ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 21st January 2024

Episode Date: January 20, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Producer Jared has declared war on a bird.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Enjoy a refreshing McCafe iced coffee available only from Macca's Great things are brewing Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod Now every year the bird of the year happens We're big bird people Yeah, big bird people on the show Huge fans of the birds

Last year, probably as big as it ever got with John Oliver wading in Poo-ticky-ticky And that won, didn't it? Yeah, correct Anytime anyone's at my house, we get a lot of kereru. Oh my God, I know. And I'm always saying,

look at the kereru. Look at the kereru. So beautiful. It's still my favourite New Zealand bird. My favourite bird too. Well, there is a bird in New Zealand that is not in the good books with producer Jared

because they're making your life hell. Yep. And it's not the beautiful piwakawaka or the tui. It is the bastard pookeko. Oh, no one likes poo kickers. What? What do you love?

Because they're pretty. I voted for them. Oh, that's true. They're bin chickens. They're bin chickens. Yeah, rats in the sky. No, but they're blue. Oh, no, they suck.

Oh, my God. So are recycling gurus. They're a bloody Teemu order of a takahe. Thank you. That's exactly what they are. They are, yeah. They're a bloody Timu order of a Taka hat. Yeah, thank you. That's exactly what they are. They are, yeah. Why have you come to hate them as we do? Well, we wake up quite early in the morning for work,

so during the holidays I like to not do that. Yes, me too. Yeah, it's a good plan. Yeah, but apparently summer is screeching season for the pooks. Oh. 6 a.m. And we've got like 20 near us so it's just a chorus You live in a residential area

Yeah, Avondale-ish so like, there's houses, there's people, there's cars Because when I, I used to live where you live. You called it Avondale Avondale. I used to live in the western suburbs of Avondale The posh part of Avondale and I'm in the shit part of Avondale

We were in the roughest part of Avondale and I'm in the shit part of Avondale we were in the roughest part of Avondale so your neighbours pissed in your car yeah yeah that's right

it was like pigeons it was always pigeons or ducks and in Avondale it was always

pigeons or ducks and we used to walk past and be like oh that's a pigeon house how embarrassing and it was always covered in pigeons and then the next one would have all these ducks on their lawn and I was, oh, that's a pigeon house. How embarrassing. And it was always like covered in pigeons. And then the next one

would have all these ducks on their lawn and I was like, oh, they're a duck house. How embarrassing. And then we became a duck house. There's an apartment near us and their balcony

is just covered with pigeons. It's pigeons. They're in a pigeon house. There were like 20 pigeons in or around their deck and their balcony door was open. So I reckon you've got it good because where we,

where I live now, we're pukeko and it's, they're horrible. You've got to hit them with your car. Are they native birds? Are you allowed

to take them out because could you poison them? What is that word? Endemic? Like they're not traditionally from here but they've settled in. Yeah.

Sort of like, but they're dying a dozen. Fletch. Wow. And to a more extent. I mean, also mych. Wow. And to a more extent, also my family. If we want to talk about what your family did to Hayley's family. Well, the majority of my family also did it to the smaller part of my family. So do you know what I mean?

It's conflicting for me. It's an internal argument. It's that situation. They are the worst native birds, Perk Echo. I hate them. You get a little slug gun, a little air rifle Yeah, I've got two methods of dealing with them at the moment One is I connect the little Bluetooth speaker and play like Poo Keko panic sounds

Yeah, dude, that's a great way to get rid of birds Nah, it hasn't for us So my current method You might be accidentally playing the Poo Keko lovemaking YouTube video Oh shit, you've got to watch out And that will be a horny mess on your backyard. Oh my God.

You can tell because it goes You can shoot them in duck hunting season, right? They've got the same season as You can shoot them for sport in the shooting season. Known you can shoot them for sport in the shooting season yeah

known for their cheekiness also found in Africa Asia and Australia dime a dozen Africa and Asia got them and Australia ta ta

because at the moment my neighbours are just seeing me just full on run it straight at a poo kick oh you're like bull at a red flag yeah charge at it

yeah yeah yeah nah I um I don't like them yeah when I see them on the side of the road i think good oh wow it's that it's that you see a dead one you're like good take that good yeah and tell the others