ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 10th September, 2025

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan's trip to the A&E See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchforn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Now, I was recently invited by Rotorua to visit Rotorua for the second time this year because I, Vaughan Smith, love Rotorua. Oh, it's a beautiful spot. And I was there at the same weekend, but we did not cross by rumours. Paths did nay cross. No, I know.

I did so many amazing things. Before, I'll give you a brief run. Now, canopy tours, we've done that before. By the way, we did that in 2013. Yep. You should see the regenerative growth of that virgin forest with the elimination of rats and possums. I did that night.

Did you do day? We've done day. It was insane. You're kidding me? That 220-met long one in the pitch black? Yeah, and the bridges are so narrow. I was like, not that much light. Because it's all about, they've got lanterns in there.

Oh, that's cute. And they're all lit up. Oh, my God, it was amazing. I think it's definitely the number. one thing to do in New Zealand or the world? One of the highest ranking things on TripAdvisor worldwide. It's very fun. God, I wanted to bounce on the swing bridges. Like, you

go on some zip line things around the world and I remember going on one in Mexico and the way you stopped yourself was with, you know, gardening gloves at might attend or bunnings, those real cheap ones, they'd sell in a leather flap onto that and you'd slow yourself down when you hit the pool noodle at the end.

Right. It was rough as guards. I don't like the sound of that. You're not even allowed to touch any steel parts of the canopy tour. I know. I know. Which is how I like it. So we did the canopy tour. I think for lunch at a lovely place called Mr. Wolf.

Oh, yeah. We went into this thing called... What's the time, Mr. Wolf? Three Mirage, which is at the infocenter, and it's like this art installation, which was actually really cool. Yeah, right. Because that's how somebody said the weather's not great, you're hitting up the cat cafe.

I said, not this time our indoor activity is Three Mirage. Okay. Did you go to O'Kerry, O'Ketty Falls and have a... Toasty. Yeah, I did. I was going to, I'll get to that in a moment. The last thing we did that night was we went for a night kayak to glowworm caves, which I didn't even know was a thing you could do in Arotarua.

Are they actual glowworms or have they stuck them in there with their fingers? Get out of here. Well, you know, sometimes they set these things up, don't they? They're twinkle lights from Kmart. They were legit. It was beautiful. It was a full moon, powdered on the lake, nice and calm, no wind. Cold, but like doable.

And we kayaked around and went into these. could you see like the like the like the misty meth on the lake misty meth like fog no no no no it was too clear oh right lovely beautiful evening did the moon fuck up anyone else I man my mood my mood went I think you're just a bitch you're just a bitch and you're blaming the moon I was being such a bitch and it was the first time my friend had seen me being a bitch and I was like oh my god I haven't been friends for that long no no no

and then I was like looking out the window I saw the full moon I see people are people love acting like a bitch yeah and then Blaming the moon. It was the moon. The moon's there the whole time. Absolutely shit on their friendships and then say, oh, it's because I haven't recharged my crystals. Yeah, I hadn't.

The moon's there every time. Every day the moon's there. No, but the full one. We see more of it. No, no, no. The light reflection. It's the same moon. It's the same fucking moon.

It's the same fucking ball in space. It's just reflecting more light from the sun. You're not a beach, Haley. Yeah, you don't have ovaries. You're not a tie. You're not the water in the ocean. I am a tide. So that was cool.

Then the next morning we get up, it's Father's Day. I'm like, great Sunday. Today's about me. Yeah, it's going to be great. And then I just hear wailing and crying from the room. The girls are in, and I go in there. Indy was packing her bag. She picked up her laptop case.

It slipped out and just karate. She's got a MacBook. Karate cooked her right, like the corner of it right on top of the foot. That's your fault for buying her in a MacBook. If you got her an ace. Adele, a light as a feather. It would have slated. So then we had to go to Rotaru and.

A&E. Oh, God. I ring the hospital to see what the wait time on that emergency department was, and they didn't even answer the phone, which ever case to me, it's a long fucking weight in it. I was going to say, why did you ring? I wouldn't imagine that would go down well. Rang a private place and asked if they had a X-ray. Yeah.

They said, yeah, we have to call on the technician. That's not covered by ACC. I said, that's fine. Your wait time significantly less and then spent a couple of three hours at the A&E, got an X-ray, not broken, severely bruised, you know, no good, stirring very sore. so we didn't get to go jetboating or the Polynesian spa. I had Polynesian spa. And I was like, my hair smelled like egg for like double, I double washed.

I couldn't get the egg out of that. You know how you were blaming the moon for being a bitch? And now you're blaming the pulse for smelling like eggs? You're just an eggy bitch. Am I an eggy bitch? No. Haley, I have to tell you, you're just an eggy bitch. Oh, wouldn't you tell me so long ago?

That should be the Rotorua tourism slogan. Come to Rotorua, be an eggy bitch. Be an eggy bitch, yeah. Come on a full moon, be an eggy bitch and blame everybody but yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Pass the buck. Oh, that sucks. So, A&E, man, I tell you, I haven't been in an A&E for a little while.

Yeah, it's been a while. It's fucking depressing. And then people started arriving from the hospital with little vouchers. They're like, we got sent here from the hospital. The hospital was so busy. The public hospital was diverting people through a private practice. Wow. They were sending them to Shortland Street.

Shortland Street. But anyway, shout out to the nurses. They were amazing, and they said we're going to hear about this on the show on Monday. I said, it's been a particularly depressing visit. I don't believe you will. But you might hear about it on a little bit of pod. Yes. So, man, and again, I've got to take my hat.

Witnessing, a lady came in to return a wheelchair. She'd heard herself the day before at a sports tournament or anything. And she said to this nurse, oh, I am actually really sorry about swearing at you yesterday. That was not cool. And I was like, nice that you're apologising, but also, why were you swearing at the nurse? Yeah. The person's sworn to try to help you. Yeah, it's not their fault.

It's not. And it's a reminder in these. tooth times that health professionals do face a fair bit of abuse and I want everyone to shut the fuck up and let them do their job. Just stop being an eggy bitch.

Don't blame the mood for swearing at the moon for swearing at the nurses. There was a guy there he believed he had an infection because he had a tattoo and then he went in the like, no he roared dogged the creek the geothermal creak

he roared dog the creek with a new tattoo and I was like, I know that's not a good idea. No way. But was he sick because of it? Or was he just worried? He was worried. He said the infection of the sight of the tattoo was seeping and very hot to the time. And you can get into your bloodstream and then you get real sick.

Sepsis. Sexy sepsis. Sexy sepsis. Sexy sepsis. So shout out nurses. It's worse than being an eggy bitch. Just. Just.

Just. On par. I don't know. On par.