ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 2nd May, 2025

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

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From the ZM Podcast Network, it's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. I have returned to Hobbiton recently and I fucking love that place. I've never been. I've never been. I've never been. I've never been. We need to sort something out where we get to hang a bit longer, because the idea is you go on a guided tour, right? You meet at the base station up top.

Yeah. And it's a farm. Yeah. It's still a functioning farm. Oh, okay. Sheep and shit everywhere. Yeah. But then you get in a van or a bus, depending on what kind of tour you get,

and you go down the track, and you get to talk about how it all came to be. And then you park at the bottom and you begin your tour of Hobbiton, and the minute you're trying to turn the corner, you're just like... It's overwhelming for me. Now, when we went last time, the girls were very little. Very little. I think August was like three. But since then, she's what?

Well, it seems like a waste of money. The Hobbit. I would have left them in the car, cracked the window a little bit. Cracked the window a little bit, give them an iPad. Yeah, give them an iPad. No reception down there, so you've got to have preloaded your programs. Put some Peppa Pig on there. Yeah, put some Peppa Pig on there.

And just leave them in the car. Yeah. But we went back this time and she's watched all the Lord of the Rings movies multiple times, loves them, and the Hobbit movies where we've watched two of them now. We've got the third one to go. Don't know if you guys know this, Peter Jackson makes them quite long. I never watched the other Hobbits. I watched the first one and I was disappointed.

And so then I didn't watch. Oh, really? Because Lord of the Rings I love, love, love, love. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm enjoying the Hobbit trilogy a lot more on a second watch. Maybe I'll hit it up. But maybe it's because I'm watching with her and she loves it so much. But she wanted to make a little Hobbit outfit.

And so she made a cape. Oh, that's cute. Out of some stuff You know that shop Beside where you get your nails done Oh my god The Emporium We went to the Emporium

And bought a couple of metres of this Did you go back to that Emporium Yeah I told It's so good It's a great Emporium Wait you made your own cape You didn't buy one

Yeah and then we found How to make like a hobbit's cape The idea of the pattern And then my parents Were just all over it Mum hates sewing But she loves her grandkids And dad just loves crafts.

But they never would have done that for you, eh? Fuck no! How is it that the grandparents, like, they change? Dude, I know. I wouldn't have been made a fucking hobbit cape. I wouldn't have been made a hobbit cape. And now the grandkids would get a fucking hobbit. My parents would never have purchased me the material

to make the hobbit cape. They said, make a hobbit cape out of something we've got around here. And then I would have cut up the green tablecloth I would have got to fucking hide it. I was going to say the same, but remember I would have got to fucking hide it. Yeah. I was going to say the same but remember I played Potiphar's wife in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

and they gave me a white Egyptian you know kind of robe and my mum sat over my fucking dead body and made me a purple one with gold trims. Not Potiphar's wife. She's not a common slave. Potiphar's wife. She's Potiphar's fucking wife.

I don't know what she's purple. I don't know what that is but okay. Purple back in the day was a very Potiphar was the richest man's Potiphar's fucking wife. I don't know what, she's purple. I don't know what that is, but okay. Potiphar was the richest man on the Nile. Oh, okay. And Potiphar's wife. Not a very Egyptian sounding name, Potiphar. No.

Potiphar. So they're British. Wow. That's like a gardening mix, like a potting mix. Yeah, Potiphar's potting mix. Potiphar, I'll get five kgs of Potiphar's. Yeah.

I could buy a Potiphar living on the Nile. Potiphar. But not a Potiphar. You're not saying that wrong? No, it was Potiphar's wife. Nile. Potiphar. But not a Potiphar. You're not saying that wrong. No, it was Potiphar's wife. Purple was also very bougie back in the day. Hard colour to sort of create with natural dyes and such. Yeah, well, she just made it happen.

She made a Hobbit cape. And then when we rounded the corner in our first view at Hobbit, she was overwhelmed. And there's a video of it on my Instagram. And it's just kind of like everything about this place is magical. And I love it but seeing how much she loved it I was a mess

I heard this about parenting that seeing the world through children's eyes is a joy of it yeah totally I'm always like get the fuck out of my way do you know what I mean like it's not about you

yeah but it was I'm also experiencing Hobbiton for the first time do you know what I mean yeah yeah yeah the nightmare taking you there because you would have been like pushing in front of the camera

when I was videoing her being like, hey, oh, Mr. Frodo, Mr. Frodo. Mr. Frodo, Mr. Frodo, please. Hayley, fuck off. Yeah. And I'd be like, tell your girls to fuck off, man.

They're in my shot. But they've done the inside of the Hobbit house now, haven't they? Dude, I cannot, I just cannot, like, I'm assuming it's New Zealand's

number one tourist attraction. Oh, yeah, 100%. Oh, definitely. Everybody goes. In the peak of it, I think they said they were getting up to like 3,000 people a day. just cannot like i'm assuming it's new zealand's number one tourist attraction oh it's yeah it's got to be definitely everybody goes in the peak of it i think they said they were getting up to like 3 000 people a day wow which is fucking nuts yeah and it quietens down a little bit over winter but it's still open god and each of those people are paying 200 something dollars yeah and at the end getting some food at the green dragon because you finish at the pub. Yeah. But the idea is you're on like a timer. They set off every 10 minutes. We had this tourist group up our arse.

Oh, I heard that. It's like mini part. Yeah. You play through. You're pissing around on the hole and there's the next group. But these people, these people,

they weren't speaking English and they left their group. They were just like moseying ahead and they went, well, our tourist operator, Liv was her name, beautiful. She knew so much about it. She's been doing it for three years. She's British. They were just like moseying ahead And they go, that's wow And our tourist operator Liv was her name Beautiful She knew so much about it

She's been doing it for three years She's British She fucking works there Imagine she's an orne It's like a maze The person running the tour Knows about shit No, it was gross

It was rad So what does this bit here do? Orne I don't even know It's a fucking hole man Someone lives on it Bubo or some shit Dildo

Dildo maggildo baggins what seems to fit here only me I have to ask I have to ask leave me a radio in who lives in this dildo hole

dildo baggins it's amazing I don't actually know it's amazing but anyway these people they pushed up and Liv was just like

excuse me return to your group your tour manager will be you've got to stay with them and these people didn't speak English and then they kept

and she was like excuse me she said it a second time third time they just walked around us where are they going they're not getting the tour they're not getting all the tidbits

but now Hobbiton they've got the inside part yeah oh my god like I said to the girls if I ever win a lot I'm definitely building

a Hobbit hole like 100% I'm going to buy a bit of land I'm definitely building a hobbit hole like 100% I'm gonna buy a bit of land and I'll build a hobbit hole build up some dirt so it can be in the dirt build it all build it all

plonk it there this is how Vaughn dies he in the collapse hole it won't cave in he's having a fucking glass of whiskey in his hobbit hole

we're like where is he man yeah he's barely alive Mr Dildo Mr Dildo I'm trapped in the hobbit hole