ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 7th November 2024
Episode Date: November 6, 2024Millenials sit for 60+ hours Shannon's a bad person Top 6 things I'd install in the White House Hayley unassisted at Vaughan's again Tiktok girlies dating advice - Linger Hayley's snack to try SLP - D...o you get email anxiety? Hayley's rough morning What's your fav timestable? Firefighters Jack Tame IV Fact of the Day - Flags What did your boss catch you doing?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Thanks Bryn.
Thanks Bryn.
For that news, good morning.
Welcome to the show, Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley.
Just head down, just head down, guys.
Head down the world.
What a blessed day to live in New Zealand.
The world will be fine.
Yeah, what a great day to be living at the bottom of the world.
I sat on my deck yesterday.
It was a lovely afternoon in Auckland and I just thought, okay, just head down, you know.
Just try to keep an hour little corner of the world.
Four more years of that orange man.
You know, I've got a huge export business.
Guys, I'm a bit worried. Oh yeah?
I've got a huge export business.
About the tariff set. What is your export business?
Yeah, what are you exporting? I've forgotten. Nuclear waste.
Oh, yep. Do you know, we were
I've got a very smart
friend who is undercover
and is not a smart friend. Oh yeah.
My name's Hayley. No.
It's embarrassing that you won't address me directly.
You're
your own sort of smart.
Yeah, thank you. You're special.
I'm special smart.
But then came out of the box last night
with like the economic impact.
I was just like, Robsy,
you goofy son of a bitch. I always forget how smart
you are.
Was it a harrowing lesson?
Yeah, it's not great for New Zealand because anything we export to the US
is immediately going to cost 20% more.
Yeah.
Plus, it's not good.
Overnight.
So we just won't get as much over there because people won't pay for it.
But then the local product.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Then I was like
what do we import
from the US
because what do you
reckon like
what do we get
from them
oh like their
lollies
lollies
dude
so candy's one of
the main ones
candy is one of
the main ones
is it actually
oh yeah
peanut butter cups
and stuff like that
uh
machinery's one of
them
oh yeah
aircraft
uh insurance and pension services okay who knew right but one of them Aircraft Insurance and pension services
Okay, who knew right
But one of the things that was on this list that I read
Was nuclear reactors
I'm like how is this even on the list for us
Who knows, we don't have any nuclear reactors
Well the top six soon dealing with the fact
That Trump will be back in the White House
And when he was last in the White House
Famous for having a Diet Coke button Yes, he pushed last in the White House famous for having a Diet Coke button.
Yes.
He pushed it
and immediately
the staff would bring him
a Diet Coke.
Yeah, so I've got
the top six buttons
I'd have installed
if I was president.
Which at this stage
just doesn't seem that crazy, right?
No.
No, no, anyone can do it, my dude.
Get in.
Another chance
at 8 o'clock this morning
to go on the draw
to get to New York
for the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball,
Madison Square Gardens.
At least there'll be no rioting.
There's a silver lining.
On the silver lining side of things.
The woke left, we don't riot.
No.
No.
We just take a loss and cry for a little bit.
Play Zed-Ems, Flashborn and Hayley.
The three of us, we all have Apple Watches, don't we?
We do.
Yes.
Pause for applause.
We're doing all right, you know.
But the Apple Watch, one of my least favourite features
is that it nags you at 10 to the hour
to stand up if you haven't stood in that hour.
For one minute.
For one minute.
It's quite confronting sometimes.
I know, because it buzzes you only if you haven't stood
for one minute during that hour. Now, sometimes I have stood and it's misunderstood. You know, because it buzzes you only if you haven't stood for one minute during that hour.
Now, sometimes I have stood and it's misunderstood.
You know, it doesn't know that you've been standing.
And sometimes you just remain sitting but put your hand up and jiggle it for a minute.
You move it around for a bit and then you say, shush, now you're done.
It's a reminder that you've been on the couch or at your desk at work.
For an hour.
For way too long.
Without moving.
So it all adds up, these hours of sedentary behaviour
with office jobs on the rise, scrolling.
You know, we just sit on our phones and we scroll.
We couch potato, we're watching Netflix at the end of the day.
It all adds up.
And on average, we're spending 60, millennials this is,
are spending 60 hours a week sitting down.
That's not lying down, by the way.
Okay, so that doesn't include bed.
That's during your active hours.
That's a lot, hey.
In which we are awake.
We're spending more than a work week sitting.
Because that includes your work day, everything.
And then they're saying that the problem with it being millennials
that are sitting this much is that we think that we're invincible
and we don't really have to address our health issues yet.
You know what I mean?
We're like, oh, I'm not quite.
I'm in my 50s.
You're in the prime years.
Yeah, I'm in my prime years.
I'm fine.
Like, it doesn't matter that much.
I'm pretty active.
Even the people like yourself that go to the gym and then you're like, great, I've been really active.
But if you spend the rest of the day sitting, you're still like slowing down your metabolism and increasing your risk of heart disease.
Well, that's depressing. Yeah. So they're like, basically like, you're still like slowing down your metabolism and increasing your risk of heart disease. Well, that's depressing.
Yeah. So they're like,
basically like, you've got to stand up,
you've got to move. What do you want from me?
What do you want from me? You've got to stand up,
you've got to move. I do stand up, I don't know what you want from me.
The watch wants you to stand up.
Leave me alone, leave me alone.
I know. But I always think that,
you know when you answer those questions, when you're
on like a, I don't know, like a health thing or something,
and they're like.
Like the police.
They're like, where were you last night?
Yeah, yeah.
None of your goddamn business.
Do you have a warrant?
If not, let me go.
And I say to my two friends, Fletch and Vaughn can vouch for me where I was.
And then I say, hey, guys, and you just go with me, right?
That's the deal?
Yeah, always.
Always.
But, you know, you answer those and it's like activity level
and it's always like sedentary, lightly active or super active,
meaning like you're a courier or something.
Yeah, a courier.
A courier.
A courier.
I'm always like, oh, I'm pretty active.
But when you think about it, you're like, no.
Is the piece of active work for you a courier?
They're pretty active.
They're running out of a van a lot.
They're pretty active.
But I would think.
A gardener.
Yeah.
A landscaper.
A landscaper builder.
A physical job.
Always moving.
I know,
but that always confronts me
because I'm always like,
I feel like I'm an active person.
But really,
you do spend a...
I'd put active.
Oh no,
but you do a lot of...
If I was here longer,
I would put sedentary.
Sedentary?
I don't know how to say that name.
Sedentary.
Sedentary.
Sedentary.
Sedentary. Sedentary. You don't know how to say that name. Sedentary. Sedentary. Sedentary. Sedentary.
You're a century guy.
Sitting down.
Century.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say you would be moderate
because you also do a lot of yard work.
Yeah.
That's why I go home.
I'm done.
Same.
Really?
I'm sort of out.
I love to sit.
That's maybe why I remember earlier this year.
That's why you've got such huge varicose veins.
No, I was going to say that's why I have my butt pimples. I'm just sitting on my ass all why you've got such huge varicose veins. No, I was going to say, that's why I have my butt pimples.
I'm just sitting on my ass all day.
Butt pimples and varicose veins.
That's an old Sprout butt pimples varicose veins.
That's in the name of your autobiography.
Oh, no.
Butt pimples and varicose veins.
Bree's books.
What's Bree's book?
Unapologetically me.
And mine is Hayley Sprout.
Butt pimples and varicose veins.
That'll be a big seller.
That'll be a big seller. That'll be a big seller.
Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley.
Producer Shannon has a moral quandary.
And in fact, a lot of people playing Wordle.
It was actually my Rockwest band.
What's that?
Moral quandary.
What's up with moral quandary?
We're going to play for you an original.
Great.
Cool song.
Started with a bass solo. Great. Cool song. Started with a bass solo.
Always.
Shannon won't be the only person with this moral
quandary. In fact, people may not know,
but those playing Wordle, still,
or Connections, any of
the New York Times games,
have this quandary. Producer
Shannon, why? Well, they've
gone on strike, and the workers have said,? Well, they've gone on strike. Yes. And the
workers have said, please break your
streak to break our strike.
Break your streak to break the strike. Because they
want people to, they want the New York
Times, the people that run it, to see
that people are, you know, behind their staff.
And by stopping playing Wordle.
So why aren't you getting on
board with this? Well, I don't want to break my
streak. What is your streak at? Well, I don't want to break my streak.
What is your streak at?
Well, so it's not that high.
I had a streak of 68 and I lost on my 69th day.
And I was so mad.
How many people are still playing Wordle?
Are the stats still up there?
All the hot people. New York Times game section is rad.
The mini crossword rules, the spelling bee one.
I can't do that.
I've never been able to do that very well.
I stopped playing Wordle maybe six months after Wordle kind of blew up.
I have a $90 subscription.
What?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
A year?
Yeah.
US or Canadian or New Zealand dollars? I don't know why it would be Canadian. I don't know. Or yen. I don't? Yeah. US or Canadian? Or New Zealand dollars?
I don't know why it would be Canadian.
I don't know.
Or yen.
I don't really care.
How many yen is it a year?
I think like 20.
How many Thai baht are you paying?
20 yen.
Are you paying a year?
Yeah.
How many dong?
Yeah.
How much 30 dong?
What are the rupees?
27.
How many rupees a year?
How many French francs?
Horn, they don't use French francs anymore.
No, I know.
That's what makes it amazing.
Swiss francs. How many Scottish pounds are you Horn, they don't use French francs anymore. No, I know, that's what makes it amazing. Swiss francs.
How many Scottish pounds are you paying a year?
Like 12.
Oh, my God.
What would be the equivalent of sterling silver?
I'm a KG.
So you won't break your streak.
Yeah, and my streak's only 11 days.
Oh, dude.
Oh, shit.
Come on, 11, that's embarrassing.
But I've got to get back up to my 69 because I need to hit the nice.
Scab, scab, scab.
What is scab, man?
Like you're crossing the picket line.
It's back from the days like in England when they would,
all the miners were striking.
Yeah.
And if you cross the picket line to go and make some money
because it was tough times, people would scream at you,
scab, scab, scab.
Wow. Well, I kind of, I don't really, scab, scab, scab. Wow.
Well, I don't really care about journalism.
You don't have to tell NZ Herald that you don't care about the journalists.
No, it's just, does my 11-day streak really make a difference?
Yes, because you would stop playing,
and then the New York Times would see that,
and they'd go, okay, this is having an impact.
The people are rallying. What about connections then? No, they would see that and they'd go, okay, this is having an impact. The people are rallying.
What about Connections then?
No, they're saying that as well.
Any of the New York Times games they're saying.
Vaughn, are you still playing Connections?
Because you got into it.
Nah.
But it was a good game.
But there would be people out there
still playing since the pandemic
that have massive streaks.
Yeah, Wordle was fun for a bit.
Fletch and I stopped at sort of the same time.
A couple of illiterate...
Yeah, we're done.
They didn't know enough Wordle.
I tried Storm and it didn't work.
And that's the only five-letter Wordle I know.
Because she's an X-Man.
Play.
ZM.
Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.
Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
This is the top six.
He's doing some Muppets impressions in the studio.
Relax, Beaker.
Current.
That's a current reference.
Current reference.
Why did you just reach for your lip balm and then pull away and not have your lip balm?
If you need your lip balm, please do.
Your lip balm.
Thank you.
What was that other stuff?
Oh, you had the tube.
I got Lanolips and Nivea.
It's trash.
I'm so embarrassed.
I threw it on the ground.
Don't be embarrassed.
Lanolips.
Okay.
Right.
The button.
The button.
There's a Diet Coke button.
Trump is there.
Trump is there.
Yeah.
Top six buttons I'd install in the White House
if I was the president.
Which at this stage doesn't seem that crazy.
It doesn't seem, yeah.
I don't have any felons.
Knees.
I wasn't born there, but
doesn't matter.
None of it matters anymore. Prove it. I've never seen his birth certificate.
Top six buttons
I'd install in the White House.
Number six, a button for a trapdoor.
Yes.
If someone was, like, annoying you or disagreeing.
Beep.
Trapdoor. Never see them again.
It's very Austin Powers.
Or guys singing Jabba the Hutt.
Oh, okay.
In Star Wars.
Yeah.
You guys are very familiar, obviously, where Luke goes to Jabba's palace.
Even though he's, you know, force sensitive and probably new,
standing on a trapdoor, still falls in, fights a rancor,
beats it, that puts the shits up everywhere.
Not a rancor. I would have preferred
an Austin Powers reference, to be honest.
Yeah, when Dr. Evil opens
it up and there's like sharks with laser beams on their heads.
No, that's what he wants, isn't it?
Or does he get it in the later one?
But in the first one, it's Will Ferrell falls down
the thing and he's like, I am very
badly burned. A young Will Ferrell. Fantastic. thing and he's like, I am very badly burned. I am very badly burned.
A young Will Ferrell.
Fantastic.
Number five on the list of the top six buttons on and still in the White House,
whiskey button.
Number four on the list of the top six buttons on and still in the White House,
chippy button.
Oh, chippy.
Hot chippies or bowl of crisps.
Sounds like we might have a chippy panel.
Yes.
Different chippies.
All right, so it says chips under it's hot.
Hot chips.
Crisps.
Yeah.
Salt and vinegar.
Cheese.
Or pokey chips.
Like nacho chips?
Nacho chips.
Corn chips.
Corn chips.
Yeah, like chips
from a casino.
A panel.
Number three on the list
of the top six buttons
I listed on the White House.
A whiskey button.
Number two on the list
of the top six buttons
I listed on the White House. Wait, are these different whiskeys the list of the top six buttons uninstalled on the White House.
Are these different whiskeys
or just you're making sure
there's enough whiskey?
I'm just making sure
there's enough buttons.
Okay, right.
Because it could be like
a cheap whiskey day
or like an aged whiskey day.
We are the president.
I'm not drinking.
I'm not drinking trash.
You don't have a teacher's
under there?
Excuse me.
Teachers is fine.
The preferred whiskey
of Margaret Thatcher.
The great Margaret Thatcher.
I know.
It's a great whiskey.
Number two on the list of the top six buttons uninst The great Margaret Thatcher. I know. It's a great whiskey. All right.
Number two on the list of the top six buttons
that are still in the White House.
Chocolate fountain button.
Oh, wait.
It just came up out of the ground.
Oh, does the staff bring it in?
No.
No.
Rises up out of the ground.
I mean, you are the president.
They can tap the room with a chocolate fountain.
Could it be installed in the roof?
And it comes down?
So you go like this, and then you go,
you've got 10 seconds to open your mouth and aim it
and then it starts pouring down.
That'll be an absolute mess.
That's a silly suggestion.
And number one on the list of the top six buttons
that are still in the White House, just a whiskey
button, just to make sure.
Three of your six are whiskey
buttons. So you've got chips,
chocolate and whiskey.
Yeah, sounds like just a night at your house.
And a trap door. Also, I
Fletch, for reference, have googled
what a rancor is. Quite scary.
Oh, very scary. Oh, yeah.
Is it a Star Wars thing?
Star Wars. Yeah, rancor. Oh, you guys are no longer
best friends. And of course, Boba Fett
got one in the Book of Boba Fett series.
Of course. Of course he did.
Of course he did. Yeah.
Kind of tamed it.
Rode it.
Okay.
Into battle.
Okay.
Saved him.
Of course.
I started this.
That is today's top six.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Very rough start to the day for me, I'd say.
Now, I slept in a bit this morning as well.
I was snoozing Susan.
Yeah, we got that message. I'm running late.
Running late.
I wasn't actually late in the end.
No, even your late beats Vaughn.
My late means I'm...
I had a pretty good run this morning.
You were good, but my running late is
I'm running late for quiet time with just me and Fletch.
It's a special
secret time that you're not involved in.
Yeah, it's a special time. But that's okay.
That's good. But I've been running late.
Anyway, I was snoozing
and then I
went into the bathroom and I put my makeup on
and did all my normal things.
Realised I had no time for brekkies
so I thumbed some protein yoghurt into
a takeaway coffee cup.
And called it a day. And that's breakfast.
And that's breakfast.
Now I'm still in my gym jams at this point.
And I go into the lounge where at the end of the couch,
I always lay out my clothes for the next day
because it's so I'm not like rattling around in the dark.
Considerate.
Thank you.
Really considerate.
Thank you.
I actually haven't been acknowledged for that consideration.
I throw my stuff on the floor of the bathroom and I get up.
I hate that.
I hate that for Sade.
She doesn't hear a thing.
Oh, really?
Aaron will just snap awake.
So I go into the lounge to the couch to get my clothes
that I'll take into the bathroom.
And I grabbed the T-shirt that I'm wearing,
the skirt, bra bra and undies,
but not my gilet or sleeveless blazer.
Right.
Gilet.
Is that the name?
It's a fashion term.
It's called a gilet.
I've never heard that before in my life.
Have you heard that?
I've never heard that word before.
Never heard.
It's a gilet.
Okay.
So a vest.
You may call this a vest.
A vest.
Okay.
You grab your vest.
You see my vest.
Anyway, so I grab that and I go into the bathroom and I get changed.
I put that on, finish everything.
I'm like, right, all I've got to do is put in my jewellery, my shoes, socks, and my gilet.
Yeah, vest.
Gilet.
Okay.
Jacket vest.
I'm happy to say sleeveless blazer.
Padded shoulders.
Shoulder pads, which makes it a gilet.
Yeah.
Anyway, so I go in to get my gilet and my shoes and socks.
And in my bare feet, I just feel like a little something underneath my toes.
Yuck.
And I'm in the dimmed.
Our lights are on dimmers.
They're at the dimmest at this point.
And I was like, you can't really see much.
I looked down and I was like, what is that?
And I see these two little petrified mouse legs.
I was expecting insects.
I was expecting a cat vom or a cat poo.
I wish, mate.
I wish.
And I was like, ooh.
And then I looked closer as my eyes adjusted to the mouse.
It is half the mouse's body.
It is not.
There is no.
Where's the head? The yuck half. It was the mouse's body. It is not. There is no. Where's the head?
The yuck half.
It was the arse end.
So my toes, like bare toe, like around this thing.
Anyway, so I was like, oh my God.
And then I just had to do that thing where I was like, man up.
And I had to go in and get like paper towels from the kitchen
and like pick up this half mouse and then I flushed
him. You flushed him out?
You flushed him out!
I know because I was like... I would have tossed it.
Where? Into the hedge.
Like over the neighbour's fence. No, but then I would have to
unlock the front door and do this and into the thing.
Wait, where was your shoe?
I assumed the shoe was at the door.
No, my shoes are inside
the house. Oh, so you're inside the bathroom. No, no, I'm in the lounge. No, my shoes are inside the house.
Oh, so you're inside the bathroom.
No, no, I'm in the lounge.
It's on the rug in the lounge.
This is why we shut our cats out at night.
No, but he's so cute.
And then, so I flushed them out,
and I was just like trying to be like, it's all good.
Like, it's all good.
I didn't even feel it,
like trying to shake that feeling of crunch between my toes.
Did you shower your foot?
No, I didn't shower my foot.
I haven't even washed my foot.
Oh, dude, I would have given your foot a little shower.
Oh, you didn't what?
I washed my hands.
Go out and get some hand sanitizer
and just soak your foot in it.
Okay, I'm going to.
This is how plagues start.
Oh, no, I'm going to take off my shoe.
What have my foot fallen off?
I don't think this is how any plagues have started.
This is how plagues start for them. I don't think this is how any plagues have started. This is how plagues start, Vaughn. I don't think you've ever heard of the plague.
I don't think it's fair to say the black plague started with a woman stepping in half of her mouth.
That's exactly how it started.
So anyway, I did this and I was like, okay, fine.
Like just trying to get over myself.
I put on my sock and shoe, which you've just highlighted without actually washing.
I've just taken my sock and shoe off.
So I'll just send it there.
It was the right foot, so I know.
And then I was like, where's the other half of the mouse?
Either Raleigh's eaten it, which I hope is the case,
or it's just somewhere in the house.
I reckon he's eaten it.
So today you've got to find the other half?
I guess I'll pull out the cat.
Like, where is it?
I just couldn't deal with it this morning.
Anyway, that's enough of that story.
It's so yuck, I'm going to go hand sanding my foot.
Yeah, that's disgusting.
ZM's Fletch, Va's enough of that story. It's so yuck I'm going to go hand sanding my foot. Yeah, that's disgusting.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Now, for this
dating tip, DJ.
DJ CF.
Yes. That's
a terrible DJ name.
Can I request a song? Can I have some
Cranberries Linger, please?
Oh God, he's ready to go.
He's ready to go. He's ready to go.
I'm up here with my MacBook and my space bar
looking like a cool dude
DJ.
And you ever do requests?
I feel like the moment he said, cool dude DJ,
you lost all your coolness.
Yeah, went out the window, didn't I?
Now, this has been described as one of the most
mundane dating tips of all time
because there's all sorts of things. Try this, do this,
do this, term this, do this term, this
do some lollygagging.
Why are you laughing?
I'm just booking my slot at R&B.
Because I'm a
cool dude DJ now.
I just feel like if you've got to keep saying
I'm a cool dude DJ.
Sorry, okay, yeah, carry on.
It's less cool. Now, they're saying
this is a mundane dating tip, rather than doing all
these tricky things. There's a girl. Now, saying this is a mundane dating tip, rather than doing all these tricky things,
there's a girl on TikTok, Jess,
she goes out every Thursday
looking for a
lover, but instead of going
to, you know, on the apps and
everything, she lingers.
Hence why you've requested
that it's just your
attitude. Hence why you've requested
this song. Linger.
R.I.P.
Yeah, she died, didn't she?
I'm on such a Cranberries buzz at the moment.
It's very creepy.
Just endlessly listening to Cranberries,
including this song.
So what she does is she goes down to any pub
and she changes it every Thursday.
This is a Thursday night activity.
She goes on her own to a pub.
Now sometimes it's like maybe,
she calls them like a pub
or a potential meet cute spot
in London.
Okay.
So where like you might
bump into people.
Okay.
A cafe or a library
or something.
And she just lingers.
She's like we're trying
too hard to meet people
going to these events
and whatnot.
Hang on a second.
If a guy did this
it would be creepy.
It wouldn't be called lingering.
It wouldn't be called lingering.
It would be loitering.
That would be loitering.
Do you have to let it loiter?
Do you have to?
That's a great song.
That would be a Hayley's version
if I could be bothered.
Now, that's what she does.
She's like, this is great.
You just go out and you linger.
And if you spot a cute person,
you've got to work up the courage
then to go up and be like,
hey, how you going?
Right, start some conversation.
Start some conversation.
Almost the old-fashioned way.
You're creating your own things, but she makes it every Thursday.
Linger Thursday.
So if you're not having luck on the apps, which, by the way,
I've got a few friends on the apps, and it just seems dire.
Are you just learning this now?
Oh, my God, some of it.
What like?
Just like weird, weird people.
Okay.
Odd conversation, no conversation skills, like, weird people. Okay. Odd conversation.
No conversation skills.
Like not good chat.
Yeah.
Just odd, awkward.
Yeah, right.
Dire.
So good lingo.
I mean, yeah, but that only.
There is some hot.
Yeah.
There.
But it's weird.
But then you go and it's disappointing.
It's hot and it's weird.
Now we're talking.
Not a lot of people aren't reeling anymore.
People aren't.
People aren't.
For the ladies, they're not, you know.
They're not.
They're not.
What are you doing there?
That's hand movement.
I don't understand.
They're not putting any effort.
They're not.
They're not going over the top.
They're not.
The feedback, the general feedback in the dating world is that the men aren't anymore.
They're not going downtown.
Thank you, Fletch.
Thank you, Fletch.
This is not the hand symbol for going downtown.
What is?
I'm born!
Don't do that at me in the workplace, please.
It's like a dance move.
Because I'm trying to maintain a professional environment in the studio.
Like when Backstreet Boys put their hands in there,
they're like, everybody.
That was her hand symbol.
That was the global symbol for downtown.
Anyway, if you're having trouble on the dating apps,
on a Thursday night, or you pick your day,
you have to let it linger.
But don't loiter.
Don't loiter.
This is ladies only.
Unless you're going downtown,
then apparently we're not lingering long enough.
Do some loitering, some lingering.
Linger around town, loiter downtown.
Play ZM's Fleshborn Vaughan and Hayley.
Yesterday,
when we were talking about
who is happier
when they're single,
we asked Fletch
if he is happy and single,
to which you said yes,
to which Vaughan said,
are you ready to mingle,
to which you said
every day, all day,
and to which Vaughan said,
do you like a Pringle?
And then we got into the chat
that Pringles are crap.
Pringle, mingle, single.
Yeah. Yeah. And we agreed that Pringles are crap. Pringle, Mingle, Single. Yeah.
Yeah.
And we agreed that Pringles, they're just dust.
I don't like them.
I know people are obsessed with them.
They fat shame my hand.
I'm not into it.
You don't get your hand in a Pringles.
It's just, it's really, it's clawed.
It's like pinced.
Yeah.
That's why you tip it into your mouth.
No, no, no, no.
You've got to run it at an angle.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
If they're the only thing around,
say I was at an airport or
something and that was the only thing, only chip
option, I'd just do some. I'd say the only
time of the year that I ever
eat Pringles is when I'm in
a hotel room and I don't have time
for food and I open up that little
sliding drawer and there's a $20
jar of small Pringles. I'll eat those.
That's expensive. Do you know what I mean eat those. $20? That's expensive.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, they're always exorbitantly expensive.
Do you know our friend Big Hearted James?
I had to go with him to a store when we went to Sydney
to replace the Kit Kat that he stole out of the minibar.
Oh, yeah.
And he always does it.
Does he?
He goes, yes, he eats.
It is a great idea.
It's a genius.
It's so good.
But I've been in some hotels where they stick out
or they print like special labels.
Those bastards.
So that you can't do this and they get you with the price.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because they want their big mark up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, I just think Pringles are overrated.
Then on my way home yesterday,
I popped into the supermarket to get my ingredients
for my sweet and sour
Chinese chicken noodle soup
that I love to make.
And as I just said off air and
Vaughan's jaw hit the floor, I couldn't be
bothered doing chicken or noodles.
I just got chicken dumplings.
That's chicken and noodles.
It's almost a wonton soup.
Wonton soup. So I made the broth, put the
dumplings in, covered it in mint, coriander, spring onion, sesame seeds,
soy sauce, chilli oil.
Amazing.
I know, it was insane.
Yum.
Master chef over here.
Yeah, thank you very much.
But while I was there, something caught my eye
and I was like, oh my God, what is in this tube?
And then I saw it and I thought, oh my God,
this is a great alternative to Pringles.
So I've brought it in for us to try.
Okay.
It's in my bag. Now it's in to Pringles. So I've brought it in for us to try. Okay. It's in my bag.
Now it's in a Pringles tube.
What is this?
Exactly like a Pringles tube.
Poppadom Pringles.
Like they're not Pringles. Well they're not called Pringles.
No, they're just called Poppadoms.
So they're like little, mini
Poppadoms. Poppadoms.
Like an alternative to Pringles. Oh my god.
I'm here for this. Now, we love Indian food.
I love that song by the Wiggles.
Oh, no, you don't.
I'm not allowed to love that anymore.
Wait, are these plain flavoured?
Yeah, I just got plain.
Yeah, but poppadoms...
Oh, I've taken two of these.
Are they always plain?
Yeah, I'll have one.
Poppadom...
Poppadoms are always plain.
Yeah, they're like mini wafer...
So poppadoms aren't usually plain,
but I've stuffed up here because I saw these
and I thought we should try the raw form of them.
We need mango chutney.
We need mango chutney.
We should try the raw form of poppadom.
Some yogurt dipping.
Do you know what flavour they had?
What?
I should have got it.
Chili crab.
Why did I get that?
Why didn't you get that?
Are they good?
I mean, they're plain.
And I do see on the thing it says gluten-free plant-based.
No, they're lentils.
That's what poppadoms are made out of.
Are they?
Yeah.
Who do you think they were made out of?
Flour?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, no.
I just can't taste the fat, you know, like it's been deep-fried.
I think that is genius.
Imagine if you had a little mango chutney or a little, like, writer or something.
That'd be great on a churtery bowl.
Yeah, like with cheese and stuff.
Because it's a bit like
a fancy cracker.
But do you know,
I think this is
solving our Pringles issue
that they're not dust.
They're like,
they've got a good bite.
Because poppadoms
are usually like
sort of like
massive.
Yeah.
Like a mini naan.
Yeah, I don't mind them.
Maybe a rotty sized, right?
I really thought you guys
were going to absolutely
frost for these.
I'm not a poppadom guy.
Aren't you?
Nah. Wow. Shots fired. Wow. I'm just not. I'm not a poppadom guy. Aren't you? No.
Wow.
Shots fired.
Wow.
I'm just not.
I've never really been into it.
Apologise to our Indian listeners.
Well, I want to apologise to them.
Why not?
Well, their cuisine is amazing.
What they've got is they've got one of the-
No, the cuisine you're eating isn't their cuisine, by the way.
It's England's cuisine.
No, it's authentic Indian cuisine.
It's one of the loveliest cuisines.
By the way, I do take offence at you saying the cuisine I'm not eating.
I'm not the butter chicken boy here.
That was actually aimed at Fletch.
We're not a big butter chicken boy in studio.
Excuse me.
Once I had a korma.
And he was like, you don't bring that up.
You don't bring that up, do you?
You don't bring that up. Oh, my God. up, do you? You don't bring that up.
Oh, my God.
What is this?
Oh, my God, it's so spicy.
What is it?
It's a lamb korma, you idiot.
I wish I'd done the butter chicken.
It's so creamy.
I just think these are a good Pringle alternative.
Shout out to Uncle Saber's Poppadoms, the famous lentil crust.
Where did you get them from?
Supermarket?
Yeah, like Borich, a fancy one.
Oh, fancy supermarket.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole
Silly little pole
Someone's going to need to explain to me
what email anxiety is.
You're pretty anxiety free with things.
You just send off your emails and be like,
there you go.
Email anxiety, like when you...
What is email anxiety?
Like when you send an email
and then you're waiting for an email
and then you're not sure how it was reading.
Oh, she gives a shit.
You guys are going to stop
giving any shits about things. What are you
waiting for someone to email you back?
Yeah, but what if they hate me? What if they hate me?
Exactly. What if I worded it too strongly?
What if I've offended them? What if I've offended someone?
And an email.
Yeah, look, I don't get this
at all. Producer girlies, is this a thing
for you? Email anxiety?
Of course it is.
You keep opening it up and being like,
have I done something wrong?
Yeah, no.
I check my emails like so many times every hour
just to make sure I haven't missed a really good interview or, you know.
It's almost like you guys wear your email anxiety.
Yeah.
We take it for you.
I have everything anxiety.
Who's at the door anxiety?
Who's texting me anxiety?
Who's calling me anxiety? Have I worded that anxiety? Who's texting me anxiety? Who's calling me anxiety?
Have I worded that anxiety?
Do they like me anxiety?
Anxiety, anxiety, medicated anxiety.
I've got all the anxieties.
Email anxiety for sure.
Yeah.
And waiting for emails sometimes.
Is my email there?
Has anyone emailed me?
That's like a little bit harking back to when I didn't have a proper job
and I'd be being like, any jobs?
Any jobs?
And then you'd find them weeks later in the spam folder.
Yeah, and you're like, that was my big break, Steven Spielberg,
and all I had to do was give him my credit card details
and he'd put me in a film.
Oh, because he just needs a little bit more funding.
That's right.
To get a little bit more.
Jurassic pork off the ground.
It's about giant pigs.
Don't laugh.
It's actually about giant dinosaur-sized pigs.
Can we please make this parody Jurassic Pork
with giant skyscraper-sized pigs?
Coonies.
You do the stats and I'm going to Google Jurassic Pork,
which I think will probably be some adult content.
Hadn't thought of that angle.
No, neither have I.
Jurassic Pork.
Oh, it is?
The Lost.
Penis.
There's a lot of Reddit stuff.
There's a lot of Reddit.
I know Video 2007.
Oh, goodness.
And it is adult content.
Do you get, fantastic, do you get email anxiety?
62% of people said yes.
38% of people said no, They don't get email anxiety.
Well, that's the majority. Damien, because
inevitably, it's
somebody making their problem my problem.
Yeah.
Oh, when he gets an email, it's somebody
delegating problems.
Yeah, that's fair.
Nick says,
I'm a prison nurse, so I can't access
emails at home. A prison nurse? Prison nurse. What a nurse, so I can't access emails at home.
A prison nurse? Prison nurse.
What a fascinating job.
You can't email, access your emails off-site.
What a pain in the ass.
Two days off equals...
That'd be such a security thing though, right?
What?
Like snakes being stabbed.
Oh, no.
If I read that at home.
Snake. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, If I read that at home. Snake.
Yeah, yeah.
No, not snake.
He's my favourite prisoner.
Deep down, he's a sweet boy.
You know what?
He's a bad boy with a heart of gold.
Yeah.
Well, he had a heart of gold, but he got stabbed in it.
Got stabbed in it.
And it wasn't, it turns out, made of impenetrable gold.
It was made of arteries and blood.
Two days off means I come back to a hundred emails. Coming back
from annual leave is awful.
You usually just delete them all and start again.
Yeah, that's what I do. Control everything.
Like after, you know, the weekend there's
like, you know, quite a few emails. They just delete
everything. If someone needs you, they'll
get in touch. I 100% couldn't
agree more. That's them getting in touch, I guess.
They'll try again.
They'll get again if it's important. They'll try again. They'll get again if it's important.
They'll reach out.
They work around here.
They've just got to get to work early to talk to me before I leave at 9 o'clock.
That doesn't seem unrealistic.
Hey, can we have a conversation?
I've already left.
Yeah, no, I'm gone.
Ring, ring, ring.
I'm not answering that number.
That looks like work.
So this person comes back from annual leave, deletes it all, starts again,
then gets in trouble from management
because I've missed an email.
My email address was activated before I started the job.
On my first day, I had over 1,000 emails.
Oh my God.
Must be a lot of stabbings.
So many snake stabbings.
So many snake keeps getting stabbed and stabbed and stabbed.
Manisha says, I get all sorts of anxiety.
Phone call, email, face-to-face.
It's just a folder of anxiety.
What's the anxiety about?
Is it the quantity of unread emails?
Because you'd hate the look of my inbox and their Google.
Oh, no.
Their little Google.
Man, what dot is 10,988 emails?
No, you've got to sort your life out.
Just delete them all.
Yeah.
Nicole, just delete them all.
10,000.
I actually just got a little shivered in my spine.
Start unsubscribing to things.
Yes.
Search things that you subscribe to and delete them all.
Lottie said, if you want to put your email anxiety into perspective,
just think about how every email could have been a phone call.
Yep.
And then you'll be like, I'll happily deal with emails.
Or you can just imagine you're in the Middle East right now.
Yeah, yeah, I'd be anywhere. 100% says Claire. And then you'll be like, I'll happily deal with the emails. Or you can just imagine you're in the Middle East right now. Yeah, yeah, I'm in anywhere.
100% says Claire.
And message anxiety.
Sometimes I leave messages on unread for over a week,
even when it's someone I actually care about.
Emails are even worse.
Why leave them on unread?
You just simply reply to it then and there.
Get it done.
Get it done.
Tony said, I don't because I just ignore emails.
Everyone else gets anxiety
seeing my large amount of unread emails.
Man, I
wish I could be like that.
Brooke says, I'm a
high school teacher and you don't know
if you're going to be opening an email from one of the
crazy parents. Oh, yeah.
When you get an email.
Hi, I'm Caden's mother.
Yeah, well Caden's sick. You've I'm Caden's mother. Yeah, well, Caden's thick.
You've failed him.
You've failed.
He is a very smart boy.
He's the smartest in our family.
I've done his homework with him.
Yeah.
I've seen his homework.
I've seen his homework.
It's fine.
Yeah.
He done it good from start to finish.
I've been there when he did it.
Yeah.
Hey, good boy.
Come on, Caden's thick.
No, he a good boy, but he thick. He thick, but he good boy. Good boy, old dummy, good boy. Caden's thick. No, he's a good boy, but he's thick.
He's thick, but he's good boy.
Good boy, old dummy, dummy thick.
But he's a good boy with a heart of gold.
You know what Caden's dad's name is?
Snake!
And he's being stabbed again!
He's going through a rough time.
His father's in prison and he keeps getting stabbed over and over and over.
Nitz is getting all the emails.
I'm emailing Nitz.
Hey, Nitz.
It's my husband.
It's Kayden's mother and Snake's wife.
He's a good boy.
Heart of gold.
Why does Snake keep getting stabbed?
Why you let him get stabbed again?
He's dangerous, but he's got a heart of gold.
I've seen it myself.
Yeah.
I'd done him.
I'd done him.
We had a baby.
We had Caden.
Caden's a good boy.
Snake Junior, we call him.
Snakey.
Little Snakey.
Little Snake.
What a story.
What a whole world we created.
That's a silly little,
that was a fun silly little poem.
Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.
I believe I have spoken about the fact that Vaughan is currently absorbing my crap.
And I am so grateful for it.
We're doing a lot of outside work at our house.
And I believe the words I text Vaughan one day was,
do you have a big hole I could fill?
And I said, this is inappropriate workplace
conduct and I sent him a
picture of a mound of dirt and it
all made sense and I immediately
unsent the picture of my bum hole
is this big enough for you
baby
unsent but the answer
to that was yes that you're doing a bit of
see these are things
apartment life you don't have to deal with.
Oh, and I'm so happy about it.
Yeah, mowing the lawns.
I love dirt.
Yeah, I know.
But you're working on your yard.
I'm working on my yard.
You've got a hole to fill.
I've got fill to fill this hole.
And it was just perfect.
So I text born yesterday and I said,
oh, I needed to get the truck empty,
the back of the ute filled with dirt.
I said, oh, can I pop over to your house and, you know, give you this fill?
Yeah.
And you weren't at home.
He was at the barber, and actually we haven't pointed that out.
That's bad.
When a woman gets a haircut.
Wait, you went to a barber?
You haven't taken anything off.
Yes, he has.
Look at the line.
It's completely changed.
The bed's completely changed.
But it's still quite thick.
Oh, yeah, it's thick.
You keep it thick.
That's what the young man said to me when he was...
Young man.
Of course.
That's what the young man said to me when he was trimming my bed.
He's like, this is a nice thick bed.
Really good.
I wish I could grow a bed like this.
Yeah, he had bed envy.
Yeah, but he had a full thick head of hair, this young man.
Yeah.
Right.
This young man listens to you.
You're all right pops yeah yeah you look
good pops yeah is the chase on soon yeah soon pops don't worry we won't miss it i've got it
and i've recorded it on my sky yeah anyway so where's where's where's mum where's my wife oh
she's just she's just away for a while okay she died years ago she did yeah she's gone
that's all right she's just popped down to the shops
she'll be back soon
come hang out with me for a bit
well this is sad
anyway
you said you weren't there
but let yourself in
I quite like it when I've been able to go to Vaughan's house
and let myself in
you said open the gate and drive down
and then you text me saying,
can you ditch it in a specific area,
which required more work from me,
but I was more than happy.
Why didn't, okay, carry on.
Okay, I said.
I'm sorry, are you about to critique
the method in which I ditched the dirt?
Yeah, because I said,
it needs to be put,
if you can put it around the septic tank.
I said, back the ute right in there
and just chuck it straight off the ute.
I'm not going to drive on your lawn.
I have respect for the lawn.
No, that's got to be redone.
Stay tuned.
The way I had to do it, Fetch,
was I had to pull the ute up.
I pulled it into his driveway on a concrete driveway.
The septic tank is maybe like 20 metres away.
And then I had to flip it down,
which I then saw was a full tray of ute,
a full ute tray of dirt.
Then I had to shovel it into a wheelbarrow, which I then had to a full tray of dirt. Then I just shovel it into a wheelbarrow,
which I then had to go and find in Vaughan's property.
So I'm just wandering around Vaughan's property
looking for a wheelbarrow.
Then there's all these fences.
I don't know which ones are electric,
so I just stay away from all of them.
I eventually find it, open a gate, get there.
Don't want to let dogs or goats or pigs
or whatever he's got out.
So I'm looking around my shoulder, get this thing.
And I had to shovel it all off on my own,
off my BT, to paint the picture,
off my Mazda BT50, the choice of truck for lesbians.
Yep.
Right?
I had to shovel it.
I was all alone into this wheelbarrow
and then wheel it to the septic tank.
I'm not going to drive my ute onto your property.
It's cobbled most of the way
and then just a couple of metres on the dirt
you would have saved yourself so much hassle. Honestly, I was
there for like an hour and a half. I really
would have saved a lot of time. Yeah.
And I also, there was, you had a builder working
in your garage and he just looked at me
or Tyler, he just looked at me like
who is this woman
just shoveling dirt into this
property? I didn't even say hello. Right.
I'm not anyone he's ever met before.
Probably assumed because you're driving the ute.
Lesbian.
He was probably scared of you.
I looked scary.
He's a small man.
Yeah.
I had my, like, paint gear on.
I'm dirty.
I had a big sun hat on.
I'm shoveling off the back of my lesbian ute into a barrow,
and then I'm heaving, I'm tossing it into the septic tank
and then Vaughn decides to turn up
like literally just to help me dust off the last
dirt into a little brush and shovel tan.
Great timing. Did you wait down the driveway
until you saw the loaded kind of...
Yeah. I kind of snuck up.
I parked down the road and I snuck up, hid in the
bushes. Yeah. Wait till the very end.
Yeah, and then I was like, I'm home.
It was quite fun being at Vaughn's house on my own though. I could run amok. There was all sorts. You still got oranges on your tree. Yeah. Wait till the very end. Yeah, and then I was like, I'm home. It was quite fun being at Vaughan's house on my own though.
I could run amok. There was all sorts.
You still got oranges on your tree. Yeah.
Oh, it's summer. Weirdly,
the tangelos, am I saying that wrong? I always get told
I'm saying that wrong. I don't care how I...
Tangelos. Tangelos. They've
come good again. Oh, gosh.
Well. Have yourself some citrus.
It was, honestly, I lived my best lesbian
life yesterday. It was a sight to see.
Yesterday we talked about the weirdest thing that you were asked on a date.
And then it popped up that someone got asked on a date what their favourite times table was.
Like specific equation.
Times table equation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not like the nine times tables, but like what is your specific favourite multiplication?
For example, we said three times seven being 21.
Delicious.
And I said six times six, 36.
36.
That's the perfect equation.
Nine, nine's 81.
That's cheating though.
It's a square number.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's too nice.
Nine times three, 27.
It just feels good.
No, I don't like nine times three is 27.
Well, too bad.
We mentioned this and people just went nuts messaging in.
We were trying to focus on something else
and the text machine was just like six times four, seven times 11.
You're like, this is great.
Six times four I'm on board with.
Six times four, 24.
No, it's too square for me.
Too square.
But we're all different individuals.
Anyway.
This is what we thought we would do now
is give you the chance
to tell us. If it's anything
times two, you're basic.
It can't be times two. We will not accept
the zeros and the ones. Yeah.
Fives I'm reluctant to
accept and certainly not
tens. No, if five times five
twenty-five is someone's favourite
times equation. Again, it's a square number and it's fives.
I would say, no, someone's texting six times.
And we said the rule is you're going to text in.
There's no rule.
There's no rule.
No, no, but you're going to text in and we're going to see how it lands in the gut.
Okay.
Because someone just texted in six times three.
For me, it doesn't land in the gut.
No, because a three, it's like three.
The three and then the answer being 18 doesn't align?
What about eight times three?
Nah, you can't just switch it.
Five times three equals 15.
I'm sorry, Vaughan, but you can shut your mouth on the five times tables.
I'm accepting them.
Yeah, same.
It's too easy.
We'll accept anything.
Seven times nine.
What is your favourite times table equation? We'll accept anything. Oh, yeah. Seven times nine. Seven times 63.
What is your favourite times table equation?
And I think at the end of this, 11, 11 is beautiful.
Square, though.
No, but it's... Vaughan, there's no rules.
I'm telling you, if it's a square, you need to rethink it.
I kind of like...
I've gone from six times six to maybe 11 times 11.
Oh, it's beautiful.
Because it's all one.
Six is a 36. You know when you look at six times six to maybe 11 times 11. Oh, it's beautiful. Because it's all one. Six is a 36.
You know when you look at the clock and it's 11, 11, you're just like, it's something special.
12 times 12 being 144, you're right.
We're always like, that's a surprise, but it's nice.
It is a surprise that it gets that high that quick.
You're always like, how did you get there?
From 120?
You're crazy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a bit bananas.
I don't know why this, like why people are so into this.
7.8 is 56.
I said it yesterday.
I don't think it can be beaten.
It is nice.
7.8 is 56.
It's delicious.
But I sometimes pause on it.
I go 7.8, so I'm like, no.
Yeah, but that's why.
8 to 64.
Makes you think.
8 to 64.
7.11.
Well, they are coming in thick and fast.
6.8 to 48.
That's nice.
Yeah.
That's a nice one.
Jesus, the text machine.
8 times 11 is 88. I don't know why that's too. Nah. You're a nice one. Jesus, the text machine. 8 times 11 is 88.
I don't know what...
That's too...
Nah, it's...
You're not asking enough.
What did you say?
8 times 11 is 88.
Oh, what about 8 times 8?
64.
It's a square number again.
You're right.
What about 9 times 5?
45.
I think I love all the square numbers.
I think I love the evenness.
Yeah.
12 times 12 because it's gross, someone said.
It is gross. How are you
144? You got up there
real quick. 144. How dare
you get up there so quick.
Okay, 0800DARLSATM.
You can text through 9696.
What is your favourite times table
equation? Dare I say
98's been 72.
Doesn't feel like it should be, does it? It shouldn't
be. It doesn't feel like it should be. But it feels It shouldn't be. It doesn't feel like it should be.
But it feels dirty.
It feels grimy.
It feels grimy.
It's the bad boy of multiplications.
It's a bit of a like, oh, I couldn't take you home to mum, but I'll have my fun.
Yeah.
We've never had a debate so fierce.
And I genuinely do think that the consensus would be eight sevens.
Also, I think in the entire time we've worked together, Vaude, in 20
years, we have never done this
photo topic. I don't think so. And that's quite rare.
Yeah. That's a rarity.
Things are cyclical in radio sometimes,
but this, somebody
has messaged in, 11-11's
being 121 is demonic.
And I kind of get what they mean.
It's disgusting, because 11, you're like,
11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66.
And then you're like, it gets all weird.
How did you get to 121?
Yeah, what have you done there?
So many messages for your favourite times table equation.
What about the lumpy one, the threes?
Three times three equaling nine.
Someone said, it's so lumpy.
It is lumpy.
I agree with that.
And then we said off air that the seven times tables are very well lubricated.
Whereas the eights are jagged.
Which is weird given that seven is a jagged looking number
and eight is the same shape as like a sex toy.
I hate the eights.
This is so good.
Someone's saying six times eight, slay.
I just love how passionate people are.
People are passionate.
Yeah, someone said seven times three equals 21, flirty and fun.
Yeah, that's a good one.
That's a fun one.
I think the 7s overall, I think I've got to say the 7s are my favourites.
Yeah.
Just like you said, lubricated but weird.
Someone said, I'm now in a pool of anxious sweat from PTSD listening to times tables.
I'm not wired to know them and it gives me anxiety.
Well, you could be something simple
like a two times four is eight.
Perfectly fine.
Okay.
For discussion.
Someone said,
why has nobody mentioned
10 times 10 equaling 100?
Because it's so obvious.
It's dumb.
Of course it does.
What else would it equal?
When you say seven times three is 21,
you're like,
my gosh, look at you.
When you say 10 times 10 is 100,
you're like,
and it feels like money.
It feels too much like money.
Because I've got 10 tens,
I've got 100.
And that's a 100.
Yeah, it's too much like money.
The rest of these are fun numbers
that you're not going to find in money.
Oh my God, someone got taught a rhyme.
My child came home the other day
saying she knew eight times eight off by heart.
Now saying, I ate and I ate
until I was sick on the floor.
So eight times eight is 64 heart. Now saying, I ate and I ate until I was sick on the floor. So eight times eight is 64.
Oh, that's good.
That's a long rhyme to remember the one equation.
I ate and I ate until my stomach was too full
to the point in which I vomited and then was sick on the floor.
So eight times eight is 64.
Okay.
Somebody's just sent this in and it feels like a coded message,
but it kind of,
when I read it,
I haven't said it out loud yet
and I feel like it's going to change again
when I say it out loud.
Okay.
Seven times seven equals 49.
Brown, orange, autumn, November.
They're all the same thing.
Yeah, yeah, I'm feeling that.
Yeah, I feel that too.
I feel that in my soul.
And I don't know why.
Brown, orange, autumn, November,
seven times seven, 49.
Yeah. Uh-huh. We've got another rhyme for seven Orange Autumn, November, 7 times 7, 49. Yeah.
Uh-huh. We've got another rhyme for 7-7. Wakey, wakey, rise and shine. 7 times
7 is 49.
What's it got to do with
waking up?
The rhyme is to... It doesn't matter.
12 times 8 equals 72.
Tickles my fancy.
It tickles mine too!
It's amazing how people are just so into this and passionate about this.
I love it.
That's not right.
We've had so many messages.
Isn't it?
That's not right.
How can it be less than, because eight times 10.
We'll get a calculator, sweetie.
12 times eight isn't 72.
No, it's 96.
You can just say anything and I'll believe it.
Seven times 29 is 547.
See, I just feel like you're four.
I think we should agree.
You have got that wrong.
So it tickles your fancy because it's wrong.
12 times six is 72.
Yeah, well, then they can have that one.
Six sixes are 36.
Five fives are 25.
Nothing more to debate, someone says.
No, it's square numbers.
It's lazy.
We're changing it up next because after the news,
we go from mathematical equations to-
Which is sexy content.
To sexy content.
So I'd say even sexier content.
We've got a surprise for Hayley.
So it's sexy and-
What?
Eight is blue, seven is orange, and that's why 56 is blue and orange.
Okay, fine.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Well, I hope...
What's happening?
Because last time you did this, I turned up on one of those days
where I just went, oh, I can't be bothered today.
I've got three microphones ready for our next guests.
Well, there better be three kittens coming in to meow into them.
Nah.
I'm just wrecking my brain.
Drum roll, please.
Bring in the firefighters.
Yes!
He's got an X.
Wow.
Fantastic.
Jesus Christ. Look at the arms on these boys.
Oh, our very own puppy of the firefighter calendar.
Oh my God, it's the calendar boys!
How are you?
Hi.
Apologies for what she's about to say.
No.
Gentlemen.
Gentlemen, welcome.
Chuck on some headphones, pull up a microphone.
Hi, guys.
Hi, I'm Hayley.
Hi.
Hey, I'm Anton.
I've got such a dry mouth.
Just some water, please.
Yeah, I just filled up my water.
Jesus, started already.
Hi, guys.
Matt, Anton, and Rob are in studio.
Good morning, gentlemen.
You guys smell so good.
Good morning.
Yeah, it's not fair that it's visually good and also smells good.
Put your lips right near the microphone.
That wasn't trying to be.
That's just a professional technical.
We've got a chronological order from January.
Anton, good morning, Anton.
Good morning.
Anton's the shy.
We've got the same mic issue that we had with...
Can you speak into that mic?
I can speak into his mic.
Yeah, you're beautiful.
That one's working. That one's working.
That one's working.
Yeah, you have these headphones.
I don't hear.
All right.
Rob, you're June.
That's Fletcher's birthday.
You happy with who represents your month?
Yeah, good.
That's a good month.
It's always a competition,
you always go to your birthday month
and hope they're the hottest.
Wait, where's October?
Where's October?
Where's October?
Where's October?
Where's October?
Where's October?
Where's October? Your October's here Where's October? Where's October? Where's October? Where's October?
Your October's here!
It's me.
Oh my gosh.
Now let's just start by saying this is all for a great cause.
Yes, because you guys raise money with these calendars.
It's not just for giggly women.
It's for Movember.
Yeah, yeah, Movember.
Is this one working?
Yeah, it works.
It's just the headphones.
Super professional.
Yeah, you guys are real close.
You can come closer to me.
And I'll move closer to you.
So it's all in the name of charity.
Yeah, it's all for charity.
We've got quite a big passion.
When you're at the gym, you're like, charity, charity, charity.
Charity.
Charity.
Yeah.
Arms.
Oh, what a chair and team.
That's exactly, yeah.
Do you know, so we'll come back to charity,
but Vaughan has been working out, and every day Vaughan comes in
and I always say, oh, your biceps are looking good.
I'll be giving you some praise.
You can tell by comparison.
Look at this.
Do that again.
Do it again. I know you some praise. No, by comparison. Look at this. Do that again. Do it again.
I know you don't.
Oh, my gosh.
He's got a rescue that kid is.
And I've got the smallest you should chat to.
Anton over there.
Anton, give us a flex.
Oh, no.
Oh, wow.
The whole thing.
The whole arm.
If I push up my fat, it kind of can get a bit close.
Right.
So, yeah, it's all for Movember
though. It's all for Movember.
We, as firefighters, we've got
a big passion towards
this charity, Movember.
We have,
it's all about mental health, it's about
men's health
and it's about
cancers, prostate, testicular
cancer.
Being a firefighter, we every we come across as really resilient guys coming up,
saving cats from trees.
I know, damsels in distress, saving all sorts of things.
But to be honest, we see things that we shouldn't see.
Of course, yeah.
We shouldn't have to see.
But we do it.
We love our jobs.
We love what happens out there.
And I feel that, you know, some people see that
and you sort of bottle it up.
And we're just making it so,
we're trying to create all that awareness for all of us
just to talk about it, to get out there
and for people to realise that it's okay.
Yeah.
And the way to do it is like, you're like, we've got to make money.
How are we going to do it?
Let me take my clothes off.
It's great.
Use what you've got.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, the passion, like, I mean, I've mentioned this before,
but not to you, but the calendar is a great bit of advertising, you know,
but it doesn't matter what we were selling.
Last year you raised over $50,000, which is pretty amazing.
Yeah.
Is it quite competitive to get in the calendar?
Is there like, does it, because when does this photo shoot happen?
And is there like 12 weeks beforehand where everyone's just like,
no, I will say no to chippies today because I want to be
Mr March. The cutting
phase for the calendar.
I can't remember when
the application
process started. Was it April maybe?
So I think April, May, May.
We had to put out a little
thing with a little shirtless
photo. Like a little selfie in the mirror.
Bevan, the owner of Kiwi Calendars kiwi firefighter calendars and um yeah i think there might have been about
50 applicants god so his inbox is just flooded yeah oh poor man can it what's his email login
just how do you get that receptionist job?
Firefighters at gmail.com.
There are so many passwords.
It's word 1234.
Being firefighters probably is 0001234.
There's not much to it, eh?
Someone just texted and said,
why is Hayley's voice so high?
I'm trying to be chill.
I mean, you're all incredibly attractive,
but as you say, you're doing it for a good cause and you're raising money. Who wouldn't want to have that
on the wall? It's incredible. Yeah, I think it's pretty important. So as firefighters,
we're way more susceptible to a few cancers. And so we're working. Really? Yeah. So I think
I'm not 100% sure on the numbers, but I think we're between two and three times more likely
to get a whole bunch of different cancers from,
I think it's from a bunch of different things,
like shift work's not particularly good for you.
Exposure as well.
Exposure to all the carcinogens,
like when you go into a fire and all that sort of thing.
So it's pretty prevalent in our industry.
Like I know I've, well, I know three guys, you know,
I think they're in their 40s who died of cancer.
Oh, wow.
While they're employed in our job.
And then now mental health side of things
is also becoming quite prevalent.
Like we've lost a few guys to suicide
over the last few years.
Well, like you say, you know, you see some things,
it's some scary situations.
It can be really harrowing.
Like police, firefighters, AMBOs,
they all see, as you say, things that we shouldn't see
and we don't have to see.
Yeah, so that's the great thing with Movember Foundation
is they actually sponsored a world-first project
called the Whanaungatanga Project,
which they're raising awareness
and doing an actual medical study
on the mental wellness or mental health
of firefighters in New Zealand.
So that's the big driver for me
was to try and help raise some money
so they can continue to sponsor that project.
And it's also about trying to get a bit more dialogue
going between sort of the workers and the management
and how we can make, like, this is the best job in the world,
but how can we really make it the best job in the world
where all our guys and girls are getting looked after?
You should try talking shit on here.
It's quite a good job.
Can you guys just go like this for a second?
Just hold your hands up like that.
Wedding ring.
No, no no I was like
where is this going
I was like
where is this going
I was like
where is this going
I was like
where is this going
I was like
where is this going
I was like
where is this going
you must get
severely objectified
and I wonder
how your partners
handle it
just a few texting
because there are
a few people
who've noticed
that you've got
a South African accent
and I've cried
pride myself on mine
but
we've got like quite a lot
of South African listeners and they always
call up and they think that I do quite a good one
that's a very delicious accent
it's so nice
people say that I sound like I would
come from money, like I would have a little bit of money
if I was living in South Africa
don't you think that I'm quite posh?
I'm quite posh when it comes to it
you're switching between like a posh English
accent and a dodgy South African, which evens out. Pretty good. Pretty good. Well, if you're
listening and you would like a calendar, you can go to Firefighters Calendars. Firefighters
Calendars. No, there's, okay. Firefighters. a breath, Han. Take a breath. Firefighterscalendar.co.nz.
So Kiwi firefighters calendars.
He's so flustered he can't read.
I'm flustered.
I'm flustered.
Kiwifirefighterscalendar.co.nz.
$20 all for Movember.
Such a great cause.
Thank you so much.
You really made my day coming in.
I think also if I could just jump in,
there also, I think there's a deal going on GrabOne,
so you can get them on GrabOne and
in the calendar club, like in the shopping
malls and that sort of thing.
Good stuff. Can you
just knock on the door at the fire station?
Because I've been trying and no one has.
No, I don't think so.
Don't do that.
They see you coming, Hayley, and they're like, no, pretend
you're not.
Thanks for coming in, guys. pretend you're not. Close the doors.
Thanks for coming in, guys.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley.
Donald Trump is the new president.
That's the sentence that I had to say.
But yesterday we talked to Jack Tame about the vibe on the floor
and he joins us again this morning
for another vibe check.
Post the results. Kia ora, Jack.
Kia ora, guys. How are we?
More importantly, my friend, how are you?
I'm good. I'm good. America, though?
I must say, divided.
And I'll tell you what, I was at the Kamala Harris victory party last night,
and I can assure you there was no victory and there was no party.
Vibes were bad. Yeah. Vibes were bad.
Yeah.
I've had to do a few of these losing parties before,
but these people come in,
they're so excited, they're really idealistic,
they think they're going to see history.
Oh my gosh, it's going to be the first woman president,
and then it's like, nah, sorry about it.
Yeah, and not only that, but it's
not just, she wasn't just defeated by a man,
defeated by Donald Trump.
But the man.
Yeah, pretty amazing result.
And it has to be said,
I think a lot of us thought
that we'd still be waiting on a result today.
Like right now, we thought we'd still be waiting.
But so comprehensive was his result.
It wasn't a landslide, but it was comprehensive.
Yes.
You know, it's, yeah, sign sealed and delivered.
So now we're just basically waiting on Kamala Harris
to come out and do a big speech and say,
yeah, I lost.
Donnie's going to be president round two.
Triggered, that's what I should say.
Donnie, Donnie, Donnie going to be the P.
No, he was saying, even as late as yesterday,
that the election was rigged.
Does he stand by that statement?
He's not repeating that so much now.
Funny that. Yeah, it's so weird. It was either going to be rigged. He's not repeating that so much now. It's funny that.
It was either going to be rigged and he lost or it was going to be the best election he ever
won.
Strangely though,
presuming
that Kamala Harris doesn't contest the election
result, and I think it would be an extreme
surprise if she did,
in some ways
this will maybe make for less civil unrest
than it might have been the other way around.
You know, like, things might have been a bit more tense, actually,
if she'd won and lots of her supporters thought that she'd stolen it.
Yeah, because her supporters were sort of a little bit more sort of emotional,
expressing their sadness, devastated, whereas his supporters, as you say,
we were like,
they would be right,
probably.
Yeah, I mean,
they haven't been,
she just hasn't been saying
the election's rigged
and she accepts the result
of the last election.
So those are two things
that Donald Trump
hasn't been doing.
And you can understand
that as a result,
I've got mates
who are Trump supporters,
but educated people
when I say...
Is it Maddie McLean?
Yeah, it is.
It is, isn't it?
It is.
We always knew it.
That's the stand for Donald Trump.
Yeah.
Guys, he will come out
and he will sue you all.
So what happens now?
Because obviously
there's going to be
the inauguration
and it's always
this huge event
and Biden got
Beyonce and Gaga
and all of these people
to sort of be there.
Are we going to have Kid Rock singing the bloody national anthem or something?
Yeah.
I don't know.
So, I mean, the weird thing is that once you've won the presidency,
you basically have to wait three months until you actually take over.
Yeah.
But it's not like New Zealand where you have other politicians
who are in the important roles like Treasury of the Secretary
and that kind of thing.
Mm-hmm.
Secretary of the Treasury.
So basically you've got to make like 3,000 job appointments,
which is why they have so long.
But, yeah, we have this weird period now.
Kamala Harris basically has to do a speech and concede.
Then you have Joe Biden still as president until the start of next year.
And then, yeah, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States,
turns to the White House leading
the richest country on Earth. Okay.
Okay. This is happening. It's happening
again. The American people got what the American
people voted for. Yeah.
That is democracy in action, guys.
Democracy
manifests.
Jack Tame, we'll let you get back to your
TV job. Yeah.
Thank you. Thanks, guys.
Jack's face is wasted on radio. I'll say it. He's job? Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thanks so much.
Jack's face is wasted on radio, I'll say.
He's not a minger like us.
Yeah, no, he's a beautiful man.
Thank you, Jack.
You can follow Jack and the One News team for all of the US election developments
across Q&A, 6pm and TVNZ+.
Or like me, taking a break from it
for as long as humanly possible.
Yeah.
And choosing to ignore.
Just go and trim some trees and smell some flowers.
Yeah.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.
Fans of the day, day, day, day, day. We're utterly flustered after those surprise guests this morning
I've just been reviewing the calendar
My lord
These gentlemen
Again, Fletch, now that they're not here
And you've taken a couple of breaths and a drink of cold water
No, so I wasn't flustered because of the biceps.
It was because I was trying
to read this tiny font here.
Yeah, it is little.
And it's a terrible font.
Dude, we've tested it.
Perfect vision.
Another row with this vision.
Or so you could use your fingers
to zoom in.
Kiwi?
Oh, yeah.
KiwiFirefighter.co.nz
Thank you.
For $20 plus postage.
Yeah. And handling. God, I For $20 plus postage. Yeah.
And handling.
God, I wish there was a bit of handling.
How much extra for handling?
All for a good cause.
All for charity.
And do you remember in the calendar-themed fact of the day
where you guys were all like,
And all we asked for was for you to do one episode
on the firefighters.
I did the origins of the firefighters.
Yeah, and it was the only good one from calendar week.
The famous bomb week.
It wasn't, it wasn't a bomb.
No, it was a bomb.
It was hot diggity dog.
It was the bomb.
Okay.
Today's flag fact is about Jamaica's flag.
What do you think is the rarest thing about Jamaica's flag?
I love Jamaica's flag.
I love Jamaica's flag.
I love the green on black.
And the yellow.
Yeah.
The gold, it has what is described as a gold cell tire.
Which is-
A cross.
A cross.
Just basically a cross from the diagonal corners.
It has, then the triangles caused by that,
the upper and lower triangles are green
and the left and right side are black.
It's quite a striking flag.
Ticks all the boxes for me in a flag.
A child could draw it.
Yeah, it's a beautiful flag.
It's a Red Peak-esque flag in its design.
It's eye-catching.
Beautiful.
What do you think is that flag is the only one in the world that...
Black, has black.
No.
Lots of flags have black, but you know what?
There's not a country that's just got an all-black flag.
I know, and that should be us.
The green, the particular type of green is quite vivid.
No, because that looks Brazilian green.
It does look very similar.
It's the yellow.
It's the only one with the yellow cross?
No. Well then I'm
out. I'm out. We've just said
all four things. It's the only flag in the
world for a nation that doesn't
contain red, white or blue.
What? It's the only
flag that doesn't contain red, white or blue.
Every other flag has at
least red, white or blue.
Yeah, we've got them all. A lot of countries do.
What's South Africa?
Yeah, they've got red.
They've got everything.
Yeah, okay.
South Africa's a veritable.
You'd know that because you're from South Africa.
That's right.
And I'm very proud of my flag.
I think I really nailed it.
I don't think you did.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you looked at it.
Well, I will wave the flag with pride.
The Jamaican flag? Yeah. The Jamaican flag?
Yeah, the Jamaican flag.
I won't do my Jamaican accent.
Do your Jamaican accent.
Yama.
It needs work.
Wow.
It needs work.
It is very funny.
It is funny when you see a white Jamaican.
Because whenever we think of Jamaicans,
you always think of black people with Jamaican accents.
When you see a white Jamaican. I'm not wandering into thisicans, you always think of black people with Jamaican accents. When you see a white Jamaican
I'm not wandering into this conversation.
Why? Why are you walking away?
I just feel like when I see a white person with a Jamaican
accent, it always catches me off guard.
I don't think I've ever seen, but you're right.
Because white people that grow up in Jamaica
have Jamaican accents and you're always like, huh.
It's like in Harry Potter, Cho Chang.
You see her before you hear her. In the movies, she speaks with a thick Scottish accent.'re always like, huh. It's like in Harry Potter, Cho Chang. You see her before you hear her
in the movies
and she speaks with a
thick Scottish accent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's Asian in name
and appearance.
Yeah.
Oh, I actually,
we should do this as a phoner.
What?
What's your favourite combo?
Of ethnicity and accent.
Love that.
Love that.
Love that.
It's a hot combo.
Mark it down for tomorrow.
Mark it down.
What's your favourite ethnicity accent combo?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you think people would go Irish, but say with like...
Some brown in there.
Yeah.
Big scoop of brown.
Yeah.
Okay, so their dad goes to Ireland to play rugby,
but he's originally Samoan.
Oh my God, that sound just escaped.
A lovely bit. Well, I'm talking big, burly Samoan lad, and he's originally Samoan. Oh my God, that sound just escaped. A lovely bit.
Well, I'm talking big, burly Samoan lad,
and he meets a lovely Irish lass.
He's like, hello, me love, and I'm like, hi.
Yeah, and then their son is this big, burly Samoan Irish.
Let's call them a Samirish.
Someone just said Jamaican Irish.
This is great.
Someone just said Hailey's accent made me laugh so hard I farted.
Well, you're very welcome.
You're very welcome.
Right. Sorry I made you fart in your car.
Sorry.
We've completely sidebarred here.
Yeah, so that's it.
Today's fact of the day is that the
Jamaican flag is the only
country representing flag currently
that does not contain red, white or blue.
Right back.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Couple of stories to share with you.
There was a woman who shared online that she was fired from her job in insurance in Australia
after she was working from home and her boss used keystroke technology to track her working at home.
So like, I'm logging in, I'm using keystroke technology to find out that you're actually not
sitting at your laptop and working.
Remember during the pandemic,
people just like come and wiggle their mouse
and move away?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it shows you're active.
That thing that sat underneath your mouse
and moved and it would make the mouse
move around the screen.
But keystrokes is a bit full on.
That means even if you're,
I mean, I'm assuming this was a work-issued laptop
and that's why they'd installed it
because if, imagine if you were using your
Well, so a couple of years ago, she had received
a warning about her work output
during her work from home hours.
Because my thing was always like, if you're working from home
and you get your job done,
within whatever time, I don't really care.
Yeah, exactly. The work's done.
So whether I took eight hours or four, that's
kind of up to how hard I want to work.
So she received a warning that she wasn't meeting
the work output that was desired.
So she got a warning then that then had this technology
installed on her computer.
So she should have probably known that she was being tracked.
If that was your personal computer,
that means everything,
like you could be typing an email to your friend
and the boss would read it?
Yeah.
So her work activity was tracked for 49 days
between like three months.
Yeah.
That she started late on 47 of those days
and finished early on 29 of those days
that she was being monitored.
And now like she's popping on late, leaving early.
There were four of the days during that 49 days
that she was found to have done no work else at all.
And on the days that she was working,
she was accused of not doing very much.
Okay, it does sound in the employer's defence
that she was useless.
She was pressing her keyboard 54 times an hour
during the periods that she was being monitored,
which if you think about typing,
54 times is not enough.
That's not enough.
Was she doing any work?
Aren't you supposed to be able to type 54 words a minute or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's 54 keys.
Yeah.
So, fairly enough, she was fired.
There was another story, and I sent it to you guys in a group chat,
about a guy that was, again, working from home,
and he was doing, you know, when they do screen sharing and what not
he received a very politely
worded email from his boss saying
like hey Mark thanks for the
call today, great work
just need to let you know that we are able
to see on your laptop that you are watching pornography
there is a
button you can push and that will hide
the tabs and so you can continue
to do so in private regards.
Well, because he was screen sharing the whole thing.
Oh, dear.
Darling.
I do love when a politician shares a screenshot
and you see the tabs.
That's happened before.
Where do all the time, like, check the tabs, check the tabs.
Always check the tabs.
So these are two instances of bosses catching employees
doing either nothing or too much of a thing.
I want to know this morning, what did your boss catch you doing?
Because maybe it was just a small thing.
Maybe you were having a little snack and a phone call in the toilets during work hours.
Maybe it was a little snooze under the desk.
A little nap.
Maybe you were doing something in work hours that you shouldn't be doing and you got caught.
Maybe you were stealing something.
We're not here to judge.
Maybe you got away with something.
The boss just laughed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they were just like, got you, but whatever.
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A couple of high profile stories.
Turns out you can't be too slack at home.
Can't be too slack at home.
And you also can't be watching adult content
While you're on your work hours
Jess, good morning
Hi, good morning
What did the boss catch you doing at work?
So I work in a hospital
I'm a shift worker
And you know like
Shift work you get a bit gassy
So I used to run off to the drug cupboard to toot
Wait, wait, wait You go to the drug cupboard to toot. Wait, wait, wait.
You go to the drug cupboard to fart?
Yeah.
I'd check the surroundings.
No one was around.
I went in, did a particularly bad one.
Are we talking bad smell or are we talking bad sound?
Both.
Okay.
Oh, loud and proud.
And then the boss walks into your gas chamber.
And I was like a deer in the headlight.
Oh, no.
That makes me crumple.
Except you'd shit yourself.
Oh, my God.
I would have thought at a hospital.
And by the way, thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
Applause, applause, applause.
I would have thought at a hospital it would have been the perfect place to sneak out,
you know, rogue farts next to someone in a coma.
Yeah, totally.
Oh, my God.
Blame it on them.
Or right next to that really strong smelling disinfectant
that gets squashed around the place.
Well, I work around people who are having babies.
I can't go and fart beside the new baby.
Yes, you can.
Yes, you can.
Who told you you couldn't?
Those postpartum women aren't going to know
if it's slipping out or what's going on.
Oh my God.
Jess, thank you for sharing so many messages in.
I have an employee who joined a meeting with 50 senior managers
and our CE, I think CEO, chief executive.
Chief executive.
From bed.
She didn't think that her video was going to be on,
but literally her video came out, and when she joined,
she became main screen.
She hadn't even got out of bed.
She was just literally like lying in bed with her laptop on her chest.
That is mortifying.
My boss caught me crying under my desk.
That's nice.
Oh, that's sad.
What are you crying, darling?
Leah, what did your boss catch you doing?
Hi.
Oh, first time caller.
Long time listener.
Yes.
I just hate to be a stickler here.
It's got to be long time listener, first time caller.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
Long time listener, first time caller.
Yay.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome, Leah.
Sorry for the stickler.
Yes, sorry.
That's a bit of a stickler for the rules.
I would have accepted it.
Now, you were working from home?
Yes.
Occasionally, I would work from home,
and I would phone...
I was on the phone and doing things,
and I would phone my own phone,
and obviously then it looked like I was on the phone doing things.
Wait.
Wait, so you would be on the phone,
phoning your own phone
to look like you had been phoning people
that wasn't your own phone?
So, yeah, I would look like I was on the phone, phoning your own phone to look like you had been phoning people that wasn't your own phone? So, yeah, I would look like I was on the phone
to somebody doing, obviously, my job.
Just do your job.
But did you have a headset?
Were you calling your mobile
from some sort of company headset situation?
Because if you call your own number,
it just gets engaged.
Yeah, no, she was on a headset.
Oh, right.
Yes, I was on my computer headset
calling my mobile, and then, yeah. Yes, I was on my computer headset calling my mobile.
And then, yeah.
And then what do you do for work?
Like how much work should you be doing? You just had to look busy for work rather than doing work.
No, I had to look like I was on the phone helping people do things.
Sometimes that would be five minutes.
Sometimes you would have somebody on the phone for an hour.
Oh, wow.
And so how did you get caught?
What did they say?
That my boss had
a meeting with me,
obviously, and was like, hey, what's going on?
Yeah, Leigh, this
person I'm dealing with, boss, real dumb dumb,
takes a lot of calls in a long time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got to really explain it to them.
We're really dealing with a dopey.
Oh, my gosh.
That's brilliant. Leigh, thank you. Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. It's brilliant.
Leah, thank you.
Keep your texts coming in.
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The things the boss has caught you doing.
We're all just messing about.
I'm a school teacher, reads this text,
and my boss caught me sending students to my car
to retrieve my wallet
so I could purchase some online shopping.
Oh, my God.
It was a clothing drop.
I didn't want to miss out.
Well, and, you know, they only hold the want to miss out. Well, and you know,
they only hold the items
in the cart for like,
you know,
five or ten minutes.
Especially during those drops.
When it goes, it goes.
I worked for a
freight and logistics company
and my boss caught
one of the storm
in a sleep on the forklift
while it was on.
The forklift was on.
Same guy also got caught
bringing the whole family
to the warehouse
to help pick orders
when the boss went away.
He didn't see
the health and safety issues around just getting your family in jandals to help you to the warehouse to help pick orders when the boss went away. He didn't see the health and safety
issues around just getting your family in jandals
to help you in the warehouse.
Oh my god. Many hands make
light work. It does.
My fiance is technically
my manager, only while at work.
And he just caught me buying two of the
firefighter calendars you guys have been talking about.
Thanks for doing some charity there.
It's just charity. Tell your husband it's charity and nothing more.
You keep flicking through the calendar.
Yeah, I know.
But it might change.
It's like going back to the fridge at mum and dad's house.
You don't know.
Food might have magically appeared since you last looked.
It appeared in there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
15 to 20 seconds ago.
Gotta keep checking.
I worked at a hotel in housekeeping and snuck off to the room with my then boyfriend for a root.
Born.
Born. Born.
You could have censored that.
You could have censored that.
I don't want to.
It's nine o'clock.
I can't believe people are still using that term.
The kids should be at school.
The boss followed us, waited till we'd started, and then opened the door with a kiss.
We need to confirm that that's what they're doing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So he was like, what, ear to the door?
And then when he heard a bit of action,
he's like, well, I better go in now.
You've turned the tables on him in HR, surely.
Years ago when working in the UK,
I applied for annual leave and got denied it.
I'd already purchased airline tickets,
so I just called in sick for five days.
Problem was that when I printed the tickets at work...
Oh, my God, this is so good. problem was that when I printed the tickets at work Oh my god!
This is so good!
I didn't realise the printer printed two
sets and left one in the queue to print.
So when the day was due to fly out, my
boss was waiting for me at the airport and I
swiftly lost my job. Now, why didn't
the boss just deal with it
when it came up? It's way better.
Oh my god, the boss would be
But then I'm saying if the boss has got that much time to leave the office
and probably go halfway across the city to an airport
and be out of the office for hours, is he that important?
Yeah.
Oh my God, that's amazing.
That's iconic behaviour.
I hated going over to my boss to ask him to sign for stuff,
so I made a stamp out of his signature and used it for months.
Oh my God, that is not legal.
Then they found out and I got in trouble.
I got in trouble.
I got in a little bit of trouble. And that's just initiative.
Yeah. That's what's lacking so
much these days. Actually, yeah.
A little bit. We're all just sitting back waiting.
Punchiness. Productivity.
Through the roof. I was caught in an online
auction buying a house.
I'm a school teacher. Kids were having free time. No children were harmed in the purchasing of this house. You don't get to choose the time of the roof. I was caught in an online auction buying a house. I'm a school teacher. Kids were having free time.
No children were harmed in the purchasing of this house.
You don't get to choose the time of the auction.
Yeah.
I got caught by my boss driving a work-branded car with my Labrador hanging out the window
when I was driving to drop him off at the kiddos.
That is only good for the brand.
Yeah.
Only big.
Draws the eye to the car.
And you're like, cute.
Yeah.
When do you ever see a Labrador?
And you're like, ooh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get that tongue back in your mouth and get your head in the car. And you're like, cute. Yeah, when do you ever see a Labrador? And you're like, ew. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Get that tongue back in your mouth and get your head in the car.
Never.
Never.
My colleague was caught snipping the fancy office plants for cuttings,
taking them home, getting them to grow,
and then selling them on Facebook Marketplace.
Okay, well, that's not good.
I can't see the problem.
I can't see the problem with that.
Because the plants are going to need to trim.
The plants are going to need to trim anyway.
Yeah.
It actually helps them grow.
It helps the plants grow.
Like a small haircut helps your hair grow, doesn't it?
That's actually not true, but yes.
Okay.
Wow, that's what I've been told.
I am bald.
Never worked for me.
You don't know anything, baldy.
Play ZM.
See ya, see ya later.
Actually, I'm going to have to stop you there.
That's copyrighted.
Suzy Cato's a very good friend of mine.
Well, she's already sued me twice.
So if you could maybe get her to drop her litigious action,
that would be great.
Tell her I'll review her five stars.
Yeah.
If she does the same for this podcast.
Yeah.
And then she tells all her friends.
And if you're listening, maybe give it five stars as well.