ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 5th August, 2025

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; We received some lovely gifts, and Fletch made a return...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network, it's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley's little bit of pod Welcome to a little bit of pod. I want to give a special shout out to a special listener Okay, me came in and visited. Oh good Kind of off the cuff to he said I'm back in New Zealand his dad was having an operation And of course, I was immediately like I hope dad's okay dad is okay Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, we did ask a good good son so he came back to make sure his dad was okay. I would just zoom to be honest. Zoom in. Send a text. I'll read you a text and then tell your mom, can you get dad to check his phone? No, you know boomers do that thing where they're just like just had an operation, but everything's okay. You're like what?

Tell me before I hang. Oh it's fine. It was just a small cancer removed. Sorry mom. Sorry, what? Sorry, what? It was a light leg amputation. I didn't want to worry you, but I'm now, I've lost both my legs. I'm learning to walk again. It'll be fine. It'll beputation. I didn't want to worry you, but I'm, I am now, I've lost both my legs. I'm learning to walk again, it'll be fine. It'll be fine. I just don't want to, you know, but you've been busy. That's better than the boomer, you know, some people have got the boomer parents that let them know very little.

Oh yeah, yeah. Like I'm dying next week. I sneezed this morning, I believe it's the start of the end. Yeah. Or be kind to me, cause this could be the last time we see each other. Yes! Why is everyone being so mean to me this Christmas? It could be my last.

Mum, you're 54. Yeah, well I've got a tickle in my throat, so. You need to calm down. Well you'll regret that, I'm just gonna say that. This could be the start of the end. Well Kenny came in and Kenny had a gift. Oh my god. Oh please.

Sorry. Not that beautiful Kenny. I actually watched South Park for the first time. Apparently this new season's gonna be insane. Because the first episode of the season was Mocking Trump and I was like, I'm in to watch this. Holy shit, I'd forgotten how brutal it is. It was a very good episode, I must say.

No rules. Having not watched it for 15 years or whatever it is, yeah, 20 years. Well, Kenny, not that one, came into the studio and bought a lovely bottle of whiskey actually. And he said, he's a whiskey drinker too.. Oh that's nice. He knows his stuff. He knows his stuff. I saw you crack that open at the weekend discount. Did you? Yeah. What a lovely

18 year old Glen Fittick. Irish, Scottish or Asian? Scottish. Nice. In front of a fire pit. Yeah lovely. Like a real man. Actually that's a super mask. Yeah a real mask. And I did my nails. Yeah good, good. Soften. Trimmed my pubes. By the fire. Stop, why'd you ruin it? Why'd you ruin it? Why'd you ruin that beautiful moment?

So I just want to say, and then Kenny bought another gift. He felt bad turning up every day and he bought the producer girlies a Mecca voucher. I know and he brought it. I mean. It's sort of that outrageous behaviour from Kenny. Actually outrageous. Like really appreciate it but there's no need to do that. Oh yeah please we're not fishing for gifts.

Bark will shout out to the doughnuts he bought. Oh my God. He, yeah. Why had a sore tummy so I couldn't eat them? They were pistachioed on top with like a glaze. And then inside was a Jaffa mousse. It was. And you might think that sounds too much. That sounds too sweet.

I bit it and I was like, man, that is a lot. And then immediately I was like, but I need another bite. You know, I'm like, just today I'm feeling Just today, I'm feeling a bit sluggish. Hmm. I think I might get one. You know what I mean? Then just go to bed and call it a day. Yeah, a little donut.

But he also, and I want to just sort of jump to something that has been brought to my attention. He got me and Fletch some Aesop hand cream, which we love. I felt like that's so expensive. I felt so bad. Thank you so much, Kenny. It's absolutely outrageous.

I love it. We love Aesop though. And this guy, you know how Fletch buys 10 or so lip balms in a go when you go overseas? Yeah, because they're cheaper in Australia. Because you love them and you hoon them all the time. It's because they've got SPF 30 in them. So you like his chapstick. Do you like his fables?

What do you mean? Aesop's fables? What do you mean? Aesop's fables? What the fuck are you talking about? The girls get it, I don't get it. Well I don't get it. Aesop's fables? What is Aesop?

Is it in the Bible? No, it's like an ancient author who pretty much gave birth to all the fairy tales. But what do you mean Aesop's fables? Well Aesop's fables in my life it's a store Vaughn that does skincare I'm a measure to keep his lips moist so he can tell his stories I would have self-filtered and gone I don't need to add this in. What's he going on about producer girlies? Why are you so frothed over this? This is so good Vaughn this is your best. What? Thanks. I didn't think I saw was like this old Greek author. Yeah, I wrote Fairy tale like stories and was like the original like we're retell story. Did he make hands?

Because you just pick a brand name from anything. I just thought Aesop's Fables was a very well-known company. It is very well-known. So he wrote the Ant in the Grasshopper, the Hare and the Turtus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Turtus. Oh, by the way, that's... The Hare and the Turtus!

Turtus! I love my stories about the Hare and the Turtus. The Tortus. The Toy-Toy. The Lion and the Moose. The Fox and the Stork. I've never fucking heard of any of them. They're all like famous stories and they've all got morals. The tortoise, the toy, the toy, the lion in the moose, the fox in the stalk. I've never fucking heard of any of this. They're all like famous stories and they've all got morals.

As if he made a joke about Dr. Suzy, he'd be like, ah yes. Yeah, but it wasn't a joke, it was just sort of shit. It was sort of odd. Do you like his fables? So this was a guy that lived in 620 and 5... 420! 554 BCE. What's BCE? Before Christ eventuated. 620 and 5... 420! 5... 420!

What's BCE? Before Christ Eventuated. Existed. Before Christ Existed? Is that what you're saying? Before Christ's Era? Yeah. I don't know.

Anyway, so we got some lovely Aesop hand wash. It's lovely. Anyway, this is not... You've thrown me here with this bullshit fable crap. What we need to talk about Vaughan is the fact that Fletch, who buys these lip balms, upon bulk. Okay, so what happened was one of these lip balms that I bought, you know how when you twist the twisty thing, it pops the little lipstick out? That's how it works.

Yeah. Well, so what would happen is you'd turn it, but it would unscrew? It was like, it was salty. But you could like push it in with your thumb and then try again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, so I decided that that was faulty, so I got a refund. What's your problem? The problem is.

Wait, but you buy them in bulk from Australia. No, but there's stores everywhere. Yeah, there's stores everywhere. No, I bought them here. You can just go into an ASAP store and be like, this is a faulty product without a receipt. No, I had a receipt because I'd bought some here. You kept a receipt for your lip balm.

No, you're in the system. You're in the system. He's got an account babes. You give them your email. Yeah yeah yeah. So this is my problem. My problem is not that he has returned a faulty product. I still vaseline my lips. My problem is that you'd used the majority of it before you decided to. Take the burger back when he's only a couple of bites left. These aren't cheap lip balms. And maybe, maybe I waited a few days until I took it back. A few days? That thing was a fucking nub by the time you returned it. When you see someone at Maccas who eats the entire burger up to it like a little nub and then is like, this is cold.

That had a hair in it. I've had a hair about 10 bites ago. Yeah, 10 bites ago. But it was faulty. So I was with him, and they gave me a whole one. And then when I got it back, I was like, well, but it was faulty so I was with Amarant and they gave me a whole one and then when I got it back I was like, well this is a lot heavier. I must have just literally used that to the very end.

Yeah, I bet this feels like a real win for you. Yeah, well it did actually feel like a win because they're like 20 something bucks. I'm terrible at faulty stuff. I'm just always like, I can't be bothered. Yeah, normally I'm the same but yeah, I was like, you know what, these are expensive. You don't get a lot in there. Yeah, and you're like, you know what, I've got a bit of spare time today. Yeah, I was walking past the store and I was like you

know what I'm gonna do this I'm gonna be a big boy and complain and it paid off it paid off how much does one of these it actually didn't pay off cuz like the apparently the returns system she had to input stuff I was literally the 10 minutes I was like this is not worth my time. Fresh lipstick. What does it cost you? It's like 20 something for a lip balm. Yeah I know, it's expensive. But it is amazing. Cause they have SPF 30.

And it's the best lip balm I've ever used in my life. I love it. Look at those lips, give them a kiss. You have great lips. Thank you. Admit I have great lips. kiss. You have great lips. Yeah. Thank you. Give him a kiss. Admit I have great lips. Go on for one.

Admit I have great lips. You've got great lips. Well, Aesop's doing all the heavy lifting. Yeah, it is. Well, that Aesop in his fables and his lip chip thing, you just be chipped. But again, thank you to our lovely Kenny who came in with the gifts.

That's right. Yes, that's where we started. That's where we got it. That's where we started. Thanks, Kenny. Thanks, Kenny. Oh my God.