ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -23rd Feb 2026

Episode Date: February 22, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; someone has fallen off of Fletch's best friend list...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM podcast network, it's Fletchfallen and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Now, guys, I just find this so fascinating when it comes to like algorithms and, you know, Instagram and all these apps. They just know. They just know everything. And that's all right. 100%. One thousand percent.

What do they get to when they were in the States being like, you tell me. now that you're not listening. What did they ever get to? Because they are. There has been a big trial going on in LA. People are taking them to court. Much like do you remember back in the day, or I don't remember back in the day,

but you heard of the tobacco companies getting taken to court for being addicted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Being addictive. It's the same thing that's happening now, that people are suing the social media companies because they're like, you have made this addictive product. Yes.

And people have died. Zuckerberg's in court, I saw in the news last night. They're all testifying. Because I'll talk about something to you And then you'll get advertised something that I was talking about And you haven't looked at up It's bizarre But so at the moment

So it made me think because when I go to send Instagram reels for example If I see an Instagram reel And I go to send it You guys, our group chat Is at the top And you know A couple of friends that I always send memes to

Yeah same, you're regulars Right up the top But one of my friends One of our friends has dropped off of my, like, you know, recently sent list. So who's on your top when it comes to like... I'm going to go share this name. It's FVH on the Graham.

That's the three of us. Then it's a man called Mike, no idea. Shannon's... No close. Shannon's Graham Guardian, so that's us and producers. And then a guy called Jack Weird. Patsy and Sam are the next and then Patsy. And then it's Insta Girl Math, so it's just me and the girls.

Right. Well, our dear friend James, who I was on holiday with earlier this year and went back to London, ended up in hospital and, you know, nearly died. I know it was awful. It was a horrific time and was in hospital for four weeks, pretty much in communicato. Like we were communicating and getting updates through friends and family. Luckily, now he's doing really well. You'd say James is the heart of our group of friends.

Oh, he's just absolutely love favourite. But he would be, aside from you guys, my number one meme sender. Yeah, right. We would just send, I'll wake up in the morning, there's memes from him in London. Barely talk. Yeah. Yeah. It's just communicating with memes.

And when he was in hospital for four weeks in communicato, Instagram decided that we must have had a falling out. And he's not, I have to search his name to send him means now. I've got that too. And I've got a group like that, but because two people aren't active. Yeah. It's never at the top. Yeah, yeah.

It's never at the top because there's five of us in there and three of us are active, sending stuff to who are simply observing, not replying, and sometimes not observing for a long time. And it's never at the top, even though it's one of my message groups. So because we've been back to sending memes, because he's back in the real world now and he's living. He's on the fifth line of who I would send.

He would hate that. I know. He's going to have to work his way out. We did have a voice, a FaceTime the other day, and I said to him, I got some bad news on. Instagram thinks we've had a falling out. I think, and I'm happy, Vaughn, I'll speak on your behalf, if I may. I'm happy for you to like calm down on sending us the memes and just send him to James get him back up.

And we'll take a little break. Get him to number one. We'll take a little break. I'll take a little break. I'll do that for James. Yeah, I'll do that for James. I'll bend the knee. Have you ever had this like when you fall out with friends or someone leaves a friend group and then like it'll just keep suggesting this person and then they get it? Yeah.

And then they stop suggesting it. They just know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, I think they've had a bit of a tiff. Yeah. I love his quarrel. Or they've broken up. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I wish my iPhone would know that I've separated. Meh! Well put. Anything to Edvorn? No.