ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - 27th June 2022

Episode Date: June 26, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The ZM Podcast Network. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Warren and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCafe, grab a rich, smooth, barista-made coffee. Thank you for saying my name so gently. I had hit the Hayley hard. We had to delete that one. I said Fletch, Warren and Hayley. Are you angry at me?
Starting point is 00:00:23 No, but we're here. We're here. We're here. We are here. No, not at all. Not at all. We've just been hit by the classic. I think these come out always Monday at like 9 o'clock or quarter to 9. It's Monday for me, yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:34 Yeah, the daily iPhone screen time, the weekly iPhone screen time. Very confronting, isn't it? Oh, and my parking's about to expire, so let's not dilly-dally. Dilly-dally. Now, how did you find it? Because I got a text or like a little buzz. You can go into settings and then in settings you scroll down
Starting point is 00:00:52 to screen time. What was your last week's average? Mine was up 48% from the week before. Up 48%! 48%! Quiet week the week before. I think it's because I've been watching a lot of the I've watched a bit of sport on my phone. Oh, babe, mine's down 34%.
Starting point is 00:01:09 Also, I did spend a lot of time messaging people because it was my birthday last week. Yes, this is true. Saying happy birthday. Thank you for the messages. So I'm down 34, you're up 65. I was down 17. Okay. That's probably because you spent all your time stuck in the mud on Sunday.
Starting point is 00:01:27 As you'll hear soon on the show. Yeah. Oh, what's this? A lot of time. I'm wondering when you've got your phone plugged into Apple Play on your phone. Yes. On your car, sorry. Does that count as screen time?
Starting point is 00:01:43 No. Because my screen is active. No, it's not. Yeah, when you're using your maps or whatever Yeah, yeah, I listen to podcasts using it through that I wonder if it counts towards it Yeah, I truly don't know Oh, look, it breaks it down Social, no, that's the most of it
Starting point is 00:01:55 My biggest day was Saturday That was when I was hungover Oh, no, I was hungover on Friday That's also up as well But you were also hungover on Saturday Yes, I had a two-day hangover So Friday and Saturday, my screen time is through the roof. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:06 Yeah. My most used Instagram. Let's see what my kids did for screen time. Does it? You can go to Bonham, you can do family. I can add Sade, I can see everybody. But when you listen- Indie's the worst.
Starting point is 00:02:18 When you listen to music, it doesn't- It counts as screen time, but it's not. Only if your screen's on, though. Like, if you're just listening to headphones, does that count it? I don't know. No, it doesn't. I don't think so. It doesn't, because I listened at the gym,
Starting point is 00:02:34 and I've only got 56 minutes for last week on Spotify. It's just updating. Okay, her average last week was four hours, five minutes a day, down 31% from the week before, which was which we're rocking about six hours a day. Oh, my God. That's terrible. Yeah. Look, there's needs.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Imagine if when you were a teenager, the internet knocked to your parents. I know. Oh, my God. The chat rooms I was in. Imagine. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She spent 15 hours on TikTok last week.
Starting point is 00:03:06 What? Wow. That's crazy. The week before, 18 hours on TikTok. 19 and a half. That was our isolation week where we were all just sat at home. Yeah, well, that's fine. Feeling like sacks of shit, but.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Maybe you need to put a limit on it. You can put app limits. Yeah, I know you can, eh? Yep. You can go an hour a day. Producer Jared spent nine hours 28 a day on his phone. Jared! And that's only up 5% from the week before.
Starting point is 00:03:33 Yeah. I really have no idea where that came from. Does it have a breakdown? Because it shows you the apps that's in it, that's using it. There's a lot in social. A lot in Safari incognito mode. Yeah. Nine hours.
Starting point is 00:03:50 Private browsing seems to have had a lot of that. You're watching the wrong stuff. It's taking you hammering. You've got to close your ranks somehow, Tim. Wow. Oh, well, good for you, mate. Good for you. I had personally a great weekend, but for women around the world, not a great one.
Starting point is 00:04:09 No. Truly. Terrible. No, ma'am. Yeah. Truly outrageous. However. But as I say, I had a lot of good food this weekend.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Yeah, personally. Personally. Great weekend. Gender-wise, not stoked. No. It's a toughie. What a crap one. America, eh?
Starting point is 00:04:31 It's getting more and more like the actual Handmaid's Tale every day. Yeah. It actually is. Yeah. I think even Margaret Atwood said that, didn't she? She came out and said... I think she said that about three things ago. Yeah. And it feels like it about three things ago. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:45 And it feels like it's not slowing down. No. Good Lord. Not good. Well, that was a great start. Yeah, real good. Not much to say about it, is there? It's just outrageous.
Starting point is 00:04:58 This week on the road, we've got more Bangers Bingo. Yes. We'll be in Tauranga Tuesday. Wellington on Wednesday for our Bangers Bingo. So get We'll be in Tauranga Tuesday, Wellington on Wednesday for our Bangers Bingo. So get a team in. You said Wellington's going to be cold. My hometown.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Yeah, I think there's a few storms coming this week. A bit more cold weather for the South Island as well. What's the weather for Tauranga doing? Because are we walking up the Mount? I'm not walking up there unless it's infinite invis visibility, you know?
Starting point is 00:05:25 Unless it's going to look good on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Tuesday, cloudy. I mean, that does give us a lot of even light. Good lighting, but then the beach doesn't look good. The visibility, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:37 I want to be able to see all down the coast, you know? Yeah. We'll just go to the pub instead, I reckon. Yeah. Sure. I reckon. Get some hot chips. Get a Copenhagen cone and hit it. All right. The top six is coming up on the show. Yeah. We'll just go to the pub instead, I reckon. Yeah. Sure. Get some hot chips. Get a Copenhagen cone and hit it.
Starting point is 00:05:46 All right. The top six is coming up on the show. Yeah. Eden Park has said thanks, no thanks to some school balls being held there. Yeah, quite last minute too. Yeah. And I thought, it always blows my mind when schools are having their school balls at places like Eden Park.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Well, you don't know it, but there's actually a big, there's big function rooms right up the top of the stadium. Oh, no, I know that there's function rooms. I just can't believe school children think they need Eden Park for a school ball. Oh, yeah, but they're big schools, aren't they? Yeah. It's not mine school college. Gosh, no. Where was your school ball?
Starting point is 00:06:19 School hall. Yeah. Where we had assembly. Mine was in the Wellington Town Hall. Oh. Oh. Oh. La, la, la, la, la. Savage. School hall? Yeah. Where we had assembly? Mine was in the Wellington Town Hall. Ooh. Oh, la, la, la, la, la. Savage. It was James Bond themed.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Down, down, down. Did you do a joint school ball with a boys school? No, we used to do your form. No, no, your discos, like your dancers would have joint, but your balls you'd take a date from whatever school. Yeah, right. Okay. Good fun.
Starting point is 00:06:48 These schools now looking for a venue. Yeah, so I've got the top six places you can have a school ball. All right, next on the show. We want to talk about healthy eating habits. On a Monday. Come on. Give me a break. I've got to ease into it.
Starting point is 00:07:01 God, me this weekend. Outrageous. All right. Play. ZDM's F. Outrageous. All right. Well, according to this survey, three in five US adults, United States, those guys, can't stand them, honestly, at this point, have attempted a traditional diet in their lifetime.
Starting point is 00:07:21 58%. I would have thought all of them. I would have thought more. Same. I reckon it would be more in New Zealand. 58%. I would have thought all of them. I would have thought more. Same. I reckon it would be more in New Zealand. We love a diet. We love a healthy choice that's looking after yourself. Yeah. We love a Jenny Craig.
Starting point is 00:07:33 We love a crash diet, like a month before we need to lose the weight. Yes. Knowing we'll put it back on in two days and more. Oh, actually, just on that, you know how we've got a formal event coming up? I put on my suit yesterday. Fits.
Starting point is 00:07:48 The pants do, but I must have bulked up. Oh, wow, this is a brag. You chat. This is a big brag, a humble brag. I'm just my upper. No, my upper. No, my personal trainer said to me, oh, I saw Fletch in the gym yesterday.
Starting point is 00:08:01 And I said, oh, yeah. She said, he's been lifting a lot of weights recently. Oh, he's all about the weights. She knows you as a cardio boy. Yeah, because I can't do cardio because of my long COVID. Yeah, so you're getting a bit jacked. So I can't do any, yeah, cardio. So I'm just, all I'm doing is weights and I can't fit my shirt.
Starting point is 00:08:16 She said you were doing the double fly. Oh, that's the worst one. Why is that the worst one? That hurts. Yeah, so I've got to buy a new shirt. But the pants are fine. What're going to get absolutely ripped. Yeah, so I've got to buy a new shirt but the pants are fine but it's three weeks away and the pants
Starting point is 00:08:30 are just perfect but there's no give. Are you going to do a Kim K? A Kim Kardashian, what does she eat? The cleanest meat and vegetables
Starting point is 00:08:40 and that was it to get into the Marilyn Monroe dress. Yeah, no. The cleanest meat. I mean, at this stage I may need more pants, depending on how this next two weeks goes.
Starting point is 00:08:49 I need a whole new wardrobe at the moment. I've been packing some stuff up. I don't need it looking me in the eye every day. Oh, yeah. As I'm searching for the pants that fit. I don't need that stuff. It's vacuum packed. Consider yourself vacuum packed.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Anyway, so lots of people doing diets. I'm going to Frank Casey's suit hire. Are you? Are you? Only the best for this beautiful boy. Are you going to get a blue tuxedo? I'm probably going to say I'm going until 10 minutes before and then just be like, I don't feel well.
Starting point is 00:09:15 I've got COVID and then I don't have to go. He absolutely will. You will too. Mm-hmm. Well, okay. You're most welcome. Anyway, 80% of people that have been on a diet say they very quickly revert to their old eating habits.
Starting point is 00:09:27 Do we need a study to tell us that? On a Monday, everyone's like, I'm going to eat good this week. And then by Wednesday, Tuesday. For like a year now, because you know, I was a big keto girl for ages. Loved it. And then it's unsustainable.
Starting point is 00:09:43 You can't keep it. And then bread happened. And then cro's unsustainable You can't keep And then bread And then bread happened And then croissants Yeah On a Sunday And every time I go Every time I go and do seven days I forget that I haven't told them
Starting point is 00:09:52 I'm not keto So I always get a keto meal And everyone sits there With their like Chicken filo pie And I've got a Can of mince And some broccoli
Starting point is 00:10:03 And nothing that even Remotely represents a grain. Yeah. Well, don't feel bad from the study, I think. Don't diet. That's what we can take from this. Life's too short. Life's too short.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Everybody gets back into the old habits. Eat the croissant. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Silly little boys. Silly little boys. It is so silly, silly, silly that Silly Little Pole, Silly Little Pole. Silly Little Pole, Silly Little Pole.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Silly Little Pole. Well, today's Silly Little Pole supermarket etiquette here with the trolleys and the self-serve checkouts. Yeah, can you take them through there? Is that a trolley-friendly zone? It's normally the half trolley that people will take through there. Oh, absolutely. You've got only a half trolley. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:10:52 You couldn't have a big, deep pack-and-save one, for example. Nah. Those are like trucks. My local supermarket has banned them now, I think. They've got a no. Really? The half trolleys used to perfectly slide over the shelf, and I think that was on purpose.
Starting point is 00:11:05 Right. And so you could just unload them. You wouldn't have too much stuff. Yeah. I don't think it matters as long as you've got the amount of items, be it 12 or 15. No, but there's no item limit on the self-serve. 12. Yes, there is.
Starting point is 00:11:18 No, there's not. It's 12. Yes, there is. What are you doing your weekly shop? Okay, you wouldn't take your weekly shop through, but there's no item limit at the self-serve. Not at mine. It definitely is. I thought it was 12.
Starting point is 00:11:28 It's 12. No, it's not. Some places, 15. What do you shop at again? Why do I do New World and Countdown? 25 at a self-serve, apparently, according to Jarrod. No, our New World is 12. I think they're all different,
Starting point is 00:11:41 because I remember looking at mine, and there's never been a sign. Do you think it's a space situation? Because you can only load up that small little weight bit. And if everybody had a trolley in there, it would be impossible to get to the end one if that was the one that was available to you. Yes, and it's supposed to be faster. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:00 So is it okay to use a self-service machine if you have a trolley? 60% of people said yes. 40% said no. Melissa, if they don't have a sign saying no trolleys, then it's fair game. I always try to get on the end, though, so I can put my trolley out of the way of others. Yeah. Shelby says, but only when it's me. No one else should do this.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Which is very much everybody's opinion of anything to do in a supermarket, eh? No one else should be doing this but I do. Everyone's poking avocados and propping the tops off. They shouldn't be doing that. I do it.
Starting point is 00:12:34 But nobody else should. They should do it so I can do it when I arrive. Yeah, because they're ruining the avocados but I'm obviously getting the best avocado. Of course, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:43 Got a bit selfish, haven't we? Yeah, self-serving. What do you want us to take an inward sort of look to you? A bit of a reflection upon our actions. Maybe we should be. It would be a good time. I also think it's a little too late. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:55 We ruined everything. Yeah, I reckon we just ride this one out. Yeah. Earth 2.0 though, no more mistakes. Tash says, Pack and Save literally have ones that are made to take trolleys. Yeah. I think it depends on how big the supermarket is and the size.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Our local Pack and Save has self-service, but it's in West Auckland, so you'd rather be self-servicing if you don't know. No, the Pack and Saves, I've been to have had them. Yeah. They were the last to get them. Maybe how they do it, pack your bags. Remember when they just said, we're not going to do that anymore?
Starting point is 00:13:26 No, that's up to you. And they just slide the stuff down the air. Excuse me? How rude. Oh, you pack and you save. Alexandra says, as long as you don't have tons of stuff and always keep it neatly out of the way, but if it doesn't have a 12 items or under sign,
Starting point is 00:13:42 why not get in there? Yeah, do it. Why not get in there? And Hannah said, our self-service is there for peeps who have a small number of items or undersigned, why not get in there? Yeah, do it. Why not get in there? And Hannah said, self-service is there for peeps who have a small number of items so you don't have to wait behind someone with a full trolley. Yes. So again, you're half trolley only. You don't take a full trolley through.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Half trolley and not like a bulging half trolley. Not a Christmas shop. No. Half trolleys are amazing. They're where it's at. I remember when they introduced those. You remember when only a few supermarkets had them? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:06 I remember we talked about them. Yes. Just like, what are these amazing inventions? Because you don't want to carry a basket. No. It's too much for a basket. It's too much. And the basket can get heavy.
Starting point is 00:14:16 In the crook. In the elbow, yeah. It's pulling it. Oh, that's so heavy. Especially with the wine. Oh, yeah, yeah. A few wines, a few big bottles of Fuzzy Pop. I mean, that's adding Three to four litres
Starting point is 00:14:26 Yeah Right That's nuts Yeah So there you go Use it but Don't abuse it Bingo
Starting point is 00:14:32 Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley Fletch's birthday Last week And I must say An absolute present From left field
Starting point is 00:14:41 Oh This was From The people from Illumination Studios who make your favourite animated... You don't like animated movies. You know, I love the Minions.
Starting point is 00:14:50 You've never seen The Lion King? I'd never seen The Lion King until about... What? Four years ago, five years ago. Oh, my God. I sat down and made him watch The Lion King. Have you watched the original Cinderella and Pocahontas? No, no.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Pocahontas probably wouldn't get made that way No I don't think it would I don't think it would I don't know Many of the Pre-1960s Walt Disney animated movies
Starting point is 00:15:12 Probably get made the same Yeah Way Well that's why they're remaking them all Yeah Well the new Minions movie The Rise of Gru Is out on
Starting point is 00:15:19 It must be Thursday The 30th of June Monday Tuesday Yeah Thursday Yeah And you love a Minion He's a big Minions boy But not like I'm not like He's got a stack of Thursday, the 30th of June. Yeah, Thursday. And you love a minion.
Starting point is 00:15:26 He's a big minions boy. I'm not like your auntie that's still... He's got a stack of tires outside his house and he's painted them yellow. Oh, yeah. With blue overalls on. So they look like minions. But I'm not like an auntie that posts minion memes. I think you've sent me a couple of minion memes.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Big, big, big auntie minion memes. The best minion memes are the ones that have nothing to do with Minions. Like a picture of a Minion and it's like, Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter. A Minion would not take that political stance. No. I've never seen any of the Minion World films. Oh, they're so great.
Starting point is 00:16:01 They're so great. Well, they started out as like the adorable, marketable part of Despicable Me. Yeah. But then everybody just fell in love with them. Yeah. Do you remember that time
Starting point is 00:16:10 you won a couple of movies? You won a Minion. We won Minions in the claw machine. Yes. It was a great day. It was a great day. Centre City?
Starting point is 00:16:16 Yeah, it was a great day. Where is that Minion now? That quality Minion? I don't know. I think my Minion got killed by the dog. Yeah, I was going to say. Major Murray has eaten it.
Starting point is 00:16:27 This was out of absolute left field. I got this sent to my hungover state on Saturday morning. The studio that make Minions. Illumination! Have been doing some artwork, some pieces. Yeah. And it was all... New Zealand's biggest Minion fan, Fletch, got a hand-drawn birthday image.
Starting point is 00:16:46 It is so cute. And so it's me wearing my headphones with a microphone and there's my cats there and there's Minions. And you're wearing your yellow t-shirt and your blue hat. I know, it's amazing. Yeah. You can literally go and look at it right now on FEHZM on Instagram.
Starting point is 00:17:02 That cat gave me, your cat gave me that look when I saw it last week. It's very fitting. It's very, it nailed that look. But yeah, it's very cool. Oh, it tickled me.
Starting point is 00:17:12 It cured my hangover, my birthday hangover. Yes. It's very good. Amazing, yeah. Oh, so cute. When's the movie out? Thursday.
Starting point is 00:17:20 Thursday. Are you going to go and watch it and freak out? I think so yeah oh well take yourself
Starting point is 00:17:27 on a nice little date that'd be cute we'll show you some popcorn yeah I'm more of a Maltesers oh you're a Maltesers boy
Starting point is 00:17:40 oh yeah that's fair enough yeah popcorn's a bit much popcorn's a bit much a bit much it really grinds a bit much. A bit much. It really grinds the teeth, doesn't it? It really gets in there.
Starting point is 00:17:48 And buttery, and afterwards, you always regret eating the whole box. It is too much. Look at that sort of roof coating of butter. So much waste too, because half of it just gets left in the box and put on the floor,
Starting point is 00:17:58 or tipped all over the floor, and ends up up the vacuum. How much per volume do they vacuum popcorn-wise out of the heaps? Cinemas, eh? Must be a lot. You'd be churning through vacuum cleaners. It would absolutely destroy them.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Yeah. You'd be getting a new one every week. And then there'd be the discussion of maybe we just buy a decent vacuum cleaner rather than keep buying these shitty vacuum cleaners. No, no, no, these ones are fine. No, these are fine, these are fine. We'll place them every month. These are fine, these are fine. We place them every month. These are fine. These are fine.
Starting point is 00:18:32 I didn't actually know that Auckland had been rated the world's most livable city. I think it was in, was it last year? Yeah. It was when everybody was like riddled with COVID. And we didn't have it. And restrictions. COVID wasn't in Auckland. So bar a couple of lockdowns, it was like business as per. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Therefore, liveable. Well, it's not anymore. God, we've dropped. We've absolutely dropped. Auckland has dropped from first, most liveable city in the world, to 34th. Oh. Same thing, basically, now that we're just behind,
Starting point is 00:19:05 because now we're in the... Jesus, Adam, you did 34. That's embarrassing. That's dropping like a stone. We're winners. It's the biggest drop. The second biggest drop, actually. Wellington was fourth and is now 50th.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Oh, okay. How? How has it become so? Is it because we can't afford a cabbage and we've all got COVID? Bit of that. Yeah, I'd say a bit of that. So it looks at... And petrol's like $3.25 for 91.
Starting point is 00:19:33 It looks at education, infrastructure, health care, political stability. Oh, there you go. Crime rates and culture and environment. Is there political unrest? And I haven't heard about it think, has been a little bit. Probably the parliament protests. Those clowns. Took some time.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Taking it down. Tiny, tiny, tiny minority. We don't worry about them. It's both New Zealand and Australia that we've just absolutely bombed. Really? So who's number one now? Okay, let me just have a look. Guesses.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Guesses before. Oslo? It'll be some European country. Or Scandinavian. Vienna in Austria. Then Denmark's Copenhagen. A little close to nuclear war for me. Zurich in Switzerland in third.
Starting point is 00:20:20 Calgary and then Vancouver in Canada. Melbourne is 10th now German cities have had the biggest improvements Frankfurt Well it's named after a delicious sausage I can't like it so much I'm good as I have to live
Starting point is 00:20:35 And then it's just a hot dog That leapt What? What? Too much bread I'd just rather eat the Frankfurter Too much bread Do what you want What's wrong with you? But I'm just saying eat the frankfurter. Too much bread. Do what you want.
Starting point is 00:20:45 What's wrong with you? But I'm just saying that it's delicious. Yeah. Chopped onions, mustard, tomato, crispy bun. You know, like the bun me bun would be a great bun for a big fat fritzes. Hell yeah, crispy and just super soft. Yeah. Now I want a hot dog.
Starting point is 00:21:01 Good work, Fletch. Now we want hot dogs. Thanks, Frank Fletch. I don't know if you're going to get one in a city that's dropped in its livability ranking so high. No. Now you need to go to Hamburg. You need to go anywhere in France, Canada. Oh, wait.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Don't talk about other German cities that have brought us delicious treats. Yum. The Italian town of pizza. Yep. Just ahead of the Italian town spaghetti bolognese. Your favourite sound is the town Carbonara. You love a creamy
Starting point is 00:21:31 white pasta. I love a creamy white pasta. There's nothing wrong with that. It's because you're a creamy white man. Play ZM's Fletch Vodanali. Play ZM. From the yummy ZM think tank, this is the top six. Excuse my giggles. I really feel like you're hitting smooth today.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Smooth. Grab a rich smooth. And I like it. I'm six hours, you know. Six hours? I've ordered a big round of coffees. McLean's college principal Steve Steve Hargrave, said, it's not fair.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Life's not fair. That's what he'd say to someone if they said it's not fair at school. Well, life's not fair, so it's good to prepare. Principal Smith over here. Oh, I run a tight ship. He said they got a call out of the blue on Thursday from the catering person informing them that all balls at Eden Park, which theirs was booked for five weeks, have been cancelled due to one school ball ruining it forever.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Who was the school? I don't know. They won't say. So I'm assuming they let them out and then everything just goes bad on the streets outside. Is that why? Yeah, and they'll be sneaking in booze and getting drunk. Yeah. Do they have an afterball on site or do you think...
Starting point is 00:22:54 I thought all of those were like, no school wants anything to do with an afterball. No, no, no. Oh, that's off the books. Yeah, that'll be off the books. So they don't have it at the same venue. So they've just said no more balls ever. Why? Well, for the foreseeable, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Which is crazy because it must have been a good moneymaker for them, right? Oh, yes. It wasn't going to be used that night and they could... Well, maybe that's not... Booking it out's not a problem. It's just the raucous behaviour. Well, they've got to find somewhere else now all these schools, don't they? Last minute.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Yeah. They do. So I've got the find somewhere else now, all these schools, don't they? Last minute. Yeah. They do. So I've got the top six places that you can have your school ball because it always blows my mind when schools have the money to hire like a proper function centre. Yeah, well, you and I went to like public hall schools,
Starting point is 00:23:38 didn't we? We did. I went to a very rich school and had a very rich formal. Well, you had your Wellington Town Hall. Wellington Town Hall. Yeah, ooh la la. Had a big photo on the stairs.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Mum and Dad came. I had to dance with Dad. Mum had to dance with my partner, Louis. Why did your parents come? Why did your parents come? This is a seventh form ball. You're like leaving ball. I don't know, it was very old fashioned.
Starting point is 00:23:58 Oh, for our leavers dinner, we even got drunk at Villagrad's. Yeah, gorgeous. Great. Good stuff. We shouldn't have been, but everybody that was there had a parental guardian.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Okay, so you're allowed to have a couple. So technically they were allowed to buy us a few drinks, I think. Is that legal? I don't know. I think so. It was under the old drinking laws.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Yeah, I think it was if you had a parent. I don't think those laws existed. Right. Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool. What's the statute of limitations on a place losing their alcohol license? No. You're right. Cool, cool, cool, cool. What's the statute of limitations on a place that lives in the Iraq? I hold license.
Starting point is 00:24:27 We got you. Cool, cool, cool, cool. I got the top six places to have a school ball. Number six, the local rugby club. They'll be done by then. They'll be done by then. Classic, yeah. Pay someone some cash to be on.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Oh, no, because it's a school ball. There won't be a need for the barkeep. Oh, I was going to say a $5 handle. A $5 handle of fizz. They could pour you a lemonade out of the fountain thing. Yeah, good. But the syrup's kind of
Starting point is 00:24:51 running out so it's mostly just carbonated syrup. I hate when a place isn't on top of their syrup and the soda gun. Or even if it's just the ratios of it on the piss
Starting point is 00:24:59 and it's way too syrupy. Like I think, I was at a bar and I had a gin and tonic. We had it with dinner, a friend and I, and they'd obviously, there was no tonic syrup and it was just like soda water, but like a tinge of tonic. Oh, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:25:13 I was like, no, why bother? Why bother? I know. Well, number five on the list will never do you wrong with a pour. Number five on the list of the top six places to have your school ball, the RSA. Yeah. The local Raza.
Starting point is 00:25:24 And you've got the pokies. Have your ear chewed off by some old mate. Oh, they'll go in one half. You can have the dance floor half ride. Where they usually have the meat raffles and the bingo. You can play some pool as well if you get bored. Yeah, darts. Yeah, darts.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Are you still a RSA member? You still go to your RSA? I am an RSA member, but I don't really have like a local close to me RSA. Okay. Hmm. Yeah. RIP. Good food that time we went. GoodSA. Okay. Hmm. Yeah. RIP. Good food that time we went.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Good food. Not bad. Not bad. Humble. Simple. Number four on the list of the top six places to have a school ball, a post-World War II community hall. You see these dotted around the country?
Starting point is 00:25:58 Rural? Yeah. I myself grew up next to one, the Kitei Hall. Kitei. They're always dark though, aren't they? Dark and they've got lots of photos on the walls. You always drive past them and you think, God, that must smell musty.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Every time I drive past them, I'd love to have a look in. And they're always in the middle of nowhere. Like, even when they built those, there can't have been many people around. That was the idea of them, though, because it was a community hall and these people, it was farming communities and they were so spread out and these old mates had been to World War II and were starting a family and their wives had maybe been involved
Starting point is 00:26:30 in the war effort and they wanted to keep that feeling of community going. Right. So they'd gather there and, I don't know, trash talk the Nazis. Fantastic. After World War II. But, yeah, they're still around and every time I drive past them, I'm like, ooh, I'd love to have a look in there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Because you know it's got one of those steel wall urinals. I feel like they only hold AA meetings now. I kind of sort of imagine about what else happens. Many at 21sts. All of my family have had their 21sts in the same hall. I've been to a 21st in a town hall. I don't know. Community hall.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Community hall. But they might do indoor bowls there. They might roll out a turf and do indoor bowls. Oh, sweet. Lovely local dance. Number three on the list of the top six places to have a school ball, the school gymnasium. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:16 It's not quite the assembly hall. It's got the wooden floor. It's got the volleyball markings. It's also got bad memories of the beep test. Yeah. Oh, God, no, you can't do it at school. There's the showers there. There's the toilets that are on.
Starting point is 00:27:27 And you could have a romp. Who's having a shower in the middle of their formal? How hard are you dancing? Well, you could be very sweaty. Yeah. Or you could have a romp on the crash mats. Oh, yeah. Oh, now they're on board.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Now they're on board. People romping at the school boards. Did your school always have a, oh, you were to an all-boys school. Oh, you were to an all-girls school. It might still happen. What? Did you always have the rumour of the couple that
Starting point is 00:27:45 did it between the crash mats? No. No. Not at Queen Margaret College. I remember there was the rumour of the couple that snuck between two stacked crash mats that you use for high jump. Got in between them. So one day I was like, I just don't believe the physics of it, so I climbed
Starting point is 00:28:01 in between two mats as a one-man operation. Not for a week. Oh, Jesus. Not to play with myself. But then just kind of like tried to lift a mat. And I just thought, even though I had no idea how it worked. Right. Sex.
Starting point is 00:28:14 But why didn't they just go to a toilet? Why didn't they just go to a toilet? Yeah. Just didn't get caught in the toilet. Oh. Someone could walk in. Between two thrusting, humping mats. Well, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:23 They would flap together. Number two on the list of the top six places to have a school ball are the library. Push all the books. Push all the books. Right, okay. Move all the shelves. Get rid of all the books. And that's generally quite a big area.
Starting point is 00:28:37 Oh, but you'll be shuffling on that quiet carpet. Yes. And someone will be like. It's a bit dense in there, I think. Someone will have Dolly Doctor open in the corner reading the sealed section about... Dolly! About their bits and pieces.
Starting point is 00:28:50 And number one on the list of the top six places to have a school ball, why not have it in that old abandoned warehouse with horrendous asbestos issues just down the road? Perfect. No one's using it. Red-stickered. Yes. So it'll be cheap.
Starting point is 00:29:03 It's already got a theme Yeah Post apocalyptic Yeah Zombie themed formal That'd be cute Yes Run with it
Starting point is 00:29:10 Run with it Do with it It's about time you consider being creative Get off your iPads And start being a bit more creative With your school balls That's today's top six A man has lost
Starting point is 00:29:22 And I I don't Actually have only read that he lost it. I don't know if he's got it back. He lost the details of an entire city. You might be thinking, how does a man lose the details of an entire city? He had the details of everyone that lived in the city. Right.
Starting point is 00:29:43 So, like, rates. He worked for. Right. So, like, rates. He worked for the council. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All sorts of personal information. And he went out for a few drinks on the way home from work. And he lost a USB stick, which held the personal data of an entire city. And looking at the size of the city,
Starting point is 00:30:00 it would be the equivalent of someone from, say, Christchurch Council going out and losing it. But how many people? I think it was just under 500,000. Yeah, it was just under, that's a Wellington-sized. A Wellington-sized city, yeah. Or bigger. I don't know, I can't remember how big Wellington is.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Very small, everyone knows everyone. Well, I just know that it's got a big thing on the weather. So if you've got a big thing on the weather. If you've got a big thing on the weather. If you've got a big flyover on the weather, you're a big deal. Capital City. Yeah. When Napier Hastings dipped their toe in having a flyover in the
Starting point is 00:30:32 weather. Yeah, I don't know if I was on board with that. No, you weren't. And I'll tell you who else wasn't. Anyone over 50. Skip it. So was this the only USB? There was no backup USB. No, no, no. There's at work. It's on the computer, but he had a duplicate. Right.
Starting point is 00:30:47 And he just dropped it out of his pocket or something. So it's... Yeah. He's got it shrunk and lost it. Yeah. So it was encrypted and password locked, but... Oh, okay. But, I mean, would you want it to get into 465,000 people's bank account details,
Starting point is 00:31:05 addresses, birthdays, and full names. Oh, you could do some real identity fraud with that. Absolutely. And also,
Starting point is 00:31:11 if you had the skills, you could definitely get into that if it wasn't a strong password. Yeah. There's a fair bit of shenanigans to be
Starting point is 00:31:19 had with that with nearly half a million people's full information and bank account details. Password 1234. I love when you read these stories, like someone that works for the government leaves a folder on the bus,
Starting point is 00:31:28 and you're just like, huh, something I'd do. Yeah, or like the key to the office or something. That is the only one. They lose it. Yeah. Misplace it. You get the whole locks changed, speaking from experience.
Starting point is 00:31:41 Well, we want to know this morning the most important thing you've ever misplaced. Maybe temporarily, maybe forever. Maybe it was lost and gone. Right. But it was something. Because I know just before you get married, you can't go and get your marriage certificate six months before.
Starting point is 00:31:57 No. You've got to get it within QE. Right. You know, of getting married. Okay. But also, that's just a piece of paper. So you could totally lose it. Did you lose it?
Starting point is 00:32:06 No, no. Oh, Jesus. No, I picked it up and literally held it with two hands. Like a winning lotto ticket. Yeah. Yeah. And then got home
Starting point is 00:32:14 and gave it to Sade and immediately like, No, thank you. Not my problem. It's like birth certificates. Do you still need them for anything? I don't even think I've got I'm pretty sure
Starting point is 00:32:26 mum's got that in a drawer somewhere It's still in the orphanage in Russia Mum's big ring binder Mum's big ring binder full of everything Yes
Starting point is 00:32:34 So when I count for my IRD number I still ring mum Man You are 40 years old you should have your IRD number You need your IRD number
Starting point is 00:32:42 I've got it now but like in my 20s I was like Mum I'm going for my IRD number And she'd be IRD number. I've got it now, but in my 20s, I was like... And she'd be like, hold on. You'd hear the writing desk go up and the big folder come out and she'd have it in the front.
Starting point is 00:32:52 You got a pen? That's because she fraudulently used my name to dodge taxes in the 80s. So I'm just saying, farm and say. What? Who's this? Huh? What? What?
Starting point is 00:33:01 We want to know from you this morning, when you lost something important, whether it was a USB stick full of an entire city's information. Oh, God. Or just something. A ledger. Yeah, super important. Maybe it was a work thing.
Starting point is 00:33:12 You lost a work laptop. Oh, yeah. I'll just check with Sean if I can tell that story, and then I'll tell that story when we come back. It's a good story. Hopefully we can tell you. Yeah, when did you lose something important? Maybe you were in charge of something?
Starting point is 00:33:31 I'm trying to, I mean, I'm just so vigilant. Yeah, right. You don't misplace things? No, though one New Year's I did have too many drinks and I showed everyone my engagement ring. It was the first New Year's after I got engaged. I was showing it around and then God knows where it went
Starting point is 00:33:49 and I lost it for a good week. And it turned up on their windowsill. There'd be a lot of people losing their wedding ring and having to maybe cover it up and get a new one so their partner doesn't find out. Oh yeah. Or an engagement ring. I didn't order it again. We're talking about when you've lost something important.
Starting point is 00:34:05 A man in Japan lost an entire city's details of 465,000 residents. Bank details, date of birth, full name. They're the whole shebang bank. Is that a list that exists in the world? Yeah, I don't know. You know, like, is there a list that we're on with bank account details? That a city official would have details? Like, the IRD in New Zealand
Starting point is 00:34:25 would have it, but maybe they do like a regional tax thing as well. they're not giving USB sticks to employees on Friday night to lose and pass. I had this happen to me once. I had a brand new police station
Starting point is 00:34:37 built in Auckland Central. And so I had my old police station and instead of clearing out all the very important information like a list of 67,000 names of people with firearms and their addresses, I just left it in the building.
Starting point is 00:34:50 You bloody turkey. What did you do that for? I thought you were a fool. Idiot, eh? And then it was stolen. Yeah. Wow. Dumb.
Starting point is 00:34:56 And then did you pull somebody over for speeding and they said your time would be better spent cleaning out those offices of all those firearms, license details? That's all I've been getting ever since. Yeah, I bet. That's all I've been getting ever since. Yeah, I bet.
Starting point is 00:35:05 That's all I've been getting ever since. I bet. But lots of people misplacing things. Very important things. Yeah, and irreplaceable things as well. Anyone misplaced their child? No stories of misplacing the child as yet. No one's owned up.
Starting point is 00:35:19 I think they get them back. So Patsy didn't message in? When did she misplace? Did she leave you? In the mall. You know when you're a kid and you just lose sight of them? Yeah. And you're screaming. And then you get someone to put on the...
Starting point is 00:35:32 Is anyone missing a child? You do have big leash child energy. Yeah. They didn't have leashes in the 90s as much. I had a leash. Yvonne had a leash. It saved him from being drowned. We were in Whangamata and we went down to... Did you have a leash? Word got round 1980s Whangamata and we went down to the... Did you have a leash? Word got round, 1980s Whangamata, that someone had caught a marlin
Starting point is 00:35:49 and they were stringing it up down at the wharf to weigh it. So everybody was going down. So Dad and his mates went down and my mum was like, take Vaughan or take the kids with you. And I'm pretty sure my dad would have been like... Anyway, he did. All right, stick him on the leash. He was looking at the marlin and he had the leash around his hand
Starting point is 00:36:05 and I just walked off the side of the wharf. And his arm just went up like that. And I was like, whoa, AJ Hackett styles. Wow, okay. Yeah, sometimes I see like a parent with a kid on a leash and I always think about that story of you. Big leash energy. Wow.
Starting point is 00:36:20 I should have been leashed, but I wasn't. Yeah, and I know some people are anti-leashing a child, but I'm all about leashing a child well you're not a dog are you I'm pretty close at least a dog
Starting point is 00:36:29 can swim if it falls off the wall let's take some calls Belinda what did you lose that was important hey you know
Starting point is 00:36:37 after our wedding my one of our groomsmen accidentally took my husband Jake home you know after a few drinks oh yeah and they One of our groomsmen accidentally took my husband's jacket home, you know, after a few drinks.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Yeah, yeah. And they were catching the bus, and as boys do, they were just having a bit of a play fight in the grass on the side of the road. Sorry. Sorry. If you've just married a man, you shouldn't be play fighting with another man in the grass on the night of your wedding.
Starting point is 00:37:04 Anyway, so the marriage certificate fell out on the side of the road. And we were like, oh, we didn't know where it was. The next day, we were looking for it for a couple of days. And we sort of resigned to the fact that we didn't have the marriage certificate. Anyway, about three or four days later, a road worker turned up at our house and was like, I think this belongs to you. Oh, wow. So we're really lucky.
Starting point is 00:37:27 So what would you have, you would have had to get a whole new certificate and get it re-signed and witnessed and stuff? I don't know. I don't know, but yeah, I don't think it would have been ideal anyway. Yeah, because getting it signed and everything. I should know this, I'm a celebrant. I should know this. You're failing this.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Isn't there two? I think there's two. There's two couples. I should know this. You're failing this. Isn't there two? I think there's two. Yeah, right. And then you take one and then the celebrant sends it off to the office. Isn't it a coincidence though that where these two men
Starting point is 00:37:53 chose to have a play fight on the side of the road in the long grass is probably exactly where that road worker decided to have a midday nap. Yeah, gorgeous spot. Well deserved nap.
Starting point is 00:38:00 It is. Belinda, thank you. Anonymous, what did you lose that was important? Is that me? Hi. That is you, Anonymous. Good morning, Anonymous. It is. Belinda, thank you. Anonymous, what did you lose that was important? Is that me? Hi. That is your Anonymous.
Starting point is 00:38:07 Good morning, Anonymous. Good morning. I lost a client's engagement ring. Wait, what's your line of work? I was at the time a jeweler. Oh, wow. I am no longer a jeweler, but not because of that. Better than a sex worker.
Starting point is 00:38:22 You wouldn't want to lose your clients. Well, I mean, they shouldn't be coming to you for it when they're wearing one, should they? Or saying, can you hold this while you service me? So how did you lose it? So it was a really good family friend of mine. I was in the middle of my apprenticeship and it was sort of my first big job.
Starting point is 00:38:42 His wife no longer wore her engagement ring because you know they designed it when they're really young and so he had decided as a surprise for her he'd get it remade without her knowing because it was in place at home so he gave it to me um and i as i said was in the middle of my apprenticeship didn't have a safe or anything so i hid it somewhere really safe in my flat so that i wouldn't lose it no no one would steal it. And then when he decided what he, like the design he wanted to do, I couldn't find it. You're really good at hiding. Really good. I know.
Starting point is 00:39:16 You're like a squirrel. It was the worst feeling in the world. I had to ring him and tell him. He was obviously very upset. Where? Did you ever find it? So you never found it? Oh, no, I found it. So I had just ordered the new diamond for a placement that I had to pay for as a young friendess. And I went to get a pencil, my pencil case, in the back of a drawer
Starting point is 00:39:36 and there it was. Oh, my God. You diddle. So what did you do? Did you go with the new one or the old one? No, no, no. Of course I rang him so excited that I had found this bloody ring because it was very sentimental to them, obviously.
Starting point is 00:39:53 And so I returned it to him. And luckily, as things always seem to work out, I had another really good friend that suddenly wanted to get engaged. So we used a few diamonds. Wanted a diamond. Oh, brilliant. Anonymous. Amazing story.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Thank you. I'll send messages in. We had a cleaner lose the master key to a 12-floor building apartment. And so the possibility was that person could use that key to rob any of those apartments. Oh, because the master key works in every door, doesn't it? In every single door of an apartment. $25,000 to get the whole place re-locked. Like, get new locks.
Starting point is 00:40:29 But see, is that on them? Oh, because you can't have a backup of the master key because the whole idea is... It's a master. It's a master, so that can be used. Oh, wow. Oh, 25 grand. Is it an insurance cover?
Starting point is 00:40:41 I guess so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's insurance. Hopefully. Yeah. I just it's insurance. Hopefully. Yeah. I just quickly mentioned that story before about a laptop being left in a strip club.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Yeah. Well, you didn't say strip club. Well, I just thought I'd add that in now. I just saw someone I knew in Wellington. I was like, hey, man, what are you doing? It's early. And he's like, I just came back and I just realised I've left my work laptop
Starting point is 00:41:03 in a strip club. Straight from work to the club. How did you go to a strip club? Hey, what are you doing going to a strip club? Drop your bags home first. Don't give me the whole, the beers went there for a beer excuse because the beers are expensive.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Anyway, Ian, drop it or leave it at work. Anyway, three days later they found it. Brilliant. That laptop could tell some stories. Lots of passport stories. Travelling to New Zealand from Canada on the first flight to LA, I left my passport in the seat pocket in front of me.
Starting point is 00:41:34 It flew off to Portland before I realised. It took two days to get back to me. Everyone said, if you're ever stuck in LA, you know, you've got so many options. Disneyland, Universal Studios. No, I cried straight in my hotel room for two days. So, whoopsie daisy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:57 Well, I was reminded on my birthday what it's like to be in a relationship, and it was... Was it the moment that you and I were scooting down the hill and I was wrapped behind you and you thought, God, it is nice to have a cuddle every now and then? On a scooter, no, it wasn't. Boobies in the back.
Starting point is 00:42:16 Boobies pushing into the back. No, it wasn't. So we had a boozy lunch for my birthday on Thursday. Apologies to anyone in Auckland Central that heard my obnoxious but lovely friends sing happy birthday every 10 minutes. Well, it started out on the hour and then it increased
Starting point is 00:42:32 to per drink. We kind of worked out that we were at the restaurant long enough that if we sung it every half hour there'd be a new table and sometimes that table would feel obligated to then send the birthday boy a drink. Yeah. That worked like four or five times. That, by the way, is just a great little hack.
Starting point is 00:42:48 It's a great hack, yeah. And it's always a good hack if you're going out with friends just to make up a birthday because sometimes places will give you a free dessert for the birthday boy. Yes, that's right. You get a free dessert. Yeah, free dessert, which is a great tip.
Starting point is 00:42:58 It's a rip-off when they write on the plate with chocolate. Yeah, they do. They should give you just a bigger cake. Oh, yeah, because we had a writing on the plate. We had a writing on the plate. It was a little macaron. And then people were like,
Starting point is 00:43:08 yeah, exactly. Get a bigger slice of cake. Well, I wasn't complaining. It was still free. Yeah. Did you lick the plate? No, I didn't lick the plate. No, because we'd literally
Starting point is 00:43:18 just come from dessert and then we arrived somewhere else and you got dessert. Always room for a little lick. So we had a, I would call it a gigantic eating lunch. Huge. It started at 12.30 and I think we were out of there at like 2.33.
Starting point is 00:43:32 Yeah, but the dishes just kept on coming. A lot of food. A lot of food. And so you went home, Vaughn. I did. Smart. And Hayley and my friends, we kept drinking. And it was, I think it was 9.30 or 10.
Starting point is 00:43:46 Yeah, at your house. At my house when I was like, let's get everyone out of my house so I can prepare for dinner. And your neighbours because we were singing Mr. Brightside very loudly. Yeah, we're very white. And so I was like, let's go and get some food. And we'd kind of forgotten because we'd been so full and so hungry that I thought, let's go and get some food. So we went to the show sponsor, McDonald's, down the road, and they were closed. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:44:12 I think maybe there was some COVID sickness or something. So we went around the corner to the Brian Clint sponsor, KFC. It's just good to see you're keeping it in family. We wouldn't dare eat anywhere that wasn't a ZM sponsor. A ZM sponsor. So we went to KFC and we were, yeah. Now, I don't know if Hayley remembers any of this. Yeah, I remember it, but just.
Starting point is 00:44:33 Because there was a moment where I woke up in the morning and I was like, oh, I'm hungry. It's because I didn't eat dinner. And then I was like, wait, yes, I did. I had some KFC. Yes. But we got there and so I ordered and I got a quarter pack. And then I said, and Hayley's like, I don't need anything.
Starting point is 00:44:47 Oh my God. She does, by the way. And that is when we're all sitting down eating and that is when I remember what it's like to be in a relationship, especially with a female. I don't need anything. And then they eat half your quarter pack. I didn't even eat potato and gravy.
Starting point is 00:45:05 You didn't even eat any potato? She left me the potato and ate all the half your quarter pack. I didn't even eat potato and gravy. You didn't even eat any taste. She left me the potato and ate all the gravy with my chips. It was so good too. And then ate the only good bit of chicken. The other two were the dud bits. What were those ones? The dry, bristy ones. Oh, bristy is always dry.
Starting point is 00:45:18 Yeah. And I got thigh. Thigh is the king. Yeah. It was so good. Thigh. Because I didn't think I needed anything until I smelt the potato and gravy. And that gravy is so good.
Starting point is 00:45:25 And the fries. And the chicken. And then I literally got half a quarter pack. Yeah, but look how trim you're looking. I got an eighth pack. I got an eighth pack. And I didn't even want to eat the potato because the only good thing is the gravy. They should just give you a puddle of gravy.
Starting point is 00:45:39 No, no, no, no, no. They're nothing without each other. No, no, no. You need a little bit of something to suck it up. A tiny bit. But I was like, yeah, it was unbelievable. Welcome to Erin's life. I got that thing done to me.
Starting point is 00:45:49 Yeah. I don't need anything and I do. Because you weren't expecting it, because you are in a relationship, I would know that this was coming so I would over-order to compensate for the taxing. But he's out of practice, he's out of practice. My friend James said that he went to a restaurant once and there was a little box down the corner of the menu
Starting point is 00:46:05 that said, my girlfriend's not hungry. And it added an extra bit of fries and something else. Cool. And then so you could order that with your order. Yeah. And then the girlfriend would eat that. Yeah. That's a hot play.
Starting point is 00:46:20 Unbelievable. Welcome back. Whereas now I've gone full circle. I do what is called the dad diet, where you order less for yourself, knowing you're going to finish what your kids can't finish. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. It is by no means
Starting point is 00:46:36 cheaper. Yeah. But it's just balancing the waste. You've got two kids, that's never cheap. Never cheap. Never cheap. Dad, I want the double cheeseburger. You can't, you. That's never cheap. Never cheap. Never cheap. Dad, I want the double cheeseburger. You can't. You're incapable of finishing it. I want it.
Starting point is 00:46:48 And I'm like, well, actually, I want the double cheeseburger. So maybe I will let them order the double cheeseburger. But does Shana ever do this where she will eat your... Not anymore. But would she have used to? She'd have a bit more. Yeah, right. But you've got to remember, we're the couple that when we first got together,
Starting point is 00:47:04 we used to get a family pack from Nando's and half a cheesecake. Cheesecake. I should have a bit more. But you've got to remember, we're the couple that when we first got together, we used to get a family pack from Nando's and half a cheesecake cheesecake and sit in bed and eat it all. We've never been, we're not backward about coming forward when it comes to eating. We love our eating. Well, I have no regrets because I woke up with no hangover. Which is a modern miracle because when I left, I was like, here are a bunch of people who are going to be... Yeah, we were sending you some videos.
Starting point is 00:47:25 We were absolutely screaming. Well, I'm going to need $7.50 from you. I'll transfer. Good. It's only fair. This sounds fun. Last week, there was a conference in Las Vegas called ReMars. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:42 A lot of things announced there. It's a conference that... Sounds like an email subject line regarding the red planet. ReMars. ReMars. Is it like a technology conference? Yeah, so it covers the latest in machine learning, automation, robotics, and space technology.
Starting point is 00:47:58 Okay. Machine, automation, robotic, space, Mars. Ah, Mars. There you go. And there was an Amazon rep who was talking about the latest developments in Alexa, who was their voice. Yeah, their smart speaker.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Like, Alexa, do this for me. Alexa, do that for me. And I don't know who's... No, it's always, Alexa, what is today's weather? 175 degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius. Yeah, yeah. How many inches in 84 centimetres? Yeah. What is today's weather? 175 degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius. Yeah, yeah. How many inches in 84 centimetres?
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah. Yeah. Conversions. That would be the number one use for Alexa in our house. Or Alexa play the song. Well, I don't know whose voice it is. What does Alexa sound like? Is she Australian?
Starting point is 00:48:44 Is she a real person or a robot? Because Siri's a real person. It'll be based on a real person. There's a lot of Siris. I don't know who Alexa is, but they have in the past had Samuel L Jackson lend his voice and been Alexa voice for a while. But now they've announced that they're at a point
Starting point is 00:49:01 where they will be able to mimic the voice of any person, living or dead. What? And have them as your Alexa voice. This is some real deep fake kind of technology, isn't it? It's creepy, man. Living or dead. And all you need, you don't have to like upload them saying every single word.
Starting point is 00:49:20 Yeah. They just need a minute, one solid minute of them talking. And then they'll be able to take from that. So if you had voicemails from your Nana and she's passed and the collective amount of voicemails was over a minute, it would be able to piece it together. Put it all together, upload it. And Nana could be telling me how many degrees are in.
Starting point is 00:49:38 So at this conference, they're calling it human-like empathy. At this conference, they showed a video of a kid saying, hey, Alexa, can grandma finish reading me The Wizard of Oz? And then the voice comes on and, like, reads you stories. That is, no, I'm sorry. That's creepy. That's too much. That's creepy.
Starting point is 00:49:57 No, no, no. That would absolutely freak me out. Yeah. I wonder if you could get enough. As a kid, it would have, but I'd do it now. I'd totally have my Nana as my Alexa. And it'd be weird though. My Nana had one of those really like calming voices.
Starting point is 00:50:11 And it was probably just because she was my Nana. Oh. But no. It was fine. Lovely Vaughn. No, I wasn't like that. Lovely Vaughn. 180 degrees is 350 Fahrenheit.
Starting point is 00:50:22 No, see that's creepy. I don't want that. That sounds like a witch who's going to lure me into her gingerbread house. Should we be asking relatives to record something for what, one or two minutes? One or two minutes in preparation for their death
Starting point is 00:50:36 or you can use it while they're alive. I would use someone famous like get some concert footage of Freddie Mercury talking and shove it all together and get him to be like, you're Alexa. With his British accent. It was quite posh.
Starting point is 00:50:51 It was quite posh. And he had to talk around those big teeth. Yeah, yeah, but Alexa would learn about the teeth. Yeah, how the teeth work. It's very creepy. Not my dead grandma. Sorry, Nana, but I don't want you on my device. No. No.
Starting point is 00:51:06 Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Which is just panicking about getting stuff to the airport tomorrow, and I said, well, strap it to the roof of the chimney. Oh, my God. Take my car. It's got way more room than yours. Oh, no, because I need a valet. Because of all the mud in it, it's in my car.
Starting point is 00:51:21 It's all through my car. Also, you've been warned by the finance department here that you can't just get a valet on the company parking. Because that's fraud. No, but here's how I look at it. I'm imagining you've got a ticket for a three days parking. No. What?
Starting point is 00:51:38 Do you not have those anymore? No, I don't have those anymore. They ran out. My plan's falling to bits. Because I was like, I'll just get them to write it down as parking, but it's actually that I... Oh, right. That's also called fraud.
Starting point is 00:51:48 It's called receipt fraud. It is. Playing the system. But anyway, I'm invincible. And after the weekend, I feel even more invincible. My wife's dad bought a place up north in Pahi, which is beautiful,
Starting point is 00:52:00 beautiful on the Kaipara Harbour. Beautiful spot. Now, we've been up before, but I did check the rain gauge, and there'd been 145 mils of rain since last time we were up there, just over a month ago. So 145 mils of rain. Yeah, that's a lot. Soggy.
Starting point is 00:52:15 And five. So the ground had changed a little bit. Now, last time we went up there, gosh, I had fun driving the chimney up and down the property. Sure. So this time, Sade's stepdad was there, Pete, and we'd been out fixing something. And we were coming back in the chimney and I said,
Starting point is 00:52:33 I'll show you the fun way back. Now, I didn't give Pete a chance to tell me not to. Pete's a wise man. He's lived many years. So as I pulled on to the steep muddy hill he said have you been down here since Australia so much?
Starting point is 00:52:48 And I said no and that's when we started sliding sideways. Oh my god. And you know many people said this photos never do a gradient justice
Starting point is 00:52:58 like how steep something is. Like you go to Baldwin Street you've seen the videos you've seen the photos it's not like you're standing at the base of Baldwin Street in Dunedin
Starting point is 00:53:04 and you're like holy hell. Yeah. There's not like you're standing at the base of Baldwin Street in Dunedin and you're like, holy hell. Yeah. There's a hell of a lean on this. So, yeah, the photos I put up maybe didn't sell just how steep it was. So we started sliding. And then when it came to the corner in the track where you would go around the corner, we just slid off the front.
Starting point is 00:53:22 Quite a steep drop. I saw these photos. We were both very surprised. As we were sliding, we started going over. He's like, do all you can to keep it straight because if we go over sideways, we're probably going to roll because it was all happening. Oh, my gosh. As we were sliding through mud.
Starting point is 00:53:37 So you nearly killed your father-in-law. Yes. Well, my stepfather-in-law, but I still have a father-in-law, so I've got a backup, you know. I've got two. He's disposable. Who needs two? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If one of them goes, but I still have a father-in-law, so I've got a backup, you know? I've got two. He's disposable. Who needs two? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:47 If one of them goes, there's a backup. It's like having a hard drive backup. So we went sideways over it. We eventually, even when we went down and didn't roll, we kept sliding because this is just how muddy it was, and eventually stopped and got out. And he's like, are you going to tell Sade about this? I was like, how am I not?
Starting point is 00:54:02 I'm stuck 50 metres down a very steep hill. When you've got to go home, you're like, how am I not? I'm stuck. 50 metres down a very steep hill. When you go to go home and be like, I think we should Uber. Where's the car? I'll come with you guys. This was never an option.
Starting point is 00:54:12 If you look at the photos, it looks muddy. It looks so muddy. Did you not walk on it before you went? No. You didn't walk on it? Nah.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Your Instagram story just gave me so much anxiety. I was like, shaking my head like your wife. She did a lot of head shaking. You bloody idiot. One of the old.
Starting point is 00:54:27 So anyway, it was a nice way to meet the neighbours in the new place. Shout out to Matt, Mike and Kieran. They were my rescue team. But I tell you what, throughout the time of the Jiminy being down there to when it got out, I would say we had nine or ten people come and have a look. Oh, yeah, because they probably would have got around some idiot Aucklander and his white girl. Jiminy. Big city slicker.
Starting point is 00:54:49 Yeah. Because the guy turned up in a Toyota Hilux, like one of those pumped up four-wheel drive surf sort of situations. And he came, he's like, oh, yeah, nah, piece of cake. Where is it? I was like, down there. He's like, all right, I'll see you later then. Bye.
Starting point is 00:55:02 Nah, nah, nah, I'm not going down there. I was like, yeah, nah, fair enough. So anyway, got dragged out by a tractor. You can see it on my Instagram story, the whole sordid affair. You just, absolute idiot. Great way to make. I would have just lost my shit if I was in the car with you. Same.
Starting point is 00:55:19 You are not going down there. I would have dove out. You would have jumped out. But when we were sliding sideways, it was passengers first. So if you had jumped out, you just would have gone under. I'd have beenbuckled and I would have dove out. You would have jumped out. But when we were sliding sideways, it was passengers first, so if you had jumped out, you just would have gone under. I'd have been under the car. And if you had hit anything like a tree root, you would have gone straight over.
Starting point is 00:55:32 And then you would have ridden off. You could have died. Imagine it. And you wouldn't have got insurance. Have you got tumble? God, you're an idiot. You're an absolute idiot. I run roadside, because I run a towing company.
Starting point is 00:55:43 You bring roadside assistance. I run a towing You rung roadside assist I rung a towing company And this guy I won't say What Like who But he said Ring your insurance company
Starting point is 00:55:52 And see if they'll do Roadside assist And just tell them You've just slipped Just off the road You parked on the side of the road And the road gave way And then he's like
Starting point is 00:55:58 Oh my god We'll fudge it And I'll come pull you out And then we'll just charge it up To roadside assist So I rung them And they're like No no no
Starting point is 00:56:04 Know this by the up to roadside assist. So I rung them, and they're like, no, no, no. Know this, by the way. Your roadside assist won't come and help you or pay for a tow truck. You'll have to pay for them. If you park on the side of the road, and then your car slips off the road, they will not assist. But that's roadside.
Starting point is 00:56:20 That's not roadside. That's what I said to the lady. Even though my car wasn't on the roadside, it was down a bank, that I drove down, it was by no means an accident. It was absolute user's error. Well, they should call it road assist. I was like...
Starting point is 00:56:33 Because road only, you can have at least one wheel on the road. Yeah, what if you get a flat tyre on the side of the road? Well, no, they'll come and help with that. Right, okay. If you've got a flat tyre and while you were waiting there, your car slid down, they won't help you. They won't help you.
Starting point is 00:56:47 They'll just see you in the ditch and be like, good luck to you. Good luck. Yeah, well, they'll get a tow truck but you have to pay for the tow truck.
Starting point is 00:56:53 Then it becomes an insurance plan. But anyway. Yeah, it was like, life's for adventures, guys. Life's for living. Oh my God, you are so,
Starting point is 00:57:04 I can't believe it. We're glad you're okay. One of the old boys, Mike, said, because Shada was just out there shaking her head literally the entire time watching the rescue, because they made her come out and film the rescue. Were you in lots of trouble? No, because I'm pretty cute, so...
Starting point is 00:57:20 Cute as a button. It got you out of it. Although, if you'd written it off, you would have been in trouble. Yeah. I mean, I've definitely not heard the last about it. Yeah. Cures the button It's like It got you out of it Although if you'd written it off You would have been in trouble Yeah I would I mean I'm definitely Not heard the last about it Yeah
Starting point is 00:57:28 But one Shadow was shaking her head And one of the old mates said If she keeps shaking her head like that It's gonna fall off I was like I like you And then I said
Starting point is 00:57:36 Am I Cause I'm new And this is everybody Here's First experience with me Yeah This is what I'm gonna be known for And they were like
Starting point is 00:57:44 Oh yeah yeah It'll be like, you'll be called Slick or Skid. But you'll just leave your name at the door. Your reputation is soiled. Or was it already soiled when you pulled up in a gym knee?
Starting point is 00:58:00 Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Well Lizzo's brand new album is out July 15, so only a few weeks away, and we've got your chance to win. If you go to ZM online and read to see you can win a trip to a Lizzo-themed night at Calusi in Auckland, thanks to Grab a Seat. Oh, it's going to be so good.
Starting point is 00:58:20 I've been thinking about it a lot because, remember, when we talked to her, our friend Lizzo, we said, oh my God, we love this song, About Damn Time. She was like, wait till you hear the rest of the album. Which I know they have to say, but I believed her. All right, well, it's out July 15, ZM Online to register. So this has popped off. Is that the cool popped off? Yeah, no cap.
Starting point is 00:58:41 No cap? This has popped off, no cap. Carween is absolutely cringing. I'm 32. Carween, employer. I'm. No cap. Oh, I don't know. Now it definitely. Carween is absolutely cringing. I'm 32. Carween, employer. I'm 32 years old. I'm only 40, babe. I'm out there with you guys.
Starting point is 00:58:53 Employer acting sus. No cap. Oh, my God. What the hell is that? Social media diss. Can you raise, can you raise Rain Vornan? If you say someone's, if you say someone's cap. Yeah. That means they're lying. No, don't? If you say someone's cap... Yeah, don't...
Starting point is 00:59:05 That means they're lying. No, don't... Okay. Like, cap, cap. When you don't believe something, cap. You put a cap on it. Cap. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:11 And then if you're only making a statement... Carwen is hiding under the desk. Carwen is hiding under the social media desk. This absolutely popped off. Oh, my God. Honey's no cap. No cap? Employer acting sucks.
Starting point is 00:59:22 Stop it. Stop it. Ah! I can't keep up, and I refuse to. So, there waser acting sucks. Stop it. Stop it. I can't keep up and I refuse to. So there was a Burger King employee. Yeah. It was his time to leave his work. It was his time to leave the Burger King franchise and move on to other things. This is in America, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:59:36 Of course. Yeah. Yeah. As all wild stories are. 27 years of service he had given to Burger King. Yeah. Never missed a single day of work. Not even for a sickness.
Starting point is 00:59:49 So the company gave him a good trip. That's what? It's trip. Is it trip? It's trip or I will turn your mic off. It's the loyalty. I'm turning Vaughn's mic off for the rest of this. It's the loyalty for me.
Starting point is 01:00:01 You have a button? It's the loyalty for me. It's got a button. It hits different. Wait, you can turn us off. We can turn ourselves back on. No cap. Okay, the car went crying.
Starting point is 01:00:10 Yeah. Okay. You need to stop. Dude snatched. Stop it. We have no choice but to stan our loyalty king. Stop. No cap.
Starting point is 01:00:22 Okay. Screw it. Screw it. Please stop. I'm embarrassed for you. Can we get security in to remove him from the studio? I can't. I'm embarrassed for you. Can we get security in to remove him from the studio? I only pressed the button. Dude understood the assignment.
Starting point is 01:00:31 No cap. Where's my panic button gone? We've removed the panic button. Do you have a panic button? Oh my god, what if someone comes in and tries to get us? Oh my god, say less. Tries to get us? Say less, Queen. Say less.
Starting point is 01:00:46 It used to be here. The screws have got, there's just holes there now. No panic button. Okay, boomer. Oh, my God. I hate you, Vaughan. Well, I can't call security. I hate this version of Vaughan. We're stuck with him.
Starting point is 01:00:57 Yeah. Anyway, so after 27 years of service, never missed a day off, this man received a goodie bag as a parting gift. In the goodie bag as a parting gift. In the goodie bag, there was a pack of Reese's, a Starbucks cup, two pens, and a single movie ticket. That not bussin'. Oh, Vaughan, stop. Get him gone. Get him gone.
Starting point is 01:01:19 So, 27 years of service, and pretty much they've scraped together, I'm assuming, what they've found in their car. It's like a real estate agent. Yeah. He got two Burger King pens. And then he said, look, he was a really humble guy. He said, I'm 54 years old, 27 years he's given to this place. Yeah. He said, I'm happy about anything.
Starting point is 01:01:39 I'm thankful for anything I get. I'm not that type of person, you know. I've been through a lot. It's been a great company. I've loved my 27 years. We did used to get checks for 20 years and that's what I thought the movie ticket was. I was like, hey, they finally gave it to me.
Starting point is 01:01:51 And then I saw it wasn't even two movie tickets. It was just one! Wow. This is when the internet responded in the best way possible. Because this has actually turned into quite a heartwarming story, hasn't it? Heartwarming indeed. In fact, celebrity...
Starting point is 01:02:07 David... Are we going to call him C-List? Joe Dirt. C-List celebrity David Spade has promised to pay him some money. So he's given $5,000. $5,000. And I think somebody set him up a GoFundMe and when I last saw it, it was like $120,000.
Starting point is 01:02:22 Yeah. The dude had never missed a day. Yeah. He was supposed to be there. He dude never missed a day. Yeah. He was supposed to be there. He never missed a day. And I mean, especially now, like people know how hard it is just to get people to turn up for any kind of customer facing job. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:34 For 27 years. That's incredible. I'm going to check the GoFundMe now. I think it'll be in US dollars. 150,000 US dollars. Dude's vibing. That's so cool. Dude's vibing. That's, stop.
Starting point is 01:02:47 I think, get him out of here. That's nearly a quarter of a million dollars. That's $237,000. Because why did he leave? Was he just finding another job? I'm not sure. I don't know. He was like happy to leave.
Starting point is 01:02:58 It was all fine. Right. But you know, two pens and a single movie ticket's a bit shy. We want to ask this morning When you've been on the receiving end Of a bad leaving gift From a workplace Yes
Starting point is 01:03:10 We've seen a few of these Haven't we Vaughan? Have you? You mean when we left a place After ten years And they forgot And then they grabbed a bottle of What did you get?
Starting point is 01:03:20 A bottle of vodka A bottle of vodka? I can't remember It was out of the client They give like Bottles of booze to like Clients What did you get a bottle of vodka? A bottle of vodka? I can't remember. It was out of the client. They give like bottles of booze to like clients. Oh, I forgot. Like don't worry.
Starting point is 01:03:35 Thank you for your service. It was that time that someone left and they worked in radio and again it was forgotten about. They'd been there for a while and on the way to the leaving party, somebody, well it was just a party that they were doubling up as their leaving party. God, we need to get them something. So the worst person in the office went and bought them a radio speaker. They work in radio. And they bought them a radio speaker.
Starting point is 01:03:57 Like a speaker that tunes in. They weren't happy about it. A singular speaker. It was not a Bluetooth speaker. No. It was just, it had a big dial in the middle for the volume And one button in the dial for like Seeking the next radio station
Starting point is 01:04:09 So if you missed your radio station you had to go through All the radio stations to get to the one you wanted But is this on us like do we deserve A leaving gift from a workplace You know Oh but some flowers and a bloody massage voucher The dude had not missed a day of work 27 years of service.
Starting point is 01:04:26 This is the sort of thing that a company could celebrate as this, we look after our employees so much. They stay for 27 years and they love coming to work every day. And then they give them something and then the PR they get from it easily gives them more value. It's not like Burger King doesn't have the money. Give them a Burger King. Give them a franchise.
Starting point is 01:04:44 Give them a franchise. Give him a franchise. All right, well, 0800DARLS at M. We want to take your calls now. You can text as well, 9696. When was your employer acting sus? No cap. No, that's not the phone, huh? That's not it.
Starting point is 01:04:57 How bad was your leaving gift? And I'm going to be buying one for you soon, Vaughn. Were you being character? Snatched. No cap. Stop. A Burger King worker, after 27 years of service, one for you soon, Vaughn. Were you being character? Snatched. Go cap. Dog. A Burger King worker, after 27 years of service,
Starting point is 01:05:09 is leaving his workplace. They gave him a little gift baggie. Oh, God, he was excited, wasn't he? He opened it up. A couple of lollies, a couple of lols. A couple of pens. Okay.
Starting point is 01:05:18 Like, literally just what was lying around the office. A couple of BK pens and a single movie ticket. So, this was in America. The internet has responded. And at the moment, the GoFundMe is at $150,000. Because people are feeling for this guy. $150,000 US.
Starting point is 01:05:31 Nearly a quarter of a million New Zealand dollars. So good. Apparently a lovely guy. Like a very charitable guy. So it got a good use. 27 years, never had a day off sick. Yeah. So we wanted to know what was your rubbish leaving gift.
Starting point is 01:05:44 It was in America. I probably couldn't afford to have a day off sick. No. That's true to know what was your rubbish leaving gift? It was in America. I probably couldn't afford to have a day off sick. No. That's true. Anonymous joins us. Good morning, Anonymous. Morning.
Starting point is 01:05:51 This was your partner who got the crappy leaving gift. Yeah. So she worked for a certain makeup company I won't mention the name of. Okay.
Starting point is 01:06:01 There's only one, isn't there? Yeah. Carry on. And she was there for about seven or eight years. And even when we moved to London for a bit, she worked there as well. Yeah. And I remember on her leaving day,
Starting point is 01:06:13 they just gave her like this bag of sample of makeup that was like half used or fully used. Oh, yeah. So cool. Everyone's been fingering that. She worked her way up to manager and like, I just remember,
Starting point is 01:06:28 you know, sitting at home on her last day and we were just picking through the bag trying to find the ones that weren't. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:06:35 pretty good. Ooh, yuck, that is gross. Couldn't even chuck her a bloody mascara. Also, international company
Starting point is 01:06:41 by the sounds of it, like, I'm sure they can afford it. Oh, absolutely. This company, which I know who you're talking about, can absolutely afford to buy her a little massage.
Starting point is 01:06:49 Supples and stuff. She would have had access to that the entire time of her employment. Oh, yeah, she would have had. Exactly. Anonymous, thank you. Bethany, your partner had a crappy leaving gift as well. Yeah, yeah. It was pretty bad.
Starting point is 01:07:03 Okay, so how long was he at this job? So he was there for nine years and then he left and received nothing. But I was actually at the same job and I was for about five, six months. And we lived at the same time, but I received like this goodie bag and I put on like a whole cake thing for me, like a whole leaving party. Do they hate him? Is he a bad person? What's your partner.
Starting point is 01:07:26 So you were there five or six months, and you got a whole party, but he got nothing. Yeah. So then I ended up having to share my goodie bag with him, which was fine, I guess. Share your goodie bag? Fine, I guess. What kind of goods did you have in your goodie bag?
Starting point is 01:07:41 It was like one of those things that you get from a countdown or a supermarket. It was about $100. Oh, like a hamper. Oh, like a countdown Or a supermarket It was about a hundred odd dollars Like a hamper Oh like a hamper Like a hamper Yeah Did you have different managers Or the same manager?
Starting point is 01:07:53 No So yeah We had different managers We were in different departments So Oh yeah okay Yeah you sound like That's the thing in a big company
Starting point is 01:07:59 Some managers are good And people people And the other ones Are just trying to tick those boxes To make their money. All right. Hey, Bethany, thanks. You called some more messages in.
Starting point is 01:08:08 Your crappy leaving gifts. Nicole said, at my job, the standard for people leaving is a shared lunch and a gift from the company and a gift from the team. No one from my team turned up and I received no gifts and I was also made redundant. So that was heaps of fun. Oh, rough.
Starting point is 01:08:21 That's when you steal stuff from the office, eh? I would take everything. I'd take the photocopier. The best. Oh, God, how are you getting? The whole thing. It's got wheels. You're just going to undo those locks.
Starting point is 01:08:30 It's got wheels. I'd need a ramp into the van, but I reckon we could do it. Oh, what ramp? Just get it as close as you can and then just lever it in. Sure. It's not going to work when you get home anyway. You're basically just stealing it to inconvenience them. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:41 The best one, the best in heaps of text messages, I like this. They've worked at some place for ages, but it wasn't until they were leaving that they realized these people never listened, never knew anything about them. I did, somebody said I did 10 years at a company and at my leaving,
Starting point is 01:08:57 I got given some earrings, which was thoughtful. I'll give you that, but I don't have my ears pierced and it was a regular conversation I had with how I don't like needles and I would never have my ears pierced. And it was a regular conversation I had with how I don't like needles and I would never get my ears pierced. Right.
Starting point is 01:09:09 And yet they gave me earrings on the way out. Somebody said I got given a huge bunch of flowers, even though for my entire time at the office, they knew that they couldn't put flowers next to me because of how allergic I am to pollen. Anonymous, what did you get for your leaving gift? Nothing. That is crap. How long were you at this job for?
Starting point is 01:09:29 It wasn't too long. It was about like 15 months, but no one even remembered that I was leaving. So I sat through my whole last shift and no one said a single thing. It wasn't until the week later when they realised I hadn't shown up at work all week that they realised I'd actually, they forgot my last day. I would have made such a fuss.
Starting point is 01:09:55 Like I would have walked in and been like, last day today. So they promised like, oh, we'll do like a work dinner or a work event with you in the next few weeks. And then two weeks later, I saw some pictures on Facebook of said work event that I wasn't invited to. They just forgot. It seems like they just constantly were forgetting about you. And then had your party without you. Amazing. Ouch.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Wow, ouch. We appreciate you. Thank you. Ask some messages in. I'd been in a workplace for 10 years. On my last day, I got a small bunch of plastic flowers and a toy dog that were 100% from the $2 shop next to work. I put them both in the bin on the way out,
Starting point is 01:10:35 and I heard someone go, oh, ungrateful. I left my job to have a baby. I got some flowers, but another employee who was leaving on the same day as me who was also going on maternity leave got boxes of nappies and a whole gift.
Starting point is 01:10:50 A whole gift hamper. Maybe they were liked more. Yeah. It definitely sounds like they were liked more. Or just like you said before, different managers. Maybe different departments.
Starting point is 01:10:59 Here's another one of those situations where they weren't listening. One of my jobs, you got a gift. It was written into the contract. You got a gift leaving $50 per year you were there. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 01:11:10 That's insane. That's good, yeah. I was there for four years. I was 19 and everyone knew I was saving for a house. I had been talking about how I wasn't going to be doing my OE. I wasn't doing any spending. I wasn't going anywhere because I was saving for this house with every dollar I earned.
Starting point is 01:11:25 They bought me a $200 suitcase. Five years later that suitcase has still not been used for its intended purpose of international travel. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:11:37 Yeah, lots of... Also, I mean, I hate to admit it to that beautiful listener but $200 was not going to contribute towards a house. That was a flash in the pan.
Starting point is 01:12:05 Today's fact of the day is about snail's mouths. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Today's fact of the day is about snail's mouths. Snail's mouths. Okay. I never thought of what a snail's face looked like. Snail's face. Snail's face. Well, the eyes are on the end of the pointers, right? And that's what I was just thinking, yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:20 If I was to draw a snail, I'd definitely... So surely the mouth's... Down there. Down there somewhere. Yeah, it's underneath the face. Like a little moustache. It's... Well, today's fact of the day is that snails have a mouth size of a pinhead,
Starting point is 01:12:38 but they have 25,000 teeth. What? They can have up to 25,000 teeth. Between 10 and 25,000 teeth. What? They can have up to 25,000 teeth. Between 10 and 25,000. 10 in there when they're a younger snail and they get more teeth as they get older. Right, so you definitely shouldn't put your finger in one. You wouldn't be able to get your finger in one. It's too small.
Starting point is 01:12:57 How big are these teeth? Yeah, how big is a singular tooth? About teeny tiny, teeny tiny teeth. Are they like all in the body? Is all the inside just teeth? It's a small conical projection on the reducer like a carpet. Think of a carpet.
Starting point is 01:13:10 Like a long shag carpet but every one of them is a teeth. A tooth. A tooth? A teeth. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah like this. Like this. That now is one of my, oh okay that is definitely. Yeah, rose and rose and rose and rose and rose and rose of teeth. Something I wouldn't want to enlarge
Starting point is 01:13:26 with an enlarging machine. A snail. A microscope? If it's got that many teeth. You know, like a ray gun that enlarges something small to something big. Yeah, that'll chew you alive. Oh, like a...
Starting point is 01:13:38 They could be our biggest enemy if they were the size of elephants, couldn't they? Ooh. Would they catch us? Ooh, imagine. Yeah, real slow would they catch us? Oh, imagine. Yeah, real slow. But they can move by body length. You know, we talked last week about how fast things are
Starting point is 01:13:51 by their own body length. Yeah, right. Meaning that if they were, you know, our size, how fast would they be? I bet a snail could probably, a big snail could move it. Yeah, right. If you're having a nap on the lawn in summer and all of a sudden your toes are gone.
Starting point is 01:14:04 Yeah, that'll be the snail. That'll be why. Probably a big giant snail. That'll be the giant snail. Do you have access a nap on the lawn in summer and all of a sudden your toes are gone. Yeah. That'll be the snail. That'll be why. Probably a big giant snail. That'll be the giant snail. Do you have access to one of these ray guns? Well, no, but I'm certainly working on one. Are you? Investigating it.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Yeah. You and Jared with his 3D printer. Yep. Exactly. Good luck. Did we have the world's largest snail? The coldy snail? Is that the world's largest snail?
Starting point is 01:14:21 Oh, it's a snail. I know there's a giant African land snail. That's a fairly sizable snail. Give me a comparison. I'm just looking for one in somebody's, because I like to see a snail in a hand for a comparison. Yeah, hands are good. Yeah, but then what if the person has small hands?
Starting point is 01:14:37 Oh, yeah, okay. Well, here's... Yuck. No, that's fake. This is the largest snail in the world, the African land snail. Oh, that's massive. Would is the largest snail in the world, the African land snail. Oh, that's massive. Would you say a guinea pig? I'd say that's the size of a papaya.
Starting point is 01:14:51 You were going to go fruit. I was going to go animal. Maybe the size of a kitten. Yeah, an eight-week-old kitten. But we had the coldy snail, I'm pretty sure, is a big snail. Remember, they were a conservation issue, so they had a whole lot in an area, and then someone accidentally bumped on the air conditioning and it froze them all.
Starting point is 01:15:08 Oh, no. We wiped down like half the population of this endangered snail. Oh, dearie me. We really, really bought. Classic humans. Classic humans. So today's fact of the day is next time you see a garden snail, have a little look because they've got 25,000 teeth.
Starting point is 01:15:26 Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Do you ever get a little bit tired of life? Like you're not really happy but you don't want to die. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. Okay, we're going to talk about kissing, something I love a lot. I love to kiss. You're a kiss on the mouth person. Are you talking about passionate kissing or a greetings kiss?
Starting point is 01:15:59 All kisses. Kisses to greet, kisses to hate. Kisses for meat. So I'm just trying to figure out how they actually worked this out. I guess they sort of like polled people on their current partner, whether or not they were the best kisser, good kissers, da-da-da-da-da, and then asked them what their job was. And from that, they have created a list of the best and worst kisses
Starting point is 01:16:24 based on your occupation. Okay. And you said Radio Announcer is not on the list. We're not on, but maybe we might be able to thumb ourselves into bloody one of these. So we'll go, should we go the best? Yeah, sure. Top five best kisses. Okay.
Starting point is 01:16:42 Number five, waiters and chefs. Oh, chef's kiss. Chef's kiss. Yeah. Number four, teachers. Oh, okay. Gross. I don't know why teachers have no wee kiss.
Starting point is 01:16:55 Unless teachers are listening now, in which case, congratulations. Yeah, they're humans, but it was hard to remember that when you were at school, wasn't it? Yeah. Teachers actually have a real life. Number three, engineers. Wow, they know the're at school, wasn't it? Yeah. The teachers actually have a real life. Number three, engineers. Wow, they know the mechanics of it, don't they? They know the ins and the outs. They know the structure.
Starting point is 01:17:12 Well, that brings me to number two, doctors and nurses. Well, the doctor knows the human body. They know how the lips and the tongue interact. With the teeth and the saliva glands. Yeah. Number one, accountants. What? I don't.
Starting point is 01:17:31 They're doing their spreadsheets. No, really? Yeah. Profits and loss. Like a freak in the sheets, the accounting sheets. Profit and loss sheets. Shame on you. Shame on you.
Starting point is 01:17:44 A freak in the sheets. The on you. Shame on you. I'm freaking the sheets. The Excel sheets. I'm a freak in the Excel sheets. Great use for the accountants, though. It is great. Good for them because they get a bad rep. Yeah, you'd say it's kind of got that rep as a bit of a stuffy profession. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 01:17:59 Yeah. I remember they were boring bean counters. Well, they did work out. I mean, they created a character, remember, who was the most boring person in the world? And it was a small-town Christian accountant. Yes. With a kink, as it turns out.
Starting point is 01:18:15 With an absolute set of lips on him. Yeah. Okay, so those are the best kisses. Accountants, doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, waiters and chefs. Have you got worse kisses? Worse kisses. Number five, IT workers engineers, teachers, waiters and chefs. Have you got worse kisses? Worse kisses. Number five, IT workers. Yuck.
Starting point is 01:18:28 Don't kiss me. Just reset my computer. At least you need your computer reset and you're not going to get any help from upstairs. But they're obligated to do that as part of their job. They can't be asking for a kiss. Yeah, true. Yeah, fair. Nate, demand a kiss.
Starting point is 01:18:41 You know, let's ask for a bit of a kiss. All right. Number four, real estate agents. Oh, really? Oh kiss. You know, let's ask for a bit of a kiss. Alright. Number four, real estate agents. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. That's for sure. That's one thing. Oh, this house. Oh, it sells itself. Those lips were made for lying, not for smooching.
Starting point is 01:18:55 Absolutely. Number three, lawyers. Too busy, too stressed. Yeah. Too much reading. Number two, bankers. Okay. Can't kiss to save themselves. And number one, civil servants. So anyone that works at a government department. Anyone that works in a government department.
Starting point is 01:19:12 IRD. Yeah, oh God, they can't kiss. MB. I don't know if I've ever kissed anyone who worked at IRD. But again, when it comes to tax time, I would be happy to. Absolutely happy to. Just to give them a smooch so they turn a blind eye. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:19:27 Is that tax deductible? I don't think it is. I don't know if that's how it works. And then keep smooching them for seven years until you've got yourself into the clear. Yeah, and then you're like, get out. Statute of limitations. Never liked you in the first place. Shout out to my hometown.
Starting point is 01:19:44 This is my favourite supermarket in Wellington. Right. Which one? Yeah, my favourite. New World Schaefer's. Schaefer's Park. It's on the way. It's like leaving Courtney Place area,
Starting point is 01:19:55 heading to Oriental Bay. I've been there. I've been there. Always good for a little, a quick bot on a Friday night. Yep. Before the big weekend. It's sort of,
Starting point is 01:20:04 it's bougie, but it's not Thorndon bougie. Right. And the big weekend. It's sort of it's bougie but it's not Thorndon bougie. Right. And people who shop at those new worlds will know the difference between the two. Which one's Thorndon? The one by Te Papa. Yeah. Over the road from Te Papa. No, no, no. That's the one we're talking about. That's Schaefer's.
Starting point is 01:20:17 Thorndon's by the Beehive. Behind Parliament. I remember that Thorndon was the first supermarket I ever saw a digital price thing on. Oh yeah. The Thorndon was the first supermarket I ever saw a digital price thing on. Oh, yeah. Like the Thorndon one always has stacked fruit, you know, like grids. Oh, yeah. Meticulous.
Starting point is 01:20:33 Pretty bouge. Yeah, it's bouge. Full stop. Indeed. Well, one thing people love about Schaefer's New World the most is they always has rockin' music. Always like the best music. Really? And then someone...
Starting point is 01:20:46 Better than a radio station. I mean, look, they're not tuned into ZM, but they've got the second best music. It's a playlist. Right. Well, they can't tune into the radio. Everyone on the radio is bashing supermarkets for their price gouging.
Starting point is 01:20:58 Yeah, exactly. You can't have like... In the supermarket, you're about to pick up butter and then three bloody wise guys, smart alecks, come on the radio and start bashing supermarkets for how expensive their butter is. You're too right. It's safer just to make your own playlist.
Starting point is 01:21:11 There's actually some cheap butter at the warehouse, isn't there? There is cheap butter at the warehouse. They wouldn't want us saying that. They'd be bloody scrambling to turn us off. We won't be stopped. So there's a Facebook group called Vic Deals. It's a very famous Facebook group in Wellington. And it says, for the connoisseurs, you never asked for this playlist,
Starting point is 01:21:30 but here it is. It is the Schaefer's New World playlist. And this has gone crazy online, hasn't it? Because it's like... There's 447 songs on this playlist. And the thing is, every song is a well-known song, because it has to be, because it's played at the supermarket. Absolutely. They it's all, and the thing is, it's every song is a well-known song because it has to be because it's played
Starting point is 01:21:45 at the supermarket. Absolutely. They're all like classics and bangers. But listen, like, are you plugged in there, Vornay?
Starting point is 01:21:50 I am plugged in. I reckon hit me with a little bit of, um. Oh, wait, there's 447 songs on here. I'm not going to be able
Starting point is 01:21:56 to find what you're after. No, I'm just going to give it the number because it's from top to bottom. Give me number five. Okay.
Starting point is 01:22:02 Oh, actually, sorry, I can't. I'm not signed in. Oh my gosh. This wouldn't happen on iHeartRadio. It absolutely wouldn't.
Starting point is 01:22:10 It absolutely wouldn't. It wouldn't bloody happen on iHeartRadio where I listen to all this. I'm not signed in because of this junk. What is this app called? Poosbyspy. Poosbyspy. It's just rubbish, isn't it? Well, I'll have to describe it to you.
Starting point is 01:22:23 Number five is Phot, Nickelback. Oh, no, no, no. Then we move to Wandering Eye, Fat Freddy's Drop. I've got it on iHeartRadio. Hit me number five. Yeah. Okay, here's number five. Ruin this cauliflower!
Starting point is 01:22:39 So now, you know, you're just picking up. Yeah. And then you might move into, I don't know, maybe you're going to hit a little number nine. Oh, what about number eight? Oh, yeah, go to number eight. Like, they're all banger. We've got pumped up kicks after that, Foster the People.
Starting point is 01:22:58 Someone like you, Adele. This song got ruined for me because I work in commercial radio. What about a number 17? Okay, number 17. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just what you're doing. Now you're in the sort of, I don't know, the pastor aisle. It's all over the show, this playlist.
Starting point is 01:23:15 Tom Thomas' 1970s classic Kung Fu Fighting. This is... Brooke Frazier's therapy. I know. Later on, we've got some gorillas. Yeah. Come a chameleon straight after that. This would be the perfect,
Starting point is 01:23:30 if you're having a barbecue or a party. Yeah. The perfect playlist. It's something for everybody. Let's not forget. Maybe I will pick up some pineapple and cream. I don't know. How do you make a pina colada cream?
Starting point is 01:23:45 Is there cream in there? What's the booze? Coconut milk. Coconut cream. Yeah, coconut. It's so good. Lotta Abba. Oh, yuck.
Starting point is 01:23:53 Lotta Abba on the playlist. Anyway, you can check it out. Or Counting Cries. There's a bit of Homegrown. But there's new. There's lots of 660. Then there's Valerie, Amy's lots of 660. Then there's Valerie, Amy Winehouse, Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney.
Starting point is 01:24:09 They've got it. They've got it. I'm going down to the bottom. You can see what date. Some of these songs have been on this playlist since 2019. Oh, my gosh. They started this in 2018, this playlist. Right. The latest edition, 21 days ago.
Starting point is 01:24:24 Matchbox 20's Unwell was added. What took them so long? Is this done by like research? Because, you know, they say certain songs and the tempo make you spend more money. Oh, yeah. And make you feel happy. These make me happy. Right at the bottom of the list, we've got Sara Bareilles, Praise You, Fatboy Slim.
Starting point is 01:24:41 Yeah. God, it's's good isn't it fascinating oh they added this see a big sign on the side of the road that says
Starting point is 01:24:54 60 miles to the land Shaft wow well I mean we're in Wellington for Bangers Bingo
Starting point is 01:25:03 on Wednesday we should do the Bangers Bingo at Schaefer's. And the supermarket. Supermarket bingo. Love it. If you want to register for Banger's Bingo, ZM online. Living on a prayer, Bon Jovi?
Starting point is 01:25:18 Yep, okay. Number 423. I am following this hot playlist.

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