ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 27th August 2023

Episode Date: August 26, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley & Aaron received a beautiful gift!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with MyMackersRewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Guys, the nicest thing happened. I'd heard a while back that Aaron's parents were writing a book. And I was like, how bizarre. What? A book?

And I was like, how did that come to be? But it turns out Aaron's brother and sister-in-law had, it's like a gift. And you gift it to them and they get little prompts and they write a page. You've seen these? And kind of like how people do those photo books where, you know, those are a good gift for a friend as well. Yeah, totally. This was like, you can, it's like questions, anything from like, have you ever been caught in a storm? To like, what is your definition of a happy and meaningful life?

So you fill out all of the answers to their questions and then it puts it into a book. Yeah, so you've got a maximum amount of pages, but you ask however many questions. And this took them two years. Wow. I was going to say it would take ages to answer all these questions with good detail.

Well, it's basically you do one a week. And then when you feel like you've done or you're happy with all the questions that have been done and someone kind of looks after it. So Aaron's brother was like, okay, I think that's enough. And then you print them. And they were like, hey, we're getting them printed now. We're finished.

And the one for each of the siblings and their partners and da-da-da-da-da. And we got it, and it's so cute. It's like our life in stories. It's a picture of Aaron's mom and dad. And then we got it, and then Aaron just started reading it, and I was like, cute. He's getting straight into it. Then I fell asleep. And then I woke up and the next day I was like, oh, are you enjoying reading your parents' book? And he was like, I've read it front to back, like cover to cover. He was like, it was one of the most

outstanding and amazing and mind-blowing things he's ever read. Because he was like, you just learn all these things about your parents. And it was like teaching him things about himself that he wanted to look at it was so unbelievable and then i started reading some or he was reading them to me aren't we romantic yeah we're sitting there by the fire and aaron was reading me chapters from his parents oh my gosh and some of them were so funny and some of them were like so beautiful. Like what is the meaning of life? And like, what does it mean to have a meaningful life? And for them,

you know, they're Catholic and a lot of it, a lot of it was about service to community. And I was like, fuck, I'm a terrible person. Oh yeah. Let's look up the,

let's look up the, up the creek. There's a bit of pollution up there. Absolutely. But it was just so amazing so I've bought it for my parents which I'm so excited about

and you get to go in so we didn't want like a free plug because I think share worthy I think it's called my parents would be terrible at this

what's the meaning of life oh well I don't know ask your father and then he'd be like I don't have time for this next chapter yeah chapter one the meaning of life

I don't know ask your this. Next chapter. Yeah, chapter one, the meaning of life. I don't know, ask your father. Chapter two. It's like, it doesn't have to, story worth is what it's called. Story worth, okay. It doesn't have to be, like, some of them can be absolute laughs. Like, I know that my parents maybe might not go as sweet and humble as Aaron's parents, but that's also all right. And I don't know if we've ever talked about this on the show,

but my dad's got Alzheimer's and I was like man let's like let's do this now before it really like takes its hold that's a good idea that's a great idea

that's like what I always my friend did this with his grandfather yeah just sat him down one day and asked him a ton of questions on camera

and I was like oh my god like that's gonna be priceless and then like a few years later his grandad passed away and then part of the thing was the family sat down and watched because they hadn't all seen the final edited version yeah and they look this guy's telling stories about world war ii and all these amazing stories and they're just like oh my god and everyone's just like thank you so much for like getting that down doing it I know yeah what a

great idea I know because you think like you you don't want to think about your parents mortality at all whether there's an illness present or not. You're just like no because even my mum was like well just do it with dad. You know and I was like no I wouldn't hear yours.

Like Aaron's mum for example whose were lighter and a bit more playful whereas Aaron's father who's a bit more philosophical was really like Yeah see I wouldn't say my parents are philosophical people.

But it doesn't need to be. Because you dictate, if you were the one to organise it for them, you dictate the questions that they answer. So some of them can just be like, tell us about your first childhood teacher. Or like, tell us about your first soft toy, your first holiday you took. So who asks the questions? Is there a template? They've got whole prompts.

They've got hundreds and hundreds of prompts. And you can kind of go in and say you choose 100 questions or something or 50 questions. So you can choose what you want to find out as well. Yeah, yeah. It's so easy. You just go on and go, okay, I want that question for mom and that question for dad. And then a light one for them or a real deep one there. And you kind of organize it.

And they just get an email every week being like, here's your question for the week, and they just email it back. Right. And it just goes to the website, and at the end it all gets collated. So good. I know. I can't wait. I can't wait.

That email will get lost in a collection of Easy Buy specials. I know. My mum's got so many emails. I feel like this is going to be one of those things where I'll be like, guys, can you just fucking do it? Yeah. I hate to nag. Yeah. Hey, Dad, are you just fucking do it? Yeah, I hate to nag. Yeah, hey dad, are you alright? Can you just do this?

Thank you. And then he'll take the person and it'll all be gaggy. I'm trying to get something meaningful out of you, dude. Looking for the laughs. He's like, that was a bit deep. Control, select or delete. Try to make this one a bit lighter. Tell a few gags.