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

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

On Episode Twenty-Four; Stevan pronounced like Evan and a child at 40!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fletchworn and Haley's Christmas Cocktail Special Welcome to the Christmas Cocktail Special Our live show in Big Pond is back on Monday the 19th of January We are currently recording this at Fletcher's Auckland Department And Auckland is also where we read our first podcast shout-up from today Gorgeous Olivia says Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, many celebrations Happy Hanukkah

This espresso Martini is so strong, Haley James It is not! Was it our! You've got a level. of pickle that the rest of us don't have. It was strong but some of us

didn't complain. Some of us just got on with the job. God it sounds like I've smoked a durry. What's happened here? God's sake. It's because you've had one of Haley's 91 unleaded espresso martini. I'll put some soda water in it next time to water it down for you bitches. Yeah, I know. God. Haley's espresso martini brought you by goal.

$0.95. No, 901. Thanks to keep me company this year through oh, extreme pregnancy sickness. It's got a medical name here. Hyperamyerosis Gravary rarity.

And then middle of the night, feeds with the baby also wanted to shout out my listening, but he Trace, who is having the time of his life in London with his partner, Sam. Love watching your antics, but miss you too. To the entire gang, May 2026 bring you much more happiness

than 2025. The way you turn up for us audience members every day when you're doing it rough is admirable. Thank you. Highlight of the year. It gave birth to my first baby, Zara, in June and then seeing her smile at me for the first time was the second highlight. Reincarnation, a dog to the millennials who don't have kids.

Dinkwad. Double-income no kids with a dog. And my dog, goose. He has a great life. Lovely. Stephen. Stephen. From Colorado.

Hi, this is Stephen. Pronounced like Evan. Stephen. Stephen. Oh, that's that stuff you put in your coffee. Yeah, yeah, sugar-free sweetener. Yeah. Is it a natural?

Stevener. Oh, no, that's stevener. Oh, stevia. A long-time listener. time podcast shout out. I wanted to shout out Kate and Curtis and Nelson. As an American who just finished another season in Antarctica. Antarctica, as they call it. They drop

the tea. Yeah, in Antarctica. I got stuck in New Zealand for the first lockdown and Kate and Curtis. Stuck. Graciously offered up their granny flat and we were bubblemates. I lived with them for seven months. Love those guys. Absolutely legends. Kate introduced me to show in 2020 and I haven't missed a podcast since. Oh, Kowra. Also shout out to their awesome

neighbors, Ben and Steph. I'll be visiting New Zealand again for a bicycle tour this coming summer. Do you think they're going to do the rail trail. They'll do a bit of row. There's so many. Yeah. Juiciest moment of the year.

The flutie wink from the barista gal at the drive-thru coffee show. I'm so sorry that that's your juiciest moment of the year. Jesus Christ. She'll be yours for them. What if they were hot? Yeah, she yours. Go. It would be inappropriate.

Both of you. Reincarnation choice would be mountain lion. Okay. Oh yeah, good. Samantha from Ontario says, Christmas from Canada where the snow is deep, the maple syrup flows freely and I'm trying to perfect my Kiwi accent after two years of listening. Trying to convince my family to move to New Zealand without even having visited there. I love that.

It's expensive. It's expensive. Highlight of the year, adulting is hard, but I survive. Bill's got paid. The kids are still alive and marriage number two is going strong. I'm calling that a win. Love is not dead. The first one, that was just a warm up.

That was a pre-year. It's a good to have a trial of things. It is good to have a trial. A reincarnation would be a bird, of course. At 55, I've suddenly developed a full-blown. an obsession with fetus, bird baths and birding apps. Basically, I'm ready to live my best feathered life, scoping out the neighbourhood and judging humans from above.

Sort of feels like you actually sort of put quite a bit of thought into becoming a bird. Yeah. What is the bird version of a fairy? A furry. A feathery. Ah, yeah, like a, like who gets dressed up. He has a bird. Parades around for sexual gratification.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a feathery. Georgina's from Christ, Judge. If you were a feathery, do you think you'd find big bird hot? Yeah, fuck you. We're too tall. He's fucking tall, like. Yeah.

A bit of a pookoo on him. Which I don't mind. Right, no, no, no. I don't mind. Have we... I'd go more... Yeah, I'm just trying to think. Growing up, I always thought Big Bird was female.

A gentle... No, Big Bird's a man. Yeah, I know, but growing up, I thought Big Bird had a feminine energy. Are you sure? I don't know if the gender's ever been assigned to Big Bird. Snoburgus was definitely a male. That's a dude, eh? Big Bird gender.

What is... Here we go. Okay. Big Bird is male. Using the pronouns, he and, which is good because, you know, we did wonder. While some discussions and fan theories have explored ambiguity or non-binary interpretations, official sources on Siassamy Street have consistently referred to him as male. Okay.

Well, that's good. Don't I apologize? I've got nothing to apologize for. I said I grew up thinking it had a feminine energy. You misgendered Big Bird his whole life. It was the 80s and 90s. There was no misgendering in the 80s and 90s God, we see some atrocious things back then

Of which now, Haley, you'll say the top five Number five on the list I'm good from Shannon Yeah, and I can say that because I have Number four on the list And I'll say that because my grandma was Māori Number three on the list And I'll say that

I keep going, I got too scared I love that Georgina celebrated my 40th and completed my study to become a graphic designer She's encrashed you I forgot. I hadn't introduced Georgina. That was that. I blame this espresso martina.

Back up about my espresso martina. Big heart of James is no longer in the country. Made with methylated spirits. Georgina Zid, I celebrated my 40th and completed my study to become a graphic designer, which was so hard while working and looking after two young kids. And Georgian, I bet you are looking forward to every person you've ever known and coming to you. Just ask you for a quick favour to design their wedding invites.

Just to my little poster, yeah. Thanks for the podcast. This year has been tough in the way you all show up and making us laugh is amazing. Juiciest moment, I was very, very surprised to find out couple of months after my 40th that I was expecting a third child. We definitely didn't have that on a bingo. This is why you get a vasectomy born. Snip, snap, snap.

No, no. When you read this out, I will have the baby and we'll be just into life with three children. Wow. Yikes. Just like that, eh? And then you've got to watch Sesame Street all over again. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? No, no.

What did you do that? What are you doing that for? Do you remember that there was that parody? Yes. Where they were high? Yeah. I didn't like it. Do you remember that?

Yeah, yeah. I didn't like it. It was Sesame History. And it was like, today's number is bong. Oh, holy. No, I didn't like that. It was funny. It was way better than the real thing.

I liked a bit of win, you know, previously in these, someone not made differently to an Asian accent. Wow. We're not going to do it again. No. See, in this time. We're going to Ireland and Canada. Oh, I love a bit of the a year, don't I?