ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 24th July, 2025

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley's Mum had a wild revelation!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network, it's Fletch, Flawn and Haley's little bit of pod Welcome to a little bit of pod shit. It was funny. I cuz my so I'm 35 my brother's 38 and So my mom hasn't had kids for a long time, right? Yeah, we've been adults for many many years I was overseas with her recently We're having one of our last little lunches in the sun together and then we were in a bit of a touristy hub area at a restaurant that was clearly very popular, very peopleed. My mum was sitting there across from me and she looks over at this other table and she was like, can you believe those kids?

Look at them. We're here in Europe and they're just sitting there on their phone the whole time. I was like, look over and I just see the classic thing, like tween kind of age, 12 maybe, 13 at the latest, on their phones, AirPods in, which my mum thought was fucking so off. I reckon I would have got a smack if... This was my mum's whole thing.

She was like, if you kids... And I said, aren't you lucky that me and Sam didn't grow up with phones? She's like, you had phones at high school. I said, yeah, but to text. Yeah, I'm so glad we missed it. Yeah, missed it a bit. And she's like fucking us all now. And she kept saying to me, look over at them. We're sitting here, beautiful day, you know, we're in France.

My mom's like, look at them. I was like, are you just now becoming aware that kids are on their phones all the time? She was like, what do you mean? And I was like, she said, they've got their AirPods on. And she's not even talking to their parents. I was like, yeah, mom, welcome. Has she not even noticed that like until now? I said to her, I was like, you know,

this is huge in New Zealand. She's like, it wouldn't be like that though. They're from America. And I was like, no, no, no, it's huge. When we went to Queensland, we were doing some tourism stuff. Like we're literally on a boat going across Lake Huakatipu to Walder Peak, which we've been to.

Beautiful. Gorgeous. And, um, you know, it was a clear day, there was snow cap mountains, and these kids are just holding their iPads from all ages. Like I was constantly saying to the girls, unless you're taking photos, put your phone down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like get off your phone.

Don't be on your phone. Cause I know that thing. Like every now and then when we've gone to the pub, and your kids come, and you're like, OK, they don't want to catch up with the conversation. So they can go on their phone for a bit. But when you're in one of the most beautiful places in the world, I just thought it was so funny that my mom,

it was just news to her. Oh, god. What about the news stories like phones and schools and stuff? She wouldn't give a shit. Why would she read those articles? Do you know what I mean? She's like, I'm done with that. But it's not even the fact that it's just the phones at school. She doesn wouldn't give a shit, why would she read those articles? Do you know what I mean? She's like, I'm done with that.

But it's not even the fact that it's just the phones at school, she doesn't know what a lunchtime looks like where it's literally just if they're allowed on their phones they'll just sit on phones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they wouldn't know that. Oh my God, it was so funny. She's like, look, look at them. And I was like, I know mom.

Where have you been Patsy? It's more common than not. Yeah, I find it wild when you see a family out for dinner and like at a restaurant and the kids have earpods in and you're just like, I find it wild when you see a family out for dinner and like at a restaurant and the kids have air pods in And you're just like I fucking I don't like We would never have been allowed to do that That's the other, the ears If you had in our days of Walkmans or Discmans or iPods, the early iPods

No way And having that on the table, it just wouldn't have happened And you weren't listening That's a thing they would chew down And the mum was like, what, is he asleep? And this kid was, um, they were American by the way, because we fucking heard them. And in France, did you hear them? Oh my God.

This, Oh, look at that Grant. Anyway, so this kid. Also good hello and greetings to our American podcast listeners. We love you. We didn't mean you. No, not you guys. You guys have lovely subtle accents. and greetings to our American podcast listeners. We love you. We didn't mean you. No, not you guys. You guys have lovely, subtle accents.

See how they're white. See how they're white. So this kid was like slumped over in his chair like that, like curled over like a snail. And my mum was like, that poor kid's bloody tired. He's asleep. I said, no, he's not mum.

He's his phone in his lap. He's watching something. She was like, that's unbelievable. She couldn't believe it. I love she's already just realized this I know she's done with her parenting do you know what I mean she fucking nailed it too do you know what I mean for me and my brother nailed it nailed it aye nailed it guys your mics on? Fletch. She nailed it, eh? I reckon we should stop recording.

We should stop now. Yeah. Because I was... you don't have anything nice to say, don't you? It was kind of my mantra at the moment.