ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 29th May 2026

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod... Vaughan's got a gambler on his hands...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZDM Podcast Network, it's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Okay, so I do come from a family of gamblers. Do you? Problem gamblers? No, only my mum's side of the family. No, they never gambled what they didn't have. But as a kid, I knew how to use the phone TAB.

Oh, yes, same for my pop. Yeah. Tri-Fector on the... Yeah, bring up and place bets on the horses. On the pony. Yeah. Paul, if you knew what you were doing, you could actually, I remember placing bets using the buttons on the phone. Post.

Oh, wow. So it would be like, if you know the race number you want keyed in now and you go do, do, do. And it's like race three at Flemington, you'd be like, yes, dude. I can remember doing that. Back in the days when your parents would just give you money to go to the dairy and buy Siggies as a six-year-old. Yeah, man, the good old days. Yeah, my granddad, my mom's dad, we called him gangie. He loved her.

Love to flutter on the ponies And my nan, rest in peace Lost all last year She wasn't afraid to, you know Drop a couple of hundred bucks on some Couple of hundred Oh yeah If she was going to the races

Like you should get a cash out And she'd have a flutter throughout the day I'm so lucky that Like if I go to the casino It'll be once in a blue moon And I put 20 bucks in and lose I'm that's what I'm sad Yeah me too

And I'm out Even if I win I'll withdraw the money And I'm out Like I'm never like chasing it Yeah, yeah, me too. I couldn't give a crap. But people do.

They do get addicted. So we went to a Bowles Club with some friends, and the horse racing was on. And my oldest daughter said, like, how does this work? Because there was one of those TAB machines. Oh, yeah. How does this work? Oh. And I was like, well, you put money on a horse that you think is going to come first, second or third,

and you can bet on it just to be first, or you can put a bob each way. And if they place, you get. So how much money do you get? I said, well, depending on how much money you want it, for every dollar, This is what it's paying if it wins. And she's like, well, bet on this one because you'll get the most money back. I'm like, that one's also got the least chance of winning from, you know. We just go about the cute names.

Yeah. Mine was always like Halley's Comet. And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm going to get in there. That's amazing. So I said she wasn't allowed to touch the machine. So she watched me do it. And then she got to pick the horse. And she picked first race.

The name she liked. I can't remember the name. But she picked the name she likes. Unfortunately, it won. Oh. No. Her first lesson in gambling had to be losing. Yes. That's what you weren't the first lesson in gambling to be.

So I was like, okay, so we put a dollar on and it was paying like 10 to 1. So we've got $10 now. Oh, no. And she's like, we've got to bed again. And I was like, no, no, this is where we win. And she's like, but if we turn 1 into 10, we could 10 into 100. And I was like, what have you done, born? I know.

I was like, this is exactly what they want you to think. And she's like, this is so easy. I'm like, no, it's not. Oh. Guess what? She won again. The horse she bet on in the second race, we put $5 each way, and it came second. So again, we got more money back.

She's going to think you always win. Yeah. Yeah, you don't always win. So then in the third race, she's just like, I'll just, we took $1 and made it 10, and then we just took 10, and we've made it 20. She's like, this is, why aren't we doing this every day? And that was in the third race where there was one horse called like Winners Delight. And she's like, well, obviously, it's going to win.

I was like, well, how much do you want to put on it? And she's like, all of it. All of it. No. All of it. All of it. So we put $20, $10 each way on winner's delight to place first, second or third. It was like third favorite.

So I'm like, you know, could win, could play. Didn't. And she was just like, well, where's the money gone? I'm like, it's gone. It was never yours. And she's like, where has it gone? I'm like, to the racing agency. And she was like, how, what?

I was like, it was all on. imaginary. I was like, the only thing of this that's real, because we left it in the system, was the $1 we initially put in. Yeah. Yeah. Everything else was just, yeah. And she's like, oh, we've got to do it again. No, no, no, no, no. And I was like, oh my God. I just, I was like, no, this is how it works. Wow. Yeah, that's, um, was that a good life lesson. Yeah. Bad? Well, I think it was the fact that we got up to the dizzying heights of $20. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then lost it all. The house always wins. The house always wins. These places wouldn't exist if they didn't exist if they didn't. make millions of dollars. They wouldn't have a member of parliament if they weren't making money.

So yeah, that was a nice little lesson in gambling there. So we're off to the casino next weekend. Oh yeah, yeah, you're going to get right into the blackjack. And I mean, we say this, but are we still buying lot of tickets this week? Oh, 100%. We're in our syndicate. 23 million? Yeah.

That'd be nice. Look after each other. We'll look after each other. Lovely. I'm not going to have you on my yacht with wearing, you know, scabby clothes or anything. Oh, you'll need a dress meeting I'll give you a bit of money. Okay.

I'll look up to my boys. You could you imagine if you won 20-something million and then you had to dress for him to go on your yacht in Italy? Yeah. He wouldn't like it. No, he wouldn't. I'm not wearing those boats. I'm not wearing the shoes. I'm not wearing the shoes.

I'm not wearing boat shoes. Then you're not coming on my boat. Just give me some Italian crooks. Loafers, Italian loafers. A crox. We'll do a loafer. Or a burkenstock. Okay.

You are not. But Burk and my boat. And crocs. But crocs can get wet. They dry out. Some rubber crocs. Yeah. We'll get you some, no.

Some Italian leather crocs. And a full-length shirt on you, please, Fletch. Oh. All you can't shop is midriff. No, full-length sleeve. Midriff goes without saying. Oh, thank you.