ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -30th November, 2025

Episode Date: November 29, 2025

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From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchforn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. Auntie Pat, Auntie Pat, Auntie Pat with a black and white cat. Auntie Pat is dead. Early in the morning. My Auntie Pat, my Auntie Pat passed away. Oh, Auntie Pat. And no one told me. When did she die?

She's like, hold on, because it was, my brother just found out. as well. No one told us. What is no one informed of a death in your family? Orne comes into work today. It's like, guys, Auntie Pat died. Yeah. Sometime ago.

So we are now in whatever, November, December, whatever. It's all a blur to me now. Auntie Pat died in September. My nan, her sister, Marlene, died in July. Yes. And Auntie Pat was two years older than Nan. Yeah. And Auntie Pat, when I was a kid,

Auntie Pat used to say, when's Vaughn coming and staying in the summer holidays? Oh, that's cute. She'd coincide a visit up from New Plymouth to stay with my nan and me because me and Auntie Pat got on an like a house on for. Oh, that sounds so sorry. Yeah. It's a favourite. We didn't, I tell you what, if you were on the road between New Plymouth and the Waikato,

there's a sign just before the big sweeping corner that takes you into the place with always sales of whitebait's images. Yeah. It starts with them. Molkow. Molkow. There's a sign on the way in and there's an old couple whitebaiting. That's Auntie Pat.

Oh. She's still on that sign. Is it, Auntie Pat? That's Auntie Pat. So she passed away in September and, like, no one told. And then the other day, Mom said to me, I, you were going down to New Plymouth for Auntie Pat's Memorial. I said, oh, my God, an Auntie Pat passed away.

And I was like, oh, yeah. She did. I was like, Mom, this is my favorite great, aren't you? I had a great relationship with her. Yeah. Why didn't they tell you at the time? Um, Mom said I had a lot on my plate. And it would add, I mean, you did.

To be fair, you have your 2025 plate has been like an American's buffering. fade plate. And they keep on more and more. There's a hairline crack in the middle any fucking second man. It was one of those plastic plates before we had paper plates. Oh yeah.

You know, you'd take to the barbecue. Yeah, yeah. So it's had a lot on the plate. And then, yeah, she was just like, no, we just didn't want to overload you with that story. And I was like, oh, okay, that's really sad because, you know, I loved Auntie Pat. This is such an adult thing to do, not tell you major life things.

Like both of our parents have been guilty of this. You know, oh, I just had a son. Oh, no, I'm fine. Just popped into hospital. Oh, I hate that. I had a little cancer. I hate that. What the fuck?

How are you? I went to hospital last week. Yeah, what for? I had to get my leg cut off. It was being... I didn't matter. Oh, I didn't end it anymore. I don't want to bother you.

Boomers. You don't bother me. And you tell me after the fact that you've died. Yeah. I'm sorry, Aunty Pat. Yeah, Auntie Pat's there. Auntie Pat. Auntie Pat was...

Auntie Pat was in a black and white cat. Auntie Pat was the one that... Well, she was on the escalators and central centre. City? What's that? In New Plymouth? Yeah. She was on the escalators and a little punk kid kicked the stop button. And she fell. Oh my God. She did herself a mischief. Did she get some gashes? Abrasions, yes. Abrasions. Auntie Pat was the one I saved from choking on a peeve. When I was a one of her kids were, because that's what, she always came up in the summer

holidays and that was where gangies peas would be ready. Gangies peas and we'd be out there and she'd be like, don't tell your granddad, I'm eating the peas. And then one time she choked on them. And how did you say? I whacked her on the back real hard and she coughed up the peat. It's not the Heimlich though, is it? Like, that's a bit of a... No, I think you are supposed to just give them a thug day.

I think the homelisk. I don't think the homeless... I think we've retired. I think we've gone back to the whack. Oh, we're going back to the whack. Back to the whack. Right, okay. Fair, fair.

Yeah, and Auntie Pat said when you're making sandcastles of the beach, you use her name, you go pat, pat, pat, pat. Remember when you'd make... You pack it all really hard into a bucket. Yeah. And then you flip the bucket upside down. But the key was to give it a pat, pat, pat, and the bucket like loosen the sand off because otherwise if you pulled it up the sand

would just kind of like stick to the bucket sometimes because I would just spray my sand buckets with like the baking olive oil it's a great thing actually sort of a non-s that's so good or I mean I grew up with in great privilege butter you buttered your bucket I buttered my bucket and then I'd butter it and then I'd put in a you know a baking liner oh lovely okay and then that thing was that's why your sandcastles are always hot soft sandcastle like that's what they call me And a pet, smooth sandcastle sprawl. That was me, man. Oh, well, R-A-P pet.

R-P-Pet.