ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -22nd July, 2025

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Producer Shannon has a surprise treat for the team to try...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network, it's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Now, um Shannon, you have something you would like to share with the group. More than share. Oh, I would like you to taste something. It's changed the tone! What are you doing that voice? It's changed the tone! I'd like you to taste something. Yeah great, well it better be a slice of bread and that's it. As you know, during my breaks I tend to go to a farm now.

You do? Yes. And I went down to Southland, so the middle of nowhere, the middle of the coldest part of the country, and I was there, Vaughan has just clicked what I've got, I was there for a week and one of the biggest places you can go when you're in Southland is Gore, which is a very small town still. She said that was such excitement, which is not warranted. End me now.

Hey, do you know what? Gore's fine, but it's just not, you know what I mean? I was this close to buying a shirt that said Gore Gis, but it was $40. And I couldn't justify it. Oh, I think that would have been worth it. See, that's a great gift. Isn't that such a great gift. Isn't that such a clever marketing? But what I did do while I was there, the information centre is half information centre and half moonshine distillery.

Get it baby, where's my moonshine? Do you think it started as a 100% information centre but it just lacked any customers? There's no fucking information to share. as a 100% information center but it just lacks any customers. There's no fucking information to share. Do you want moonshine playing in the background? Which moonshine are you going to go for? Akon, he's deeply in Savage. Savage, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's only one place in New Zealand you can buy moonshine and this is distilled in Gore and it is 40% so it's not it's it's the same as any other spirit but it moonshine should be 60 60 to 80 so we only drink in moderation here but would you guys like to try some moonshine moonshine me baby no this is gonna absolutely skyrocket my workout all right you because I've got a workout after this same it's a taste we're not on the piss yeah I don't think I'll fucking ride it off this taste, we're not on the piss. Yeah I don't think so. Oh I won't fucking write it off this year mate, we're in our own days. Hold hokanui bottled by me for you, produce of Southland's supplied to all snake charmers. But what is moonshine?

So it's basically like a whiskey. Oh yeah see I don't do whiskey. Just like a bourbon-y. But I got to do a full tasting and it's free which is real cool, if you're ever in Gore go there, it's real fun. What is she the fucking spokesperson for Gore now? I'm on Big Gore, mate. You just nicked that. But I did a flight of it and they were like we are going to give you 0.8 standards

you can still drive and you get given the tiniest bit of each one. That's good from them. Cause some wineries out there are like ah I have another one and you're like uh. Cause Moonshine brings about the image of like hooch almost right? Like bootlegged underground. It's how Nascar started. Because moonshine brings about the image of like hooch almost right like bootleg Started the original NASCAR competition was all the moonshine runners from the prohibition era era where it was illegal to They outrun the place and so the best ones would get hired by the people to do the deliveries and then when it became Legal to have spirits and have booze again, these guys were just like,

well, now I can drive along these dirt tracks at a million miles an hour. And people were like, well, I quite like watching it. And so then that's how NASCAR. It's got a, it's like whiskey mixed with vodka. Yeah. Well, whiskey's got to aged. To call it whiskey, whiskey has to be aged.

Yeah, so they've got lots of different ones. They had honey ones, which were nicer, but I thought let's get the, this is moonshine. Moonshine. It's, you know, at the end of an evening and it's all that was available. I'd be like, I'll have moonshine if we could put some apple juice with it or something.

We'll go well with apple juice. With an apple juice. And it's a little something to take that slight petroleum taste out of. Yeah it is. Do you know what it reminds me of? You can get this in Bali. Arrak.

You know the like fake, the cheap bullshit alcohol. Oh I wouldn't be fucking with cheap alcohol in Bali. That's where you go blind. Or South East Asia, any of those countries. I did an Arrak tasting when we were in Bali of a pure Arrak. No this is very safe. Oh yeah that's official. I'm talking methylated spirits out of a Piccardi bottle.

I've done one of those tastings as well. I've had one. Right, is that the most exciting thing to happen on your holiday? That was, and honestly we were- Wait, Athol! Oh my goodness. Don't fucking call her that, she'd be like- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Green little town. The tiniest little town, like literally- The village. A hamlet, if you will. There's a church and a cafe and that's it. Great little town. The tiniest little town, like literally. The village. A hamlet if you will. There's a church and a cafe and that's it. I happened to be driving from Clinton to Queenstown the same day Vaughan was driving from Queenstown to Doubtful South, is that where you were going?

No I was going back to Queenstown. Back to Queenstown. We drove essentially past each other and we were messaging and he said go get this pie, it's the best pie ever and I said stunning king, I'm on my way. And I start going there. Did you say stunning king? pie. It's the best pie ever. And I said, stunning King, I'm on my way. And I start going there. Did you say stunning King? No. It feels too familiar.

I think I just said like, sweet as. And so then we head there and I was so excited. It was 2.53 in the afternoon. I remember it distinctly. It's too late for a pie. It was. They're gonna be out. Shut the fuck up sushi breakfast.

What? Actually, yeah, shut the fuck up sushi breakfast. Shut the fuck up sushi before 10. Sushi is my lunch. Yeah, but the fuck up. Sushi breakfast. What do you mean? Sushi is my lunch. Yeah, but this is my lunch. My 10. No, I know, and this pie is an afternoon snack. It's a light lunch. Can I just say I'm having a bit of a moonshine afterburn?

It warms me up though. I'm warm. But no, we hit their 253 and they were shut already. Because everything in Southland shuts at 2pm. Yeah, because it's about to be fucking dark. And the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other, the other,

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Is in summer they stay open so like because the fucking Sun never goes down Yeah, yeah stunning part of this beautiful country of ours right did you make some listeners down there lots of listeners? And they were like what are you doing here? You look out of place. Word went out that the blonde beauty from the big smoke was on the farm and all the young farmers came to try to- They did come over. The farmer wants a wife.

And you know the best message I ever got, I posted a photo of men attractor and this guy messaged me, I've never thought you're attractive until now. I was like, I don't know how to take that. Weird gentleman, eh? Wow. What kind of one, that one?

God, every time we think men are just getting better, eh? And then someone reminds us, no, we're still here.