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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan podcast.
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We're joined in the studio before the podcast by Sarah Corsey.
Hello.
I say Sarah Corsey, I'll give you your first name, I'll give you your last name.
Because there's lots of Sarahs.
There is, yeah.
She's just a Corsey.
And you work in the office here at ZM.
I do.
And you've burst through the studio just now with a box.
Yep.
It's way better than that box.
Is it?
What is it?
I mean, I can read it, but maybe for the benefit of our listeners who are usually engaging in an audio way of listening.
I've got a full box of Whittaker's fundraising chocolate slabs because I'm fundraising.
Because you're 16?
Are you fundraising younger?
You want to go to the Gold Coast with the netball team?
Yes.
And I need to sell this whole box to get there.
What are you fundraising for?
Your social netball team?
It's definitely for my netball team.
It's not social.
It feels like you're just ripping everybody off.
Don't say that.
It feels like you found this box of chocolates,
now you say you're
fundraising and all the money's just going into the back pocket no it's not i promise wait do you
play for you play for an actual club i do i play for a real club what club what club college rifles
netball club oh and remi wearer you play for college rifles you bitch yeah and we've got a
fundraise oh my god why you're in remi wear I just asked someone to like bankroll the whole thing.
What position do you play?
Wing defence.
No.
Wing attack.
No.
Wing defence.
Goal shoot.
Yep.
Are you goal shoot?
And a goal attack
because I'm quite short.
Oh my God,
that's what I used to play.
There you go.
We're looking for a shooter.
Are you?
Yes.
She'll break.
No, she's like,
I don't want to cut my nails.
This one's got a dicky hip.
And then last time
she played indoor netball
she did a, what did you do? ACL. My knee up to my ACL. Oh no's got a dicky hip. And then last time, last time she played indoor netball,
she did a,
what did you do?
ACL.
ACL.
Oh no.
She's a dud.
Every netball player has.
So you'll fit in well.
Come on up in there. Okay, cute.
So what are you fundraising for?
New uniforms or something?
New pennies?
I'm not sure.
I'm not really sure,
but I think maybe new balls
or bits.
I'm sorry, what?
You've got to have a goal.
Yeah, you've got to tell us.
I don't know.
I guess some new equipment
Don't you pay fees?
What the fuck equipment
Do you need for people?
A ball?
I'll buy you a ball
If it's a ball you're after
Okay
And also
You white people from when you were
Coming in here
Asking for money
For a non-specific cause
Don't you pay fees?
Yes we have to pay fees
But you have to keep the coaches
And the lights And the umpires There's keep the coaches and the lights and there's a
lot the umpires yeah there's a lot of them they should be doing it for the passion sometimes it
runs out especially when there's so much abuse yeah so um how much would you buy a whitaker's
peanut slab for at the supermarket because this is your problem you. How much are you asking for each one? I'm only asking a mere $2.
See, I'm pretty sure I'm special.
At Countdown?
Yep.
They're $1.80.
Okay, that's a 20 cents market.
But if I buy 10 of them?
How much at the supermarket when they do a two for special?
$3.50 or $4?
I don't know.
This is just current prices.
You know, this isn't the point.
You're helping Sikorsi.
What's a five pack?
No, let's... A three pack is... current prices. You know, this isn't the point. You're helping a Sikorsi. What's a five pack? No, let's fuck her.
A three pack at the warehouse is $3.
Shit.
Shit.
You're fucked.
I'll buy five.
See?
Thank you, Megan.
It would be cheaper to go to the warehouse, buy a whole bunch of three packs, and sell
them for $6.
You're doubling your money.
There's no feel good that I'm helping out a mate.
No, no, no.
I'm telling you.
What about the cost to get to the supermarket?
Well, you're going anyway.
I'm delivering it.
How much do you buy the fundraising box for?
How much do they work out per?
No, just given to you.
So you got given it.
I don't know.
I don't know the fine print.
But the club would have had to have made an initial investment.
Yeah.
I'm sure they had.
What's their return on investment? But also, I'm sure they had. What's their return on investment?
But also, I'm sure that Whittaker's sell them cheaper
so that Whittaker's do their thing to help out.
They do.
That's them.
They do their part because they've got their name slapped on the side of that.
But surely they're not doing them for a dollar a bar.
There's a website, www.houseoffundraising.co.nz.
Houseoffundraising.co.nz.
Yeah, because if it's cheaper than the warehouse,
then Sarah won't need to go to the warehouse.
That's where I'll be getting them from.
Also, can I have that box afterwards?
Whitaker's official fundraising.
Absolutely, I've got two.
Because I'll just fill it up.
You can buy all of them and then you can have the box.
And then you'll just go around your apartment block.
Be like, hi, I'm raising money for a spell of one.
And you do the Whitaker's for sponsoring, boy.
I don't have an exact, but this is House of Fundraising
is the Whittaker's initiative.
They also do fundraising juicies.
Oh, yeah.
If I buy five, do I automatically get into college rifles?
Yes.
You've become that annoying mum, though, in the workplace
if you don't even have kids.
Oh, they're talking about me.
Oh, my God talking about Megan?
You bitch!
That was so good!
I take back my $10!
Fuck you!
I don't have kids. Yeah, you both have.
Okay, all right, leave it there.
ZM.
Head music.
Lives here.
Fleece, Fawn and Megan.
The podcast.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fleece, Fawn and Megan.
Good morning. Happy Wednesday. Is it well i mean no it's happy enough for me for you i mean there's been worse
wednesdays for example the wednesday where the first nuclear bomb was dropped bad wednesday
yeah okay hell of a hell of a hell of a hump day hell of a hump day. Hell of a hump day.
That day in history.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And almost in history, that's a metaphorical hump day.
Yeah.
You know, it's all changed since then, isn't it?
It has.
I don't want to get too deep.
It's a real downer start to the show, isn't it?
I don't want to get too philosophical on it.
Yeah.
Well, the box that is behind you, Megan, that needed a four-digit pin, that's been opened.
The door is ajar.
And inside...
Some more locks.
The briefcase.
A briefcase with a combination lock on it that needs to be opened.
I heard Mama Di opened this yesterday with Bree and Clint.
Yeah, so I think we've got to get into that briefcase,
which is inside the box.
It's like one of those Russian stacking dolls.
Yes.
There better not be a petty cash box.
A babushka?
Yeah.
I think so.
Or a mamushka.
So 8 o'clock, we'll have another close.
We get closer to unlocking it.
A matryoshka. Matryoshka. Matryoshka. matryoshka.
Matryoshka.
Matryoshka.
Matryoshka.
It literally means little matron,
meaning the females inside are getting smaller and smaller.
Well, we'll get a clue at 8 o'clock
as to what's in that briefcase
because I believe once we get inside that,
we'll know exactly what we're giving away
and how you can win.
Are you sure?
No, I'm absolutely not.
But I sounded sure.
Swinging wildly for the fences.
That is the key. The top six is
coming up soon on the show. Geese.
Yes. There's a ton of them.
And they're everywhere.
That's how margarine was invented.
Wasn't it? To fatten up geese.
Yes. It was pumped into their stomachs against their That's right. To fatten up geese. Yes. So we could eat them.
It was pumped into their stomachs against their will for farroir, which is geese liver pate.
Yeah.
Now we put it on Molenberg and dolo white loaf bread.
Your mum slops it on everything.
Yeah.
Sometimes she even tries cooking with it and you're like, no.
No.
No, mum.
This is not the early 1980s anymore.
But the Hamilton City Council's got a bit of a problem with them.
There's a ton of them down by the Hamilton Lake.
The top six places we could put those geese coming up.
Because otherwise you're just going to...
Cull them, aren't they?
Cull them.
You say cull because it doesn't necessarily always mean kill.
Well, it does.
99% of the time it is a killing.
But yeah, otherwise they're just going to chop their heads off.
Six past six.
Or nuke them.
Which would you prefer?
In lighter news, next, a campaign for an emoji we need.
I'm horning, horning, horning, horning.
Fetchvorn and Megan's long weekend group toot.
The unmissable event on Friday's podcast, ZM.
There's a group of people that are pretty serious about rosé
and they are very serious about getting a rosé emoji.
They're saying that the red is represented by the two glasses of red,
clinking champagne flutes.
You can use those.
And there is a bottle of spemento or champagne.
Yeah.
But there is no rosé.
Like a pinkish.
A pinkish wine. A pinkish wine.
A pinkish wine glass.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, all the important things in life, eh?
Like lobbying for a new emoji. I can see the clinking glasses for champagne.
Oh, there's a pop and cork.
But the pop and cork, so that's double representation of the bubbles.
Yeah.
And there's a red wine glass,
but I can't see a plane still quiet.
I can't see...
There's no shardies, nah.
The Consortium for the Protection of Cerato de...
It's a popular rosé.
That was flawless Italian.
Thank you.
Apologies to all of our Italian-speaking listeners this morning.
They have gone to the people who choose and create emojis
and put their case forward and said it's absolutely discriminatory.
They said this is a legacy of the marginalization
that the world of rosé has suffered for decades
and which it continues to deal with,
notwithstanding the phenomenal growth,
global growth of sales in recent years.
They sound pretty serious about the fact that they really want a rosé emoji.
More serious than a 22-year-old white girl whose parents have a boat.
Yeah.
Are you going to tell everybody what you just said off air?
I don't like a rosé.
I'm not a fan.
I really want to because it's a pink wine, but I'm just not a rosé.
What don't you like about it?
It's not nice.
You had rosé at your wedding. Yeah, but that had raspberry syrup in it.
Yeah, that was yum.
It was real yum.
It was a wine slushy.
Yeah, it was a wine slushy.
So rosé can be made using any red grape variety.
In New Zealand, we use a Syrah, a Merlot, a Cabernet Sauvignon, and a Pinot Noir.
But we also make rosé using Pinot Gris grapes.
But then, so how do they make it?
Do they just water it down?
I don't know.
Do they get it red and water it down?
Or do they mix it with white?
Well, it's a Pinot Gris grape as well, so that's a white.
So they dilute it with the mix of both.
We're going to need a vintner.
That is, but around the world mostly it's red.
What we need, no, let's go to the vintner.
I feel a company trip to Amersfield coming.
A field trip.
A field trip to a winery.
A reconnaissance mission.
To do research and learn.
For this break, having a 10 past 6 on a Wednesday.
I'm quite happy for people to line up some rosés for me to try.
Yeah.
And change my mind.
Right, but what's your go-to then?
I'm not telling you.
Chardonnay.
No, I'm not a chardonnay.
You're a sav.
You're a sav.
An entry-level sav.
You are those plastic bottles of sav.
I'm not an entry-level sav.
You are an entry-level sav.
I'm a beautiful, like, Marlboro.
No, you're not.
No, you're entry-level salve.
Oh.
Yeah.
No, you're the cheapest bottle of wine in the supermarket.
But I always bloody love salve, don't I?
Or a Pinot Noir.
That also makes me basic.
Yeah, Pinot Noir.
Yeah, that's my, yeah, I'm sophisticated.
That's why I like that one.
Red, you know, lots of flavour.
Yeah.
Central Otago Pinot Noir.
Yeah, Central Otago.
That's a great drink.
Yeah.
For drinking.
I mean, I'll drink anyway.
You sound like you already had one.
That's a great region for drinking.
Yeah.
All right, it's time for a 20 port.
What do you got in your ports?
Well, maybe, fingers crossed, we'll have a rose emoji soon enough.
Maybe in time for summer.
If this lobbying from the Italian grape growers goes well.
I'm just checking this fella's LinkedIn.
Okay.
To see what gives him the right.
What gives him the damn right?
Choice is where he works, and he's worked there for four years and eight months,
according to LinkedIn.
That is, we are fearless in finding truth.
We all work together to help.
We drive positive change and impact.
Who are these people?
Set up by consumers for consumers.
Choice in Australia.
This is where this guy works.
I'm about to tell you about Ashley.
Oh, they like our consumer New Zealand.
But are they?
I don't know.
They are, but just...
Well, there's a story that's a headline that's come out.
And by the way, this is an Ashley's first foray into headline grabbing stories.
Because Ashley Iredale, Australia's Ashley Iredale,
also had a story this year about, are you doing your lingerie wrong?
Okay.
The biggest mistakes you're making washing your clothes and a trick to saving a fortune on detergent every year. Okay. The biggest mistakes you're making washing your clothes
and a trick to saving a fortune on detergent every year.
Okay.
Which is this guy's just absolutely creating content
that's grabbing headlines, isn't it?
Because it's this sort of palatable business.
Well, he said in the...
God damn it.
I wanted him just to be some yokel with no background.
He said you don't need to pre-rinse plates
before putting them in the dishwasher.
Thank you.
He's a monster.
He's obviously never dealt with baked on avocado.
Australia baked on avocado.
How long are you leaving your plates
that avocado's baked on?
No, no, no.
It bakes on in the wash.
If it's like stuck on,
like if it's a bit smeared on or pushed on and it doesn't get washed off immediately, the heat will Yeah, right. If it's like stuck on, like if it's a bit smeared on
or it's pushed on
and it doesn't get washed off immediately,
the heat will bake it on.
The Australia's version of Consumer NZ,
it's like unbiased reviews
and so I feel like we can trust them.
I think it's on big dishwasher money.
I think it's on big dishwasher money.
I never rinse.
You pull it out,
it hasn't cleaned properly,
you run the cycle again, it might clean it
the second time. Now you've used your dishwasher twice
meaning that it's, you know, you've used
it twice and if you have to do that
all the time, it's halving its life cycle
meaning you're going to have to buy a new dishwasher sooner.
And who's getting
his commish?
Ashley. If your dishwasher's
not washing your dishes, then there's something
wrong with the dishwasher.
That's the whole point.
Like if you've got leftovers, they'll get scraped off. But you don't need to rinse.
You're wasting water.
That's what the food trap's for.
And then you empty the food.
Oh, gross.
I would rather rinse.
I would rather take an hour extra rinse and then clean out that
because it always falls on me to clean out.
It's like the shower trap and the food trap in the dishwasher.
It's always on me. I'm the guy that has
to deal with whatever's alive in there.
Then you're washing your dishes twice and you're wasting
water. What's the
point? It's a light rinse.
You do it straight after you've
eaten so nothing's stuck on there.
I feel very vindicated now that this professional
has said it's not necessary. He said you may actually
fool your dishwasher into thinking you only need the lightest of
washers, but then if you only need the lightest of washers, because you have a free rinse,
then that's absolutely fine.
I'll rinse everything and use the lightest eco wash.
And that's what I do every time.
Don't need to empty the trap all the time.
It's the way to go.
You're an analyst impacting the environment.
Yeah.
So Megan's killing dolphins, basically.
Um, excuse me. You're the one
who's using water rinsing your
dishes. She's on the heaviest cycle.
I'm not on the heaviest cycle. I'm on normal cycle
actually and I don't pre-rinse
with a shit ton of water. Those little
red balls that are in the middle of the dishwashing
tablets and she's poking it in a blow
hole. I don't know. I have
red balls in my dish tablets. That's the
elite. I don't have red balls.
What do you use?
I just use like, it's just got two colours, a yellow and a, it doesn't have a red ball in it.
That's like fancy.
Do you get the ones with the ball?
Do you get the ones with the ball in the middle?
That's like the quantum blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Oh yeah, that's real fancy.
They're spinning.
Do you not use those ones?
I get the, what's the ones in the boxes?
It's not the main.
And it says consumer choice?
What are those?
Oh, and you don't need to take it out of the wrap. The wrap dissolves? No, and you don't have to take it out of the wrap. And they're actually the boxes. And it says consumer choice? What are those? And you don't need to take it out of the wrap.
The wrap dissolves.
And you don't have to take it out of the wrap.
And they're actually the best.
I reckon they're the best.
Yeah, because also the wrapper is dissolvable,
better for the environment.
It's not wrapped in plastic.
So actually, if we're honest,
you're the one poking the wrappers
into the dolphin's blowhole.
Yeah.
And the red balls.
I have done that.
And the red ball.
You're actually suffocating dolphins.
The red ball disappears, right? It's not Powerball. I have done that. And the Red Bull. You're actually suffocating dolphins.
The Red Bull disappears, right?
It's not Powerball.
That's Lotto.
What's that called?
Lotto.
I like to imagine it bouncing around.
Ting, ting, ting, ting.
Cleaning up the plates.
Yeah, yeah.
Like two forks are having a game of tennis with it.
Mid-wash.
Imagine there's a whole lot going on in there.
What are they not the best?
I love how we use the same one because it's cheaper.
We need new dishwashing tablets and I go to Cracker Jack and I get the parallel imported ones.
You're getting the finished quantum with the ball.
Oh my God, 1% are over there.
Oh, I shan't be.
Can we get active rapid?
Yes, those ones.
Show me your ones.
We get the cheap ones.
Show me your ones.
It comes in a box and it says consumer choice or something.
Oh, you guys are boomers.
Those are boomers dishwashing tablets.
You probably get the powder.
No, I don't get the powder.
Get the powder.
I don't get the powder.
Do you still put one?
You taught my wife a bad habit.
What?
That you put one in the door and the little clicky thing,
the dishwasher, and you chuck another one on the floor
of the dishwasher.
I never taught her that.
Oh, my, you did.
She's like, Fletch taught me this and she chucks one.
And I'm like, well, you're using twice as many tablets.
I never said that to her.
She's throwing me out of the bus.
I only use one each time.
But do you throw it on the bottom rather than put it in the door?
Or was that just how you dealt with a specific dishwasher you had?
Yeah, an old one.
Consumer recommends our one.
Yeah, that's what boomers like to look for on their.
Boomers are always like,
ah, consumer services.
You're the boomer who's rinsing their dishes
for their dishwasher.
You're like holding your hand through the wash.
Come on, dishwasher, you've got this.
Producer Jared, who doesn't have a dishwasher,
is calling dishwashers choogy.
Are you jealous that you just don't have a dishwasher, Jared?
I might be.
I might be a little bit jealous.
Can I also just note, no one listening will know this, Jared. I might be. I might be a little bit jealous. Can I also just note,
no one listening will know this,
Jared's dedication to the show,
he'd just taken a bite of hot pie
and when you came to speak to him,
he spat it into his own hand.
Yeah, good.
It's actually a milkshake lolly.
I thought it was hot the way you were like...
Okay, should we be eating milkshake lollies
at 6.24am, Jared?
This is disgusting.
I'm sorry.
He hasn't eaten his pie yet
but he's had his red bull. You can't have your
dessert before your pie.
I can and I will.
Jeez, God I worry about you.
How are you not the size of a house?
You must have
the hamster running on the wheel
inside you. Yeah, I've got a crazy metabolism.
Yeah, crazy metabolism.
ZM's Fletch,-Megan, the podcast.
So if you're using State Highway 1 through Ashburton today,
the bridge, which has been closed this morning, will be open.
So last night, and you would have seen on the news or pictures yesterday
of the little slump in the middle of the bridge.
Yeah.
Yeah. So they shut the bridge yesterday, in the middle of the bridge. Yeah. Yeah.
So they shut the bridge yesterday.
And then last night they did load testing.
So I don't know if you saw the news.
They got a big truck with like concrete bricks on it,
big concrete weights.
And then they were going to put them on the bridge,
crane them in to the spot that was slumping.
And then if the bridge didn't collapse or move,
they're like, it's okay to
drive over.
Is that the twist? I'm not an engineer, I don't know
how, but they did say there was a crack
under the bridge.
And it moved 15 centimetres
the slumpy bit.
What?
I know, it's pretty nuts.
So last night at 11...
So it is only open this morning to light vehicles.
So at 11.25 last night, they opened it.
About 30 cars went across the bridge when they opened it.
They were waiting.
And it will be open to light vehicles this morning.
And I think until about 10.
Between 10 and 2 today,
the bridge will be closed for further investigations,
but there is a detour in place. Now, it
is not the detour that makes you go
13 hours through
the west coast of Monica and back
up again. Yesterday when we were looking,
that was the only
option. Yeah, the other
two bridges, I believe, further up the Ashburton
River were also affected because they're smaller
and obviously closer to the source of where
it was still flooding. But
heavy vehicles today will be able to
use State Highway 77
so it'll all be signposted
just before you get to the Ashburton Bridge
there'll be signposts
go through Methvin and Mount Summers
and then you can use Pop Out. So it's like a
scenic detour.
Right.
But it's not going to take you an extra 12 hours down the West Coast.
Good. So if you're using...
Imagine driving across the bridge though.
Yeah.
If you're using State Highway 1 today through Ashburton,
you've got till 10am and then reopening at 2pm from the latest.
Just like what?
Who knows?
And would you know 30k?
That's the other thing.
You're allowed to go over the bridge, but you've got to go slowly.
Wouldn't you rather go fast?
In case it collapses under you?
Yeah, like, yeah.
Oh, Final Destination is just playing over and over in my head.
I think I'd rather take the detour,
which I don't know would take that long, to be honest.
Maybe an extra 45, 50.
Also, ouch, if
you're driving over it and
you drive over it and it causes it to dip a little
bit lower. Like when you're in the car and it
drags on a speed bump or a hill.
You're backing out of a driveway
and just the little curb cuts a little bit sting.
You're like, oh.
Fleshforn and Megan.
The podcast. ZM.
From the ZM clickbait room, this is the top six. Hi there
Now I've been incorrectly saying
That these geese are a problem at Hamilton Lake
That is not true
They've got their own problems
Ducks, swans
Probably the odd goose as well
But these are 180 Canadian geese
Taking residence at Huntley's Lake Huckanoa
Okay
They are down by the Huntley Domain
They eat
Each goose can eat 1kg of grass
Including the roots
A day
Whoa
That's why
Go home Canadian geese
That's exactly the point
But what does 1kg of grass look like?
That's surely bigger than their stomach.
A lot of grass.
They're just eating all day long.
That's why they poop.
It goes in and it goes out.
And that's the problem, isn't it?
The poop that pollutes.
Oh, you haven't had it yet.
But one day when it'll be summer and Bastion will be crawling around outside
and you're like, he's safe out there.
And then you look out and you're like, how much grass have you eaten?
There's grass around his mouth.
And then here comes the green poos.
It goes through the kids real quick.
And I assume kids like geese.
When they eat it, they sheet it.
Yeah, so they are eating the grass but are a bit picky,
so they leave the weeds.
And so now the weeds are taking over and they eat the grass roots
and everything, and then there's just turds all over the soccer field.
It's a real situation.
So the council are saying we're going to cull them.
And I thought this would happen, when this happens with birds, it's like when it happens with rabbits in a park,
it happens at night.
They put up some signs a few weeks beforehand saying,
these are the dates.
If you hear shots, don't panic.
Oh, my God.
And you would go down there and, you know, some professionals,
and they are professionals.
They're professional pest eradicators.
We'll take care of the birds.
But they're going to poison them. Oh, that seems a bit. They're professional pest eradicators. We'll take care of the birds. But they're going to poison them.
Oh, that seems a bit...
They're going to put out bait.
And the geese will eat it.
And then apparently it takes a maximum of half an hour for it to...
And as the geese drop, a contractor will go in and get the geese.
So no one's going to just look out the window and be like,
Ah!
And just hear a field of dead geese.
180, right.
God. They'll be picked up as they, ah, and just hear 180. Right. God.
They'll be picked up as they.
Look like a battlefield.
Yeah.
So.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Poison them seems.
I don't know what's worse.
Why do you not have an issue with, why do you have an issue with that, but not shooting
them?
Quick.
It's humane, right?
Yeah, I guess so.
Poisoning's always like a last resort.
Like if you can't catch a rat in a rat trap, I'm all for poisoning it.
But you put the trap first because it's a more humane way of doing it.
Or shooting something that's over like that.
But to poison something, it'll be like...
I don't feel good.
You know how dramatic geese are?
For however long.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Okay.
So people aren't happy.
They're like, well, we should put these geese somewhere else.
Yeah, yeah.
Like hanging up in a restaurant.
They're saying it's their last resort.
You can eat geese.
It's not very nice.
It's not very nice.
But they've been eating like a pretty good diet of grass and stuff.
Or at least get a couple of duvets out of them.
Yeah.
Well, the top six things to do with the geese.
Number six, pluck them and make those expensive jackets.
Yes.
You know those really, you put them on and you're like,
Oh my God.
Canada.
Yeah.
Like the real thick down jackets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That are actually too hot to wear in New Zealand.
Way too hot. Yeah. Apart from the bottom part of jackets. Yeah. Yeah. That are actually too hot to wear in New Zealand. Way too hot.
Yeah.
Apart from the bottom part of the South Island.
Yeah.
There's days where that's required.
But yeah, they're made for like the arctic blasts of northern Canada.
Oh my God.
That's...
Number five on the list of the top six things to do with Canadian geese in Huntly.
Tell them to go back to Canada.
Yeah.
Have we tried?
Have we tried that? Just be like, go them to go back to Canada. Yeah. Have we tried? Have we tried that?
Just be like, go back to where you came from.
There's definitely parts of rural Waikato that have shouted that.
So they could mosey on down and just try racially abusing the Canadian geese
until they go back to Canada.
Number four on the list of the top six things to do with the Canadian geese
in Huntly, get Anna Paquin in there with her motor-powered hang glider
to lead them home.
That movie, what's it called?
This I appreciate.
It's a very niche reference.
No, I haven't seen that movie.
It was massive for New Zealand because it had Anna Paquin in it,
a young Anna Paquin, and Jeff Daniels is her dad.
Fly away home.
Fly away home.
Oh, right.
The geese, the mother died or something, eh?
Yeah.
And there were this, like, flock of geese.
Yeah.
And her and Jeff Daniels raised them.
And then she's got to learn, they identify with her as the mother.
So she has to learn to fly like a hang glider with a motor on the back.
Oh, my God.
Did she have a pilot's license?
Or did she get that in the movie?
And it's one of those ones that always, like, plunges into the ground and the pilot dies.
You know the ones that are, like, a light, light aircraft accident in the Canterbury Plains
and you're like, well, this isn't going to be a good story.
No, yeah.
The description sounds like a comedy, but it's not.
Oh, it's so heartfelt.
Oh my God, when the geese fly away hard and she has to turn around and come back to Jeff Daniels.
See, that movie wouldn't have lasted long if they'd just poisoned them.
Yeah.
What do we complain?
Huntley. Yeah. What are we going to complain?
Huntley.
Totally.
Number three on the list of the top six things to do with the Canadian geese in Huntley.
Just put it on the Huntley Facebook page that there's free goose meat, as is where it is.
Come down and grab a goose.
See who comes down.
I reckon people would come down for a goose.
Number two on the list of the top six things to do with the Canadian geese in Huntly,
they should make the Canadian geese form a soccer team because then they'll start respecting their grounds.
Right.
If they're playing on the soccer field,
they'll start looking after the soccer field a little bit more, you know.
It's because they don't have a vested interest in the sport.
Again, get Anna Paquin down there.
Get her to teach them to play football,
and it's all go.
And number one on the list of the top six things
to do with the Canadian geese in Hamilton,
make a turk duck and goose.
What?
Which is a chicken inside a duck,
inside a turkey, inside a goose.
Turk duck and goose.
A turk duck and goose.
And it's like multi-layered, all the different names.
Yeah, right.
And then wrap and bake it?
Of course.
That ain't good.
Of course.
That is today's Top 6.
I'm horning, horning, horning, horning.
Fetchborn and Megan's long weekend group toot.
The unmissable event on Friday's podcast.
ZM.
Over three quarters of young Kiwis worry about money often.
We have a quarter worry about the word regularly coming up in a sentence
and they can't say it.
Often.
So this is done by the Financial Services Council
and they said that 77% aged under 37 worry about money
on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
Aged under how old?
37.
Who in the last year hasn't worried about money?
Yeah.
Like, or ever worries about it?
Like, a quarter of people, that is crazy, under 37,
are just like, whatever.
I'd love to not worry about it.
How good would it be if it didn't exist?
Yeah, it's not the three quarters that worry about it.
It's the quarter that don't.
Yeah, that's what's got me.
Do they not worry about it because they don't have it?
So they're not worried about worrying about it because it's never an issue?
Or they don't have to worry about it because someone's looking after them?
Well, yeah, do you think?
I don't know.
Would there be a quarter?
Because how many, does it say how many people they studied?
If you are under 37 and you don't worry about money,
can you just text Y to 9696?
We'll share your, I don't know, chill attitude with everybody
and hopefully we can all not worry about it.
And then Max key messages in.
But even he must worry about money.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure. but do you think it's those people
so rich and you kind of like i mean there's some perks and stuff but also like when your parents
have been financially super successful surely they must put a bit of worry on you they had to
worry about money at some stage making enough of of it to maintain this lifestyle they'll put for themselves or, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's weird.
It must be people that have, yeah, just don't have to worry because mum and dad give them
money.
Yeah.
But surely they've got to worry more than anybody because it could all fall down when
dad gets done for embezzlement at the company he's working for and goes to prison.
Or tax evasion or something.
So over half, 54.6% said that affected their mental health as well.
Yeah.
Just the strain of it would be one of the biggest.
Yeah, totally.
For sure.
It links back to everything else.
So Generation Y, which is people aged up to 37,
and Generation X, 38 to 52, worried about money the most.
But that's the age where you probably got a mortgage
and a lot of financial.
But yeah, I don't know that stat.
I'm more surprised at the quarter that don't worry.
Just so chill maybe.
They're just like, ah, or just tick it up
and they're just like, ah, we'll pay it off eventually.
Are they good at money?
I'd love to be.
That freaks me out. I know, yeah. That would be my worry. Yeah. Eventually. Are they good at money? I'd love to be. That freaks me out.
I know.
That would be my worry.
Yeah.
Spending when you don't have it.
Yeah.
That's long-terming your worry.
Rather than just having a short worry of,
should I have bought that?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I should have bought that.
Versus every time you get a little reminder
you've got another payment coming.
It's like when you see your mortgage, eh,
on your internet bank.
I don't care about that.
That's too big a worry to worry about.
Yeah, right.
I don't care about that.
Yeah.
I mean, the bank does.
But, eh, let's see.
I can carve it off my cold dead corpse.
Good luck.
But, see, yeah, that doesn't worry me.
That sits there.
It's like a student loan.
Is it because it's like a student loan?
It's so big and in the background.
Yeah, it's so many zeros you don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It's an almost made up amount of money.
Yeah.
It doesn't really exist.
That's never going to get paid off.
A 30-year term, you're like, yeah, right.
We'll see.
You're getting a call from the BNZ today.
Are you serious about not paying it off?
I'm like, you know this.
You know this.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast. ZM.
Wow, she's found a new place to hide snacks.
And she's not just against her partner. She's also
against her parents.
So that's like the other side of the coin.
Usually as a parent,
I'm usually hiding snacks places
that my kids won't see them.
Yeah.
But if they find it,
even if they don't like it,
they're very insistent on,
oh no, I like dark chocolate,
I like dark chocolate.
I'm like, you don't like dark chocolate.
Last time you put it in your mouth
and you chewed it,
and then you wanted somewhere to spit it
and you meant to spit it in the bin
and they'll do it every time they find dark chocolate.
But executive intern, aren't you?
You've found a new place to hide snacks.
Yeah.
You are aware that you're kind of letting the cat out of the bag.
I know.
And my mum's just messaged me saying, looking forward to hearing what this is.
So good morning, mum.
Lovely to have you with us.
Good morning.
So you and Mr Bun Buns are living with your parents.
Yes.
And who's into your treats
all the time?
No, well the issue is
we're currently on
a family health kick
which I foolishly instigated.
Right.
And yesterday
had a bit of a crapper of a day
and just really needed
a little sweet treat.
How long has this health kick
been going?
Six weeks.
Oh, that's good.
Wow.
Yes, there has been a scone or two in between, Megan.
But there's afternoon nuggies.
Look, there's been one afternoon nuggie session.
Look, you know, as long as we're reducing treats.
Even The Rock has his cheat days.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I am just as fit as The Rock.
You are Dwayne The Rock Henvis.
I'm also sick of you in every second movie.
Dwayne The Rock Henvis.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, so yesterday got a little Kit Kat Crunchy was the poison of choice from the supermarket.
And as I say, sticking to health kit, I only decided to have half. Good on you.
Be street wise. Thank you so much.
So two pieces and I thought I'll just
pop that away but I
knew I'd be absolutely ridiculed if I
just put it in the pantry or anything.
You're on a family wide health kick.
So I hid it, I put it in
a Ziploc container,
two pieces of chocolate wrapped up
into the Nespresso descaling box.
What's the Nespresso descaling box?
It's this like possibly lethal agent that you use to clean the Nespresso machine with a couple of times a year.
And I just have it propped up in the cupboard.
And yeah, I just popped it in there next to the sachet and thought this is probably a low point.
Yeah, nobody...
Putting some food next to a harsh chemical cleaner.
Yes, absolutely.
Is it going to eat through that Ziploc bag?
Time will tell, Megan.
Time will tell.
Well, if you take a bite of that Kit Kat and it tastes...
Tastes funny.
Funny, then don't continue eating.
That's a great way to continue on a health kit, though.
Just contaminate every sweatshirt with poison. Yeah. That's a great way to continue in a health care though, just contaminate every
sweet treat with poison. Yeah.
It's a flawless method. Yeah.
You're like, how badly do I want this treat?
Do I want to like, maybe die or go
blind? Good place to
hide though, because, and cleaning equipment.
Yeah, nobody's going in and opening that,
are they? No. I don't even
think they know that you need to do
Nespresso upkeep. I've bought some. I have known you need to do Nespresso upkeep.
I have no idea.
I've just been Googling it.
It sounds like an upsell, doesn't it?
What are you saying?
It's a George Clooney scan.
Look, I don't want to drag George Clooney into this, but yeah.
George Clooney unnecessarily branded product.
Yeah.
That you can probably just do with a bit of baking soda.
But no, you've got to have the George Clooney descaling kit, don't you?
Yeah. Brought to you by George Clooney.
Well, we'd like to know this morning,
have you discovered a neat new hiding place for snacks or treats
or things you're keeping secret?
What if it's not snacks?
What if it's just something you're keeping secret?
I'm struggling to think of what you keep secret apart from snacks.
Oh, ask Megan.
She hides all of your online shopping.
Yeah, I mean, anything that you've bought
that you don't want your partner to know you've bought
until you give it a beat and then you say,
well, I've had this for ages.
Right.
This is on you for not noticing.
But where do you hide it?
Oh, so you've got a spot.
Okay, well, you don't have to out yourself.
No, you do.
Tell us.
The back of the wardrobe, under all the clothes,
because no one's ever going there
and the wardrobe's always full of clothes,
so you never see it.
Right.
That's where everything
goes that you don't want
them to see.
Okay, well,
we want to take your calls.
0800 dials at Emma right now.
You can text as well,
9696.
What's your hidey hole?
Hiding spot.
What are you putting
in your hidey hole?
What are you hiding?
From partners,
flatmates, friends. All right, let To hide. What are you hiding? From partners, flatmates,
friends.
All right,
let us know.
We are talking about
what you're hiding
and where you're hiding it.
Two fingers remain
of a Kit Kat Crunchy.
No,
I believe a Chunky is two.
I believe she said Chunky
and it's,
you know,
it's in half
or is that segments?
Big cuts.
Was it a Chunky
or a Kit Kat? Two, it was a Chunky. A Kit Kat Chunky it's in half? Or is that segments? Big cuts. Was it a chunky or a Kit Kat?
Two, it was a chunky.
A Kit Kat chunky.
So in half.
Two blocks.
Two blocks, yeah.
Is there only two blocks in a Kit Kat chunky?
No, there's four.
She had half of it.
There's four, she had half.
Was that not what I said?
I said two remain.
You made it sound like the fingers.
You made it sound like the fingers.
But is it not the fingers?
No.
It's a chunky.
It's a long.
It's a long.
It's got blocks.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my God. Wait, so there's a long It's got blocks Oh my goodness Oh my god
Wait so there's a long Kit Kat now
They used to have a white one
Oh sweater
Do they still have a white one
And what is it
And four
The best
Famously in quarters
And each block is
Like a little bit different eh
What
Some of them have like
Crunchy bits
Some of them have like
Yeah you're missing out
Oh babe
Never heard of it
Absolute shouted life
No well I'm
I was treated to a
A Kit Kat
You know it looked like
Four fingers beside each other,
but you're telling me this is a quarters, but long ways.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Fascinating.
I mean, catch up, where have you been?
It's three.
Someone said it's three.
Oh, is it three?
Oh, for crying out loud.
Wait, are there three segments?
There's only three sections.
Someone has called you a very nasty word
and then said it's only three sections.
Wait, so you're like one and then put back two?
Your Honour, I would like to stipulate that there is a mega version of that one
and it has four pieces.
It's like the share it with a friend version or something.
So there's a Kit Kat mega chunky?
I don't know.
There's a four-piece.
What's this way?
Horizontal, like an oblong shaped.
Yeah.
You know the one I'm talking about.
Of course it's got four. Four about. Of course it's got four.
Four pieces. Yeah, it's got four. The standard
supermarket one, I believe, is only three.
But this was like a... You've got mega
chunky. What grams are you talking about? It's not grams.
Jesus, I don't know, but there's four pieces.
I think the point is, Executive
Internania put two pieces of the Kit Kat
in her mouth
and then has a new
hiding place in her parents' house,
which is inside a cleaning kit with harsh chemicals.
It's a new low point.
So we want to know from you, your hiding place is anonymous.
Whereabouts do you hide your treats?
Anonymous.
Morning, guys.
Good morning.
Are you hiding it now?
What are you rummaging around there?
So last night I spent about a good $16 on a nice avocado oil.
Ooh.
Treat yourself, girlfriend.
Okay.
First time, so I live with six other people,
so I ended up hiding it in my spare work bag
so I know they won't go in there.
Yeah, good.
Because that's expensive.
Otherwise they'll use it.
To cook the mince or something.
Oh, my God.
Definitely.
They can just use the normal canola oil.
Exactly.
What is it for?
You all have avocado oil.
What will you be using it for?
Tonight, I thought I'd treat myself with some salmon.
So I'm going to use it on that.
Oh, jeez.
Look at you with your posh oils.
Yeah, a bit of a break from the Mecca's app, so.
Nice.
All right.
Anonymous, thanks for your call.
Wait there.
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James, good morning.
That is capitalism at work.
I like it.
James, whereabouts is your hiding place?
Well, my partner at the time had a terrible condition
where she liked to spend and empty the savings
or join the account as quickly as possible.
So I used to sort of keep a little bit of money aside
every week out of my pay and put it in a fish food container,
a little round fish food container.
Roll it up, chuck it in there,
and it lived at the back of the pantry for no man to ever see.
Well, one day she decided to have a spring clean
and clean out the pantry
and we no longer had fish. So she was like, well,
this is redundant.
How did she chuck it out? How much?
Two and a half grand.
Wow, that'll teach you, James,
for hiding that money from her.
We ended up spending our
weekend tipping all of our bins
upside down, ripping into any rubbish bags bags because luckily it wasn't rubbish day.
And she thought I'd lost the plot while I'm screaming,
we need that fish food container now.
And did you find it?
We did.
We did.
Oh, my God.
Then what did she say to you when you found it?
Well, she found it and she goes, why is this so important?
And she opened it up and says, oh, oh, is this what's happening?
This is mine now.
You're like, give me back my escape fund.
I mean, savings fund.
And then you're in trouble all over again.
See what happened?
It was a lose-lose for me.
So I might as well go to the bin.
Yeah, totally.
James, thanks for your call.
Some text messages in.
Somebody said,
I one day found out a photo hanging on the wall is a deep frame.
Like a secret.
Like a safe behind it.
And it almost fits perfectly.
A king-size slab of chocolate in it.
Now, that's a great idea until it gets like heatwave time
and all of a sudden there's like poo running down the wall.
So I was like, what's happened there?
You're like, I don't know.
Poo?
Definitely don't look good.
You know how picture frames leak.
Somebody else, Jeshuan, messaged in saying,
when you've got a four-foot-eleven wife,
you just hide it up high.
Hide it out of their reach.
Yeah.
Somebody else said that I've got a computer parts box
and there's an engagement ring hidden inside.
I barely go in there, so I doubt she will.
But again, what if she has a spring clean one?
She's like, well, I'm just going to throw this whole box away
because he's always saying he's hoarding all these computer parts.
Oh, my God.
I have a stash of toilet paper in my room, hidden in pretty much plain sight, but the
flatmates don't know about it.
They don't know about it.
Is that their rock and a three ply, right?
In their room.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I want to see it hidden in plain sight, though.
What's it hidden inside or outside of?
Something put over the top of it?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Okay.
Somebody said, I hide my husband's birthday presents in the washing machine.
Very little.
I'm guessing he doesn't do the washing ever.
Yeah.
Gun safe with $10,000 inside it.
Somebody messaged his wife and kids don't know about it.
I'm imagining like James before just putting a little bit in.
Yeah.
A little bit in.
Mum hides chocolate chips in her underwear drawer so us kids don't try to get them.
No one wants to touch their parents' undies
for a chocolate chip.
Good call.
Although, how hungry would you be after school?
Yeah.
How long would it take?
Those undies wouldn't stop me.
I'd get a stick and I'd be like,
that out of the way.
Get some gloves.
Out of the way.
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Well, the giant box that appeared Monday in studio, it's now open.
We got into the safe, into the box with a four-digit code,
but that only revealed another briefcase
with a combination lock on it
and the box has actually been asleep
until now.
The little touch
screen display says meet at
8am. Georgia knows
where. It's worth your while.
Georgia is in studio.
Do I?
Yes I do Do I?
Yes, I do.
I shall let you know.
What?
I hate this thing, eh?
So you don't know where?
It gave me nothing yesterday,
and I just wasted like five minutes of my life just being like, I'm stressed, I'm sweaty,
my heart rate went up.
Because your watch told you that, didn't it?
It did, and it was like, relax.
Breathe.
Meet at 8am.
Okay, well, 8 o'clock.
We'll see if we can uncover another number or code to get into that briefcase.
Now, yesterday, what were we talking about?
Where you'd been?
I took too long in the shower, apparently.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
You were gone for like three quarters of an hour.
And we were like, where did you go? Yeah, downstairs's right. You were gone for like three quarters of an hour. And we were like, where did you go?
Yeah, downstairs at work.
And you've used some e-renown again, eh?
The showers.
It's like a bike room.
It's a very good amenity to offer your staff.
Because then they can cycle to work and they're very sweaty.
And there's some e-bikes down there, so you know they're not sweaty.
They've more or less just ridden their scooters to work today. and a pair of sweaty. Yeah. And there's some e-bikes down there, so you know they're not sweaty.
They've more or less just ridden their scooters to work today.
But there are bikes down there and people can shower or they can go to the gym on their lunch break.
There's a gym across the road and come back and shower
and it's all good.
The toilet down there is always out of order in the men's.
I don't know about the women's.
Yeah, I used it yesterday.
She's all good to go.
I think that's why it's always out of order.
George is clogging it up next door.
It's because it's... With their protein poos. Below. I think that's why it's always out of order. George is clogging it up next door. It's because it's
protein poos. Below
I tell you what, there's more than protein
in the poos when it backflows. Because that's
the thing, it's lower. So when it flushes
a motor has to pump it up.
And I think that's what fails and that's always
like real instant pudding looking
the whole situation.
Not mine. Well anyway, she's a bit
manky down there. Yeah, can get a little bit manky.
That's just because
so many people are using it.
But Georgia...
I think they're doing
a deep clean to side note
this weekend.
I saw a comment
email a deep clean
of the bike room
and adjoining facilities.
And that probably
needs a deep clean
because Georgia
told us yesterday
that she shaves her legs there.
That is the most normal thing.
I've actually since
felt really like,
oh no, is that grubby? I don't want to be grubby. And everyone I've spoken felt really like, oh, no, is that grubby?
I don't want to be grubby.
And everyone I've spoken to is like, no, George, that's normal.
And I was like, wait till I tell them what else I did.
What else did you do?
What did you do?
What else have you done?
What did you do?
No, she's under the desk.
She's under the desk.
What did you do?
What did you do?
Come out from under the desk. In the work showers, what did you do? What did you do?
Come out from under the desk.
In the work showers, what did you do?
I didn't do anything bad.
I, um...
Oh, my God.
My mind's racing.
I know, same.
I'm like, what's the grossest thing you could do in a shower?
And right now I'm imagining you're like...
Stomping something down the plug hole.
Like a little bit of poo came out of you like stomping something down the plug hole.
You need to say because it's definitely not a bad spot.
It's not the only area I shaved.
I made a joke about that yesterday when you said you shaved your legs
and I was like, surely not.
Okay, you get a 20, 21.
Get laser.
It hasn't done well for me.
Oh, right.
It doesn't work for everybody.
But now we know what colour your pubes are.
Shouldn't you be doing that at home?
I'm so embarrassed.
Okay, I actually, when I say I'm in my armpits, that's what I mean, okay?
Okay.
No one's fine.
No one's fine.
Oh, no.
Put me to bed.
Do you think that's gross to be doing that at the work shower?
Come on, other people have to stand on your pubes.
She's washing them down in her defense.
Please make sure they're all washed down.
You're going down the plug hole.
To be fair To be fair
It's been busy lately
Okay
I can't believe
We came in here
And said that
I thought that was
Going to hurt the situation
To be fair
Like you know
When you're at home
And you are giving yourself
The full once over
Yeah
You're doing this
A fair bit of hot water.
Yeah.
You could be saving yourself $3 by doing that at work.
I thought this was an eco-building.
Does it not just shut the shower off after a second?
Oh, no.
God, no.
If it's an eco-building, it'll be reusing bloody her puke water.
Flush the toilet.
Yeah.
Flush the toilet.
What the hell?
I'm going home.
Little bits of, yeah, okay, there.
I shall not be here from 10.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
Refund your date.
Well, the chocolate factory wasn't enough.
She wants a refund for her date.
Charlie, hello.
Hi, how are you guys?
Hey, thank you very much.
Sorry, excuse dad over there.
Now, Charlie, you've had a date so bad
that you think you deserve a refund.
Yeah, so I met him on Tinder
and he super liked me.
Oh!
He must be interested.
So we chatted for a little while and he seemed
pretty normal. So I was like, wow, what a shock this is on Tinder. So we chatted for a little while and he seemed pretty normal.
So I was like, wow, what a shock this is on Tinder.
So I chatted to him and he was like, oh, I should like take you out to dinner.
And I thought, oh, he's going to take me out to dinner.
Nice, cool.
So we organized the time and we met up and he offered me a drink. I got there, I said, hi, give him a hug. He offered me a drink.
And he was like, oh, what are you drinking?
And I said, oh, I'll have this cider.
And he was like, cool.
He ordered his and then looked to me like I should order mine
and then told the person that we were ordering to
that we were going to split it.
So basically we sat down at the table with our drinks
and he was just constantly staring at my boobs the
entire time well he super liked your boobs it turns out yeah yeah I mean I guess so I mean
you know what's a guy to do but he just would barely look me in the eyes um which was immediately
a red flag and then I tried to talk to him the conversation was so nicely and
he told me that he liked art and I was like oh yeah that's cool and he said yeah I do like digital
art and I was like amazing my friend was like what kind of work do you do and he said oh I do like
um like figure drawing and like body body and everything and I was like oh that's really cool
so he was like yeah I'll show you this. And he turned his phone screen around to show me a badly sketched drawing
of his downstairs.
He's drawing his own penis.
Yes, yes, correct.
And you know that's embellished.
Oh, yeah.
If he drew it, that was definitely not a true representation.
What was the hope there that he was going to arouse your interest so much
that from drinks you would go around and get the real thing?
I mean, I guess so, but he was clearly barking up the wrong tree.
And he was so confident in his drawing.
He's like, this woman can pay for her own drinks
yeah
so I managed to try
and skirt away from that
he kept telling me that he was like
alone this weekend
and that his family was out
and I was like oh okay well I'm not
coming round so you can stop dropping that hint
he was like I've got to go.
I've got to get up early tomorrow.
And I was like, cool, because at this point,
I was texting my flatmates like, please, please come and rescue me.
Hurry up, please.
So we went to go and pay, and I thought,
surely he'll offer to pay at least,
like just the gentlest thing to do to offer.
So we went up up and he was like
we'd like to split the bill for table whatever and i was like so after all this we're not even
gonna pay we went outside and at this point he'd order an uber and i was just frantically still
texting my flatmates like just gotta rescue me and he was like oh it's real chilly out here right
and i was like yeah, it is pretty cold.
And he was wearing a jacket and he said, oh, I would give you my jacket,
but, like, it probably won't fit you.
Oh, get out of here.
Okay, see you.
Yeah, okay.
And I was like, mate, why did you even say anything?
Like, what was the point?
Yeah.
How much did this date end up costing, Charlie?
It's $66.
$66.
Exactly.
Well, Vaughan, you've got that.
We can put that into the...
Yeah, I'm going to put it into the date refund of $6,000 there.
I've punched all the holes.
Your date refund request has been...
It's been approved for $66.
Oh, thank you.
There we go.
Very nicely.
Well, not nicely lived.
Nicely retold.
Fletch, Fawn and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
Dry lips.
It's really bad at this time of the year.
Fletch, as long as I've known you, you've always had a lip balm on hand.
You've always had a flaky old lip.
Do you remember when I was really into the pawpaw, the Dr. Lucas pawpaw?
Yeah, you were all about that.
Whatever him.
Tubes and tubes of it.
No, remember petroleum jelly's been cancelled.
We don't do petroleum jelly.
I didn't think Dr. Lucas' pawpaw had any petroleum jelly in it.
I thought that was natural.
When you used to be, when you were in the cult that was Dr. Lucas's pawpaws.
What was he? Dr. Pawpaw. Dr.
Lucas. And it was the pawpaw.
Yeah. Mr. Lucas Pawpaw.
The pawpaw jelly.
Was that the trick? Tubes and
tubes of it. It wasn't named after Pawpaw the
fruit. It was named after, that was just his last
name, Dr. Lucas Pawpaw. Well, that's got papaya
in it, doesn't it? Papaya.
Papaya. Papaya. Papaya.
But no, you've gone off that.
And now what are you on? No, I just use this other one. Because you go through a lot of these.
Just use it because this one. What's this one? The one that I use
is an Aesop.
Ew.
I knew what brand it was. I just wanted to rag on you.
I wanted you to say it. I know.
But is this the same as your Aesop
hand wash at home that was one Aesop bottle once
and now it's just
palm olive refill?
You can't refill
that lip balm.
You could.
You could wind it
all the way out
and pull it off
and then find it
on the same size
and put it on
and then wind it
all the way back down.
You actually could.
You could get
like a chapstick.
This is the only one
that I've used
that I don't feel
like I get addicted to
and it doesn't,
you know,
like some of them
are like,
I reckon chapstick.
But it's literally
on the desk in front of you and you use it. You use it
heaps. It's right beside your stack of fruit that you eat every morning. But you're not
addicted. No, I mean, I don't think I am. That sounds like somebody's addicted. I've
often wondered this because I feel like the more I use lip balm, the more they get chapped.
And then when I don't use it, they feel fine. So this has been studied for years.
You know, back in the day, they used to say that earwax was good for dry lips.
You sort of rub that on your lips.
What?
Yeah.
I'm talking like in the 1800s.
That's yuck because yuck.
Yeah.
You ever tasted that?
It's yuck.
Don't ask me how.
It's yuck.
You scratch your ear and then you accidentally put your fingers in, you know.
Or you're a kid and you're like, it looks a bit like snot.
I wonder if it tastes like it.
And it sticks with you as to what it tastes like.
But I can understand that.
That's the bodies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there's lots of reasons why your lips can get dry.
But how do you treat them?
So some lip balms are not helping.
Ones that have fragrances, ones that have flavors such as mint, citrus, vanilla, and
cinnamon.
What flavor's yours?
Nothing.
It's just a plain.
Right.
Glosses, they can intensify damage from the sun's rays.
So I guess it's like-
Yeah, right.
Yeah, okay.
It doesn't make it so shiny.
Shiny.
Colors can cause irritation and do nothing to assist the barrier function.
Menthol, phenol or salicylic acid, they can make your lips drier.
Additional unnecessary ingredients such as camphor, lanolin,
and then other ones that I don't know how to pronounce.
Is lanolin not good?
Apparently not.
Sheep's wool.
You'd think so.
So a lot of these ingredients
are actually becoming
irritants on your lips rather than actually
helping. Right, than helping. Now the interesting
thing is, you said petroleum
jelly. Yes. This is listed
as a barrier function.
So they're saying a barrier function
is good because it keeps moisture
in. Right.
Which is why petroleum jelly is probably used so much in lip creams.
Well, that is the base of, so I just looked at the ingredients of pawpaw,
and that is the base.
Yeah.
Pharmaceutical-grade petroleum jelly and wax.
Refined mineral oils.
They remove any hazardous compounds, it says, but yeah,
it assists in retaining moisture because it acts as a barrier function.
Do you reckon it's real addictive though, the petroleum jelly on your lips?
No, I think that's just you.
I think you've become addicted to like putting it on.
We talked about this.
Like if we ended up on a deserted island, your lips, because you'd eventually run out of AESOP lip gloss, your lips would
be terrible, whereas mine have been treated like terribly their whole life.
Don't strive in that harsh environment.
But is it the same as they say you don't really need shampoo?
So if you actually stop doing it, your body sorts it out?
Yeah, it takes a while to find the balance and stuff.
And you've got to wash your hair and stay clean and not be a grub.
So if you don't put stuff
on your lips,
eventually they'll just like
sort themselves out.
That's the thing
with dandruff as well, right?
Yeah.
I mean, you should absolutely
put sunscreen on your lips.
Yeah.
But um...
It tastes funny.
Yeah.
I always do that though
when I'm rubbing sunscreen
on my face
and I purse my lips
and rub a bit on
and then it goes...
And then you try to hold it like this
so it dries with it
and then your kids are like
why are you doing that with your face
you're like well some of us
are trying to protect our lips
because we live underneath
the hole in the ozone
the box?
The box mysteriously appeared on Monday.
You being the box?
Oh, no, it wasn't intentional.
It was just me being silly.
And started giving clues.
We got a number nine, and then Georgia got some coordinates,
as it turned out.
We were like, that's weird.
That's got nothing to do with the pin.
Yeah.
Brian Klink got a number. We got another number. It got opened were like, that's weird. That's got nothing to do with the pin. Yeah. Brian Clint got a number.
We got another number.
It got opened yesterday afternoon, 9196, which is 9-1,
and then 96 is ZM, 9-1.
Oh, ZM, why didn't we?
I did 9691.
The other way around.
Yesterday, all the boxes spoken.
Yesterday, Brian Clint opened the box,
and you didn't think it would be that easy, did you?
I've given you the clue to somewhere in Hamilton, what's happening there is what's just popped up opened the box, and you didn't think it would be that easy, did you? I've given you the clue to somewhere in Hamilton.
What's happening there is what's just popped up on the box.
We were just getting there.
We were getting there.
It said the box is like, hurry up.
Yeah.
So now inside the box, there's a briefcase.
Yes.
Do you want to get the briefcase?
So we've got the briefcase on hand, I reckon.
Black briefcase, and each lock has a three-digit pin.
So in Hamilton, at the riffraff statue, we said, look,
if you go down there, it'll be worth your while.
Yeah.
Now, I believe we can cross now to Sammy.
Good morning, Sammy.
Good morning.
Now, you heard us say, look, it's going to be worth your while.
We needed somebody to go to the riffraff statue.
You're first there.
What have you found?
I found an envelope.
What?
Have you opened the envelope?
No, it says do not open until 8 a.m.
It was Fletch, Vaughn and Megan.
Open it, open it, open it.
We're here, Sammy, open it.
Okay, hold on.
I've got a phone.
Okay.
All right, it's being opened.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, it's being opened. Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wow.
What is that? It says, hello, please read this number to Fletch, Vaughn, and Megan.
Are you ready?
Yep.
Okay.
Is it six digits?
I'll do one, Locke, you do the other.
Is it six digits or three digits?
It is six digits.
All right.
We got it.
Megan can do a number at a time.
Okay, slowly, slowly, slowly.
First number.
Yep.
Nine.
Yep.
Six.
Zero, nine, six.
Mm-hmm.
Three.
Nine.
Oh, Megan's having trouble turning it.
Do you want me to do it?
Is it the nails?
It's your nails, isn't it?
It's just tight.
Does it only spin one way?
It only spins one way. It only spins one way? No, it only spins one way.
Only spins one way.
Jesus.
Zero, nine, yep.
Megan almost broke the lock.
Zero, nine, six.
Zero, nine, six.
Yep.
Three.
Three.
Oh, my God.
Nine.
My hands are shaking.
Three, nine.
Yep.
And lucky last eight.
Are you ready?
Okay.
Oh, maybe?
Sideways, sideways, sideways.
Paul, that way, that way.
Oh, my God.
Yeah!
Megan tried every possible way twice, and then somehow it's unlocked.
I've unlocked it.
Shall I open it?
Wait, okay.
Do you want us to open this, Sammy?
I do want you to open it
Okay
Okay we're going to open it anyway
But I just wanted you to be on board with it
Okay
Oh my god
Sammy it says
Congratulations dear listener
You've just won
$5,000
Holy moly
Yeah
Are you kidding me?
That's what it says
Woo
Oh my god Congratulations Oh my god Holy moly. Yeah. Are you kidding me? That's what it says. Woo.
Oh, my God.
Congratulations.
Oh, my God.
I wish it said she didn't want to open it.
We could have been like, oh, well, here's a song.
And then kept it. Oh, my God, Sammy.
$5,000.
Holy moly.
That is like my new car paid for.
Yes.
Oh, bless.
That is so cool, Sammy.
And were you driving along? Were you thinking, oh, I could go there or I could just not?
I was driving along and I was like, do I miss my uni lecture?
Do I not miss my uni lecture?
I miss it, baby.
Holy moly.
All right.
Congratulations.
You've won $5,000 and I believe thanks to Marvel Studios' Black Widow.
Oh, my God.
Thank you so much.
Excellent.
Okay, so well done.
$5,000 there.
That's yours.
Wait there, and we'll get that out to you.
Worth missing a lecture for, to be honest.
Box ain't playing.
Box ain't playing.
My friend is going to be like, here's some more jet planes.
I'm horning, horning, horning, horning. Fetch Vaughan and Megan's long weekend group toot.
The unmissable event on Friday's podcast.
ZM.
Weddings are famously very expensive.
I've had two.
What's the average for?
Weddings.
Weddings.
In someone's lifetime?
No.
God, no.
No.
Get over it.
It's one.
The average is like one.
One and a half.
1.4.
I'm not doing this shit again.
I'm Googling.
The average amount of times people get married.
But I want to question this one.
Oh, that's the average.
Because you hear about people that have been married five times,
but the absolute exception to the rule, twice tops.
Right.
The average person.
I don't really want to go with that.
No offence if you're listening and you've been married like seven times,
but Jesus, would you just make a decision for crying out loud?
Think these things through.
You rushed into a couple of them perhaps?
Yeah, I think your seventh wedding is definitely a beach wedding
or one at the registry office.
Or start picking better people to get married to.
You've got a long line of douchebags behind you.
I feel like on your seventh or eighth,
you're the problem.
Yeah, common denominator here.
You might be awful to be married to,
so stop getting married.
So it says here the average bride
will spend around 1,300 pounds.
Now, I was looking at what dresses start
for roughly in New Zealand,
and you'd get one probably a thousand
dollars and upwards okay because once you say wedding and it's a white dress um yeah you know
they get pretty expensive now this has come about after so Boris Johnson the PM of that over there
England England or like the UK the The UK. The whole lot.
Cool.
So he got married.
He got married and his wife now saved thousands. She rented her wedding dress from a place called My Wardrobe HQ,
which I guess would be like designer wardrobe in New Zealand,
for 45 pounds.
Isn't that nuts?
Less than 100 hundred bucks.
It looks, you were quite amazed by the wedding dress.
It's beautiful.
I saw a great meme.
It was a picture of him.
He was in a suit and she was in her wedding dress.
And it's like, when your dad comes to pick you up from Coachella.
Oh my God, that's so accurate.
It was so on point.
She's got like flowers in her hair.
By the way, Coachella just announced this morning that they're back for 2022.
Really?
Apparently next April.
Wow.
Man, that's going to be,
that super splitter event's going to look real cool online.
But I feel like that's a good example to be setting for people
because of course she could afford to buy one,
but she chose to rent a wedding dress
because it's a one-off thing
and then you don't wear it again unless you chose to rent a wedding dress because it's a one-off thing and then you
don't wear it again unless you've gone for a casual dress and a lot of people sell them
afterwards.
You know, Sade, who I am married to, otherwise known as my wife, my first one of how many
Fletch?
Five?
Seven.
She goes to design a wardrobe and at the the start, I was like, what?
This is crazy.
But then way better than spending way more money on a dress
and then being like, well, I wore it now,
so I can't wear it again for six months.
And then six months later, it's like, well,
those aren't in fashion anymore.
And then it just hangs and it gets sold,
and some of them have still got tags on them.
Yeah.
And wedding dresses are the epitome of a wardrobe
that you'll only wear once.
Yeah. And then it's in your wardrobe forever or in storage. Wedding dresses are the epitome of a wardrobe that you'll only wear once.
Yeah.
And then it's in your wardrobe forever or in storage.
You're never wearing it again.
It's stored in a box.
I've just Googled wedding dress high in New Zealand and it does look like a few places do it.
Designer Wardrobe does it.
Do they?
Yeah, yeah.
I started typing in Designer Wardrobe and it came up as one of those links
that I've obviously been visited many times on this laptop,
which I can never remember going there
and I typed in
wedding dress
and yeah
there's bridal gowns
and stuff
so like
do you have a price
because I go
like $1100
for the day
that's a real flash
no because
you'd be able to buy
like a basic one
for that
yeah but this is like
a full blown
designer one
that if you bought would be thousands and thousands.
Right.
So there's, I found one place, Marilyn's Bridal.
I'm sorry.
They do that.
No, look, here's some examples here.
They say we hire wedding dresses from $200 from.
Right.
See, that's good because if you're spending thousands
on the dress and you're going to box it up,
because I don't want to sell mine, but I don't know why
because I'm not going to wear it again.
And then I'm not going to do that thing if I ever had a little girl
to be like, ah, wear my dress because...
You come out and look like you're from the 1950s.
I wouldn't want to wear my mum's dress.
Yeah, yeah.
So we did a poll, would you rent a wedding dress?
Now, I'm surprised by the results.
59% of people said yes.
41% said no.
Why are you surprised?
It's more split than I thought it would be.
Yeah, right.
I thought, yeah, I mean, I actually thought that more people would say no, to be honest.
Yeah, I did too.
But yeah, that's still pretty good.
60% roughly.
Okay.
People don't want to waste all their money like I did twice on the trips.
A dress you wear once.
All right.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
What happened?
A bit of mandarin juice.
Ah, got a bit juicy.
A bit of mandarin juice got in your head. When you inhaled.
Okay.
Well, today's fact of the day is that rust can kill you.
Oh.
Rust.
You're like a rusty, like that's why you get a tetanus shot.
Yeah, yeah.
In case you stand on a rusty nail.
Not tetanus related.
Okay.
This, I read this story.
It's a fascinating story.
It'd be a great like Montana Sunday Theatre.
Yeah, maybe, maybe not.
Or maybe one of those like.
Deep dive podcast.
Yeah, nah.
Yeah, it'd be a good podcast.
Okay.
It'd be a good podcast.
It'd be a good podcast. Oh, it'd be a good podcast. It'll be a good podcast.
Oh, it'll be a good podcast.
It'll be a good podcast, but only one episode.
So it'll be one of those one-episode podcasts
where every episode they cover a different thing,
but they give it all.
Maybe there's some reenactment stuff.
Rust can kill you because rust needs oxygen.
Metal needs oxygen to rust.
Iron needs oxygen to rust. Iron needs oxygen to rust.
It uses that oxygen and will give off hydrogen gas.
Now, there's a real-life situation of this,
and this is the piece that I'm like,
Google podcast.
Google podcast.
It happened aboard a ship called the Viking Allay.
Now, this was a ship that went out and serviced oil rigs.
It wasn't a passenger ship.
It wasn't a fishing ship.
Yep.
Did runs out to oil rigs, took people out there,
could have a helicopter land on it,
assisted in any which way it was needed to be.
But one thing it didn't use too often was its anchor
because it couldn't anchor beside the –
it can't anchor beside an oil rig in case it gets slammed into it.
So it would pull in, drop them off, head back.
A lot of head back, back and forth.
So the massive chain locker where the anchor was stored didn't get a lot of use
because when they came back to the wharf, they just took it, they just moored.
So they weren't using the anchor a lot, but they needed an anchor in case of emergency.
It wasn't going to use a lot.
The anchor area was pretty much airtight.
So this anchor had been used a little bit.
So it had been covered in salt, water and everything
and the corrosion process, rustling had started.
Now, at some stage on the ship,
some people needed to do some upkeep.
So they under this little bolt at the top.
I know where this is going.
The guy goes in and immediately falls off the ladder and lands on the bottom.
Oh, no.
The second guy radios saying he's had a heart attack or some sort of emergency.
I'm going in to get him.
He goes in.
No.
Falls off the ladder.
Oh, no.
I know, right?
Yeah. So then you would think at that stage,
maybe it's not a heart attack.
Don't go in there.
Do two people or is this such an intense ladder
it causes a heart attack?
Yeah.
The third guy goes in and he's a bit further down
and he falls as well.
And it's at this stage that the rest of the crew are like,
something's in there.
Something's not going right.
A monster.
A monster. A quiet place. The the crew are like, something's in there. Something's not going right. A monster. A monster.
A quiet place.
The monster from a quiet place is living in there
and they're making too much tong, tong, tong, tong
as they go down the ladder.
So the next guy that goes down,
this is kind of the cute part.
He's too fat.
He can't fit through the hole.
So he's like, I can't go in.
So the next person's like, well, give me this emergency hood.
This emergency hood goes over your head
and you just tighten drawstring around your neck
and it pumps oxygen into it.
Okay.
Because they're too big to get down like proper breathing apparatuses
through this small hole.
Yeah.
He goes down and he's like looking around
and he pulls up the hood so they can hear him talking.
And he goes down.
And he's like immediately begins to struggle
and they're like, get your hood back on.
This thing had been closed up for 18 months.
The rust had robbed the room entirely of oxygen, and it was filled with hydrogen gas, which is extremely flammable.
Yes, it is.
It didn't blow up.
Oh, damn it.
That's where I thought it was going.
You were hoping there was going to be an explosion.
You monsters.
But there wasn't.
But those three guys died.
Oh, wow.
All three of the guys
that initially went in there,
it was such a hydrogen rich atmosphere.
Yeah, right.
And even when they opened the portal,
it was a small porthole at the top.
It hadn't sufficiently let enough oxygen
in to make it at all a survivable situation.
And that's just from rust.
Yep.
The rust had robbed all the oxygen.
What if you've got a rustic coffee table?
What if you've got a rustic coffee table? What if you've got a...
Open a window?
What if, like, some of my knives used to rust
when I was in a flat and the knife drawer...
Again, Megan, this is...
You open the knife drawer and you're like...
This was a really big...
Right.
You know, fully metal area
that had been pretty much closed up tight for 18 months.
So the rust had really...
And, you know, a lot of rust.
It had really robbed it.
If you've just got a bit of rust
on your car, don't be worried about that.
It will be using oxygen, but surely there's
enough to go around. Yeah, right. But this was an
airtight area in enclosed space that had been
robbed of oxygen and loaded with hydrogen.
Well, that's put me off getting a supply ship.
I know you had a whole
lot on your watch list on Trade Me, didn't you? I did, yeah, I did.
Yeah, you were going to get into
light cargo freight. Yeah. But you've
been put right off that. That was another super
fun science class from you, Mr. Smith.
It was a pleasure being here.
But you wish you'd paid attention
at high school now, Megan. Nah.
You just wouldn't have kept piling
humans down that hole that was killing them.
Just chuck another one out and see what happens.
We've got seven billion humans. We can spare a few.
Probably not what their families thought.
But today's fact of the day is that rust needs oxygen
and will produce hydrogen.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- And the latest place that you've disappointed me, LinkedIn. Okay.
LinkedIn, described by LinkedIn as a place for work. Business.
Yeah.
Business networking.
Business networking.
Yeah.
I clicked on LinkedIn at the top part because I was expecting, like,
to be taken to a page where it really specifically says it's mission statement,
but it didn't.
It just took me to a dumb picture of me where I look like a real estate agent.
So apparently men
are being inappropriate on LinkedIn.
Who'd have thought? Oh my god.
What?
I mean, the gays have been
using LinkedIn for a long time.
What do you mean
the gays have been using it?
You're not getting confused with Grindr. No, but
they got bored with that. My
gay friends have been telling me they're
all about trying to hook
up on places where hookups don't happen
because they need
the challenge. You're making yourself this
gay spokesman again.
I don't think that's giving you permission for that.
I'm the pillar of the community.
You know us well-to-do white guys.
We like to suit ourselves as allies.
Me? I'm an ally.
Suit yourself as a spokesperson on all things.
Hey, listen to me.
I'm a white straight guy.
Yeah.
No, I've heard that there is a little underground wink-wink.
But anyway, men are being inappropriate on LinkedIn,
using it as a place to flirt,
where women are trying to get a step ahead in this.
Yeah, that's not a good idea.
In a professional environment, and men are being inappropriate.
On LinkedIn, the most boring looking website.
Yeah.
And also like all your career and job and business contacts and networks are on your page for them to see.
And then you're being a creepo.
Yeah.
Like that's not a great idea.
Find who employs you.
Yeah.
And say, just to let you know, someone who is representing your company online is being a creepo.
It couldn't be an easier place to out that sort of ridiculous workplace behavior.
Yeah.
And so people are just like,
I just can't believe these guys are doing this on LinkedIn.
Yeah, because women have come out and said,
look, these are the messages I'm getting.
Yeah.
Just cut it out.
Yeah.
Someone came out and said it and they were like, oh, hon, this has been happening forever.
As soon as there was a man on that website.
I think any kind of app or thing where you can send someone a message,
100% someone's been a creepo on it.
100%.
Or been hitting on you.
Yeah, totally.
So I was thinking of, apart from LinkedIn,
where's an inappropriate place you've been hit on?
Like, flirted with,
and you're like, now?
A funeral?
Surely not.
Was that an episode of Cooper Enthusiasm?
I feel like it was.
And also, like, wedding crashes.
Remember Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson
when they kind of felt like
they clocked wedding Will Ferrell's character
did funeral crashing,
so he went in there
to, like, swoop in on grieving.
On the vulnerable.
Totally.
On people that were grieving.
All right.
Okay.
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When have you been inappropriately hit on?
Like where the place, the setting, where can't you believe you were hit on?
I haven't been hit on for such a long time.
Oh.
Oh.
I mean, that's not an invitation.
Every now and then you just be like, still got it.
And then when you were hit on last time, it was at a workplace, wasn't it?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's right.
I don't know this.
I probably do.
Yeah, you do.
You do.
Okay.
0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696.
What about you, Fletch?
I'm giving out the details.
What about you, Fletch?
Maybe you'd have to admit that there was some place in appropriation.
Where can you...
He's yet to find it.
Yeah, I mean, it all depends on your standards, doesn't it?
And your voucher.
And having some.
Yeah.
So where can't you believe someone hit on you?
So people are calling out Crepos for messaging and hitting on them on LinkedIn.
Because it's business networking.
It's, you know, sharing your motivations for your work day of the career.
I don't know.
I had to turn off LinkedIn.
In fact, I think I kept getting so many emails, I just deleted it.
My one? I'm just seeing if you're there. No, I'm I kept getting so many emails, I just deleted it. My one?
I'm just seeing if you're there.
No, I'm gone.
You're gone.
I think mine says I work elsewhere.
Yeah, you need to update yours because Squedge was the same.
I take LinkedIn very seriously.
Because people post, don't they?
They're little motivational videos and types on business and stuff.
Yeah.
But it's not really the place that you slide into someone's DMs
and say, hey.
It's business.
It's serious.
How about my return on investment?
We want to ask you this morning,
where you can't believe
somebody hit on you.
Heidi, what happened?
Yeah, I was,
so we hired a room
after our wedding
at the Carlton Bar.
And I was downstairs
having a good old boogie with my mates
and a guy hit on me and I was still wearing my wedding dress.
You got hit on at your wedding?
That's a ballsy.
Ballsy.
I mean, everyone looks great on their wedding day,
but it's kind of the big white dress.
Well, it wasn't a big white dress, but it was clearly a wedding dress.
He's just checking you
100% sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, I bet it's happened before.
I was just like,
oh my God.
But anyway,
it's true.
Yeah, brilliant.
All right, Heidi,
thanks for your call.
We'll take more of your calls
and texts next.
So, Creepy Guys
DMing women on LinkedIn.
People are saying,
enough.
It's business networking.
It's professional. I just logged into my LinkedIn. I are saying, enough. It's business networking. It's professional.
I just logged into my LinkedIn.
I don't have any DMs.
It's not happening to me.
Come on.
Maybe update your profile picture or something a bit revealing.
Get the cleave in there.
Get the cleave out on LinkedIn.
This is not appropriate.
Some text messages in, though.
I broke my leg in a bad car accident
And the EMT that cut my pants off
Gave me morphine and was telling me I was being cute
Because I was making jokes to hide the pain
So they were like
Making jokes to hide the pain
Yeah
Read between the lines
They were flirting with the EMT
They were yeah
Then came to visit me after surgery in the hospital
To see if I was alright
I was engaged at the time
So I didn't act on it
But if I was single. I was engaged at the time, so I didn't act on it, but if I was single, it would have worked.
Really?
That doesn't sound like
Grey's Anatomy shit. The EMT was flirting with you.
It sounded like you flirted with the EMT.
Yeah. Kickstarted the flirting.
With the jokey he-he morphine.
Inappropriate places, like you're being looked
after. Yeah.
I got hit on in the chemo
suite by a woman who was there to see her dad.
He ended up just having a decent chat at the time I had a partner.
Right.
That's a nice way to pass the time.
Yeah.
During chemotherapy.
Kylie, when can't you believe somebody hit on you?
We were at a mutual friend's funeral.
No!
Yeah.
At what point of the funeral?
Was it at the wake?
Yeah, so it was like at the wake afterwards.
So there was a few drinks happening.
And then I gave my number to also another mutual friend that we had.
And he was like, I bet you that wasn't even your right number.
And I was like, well, it actually is.
And he was like, well, what's your number then?
And I just laughed at him.
But he's now my husband.
Oh, wow.
And we now have three children.
So what you're saying is persistence is key.
That's the one.
That was a real plot twist.
I did not see that coming, Kylie.
Yeah, well, it happened 13 years later.
And do you always tell people we met at a funeral?
I do. And people you always tell people we met at a funeral? I do.
And people just can't believe it.
I bet.
Amazing.
Kylie, thanks for sharing.
Awesome.
Other text messages.
At conference, there are usually apps to track presentations, et cetera.
There are a lot of bored, horny people at conferences,
so it only takes a light bit of detective work to find the right person to DM.
Right.
Conferences. Conferences.
You know on movies and TV shows, it's always the conference
where there's cheating, eh? Yeah.
They were on a conference, on a medical conference.
I've always wondered why
people like going to conferences. No, they look horrible.
Seems like a big, boring meeting.
But now, it's because of this.
Yeah. Or that they're's because of this. Yeah.
Or that they're often in nice places.
Yeah, maybe.
I got hit on a doctor's waiting reception.
Oh, jeez.
They sat across the room glaring at me.
Glaring's not a good word.
Oh, no.
And proceeded to ask, what are you here for?
Which, you don't want to talk to them.
That's plain patient client confidentiality.
I got hit on at Work and Income New Zealand by the guy
helping me do my student loan application.
Went on a date. No second date.
Oh. How's that?
Did they get an up in their allowance?
In their student allowance? Yeah.
Maybe. Maybe a little something extra.
It'd be worth it. Yeah.
Got on a date to get 20 bucks extra a week.
Somebody said, I work in the
emergency department as a nurse, and I
tell you what, no matter how injured people are,
they can still try it on.
I reckon you'd be there with, like,
limbs are hanging off, your arms by a shred
and you're just like, what are you doing later?
How's it going?
What are you doing?
My husband was hit on at his own mother's
funeral by his brother's wife.
What?
So his sister-in-law.
And she had a few venos at the wake or something?
I don't know.
That is crazy.
I got hit on by the person I took to small claims court for selling me a dead car.
There you go.
That's interesting.
Yeah, look, you can trust me in a relationship.
Working at Spookers, I was hit on while literally being dressed up as a dead girl.
I was dressed up as, hey, if you look good dead.
Yeah.
What do you look like alive?
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