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Thanks, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Is it St. Patrick's Day today?
It is.
To be sure, to be sure.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Yeah.
I feel it's being overshadowed by everything else at the moment.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
But I had a breakfast, Guinness. Yum., yeah. Could have had a breakfast Guinness.
Yum.
Yuck.
Yum.
Cannot stand Guinness.
Now, if you're going
to have a breakfast beer,
it's good to have
one of those dark stouts.
I don't know why.
It's because then
it's like meal.
Yeah, and it's because
you don't have to drink
it really cold
and you're not after
any refreshment.
And you just thought,
you look at it
and you're like,
oh, I've let my coffee
go cold.
And you drink it. I'd rather have a breakfast long white.
Are you doing
it as in the drinks?
The vodka mix.
I just wouldn't want to have a beer for breakfast.
Or a long white, to be honest.
Stout. Yuck.
Imagine do a vortex and a
vortex and a long white
for St. Patrick's Day.
That's more.
That, if we carry on the way, that'll be a Waitangi Day celebration.
Vortex and a long white.
Got to get your spin on.
Got to get that spin on.
You couldn't do that to a Guinness, not out of the can.
Yeah.
The top six is coming up.
Vaughan, homeschooling.
Yeah, well.
Could be an option for a lot of Kiwi kids.
What do you think about it?
Mass gatherings, anything over 500 people off the books.
Yeah. Not an option.
So many schools have over 500 pupils,
and at lunchtime, it's effectively...
Yeah, what are they going to have to say?
A mass gathering on the playground.
Stay in their classroom or just social distance?
I don't know, but could it be that New Zealand
will have to become a nation of homeschoolers for a little while? Goodness me.'t know, but could it be that New Zealand will have to become a nation
of homeschoolers
for a little while?
Goodness, man.
Do you know,
universities overseas,
they had
programs
so people who
couldn't make a lecture
could be part of the lecture
by phoning in
or like
tapping into it.
Yep.
But it was never made
for all of the students.
So there's some lecturers
who are holding
lectures in online gaming platforms because their servers are made to hold It was never made for all of the students. So there's some lecturers who are holding lectures
in online gaming platforms
because their servers are made to hold so many people.
Oh, yeah, right.
Okay.
What, like Twitch or something?
No, no.
So it's got to be interactive so they can ask questions and everything.
So it's like World of Warcraft.
Right.
How cool is that?
That's awesome.
Like open world games.
And they all log in and they can all go in.
Yeah.
Yeah, if you could pick to go into like Fortnite or that new Call of Duty, that'd be...
You'd get distracted and want to play the game.
You'd be in a lecture and the lecturer's like, well, now I can't teach because I'm out of the game.
I'm going to have to wait for you guys in the lobby.
All right.
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All right, you lot, listen up.
It's story time.
Story time, three news headlines.
Weird, quirky, unusual news stories,
and Vaughan and Megan must pick one of the following three.
Headline one, TikToker
dies during talk.
Headline two, rat picks wrong
week to go viral.
And headline three, surreal find at
thrift shop.
Thrift shop.
Is this the
rat one? Is this New York's
latest rat star?
Yes.
The McMuffin rat?
Yes.
A rat carrying a whole McMuffin.
Oh, my God.
Downstairs.
There was Pizza Rat.
Yep.
There's been a few other rats.
Yeah.
And this rat's dragging, yeah, the McMuffin down the stairs.
God, I hate McMuffin.
Yeah, I hate rats.
I thought you were going to say you hate McMuffins.
Oh, no, I love McMuffins.
Are you kidding me?
I'm not a monster.
Don't.
You do.
Love the McMuffin.
But the rat.
Are you just Googling it?
It's pretty crazy, eh?
Oh, my God.
Good.
If he can get it down there, all power to him.
Yeah, go, buddy.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I'd Google that. It's worth a watch. Sizable rat. It's a sizable buddy. Yeah. Well, I'd Google that.
It's worth a watch.
Sizable rat.
It's a sizable rat.
Yeah.
Okay, so do you want
TikToker dies during talk
or surreal find at thrift store?
Or surreal find at thrift store.
Everyone hopes to stumble across
something with a fortune
at a thrift store.
Some gold, yeah.
Didn't you find,
weren't we in a store the other day,
like a thrift store and you found something?
Christian Louboutins, but they weren't my size.
I was like, what?
Too big or too small?
Too small.
Could you purchase?
Cut a hole in the end and make them peep toe?
Yeah.
Or could you have purchased them to sell on?
An investment, if you will.
You didn't even think about that, did you?
No.
How much would you have got?
How much were they in the store?
And how much would you get on Trade Me?
I think they were like,
they were a hundred bucks, I think.
Around a hundred bucks.
And they were in good condition.
Definitely.
God, the look on your face
is just like you missed out on money.
I didn't even think about that.
Like, not my size, not for me.
Always hustling, baby.
Always hustling, always flowing.
Well, we go now to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
where a 9.75 inch by 6.75 inch print
titled Purgatory Canto 32.
Someone was just like, that's cool.
Might buy it.
Well, it turns out it was an original signed watercolor print
by famed surrealist and melting clock enthusiast,
Salvador Dali.
Wow.
Yeah, so you know he does the melting clocks.
Yeah.
He's got the mustache.
Named after him, isn't it?
Yeah, it is, yeah.
The Salvador.
Yeah.
So that was part of his series, Divine Comedy.
It depicts a woman dressed in blue and a man in red.
A store volunteer named Wendy Hawkins came across it
when sorting through the artwork
because it needed to be priced before it went on the sales floor.
And she just had a feeling.
She was like, well, this looks a bit more like different
than the stuff we normally get in here.
So she took it to an actual art expert for his opinion
and he was like, well, I think this is a Salvador Dali
because the signature appears both in the woodcut print and in pencil.
And yeah, apparently dating back a wee while ago,
and they reckon that they'd get like $1,200.
Awesome.
Yeah, they sold it for $1,200.
That's not much.
That's not much.
No, no, no.
Are you sure?
Yeah, it said with the assistance of the art gallery,
the thrift store has already sold the piece for $1,200
with proceeds going to the victims of domestic violence
and human trafficking.
Where, $1,200, what currency?
US.
Okay.
Yeah.
I just Googled his mustachio.
Yeah.
In 2017, his body was exhumed, Salvador Dali.
Really?
Because a woman had been claiming,
she, if you're wondering what her occupation was,
she's a fortune teller.
Okay.
She has been claiming for decades that she is his daughter,
his biological daughter,
and thus she believes she's entitled to a little...
Money. a little financial
renumeration
and so they
dug him up and they said his
moustache was still in the exact
position that he was in and the
embalmer, because this was a big thing, he wanted to be
embalmed and he wanted his moustache to last
an eternity, the embalmer
who did the body
at the time, also saw the body when it was exhumed and said,
I did a great job.
I hope that's on his website.
Very good.
So now I'm just seeing if she actually did.
Yeah, I need to know now.
That's quite fact.
She was dismissed by many as a fraud.
She won a court order to exhume the body
as there was no other way to settle the case.
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But this article was written in July.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say she's a crackpot.
Okay.
And they dug up a man's body for no reason.
Salva.
Salva Taur.
Oh, my God. You are the slowest Googler in the world. No, I had to find
her name. I had to find her name. Right, okay.
No, no, she wasn't. She wasn't.
She wasn't. No, that's not how it works.
We do a drum roll. I thought we were related. I was just
Right. So, DNA
test proves woman is not Salvador
Dali's daughter. Does she have to, like, pay for
Oh, I wonder what the
outcome of that is.
But who pays for that?
Wow.
I mean, surely you could tell she has a crackpot, right?
Yeah.
All right.
Quarter past six.
Everyone in the world knows.
Oh, hold on.
I was getting into a real good tease.
Did you hear that?
Yeah, it was a really good tease.
Apologies.
Apologies.
At the bottom of this story, it's got some facts about Salvador Dali.
Yeah. Okay.
Born in 1904 in Spain Produced more than 1500 paintings
Was married to Elena
Ivanova Dykanova
Ivanova Dykanova
Ivanova Dykanova
Sounds like the active
Ingredient in any cleaning product
They got married in 1934.
They had no children.
However, they had an open marriage
and regularly held
sexual orgies at their house.
So, couldn't have been
out of the question that...
I know, yeah.
Although Dali is said to have
in his later years
watched rather than participated.
How about that?
He's voyeuristic.
How about that?
Alright, well I think
that was worth interrupting Megan.
Yeah, I'm going Yeah I'm Apologies
Apologies
Yeah
So everyone in the world
Knows about
Coronavirus
Yep
Except for a group
Of people in Australia
Who have absolutely
No idea
That this pandemic
Is happening
ZM's Fletch
Vaughan and Megan
The podcast
We can't escape
Any kind of chat
About coronavirus
But there is a bunch of people
that have, up until yesterday,
managed to escape any kind of chat.
The Big Brother
Australia contestants were in
New South Wales. They were in the house
and they don't get to hear
about anything that's going on outside.
Now because they're filming it like
a normal reality show all at once
and then it's released. Unlike Big Brother of yesteryear,
where it was live, wasn't it?
Or it was edited pretty much a day ahead.
For the first time in history, it'll all be pre-recorded,
and they haven't confirmed the air date.
So they didn't know about coronavirus,
and the scary thing, I guess, for them,
and maybe what changed production's mind to tell them,
was that it's filmed in New South Wales, where out of the five deaths, four were in New South Wales.
I think the fact that what changed the production's mind would have been the fact that this story broke in Australia yesterday.
And they were like, they have no idea what's going on.
Can you imagine that? You go into the Big Brother house for, like, they have no idea what's going on. Can you imagine that?
You go into the Big Brother house for like, what, weeks?
Yeah.
What, they've been in there three weeks?
And they've got no idea what's going on.
Because in three weeks, when they'd gone in, it would have been a few people sick in China.
Yeah.
That was all that was in the news.
Yeah.
But do you remember, they faced this before with Big Brother.
One of them lost a family member while they were in there.
That's right, and they didn't tell them, did they?
Until the end.
Until they were evicted?
Until they were evicted?
That's right.
That's not right.
I don't think that's right.
You need to tell them so they can make the decision whether they're going to leave or not.
Yeah.
To support their family and go to the funeral.
And the family just watching them.
No idea, right?
Yeah.
What's going on in there?
So, yeah, they have been brought up to speed.
So I wonder if they'll pause filming.
No report on this story of them pausing filming.
I mean, to be honest, they're in isolation, aren't they?
Yeah.
And all the cameras are on the other side of the glass
or, you know, on the wall, aren't they? Yeah, they don the cameras are on the other side of the glass or you know
on the wall aren't they?
Yeah.
They don't come into contact
with crew and everything
so they may be
the safest people
in Australia.
Imagine that.
That's how
the world has to repopulate.
The Big Brother contestants
who are always
some of the best
and smartest.
Any reality show
contestants.
Yeah. But would you want to be told?
Imagine if the world had to repopulate from The Bachelorette.
Hard work for Lily and Lucina.
From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six.
Could happen.
Could happen.
Schools.
The last bastion of mass gathering.
Yeah.
That's permitted.
But if mass gatherings of no more than 500 people have called for the cancellation of,
heck, so many events.
Yeah.
This is like an event-heavy time of the year because it's not the intense heat of summer,
but we don't have that real rubbishy May, late April, May weather yet.
Yeah.
So you've got your homegrown?
Gone?
Gone, yeah.
Warbirds over Wanaka?
Gone.
Balloons over the Waikato?
Gone.
Gone.
But it's for our safety, isn't it?
It is.
It's for the best.
But school's still going ahead, so.
I think they are going to limit things like assemblies and stuff.
Yeah, we've had that note from the kids' school.
Right.
There'll be no mass assemblies,
and even all the classes coming together for mat time's going to be limited.
Do your kids do singing at assemblies like Umarapati and the teachers on the guitar?
Do they still do that, or is that gone?
No, they sing the national anthem, I think.
Goodness me.
I don't think they sing Umarapati.
Okay.
I don't think so. It's a classic, they should. Umar, Um anthem, I think. Goodness me. I don't think they sing Humarapati. Okay. I don't think so.
It's a classic, they should.
Uma, Uma, Uma.
Humarapati.
Humarapati.
Uma, Uma, Uma.
All right, that's enough singing.
We've been singing for five seconds.
No more singing.
What, so they don't have to pay them royalties?
Maybe.
I don't know who owns the royalties.
Okay.
For Humarapati.
Okay.
The top six ways to make your home a home
school.
That's today's top six.
If it comes to this. Number six.
Brush up
on your sneaking off to Google things
when you're asked by using
different excuses. Like, oh, I've just
got to go and put that load of
towels on. What was your question again?
Have you spelled that? Oh, you mean you got to go and put that load of towels on. What was your question again? Have you spelled that?
Oh, you mean you, not the kids.
Yeah.
Well, you want to seem smart to your kids,
so you've always got to have the answer.
So, you know, you've got to have a range of excuses.
Put the towels on.
Yeah.
Open some windows.
Poop.
All of these things you could say you're going to do
while you're actually going to Google the answers that they require for their homeschool. Number five on the list
of the top six ways to make your home a homeschool. Identify what
surfaces whiteboard marker will come off. Fridge.
Maybe. Do a test spot on a hidden bit of fridge.
Couch? No. Toilet?
Yes. Windows? No. No. Toilet? Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Windows?
Yes.
Yeah.
Comes off windows.
You can put some white paper behind the windows.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Yeah, great idea.
That's a great idea. That's actually really smart.
Good thinking from you.
Thank you.
Good thinking from you.
And backlit too.
Yeah.
It would really make the writing on top stand out.
Yeah.
Good from you. Thank you. Number four on the really make the writing on top stand out. Good from you.
Thank you. Number four on the list of the top six ways to make your home
a home school. Get a cardigan
and some glasses.
Now everyone takes a teacher very seriously
if they're in a sort of a...
What do they call this? A v-neck?
A deep neck cardigan?
Yeah, it's a cardigan. A button up cardigan.
A button up cardigan and some glasses.
That's classic teacher apparel.
It has to be beige.
Of course.
One dare not wear colours to school.
One would excite the children's eyes.
Number three on the list of the top six ways to make your home a home school.
Get your kids to address you primarily by chosen title followed by surname.
Good morning, Mr. Fletcher.
Good morning, Mrs. Papadopoulos.
Good morning, Professor Smith.
Professor Smith.
Hey, you can choose your own title.
Number two on the list of the top six ways to make your home a homeschool.
Make lunchtime three hours long.
I like that idea. Yes.
Yeah. Get yourself a nap in there.
Or the children are doing
essential outside individual learning.
Yeah.
And number one on the list of the top six ways
to make your home a homeschool.
Put vodka in your water bottle because
you're gonna need it.
That is today's top six.
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It's quarter to eight
Quarter to seven
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Quarter to seven
Quarter to eight
Yes, yeah
God
Is that
Wednesday
Have we still doing
Daylight Savings
Or have we cancelled that
No, we're still doing
Oh, actually I might Google
No, it's in
One week or two
First week of April
There you go Sunday the 5th of April April Yeah, that's when it's in... One week or two? First week of April. There you go.
Sunday the 5th of April.
April.
Yeah.
That's when it kicks in.
Who got a message?
That'll be Daylight Savings
being like,
yeah, I'm still happening.
It's always good to hear
from Daylight Savings.
It's Daylight Savings.
Yeah, I'm still going ahead.
So what does that mean?
We've got a couple of weekends
of Daylight Savings.
Good.
Okay.
It's going to be depressing
when that kicks in.
Two weeks this Sunday?
I know.
Self-isolation, but also dark at six, so na-na-na-na-na.
Yeah.
Lindsay Lohan.
This will brighten your day.
She is offering to do quotes from mean girls, birthday messages.
Herbie Fully Loaded?
Will she do a Herbie Fully Loaded thing?
I'm sure she will, if you ask.
Message?
Or business advice.
Really?
In exchange for cash.
Right.
So Cameo is a website.
It actually has a whole bunch of different celebrities
and you can pay them to do,
it's generally birthday messages,
but I'm sure they have a listing.
Any New Zealanders on there?
So I've just gone to Cameo.com
and okay, Andy Dick, that celebrity.
You recognise him, eh?
Andy Dick.
He'll do one for $99.
How is this worth their time?
Oh, I remember that guy from,
whose line is it anyway?
Colin.
Colin Mochrie.
Yeah, we talked to him on the phone.
Yeah, he'll do one for $100.
His would be good though because...
It's only like five minutes.
You can get one from Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman
from the animated series for $75.
Oh yeah, Danielle Cormack.
Danielle Cormack.
Did you search New Zealand?
No, just all in you and noteworthy.
$50.
She'll do something for you.
See, this is the problem with New Zealand now.
I'm like, pull your head in.
Who do you think you are?
Bad, eh?
Yeah, isn't it?
No, not her.
Okay, look, I've got a list of New Zealanders.
James Van Der Beek's on there.
Dawson from Dawson's Creek.
Is that Pee Wee Herman?
Paul Reubens?
Yes, it is.
$250.
Yeah, but Pee Wee's hot again.
Pee Wee's a hot content.
James Van Der Beek, Dawson from Dawson's Creek.
$200 for a message.
Can I just get him to cry?
Imagine.
Can you cry like the meme?
Yes.
Aaron Smith is the only all black on there.
$50.
Really?
$50 for an Aaron Smith.
Well, these are all much cheaper than Lindsay Lohan.
I don't know. I've got more. Colin Munro, the New Zealand cricketer. Well, these are all much cheaper than Lindsay Lohan. I don't know, got more.
Colin Munro, the New Zealand cricketer.
Oh, yeah.
$40.
Okay.
Corey Webster, the basketballer, $15.
Corey Jane, the rugby player, $50.
$15?
Yeah.
New Zealand, there's two lots of New Zealand comedians.
It's names I don't want to say
Because I don't want to look like
We're picking on them or whatever
But they're five bucks each
How is that?
Well that's
Put your price up
Yeah how is that worth your time?
And then uploading it and everything
Some of these people I've never heard of in my life
But lots of American basketballers
And sports people
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah.
Oh, the drummer from One Direction.
What?
There was a drummer?
Josh Devine.
Drummer, One Direction.
$25.
What?
He could be like, hi, you've seen me behind Harry.
Happy birthday, Josh Devine.
That's $25.
So what does Cameo get for this?
They must take a cut.
They take a cut.
They take a cut.
But these dudes for five bucks, how much are they getting after Cameo?
I don't know.
Maybe they just get 10% of, what's that?
50 cents.
So they're only getting $4.50.
Customers pay Cameo.
Are they just signing up on the hope that someone Just wants a funny New Zealand accent
Video
I don't know
Yeah
How fascinating
But do you want to know
How much Lindsay Lohan's charging
How much
It's 662 New Zealand dollars
That's
Significantly more expensive
Yeah
Well she is offering
Business advice
I looked into this
For Sade's birthday
I looked into getting
Jerry from Chair.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, Jerry, Jerry.
He's on there and he was expensive.
So Cameo take 25%.
What's 25% of $5?
$1.25?
Oh.
Hey, that's still a coffee, isn't it?
So they're getting back $3.75?
Yeah.
You can't buy a coffee for that.
Lindsay Lohan's excessively expensive from what I can see on here.
I can't see anybody that's $600.
She'd be the biggest celeb on there, though.
Like I said, she's offering business advice.
It's not just happy birthday.
No, because Snoop Dogg's on here.
Is he?
He's temporarily unavailable.
Say how much he is.
$750.
And Snoop off the wire.
Remember the wire?
Remember Snoop?
Yes.
She was on there for $75,
but temporarily unavailable because she's in prison.
Okay, right.
So, Snooki.
Snooki.
You know that one.
$300 for a Snooki.
Can we get Snoop just to do something for our show?
He's temporarily unavailable.
Who else do you want?
I could search by a specific name.
Just want him to be like,
you're listening to Fletcher on Omega.
We get those for free.
No, not from Snoop.
We don't.
Oh, that's true.
Is Dr. Dre?
No, Dr. Dre's not doing it,
but Dr. Drew is from Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab.
Okay.
$198.
Just rounded up to $200, Dr. Drew.
Divorce is going up in China,
and it is because of coronavirus.
Apparently, with all the self-isolation and stuff.
People are sick of each other.
I think it's they're spending a lot more time at home and together.
Usually working hard, but not being able to go to work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's actually something that we are going to have to, I guess, deal with.
All of us, right?
If you're going to be stuck in confined space with family and friends.
You live by yourself.
What are you talking about?
I'm just saying in general as a population, of course I'm fine.
We're trying to seem like an everyday person
that has to share their abode with people.
But I think that's probably for the best, though.
If you found out that you actually can't be alone together,
you're probably not meant to be together.
Well, yeah, because normally you'd have that time
where you go to work.
Or you're doing your own thing.
Or you're doing your own productive nation.
Yeah.
China, they hate being at home,
whereas I quite like being at home.
So the officers since the 24th of Feb
have said the main reason and the sudden spike
was because couples were spending
too much time together at home.
Wow.
Literally can't do it.
Wow. Massive spike do it. Wow.
Massive spike.
But then on the flip side.
I'm wondering also what the average sort of living situation is, like whether there's
a massive family.
A lot of space.
Yeah, right.
Like, you know, extended family or tiny.
Because these populations are so massive and these cities, while they're big, aren't that
massive.
So there might not be spread out
homes. It might all be tiny one room
apartments. And there's also the added
stress of like, if they are at home
is money an issue as well?
They could be arguing about lots of things.
It is a stressful time.
But on the other
side of things, lots of babies
probably come in nine months.
Because everyone's spending time at home. So divorces
and babies. Something to look
forward to.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.
ZM. Coming up,
a bride had some
pretty outrageous demands
and it is amidst coronavirus.
Well, yes, you just heard the Prime Minister
say even she knows people that are
getting married and they're upset, as are most people.
Yeah.
It's pretty upsetting if you have to cancel your wedding, postpone it even.
Unless you've got the Prime Minister on the invite list.
But then even then, it doesn't matter.
No, I know.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh, yeah, right.
As that even, you've got her on the list, but she's like, no, no wedding.
And I'll know if you have one.
Yeah.
Because I know people that are going.
So she'll know.
We've got a Poli Moli coming up on the show.
The Poli Moli, the flatting edition.
A bunch of questions about flatting.
The shared living space.
Like, how many of us have hooked up with our flatmate?
And aggressive notes. How many people have left them?
Oh, surely most people.
Many of them.
All right, it's coming up.
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Soundkeeper Gary, good morning.
Good morning, guys.
Did you e-bike in this morning?
No, I haven't been e-biking in throughout the week.
It's just too dark and too dangerous.
So I've been borrowing the work pool car.
Safety first.
Can we have a pop sock for Gary's microphone?
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Let's pop that on there.
You're very poppy, Gary.
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How's that?
Much better.
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Thank you.
Give us a P.
Yep, that B sounded better.
Just a quick PSA announcement, by the way.
No, still talk over here.
Here, here?
No, across it.
How's that?
There we go.
Not really.
Not really, Gary.
Maybe we need some better headphones.
Week seven, day two.
Yep.
Okay.
Check, check, check.
We're getting there.
I'm going to blame.
That's actually, can you hear what's coming out?
Yeah, yeah.
Try that one, Gary.
How's that?
Much better.
A little bit better.
We'll see.
Okay.
Reena, good morning.
Oh, that's me.
Hey, how's it going?
I hope it's you.
All right.
Well, you've got through.
That's the hard bit.
I know.
But honestly, when it rung, I was like, it's you alright well you've got through that's the hard bit I know that honestly
I was
when it rang
I was like
it's ringing
and I looked at my husband
I was like
it's ringing
that's like when I used to ring
it's like when I used to ring
what now when I was a kid
I never got a ring
for what now
never
never get through
and then at the end of the show
they had that barrel full
of everyone that had called
I'd be like
how did this many people
get through
and I didn't.
And I've been calling nonstop.
Hayley got through.
So this is the secret sound.
For $100,000, that's not Vaughan steering.
There was a steer of the car in the end there.
For $100,000, what is the secret sound?
Okay, so I think it is a bicycle changing gears.
So like the, you know, when you click it and then it changes
and it makes kind of like a sound.
We just talked about Gary's e-bike, didn't we?
We did.
Speaking of bikes, that was one of the prizes that What Now?
were giving away once.
I couldn't get through to win the bloody thing.
Just quickly picturing
whether or not my e-bike needs to change gears.
It doesn't need to be an e-bike.
There were other types of bikes in that video.
Yeah, Gary.
Yeah, Gary.
Good one, Gary.
Rena.
Yes.
Put me out of my misery.
That's not a great attitude going on, Rina.
Put me out of my misery, Gary.
Fine then, Rina.
That is not the secret sound.
All right, back to the drawing board.
Well, good luck getting through to What Now again.
Yeah, thanks, guys.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
Netflix is trialling a cheap mobile-only version
that costs just £2.40 a month,
so about just under $5.
Five bucks.
Yeah, five New Zealand dollars a month.
Now, at the moment, it has been launched and tested
in India and Malaysia,
but it's expected to roll out across the globe in the near future.
It's been also trialled in Thailand and the Philippines.
So it's been launched.
Right.
And people are saying it's unusual for Netflix because it's so cheap.
Okay.
But people are pointing out that this-
But it's a smaller screen.
Yeah.
True.
Could you have it on your phone, though, and screen share to a TV or Chromecast?
Some of those things don't let you.
Yeah, it might not let you do it.
It might not let you plug in.
Because it's like how you can hotspot until you're on one of those unlimited data plans
and then you can't hotspot no more.
Although people are saying maybe don't get too excited because this is more targeted.
Too late.
No, because it's targeted.
I'm fully excited.
Towards emerging markets, which is, is that another way of just saying poor countries?
Third world countries.
Yeah, third world countries.
Right.
Where they've got data access, but you might not necessarily have home internet.
Yeah.
I mean, so that compares to what?
$5 compared to what you pay for Netflix here.
What's the standard Netflix plan here?
Because you've got the standard and premium.
Yeah.
So $5 if you were just on your phone, that's not bad.
And you were just using Wi-Fi.
Yeah.
Wi-Fi or data?
No, you'd be using data, wouldn't you?
Because that's the thing about third world countries.
Data packages are so much cheaper because people don't have home internet.
Yeah, right.
Are we watching anything good on Netflix at the moment?
Not Netflix.
I'm kind of spread around
all the other
online
streaming services. Yeah, I'm getting around, baby.
I'm getting around. I've got
Hunters on
Amazon Prime.
That's about Nazi hunters in late 70s New York.
You were telling me about that.
I think I need to watch that.
So it's never been confirmed.
It's based on actual events,
but I did some Googling
and no official place has ever confirmed anything happened.
And there were no Nazis in New York
and there were no Nazi hunters,
but that's what that say.
So there's that.
Yeah, right. Okay. And The there's that. Yeah, right.
Okay.
And The Outsider.
Oh, yeah, I've got one to go.
That's a Stephen King show.
That's great.
That's very, very nice.
Really good.
Cobra Enthusiasm is also on Neon.
Hilarious.
Actually, Netflix has been getting off lightly lately.
But, you know, if we're all stuck at home, everything will be getting a pound of money.
Everything.
Everything except me.
You didn't see the way he looked down.
He looked really depressed and sad.
Because, like, everyone will be home the whole time as well,
so I couldn't even sneak one, could you?
Make them go play with the animals.
You've got lots of animals outside.
You can't do it in the paddock. Oh, they go play with the animals. Tell've got lots of animals outside. You can't do it in the paddock.
Oh, they go play with the animals. Tell them to go on the
tree hut and take the ladder.
So the whole family's stuck up a tree hut.
Can they see into your
room if they're in your kids?
Everybody. Indian Orgy, if they go up the tree house.
Curtains?
Curtains, Megan.
That's not the issue.
I'm just reminding you.
Someone frantically
Bursts in the door
God
Way to scar everybody
Yeah
Alright next on the show
Poli Moli
And 18%
Of us have done
This one thing
That's the flatting edition
Yeah a whole lot of stats
For your next
With Poli Moli
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan
The podcast
It's Poli Moli
Moli Moli Moli Poli Moli Moli Moli Come on ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly,
Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly.
Come on!
Polly, Molly, we ask questions in Polly, Molly,
and you give us the answers.
Yeah, polls on our Instagram, FEMZM.
And then we become our own resource for
a study out of so-and-so has said that this many people do this.
And then we've done it.
I tell you what, though.
The numbers...
The statistics department.
Like, I don't know a lot about statistics,
but it's a good number of people voting.
And if you were, like, doing, you know, statistics,
you'd get a...
If you were doing statistics...
If you weren't, like, a statistician...
Oh, where they studied a group of 2,000 people.
From the numbers I can see on here, 17,000 people.
17,774 people saw the story.
And I've noticed when I've done polls before,
once you get over,
and same when we've done like food fight and stuff,
once you get over a few hundred votes,
it doesn't really change too much.
So I'd say this is a pretty good indicator.
Not within your select control sort of group. So I'd say this is a pretty good indicator. Not within your select control
sort of group.
So the flatting edition.
We want to know, what is it about flatting?
One of the questions. Do you think
you do the most cleaning in the flat?
No.
Everybody's probably got a, I definitely do.
No, you're not anyone there.
Do you say you're
Flatting?
No but
Even when I was flatting
I didn't do the most cleaning
Oh yeah
Nah neither
Cause I was like
Clean what you make
A mess of
It's terrifying when you
Live in a house
I'm not touching
Anyone else's shit
Where you realise
You're probably gonna be
The cleanest person
That's horrible
That's a horrible realisation
I think I've lived in two flats
Where I've been like
Oh no
I'm the cleanest person here That's saying something Oh great That's gonna A lotisation. I think I've lived in two flats where I've been like, oh no, I'm the cleanest person here.
That's saying something.
Oh, grim.
A lot is going to fall on me to keep this place not infested with rats.
While 66% of people said they do believe they're doing the most cleaning in the flats.
Also, I feel like everyone thinks they do the most.
You're just not adopting my mantra.
Don't get good at what you don't want to do.
Don't start cleaning at what you don't want to do.
Don't start cleaning up other people's rubbish because then they think you'll continue to clean it up.
Somebody commented saying they know they do
as they're the only chef in the flat
and the kitchen needs to be spotless.
I've got a bit of a habit of making a spotless kitchen.
Have you ever helped yourself to your flatmate's food?
How do you think this one sway's swayed and holy moly.
I'd say that'd be heavily in favour of yes.
57% said yes.
Only fit.
I would have thought more like 70, 80.
Because I would say yes to like butter, but that's not a food.
Condiments.
It's a food group.
Anything that's not yours is not yours.
Butter and sometimes milk. If you'd run out, you'd be like, little bit of yours. Butter and sometimes milk.
If you'd run out, you'd be like, little bit of milk.
Little bit of milk.
And then if they've got one of those marks on the side of the milk bottle
where they mark where they're up to, you just put a little bit of water in.
Now it's green top.
Yeah.
And if it was green top now, it's light green top.
And if it was light green, it's PVA coloured water. Yeah, 57%
of people said that they
have helped themselves, but
43% said no.
Very trustworthy.
Some comments on that. One time
I've done this, it was after a night out and I wanted some
chicken nuggies. Now, my flatmate had some, so
I snuck a few. Were they cooked? Were you eating
them cold? Oh, no.
You wouldn't be able to sneakily cook them.
It's not like the oven's like...
The aroma of nuggets lingers.
Yeah, right.
But I imagine they're cold nuggets, like McNuggets.
No.
Who's leaving nuggets to put in the fridge?
Eat them all.
Yeah.
Somebody said the key to doing this is always replacing it before they notice.
Yeah.
So you can get away with it.
I tried to do that at a hotel minibar,
but they didn't have the same chocolate bars
at the convenience store.
And I was like, oh, you're cutting me.
Could you get the next best thing?
You're cutting me.
Nah, I just had to pay for it.
Holy moly, the flatting edition asked,
have you ever left a passive aggressive note
for your flatmates?
I think I've received many Well that's
63% of people said
No they've never left a passive aggressive note
But then they probably don't even know
That they're being passive aggressive
Hey sweeties
Anything that starts like that
Or with a smiley face on the end
My thing would be write a note
And then just put a smiley face at the end. My thing would be write a note and then just put a smiley face at the end.
Yeah, that's passive aggressive.
Yeah, that's passive aggressive.
So 63% said no, I haven't, but 37% said yes.
Yeah, I honestly don't think I have.
I'd rather be like, hey, David, can you just wash the dishes?
Well, somebody said I don't leave notes.
Who's David?
Is that the name I came up with?
Funny.
He did need to wash his dishes a lot.
What are your damn dishes, David?
I didn't need to leave notes.
If they left their dishes unwashed, I just stacked them outside their bedroom door.
Oh, that's a classic pass ag move.
Yeah.
Or put them in the bed.
Or that's just straight up ag.
Yeah.
Somebody else said, not only was it passive, but it was also laminated.
I left instructions on how to shower because of the pool of water every time I went into the bathroom.
A lovely laminated night, so it'll last for a long time.
Flatting edition of Poly Moly, do you think the head tenant should contribute less money because they manage the household?
No.
A contentious issue.
No.
There's a lot of admin involved.
Yeah, but they're always
squirrelling away a few dollars.
And also,
they're the ones that are like,
I'll do it, I'll do it,
I'll do it at the start of the year.
Oh, yeah.
And then they're like,
put their hands up to do it.
No, they're volunteered
to be tribute.
Yeah.
If that falls upon them
because everybody else
is too lazy.
I knew some guys
that lived in a flat
and they just happily paid more
to have somebody else
manage everything.
Really?
Yeah.
It's not too much effort, really.
What's it going to take you?
It isn't if you're like you and you like to be organised,
but for a hot mess like me.
But you need to teach yourself because then when you're not in a flat.
Yeah.
Your wife does it.
Or your husband if you're a female hot mess.
Or your wife if you're a lesbian hot mess.
Or your husband if you're a gay hot mess.
Or just any of the 17 identifiable genders.
You'd be any of those hot messes.
What if there's two hot messes in the relationship?
It'll never last.
What about two gay hot messes?
Who would do the bills?
It would never last.
It wouldn't.
No, this is why you need to learn because you might end up with a hot mess
that's hotter and messier than you.
Right, so you've got to become the lesser, hotter, lesser, messier person.
Right, well, 82% of people said they do not believe
that the head tenant should have to contribute less money
for managing the household.
But 18% said, yeah, they totally should have to.
Oh, and that 18%, I do not want to flat with.
Another 18%, have you hooked up with a flatmate?
Nah.
82% said nah.
18% said yes.
I've never been lucky enough to have a hottie as a flatmate.
Lucky enough?
Yeah, I'd have been like, no.
God, I've been flatting all these years and I just haven't had a hot flatmate.
Just never had a hottie that I'm like, yes.
Moved into a new flat.
This comment on that question.
On the first night, hooked up with one of the guys
who have been together ever since and have two fur babies.
Oh, that's pretty cute.
But then it's not all happy news.
A bit of an awkward love triangle in a flat of six.
Awkward part is when one would text me when I was hooking up with the other.
That's a good one.
They must have that soundproof chip.
Someone splashed out for that soundproof chip. Someone's splashed out for that soundproof chip.
Yeah.
And finally, do you currently have a flatmate you don't like?
23% of people said yes.
77% said no.
I would have thought that would have been higher.
Yeah.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
So the wedding industry at the moment is just difficult, isn't it?
Every industry.
I know, but I'm specifically talking about weddings right now.
I know, I know.
The wedding industry, because I've had a friend who's had to postpone her wedding to October,
which is really upsetting when it's only a couple of weeks away.
And I know that a lot of people are in a similar situation.
But a bride, this is in the US, so you would have to say the US, far worse off than what we are in New Zealand.
Well, yeah, I was just reading New York's going into lockdown.
Yes.
So amid the coronavirus situation in the US,
she has gone on Facebook and told all her guests
if they miss her wedding due to coronavirus, they're dead to her.
Wow.
So her wedding is in a month. Oh, it's not happening. Yeah. Wow. So her wedding is in a month.
Oh, it's not happening.
Yeah. Hon. She said, I've spent
thousands of dollars. I've been working out
budgeting,
dodging family politics, landmines,
chased up RSVP.
Dodging landmines? What's she been doing?
Where's she been? Family political
landmines. Oh.
You know about those. You've organised a wedding, surely. Everyone finds a family landmines. Ah. You know about those.
You've organised a wedding, surely.
Everyone finds a family landmine here or there.
We're pretty lucky.
Really?
This is the old family landmines.
Okay.
No, they're still buried.
We're waiting for the Princess Diana Memorial Landmine Removal Society.
Sometimes you stand on a family landmine after the wedding.
Yeah, and you stand on it and it goes click, and you're like, don't move.
Dig it out from around my foot. I'm not after the wedding. Yeah, and you stand on it and it goes click and you're like, don't move.
Dig it out from around my foot.
I'm not going to move.
Yeah.
She said,
I've tried my hand at both electrical
and woodwork,
personalised your gifts,
answered a million emails
and I've drunk lots of wine
in the bathtub.
So the least you can do
is turn up to my wedding.
If you don't,
you're dead to me.
I don't think anyone's
going to be there
because I don't want
to be dead to anyone. Well, yeah. Yeah. That's, you're dead to me. I don't think anyone's going to be there because they don't want to be dead to anyone.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
That is crazy.
Wow.
What about your friend that's postponing?
What's their vibe on it?
So they had lots of overseas guests.
What was it this weekend?
It was the 4th of April.
So that's...
Oh, wow.
Okay, a couple of weekends.
A couple of weekends away.
So they had lots of guests coming from Canada, Australia and France.
And so to come over to New Zealand and then self-isolate for two weeks,
it's just not possible.
They would have needed a meeting last week.
Yeah, yeah.
And also I'm not sure about the whole public gathering thing.
I mean, it would only be like 100 and something guests, but...
But that could change in two weeks, yeah.
And then does the venue even want to have 120 people there that they don't know?
I couldn't believe yesterday I went to the gym and Monday, you know,
Monday's normally super busy because everyone had a guilt day.
And I would have, like lunchtime, normally peak,
I would have maybe a third of the people that are normally there were there.
My one seemed okay, but
there was no cleaning products.
We usually have multiple
containers of like hand
sanitary towels and everything.
They were all empty. I've decided not to go.
For the foreseeable
future. Yeah, I actually
stockpiled a few biscuits yesterday and treats.
What biscuits? Squiggles. A lot of squiggle tops a few biscuits yesterday and treats. Oh, play what biscuits?
Squiggles.
A lot of squiggle tops.
Pokey pokey, because you know they're my faves.
Do you get candy flavored?
No, I don't like those ones.
So wait, your stockpiling was just biscuits?
Yeah, and chocolate.
Oh my God.
Because I was like, I've got enough.
I've just got stuff in the pantry.
That'll do. We're all going to come out of our cocoons when self-isolation ends,
and we're all going to be like,
Fletch is going to be like,
What do you mean?
What happened to you?
These treats are going to be gone by the end of the week.
I know.
And then I'll have to go into self-isolation and be like,
oh, damn it, I ate all my squiggles.
Oh, my God.
You can come out looking real good.
Hopefully.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
I want to talk about a Perth man now.
He lives in the Burbs,
and he lives around kids who like to play in the street.
Now, he's...
Right.
Cul-de-sac?
Cul-de-sac or thoroughfare?
No, I think it's a thoroughfare by what he's done.
I would suggest it's maybe a thoroughfare.
I lived on a cul-de-sac.
They're great to grow up on.
Good for cricket.
Great for a range.
Yeah, great for sports.
What now?
Hold on.
Talk me through your cul-de-sac.
Your wickets go at the end of the cul-de-sac.
I'm not interested in where your wickets went.
That was fairly self-explanatory.
What kind of surface were you running on the cul-de-sac?
Was it a compact ash
or was it a sort
of a gritty bit?
A big chip.
An R7 chip or something.
Yeah, I don't know
what they call it,
but it's like real
chunky bits of...
That's a shame.
Yeah.
If you'd come off
on your skateboard
or your bike,
you'd really dig
into your knee.
So you could rollerblade
or was it two?
No.
Do you rollerblade
down there?
You're like...
Like when you're rollerblading and you hit some cobbles.
Yeah.
I tell you what, I don't know.
Your story's about a grumpy man, isn't it?
Yeah.
We had a couple of grumpy neighbours.
They just did not like any fun.
Like if the ball went on their lawn,
you may as well just go get a new tennis ball.
But how often are you putting the ball on the lawn?
Oh, once I remember we put it through a window.
Oh, I can see where that put it.
That was six, though.
That was six, but also out.
And then a hiding.
And you have to go get it.
Six, yay, out.
Oh, hiding.
Yeah.
So this man.
Who's dishing out the hidings?
Like, did your dad have to come out and give you a hiding?
Yeah.
Or just somebody's dad would just walk out and whack whatever kid was responsible?
Oh, no, no, no.
Your own dad would always give you the hiding.
Oh, that's a shame.
So not the neighbour.
Not the neighbour, yeah.
So, yeah, this is a Perth man who says that he is sick of...
He reckons eight to ten kids playing right outside his home.
He says the sound of them playing pisses me off on a daily basis.
Oh.
Old mate.
He is sick to death of hearing the sound of kids
playing outside his house,
so he has decided to make his own speed bumps
to keep the kids away.
Now, what does that conjure up in your mind
when I say speed bumps?
He's got his concrete mixer out and made a little concrete speed bump.
Not quite.
He's chipped away at sections of the pavement.
So it's like a dip more than a bump.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Not quite.
He has literally hammered down, bolted down planks onto the footpath.
Like, they look like 4x2s.
He just bolted them down.
Now that's going to stop the children skateboarding, rollerblading.
Real quick. Any wheeled, yes.
Instantly.
We'll take them off those wheels and probably carry them on at a roly-poly speed.
But what about people who use the footpath, the postie?
Yeah.
People in wheelchairs.
The elderly.
Mobility scooters. And people who don't even see that it's in wheelchairs. The elderly. Mobility scooters.
And people who don't even see
that it's in front of them. They're going to fall over too.
Yeah.
What a ruthless old man.
Yeah. And so is he repentant
now that he's in the news?
Or is he just like, screw these
kids. No, he doesn't seem to be
repentant.
Everyone's saying this is an accident waiting to
happen. I was just wondering if I said it right.
Repentant. Feels like it's a word.
That's my main...
It is a word. One of the bigger things
to worry about, whether or not words exist
at the moment, you know? Does that word
exist? Well, it does now because you said it
and you've given it the meaning.
So the planks have been removed. He did get
a lot of hate for, you know, prams and all kinds of people,
physical disabilities who would struggle.
And when he was asked about it, he denied that they were bolted down.
Except the picture I have in front of me.
He's unrepentant is what you'd say.
He's unrepentant.
He's like, they weren't bolted down, but the picture I have in front of me,
they are bolted down.
Brilliant.
Love it.
But off the back of this grumpy old man,
I would love to know if you've had a run-in with a grumpy neighbour.
Oh, yeah.
If you've got a grumpy neighbour.
Because they get riled up at just the littlest things.
Yeah.
Our neighbour across the road doesn't like anyone parking near their boom.
Not even in their driveway or anything.
Not near the boom.
What do they do?
What do they do if you park on it?
So one time someone parked on the Berm
and they parked their car right against the driver's door
so that you could get in.
You could climb across from the passenger side though?
Yeah, and that's how they got in and drove away.
I would have just scratched their car moving it
and been like, oh, I'm so sorry.
It was like an old as 80s Mazda up against a brand new BMW, though.
Right.
But you got insurance, right?
They don't own the boom.
No, exactly.
You know, the council does.
So it's our grumpy nab.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
The Perth man has installed his own speed bump because he's stuck with the kids in the neighbourhood.
Playing outside.
Having fun.
We want to know your run-ins with your grumpy old neighbours.
Some text messages.
We used to sneak out our front door of our house, hoping the old lady next door didn't see us.
Because she'd come out for a bitch about our hedge, our leaves, our cats.
She tore strips off the neighbours on the other side for letting their ants go onto her property.
Oh, what?
They don't own the ants.
Who owns the ants?
Who owns the ants, man?
Somebody must own the ants.
Oh, my God.
When I was seven, we were at a mate's house having a water fight
when the guy next door started throwing water at us out of the windows,
and we thought, he wants to play too,
so we started shooting the windows with our super soakers.
He came out and grabbed my eye when I started whacking me with it.
Jeez.
Saying, how does that feel?
Until my mate's mum came out and started yelling at the guy.
Had nightmares about that for the next few years.
He thought he was playing along.
Yeah, he was throwing water in a water fight.
I bet your grumpy old neighbours are some brilliant ones coming in.
Our plummy neighbour, this is a text, our Pommy neighbour complained about the kids playing
basketball and listening to music at the same time.
One or the other.
One or
the other. I'm pretty sure you can do both.
My dad was the angry neighbour.
The next door neighbour's dog was always barking and scaring
us, so dad threw a lemon
and got it in the head and the dog stopped barking.
That's not that bad.
That's a good shot, dad. Yeah, I wouldn't say that it was that bad.
Amber, you've got a grumpy old neighbour?
Hiya.
So our neighbour's a bit crazy and he's put up speed, not speed, he's put up road cones
and like...
Oh, okay.
...stuff so we can't turn around and like, because it's a shared driveway.
Has he stolen those road cones from some roadworks?
He has.
Ah, I would just, I would do, I would just make an anonymous call to Fulton Hogan.
And I'd be like, oh.
I thought so because my ex used to work for Fulton Hogan,
but they're not Fulton Hogan cones.
Oh.
There'll be a logo.
There'll be some kind of description on the cone.
Just take them.
And then when he has his spares, just be like, well,
no, they came and got them because those aren't yours.
Yes, just put them in the boot of the car and dump
them at some roadworks down the road.
Just say they came and got
them. What about his paint cans?
Does he put paint cans
out too? Yeah, he's a painter
so that's... I'll just say that the
council came and collected them because they're rubbish.
I work for council so it could work out.
Yeah, no, say you have a call to someone at council and say he's illegally dumping paint.
They don't like that.
All right.
He's obstructing your driveway.
Yeah, pour a little paint down the storm drain.
Yes.
And then they'll come and they'll see that he's got the tins and he's fine with it.
I mean, yeah, let's just absolutely ruin this man's life
by putting out some road cones.
Let's ruin his life.
He's blocking their driveway.
Hey, we're all going to be stuck in our houses.
We might as well ruin people's lives.
Hey, Amber, thanks for your call.
Cohen, you've got a grumpy neighbour?
Cohen.
When I was younger, I used to make these toy guns,
these toy wooden guns.
Okay.
And I'd play with them out on the street.
And maybe one night I got a bit too late and I put on a ski mask just for effect.
Cohen, Cohen, how old were you, Cohen?
I was 10.
I was 10 and a half, maybe 11.
Yeah, okay.
Maybe 15.
Yeah, probably maybe last year.
Anyway, a neighbour saw me and he called the armed offenders squad out,
and they came and they raided my house.
Oh, my God.
And I'd gone to bed.
I'd already gone to bed.
So, yeah, and they closed.
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Off the street as well, and there was about four or five men in my room with guns,
and they separated me and my parents, and they took me in for questioning.
Yeah, I just told them I was playing with my guns.
I had nothing else.
Right, your fake wooden guns. And did you have run-ins with this neighbour quite a bit? Actually, no, I just told him I was playing with my guns. I had nothing else. Right, your fake wooden guns.
And did you have run-ins with this neighbour quite a bit?
Actually, no, no.
That was the only thing that got him really kicking.
But I know what neighbour it was.
Yeah.
Right.
I mean, if you'd done that past my house,
I probably would have called them.
Yeah, I would have as well.
I was 10 and he described me as a 5'10 male with a shotgun.
Yeah, right.
Wearing a ski mask.
Yeah, right.
Okay, I mean, you can see why he did it, Cohen, can't you?
Yeah.
Oh, I've got, yeah, no, I had to write him an apology letter.
Oh, yeah, okay.
How did that go?
Oh, it was all right.
The police made me do a project on gun safety as well.
Okay.
The police gave you homework?
Yeah, I know.
I'll be like, no, I'm going to go do six months in the clink.
I'm not doing homework.
Hey, thanks for your call, Colin.
Some more text messages on your grumpy neighbour.
Somebody said, outside our grandma's beach house,
the council put in one of those floating pontoons.
Oh, yeah.
So kids can swim out.
However, it was too noisy
so grandma cut the rope
oh my god
does she have to swim out to it
I don't know
she
yeah it sounds like
a right
grandma swims out
with a knife in her teeth
no I reckon it was
her secateurs
oh her garden
her flash rose
her rose secateurs
you know that
she keeps those sharp
she keeps those things
diamond sharp.
Flesh, fauna, Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
Thanks, Ash.
Wow.
I think we're all just quite reeling at the news that Idris Elba.
Idris, no.
Has tested positive for Corona, for COVID-19.
That's just, what a shock that is.
I think I feel.
He can fight it.
We're more shocked with the Tom Hanks diagnoses or... I love Tom Hanks, but I love Idris Elba.
Oh, okay.
I just didn't think Stringer Bell would go this way.
I know, right?
Wow.
I mean, what they are saying, 60, 70% of the world are going to get this, so...
To be expected.
If anyone's got this, Idra has.
Yeah.
You know, he can do this.
Well, like he said, don't panic.
Remain pragmatic.
I know, pragmatic.
Good word from him.
Coming up on the show.
We have to deal with mental health. She's still a little Idra.
She's still in her little dream state.
Head-butted the microphone too.
Okay.
To combat our mental health because it is quite,
it's an anxious time for everyone.
It certainly is.
It's stressful.
Yeah.
On lots of levels.
So we've got a psychologist joining us in studio,
Sarah Chatwin, to come and talk about how we can manage.
On the phone, is she?
On the phone, I believe,
because we had guests
have been banned.
We're not allowed to have
guests coming in anymore.
We've got a non-essential personnel
in our company.
Our company's huge.
There's hundreds of people
that work here,
so they're saying
if it's not essential,
you can work from home.
So she'll be on the phone.
All right.
Arguable whether or not
this shit show is essential,
but we'll cling to that.
Sure.
All right.
All thanks to Save My Bacon,
making borrowing better for financially responsible Kiwi sound.
Keep it Gary.
Essential staff, you are?
Yes, that's right.
I have to be here, no matter what. Well, you're the only one that knows? Yes, that's right. I have to be here no matter what.
Well, you're the only one that knows the sound.
That's right.
And a quick PSA announcement.
Don't bother trying to private message me on Facebook.
I'm not going to reply.
I'm not going to tell you what the sound is.
And it's a little creepy.
How many messages have you had?
About 200.
Have you had any nude pics?
It's never offers.
No.
No offers? Never offers like that. It's always offers. No. No offers?
Never offers like that.
It's always just
That sounds like
you're inviting them, Gary.
Yeah.
You might get some
real manky junk pictures
of these.
And it's on you.
You ask for it.
And then you have to tell them
that their junk's
not worth a hundred thousand.
That's not even worth a hundred.
That's not worth me
risking my job for.
You shouldn't be
a surprise to anyone.
Yeah.
Johnny, good morning.
Good morning.
Okay, you haven't tried to message soundkeeper Gary a picture of your junk, have you?
No, I haven't, no.
Okay, all right, good.
All right.
Not yet.
It doesn't sound out of the question, though, Johnny.
See how this guest goes.
Yeah.
All right.
What do you reckon your junk's worth?
Boy.
Johnny.
That felt inappropriate.
My guess?
No, not the sound guess.
We'll get to that soon enough, sweetheart.
But what do you reckon, Mike?
Do you reckon a picture of your genitals would be enough to sway Gary
to give you a clue at least?
Yeah, I'd hope so.
It's not bad okay okay okay well
there you go gary gary looks very awkward now johnny don't um all right this is the sound
and johnny for 100 000 what is it okay i think it is uh when you suck a sports bottle and then when you suck it and let it go, it lets a whole lot of air out.
So that's what I think.
Sorry, play it again, please.
Okay.
Because I used to have one of those ones that had the valve and you'd have to suck it to release the valve and then the water goes gushing out.
Yeah, so you pull the top off it and and then when you pull the top off it,
it makes that sort of noise, and then as you suck it, you let it go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the crinkly, is that the bottle kind of?
The water going.
That's the bottle.
That's the air going back into the bottle when you squeeze it.
Yeah, right.
Like if it was like a plastic water bottle from the dairy,
kind of like a pump bottle as opposed to a
gym box i think we've already had that but i think um in the video there's a um sports bottle in
in the cycle bike at the very end oh okay yeah yellow yellow one i'm pretty sure so
oh okay johnny yep Yep.
I'll see you in the DMs.
That's not the secret sound.
Oh, Gary.
It's just like you're asking him to send a picture of his genitals.
That's very wrong.
I was going to say, come on, mate.
It's inappropriate, isn't it?
Come on, Gary.
Hey, thanks, John.
ZM's Fletch Warner Meganughan and Megan, the podcast.
Harry Styles.
Harry Styles, adore you.
Cabin fever.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
We're yelling at each other.
Yeah, aren't we?
Stress levels are high.
Yes.
They're always high in here.
We're always arguing.
But just generally, stress levels, anxiety are quite high at the moment.
So we thought we would get... Why?
What's happening?
Such a dick.
Registered.
Can you not wind up your sister, please?
I'm trying to do Sarah's intro.
Please.
Go on.
I'm going to ask Sarah how to deal with my annoying brother.
Maybe she can unpackage this whole thing.
How long does she have?
Shush.
Sorry, Sarah.
Okay.
Registered psychologist for MindWorks, Sarah Chatwin,
joins us on the phone now to talk about how we can deal with our mental health.
Good morning, Sarah.
Good morning.
Not happy about how they mucked up my intro.
I've got to be honest.
Me neither.
Megan, unprofessional.
Megan, very unprofessional
so I just couldn't stick to it.
Now, we've had you on the show before
and we thought you'd be the perfect person
to reach out to because, yeah, it's very
anxious times at the moment.
The world is an uncertain place.
It's a bit scary, isn't it?
And, I mean, if it's scary for us,
it's very scary for the kids out there.
So, yeah, I mean, it's just times have changed, bit of transition,
something that many of us, you know, haven't experienced before
and certainly not to this degree.
So, yeah, it's a funny old time.
It's hard to stay positive when things are like this,
but I do think you have to try.
Well, you said for kids.
Mike, I've been really surprised at how
my two daughters are handling it because we
watch the news and stuff and we're not keeping it a secret
from them and they're learning all about it
at school and everything. I've been
pleasantly surprised by how
resilient they're being about it.
But is it because it hasn't completely
dawned on them yet?
Look, children are resilient and I think
you're doing the very best thing
by keeping them informed
and for all parents,
you know,
and people with kids around
listening out there,
you know,
to allow the conversation
to happen
is the best way to go.
But I also think that,
you know,
possibly we haven't gone
through all the implications
of what could happen
with our children
because A,
we don't know
and B, you know, they're not as complex little creatures as adults are.
They don't have the capacity to really rationalise and reason fully.
So it's best to keep them in the conversation
but at a level that they understand
and so that they're not really scared.
Right.
How can we deal with our mental health
and trying to be positive if we are having to self-isolate for two weeks or maybe more?
And a lot of us are already starting to, you know, have to work from home.
How do we get on top of that? Because quite often you might go out for some exercise, but you can't do that now.
Yeah, look, this is the problem.
There are so many limitations, I guess, that we're all looking at for the future.
But I think maybe it's about changing our mindset a bit and understanding that this isn't going to last forever, I don't think,
and neither do the experts.
It perhaps is a time that we can rest up, we can reflect,
we can stick close to those who are in our immediate families.
The one thing that dawned on me that I guess is actually quite nice
is that I guess it brings us closer to the people we're closest with
because if you are in a family or a household,
I guess you end up being with that family or household, you know,
if you don't have COVID, which many of us obviously don't in this country.
So I guess it's, you know, maybe a time of just reflection
and, you know, getting to know those closest to us even better.
But, yeah, I think it helps to talk.
It helps to write things down.
It helps to, you know, just kind of reflect, rest,
understand that it is quite good to rest.
Sometimes it's really good to take time out.
And, I mean, if it's an enforced time out, well, there you go.
We just have to do it.
And, you know, and realising and getting it through our heads
that this will not last forever.
We have some exceptionally hardworking, brilliant people in this world
that are going to come to, you know, whose job it is to get to the bottom of this.
And we have to trust and we have to, you know, look to our communities and how we can care for ourselves
and our community so that, you know,
we come to the end of this and we go, high five,
we got through it, we've learned a lot,
and we move forward.
What about people who, you know, the uncertainty,
there's a lot of uncertainty about it.
As you said, we haven't faced something like to this scale
well I certainly
haven't in my lifetime
and there's a certain
uncertainty
especially for people
who work in industries
that like
man think of
airlines
the big one
yeah
that are affected
any tips
if we've got friends
in that sort of industry
how to approach it
or
because I mean
it's no you're saying
oh it's going to be okay,
because to them that could be the furthest from the believable truth for them.
Yeah, and that's where that anxiety, that whole, you know, depression, anxiety,
all of those symptoms kind of pop up for people who think they, you know,
change is hard, isn't it?
Change at the best of times is hard and confronting.
So this is huge change, you know,
on a grand scale for a lot of people.
So I think it's about being there,
if not in person, because we're in quarantine perhaps,
but, you know, in spirit, by text,
by some form of communication, you know,
and just being there for them and offering support,
if you can, you know, offering an ear,
just reassuring them that whilst it may not you know whilst it may look bleak you know there there is a belief in all of
us that you know we can trust our government we can trust our family members we can trust our
friends um you know to a degree we can trust our employers and we just hope like hell that you know, to a degree, we can trust our employers. And we just hope like Helda, you know, it comes right.
But being there for people in any form,
it doesn't obviously have to be a face-to-face form.
It has to take other forms.
And people think of various ways of, you know,
of networking and being there for others.
But yeah, it's confronting.
And there's no denying that people are going to be very scared,
a little bit depressed and full of anxiety.
Yeah. Well, Sarah Chatwin, thank little bit depressed and full of anxiety. Yeah.
Well, Sarah Chatwin, thank you so much for talking to us
this morning. It's my pleasure.
So sorry I couldn't
see you in person, but here I am on the end of
the phone giving you support. There you go.
Virtual elbow bumps.
Exactly. Brilliant, Sarah.
Thank you.
Woolies, Woolies, which is Australia's version of Countdown.
Same people own them, don't they?
Yep.
It's more or less the same.
Because sometimes you get Woolworths brands in Countdown.
But we used to have Woolworths here ages ago.
And then they all became Countdowns, didn't they?
Yeah.
Okay.
We used to have three guys.
Back in the day. That all became. We used to have three guys. Back in the day.
That all became...
We used to have a Big Fresh.
Big Fresh with the animatronic animals.
Animatronics.
Okay, we're on a bit of a roll now.
What else we got?
What else to funk?
Fresh Choice.
Price Cutter.
Super Value.
Yeah.
I think there are still Fresh Choices.
Yep.
Yeah, it feels like there are.
Super Value, is that one?
Yeah.
Yes.
I think I've seen it.
Super Value, yeah.
Okay. I think we're out it. It's Super Value, yeah. Okay.
I think we're out of a ship came into a harbour carrying supermarkets.
That no longer exist or maybe exist, but we just don't see them anymore.
Yeah, sure.
But Woolies is holding a special shopping hour for the elderly and the disabled
who have been disadvantaged during all this panic buying and craziness.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I've seen a few countries and a few supermarkets around the world
bringing this in, and I would not be surprised if this starts here
because it's for those that you don't want to be involved
in the panic buying that is happening.
But I feel New Zealand's been a little bit better.
Yeah.
I think so.
You know, lately I think we've kind of calmed down, which we need to.
Yep.
But apparently from 7 a.m. toam to 8am, starting today in Australia,
they're going to be doing shopping hours for the elderly and the disabled,
who obviously struggle when the supermarkets are just crazy and panicky.
Right.
That's good.
I'm sure Countdown will bring that in here,
because they've got that sensitive lights down hour on a Wednesday.
Low sense hour.
Low sense hour, yeah.
Yeah.
That's really good.
So I'm sure they'll help out the elderly.
We asked on our Instagram this morning if you have been hoarding.
Stockpiling is the word that we use.
Is the word.
Because hoarding is the old lady on the TV show
who's kept all the things she's pooped in for like 15 years.
And what exactly you've been stockpiling.
Because you stockpiled squiggles and backheels.
I didn't go crazy yesterday because I've got stuff in my pantry,
but just yesterday I was like, you know what,
I just want to have a little pile of chocolates and biscuits
that if I have to get stuck in my house for two weeks,
I can just eat.
Right.
Am I right?
I haven't bought anything.
I ain't got nothing.
Somebody told me.
I've got a couple of rolls of toilet paper in the cupboard? I haven't bought anything. I ain't got nothing. Somebody told me.
I've got a couple of rolls of toilet paper in the cupboard still, I think.
Yeah.
Somebody told me there's new, because I spoke recently,
we talked about crackers and somebody said,
have you tried these?
Now I've got to go to the supermarket again to stockpile some of these.
The snacks crackers that are all American burger flavoured.
Snacks crackers are too thick.
I don't like that much cracker.
Because you put cheese...
I love a challenging cracker.
No, you put a stack of crackers in my mouth
and chewing until it's a paste.
Wait for crackers.
And then all the moisture in your mouth is spoken for.
It's just a powdery...
You won't beat me, cracker.
And then you breathe in.
You're like... Yeah. I don't know if you heard,. And then you breathe in. You're like.
Yeah.
I don't know if you heard, but we're the top of the food chain now.
I love it.
And I love a pickle flavor.
I love anything pickle flavored.
Yeah, right.
I do have a list of things that people have admitted to stockpiling.
Okay.
These are our people. Yeah, they commented on our post.
$100 on cleaning supplies.
I reckon you could hit that.
Because cleaning supplies, they're expensive.
You could hit that really quickly.
Well, unless you get the cheap ones.
Because it's all just chemicals, isn't it?
I've got a one and a half litre.
Now, that's a phenomenal size for a trigger gun spray, isn't it?
What?
I know.
A trigger spray?
A dead hole.
What?
Where?
I simply shan't say.
Have you been going to your wholesalers?
No, it was Cracker Jack.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, right.
Cracker Jack.
And the fun thing about the Euclid products is you learn Spanish at the same time.
Because it's not Dettol, it's El Dettol.
Was it from my Cracker Jack?
You don't own a Cracker Jack.
No, the same one.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We've got the same.
We live in semi-USA.
You can assume we've got the same
in a lot of things.
I didn't want to say that one.
It's that place isn't everywhere.
It's like a parallel imported place.
Oh, what?
They're not importing paella.
No, that's Spanish.
For Spanish, for parallel.
Paella.
It's like your tongue gave up
halfway through that.
There's a lot of L's in there, Megan. It's a parallel importer's heaven. Palala. It's like your tongue gave up halfway through that. There's a lot of L's in there, Megan.
It's a parallel importers heaven.
Be careful.
You'll end up with a massive thing of paella.
Paella.
$120 on garden things so I can grow stuff at home.
Oh, okay.
That's a good deal.
But what are you planting now?
Pumpkins.
Very starchy.
That's it.
Tateys.
Carrots.
Pretty good.
A few carrots away. All your root veggies. All your. Carrots. Pretty good. A few carrots away.
All your root veggies.
All your root, your winter root veg.
$100 on frozen, extra frozen food.
Oh yeah, okay.
That's smart.
Yeah.
Unless your freezer turns itself off like yours did last week and you lose everything.
You get a musher.
Yeah.
13 bottles of wine.
$150 on 13 bottles of wine.
I do have quite, because I have a lot of wine.
Because every now and then I'll get an email and it's like,
buy 12 bottles and it works out to this many.
And I'm like, okay.
And then I buy it and then put it in the garage and forget about it.
So I'm drinking.
You're not that far from me.
If anything, I'm just coming to your house.
I will not be opening the electric gate.
I'll kind of sleep in the treehouse.
Power's out, I can't open the gate. Doesn't it barb wire on the top? I'm just coming to your house. I will not be opening the electric gate. I'll sleep. I'm going to sleep in the treehouse. But I'm sorry, pals, I can't open the gate.
Doesn't it barb wire on the top?
I'm climbing over.
Okay, man.
When you're halfway over, I'm going to start opening it.
You're like, hey, stop.
Help me.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Today's fact of the day is that there is a breed of horse called the Gypsy Vanner.
Yeah.
And have a guess about what's special about the Gypsy Vanna. Yeah. And? Have a guess about what's special about the Gypsy Vanna.
It's real little and cute.
Oh.
It's real big.
Real big.
No, it's not a size.
It has no hair.
No, the opposite.
It has lots of hair.
Yes, but where?
On its body. Close. I'll stop now because it's getting boring. Is it on its balls? It has lots of hair. Yes, but where? On its body.
Close.
I'll stop now because it's getting boring.
Is it on its balls?
It's on its balls.
No.
On its undercarriage.
No.
It grows a moustache.
And out its nostrils.
They've twirled it.
Oh my God, that's amazing.
They grow moustaches and this isn't a one-off look because there's heaps of hair they've all got.
Look at that one. That's something. It looks mustaches, and this isn't a one-off look because there's heaps of them here. They've all got... Look at that one.
That's something.
It looks like it's eaten someone's wig,
and it's like half hanging out.
Yeah.
This is the...
Wow.
If you want to gurgle this at home,
Gypsy, spelt the traditional way,
and Vanna, V-A-N-N-E-R,
and it's a special breed of horse that, yeah,
it grows mustaches.
That's just what I needed to tickle my mood today.
A little mood lifter.
Now, I'm not sure if this is just, I don't believe this is a male-female thing.
I think it's just the breed of horse thing.
Maybe the females can grow moustaches as well.
Right, okay.
But they can grow long manes.
Here's one fletch.
That one's got a long mane and a moustache.
Oh, yes.
Sort of looks like A 1980s rock star
A little bit
Yeah
It does
So there's something
To pass the time today
If you need to Google
Something to put a smile
On your face
You can Google
The Gypsy Vanna Horse
Because today's
Fact of the day
Is horses can grow moustaches
Fact of the day
Day
Day
Day
Day
A doodly do Do do Do do Do do Do do Do do Do do Do do Do do Day, day, day, day, day.
6.60.
Long gone.
On ZM.
Fleets for to Megan.
Tom Hanks was the first big name we've had if you've just awoken.
We've not been listening to the broadcast,
Idris Elba this morning has tested positive for COVID-19.
And a major announcement of how the UK is going to be handling it.
Boris Johnson had a big press conference.
Yeah, I watched Jacinda's press conference yesterday.
Today there'll be a huge government announcement on how they're going to help the people and
small businesses and businesses alike.
New York's got an eight o'clock curfew.
Yeah, New York's got a curfew.
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland are all going on lockdown, those entire cities.
That's millions of people.
That's crazy.
So it's kind of unavoidable.
And for us coming to work, we try to find things to talk about.
And it's very hard to find anything.
Slim pickings.
Yeah.
Very slim pickings.
But Tom Hanks, of course, the first big name to say he'd tested positive
is in isolation in Australia.
So he's on the Gold Coast with his wife.
Yes.
Because I initially thought they'd gone home,
because he was shooting a movie there with Baz Luhrmann, wasn't he?
No, Baz Luhrmann's in isolation too.
Yeah, I've heard that too.
He's gone into isolation.
But Tom Hanks, keeping us all updated, we need to know how Tom Hanks is doing.
Yesterday he put up a photo saying, thanks to all the helpers, let's take care of ourselves
and each other.
Hanks.
And he put up a photo of a little stuffed kangaroo holding an Australian flag, one of
those little clip-on koalas.
Classic.
Did your parents even go on holiday in Australia if they didn't bring you back a pack of those?
Yeah, classic. Did your parents even go on holiday in Australia if they didn't bring you back a pack of those? Yeah, true.
And a cube of Vegemite and some toast with Vegemite on it.
Now, immediately everybody's eyes were drawn to how much bloody Vegemite Tom Hanks put
on his toast.
Because it's fair to say whether or not your team Marmite or Vegemite.
Vegemite.
That's...
Oh.
I'm both.
I'm Marmite all the way.
You're bi-yeast there.
I'm bi-yeast.
I'm bi-mite.
Bi-mite.
You're bi-mite.
Bi-mite-ual.
Yeah.
I'll have either.
Or both.
I'm into Marmite.
It's a lot.
Regardless of what you're putting on there.
It's a lot.
He slathered it on.
It is thick.
Has he had it before?
Like, that's a rookie era.
Yeah.
That is what I imagine someone's first time with Vegemite or Marmite would be like.
Yeah, because they'd put it on jam or Nutella.
Basically any spread that's not made of leftovers, brewers yeast.
But this one's very, you don't need it a lot.
But Pam, I think most people are like, that's too much.
Yeah. He's done pretty well getting to the edges though. Yeah, yeah. You don't need a lot. But Pam, I think most people are like, that's too much. Yeah.
We asked.
He's done pretty well getting to the edges though.
Yeah, okay.
He's not left a whole lot of blank real estate.
Has he given any response after the outcry?
I haven't seen any response, but we asked on our poll if it's too much Vegemite.
82% of people said far too much Vegemite.
18% said no, they love it.
Yeah, that's still amazing that 18% of people have that much.
Because I like to,
if I'm going to do
Marmite on toast,
I will soak it in butter.
The bread will be soaked
with butter.
That's the key.
And then it's just
a light Marmite-ing.
It's a kiss of Marmite.
I'll do a little bit
more than a kiss.
I'll do a pash of Vegemite.
A pash of Vegemite.
Okay.
I might do a slight
like grope of Vegemite.
Yep.
I'm certainly not going any deeper into the Vegemite than that.
But it's a weird analogy.
He put on too much Vegemite.
Yeah.
Well, you said kiss.
I thought we'd opened it up to content.
Maybe this breakfast, when Tom Hanks has breakfast today,
there'll be an update.
Oh, somebody says they slather.
Someone just messaged them.
They slather Marmite on thicker than Nutella
and they have a strict no butter policy.
Oh!
What is wrong with you?
How does the roof of your mouth feel about this?
I feel like it's under constant attack.
It's one way to feel alive in the morning.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
One thing about this current situation we find ourselves in as a world
is that we're being reminded of the most basic of pleasantries and manners.
Sneeze into your elbow.
Don't cough in people's faces.
Wash your hands.
Wash your hands.
Check on your elderly neighbours.
Your friend at the weekend, there was an event on
and the guy's toilet line was really unusually long.
And taking ages.
Yeah.
And I was like, what's happening there?
And one guy came out and said that, oh, yeah,
all the guys are washing their hands thoroughly. Which makes me think guys don't normally do that. Oh, you know, it's like, what's happening there? And one guy came out and said that, oh, yeah, all the guys are washing their hands thoroughly.
Which makes me think guys don't normally do that.
Oh, you know that.
Yeah.
You know that.
People will use the urinal and then they just walk straight out.
I'm like, come on, you've just touched it.
Maybe you can't touch other things.
Yeah.
Wash your hands.
And then the wash usually is just a shake out.
But give it a bit of soap.
Give it a bit of oomph.
Yeah.
Tell you what, my hands do feel very clean.
However,
have you been experiencing
dry hands?
I have actually, yes.
I know you're sensitive.
I'm sensitive skin.
I've been noticing
some little peels.
Like, look at there.
Should I bring in
like a hand cream for us?
A pump bottle?
Or is that sharing germs?
No, because you pump it onto your...
Oh, no, you're pumping it out,
aren't you?
Yeah.
I think we can wipe the top of it.
Well, I can just get some, but like, what do you buy? Just moisturiser. What moisturiser? We've got a lovely moisturiser. Oh, because you pump it onto your... Oh, now you're pumping it out, aren't you? Yeah. And then we can wipe the top of it. Well, I can just get some, but like
what do you buy? Just moisturiser. What moisturiser?
We've got a lovely moisturiser. Oh, okay.
I find when I put in my
oil, my beard oil, I just
give it a wipe over the hands
with the residue. Okay.
But then you're also wiping all the germs
from your beard onto your hands.
But I'm imagining you've just had a shower
when you've done this.
Yeah.
I thought the rule was no showers.
I thought we were going, no bathing in this. Yuck.
I read the wrong pamphlet.
Please start showering.
That was the water restrictions.
Yeah.
Well, one of the other things we've been reminded of
is how not to be a,
this is an article from the Huffington Post,
how to not be a drive-thru customer that everybody hates.
Because apparently nobody wants to really go into a restaurant at the moment.
Yeah, right.
So drive-thrus.
Drive-thru because you're just dealing with the one person rather than a lot.
So they've released a list of drive-thru etiquettes.
Know when you want to order in advance.
Oh, God.
Don't get there to the ordering box and then decide that you're going to start thinking in advance. Oh, God. Don't get there to the ordering box
and then decide that you're going to start thinking about it.
Yeah, right.
It's not your first time.
If it is your first time ever at a McDonald's drive-thru,
I forgive you.
You're like, whoa, what?
What is a Big Mac?
Let's be honest.
You know because you get the same thing every time you go there.
I do.
A quarter pound of what?
This is so confusing.
Maybe they don't put all their stuff on the menu.
But you know.
No, but I went to KFC at the weekend
for like the first time for abs.
Why have you not told us this?
Oh my God.
Wow.
I know.
You went to KFC?
We're feeling very sensitive,
so I just wanted to get a potato and gravy,
but it wasn't on the board.
Wait, you went through the drive-thru for just a potato
and gravy? No, Andrew got a box thing.
A quarter pack?
It was a box that had lots of different stuff
in it. What did you get? No, it wasn't a quarter
pack. I got, so I was like, and I
feel like a little fries. So I was like, can I have a little
fries? Is there something that has a little fries,
a little potato and gravy, and a Coke?
You've got to get better at being vulnerable.
Like, that's pathetic.
That's really shit.
That's pathetic.
But then she was like, no, you're going to have to get them all individually.
I was like, well, where are they individually listed?
Because that's the shittest sounding combo in all time.
A potato and gravy, small chips, and a Coke Zero?
No, I just wanted to dip my little chippies in the potato and gravy
and then have a sloop of Coke.
Yeah, but that's why you also had to go to a lame.
You've got to go big.
You've got to get a bucket of chicken.
You know, Andrew had a big box of stuff.
Did you have a little bit of his chicken?
No, I wasn't allowed. Well, it's not
allowed. Well, good, because you didn't order it.
He said you should have ordered some if you wanted it.
Yeah. Wow, he played hardball.
Yeah. Surprising.
Okay, well, that's... I'm disappointed
in you. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. I want to check
that you're okay, because this is a big thing, but I'm disappointed in you Yeah, but that's what I'm saying I want to check that you're okay Because this is a big thing
But I'm also disappointed
That was your blowout
How else does this article say to be more
So know what you want to order before you get there
Speak clearly
Yep
Hello
Yeah
Speak as clearly as you can
Don't mumble
Make it audible
Yeah, but don't talk
You know, some people talk to like
Foreign people like they don't know how to speak.
You know, you don't want to be that person.
Hello?
I think you should speak to everybody over an intercom like that.
Really?
Because they're never the greatest quality.
Oh, okay.
So there's always a crackle.
I think you should speak loud, slowly.
Yeah, exactly.
What?
But also how funny is it when you're like three cars back
and you can hear what people are ordering?
Yeah.
Because they're really yelling at the person.
Turn off the radio or music to ensure that employees can
hear you clearly as that goes across.
That's another way to do it. When it's
time to move to the checkout window, don't dilly
dally. Okay. There's nothing
more frustrating than seeing the car not moving
forward into the gap. They're putting away all their
coins into the right
pocket of their purse. Get that sorted.
Don't suddenly decide to change your order when you get to the ordering window.
Yeah, it's done.
Too late.
It's a done deal.
Yeah.
If you're spreading a big, if you're buying a big lot and there's multiple people,
don't make the person deal with multiple cards.
That's what bank transfers are for.
Yeah, you transfer it between friends.
Get the receipt or just go in.
Just go in if there's more than one order.
That's true as well.
Yeah.
Make sure you have your method of payment ready
so you're not fumbling around because you didn't have enough money
and now you've got to find your card.
Sorry.
This is something I did not know.
If it's raining, turn off your windscreen wipers
as it flicks the person serving you with water.
Does it?
Yeah.
I didn't even think about that. If it's raining and it's going to flick, they get just a little flick with the water. Does it? Yeah. I didn't even think about that.
That's our first one.
They get just a little
flick with the water.
If you're ordering
drinks, clear the
cup holder in advance.
That's something I
never do.
This sounds very
passive aggressive.
And I panic.
I panic.
Because it's got your
morning coffee or your
afternoon coffee still
in there.
Or like the garage
door opener's in there
with like a pen and a
torch and just a whole lot of stuff. Your phone's in there but then you've garage door opener's in there with like a pen and a torch
and just a whole lot of stuff.
Your phone's in there, but now you've got a hand.
Yeah, that's a great, that's something to do.
This is good etiquette stuff.
This is good, yeah.
It's very passive-aggressive, this list.
And mistakes will happen, so be patient with the employees.
And don't cough on them is another one you can probably add to that.
Please list the individual signs.
On the bottom, I just wanted a small taty and gravy.
Thank you.
No.
You really need to work on your blowouts.
That's your homework, all right?
I want you to have a proper blowout.
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