ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -3rd November, 2025

Episode Date: November 2, 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. People with children in secondary school and primary. To a certain extent, we'll know there's some industrial action happening here in Altearo, New Zealand. Some strikes by the teachers' unions. There is. There are. Unless your children are at private schools.

I've seen it. I've seen these. Yeah, they've been striking. They done it all day. There's hoodlums around the city. Are there hoodlums in the city? School-aged hoodlums. I know.

I made a mistake of going into a mall and I was like, hey! There's hoodlums everywhere. Hoodlums. Hoodlums. You're like, shouldn't you be in school and I'm like, oh no, they're striking. Strike action. And a lot of the teachers did the long weekend last weekend, didn't they? Yeah, they checked the teachers only day, a strike teacher.

On the Tuesday. I mean, that's great planning from a teacher. Really good from the hands off to them on the teachers. Make the best of a bad situation. I did a lunchtime pickup because it was a half-day strike the other day. This is a thing also. They change all the street. Strikes, they're rolling.

Some days it's all of them. Some days it's just a year at a time. Some days it's a half day. They're keeping you on your toes. Parents must hate this, but I'm all for the teachers. Oh, me too. Me too. Me too, me too, me too.

That's what? They're not paid enough to deal with these shitbag kids. That's what? My girls were asking, like, what's the deal with strikes? Because it rules, we're getting time off school. I said, no, it's to like, inconvenience everybody, really. So you're like, just give the teachers what they want,

or you start hating teachers, basically. You fall in one of two. line, isn't it? One of two categories. But I was on lunchtime pick up at a half-day strike and Indy said, can we get Popeye's chicken? I've never had it. Someone else was telling me about Popeyes the other day saying that they've got the best

chips. They do. The chips come heavy. The Cajun seasoning. Oh, I love it. You know everyone went bananas with the chicken salt on the KFC chips. Yeah. Oh, this is Cajun seasoning.

This is next level. Very lovely pre-season chippies. Okay. It's American. Yeah. When did it come to New Zealand? It's been very recent. There's not many of them.

Yeah, there's only a few around. They've only just... They looked at New Zealand and they were like, ah, yes, a small market with multiple ways of getting fried chicken. What we need is another way of get fried chicken. West and South Auckland are always first for the new... Papa Toy Toy Toa Tuckinini. No, I was on the North Shore.

Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. I know. Wow. Tickle me back. Tell me a surprise. Oh yeah, there's one on the shore, one on the shore.

I was giving some other kids from our area a ride home, too. and Indy's like, can we get Popeyes? And I was like, yeah, and we went in and I didn't even think about it. I was like, well, you guys just order on the little machine and I'll just tap my card at the end. Shouting? Wait, there is no.

A carload of kids. Nearly bloody bankrupt to me. You know, I've been, you know, I've been ever done. If I'd been like, can we have Popeyes or takeaways? We're like, no. Absolutely not. You can make a sandwich when you get home. I'm not paying for that.

Ham in the fridge. Yeah, I'm not paying for these kids. No. No. Can I ask what it cost? 65 dollars Yeah Which is wild man

I remember my parents shit the bed once When we went out for like A special occasion And we went out We just got takeaways And it was something like $25

Granted it was the 90s Yeah It was a long time ago But um Yeah I was like Did they think you were the shit though Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah Yeah yeah Because I couldn't like back out Once I got to the I couldn't be like Oh cancel the order kids No too much Back in the car

I'll take you all home Make sandwiches When you get there 13 year olds To pass your F boss cards in Chip in Everybody, chipping what you can, chip in what you can. Oh, what a cool dad.

Yeah, but you've started a precedent now. That, yeah. You're going to have to say no next time. And then drop the other kids home and then take your one kid to get pomp on. Oh, and I'm not going all the way back. You know? It costs you in the fuel, you know. We'll make a sandwich at home.

Yeah, make a sandwich at home. Yeah, plenty of sandwiches in the fridge. We can make fried chicken at home. Oh, there's fruit in the bowl. Yeah. Plenty of water in the tap. Oh, yeah. There's children in Africa as well.

Yes. Only bored people get bored. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that was a good one. I'll give you something to cry about Yeah, yeah, I'm dad Yeah, yeah, yeah We used to walk to school every day

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I didn't even have shoes Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah What would, my father would have kicked me in the ass for that Yeah, that's right Love saying that Don't trip up on your bottom lip That was my mom, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah Good fun, oh, what a cool dad Yeah, cool dad who's 60 bucks down So