ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 10th October 2024

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. The Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley Big Pod. Great things are brewing at McCafe. The perfect start to every day. Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley on ZM. Thanks Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. We're down Hayley again today.

Yep. Still sick? Yep. Yeah, she had that late in the day bounce back and she's like, I'm feeling better. And then at four o'clock this morning messages, I haven't slept because I've been up all night. Sick.

Yeah, sweating the bed is the worst when you're sick. Yeah. When you're so feverish, you just wake up and you're just like, have I wet myself? Yeah. It's that. Yuck. When you're hot and then so you kick off all the blankets

and then you're freezing cold and you put them all back on. Yeah, that's good stuff. Well, hopefully she's back with us tomorrow. The top six on the way. Laneway has been announced. Yeah. All the lineups out now. Yeah.

And to be honest, apart from Charlie XX, I did not recognize a single one. Oh, do you remember when every year it was Florence and the Machine? Every year. And like two other acts? Yeah. Yeah. Florence and a well-known Australian band. And I did this thing where I put my glasses on the end of my nose and I looked at the...

And I must have looked like an 80-year-old man. I've never heard of any of these bands. Well, I've done some more research anyway, so now I am familiar with a few of them. Okay. So I've got the top six bands that are or are not coming to Laneway. You've got to work it out. Because some of the bands, you could literally be making up their name.

100%. Okay. We'll get into the top six soon. Also, there's been a leak, hasn't there? There's been a leak that's gone online. There's been a memorandum of sorts. Which you got very excited about. I just like knowing what businesses are up to.

You just love secrets. Yeah. There is something good about feeling like you're seeing something you shouldn't be seeing. But there is something coming to New Zealand shores that people are very excited about. It was huge last year in America and had a massive online presence. And it's coming to New Zealand soon. We'll give you the details. Play ZM's F Flashborn and Hayley.

Well, people are sharing on Reddit and online that their watch is telling them that they're sick kind of before they know it. How? Okay. I guess it doesn't measure temperature, eh? Your watch. It doesn't.

It measures your wrist temperature. Does it? Maybe the newer ones do. So I didn't know about this, but if you've got Apple Watch, you can turn on vitals. It's a new update in the latest update.

And maybe Samsung's been doing this forever. I don't know if Garmin's do this. I know a couple of people with Garmin's. I think they just find your fish. Yeah, and golf holes. And golf holes. And tell you the time. What's it called? Vitals. Vitals. What's it under? Is it on the phone? It's on the phone. It's under health. Yeah. So people are like, oh,

I woke up this morning. I felt a bit meh. And then like you can actually set vitals to give you alerts. And if any of your vitals are like unusual or like higher or lower than normal, it'll kind of alert you to the fact that, hey, your temperature's up. Wow. Your heart rate maybe is a bit higher than it usually is, that kind of thing. Yeah. And people are like, yeah, my watch knew I was sick kind of before I did. That's crazy.

Yeah, but you've got to turn it on. I can't find it. But then also like I just looked at my- Loving your emotions and moods. Oh, yeah, you can do that. Is that just like, I don't, does it be like, how are you feeling? Yeah, you can be like, I'm grumpy today. I'm grumpy.

Yeah. And it's like, okay. And then does it go through and look at all your grumpy stats and you're like, this is what his stats are when he's grumpy. And it probably correlates to your sleep. True. And then your watch will be like, hey, have you thought about getting more sleep? Shut up, watch.

But yeah, I mean, I'm looking at my like six-month highs and lows, and I've got lots of kind of vitals. Where's it at? Where's it at? I can't see it. You've got to turn it on. I can't find it to turn it on. Or maybe you don't have it because your watch is old.

Show all health data. Don't watch that. Shame me. Don't watch. Shame me. But no, people are loving it. Okay. And yeah, finding out that they're sick kind of before they-

I spent eight hours in bed last night. How proud of- Congratulations. I'm over the first hour. Probably was just in bed, but not actually sleeping. Sort of thing. A little scrolly, scrolly. Your watch knew that you were vertical.

Or no, horizontal, I should say. Do you know my walking asymmetry is zero percent? What does that mean? In a healthy walking pattern, the timing of the steps you take with each foot are very similar. Mine's at 0%. I have a perfect walk. However, on Monday, Sunday and Monday it wasn't,

and we were away and we were eating and drinking, like celebratory, of course, in moderation, and it was a little bit wonky there. Where do I find my- Why is my Monday always such a wonky walk? Because you've had a hard weekend. Oh my god, that's shocking. But today, 0%.

I do love all the stats that come with having a smartwatch. I've never even looked in here. Like your heart rate and stuff and how far you walk and when you go on hikes and stuff, you can log them all. It's pretty cool. Do I have to update or do you think it's just a new watch?

I think you might have to update. You've got to have iOS 11 or something. But yeah, anyway, if you've got a smartwatch, it can let you know. It can let you know.

Hey buddy. Yeah, just, I don't know, have a lemon honey. Have a lemon honey. Yeah. Take it easy kind of thing.

That's what's helpful when you start feeling sick. Yeah. Somebody telling you to have a lemon honey. and then they'll start advertising through it. Get some Vapourub. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley.

On Reddit, the New Zealand subreddit last night, I don't know because this looks like a Facebook post, but maybe there's an internal McDonald's Facebook page. Oh, yeah. That you have to be approved to join. Okay. And it's just for the managers or something. Because it said, somebody put it up, scribbled out the name of it,

the name of the place that posted it, so we can't see where to go to request to join. Promotion alert. The rumours are true. We're finally getting the Grimace Shake. Now, the Grimace Shake was massive in America last year. It was Grimace's birthday. They put out the Grimace Shake. It was a Grimace Shake was massive in America last year. It was Grimace's birthday. They brought out the Grimace Shake.

It was a big purple shake with whipped cream on top. Yeah. And it was massive. A whole lot of online content, people drinking it, and then wild, wild things were happening because it is a vibrant purple shake. So brand new to New Zealand, at least, is the Grimace promotion starting on the 23rd of October

and running through to the 3rd of December. Wait, so this is like a secret internal posting. I love when we find out all the goss. It's got this text and then down the bottom it's got like a newsletter type thing. The text above it is just sort of a summation of what is below.

The Shake is the only new promotion item in this window and the lead up to the next promo in December. What's next? Alongside that, we have McHappy Day, which is a fundraising day, and November deals happening throughout. And then a few other changes include removal of Red Onion, sellable McDelivery bags.

Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, reseal it. Put it in, seal it. Because then they can't take your chips. They're taking the chip tax. God, I bet they're... Is that an official rule with any sort of delivery service? I don't think it's allowed.

It's frowned upon. Well, dads are still getting away with the dad chip tax. Well, your dads are allowed the chip tax. Yeah. So then it says Grimace Shape. What is it? It's a purple shape topped with whipped cream. During this window, we'll also have Grimace Bag and Cup Packaging.

Okay. For B and C bags and clear cups, medium and also have Grimace bag and cup packaging. Okay. For B and C bags and clear cups, medium and large. Oh, that sounds like some industry lingo. Some industry lingo. People on Reddit were loving this, so were they? Yeah, dude, the comments were popping off. So somebody said, yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Can you please post the McDonald's internal news every month? Yeah, I mean, it's for internal eyes only.

But we're all kind of fascinated about things that we're very familiar with, like McDonald's, but they're inner workings. Oh, yeah. The behind the scenes. The behind the scenes. You want to know when things change. Like this removal of the red onions off the menu. It says here that red onions are only currently in the

serious Angus burger and the garden salad build. Right. What's a build? Is that what they call that? Is that the technical term for building a burger? The garden salad's not a burger, it's just a salad. Oh yeah, so it's only in two things. Transition into using white slivered

thinly sliced onions. White thinly sliced onions, white thinly sliced onions for both. They're going to transition into doing that. Okay. And then, so we're introducing new sealable McDelivery bags. So it looks like same brown plastic, paper rather, but at the top it might have an adhesive strip.

Oh, that's a good idea. Because I'm looking here and it doesn't have, it's still paper, so it doesn't have one of those zip slide situations. Yeah, okay. See how much dressing it is? God, you're a nosy, you're such a nosy prick. A big nosy parker.

These bags provide tamper evidence seals for added security ensuring your food arises fresh and safe. Yeah, no chips. No chip tax. No chip tax. The stickers tax. No chip tax. The stickers, and so you know how

they fold them over and put the stickers on them? Yep. The stickers were no longer needed. Right, okay, so saving on the stickers. Do you want to know the hot spots

of the Grimace Shake? What do you mean? What's a hot spot of a Grimace Shake? We're about to find out. It's the rules of serving the Grimace Shake. Okay, go.

Bullet points, I guess, is another name for it. Man, is someone going to be fired for leaking this to the people? I don't know. It feels like we're knowing how the, you know. The sausage is made. The sausage is made.

Okay. Well, the Grimace Shake will be available between 11 a.m. and 5 a.m. Is that a hotspot? That's one of the hotspots. Yeah, right, okay. Grimace Shake must always be served in a Grimace-themed cup. Oh, yeah. So what if they run out and they just say it's not available?

I guess so if they run out of cups. Do you mean? Because I'd be happy if they just put it in any cup. Well, they won't put it in a cup. It has to be the Grimace cup. Grimace shake must have two and a half swirls of whipped cream that rise five centimetre above the rim. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Grimace cup packaging is being used for the shake only and nothing else. So if someone said, I can't have the Grimace shake. But I'd just like a Coke. Can I just have a Coke Zero in the Grimace Cup? That's a big no. That's a hard no. That's a hot spot.

Okay. And then there's the build card. It tells you how to build it, like what you put in first, what you put in second, what you put in third, and then how to get the two and a half. All the rules. Okay. They know what it was. That's fascinating in first, what you put in second, what you put in third and then how to get the two and a half. All the rules. Okay. They know what it was.

That's fascinating. They know what they want. Yeah. Do you want one they know? Do you want to sign up for this monthly insider newsletter? All sorts of businesses

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the last massive hurricane that hit the Florida and parts of America. Yep. 14 trillion gallons of rain fell on the southeastern Hurricane Helene. That's enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys Stadium 51,000 times, 60 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, and match the flow of the Niagara Falls for 619 days. So nearly two years. Just under two years.

That's wild, man. Florida is so flat. It's so flat. The storm surges, the intense rain, the hurricane winds, everything. It's all adding up. But we've got an expert because it's become, it hit her TikTok algorithm. She started watching it and now she's getting it all.

I am so deep in Hurricane Milton talk. it is insane so it's currently a category four hurricane yes but it's set to get to five it's set to get to five oh wow okay hit land yet has it no because i know i'm reading here uh going from a four to a three to a one i will say i have learned everything they hit. They hit land and then Peter out. Yes. Yeah, so it's currently over the water. It's going to hit Tampa. There is, from what I know, A to F evacuation zones

and their mayor, Jane Castor, has said if you live in zone A or B and you don't leave, you will die. You know the characters. Yeah, yeah. You know all the people. You know the mayor. There's so much law involved in this now. So there's this guy called Lieutenant Dan.

He has just been on the news. They're calling him by name Lieutenant Dan on the news. Jane Castor has got him released. He has been evacuated. He lived on a houseboat with no legs. Very Forrest Gump. Wait, so he is called Lieutenant Dan because of his likeness

to the movie character Lieutenant Dan from Forrest Gump. He wasn't called Dan and he wasn't in the... I assume so. It would be a weird coincidence. Very weird. People have become famous on TikTok because they're not evacuating. They're staying in their houses. So people are purposefully posting hour by hour updates, vlogging, showing exactly

where they are. I've seen someone who set up a live feed, like they've set up a GoPro, and these people are becoming super famous like Lieutenant Dan, they're getting all these fans, but they literally have to write on Sharpie their name, date of birth, and

a family member's contact because they've been told they'll die. It'll make them easier to identify. Well, they write their name, date of birth and a family member's contact because they've been told they'll die. It'll make them easier to identify. Will they write their name on their leg? Or arm? I reckon both because if an alligator gets your arm that could be the name bit. But they're literally vlogging themselves selfie style

like here's me writing my date of birth on my arm hee hee hee and like gaining thousands of followers from it. That is grim. I know. It's so wild that that's the time we live in. That people are staying behind because they've found a little, they've got a little dopamine hit off the followers and the interaction and the live streams.

There's kind of two types of these influencers. Some are staying on purpose. Some are stuck because all the petrol stations have run out of petrol. Right. So a lot of people are like, I tried to leave. I saw saw one she drove for an hour with her baby and then had to go back she was like there was no way i was going to get further than that so while i'm here i may as well get some followers yeah like and subscribe she's literally like here's my baby here's me making formula here's how much water's outside my door but it's set to get to 12 foot now it was

meant to be like nine this morning when i woke up. And then there's people like you on the other side of the world who are just watching this like it's a reality TV show. I'm part of the problem. So, yeah, but it's fascinating. Like that video you sent us in the group chat last night with the water like just flowing past the door halfway up the house. I saw a video of a, what do they have, crocodiles or alligators? Alligators.

Alligators. A gator come into their house. He was swimming along. Oh, you know things. Yeah, he came into their lounge, and she was vlogging from the second store, and she was being all American about it. So it's currently 1.30 p.m. in Tampa, Florida,

on Wednesday, and they're saying Wednesday night is where it's going to make landfall, and it's going to take 12 hours to get across. Right. Once it hits land until it goes back into the sea. Yeah. And they do lose power when they hit land because they can't keep sucking up the water, right,

and the heat off the water. Yeah. Well, a lot of influencers have said that they've got generators running and then all the comments are like, once water hits, please turn off your generator, like all these issues. And these influencers are like, why? What do you mean?

It'll be fine. Oh, because they don't know. They don't get it. Yeah, right. Because they just want to keep the followers coming, keep posting. I'm also seeing some comments on some posts here that this is government controlled weather

and they're just trying to wipe out Trump supporters ahead of the election. I have seen. Lieutenant Dan kind of falls into that category. Oh, he's got a bit of that Trump. I did kind of think maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

But he's safe now. So that's good. Because he became a bit of of that. Is he a Trump-er? I did kind of think maybe. Yeah. Yeah. But he's safe now, so that's good. Because he became a bit of an attraction. His marina was a public location and people would, there was a hashtag Lieutenant Dan going around.

You'd go visit him and see how he was doing. Right. So they forcibly had to go and remove him because he wanted the followers and the content. Yeah.

God, we live in wild times, don't we? We do. We certainly do. We live in wild times. Rather than that stubborn old, I ain't leaving. Yeah. This is my land. Now it's like, I ain't leaving. The followers need to see.

Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Well, a researcher and a sex therapist called Amy Garan has popularised the term relationship escalator.

Relationship escalator. There's a fascinating article. It's on the NZ Herald. Okay. And it's asking you if you are on a relationship escalator. Okay. Do you want to guess what a relationship escalator is? Escalators go up or down.

Maybe it's like a slow decline in your relationship. You're just kind of standing on it. You don't feel like you're moving, but you're going towards the bottom. I mean, kind of. So this is how she describes a relationship escalator. I mean, you could say relationship travelator. Yeah. Because I don't really think the up or down matters.

It's just that you're moving. Okay. That you're moving forward, I guess. So it's a term, a relationship escalator is a term that describes a relationship

following a common path. Two people meet, there's an attraction, they date, then they hook up and then they stop dating other people, they start saying I love you,

they spend all their time together, they move in, they start planning their future, they get married. Right. Maybe they buy a time together. They move in. They start planning their future. They get married. Maybe they buy a house. Maybe they have kids. That is a well-known, you know, the classic trajectory. Yeah, traditional sort of relationship.

And then, of course, you know, lots of people just are like, oh, hang on, I didn't want that. And then they just get divorced. And it's got its... What, so the escalator is when you hop off at the end and you're at a standstill. And you're just like, well, that just kind of happened. Yeah. That just, you

just, you're moving on this escalator and you're like, well, I guess the next thing is we move and then we do this and then we... And then you just... Just following the path. Some people get off the escalator and they're like, oh, that just kind of happened, didn't it? Right. And it's actually got its, when you read this article, like it's a massive read this article,

it's got its backgrounds in like the polyamory community. What do you mean? So like in terms of like. Well, what part of the escalator is that? Maybe that's the lift, I think. Is that the lift? That's the lift. Yeah, all of a sudden you're at the fifth floor.

No, I guess so there's, it's that for a lot of people, they want more than one partner. Oh, right. And that might be what causes the problems. Okay. The journalist and the sex therapist is quick to point out that for many people, this is absolutely fine. Yeah.

You know, the classic get married, have kids. Get happy with it. They're very happy with it but for a lot of people the problems come in because of the monogamy thing and that's what this has it's background for I mean the gays know this don't they

the gays know this the gays continue to teach us all we could all learn a thing or two from the gays yeah right so what realise you're on the escalator stop the escalator We all learn a thing or two from the gays. Yeah. Right. So what? Realise you're on the escalator? Yeah, I guess so.

I don't know. You get off the stairs. I don't know. Take the stairs. Take the stairs as you recognising every step you take rather than just ending up somewhere. Or get on the escalator with a few people. Right. I don't know.

But then what if you're on the escalator and you want to walk as well as be on the escalator but then people are standing still on the escalator? Or what if you're on the escalator and you see someone hot going past on the down escalator? Then you've got to jump across. Then you've got to jump across. But then you're already on the escalator with the person, aren't you?

Yeah. And then you look back and then the person you're on the escalator with is like, what are you looking at? Yeah, and then you're in trouble. You're in trouble on the escalator. Yeah, and then you get to the top and you look back and the other person's gone. I don't know what this analogy is. No, you've got the escalator. Yeah, and then you get to the top, and you look back, and the other person's gone.

And now you've got nothing. I don't know what this analogy is. Yeah, no, neither. No, you've got the person you came with, but this whole thing was the people want the more the one. Yeah, they do. Don't they? Right, so take the stairs.

Recognise every step. I think take the stairs, yeah. And make sure it's still where you want to go. I think take the stairs. Yeah, take the stairs. If we're going to learn anything. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the top six. Hello there. Laneway announced yesterday, Charlie XCX, the headliner, a lot of other bands.

When's it happening? It is happening, Vaughan, on the 6th of February, Waitangi Day, Western Springs. Yeah. My daughter's 13th birthday.

How did that happen 13 are you kidding me crazy huh well I've got the top 6 bands that are or are not may or may not

be coming to Laneway 2025 you hide the list that you're looking at because you're getting put to the test okay number 6 on the list

are they coming yep Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo are Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo coming well I. Are bibbidi-bobbidi-boo coming? Well, I know that bibbidubi are coming, but not bibbidobbidi-dububu. Okay. Yeah. So, no.

Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo not coming, but bibbidubi is coming. Bibbidubi. Huh? Bibbidubi. B-ba. Bibbidubi. Yeah. Bibbidubi.

Yes. So, no and then yes. I've just Googled bibbidubie. Yeah. Beba Doobie. Yes. So no and then yes. I've just Googled Beba Doobie. Yep. No further mocking. She'll take both. Right. Okay.

Bourne Smith 10. Is it? Okay. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six bands that are or are not coming to Laneway 2025. Sea of Thieves with special guest Fortnite. Are they coming to... Stop looking at the list!

Stop looking at the list! You're cheating! That's right. They're not coming. They're not even bands. They're the two video games that I like to play with my friends. Oh, yeah. Sea of Thieves and Fortnite.

Sea of Thieves, yeah. But they do actually sound like a Laneway artist. They do. Totally right. Do you remember when you were a laneway veteran of, and you went to the very first one with Florence and the Machine? Florence and the Machine, yeah. And it was actually in the laneways at Britomart?

Yes. That was a good time. That was amazing. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six bands that may or, stop, give me the list. You're cheating. I'm cheating.

Number four on the list of the top six bands that may or may not be coming to laneway 25, Echoes of the Coast. No. That's right. They are not coming because I asked ChatGPT to come up with an indie band name and that was the one that they gave me and I liked it. Echoes of the Coast. Echoes of the Coast.

I love that. But it's not real. Yeah. They're not real. You've got a banjo in that band, don't you? Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Number three on the list of the top six bands or artists that may or may not be coming to Laneway 2025. Jessica Ehrlich. No. Yes. You think Jessica Ehrlich is coming? Oh, no. Jessica Ehrlich is not coming.

That is a children's author whose book was sitting beside my computer when I wrote the top six. But it sounds like Jessica Ehrlich could totally be coming. Yeah. I mean, get her up on stage. See what she can do.

She's obviously creative. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she, get her up on stage. See what she can do. She's obviously creative. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she could read her children's book. Famously, authors quite often introverts. She might not want that many people looking at her at once. Number two on the list of the top six bands that may or may not be coming to Laneway 2025.

Banana Toast. No. You are right. Were you eating Banana Toast when you wrote the list? It's a candle scent that I tried to get my kids to do in their next batch of candles. Oh. They got little samples

of all these different ones in banana toast. It was like cinnamon and banana and it was really nice. It smelled like, but they, apparently it's too gimmicky.

Wow. Well, you told all your kids it was too gimmicky. I was too gimmicky. Wow. Not using those words, but effectively the same. And number one on the list

of the top six bands that may or may not be coming to Laneway 2025, Barry Can't Dance. Is Barry Can't Dance coming? I don't know. Yes or no? No.

You're right. Barry Can't Dance isn't coming, but Barry Can't Swim is coming. Yeah, I know. Barry Can't Swim is coming. That was very stressful. I got into a bit of Barry Can't Swim. Listen to this. This is a bit of Barry Can't Swim is coming. Yeah, I know. Barry Can't Swim is coming. That was very stressful. I've got to do a bit of Barry Can't Swim. Listen to this.

This is a bit of Barry Can't Swim. That's a bit of me. Love it. Yeah, it's a bit of you. That's a bit of me. That's a bit of you. That's a bit of me. Are there going to be food trucks at Landline?

Of course. Yeah, good. Man, I love eating from food trucks. I know you do love eating from food trucks. I know you do love eating from food trucks. I always end up sending like $120 at food trucks. It's crazy. ZM Online for all the details for Laneway. Play ZM's Flashborn and Hayley.

From the University of British Columbia, a study that I didn't think we needed. British Columbia is in America? I mean, Canada? And the city of Vancouver. Yeah. And of course that's where Taylor Swift's final tour is on the air is to that you can win tickets to

on Tuesday. Make sure you're listening on Tuesday. That's a KPI right there. You've done really well there. Good promotion of the future radio show Vaughan. The findings of this study that we really didn't need show that if you are using your phone And you are a pedestrian walking along

You are more likely, 45% more likely to be hit by a vehicle Or stray from your pedestrian path and have an accident Like walking into something, falling over the curb Whenever the phone, that update came out and you could like make your, if you were texting, your camera was on and it was like transparent and you could see through your phone. Nobody holds their phone in front of their face, right?

Like you're always looking down. It's not going to matter if your phone is showing the footpath. Maybe it could show you the curb. Do some people have terrible peripheral vision? Maybe they do. But then, I mean, I walk down Queen Street every day on my way home from work, and I will either be that person walking into people because I'm on my phone,

or I'm dodging people walking into me. Like, we are just all heads down on our phones. A lot of us. A lot of the time. Look up, man. There's a big world out there. And a rubbish bin. And a curb. And someone on a bike coming the other way.

And a lime scooter. And a lamppost. Yeah. I've had a lamppost when I waved to a tram. Hayley and I. We go to a concert. Was it maybe the last Friday Jams? And I was just excited.

I was going to say, there's only one place in Auckland with a tram. And it's Motac. It's Motac. Motac to the zoo. And it was hilarious. But I mean going to say, there's only one place in Auckland with a tram, and it's Motac. It's Motac. Motac to the zoo. And it was hilarious, but I mean, I wasn't on my phone. But I've certainly seen people walking into other people on their phones. Yeah. I saw a lady once at a busy shopping centre.

It was the base in Hamilton. And anybody that has been there, there's these knee-to-shin-high, they're fancy bollards. They stop cars going up where it's only pedestrians. Oh yeah. But they're like knee height and they're big blocks. And they are very easy to miss because they're the same color as the pavers all around them.

Right. So if you're walking and not really kind, she was carrying a child and texting and she hit it and just threw the child up. And what happened to the, did she catch her? She, no, then the child up. And what happened to the... Did she catch her? She... No, then the child like bounced.

Like bum wise, just like fell onto the thing. You saw this happen? Yeah. And I was like, whoa. And she was like... But she was more worried about her shin immediately than she was a child. Oh man, there's nothing worse than when you hit your shins into... I've got a coffee table at shin height.

Nah. And it dug out a bit. I'm getting real pressure lately to get a coffee table for a lounge and it dug out a bit. I'm getting real pressure lately to get a coffee table for our lounge. It's one of the main reasons I don't want it. Our lounge is beautiful to navigate in the dark. Yeah. You can turn the lights off and navigate your way through it because there's nothing in the middle.

You might fall over one of those big bean bags but nothing hard. Nothing hard in there. But then what do you put your coffee on? We've got those wooden things that go over the corner of the couch. Oh, that's all right then. Eh, close enough. It's perfect.

Well, this is what I wanted to know this morning from the study that we didn't really need that shows that if you are texting and you're a pedestrian, you're on your phone, you're 45% more likely to have a car crash into you or walk out onto the road or into something. Have you injured yourself walking and texting? Like how bad was it? Did you walk

into like a wall? Or you thought it was a slidey door that would open, a glass door? Someone's messaged in. What have they said? A Wellington based story. My sister, when she worked at Te Papa 15 or 16 years ago was on her phone after work walking to the railway station to go home.

No please don't tell me she walked off the wharf. She walked off the wharf. She walked off the wharf. And as she hit the water, she let go of her phone. She said she can distinctly remember holding her phone, but as she hit the water, it came out of her hand. Because there are no railings there. No.

And the height of the wharf barrier is perfect tripping height. Perfect tripping height. And you're not getting, there's nothing to grab once you start falling. No. You're over. Oh, no. That would be terrifying. Yeah.

To end up, fall multiple metres into the water. Well, these are the stories we want to hear from you this morning. 0800 DALS at M. Text in as well, 9696. How did you injure or even just flat out embarrass yourself? Yeah. While walking and texting. Give us a call.

From a study we did not need from the University of British Columbia. If you're on your phone, you're more likely to have a car accident or be as a pedestrian. Step out in front of a car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it goes without saying. If you're texting and driving, you're far more likely to be distracted. But they actually rigged up cameras for this and monitored areas where people were on their phones.

So they weren't just kind of looking. They had cameras analysing where people were walking and yet everyone on their phone. Insane. It's wild. Well, some messages in. I'll still do it though. I was...

I don't... it, though. I was. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. I don't find myself walking in a crowded area too often. You just got to keep flicking your eyes up. Yeah. Flick your eyes up.

Walk. If you're on it. See, if I was walking, I'd have the phone a little bit more out in front. Yeah. That's just me. That's just you. Walking down the street, not looking. And I was on my phone. This message reads, a car crashed into a wall right just me. That's just you. Walking down the street not looking, and I was on my phone, this message reads,

a car crashed into a wall right behind me. Now, if I had been paying attention, I honestly believe I would have tried to get out of the way of the car and probably jumped straight in front of it. Oh, so they're saying that you should be texting. The fact that they were on their phone probably saved them because it meant that they didn't panic. Right. Because they didn't know it was happening. Paige, you were texting and not looking.

Where did you end up? I ended up in hospital. Okay. So where were you walking? I was actually walking down the stairs of my nana's house and I decided that my mum had texted me. I was like, okay, I'm going to text her back. And I got to the fourth step of my nana's house and decided to fall.

Oh, wow. Did you make that conscious decision or that was against you? That was out of your hands by that stage. No, it was out of my hands. So I tried to catch myself and my left ankle went under and I heard the crack. Oh, yep. It's a crack. Okay.

It's a crack. And then it gets worse. And then it was more shifting and I ended up having to have surgery in my ankle. Oh, my God. Wow. So all because you were on your phone walking down the stairs. Doesn't Nana have wonky stairs? Like they don't keep a consistent height or was this all on you?

This was pretty much all on me. I'm the kind of guy when I do something and I'm obviously in the wrong, I've got to look for somebody else's fault. Just who I am, I can't help it. Paige, thank you. Some more messages in. I was backing straight out of our driveway when a guy was walking past and I was like, oh shit, I stopped and apologized that I didn't see him.

He'd been on his phone, so he didn't see me, but he started yelling at me that I was not keeping an eye out for him, but he literally walked straight into my car. Now, if he walked into your car, that means you were passed. If you backed into him, that means you backed into him. But if otherwise, he walked into your car, didn't he? If he walked into the side of your car,

he wasn't watching where he was going. Somebody else said, I was texting him walking, didn't realize there was a step, rolled my ankle, snapped my ankle. That needed surgery. On Instagram,

we had some replies. I walked into a pool once on my phone. It wasn't ideal. I was in the pool area. So they've been through the fenced area. They just fell in the pool. Have you ever done that thing where you've been on your phone, but you're walking downstairs

and you don't know, you think there's one more step. Yeah. And then you realize it's a hard ground. Sometimes I'm not even on my phone. Sometimes I'll just be like, I assume there's another step. And then you get that hard ground,

that hard reality that there's no more steps. Chloe said, I was texting my mom straight after a job interview saying, Mum, it went really well. I think I got it. As I said, I fell down some stairs. I roly-poly down the stairs. Insult injury.

I didn't get the job either. Because they were probably watching you. Yeah, yeah. They were like, we can't hire her. We can't hire the old stair tumbler. She's not good with stairs. She's easily distracted and not great with stairs. And, you know, we've got those stairs. Yeah. So we can't hire her. We can't hire the old stair topper. She's not good with stairs. She's easily distracted and not great with stairs. And, you know, we've got those stairs.

Yeah. So we can't add that. We need stairs to get to work every day. We can't take that risk. I was about 30 centimetres away from falling on a train track because I was too busy posting a cute pic on Instagram. Someone yelled out, hey! And I stopped and looked and thankfully I didn't.

Oh, my God. This is a drop down to those. That would be kind of cool though. That would be like the last pic they'd use on the news of you. Like your cute pic that you just posted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because sometimes I feel like the news does people dirty

and they use like a really filtered photo from five years ago. Well, it depends on what you've done. Yeah, true. If you're the bad guy, they'll find the greasiest picture you've got. Yeah, they will. But if you were like a fondly remembered angel, they'll use that cute Insta pic.

Yeah, you've really got to be careful what you put on your Instagram. I was walking and recording a Snapchat video and my friend walked across the road without looking and a car slammed on its brakes. I've got the video of it like, stopped just in time. Oh my God, lucky. Jesus Christ.

Just be careful. Look both ways. Look both ways? Look both ways. Look again. Look again. That's for motorbikes. Oh, that's for motorbikes. Oh, is that for motorbikes?

I mean, look, it works in this situation, but that primarily what you're doing, that was a motorbike safety marketing. Oh, okay. But it obviously works because it's in there. It's in there. Yeah. But it obviously didn't work because I didn't know what it was for. That's the indicator and then look again.

Yeah, look again. Look again. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. We are 75 days, 16 hours and 27 minutes away from Christmas.

That is not long. So, in what, 15 days? This year feels long. Like, it feels like it's been a long year, but it hasn't. It's flown by in terms of days, but it feels like things have been dragging. So, it's the 10th of October today. In 15 days, it'll be two months exactly. Yep.

Wild. And then you start to work out how two months exactly. Yep. Oh, wild. And then you start to work out how many paydays that is. No, don't do that. For like Christmas presents and holidays. Don't do that. Yeah, do that because, yeah. It's grim. Don't do that. Please don't do that. Kyle said, hey, I walked through here yesterday and there was nothing and now it's like

Christmas has been belched up all over the places. The farmer's Christmas shop's open. Oh, nothing and now it's like Christmas has been belched up all over the places. The Farmers Christmas Shop's open. Oh, okay. And it's a bougie looking Christmas outlet. Yeah, I was past a store the other day and it was a Christmas store and it was said opening soon. Yeah. I was like, was that the heirloom? Maybe.

The heirloom Christmas shop. Yeah, they're getting ready to, and you know what? The malls must be getting close to their giant baubles and Christmas trees going up. They're always up end of October. Yeah. Start of November. Yeah.

I heard Christmas music. Ooh. The other day. It was a rogue Christmas song. Too soon. Rogue Christmas song in the shops. Wilson, who is our, you know, one of our most. Valued.

Valued and honored. Contributors. Contributors to it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Takes us very personally. Said the warehouse has stepped it up. I was in here last week and there was some Christmas stuff out, undoubtedly. But now we've got a whole aisle dedicated to, and a whole section dedicated to Christmas.

I noticed that it's starting to sneak into that. My local warehouse has got that area that's not aisles. If you took everything out, it would just be this big, yeah, yeah, like the bins and the rats. The bins area, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's just this massive concrete bit with no permanent tall aisles. It's starting to creep into there. Amazing.

So it's going to go throughout. Hayley said Woolies and Rolleston has gone full Christmas biscuits on the end of the aisle. Oh, okay. Because you get your chocolates, you get your gooey, goo-filled wafer sticks. Wafer tubes, yeah. But then your classic sampletons and stuff come out for Christmas as well. Yeah.

And that entire end of the aisle is taken up there. Early Santa riding out on his motor sleigh in Whakatane. Someone dressed in old Mr. Claus's clothes. Okay. Scooting around. And there's photos on the local community page there. Lauren sent those in. Those have been seen.

Shannon Christmas Penetration at H&M New Zealand. They've got just sort of Christmas decorations. They look like those Scandi minimalist Christmas decorations. Oh, yeah, okay. You know, like nothing really tinsel-y and over-the-top, more like that. And Stacey said Christmas Penetration has hit Fresh Chores in Westport. On the West Coast, yeah, wow. The West Coast Christmas Penetration has hit Christmas cards, Christmas puds.

I think that might be our first sighting of a Christmas pud. Yeah, have we had any Christmas tarts? Mince tarts? Mince pies? I think if the puds are out, the tarts are days away. Surely. That's the old Christmas saying. It's a saying as old as time.

If the puds are out, the tarts are close. Yeah. I think that's the saying. That was written in the scriptures. Yeah. In the old scriptures. Well, 75 days away from Christmas. Oh, we're getting warmer.

Right now, Christmas penetration is at... 62%. Oh, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Where I join in studio by Felicity Ward, who will be donning the cap of the manager and the Australian version of The Office. Yes.

We've had... Good morning, first of all. Good morning. Hi. Good morning and welcome. Thank you so much. You know Hayley. Yeah, I know Hayley.

She's the only person I know in New Zealand and I turned up and she's not here. It feels personal. I feel like she's avoiding me. She says she's got the Bogan flu. Well, that might be true. Yeah, but she should have come in because you couldn't catch it. I can't catch it.

I was born into Bogan stock. And so when you grow up in the community, you get an immunity to it. And so I actually can't catch Bogan. Good. That's good. Yeah. That's great. It's really fortunate.

Now, this is the Australian office, but there are more than a handful of New Zealanders involved in this project. If anything, yeah, it feels, I feel racist because I was very disappointed to see so many Kiwis. No, it's the best. It's the best. So Jackie Van Beek and

Jessie Griffin who directed the episodes. Jackie's the set up director. I've known Jessie for like 15 years from when, because I do stand-up comedy, and when I'm not moonlighting as one of the biggest faces of a comedy franchise in history. No pressure! And

yeah, so I've known Jessie for years and then when I heard that Jackie was directing, I'm like, great. This is going to be great. And then all the Kiwis were amazing. Yeah. Josh, Johnny. Yep. Lucy, Edith. Yeah. So they were all.

All big hitters. It's a lot like actual Australia. It's just full of New Zealanders. Yeah, yeah. Well, two of them are doing Australian accents too. Right. Who does an Australian accent? Edith does an Australian accent and I think Lucy.

But look, to be honest, when you're on set, sometimes I can't tell the difference. I know that that sounds really bad. Yeah. They just, Edith sometimes will be, like she plays Lizzie, she's like the Gareth character. Yeah. And she'd say chance and I'm like, no, mate.

Chance. Chance. You've got to get it up. Get up. Chance. Put it in the back of the nose. Yeah, and that's where my bogan roots really came into shine. Yeah, fruition.

Yeah. What's it like taking on the mantle of, you just said before, no pressure, but what's it like? You can move there if you like. Okay, yeah. Yeah, we always do. I'm going to stand up because it's really early and I got in from London about, I don't know, three and a half hours ago.

So it wasn't last night. I think it was the day before. I have no concept of time. What country am I in? Hi. Yeah, I mean, look, when I got it, I was just so excited and so pumped. Yeah. And then about, you know, two hours later, you're like,

oh, I wonder what this is going to be like. And then when I was filming, you just forget that you're filming The Office and then, you know, you see the words The Office in your face on a 20-foot banner at a train station in Melbourne. You're like, oh, I haven't done that before. That's real. Wow. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. One of the most beloved. Yeah, thanks for the pressure. I appreciate that. Don't ruin it. People seem really angry, hey? No, look, it's a weird thing to step into because I know what it's like

to love something and then have a remake. And you're like, I talked about this a lot, but Point Break is one of the best films of all time. The original Point Break. Exactly. Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves. Correct. It's perfect.

I wouldn't change a thing. I watch it yearly, if not twice a year. And then when I heard that they were doing a remake, I was furious. Why? I don't know. Why am I angry about a film being made? But like The Office, you know, the same thing happened when the American one came out.

Like what are they remaking? And then the American one turned into its own thing and it's as beloved if not more. They're just different beasts, you know. So hopefully the Australian one can be our own little beast. I don't know if that came out right, but you get it. Our own little beast. I just want my own little beast, you know.

Yeah, we all want our own little beast, don't we? Really. So how many episodes in the first season? There's eight episodes. They all drop next Friday on Prime Video. So you can binge the whole lot. All at once, all eight. Because the British did six for the first season

and the Americans also did six for the first season. Yeah. And then they started getting more. Well, I think with the American one, what they did was the first series is just the British one with American accents. Yeah. And then in the second season they went, right,

let's make it our own thing. And then, you know, they have 360 million people. So they're like 22 episodes in a season. So, yeah, then it turned into its own show that way. So we're somewhere between six and 22. Did Stephen Merchant or Ricky Gervais zoom in for any part of it? Did you? No, they did not.

Just sitting back making money. Yeah. Why wouldn't you? It's the dream. It was 23 years ago. What a beautiful passive income. Yeah. 23 years ago. It's the dream. It was 23 years ago. What a beautiful passive income. Yeah. 23 years ago.

The original was a change of year, 2001. Isn't that insane? It is insane because everyone who is old enough remembers when it came out and it like changed comedy and changed the landscape. And even when the American one feels like it was maybe 10 years after the British one and it was like three. Was it? Was it 2005, the first season of the American.

Was it? Because Steve Carell looks like a baby. Yeah, yeah. Not the beautiful sort of fox he is now. Do you want to know something? Yes. Until I'd finished, well, I'm not going to tell you. Until I finished filming the American one, my God, I'm so sorry.

The Australian one, I'd never seen an episode of the American office. Really? And then I got back to, I live in the UK and I got back home and I, this is the wildest experience. So these are the little things that happen where I go, oh my God, it's the office. So on the last day of filming the Australian office, we did a couple of takes of some of the iconic monologues just in case we ended up using them in the series because I don't live in Australia. They're like, let's just cover all bases, right? So I did the monologue, people say I'm the best boss, you know, I'm the entertainer. That's exactly how I delivered it too. I think I said blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I get back to

London and I pop the TV on. And you know how on some of the streaming networks they have like a snippet of the TV show and they play that at the top when you're scrolling through. And it was Steve Carell doing that monologue. He's like, people say I'm the best boss. I'm like, oh, my God, that's me. You're next in line.

Yeah, pretty stressful, exciting, scary, all of those things. Yeah, yeah. So exciting, so exciting. It's great to see heaps of Kiwis involved as well. So many. It's all out Friday week on Prime Video. That's October 18. You can binge all eight episodes at once.

They're very quick and they're very digestible. And, yeah, it was the best job I've ever had. May there be 22 more seasons. Wow, fantastic. Well Felicity, thanks so much for coming in. Thank you for having me. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. It is so silly, silly, silly That silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole, do you wear headphones in the office?

The three options were yes all day, yes but only sometimes, and no. I don't know if I worked in an office if I would. I think I would. Just to drown out everybody. Which is what I voted for. Because I do wear headphones like right now, but then when the songs play, I take them off. Yeah, but I feel like this is different.

If you worked in a cubicle all day, do you think you would wear them all day? Not all day. I think I get sore ears. Yeah. Do you find it hard to concentrate though if you're working and listening to things? No. Probably

less distracting if I was listening to something rather than being distracted by office noise. Yeah, okay. Do you wear headphones in the office? The most popular response was yes, but only sometimes. 49%. Second, at 34% is no and 17%

of people all day. All day? All day, baby. That is a long time to wait. No wonder we're all going deaf. Yeah. I don't have anything playing on them. Says Jay, I just do it to drown out gross sniffing colleagues. That would actually be because you can just put the noise

cancelling headphones on, but would they turn off after a while? Or would you just put the noise-cancelling headphones on, but would they turn off after a while? Or would you just turn the volume down and play something random? Well, no, you just put noise-cancelling on, right? No, but don't they go off if you're not... Oh, if you're not playing something. You know, if you're not playing something. Got a bit of brown noise. Yeah.

But then you might not off. Very relaxing. A little sleep at work. Anonymous says, I wear them to listen to your podcast while I pretend to work. Fantastic. We encourage that. Don't we? On the iHeartRadio app. There we go. Or wherever you podcast.

Tick, tick, tick. Damien, not the best thing to do while driving a patrol car. No. I think if you're an officer, you've got to do as I say and do as I do. You just can't do whatever you want and do as I do you just can't

do whatever you want and expect everybody else to follow suit Victoria I'm a videographer so I need to wear headphones or the entire office

will hear the same voices being played over and over and over and over again while I edit them and that would get very annoying that would be annoying

yes thanks for that Victoria on behalf of everybody because it's even annoying enough when you're putting up a short Instagram story. Oh, yeah.

And it just plays over and over and over while you're writing the text. Oh, my God. Yeah. And your own voice. Alice says, I'm a teacher, so I don't know if that would go down well. Oh, my God. Imagine drowning out your whole class all day. Heaven.

You'd be like, you guys did silent reading so well and then you realise it was just because you had noise cancelling headphones on and they hadn't. Amelia, I play the radio loud and proud through the speaker. Thank you, ZM there

at the office. Yep. Thank you for listening. All through the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, amazing. KPI. Great. I enjoy human interaction,

says Rhiannon, so I don't. Oh yeah. Good on you. It's rare these days, isn't it? Yeah, someone that likes humans. Very rare. Amy said they saved me from wanting to throw bricks at my

co-worker who whisper talks to herself all day. Oh no, why is she doing that? Whisper talking. Whisper talking. There are people who have they sort of vocalise their thoughts. You're doing so well Pat. Let's get on to that next spreadsheet. Let's see if you can get it done

before lunch. Save, send that away. Convert that to a Word doc. Make it editable. Liana says, I'm not allowed to wear headphones at all. Any stage of the day. Don't know what they do. Can your workplace say you're not allowed to? Yes. If you're in hospitality

or something. I mean, there's workplaces where it's just not applicable, allowed to? Yes. If you're in hospitality or something. I mean, there's workplaces where it's just not applicable, is it? Yeah. Geordie said, all I do is listen to the FVH podcasts. And then they said in brackets themselves, check off a KPI. So I will actually check off a KPI. Thank you so much there. Thank you, Geordie, for helping us. Of our KPI fund.

I don't know what KPI. Yeah, well, we're trying to get that blender, remember, if we mention it enough times. I know when it bothers me until they hear me laughing out louder. It's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Gosh, that's another KPI. Is that another KPI? That's the show slogan that they picked.

Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah. Good stuff. Well, that's still a little pop. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. It's school holidays at the moment. Is it last week?

You'll know this if you've been anywhere in public. Yeah, this is the last week. Tomorrow's like the last day of school holidays. So expect the roads to be lots of fun this weekend coming back from places. Oh, I didn't think about that. Oh, you're on the road? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha, ha.

Don't laugh at my misfortune of being stuck in traffic. Just drive safely. Remember, you don't need to put your foot straight hard on the gas around every corner. Yes, you do. Like you did up the mountain. You power into the corners. I saw a video Hayden Patton put up a video yesterday

of him taking his rally car for a thrash. I was like, that was how Fletch drove up the mountain. Are you saying I'm a rally driver? Terrifying. Thank you. Thank you. Terrifying. I got an email yesterday

from the gym. Yeah. It says, hope everyone's doing well. 11 more Fridays till Christmas. And you feel like that's a bit of a softener

before here comes the telling off. Yeah. Like when I got told I was doing really well with how often I was coming, but I smell funny. They soften it.

It's a shit sandwich in management, right? The donut. Are you still over deodorizing before your workout? Yes. Yeah. Every time.

I haven't been for a little while. I'm packing a sad. No, I'm not packing a sad. I just got busy and fat. Okay. And then they guys want to say we want to send through a heads up to parents coming to the gym

with their children It's against club rules For children to set foot Past the reception in the club Which is fair enough It's a crazy dangerous spot For kids to put their fingers in things Drop a kettlebell on a baby

Well Yeah You know the kid tries to Lift a 20kg dumbbell And gives themselves a hernia Yeah That could happen Yeah

So it's a very serious thing And rightly so So the email says The kids can sit in the hallway and watch their iPads because there's always a kid at the sign-in table. Yeah, because you might. Where they sign people up. There's a kid there sitting with an iPad, and occasionally it'll look like they've employed a really young kid

to do all the processing. They're going to sign you up on an iPad. It's what? Just that their mum's working out while they sit there. Yeah, and obviously they couldn't find someone to look after them or didn't have them, so they just take them there and plop them there with an iPad. I guess it's better than leaving them in the car.

Mum gets her sweat on. Pack of burger rings. Yeah. Yeah, well, cigarette lighters are still in cars, so I burnt myself when I was left in the car. Still got the scar on the end of my index finger. But we want to know off the back of this, because, you know, sometimes parents are just going to get on with their life on school holidays, which means a lot of the time you get dragged places. Yeah, I feel for parents. Like, you know, school holidays, they've either got to take time off work

or drag their kids along to their work. Yep. And, you know, we used to get shipped off to our grandparents, but they were both farmers, so they were always there. Yeah. But now grandparents have to work. Yeah. You know, they have to just keep working.

It's crazy. Even if they're, you know, they're getting the pension, they're still working because times are tight. But you do always laugh when you see at school holidays and the courier driver or the truck driver has their son or daughter with them. Yes. And you just look at them and you can see they are so

bored, but they are literally being dragged along because it is a school holiday and you feel for them. They have to work. They can't just give up work for two weeks. Take the time off. So we want to know where you ended up with your parents at school holidays. Yeah, maybe you were dragged along to work for free.

Yeah. Because that's another thing. Parents will just make their kids work. Or maybe mum had a Brazilian appointment she just couldn't miss. So you sat in the corner of the room as your mum's pubic hair was forcibly ripped from her crotch. Giving you lifelong trauma. Just tell me, if you're

a beauty therapist, has there been a child in the room while there's been hair removal? No. I guarantee someone will have. Because they won't, you know there's those kids you can't trust to leave them in a reception area. Yeah. Those rat bags. Yeah, but you're not going to bring little Timmy in while... Timmy, you turn the chair and your face into the corner and you give him

his iPad and you put the headphones on loud. Oh, no. That is traumatic. Traumatically ripped from your nether regions. Okay, we want to take your calls. 0800 Diles at MSN number. You can text through. 9696.

Where did your parents take you during school holidays because they couldn't find someone to look after you? I want to hear the stories from like the 80s and the 90s when things were lax and you were just, I don't know, on the floor of the factory. Yeah. Or, you know, on the floor of the factory. Yeah. Holding the chainsaw. Maybe, yeah, maybe you were given a job that was wildly inappropriate for your age.

Play ZM's Flesh, Fun and Haley. We want to know where you ended up during the school holidays because your parents just couldn't find anybody to look after you. Your gyms emailed everybody out saying don't bring your kids. The kids can come but they can't go into the, it's absolutely fair enough, all the heavy stuff, all the moving bits, all the parts where fingers can get crushed.

Because people were bringing their kids for free babysitting. Yeah, basically. Basically. Now, you asked a question, Vaughan. I wanted to say, because I just thought, what if mum had a Brazilian appointment that she couldn't miss? And she had to look after the kid. Would someone bring their kid?

Well, Anonymous joins us, who I believe is a beauty therapist, and people do bring their kids for Brazilians. Yes, we have had it, and we have one who does it every month. How old is the kid? Does the kid turn away and have headphones on? Okay, so two of them come in. One will be probably about eight, the other maybe about five or six. Right.

One will sit with the phone and the other just kind of watches. And the way that our rooms are set up, the seat that they sit on is situated at the end of the bed, so they're literally staring straight up. Oh, no. No, that's traumatic.

That's traumatic. That's traumatic. I didn't want to say that. That's traumatic. That's a no from me. A little bit warmer for the person. Yeah, that's a no from's traumatic. That's traumatic. I don't want to say that. That's traumatic. That's a no from me. Yeah, that's a no from me. Do you know what? You're not the only beauty therapist at Messages.

Someone said, I'm a beauty therapist. Yes. Someone said, beauty therapist here all the time. Beauty therapist here, one kid, and there's multiple that come into our centre with their mums, wanted to help me rip wax off her mum's bum and bits. Okay, that's again, that's a no. Yeah. Anonymous.

Another beauty therapist, they bring kids all the time. One even sat on the end of the bed to watch and she said to her mum, mum, I can see your bum. Happens all the time. Happens all the time. So we want to know with school holidays, where you ended up as a kid. Maybe it was mum and dad's work.

Maybe you were dragged along. Some texts. Mum was a waitress at Cobb & Co, so I used to sit at the back and get free food and drink. How many traffic lights do you reckon you were allowed? Oh, unlimited. And what were those little Cobb things? Yeah, the tater tots. Yeah, but they were like a crispy pop of thingies.

You know what? Probably unlimited. Tom, your dad was a cop. Yeah, dad was a cop and mum was a nurse. So school holidays, I got to go for wee ride-alongs with dad. Right, that's cool. Did you get the front seat or the back seat? Did you look like you'd just be picked up shoplifting? Bit of both, bit of both.

It was usually the back seat, but there was a few times he had to arrest someone, so then I got put in the front seat. Were the people that he arrested kind of like, who's that's this kid doing here pretty much yeah oh my god you're staring at them awkwardly from the front seat because little kids love staring and if there's a criminal or someone looks a bit different and you're like looking around you're looking at them you keep sneaking looks at them and they're like what you're holding on to the feet that is so why you would never get away with doing that now, would you?

No, that was the early 90s. Yeah, it was a different time. Did you get to play with the, did you get to turn the sirens and the lights on? Oh, yeah, Dad had a car to bring home. So when I was like four or five, I got in trouble a few times for locking myself in there and playing with the lights and sirens. Amazing. Oh, Tom, that's so select. That's amazing. Oh, Tom, that's so good. Thanks, mate.

Kelly, where did you end up as a kid? My parents were accountants, and so we would have to go to their business with them. And we got put in this meeting room that was literally just a massive room with a table and chairs. We would get given a pad of refill and a pen.

Yep. For the whole day. If you were really lucky, you got a highlighter. And that was it. You were just told that you could practice your math or do some drawing. Oh, my God. And you also had to be quiet, which was so hard for me as a child,

even hard for me now. Yeah. What do you do for a job now? I'm a primary school teacher. Oh, okay. Well, some I can see how it carried on through. Yeah.

Yeah, you're a big fan of like silent reading and stuff with the kids? I hate silent reading. It's so boring. Yeah, God,

that sounded two weeks of hell for you. Yeah. I'd go crazy. Not great. Yeah, no.

No TV, no headphones. Thank you, Derek. You were the parent that took a kid to work. Yes, we did. Okay.

This was in the 80s. Okay, yeah. Where did you take them? Where were you working? Well, we had a bakery and it was very busy. So everybody was doing their thing. But we had a young son. He was two weeks old.

And after a few days, my wife came back to work and she had to bring him with him because there was not such a thing as babysitting then. Yeah. Child care, yeah. And so the only safe place to put him

was in the bread mixer. I remember this book from when I was a kid. And I think it was by the same guy, Morris Sendak, that did Where the Wild Things Are. But this kid gets baked into bread. And that was all I could picture I think it was by the same guy, Morris Sendak, that did Where the Wild Things Are, but this kid gets baked into bread, and that was all I could picture when you were telling that story. Yeah, yeah.

Did you put like a sheepskin or a mattress in the bottom of the mixing bowl? No, it was big enough to put a whole basinette in there. Oh, wow, okay. We put the mixing arm in the top position so it was basically an empty bowl. Yeah, we figured.

We didn't think the two-year-old was so it was basically an empty bowl. Yeah, we figured. We didn't think the two-year-old was just holding on to the thing going around. Well, yeah. No, we always, safety first, we always pull

the plug out first. Oh, yeah, unplug it at the wall. Because you don't want to mix up the baby, do you, and the mixing? No, no, no.

Amazing, Derek, thank you. Here's some messages in. I was seven and I attended mum's first aid course because there was no one to look after me. This was a common theme for the first 15 years of my life, going to all sorts of these things. Yeah.

My woman's health physio had her daughter with work at her during the school holidays. She wouldn't stay at reception and busted into the room as I had my legs spread wide and up in the air on the table. Oh, goodness. Working on a bit of stretching. Yeah. Dad taught me how to rig explosives on school holidays

to help speed him up digging high country tracks. What? That is amazing. I want to learn how to do explosives with your dad. I was dragged to Vanuatu for a school holidays as dad had a work trip there. Oh, it must have been terrible. Terrible.

Because of my experience with the new Vanuatu. Is that what the people of Vanuatu are called? The new Vanuatu? You don't call the Vanuatu knees. Vanuatu. New Vanuatu. Vanuatu. They love kids.

Do they? So what, they just look after your kids? When we were there with the kids and they were tiny, they'd just be like, baby. And I'd take the baby and just like walk around. And mum and dad would have the cocktails. Yeah. Oh, no, that makes me sound bad.

That definitely didn't happen. I think it did, didn't it? It did. Absolutely did. Well, you didn't leave your kid in a mixing bowl. No. In Vanuatu. No.

I used to go with my dad to his fancy corporate office job and I thought it was so amazing. Now I have a stupid corporate job and I'm questioning my existence and I should have branched out. So many people. Mum worked in a bank and dad was a self-employed plumber so it was easier for him to pick us up when we were sick or over the school holidays and we'd just go in the van with the plumbing jobs. Listened to the radio, there was colouring in books and if there was a pipe that was small that he couldn't fit his hand up

You got to put your hand up the pipe. My hand up the pipe. Oh yuck. Get the hand up the pipe. There's so many. Working parents. My mum was the accountant at a sex toy factory. So I used to think I was just playing with grown-up dolls. Not understanding at all what they were. Oh, my God. I bet that was funny.

Pretty stink dress-ups when all they've got is leather masks and G-strings. Don't really cover the whole doll up. They're only really playing one profession, aren't they? Do you think it's made that person now like prudish or they're totally cool with everything? I think they'd probably be totally cool with everything. Totally cool with everything, yeah. Yeah.

My dad was also a cop. He used to take us for a look at the cells and lock the door and be like, ha, ha, ha, be back soon. And that was just now looking back on it, his way of getting us out of his hair for half an hour. What, he'd leave them in for half an hour brilliant

play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley fact of the day day day day day yeah

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do it's band week at fact of the day and you'll remember when we were in Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- in different countries and different areas. And then last night, I just saw this and I was like, one's got to go. Okay. So unfortunately, you're not going to hear about the pop stars that are banned from Malaysia. Anyone that has anything risky. If I found this earlier in the week, I may have switched out one of the other ones. Okay.

But today's fact that they hear at Ban Week is about a banned bodybuilding pose. Okay. Bodybuilding, you'll be familiar, the golden age of bodybuilding, they say, is the 70s and 80s when drugs, I think they were testing too much for steroids and they were like, sure, dude, take as many as you want and die of a heart attack.

That's cool. That's cool, yeah. That's cool. Do what you've got to do. And it shrinks you. Does it? Doesn't it? I think it does.

Does it shrink both? Both. The C and the B or just the B? Oh, I thought it just shrunk everything. Oh, it shrinks the whole unit. I don't know. And it the B? Oh, I thought it just shrunk everything. Oh, it shrunks the whole unit. I don't know. And it gives you little titties.

Does it? I think so. Pointy nips. Pointy nips, maybe. Like puffy nips or pointy nips. But then you're so muscly and stuff that... It doesn't matter. Well, the band pose is the moon pose. I'm going to show you...

Sorry, I was listening to a laneway artist before. That's the band pose, the moon pose. How would you describe that? Like someone's bending over and touching their toes and you're looking at the behind. Yeah, so it shows off the quads. Is that what's on the back? Yeah.

What are the other muscles here? I can see why that's a pose because it's very muscular, isn't it? Well, that's what the moon pose involves, bending forward to show off the leg muscles. Yeah. And it also showed that only the bodybuilders that had also been working on their flexibility could do it. Yes, right.

Because if they got too muscly and hadn't been concentrating on flexibility, the muscles would work against them being able to bend over and touch their toes, highlighting the hamstring and the glutes. Yeah. Big muscly legs. So why is it banned?

Well, it was very, very popular in the 70s and 80s. Eight-time Mr. Olympic champion Ronnie Coleman used it all the time. But it was a signature move of Tom Platz in the 70s and 80s. However, back in the day, it was suspected that judges indulged in, shall we say, hookups. Okay. With the contestants. And they believed this pose of bending over and showing them their muscular rear end. Right.

It's called the moon pose because if they didn't have the bodybuilding jockeys on, you'd see the whole moon. You'd see the whole moon. You'd see the whole moon. Yep. And the hole in the moon. Right. see the whole moon. You'd see the whole moon. Yep. And the hole in the moon. Right. The craters in the moon.

And it was, what, too much for the judges? And people started to see this pose as vulgar and an attempt to sexually entice the judges to vote for them. Right. As a little bit of a, look what you could have later if you give me the top marks. If you vote for me. Yeah.

Right. And they said it was more about flexibility than muscle symmetry. Right. So then it kind of went around and it got banned from competition and competitors. Was that actually happening though? Yeah. Okay, right. I mean, there's no one coming forward and saying,

because it was the 70s and 80s. So it was still a little under the mat. You know, you don't talk about that sort of thing in public. But they believed that they were, yeah, so desperate to win that they would. Wow. And the judges were there to admire greased up, well-tanned men's bodies. I'm not saying they were all gay,

but I'm just admittedly saying that, you know. Yeah, right. You know, if you were, it would be a hell of a gig. It would be, yeah, confronting. It would be a hell of a gig. A tough job. So they banned the moon pose from any males bodybuilding competitions.

And is it still banned to this day? Yep. In official bodybuilding competitions it's still banned. Amazing. Yep. Separation there.

I bet if you went underground it's still a thing. I don't even reckon you have to go that far underground. Probably not, no. Just into a public toilet if you know the place to go

and that could probably still be a... Or a grinder. A well-respected... Yeah, not even underground. Yeah. Don't hide the moon pose anymore be proud of the moon pose so today's fact of the day is there is a band pose in bodybuilding it's called the moon pose where you bend over and show the judges your delicious glutes and hammies fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Well, there could be a cheaper way for you to get on your OE or your next holiday. This is an Australian startup, so I don't think it's here, but I mean, surely you could register and say you're Australian to be a part of it. Now, how it works is it's kind of like a matchmaking

service, but it's a service for like nervous flyers, maybe elderly, maybe kids, maybe kids. What do you call unaccompanied minors? Okay. But unaccompanied minors are already taken care of. They get a neat little lanyard.

They can hand out the lollies. Or maybe they're like, they're still old enough, but maybe, I don't know, it's a big international like two leg flight. So maybe, you know, they might want some company or some help or disabled people. Okay. And you basically sign up to the service and then it will match you with someone and you get paid to accompany them. Who pays you? On the trip, they do.

So the person who needs accompaniment, they pay. Now, is it you're a whole ticket or they just pay a portion? So those seeking a journey companion can offer a fee from 500 to 1,200 Australian plus a 10% commission. So I'm guessing the app or the journey service get that. And then you work. So it could just be sitting next to the person. Yeah. But I mean, if they were disabled, maybe you'd help them up if they needed the bathroom or they wanted to,

you know, get around the aircraft. If it was an old person, you could work out how to use the entertainment system for them. Oh my God. This just sounds like

my worst nightmare. I do that for free. Yeah, I know. That's why. I've been sitting next to people because when you're a, you travel as a family, if you're the dad

and there's like three seats together and one, you're always the one that's away from your family. Yeah. to take it for take one for the team yeah yeah yeah well it's kind of good actually you you say like it's a big drag oh no but then like the kids aren't trying to sleep on you and they're not asking you for everything and mom's doing all the hard yards but you're like man i was wish i was sitting with my family anyway back to this uninterrupted movie. Time to take my sleeping pills. Yeah. That was very James Corden of you.

It was. I don't ignore them. Right. I don't completely ignore them if they're upset. I do my part. But so $1,200, I mean, that's getting close to paying for your flight to Europe. Like a 25-hour journey, they worked out that's about $48 an hour

to accompany someone on the plane. I can understand unaccompanied minors, easy peasy, make sure they're sort of older people, make sure that people with disabilities or you know, need help on the plane, sure, but nervous

flyers? How do you help a nervous flyer? Well that's the thing. I don't like to say it's going to be okay. Here, take these. Just take them. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know because that's the nervous flyer would be the hardest one to fly because what kind of nervous flyer are you getting?

Yeah. Like a screamy, cryy, panic one or just one that just needs to grip something on takeoff and landing? Yeah, but you're getting to Europe for nearly free. But it might be one of those situations where you get something for free and at the end of it, you're like, I just wish I'd paid. I just wish I'd paid, yeah, rather than put up with that.

But it's kind of a good idea. It's a cool idea. And maybe you can select, maybe, like, you know, you have to say yes before you accept who you're flying with. You know what I mean? So if you weren't into the nervous flyer, you couldn't deal with that. Maybe you just help an old person get to Europe

for their last Al Camino or something. God, if they need help on a plane or not, the Al Caminos are there. That's a walk, man. It's very hot. That's a walk. Now, nearly a quarter of iPhone users, and they just think they're better than everybody,

don't they? iPhone users. But you're they're better than everybody, don't they? iPhone users? Mm. But you're an iPhone user? Yeah. We're all iPhone users? Yeah. Do you think you're better

than everybody else? Not really. Okay. Do you? No, I don't believe him. Oh, it's the rest of them. It must be all the other ones. We have not said that.

Nearly a quarter of iPhone users say green bubbles are a dating deal breaker. So, like, imagine you meet, like, a 10 and then they message you it's green. See, I reckon. You're not saying no to that either. I reckon if they were 10, they'd go beyond message color. 10s get.

10s get. Hey, they have the bubble WhatsApp. Everybody's green. Yeah. They have the bubble WhatsApp. We're all, you know. Aren't they changing it as well? We're all green on WhatsApp.

Aren't they changing it because Apple's We're all green on WhatsApp Aren't they changing it Because Apple's been so I don't know what they Well who's changing it? WhatsApp No Apple are going to make it So that everybody's going to be able To blue message

Ah Isn't that a thing? Didn't I read something like that? But if you're paying for texts Because they've been very protective Wait but if you're paying for texts Yeah You need to know that that person's green

because that's when you take it to WhatsApp because it's free and it's going to be over data. But when you are blue and you text someone and it's green, you're like, oh, that's cost me 20 cents or taken off by however many freebies I get. It's in your case, it's cost work, hasn't it? Because work pays. Oh, yeah.

But at what number? But you're not a company man. Yeah, at what number do you not let it slide? Like, a 10 can send a green text, a 9 can send a green text, can an 8 or a 7? An 8 can send a green text. To me, a green

text just seems like an opportunity to avail yourself of someone you wanted to get rid of anyway. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's an excuse. And I'm full of excuses. So you come to the excuse guy, he'll give you an excuse. Yeah.

That's a... If this was Seinfeld was still running, this would be an episode of Seinfeld. George Costanza would break up with the 10 because she had a green message. Because she had a green message. Yeah. Writing itself.

Yeah, it writes itself these days. Everything can be a Seinfeld episode or a Simpsons episode or a Friends episode. Ah, another podcast in the bag. The plastic bag. Are they back? No, no. Still banned. Okay. They never left. No, sorry. That's where you come in with the

line, boy. Boy, man, if you enjoyed that. Okay. Oh, and if you enjoyed it, give us a rating and a review and be sure to tell all of your friends. God, I need some sleep. Play ZM's Fletch, Fawn and Hayley.