ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 18th December 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And I will start before you continue, Vaughan, by saying a thank you to Lauren Usher, Usher, Usher, who sent a lovely email to Karwin. Karwin's forwarded this on.

This is a listener that she was living in New Zealand and then has moved overseas. She's from the UK, originally now living in Mexico. Lovely email. Thank you, Lauren. Heartfelt thanks from a dedicated listener. A beautiful email. So thank you for taking the time, Lauren. Really appreciate that.

Compliments ahoy. It's really made my day. Thank you very much. That's lovely. Shout out, Lauren. Usher. Usher. Usher. Are we ushering? I thought he was a little too close to the whole current thing going on in America. We were just waiting judgment on that. The time bombs are dropping. Well, innocent till proven

guilty. Correct. When you guys were at school school did your parents come in for like if you were like oh and today's the day that never my parents saw it was like the 80s and 90s they were working

they were working they came in like for really big things like speeches performances but nah not like I'm presenting a thing in my class

oh really I feel like there was less of that in the day whereas now they have certificates all the time and even graduations everyone gets and you're just like they're all the kids are great yeah they can't be and then they go into the workforce and they're like i thought we were special and no you fucking not you're not special i didn't have pulled back on that now have they because everybody was seeing what a disaster it was in gen z. Yeah. I definitely like my kids, when they have prize giving, there's only like three kids each year that get a-

Oh, as opposed to everybody. As opposed to everyone getting a time to march up and la-di-da. What's the award that I always think is so stupid? Just the turning up award? Oh, the truancy- Attendance. Attendance award. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're like, what? Yeah. It's actually not really on you. A lot of the time that's on the parents To make sure you turn up And the fact that you're ill But no my parents would never They just didn't have the time It just worked so much

Working This week I was leaving work And Sade messaged me saying What are you doing now? And I said I'm heading home Did you say

None of your fucking business Stay out of my business woman I said I'm heading home Why? And she said I completely forgot But August has got her presentation. Now, you remember, I went in and talked to

her whole class about creating content, creating a thing. And then they came in and did a little tour of our building. She said upstairs, real boring. She said the newspaper was so boring. She said this ZDM studio was the highlight of everybody's trip.

Good to hear. We're cool. We're cool and funky and cool. I ZDM studio was the highlight of everybody's trip. Oh, that's nice. Good to hear. We're cool. We're cool and funky and cool. I didn't know. It was the presentation of all of the thing that they'd been doing, the research they'd done and how they'd put it together. And I went in and sat at August's table, and I was there for the parent hour from 11 till 12. So they had wine?

No, there was no hand. I do apologize that there wasn't wine. I thought, you know, like the quarter hour, you get whan. Nah, cocktail and intro, darling. Nah, whan at all. You lost me. Sat and went through her presentation that she did with a couple of pals, and then I noticed there were these other little poor buggers

that were just sat there, and their parents were obviously, like, working. Busy, man. Busy people. Yeah, because it's hard, and some parents have two jobs. There was three jobs. Totally, dude. And there were some grandparents there, and they went to their grandkids, you know, table and sat there and heard about the presentation.

And I kind of finished and I was like, oh, I really got nothing else to do. And I said to the teacher, who's like not going to have parents show up for this? There's going to be some sort of foster father figure. Some sort of fucking floating father figure. I will be your father figure. Put your tiny hand in mine. I will be your father figure. Put your tiny hand in mine. I will be your lemon ginger. Do it to the end of time.

George Michael. Oh, I don't know. Oh, for God's sake. What are you, a homophobe? Faith? No, father figure. Oh, I don't know that song. Wow, we've got a real homophobe on our hands here.

I'm not a homophobe. No, Vaughn knows a lot about George Michael's cruising. I've been to the George Michael toilets twice. I've been to the George Michael toilets twice. He's been to the George Michael toilets in Los Angeles. Well, then why? You simply must listen to his song Father Figure, which I believe is what you were trying to be for these. And I'm not trying to be, you know,

I'm not trying to say I'm a fucking hero here. But I went around to some of these other kids because they were just sitting there like, the next hour was going to be them presenting to another bunch of students but i was like they're just going to sit there and it was so adorable i went around and at the end you had to like because they were around you were like hi what tell me what's your presentation on and they'll be like take a seat sir oh that's so cute and then they were like my presentation as i went to a couple one was on my favorite sports by Nate.

And Nate loves motocross and rugby league. So I asked him heaps of questions about his motorbike and heaps of questions about the Warriors. And so because his parents couldn't be there. They couldn't because they were working. Yeah, because they work. This is really sweet. So then I said, who else hasn't had like a visitor yet? And I was kind of asking the kids and they're like, oh, no, my dad's been.

And I was like, okay, is anybody not're like oh no my dad's been and I was like okay is anybody not and they're this these two little girls weren't saying anything and the teacher's like oh they haven't had one yet and I was like okay I'll go over to their table and their presentation was on origami and sketching and there was a six and a half minute long video

of one of them painstakingly making one of those choice makers you know where you're, pick a lucky number. One, two, three, four, five. And it's like, pick a luck, and you peel it open. There's four of them inside, and then you peel it open, and it's got a little bit of advice. You're a dick.

Yeah, you're going to be married to Ryan. Yeah. That sort of thing. And then the teacher's like, we've not got too long left. And I was like, I don't mean to be rude. Is it okay if I just kind of skip through the video? Oh, God. So I get to the end of it and you can tell me more

and then before the next class comes in. And this little kid, I've since found out she's an exchange student from China and her English was phenomenal. Oh, right. I thought you were going to say terrible. And I was like, you've been talking to her this whole time. She's like, what is this man mumbling at me? Phenomenal.

But she spoke so quietly. And at one stage I was asking her questions about the origami and i realized she's like an inch and a half away from me like whispering because she's so shy oh and i was just like oh my god this is so sweet kids they are the purest souls but then the other girl told me she did she was like i drew this and i was like wow and i said to august later on like did you see her drawing like it was amazing of this horse and august was like she didn't draw that she just she's telling everybody she drew that she found that in a book yeah 100 i was like she sold me draw that she's telling everybody she drew that she found that in a book yeah 100% I was like she sold me on it

I was like did she trace it or something I remember doing that at primary school we had a girl at primary school called Giselle she was like artistically gifted I stole a picture and told everyone I drew it you stole one of her pictures Giselle's pictures because that was Giselle Bunchton the supermodel

and she's doing okay. She ended up being super hot, I know. Yeah, she's doing okay. Yeah, but I saw her picture. Yeah, and it was like to get sentimental, and I'm not going to cry or anything, but it really reiterated to me how lucky I am that I get to go to things like that. Yeah, totally.

Because I bet some parents, like these kids sit in there kind of be like, oh, my mum and dad have said they can't come because of work, and I bet parents, especially this time of year, there's a bit of guilt about that. My mum told me as an adult, only when I could handle it, that she used to cry on her drive home because she had this terrible guilt for working. And we'd be at after school daycare and stuff. She'd be coming to pick us up and she'd just feel like she's just missed our entire life. She'd be crying and crying and crying. When is your next therapy?

You might not remember that next year when you go back. Did I just find trauma? I think you found trauma. Fuck, I've been digging for it. I haven't had any! Trauma money! I haven't had any!