ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 26th July, 2025

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan's trip Down Under...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network, it's Fletch, Fawn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Um, I recently took a short trip to Australia. More to come. Oh, must be nice. He said, well, this is a business trip. Yeah, it was a business trip. It was a business trip.

Did you bring a briefcase? I did. And I took my phone in a suitcase. Yeah. See, see, see, see. Yeah. The old really eighties trip. And your business cards in your pocket to hand out. I did and I took my phone in a suitcase. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, the old really 80s trip.

And your business cards in your pocket to hand out. Now one thing that blew my... Is this why you're nearly in New Zealand silver level? Yeah, would have helped. It's helped. A little trans-daisy. It's the second one. I'll say, I'm not going to give away too much, but I will say it was with John Deere, who

I do some work with. Now this is the second trip to rural Victoria I've taken with John Deere. How long until you get to Silver? What's your cutoff date? Oh I just retained Silver on my last trip. Oh nicely done. Close to gold. Nicely done. Cura von. Cura. Cura. Cura. Status points if earned today to get to Silver would be 159. Oh you're not going to get to Silver. Nah I'm sure that clock used to be a bit more filled. Oh, yeah. Fuck. No, that's you're miles away. Yeah, you're going to be jaded for life. Because you get like two points per domestic flight in New Zealand.

They're so small. Oh, total earned. 291 of 450. But I got the I got the what is this one from? How long do you have? I don't know what that means. How long do you have? How do I find that out? So we should party. Say to retire, we should party.

We should go overseas somewhere. I don't know how long I've got to go. Oh my God, you're just. I don't know how this works. This is just Jade. I have someone who's been Jade their entire life, I don't know. And that's where you'll remain by the looks of things.

Rural Victoria, which is very kind of like. Right. So John did not springing for business flights. No. Well, no. Okay. No, they're no business class Okay, there'd be business class on flights to Melbourne. Yeah, sometimes Oh, but that'll get you to silver that'll put me out with it. Yeah, you have to ask them next time. Okay Well, I would like in the local town I went to because it was a gold rush town I'd say very arrow town is all lovely very, lovely. Gorge. Very Arrowtown-esque, very gorge.

You'd love it. What are I? Why don't they send me on these trips? Well, you driving a fucking tractor, that's why. You driving me crazy is the only thing you're driving me. You're making me crazy. Why is that so crazy to believe? Oh, cause you're-

I've been on tractors. Well, it's a very easy to drive in versatile tractor unit that can be used in all sorts of scenarios. He's hitting his own personal KPI. I'm posting his KPI in here. That's a freebie for John Deere. So rural New South Wales, middle of nowhere,

Victoria? You said Victoria. Victoria, sorry. Rural Victoria. Get your facts straight. It's very close to the boundaries of New South Wales. Little... And you'd be in New South Wales.

No you wouldn't. You'd be in South Australia, you fucking moron. It's rural. It's east and up. It's east. Do a map check. It's east and up. We can't trust anything. Albury. Go to search Albury. We can't trust anything a Jade member says. I know. He doesn't know geography. I get so confused with travel. Oh yeah nah yeah yeah yeah. Up up. Up and east. Up and east. Fucking told you so. So. What was it called?

Aubrey. Yeah, fuck it is really close to the border there. I mean, you're closer to Canberra, but that's all right, you're all good. Yeah, HCT. You drive to get your fireworks or something, don't you? Very close to Wagga Wagga. I love a bit of Wagga Wagga.

They do great noodles, don't they? Wagga mama. That was Wagga mama. And RIP. Obviously not that great, cause they went tits up. No, there's still in Doha, they've got the Wagga mama. Oh, in Doama. And RIP. Obviously not that great because they went tits up. No, they're still in Doha. They've got the Wagamama.

Oh, in Doha, yeah, but in New Zealand. And overseas. No, there's none in New Zealand. None gone, babes. I think Wagamama, their flagship store was on Nuffield Street, Newmarket, and that went. Got to add a few Wagamama. I mean, your ramen, you don't need to pay that much. It'll be that posh for a good ramen anymore.

No, ramen's basically. 2019, 2019. Yeah, I miss it every day as well. Wagamama. that posh for a good ramen anymore. No, ramen's basically. 2019, 2019. Yeah, I miss it every day as well. Wagamama, you would have loved a little Wagamama on a takeaway Chinese noodle spot. Me and my mom used to always go to Wagamama. Yeah, of course you did. Yeah.

Very big in the UK. You were the Wagga, she was the mama. Yeah, I was the Wagga. So, I'm in a rural Victoria, and- Sort of bordering between Victoria and New South Wales. Yeah, that's as I said. Near Wagamama. Not too far away from the local noodle outlet Wagamama.

And we were just like having a break and got talking and these Australians were like, because we were talking about chickens and they're like, yeah, but you've got kiwis. And I said, a big part. Did you say a picky part? There's no S in the Maori language. Oh no, I didn't say that. I had so much more to delve into before I began with the pluralization of words in Te Reo. You've got kiwis. They wereo. You've got Kiwis. They were like, you've got Kiwis. I said, I beg your pardon? And they're like, well, you know, you'd have Kiwis running around. Running around? I've never seen one my entire life.

They thought, they thought that in New Zealand, not in place of the chicken, but they thought we had Kiwi like, whoo-lee-nilly, just in the backyard. They thought we'd just, they'd be like, oh, do you ever see them out with your chickens? They're so stupid, aren't they? I'm like, I don't, huh, no. I've never seen one ever. No, they thought it would be like the equivalent

of an emu in Australia, like you do everywhere in Roman. Or kangaroos, just everywhere. Because kangaroos are their national, you know, animal. And you do see them everywhere. Holy nilly, when you go into rural Victoria, bordering rural New South Wales. Near Wagamama. Not too far from Noodle Outlet Wagamama. And I was like, are you of the belief that the kiwi is abundant?

And they're like, yes. I was like, no. No, no, no, no, no. It's an endangered bird. It's endangered. Yes, I was like no no no no no no no yeah, where it's an endangered bird It's an endangered it's so happened to be they googled it then to find out Kiwi numbers And they were just astonished at how rare the Kiwi was how many do we have fuck all? Fuck all 68,000 yeah wow

Well, it's their own fault because they don're not captured. Because they don't fly. And they're delicious. Yeah, and they're delicious. But they did evolve to not have stoats knocking at their front door. Yeah. Yeah. Stoats and ferrets and weirsling.

So a good business trip for you? But then, when I, but they just so happened to be Googling it on the same day that, do you remember, it was a little while ago, there was this news that for the first time in 50 years, the little brown key would have been found on the mainland. Like wild.

Yeah, yeah. And they were like, oh, what are you on about? Oh, they're on a comeback. Don't worry about it. I was just like, no, no, you don't understand. This is the first time in 50 years. This is a monumental... It's like a Warriors comeback. It's not for long.

It's not for long. It's not a comeback because when I looked up Kiwi numbers, 68,000, declining at a rate of 2% per year, which is 20 Kiwi a week, disappearing off the number. So not good. Without any predator control. Yeah, we need the predator control. And you know what, cats. Fuck you.

Feral cats are a massive part of it. Do you want to leave cats to last? We have other fish to fry. I say cats, cats are up there. For me, feral cats. Not my cat. My place is locked up. If your cat is fine.

He's locked up. He just chases balls. He's in a prison. Yeah. He's a prisoner. He's in a prison. Yeah, he's a prisoner. He's in a prison. I've got a wildcat. You've got a wildcat. I've got a wildcat. And I'll tell you what, he won't be getting replaced. Really?

When he's gone, I'm done with cats. You don't like your cat. He's a dud cat. Yeah, but I've got a good one, so that's the ish. You're the only person- Shit, that chick's running, hey! She's got a real good stride on her. She's dragged down the entire set of stairs in one. I thought she was gonna fly. So there's a woman in the window. The only person our cat's been friendly towards was the very very

allergic babysitter. No your cat's quite friendly towards me with a big puffy ginger towel. Yeah, when I've come over. Yeah. Her's flipped down. I've got a friend allergic to my cat. Or to cats. Yeah. Did you get rid of that friend? No, just pop a couple of um, what pop a couple of anti-hystermanes. I was going to say hysterectomy at the door.

Jesus. Full removal. I will have the entire removal of my reproductive system because of this cat. Oh god. But anyway, go to the Kiwi. They're not, if you're listening internationally this might be news to you. It just occurred to me. It's our famous bird because we're the only place in the world with it.

But a lot of people probably don't know, there's just fuck all of them.