ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 18th October 2023

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Producer Jared and The Middy were attacked at Dinner!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now, there's shakes of the head in the producer's book. Well, producer Jared. Good morning. Good morning. Well, good non-specific time because somebody could be listening to this in the PM. Yeah, that's good from you, actually. Thank you.

Rookie maneuver over here. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Now, you want to talk about your dinner? Yeah. So, last week, the Middie and I attended a lovely comedy show presented by yours truly, Hayley Spruill.

Yeah, that's me. But beforehand we went to... Who was your fan? We talked about this. Your first ever comedy show. Did it disappoint? Nah, it was really nice. You get enough of this shit at work, though, eh? Yeah.

I'd heard a couple of the stories before, but it was fun. It was fun. I'm running out of stories now. I really enjoyed it. The Middie was cracking up the whole time i was laughing it was good oh wait so she was cracking up but you were laughing it's definitely more aimed towards women yeah sure and i understand it jared and jared famously refuses to consider a woman's point of view i know exactly i knew he wouldn't enjoy it for that reason. He's a straight up chauvinist. But an honest chauvinist. Oh yeah, I like it.

Owns it. So this chauvinistic pig and his missus went out to I'm going to say it, Fat Pookoo's. Which is our favourite burger place. I've never heard of Fat Pookoo's. They do smash burgers and the like. It's delightful. Now smash burger is

are there no buns? Very thin patty. No, no, no, it's just a really thin patty. It's delightful. Now, smash burger is, are there no buns? Very thin patty. No, no, no, it's just a really thin patty. They just squash the patty on the grill. It's when they go like that on the grill and it goes all gnarly and charred. Really good. Yeah, okay. Oh, yum.

Yeah, so we hit up this spot a lot on Uber Eats, but this was the first time we traveled to it. Good Lord, there are loaded fries with jalapenos on them. Yeah, there are. Jalapenos? Yeah, jalapenos. I love jalapenos. I know. So we placed our burger orderapenos? Yeah, jalapenos. I love jalapenos. I know.

So we placed our burger order, our fry order, our cocktail order, which I'll get back to shortly, and a bird flew in. Oh, okay. Ew. Ew. Birds are so birdy. It was a bird. We went out for breakfast the other day.

At the back of the restaurant, the bird snuck in the door while it was open and flown right to the back. Ew. Fuck off, bird. Fucking sparrows. Yeah. We were attacked. What?

Yeah. The bird, like, dive-bombed us multiple times trying to get our chips out of our fingers or our chipboard. Oh, my God. Wasn't it a hungry bird? Yeah, it's one of those little brown, mousy-looking sparrows. Yeah, fucking sparrows. Little bastards.

Yeah, they're so hungry and needy. Like, it fluttered. Its wings fluttered my face. Oh, these burgers look good. Iy. Like, it fluttered. Its wings fluttered my face. These burgers look good. I know I'm just having a look, but hold on. I'm just having a look. It's like toasted sandwiches. This is crazy.

And the cocktails. Oh, my God. What the hell? So what did you do with the bird? Did you swat it away? This is how bird flu starts. I didn't connect for the PETA fans No, fuck that

It came for you You were defending yourself I swatted the menu at it a few times Some of the other tables were like clapping at it One of the waitresses tried to stomp on it We got him We got him Gotcha

Gotcha We got him on film and audio Saying he tried to kill a bird Gotcha It was wild And then it got scared and flew away and audio saying he tried to kill a bird. Gotcha. Gotcha. It was wild. And then it got scared and flew away and we enjoyed our meal and cocktails in peace.

Friend of ours, James, lovely, gay James. Gay James. He's more to him than his sexuality. No, I know, but I've seen this before. I don't know a straight James. You know many straight Jameses. How many Jameses don't you know? That's the question.

That's the fucking question. The structure of the question itself is a mystery. Stop wriggling around the question board and answer it. How many Jameses don't you know? So James is petrified of birds. So we've been out at restaurants or bars before with friends and he gets, like we were in Queenstown, a group of us eating

Ferg burger on the steps and the ducks he was beside himself and they had to run away. But he's so tough In Queenstown, a group of us were eating Ferg burger on the steps. Yum. And the ducks. Beside himself. Beside himself. They had to run away. But he's so tough and masc. Yeah, I know.

He's such a masc, grisly guy. I know. Just hates birds. But I know quite a few people that are just scared of birds. My friend Graz is terrified of birds. They're so unpredictable. We took him for a surprise birthday to one of those enclosed aviaries. That's not fucking funny. What?

Still got the earring? Yeah. Is it gay? Let me check. Is it in the gay ear? No, we were trying to work out if it's in the gay ear or not. He's straight, obviously, but what ear he's got it in. If it's in his right ear.

I think he had both done at one stage because he got it done and then everyone was like, then that's the gay ear, so he just got the other ear done as a proprietor. Oh, he just went by. Yeah. Fair enough. I've got a little mole on my right earlobe, so I didn't have my ears pieced, but everyone at school was like, gay ear.

Yeah, you got the gay ear. Yeah, because it's left looking at you, your right ear. Oh, great. And I'm just looking at the latest pictures. That's the gay ear. No earring anymore. No earring. Yeah.

Okay. I think sometimes we need to explain the gay earring thing because a lot of people, maybe internationally it wasn't a thing, but in the 90s and early 2000s in New Zealand, if a guy got his ear pierced, just one of them, there was always this thing that one of the ears being pierced was to let other homosexuals know that you were homosexual in the day where that sort of thing wasn't spoken about. So New York Times, this is uh archived from 1991 wow gay men

followed often wearing a single piece of jewelry in the right ear to indicate sexual preference because yeah this was pre-apps yeah like when it was uh you know a lot of underground yeah totally you know they had wives yeah girlfriends for sure you try to suck off one guy that was giving you the femme energy and he tries to fight you and you're like, whoa, okay, there's some confusion here. Just the earring. Just the gay earring.

And he's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, what are you saying? And then you educate him at the time. Once he gets out and everybody knows. Now we know it's so outwardly gay. I'm sure this would have been a thing in America too, the gay ear. Oh, totally. It must be there. Yeah, the gay ear math.

Didn't gay Ken, Aaron Ken have a gay ear. Oh, totally. It must be there. Yeah, the gay ear math. Didn't gay earring Ken have a gay ear? He had both. So late 70s, it became common for men to secretly communicate their sexuality by wearing the earring in the right ear. And by the 90s, I guess people were like, we know now. Confusing time for pirates.

Yeah, they had to switch to the left. Yeah, get both done, multiple ears. But even like so many posts, like you know that website Quora the question you know which earring is the gay like people asking

that recently just pierce any old ear it doesn't matter exactly a great story Jared and it's led us into a really great

debate about you know being out and proud congratulations on coming out is that what we were discussing no he didn't come out he's just

shit the midi's gonna be fucking wild about that well she could be very supportive of it or she could love it yeah i said to aaron the other day that he was um i was open to him taking a male lover and he didn't respond it was because after i'd seen that bloody soldier i was like i just need to get him to say i'm okay with you taking a female lover so i opened the discussion discussion by saying, if you ever wanted to date a man, I'd be okay with that. Yeah, gotcha. So he would return, but he didn't return the favor. Still waiting on the response. Plugging away at that one.

The only other way around, though, it's the guys. We should have a threesome. Yeah, I know. He's just so happy with just me. Yeah. And me also am just happy also just with him. Aaron would tear me in half. He would, man. He would. Yeah, he would tear me in half. He would, man.

He would. Yeah, he would. Eat you alive. Yeah, he would.