ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Christmas Cocktail Special '25- Episode Twenty-Eight

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

On Episode Twenty-Eight; Fletch and the Hobbit Hole (NOT a euphemism!!) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshfallen and Haley's Christmas Cocktail Special Welcome to the Christmas Cocktail Special Our live show and Big Pot is back Monday the 19th of January After a holiday Let's go to Melbourne I'm from Melbourne Hi Fletch morning and Haley in the entire showtime My name is Simone, I'm 23

I'm from Melbourne and I work in managing And work managing slash making social media content for brands I discovered you go this year this year through your TikTok Probably a girl math. No, it was when did you catch your parents? At it. Oh, God. Since then, I've listened to the show every day and have had so many laughs, especially at work.

My Christmas messages to say, thank you for always being yourselves. You've gotten me through what has been a really challenging year. The hardest part being in July when we lost our beautiful nine-year-old Labrador Asia to cancer. Oh, that's sad. But listening to you guys has really made me feel better and hopeful in many ways. As much as it's been a hard year, I'm also proud of myself and my family, mom, dad, two older sisters and a dash home called Frank. Ash hon as we've continued to bring joy into each other's lives. The highlight of my year was my sisters and I needed a quick getaway from this year.

So we went to Tasmania for four days. As we have to. Oh, we really... Expressing we would love to do. We'd love to go there. It was so much fun and beautiful to see. Plus, when we got back, we got cheap last minute tickets to the Friday's live concert with Pitbull as one of the artists and had a blast of us.

Yeah. Worldwide. The juiciest moment of the year was finding out one of the guys at work was going on a holiday with a friend whose fiancé decided she wanted to leave him on the day of the wedding. The whole day that my colleague is going on is a fully booked honeymoon overseas with the groom. Wait, what?

You could just change the name of the ticket? Yeah. Oh, maybe. Wow. I just imagine them a row into a room full of rose petals on the bed and everything couple themed. But there's two dudes. Yeah.

Brothers. Probably just have to fuck anyway, right? You'd have to fuck. You just give it a bumming. Yeah. Yeah. We're here. We're in Rome.

Yeah. When in Rome? Yeah. If I were to come back as anything, than a human, it would be a butterfly because every time someone would look at me, they would think, I look so pretty with my colours and my pants. Plus, I'd have a glow up from a caterpillar to a butterfly. That's got to feel pretty good.

Yuck. Yeah, no. Scuscuscus. Callum from Auckland would like to say, Fletchhorn, Haley, Carwin and Shannon, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. I always mean to submit a Christmas shout-up, but I keep forgetting it in that fashion. You are. I'm writing this at the last minute on the cut-off day. It's been a long year, full of first for me.

This time last year, my wife and I moved to Auckland from Melbourne. Yes, I know that's the wrong way. No, it's not the wrong way. The Guy at Customs is also confused, but honestly, things aren't that much greener on the other side. At least here we have good beaches and a family. I have a new job, a house, and as of the end of September, my first child. Your podcast has been music in my ears for far too long to admit, met even since the days on the periphery. Oh, that's a good one.

On the periphery is good. It's hard not to form an emotional attachment to people you listen to every day, to be honest. Please keep on, keeping on. And can we stop counting birthdays? It's too hard for me. Not just Haley. Highlight of the year. My early 30s, by the way.

Early-ish. The birth of my gorgeous, gorgeous, daughter. I keep saying it's mid. It's mid, it's not late. Can I just say that as a newly minted girl to add, Vaughn, I get it, I've cried more time since her birth than the rest of my entire life. It has decided I'm going to have to build a shed to go and hide out of it.

It sounds like it's been a tough year. The listeners have really picked up on your year, Vaughn, haven't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Inspiration and, yeah, and keep up being awesome. Juicest moment of the year, I was the guy who came up to Carwood and Shannon at the comedy gala and said how much I like you guys, much of the confusion of your partners. I haven't met Haley or Vaughn, but I did see a very

surly-looking Fletch leaving the gents that night. You're not quite happy when you're leaving the gins. You were happy at the comedy gala. A couple of, yeah, a couple of drinks, was it? Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah, man. Did I go to the comedy gala this year? I fucking hosted it.

Oh my God, that's right. We were quite fucking tanked. Yeah, my mum came up to me. It was like, Jesus Christ. The fucking, you lot. Oh, yeah, we went in quite hot. the gaggle. Well, it's good.

That's why you thought it was so funny. Reincarnation, a duck or a coot. I'm a waterbird at heart, always have been, and not just because I've purchased over 3,000 rubber ducks in the past couple of years. Sorry? We are going to need to know why you've done that.

He just likes leaving them places. He said, not for work, just like leaving them places. Wait, I'm sorry, so what, you get a bulk order on Timo, and then you're like, I'm just going to leave a rubber duck here. Yeah, I guess so. Why would you do that? I don't like that. It's kind of funny. I think I live. It's kind of funny.

Because do you reckon there'll be a news story one It's like, who is leaving the rubber ducts? Haley, please stop. Sorry, I had a real good one. Using my ceiling fan. Short, a little bit short. Yeah. Basically, what we're doing is every time we finish one of these on a page,

we screw up the paper and throw it at Fletcher's ceiling fan, and sometimes it bats it around the room, and that's quite exciting. It's good fun. You've hit my best friend Jess a couple of times. Yeah, I know, but that's just life, you know? Life just keeps coming at you. She's taking it well. She's taking it really well.

She's surviving. Chris from Christchurch. Let's squeeze this one in. Shout out to you guys for waking up early enough to entertain us in the morning. and for helping those like me through some hard times being out but chuck on a podcast any time of the day and just zone out with what feels like genuine friends. Kilda.

Highlight of the year, we'll be hearing this shout out of the Christmas cocktail special. We should make it special in some way. There you go, Shannon, thank you. That's perfect. Juiciest moment of the year, getting diagnosed with depression and finally realizing it's okay to reach out. Juicy. And it makes the sound effects seem inappropriate.

Yeah. Depression. Jesus. Don't wait. It runs in my family. You're right. It is okay to reach out, actually, Chris. It is okay. It's encouraged. Absolutely. It's absolutely encouraged. Any time. Thank you for sharing.

Reincarnation choice, definitely a cat. Nothing would be better than getting to lounge around and nap all day in the sun. No, you've got to get out. You've got to get out. You can keep busy. Keep moving. Keep on moving. Don't let it catch you. Don't let it catch you. Don't let it catch you. I think that's, well, is this a sure one? What are we feeling? Do you want another one? We're going to do another one? Well, my drinks are bit empty.

Yeah, I'll do this one, and then we're going to start and refill our beverages and come back and knock this thing on the... Love that, love that. Love that. What are you doing on your phone, Fletch? I've just got some... No, I've got some goss. What's your fucking phone? No, I just... Have you ever... Okay, this is the greatest thing? No, it wasn't naughty.

Have you ever touched Fletcher's phone and seen the rigidity in his body? It is one of my favorite things when he's like, Oh my God. Hey, do you want to check these flights and he just grips it like a fucking iron grip? and you try to pull ladies like when my friend and I went to Hobbiton and we were like asked this old boomer lady

to take a photo of us and she went out of the your heart people went on to my camera roll I was like bitch she was so fucking lucky you didn't see something bad like it was I'm so sorry but it luckily fuel it was just photos of me next to a Hobbit rather than a Hobbit's hole Yeah that's good

That's your natural out That's your natural out we'll leave there That's your natural out we're going to be back We're going to go to Auckland And then after Auckland, we're going to go to Auckland, and then after Auckland, we're going to go to Amsterdam.