ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 25th May 2024

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; A pet insurance update!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe, the perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod Now yesterday I got the email from my pet insurance company That my new premiums were due, because I pay for a year And they had gone up a hundred, nearly two hundred dollars And I was like, absolutely not. Also, here's the thing about your pet insurance.

You have a cat that doesn't go outside. Yes. It's not like, our pet insurance is... Accidents. Accidents mostly. Because we talked about this yesterday. Dog attacks. If they get cancer, the kind thing to do is to take them off to a forever sleep.

Yeah. Not give them treatment. I know, I know. So do you need pet insurance? I don't really want to talk about it because it's recent. I've had a couple of cats die. Yeah. One of them more recently than the other.

But it was like we, he had a tumor and stuff and they were like, oh, this will give him a bit more time and the medicine didn't work. And I was like, I can't bear to see it. And the option was, and we did have insurance that would have covered some of it, but still our part to pay was going to be thousands of dollars. For what? For him to be miserable. So that you can just be like, oh, I love you.

Try to explain chemotherapy to a cat. Yeah. You're going to feel really, really sick. Yeah. But then, I mean, you know, if you've had your cat, it's part of the family. So you can see why people go through with it. Oh, 100%. People get really tied up in it. Yeah, I guess because my cat is a British Shorthair and, you know. Can't breathe.

No, he's. Incest. He's fine. He's fine. He's been over the bridge. It's just been nice to have that insurance. So I was like, you know what, I'm going to shop around. And I tell you what, there are actually some way cheaper options. Yeah, we're with a cheaper company.

And I was like, you know what, I think this is a great idea. But anyway, so there was one company I filled out. They didn't, like, you could kind of get an idea of the quote, but you had to email. And then they call you. I don't like that. Let me do it all online. And now they're trying to sell me and tell me why

it's so. And I'm just like, no, just look, just email me and I'll decide. Yeah. Anyway, he said, look, I can do you a deal. Now, do you have a gold card? And I was like. Your mum does. Do I sound like I'm over 60 fucking five? Oh, darling.

Do I sound like I'm over 65 and I have a senior? Well, currently when you're saying that, you sort of do. Have an air of curmudgeon-ness. Do I sound like I'm like Just email me Is this a thing? No

The gold card's getting too much I'll say it These beneficiaries These over 65 They already fucking got it all as well Yeah These beneficiaries are getting a discount

for their old puss Oh my god The old puss The old puss is getting a discount The old puss is getting a discount Did you know this was a thing? I had no idea. No idea.

Oh, my God. I would have just said yes. They shouldn't be allowed pets if they can't afford them. Yeah, true. Yeah. That's the same thing about people on the benefit. They would. They would.

They shouldn't be having all these bloody kids if they can't afford them. And now they're getting cats and they want discounts on their insurance. He didn't tell me what the discount. Double standards get a grip. That you're like 20 years too young for that? I think he was just reading down. It sounded like he was

reading through their course into lists so I didn't make a thing about it and I wasn't like that upset about it. I was like, he said that to you, you've told me

and now I almost feel like telling my parents are they aware there's a pet insurance that'll get them a gold card to stamp? Well, yeah, exactly. Let them know

because apparently there is. My parents aren't gold card-y yet but I know when they will, when they aware there's a pet insurance that'll get them a gold card discount? Well, yeah, exactly. Let them know, because apparently there is. My parents aren't gold card-y yet, but I know when they will, when they are, they're just going to go for all of it. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know when we get to gold card level, there'll be nothing for us. What? The gold card discount when we get to 65

there'll be nothing. It's going to be like, hey. These boomers are going to bleed us dry. Yeah. What? What? 2% off rubbish bags? There'll be nothing. It's going to be like, hey. These boomers are going to bleed us dry. Want 2% off rubbish bags? How is 30 years away for me? 30 years. I'm there in 20, oh, fuck, that's depressing, 23 years. There's going to be nothing left in the coffers in 23 years.

What about for me? It's going to be a post-apocalyptic fucking wasteland. And we are going to be like, oh, I thought we earned some comfort in our retirement, eating our neighbour. We're going to be walking through the wastelands of Fallout, searching for food. Yesterday we drove past, it was like the school pick-up hour,

and me and Aaron drove past them and I was being silly and I was like, hey, losers, like just pretending, like I was yelling losers at kids. He said, don't be mean to them. We've already left them the cesspool of a world. And then he went out his window just yelling, sorry. Sorry for what we did. Oh, no, I don't know. A big man with a beard should be doing that out the window of a car.

We were happy. Sorry for what I've done and what I'll do.