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

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod... Fletch's route to work has taken a turn...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM Podcast Network, it's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Now, guys, the last three mornings I've come to work. I've got a little course that I go. I've got a little course, a little rap that I take every day. My daughters have asked if you take the same way to work every day. And I see it. Unless it's absolutely pissing down and I'll go a little bit longer and go up Queen Street

because I'm under the cupboard. It's covered as much as you can be. Otherwise, it's, I scoot up the little lane behind the hotel, actually, that we stayed at the other night. You still know that one. The J-dubs. Yeah. And I'll go up there and then I'll go up Albert Street and then onto Victoria and then to work. Yeah, nice.

It's a lovely little course. Yeah. It's great on the way home because it's all downhill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man, he fangs it too. He's a fanger. God, we try to keep up. He's a fanger.

You know, ticked over a thousand kilometers online. Did you? Which is incredible considering I was on, what's that one that they canceled, the blue, the person. Purple people monster. Oh yeah, what was that? Why can we suddenly not remember that? Bounce? No, not bounce. It was a scooter company.

It was purple. Beam! Beam! Yeah, what was the original? I used B, I don't know, but I used BIMO. Flamingo. I feel like Lime was the original, right? We've still got Flamingo, but yeah, Lyme's always been around, but I used Lyme for years.

So I reckon I would have done like thousands of kilometres on these scooters. You're a good boy. just going to work a few Ks each morning. Yeah. But so there's this little alley, the hell that I go up is it's quite quiet at that time of the morning. And there's a takeaway shop. And they always leave their rubbish, and that gets collected. Sometimes I pass the rubbish truck.

Other times it's just the rubbish is there. Big bags on the side. And the last three mornings, I have disturbed rats. Ooh. What is it, New York? That are eating in the, because it's a food, it's a restaurant. And obviously the bags are just full of delicious, like Peking Dark. Yeah.

Like, get it. Like, get it. Yeah. But I'm like, I know, I'm the same. And then, so the first morning they scarped behind this like electrical box. And I saw them and I was like, it's a couple. I imagine they're a couple. The rats are two of them.

Do they make for life? The rats are a couple. No, no, no, no. And then the second morning, they ran in front and behind my scooter. And I was like, I'm surrounded! I've got some poison pellets. Okay, so this is my question.

This morning, they ran behind the box as well. And I was like, do you think we could just put a pallet behind the box? Yeah. Because these rats are really... And also, Hunter Virus, Hanta virus. Yeah, dude. Like, I don't want to be on a fucking cruise ship. No, we're not getting...

Oh, yuck! Oh, hey, you bring it... He's just brought Hunter Virus into the studio. Well, no, because they haven't touched them. You don't know that they might have brushed against you and you would have noticed it. Well, no, they haven't brushed against me. They're big to those urban rats that are feeding on the Peking duck

A big, big, bad asses. Big city rats. Big setter rats. Feeding on the boots. It's going to be a big size of a cat. Oh, yeah. But I was like, do I message Councillor Richard Hills? Who is our friend and say,

I feel like it's just chucking soft bags that rats can chew through. Terrible idea. You know, but that's just how they collect the rubbish in the city. It's just a big city thing, isn't it? It should be wheelie bins and it should be the gravy arm and tipping in like out our one.

No, because they just pick up the bags. So I'm thinking we chuck a couple of pallets behind that electrical box because I don't want dogs or cats to eat. Not that they're a cat's around. I don't want a dog to eat a palate. I think you're well within your right to kill these rats. Yeah. I'm really just getting bored and pick you up.

Am I allowed to just, can I get a pallet? I'll pick you up. I'll put the slug. That's what I was thinking. Okay, you can't be in the central city born with a slug gun. I'm on rat elimination juries. I would love to shoot a cat. ZM.

Vaughn Smith spotted in the early hours of the morning in Auckland CBD. The slug gun's got a scope on it. It doesn't look like a slug gun. Whenever it's in the background of an Instagram story or something, people are like, dude, can you put your 22 away? It's a slug gun. It's a slug gun.

I think you've got to murder these things for sure. I know, they are disgusting and every morning I've seen them this week and I'm just like, oh, whoa, whoa. Do they should have rat traps? Yeah, I don't know. Like the boxes. Yeah. Because it's the city like they don't.

I don't know. It's just kind of... I saw it. I was in an alleyway in Wellington over the weekend. I'd ask. Okay. What were you doing in an alleyway? It was at the back of the opera house, you know, by the stage door.

And because that's a busy alley that's got quite a little rubbish. They had rat rat. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah. Good. Yeah, like nice... Wellington seems to be taking it quite seriously about bringing bird life back to the city. More so than other cities.

I don't give a fuck about the birds. There's enough seagulls around. I just want to rat... You just don't want a fucking rat touching you. Well, The singles are just the rats of the sky, in my opinion. They're obviously not in the restaurant, but is it like a food thing, like that they should do something about that?

Like, do I just email the council? I'm not, no, I sound like a fucking 80-year-old bloody. Those people with the rubbish outside. That's yuck, man. Yeah, it's gross. Dude, I walk past two diapers on the street yesterday. Different route to yours. I'm going to take your route next time when I was heading back into town.

People just in town, it's willy-nilly. It's the wild way. Yeah, it's yuck. It's disgusting. But what about the round? loop. But what's about the rat? I hope they clean that. I hope they clean up the rats in the diapers before they open the CRL. Oh, God. Oh, yuck.