ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 10th May 2024

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley research the origins of Normal SchoolsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe The perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod I was telling these guys that my daughter's He wasn't, he wasn't eh? No you're a fucking liar I was, I was telling you that my daughter's

My daughter's hockey team had a These are our loyal, that's crazy These are our loyal podcast listeners Like 90 minutes ago Don't lie to us I said Indy scored two goals at hockey last night. You've never fucking said those words to me ever in my life. It's all a lie.

This is gaslighting. If we keep gaslighting you, will you believe that you didn't tell us this before? What are you even talking about? I can remember I strutted around like a peacock. You don't strut around. You don't have legs. No, I do remember you saying that because... More in the water.

Jesus. It's my legs. No, I do remember you saying that because... More in the water! Jesus! It's my legs! They disappeared! I stopped believing I had legs so they stopped existing. Yes, you were telling us a story. Yeah. You told us a story. Yeah, I do remember you saying that because I said, was she playing the blind thing? I remember.

So she played hockey, a triumphant victory. One where you kind of get to the end of it and you start feeling sorry for the opposition's goalkeeper. Or like, let him go. Poor little bugger. And I was standing behind the opposition's goalkeeper and every time they saved, I'd be like, great save, keeper.

A little bit of encouragement. It's a predicament in kids' sports because I remember I wasn't a kid, but I was like, I don't know, 17 or something. No, you were, Han. Once you were a kid. Yeah, I was a kid once. But the only time I ever was goalie in soccer

and the only time I ever played football for one season is they put me in goal because I was so shit. But then I was just even shitter at being a goalie. But they have to get through all of them. They have to get through all of them before they get to you. Don't forget that. Yeah, it's not all on the goalie. I feel like kids sports, they put the shit one in the goal.

Yeah, to get hit by all the balls and whatnot. Oh, no, they've got, Andy's team has got this fantastic young athlete as their goalie. But he's got this, did you ever, you will have known someone growing up, they had growth plates in their knees, like some bones growing quicker than the other. And apparently it takes a couple of years to even out. Oh, I didn't know. So they've got this fantastic athlete but he just can't do

heaps of like impact running while his growth plates are catching up. So he's like this super agile dude with this amazing hand-eye coordination. Fantastic cricketer.

Do they play mixed? Yeah. Gender? Yeah. Oh, okay. Mixed gender. Got the boys thrashing the girls.

Well, the girls scored most of the goals. Yeah, because we're agile. We're lying on our feet. Lying on our feet. Right place. Here you go, sweetheart. Yeah, here you go, babes.

Take that. So, yeah, the girls are doing great. And then when I said they won 11-0, you guys said you classically used your line. Yeah. Who did they play? The blinds? Well, that's just because that's what my mum and dad would say to me every time we won a sports game. It keeps you grounded.

Yeah, it does. And them obviously not coming to your sports game that'll keep you grounded as well they're busy they and also like who comes to cricket games like boring they go all day yeah they go all day all day it's not just sport when i used to do piano competitions my mum would always be like oh section b bit of a bit of a fumble there might have to practice that but a little bit more but she was she was coming tiger yeah she was there, yeah. Yeah, okay.

So I said, no, they played Takapuna Normal School. And Fletch is like, why do they need to state that they're normal? Yeah. And I remember this. There was Barclay Normal and Hillcrest Normal. What the hell is normal? Why did they have to have normal? Kelburn Normal.

We had that Karori Normal. That was the one. I don't think we ever had that in New Plymouth. I don't think there are any normal schools there. It was sort of around. Well, I Googled it before and it's French for like, École normale, like normal school, meaning that those schools are sort of setting the standard of education

and they're like exemplary schools. Right. So maybe it's where you'd put the curriculum and work at that. You know, I don't know. But if the curriculum's decided for the whole country as it is. Yeah. It must be old. These must be going back some time. Oh, really old.

They've been in existence since the 16th century. Oh. With a group of schools in France. A normal school is an institution created to train teachers by educating them in the norms of the curriculum and stuff. I'm surprised we have a name. It makes you sound weird. I'm surprised.

It's like if aliens or robots ever look like humans, they'll be like, I am normal. I am normal, Steve. Calling yourself normal makes you very un-normal. The schools were supposed to model best teaching practices. But I think they're just hangovers from old days. I'm surprised with the way schools are going with funding and having so much crap, leaky buildings, no air conditioning, no books.

I'm surprised we haven't got more corporate sponsorship. Drop the normal. Just have bloody... Fisher & Paykel. Yeah. Primary. The Chemist Warehouse. Tachypon and Monsanto Intermediate School. Yeah. Get the big bloody

companies in there. The Smirnoff School for Girls. Yeah. That sort of stuff. Barclay BP Intermediate. Yeah. Beautiful. Why not? I think this is called Charter Schools. And your friend David Seymour's got a big stiffy for them. He's got a big stiffy for them.

Oh, really? Big boner. Do you know there's, in the marching world, like years and years back when it was run by, it was like into factories. So women working in factories, they compete and you'd always have name sponsors. And some of them are hangovers.

And what was one of them? Oh, there's Miltonette Wilson's Pharmacy. That's a marching team. Wow. And there and there's yeah there have been a few teams over the years that like you say have like a branded sponsor in the name we could be the fletch fawn and haley no racially charged ones i think we scrubbed those anything from the 30s yeah like could still have a bit of a Bit of a problem now Yeah it wasn't the best of times No Well for me and mine I'm pretty sure it was

Just standard go as you are Probably even better Yeah Now we know what normal means It's not the antithesis of special It's bragging Yeah If they've got normal in their title

It turns out yeah they're bragging Exemplary They're like we're better than you We're the exemplary school Well they weren't last night were they By that 11 goals motherfucker