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

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Producer Jared went off the rails, while on the rails!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe, the perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod Now we mentioned previously on the show and on the podcast that producer Joe was catching the train On his own But we've got to give you an update because he did it all wrong I know, and then we're so nervous that he'd committed somewhat of a crime

Yeah, because I'm used to catching the bus Oh yeah wrong. I know. And then we're so nervous that he'd committed somewhat of a crime. Yeah. Because I'm used to catching the bus. Oh yeah. And a bus you just tag on at the start of the bus. Yeah, at the end. But then some places when you're travelling, you only tag on and you never tag off. Which, it's all very confusing. There needs to be

one way to tag. Yeah. And that's what the world does. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You're just thinking about how deeply profound that is. No, no, no, no. I was just trying

to think of the last time that I did a tag on, tag off. Because there are no trains where I go. Yeah, right. And there's no buses where I live.

I thought you meant tagging while I'm waiting for the bus I get out a diamond and carve my tag into the bus stop. Right, like Skux. Skux the Larks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll do it on the bus and then when I get off the bus as bus, I get out a diamond and carve my tag into the bus stop. Right, like Skux. Skux Deluxe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll do it on the bus and then when I get off the bus as well. I see quite a few of your Skux Deluxe tags around Exeter City. He's Bloom. Yeah. You're doing really well. I'm Blooming. Now, how did you mess up the train?

So I got to the train station and it was a bit rainy. So I had a little speed walk about halfway down the platform to get to one of those signs that tell you how long it's going to take for the train to get to you. And instead of a time it had a star which means the train's arriving now. And I was like oh perfect timing. Glanced to the right, there's the train.

Train keeps going past me. Goes all the way to the end of the station. Oh yeah you're at the wrong end aren't you? Yeah I'm at the wrong end. I do, you've stuffed that up. And because I don't you? Yeah, I'm at the wrong end. Okay. What do you stuff that up? And because I don't catch them often, I don't know how long trains wait around for. So I get my jog on and just dart into one of the cabins. Right.

Not cabins. Cabins. Carriages. Carriages. Sorry. The cabooses. Yeah. The cabooses.

So I didn't make it to the start of the train station. Yeah. Which I've since found out is where you tag on Right, so you're on the train You're an illegal immigrant You're an illegal immigrant On this train From South Africa, little Jared, he doesn't know where he is Oh, get me, I'm lost

Where do I go? I don't know where to go And I get on the train and this camera's pointing at me Oh, wow, they're watching us. Oh, wow. It's crazy, my bro. It's crazy. Yeah, and then I just spent the whole ride being like, oh, my God, oh, my God, the ticket man's going to catch me.

He's going to come, he's going to come. You're all along the platform, little stands, and you just beep them. Yeah, I know them now. Because the last time I went on the trains, when I lived in Wellington, because Wellington's very train friendly, the guy would come along,

you'd have a little paper ticket that you'd get from Wellington Station. Oh my God, hon, it's not the 2000s. Yeah, I know, I know, this is genuinely it. And over the speaker on the train, every stop or two it'll be like, have your ticket ready, be prepared to... Oh, that's Nathaniel Leeds, yeah, yeah. Because sometimes they come down...

It was the Matrix. Actually, the last guy that came down, he listens to the podcast. The guy on the train checking the tickets. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they take your card and swipe it against the machine and it tells you if you've paid. True. Yeah.

Tickets. I got off the train in Britomart, lovely city. I don't know if you guys have been there. Yeah, I live right there. And there weren't scanners. I was like, oh, hell yeah. I just got a free ride to town. I'm going to Disturbed.

I'm having a great night. Oh, my God. Yeah, but once you go up some stairs, there, hell yeah. I just got a free ride to town. I'm going to Disturbed. I'm having a great night. Oh, my God. Yeah, but once you go up some stairs, there's, like, gates. Yeah. And you can't pass through them until you're scanned. Yeah. So that cost me, like, $6.50. Did you jump the gate?

Nah, nah. There was some bullying. You're a sprightly wee lad. I would have jumped the gate. You could probably crawl under, actually. I'm fast, but one hit, I reckon I'd be dead. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the big scary security guards just watched me as I scanned, got a ba-boom, and then scanned again and saw the $6.50 disappear. Oh. But so you were able to just take it straight away then? Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's all right then. Yeah.

I still feel bad. I feel a little embarrassed. I know, but also, you were so excited as a big boy. I know you were. A big boy on the train on his own for the first time in years. In the big city from rural South Africa. You stuffed it up. There were some characters on the train. Tell you

why. Really? Oh, yeah. You don't make eye contact with people, that's for sure. Oh, God, no. I reckon next time, take the car. Yeah, I'll get the private driver to take me. Yeah, just park it in town. Park the car in town. Get my wife, park the car in town. Get your wife, park the car.