ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -15th November, 2025

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; we need to have an intervention for Hayley and her pens...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium podcast network, it's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pottom. Turns out Vaughn, we work with a shiny klepto magpie. Now, listen, this is what I love doing when I'm hoteling, and I've been hoteling a lot. Oh my God, do you know what I forgot to get at the hotel last weekend, a box of tissues? Oh, and I keep forgetting. It was a hotel that had a built-in tissue box, and they don't let you steal it easily. I'll tell you that right now.

A built-in tissue box. Won't be going back to that hotel. Okay. That's on my shit list. It's on your shit list. Yeah, most people worry about amenities like, you know, a nice comfortable bed, a view, an iron. Not you. Your TV, not me.

Can I steal the tissues? No. Well, I've been hoteling because I've been on tour with my own show and with Seven Days Live. And so everywhere I go I have to take the pen, the complimentary pen. Sometimes it's a pencil. Sometimes it's a pencil and I say, get fucked. you knew what you were doing boutique hotels love a pencil

yeah sort of raw dog naturally wooden it's no plastic yeah yeah because it's eco friendly isn't it yeah that's not fucking human friendly anyway I thought maybe we could go through I've got a small collection of six pens that I've collected of late

to give them a bit of a review now let's start with this guy here we've got the Rutherford Hotel and Nelson lovely hotel that's posh that one I've stayed there before Now look at that, we've got beautiful, slender, gold, gold, lady pin. Beautiful stink, but we spin it around and we've already broken the tip.

Oh, see, okay, so the elegance has just gone out the window then, hasn't it? And it sucks because boy, oh boy, that's a lovely right. Oh, that's beautiful. Inky, black, thick, lovely ink, but the tip has come off easily in my handbag. Okay, so what are we giving that out of five? Well, one, it's unusable now. Yeah, okay, that's a shame. Okay, now I have the Crown Hotel in Napier. Now, we've got a thicky here, but it's giving a stiff, stiff nib.

That's a stock standard free pen. You see that kind of pen a lot. Yeah, this has been well represented. That's why I've only selected this one. Rubber grip? It does have a rubber grip, which I quite like. The printing's nice and sort of an ombre effect on it. And just to do some riding here, okay, we've got a blue ink, consistent.

Vaughan, do you want to wrap your lips around that one? Beautiful, beautiful. That's nice. That's nice. That's a fairly sort of standard design. and you see this. That's exactly literally what I just said moments ago on. I do apologize.

I was still fiddling with the pen from the Rutherford. Okay. Which while, you said things gone, it's still usable. Okay. Now, I did stay in a, where was it? It was somewhere in Tohanga. We've stayed there before, Fletch and Fletcher. No, have I stayed there with you guys before?

Why would we have been in Tohanga? Can't remember. But they gave me an unbranded bick. And for me, I just think, what have we, you know, we've missed a trick there. Yeah. And it's dry. It's dry. Oh, okay.

So that's a very review. I'm moving up to my best one because I've already selected it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Here we have the... Wait, tell me more about that one. This one.

You didn't like it. No, you just said this your... You just said you don't go to the best one? No, I said that's my best one. I'm waiting. Oh. I thought you said you were moving up to your best one. No, no.

Here we're at the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargo, one of my favorite hotels to say. I'm going to say when you click it, it's got some resistance. It needs a bit of lube. That has a click, like, I'm about to sign some fucking shit. Yeah, I know, but it's stiff. I'll give you to have a feel of the stiffness of that click. Oh, yeah, you wouldn't want to be an arthritic old grandmother. You could barely get it out.

You'd struggle. You'd struggle. Have a right. See what you think. Oh, I'll have a little right here. You're not bad. It's fine. I'm going to give that a three.

Okay. That's a three. Oh. Okay, my second to last one here. I'm on that one now. I like the grunky clip. See, but listen to this click here. Now we've got the distinction hotel in.

to Needin. Now listen to this click. That's a good hotel. It's a lovely hotel. It's a beautiful building. Look how fast and smooth I can click. Oh yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah. Also, do you know, like, Haley's got one Pentego? She's like, this is some of them. This is some of them, man. I'm getting around. That's a beautiful right. You're going to love that one. That's a four out of five. You're going to turn into one of those old people with a pen room and your spare room becomes. I've got one of these. Lovely, aren't they? And they last. Tiano's got in his distinction. Tiano. They do have a distinction.

They do have a distinction here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I stayed there. Nice pen. Now, let me introduce to you. Oh my, this is free. Are you kidding me? This is free.

Now, I will say that this hotel, this is Sydney, and this is when we went there, and I've included this one for my hotel collection of the year. Okay. Because this is a hotel in Sydney called the Old Claire. And I tell you what, it's the most expensive. No, don't look up the, don't look up the fucking rate. Don't look up the rate. I was treating myself to a lovely weekend away.

Okay, 4.2 out of five. with 180 Google reviews, the old Claire. Now let me find it on TripAdvisor. Tell me on the Google reviews and hit me with number one because there's obviously a couple of one stars in the midst there.

Yeah, I can go back to that. I've just clicked on. It's number 37 out of 196 hotels in Sydney. So it's up there. What we've got here is a pen that you could write your signature on for a marriage certificate

or a legal document. It's inky. It's calligraphy friendly. As a lefty though? Heart tough for me, but I can see, I can see the value outside of my own experience. That is a pen that I think would cost at least $10. Yeah, always.

Fletch, have a right with the old Claire. A little in key. Beautiful. Grab a handful of the old clear. Tell you what, so I've clawed that back from the cost of it. It's in key, lovely, it's lovely. It is nice. What we should do is put up a photo of all the pens just on the desk

with a link to today's a little bit of pod. Yeah, maybe we should. So that people can see it because otherwise it's lost on the, dear listeners. Including the devastatingly The devastatingly broken Rutherford Hotel Nelson Penn Which is stunning lady pen Stunning, she just lost it up

Oh I recently we were with a friend to Warehouse Station here for no other purpose than to test the pens Oh my God I love that I love doing that I love doing that I love it. I was like Do you know who's going to fucking love this, Fletch and Vaugh? Yeah, yeah I never test with a green pen Never test with the green pen

It's always you've got to choose if it's going to be blue or black The green pens are too dry Okay I found a one out of five Review for this hotel with the amazing pen. So you're the most expensive stay I've had this year. Sunday evening, 14th of August,

2025, I paid $41 for drinks for three in the ground floor bar, but which bill had four plus dollars added onto the charge, making it 45. 10% addition, really? Not the normal one to want, blah, blah, blah. Oh, they're having a bitch and a whinge

about drinking at a hotel bar and it being expensive? Fuck off. Also, you should see this bar. It's like a five-star incredible thing. In Sydney. Even just drinking. King in Australia is so expensive.

I think I'm going to give that a fuck off actually. I want to give that a fuck off. It's a beautiful hotel. Give that a real big fuck off. Their pen absolutely reflects it. Makes up for these $48 drinks.