ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Calendar Week!

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn checks out some hot firefighters in Calendar Week. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Yeah. This week's theme for Fact of the Day is the calendar. Oh, okay.

It's calendar themed. Okay, cute. And today we're going to be looking at the names of the months of our year. Have you ever thought about where they come from? Jan, after Jan. After Jan. Lovely Jan. Lovely Jan.

February, after... Lovely Feb. Her sister Feb. Well, here we go. Okay. Okay. Originally, there were only 10 months. January and February were the last ones to be added. But they put them on the front.

Okay. Because they felt that that's where it needed to be. This is the Romulus calendar. This is Roman. Slight change to where we're at now with our Gregorian calendar, but that's based off this calendar. So January and February were added last. Before that, there were only 10 months.

January takes its name from Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings. Because it's the ending. Because it's the ending. Yeah. The beginning of the year. But it sounds like anus, doesn't it? That's what you get in there.

Well, that's also the beginning of the end, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's Janus is January, the Roman god of beginnings and endings. February comes from the word februm, which is purification, and the februa, which are instruments used in the purification. It was also a celebration they had throughout the month of February. And on February 15, there was a particular thing that happened where you would clean your house and put salt outside

and young men, naked, except for a goat skin cape, dashed around Rome's sacred boundary, playfully whipping women with strips of goat leather. How dare you? It was to promote fertility. Right. So that was February. Tradition has it that Romulus named the fourth March,

fourth, third month, Martus after his own father, Mars, the god of war. So March is named after Mars. The following was April, Aprilis, and then Maus, and then Junius. Names arrived from Roman culture. For example, April is named after Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and sexuality. And it was the first month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Old Rome sounds very horny. That was so horny. Oh, too horny. I mean, you were two if that was just naked all the time. The ones that weren't were just walking around in towels just kind of draped over them a little bit. Some curtains over them. Maya is May

who's like, you might have heard of the singer. Maya. Yes, from the early 2000s. Who was the weak point of Lady Marmalade. She's a fantastic singer, she just wasn't given. I mean, you're up against Christina Aguilera. Yeah.

She was. Juno, the goldenness of war and woman, gives us the name of June. Now, from there on out, on the original 10, the names of the month didn't change

from their original... They were just named after numbers. Adam Levine and the other members of Maroon 5. Maroon 5. Maroon 5. I believe, yeah, correct.

So the numerical names of the month in the second half remain unchanged until the end of the Roman Republic where Quintilis and Sextilis, Quintilis V, Sextilis VI, were renamed after Julius and Augustus Caesar. So there's your July and your August. Right. This changed their four months,

September, October, November, December, because they thought going forth, I bet there's going to be some other great Roman leaders who will be able to rename these months after them and not soon after when it was kind of the end of the Roman Empire, wasn't it? You know why the horniness got a bit much and then collapsed?

Probably. I think if you're going to focus on nothing but sex, you know, you've got to have a bit of agriculture. You really hit the butt when you said butt sex. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you've got to have a bit of agriculture. You really hit the but when you said but sex. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, if you're that horny,

that's got to be an aspect of it. So then the months afterwards never changed. They just stayed with their corresponding numbers. When they were 10 months, September was the seventh month. And of course,

when you put two on the front, it becomes the ninth month. It's quite, this is a lot, this fact. You're going to need to go to something quite. It feels like you've given 12 facts. You've given us many facts.

It's all about the names of the month, baby. Keep up. It's a great story. I feel a bit overwhelmed. September, I'm feeling overwhelmed. Sept is seven. Yep. October is eight.

We're going to need to go a bit sexy tomorrow. November's nine. Yeah, what are you talking about sexy? The Romans did this. It's amazing. They got anything done with the amount of horniness going on. They were renaming months and changing calendars. Just feeling a bit overwhelmed.

I'm just feeling overwhelmed. December, the original 10th month, Des for 10 became the 12th. It's too much. It's too much. Maybe tomorrow's fact could be about those calendar people in the malls every December and January. I used to get one of those every year. Yeah, they know.

And they tell me how much money those places make. Crazy. A lot? A lot. See, that's a great fact. It's not as interesting as how all the months got their names. Is it though? It's too much. You've given us a lot. You's not as interesting as how all the months got their names. Is it though? It's too much.

You've given us a lot. You've gone way too much here. You've overloaded us. I feel completely overwhelmed. February. Yeah, we're buffering here. Marcius. Aprilus.

Mayus. Junus. Who does he think he is? Augustus. Some sort of September, October, November, December. Yeah. Nobody did classics at school. I did.

Oh, my best friend actually got a degree in it. Yeah. And what do they do now? What December. Classic scholar? Yeah. Nobody did classics at school. I did. Oh, my best friend. She got a degree in it, yeah. And what do they do now? What are they doing now? HR. HR. Like, love you, HR.

HR. Okay. And they often say, hey, look, there's been a complaint. Now, this wouldn't have happened in ancient Rome. They would have taken you straight down to the Christian pits where you went to the lions. Today's fact of the day, January through December. It's calendar week here at Fact of the Day and thanks to the overwhelming support I received overnight after my two

rocketed moron co-hosts couldn't quite comprehend too much information at once about where the months got their names. I think the feedback was that it was overwhelming. There was a lot to take in, Vaughan. We understood it. I understood it, but it just

went on. It just went on and on and on. Well, there's 12 months. So I lost interest. Imagine if I didn't do all the months. We'll focus on just one month at a time. The current month would have just made sense. Being that you couldn't handle 12 months and where they got their name from, you're going to love today's fact of the day. Of the traditional Japanese calendar with 72 micro seasons.

Oh, my God. Should we pop out? 72 micro seasons. As long as we don't end up going through all 72, I'll be happy. Oh, we will. Number one. So there's 24 categories and each of them have three or four underneath them. Right.

But it's all to do with the agriculture of Japan. So they would, for example, what's the date today? It is June. Let's scroll down to June. And it is June 11th. Oh, we're at the start of one. Rotten grass becomes fireflies. It's today's micro season in Japan.

What? Rotten grass becomes fireflies. What's the next season? The next one starts on the 16th of June. Plums turn yellow. Then we move into the summer solstice, which is the next group. Yeah. And your June 23rd, your birthday,

South Hill Withers is your micro season. Okay. Can I have mine? Yeah. What's your date again? October 8th. Yeah. October 8th.

Oh, wild geese return. The wild geese return. That's my season. Because it's the beginning of the autumn. It's like some crazy old man writing in his calendar. It's the cold dew. Plums turn yellow. Yeah, I know it is.

What's yours? It is basically a gardening calendar. February. I'm at the start. February 20th. Rain moistens the soil. That's quite fitting. I feel like with climate change, this Japanese calendar moistens the soil. That's quite fitting. I feel like with climate change, this

Japanese calendar's out the window. It has changed. They said it definitely has changed. Well, they're going to have to reword it. Get another old man to come up with some more appropriate ones. Ice caps melting. Non-seasonal tropical cyclone destroys Seaside Fishing Village.

It was 18 degrees in Auckland this morning. That sort of thing. That's 11th of June. Give me a random date and I'll tell you what was happening. 5th of July. 5th of July is the crow dipper sprouts. What? Just after the iris is blown.

I don't remember all this. You're going to have to bring this fact of the day back tomorrow. Worn winds blow. Why do you supposed to remember all this? You're going to have to bring this fact of the day back tomorrow. Worn winds blow. Why do I need to bring it back tomorrow? I'm telling you. It's like it was an officially recognised calendar for traditional ancient Japan. By the way, have you watched Shogun yet? No.

Are you saving that up or are you not interested? I'm not interested. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to go back and finish it. The Shogun series on Disney Plus. Aaron was watching it because I talked to him about it after the first two episodes. And I said, what I'm going to do is I'm going to bank him up and just smash him out as quickly as I can.

What's it about? Why are you talking to my fiance behind my back? What have you guys got going on? Well, we've got to talk about something after sex. That's hot. We talk about PlayStation games and Disney Plus shows we like. When you cuddle. Yeah.

Can you do Christmas Day? We had a request. Christmas Day. Christmas Day a request, Christmas Day. Christmas Day is self-heal sprouts. Oh my God. It's Christmas Day. Some of the sprouts

that self-healing. December to just after is when the deer shed antlers. What about January the 1st? January the 1st, wheat sprouts under snow because of course

it's their winter. It's just all sprout based. Yeah. It's a lot of sprouts. All things sprout. Okay. Well, spring thaw. Done.

Hens start laying eggs. January 30 to Feb 3. That's your hen starts laying eggs week. I think we're done here. Can we wrap it up? We can totally be done here. Wrap it up.

I'm happy with it. But if anybody into a little bit of traditional Japanese calendar, you know the guy to talk to. That was the only message we had about it. I think everyone else

might have just popped off. We'll watch a bit of show. We'll change stations. Yeah. We're now just officially talking had about it. I think everyone else might have just popped off. We're going to watch a bit of show now. We've changed stations. We're now just officially talking to each other. I'm yet to be impressed with calendar week. I'll be honest. October 8th, best day. That's from Carolyn. May 5th, frogs start singing. This is your weakest fact

of the day week we've ever had. It's not as interesting. It's fascinating. We just take a calendar for grinding. It's just there every day. What day is it? June 11th. What day of the week is it? Tuesday. It's a lot similar to sexy fireman facts if we're talking about calendars. We should do fireman week.

Firefighters week. I'll take a week off. Yeah, Hayley can do firefighter week. I'll do firefighter week. Do firefighter week. Yeah, love that. Yeah, not just the firemen. The firewomen.

And the Dalmatians. You can do a fact about Dalmatians. You know, many a peasant has thought they could wear the crown better than the king. Until the hefty weight of the crown is placed upon their head. Brussels sprouts under snow. Yeah, all right. Yum.

The toads start singing. Yes, it's sinking in. It's sinking in. We're going to have some Japanese traditional calendar. So today's fact of the day is there is a... That's all, folks. The traditional Japanese agricultural calendar has 72 micro-seasons. Today's fact of the day is for calendar week.

People are loving. People are loving because everyone just takes calendars for granted. You say this, but Hayley and I have not been impressed this week, have we? It's been a little life-luster. at both underwhelmed and overwhelmed.

Mm. Today's fact of the day is for 11 years, the Soviet Union had no weekends. Okay. Okay, why? Because they just worked?

They worked. For the betterment of the country? September 19, September 29, 1929 was the last Sunday of Sundays in the Soviet Union. As Joseph Stalin said, it makes no sense that everybody takes a day off at the same time because, look, these factories and machines have been so unproductive.

Yeah. And so they were six days. They were working six days a week. Sunday was the only day off anybody got. Big church day for the Orthodox Russian religion. You know, just a family day. Yeah. Clean your house.

Those sorts of things you always do on your day off. Well, it was only one day off. It was a six-day working week. So it's not weekend. It's just a day off. A day off. Sunday. And so Sunday, September 29th was the last time before the

new five day working week was introduced but everybody was on a different five day working week. Okay. Your Tuesday to Saturdays. Quite smart isn't it? One seventh of the labour force worked Saturday to work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And then

the next seventh started Monday and worked through to Friday. And then the next seventh started Monday and worked through to Friday. Yeah. And then the next one started Tuesday and worked through to Saturday. Yeah. So it was always working. Yeah. It was only a small percentage of people not working every day.

Jeepers. So that meant that factories and everything were far more productive, but obviously people didn't love it. Yeah. Because they couldn't have, you might have family that you want to spend time with, but they're on a different five-day working week. Now you do have two days off a week,

but it might not be two days that links up with anybody else. I mean, that's just kind of life for a lot of people right now anyway. Well, no, that's what I was going to get to. Then they changed it to, after a while, they were like, this is working so well, let's just put it back to a six-day working week, but everybody starts on a different day. So it went from the five-day working week. Now you're back where you started,

except you're not getting days off at the same time as your family. Yeah. Well, that's awful. People were fairly unhappy with it. And so it was scrapped by 1940. 11 years of trial and error and changing after it began in 1929, they brought back. Sunday being the day off in Soviet Russia.

But now, like you say, everybody works different. Shift workers work throughout. Not really about calendars, though, is it? Well, it is because here, stick it up your ass, is a 1930 Soviet calendar with the five-day work week. But it's not really a fact about calendars.

And this would be what group you belong to. A little promised fireman. Each group had a symbol. For example, there was the group represented by the sickle. There was the hammer. There was the abacus. There was a star and a flag. And so you would know that by this calendar,

that was the start of your five-day work week. Right. Fascinating. The next time you saw it was the start of your next five-day work week. Not so. You said it wasn't a calendar, but I've just shown you. I sort of feel like we've- That looks like a big wall

planner right there. Yeah. I just sort of keep asking, like, do something about the stalls in the malls. Yeah, do something about the fireman's calendar, you know? You know, something about the stalls in the malls. Nice. Okay. It's only going to get more and more convoluted. So today's... Today's fact of the day, for 11

years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union had no weekends. Today's fact of the day. It's calendar week. And I would like to thank everybody for their kind and positive feedback, apart from these two a-holes. No, I haven't been finding it. These two jerks that I work with.

It's just been a bit underwhelming this week. Are you kidding me? Facts are plenty about calendars. Straight hard facts about calendars. I thought I'd dumb it down for these two do-brains. Okay. A couple of do-brains by visiting when

canireusethiscalendar.com Oh yeah. When the year syncs up again. When the year syncs up again. When the year syncs up and someone has made a website. So if you find an old calendar of like your grandparents, you're like, man, this has got a bit of retro cool. When will I be able to use this again? When will the dates and days of the week all line up?

This is good. This is great. This is exactly what we wanted for calendar week. This has tickled me. You jerks. You dumb plebs. I've been trying to give people Intelligent calendar information What about the one with all those seasons The 72 seasons

You know Toes going in the woods Is there like There's no like mathematical It's not like every 7 or every 10 years It's all over the show isn't it It's not consistent And then if leap year jumps in the mix

You've got a problem on your hands So in 2024 If you find an old calendar from the year 1912, 1940, 1968 or 1996, you can reuse it. 96. I'll have one of those somewhere. You have a 96 hooning around somewhere, right? Yeah, 1912 will be harder.

And if you want to keep your 2024 calendar, you'll be able to reuse that in the year 2052. Okay. Would you reckon Earth will still be here? Yeah. Earth will still be here? Yeah. You reckon we'll still be alive? Can you check for, because we are releasing a calendar at the end of the year.

Yes. Full of incredibly motivational quotes from us on horses. 2025 usable a lot of years. Okay. Because it's. This is great. Your 2025 calendar will be reusable in 2031, 2042, 2053, 2059, 2070, 2081, 2087. Why is that?

2098. This is great. Was this year a leap year? Yeah. That'll be why. That'll be why. This is great. That'll be why.

I'm just thinking financially for our motivational horse calendar. Yeah. So what year were you born, Hayley? You were born in 1989, isn't it, right? 89. 89. So you could find a calendar from 1989 and actually not for a little while. Oh, 20, 20, nah, 2023 would have been a year you could have used the 1989 calendar.

Well, that's gone. So that's of no use to me. You have to wait till 2034 now. So in 2034, you'll know whatever day of the week your birthday was on. That was the day of the week you were born.

Sunday. I was born on a Saturday. Oh my God, weekend, baby. What day were you born? I don't know. I think a Friday or a Saturday or a Sunday. What day of the week

was June 23rd, 1942? Wow. Rude, very rude It was a Saturday as well, you were a Saturday baby Weekend freaking Friends Ruined our mum's weekends Coming out the vagina

Except for flat she was a cesarean section Out the top I came out the bottom hole You came out the bum hole No the bottom It sounded came out the bottom hole. You came out the bum hole? No, the bottom. I think he's the bottom. It sounded like you said bottom hole.

Yeah. Where else was a baby going to come from? Your mum's pooped them out. Did you guys not read the news? Did you see when they say push out a baby? The baby comes out. So if you go to whencanireusethiscalendar.com, you'll be able to find out when your old calendar, maybe you've got a favourite old golden retriever calendar, for example.

From a mall stall, which I'm excited for some facts on tomorrow. Basically, if you just end up keeping those. Yeah, you can reuse them. You'll be able to reuse them. The only thing, Easter. If it's got Easter marked on it, because Easter is of Luna. And Queen and King's birthday and stuff. They'll all have Queen's birthday on them, won't they?

Yeah. And that changes? Yeah. Does it? all have Queen's birthday on them, won't they? Yeah. And that changes? Yeah. Does it? Well, it's always on a Monday. Yeah, but it's always on the first Monday of June. So that would be the same in that week. But the days are the same.

Yeah. So today's fact of the day is when can I reuse this calendar.com will tell you when you can reuse your old calendars from different years. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley's. Well, it's calendar week. Can I just say, flooded with positive responses. I don't know if you are. I don't know.

But there's a couple of dum-dums in studio who were just like, duh, days of the week, duh. I enjoyed yesterday. Yeah, yesterday was fun. It's just been slightly over, underwhelming. Underwhelming overridden. Underwhelming. Three stars.

Wow. Give us today's fact. Well, I've done this especially for you two. Okay, great. Yeah, great. I've caved. I've caved. More.

Yep. To the plebs. To the dum-dum plebs. We speak on behalf of the people. Yeah. We want simple facts. Simple but interesting. Today's fact of the day is about firefighter calendars.

Yes! Are you going to do Fact of the Day next week about firefighters? Was that what you said you'd do? Well, he threatened me that he would relinquish control for the week and make me do the work to see how hard it was to do Fact of the Day every day. Right. I don't want to take it away from him. Look at him.

You know, I'd hate this is his thing. I also think a week's just barely dipping a toe into the... Yeah, and it's not something I want to take on. Into this legendary radio segment. No. Historically. Lengthy. Name one that's run for longer.

The Firefighter calendar precursor. Okay. I'll tell you how they came about. Strippers. Hmm? Was that the precursor to fireman calendar? No, no, no.

Strippers. No, beefcake magazines. Beefcake magazines. Beefcake magazines. What's beefcake? Yeah. Like buff men. Buff men.

Right. I've heard of men being called beefcakes before. Like, oh, he's a beefcake. But do you know the origins of the term beefcake? No. They needed a male version of cheesecake. Because back in the 1930s, if a dame was cutting a nice silhouette, you'd say, oh, she's a cheesecake.

Because she's delicious or something. Because she's sweet and delicious. Because you can see the passion fruit pips on her. Yeah. And she's full of pips. Yeah. Crunchy pips. And a delicious cheesecake.

So then they were like, well, what's the male version of a cheesecake? And it was the beefcake. Because men love beef. So there were physique magazines, beefcake magazines, which were popular with men who had something to hide in the 1940s. Men who had a few fellow friends. Would they tell their wives it was because they were into the gym? Bingo.

So basically, think men's health if you've got a straight friend. If you've got a straight friend who's like, I get it for the workouts. I just want to look at what I want my body to look like. That Ryan Reynolds picture's lovely, but let's not pretend that hasn't been

used as a little bit of material for the old brain matter there. So they were very popular in the 1940s. And while they were targeting females, mostly being picked up by homosexuals. Amazing. Secret homosexuals. Okay. So then pornography grew in popularity in the United States in the 1960s and 70s. There was manual enterprises incorporated versus day.

You know how every court case in America is so-and-so versus so-and-so? And after that, male full frontal nudity was made legal because prior to that, you could have female nudity, but you couldn't have male nudity. Oh, my gosh. Well, so that was a male fight for equality after female equality. Yeah, well, equality means everyone. So, but it turned out women were a little bit too shy

to be buying Beefcake magazine on hold. Oh, really? Yeah, in male pornography. It was a little bit hum-ha. So the way around it was every woman needs a calendar. You've got to run the house. How will they know what day it is? You've got to know what day Susie's violin recital is.

It must be written on the calendar. So they started putting the Beefcake Men on the calendars. And Beefcake calendars started selling very, very well. And then, you know, it came down to it, firefighters needed money. Yes. They needed extra money to fund their fire departments. I tell you what, those hoses aren't cheap. Not cheap hoses.

Those big, long hoses. Oh, God, no. And often. Thick canvas hoses. Very you what, those hoses aren't cheap. Those big, long hoses. Oh, God, no. And often- Thick canvas hoses. Very. Oh, thick hoses. Thick, man. Two-handers.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Powerful. Powerful. Work the nozzle a little bit. You've got to get it right. So then they were like, you know, we need money. And I don't know if you guys have noticed,

we're all pretty shredded because we've got to be super fit to run up the stairs. Run up the stairs because in a lift you can't, in a fire you can't use a lift. Oh my God, I know they're like, don't use it in a fire.

It's like, well, I'm not going up the stairs. So they were like, these calendars sell well. We're all beefcakes. We want to make some money. And that's how they started.

And it was born. See, this was the kind of fact we needed every day. I'm literally on the edge of my seat. I'm enticed. 1980s. Saw the birth of the fireman calendar. And was it overseas, not New Zealand?

Because New Zealand has obviously adopted the fireman calendar. New Zealand has adopted the fireman calendar. America, first off, in the 21st century firefighter calendars have become very popular in Asia. Especially Taiwan. In 2018, the Taiwanese government

invited... Now, are you part of... Is that part of China or not? Can you ever stand on that? Not on calendar week. Join me next week for... Is that really China? Week. Wow. In 2018, the Taiwanese government invited two models from the Australian firefighter calendar because remember they made massive amounts

of money after those massive bushfires. The Australian firefighters did a calendar that was like a record breaker for how many it sold. The Taiwanese government invited them and they gave out over 10,000 calendars. And now those two Australian firefighting models are considered celebrities in Taiwan. And they go back and they get like massive crowds

of adoring women. Wow. Oh my God, amazing. So today's fact of the day is... I loved it. Yeah, good, good from you., today's fact of the day is... I loved it. Yeah, good. Good from you. This is what I expected every day this week.

Yeah. Firefighter, I think we've all got something out of this week. We have. It's been great. We've had the sex to finish off the week. Yeah. So, let's face it, this was straight sex appeal. Yeah.

And that's why I'm hooked. We had a bit of history. Yeah. That wasn't so much. Oh, that really long calendar. Wasn't for me. Yeah. That wasn't so much. Oh, that really long calendar. Wasn't for me. No. So today's fact of the day is that firefighter calendars were predated by beefcake calendars,

which were predated by beefcake magazines. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Ah, not for me. Oh, okay. Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't.

No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun, why don't you give us a little review and a rating? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley.