ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -17th August, 2025

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan's postcard sagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM podcast network, it's Fletchforn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Well, she's actually here. Turn on your microphone and join the show. I'll join the little bit of pod. It's a teacher, another he thing, teachers only day. I've got nothing but respect for teachers. Yeah.

Are they, they're trying to strike, aren't they? They're trying to get more money. Secondary school teachers' union is striking next week. Okay. Currently, it's just a teacher's only day. I'm on their side. Me too. Teachers, nurses,

give them all the money in the world. Yeah. They do. Oh, all of it. There needs to be some less left for entertainers. Okay. I'll take some.

There needs to be some less left for entertainers. I had to explain August, like how a postcard worked and what a postcard was. Oh yeah, because we used to have to do it every time we're on holiday. Yeah, that's when you sent them right. The only time you ever sent them was when you were sent them. was when you were somewhere, and it was before the time where you could just send somebody a digital photo of where you were and be like, look at this, isn't this lovely,

you'd go somewhere. I've got this vivid memory as a child of going to Napier and go to Marine Land and getting Marine Land and getting Marine Land. The Dolphin Postcards and sending them back to my grandparents. Yeah, same, same, same. Yeah, it was always your grandparents that loved a postcard. I remember sending grand a postcard. She's dead now.

I don't want to talk about it. No. But, yeah, she'd always love them. But that's bad bit is that everyone can read what you're right. written on it because it's not in an envelope. I know. So you'd be like, you could write anything and then just the mailman could just, you know, read your message.

So male woman as well, Haley? No, actually. Male is literally in the title. Yeah. Male man is a double. It's a male male. Okay. And I'm not going to tell you which male is the gender and which male is the service.

It's a male male male. Male. Which one is? Which one is? Okay, go again. No, just you just say one? Okay. Male.

Gender? No, that was a letter. No, she's right. It was gender. Yeah. Okay, ready? Male. Gender.

No. Letters. It's our favourite game. Okay, wait. Mints. That's the meat. No, it was mincing. I know he's changed.

That's the same thing, because it's the C. It's the C. Okay, I'm going to do one. Mints. T. T. Yeah, hard T.S. Yeah.

Your pronunciation's too good. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so, you know, postcards are basically... I'll go. C. As in viewers. your wings. Oh shit.

You suck at this game. Okay. Someone's in the abandoned coffee shack. Oh shit. Someone's finally open their... Don't do not. It's a 10th business. There would be the fifth business that could have made that spot work.

We've got an abandoned coffee chaos. Outside work. I feel so sorry. I've got another one. I'm going to tell Jeremy Wells. He'll go out and talk to them. Oh, yeah, because I have the hard word. Okay, here's another one.

Here. On your head. On the head. Yeah, Augie got it. No, not hair. Hair. Hair, the rabbit. The rabbit.

So we got a postcard and we write my parents' address on it and then August writes a little note that basically explains that she just got given a postcard. So she thought she'd send them a postcard, which I thought was a great message to go on a postcard. I think it's great. Perfect. And then I was like, well, I'll take it to work. There'll be stamps here. I ask at reception. They say the stamps there are like those sticker stamps.

You know, like a sticker, like the yes end of courier, like a jiffy bag, like a pre-printed sticker they buy them. Postcard, take up the whole postcard. That's the problem. It takes up the whole postcard. It's too big. So I say, there's a New Zealand post shop next door. I'll go for a walk. Guess how much it cost a post?

A postcard in New Zealand to another New Zealand address. Now, last summer did it, I think it was a dollar. Did it use that? $0.70. Time before that $0.40. And I remember having as low as $0.40 as a kid. Back in the day, I think it was 50 cents for ages. A lot of a postcard, yeah.

45 cents were around for most of my childhood. Yeah, yeah. Then we'd lost for five. Yeah. It's got to be. couple of bucks shut up don't even

he's not even flinching it's a five bucks or something it's $290 to send a post card and you know what it costs the same

to send it anywhere in the world I was gonna say what about sending it around the world you can send it to Timbuk bloody too because if you've been

to the post office on top of the Eiffel Tower it's not a place It is if Timbuktu is in Mali in Mali it's an African place I only know this

because they had a sponsor child He had a sponsor child from Timbuktu you just make it No from Mali and they said the closest The city was Timbuktu, and I was like, you fucking kidding me.

I'm not kidding. What was your sponsor child's name? He, sealing glass. No, he stopped sponsoring his kid and he ended up banging again. I stopped sponsoring mine when he turned 18 and I was like, off you drop. You know what I mean? Good best of luck to you. I send him balloons, my sponsor, could I send him some balloons once?

Yeah, I'm still sponsoring mine. He's 34. He's still living at home. And, you know, he's doing great. He's doing great. See, here's Marley. And this is the African. coast here

there's Marley that country it's landlocked isn't it it is look what I'm zooming in on Timbuktu look at that it's a place it's an actual place I don't know the origins of why people say Timbuktu is in the middle of nowhere it's in the far reaches

so then I said to the lady that's steep at the New Zealand Post Shop I said that's steep and she said you're telling me and so I said I'm not blaming you but I am here to discuss that I think that's a steep price to pay for a postcard and then uh she put the stamp on it and i said there you go and she said no no you got a pop it in the box yourself i said for two dollars 90 you know everything pop it in the box for me as a joke jess of course lighthearted good yeah and she laughed and i

popped it in the box and away i went so i don't know when that's going to arrive for them oh probably like we get mail three times a week now yeah yeah so it's every couple of days so it could be up to they might be expecting that postcard by 2027 amazing i don't know but that's yeah we learned I mean, you could have just video called your grandparents. Yeah, were you ever send another postcard again? You took a long time writing it. Made sure her writing was very neat. Leggible.

Which is very legible. Mine is not, of course. I just think it just sounded all like a bit of fuss. Was it a bit of fuss. A lot of fuss. But, you know, like, that's what life is, really, just a series of... Fuck us. Fuss, fuss, after fuss.

Look at us. Look at us. Every day I'm fussing. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D.