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The day after the shortest day of the year, and it is cold.
Your nipples are staring me in the eye.
Yeah, I was questioning whether or not to wear this white shirt today.
It is very, like, if the nipples start pointing,
this shirt doesn't hide them.
Yeah, right.
However, I had a last minute, you know how I just grab clothes
and it doesn't matter to me?
I had a last minute change of plans. Okay.
Because I bought a pair of jeans, same brand as these,
but in a different color.
Oh, okay.
And for some reason they fit different.
Oh, I hate that. They're a bit tighter, which is weird because I made sure I purchased
just the black version of these.
They stretch a little bit.
So you've just got to keep wearing them.
But these are new.
These are new and they fit better.
Oh.
And so I'm going to fabric soften them anyway. This morning I was in no such mood to squeeze into black pants
and start my day bad.
Not a lot of sleep.
Late night in Hamilton.
A lot of eating yesterday.
I had a fucking amazing sandwich yesterday.
Ruben.
Oh, so nice.
Ruben's sandwich.
Jesus. It was a... Oh, Ruben's sandwich sandwich.
Jesus.
It was a,
oh,
the closest to climax the sandwich has put me in.
It was slutty.
And it was,
I couldn't eat enough.
I couldn't eat it quick enough
and then when I'd eaten it
I just was full of regret
at rushing things.
Much like sex actually.
I couldn't get it done
quick enough
but then when I was done
I regretted rushing things.
And then when we got to Hamilton
we were like,
go on,
I'm full.
And they said, do you guys want anything from the bar menu?
We're like, yep.
And we ordered one of everything.
That was delicious.
Truly a lot of food.
Yeah, so with that kind of in my mind, I didn't want to squeeze into the black.
But then I had the black jeans, but then I stayed with this white shirt,
and it's cold, and yeah, it's a very nipple-dominant.
We can see your nipples.
Fletch, yours are dormant?
They're tiny.
No, they're there.
They're just tiny little.
No, I can't see them.
Tiny.
Yeah.
Do me, do me.
What am I doing?
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Shall we start?
Far out.
Another one.
The floorboards.
The floorboards were cold this morning.
Yeah, everyone wants a polished floorboard until it's winter, don't they?
Oh, they look pretty, don't they?
They look great.
They're right in summer and then they're drafty and freezing cold in winter.
What was the car temperature gauge saying on the way to work this morning?
Mine was three just up the road from you.
The chimney was like one and here's a snow icon.
Well, just as I look around the country,
the coldest place right now is Omadama.
Always is.
Central Otago, isn't it?
Minus 9.9.
It's minus five in Queenstown.
It's minus two in Christchurch.
Wellington, a balmy seven degrees.
Jeepers.
Oh, Wellington.
That's why they call it the Rarotonga, don't they?
Is it one of those good days?
Yeah.
Well, it's going to be another clear day across the country,
which does mean cold.
And yes, one in Hamilton, seven in Auckland at the moment.
It's a little snapshot of around the country.
Gorgeous.
Chilly. Gorgeous.
Chilly.
Freezing.
Speaking of trying to escape this cold,
I've got the hottest
honeymoon destinations
of 2022.
Okay.
Is this a push
to get your marriage
happening sooner?
Oh my God,
I sort of forgot
my engagement ring.
I was like,
oh, let's just give up on it.
Yeah, a little bit of a push.
Yeah, right.
Right.
I've got to have the wedding before the honeymoon.
Yeah.
Do you though?
You can probably do it reverse order nowadays.
Do it at the same time.
Yeah.
Get married on the honeymoon.
Yeah.
What a move.
Good idea.
Are the top six coming up?
Yeah, there's been a study by Randstad.
This is a survey
Randstad
Not Randstein
The German heavy metal band
Prolific in the early 2000s
No not them
Randstad
Yeah
That has found the most
Attractive place to work
Now when I read the headline
I thought that's inappropriate
Yeah
Just walk into an office
And be like
Hotty
It must be in
Naughty
Yeah it must be in Denmark
Or Copenhagen
or is that what you mean?
No, no, no.
It's New Zealand's
most attractive place to work.
Right.
By meaning like
as a potential employee.
Right, like free pastries.
Things stack up.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
This is the award
that Air New Zealand won
for like three years in a row
but then I guess
they couldn't win it this year
because they fired everybody.
They didn't do anything.
Yeah.
They fired everyone
and they just sat there for a bit.
And then their staff were like,
can I get the money back
for those flights?
And then,
hey,
can I have some credit?
And they're like,
I don't want to go anywhere.
I can't go anywhere.
Yeah.
Your credit's expired.
But yeah,
what made this,
I'll tell you what the place is
and what specifically made it.
In today's top six reasons,
it was the most attractive
place to work.
All right, next on the show.
It's been a standoff.
Okay.
A standoff upon a bus.
Okay.
Over something that I'm passionate about.
All right.
I've chosen my side.
So there's a woman in the UK who was out quite late.
It was close to midnight.
Oh, okay.
And she was just trying to head on her way home.
She's a 23-year-old woman.
She's travelling on her own around London.
A 40-minute journey to her house.
Got on the bus and the driver immediately asked her to get off the bus
because she had in her hot little hand a hot box of hot chicken.
Some delicious
No eating on the bus.
Delicious chicken wings
did she have upon her.
She wasn't eating them.
She just had bought them
and was taking them home to devour.
I'm assuming she's going home drunk?
Well, she was.
I mean, no, that was not even in the
In the article.
In the article.
You'd assume though if it was late at night.
But there's a video of it, and she's like, no.
She's not intoxicated.
Maybe she had a few drinks.
I mean, if you're getting fried chicken wings at midnight in the middle of London City heading home,
one would assume that drinky poos are on board.
So he said, you've either got to get rid of that or get off.
And they had this argument.
And she's like, why not?
Like, so when is this a rule?
And he was like, it's offensive.
And then there is a rule on the buses.
I don't know what it is over here.
But in the buses in England,
if you've got a food that will cause offense,
you can't come on.
Right, because it's a wafty smell.
Nothing offensive about a hot chicken.
I know that the Kentucky buses have rules like this,
like for hot food,
because it gets in the air con vents.
Right.
And it goes everywhere.
Well, that's the thing.
He says it's going to stink out the whole bus.
So then she, with her hot chicken,
was just like, nah, that's ridiculous.
And she was scared that she'd be left on her own, you know.
At night in the dark.
At night in London, on the dark, 23 years old.
Was nothing but a chicken wing to protect herself.
So she just went upstairs.
It was a double-decker.
And was the driver okay with that?
Get out, get out, get down.
And then everyone on the rest of the bus was just like yelling at him, like, carry on, move on.
Like, who cares?
And they were also like, hot chicken.
I'm going to get me some hot chicken.
Do you know what I smelt this morning on the way to work?
And I don't know, I always come the same way to work every day.
And I don't know why today I smelt it.
Maybe the wind was going a different way.
But you've never smelt it before?
No, never.
It was bakery.
I was going to say.
It was fresh bread.
Oh, the bread.
It was like, because there's a couple of bakeries around. Oh my God, it was? No, never. It was bakery. I was going to say. It was fresh bread. Oh, the bread. It was like,
because there's a couple of bakeries around.
Oh my God, it was so good.
Yum.
I was like, yum.
Carbohydrates.
I always just think that
early mornings in the city smell like Marmite,
but it's the smell of like burnt coffee.
You know that smell that can sometimes fill the air
in the CBD if you're near like a roastery?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You get a smell, it's like, oh God, why does the city smell you're near like a roastery? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get a smell.
It's like, oh God, why does this city smell like Marmite?
Yeah.
It's not.
It's burnt off.
That's also the smell of a, is it brewing that smells a bit like Marmite?
Yeah, because it's the yeast.
Which is a pleasant change because normally the inner city smells like piss.
Smells like, yeah.
Piss and squalor.
And a hidden poos.
Yeah.
Can we ask our lovely resident vegetarian,
Carween, at the social media desk,
if someone was to come on with, you know,
like a grocery, say, a grocery hot chop.
Oh, yeah.
Would you be offended, Carween?
I can appreciate that they smell pretty good.
Yeah.
What's the vegetarian, like, version of smell?
Tofu doesn't smell.
Like mushrooms. Someone gets on a bus and it Tofu doesn't smell. Like mushrooms.
Someone gets on a bus and it stinks like mushrooms.
No.
Yuck.
Like a fungal...
Chips.
I don't know.
Hot chips.
Oh, but hot chips are so good.
Yeah, the girl loves a bit of a hot chip.
Yeah, hot chips.
As long as they're cooked in animal fat.
Yes, of course.
Duck fat.
Duck fat potatoes.
Duck fat potatoes.
Yum.
Actually, Carwain, some great news for you.
Soon on the show, there's rumours of a new Whittaker's chocolate,
which you'll love, being a veg-er-an.
A veg-er-an?
A veg-er-an.
Who's that guy from England that sings those songs?
Are you a vegan or a vegetarian?
Vegetarian.
Okay, well, a great use of vegans.
You love a bit of cheese, don't you?
Yeah, yeah.
Love a bit of cheese.
You'll live life.
That's soon on the show.
But next on the show, one in five people would quit their job because of this one thing.
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A study, and this is out of America, so bear this in mind.
One in five workers would quit their workplace unless their office gets eco-friendly.
So apparently it's a bit of a, because I don't know,
we've worked here for, what, eight years at NZME,
and we've always had the recycle bins, haven't we?
Yeah.
Is that all you need to do?
You've got to.
Do you use them?
Have you used them correctly for the last eight years?
Yeah, I would say the little bin in our studio here, that's mixed.
Well, that's mixed.
But outside we've got the, I can put my mandarins in the waste here. That's mixed. Well, that's mixed. But outside we've got the,
I can put my mandarins
in the waste bin.
Yeah.
And then I put my newspaper
in the recycle.
Yeah.
And then I put my car batteries
in the landfill.
In the landfill.
Yeah.
You're a hero.
I am a hero, yeah.
Just as long as the mandarins
in the green one.
Where do you put your asbestos?
Just downstairs in the car park.
Bingo, that's right.
In the big bin.
Yep, that's correct.
In the big communal skip.
Well, Vaughan, you do a lot of recycling here at work.
I do.
You'll bring in your boxes.
Polystyrene, flat cardboard boxes.
Filling wrap.
Yeah.
Well, here's the choice.
The bin at home will be full.
Do I burn it or do I bring it to work and recycle?
Just burn it.
But, you know, every now and then. Yeah, you love using the work bins. be full, do I burn it or do I bring it to work and recycle? Just burn it. I must.
But, you know, like every now and then.
Yeah, you love using the work bins.
I love using the work bins. Yeah, love it.
I just want it to go to the right place, you know?
Yeah.
But what else?
What did we get the other day?
Didn't we all receive a booking for something and it had the carbon emissions of a hotel
that we're going to stay at?
For our tour.
I didn't like that.
I didn't think that was necessary.
At the bottom of the booking, it told me how many...
Suits.
How many kilograms of carbon dioxide my stay at the hotel will be.
Yeah.
And if the same place had booked the flights, they'd put that on there as well.
Who knew going to Tauranga for a night would be so carbon emitting?
Yeah, be ruining the planet.
Well, just the hotel aspect of it Was 10.4 or 10.9?
Something like that.
That's because they...
Kg's of carbon dioxide.
But that's because you run a big bath
and all that water heating.
God, he loves a rub-a-dub-dub, doesn't he?
He does a bath bomb.
He loves a bath.
And a big warm bath.
There better be a local Lush.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
A glittery bath bomb that's pH neutral
from a vaginal health.
Are you looking after your vaginal health?
Absolutely.
Every time I have a bath with a bath bomb,
my first thought is, what will this mean for my vaginal health?
He's tried some low brand bath bombs and they've been,
they've played absolute havoc down there.
UTIs.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
You can't get glitter in that region.
Very true.
And that's not eco either, glitter.
Small plastics.
And the bath bombs, well, I speak because I asked.
It's
degradable. It's all natural
shimmeries. Oh, yeah, what's that stuff they put in
makeup? You get it from like clay.
Asbestos.
Asbestos. That's what I do to get a nice shimmer on the cheeks.
Get some asbestos happening.
Would you quit a job?
Like the study's saying one in five would quit a job
if the workplace is not eco.
A lot of big talk.
Yeah, a lot of big talk.
But also depends what they're doing.
If you're working for a multinational oil company,
then yeah, yeah.
Sure, put a recycling bin in the office.
Get a paper shredder.
What scale are we talking?
Yeah.
I mean, you've got to pay the bills, don't you,
at the end of the day?
There won't be any bills when the planet's on fire.
Yeah, it's not until the last tree's cut down
you realise you can't eat money.
Could you?
No.
No nutrients.
Upset your stomach.
Yeah, there's nothing to it yeah okay
nothing to money
well that'd be on the way out as well
especially the coins
right
I don't know that that'd break down
uh
twenty past six
next on the show
yummy yummy
yeah a new
vegetarian
we don't often
we don't often dip our toe in the
is it vegan
it's vegan
yeah it's vegan
it's vegan
uh
a long time my mum
always said vegan
did she not know
to try to make it fancier.
And she also says palio.
Instead of paleo?
Yeah.
So I might do a little bit of palio for a while.
Palio diet.
Is that vegan?
That goes for me.
Patsy.
It's very opposite to vegan.
ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley.
Yummy, yummy, yummy. In my tummy. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Well, can oat milk even be considered vegan when you think how many rodents and insects are killed
using pesticides and poisons to keep the oat crop unaffected?
I'll leave you with that.
Thank you very much.
Good frothy alternative, though.
I love an oat milk mocha.
God, it's frothy.
It's thick.
Yeah, it's good.
It's not like almond milk.
We're done with that, eh?
Was that almond the curdley?
Yeah, almond gets all curdley.
Almond's a bit curdley and long-winded.
It makes your coffee look like a miso.
Yes, little bits go floating around.
It's got big miso energy.
Yeah. Well, this is go floating around. Got big miso energy. Yeah.
Well, this is great news for lovers of chocolate.
Hello, chocolate lovers.
There's heavy rumours.
Have they confirmed it?
Last night when I saw it, they had not confirmed it.
Oh, I tell you what,
Typen Whittaker's oat milk is right at the top.
Yeah.
So would this, correct me if I'm wrong,
this would be the first chocolate that vegans could enjoy from the range?
No.
Have they done one before?
The dark Ghana ones don't have dairy.
And it's like 99% Ghana.
Yeah, I mean, it's like eating a bag of soot, but vegans can enjoy that.
I love dark, dark chocolate, that bitter.
It stops you eating a whole row at a time.
Yeah, I quite like it.
Half a row at a time.
But if you're trying to eat good,
you're like,
oh, just have a little square.
I just have this thing square.
Because it's 95% Ghana
and then you end up,
you still eat half a block.
I know, and then you're like,
I might smother some peanut butter on this.
Yeah.
Try to freshen it up a bit.
Everybody's asking the question
that they're releasing their first
block of oat milk chocolate.
So it's not milk.
It's not chocolate milk.
It's chocolate. It's a block of chocolate made with oat milk. Because So it's not milk. It's not chocolate milk. It's chocolate.
It's a block of chocolate
made with oat milk.
Because normally they use dairy milk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wonder how that's going to taste.
That's going to be interesting, isn't it?
I have enjoyed in my days of
trying to fix whatever's happening in my stomach
quite a few vegan chocolates
made out of alternative milks.
Yummy.
Okay.
Coconut milk chocolate.
Really, really yum.
Yeah.
Haven't tried an oat, I don't believe.
So this actually came up.
It spread on Twitter, didn't it?
And the spinoff picked up and ran with an article yesterday.
Yeah.
Somebody Googled.
It's in the Herald today.
Is it?
So there was a Google search and it just appeared in a search.
And that's kind of what sparked the rumours.
Yeah, but the link was dead to click through to be like,
it was like purchasable.
Right.
So they got it planned but hadn't released it yet.
Ooh.
Okay.
Come on, Wodekers.
Come on, answer.
Answer the people.
I think this will be yummy.
So it's just a normal, there's no bits in it?
It's just oat milk.
What do you mean there's no bits in it?
It's just a plain, it's like buying a dairy milk.
Yeah, it's just, it's oaty milk or whatever they would call it as a dairy substitute.
Okay.
Straight.
Yeah.
I don't know, yeah.
Maybe it's got little leaves in it and seeds.
I mean, we're hypothesising
about a chocolate
that doesn't exist
so they might release
an oat milk
but the photo's been taken
it's got a wrapper
no but that's so easy
to make
people have made
petrol and
cigarette flavoured
Whittaker's labels
before
I haven't seen the petrol
it's a lot of effort
to go to
yeah
but it was like
in when you searched Whittaker's to buy.
Yeah, right.
It popped up alongside places you could actually buy it.
Okay.
So is that a supermarket's website that's given that away by the looks of it or Google?
So the picture said, yeah, they'd Googled shop or buy Whittaker's oat chocolate and it came up.
It's a New World link.
But the link's dead. So New World have got it
there in their system ready to go. Maybe.
Spilled the beans too early.
All the oat milk beans.
Yeah, spilled the bag
of kernels. The oat seeds.
Yeah, the oat seeds.
Spilled the steel cuts.
Yeah.
What if it was like an Anzac-y, you know, so it actually had oats in it.
It was made of oat milk.
Oh, that would be disgusting.
And then bits of crumbly Anzac-y oats.
No.
Yum.
Yeah.
Like golden syrup.
Yum.
I'm on board now.
Crumbly.
Don't you like the Anzac biscuits?
I hate Anzac biscuits.
I hate them so much.
Oh, wow. Well, thank you for your service, Anzac biscuits. I hate them so much. Oh wow, well thank you for your
service Anzac soldiers.
They would have taken squiggles
if they were around.
They couldn't have squiggles in the
trenches of Gallipoli?
No, but I'm saying if squiggles were invented they would have
taken them. You're probably right.
You always go a squiggle over at Anzac.
Tough times though. There's not time for a
bougie biscuit. That was the thing about it. It travelled well, lasted ages and it was very simple to make. Yeah over at Anzac. Tough times, though. There's not time for a bougie biscuit. That was the thing about it.
It travelled well, lasted ages, and it was very simple to make.
Yeah.
The Anzac.
Because marshmallows as well.
No, the Mallow Pals would take up too much room in your army coat as well.
They'd crack.
Yeah, the whole top would crack if you were in the trenches of war and Gallipoli.
This is a New Zealand company that looks at workplaces and tells you if they're good to work at or not. Okay.
Their attractive qualities, all those
sorts of things. They do the survey every year.
Yeah, yeah. And you did mention before that
Air New Zealand won three years in a row. They were
ineligible, uneligible to enter
this year? Yeah, it was because they fired
everybody, didn't they? Not great. I mean,
they had to, the pandemic. Of course.
Is this based on actual
employee experience or is this based on actual employee experience
or is this based on perception of how a company runs?
Everything, like looking at their contracts,
what they offer, the perks, the pay.
And it seems government departments are the place to be.
Really?
Yeah.
And the top 10 top employers of 2022,
there's the Department of Internal Affairs.
Healthcare of New Zealand?
That's not maybe.
New Zealand Customs Service, Ministry of Business.
That's MB.
When they talk about MB.
Ministry of Business, Innovation, Employment, Department of Conservation.
Sounds like these government departments have fruit bowls in the staff room.
It does.
And then if you look at the top ten employers of last year,
there was Customs, Doc, MB,
TVNZ,
Ministry of Health, so you know, government.
Yeah, well you guys work as contractors for TVNZ. What do you do?
Well that's the thing, we're not
employed by, oh I tell you what though, there is a bit
of a set up. There's a tennis
table downstairs
and there's a vending machine.
You mean table tennis or a full tennis court?
I've never seen table tennis.
I've never seen ping pong.
It's right in the foyer.
Oh, yeah.
I don't go through the foyer.
Downstairs.
Oh, you come in the back.
Recently, COVID, we've been having to come in through the loading dock and using a portaloo.
Like, I haven't exactly found...
Like with a mistress.
Yeah.
I haven't found, like, an overly appreciated person.
Yeah, no.
Yeah.
Don't you dare come in where the journalists are.
I won't.
Well, they can't have...
Don't sneeze on Hillary.
Yeah, they can't have riffraff like you giving Jeremy Wells and Simon Dallow COVID.
Well, he got it without me, didn't he?
Yeah.
And Hillary's just recovered.
It's good to see Hillary back on the box.
I don't know what Simon and Jeremy and I get up to outside of the building either.
I can't stop that.
Tongues ahoy.
Far out, T.
What?
So number one this year on the top employees of 2022
was Evolve Education.
This is an early childhood education.
Oh, God, I couldn't imagine anything worse.
I know, for you it would be an absolute nightmare.
The most attractive company to work for in this year's survey.
Oh, fantastic.
Now, what do they run?
They have childcare centres which include Lollipops and Little Wonders. Oh, fantastic. Now, what do they run? They have childcare centres
which include lollipops
and little wonders.
Oh, okay.
Lollipop.
Not lollipops.
Not lollipops playground.
Oh, playland.
Not lollipops soft play.
Yep.
Not that.
Lollipops the early childhood.
Oh, okay.
So I've got the top six reasons.
Yeah, okay.
Early childhood education
is an attractive industry.
Okay.
Number six,
you give them back at the end of the day.
Yeah.
That's got to be pretty good.
Did your sister run or work in one?
She runs one, yeah.
Are there ever days where she just doesn't want to run one?
No, because she's done the whole thing.
She started off working in it, managing one.
Now she owns one. Yeah. She's getting working in it. Yeah. Managing one. Now she owns one.
Yeah.
She's getting further away from the children.
Right.
Fantastic.
Number five on the list of the top six reasons ECE is an attractive industry.
You can trip over the kids that annoy you and just say they run into your foot.
Yeah.
Good.
Oh, no.
What happened?
You tripped me over.
Don't be silly, Caden.
Jaden.
Xavier. Jaden. Xavier.
Kathaya.
Start making random names up that start with K or J
and you're probably naming the most annoying kids
in an early childhood centre.
Oh, no.
Mystery.
Mystery.
You've fallen over.
Come on, Chaos.
Up your hop.
There'll be a Chardonnay.
Chaos.
There'll be a Chardonnay.
There's a Chardonnay.
There's a classy lady's name.
A lovely lady's name.
Chartreuse.
Okay, maybe a Riesling then.
Come on, Bernardino.
Up your hop.
Bernardino.
Come on, Passion Pop.
Come on, Caskwine.
Come on, Wither Hills.
Come on, Country White.
Come on, Captain Jack.
Come on, Christoph. Come on, Captain Jack. Come on, Christophe.
Up your hot mud.
Number four on the list of the top six reasons ECE is an attractive industry.
Playgrounds.
Yeah. God, if you ever
just wanted five, Ada. Just go for
a playground. Have a swing. Yeah, three o'clock
the kids go home. Yeah. Have a nap on
the slide. We went to the playground yesterday, didn't
it brighten our day? Yeah, I took you to the Hamilton Lake Play. Have a nap on the slide. We went to the playground yesterday, didn't it brighten our day?
Yeah, I took you to the Hamilton Lake playground.
We went on the slide.
You went on the big old slide.
Yeah, although someone's vandalised the water thing and I couldn't make a damn.
You were sad.
Someone broke off the summer. So we couldn't pick which way the water was going to go.
God, you were so excited to show me as well.
Like, look at this.
Look at this.
I know.
Those water things.
They've got them at the Margaret Mahi playground, don't they, as well?
I think they're in most cities.
They're so much fun.
You crank the thing, the water goes in, you get to pick it,
you can dam it off, you can free it.
The playground sucked when we were kids.
You fell off this swing, you'd hit it on the concrete.
And they were all made of wood.
And asbestos.
And barbed wire.
Yeah.
Splinters.
Yeah.
Bark. Oh, yeah, falling Yeah. Splinters. Yeah. Bark.
Oh, yeah, falling onto bark.
Razor blades.
There were razor blades in every piece of fruit you bit into.
Yeah.
And the swings were made of recycled heroin needles.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
It wasn't a walk in the playground.
Michelle pissed in one of those concrete pipes.
What?
Yeah, there we sit like this.
At my primary school.
They all left over culvert.
Yeah, yeah.
And then they'd chuck some dirt over it
and you'd
crouch down
and walk through it
and you're like
well that was shit
yeah
well don't crawl through ours
because Michelle pissed in it
did she
yeah man
was that a rumour
or did Michelle actually do that
it was a rumour that lasted
honestly about 7 years
she went in the middle
to this day
and popped a squat
or just wet her pants
while she was in there
I don't know
who am I to say
who am I to tease
about wetting pants
who am I to cast aspersions on
Michelle's urination? Yeah.
Number three on the list of the top six reasons
ECE is in an early childhood
education is an attractive industry are
macaroni and Play-Doh birthday cakes. Yeah.
No calories in that. Good stuff.
Yeah. Probably a little if you ate it.
You can eat it. A little high sodium in
Play-Doh though. Your salt daily
salt intake will go up. Oh yeah. But you need salt as long as it's iodized table salt sodium in Play-Doh though. Your salt daily salt intake will go up. Oh yeah.
But you need salt as long as it's iodised table salt.
Is Play-Doh in MyFitnessPal?
Have a look please.
Please tell me the calories of Play-Doh. Just go 100, 120
150 grams. Play-Doh.
Imagine if it is. Shaped into a
chicken drumstick. Play-Doh. Let me
search.
I'll spell Play-Fo.
It's embarrassing for you. Okay you play cookie dough Oh no it's all play faux. It's embarrassing for you.
Okay, you play cookie dough.
No, it's all cookie dough.
It's all coming up with cookie dough.
Play-Doh ice cream.
Is this a Play-Doh ice cream?
If you have a two-thirds of a cup of Play-Doh, 94 grams of Play-Doh.
Yep.
220 calories.
Oh, that's a lot, isn't it?
That's a lot.
I'd rather have a Big Mac. About the equivalent of a a lot, isn't it? That's a lot. I'd rather have a Big Mac.
About the equivalent of a protein bar, isn't it?
Yeah, it is, yeah.
Without the protein?
Without the protein.
Just absolutely clog you right up.
Number two on the list, speaking of edibles,
number two on the list of the top six reasons
ECE is an attractive industry are edible paints.
The paints are completely non-toxic.
Are they?
Paint yourself up, sexy-like, after hours,
and have your partner lick it all off or something.
Calories and that?
Edible paint?
Don't have a calorie breakdown of edible paints.
And number one on the list of the top six reasons
ECEs and attractive industry, naps at work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Just a.
I don't think at nap time the adults are supposed to nap.
Oh, but little Kerosene couldn't get to sleep, so I had to stroke their hair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lie down next to her and just soothe, soothe.
Yeah, soothe little.
Kerosene's always bloody.
Well, yeah, we've got a couple of bad sleepers in the class.
Of course, we've got Kerosene.
We've got asbestos.
Yeah.
Asbestos, a real, real bad sleeper.
Nutribullet is a terrible napper.
Yeah.
Nutribullet only just got in.
Our roll was full.
Yeah, right.
We squeezed Nutribullet in.
That is today's top six.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
Okay, so obviously we're all looking forward to travelling again.
I'm off to Bali soon.
Hopefully.
Hopefully.
But everyone's out and about again, jumping away.
My parents are in Italy right now.
I saw Bali was the number one search destination for Australians.
Awesome.
Can't wait to see them there. Nothing I love more than
spending thousands and thousands of dollars
to travel around the world and just see Australians.
I've only been to the Greek
Islands once. I went to a place called Castellarizzo
and I got there
and we got on this
boat with a Greek guy and he goes
oh, you're from
Australia. I won't try to do a Greek accent. You're from Australia and we were like, no, no, no. And he was like, what? We said, we're from New Zealand guy and he goes oh you're from australia i won't try to do a greek accent yeah
you're from australia and we're like no no no no and he's like what we said we're from new zealand
and he goes this island is famous for australians and we were like oh and then we got there all
australians shops run by australians restaurants run by australians like it's g Australians though. Like, good on, mate. Nah, like, get a mate.
Oh, wow.
You want a little bit of Greek yogurt and a souvlaki.
Oh, here they are, the Kiwis.
Shagging the sheep, are you?
Sorry, no sheep here.
That's not what you want, eh?
Wasn't what I wanted.
Yeah, no.
But anyway, people are happy about this.
In particular, newlyweds who have, if they managed
to squeeze a wedding in,
it probably wasn't the wedding
that they were expecting.
Because do you know anyone
that had a honeymoon
in the last couple of years
and just did a New Zealand honeymoon?
I mean,
it's not the worst thing to do.
or some friends got married earlier
this year.
They went to Raro.
Oh, you're nice.
You know,
like,
because the islands
have sort of been open to us
for a little bit.
But no big honeymoons at all.
Yeah.
For three years, right?
People haven't been doing it.
Well, now, as a result, 83% of couples who are newlyweds who are planning their honeymoons
are prepared to spend more on them now.
Right.
Because they've missed out and they just want to go now that it's all open.
They're really going to make the most of it.
Some are planning multiple honeymoons, different trips at different moments. So this list, you've got the list
of the most popular honeymoon destinations. For 2022. This is done
out of Expedia. So based on people that search couples, honeymoon,
that kind of stuff. Top 10. Maldives, number 10.
Gorgeous. Never been. I mean, you've got to go soon because it'll be underwater.
Who did I see that was there
and they were riding a bike
along the wooden
you know how like
the hotels are just
over water
and it's all linked together
with a decking effectively
and they were riding their bike
and they didn't look that steady
on the bike
I'm like they're going in
did they
no
not in the video I saw
was it like an influence
if you just like
do a quick google search
gorgeous
yeah
you're talking turquoise water
white sand
huts on the beach delicious that makes sense number nine iceland i know i'd love to go to
iceland it looks amazing romantic holiday fresh off the back of a wedding iceland yeah it'd be
cool it'd be cold these just sound like great travel spots full stop yeah honey yeah they do
yeah you don't need to get married to go to these places.
Number eight, St. Lucia.
Caribbean nation.
Yeah, beautiful.
Looked at that.
Again, very gorgeous.
Number seven, in general, Italy.
Always, I mean, it's the country of romance.
Well, Paris, France, but I mean, Italy, a lot of beautiful places.
Number six, Spain.
Again, makes sense. Gorgeous food. Number six, Spain. Again, makes sense.
Gorgeous food.
Beautiful country, yeah.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Tapas.
Siestas.
Siestas.
Sagrada Familia.
Yeah.
Gorgeous.
You've got to see it.
Number five, Los Angeles.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's a honeymoon destination.
That's a trash honeymoon.
Yeah.
I mean, Los Angeles has its charm. I mean, it certainly does. You know, you go to Disneyland. It's cool. It's funky honeymoon destination. That's a trash honeymoon. Yeah. Los Angeles has its charm.
I mean, it certainly does.
You go to Disneyland.
It's cool.
It's funky.
Yeah.
So much to do, but...
Maybe that's it.
Maybe it's a Disneyland thing, like Disney couples.
Yeah.
Okay.
Number four, Florida.
Disney World couples.
At this point, I've lost faith.
Number three Paris
Oh you're beautiful
Number two Dubai
Okay
I mean I suppose if you were
In that area of the world Dubai is fun
It's the loosest of the
Of the Arab Emirates
That's for sure anything goes
And number one
We're not on the list, by the way.
Number one is United Kingdom.
Oh.
Ugh.
Ugh.
I mean, again.
They're like cold and grey or in the middle of a heat wave like they are right now.
Yeah.
Where would you go on a honeymoon?
Like, just go to London?
I guess.
I know there's lots of beautiful, like, the British, the English countryside.
Yeah.
But as you say, even on a good day, it's grey and it's going to rain.
And for New Zealand.
And it's expensive.
I mean, we've been shut for a few years.
Do you think that was against us?
Took us off the list?
Yeah, because surely.
Maybe.
Great honeymoon.
Have you been to Queenstown?
I mean, it's truly beautiful.
Yeah, come on, wake up.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Now, someone's in trouble with the Tenancy Tribunal and their landlord.
Okay.
Anytime I hear Tenancy Tribunal, it makes me want to cry.
Because you know when you were flatting and you had no power
and like no power within yourself to uh stick it to the man
even though you lived in a wet house with a broken door and you know like no key or anything like
that yeah and they wouldn't fix the shower yeah and then you start researching like tenancy tribunal
everyone's like don't bother just move anyway so someone's in trouble better now though
but i think yeah because they've got more rules now like you know you they've got to have insulation
and heating and stuff.
Yeah, I think there's the perception now that the Tenancy Tribunal
is there for the tenant, not for the landlord.
The rich land daddy.
Anyway, so someone, a business in Auckland,
has been running a, quote, posh, a posh doggy daycare service,
servicing Auckland's wealthiest suburbs.
Looking after their shipoos and their pommy schnauzer and their...
Yeah, pomskies.
Pomskies.
And bernoodles.
Same bernoodle.
Labra.
Labradines.
Labramation.
Anyway, so they run this whole business out of their property.
They've got like a sign printed truck and everything for the doggies.
And it's ooh la la.
Right.
But the bloody landlord didn't know they were using the building to do that.
So it was like a flat.
They'd rented a place.
They'd rented a place.
And is it in Dairy Flat?
Is that fancy?
Dairy Flat?
Kind of farmy?
Yeah, it's farmy.
There's some fancy.
We've kind of got Dairy Flat.
I was getting for you.
Flatbush is South Auckland.
Dairy Flat is North.
By that beach.
Coatesville.
Oh, please.
There'd be a bit of money up there.
I've been by the Kim.com mansion.
Oh my God, that thing is hideous.
Anyway, so she was running this business out of this house.
Somebody doesn't want some Zuru water balloons.
I take it back, I take it back.
You're not getting free water balloons for Christmas.
Anyway, so she was running this whole business out of it.
It was like not only a doggy daycare,
but like a,
they could stay
a couple of days.
Not quite a kennels,
but like if you're a bougie puppy,
you know,
you wanted to pop away
to Waheke for the weekend.
And the landlord had no idea
that there was a business
out of this place.
Yeah, so then when they came
to do an inspection,
this business owner
was caught trying
to hide the dogs.
So that they didn't know.
But they couldn't have come and done an inspection
without the full warning, right?
72 hours notice.
You have to give notice, yeah.
And then that's the day you take the dogs to the beach.
Yeah, but you'd also have to hide all of the set up
because the doggy daycare wouldn't have grooming stuff
and tables.
Yeah, well, she's saying that like,
no, I was allowed to run this business here.
Right.
That was established in 2015.
And they were like,
we didn't know there were going to be all these dogs here.
Absolutely destroying our hardwood floors and our curtains and our lights.
They were surely going to be inside.
They would have been in a garage or a shed or a room.
So that's why it's gone to the tribunal.
That's why it's with the tribunal.
Okay.
I don't know where it's at now.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
I just saw the property.
It's a manor.
Oh wow, that's beautiful.
It's ooh la la.
Yeah, that's ooh la la.
How are you going to afford the rent on that
if you're not running a side hustle to pay for it?
Yeah, that feels like a house you own.
No, not rent.
I don't know if you can rent manors.
Anyway, very fancy.
In a bit of trouble with this.
Right.
But it kind of reminded me of the good old days of flatting.
Because I was going to say,
very rich of you
to have any comment
on this, Vaughan,
when you used to have
to hide your dog
every flat inspection.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We had our cat
for a good couple of years
from our flat in Wellington.
And you'd have to hide them
when they did inspections?
Yeah.
We were just lucky
that our house
had a cat flap.
Yeah.
But we didn't install it.
I was already there.
And it was already there, but the rule was no pets.
So we used the cat flap, but we'd just lock it.
And if he tried to come in, we'd be like,
God, that bloody mongrel trying to get in the bloody house.
Scamper out of here, you bloody mongrel.
Get out of here.
Come back later.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, we used to take the dog for a very long walk
or drop it off for the day somewhere.
What did you do with the cat?
I can't remember what you did with the cat.
Just chuck it outside.
I think much the same as that.
Yeah, cats.
I don't know.
You just give them a scare.
I don't know what the story is with that cat.
Give them a scare.
Light a Roman candle in the backyard.
A daytime Roman candle.
Yeah.
I once spray-
I can't believe I did this my first ever flat
i spray painted the carpet by accident so we got like um squares of i was 18 squares of newspaper
put it down we bought a bird cage me and my flatmate louie and we're like this will look
cute we could put things in it and so we spray painted it black and then of course on the carpet
and then of course we removed the newspaper there was like a then, of course, on the carpet. And then, of course, we removed the newspaper.
There was like a perfect square of spray paint on the carpet.
We couldn't get it out for the life of us.
So we used to just have this hideous shag rug.
It was red that we would put over the square.
And then what did you do when it came to leave the flat?
One day they came to us and they said, we're going to replace your carpet.
Because it was like a really old, manky carpet.
And the landlord was going to replace the carpet.
We're like, perfect. We just never mentioned it. And then they gave us a your carpet. Because it was like a really old, manky carpet. And the landlord was going to replace the carpet. We're like, perfect.
We just never mentioned it.
And then they gave us a new carpet.
Yes.
What a deal.
So we want to ask this morning what you've had to hide from the landlord.
Yeah.
Can you beat an entire doggy daycare centre?
Or did you have a spray paint patch on the carpet?
Or did you have a hole in the wall?
Or what about the three tenant flats with
six people living in them? Yes.
Because it's...
Packing up bedrooms, people sleeping under the stairs.
Can we talk to Producer Minion?
Jared. Hello.
You have to hide every time
there's a flat inspection. Yeah.
In my flat in South Auckland.
Yes.
That's right, Producer John.
Yep.
Yeah, every time we have a flat inspection,
all my nerdy stuff goes into a box, into the shed,
and my pillow goes away, my toothbrush goes away.
Oh, because you don't live there?
I don't live there.
Oh!
I'm sure they're not counting toothbrushes.
Just paranoia
I thought that you were going to say that you were hiding it
because it's embarrassing
Well there's that too
So whether or not you have to hide
a flatmate for a flat
inspection, what do you have to hide
from a flat inspection?
0800 Dials at M, you can give us a call
Talking about what you've had to hide from your landlord.
There's a business in the news at the moment,
a doggy daycare, posh one at that,
who didn't, their landlord didn't know
there were all these dogs in the house.
Then they were running this business.
So that's going through the tribunal at the moment.
That's at the tribunal at the moment.
Do you know, Jared just said,
I mean, producer John in his South Auckland apartment block said he hides his stuff
because he's not supposed to live there.
Yeah.
And we were all like, ooh, toothbrushes.
So someone said, I'm a property manager and I always count toothbrushes.
Jared, you're doing the right thing.
John, John, John.
John, I am onto it.
And another thing is they look for if there's lots of different size shoes at the door.
Yes.
But at the same time, like, they're paying the rent, you know.
I know, but mo' people mo' damage, basically.
Really, though?
Mo' people mo' wear.
Yeah, wear and tear.
Mo' wear and tear.
It's, yeah, the famous.
That's that song.
Yeah.
By the notorious B.I. Tenant.
Ticks and counts, shoes and toothbrushes.
Wild.
I know.
Yeah.
We had that when I was at uni.
We were five girls all living in one house,
and at one point there were ten of us because we all had a partner.
We were just hanging out.
It was big.
It was a lot.
Were they paying a shower fee or some kind of?
Aaron was paying his share.
Good. Someone else his share. Good.
Someone else wasn't.
Oh.
That's all I'll say.
Anonymous, what did you have to hide from the landlord?
Hey, so I had a few plants at the back.
Oh, what are we talking, your monsteras or your peace lilies or...
Natural herb plants. Oh, tomato plants. Oh, yes monsteras or your peace lilies or? Natural herb plants.
Oh, tomato plants.
Oh, yes, yes.
Parsley.
Rosemary.
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Yeah, right.
The ones that grow naturally.
Yeah, yes, yes.
How do you hide those from a flat inspection?
You hang some tomatoes on them.
I grow a lot of corn around today, so.
Corn?
When she walked up the back here, she walked up the back and she looked over at the corn
and she's like, oh, you're growing some corn.
And I'm like, yep.
Yep.
So you basically did a small-scale operation
of what happens to farmers who actually grow corn
when they go out to harvest it
and there's a whole weed crop in the middle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You were doing a small-scale.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice, nice.
Sage crop.
I was only, you know, a couple of pounds, but, you know.
Yeah.
Amazing that she timed it just right,
that the corn had grown tall enough to hide.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Because she'd been two weeks earlier.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Thanks for that, Maggie Barry.
Josh, what did you have to hide from the landlord?
We had four 20-year-old boys in a brand new house,
and we decided to do an oil change in a car and that's who they cared.
Josh, who is leading a flat to four 20-year-old boys
when it's a brand new build?
I have no idea.
No one.
Yeah.
So you did an oil change in the garage, on the driveway?
Yeah, and there was no bucket underneath the car.
Oh, my God, Josh. That doesn't come out, does it?
Turkey?
Yeah, it seeped through the
carpeting and the shed,
the whole concrete.
I went to the might attendant and bought some new carpet
and covered it up and then she came in
for an inspection and obviously noticed something was up.
Lifted it and yeah,
found all the shed stained with oil.
I mean, obviously you lost your bond.
Did you have to pay any more? No, no.
We agreed with her.
We leased the stream cleaner.
The whole garage managed to get
the majority of it out. Oh, that's good.
Leashed into the nice door
so we had to scrub that the next day too.
But we actually got our bond back, which was
really fun.
Absolutely wild.
Wow.
Yeah.
Oil doesn't really get out of much.
Famously.
Yeah. Quite famously.
Ask the seagulls.
I was going to say, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Thanks, Josh.
Cameron, what did you have to hide from the flat inspection?
We've got a bit of a double header here,
but when we first moved into our flat about a year ago,
we had a cat that we just got newly.
We didn't know we got it and it was pregnant.
And so we sort of had to hide a whole kit of kittens from it.
So that was a bit hard to do, as you can sort of expect.
How many in the litter?
Was there like five, six?
I think we had six, yeah.
And I tell you, kittens make a mess, so.
Yeah, man.
Shit everywhere.
And did you just take. Oh, I'm on the curtains.
Oh, no.
You're climbing up the curtains.
So did you get away with it?
Yeah, we got away with that.
But now we've got another problem.
We've got a broken couch in our lounge.
And my flatmate laid a battery down as the fourth leak,
and the battery...
A car battery?
What?
No, no, no!
What?
You should go and flat with Josh.
Yeah.
As soon as I found out, I was like,
oh, my God, you can't lay a battery down.
The acid will come out.
We lifted it up, and it's just melted all the carpet away.
Oh, my God. Oh, wait, so they laid the
battery on the side?
Yeah, on its side. Of course they did, because those are the two
flat sides of a battery.
Yeah.
Who did that? They should have to
pay for that.
Yeah, we've got an inspection in a week, so
Oh, good luck. Get a rug.
Get a Kmart rug. Get a beautiful little rug.
A little rug, hide that, and then that'll just rug. Get a Kmart rug. Get a beautiful little rug. A little rug.
Hide that, and then that'll just buy you a little bit more time.
Get a rug.
To get down to Flooring Extra and get a matching carpet.
Amazing, Cameron.
Thanks for sharing some more messages in.
My boyfriend discovered he had a brothel running out of his rental.
Oh, okay.
So he was the landlord, and he found out that it was being used for brothel-esque purposes.
So did he have to hide like a couple of married businessmen
on the flat inspection?
No, no, no.
He owned the place and went round to do an inspection
and found out that it was a brothel.
I mean, what's the problem?
You worried about dogs bloody marking the floor?
Let's come and go.
As we said before,
mo' tenants, mo' wear and tear.
Mo' wear and tear.
Yep, somebody said,
we had some herbs too
and I'm sure you're hearing that from a lot of people.
Yeah, we are.
Yes, we are.
We had a whole hydroponic set up in the garage,
had to get dismantled
and put in a van and taken away
every time the landlord came for an inspection.
I mean, I know lettuce prices are out of control,
but to put a hydroponic system in to grow lettuce in the off-season?
No, I know, but good when you just want to whip up a quick salad.
Yeah, fantastic.
We dropped a painting on a wall plug and it ripped out,
so we just put the painting leaning on the wall covering the hole.
Yeah, good.
If they had the power disconnected to that PowerPoint,
that could be problematic.
Probably not.
I'm a plumber and I go to lots of tenanted houses.
One dude asked me not to tell the owner he had three dogs
because they were supposed to have no dogs.
And there were scratches on the floor and real signs that a dog lived there.
And I just said to him, this landlord's going to know.
Yeah.
Someone said, I take my cat for a drive every time the landlord arrives
and the cat absolutely hates it.
Every time it's like.
Oh, gosh.
Someone said we had a light fire.
Light fire.
We managed to put out ourselves.
Oh, good.
It involved a whole lot of repainting and reflooring,
but we did manage to get it by the landlord.
They never noticed.
Wow.
Gosh.
Until one day someone falls through the floor
and they pull back that new lino
and they've discovered the rot and the bird.
You'll be long gone from that flat by then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Play. C.D.M.'sletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM.
Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's
Community Notices.
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that you see on your local
Facebook community pages,
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send them to us at any time.
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Today from the Hibiscus Coast,
Hannah writes,
Hey, kind of a ha-ha weird post,
but hopefully someone knows.
There's a classical choir song that's very dramatic
and pretty commonly used.
It kind of da-da.
Now, down a note, da-da.
Da-da.
Down a note, da-da.
Da-da.
Da-da.
Da-da.
Da-da.
Da-da.
Da-da.
Is it that one?
She hasn't mentioned pacing. Oh, okay, da, da, da, da. Is it that one? She hasn't mentioned pacing.
Oh, okay, right.
When you say a famous choir piece, all I can think of is Oh Fortuna.
How does that go?
Oh, da, da, da.
Brum, brum.
That sounds like Jewel of Fates.
John Williams.
Phantom Menace.
Yeah, it's very similar.
Okay.
Is it that?
Okay, well, what did they say? Dun, dun. Dun, dun. Dun, it's very similar. Okay. Is it that? Okay, well, what did they say on the...
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun.
Dun, dun, dun, dun.
This is something...
Dun, dun, dun, dun.
We have to deal with this in radio a lot.
People ring up and they say,
what's that song that goes...
It goes...
It goes...
That's the new Beyonce song.
Yes, yeah.
Another Hannah offered the original Hannah the idea that it might be Johnny Johnny Yes Pa Pa,
but that's not a famous choir piece.
That's a YouTube children's classic.
Why aren't these people shazamming?
Come on.
Well, you can't shazam a choir piece that you have in your memory, can you?
Oh, I guess so.
Yeah.
All right, let's pop from the North Island
right down to Southland Trader
with admin. Now I'm not
sure if there's a Southland Trader that's just a bloody
Wild West Sands admin.
Rob writes,
can anyone please help my mate out with some advice?
What happens if you get charged
and your charging officer is secretly dating
your wife?
Sorry?
That sounds like a huge conflict of interest.
Well, that is what it's called.
Because this is in the trader,
technically you've got to list an item for sale.
Yeah.
And he said, for sale, conflict of interest.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, if you've broken the law,
you've broken the law though, haven't you?
The laws of marriage?
Or the laws of the...
The laws of the land.
Brett writes, oh, my God, this is better than whatever I can get on TV.
Please keep us updated.
Oh, yeah.
Was there any updates?
No, there wasn't any updates.
Or any advice.
Damn.
Yeah.
I don't know.
From the UCSA Notice Board, Carrie-Anne writes,
this is the University of Canterbury Student Association Notice board
Can anyone help me
I accidentally
Flushed the flush button
On the toilet
And I need to replace it
Before we move out
Of this rental
Flushed the flush button
Oh you can
Because you know
Sometimes they pop out
If they're a TV
So it must have
Gone in
Two entirely separate buttons
Not that annoying thing
Where it's half half
And there's a diagram
And you're like
Is that the wheeze one like is that the wheeze one
or is that the wheeze one
because do you guys
just press both of them
I do
because I'm like
I don't want a half flush
even for a wheeze
because sometimes
it just goes
the toilet paper
sort of bubbles
and froths
yeah
or it just goes
the water just dilutes
but it's still a bit yellow
so there's a yellowy
yeah
and you're like
can I go have some water
so she wants
what would be your advice to Kerri-Ann?
Head to a Wreckers?
A Wreckers?
No, it's an old toilet.
No, she said she's been to both Mitre 10 and Bunnings
and they said it's an old toilet that's out of stock
and they don't do the jewel buttons anymore.
What about the dump shop?
Oh, funny.
That's funny for me.
Yeah.
I'm so dead.
There's so many meanings to that.
I don't know if it works
When you point out
Comedian
If your jokes are funny
Comedian Hayley Sproul
Nails it
Because a dump is a poo
That you do in the toilet
But a dump is also a place
Where you dump your rubbish
And they might have an old toilet
There with a button
Maybe
What if
What if Kerri-Ann
If you're listening
This is a great idea
You pop out the remaining button
And treat it like
The most important thing in the world
Take it to one of these engineers And get them to 3D print you.
Oh, yeah.
An exact duplicate.
What about our own producer, Jared?
He's got a 3D printer.
He could 3D print you an exact duplicate.
Do you reckon you're up for that, producer Jared?
You can't scan in, eh?
You've got to make a, what do you call it, a 3D,
you've got to make a 3D
computer
button first to print it.
If you can scan it in
but then no. What do you reckon
Jarrod? Yeah, I'd need a scanner first
but I would take it a step further
and I'd put one of those bank pen chains
on it so it doesn't happen again.
So it won't pop out again. I'd just be like
it's on you landlord, this toilet's old. Yeah, tough. So it won't pop out again. I've just been like, it's on you, landlord.
This toilet's old.
Yeah.
Tough.
You've still got it one button.
It slips right off.
Yeah.
Just, I would put a candle or an air freshener over the toilet when you move out.
Yeah, get yourself an accordion.
Chuck it on the top.
Yeah, exactly.
What button?
That's going to... What button?
That's not going to solve the problem, though.
Doesn't matter.
What button?
What button?
There's always one.
This from the Edendale Wyndham Surrounding Districts Facebook page. That's not going to solve the problem, though. Doesn't matter. What button? What button? There's always one.
This from the Edendale Wyndham Surrounding Districts Facebook page.
Absolutely excellent condition iPhone 7 for sale.
Punishing, selling as daughter as being an arsehole.
So this is her punishment.
I love that.
Wow.
Hardly used as it was meant to be for school sport only.
Reset, ready to go, happy to deliver in Invercargill area or you can collect from Woodlands.
Wow.
I love the choice of the word arsehole.
Oh, my kid is being such.
My daughter is being an arsehole.
Amazing.
And finally, it's a case of whoopsie-daisy,
that probably wasn't the photo you meant to attach to this thing for sale.
Oh, no.
It's one steam iron.
Free.
Just come and collect.
It works perfectly.
Except the man has put up a photo of his mouth.
Oh.
A real close-up photo of his mouth.
It really is.
It's arty almost.
It's a frown.
Yeah.
He would very much be accused of having a bitchy resting face if that's his default frown.
Those are today's community notices.
If you see anything on your local Facebook page
where you know how to scan and 3D print a toilet button,
send it to FEHZM on all the socials.
Play ZM's Fletchford and Hayley.
We had some bad news broken to us last night
by stalwart of Talkback Radio on his nighttime show, Marcus Lush.
Yeah, Lushy delivered the bad news.
Do we need some Coldplay?
Do we need some Coldplay for this?
Sorry to just drop that bomb.
I just sort of feel like...
It's sad, yeah.
It's that Kerry was up and we just need to...
We need to bring it down.
I don't want to do this.
Thank you.
God, you asked and you're receiving this building.
I love it.
We do this weird thing. Whenever we go to Hamilton for a work thing, we always drive back. We always listen to Talk this. Thank you. God, you asked and you're receiving this building, I love it. But we do have this weird thing
whenever we go to Hamilton
for a work thing
we always drive back.
We always listen to Talkback
when we're back.
It's nuts, man.
It's weird,
you hear some crazy stuff.
There's some wild stuff
happening on Talkback.
Got a window fog though,
tell you what.
Oh no, it was fog,
fog in the headlights.
Oh yeah,
that was huge debate.
Should we go full beam
or low beam?
Not full beam.
It was nice that they gave
the beneficiary bashing a break.
Marcus won't.
Marcus is reluctant to punch down.
Yeah, he won't.
That's why I like him.
He's a good man.
He's a good man.
So he broke to us the news that Ernest Adams,
the legendary Kiwi brand of baked goods, cakes, slices.
Maker of my favourite raspberry slice.
A smacker of a raspberry slice.
A queen of a Louise slice.
Yes.
The Christmas mince tarts are famous.
Their Christmas mince tarts are succulent, to say the very least.
To say the very least.
Light.
Ceasing.
Ceasing.
Ceasing.
Why?
Ceasing to happen.
Cancelled.
There'll be no more
Ernest Adams
Yeah for comments
Peanut brownies
Yeah
Problematic tweets
Problematic tweets
Problematic tweets
From Ernest Adams
Not the Louise slice
Who was born in 1892
Yeah
It's not an excuse
But you can
You know
It's hard to change old habits
Yeah
When I think of this
I think of my grandfather's church
You know like
After church Kopiti Yeah And a bloody Ernest slice Yeah Change old habits. Yeah. When I think of this, I think of my grandfather's church. You know, like after church, kopiti.
Yeah.
And a bloody Ernest Slice.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I mean, it's been a Kiwi institution for a long time,
but has it just not been selling?
Is that why they're getting rid of Ernest Adams?
COVID.
They've blamed COVID.
Supply line problems blamed for the demise of the Ernest Adams baked treat.
Right.
I just Googled Ernest Adams and went to images.
Yeah.
Christmas cake.
Yeah.
They did the pre-ice Christmas cake.
Yeah.
Ready to go.
Yeah.
You'd have that ready.
Mum and Dad would have one of those ready to absolutely drop if they had an unexpected
visitor.
And, and the Ernest Adams unfilled sponge.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah.
It was a trifle shortcut. Trifle. Yeah. But then most supermarkets will do an Unfilled Sponge. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. It was a trifle shortcut.
Trifle.
Yeah.
But then most supermarkets will do an unfilled sponge.
Yeah, but it's not the same.
Yeah, not Ernest.
It's not the same.
Not Ernest.
These will be dry.
It tastes like shit.
Oh, that's terrible news, isn't it?
Yeah.
Well, they even branched into gluten-free territory, I see.
I just saw that on celiac.co.nz.
They had a great run. They praised. Well, noiac.co.nz. They had a great run.
They praised.
Well, no more.
They praised Ernest.
Ernest Adams is gone.
The jammy raspberry slice is no more.
Now, can I give a shout-out to another slice that is still going?
All right.
And what?
He's warm in the ground.
Yeah.
Are you already moving on to your...
Granddad's in the ground.
Here's another granddad.
Here's another granddad.
I don't want another granddad.
Here's a de facto granddad. You'll never be my real granddad. You had a mistress all lined up and on to you. Granddad's in the ground. Here's another granddad. Here's another granddad. I don't want another granddad. Here's a de facto granddad.
You'll never be my real granddad.
You had a mistress all lined up and we just got him.
You son of a bitch.
Oh, I've been sleeping with this Belgium slice from Baker Boys for years.
Ah!
Shame on you.
No, they sell these at New World.
It's Baker Boys brand in the Belgium.
And they do a good lolly cake too.
And this one is the white chocolate Rocky Road.
I don't know what Baker Boys is, but yeah, they resell them in my local New World,
and they are just as good as the raspberry slice.
Yeah, but you're CBD.
You're bouge.
That New World's bouge.
When you said CBD, I'm like, no, it's DTF.
DTS down to slice.
Well, yum, yum, yum.
RIP to Ernest.
Now, your friend, have you messaged your friend?
I'm asking for a please explain.
He worked for Goodman Field of the parent company.
Yeah, right.
God, he'll be wearing it from all the boomers.
A heads up would have been nice.
I would have thought so.
Just one last raspberry slice.
One last.
So how long is it going to take to get off the shelf?
No, I just searched.
I can't find any.
I searched online shopping for the supermarket
and I can't find any.
I can't just say goodbye.
I didn't get to lick the jam out one last time.
You know, you could peel back the Latisse top.
I feel absolutely shorthanded by this inability to not say goodbye to the slice.
I will be accepting on the text machine 9696 your delicious alternatives.
I just gave you some, didn't I?
Yeah, but yours has got bouj written all over it.
Baker boys.
What does it set you back for a raspberry slice?
Yeah, give us a price.
I just had it open $5.99 for a massive one.
Not bad.
That's massive.
That's not bad.
That's not bad.
Lockdown one, I could get through one of those in a day.
Well, that's what I was going to say.
I remember.
That's about the price of a head of cauliflower,
and I tell you what, I'd rather sit down and eat.
Hi, ZM's Fletch, Vaughn, and Hayley.
I want to dive into the world of unpopular opinions.
The loose way we're getting into this is that future trillionaire by 2024,
trillionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter to ask,
is TikTok destroying civilization or social media in general?
He said on TikTok.
Yeah.
I think even pre-TikTok, civilization was on her.
Oh, we stuffed it.
Yeah, she's been a crash course with death.
What's the current war as well?
What's the doomsday clock at?
Because the doomsday clock has never been this close to doomsday ever.
Doomsday clock?
No.
Does it move back?
Bulletin of the...
It hasn't been updated since January.
I feel like a lot's happened since January.
So much.
Anyway, everyone was jumping on the comments.
Oh, 100 seconds to midnight, says producer Jared.
How did he Google that and you didn't?
It's just under what I clicked on.
But again, I said it hasn't been updated since January
and that's what I said.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wait, Doomsday is only 100 seconds away from midnight?
Yeah.
Tonight?
No.
No, so it's a figurative clock, isn't it?
Yeah, the closer to midnight, midnight's the end
and the closer to midnight we get.
But when they started it, it was already like, wait,
it wasn't like lunchtime when it started.
Oh, I see.
And I also don't know what lunchtime would be like.
But they need to specify what midnight is.
Midnight's the end of humanity.
Yeah, I know, but they need to specify on our calendar
that we use when that's happening.
Oh, you mean like a June 6th or something?
Yeah, June 6th, 2020.
That's not quite how it works.
Okay, right.
Poetic.
Yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, everyone's jumping on and saying like, you suck.
You suck, Elon.
That's an unpopular opinion.
So we started talking about unpopular opinions.
Fletch, you've got a rockin' topical unpopular opinion.
I just said I love early Beyonce, but lately, Beyonce, I could...
Over...
You didn't like Lemonade. No. You didn't like Lemon Over... You didn't like Lemonade.
You used to like Lemonade?
No, I only liked the early stuff.
And then ever since, I've been like, eh.
And that is an unpopular opinion
because people absolutely love Queen B.
I got to see Fletcher's face the first time he heard,
surfboard, surfboard.
I know my surfboard.
Surfboard.
And he was just like what
that was
it's an unpopular opinion
and you know I might be roasted
for that
what album was that off
that wasn't Lemonade Drunken Love
that was
oh my god everyone who is listening is like
Hayley
I know you Beyonce
do you have an unpopular opinion Oh my God, everyone who is listening is like, Hayley! Yeah, I know you, Beyonce.
Anyway.
Well, do you have an unpopular opinion?
I mean, you've got to be careful in this day and age.
You could be cancelled for an unpopular opinion.
I'm going to think children suck.
See, I have that opinion, and that's an unpopular opinion,
because most people love them.
They love to ride.
They're not like anybody else's. Yeah.
But then you did have a bit of a twinge the other day,
other week, didn't you, when Vaughan posted the birthday video?
Yeah, an ovary twinge.
I had an ovary twinge when you posted a video of your kids crying
because you called them a cat and I thought that would be bloody nice,
wouldn't it?
I'd like to see Aaron cry about cats.
No, my unpopular opinion,
I mean, I've got a very,
I think the Doors are overrated.
The Doors?
The band.
You mean Doors and Houses or the band?
The band.
Okay, right.
And I think that they've got a legacy
as being like a classic rock sort of staple.
Yeah, but you've got to be careful
when you're talking about a dead musician
who died like during the good times
because you can assume that they would have
had a meltdown or faded away
or started making terrible music.
Yeah, I get that Jim Morrison's a great musician.
But people say the same about...
The music's dreary, isn't it?
Kurt Cobain.
It's an unpopular opinion to say like,
how long could that have lasted?
Yeah, yeah. Dave Grohl's killing it. Do It's an unpopular opinion to say, like, how long could that have lasted? Yeah, yeah.
Dave Grohl's killing it.
Do you have an unpopular opinion, Vaughan Smith?
I hate being like...
I hate women.
I don't hate women. I just hate
when they think their opinions are as important as mine.
I'm just kidding.
Being, like, anti-social
and reclusive and introverted
in public
heaps of unpopular opinions
like I don't like concerts
I know people love concerts
but I hate them
you don't like
I've been to concerts
with you
and you've loved them
but how often do I go
it has to be like
one of my top
absolute
top tier
yeah like
to go
straight man
like Cher
huge fan of Cher
Who's not gonna go
Who's gonna go to Cher
And not enjoy it
And not have a great time
Miley
Again straight man
Great time
Great time
Top tier
But I don't like
Yeah I don't like concerts
Yeah
I don't like festivals
I think they go for too long
Yeah
Heaps of stuff like that
Yeah
Yeah
I think that's why
You left the very first R&B you went to after the first day.
Couldn't stand it.
You're like, no.
I don't like people.
Is that an unpopular opinion?
No.
I think that's very normal.
I've met some really awful ones.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, we want to take right now your unpopular opinion.
What's just come through on the chat?
And honestly, we all screamed.
We'll bring it up soon.
I don't know even if we could read that out.
No, I think we should.
It's quite disgusting.
Shall I read it now?
Yeah.
Princess Diana was overrated.
I'm going to punch them.
Get them on the phone
so I can punch them.
The People's Princess.
The People's Princess.
The People's Princess.
Fashion icon.
Humanitarian.
Mother.
Wonderful lady.
She pulled out
the first brick
from the impenetrable fortress
that was the royal family.
Yeah.
She humanised them.
She did.
And they killed her.
Allegedly.
They murdered her.
In a tunnel in France.
Anyway, that's probably the most unpopular one we'll receive today,
but we want to hear your unpopular opinions.
Yes.
Give us a call.
0800 DARS at MSN number.
Texas as well.
9696. What is your unpopular opinions. Yes. Give us a call. 0800 DALES at MSN number. Texas as well. 9696.
What is your unpopular opinion?
We're talking about your unpopular opinions.
Yeah.
Some of the replies we got on Instagram are both hilarious,
but some are outrageous.
Well, the Princess Di one.
Yeah.
How about this one?
Just because you have a dog,
it doesn't mean everybody should have to like your dog.
This is true.
That's true.
You're like, give him a pet.
You're like, that's annoying.
Your dog's annoying me.
This dog is licking my hand.
Paris is not romantic is another.
Oh, okay.
My parents said that.
My parents, they were like, eh, don't worry about it.
You've seen the Eiffel Tower in pictures.
I wouldn't bother.
But the buildings are charming.
It is beautiful.
Paris is gorgeous.
Yeah.
They've got a cold heart.
Oh, I hate lolly cake and it should be outlawed.
That's worse than the Princess Diana one.
How about this one from Caitlin?
Wait a second.
We need more time on that one.
We need to sit around.
Oh, I know.
We're sitting on this.
How can you hate lolly cake? It's butter
biscuits and lollies. And condensed milk.
So we need condensed milk. And rolled in coconut.
If you want. If you so desire.
How do you say it? Desecrated.
Desecrated. Desecrated.
A priest comes and said, no, this
lolly cake is no longer properly in the church.
Anonymous,
good morning.
Morning. Good morning. What's your unpopular opinion?
Is it that I think people should only have
One, two children
Absolute max
Okay, I'm with you on this one
It rives me up
I think I heard the other day someone's having a third
I'm like, why?
China, China with this?
China with a single child population
You need to buy another car
It's more people to feed on this planet Why? China did this? China did the single child poverty. You need to buy another car.
It's more people to feed on this planet.
Anonymous, with this, you get a whole lot of different situations.
What if someone has a child with someone that they're not with?
It was just like a oopsie-daisy.
Yeah.
Does that count towards their total?
Or when they get married, do they get to start again?
Well, I get, no, I don't think they get to start again.
I think that, you know,
I mean, you just, you were talking about the doomsday clock.
I think, you know, I think we're just running out of
resources, really, and I think that,
you know, unfettered growth is not
really the way to go. And also, like,
it's another person in the line at McDonald's, you know?
I don't need that. I'm waiting for my
number on the screen. If that person hadn't
been born, I would get my food
faster. Especially kids.
Okay, they marry a person, they've got one
kid, they have one kid together. Is that person
who's only technically had one
child allowed to have another?
Yeah, is it per person? Because then you'll be four per family.
Oh, look, I don't know. It's hard, it's hard, the rules.
They can just have a stepsister and just deal
with it. Thank you very much, Anonymous, for your unpopular't know. It's hard. It's hard to rule. They can just have a stepsister and just deal with it.
Thank you very much, Anonymous, for your unpopular opinion.
Another anonymous caller.
That was like really a wild opinion.
Anonymous, what's your unpopular opinion?
Good morning, guys.
Good morning.
I have to say I'm a mother of two, and I hate to say it,
but I would have pets over kids.
And we've got a dog and a cat and my daughter is a preschool teacher.
Not enough people are honest about the fact.
She'd kill you.
What did these children do to you?
Not enough people are honest about the fact.
They are just the gorgeous kids.
They're just like, you know, they're beautiful.
But they absolutely saved the life out of you.
The kids are more understanding, aren't they?
Yeah, they don't judge you.
They just lick their butt, don't they?
Carry on with life. They're not telling you you're getting old, Mum.
Oh!
The cat and dog just love you.
The cat and dog aren't going to ship you after a Ryman, are they?
No.
That's exactly.
That's it.
You've got to love it.
All right, Anonymous, thank you for your unpopular opinion.
Some more in on the text machine.
So many.
Avocado is gross.
That's my unpopular opinion.
But I tell you what, it's not that unpopular because a few people have messaged in.
It is a bit gross.
It's a text, but I love it.
Because some people have a thing with the text here.
And when they go bad, God, they're feral.
Someone said, my unpopular opinion is both Fleetwood Mac and Mac and Cheese are both horrendously overrated.
They've got a real problem with the Macs there.
The Mac, okay.
Somebody said, my unpopular opinion is that I do not have time for that Kate Bush song from 1985 that everybody's raving about.
Well, they'll be happy to know I just deleted it.
Well, time...
Yeah, Fletcher, you join Fletcher,
he keeps going,
why are we playing Kate Bush?
My Unpopular Opinion...
But I don't mind the song.
It is a good song.
It's just a weird thing.
It's just long.
Someone said,
My Unpopular Opinion is pad thai
is the grossest thing you can get when you get thai
and it tastes like feet.
That's wild.
Come on, it's my go-to.
You've got to get something else as well
that's a little bit more refined,
but a pad Thai.
You can't hate a pad Thai.
I mean, there are better dishes,
but it is a great dish.
Even a bad one's good.
Yeah.
There's so many.
My opinion is cemeteries are an absolute waste of space.
I think this too.
And morbid.
Build a park with plaques or something.
Get rid of cemeteries.
There are those.
There's plenty of plaque parks.
How long do you think cemeteries are going to be a thing?
Not very long.
And they're a real like wildly out of date old fashioned thing.
Yeah, it depends on a lot of religious and family beliefs.
Yeah, I'm going to the mud eye.
Because you're being buried, aren't you?
Yeah, I'm being buried.
So thanks for wasting land.
It's my land.
From future generations.
It's not your land.
I'm sure we can just end up building a deck over cemeteries.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like an old pool.
Yeah, so, you know, like...
The easiest way to do it is just to build a deck over it.
Top level of the Westfields is movies,
and then you've got shop, shop, shop, shops,
basement parking, and then underneath the cemetery.
Yeah, and you could have swipe access to get in there
and go under and say hello.
Wilson's cemeteries and you have to pay $2 an hour.
Perfect.
Or $2 for the first 10 minutes to go see Nan.
You know Wilson's will charge you to see Den Dan.
Wilson's actually a tournament or something.
Getcha.
My unpopular opinion, I thought the Egyptian pyramids were shit.
When you go though, they're quite small.
Right next to the city.
So you think of them in the middle of a desert.
Yeah, mysterious and wondrous.
My unpopular opinion is Rotorua actually smells pretty good.
I like winding in the windows and getting a couple of whiffs when I first get there.
Yeah, okay.
I mean, we all love smelling our own farts, let's be honest.
Yeah, and Rotorua is that.
Marriage is a crock and the biggest scam of all time.
That's my unpopular opinion.
Oh, that sounds like a jilted someone's been cheated on.
Caitlin said, did I read this one out before?
It blows my mind.
I read it again and I forgot it and it shocked me.
I prefer free-to-air television over streaming.
I find the ads comforting.
I love an ad.
They put a lot of effort into ads.
You're in a minority.
Oh, I walked past some filming an ad yesterday.
The All Blacks.
Or, I don't know if they were All Blacks, but they were dressed like All Blacks.
Well, they'd have to be associated then.
Yeah, and they were filming a commercial
but it was so cold
they all had blankies.
Oh,
the boys.
Tutes for the boys.
Tutes.
Weeksie's unpopular opinion
is Harry is the worst
character in the
Harry Potter series.
Yeah,
I'd agree with that.
I think that's pretty popular.
He sucks.
Ruth,
my unpopular opinion
because I field tested it
this week
is if you don't think
New Zealand should also
be called Aotearoa
you probably shouldn't
get Friday off. Yeah, good call. Oh my God, if you don't think New Zealand should also be called Aotearoa you probably shouldn't get Friday off.
Yeah, good call.
Oh my God,
if you don't know.
I like how Ruth said
that's a field tested
unpopular opinion
to just a walking around ask.
This one's interesting.
Katie's unpopular opinion,
the only time you actually
need to wear undies
is under a flowy dress.
Oh no,
but you've got to think
about Jane.
You can't wear,
you can't go Kamado
in Jane.
You absolutely could.
Jane's absolutely getting up in there.
Tasha, let's finish with you.
What's your unpopular opinion?
I absolutely hate marshmallows and ice cream with lollies in it.
What?
No, no, no, no.
You're talking to two people.
I'm hanging up on her.
You're good.
Hang up.
Tash, no way.
Goody Goody Gun Drops is the best flavour.
Oh, no, I hate it.
I absolutely hate it, I hate it.
I absolutely hate it.
I hate you. Is it because you've got ice cream in your mouth
and then a lolly comes along and it's a surprise?
No, it's chewing time.
Oh, it'd be because I don't like lollies.
It probably would be why.
Wait, you don't like lollies?
No, I think you need to hang up.
No, I don't like lollies.
What do you like?
Vegetables.
I'm more of a like, I like muffins and like a savoury kind of person.
I thought you said.
She loves flour.
I thought you said muttons.
You like muttons.
I just like old sheep.
Give me the old sheep.
All right, Tasha.
Thank you for your unpopular opinion
So many messages in
We're all riled up now
Fact of the day
Day day day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
Quick fact of the day today about World War II fighter planes.
What was that?
I love World War II fighter planes.
He loves it.
Have you been in one?
No.
We went in a...
Was it a World War I?
A biplane, a bisexual plane.
Yes.
Good for them.
We had to squeeze together in the back.
And it was only a one-seater.
It was a one-seater.
It was in Blenheim.
Yes.
And you can go along to the museum there and they will take you up in one.
It was like a tourism thing for...
Was it a World War I or a World War II?
We saw a lot of biplanes, but I feel like it was one of those underwing ones.
And it was one of the ones where you put a cute little hat on and goggles.
And it was like Snoopy's Christmas.
Freezing cold.
But it was amazing.
It was a beautiful day over Marlborough.
Beautiful.
Well, today's fact of the day about Spitfires in particular.
When you think of World War II movies or TV shows
and the Spitfires come in and they just start lighting dudes up
with the machine guns.
Turn around, come back.
Which they, by the way, wouldn't let us do over Blenheim.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, for God's sake.
I was like, come on. Which they, by the way, wouldn't let us do over Blenheim. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, for God's sake. I was like, come on, those cows.
Just Blenheim.
Those cows are old.
Let us light them up.
I was lining up the vineyards.
Yeah.
Let's light up some of that.
Let's light up some of them Merlot grapes because Merlot is trash.
Merlot is straight trash.
Let's light up that entire Merlot vineyard because Merlot is the worst red wine.
Get yourself a Noir.
Yeah.
Always a Noir.
It was a World War.
Maybe a Syrah.
Maybe a Syrah or a Shiraz.
That was today.
It was a Boeing Stem
and it's a World War II trainer.
So it was a World War II plane.
Okay, a World War II plane.
Man, that was cool.
Okay, so we have been
in a World War II plane
but this is a Spitfire,
the underwing dude,
the tough looking guy.
Today's fact of the day is they only had 20 seconds of trigger time
before they were completely out of ammunition.
Really?
So when you think about it, when there's like a boat.
Who flies?
Yeah.
So they'd have to go back, land, and get 300 more rounds per gun.
So in 20 seconds, there were 300 rounds.
So you'd line them up, go around.
So you couldn't just sort of fly away.
Well, willy-nilly.
You have to have a plan.
No, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You definitely have to have a plan.
Otherwise, yeah, you had to turn around and go and land.
And you might have, like, heaps of fuel left.
But you didn't have any bullets left.
Gosh.
Which kind of takes the whole...
I figured that were just super effective
because they'd just come in
and they'd just be able to light things up for ages
and then just get home on a smell of an oily rag and land
and get more bullets.
But yeah, once they'd offloaded 20 seconds of trigger time,
they were just a distraction, really.
Huh.
I mean, you didn't know if they had 20 seconds.
You could see one coming and be like,
oh no, is it coming?
Run for your life.
Run for your life, everybody.
And did the German planes, did they have more?
I'm just trying to Google, but I can't find anything.
Oh, I don't have that.
I don't have that follow-up piece of information.
Huh.
Yeah.
So, yeah, next time you see a World War II movie
and that Spitfire's flying over and lighting it up for, like, 10,000 bullets,
very unlikely, as they had 300 rounds per gun
and they had about 20 seconds of trigger time.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah. I like you, my doll
Play ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley
Play ZDM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley
Silly little pole, silly little pole
It is so silly, silly, silly that
Silly little pole, silly little pole Silly Little Pole.
Do you regularly schedule a date night?
Do you have a regularly scheduled date night?
Like Mondays, we do dinner and drinks.
Saturdays, you and me, baby, we're going out.
Or every Thursday night, you get a babysitter.
Yeah.
Or that's your night where you just like...
Ditch the kids with the grandparents and just get it on.
Well, this is a bit sad, actually.
8%, yes.
Only 8% of respondents, of which there are thousands,
said that they have a regular date night.
But then wouldn't you just end up doing stuff at the weekends?
So it's not so much scheduled, it's just...
Yeah, no, totally.
We don't schedule a date night.
But if you don't schedule it, you can, you know, let it slide by.
I think that's good.
Yeah, it could be easy just to spend the whole weekend watching Netflix.
Yeah, I sound like a proponent of a scheduled date night here,
but no, I'm not.
Yeah.
It happens when it happens.
Yeah.
And sometimes it doesn't happen for a long time.
Yeah, you do the odd scheduled thing, though, eh?
You plan something every now and again?
I've planned a date on Sunday.
Oh, yeah.
But see, that's a planned one-off.
To me, a schedule is like the first weekend of every month
or something like that.
Yeah, like the bus comes at 10 past.
Yes, that's a scheduled bus.
That's a bus.
Or your work schedule is you are there from 9 to 5 or whatever.
Yeah.
Some responses.
Rach says, it's with myself
on a Tuesday night.
So I do something special,
nice or joyful
for myself.
Yeah.
Okay.
Make sure you charge up
on a Monday.
So Thursdays,
it's not really,
it's not really date night per se,
but we always go out
for dinner on a Thursday
and have a walk around the city.
We do it every week, no
questions. Even on a night like
tonight where it will be freezing cold?
Strap on a jacket. Okay.
Jessica says it's been 10
years together. If we don't
schedule date night, we just won't
spend time together away from our phones.
She says from her phone.
Yeah.
To make sure my best friend and I actually see each other,
we schedule a date every Wednesday.
Oh, okay.
So more of a platonic date.
Yeah, it's a good idea.
Then my boyfriend and I have Tuesday
so that we see each other during the week
and between weekends we live apart.
Okay.
That'll grow old, eh, once they live together.
You'll be gagging for some time away.
Emma says,
yes, but no. We're currently
doing alphabet dating and you
just have to complete your date within a
month of the last one.
What's alphabet dating?
Let me Google.
A, you have to go to a restaurant that starts with A
or do something that starts with A?
The Albatross Centre, which can I say I've been
to in New Zealand? It's incredible.
Okay, what are you doing on the B date?
Basketball.
C.
Cooking classes.
D.
Dancing.
E.
Everything.
We're doing everything all the way.
Eggs.
Eggs.
Eggs Benedict.
Yeah, okay.
F.
Folk lore.
Folk dancing.
Folk dancing.
Yes.
G.
Gaming. Gaming. Yep. H. Folk dancing. Folk dancing. Yes. G. Gaming.
Gaming.
Yep.
H.
Horror maze.
I.
Igloo.
Igloo building.
Go to that minus five bar.
Ice bar.
Yeah, ice bar.
J.
Jive talking.
What?
I'm panicking.
I'm panicking.
Jam making.
Jam making classes.
K.
Killing your mortal enemy.
And that's when date nights stopped because Vaughan went to prison.
There you go.
Some more responses.
Jim says, we try and have regular date nights, but nothing ever scheduled.
Usually happens after a busy month and we go, who are you?
I haven't seen you for a while.
Well, there you go.
Spice it up.
Spice it up, guys.
Do it tonight, Wednesdays.
Just slip on a little slinky number.
It's cold.
Maybe we'll just wait till next week.
No one's slipping on a slinky number tonight.
They're putting on trackies and frothy socks.
You know when you put on like a satin or a silk when you first put on, it's always cold.
Yeah, it feels wet.
It feels wet and cold.
Yeah.
And slippery.
How much satin and silky things are you putting on?
All of my clothes. I'm constantly wearing satin silky things are you putting on? All of my clothes.
I'm constantly wearing satin shirts.
Constantly.
I've got a big satin shirt vibe.
Do you?
Vorda in a satin shirt?
Huge, shimmery, shiny satin shirt vibe.
See, I could imagine you in some satin Tasmanian devil boxes.
I'm wearing them right now.
Play ZM's Fletch Vorda Naley.
Last night, 9.09pm.
Jared messages the group,
does anyone know how to take the fuel cap off the keep?
Jeep.
Fletch, I was driving, so no reply from me.
Sorry, no idea, mate.
Push in and twist.
Give it a Google.
That was helpful from Fletch.
Yeah.
Carwin is obviously with the Jeep as well.
Google's not helping.
Fletch said, do you have a manual in the glove box?
We don't have one in ours, and is there a key?
And I also did Google, and surprisingly,
there is no help for how to get it out.
Truly none.
There's truly no help.
When you Google it and it's not a common problem
or hasn't been written on there,
that tells me something's broken.
Yes.
So this is a fuel cap with a keyhole in it.
So you've got to put the car key in it
and then I think you've got to do a half twist and push.
It's like getting a medical safe cap of a bottle.
Yeah, yeah.
A child proof.
Yeah, child protectors.
Yeah, which I think is where
producer Jared ran into trouble.
Yeah, so like it gave us instructions
on how to remove the fuel cap.
Yeah.
But they just weren't clear enough.
No.
It said quarter turn.
Yeah.
And we eventually figured out it meant 1.2 millimeters to the right at a 45 degree angle.
And then you have to also push in and pull out at the same time.
Javis.
Push the can, but pull the cap out.
Yeah. It was just a nightmare.
We were there for 20 minutes, I think.
Yeah, and four degrees temperature.
And of course, we were in the other Jeep and nearly home,
so our care factor was minimal.
Oh, guys, no, that sucks.
That's so sad.
We were messaging you guys.
We were messaging the ZM Girls chat, in case any of the other girls have used the car before.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
There's a ZM girls chat?
Yeah, there is.
I demand to be included on equality grounds.
No, you're not in the chat.
Are you in the girls chat?
I'm a recent addition.
Who's in the girls chat?
Everyone from the office.
All the girls of ZM.
It's just the girls.
What are you talking about in there? Just girls things. Just from the office. All the gals of ZM. It's just the gals. What do you talk about
in there? Just gals things.
Who's the cutest boy here?
Oh my god. Do you talk about how cute
we are? As in me? Do you talk about how cute
we are? Guys, I can't say. Oh my god.
They do that. So it's like Girls After Dark
but ZM. It's like ZM Girls
After Dark. ZM After Dark. Okay.
Shall I show you how useful the gals of
ZM group was?
Which is...
No, no, no.
During the fuel cap debate.
Who knows how to get the gas cap off the bloody ZM car?
Photo included, which was helpful.
Would have been helpful, Gerard.
In the men's group.
This shite will not come out.
We're in Bombay.
Larissa, it's a push in and then twist, which is what you said.
Yeah, I said that. Carween, nothing working.
Are you sure the twist
isn't working?
Nothing working.
I want to know what was discussed previously.
Give us some juicy chat.
What's said in the girls chat
stays in the girls chat. I'll tell you.
We've got to start a lads chat.
Talking about car engines and stuff. I'd rather do in the gas. I'll tell you. We've got to start a lads chat. Talking about car engines and stuff.
I'd rather join the girls chat.
I'd rather join the girls chat.
It's like, what are we wearing to the
awards?
Also, you've seen a photo
of how much a Jeep Wrangler cost
to fill up for empty.
It's that big.
$244? Yep. It was what? $244?
Yep.
It was wild.
That's rent.
Yeah.
We both looked to the left,
saw it,
and both went,
need to take a photo of that.
We should have been rigging the retro petrol time machine last week
and just taking all of the cash.
Oh yeah, we should have.
What was it?
There'll be no more price patrols.
Fuel does it take?
Premium or 91?
Well, now we put 91 in
and I don't know what it takes.
That's cheap, Rob.
It's company gal there saving some money.
It still worked the rest of the way, so I'm assuming it was fine.
Yeah.
We got home.
Was it stuttering?
Not really, but that 20-minute delay at the gas station
meant they shut the motorway.
Oh, and they need to go the long way.
Yeah, for some roadworks.
Did you ask the girls, Chad, if they knew a better direction?
Well, the gals always know.
But we keep them secret for when we need to get places.
Right.