ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 24th October 2023

Episode Date: October 23, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley took the stage, with assistance!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchbourne and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with MyMackers Rewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And just a reminder, this week is your chance to get in your cocktail Christmas cards. If you would like them read out during our Christmas cocktail specials, which will be in the lead up to Christmas during the holidays, shout outs, essentially like we did back in the day up to Christmas during the holidays. Shoutouts.

Essentially like we did back in the day, the podcast shoutouts. Shoutouts, bro. So if you would like one, you can find the link on our Facebook page, the Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley International Podcast family. Join that. Can I ask Vaughan, because you know you weren't there the night that me and Fletch made our Turkish Delight podcast. Cocktail. We've got a whole podcast dedicated made our Turkish Delight podcast. We've got a whole podcast

dedicated to our Turkish Delight. Our Turkish Delight cocktail. Would you like to try that? Or would you like us to dig further into the favourites box? I reckon we dig further into the favourites box. I want to do the crunchy one. Favourites is the only time of the year I ever get

Christmas is the only time of the year I ever get favourites. So there's that Christmas tie-in. Well, I'm excited because it's always good to hear from listeners all over the world and see where people are listening. Oh, yeah, okay, I've found one. Bourbon hokey pokey, it's happening. Get those in. Now, we kind of touched on this in the big pod,

and we thought we'd elaborate on the little bit of pod, but at the weekend you were at the Nelson Arts Festival. I was at the Nelson Arts Festival doing my last show of the year of ailments that's been going around and do you know I actually forgot that I had because Nelson Festival's done a big push for accessibility and all their works and and have offered the service of having your show translated by an interpreter on stage and I'd forgotten I'd said yes. I was like, hell yeah, man, that'd be awesome. Then I got there and they're like, this is Kelly.

And I was like, Kelly? She's like, Kelly? Not sure. Hello? And then she started talking about where she was going to be on the stage. And I was like, hang up a second. This is a solo show, bitch. But then she was an interpreter.

And I was like, oh, my God, that's right. Anyway, it was so fascinating because I hadn't given her, she hadn't done a lot of comedy because she was like, plays and stuff, they'll spend a week with the script. Almost memorising the lines the way an actor would. Wow. And practising it. With comedy, it's like, you can give you a script,

but I'm not going to stick to it. of like you remember the covid presses and they'd have the sign language person there and it'd be all on the fly yeah and you'd watch them kind of a little bit delayed and how they were listening processing doing the sign language a couple of seconds later but at the same time doing the sign language but listening for what had to happen next and then was so fucking admirable so impressive and then tap out wouldn't they and then they'd get why it must be exhausting i had two and they did little intervals and then like i had kelly who was um quite high up there yeah and then i'm trying to just remember the organization and then there was paul who was fresher and so platform interpreting nz that's who it was right and so callie was there and then i was like oh yeah

i haven't shown you anything she's like it's all good i'll be all right and i was like okay and then i was like shit the songs and i sing songs two of which are very very fast and the first song is like and i was like oh shit so i was like i might just play these for you and she was like great that'd be so helpful okay yeah play to the music and she was like all right fuck basically and because a lot of fanny flaps stuff in these songs ah. Flaps, Ahoy, Funny Fanny Flatters, Raggedy Labia. I just talk about all sorts of things. And I was like, how are they going to do this? So with the songs, I ended up printing the lyrics because those don't change.

So I was like, you can have those and got a music stand so they could do that. And it was like, Kelly's going to do the fast ones and Paul can do the slower ones and he can go on the fly. And then I was like, how do you interpret tone because it's not just classic as i'll be talking now you could just sign it in sort of direct translation but some of the things in my show it's like it's all about tone or playfulness like a sarcastic sarcasm or a silly thing or a saying or something I've completely made up. And she was like, oh, you just kind of embody it and they perform it. And I was like, this is going to be great.

So it was like my set up on stage, the piano there, and then a little lit area on the side where they were. And I was like, please, like, be involved. Don't hide. And they're like, great. And then they had the either deaf or, you know hard of hearing people to that side yeah sat there and then I was like how's this gonna go and then so I went out and I always announced myself to the stage so I announced them first because they had to come out first yeah so that then they could translate me announcing myself yeah so then that

happened and then I sung my song and I could feel Kelly next to me. I could see her hands and I was like, this is going great. But the song's too fast. I couldn't stop and look. And then, shit, it was funny. Like it was just, they just brought this whole other tone of comedy to my show. Because I would do my joke. They would get a laugh.

Yeah. But then the audience would like quickly look to them do my joke they would get a laugh yeah but then the audience would like quickly look to them to see how they would translate it and this poor bastard Paul just happened to keep switching out with Kelly at just the wrong moments he'd come out and be like fuck this well this next bit's about peps man so buckle in Paul and like you know I tell a story about getting this um that some cells on my cervix lasered off and how I'm, like, vibrating on the table. And then I just kept looking at them.

And in the end, I ended up just engaging with them the whole time. It made it funnier. It made it funnier. It literally made my show funnier. And I would not hesitate to do it again. Oh, wow. That's cool. I've never, in all my years of doing shows, never had an interpreter.

And they just... Was there anybody there that needed it yeah they were 10 uh members of the deaf community or the hard of hearing community wow that's cool yeah i know so it was it's a real big push for that festival that they're doing this and they're trying to make it more common that you have interpreters in plays shows kelly was saying um the first interpreter that she got to a gig no idea what it was and it was like slam poetry oh okay and she was like oh fuck because it's all about rhythm and timing yeah words and anyway it was so amazing and just it was so it was so

joyful and it's probably the best show i did. Yeah. Thanks to them. Were there any interesting signs during the show? There was one thing where I make a joke about my, to reveal my cards here, I make a joke about my doctor seeing my vagina so often because of all my health things

that if I ever died or I was in an accident and I needed my body to be identified, she would be the person to do it by accident and I needed my body to be identified, she would be the person to do it by looking at my vagina. She'd be like, oh, that's Hayley Sproul. That's her. And then the joke is, how do you know? Well, there's only one woman those raggedy labia could belong to, right?

Spoiler alert. Anyway, so the moment I said that, I looked across, and I'm pretty sure it was Paul, and he was holding like a vulva shape like this but then like went like this and went with his with his face did something and then yeah did this like kind of like raggedy lips and then I would look at the people who I knew were part of the deaf community and they were laughing their ass off oh awesome I know it was so funny another one was when I talk about that when you think that when he did that sign, that could be a lot of things,

but maybe the look you said, because he was like, whoa, this is the naughty version of that. They perform with their face. And like, it was just amazing. Another one was when I talked about breastfeeding and how I didn't want to be left with empty, sad sack tits. No, it was Paul again.

And he did these like flappy fingers. Like hands flapping. It was just amazing and you were like that's probably not the literal word for word translation but to bring the comedy element they come up with it so cool fucking great nelson a nelson nelson see and i would like next time i do a comedy show i'll definitely um try to do that wherever i go and whatnot what an experience