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

Episode Date: February 8, 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 rifles through the history books to find the origins. It's time for... Fact of the Day Well, this week's Fact of the Day is Origin Week Where we look at terms that we just use or partake in every day

And don't really think about the origins of them Now this came to me yesterday on the drive back from the Bay of Plenty when we were passing through Matamata. Oh, gorgeous. You went that way. And their main street

is called Broadway. Oh, yeah. And... A lot of Broadway's all over the place. Newmarket's got a Broadway, Newmarket and Auckland. Because of the...

Like, all the shows are on Broadway. All of the theatre shows. Yeah, the theatre. Well, no, they're not. No, they're not. Not in New Zealand. Yeah, they are but they are. Well, Palmerston North's got a Broadway, doesn't it?

Yeah, exactly. So, Case of the... It's got the theatre on it. Is it Case and Point? Case and Point. Is that the origin of Case and Point? Do that one one day. It's a good one. Case and Point. Remember when I... Because I today coined a phrase. All roads... All roads lead to Rome. Rome. Yeah.

So, the origin of that was me trying to describe how you get to a place and eventually if you keep going, you'll get there. And you just made that up today. Very similar to Rome, which is all the roads are linked. Amazing. So then I was like, all roads lead to Rome. Well, no. Broadway in Matamata and Palmerston North and Newmarket

are not named after Broadway in New York. Oh. Is it because it's quite a Broadway? Bingo. Like it's wide? They're wide streets. Wider streets. So when old New York was once New Amsterdam.

Did you know that? New York used to be called New Amsterdam. Yeah, because of that hospital show. No, the hospital show is called New Amsterdam because of the fact that the Dutch used to be in charge of New York used to be called New Amsterdam. Yeah, because of that hospital show. No, the hospital show is called New Amsterdam because of the fact that the Dutch used to be in charge of New York, that area of America, and then the British took over. And it had been called the equivalent of the Gentleman's Way. But when the British got there, they said,

man, this road is wide. This is a wider road than we need. It is a broad way. Okay. It is a broad, like the way meaning road and the broad meaning wide. And so they renamed it a broad way. A broad way. Oh, yeah.

This is a broad way. Yeah, this is a broad way. But then it lost a and just became broad way. I'm heading down to broad way. All of the broad ways around aren't named after Let's Chuck a Theater on there and hope it can replicate New York's broad way. Right. It is literally they are the widest road in town. Often built wider than the requirement was at the time of building. Right.

Definitely the Broadway's I know are broad. So that Broadway in New York was. Just became Broadway. And that is still Broadway today. That is still Broadway today. Yeah right. Where the theatres were built because the road was wide enough to handle the extra traffic that would be brought to the area. Yeah, right. For seeing the theatres. They couldn't put it on narrow streets because that would cause congestion.

Yeah, right. So they started putting more of them on the main street. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is Broadway, and you might hear like Broadway musicals, and it's the place to be, Broadway. There's a song about Broadway by Barbra Streisand.

Is that right? Does she sing that song? I don't know. I don't know. See, that's the kind of stuff you can put on your flip side. Facts about Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand. Yeah.

Streisland. We don't need to hear about that. Keep that for your flip side, thanks. It's all because the street was wide and when the British took over New York, it was like, it's a broad way. Today's Fact of the Day

is about the saying resting on your laurels. Because it is Fact of the Day week. Origins. Origins. Origins of sayings. Resting on your laurels. And unusual words. Yes, resting on your laurels. Because it is a fact of the day, week is origins. Origins. Origins of sayings. Resting on your laurels. An unusual word. Laurels. Well, the laurels is you achieve a mark of success,

right? And then once you've achieved them, you don't want to just sort of rest on them. Yeah, but why are they called? Like, what's a laurel? Leaves. Was it someone that died and they just kind of became all crusty and became a seat? No, it's not a name. Leaves.

They're like little leaves, aren't they? And her name was Laurel. And her name was Laurel, became crusty, somewhat like a seat. And so on the way, everyone would just sit down and rest on Laurel. Rest on Laurel. And then people would be like, come on, you don't want to rest on your laurel. Don't rest on Laurel. And then it sort of changed from there.

Yeah, it got the zlater. Or has he done the fact of the day? Hayley's way closer. So in ancient Greece, you were awarded laurel leaves in a headband sort of manner. Oh, like a Jesus thing. That's why on show posters. Jesus was famously made of thorns. His was a crown of thorns, a punishment.

Right, okay. The laurel band would sit on your head like a crown. thorns, a punishment. Right. The laurel band would sit on your head like a crown. So more like a Christmas cracker. Crepe hat. Crepe paper. Crepe paper hat. Yeah. A cross between that and a Christmas wreath on the front door. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So

closely tied to Apollo, the god of music, prophecy and poetry. Apollo was usually depicted with a crown of laurel leaves and then that became a symbol of status and achievement. And then athletes at the ancient games would receive wreaths made of laurel branches and the Romans later presented wreaths

to generals who won important battles. I thought they were olive. Olive branches are a peace offering. Extending an olive. Extending an olive olive branches are peace offering. Extending an olive. Extending an olive branch is a peace offering. That's why they have them on their bloody film festivals. Those are the laureates. I've just Googled them.

They're bay leaves. Bay leaves? Yes, from the same family as the bay leaf, which you put in cooking. And they do absolutely nothing, but we keep putting them in. Well, let's hate. They don't do anything. Wow, she's coming out swinging against Indian spices today, isn't she?

The bay leaf absolutely contributes nothing. What about a lime leaf, a kefir leaf? Yeah, kefir, lime will change a meal. Oh, and a Thai dish? A bay leaf in a bog or something, absolutely not. Okay. I'm just looking here, you can buy a tree and make your own laurels at home

and then you can rest on your own laurels. But the idea of it, the saying resting on your laurels was once you had won the award and you were living off a past glory, one was to rest upon their laurels. Yeah. That just summarises me. I don't try once I get something. Yeah, well, I won the Poynton Cup in 2001 for my speech

in seventh form. And then you gave up you gave up speeching. And I've sort of just been bringing that up ever since. Yeah. Just resting on that. You're literally resting on your laurels. Literally. Yeah. So if you win a Nobel Peace Prize, you're a Nobel Laureate. Meaning you... Right.

And it's used in very posh sort of pomp and circumstance to chuck on the end of an award. Yeah. Like you said, films have the laurel. Films, like theatre festivals do at Edinburgh, when you get like a quote or something, you put it in a laurel. Is that what...

Oh, okay. You know, like Palme d'Or and it says that. Or winner of the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes, and it's like laurels. Those are laurels. A laurel band indicating a win. Okay. And then resting on your laurels meaning I've already done it so.

Past glories. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is the origins of the saying to rest on your laurels dates back to the headbands of ancient times. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. This week's fact of the day themed week is origins of words. I've got heaps. I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

and only one, two, three days left to go. Good counting from you. Well, can we get three each day? I could actually just make it a double week. No. Oh, okay. Just pick the best ones. No, because I like getting here on Monday night and getting an exciting new thing.

Yeah, although next week we're going to do the long weekend, aren't we? Oh, yeah. Wednesday, Thursday, okay. Just pick the best ones. No, because I like getting here on Monday night and getting an exciting new thing. Yeah, although next week, we're going to do the long weekend, aren't we? Oh, yeah. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Oh, sure. Okay, then. Let's do it. Origin week and a half. Origin week and a half.

That works great. Okay. Because they are good. They're good. Yeah. I've got one day that we could probably squeeze in a few animals, where animals got their titles from. Because they're really cute.

Should we do that today? No. I want to do Nightmare today. He's? No, I want to do Nightmare today. He's so excited. I want to do Nightmare today because last night I had like a proper... I had a proper nightmare. I had a proper nightmare. My friend Callum, we all know him, turns up at my house

looking like dishevelled as, like shipwrecked for months. And he's got two, well he's got a box, a wooden crate, and on top of it is a doll. Now, it turns out the doll's a haunted doll. He's like, I need you to look after this. Like a horror nightmare.

It's something he would do is turn up with a haunted doll for you to deal with. And the joke is as soon as I accept it, it's my curse. And he's just like, hey, can you look after this? I'm like, yeah, sure. And he's like, ha, bye, and leaves me with the haunted doll. So he turns up with this haunted doll and a case of very dangerously unstable dynamite. That's what's in the wooden crate.

And he's like, we just need to hold on to this for a bit. I'm like, what is this? And he cracks it open. He's like, it's unstable dynamite. And the dynamite's like sweating, which tells me it's wildly unstable. It's about to blow. So I'm like, well, we can't put that in the shed

because it'll explode yeah because it gets hot in the shed so we found a cool place under the house and put the dynamite under the house

of course why not perfect place the haunted doll it's way better in the shed under the house where you live the haunted doll

went on a shelf in the house yeah in one of the girls rooms why would you do that they had kids and right it's a doll.

I still at this stage didn't know it was haunted. I just thought it was creepy. But he said, we can't hide this. It's got to be able to see. And then the doll just haunted me for the rest of the dream. Did he have a lot of cheese last night or some kind of tramadol? During this all, my friend Orban rang and he said, Arlo has decided to have

Pokemon surgery. And I said, what's Pokemon surgery? And he said, he's transitioning into a Pokemon. And I was like, oh, okay. Sweet as man. And he's like, yeah, yeah, we're all good with it. I'm like, yeah, that's, you've got to be good with your kids' decisions. Anyway, Callum's here with dynamite and a haunted doll.

So I've got to go. So it was all, and then the doll started doing haunted things and I kept screaming, is this a dream? Is this a dream? And the doll was like holding me down. And so anyway, I thought I, this coincidentally I'd looked up doll was holding me down. So anyway, I thought this, coincidentally, I'd looked up

at the start of the week. This was your nightmare. This was my nightmare. Why are nightmares called nightmares? Wait, how did it end? Did you just wake up and that was it? Because it's a mare that happens in the night. I think the doll was trying to get inside me. Now, not through my bum. Through your mouth? No, it was like opening me up.

Like trying to cut me to go inside and then the thoughts were it was going to get inside and be able to control my body. Right. How was it getting it? It was going to cut through my stomach. But how did its plastic hands hold the scalpel? It was like Chucky did it.

Because it doesn't have fingers. But anyway, it was like a porcelain creepy doll. I'm going to be off them for a little while. Because, But anyway, it was like a porcelain creepy doll. Okay. I'm going to be off them for a little while. Okay. Because, you know, I was big on them. Oh, your whole collection's going to go. My whole collection of porcelain dolls is going to go. You've got like 40 of those.

I know, I know. But now they all scare me. So, nightmare. Where does it come from? Well, night, fairly self-explanatory. Yeah. That's when you sleep. But what about mare?

Having a mare. The first person to have a nightmare was the mayor of the town. No. My friend used to always say mare, and her whole Lebanese family said it. Anything to do with Lebanon? Mares? No, I don't know about that.

What about horses? Is there a crossover with horses? Because it is spelt like mare as in female horse. But a mare is actually a female goblin. And it was believed that when you were having a nightmare, a female goblin was sitting on you, holding you down, suffocating you, entangling you in her hair, which is a mare lock, to tie somebody up with like to be engulfed and cocooned with hair is a mare lock.

This is a nightmare. And then would put the bad thoughts into your head that you would have a nightmare. So it was night. At night, a mare, a female goblin, would sit on you, wrap you up with their hair in a mare lock. Yeah. And put the bad thoughts into your head.

Because, you know, my mum had sleep paralysis once when she was a kid and it was like a creature, a female creature sitting on her chest and she was suffocated and couldn't breathe. That was a literal mare. That was a literal mare. She was having a mare goblin.

That was a little goblin. Wow. So today's fact of the day is the word, the term nightmare comes from the fact that it was believed in ancient times that if you were having a bad dream, it's because a mare, a female goblin, was sitting on you while you slept.

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Today's fact of the day, it's word or phrase, origin week. And I think I knew this one. Week and a half. Pardon me? We're doing week and a half. Yeah, because next week we're taking Monday off and then Tuesday's a holiday and then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, just three more of these, I think.

Yeah, yeah, perfect. One and a half, loving it. Three more of these, I think. So I think I knew this, but when I read it, I was like, it rules. There was not a word, well, there was, but the word tattoo did not exist until Captain James Cook heard it from the people of Samoa.

Oh, wow, so he's all about James Cook now. from the people of Samoa. Oh, wow. So he's all about James Cook now. Ta-ta. Whoa! Okay. All right, colonist. Do you know, I'm here. He called him a hero.

He called him a hero. He did. He said, my hero. Yeah, and then he said, I can't believe they ate him. That's what he said. I don't think I said that. He did. I don't think I said that.

I've got you recorded, mate. No, Vaughn did not say that. Vaughan is not a fan. Hard to deny, I'm very white and my family's very white and I kind of just strolled in and was like, we'll have that. It's very hard to deny my colonist past, not extremely proud of it. Yeah. Anyway, but I'm afraid there's not much I can do personally

because they gave away all the land again. So he saw the Samoan people with tattoos. So the tato is the Polynesian word, which translates to a mark made on the skin. And the Samoan word tato meant to strike. Ah. So tattoo just came because you know how white people don't put a lot of effort into saying things, how the people who they take the words from said it?

So it's like tattoo. Tattoo. Tattoo. So the first known English usage of the word tattoo. 1786, James Cook's Journal on the Endeavour where he described the tradition of tattooing among the people that he met during his voyage in Polynesia. It did exist in England before this time, but it didn't really have a word. It was just referred to as a form of painting or skin painting.

Right. It didn't have one word that kind of summed it up. Did he spell it in his journal like we spell it now? Yes. Or is that how the Samoan people spelled it as well? Because it was just said. Yeah. Oh, right. It was no? Because it was just said. Yeah. Oh, right. It was no record of it.

It wasn't written. Most of Polynesia were an oral communication. There wasn't like a written language or such. And to be fair, they hadn't invented pens by then. No. No one had. No one had invited writing devices. Yeah.

And you'd like lick your finger and write on a bit of stone, but then the sun would dry it and your message would disappear. That would always happen. Wow, okay, that's fascinating. So the word, which is just a really unusual word to look at, you wouldn't think it was English in origins like T-A-T-T-O-O, which doesn't look a lot like an English word, is a word from Polynesia.

Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. is a word from Polynesia. This week at Fact of the Day headquarters is Word Origin Week. Yeah, so like we're phrases in... Oh, can I just say that again? Word Origin Week. That was hot. Was it? Hayley told me I should do more voiceovers.

Hayley and Aaron, and Sade wasn't fully on board, but I think she just went with the crowd when we were in the Uber yesterday. I was doing silly voices, and Hayley said I should have a voiceover gig. Well, you did that cartoon that time, remember? No, I'm talking like a corporate voiceover gig, one that pays the pennies. Oh, right, like get some coin in my pocket, you know? Like you're like, why don't you get five gigs on Vodafone? That kind of thing.

Something like that. I can probably do it a little bit better than that. Because, you know, I was the spokesperson for Garage Doors there for a while. Yeah, but they kind of... Garage Doors. They didn't renew you. They didn't renew me. And I think that was an issue with the voicing. Yeah, well, I do do the PGG rights and ad every now and then. They'll get me to

do that, but I think that's more of a... But that's... The fact that I have... You make farmers horny. I do make farmers horny. There's why, actually. Yeah, you do. There's actually a female farmers Facebook group. FFF. Right. And there's often talk about how horny I make. Farmers across the board, both male and female.

I've even got some very heterosexual farmers questioning themselves. Okay. Right. So I've heard. Right. So I've heard. But yeah, that was fact of the day. Weak.

Weak. That double E-K there. I don't know, that's not doing it for me. Let me speak, speak. Roll on it. Anyway, that sounded nice on my headphones, so I'll do that again. But we've been looking to the origins of words, where they come from. This one I am so pleased to finally know because the word shampoo is ridiculous.

It is ridiculous. The word shampoo is, can we all agree, the word shampoo is ridiculous. Okay, I'm finally going to know why it's called shampoo. Why it's called shampoo. And also, shout out, my sister messaged me last night and she said someone they used to live next to put this up as a Facebook status. Yeah. And she had said, she doesn't know I'm reading this, Kelly said, I said to my daughter, did you learn

anything at school today, Sadie? Yeah. And Sadie said, nah, I don't learn much at school, Mum. I do all my learning from Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley during Fact of the Day. Yes. And I've missed it the last couple of days because you've been early. Well, now she's not learning. Now she's going to learn about shampoo. Sadie,

I hope Mum's running a little late because we're also running a little late. Yeah, we are. Oh, my. Okay, hurry up. It's called shampoo. Shampoo started as a verb. Shampoo comes from Hindi and it is derived from the Sanskrit root chapati. Yeah.

Which you may recognise as a sort of a bread. Okay. Chapati. Chipotle. Not chipotle. That's a delicious of a bread. Okay. Chapati. Chipotle. Not chipotle. That's a delicious sauce. Yeah. Chapati is the origin from Sanskrit and shampoo from Hindi means to massage.

It's a verb. So like you're massaging the shampoo in. So it started out as the chapati. You would be kneading the bread. Okay. Kneading it and making the bread. And then it was more about just kneading and massaging in general. Yep.

And then, of course, when you are washing your hair, you're essentially massaging and kneading the hair. Okay. So shampoo became known as the verb to wash one's hair in 1860. But it wasn't the noun, as we know it now, you're going to buy a bottle of shampoo until significantly later, into the 1900s significantly later. Wow. Into the 1900s.

Okay. Yeah. And then shampoo was only to do with hair. Yep. And then someone was washing their carpets and they're like, it's not really washing, is it? So then shampooing became extended to the washing of materials sometimes. Oh, you shampoo your carpet. Shampoo your carpet.

Okay. Shampoo your different bits and pieces. The more you know. The more you know. The more you know. So today's word, and I'm hoping something that Sadie's learned. Yeah. Because she's had a pretty shit first week back at school.

Yeah. Zero learning. She's easing back into it, but we don't ease back in. No. We learn from day one here. We do. At the School of Phylicia, one of Hayley's fact of the day. Today's origin word, fact of the day, is that shampoo comes from the word chapati

and it means to massage. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. We talked about it on the show while Hayley's sinking into a swamp of reality television. I'm back on my World War II shit. Your shows, yeah. Were you watching Masters of the Air, the new one? That's not coming out enough I watched the third one

that was the first one where I've been like haunted by like it's pretty good it's intense like and every war thing I watch

I'm like oh my god I just couldn't handle that situation and afterwards after I finished the third episode of that at the weekend I was like I need a little summon

and I've never watched that Tom Hanks film Greyhound it's about one And I'd never watched that Tom Hanks film, Greyhound. It's about one- No, I haven't seen that. One US naval ship escorting like this battalion of freighters across the Atlantic. Okay.

And it's just about this intense like 48-hour period where they are in between, because planes couldn't travel too far, the planes that were low enough. So it got to this point where the American planes had to turn around and go back to America and the English planes couldn't travel too far, the planes that were low enough. So it got to this point where the American planes had to turn around and go back to America and the English planes couldn't reach them yet. And they were being hunted by German

U-boats. And so for like 48 hours, Tom Hanks is just like... Was he okay? He didn't eat. That was the one thing. They kept bringing him like yum-looking food. I'd be like, God, take five minutes and eat, Tom Hanks. You need your energy. He was in the middle of World War II. He was there. He was just

slamming coffees. Okay. And you know, he's just out there doing it. And so they were firing torpedoes. And so I'm going to tell you where the origin of the word torpedo comes from. Oh, okay. That's today's origins. Torpedo. Torpedo. Any guess

of the etymology? Is it a French word? No, but the language that French is derived from is sort of semi-recent. It's Latin. Okay, right. It's Latin. And it is what the Latin, the Latinish? Yeah, Latinish.

The Latinish people. The Latinish community. Called stingrays. Really? Rays. Eagle rays. Called stingrays. Really? Rays. Eagle rays. Stingrays. Electric rays.

Right. We love stingrays. Yeah. I know that they've got a bad rap because of Steve Irwin. But he wouldn't want them to have a bad rap because of what happened. No better way to go. When they get fed and, you know, they're accustomed to it, they're so friendly. How good's a manta ray? Yeah.

Oh, gosh. Eagle. I saw in New Zealand's got eagle rays. I saw one of those that got a slightly more sort of like pronounced head on them. Let me have a look at these eagle rays. I saw one of those, an eagle ray swimming in the Tauranga Harbour. Yeah, nice. Beautiful.

And just like just floating along. And then boom. When they move, they move, baby. So it comes from the Latin torpedi, which is to be stiff or numb, which is why they were like, that's kind of the vibe with stingrays and rays when they're just sitting there. Right. Kind of stiff looking.

I would have said they were stiff. No, I would have said they were a bit floppy. I would have said floppy. They're floppy. Yep. I think the Latins are wrong there. The eagle ones are because they've got the little wings there

but the guys that are just like maybe chilling. They're a bit more maybe stiff. I'd say flappy floppy. Well you can take that up with the Latinas.

Stiff would be so far down the list of how I would describe them. Well they were out there touching them and naming things. The Latinas had no idea.

It was a primitive time. Yep. So then when they invented a stiff water-based explosive missile, that's obviously a mouthful. Stiff water-based explosive missile. Fire the stiff water-based explosive missiles. Nope. Too late, the target's already gone.

So they went for a torpedo. It's a great word. It's a great word. they went for a torpedo. It's a great word. It's a great word. It's a great word. It's a great word. Do you know the first ever torpedoes, how they worked was submarines would have them attached. To be a torpedo and not a mine, a mine is stationary.

Those ones that they'd anchor there and hope boats drove into. But a torpedo is moving. A submarine would have it strapped to the outside with a rope to a centre point. They would go under a boat and detach it so this torpedo would float up. And bonk it and explode. Like a balloon.

If you were holding a balloon down, but it was on a string, of course, it goes straight up to above the string, doesn't it? So it was the same thing. This torpedo would float, so it would come up on an arc and just into the boat and explode like that. But then they're like,

we're actually still quite close. Yeah. So we'd like to be able to shoot them from further away. So they became rocket propelled. Amazing. Hope I never see one coming at me. Well, Tom Hanks certainly saw them coming. He was great at that. I'd say that was one of his strengths as the captain of the Greyhound.

Yeah, right. Seeing them coming and screaming out hard right and seeing the torpedo whizz past. Wow. Worth a watch. Not a long movie either, which is good because sometimes they just get a little long. Especially the war-based ones.

We don't need to cover all of it. A lot of stories to tell. Yeah. A lot of stories to tell. Just a couple of the guys. Yeah. And maybe a lovely broad waiting at home. Always a broad at home.

Always a broad at home. Always a broad at home. And maybe in the later parts of the war, when, you know, servicemen were doing, Maybe a lovely broad waiting at home. Always a broad at home. Always a broad at home. Always a broad at home. Maybe in the later parts of the war when, you know, servicemen were doing, like, get that broad in a uniform. Get that broad a gun. Yeah, let's see what she can do. Old Rivet, what was that lady's name with the rivets?

Tracy. Alice. Rivet? Alice? Sally Rivets? I don't know. Oh, the famous one in the poster. The one that's wearing the... Oh, yeah, the hanky. The hanky on the head and...

Yeah. Showing her guns. Yeah. Hot stuff. Hot stuff. Cassandra? So today's Fact of the Day Origin Week is that... Belinda!

Torpedoes are named after stingrays. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Ailey. Play ZM. It's Origin Week and a Half here at Fact of the Day. We're looking to the origins of words we use every day. Today, the word is salad. Oh. Sally.

Mixed. Dropped some tomatoes into a bowl of lettuce and then was like, I wonder what they taste like together. There she is. There she is. There she is. No. Salad. Well, it's got to be from our friends, the Latin-ish.

The Latin-ish. Ensalada. The Latin-ish. That's Spanish for salad, ensalada. No, that is a beautiful cheese-wrapped tortilla with meat in it and cheese. No, that's an enchilada. No, that's an enchilada. Ensalada would mean the salted, wouldn't it?

The? The salada. The salada cracker. Yeah. Remember, you love a meal size, bite size, or snack size, the versatile salada. That's four, right? The food you love today.

Yep. The 40 snapper. You could have it four or two or one. Wow. Three if you wanted, but they didn't have it four or two or one. Wow. Three if you wanted but they didn't have a rhymey jingle for that. Right.

Because it comes from the Latin word salt. Salted things. Salata means salted things. But salads would be something that I wouldn't consider that salty.

Salted herbs herbicelata was the first salad. Salted herbs. Because they might you might not be salting them now, but back in the day your flavour choices were somewhat limited. They didn't have Best Foods Mayonnaise sponsored at the New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Didn't they? No, not the Latin-ish. Oh, my God. Back in the days of Latin. So, yeah, it just means salted. So it was just salted herbs. I like herbs in a salad. Me too.

I always put a bit of coriander, a bit of mint, sometimes some basil. Yep. But I wouldn't heavily salt them. So they were the raw vegetables, like what you'd put in now, with a dressing of oil, if it was available, vinegar or salt. Oh, yeah. So everything with sort of a salty tang on it. That's how you...

Right. That's how you... Right. That's how they got their name. Now, tomorrow's final in the origins is going to be in animals. So there's going to be a few animals with weird names and it's going to be the origins of how they got their names. Are you doing zebra? Are you doing zebra? Do zebra.

I'm not, but I could do zebra. Can you do koala? I could chuck zebra on the list. You do koala. It's my favourite animal. I could do koala if you wanted. Yep. But I do have a few.

Any other requests? Texan? Nine, six, nine, six. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We have all day. But one that I got but I never got to use I just chuck in now

as a bonus fact of the day. George, the name. Yeah. It means earth worker in ancient Greek. So George, geographer

and geologist are all derived from the same word. And now it's Fulton Hogan. Yeah. Isn't it? If you're called Fulton. If you're called Fulton, you're an earth worker. Or a Hogan. Yeah. I was thinking if I did have a kid I'd probably call it Hogan.

That's not the worst name I've heard. That's not the first. Yeah. Hogan. Hogan Sproul. He sounds like a badass. Yeah, he sounds like a movie actor.. Yeah. Hogan. Hogan Sproul. He sounds like a badass. Yeah, he sounds like a movie actor. Maybe because of Hulk Hogan. Trash. Trash baby.

Also sounds like an arse. Sounds like a trash baby. You can't call your fictional baby Hulk. I'll have a baby and I'll be like, that one's trash. I'm going to call him Hogan. I'm going to call him Hogan. You're going to make him tough though. Hogan's heroes. Great World War II sitcom.

God, how did we come all the way back to World War II? Anything. You get any subject within three steps, I could have a World War II reference out of it, especially at the moment. Yesterday I started watching the three-hour 1970 semi-autobiographical World War II movie. Why don't you do facts of the day week,

World War II facts next week and we'll just get it out of the system. It won't. It'll only make it worse. Flush it out. Flush it out. It's like a nasal rinse.

You just gotta flush it out. The teapot. The teapot tip. So today's our fact of the day is the word salad comes from the Latin word meaning salted. Today's our fact of the day.

The last of the Origins week and a half. Sayings, names, where they come from. Yep, the more unusual ones. Today's an animal special. I'm just going to crank through a few how animals got their names. I'm going to start with my favourite. This is my favourite.

I requested zebra and you told me it was boring. It was boring. And I requested koala and he told me it was just... No, I told you it was koala. I've got koala. Okay. I've got koala for you. I've got koala for you, but I'm starting with walrus.

Okay. Walrus. Walrus. Where is that name from? Walrus. Walrus. Walrus is literally a corruption of the old Norse saying of whale horse. Whale horse. Oh, that makes sense. Walrus. Is literally a corruption of the old Norse saying of whale horse. Whale horse.

Oh, that makes sense. Walrus. Walrus. Walrus. It looks kind of like a whale. Sort of horse-like. It's a whale horse. It's a whale horse.

And then some people misheard them. Walrus. And then English. So it's just walrus. Speakers were like, okay, it's a walrus. It's a walrus. Yeah, you're great. Classic. Penguin comes from, great. Classic.

Penguin comes from Welsh for white head. Peng is head. Gwyn is white. Penguin. So because it had a white head, it comes from the Welsh white-headed bird. I love hearing that. Which used to belong to a now extinct seabird. Yeah.

And when they first saw penguins, they thought it was that bird, but it wasn't. Does that, who's what, Benedict Cumberbatch? Benedict Cumberbatch can't say penguins. Does he still know, has he corrected himself? I think Graham Norton. Graham Norton. He's sassy, isn't he? Haven't you and Michael McIntyre have got your father and I

through some tiffs, I'll tell you what. They've really put a smile on our doll. I think Graham Norton had him on and had him up about it. Oh, right, okay. The word koala derives from an Aboriginal word meaning no drink Because they get most of the moisture from the leaves Eucalyptus Remember when that fireman was giving that koala a water bottle

That was an iconic photo I donated money to that Can we just pause? How much? I donated money To the Celeste Barber cause Not Celeste Barber Was the Celeste Barber cause. No, not to Celeste Barber.

Was it Celeste Barber that raised like- It was WWF. How much? The World Wrestling Federation. I believe it was about $50. So the koalas dug themselves out of debt. They turned to wrestling. $50. It had a five in it.

So it could have been five. It could have been five. It could have been five. $15. Right. Yeah, I love koalas. Okay, well that's like two one and a half pump bottles. Hippopotamus.

That's a funny word. That literally means river horse in Greek. So they're all just horses, aren't they? Yeah, a lot of horses. Because I guess horses were the most popular sort of animals. They were very... No animals helped humans as much as horses throughout history. Raccoon.

Oh. Where do you think raccoon comes from? It comes from a Native American word meaning he scratches with his hands. Oh, because they go like this. Yeah. Before that, do you know what the English word for raccoon was? What? Wash bears. Wash bears.

Because they wash their food before they eat it. Cute. Yeah. So is that all you want? Yeah, that's good. I've really enjoyed Origin week and a half. Yeah, me too. It's been good. Me too.

What are you going to do next week? I don't know yet. Any ideas? I don't know yet. Don't make it World War II week. I was wrong about that. I could do World War II. Next week I could do World War II land,

then the week after that World War II sea, and then the week after that World War II air. There's too much World War II. There's never enough. Those men went through hell. Yeah. We deserve to. Laugh out louder

with Fletchwood and Hayley. World War II. These men went through hell. These men went through hell. So that's the end. Too much to surmise in one sentence. All of the Origins pods

will be dropping today as well in a nice little series. Oh, beautiful. Beautiful Origins pods will be dropping today as well. Oh, yeah, right. In a nice little series. Oh, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Well, I guess that's today's... Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. Oh, I just realised I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards. Well, that means the show's backwards then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse. Well, should we speak in reverse and hopefully they'll work out the other way?

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