ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 21st March 2022

Episode Date: March 20, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Try the refreshing McCafe iced coffee available now at Macca's. And more days in home isolation for me, guys. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:19 Did you finish Pornhub yet, or are you... Nearly clocked it, actually. Yeah, okay. I'm only up to season four. Did you use the cheat code, though? What's that, sorry? You know there's a thousand seasons. Of Pornhub?
Starting point is 00:00:30 Yeah. Yeah, no, but I wanted to go right back to, like, Bushtown. You know, like, back in the 70s. Bushtown? I'm on ep three, season four of Bushtown. Yeah. Guys, I wanted to take it away from the smart. I've got a serious issue.
Starting point is 00:00:44 Sorry, Dave. Because I can't leave the house until Thursday. I bet we can take it back to smart as quickly as you took it away from the smart. I've got a serious issue because I can't leave the house until Thursday. I bet we can take it back to smart as quickly as you took it away from smart. Yeah, of course you can't leave the house until Thursday. You've got COVID. No, but I didn't know that you can actually leave the house to exercise. Oh, go to Lee's Mills then. Shit's getting a bit loose.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Can I say shit's getting a bit loose? We're all getting a bit loose. I hear unvaccinated New Zealanders have returned and skipped the MIQ and isolation thing. And I'm like, no, that wasn't part of the deal. I feel like I've followed the rules and some people aren't following the rules. And I want to be a big old narc to Principal Jacinda. You can walk around as long as you socially distance from people. You don't even have to wear a mask, but you can't go to a gym or a swimming pool.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Oh, okay. Isn't that nuts? Could you pick up a contactless coffee? Well, it doesn't say, I don't think you're allowed to. No, it just says that you can, it's bizarre. I was like, cause I spent the first two days without even leaving, three days without even leaving the apartment. And then a friend was like, you know, you can leave.
Starting point is 00:01:39 I was like, what? I wouldn't leave. Your friend Sue Gray, is that who told you that? She's actually taken her tinfoil hat off today because of the lightning. I wouldn't leave. Your friend Sue Gray, is that who told you that? Is there anything we can trust her? She's actually taken her tinfoil hat off today because of the lightning. She's a bit worried about that. Yeah, she was, rightly so. Now, here is my issue, is that my Briscoe's toilet brush snapped in half yesterday.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Oh, babe. We're down a toilet brush at the moment too. Yeah, and I can't leave the house, so I've got skitties. Toothbrush. Do you want me to drop you off like a cheap sort of like make-do toilet brush? Well no, because this is my problem, I don't have the receipt. It's only like two months old. Well what about just using like a cloth and just getting your hands in there?
Starting point is 00:02:23 Oh, and I'm just going to flush lots. Keep flushing and flushing and flushing. Are you putting down a pre-poo toilet paper landing pad? Well, yeah, that's a good idea, actually. I can do that. And give it a little mini flush before that, even. So it's to gloss the bowl. Yeah, gloss the bowl. If I walk into Briscoe's with this shitty toilet brush
Starting point is 00:02:42 in a plastic bag without my receipt, have I legally got a leg to stand on? Wait, but you're going to take your already poo-infested brush back. You broke it. They sold me a faulty brush. You broke it. Yeah, because I was tapping the poos
Starting point is 00:03:00 out of it when I was brushing. I think you were whacking the poos out of it. I was whacking the poo. I was whacking it. You've got to get like a tap during a flush. Yes, tap during the flush. That's how I always got up. I was tapping it.
Starting point is 00:03:11 And then not touching the sides, you give it a frantic flick to try to get the, and the poo's like, whoa! It's like a spin cycle in a washing machine. Or put it between two hands and pretend you're starting a fire. Oh, yeah. Spin it and the poos should come off. That's my Yeah Absolutely high class advice on this
Starting point is 00:03:29 I think this is a high class show altogether Yeah It really is This podcast you're about to listen to Went from some low lows To some dizzying heights Oh it is a roller coaster I don't want to promise too much
Starting point is 00:03:40 But hot cross buns Electrocution Nature's electrocution Whales Whale sex We had a threesome It's good Too much, but hot cross buns, electrocution, nature's electrocution, whales, whale sex. We had a threesome. It's got it all. Hello, good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Starting point is 00:03:58 Happy Monday. Happy Monday. You're still at home. Yeah, until I think I get out Wednesday or Thursday, one of those days. You want to check that? I think you should just stay. Stay at home. Be safe.
Starting point is 00:04:11 Locked inside. Yeah. It's quite nice being locked inside. Very rainy today. Well, yeah, it is. I can hear the wind and the rain. It's gorgeous. Why don't you snuggle up, babe?
Starting point is 00:04:23 Just unhook, disconnect. We've got it. I'm going crazy. I need to be let out. How much TV have you watched? A lot of TV. I made a ginger loaf yesterday, which was lovely. Yum! Good. A moist ginger loaf, too.
Starting point is 00:04:39 Not one of those dry ginger loaves. No, no, not crumbly, eh? No, not crumbly. Real moist. Did you slather it in butter? Yeah, I did. You know I did. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:51 All right. Secret sound returns this morning. Seven and eight will give you the chances to have a shot at that $50,000. All thanks to Neon. The top six is coming up. Yeah, there's been research that says whales often engage in ménage à trois. Oh, la la.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Yeah, out there in the sea. So it wasn't the French that invented it at all. It may have indeed been our sort of distant sea mammal cousins, the whales. So I've got the top six noises
Starting point is 00:05:23 you'll hear during a whale three-way. It's a highbrow start to this week. Yeah. Quite scientific. Quite scientific. Great. All right. Bad news as well, Dorito lovers.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Oh, yeah. Terrible news. I mean, inflation's got us again. It has. We're about to be absolutely shortchanged on the Dorito front. Next on the show, though. Oh, well, it's a very sexy top of the show, I'll tell you what. The amount of times, the average amount of times that people are doing it
Starting point is 00:06:00 may shock you. It shocked me. I need to step up. Oh, I can't start this with that question. How often do you guys do it? There's been a study that looks into how often people, whether they're in a relationship or not, have sex in a year. Fletch, what do you reckon it would be?
Starting point is 00:06:32 And no, you don't need to base this on your own. Well, I'm not in a relationship, so that doesn't count. You said if they're in a relationship or not. Yeah, yeah. Oh, like five. Five times a year. Wow, okay. Yeah, you know, I'm a wait till marriage kind of guy.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Yeah, you're a Christian boy. You want to get married five times a year, do you? Yeah, I think I am, and then it doesn't happen. Okay. Yeah. So many Christian boys have got me out of my pants with that promise. Yeah, I know. Of love and foreverness.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Something about it. Yeah. The amount of times I got married just so I could do it, you know? Well, the number actually blew my mind. So obviously they say there's a difference between normal and average. So like the average is how often,
Starting point is 00:07:18 on average, people are having that. Everybody added up, divided by the amount of people. Yes. That's averages. But normal is totally different because obviously normal is relative to the relationship or, you know, whether they're tired, whether they're sick, whether they're trying for a baby, which would up the numbers.
Starting point is 00:07:36 But on average, people are having sex just over 100 times a year. So it's one every three days. Yeah. That's a lot, isn't it? I feel like that's a lot. That's a lot. That's like a couple of times a week. See, when you put it like that,
Starting point is 00:07:59 it doesn't sound like as much, but that's, yeah. But yeah, they say that obviously, yeah, lots of contributing factors, especially like if you've been in a relationship for a long time, that number tends to go down. Whereas if you are single or freshly in a relationship,
Starting point is 00:08:16 that number's generally higher, up to seven. What? Take a breath, man. Have a day off. Just step back. Yeah. Have a day off. Just step back. Yeah. I mean, this is what the weekend's for. I know.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Weekends at night in your marriage bed. So many contributing factors. Mental health, hormone, if you're on birth control, which makes your drive plummet. Yeah. Age and everything. But 100 times a year. Who would have thunk it? That's too often.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Go for a walk. If I ever get asked this, I'm just going to go real low because just to bring the average down a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Make it a bit more reasonable. Well, do you think people are being asked and they're adding on a few? Oh, because they're a player.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Or they're trying to... Or just like they're trying to seem like their relationships, you know, all happy and good. And oh, yeah, a lot. We do it lots. You should have to say the number out loud in front of your partner and your mum. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Yeah, I don't know if anyone's going to take part in this study. Yeah, I don't want to be part of that study, please. It would be weird to ask them in front of their mum and then ask them in front of their partner and then ask them by themselves. That's a study in itself. Yeah, how honest are people being about this? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:29 In front of who? How does it change depending what crowd they're in at that current moment? Yeah. Well, there you go. All right, 10 past six. Next on the show, bad news for Dorito lovers. Inflation's got us again.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Oh, no. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley Well this is bad news for Doritos lovers This is out of the United States So we'll asterisk this By saying that I don't think this has happened in New Zealand But America's suffering from inflation just as much as we are I think inflation in the States
Starting point is 00:10:00 Wait, I was led to believe this was all Jacinda's fault Well no, she's got over to America and she's done it there too. Why won't she not do that? I know. So America, 7.9% inflation in February. Jeez Louise. And that has led the people that own Doritos to say, and they have confirmed this, I'm reading this article in the Lad Bible,
Starting point is 00:10:24 they have quoted to a business magazine, Quartz in America, that they are going to put in five less Doritos per packet. Which packet? Because the little one that my kids take to school, the little lunchbox one's probably only got five in it to begin with. So these are the big packs that they are going to go from 276 grams to 262. And it's estimated that they will save about 67 million Australian dollars doing that. Jeepers, creepers.
Starting point is 00:10:58 So you're telling me a Dorito chip's just over two grams then, if they're taking out 10? Must be, yeah. That's pretty booty actually. That's already crazy considering that, what, 90% of the bag is air to begin with.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Yeah, but I'm, you know, I'll open up a bag of chips and be like, oh, there's not too much chips in here. But when you hear the idea behind it
Starting point is 00:11:17 because it's effectively its own air cushion, it does make sense. Oh no, you've got to have some air. You've got to have some air. But you do feel very short-changed when you, when it got to have some air. You've got to have some air. But you do feel very short-changed when
Starting point is 00:11:26 you, when it's majority air. Yeah. It should be one-third air, two-third chip. Yeah, but then when you open it up, the two-thirds have settled in the bottom a little bit more, haven't they? Look, I'm not defending big chip. I know, it sounds like I'm a
Starting point is 00:11:42 big chip, but I'm not. So apparently in America, a lot of products have downsized. Gatorade has downsized the bottle. Toilet paper companies have been adding less squares. Yeah, but they could do with a downsize on their stuff because they upsized everything. So now they've got to come back to normal size. But then we've had chocolate bars downsized.
Starting point is 00:12:02 Like, you know, the Cadbury, didn't they downsize? Everyone's downsizing. Remember the first time they downsized, they took like a row off and everyone was like, no. And then the next time they didn't take a row off, they just made the base slightly thinner. Yeah. So that it was less obvious. Yeah. You know, because you open it up and you're like, something's wrong here.
Starting point is 00:12:22 But when you're looking down on the top, you can't tell how thick it is underneath. That was a far smarter move. This is happening to everything. We said it last week, was it? Remember the first time you opened up a bag of burger rings and went, hang on, these are different. They don't fit on my fingers anymore. The ring itself got smaller.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Yeah, the cheese balls have got smaller too. Everything's getting smaller. Meanwhile, bloody healthy food just keeps getting bigger. I saw a giant apple the other day. It's disgusting. I saw a cabbage the size of my head the other day. Granted, it was $400, but I still was just like, these things are out of control.
Starting point is 00:12:59 You can't possibly eat that much cabbage. Big veg. Big veg. Big veg is really getting in the space. It's Dua Liper on ZM. From the self-driving ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hi there. This news comes from a doctor, Dr. Corrine Ann Bondar.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Deny. We'll believe it. She is a marine biologist, which I saw something on the internet lately that beautifully summed up marine biologists. When you're a kid, you think it's like a major job? Because you think every fifth person's a marine biologist, people are talking about marine biology so much. Yeah, I think I know
Starting point is 00:13:36 one. You go to the rock pools. Yeah, you're like, oh, I think it's, for me, it's a career in marine biology. Yes. When you're six, you're just deciding a matter. You saw a crab and you're addicted to the thrill of the chase of the ocean. You're a fish doctor. You know, you're a modern day pirate, a modern day explorer. But the grey whale, which is quite a big whale.
Starting point is 00:13:56 It's not as big as the blue whale, which is the biggest mammal ever to live on this little... I thought you were going to say ever to walk the earth. Blue globe. And I swam around this blue globe. The grey male, the grey whale, engages in three whale sexual activity. A thruple. A thruple.
Starting point is 00:14:15 Goodness. Upon further investigation, there's a male, right, and so the female's on top, blowhole to the stars, and the male is underneath her, blowhole to the ocean floor. So you're imagining now. Like belly to belly. Imagine two bananas, but not a, I don't know, I think I've got a straight banana.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Let me just get my banana. Do you have a straight banana? They have been particularly straight of late. Yeah, this is actually the perfect... Does anybody else have a banana? Okay, so imagine this is the banana on top. This is the banana. This is the tail of the whale. Here's the head of the
Starting point is 00:14:53 whale. The next guy is like that. Underneath, blowhole pointing down. Now, below him... Wait, isn't it going to fill up with water? No, you can shut those off. Oh, can you? Yeah, you can shut those off. And then on the bottom, there's another guy who's holding his mate up.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Sort of a boy. He's like a wingman? Like helping. Like a flotation device? A support system. Yeah, a support system for it. But is he doing anything? Is he jiggling anything in? On the bottom, his job is to just stay buoyant
Starting point is 00:15:25 and just stay as still as he can. Which way is his blowhole pointing? His blowhole's up. Yes, up. The curve of the banana. And so the female on the top and the guy right on the bottom are facing the same way. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:15:40 The guy in the middle's the only one who's blowhole down. Right. And is he like, can I have a turn now? No, no, no, no, there's none of that. There's absolutely none of that. He's just rubbing backs with his buddy. Right. Keeping his buddy buoyant.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Get it, my man. Yeah. There's more to this. Dolphins often congregate around and create like a circle around them. Dolphins seem to be more attracted to the grey whale during the mating ritual than they are any other given time. Pooves. God, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Pooves, yeah. It's like consummating a marriage at Gloria Vale. Yeah. They stand around. They do. They wait, don't you? They take you off in that little putt-putt car. Dancing and stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:21 Yeah. Yeah. So also the grey whales could be added to a very short list of animals on earth that will mate outside of their fertile time. Oh, just for fun. They're doing it for fun. Oh, wow. Dolphins.
Starting point is 00:16:37 Dolphins love a bit of love making. Dolphins, the bonobo monkey, and now the grey whale is added to the mix. Fantastic. Just fascinating. Fascinating. Get it. Good with them. Big buggers too.
Starting point is 00:16:50 So today's top six is the top six noises you would hear during a grey whale courtship involving three individuals. That's a classy way of putting it. Nicely put. Number six on the list of the top six noises you'd hear. Fletch, you're up first. We're going to do two each. What? Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:20 That wasn't too bad. That's the middle boy. That's definitely the middle boy. That's definitely the middle boy. That's definitely the middle boy. Okay, our number five on the list. Hayley, you're up next. Yeah, that's the girl. That's the girl on top.
Starting point is 00:17:34 That's the girl on top. She's loving it. Number four on the list. This is the guy at the bottom. Because he's pushing it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, great. Number three on the list, Fletch. No, that was so soon.
Starting point is 00:17:52 No, that was his knee-breed. Hang on, I think we're... I think we've found our characters. I think we've been cast. Yeah, yeah, okay. I was going to say I was very similar to the number six, but then you... So you're definitely middle boy, I'm top girl, I was going to say it was very similar to the number six, but then you boop, boop, boop.
Starting point is 00:18:06 So you're definitely middle boy, I'm top girl, and you're definitely sporting guy. I'm born and simply bottom. Definitely bottom. So number two on the list of the top six noises you'd hear during a three-whale courtship. Oh. Wow.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Wow. And number one on the list of the top six noises you'd hear During a three individual whale courtship It's actually, surprise, it's the dolphins surrounding them Wow, the chorus of support Yeah, I thought that was a really supportive noise They just love to see another generation of grey whales. You know, they are an endangered species. That is today's top six.
Starting point is 00:18:56 It's 28 minutes away from seven. Coming up, this could be a World Radio First. We have an Angel Bay Jamaican Jerk BBQ meat patty on a wheel. Yeah. So, you know, radio sessions have winning wheels all the time. Yeah, so this is an exciting day, right? This is my first wheel
Starting point is 00:19:15 in radio. Yeah. Yeah, so we're going to spin the patty soon, and your chance to win up to $500 cash. Can I spin it? Absolutely you can. Vaughn and I, we're old spinsters, aren't we? I've still got
Starting point is 00:19:31 carpal tunnel from the years of spinning. So you need to be listening out for the activator. It is going to play in the next 10 minutes. Do have to mention though because I'm at home with COVID, I missed the staff function On Friday, the bowls
Starting point is 00:19:48 The COVID friendly bowls It went off It went off I heard You didn't go either Did it go off? Oh yeah it went off So I've been told
Starting point is 00:20:01 I didn't go I said from the outset I didn't go. It was a three-way... But I said from the outset I couldn't go. I laid lesson. It was a three-way no-show for FVH. I mean, Fletch, you had a reason. Well, yeah, I'm not allowed to leave. I also had a reason.
Starting point is 00:20:15 You've got climate. Now, as Executive Intern Anya, she's on the social committee. Yes. Is there apologies needed today? Apologies, grovelling, kissing of the feet. Brioches? Brioches, certainly accepted.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Absolutely. Flat whites encouraged. Right. Because, you know, you had secured as a drink sponsor, Long White. And, you know, I love my Long Whites. Oh, don't you? Been a Long White gal for years now.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Yes. And we had their new flavour there. Okay, what's that? The peach and pineapple? It is. Oh, yeah we had their new flavour there. What, okay, what's that, the peach and pineapple? It is. Oh, yum. Oh, okay, yeah. Beautiful. Now, were any left over? I would say about seven. Seven? Seven
Starting point is 00:20:56 drinks left over. Oh, wow. Yep, we certainly made a dent. Yeah, so if you... Yeah, where did it come now? Because that wouldn't have been enough for me. And I would have been dipping into someone else's drinks that they enjoyed. Yeah, so those have been divvied up between the social committee as a pat on the back for the hard working. I thought you were a bit slurry this morning. Thank you, yes.
Starting point is 00:21:14 Nothing starts the day better. Well, it's a peach. That's a fruit. What's that tropical aroma? The pineapple and the peach? Yeah. So thank you, Long Whites. Thank you, Long Whites.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Thank you, Long Whites. I mean, Long Whites. Thank you, Long Whites. I mean, a box could have been nice just for later, maybe. No, you missed out. After my illness. You're not allowed to drink booze while you're recovering from COVID. No, after, after. No, your booze days are over. Next on the show.
Starting point is 00:21:40 You know the term sleeping on it? Let's just sleep on it for a while. I like to send angry emails and just sleep on that. Yeah, I like to fester on it. Well, turns out sleeping on it, it's very good for you. I'll tell you all about it. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Starting point is 00:21:58 I've got to tell you, I thought this was a fun, flirty study. It's dense. This is scientifically very dense. I was reading it. I was like, I don't know what that means. I don't know what that means. So watch me navigate this. You know when you've got like a decision to make
Starting point is 00:22:14 or maybe a disagreement with a partner and it's often like you should sleep on it or like never go to bed angry, but I think you should. You like to go to bed festering. I like to fester. Mad, furious. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:26 I like things to just go round and round and round and round and round and round. And the only way I can drown them out is by putting my ear pods in and listening to a true crime of somebody getting brutally murdered. Right, okay, that's relaxing. So I can get out of my brain. Then it's 1am and I'm like, I'll just get up. I'll just get up and wait for... Get up and solve the mystery that you can so
Starting point is 00:22:45 clearly see the yes who the killer was after the four episodes you know red strings yeah connected i've solved it i've solved it put some clothes up there uh well often people say look let's just sleep on it uh and you always think that's because that's like a diversion i use it to go like i don't want to make the decision now so i'll say we're going to sleep on it and then I'll just try to forget about it tomorrow and still avoid answering the question or the dilemma. Oh, ding, ding, ding. What happened? What was that?
Starting point is 00:23:14 I don't know. Is someone at the door? Come in. Anyway. Don't open the door. We've just been listening to murder podcasts. Yeah, no, no, no. Please don't come in.
Starting point is 00:23:24 So it turns out that sleeping on it, there's actual science behind why it makes you respond emotionally better to situations and therefore make better decisions. And now this is where it gets very, very complicated. There are two main brain regions that interact to create our emotional responses. When we're tired, they don't connect in the same way.
Starting point is 00:23:51 And the only way to get them happening again is by entering the REM. But then that kind of makes sense, right? Because when you're tired, you do make more brash decisions and say things you wouldn't usually say. Yeah, so the connection between those two regions becomes weakened throughout the day. So arguing at the end of the day is no good. So do you argue in the morning? Yeah, so 4 a.m., tap, tap, tap. We don't want to pick up where we left off.
Starting point is 00:24:18 Yeah, yeah, because I went to bed at 8 p.m., but you went to bed at 2 a.m., so you've had two hours, I've had eight. Let's argue. Yeah, now I'm at an advantage's argue. Yeah, let's get, now I'm at an advantage. Yeah. And therefore I walk in. Because I've emotionally reconnected you know, the logical and good arguing part of my brain. Yeah. So it allows, it like
Starting point is 00:24:36 reconnects the thing to make us more rational and it improves anything like stress, anxiety, disappear, well not disappears, lives in you forever, doesn't it? Rent free. Every day. But it basically makes you calmer and more rational to make good decisions.
Starting point is 00:24:53 So actually sleeping on it is the best thing to do when you've got a difficult decision to make. Okay. It's not good if you're a terrible sleeper. What about a nap on it? What if you're like, oh, I've got to decide what to've got to decide No, because I always wake up from a nap like Oh shaky What day is it? Not enough REM
Starting point is 00:25:10 You've got to get REM, that's the thing Because you listen to REM Rapid eye movement Yeah, rapid eye movement Yeah, if you listen to REM It's the same as getting a good night's sleep What's the frequency Kenneth during a nap is as good as eight hours? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Scientifically? Yeah. I believe that's been well proven by some. Sure. Well, why not? You can say you heard it here. That's science. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Play ZM. The United Nations has released its Happy Countries report. It's the 10th anniversary of the World Happiness Report. Is anyone happy at the moment, really? Is anyone actually enjoying the world? Afghanistan is not. Yeah. Lebanon is not.
Starting point is 00:25:55 Zimbabwe is not. And Rwanda is not. Well, yeah, obviously, yeah. Those are the bottom countries on the happiness rating. Remind me how they decipher happiness. It's through a bunch of criteria. Oh, that's right. It's like income and what kind of health.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Life expectancy. How many missiles are raining down on your house. Yeah, I mean, that'll impact happiness. Access to fresh water, how your country's been handling the pandemic. Openness to helping strangers. So I guess that's like your refugee quota. Well, you know me, I do a lot of charity work. The country's least wealthy, how they're looked after, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:26:39 We're coming in at number 10 this year. We're down. Yeah, we're down a little bit. We're down a little bit. We're down a little bit. Israel, number nine. Norway, eight. Here's where we just begin a long list of Scandinavian countries. Don't yawn at Norway, please.
Starting point is 00:26:53 No, they're just so happy. Or they're eight. Year after year after year. Slightly happier than them. Sweden. Yeah, rub it in. Luxembourg is next. The Netherlands is five.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Switzerland, fourth. Here's your top three. Three. Iceland. Yeah. They're up there. It's cold. They've got volcanoes.
Starting point is 00:27:14 They're happy about it. But they're very happy about it. Number two, Denmark. The Danes. Yeah. It's all the pastries, isn't it? It is. It's all the Danish's.
Starting point is 00:27:24 The pastries and the bicycles. And the little mermaids. And the mermaids. And the tall, hot blonde people. Ugh. And... Yeah, but then they also, there might be something in their winter windows.
Starting point is 00:27:38 You know their winter windows? Like UV lights or something? Yeah, the fake sunlight windows that you sit in front of and eat your meals in wintertime because it's so dark for so long in the day that you're lights or something. Yeah, the fake sunlight windows that you sit in front of and, like, eat your meals in wintertime because it's so dark for so long in the day that you're not getting enough vitamin D, so you sit in front of a sun window. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:50 But how are they all so hot? Because when I eat Danish pastries, I just pack on the pudge. Yeah, well, that's their trick. They're happy because they actually, the trick is they don't eat them. They just export all of their Danish pastries. Right. Yeah, they're like, good luck, world. Yeah, to fatten you up and
Starting point is 00:28:06 number one finland okay have they been number one for a while i mean these these countries have sat around the top for ages because they've got a more uh what's the word like like no one's rich no one's poor yeah bigger middle ground equality yeah is it called equality? Equity. Equity. That's it. And it's also because they can't get on social media in Finland because they're all still on Nokia 3310s. Yes. Because they're so supportive of the Nokia brand because it is a homegrown brand. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:35 And a life without social media is a far happier life. Is a happier life. All they can do on their phone is play Angry Birds, another Finnish invention. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of countries in the world. Number 10, New Zealand, that's not bad. Yeah, 150 surveyed and we were 10th.
Starting point is 00:28:54 Oh, I thought you meant 150 people. I was like, that's not a big survey. That's our entire population. 150 people. Okay, we're happy enough. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. So there's a woman on the great platform of TikTok.
Starting point is 00:29:11 What a wonderful platform. What a wonderful platform. Here's what I've learned about TikTok. You can watch TikTok reels on Instagram. You can watch TikTok stories on Instagram reels, Karwin. Karwin, did you know this at the social? She can't hear me. By the way, this is just why I've been winding up Karwin for like the last.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Karwin, Karwin. Karwin, listen. You suck. No, she can read my lips. She's a great lip reader. Yeah, she's great. The TikTok. On the TikTok, a woman has gone viral.
Starting point is 00:29:41 She shared the strange way that she says the word cucumber. Now, I've never said the word... I wouldn't even thought there's another way to say cucumber. I've never said the word cucumber any other way than cucumber. So if you... Okay, I haven't heard... Have you heard this woman say this, Vaughan? I haven't.
Starting point is 00:30:00 How would you say it if you don't say cucumber? Cucumber. Cucumber. Cucumber. Because I wouldn't do the – Cucumber, yeah. And then I'd go, what about cucumber? Cucumber, yeah. I just feel like it's a word you learn as a child.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Shashamba. Shashamba. Shashambior. No, she says it – well, I'm just going to check in if we've got the audio of it. Oh, one moment. I'm going to keep teasing it then. I did only spring this on, Sharon.
Starting point is 00:30:33 I was like, oh, wait, can we get this? But she says it in such a cute little way and everyone is absolutely roasting her online. So someone messaged saying, your mama didn't raise you right. And that's a fair enough judgment. How has she ever heard this said any other way? Or never been corrected?
Starting point is 00:30:53 There's no logic to it. You're just... Yeah, I pronounce as cucumber. I think it makes more sense than the way you're supposed to pronounce it, which is cucumber. Because the word has C-U and then C-U. So surely both times you pronounce C-U it should sound the same. With cucumber, the second C should actually be a K because it's a harder sound. Cucumber, you've got the same C-U sound going on in the word.
Starting point is 00:31:19 Does anybody else pronounce it cucumber or is it literally me and my brother? That is fantastic logic. I can't fold that. No, but you can. Like there's so many words that have the same letter pronounced in a completely different way. Motor. You won't go mo-to. Motor. Motor. Motor.
Starting point is 00:31:36 I say so many words but I can only think of motor at this moment. Right. It's Latin too. Cucumber. Well no, because I don't know Latin but maybe there's a rule in Latin. Is there a rule in Latin? I didn't do Latin, I'm unsure. Well, I was born not in the 1700s, so is there a reason to ever learn Latin?
Starting point is 00:31:58 And school slogans in Latin. Luce Veritatis, the light of truth. Luce Veritatis, the light of truth. Luce Veritatis. Yeah, so that at all times of life, we are supposed to be following Luce Veritatis, the light of truth. Did they ever call you Tartises? That would be bloody good though, wouldn't it? Show us your
Starting point is 00:32:15 Veri Luce Tartises. Get out your Luches and give us the Tartises. I don't even know. I think my school had one, but I don't know. No. But anyway, based on this ridiculous woman saying cucumber, cucumber, we wanted to know if there is a common word that you have always mispronounced. Well, there was the famous penguins that Benedict. Benedict Cumberbatch can't say penguins,
Starting point is 00:32:40 which is ironic given that his name is so much harder to say than penguins. Yeah. Penguins. Penguins. And now he given that his name is so much harder to say than penguins. Yeah. Penguins. Penguins. And now he says it right. Yeah. He's pretty grossed it. Yeah, the internet hassled him.
Starting point is 00:32:51 The world said, no, you're doing it wrong. Yeah. I don't think there's a word that I've constantly mispronounced. If a word comes up and I'm not quite sure of how to pronounce it, I just will choose a synonym instead. We had a guy build a chimney for us and he called them chimblies. And he said he was one of the four people in New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:33:11 It was after the Christchurch earthquake and there was some like historic chimneys that were made of like rocks. I mean, all chimneys are made of rocks. What a dumb thing to say, but of like a specific type of rock and it had to be placed back as it was. And he was one of the four people in New Zealand
Starting point is 00:33:24 that was qualified to resurrect this chimney. it was. Yes. And he was one of the four people in New Zealand that was qualified to resurrect this chimblee. I was like, if you applied for it and I talked to you on the phone and you said, yeah, I'll come down and fix your chimblee,
Starting point is 00:33:31 you'd automatically be off the list because this is supposed to be your area of expertise and you're pronouncing it chimblee. That's wrong. There's no B. There's absolutely no L either. There's no L.
Starting point is 00:33:41 That's a different word. He's got, yeah. Chimney and chimblee. Yeah. A chimblee sounds like a fish, like a tropical fish. Can you imagine Mary Poppins? Chim chimblee, chim chimblee. Chim chimblee, chim chim chimblee.
Starting point is 00:33:53 I want chimblee sweeper. Yeah. So maybe the word, I mean, I want to know the common words that you mispronounce. And we're not talking about your Worcestershire's. What's the word like cucumber or chimney that you have always mispronounce? And we're not talking about your Worcestershire's. What's the word like cucumber or chimney that you have always mispronounced? A woman on TikTok has gone viral
Starting point is 00:34:12 and a lot of people laughing at her. She's revealed, I've always said cucumber, cucumber. Because she rocks the same sound for the second C-U as the first C-U. Which I can appreciate. She's got reason behind it. It's not like she just says it like that and she refuses to change.
Starting point is 00:34:27 She does have some logic. Yes, she does have logic, although she's wrong. Man, learning the English language must be so hard, eh? Like, I've never learned a language, but it would be a minefield. Well, you did learn English. English, yeah. You know what I mean? Like, if it was learning it as your second language,
Starting point is 00:34:44 you'd be like, this just doesn't make sense. Yes, I learnt French at Queer Margaret College and French makes a lot of sense. Most of the time makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of rules that you can follow. English, they say it's absolutely the pits. It's too much of a combination of every other language, right? So there's a lot of inconsistencies.
Starting point is 00:35:02 Yeah, so we asked what common word do you mispronounce out there? We've got some calls on the phone. Heather, what's the word that you've been saying wrong this whole time? Hey, I'm going to sound like an absolute idiot, but
Starting point is 00:35:19 I cannot say say-la. What? You're You absolute idiot. What word are you talking about? Like, you know, when you fail. Oh, failure. Well, you can say fail. How come you can't say fail-er?
Starting point is 00:35:35 I don't know. Fail-er. Okay, fail. Fail. Er. Er. Fail. Fail.
Starting point is 00:35:43 Er. Er. Fail. Fail. Er. Yeah. Fail. Fail. I did it wrong. I did it wrong. You just start saying the two parts separately and just start saying it faster like that.
Starting point is 00:35:54 It used to be on Sesame Street. Failure. Yeah, why don't you do it in like a more of a Kiwi accent to say fail, F-A-I-L-Y-A, failure. Failure. Failure. Yay! We fixed you. We fixed you.
Starting point is 00:36:07 Next, please. You're more than welcome. Hey, Jono, welcome to the show. Hey. Oh, Jono. Hey, buddy. Good morning, buddy. Is this you or someone in the family?
Starting point is 00:36:21 It's someone in my family. And what word do they say in a funny way? Um, my little sister. She says cucumber wrong. She says cucumber. Oh, cucumber. It's pretty cute hearing you say it. I can only imagine it's cuter when she says it,
Starting point is 00:36:39 unless your sister's like 36 and then probably not as much. How old is your sister? Six. All is forgiven. All is forgiven. much. How old is your sister? Six. All is forgiven. All is forgiven. Yeah. All is forgiven. CumaCumba.
Starting point is 00:36:49 I'm going to adopt it, actually. It's much more fun than CumaCumba. CumaCumba. I feel like a Greek salad. Some CumaCumba in there. Yeah, get a telegraph CumaCumba. Some onion. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Jono, thanks for your call. Bye. Bye. Bye, buddy. Some messages. Someone said, have you ever thought about the fact the word Mercedes has three E's in it and they're all pronounced differently? Yes.
Starting point is 00:37:11 See? Oh, yeah. But isn't that German? What language is Mercedes? Yeah. Oh, I don't know if it is German, but it's a German brand. Mer-sa-dees. All the different E's.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Mercedes. Mercedes. Mercedes. Mercedes. Mercedes. I drive a delicious Mercedes. Mercedes. Mercedes. I drive a delicious Mercedes. Mercedes.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Or a Mercedes. Someone's It's Latin. Mercedes. Yeah. For what? It's a Latin origin
Starting point is 00:37:36 meaning Mercedes. The plural of Mercy. Oh. Mercedes. Mercedes. Someone
Starting point is 00:37:43 and I mean a lot of people can't say specific. Get tripped up on that. SpecificS. S.E. Someone, and I mean, a lot of people can't say specific. I get tripped up on that. Specific. Specific. My friend calls pillows, pallows. That's pretty funny.
Starting point is 00:37:53 Pumpkins is pumpkins. I work for Subway. I now consistently say meatlong football instead of football meatball. Meatlong football. A meatloaf football Someone says It isn't too much of a common word I remember this at high school Learning about maths But you
Starting point is 00:38:14 Hyperbole Oh hyperbole But it's written down It looks like it says hyperbole Yeah I can't say off For some reason I pronounce it off
Starting point is 00:38:23 Off Off O-R-F Not O-F-F Yeah Do you know Yeah. I can't say off for some reason. I pronounce it off. Off. Off. O-R-F, not O-F-F. Yeah. Do you know, that reminds me, it's like when you change a vowel and it changes the word. So if you were buying a house and you were buying it and you had to bid on it, where are you buying it at?
Starting point is 00:38:40 A-U-C-T-I-O-N. Auction. Yeah. Aaron says auction. Auction. Really hits the says auction. Auction. Really hits the o sound. Yeah. Maybe it's because he's learnt a lot of te reo Maori,
Starting point is 00:38:49 so he's going o, o, o. Auction. Oh, no, that would be auction. Auction. No theory behind it then. Somebody asked that. I never knew there was a difference between a peasant and a pheasant. And when you've got to write a history essay about the Russian pheasants,
Starting point is 00:39:03 it really paints a different picture of a whole lot of birds just being worked to death. Yeah, they are. Yeah, that's tough. Milk. Someone said I met someone once and they pronounced milk me-ilk. Milk. I've heard mulk.
Starting point is 00:39:17 Mulk. Mulk, yeah, with a U. That's just the big Kiwi accent. There you go. We're all silly. All right. Let's find Hayley's silly little pole, silly little pole. It is so silly, silly, silly that the silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole, silly little pole,
Starting point is 00:39:38 silly little pole. Would you rather be overdressed or underdressed as today's silly little pole? As a man that would happily wear jorts, a pair of $40 New Balances. I only ever buy them when they're on special from the outlet store. And a $20 Topps AS colour t-shirt anywhere. I'd rather go underdressed every time. So even if you were turning up to a formal, like something way more formal and fancy.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Okay, so formal wedding, I would rather go slightly on the underdressed side of things. Still like a shirt and like a jacket and stuff, but not like over the top crazy. Yeah. But I say I would rather be underdressed, but my wife wouldn't let me. I was going to say if Sade wasn't in your life,
Starting point is 00:40:23 you'd be underdressed a lot more. Mate, I wouldn't even go to weddings if Sade wasn't in your life, you'd be underdressed a lot more. Mate, I wouldn't even go to weddings if Sade wasn't in my life. Yeah. She loves going to formal occasions with lots of people. I'd just be like, oh my God,
Starting point is 00:40:31 I'm so sorry, but I'm busy. For when we haven't even given you the date. I'm a busy guy. Every day, the rest of the year, booked out.
Starting point is 00:40:39 I can't, I've got no room in the calendar. So far in advance. I actually, I reckon I've changed because I voted underdressed as well. Something a bit, there's something cool
Starting point is 00:40:47 about being like, I don't give a, I don't give two tosses about this. I'm going casual. As opposed to like, being all tarted up to the nines.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Yeah. Tarted up to the nines. All right, grandma. People are in their, in their jandals and things and you're in a cocktail dress. Yeah, and you're like,
Starting point is 00:41:04 oh man, those look comfortable. And then they just kick their jandals off really easy and you've got to un. Yeah, and you're like, oh, man, those look comfortable. And then they just kick their jandals off really easy and you've got to unlace something. Yeah, your corset. What are you wearing? Your full renaissance corset. You're in a full, what was that show?
Starting point is 00:41:15 Bridgerton. Yes, garter. Well, 71% of people would rather go overdressed to an occasion. Wow. So if someone says casual, they're going to go smart casual. If someone says formal, they're going full formal. They'd rather go overdressed. 29% said they would rather go underdressed.
Starting point is 00:41:34 For both of you casual men to be overdressed, the dress code would have to be like. Nude. Your worst togs. Wear your manki undies I'm like Oh Shall I, mammy?
Starting point is 00:41:49 Throw out my manki undies Yeah, but I'm wearing a little shirt I told you, woman Some responses Lee said Overdress means you've at least put in effort Underdress shows you didn't care enough to consider even trying Okay, I see the attitude
Starting point is 00:42:02 I see the attitude that gets read from the outfit Attitude check there Vicky says I always overdress. And if someone asks why, I say, I'm going somewhere better afterwards. Oh, that's awesome. Power play. Someone's like, Vicky, you're looking very nice overdressed for the occasion. She'd say, well, I've got another event after this.
Starting point is 00:42:18 I'm leaving this trash gathering to head to a ball. As a man, Adam says, as a man man it's easier to dress down if overdressed. Take off the tie or jacket, roll up the sleeves and undo a button and then all of a sudden you're just taking yourself down three casual levels. What are the women supposed to do? Well, that's what he said. He's just acknowledging that it's far easier as a man to
Starting point is 00:42:37 go overdressed and then, you know, relax it. But if you're underdressed, it's hard to step up to the occasion. Yeah. You could fold down the top of your dress. So now you're wearing a rock and a skirt, not a dress. What about your boobs? Babs out. Boobs out.
Starting point is 00:42:52 Okay. Cool, cool. It makes any outfit far more casual immediately. Tessa wrote underdressed because comfort is more important to her. And Mel said neither. It's a serious source of anxiety for me what to wear. I like to be right on the mark. You did this once though. At a wedding, didn't
Starting point is 00:43:09 you message the bride to see what was appropriate? Yeah, because I was being pressured into a more formal attire and I messaged the bride. I'm like, give me the exact what you're expecting. What do you want? Like send me a photo of a Helen Steins model wearing the outfit you want me to wear. Well that's where I'm
Starting point is 00:43:26 shopping. That's where I'm shopping for your wedding so go to Helen Steins and tell me exactly which one you want me to wear. She's like, Vaughn I'm getting the makeup done the wedding's in two hours. I'm like yeah and I'm in Helen Steins so hop to it. I don't have time to try on all of these outfits. Pick one for
Starting point is 00:43:42 me. So yeah, there's today's silly little poll. People would rather go overdressed to an occasion than underdressed. So researchers at the University of Essex. Yeah. That's Essex, isn't it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:02 I don't know. I want to say yes. The only way is Essex. Wasn't that the TV show, The Only Way is Essex? Was that the posh one or the trashy one? Oh, it was Essex-like. I didn't really change my accent. There's a really posh one. That's my favourite accent.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Is that Keira Knightley's one? Oh my God, Keira Knightley. She doesn't have a jaw at all. No, her teeth stay shut. Oh wow. That's so wonderful. Absolutely wonderful to see. Oh, you're so hot. You're perfect.
Starting point is 00:44:28 Didn't we shoot some foxes this weekend? Oh, fantastic. I'm so white. Anyway, so they did a study that is nowhere near as boring as it seemed. They tried to find the world's most boring person. Now, of course, they couldn't go through the billions of people in our... Seven billion. Seven billion. Team of
Starting point is 00:44:49 seven billion. We're not a team. We are not a team. Well, not until the aliens turn up. And then we will unite. Then we'll have to be a team. Lightning. There's lightning behind us. So they obviously couldn't find, you know, John Smythe who... Oh no, I know, John Smythe who...
Starting point is 00:45:06 Oh, no, I know a John Smythe. John Smythe's not boring. You didn't drag the Smythes into it. But they created a profile of what this person looked like by gathering tons and tons of data about what people found to be boring, their beliefs, the kind of job they have, their hobbies, all that kind of stuff, where they live, what kind of family they were born into.
Starting point is 00:45:28 They put it in to a magical machine and they worked out the profile of the world's most boring person. And I was just going to say, if this is you, do text us because I would love to hear from I was going to say, could there be somebody listening that fits this exact profile? Yeah. If there is, call or text us because I want to spice up your life. Oh, not in that way.
Starting point is 00:45:54 She says, holding a huge wooden paper grinder. I love my paper grinder. So, lo and behold, the world's most boring person is a data entry worker who is religious, lives in a small town, and watching TV is their favourite hobby.
Starting point is 00:46:11 Oh. And their wife. Like data entry, do you mean like an accountant? Would that be a data entry? What is? Oh, you always hear data entry, isn't it? It's just literally taking and putting. So from any kind of corporate company
Starting point is 00:46:25 but you are not, no accounting because accounting you're working with numbers and working things out. Data entry is simply the act of like taking someone's data, entering it into a computer system I did a bit of it once So if you worked at a doctor's and the doctor came out and he's like
Starting point is 00:46:41 update their notes and you put it on, you're doing data entry for a doctor. Yes, but you don't have the fun of like, ooh, what's this medical thing? Right. But you would know everybody in towns. Yeah. Oh, you'd know where all the rashes are, that's for sure. Yes, indeed.
Starting point is 00:46:56 So, yeah, it's a data entry worker, religious, lives in a small town, and loves watching TV. That's their favourite thing to do. They said the most unboring people, top of the list, work in the performing arts. I've got a degree in acting. Right. I'm very...
Starting point is 00:47:16 You're very excited. Unboring. Unboring. Health professionals, journalists, people who work in the sciences, and teachers, they said. At least boring. It would never be boring being a teacher.
Starting point is 00:47:29 Yeah. Most boring hobbies include sleeping, watching TV, prayer, but I reject that. That's up to you. Watching animals and doing maths. Watching animals. Who's doing maths for a hobby? A Sudoku.
Starting point is 00:47:47 Yeah. I guess Sudoku, well, that's more of a pattern identification, right? Yes. That's not maths. You don't have to add anything up to do a Sudoku. You just have to work out that there's no other threes in that line.
Starting point is 00:47:57 Yes. And I will say this study is based on personal opinion. So they gathered people's preconceived ideas of what a boring person is. Okay. So there might be a religious data enterer who loves watching TV in a small town, but they're also a serial killer. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:13 I was going to say the life of the party. Or a freak in the sheets. Absolutely. Stepping up to the podium for the 10th year of Nero, your gold medalist. Where's my medal? Well, thanks to our mates at Xero helping businesses get their admin out of the too hard basket. We are rewarding you every Monday in March, handing out medals, cash prizes, and celebrating those small little things that maybe you put off doing that you don't get recognition for.
Starting point is 00:48:43 One thing you don't need to put off doing is your accounts when you use Xero. I just thought that was off the cuff. That's not like an official line or anything for them. I just felt right and I went for it. Yeah, I'm sure they'll really appreciate that. You can try Xero free for 30 days. You can visit Xero.com
Starting point is 00:49:00 for more info. Joining in thinking they deserve a medal. On the phone, Melissa, good morning. Good morning, Melissa. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you?
Starting point is 00:49:15 I've got COVID, Melissa. Stop asking. She's got COVID. I'm actually doing, I had a sore back, but now I'm using these electric shock things that Hayley's given me and oh my god I've never felt more alive
Starting point is 00:49:27 in my life I'm better I just had a hot cross bun you might have heard just as I said I'm better I was birthing a little bit
Starting point is 00:49:32 no no I feel like a hot cross bun you should feel like a hot cross bun Melissa why do you deserve a medal because I tidied up
Starting point is 00:49:41 and cleaned out my plastic container cupboard no you didn't no you didn't. Oh, wow. Wow. That's, did you have any sustainers that were
Starting point is 00:49:50 discoloured because of bolognese? Yeah, discolouration, missing the little rubber bit. Oh, the rubber bit. Drives me crazy. Never,
Starting point is 00:49:59 never ever use one without the seal. No. Yeah. What did you do with all the lids? Well, we kept them just in case the bottom half... No.
Starting point is 00:50:08 Then you truly have not cleaned your plastics drawer, Melissa. Are they going to follow you around for the rest of your life just in case? Just in case. Brilliant. Melissa, wait there. Sam. Sam joins us. Why do you deserve a medal, Sam?
Starting point is 00:50:22 Hi. So yesterday I did a pretty big thing. I washed my bedding, my nine pillowcases included, dried them, and then I put them straight back on my bed. How many pillows have you got on your bed? I've got nine. My husband doesn't. What's the set-up?
Starting point is 00:50:36 Tell me the order. What's the set-up? So I've just got, you know, your two standard-sized pillows. Are they for sleeping on? Are they the ones that you do put your head on? Yeah, well, I use two. My husband just uses one. So we've got like the four standard size ones and we've got two European.
Starting point is 00:50:52 Then I was at H&M and I saw some that I couldn't, you know, pass up. So they've been added. They're a little bit smaller than a European, but they're going to be standard. And then there's like a weird little one as well. I ask only because I want inspiration. The more pillows, the merrier for me. We had European pillows once. Pain in the ass.
Starting point is 00:51:09 Love them. Pain in the ass. My husband tripped over the pillows multiple times getting out of bed. And there's been some, yeah, some harsh words. Okay. So do you not normally clean these, all of them, just the ones you sleep on? Like I washed all my sheets and I do the cover, you know, and then I actually managed to put them back on the bed.
Starting point is 00:51:28 In the same calendar day? Yeah. That's an accomplishment. And it was well before bedtime. It was, like, after lunch I had it sorted. I don't want this to sound condescending, but good girl. Yes, good girl. Good girl.
Starting point is 00:51:42 Sam, thanks. You're cool. Just wait there. Medal ceremony just minutes away. Abby, why do you deserve a medal today? Sam, thanks. You're cool. Just wait there. Medal ceremony just minutes away. Abby, why do you deserve a medal today? Hi, guys. How's it going? Oh, I've got COVID.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Well, I just had a heart attack. I was wondering if I was getting electric shocks and stuff. We're bad. Isn't it funny? Is it just New Zealanders? How's it going? Like, you start in Australia. How's it going?
Starting point is 00:52:03 How's it going? But it's a hello in a different form. No one cares. Yeah. I care so much. Oh, thanks, Abby. Why do you deserve a medal? You know what, Abby?
Starting point is 00:52:13 I told him he should never have gone to those protests in the first place. No, he has a right to protest. Oh, my God. Not that violently, he didn't. No, the fire, Fletch. I'm going to say it. The fire was too much, bro. Like, you went too far there.
Starting point is 00:52:27 I drew the line at the decobbling of the path, to be honest. I like a fire. I like a fire. Great way to clean up a mess, but you embarrass us with the cobbles. He was trying to hide. Oh, I'm wearing a cap. You wear it every day. Anyway, Abby, why do you deserve a medal today?
Starting point is 00:52:42 Well, yesterday when I went going through shopping, I didn't purchase any shopping bags because I finally remembered to bring the thousands that I own. You did that! Yes! Yes! Didn't end up with another one of those sort of weird fabric ones you have to buy.
Starting point is 00:52:59 No, yeah, I have. I'm not even kidding. Thousands of these because I never remember to bring them back. Maybe you need to fashion an outfit out of them. I know, I work in fashion, you'd think I'd know, but, yeah, I just... I finally took them to you. That's actually what I want to see at the next Wearable Art Awards,
Starting point is 00:53:17 somebody wearing, you know, Countdown and Pack and Save reusable bags. And there'd even be a winter outfit. There'd be a winter outfit and that bag you get that's lined to keep things cool. Oh, yes. Like a puffer jacket. Yes, because it'll keep you warm as well. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:53:33 All right. Abby, just stand by. Our medal ceremony judge is conferring now. Yeah, just some slight adjudication going. Oh, I've still got the shocky McShock thing on, and it just really got me in the kidneys there. But I am alive, and I am well, and let's begin the medal ceremony. Our bronze medal for services to pillows, sheets, European pillows.
Starting point is 00:54:00 Her new ones from H&M, the little one that sits on the front. Oh, yes. The two that she sleeps on. The 18 she's got hidden in the cupboard that she desperately wants to put on the bed as well as her duvet and sheets. She got her bedding washed, dried and back on the bed. And one day, congratulations to Sam. Yes, Sam. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:54:18 $100 thanks to Zero is all yours. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. There was a social function for ZM, the new social committee, which is Executive Intern Anya and, well, social media and social committee queen, Karween.
Starting point is 00:54:35 She's an absolute social queen. They organise a get-together. I just want to say what a great time was had by all. Thank you so much to the newly crowned social committee for doing a great job. Yeah, bravo. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:54:46 Thank you. Thanks for coming, guys. It was really cool to see you there. Our pleasure. I don't even remember being there. I must have had too many drinks. That'll be it. Too many.
Starting point is 00:54:56 But it was at the social function you heard that someone who works here actually had a rather interesting Zoom situation. Yes. This friend is doing a bit of uni on the side, doing a couple of papers. Is Joel remaining anonymous in this part? Or are we giving him a name? No, he's remaining anonymous. Joel.
Starting point is 00:55:17 Well, I've actually got an axe to grind. Oh, God. Is that what you say? A gear to grind? Well, when someone said Vaughn's 40th, you know, before my 40th Vaughn's 40, and he said, is Vaughn only 40? Like that time.
Starting point is 00:55:33 He's a big bitch, I'll knock him down at the knees if I need to. Big John Dutton's in town. I got him in a lot of trouble for telling you that, actually. He's been an absolute thorn in his side since. Yeah. So he was on a Zoom lecture.
Starting point is 00:55:48 I believe there were about 50 other people on this call and he asked a question like a right mature student. Very good. And then afterwards forgot to re-mute himself because everybody else at the moment, you know, camera off, everyone's muting. Yeah. Forgot to unmute himself
Starting point is 00:56:03 and then when the flatmate walked into the room, I was like, oh, what are you up to? He said, I'm just on this boring AF Zoom call. And she said, how much longer is it? And he said, not too much bloody longer, I hope. Oh, no. Wow.
Starting point is 00:56:19 And the whole class and the lecturer heard that. Yeah, and the lecturer came on and said, hey, sorry, mate, could, mate, could you turn your mic off? Oh, yes. Wow. Oopsies. Is it recorded for our upload pleasure at some stage? I'll ask.
Starting point is 00:56:36 Surely somebody was recording that, right? Yeah. Yeah, one of the other mature students, that's right, Jola, called you a mature student. There's two that can play this game. Would have surely been recording it so they could take notes afterwards, live in the moment, in the lecture, and then re-watch the lecture for notes-taking purposes.
Starting point is 00:56:52 It's the only way. It's the only way. It's so embarrassing. I mean, over the last couple of years, we've heard so many embarrassing Zoom stories. A lot of them visual, you know? Well, yeah, like the people walking across nude. The judge whose kid turned on the, someone turned on the cat filter
Starting point is 00:57:08 and he couldn't turn it off and he had to reassure everybody it wasn't a cat. He was so humorless as well. He's like, I seem to be a cat. I am not a cat. Now, I'm not a cat. But I don't think I've been caught out in any way. Other than when we were making, having been paying attention at home, there would always be a hand
Starting point is 00:57:25 that would come across the camera and it would always have a glass of wine in it and I'd quickly be like zoink thank you Aaron he'd be like
Starting point is 00:57:32 what's that you got but no no like vocal slip ups no I haven't been on enough Zoom calls I count myself very lucky to have dodged
Starting point is 00:57:41 this whole Zoom meeting you hate socialising well I hate meetings too so it was absolutely not for me. But I know there'd be people out there who have had absolute Zoom whoopsies, especially now that a lot of schooling and stuff's on Zoom. I'd like to hear from teachers of what they've seen, because you know how little kids sometimes are just like, I'm going to lose this top.
Starting point is 00:58:01 Yeah. Miss Sproul has a moustache. Yeah. Stevie, you're not on mute. I didn't mean to lose this top. Yeah. Miss Sproul has a moustache. Yeah. Stevie, you're not on mute. I didn't mean to be on mute. I thought it's about time someone said something. Wax it off. We want to take your calls and texts this morning on this very thing.
Starting point is 00:58:16 Yes. When did you think you were on mute? But you absolutely weren't. And what did you say? And who heard it? And what were the repercussions? We want the whole drama. Are we taking the visual whoopsies as well yeah mute or camera off uh and you were wrong uh well producer anna shared a very embarrassing story of a story that was shared with her and she
Starting point is 00:58:40 has now shared it with the nation uh Which is how it should go. Nothing sacred anymore. No. About a friend who got caught on Zoom bad-mouthing, well, not bad-mouthing, but saying that the lecture he was in was boring AF and the lecturer was like, cool, bro, can you turn your mic on mute? Thought it was.
Starting point is 00:58:59 So we asked you, we want to hear your terrible Zoom stories or when you thought you were on mute or you thought your camera was off. On the phone, Abby, good morning. Morning, Abby. Hi, how's it going? Good, Sam.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Terrible. She's got COVID, Abby. It's not going good. Abby, tell us the horror story. What happened? So it wasn't muted or anything, but I was on a Zoom call for a job interview and we live real like out in the country so we get out we have our stock and we get our own home kill done
Starting point is 00:59:36 and so I was on my interview and in the background you could hear the sheep getting shot. Oh my gosh. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Wow. I was bright red. And she kind of just, the lady just kind of ignored it. And I was like, I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:59:59 We're getting a sheep done today. And I did not know that they were going to get shot. Oh, my gosh. You brought attention to it, Abby. Why? I would have just ignored it. I didn't know what to say. I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, does she think someone's getting killed or, you know?
Starting point is 01:00:13 Oh, true. She might have called the cops or something. It was so embarrassing. So I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, how do you? And did you get that job? Did you end up getting that job? No.
Starting point is 01:00:24 Not too scared to have you in the office. The interviewer was vegan as well. Yeah, she was vegan. Abby, thanks so much for your call. Sally, what about you? Tell us, what happened? Well, I broke my wrist in lockdown last year. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 01:00:38 And so I was in a car, and I couldn't get dressed very easily, and I walked into my daughter's room to ask her to help me do my bra up and she was on a call with her whole class. She's 16. Oh, no. How old's your daughter? 16.
Starting point is 01:00:55 Oh, my God. Wow. So embarrassing, Mum. Oh, wow. Yeah. Thankfully, all girls, but still. Oh, God, yeah. If it would have been my 14-year-old son,
Starting point is 01:01:04 that would have been weird. Yeah. Amazing, yeah. If it would have been my 14-year-old son, that would have been weird. Yeah. Amazing, Sally. Thanks. You called some messages in as well. Surprise, surprise. Given the amount of time people have spent on Zoom, there are plenty of these. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:17 My mum was on a video call when I got home from work. I didn't even know she was talking. I thought she was talking to me, so I was talking back. And then someone said, we can hear the entire conversation and i said who's that and because i freaked out because i thought somebody else was in the house with my mom so she'd been her mom had been having a conversation on zoom but it had been marrying up perfectly with what she'd been talking to her about embarrassing yeah so she said it was it was all go um i was on a phone call to the old man um my boyfriend didn't realize and walked in saying oh no i'm not reading the rest of that Yeah, so she said it was all go. I was on a phone call to the old man.
Starting point is 01:01:46 My boyfriend didn't realise and walked in saying, oh, no, I'm not reading the rest of that one out. The boyfriend walked in and said something wildly inappropriate. The old man heard there was an awkward silence and then he coughed and carried on like absolutely nothing had happened. Professional. Professional fathering right there. We had a lockdown quiz night hosted by TV One's from The Chaser.
Starting point is 01:02:12 They've written The Dark Horse. But do they mean The Dark Destroyer? The Dark Destroyer. The Dark Horse? Fletcher's name on The Chaser would be The Dark Horse. He wouldn't have much knowledge
Starting point is 01:02:22 on many areas but when he does, very specific. Wait, so they got an actual chaser on a quiz? Yeah. Oh. Wow. My teammate had two laptops, one with our group discussion
Starting point is 01:02:31 and one for the group Zoom call, and my friend's laptop unmuted and you could hear this 300-person Zoom call. All you could hear was me talking over the chaser, as I didn't know. And so these people were like, who's talking over the chaser? And because it wasn't coming up. Oh, no. The dark horse had to tell me to shut up during the quiz night. So I've been told to shut up by,
Starting point is 01:02:53 and every time I say I'm on the chaser, I'm like, I got told to shut up by that guy. My daughter came into my office and watched my Unizoom for about two minutes and said, this is such a boring, dumb show, mum. Why are you watching this? So that was awkward for everybody in the class. Somebody said, I was
Starting point is 01:03:12 unmuted so people could hear me speak. Or so I thought, but I was actually on mute and I hit the mute button because I had a big rumbly fart coming. It turns out I unmuted my mic, especially to make a loud... They say when you turn your mic on, it immediately like goes quite loud.
Starting point is 01:03:29 It goes quite, yeah. And so I did a big, huge, loud fart, and then everybody was just like the whole Zoom ground to a halt, and everyone was trying to work out who did the big, rumbly fart. Farts are funny. All right, fact of the day is next. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about golf and golf courses.
Starting point is 01:04:02 Plenty of golf, Hayley? I've never played golf. Yeah. Because Ursula, who we have? I've never played golf. Yeah. Because Ursula, who we have been paying attention with, massive golfer. Loves a bit of golf. She's always like,
Starting point is 01:04:10 we should go for a game of golf. Are you kidding me? Ursula Carlson is a big golfer. Her, what do you call it? It's not putting. Short game? Is that what you call her chipping? I've seen her video.
Starting point is 01:04:20 Her chipping's on point. Her short game's amazing. I can't tell you what it's called, but she travels. If she goes anywhere, she brings her clubs. Yeah. So when, pre-COVID, when she would go on tour, she said it was the one thing.
Starting point is 01:04:31 Every day she'd get up, go play a game of golf, come back, get ready for the show. She's a big golfer. No, I've never played. When I was a kid, I got hit in the face with a golf club, so. Bye, well. Well, what can I do? Did it?
Starting point is 01:04:44 Brother. Brother. There was a big scar on my face. But was can I do? Did it? Brother. Brother. There was a big scar on my face. But was it your brother? Is it? Look, it was my brother. But you were obviously in the range. My brother's got a scar on his face
Starting point is 01:04:54 from when I hit him in the face with a hockey stick. Oh, yeah, there you go. It's classic sibling behaviour, isn't it? Yeah, I told him, I said, don't do it. We're recreating some Star Wars lightsaber battles. I said, don't do it. You were the chosen one Star Wars lightsaber battles. I said, don't do it. You were the chosen one. You were just supposed to destroy the Sith, not become one of them.
Starting point is 01:05:08 I had the higher ground, of course. He tried to flip over me and I just smashed him straight in the face. No. No, we were playing hockey and he just got too close. The big Smith wind-up just went straight back into his face. That was Sam. He just did a little wind-up and I was behind trying to offer him a biscuit. Oh! How old were you? Three. That was Sam. He just did a little wind-up and I was behind trying to offer him a biscuit.
Starting point is 01:05:25 Oh! How old were you? Three. So you're like, do you want a biscuit? Why don't you want my big brother one biscuit? Sammy, do you want a biscuit? He somehow got his hands on my dad's clubs and anyway. Did he get out of hiding?
Starting point is 01:05:40 No, because it was bad. Yeah, he should have gone out of hiding. He turned around and saw my face and vomited. Onto your face? No, not onto me. Okay, I can see why you don't play golf. This is my family's trauma. There's a lot of trauma here.
Starting point is 01:05:50 There's a lot of scars. Well, today's fact of the day is New Zealand has approximately 1% of the world's golf courses. Say that again? New Zealand has approximately 1% of the world's golf courses. That's a lot, isn't it? We love a golf course. We have, according to Golf's Wikipedia page. Sorry, just golf?
Starting point is 01:06:09 Golf. Just golf? This is under golf. You scroll down to golf courses and then a sub of golf courses, golf courses, massive lightning strike just outside. This is a way of me trying to say we're doing live radio. Yeah. Oh, I heard the thunder through your microphone. Fletch. Nah, it was Fletch. You were live. Are you alive? Come in, Fletch. You alive? I'm Oh, I heard the thunder through your microphone. Fletch.
Starting point is 01:06:25 No, it was not. Are you alive? Come in, Fletch. You alive? I'm alive. I'm alive. Good. I'm just expecting a power outage from you.
Starting point is 01:06:31 Yeah, we've got 1% of the world's golf courses, according to Golf's Wikipedia page. What country, do you fathom a guess at, has the world's most golf courses? Oh, United States. United States, yeah. Correct. How many percent of the world's golf courses
Starting point is 01:06:47 Do you believe the United States has? Five Five percent? Yep Ten Forty-three percent of the world's golf courses Are in the United States That is nuts
Starting point is 01:06:57 Guess which is the next highest country? Britain? Nope They're fourth Canada? No Canada is third Canada is third Okay Um. Oh. Britain? Nope. They're fourth. Canada? No. Canada is third.
Starting point is 01:07:08 Canada is third. Oh, okay. Okay. There must be a lot in that lower belt of Canada because you're not building one up in the Yukon, are you? No. No. Australia? Australia is sixth.
Starting point is 01:07:17 Who is it? Japan is second. Now, keep in mind, the United States had 43% of the world's golf courses and it was in first place. Japan is in second place. What percentage do you think? 22.
Starting point is 01:07:31 18. Wow. So America's just all golf courses. America has 16,752 golf courses. Japan has 3,169. Now, if you think about how big Japan is, that's a lot of golf courses per square kilometre. How many do we have?
Starting point is 01:07:48 We in New Zealand have 418 official golf courses. Are we counting? Are we doing the mini putt? I knew you were going to say mini putt. Mini putt's not real golf. Mini putt's a fun second date. Or something to do with your kids. Or something to do when you get to Auckland Airport too early
Starting point is 01:08:05 and you go and do that one on the side of the road just before Auckland Airport. Yeah. But it's not an official golf course. So yeah, it goes either United States, Japan, Canada, and then England, Australia, Germany, France, South Korea, Sweden, Scotland. I'm going to stop with Scotland
Starting point is 01:08:19 because that's the home of golf, isn't it? St. Andrews, the home of golf. Yeah. There's 614 golf courses around the world. Wow. Absolutely incredible. So today golf courses around the world. Wow. So today's fact of the day is the United States has
Starting point is 01:08:29 43% of the world's golf courses and we here in New Zealand have one. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:40 Ah, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do. Well, there's new research out from RMIT and it's all about waking up and what alarms we should be using to wake up. What's RMIT? MIT is the Monaco Institute of Technology. Yeah, I RMIT? MIT is the Monaco Institute of Technology.
Starting point is 01:09:06 Yeah, I don't know. The really Monaco Institute of Technology. Yeah, it's the really Monaco Institute of Technology. They worked hard. They did. This was published on Friday, and researcher of auditory perception and cognition, Stuart McFarlane,
Starting point is 01:09:20 has said that some alarm sounds may enhance alertness upon waking, and people should be choosing theirs more mindfully, because he's saying that when we wake up, it's not like an on-off switch, and it does take time. You know, you've got to get oxygen to the brain, increase the blood flow, and certain sounds and music can actually increase that blood flow. Yeah, that's why I used to have, because I didn't used to get up at four, I'd set an alarm at like eight
Starting point is 01:09:46 or something and it would be like, and it just sets you off on such a bad start to the day. Now that I'm a fourer, I like ease into it. Right, so you go for that like chimes, don't you, that kind of build up. Because we switched to the birds
Starting point is 01:10:02 around the same time, didn't we, Vaughan? No! I was OG bird song. You were? No, I was OG bird song. You were OG birds. I was OG bird song. I got you onto bird song. I love the birds. I influenced your alarm. Yeah, they gradually kind of...
Starting point is 01:10:14 Have you got the birds there? Are we doing double birds? We can turn that up, yeah. No, we can't turn it up because it's slowly working its way in where this is showing you how loud it gets. It's lovely. It's lovely. I love waking up to the birds.
Starting point is 01:10:31 Yeah, that's gorgeous. I don't think it's enough for me. Today I slept through my alarm and must have been absolutely exhausted. Yeah. I came in hot. I changed to wearing my Apple Watch, and that just gives me like a little vibration, and I love waking up to that.
Starting point is 01:10:49 Because then you don't get shocked by an alarm or chimes or chirps. Right. But apparently alarm tones that are tuned for like songs, if you use a popular song, they're energising and can wake you up effectively without leaving you groggy. So apparently there is like a sweet spot. You should select something that's around the frequency of 500 hertz, which isn't too high pitched and not so low that you won't hear it. So Rammstein, do Hust. What are we thinking there?
Starting point is 01:11:13 Too much. Too much? Too much. It should be up tempo, but nothing fast. So about 100 to 120 beats per minute. The only issue with this, that I have with this, is I did this years and years and years ago when I was at uni and I put Bohemian Rhapsody as my
Starting point is 01:11:28 wake up song. And I've loved that song since the day I was born. I couldn't listen to it. Because it meant get up and go to uni and I don't want to go. So here's some songs that are at 120 beats per minute. That's a marching tempo. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
Starting point is 01:11:44 So you could wake up to... Ra, ra, ooh la la. Ro, ma, ro, ma, ma. Gaga, ooh la la. Which that was me singing it, not the actual... That was beautiful. We couldn't tell. Lady Gaga.
Starting point is 01:11:56 You've got Tit Tock by Kasia in there as well. Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. Jepsen? What have we never met? Jepsen. DJing and it's falling in love again. Yeah, see, again, all of these songs, you'd just become sick of them, wouldn't you?
Starting point is 01:12:12 Yeah. Yeah, you would. And you just associate it so quickly with having to get out of your beautiful warm bed. Yeah, and it ruins it. It will 100% ruin a song for you. Yeah, it does. More lightning.
Starting point is 01:12:24 Massive lightning strike. That one was close to work. That scared me. That one, that one scared me. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I don't want to turn my back because the lightning outside in Auckland City right now is insane. The rain's really falling too. I think about, well, at my rain gauge at home, which I can check on my phone,
Starting point is 01:12:43 there's been 30 mils in an hour, which is quite a considerable amount of rainfall. The traffic, I've just checked traffic cameras. Traffic looks busy. A kind reminder to all motorists to drive with your lights on in these conditions. Yeah, no matter where you are, drive safe, please, guys. Drive really safe. I know it's coming. I'm scared.
Starting point is 01:12:59 It was the cell, the thunder cell was right above us before because lightning went and then we immediately heard the thunder at Fletch's place. Yeah, Fletch, have you opened a window at your house? I have because I want to hear the thunder real loud. Are your windows made of metal? Yeah, yeah. That feels stupid to me. Okay.
Starting point is 01:13:14 I'm living dangerously. Anyway, moving on. I want to talk about a study I've found, but I know it's just going to shock behind me and everyone's going to scream. I'm going to frighten. I kind of need to wee a little bit. I feel like some of it might come out.
Starting point is 01:13:24 It's going to come out. Okay, there's been a... Oh, I'm going to frighten him. You kind of need to wee a little bit. I feel like some of it might come out. It's going to come out. Okay, there's been a... Oh, I'm excited. It's a thrilling environment in here. There's been a study that... We're talking about cooking at home. We're all sick of it because we've been locked up inside. A lot of hospo has been closed, a lot of our favourite restaurants.
Starting point is 01:13:40 And apparently 60% of people are feeling absolutely burnt out by all the cooking that we've been doing. Seven out of 10 say they're absolutely bored of the same meals they know. Our repertoire is too small. Do you have a repertoire of meals you just go to? Like every week we have like a taco and then a mince-based and then a chicken. I love them. They're my favourite.
Starting point is 01:14:02 Yeah, but after a while, they can get a little bit plain. But then some people, I mean we talked recently about, was it Posh Spice? Victoria Beckham, who does the same meal. Yeah. Jennifer Anderson famously always does a chicken salad. But you're talking to me. I grew up
Starting point is 01:14:19 on meat and three veg every night and like five nights of the week it would have been some form of beef because we had home kill in the freezer and then there might be one chicken and then like one lamb and the lamb would interchange with pork. Always surrounding a meat.
Starting point is 01:14:34 Always, yeah. The meat was the centre of the dish. Yes. So like, yeah, anything's a bit different. My mum recently did like a little cycle trip and on it they had this like Italian cooking night. Oh, delicious. And she's like, do you know what we made?
Starting point is 01:14:47 And I was just like thinking of all these like Italian dishes. She's like, lasagna. Oh my gosh. She's like, I loved it. I must make one. I'm like, my entire childhood I asked for a lasagna. I had it one night at Paul Cruz's house. Oh, Paul.
Starting point is 01:15:02 And I said, what do you call this? And Mrs. Cruz said, Vaughan, this is a lasagna. And I was like, I've never had this. And she's like, you've never had a lasagna? Her hand was on the phone to call Child and Young Persons Protection Services. Or Oranga Tamariki, as it would be now, if I was at Mrs. Cruz's house and I never had lasagna. She couldn't believe I never had lasagna. I said, do you mind if we have a lasagna?
Starting point is 01:15:24 And she said, too much work. It's a lot of work that goes into lasagna. The layers. The meat sauce, you couldn't make the cheese sauce. Mum wouldn't have, she just would have got it strung out out of a Dolmio jar. Nothing wrong with Dolmio jars. So, what they're saying that we cook the same six meals all the time, are they providing us any inspiration?
Starting point is 01:15:40 Yeah, well they're saying that people are trying to get inspired because they're so bored of all this cooking we've been doing. 60% of people say they've experimented with their bog-standard ordinary recipes, adding new spices to the mix, chucking in hidden vegetables, grating things into it to make it better. Yeah, subtle ways, combining contrasting flavours, like putting a bit of salt on something sweet or a bit of sour in your bolognese.
Starting point is 01:16:09 But still, you can't go past Taco Tuesday. What else are you going to cook on a Tuesday? Roast. It's Taco Tuesday. No, that's a Sunday thing. It's got to start with tea. Yeah, exactly. And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Starting point is 01:16:21 Tamarillo Tuesday. You can't just have tamarillos for dinner. You'll get diarrhea for dinner. You'll get the squirts again. There's too much fruit. You have fruit all day long. You can't have fruit as your main staple for dinner. I'm looking forward to winter getting back into my stews.
Starting point is 01:16:34 Oh, yeah, man. How good is like a goulash? Mash and a stew. An Irish stew. Or just like a tin of tomatoes, a bit of chuck beef, and just like whatever you can find. Yeah. Put it in the slow cooker.
Starting point is 01:16:44 Come home. Delicioso. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. ZM's $100,000 secret sound. All right, our secret sound into another week. Soundkeeper Owls, good morning. Good morning. Hi, everyone.
Starting point is 01:17:03 Are you still got COVID, Fletch? Yeah, apparently it sticks around. I'm shedding. Yeah. I'm shedding. Wait, what? I don't know. I just remember that woman and her black blood and her lamb died.
Starting point is 01:17:16 No, that was the vaccine that did that. That wasn't COVID. That was the vaccine, according to her. Have you checked your blood, though, just to make sure that it isn't, what was it, clotted? Clotted. Clotted. Black blood, though, just to make sure that it isn't, what was it? Clotted? Clotted. Clotted, black blood. No, I think it's still red.
Starting point is 01:17:29 I think it's still red. Running red. Yeah. Yeah, so I've got to wait seven days, so I think I can come back on Thursday. Wow. Right. You know, give it a day or two. Give it a day or two, yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:40 Yeah, I mean, you get to Thursday, you might as well pop through to the weekend. Yeah, we'll see you Monday, right? All right, Secret Sounders, you get to Thursday. You might as well pop through to the weekend. Yeah, we'll see you Monday. All right, Secret Sound, it's all thanks to Neon. You can watch TV series and movies. Handpicked for Kiwis by Kiwis on Neon. The jackpot, $50,000. Joining us for Secret Sound this morning. Katie, good morning.
Starting point is 01:17:59 Hi, guys. How are you? You know, it's a wet and rainy day, but we're surviving. Oh, I'd love to hear it. Yeah. Yeah, I've got COVID covid katie i don't want to talk about it you know i'm sorry yeah come in here all chipper and chirpy asking how we are i'm gonna say i'm quite down the dumps i mean you asked katie so let's unload on katie councillor katie joins us on the phone my back sore again katie i thought it was coming right and now it's it's back to where it was yeah i slept are you gonna see dr winn ours isn't good either i'm thinking about booking joins us on the phone. My back's sore again, Katie. I thought it was coming right and now it's back to where it was.
Starting point is 01:18:25 Yeah. I slept funny on my neck. Are you going to sing Dr. Wynn? Ours isn't good either. I'm thinking about booking in a Dr. Wynn but Hayley's got her, what do you call these? Electric pads on my back.
Starting point is 01:18:33 Yeah, I'm electrocuting Vaughn as we speak. I'm the new Dr. Wynn. Ew. Turn it up to, what's the highest? No, no, no. I squealed on one.
Starting point is 01:18:41 He's on number one. And every time I change the function it gives me a, like a proper shock. Katie, these are like. Try squealed on one. He's on number one. And every time I change the function, it gives me a proper shock. Try go to like five. No. No. No, I won't. Katie, these are like little electric things that you put on your body
Starting point is 01:18:55 and it sends electric shocks. Oh, my gosh. I know the ones. They're so good. And Vaughn's being a little. One seems a bit little to me. Thank you. Yeah, see. Go to two, Vaughn. Go to three. It's going to make me squeal. No, not on this one. Have a little... One seems a bit little to be quite a bit of that. Yeah, see?
Starting point is 01:19:05 Go to two, Vaughn. Go to three. No, not on this one. Have a little two. I'm on the scraping function. Go to three. Oh, I can't. I don't have Hayley's face.
Starting point is 01:19:15 Hayley, can you please control it? The listeners need to hear Vaughn turn it up a little bit here. I don't think we need to go to three. Hayley knows, though. Hayley's... Go to three.
Starting point is 01:19:23 When you put them on, someone's like, ha, ha, ha. We'll get to your guests soon, Katie. One second. Katie, hang on. Hayley knows, though. Hayley's... Go to three. When you put them on, and then someone's like, ha, ha, ha. We'll get to your guess soon, Katie. One second. Katie, hang on. Oh, yeah, okay. You've been doing 25 minutes at level one.
Starting point is 01:19:31 You're ready for level two. Okay. I've only done 25 minutes. I only put them on five minutes ago. I only put them on five minutes ago. You're on scraping. You're on scraping. Oh, it's counting down.
Starting point is 01:19:40 Okay, I'm going to go to three. Can we not go to three immediately? No, I'm going to two. Ready? Three, two, one. Yes! When it changes, I'm going to two. Ready? Three, two, one. Yeah! See it? When it changes, I think it's your body getting used to the kind of electricity you're getting. It's psychological.
Starting point is 01:19:51 Holy, it's just really like two. This is great. This is like when your partner controls your adult fun toy remotely. Goodness. I wouldn't dare do this to you, boy. Not even for a fun radio bit would I quickly go to five. Just for a moment. All right. No, no. I won't. I won't dare do this to you, boy. Not even for a fun radio bit would I quickly go to five. Just for a moment. All right.
Starting point is 01:20:07 I won't tear them off. I was listening to your finger on that dial. All right. Let's take a listen to the secret sound, the sound that has been doing our head in for a week now. $50,000 is the jackpot. The current prize money for $50,000 is the jackpot. The current prize money for $50,000. What do you think it is?
Starting point is 01:20:31 Is it a Rubik's Cube being moved across, like twisted in place? Wow. Are you a Rubik's Cube gal, Katie? I'm not. I've never been able to complete one, but I don't know. I just kind of like, it's a bit random, so
Starting point is 01:20:47 hopefully. So you haven't tried it, but you think it might align with the clues? Yeah, no, I haven't, which is probably pretty silly that I think about it now, but we're here, so. Do you want? That's okay. That's okay. Also, if you're wrong, Vaughn's going to three.
Starting point is 01:21:04 Oh, no. Okay. What do you mean, okay? You've got no skin in the game. I would have said five, but, like, three is good at the point. I don't want to see Vaughn cry. Not on a Monday. No, I won't cry, but I will probably squeal.
Starting point is 01:21:20 Well, Katie, we're locking in a Rubik's Cube. $50,000. Katie? Yes? That's not the secret sound. Oh, God. Here we go. Here we go.
Starting point is 01:21:40 Ready? Three. Yeah. Two. One. No. Two, one. No. This is great. It's great torture.
Starting point is 01:21:52 It feels good now. It's just that initial when it switches gears. It really gets you. Zed-N's $100,000 secret sound. Soundkeeper Owls, did you get a hot cross bun? Yeah, we can absolutely hear you coughing in there. Yeah, that wasn't a subtle cough. Sorry.
Starting point is 01:22:12 Your mic is too hot. These mics that we have for broadcasting at home are very good. You could do some sexy ASMR. You really could. No, we haven't given Ow's a hot cross bun yet. I'm vegan, so are they vegan? Sorry. No. Are you? Are you what?
Starting point is 01:22:32 Yeah. Vegan. Yeah. I feel like I walk into a meat fan. You like your meat, that's fine. I love our meats. I love any product that an animal's laid its hoof on, you know, like milk, butter, honey. Honey, do you eat honey?
Starting point is 01:22:49 I actually do if it's like... Oh, yeah, we're a picker and a chooser. I'm a vegan, but I eat fish, eggs and butter. No, no, no. No, anyway, we have Tama on the line. Morena, Tama. Morena. How are you?
Starting point is 01:23:04 Good, thank you. How's things? I've got COVID, Tama Morena How are you? Good thank you How's things? I've got COVID Tama Stop Why is everyone asking? Oh matey I'll put it down for you You need to be out in free
Starting point is 01:23:14 Have you had Have you had COVID yet Tama? No not yet No Yeah us too Because we're better than We're better than Fletch You're playing off a good man
Starting point is 01:23:21 Yeah You keep waiting away from it Alright Secret Sound $50,000 is the current jackpot, and that money is all yours if you can tell us what this sound is. No pressure. No pressure at all. None.
Starting point is 01:23:38 Just tell me, what's your guess? My guess is a CD case getting slapped on a table. Now, Soundkeeper Al's is really young. Can you explain to her what a CD case is? I have a few. A table. She's not familiar with a table. She eats her dinner off her lap like a Gen Z heathen.
Starting point is 01:23:59 Yeah, she's a floorbae. Why is a floorbae speaking, Tama? I am familiar with a CD, for goodness sake. I'm just making sure. And have you looked at the clue on our ZDM Secret Sound Instagram? I think I've only just stumbled up, like, one clue, and there was people being in the office. But one of the clues that I did think of
Starting point is 01:24:25 sort of disappeared on me. We've only got one clue out. You're good? Yep. It's a good guess. Okay, well Tama. Yes. That is not the secret sound. Hard luck.
Starting point is 01:24:43 Hard luck, Tama. Next chance is coming up at 11 o'clock today if you want to have a shot. All thanks to our mates at Neon. And you can sign up for a free 14-day trial at neontv.co.nz.
Starting point is 01:24:57 T's and C's apply. ZM's, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

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