I'd love a dog that could sniff out when I've got a low bank account. You know what I mean?
And he comes up and he looks and he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Put it down.
Shuts your laptop.
Puts your credit card back in your wallet.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
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It's a podcast.
You are allowed to listen to it while you're wheezing. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a podcast You are allowed to listen to it while you're wee
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