ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 11th July 2023

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; a blast from the past! Ex-Producer Caitlin joins us for a catch up!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fleshwood and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Download the MyMaccas app and use your points towards a coffee. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod, the big pod, and the show is back on July 17th. If we're not all space dust by then. Who knows what's going to happen? You can't predict the future. Who knows? We have a special guest on a little bit of pod today because we are catching up with some of the old producers.

Yes, and she joins us from Christchurch. Hello, Katie Pye. Hello, Katie. Now, are you and Fletch still in a relationship, a secret relationship? Yes, we are. It's going strong. Long distance is working really well with you. Yeah, seven years now, something like that. Anytime I see you

in Christchurch and we have a photo together, everyone's like, oh, it's back on. It's back on. It's happening. It is happening. Little do they know, we've been in love for years. The whole time. So for those, I mean, obviously people know you left to study nursing

and you live in Christchurch now and you are a nurse. I'm an actual nurse, guys. And I actually have to like help people and be awake in the middle of the night. It's really crazy. I still don't understand when someone's like,

help, I need a nurse. And I'm like, oh, fuck, it's me. And then I have to like, they're like, okay, yes, yes, I understand. Yes, I can help you. You work in a public hospital. What are the shifts? What are the shift options?

Yeah, so I've just come off nights. No thanks. So that's been fun. Are you allowed to say no thanks? Nights is where you're like, no thanks, not in the mood. No, I'm good. No, nights, so that's's 10 30 till 7 and then morning mornings are still asleep in for me so 6 30 um sleeping from when i was getting up at 4 with you

guys um 6 30 till 3 and then afternoons are 2 30 till 11 oh And today's my day off. So I've just woken up. Sorry. Looking so radiant. Having just got up. And when we've seen each other in Christchurch and shared stories, you've got some grim stories. Do you love it? I know. I do love it.

I've been like a full-blown nurse because it only took me two years to study, to be a nurse. Because you've studied radio, of course, and there's so much crossover between those two industries. It blows my fucking mind that you can have a degree in broadcasting and cross credit most of it or some of it. It was so wild. Like we used to go around the classroom when we first started and everyone would talk about the undergraduate and someone was like, I'm a paramedic. Like I'm a doctor in China. And then I said, I was like, hi, I worked in radio.

This girl literally called out. She was like, I think I've seen you in a video crying on the internet. And I was like, oh my God, like this is, yeah. So anyway, so two years and now I have a master's degree um and I've been working for a year and a bit now and I love it I'm very lucky on my ward it's um just amazing very supportive uh staff and the patients are amazing it's really sad people die um but of course that's in the hospital yeah um and i do a lot of measuring diarrhea so oh the bristol still fascinating do you use the bristol still chart we do yes yeah types different types and then i message my nursing friends and i say just had a

really good you know type six um 200 mils of type 6, that sort of thing? 200 mils of type 6. Yeah, really, that is, yeah, that's what I do. But I love it. I feel very privileged to be nursing and helping people. Because recently I was cleaning up my dog's ass and had some poo stuck to it and such, and it just really put me out,

and it was not late at night or early in the morning it was just the inconvenience of it and i thought again boy oh boy uh i'm glad i don't have to do this for a job and there you are doing it i feel like animal feces is really different to human feces right you're saying it's less gross or more gross um i know i know we're animals as well i don't know i feel like i'm glad i'm glad the the woman on the show with the masters and nursing knows we're animals as well yeah personally that's surprised you know that but i'm very glad you do okay so what's their poo's gross and what? Well, no, okay. This is so, sorry for people listening. So sometimes we have to get like a poo sample, right?

And if it's loose, we want a loose poo sample. So some people have a really different concept of what diarrhea is. So they'll be like, oh yeah, I've got a pan in the toilet. I know you wanted that spec, sorry. And it's just like a huge formed cow pat. Like we can't do anything with that all i have to do is scrub it off the bowl and like diarrhea is loose like yeah yeah that's diarrhea not like formed feces which is just the worst so i wonder what if you were not doing it in the toilet just

doing it on the floor that looked like a cow pat like like a runny cow pad, that's not classed as diarrhea. No. Diarrhea has literally exploded in a sort of a soupy broth out of Uranus. You're still getting a sample out of the cow pad, aren't you? Yeah, but there's different things that we're testing for and the lab won't take it unless it's like pure water. Well, because do you remember when I got Giardia and I had to poo in the toilet and then scoop it out with the little scooper, lid scooper?

You couldn't have pooed in the toilet. You pooed in the toilet. Nothing with the toilet water. No, I put a big towel, a towel of paper down. Like I just basically plugged the toilet. Oh, God. Set the cup on top. No.

And then you absolutely bombed it. You can't aim at the cup. I wouldn't. You wouldn't want it touching paper. You're going to get all sorts of things outside. No, so you get the poo at the top that hasn't touched anything. Yeah, no, it's great stuff. And then you drop it off to the person at Medlabs.

Why couldn't you just pop the Pyrex in the bowl, go in the Pyrex, pour from the Pyrex into the sample, and then give the Pyrex a hot wash? Throw out the Pyrex. No, just give it a steam. Just give it a hot, extremely hot wash. And you do this every day. No, just give it a steam. Just give it a hot wash. And you do this every day. Wow.

I do. Yeah. Wow. You've worked in a few departments. What's your favorite and least favorite department to work in at a hospital? Ooh. Not a big fan of gastro, even though it sounds like I do a lot of gastro stuff. I'm not a big fan of gastro, just for what it is.

So what is gastro dealing with the stomach and stuff? But what would the average person be? Yeah, but also alcoholics. Oh, okay. Oh. What is like a gastro pub? This is Vaughan and it's a gastro. I love a gastro pub because I get to eat something,

but also like have eight sneaky beers. And someone's like, how many have you had? You're like, all right, who's keeping count? Right. Uh-oh. What happens to them? Yeah, so, well, they can just be, like, really abusive sometimes, as you would imagine.

Yeah. And then also it's just a lot of, like, drains and, yeah. Oh, yuck. It's just, yeah. But also, like, you'd be surprised to hear born because remember when i left i was like i just want to work with kids i love kids like i thought i'd be you know pediatric nurse like a starship nurse yeah i was like there's no way in hell now like i just i couldn't do it because it would be so sad right because you're seeing like these young

kids sick or dying like you know and their kids completely innocent that would just ruin you yeah and i mean maybe when i'm a bit more experienced but i just think like now we it's just so technical and you have to go off weight and just this like i got sent to a children's ward and i was just like looking after this three-year-old and it was just nah i was just like it's, it's just, it's too hard for me. Heartbreaking. At least with adults, I'm like, shut up. Nah, I don't say that.

I'm obviously very nice to my patients. Yeah. Are you allowed to tell the story you told me about when you got recognized? Oh, actually, I met this lovely woman actually at an event later and she was like, that was me. Yeah, I won't go into too much detail, but I went into this room and someone had just passed away and I went in

and I went up to the family and I was like, I'm so sorry for your loss and just sort of like held onto this girl's hand. And she just looked up at me and said, I listened to you on the radio him but there's someone else in the room was like what like like it was like a prank or something and i was like oh no like i'm a nurse like it was yeah it was really i meant to be here yeah yeah yeah it's like no no yeah sing back to the day theme tune. Grandma would have loved that.

Are there any hot doctors or has Shortland Street and Crazy Anatomy lied to us? I'm surprised it's taking you this long to ask. So, yeah, they have lied. There's not a lot of slash any for me. Sex in closets. I haven't done that at all um are there even many either storage are there even storage closets that you would find a good place for sex in a hospital nah there's definitely like feces in them or like someone's died in there yeah so um yeah so i have had well most of the doctors are 12 and then or they're about 12 out of 10 or they're just very very no like they're 12 year olds we're gonna do

houses on judy you're telling me they've gone straight from um intermediate into doctoring they're just really, really young. And also come up to me and they're like, what do I do? And I'm like, fuck, I don't know. It's always interesting to get a peek behind the curtain of the public health system. What do I do? I'm the nurse who did one of her eight years was radio. So I don't know.

No, sometimes because they're on their different placements and they do the different rounds we know a lot more than they do when they come for a couple of weeks just to get a taste of what our water's like right so they're like oh so how do i chart this i'm like fuck i don't know i've been here for like two minutes i still tell everyone that i'm a like a student yeah that i'm a new net right okay um and then yeah so i did oh my god guys so there was this like really hot um judy we call them judy med um so they're like doing night shift yep well i don't actually know how it works but anyway and he was really cute and we were trying to get blood off this lady we both failed and um we kind of bonded over it and then i stalked him and i couldn't find

him anywhere i couldn't even find him on linkedin because you know that you go to the air if you can't find them on social media. Yeah, but you know that it shows up on LinkedIn that you've had a stalk, eh? If they've got a premium account. Yeah. Oh, who's got a premium account? People do. People do. Management nerds. Management nerds, yeah. Ah, okay.

I'm not even, I probably, I was probably like from school, it was probably like this girl goes to Cray Kids, so they won't even know I probably, I was probably like from school, it was probably like this girl goes to Craighead, so they won't even know. But yeah, so I couldn't find him. So he's, I don't know, maybe he's not real. Maybe I was just dreaming it on my night. Oh, so you never found him?

The end of the story is out there. No, and I haven't. Yeah, he's out there. Haven't seen him again. Haven't seen him again. How long ago was this like interaction? Wasn't that guy they just charged a few months ago with impersonating a doctor, was it?

God. Knowing me, probably. Probably. No, I don't. It was a good couple of weeks ago, maybe like four weeks ago. Okay, so semi-recent. Okay, well, maybe. You can cross paths with him again.

But if he doesn't have socials, how old was he? Because that's a question mark, I reckon. Yeah, it's a red flag, eh? It means he's been caught cheating by his missus if they don't have social media. Oh, he might have a joint one. Yeah, yeah, like Sharon and Steve. Sharon and Steve.

But Sharon's running it. Of course Sharon's running it. Steve has nothing to do with it. Steve's not even allowed to log in. He's only allowed to look over her shoulder while she's on there and not check the messengers. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, that's my love life because I know that everyone's wanting to know.

Are you running away to Australia like every other nurse? We're very worried about our nurses all going to Australia for a bit of pay or the United Arab Emirates. Yeah, it's tempting, but no. What's making you stay then? because maybe we can apply this to other people who want to leave yeah um i'm too old no um i don't know i think i'm really lucky being down here and my whole whanau's down here like i would just not be able to not see my nieces and nephew for that long right and um i've just got like a good setup with where i live right so we've got to bog nurses down with kids and family

well that only i mean unless you don't have any commitments which i obviously don't as well like maybe yeah it would be a good idea to to do that and go over just for a few months. But also I'm really lucky on my ward. I love it here. I just don't think, like I'm doing chemo training. I've been really well set up, so I don't think that, yeah. I'm happy.

It's good to hear. We're very glad to hear you're happy. And you're doing your podcast as well. That's still going strong. Yes, the Girls Gone Wild. Girls Gone Wild. Yes, this is the Girls Gone Wild. Girls Gone Interrupted. I thought it was Girls Gone Wild. No, that's not it. No, that's not it.

Shut up. You know what it's called. The Girls Uninterrupted. Bourne often messages me about it, actually. But I haven't been asked to be a guest. It's bullshit. He's really upset you haven't had him on as a special guest. Yeah.

He's not a female. I think you've had a boy on. Girls, I'm going to interrupt it. Yeah, but that was like Scotty Morrison, who I'm sorry, but. He is a manly man. He's more man than I am. I know, but I'm just saying that we had him on because he was talking about important stuff.

What would you talk about, Bourne? Anything you want. All very important. I'll put it to the vote. Okay, put it to the vote. Don't tell me that because then I'm going to think that everybody voted against it. Do you still pop up during

the odd weekend shift as well on ZM? Yes. Eagerly, listeners may have heard, although podcast listeners wouldn't have heard that. No. No. Yes, I was just on on the weekend on Sunday. We've got a brand new studio. Have you been to the- Oh, my God, yeah.

We had a little look in there. Bloody lovely. It's so nice. And they just let you in there. They gave me a code, and I just look around and try and find free snacks in the kitchen and stuff. This is unfair. Yeah, it's really, really nice.

She's an extremely high-paid nurse. She doesn't need to go. She's obviously working the weekend purely for the love of it, not at all to, you know, offset this nurse's wage that she's on. And now we're giving her free food as well. What is this, bloody communist Russia? Okay. Anyway, it's been great to talk to you.

Yeah, and I love listening to the show i've got my old school radio that um wakes me up in the morning when i'm not um you know asleep yeah that's generally how being awake works it happens when you're not asleep yeah and it and it puts you guys on and it just fills my bedroom and you still run very late and your voice makes it very long. But I love it and I love Hayley and yeah. Lovely. Well, I know the podcast listeners wanted to just know what you're up to now, so they'll really appreciate the update.

I'm still the same. There's really nothing that's changed. I'm still a real hot mess. Now, somebody did ask what producer James 2.0 is up to, James Johnston. Yes. He's currently touring the Americas. Yeah, he's on a business trip overseas. And we thought about getting him on, but he hardly spoke when he worked with us.

So we think he might speak even less when he doesn't work for us. Yeah. I caught up with him before he left. And him and Chanel are doing really well. And they're great. And love and life. Because did he leave? Coachella.

Yeah, I know. I talked to him. He got to see Frank Ocean. Because I messaged him and I said, how bad was it? Was it as bad as everybody said? And he said it was all right. You're going to see James. It was all right. How are you, man?'re gonna sue James It was alright

How are you man It was good It was great Yep Yeah Very man of few words Yeah he is Man of few words

But yeah Katie Thank you so much Oh I love you guys I will We'll see you when we're done I don't know if I go that far But But

I am fond of you You're a great person I'm fond of you Tell me a great person I'm fond of you Tell me you love me right now I love you Katie You're one of the best Aw I love you guys Aw yeah