ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 17th March 2026

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley has a new dopamine hack! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDEM Podcast Network, it's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. I went to Rainbow's End yesterday. How good is that? Wow, a classic. Now, for those... Podcast listeners, New Zealand's premiere and only theme park. Only theme park.

The only theme park. How many rides does it have? You got the Log Flume, Gold Rush. Was the new pirate ship open? Yeah, man, and I went on it. Okay. You also went on the Pirateship. ship at the QMU show.

How does it compare? You've done two pirate ships this weekend. Actually, I did two pirate ships this weekend. That's a lot of pirate ships per weekend. Look, you can't beat a carnival ride, but Rainbow Zends, you know, it's a bit more swish now. The Pirateship, they call it the Pacifica. It's not even called the Pirateship.

Oh. It's called the Pacifica. Okay. Yeah, it's good rockin pirate ship. That was the first one. Opened in 1982. Kilda. In 1982, Longfloom came along in 84.

Is that still going strong? Logflum rules. Oh wait, hang on, sorry. 1998 log flume set on fire by arsonists. Yes, I remember that. Do you remember that ride reconstructed and re-themed before reopening us the enchanted forest log flume? They've had another redo of it because I went a couple of years ago and I went again yesterday. And it was very fancy.

The Wikipedia is, I'll say, thorough for New Zealand's exclusive. Yeah, it didn't have no idea it was. Well, do you know, last time I went, I definitely I had to queue up. Remember there was a kid in one of the lines and he was swearing like anything and I told him to watch his language. Yeah, yeah, I do recall. Yeah, well, this time there were no lines. Which is great for me.

Well, you went on the weekend and there was no lines. Sunday lunchtime and there were no lines. To the point where I did the roller coaster. I was in the first carriage, by the way. Wow. That's living. That's living. That's scary.

That's business class. Okay, but what about if it's a roller coaster on like an actual theme park like a big roller coaster I don't know if I like the front I do uninterrupted view yeah

but I did that and then you know because that roller coaster if you've never seen it in New Zealand it's very short corkscrew just goes

harn then it's done yeah it makes that sound too yeah but it's but like we'd finish and then I went

should we just go again and so we just said to the guy can we just go again because there's no line how many people were there like F all Great for you. Sad for Rambo Zend.

Yeah. That doesn't sound super sustainable. I don't know. I don't know what it was. It was something in the air. People didn't go to Rambo Zend. It wasn't a great weekend for weather. Oh, I know.

But, oh, you know, because the big drop closed for wind. Oh, I see. I can go on that. I don't open it with a wind. Yeah, right. Oh, really? The fair fall. I didn't know that was close for wind.

Wind pendant. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. Man, it's a great place. I was looking around as well. It's like, I'm having more fun than some of these kids. Really? Yeah, yeah. It was great, man.

I loved it so much. Kids love those kind of things. I'll say it was riddled. The kids that were there. Entitled little pricks. Brats. Oh, really? It was Brat City.

We're on the bumper cars. Boats. Oh, cars. No, the cars. Oh, yeah, the dodgums. They're inside. They're inside now. The go-kart ones outside.

They don't like you playing dodgms in this. Oh, my God. Get this. Okay. Screw that story. It was something in the dodgums. And a kid had a tantrums. We were just sitting in our dodgums waiting.

Are you going to get out? You're out. the carts, the scorpion carts are fast go-karts and closed so we had to go in the family carts right? Oh yeah. No bumping, no overtaking, you know, and they're a

No fun. Restricted speed. We're going and then they just kept stopping and like breaking down and this poor chick had to come and like crank everyone's motor and then we'd go for a bit and they'd all stop and we were like sort of stuck in there. Wow. It was like being stuck in a lift.

We said, like this. It's terrible. It's a tiny woman trying to get the thing crank in and everything. But yeah, what a magical wonderland. Honestly, I recommend it. I feel like we don't go enough. Motion Master.

You're in the Motion Master. You do some shooting on the motion master. You do shoots on the Mooster Master now. Miff and Mafa. You do shoot it in the Monster Monster. Gold Rush? Yeah, mate. That one that goes over the Lou,

yeah. And it spins at the same time. You've done the more. Invader. Yeah, you did the more. And look how happy you are today. And I'm fulfilled with. You're fizzing, aren't you?

You're pissing. I'm actually going to make it a quarterly thing, like a dopamine top-up. Right. Yeah, yeah. But this time I did eat an ice cream and then immediately go on that massive ride. We go upside down and go 360 around. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Playing with fire.

That was a bit silly. Yeah, it was very silly.