ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 10th August 2021

Episode Date: August 9, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Grab any size McCafe coffee for only $4. Conditions apply. I've just been filling in Fletch and Megan with last night's episode of The Undatables,

which is a show I've been aware of and I've seen clips of online, but I haven't sat down and watched a full episode before, and it's ruined you, hasn't it? It was, yeah, look, it made me a bit sad at times, but it kind of made me happy. It's just very well put together because it makes you sad that somebody's going through this in life, but they're not sad about it.

No. They're just out having a great time. Trying to find love. Yeah, they're trying to find love, and they're like, hey, I haven't found anyone yet, but I'm not giving up. And I'm like, oh, my God. But then I'm like, I shouldn't be feeling sorry for these people. They don't feel sorry for themselves.

Why am I feeling sorry for them? I'm a bad person for feeling sorry for them. And then they go on the date. They've been mismatched. And then the date ends and they're like, can I get your number? Should we do this again? And then the girl said, no, I think we should just be like friends. And he's like, okay. And then i was just like it's just something when someone's shot down and it's caught

on camera and you're like yeah yeah oh it was oh but you cried i got very welled up there was one girl that really um got to me on last night's episode this monday i think you watch these on tv and z on demand It was on TV2. Right. The Undateables. She just woke up one morning. She was super sporty, loved skiing and everything, and woke up one morning and she felt funny in the legs.

Okay. And then she went and got a test and she's got a degenerative disorder. Oh, no. And that all of a sudden, that was alone. She just started explaining it and she hasn't let it stop her. She plays like ice hockey and like a sit-down sled. Oh crazy like just she was amazing yeah but just the fact that she could walk but she was a bit wobbly on her feet and that cast her as someone on the undatables i just the whole thing yeah right got to you it got to me it got me if you like undatables you need to watch love on the

spectrum on i'm i'm afraid I don't need. I like watching shows that are action-packed or funny. Yep. Or maybe a hmm every now and then a hmm, a mystery. Why? It hits you in the feels. But it's too much. I don't need it. It emotionally drains me more than anything.

Oh, sweetheart. And then I'm tired and I feel like I can't stop thinking about them and I'm wondering what they're doing. And then I'm like, oh. And then we't stop thinking about them and I'm wondering what they're doing. And then I'm like, oh. And then we were watching the show and then Sade said to me, if I leave you, you're going to have to go on this. And I said, how are they going to describe my undateability? They're going to be like, he's this grumpy old prick. Loud, obnoxious.

Yeah, but then when you try to talk to him, he goes quiet. He's a hard to explain person. And then I was like, maybe I would. And then at the end of the day, I'd be like, do you want to give me a number to do this again? Oh, let's just be friends. I'd be like, okay, fuck you. Are you coming on this show was a stupid idea.

Delete the footage. Smash the table. Delete all the footage. He takes rejection well, doesn't he? So well. Historically very well. So well. So if you need an emotional vent, give that a watch.

Thank you, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Thank you, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. A chilly start. So cold. And still, as you would have heard Ash mention, still many people without power after power cuts overnight.

Yeah, but they could still be listening to the radio as radios famously can be battery powered. Or on your phone. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. That's a big step forward in technology there. Yeah, that is, isn't it? You're dead right. And easier to, you know, have battery on your phone than it is to find D-cell batteries to power the old radio

you've got lying on your house. So obviously there were power lines down in some areas yesterday, but a little concerning that when we all turn on our haters, everything stops working. Yeah. It's like the British National Grid. Do they have this problem? Yeah, during the ad break of Coro,

because everybody walks out to the kitchen and flicks on their jug. And jugs are hydrant devices. And it can put extra strain on. Is that legit? Legitimate. Legitimate. Time for a cuppa. Time for a cuppa. First ad break in Coro.

They walk out and they all flick their jug on. And the power grid goes, hold on just a bloody second. That is wild. Well, temperatures around the country this morning. Minus three in Hamilton currently, minus one in Ototuru, New Plymouth two, Parmy the same, Wellington you're on four, Tauranga four, Auckland four.

So yeah, North Island particularly feeling it this morning. Christchurch, a barmy six. It's lovely, isn't it? Dunedin, a tropical nine. Oh, okay. Yeah. Dunedin, that must feel nice. Toasty, it'll be T-shirt with Dunedin. Chandles.

The top six coming up and the price of chickens going up. 10%. 10%. Now, why? I have the top six reasons that chicken is going up 10% in price. You know, I tell you what. Love my chicken. You will be shocked. Yeah. Right, okay. Vaughan Smith getting to

the bottom of this chicken price increase soon. Also coming up on the show today, free ride. Chance you to win these when your boring mundane bills paid off, all thanks to the movie Free Guy. So we'll give you the chance this morning at 8 o'clock and then at midday and 5.

Next on the show, though, space advertising. Yeah, the sacred space of space is no longer sacred because there's going to be advertising up there. Tell you how that'll all work next. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Space, the final frontier. Yeah. The final frontier to have advertising advertising as it turns out as well so i thought and my infinite would still want to read the headline because it said that it was going to involve spacex and that um what's that

starling starling the thing that goes across that i still haven't seen the satellites i still haven't and that, what's that? Starlink. Starlink. The thing that goes across that I still haven't seen. The satellites. I still haven't seen it. I still haven't seen it. But you've got the app, hey? No. Yeah, you sign up. I know there's a website.

But every time I was like, these are the times you can see it in the next week. It's like 2.37am, 3.12am, 11.57. Hey, a beer. I'm like, eh. And none of the times were like 8.57. Hey, a beer. I'm like, eh. And none of the times were like 8.30. I was like, well, it's too late now. It's pretty wild, eh?

I feel like at this point you'll be underwhelmed, though. No, everybody says that it's still pretty spooky to see it arcing across the sky. Just knowing that it's man-made. So I was of the understanding that because there's more of those launching all the time, it's going to be like an internet-provided net in the sky. Yeah, well, I think even people have signed up for the trial in New Zealand.

You sign up, get the box, and you get internet from the sky. I thought it was going to be this advertising. I thought that'll line up and it would say like Pepsi and it would just go across the sky. Now, that was my immediate thought. What, like dots? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know how, did you see, was it the Olympics or, it happened at the same time as the Olympics, but it might've been in China.

Those drones that formed a QR code in the sky. Oh, was it the inauguration, the Biden-Harris inauguration, they had drones that spelt stuff out? Well, they can do that now. So that's what I was thinking, except it would be in space, so you could see it from everywhere. Pepsi, and it would just be like a dot matrix printer.

Or like when the plane drags something behind it, you just put a banner behind Starlink. It has to be a big ass banner. It's a huge reflective banner. So they've announced that the space advertising is coming. It's not that. How's it working? So there's something called a geometric,

the GEC is building a CubeSat. Now this does space research. Yeah. And it orbits Earth and it does a whole lot of space stuff. Now, it's going to have a small screen on it, and then out from that screen, there's going to be a selfie stick with a camera. That camera, via Starlink, the internet provider,

will stream that the entire time on Twitch or YouTube. It's a live stream from space effectively. Right. And in the bottom right-hand corner, you buy that pixel of that screen I was talking about, you buy advertising space on that. Oh. Which seems like, why not just add it later?

On-screen graphic. Yeah. Yeah, because it would look nicer, right? Yeah. But then you can't say your ad is in space, which it actually is. And you've got to pay for it with cryptocurrencies. This is the advertising space. So what, like major giant corporations are going to have to get into cryptocurrency to pay the advertising bills?

Yes. Or pay real money to somebody who will then buy it with their cryptocurrency. So it will just be in the bottom part of the screen of this live stream space. Do they have like advertising rates? Like could anybody do this? Is this something we could do with our advertising budget for the year?

We might use it all up pretty quick. Yeah, but I'd be all for using it up just for that. I'm definitely watching that live stream. I'd just waste the time watching that. It launches in 2022. It's on the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. So that's Elon's tie-in.

It's dropping it off in its orbit. And then it'll go... Yeah. Until it's in the right place. Like George Clooney did with the fire extinguisher. Gravity. Sweet spot. And then they stop. By the fire extinguisher. Yeah. Sweet spot. And then they stop.

Yeah. By the way, do you know what those are? No. They're just those little things in your kitchen that squirt every seven minutes to get rid of the flies. Yeah. Well, then what happens when the battery runs out up there? Well, hopefully you're in the right place by then.

Yeah. You've only got a few. Before your can runs out. So then that rocket is carrying on to the moon. Oh, okay. Yeah. And do we still get to watch it when it does that? Or is it...

No, because the camera's attached to the thing it drops off. Oh, it's dropping it off. Yeah. So... Well, that's exciting. There's advertising in space. That's how they're doing that. That's pretty cool.

Hmm. So that's the bottom of the sea now. It's the only place. Mind you, there's probably some old billboards or something that just got washed away in some torrential flood that's on the bottom of the sea floor now. 13 minutes past six. Next on the show, somebody, one of us,

has been linked with a central city explosion. Whoa. Who? Megan. Is on the watch list now. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Now someone else who might be locked up for life, our very own Carl Peter Fletcher,

who yesterday intrinsically linked to a Central Auckland explosion. I had nothing to do with this explosion. Our building here at NZME HQ was rocked. Rocked by an explosion. Now, I believe Executive Antonania, your boyfriend, Mr Bun Buns, heard this explosion and rushed to the scene outside work here. Indeed. It really shows.

Indeed? I wasn't here. There we go. It really shows the quality of a man's character. If he hears an explosion, there's a midi reaction, and he ran to help. He ran like a hero. I will say the only reason we didn't run to the explosion is because we're in the Soundproof studio and didn't hear it.

Yeah, he couldn't believe we didn't hear it. I would have run out there. Yeah, so him and his boss went down. For those that don't know, he works at Driven, a motor magazine. Club.ed. And so knows a thing or two about motors and batteries. So they said, guys, step

aside. We might be able to assist. We're women looking, were they? Step aside, women. I'm familiar with motor and battery. Yeah, and I believe that there were a few people, yeah, standing around and they offered their assistance and they said no thanks.

It was a beam scooter that had exploded. Yeah. One of the purple ones, which, yes, I do ride to work on e-scooters. And every morning. That's your link. It dragged your fat ass up the street. You put such a strain on the battery. Hey.

Okay. Please get off me. It's like two hours late. No, because it happened like what? I always arrive at work at like five. Yeah. So when was this explosion? Nine?

Six, seven, eight, nine. Nine. So that's four hours later. It could have been someone else's scooter. It could have been, yeah. It could have been. I guess we'll never know. But in the meantime, it is going to be something I won't forget.

And every time we take an electric scooter, I'm going to pad it. And I'm going to be like, it'll be okay. Don't believe the rumours he didn't purposely kill another of your kind. But Simon, lucky that you weren't on it. I think someone was on it. Did you see all the shrapnel? No. There was battery juice.

Oh, my God, not battery juice. No, that stuff will eat through your T-shirts. It's called battery acid. Yeah, battery acid. I carried Michael back science fair to the car at Intermediate, and he had a car battery, and someone had loosened one of the tops. And I got battery acid down my legs at Intermediate. Did you get it on your T-shirt or any of your clothes?

No, it made grey uniform shorts. Stripped the colour straight out of them and took all the hair off my leg. Veet? Don't though. You were veeting at a young age. I just had this streak down the front of no hair down my shin. And the teacher was like,

I was like, I spilled the battery juice on me. And the teacher was like, oh my God. And like washed it off immediately. But oh wow. Yeah. Never forgave Michael Beck for that.

Look at this. 27 years later. Let it go Vaughn. Let it go, Vaughan, let it go. Next on the show, the top six, and this is sad news for consumers. Bad news, a 10% price rise in chicken. Not chucking. Not chucking. I've got the top six reasons there's a 10% price rise in chucking.

All right, the top six reasons there's a 10% price rise in chukka. All right, the top six next. From the sophisticated Z-Enzyme tank, this is the top six. Hello there. The price of chicken going up 10%. What have you got? Graphic of chicken prices. I've got the actually born year. Funny you mentioned that. I've got the retail price of chicken breast index in New Zealand.

Who knew this was an index? Yeah, so. What a fascinating look. And I had no idea, but 2014 Chukkan was real expensive in New Zealand. It was $17 a kg. For chicken breast? Yeah, compared to now, $7.

Has thigh taken the mantle of... Has it gone up in price? I think that's just what they index the price of. Wow. It's probably the most popular, even though it's not the nicest. It's the driest part of the chicken. I like the...

What one do I like? The thigh. The thigh. The thigh is the absolute best. Yeah. 100%. Well, yeah, lots of reasons it's going up. But yeah, apparently New Zealand's consumption of red meat was dropping.

Poultry grew 18% in the 10 years to 2020. And since then, another 33% to 2020. So we're eating more chicken? Yeah. I thought we were supposed to be eating less meat. Yeah. Chicken's not meat. It's white flesh.

Okay. I mean, that's a technicality. Delicious white flesh. I've got the, that's a technicality. Delicious white flesh. I've got the top six reasons chicken is going up 10%. Okay. Think about this next time you're tucking into some delicious white flesh. Number six, chickens wanted the living wage. And it's unbelievable that for a moment you would deny a living thing the living wage.

If it's good enough for a government employee, why isn't it good enough for a chicken? Yeah. Filling out their tax forms and, you know, contributing to society as they do. Number five, and they're not living for that long, so we can afford to pay for it. Number five on the list of the top six reasons chicken is going up 10%.

You guys seen how expensive petrol is? Yeah. You expect chickens not to pass on that cost to the consumer? They're supposed to take that hit? As they're driving their Toyota Corolla on the way to be murdered to be prepared for you to eat? That's very selfish. That's very selfish.

I don't think they drive themselves there. They do. That's why the cost of petrol contributes to the... Have you never seen chickens driving a car? No, not a Corolla. They have to use Fastlane, though, because they can't jump up to the... Have you never seen chickens driving a car? No, not a Corolla. They have to use Fastlane, though, because they can't jump up to the machine and swap there. Do they carpool, or are they having one car per chicken?

Well, that's an issue. That's an issue. They should be. If there's T2, get there faster. They should take the gas as well, but they don't. That would save them a lot of money, and the carbon footprint would be down. Number four on the list of the top six reasons Chicken is going up 10% in price

Do you guys know how much a McChicken costs? And it's the only thing they'll eat at McDonald's No It's called a McChicken because it's chicken's favourite burger Yeah That's why it's called a McChicken Yeah And that's the only thing they'll eat

Yeah They will do chicken nuggets every now and then The nugget Enjoyed by chicken Again, that's why it's they'll eat. They will do chicken nuggets every now and then. The nugget, enjoyed by chicken. Again, that's why it's called a chicken. Okay. McNugget. Number three on the list of the top six reasons chicken is going up 10%. The increased price of health care and health insurance.

Do you know how hard it is for a chicken to get health insurance? Are they not covered by the system? No. In ACC. Oh, okay. No, they're not covered by the public system, which is disgusting in itself. It is, yeah. But yeah, they're like, hi, I'd just like to set up a health insurance policy.

Oh, fantastic. What do you do for a job? I'm a chicken. Oh, really? How old are you? I'm one year old. Ooh, your premium is going to be

through the roof. Any pre-existing conditions? Yeah, I'm likely to get my head cut off soon. Oh, my God. And my feather is torn from my body and my feet removed.

Ooh, look, I just don't think we can insure you. No, that'd be right. That'd be right. Classic. Number two on the list of the top six reasons chicken is going up 10%. The cost of clothing has increased.

You guys think feathers are free? Think again. Yeah. Think again. And number one on the list of the top six reasons the price of chicken is going up 10%. Chicken housing prices have gone through the roof lately. It's so hard to be a first home chicken home house buyer.

They just want somewhere to lay eggs and raise a family. Before being swiftly murdered and eaten by us. So think about that. That's why the prices have gone up. You bad, bad people.

That is today's top six. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Contemporary NZ has released the results of a study where they tested 28 household cleaners. Some of them, they said, you may as well be using water to clean your house. Oh, God. That's not good news,

especially when you buy the fancy bottle. I've been paying $6 per trigger bottle of, for effectively water. Yeah. So they tested these by applying them to a PVC sheet covered in greasy soil, following the manufacturer's instructions and then using a mechanical arm to clean the sheet. And they were then ranked from terrible don't buy to excellent. A mechanical arm to clean the sheet like a robot.

Why didn't they? Is that so that it was the same? So you've got a rubber sheet and a mechanical arm. Sounds like a good Friday night to me. So there's a list of products, 28. We probably don't need to go through the whole 28, but it's quite shocking. So are these like your spray bottle, your trigger bottles?

Mostly trigger bottles, but in there it does feature like a cream cleaner. So like a Jif situation. All right, you got the Hif that time, didn't you? Jif. Yeah, the parallel imported Jif. You got the Hif. So do you want to know like the top ranking ones first? Okay, yeah, go.

So ones that are ranked excellent included Mr. Muscle disinfectant. I've got to Google these because I don't know what ones we've got, but I know what the bottles look like. Okay. Mr. Muscle. Do you always get the same ones each time or do you branch out? Mr. Muscle, the all-purpose. Oh, we don't have that one.

It's an Orange Bots. Yep, that is one of the top ones. Also in there is a Value Brand Lemon Cream Cleaner. Is that like a budget jiff? Value, is that the New World? Yeah, that's the New World. That's just like a lemon jiff, but it's bougie. That's $2.49.

You're not putting that on your bench, are you? To clean up after your dinner. No. Okay. And then just an orange multi-purpose spray is another one of the top ones. So non-branded. That's a value brand. Oh, another value.

Oh, wow. Okay. There's values coming out of this pretty good. Yeah. That's $3.70. So those are the top performers under excellent. God, what's in this stuff though, eh? If it's cutting through this like grease. I mean, that's what you want though.

Yeah. Yeah. So the products that were ranked terrible, and they literally on the study say terrible, don't buy. Wow. I wouldn't want to work for Consumer New Zealand. You'd go home and your brakes would be cut. Yeah, bye.

In the car park. No, you can't say that. No. Who cut their brakes? I've bought all of these. All three of these. Really? Okay.

So listed as terrible amongst the household cleaners was Ajax Spray and Wipe. Oh, I've bought that one too. But it had that jingle in the 90s. Ajax Spray and Wipe. Spray and Wipe. Oh, I've bought that one too. But it had that jingle in the 90s. Ajax Spray and Wipe. Spray and Wipes a breeze. Cause it cuts through toughest grease. Now the kitchen's got it sparkling clean and the buyer's very keen. Say thank you.

Do, do, do. Oh my God. Wow. There was a longer version. She wakes up. They had the party. They had blew out. Yeah.

I forgot about that jingle. Yeah. Also, where was the husband cleaning up in that? Yeah, right? He was dead. He was in the pool. That's why she put the pool cover on for the open home. She couldn't get him out in time. Oh, my God.

That explains it then. Yeah, that'll do it. Also, listen. Oh, I found the Ajax brown wipe jingle from the 90s. Oh, so this is Tape Direct Love TV coming in hot after a Sterling Sports ad which is saying, home of New Zealand's best sport, we have FPOS. So that's giving you an indication of how long ago this was.

You ready? Yeah. Go. Got a call from Mr Fryer. He's springing round the buyer. The kitchen looks a fright from that little do last night. Although I thought quite sickly, I have to clean it quickly. With spray and wipe all purpose, I clean up every surface.

Spray and wipes a breeze. Because it cuts through toughest grease. The kitchen's sparkly clean. The buyer's very keen. So thank you. Spray and wipe. Agent spray and wipe. Oh, my God. That's still in there. Isn thank you. A Jack Spray and Wine. Oh my god. That's still in there.

Isn't that weird how it's just like... Still there. Takes you right back. My husband was there by the way. He was carrying out rubbish and stuff. He was the one in line. Well does his bench look streaky because Consumer NZ would disagree with that. Well these people have already bought this house.

It's probably riddled with bacteria. Other terrible performers is Detol Cleaning Spray. We just started buying that because of the pandemic. Isn't that what we use around here? There's a Detol bottle

around here. Yeah, I'm sure Detol aren't struggling after this global pandemic with their sales. And Eco Store Multi-Purpose Cleaner. Oh, no.

Also listed under terrible. Oh, no. That's you, isn't it? No, I don't use that one. I forget which one I've got at the moment. But everyone's got lesser expectations of ones that are apparently good for the environment, eh? Do you think? Yeah.

I don't know if it's like, no, it's all natural, baby. I'm like, you're going to do a shit job. But Greta's bloody eyeballing me. Greta keeps tweeting. Where's baking soda on the list? Baking soda and vinegar. Just plain ass baking soda. They needed to do baking soda

with the mechanical arm. And the greasy towel. The greasy wrap. And the mechanical arm. And baking soda. It always blows my mind how well that cleans things. Yeah, Consumer NZ have the full list. Yeah, if you want always blows my mind how well that cleans things. Yeah, Consumer NZ have the full list. Yeah, if you want to check that out.

Yeah. 28 products on there. Oh, God. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Auckland International Airport had plans to change stuff up pre-pandemic and then that happened

and they're like, oh, just, you know. Don't. Shh. Don't worry about it. Have you had friends that have gone through the airport? Yeah, and sent photos of how eerie and quiet it is. It's weird.

Yeah. Like a ghost airport. Not like the old days. No. Families running, mum saying, where are the passports? We've left them at home. All of that sort of madness. But there were plans for another runway.

Yeah, that's right. It was going to be called the Northern Runway. There's a whole lot of plans in place, but one of the ones was the changing of the current domestic terminal. So that's the one that's getting the most use at the moment. Yeah. With Kiwis flying all around the country. The ones leaving Auckland or coming to Auckland. The domestic terminal.

The new plan, and it's going to take some years for it all to be completed, but is to merge the domestic terminal with the end of the international terminal. Okay. And that's where the jets will park. So if you're flying to another major centre in New Zealand that you fly on a jet, your Queenstowns, your Christchurches, your Wellingtons. Yep. That's it, eh?

Dunedin. Invercargill. Yeah, the one a day, right? All the way to Invers. A couple of those a week. Yeah. So that will be a different place to what I believe will remain the terminal for the planes. That's actually what Air New Zealand refer to them as.

Yeah. Just down at that gate. The whirly birds. The prop-driven whirlies. Yep. The whirly ones. So, yeah, that will be, it looks like from the plans, I'm looking at two domestic terminals.

But, again, this is a long way in the future. I don't know if you guys know, but it's not sort of a priority. Yeah, right. But now would be a great time to do it because these people. These people are using it. Yeah. Yeah. But there's a whole lot of plans for the area.

But then are they still going to have a Krispy Kreme? Because, you know, it wouldn't be a flight to Christchurch without. Eight Krispy Kremes. Eight, you know, 400 containers of Krispy Kremes. Yeah, eight Krispy Kreme? Because, you know, it wouldn't be a flight to Christchurch without eight, you know, 400 containers of Krispy Kremes. Yeah, eight Krispy Kremes. Yeah, good. There's two Krispy Kremes now.

So one end of the airport you have self-control and then you've got to do it all again down the other end. You're like... You duck and dive. Okay.

Get it away from me! What do I can't? I can't stop myself from popping into that shirt shop. Why is there a shirt? Is it for people that spill stuff on their business shirt? Yeah, I reckon it's for business dudes.

It's for business dudes. But I never see anyone buying a shirt there. You can get a couple of shirts. Isn't there something like a deal? Three guys. I don't know. Three brothers. Three wise brothers.

Three wise men? Yeah, three wise men shirts. Three wise guys. But you never see anyone in there buying a shirt, except for the wise guys that are like, hey, I need a shirt. I'm going to see the big boss, and you don't want me to look my best.

I'm a wise guy. That's why I come to three wise guys. It's me. I think it's three wise men. Yeah. That's a bit sexist. They sell man shirts. Women can wear man shirts. gay. It's me. I think it's three wise men. Yeah. That's a bit sexist. They sell man shirts. Women can wear

man's shirts. Women can wear them. Play ZM's Flesh Fawn and Megan. This man was thirsty in the middle of the night. The story comes to us from Reddit and he was woke up in the middle of the night, wanted a drink.

Didn't want to turn the light on or anything. Just reached over to the bedside table where he would usually keep his glass of water. And he grabbed a round glass container, like vessel, and proceeded to drink the contents of this glass vessel. But it wasn't water. He drank candle wax. I've always, ever since Homer Simpson did it, in an episode of The Simpsons, because he wanted to eat the hottest chilli,

and so he coated his mouth with candle wax. I've always wondered what it would be like to have a mouth full of candle wax. It would be horrible. Horrible. Have you ever accidentally eaten wax? Yeah. How have I?

Or like honeycomb? Yeah, honeycomb. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You accidentally eat the wax? It's horrible. Yeah. But honeycomb always just gets caught in your teeth. Chilling.

But I'm imagining what your whole mouth would be like, coated. But how did he accidentally? You'd feel the flame. You'd see the flame, wouldn't you? So he said, I woke up groggy and very thirsty in the middle of the night. In the darkness, I reached my nightstand and I grabbed the first round thing I could find. It just so happened to be the candle on a warmer. So, you can get a candle warmer where it's like heated on the bottom or like a little

lampy situation on the top. So, it gently melts the candle and lets the scent out rather than having like an open flame. So he wasn't sleeping with a flame going. Does that make your candle last way longer? It does. Because you go through a coir as like a beaver through a pine tree, don't you?

I'm nearly out. And you get a lot. I'm running them really low. Don't do that. I know. Have you ever thought of taking all your dregs and making a super aquea? Just to see what it smelled like.

Go into Spotlight or whatever and buy yourself a long candle wick. Like a licorice for all sort of candles. Yeah, and you'll be like, pine. And then French pear. And you leave the room and you come back and you be like, pine. And then French pear. And you leave the room and you come back and you're like. Just buy a new one.

Vanilla. Quiver and lychee sorbet. Yeah. How great would that be? A candle that then, like, once the wax melts, I suppose. And then you could end up with some hideous concoction, couldn't you? Like all lovely individuals. It's like felts.

Yeah. You know, like all the colors themselves are great. Felt candle. And then you could end up with some hideous concoction, couldn't you? Like all lovely individuals. It's like felts. Yeah. You know, all the colors themselves are great, but mix them and it's just brown. Yeah. So I wonder if this makes your candles last longer. It does. I've never heard of these things ever. It does make them last longer.

So that would be why you get like those little wax melts as well. Yeah, right. Which I work. And so he accidentally drinks this. This is a man. This is in the UK, right? Yeah. In case you're wondering, it was sweet rosemary vanilla candle wax that he drank.

And he drinks it. He said, I spit it out, but not before it coated my teeth in the roof of my mouth. Scraping all that off was annoying. Yeah, because what would you gargle your mouth with? Semi-hot water? Or just like pick it off. He's lucky he didn't like burn. As hot as you could, right, to get it.

Yeah. Blister your mouth or anything. But he didn't say that there was any major injuries. Right. But we're kind of opening ourselves up here. But what did you actually drink? Could have been in the middle of the night. Could have been sitting on your bed.

Yeah, I love these stories. What did you accidentally drink? I don't imagine we're going to get a candle. I like how he said, what did he say? Groggy and very dry. So he woke up after like, he woke up at like past four. He's hungover, right? After getting in at like two o'clock.

Yeah, yeah, he's a mess. And accidentally drinks candle wax instead of his water. So 0800DARLS.M, we'll open up the phone lines now. You can text as well, 9696. What did you accidentally drink? All right, give us a call. We would love to know what you accidentally drank after a man woke up in the middle of the night

and grabbed his melted candle and guzzled that sweet rosemary vanilla candle. Got a mouthful before he realised it was candle, not water. Had to pick that off in the middle of the night. So what have you accidentally drank? We want to hear from you this morning. Becca, this was your brother. Yeah, morning.

Yeah, so I was about 14 and it was the time of like wool shed parties. So I grabbed a opaque plastic drink bottle and I went to my parents liquor cabinet and just filled it up with

straight whiskey, port, gin, vodka. What you made there was some rocket fuel. I made some

rocket fuel. How good was a wool shed party if you were partying in the park, if you were going to

spew, you could spew on the slat floors with a sheep stand where they're waiting to get shorn and you could partying in the park? If you were going to spew, you could spew on the slat floors with a sheep stand where they're waiting to get shorn and you could just go through the gaps. Oh, so good. Yeah, right.

Okay. So good. Easy clean. So anyway, yeah, I had my rocket spill. I think it was actually in my school drink bottle, like a branded school drink bottle, and left it on our kitchen bench. And at the time, my brother was training for the Taupo Ironman. And he came back from, like, a huge run,

and it was in the heat of summer, because I think the Ironman's in February, potentially. Yeah. Anyway, and I sort of just at the time turned around and was like, no, no, no. And he just took a huge swig of this burning rocket fuel. And, yeah. Did he spit it out or swallow it?

Oh, he spat. Wow, you'd get an absolute shock, eh? Better that than he grabbed that drink bottle and he set off on his bike and he was 30 k's into his bike. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not that bad, but yeah, pretty bad. Amazing, Becca. Thank you for your call.

Kennedy, what happened? Hi. So we were, it wasn't actually me, it was my friend. We were camping up in Taupo Bay. Yep. And he may have had a few too many to drink, and instead of grabbing his water, he grabbed the glass that was full of cigarette ash.

Oh! So many people have said that. Yuck. Yeah. Cans and bottles that they, like, pick up and they can feel weight in it, and they tip it back, and it's full of, like, ciggy butts. Yeah. That's yuck.

Full mouthful and everything. Oh, that's a... That's auck Full mouthful and everything Oh that's Blah blah blah Blah blah Kennedy thanks for your call Some messages in I accidentally drank Disinfectant

When I was a kid My dad was the head coach For the under 21 soccer team So if somebody like Fell over and got a graze Or whatever He had a pump bottle full Of disinfectant

To like squirt on And I thought it was Yummy green juice So into it I I thought it was yummy green juice. So I went to what I got. It was not yummy green juice. No, yummy green juice at all. Stacey, what did you accidentally drink? When I was four, I drank baby shampoo.

I thought it was juice. And I ended up hiccuping bubbles. Oh, that's the cutest outcome ever. Did your parents take photos or videos of you hiccuping bubbles? Oh, that's the cutest outcome ever. Did your parents take photos or videos of you hiccuping bubbles? No, they didn't. Oh, amateur. I know. Amateur hour.

I mean, they were probably quite concerned about the situation. They were. It's two times appearance. On the phone to poison hotline rather than just taking photos for Instagram. Exactly. Stacey, thanks for your calls and messages. I went as a kid. I thought it was juice.

We didn't really have juice in our house, so I decided to quickly take the lid off and have a skull of it. It was cooking oil. Oh, yuck. Would that run right through you? Yeah, you'd have the runs. When I was young, apparently mum wasn't watching, I reached for a glass of black liquid thinking it was a drink.

I drank it. It was sewing machine oil. I thought you were going to say Sambuca. They're all right though, obviously. Texan us. Somebody said, I once grabbed it. I made myself a coffee at the same time that my partner was making gravy. That's tickled, yeah.

Walked past the bench, grabbed the cup of gravy, sat down on the couch and was like, look, look, look, gravy. I'm drinking gravy. Would you carry on? I wouldn't be too mad about it. I would if you ever sat down and had some gravy. It's yum. I could eat a cup of gravy.

Totally. Everyone's all into bone broth for their gut health. You guys ever sat down to had some gravy? It's yum. I could eat a cup of gravy. Totally. It's like everyone's all into bone broth for their gut health. Have you guys ever sat down to a good cup of gravy? It's delicious. It'll get you. It's good stuff. I'm hearing a lot of talk about house prices being out of control. Yes.

It's all anybody can talk about. How hard it is to get into the housing market. It's insane. Well, about. How hard it is to get into the housing market. It's insane. Well, what about buying spookers? Okay. I don't think you need to keep the house, but you could move in. And you could rent out all the rooms and have heaps of other flatmates. There's 40 rooms.

$100 a week each room? Yep. Okay. You're looking at, how much is that? $40 times $100? $40,000 $100 $4,000 Yeah

Boom Boom Right Easy peasy You got yourself I think you'll be struggling To find flatmates For an old

Lookalike of paint You'll be right Yeah right Okay Spookers is for sale From what I can see It's the business It's not actual

King Seat Hospital Where it's based Which is sitting on a bit of land. It must be worth a fortune. Right. Is there the cornfield too? Because it's a former Yeah, you've got a

crop on hand. It's a former psychiatric hospital. Isn't it? Is that what King Seat was? King Seat was a psychiatric hospital considered one of

New Zealand's most notorious haunted locations with over a hundred claims of apparitions being reported. It's in Karaka though. That's a hot, that is a hot suburb.

Karaka. That's your horse money out there, baby. Big sprawling mansions. Big bucks, yeah. But so what, the business is for sale, so you just take over the business. Correct. Right. How much, does it say how much it is?

I did say in this article how much they were after. I think they were talking in the vicinity of $300,000. Okay. $25,000 a week turnover, they reckon. You get a lot of staff on hand, though. And they're the artistic type. Very hard to employ. What does that mean?

The artistic type. They're performers. Not unlike yourself. Not unlike yourself. Very hard. And I'm a goddamn nightmare to have as an employer. I'll admit it. You are.

You're a problem employer. All over the show. Can't concentrate. Easily distracted. Constantly texting your bosses. Yeah. Making a scene. Wanting attention.

Bingo, bingo, bingo. Imagine 140 of me running around dressed as zombies and pirates and what else did they dress up as? Tax collectors. Didn't you wet yourself at Spookers? So... Did you get the T-shirt? Because you wet your pants, you get a T-shirt.

I made it to the first room. And you know how they tell you beforehand if you really don't like something, you can put your hands up and say no. Stop. Stop. Because I've never been, but for those that haven't been or don't know what spookers is,

it's the, like you say, the performers there, their job is to scare you, right, in this old hospital. They're all dressed up. Yeah,

there's multiple different rooms. There's also the corn maze where they chase you with a chainsaw blade off, but still, no less terrifying. They can still touch you with a hot exhaust.

No less terrifying. Yeah. But you can, you're given the option at the start to put your hands up and say that you don't like it. And I was one of those people in the first room, and they turn the lights on and stop, and they escort you out. And I was crying. I was like, no, I don't like it.

What was that room's theme? Because all the rooms have like, was it the nurse one? No. Was it the nurse? Is there a, because I had my eyes closed a lot. I think he might have had like a pig mask on. But I remember like. This is the room where we kept pig boy.

And Megan's like, I'm out. No, thank you. Pig boy's too much for me. A rubber knife like tapping me on the leg. And I was like. And that was you. You were done. much for me. A rubber knife like tapping me on the leg and I was like. And that was you. You were done. I was out.

So I had to go out because I didn't get in very far. They have exit points. I didn't get in far enough. I had to go out the way everyone was lining up to get in. Oh, and they could see. I had to go back past everyone. And did they give you a refund? No.

You're in now, baby. You're in. Good. I don't think you deserve a refund. Definitely not. Yeah. But I mean, that's a tribute to how scary it is. Well, nah. You're in now, baby. You're in. Good. I don't think you deserve a refund. Definitely not. Yeah, but I mean, that's a tribute to how scary it is. Well, there you go. Well, you could buy it and shut it down.

No! No! It's holy moly, moly, moly, moly, holy moly, moly, moly. Come on! Um, just that intro there. Yeah. Um, Limp Bizkit. Yeah.

Cover of Limp Bizkit. Did you see Fred Durst recently? Yeah, he played at Lollapalooza. Did you see what he looked like? Yes. Weird. A lot of people wanting to know his skin routine as well. Like a 70s cop.

Yeah. But like this big grey handlebar moustache and he was wearing like a pair of comfortable slacks. Yeah. He had lovely skin still. And a windbreaker. People were mentioning his skin. Yeah, that was. Yeah, skin did look nice.

Skin did look nice. You know, I don't think he's afraid of a little bit of moisturiser. Doesn't shy away from it. Yeah, weird to see

a 50-year-old man rapping, isn't it? Is it? It's going to become, I tell you what, as bands from the 90s and 2000s age, it's

probably going to become more and more prevalent to see a 50-year-old man. How old's Eminem now? I want to say 43.

45? No, he is 48. 48. So there you go. In two years, you're going to see a- About to be 49 in October. Well, then just over a year- Eminem is 50 next year.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. When they get into the middle, the chocolate's going to be a bit white. You know when chocolate gets old? Yeah, I know that. I see what you were doing. Hold on, let me fully explain it.

No. No, no, this is how jokes work best. When the person who says it waits for everyone to react, gets nothing, and then fully explains why that was a good. I was Googling how old 50 Cent. 46. I could have sworn that he was older than Eminem. All these 90s rappers in like...

Oh, no, it's still a little way away until they start getting the pension. Snoop's got to be mid-50s. 49. Oh, he looks there. He's lived though. He doesn't have the skin care. Maybe we should do a competition. How old is this rapper?

How old is this rapper? And you buzz in. Jay-Z. 51. Jay-Z's 51? Yeah, I believe it. He's been around for a long time. Drake.

Wow. Drake's like 38. Little Wayne's 38. This is a fun game. What, Drake? How old do you think he is? 38. He's younger.

He is 34. Ooh. Two, Drake, how old do you think? He's younger. He is 34. Ooh! Two-pack secure. Dead. Okay, no, but he was like, in 1996, he'd be 51. I feel so alone. 71 he was born, yeah. Anyway, Polly Moly, it's the relationship.

Romance edition. By the way, gone too soon. Yeah. That's right Polly Molly The romance edition We asked you a series Of questions about

Your romance Your PDA Etc We first asked How romantic are you? Sliding scale Zero to ten Zero being

Not romantic Or ten being The most romantic Sickening person That no one can go out with Like Megan You're too much Me

Do you think New Zealand Is as a whole a romantic? Nah Nah The most romantic, sickening person that no one can go out with. Like Megan. You're too much. Me. Do you think New Zealand is as a whole a romantic? Nah. Nah. Nah, we're not like the French. Italians. Oh, yeah, right. Okay.

Average answer, five out of ten. Yeah. They all consider themselves right in the mid-mark. I just went ten out of ten. And. I'm pretty romantic. We asked how romantic is your partner. And. I'm pretty romantic. We asked how romantic is your partner? Okay.

10. As our next question. And. Donate the player. People rated their partners lower than themselves. As it got three out of 10. Oh, really? It got three out of 10. That's real sad.

Five out of 10 self-rating. Three out of 10 towards the partner. Our Instagram for the insights is femaleskewed. Yep. So we're, you know, taking that into account. Females consider themselves more romantic than their male partners on a whole. Okay. Do you and your partner have the same love language?

You can find out your love language. You just Google, like, what is my love language? That's right. Do you remember? We did this. What was my one again? Acts of service? Or time?

Wasn't it time spent? Yeah, time spent, I think, was yours. Yeah. Whereas Megan's like, give me gifts. No, mine isn't gift giving. Give me gifts. Yours is materialistic. No.

Mine's the touch one. Do you and your partner Have the same love language? No 74% of people said no Nah 26% said yes That would be rare wouldn't it

That's the whole point You've got to know Your partner's love language And make sure you're Working towards it If you both had The same love language Would you

Would it not work as much Because Like you like tickles But they're like I want tickles I mean this is But that's not a love language that's touch though

isn't it that's touch what's yours and Sade's hers is spending money and mine is chickens everything else chickens

yes farm animals chickens farm animals paddock time yeah and using pet names in public yes or no?

65% of people said yes, they will use their pet names in public. Really? 35% said no. If you were at the supermarket, would you use Mr. Toyboy's pet name in front of other people? No, I don't think I would. I don't know if I would. What is your pet name for Mr. Toyboy? Schnookums.

Here's a few. Okay, run through them. Like, we call each other Baby Booze. I don't know why. Oh, my God. I think Executive Interdict just bombed in her mouth a little bit there. Okay, Mr. Bun Buns. Okay, Bun Buns.

Mr. Bun Buns has a cute nickname. So does Baby Booze. No. You're right. You're right. I'm over here in my glass house. Okay. I can recognise that.

Open the window and throw us down. Open the door. Okay. So what else? I don't want to say because you always hassle me about it. He's also swirly. I get Miggy Booze. There's a few.

He's trying desperately Not to give me shit He is You're doing that thing Where you're biting him He's strigging Okay pal You and Sade

Call each other pal Mate No I call her mate It was that on the front I was like Sade You called her mate Five times I was like

She's my mate Oh I hate being called mate. Sharts is her other name. Yeah, I love it. I've asked her, what do you prefer, sharts or mate?

She's like, well, I suppose mate will do. Well, then we asked, what is the pet name for your partner? 65% of people

will use it in public. I don't know if I said that. 35% won't. What is your pet name for your partner? Prawn Cheeks. No explanation provided. Prawn Cheeks. Come on, Prawn Cheeks. Prawn Cheeks. Prawn Cheeks. Prawny. Prawn cheeks. No explanation provided. Prawn cheeks.

Come on, prawn cheeks. Prawn cheeks. Prawny. Prawn cheeks. Prawn cheeks. Where would they come from? The colour of their cheeks. Prawn-like?

Yeah, maybe. Or maybe they, after a first date, had a bit of prawn on their cheeks. How bad are you at eating prawns if it's on your cheek? Dill. That's pretty cute. Someone said there's a random one, but dill. But it's got like a little before the D. So is it something dill?

Like is it a shortening of dill? Dilly. Hmm? Basil is my partner's pen name. Basil. Then we've got dill and basil. There's a couple of herds. Yeah.

Spoon. Yeah. Maybe they're a big spoon. My friend calls her fiancee Poostain. Then we've got dill and basil. There's a couple of herds. Spoon. Yep. Maybe they're a big spoon. My friend calls her fiancé Poostain. That's a cute nickname. That's not cute. Maybe they just get marks, though. Imagine you're in the supermarket and you just hear, Poostain, grab some milk.

Yeah. And I call my partner in public by his pet name. His name is Bran, and I call him Muff. As in like Bran Muffet. It's just Muff. That's really, that is cute, yeah. Muffy! So there you go.

There's the look into public romance. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. At a station in the UK, in an effort to connect with a younger audience, is doing on-air yoga sessions. Right. And they've announced this is going to start next year. Yeah.

Why don't they just do it? I don't know. Do young people need eight months to get ready to stretch? I just Googled yoga positions and boom, I got heaps of them. Okay. I got heaps of them for a little yoga. It's not like you need to demonstrate because I can't see you. No, but I'll just say what it is.

Yeah. Right. So how is this going to work on their radio show? They're just going to what, dedicate half an hour to a yoga sesh? Right. So you'll tune in. You need like in-car yoga because a lot of people will be listening driving. Okay.

And they would find themselves stressed. Okay. Because of the traffic. But also hands on the wheel and unable to move their legs too much. Right. So you're somewhat limited to what you can do. So it is why I thought we could do facial yoga for people listening to the radio. Busy, running around, holding things.

They might have a coffee in one hand. They might be on a bus. You can't get up and do the downward dog on a... Yeah, and you'd also don't want people, if they were in their car stretching their leg too far, you might hit the accelerator. Hit the accelerator or the brake. Yeah.

Or the clutch. So if you're... I thought we could do some facial yoga. Okay. Don't close your eyes. Okay. For people in transit. So you're taking this... Do could do some facial yoga. Okay. Don't close your eyes. Okay. For people in transit. So you're taking this, do you have a name?

I'm a yogi. Most people say yogi, but I say yogurt, how my nan says yogurt. Okay. So you're a yogi. So that's a real hard yog, like a jog. Okay. So I'm a yogi. You do have your voice, maybe you might need to change your voice for this yoga class.

I will, I will. Okay. Hi, everybody. And welcome to facial yoga. A great way to start your day. Let's start with a little nose twitch. Don't laugh. If everybody just...

Sorry. Imagine there's a little mouse. I call this one the mouse nose. Imagine you're sniffing some cheese. If you're lactose intolerant, imagine you're sniffing tofu or something. I know a lot of you out there don't eat dairy products. So imagine you're a little

mouse. Three, two, one. Great work, everybody. Great work, everybody. Okay, great. Yeah, it's good. Great work, everybody. Next up, you're going to be using it a lot today for chewing and talking and holding your teeth, your jaw. So we want you to just push your jaw forward, the bottom of your jaw forward. And hold. I call this one the underbite. Hold and stretch. Hold and stretch.

You'll feel this is great. This is great, this one. Warming up your jaw. Megan, please take this seriously. I'm sorry. I apologize. While we're at the jaw, we'll move on to our next exercise. I call this one the nibble.

Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. Just lightly shatter the teeth together. Don't do that. Stop that one. Does that get you? That's not good for dentists. The quicker, the better.

Right. Imagine it's cold. It is cold. So you don't need to imagine. If you're in your car, wind down your window. Turn off that heating. And imagine you're Wim Hof, except there's no water. Okay, right. And give your teeth a quick chatter.

Don't do that one. Don't do that. Okay, next. As soon as I were in the mouth region, I called this one the doggy tongue. Okay. Like the downward dog, except for the tongue. Yeah. Poke the tongue region. Yeah. I called this one the doggy tongue. Okay. Like the downward dog except for the tongue. Yeah. Poke the tongue out.

Pull it back in. Down on the chin. Okay. So hope someone's looking at someone else in their car. Out. This time go up and try to touch the nose. And back in. This time straight out. Yep. And straight back in and then straight out nose. And back in. This time, straight out.

Yep. And straight back in and then straight out. Then straight back in. I don't think radio yoga's working. That's what everybody says on their first time at face yoga. Now, this time, 10 in and outs with the tongue, as quick as you can. Ready, and go. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan.

It has been revealed that 34% of New Zealanders have called in sick to have a lazy day off work. Right, which you call... Lazy days or do the E-days. You'd call that like a mental health day, right? Yeah, well, that's what it says. It says relaxing, recharging, getting some exercise, or binge-watching favourite TV shows.

That's low. I reckon that's, like you say, people would do it in the survey. They think it's a trap. Yeah. And they don't want to admit it. But that's got to be more than that. Especially, it was done by Sikh, who are the people that are helping people find jobs.

Oh, yeah. Now, what do you take days off for? Oh, if I can't be stuffed. I'm tired. You know, I'm a great worker, perfect person to employ. But, you know, I'll take a couple of days off every month to just chill out. So apparently the occasional lazy day was pretty good for the mental health, having a tagging one on the weekend. Having a long weekend.

But yeah, apparently 34% of New Zealanders have called in, they've said they're sick, but it's just to have a lazy day off work. And to watch like... Watch catch up on Netflix. But that's the thing. It's like when a big show comes out, I know people that have done that, called in sick because they don't want to,

like a sports game or a new season of a show and they want to be the first to watch it. They don't want any spoilers. Right. So they'll just take a day off. Annual leave though or sick day? Or sick day or both. Yeah, because if you don't use your sick days, you might get to the end of every year and

have a hole in the bag. And don't we now get more sick days? Don't we get 10 now? 10 sick days. Oh, way more shows to binge. Yeah. 10. If you don't use all of those.

Yeah. But we wanted to ask a question this morning. What have you used a sick day for? Like, what have you called in sick to do? Was it binge a show? Because it's got to be more than 34%. But this makes it sound like 34% of people will do it more than like a one-off. Yeah, right.

The question made me feel like if you did this like semi-regularly. So, yeah. But then, and like people have commented on this saying prioritizing your needs, boundaries, and well-being is very important. Oh, yeah. I'm not. You know, it's come to the forefront. Yeah, I'm not against it. Yeah.

We wonder why old mates are a ball of anxious nervousness and they have heart attacks at 50 and aneurysms and stress-related illnesses later in life. And then say, these young people don't know the value of a good day's work. Yeah. Can't even get my dad to watch Netflix on the weekend, let alone take a day off work for that.

They don't listen still, do they? No. No. Okay, so 0800DARLSATM. Yeah Can't even get my dad To watch Netflix on the weekend Let alone take a day off Work for that No No Okay so 0800 Giles at M You can text her 9696 What have you called in sick To do Whether it was

Binge a show Complete a project Get a facial No you can't That's the thing You can't go out You'll get seen You'll be seen

Unless you wear a fake Moustache or a disguise That'll definitely work That'll work Or go to another town To get your facial Wear a mask Because it's

You know That's the world we live in And some sunglasses And a different hat To what you normally wear So 0800 DALZITM 9696 Give us a call

Or a text now What did you call in sick to do? We're talking about What you've taken a sick day for That wasn't being sick 34% of New Zealanders According to the survey Have called in sick

When they weren't unwell Also something to consider 54% of Kiwis think They should be entitled To a day off each year To do nothing And 38% of Kiwis believe There should be a public holiday

Devoted to doing nothing Like a nothing Do nothing day Right but that's Isn't that the weekends? Yeah and what public holidays are for? Doing nothing? Oh we say the weekends 90% of Ghibli's believe there should be a public holiday devoted to doing nothing. Like a nothing, do nothing day. Right. Isn't that the weekends? Yeah. And what public holidays are for? Doing nothing?

Oh, we say the weekends, but we find ourselves so busy. Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. Right. Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. So we want to know what you've taken a sick day to do that wasn't actually being sick. Yeah. And I'll tell you what's a very popular one. Taking a sick day to go to another job interview. So you take the whole day off just so you can mentally prepare.

Well, you can't take half a day off. I'm sick, but I only need to be gone from lunchtime. Yeah, and then you're dressed up all flashy, and they're like, what, have you got a job interview? You're like, no. No. I pulled a sickie to sleep with my ex Says somebody else Okay

That is a sickness You couldn't have done that afterwards It's like evening Yeah It wasn't sick leave But I took two weeks annual leave When Red Dead Redemption 2 came out So I could do nothing but play that game

Oh wow That's dedication Yeah My friend and I called in sick so we could walk the dogs, bake brownies, and get a couple's massage. That is so great. That sounds like a good mental health day. Fishing, also very popular on the sick day schedule,

but then you can't put up a sick photo of that massive schnapper you caught, can you? Yeah, just put it the weekend. Yeah. Except if the weather doesn't line up. Yeah, you don't know. You're going to have to save that price for some other day. Sick leave to look after sick kids.

Well, that is a sick day, really. That's a sick day, yeah. That is sort of a sick day. I called in sick saying I had a medical appointment, but it wasn't a medical appointment. It was a hair appointment. But in my defense, it was quite a drive. That's a different line of defense entirely.

Yeah. I took a sick day, went to my friend's house. Our one-year-olds had a play date and we drank a bottle of wine. Yeah, that's a sick day. I called in sick to go skydiving. I'm very happy my parachute opened. That would have been awkward. Although the ultimate sickness.

I called in sick to take my favourite racehorse to the races. He won and I was on TV collecting him after his win. Luckily nobody saw me. I love when people get busted at sports events on sick days and they just zoom in and they're on the crowd like drunk. Brilliant.

Somebody said caught in sick to play a round of golf. Had a really great round of golf that day but obviously couldn't tell anybody. Because I said I and sick to play a round of golf. Had a really great round of golf that day, but obviously couldn't tell anybody. Yeah. Because I said I was sick. We get two days a year at my work called well-being days. They're three days off to do what you want. Absolutely no explanation required,

additional two-hour leave. That's a really good idea. I think a lot of workplaces have brought that in, haven't they? My husband called in sick so he could go play golf, but then he had a heart attack, so

I guess it was sick. Your boss can't very well tell you off, though. Rachel, what did you call in sick to do? So my cousin and I called in sick so that we could watch the Oscars when Bradley Cooper

and Lady Gaga were performing in Up for an Award. Oh, yeah, that was a moment. You just had to watch it in that moment. You couldn't watch it later. Definitely not.

We had to catch it live, be in the emotions and feel the tension between them, you know? Were you hoping that they would end up together in real life? Oh, absolutely. A hundred percent. Hasn't happened though, has it? We all thought it would end up together in real life? Oh, absolutely.

A hundred percent. Hasn't happened though, has it? We all thought it would. Remember when we thought that would happen? Turns out just really good acting. Yeah, really good at acting. Rachel, thanks for your call. Amanda, what did you call in sick to do?

I called in sick to go fishing with my buddy who had just had a baby. He had no one else to go with. Oh, so you were like... Did you take the baby? No, the baby definitely stayed home with his wife. Okay. Right. But we went fishing together.

Megan's just like, I would never let my husband go fishing with another woman. That's what she was just thinking, wasn't it? Wasn't it? Look at your face. Well, she's stuck at home with the baby. I was very... That's good for you.

I was just like, wow, okay. Well, that's like a mental health day, isn't it? Oh, totally. It's relaxing fishing. Yeah, it's not a bloody mental health day, isn't it? Oh, totally. Relaxing fishing. Yeah, not a bloody mental health day for the fish, is it? No. It's like, yeah, that's not usually around here. Thanks for your call, Amanda.

Sabrina, what did you take a sick day to do? Okay, so our whole household caught in sick when there's a new update on Fortnite. Oh, like a start of a new season or something yeah well new season or if there's a live event or anything to do with that we bring in sick and your work hasn't ever cottoned on that it coincides with fortnight updates um no but they might now i'll take you well luckily you've got a generic name like Sabrina. Don't repeat it.

You know, it's such a common name, isn't it? It doesn't stand out. It doesn't stand out at all. Thank you, Sabrina. Other messages in? I took a sick day because my boss is a bitch and I would have slapped her otherwise. Oh, that's good though. It's a mental health day.

Calm down. Every day you need one of those. You do. Yeah. All right, next on the show, Fact of the Day. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. Today's Fact of the day is about World War I, over 100 years ago now.

Yes. And it is the first French soldier to die in World War I was killed by the first German soldier to die in World War I. Oh, okay. Did they fire each other at the same time? No. Okay. That would be awkward. Bang, bang, bang.

Like, what do you call those things? Stand-offs. Yeah. Mexican stand-offs. But is that, yeah, I know you've made a face there. I don't know. I don't know. Generally when, I don't know if that's a bad.

Why it's called that. And then they just happened in Mexico. Yeah. Rather than being directly related to the people of Mexico. Yeah, I think if it happens. Megan, are you checking? Yeah. It's a recurring trope in cinema, which is why.

Westerns? Maybe that's why it's called that. Because they were filmed in yeah Mexico I can't find if it's let's just not say it until I figure it out

just yet okay that'd be great yeah cancelled by lunchtime okay so yeah they this was like in the

literally as World War I was starting there was they were patrolling the borders. They knew tensions were escalating. And Jules-Angers Peugeot, who had just invented a car.

He hadn't. But got the same name as the family who did invent the Peugeot vehicle. They were on patrol and there was a misunderstanding and a skirmish broke out and then German Cavalry Patrol Leader Lieutenant Albert Meyer killed Jules. Yeah. And then was killed himself. And then that was the day before like that World War I really escalated.

Right. Do you know the story of the last? But how did the guy die? The German guy? By somebody else. Oh, right escalated. Right. Do you know the story of the last? But how did the guy die? The German guy? Shot. By somebody else. Oh, right. Okay.

Yeah. No, it wasn't like they didn't shoot each other at the same time. Yeah, right. He was just shot. He was the first German casualty of World War I. The last French soldier to die in World War I, he died 15 minutes before the truce came into, the armistice came into effect, like the end.

Just like a retiring police detective in a came into effect. Like the end. Just like a retiring police detective in a movie. Yeah. Whose last day. I don't need this. I'm retiring in three days. Yeah. Like that. They always are.

So 11th of November. So the 11th of the 11th at 11am was when it came into effect. He was walking to tell the people, his superiors, that soup would be served for lunch. Okay. And he was on his way and he was killed just 15 minutes before the absolute end of the war. Did they know that the soup was ready? No.

No, they didn't. No, no, it wasn't ready because it was only 10.45, just before 11. He was simply telling them that soup was to be served for lunch. Oh, okay, right. But then did they find out about lunch? Well, no, lunch was an absolute mystery to them. Okay, right.

This is the most upsetting part about this. They turned up and they were like, oh. If I'd been told it was soup, I would have found an alternative. Yeah. You know, soup's not really going to hit the spot today. I'm a little hungry. Hungry, too hungry for soup. So today's fact of the day is that the first French soldier to die in World War I

was killed by the first German soldier to die in World War I. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. There has been a study, a look into, Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. There has been a study, a look into, it's called fubbing. I didn't know that. Fubbing? So you snub people to check your phone. Oh, fubbing with a P-H. Phone snubbing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Phone snubbing. And it's been linked to certain personality traits and what some are known as mental health issues. Oh, okay. So, okay, if you're going out for friends for dinner, phone in your pocket or on the table face down?

It depends on the friends. I have it out with you guys because you're on your phone all the time and you don't care. But, like, for other people, I would have it in my bag. I'd leave it in my bag. I take it as I've got to step up my game of people on their phones. Am I not being entertaining enough? And then the show starts.

Attention seeking smithy comes out. Then there's some singing and some dancing. I'm a middle child, so I'm used to a life of being ignored by my parents. We just called it being ignored growing up. There was no phones involved. They'd just walk away from me. So I knew you really had to step up your entertainment game. Yep.

Sade says it's really rude. You got your phone out and I said, well, I was bored. And she's like, they can hear you. And I said, well, they should hear me. This is the feedback they need to hear. They're boring. She can be on her phone too. Everybody can be on their phone.

Then what's the point of being together? We can tag them in a meme. And then we can discuss that meme in real life. Yeah. So let me tell you that one of the personality traits associated to this is... I don't know how to say it. You don't know how to say it? Neuroticism.

There you go. You just didn't have the confidence there, did you? It's neuroticism, actually. Neuroticism. Neuroticism. No, it's neuroticism. I've said it right. You've said it wrong.

I'm going on my phone. No. Keep warming. But we're glazing over the worst offender in the room. Old Mr. Do you ever have your phone in your pocket? Does it depend on the company you keep? I'd rather put my phone face down on the table and then not check it.

And I do do that. But in my pocket, it vibrates. And then I'm just like, oh. It's worse when it's on a hard table, though. Because when it vibrates, it goes, dances around. It's worse when you have the Apple Watch or a smartwatch because you can just glance. I think that's better, though, because you can glance. No, it's not.

You two and my best friend have Apple Watches and I hate it. No, so you're just jealous because you don't have an Apple Watch. No, you're constantly. Now, a lot of this is just like, I don't have a smartwatch. A lot of this. We're like in conversation and you're constantly looking. Yeah, see, that's so current. It's jealousy.

Packaged up as something else. Executive intern Anya will quite often message during the show, just flick the wrist and I'll be like, okay, good. But I'm like, hang on, I'm still talking to you. See, she's saying now Megan's talking too much. No, you're associating with it of the age old of your talk and I look at my watch as to check the time as in like, this is going for too long.

No. But it's just a quick, like I can just be like, that's not important. You talking to me and I'm like, oh, sorry, I'm just looking at my phone. Oh, were you saying something? That is so rude what she just did then. Did you see that?

So rude. Do you know, I had an entire conversation with all three members of my family the other day and at the end of it, I stopped talking and they didn't even know I'd stopped talking. They were all on screens. And then I sat there and I looked at them and then about 30 seconds and I folded my arms and I timed it. It took them two and a half minutes to look at me and be like, what?

Two and a half minutes? What? You know when you just miss somebody saying something, and you're like, sorry, what? I didn't catch the end of that, which is a lie. You didn't catch any of it. They go back and repeat themselves. Two and a half minutes.

So your whole family neurotic. I just bored with my shit, I think. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. So your whole family neurotic? I'm just bored with my shit, I think. There was a study that asked a question and people answered it, but then when further asked, they couldn't describe what one of the words was in the question. They kind of knew what it meant, not 100%. Right. 50% of adults could not explain or give the definition of a carbon footprint.

So we've gathered some adults. We've got people from the office in. And Georgia, I think we should start with Georgia, who's kindly filling in today for producer Jared, who's sick. And you're wearing your Zara business shirt. You're wearing a white-collared business shirt. The opposite of a businesswoman. Guys, I'm the, some would say, dumbest person in this world.

Oh, I won't have it said. I won't have it. We're running out of time. Street smart. With climate change, Georgia. So you want me to explain what carbon footprint means? What is your carbon footprint? Isn't it the amount of emissions we're putting in?

I can't even take myself seriously trying to sound smart. Just put wise words in a sentence. Carbon emissions that we're putting out there in the world. So what is your carbon footprint? My carbon footprint is my car. Your car? Oh, no. My rubbish? footprint? My carbon footprint is my car. You're kidding. Oh no, my rubbish?

The excessive rubbish? No? I mean, yes. But you have to give the definition of what a person's carbon footprint is. The amount of steps I take to my car. Like a child has come to you and said, Georgia, what's a carbon footprint? I would tell them to go and said, Georgia. What's a carbon footprint? What's a carbon footprint? I would tell them to go and ask their mother, not me.

Now, Petra and Joel are in studio. They've had an unfair advantage of listening to Georgia stumble through that. I think she did great. Petra, what do you think the definition of a carbon footprint is? Something about the amount of carbon I release. Not me personally, but the clothes, the factories release carbon and that affects my carbon footprint. Okay, Joel? Yeah, pretty similar to Petra.

I don't really know, to be honest. I think it's like similar to the car I drive and whether I catch the bus or public transport. These aren't wrong. They're not wrong, but... You're explaining your carbon emissions rather than what a carbon footprint necessarily is. Yeah.

So you're kind of right, but it's... Yeah. Are we happy? Georgia, do you want to have another shot? You had time to kind of wrote But it's Yeah Are we happy? Georgia do you want To have another shot? You had time to Kind of have a think? Don't you Google I can't believe

You didn't Google And that So you could pop it In the end and be like Hi guys it's Georgia And I've been thinking I've been thinking She thought she was

Off the hook She didn't know You were coming back And I looked around You're never off the hook Here? And I was like Anyone else

Anyone else? What about Carl Wayne? And they should have said big words. What about Carl Wayne at the social media desk? What is a carbon footprint? This isn't fair. I was part of the stitch-up. I don't get to be a stitch-up.

You knew that we were going to be asking this question about three hours ago. But not to me. Why didn't you have a Google if you didn't know the answer? I have a curiosity. What do you think the definition of a carbon... This is the question half of adults can't answer. This is the issue. I Googled it this morning when we talked about it

and I can't remember. Georgia. Georgia's had time to Google. Georgia, would you like to explain? What about you two? Would you be able to describe it? Well, I've Googled and got the answer in front of me, so that would be unfair.

But it's pretty much what I would have said. It's like a collective. These guys are kind of on the right track, but everybody, like there's individual carbon footprints. So if I was to describe mine, it's everything I do or take on. Like if you flew on a plane. Everything. There's transport.

There's like clothing. There's transport, there's like clothing, there's your waist, everything that you are leaving. And it's called a footprint, right? Because you leave behind your footprint indicates sort of your size. Do you have a definition there, Georgia? I've got a one sentence definition that's a lot better than what Vaughan just said.

Thank you. The thing is, I've come up with this myself. Yeah. better than what Vaughan just said. Thank you. The thing is, I've come up with this myself. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, that are generated by our actions. The average carbon... So you could have an individual's

carbon footprint, or a company's carbon footprint. But I feel like we all get that, right? You just don't know how to put it into like a definition. Yeah, and probably the confusing part is why is it called a footprint? Like why is it not just called your... Because it's what you're leaving on the earth, isn't it? Yeah. It's your footprint you're leaving on the earth.

It's the imprint that you leave. And how big is your footprint? You want a tiny one? You want a small footprint. Well, no, you don't. You want a big footprint. When I'm walking down the beach, I like to stand in a bigger footprint.

I like to take a bigger stride and you're like, man, this must have been some behemoth walking down the beach. Big ass stride, mass mass feet. You know what they say about big feet?

Sasquatch. Big carbon footprint. Big jandals. Yeah. So the average carbon footprint for a person in the US is 16 tons. And that's one of the highest in the world.

Greenhouse gas emissions per year. What? Did you say one person? Yep. Whoa. We're going to have to plant some trees. No, algae. Algae.

Oh, okay. Algae. You also need to stop burning your rubbish in your backyard too. Oh, that's Vaughan. Plastics. Megan burns plastics daily. Oh, yeah. I just need a pull of styrene because I don't know where to put it.

And I like when it goes Okay. You've got a giant footprint. I didn't. ZM's Flashborn and Megan.