ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 27th April, 2025

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or wherever you get your podcasts From the ZM Podcast Network It's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod The following Little Bit of Pod is not for young ears There are many swear words In fact, we're going to rank them We do We're kind of what you're about to hear is a ranking of sorts and i will say as well that the uh big pod and

the live radio show uh will be back on april the 28th now somebody's seen a reddit article a link to a reddit thread um is shit still considered a swear word i hear it all the time on the radio. Yeah. We say it sometimes. And now and they have a screenshot of a press article where one of the bylines has a quote from a person that lives on that street. This street is shit.

And people are like, what? Are they news using it now? It's sort of an odd one, eh? Because people say to me all the time like, can you swear on the radio? I was like, no. And I was like, oh, we say shit every now and then. Like, not all the time. Like, shit, man, shit, this, shit, that. Shit's right in the middle of the third page of the words that the BSA find offensive.

Third page. I love this list. So there is a page on the Broadcasting Standards Authority website of New Zealand. They are the ones that take the plus off. And yeah, tell Hayley off. There's a graph here and it says on one half of it it is totally acceptable or

I don't mind. But the other half is fairly unacceptable or totally unacceptable. So for shit, 78% of people said it's either totally acceptable or it doesn't worry me. Yeah. I'm not fussed about it.

Okay. But 12% of people said it was fairly unacceptable and 10% said completely unacceptable. And those would be your... Your little shits. Older. And little shits. Little shits. Wedged right between balls and bastard.

Balls. So bugger, bloody, bollocks, crap, bullshit, bull, shit, bastard, piss off, god and bitch are on the third page. Right. Okay. So, most people would find those fine. Fine. And that would have changed over 20 years. Well, that's what it says.

It says there's two asterisks beside the words that are significantly less offensive now than they would have been considered in 2005. And that's bitch, bastard, shit, balls, bullshit, crap, bollocks, bloody and bugger. Balls is interesting. Balls is interesting. Yeah. It's not a swear word at all, balls. Nah. Like balls up.

You make a balls up? You make a balls up or like, oh, you can say to my balls. You wouldn't even flinch at that, would you? So. Is fanny on there? No, fanny's not on there. The other words that are significantly less offensive now than they were in 2005, prick, Jesus Christ.

Asshole. Whore. Oh, whore. Oh, Vaughn. Fuck. And that's all. Okay. Yeah, because I remember, like, if you had an F-bomb sneak through on the air, like,

20 years ago on the radio. Yeah. Big trouble. Big trouble. I've had a couple in my time. Now, what I say will sneak through. No one will complain 48% of people who were polled

said that they either found it totally acceptable or not worried about it but 33% of people found that F word was completely unacceptable But there are no radio stations that have different, you know like on different TV shows for example the later you are

in the night. The watershed viewing after 8.30 can get a bit raucous. Yeah, the more you're allowed to swear, you get a swear quota as opposed to earlier nothing. There's not that on radio, there are some stations being like,

fucking welcome. Nah. Nah. No, why not? Nah, nah, nah. Nah, but the, What's at the top? We can't say them.

The C word. Oh yeah. The C bomb, right. The C bomb, then the N word is the second most offensive word. Yep. The first racially based slur. Mm-hmm.

Motherfucker is third. Okay. Which is weird. How much- If I could just ask you to watch your language, it is the third most. I apologize. It is the third most. Added in 2009, Jesus fucking Christ.

Okay. Fourth place. Yeah. Jesus. Cocksucker at fifth. People still find cocksucker very offensive. Really? Yeah.

I think cock's quite abrasive. Yeah. It is a hard sound. Yeah. Like the F word, which is a derogatory term. For gay people. For gay people. It's coming up.

That's a real, it's so hard. I don't know why I find it so hard. Yeah, it is. So after cocksuckers get fucked. Yep. And fuck off. Those were both added as their own swear words in 2009. So get fucked, fuck off, fuck.

And then the F word that's a homophobic slur. See, I'm going to put that up higher than fuck off or get fucked. 54% of people, it doesn't worry them. Wow. They're the ones using it. They're all the ones using it. It's literally neck and neck with cock for offensiveness. Okay.

No. Which is next. The R word, which is also a slur, that's next. And then slut is after that. Is fanny on there? No fanny. Oh. No, fanny's absolutely acceptable.

It's A-okay. It's A-okay. Fanny's all day. Fanny's not on there. And then there's a whole other list there of some swear words and what swear words get the most complaints. But shit was way down the list. Yeah.

And even used on the last page. Shit's on the last page. And used headlines now. Amazing. You wouldn't say little shit, would you? You wouldn't call someone little shit. Because now it's got a breakdown of people's ethnic makeup. Pacific Island people find swear words significantly more offensive

than white people, New Zealand Europeans. A lot of Pacific Islanders, they're connected to the church, you know, so maybe have a bit of Christian beliefs. From what I'm looking at here, Māori and New Zealand Europeans are pretty much neck and neck. Yeah, we're pretty chill. Yeah, we're pretty chill. That's so interesting. Interesting breakdown about who finds the words neck. Yeah, we're pretty chill. Yeah. Yeah, we're pretty chill. Pretty chill. That's so interesting.

Interesting breakdown about who finds the words offensive. Yeah. Well, it's been fun hanging out with you two pricks. Hey. I just want to try it.