ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -18th December, 2025

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan VS Kettle... (eff a plastic kettle!)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchpawn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. This fucking kettle, man. What's up with your kettle, man? Wait, what, the first... I don't even think it's this, it's not that old a kettle. Okay. It's a kitchen-aid, it's a black kitchen-aid kettle.

And it's like yours, because I saw what you had, and I had to have it, even though I've never used any other setting apart from 100 degrees. But you've got this little dial and you can turn the kettle on. Coffee, yeah, yeah, you can do like green tea, white tea, black tea, coffee, and you can choose what the grit boils to. What do you mean you like that? When did the last time you had a green tea? I have green tea every day. Yeah, he has green tea often.

I have it every day. Do you use the green tea function? Well, I used to have a kettle that did that, but now I've got the kitchen aid, but it just one, it just boils. I'll be going back to that. But I've got a wonky lid on my kitchen aid. You got a wonky lid. I'm thinking about messaging them. My button's a little bit sticky, but I give it a WhatsApp or what's what.

Sounds like you guys need to come over to Brevel to. Yeah, I might be making a move to Breville. Yeah, I don't know if my next kettle's going to be the same if it's going to have a wonky lid. No, fool me once. Well, now mine, even though you crank it right up to 100, it stops boiling at 60 degrees. 60's not hot enough.

That's like straight out the tap. That's piss warm. I'm not having a cup of coffee that's pissed warm. Can you get a 60 degrees? So I cranked it as high as it would go and didn't put any, because I don't put milk in my coffee, I just put a little bit of tap water and then mix in the coffee and then pour in the, I make a great instant coffee.

you do and um so i just went straight water from the jug how to make a great instant coffee he did and i was taught i was taught by alex bhan oh really who was my co-host before you and is well i we'll pass it on to haley's crap on to me okay the key is you don't want to because a lot of people just pour the boiling water into the coffee granules and it burns them it's how i would have done it would have scooped in the spoon it's how my mom does it it's too hot so you've either got to put milk in first and then make sure the coffee's dissolved or if you don't have milk you put in water. Cold water. And then that way the hot water is mixing with

the... I had no idea. I had no idea. Yeah. So that's... I shall pass this down to whoever follows in my footsteps. Please do. Radio will be dead by then, but okay. Yeah. Oh, hopefully I will do. Take it to a podcast. I shall take it to the world of podcast.

Take it in the world of podcasting. So I was like, I'll just use the water straight from the jug and add no cold water because... But you can taste the difference. Well, it sounds like you've got a... fucked kettle. It's a fucked kettle. Your kettle sounds utterly fucked.

The kettle is fucked. Do you think American, the few American podcast listeners that we have are just like, what is a kettle? Why call it a jug? They call it a kettle. They don't do them over there, do they? No, they barely do, eh? No, they have. They do them on the stovetop, don't they?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or they just have coffee machines. Those drip filter coffee machines that heat it. Trash. But the British, they know what we're talking about. Oh, the British lover kettle. So this is what I'm thinking. Pop on the kettle.

This is what I'm thinking. I'm going to get a stove top. kettle instead that whistles. No. What a pain. Apparently now I'm not. Fuck, you're obnoxious. Why?

Why would you do that? You'd get up early. Your girls would be sleeping. It would be like, it's 2025. We're not doing stovetop kettles. Oh, do you remember growing up those kettles that whistled and they were orange and brown? Yes. Orange brown.

Yes. What were those? They were classic. And they were in different colors. Were they a Kiwi company? They were orange and brown. Everything built in New Zealand in the 80s had to be orange and brown. Yeah.

The Tupperwe's and stuff. That was like a classic kettle growing up. And they were bulbous. They were bulbous? My pop had one. A retro New Zealand whistling kettle. Google that. Kiwi camping kettle?

No, you've got new... Dude, also, who the fuck is paying $255 for a lacreche? What do? What do you want me to do? You're fucking idiot. What have I done? You've got new kettles. It's a retrokettle.

Retro, orange brown, whistling kettle. Oh, vintage. 80s or 90s. Vintage. Go fucking new kettles. No. None of these ones. Go images.

Search, you're on shopping. Christ. No, you're not going to buy one. You know, I put an exact for your search terms and we find fucking nothing. Brown and orange. That guy looks familiar. They were plastic, hey. They were plastic.

They were plastic. No, not plastic. They weren't fucking plastic. They would have melted. No, not plastic. But like, enamel. I don't trust those at all. I don't trust a plastic jug.

Fuck a plastic. They were plastic jug. Or the liquid set traditional ones have come up. They're fucking nice, aren't it. Yeah, no. That's what I'm saying. You know, I know in my head. This is one of those chaotic breaks that our radio consultant always tells us people get confused about.

People confuse them. We can't do it. You're all talking over each other. We're just screaming at each other. No, I can't find it. Anyway, I'm in the, I'm in the market for a kettle. But I know what, I know. Do you know, I've been put off the sliding thing?

Because I never used that. I thought I wanted it. I didn't. It's still working. Just wait till the boxing day sales. Because it's not. I'm boiling water on the, on the stovetop in a pot and pouring it into a cup. Oh, it's a bad.

Like it's a pioneer house. Okay. You had to work without power. Like, you were in Pioneeringville. I was in Pioneeringville with this. Oh, my vibrator died and I had to use my fingers. Oh, I'm in Pioneering town as well. I'll drink a cold coffee.

I'll drink a cold coffee, but a woman in 2025 shouldn't have to use her fingers. Thank you. Like a bloody peasant. Oh, I'm so sorry that you work far too hard. Thank you.