ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 6th August, 2025

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan's parents have made a big life decision...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium podcast network, it's Fletchhorn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. A monumental day yesterday. My mother messaged myself and my sister saying, I just thought I'd let you know, we've disconnected the landline. Oh, okay. They've got rid of their landline. I think my mom and dad still have theirs, but they lived kind of semi-rurally. Right.

Like just on the boundary of the city. Yeah, city fringe. And only just got the internet like. like fiber. Yeah, only just got fiber like a year or so ago. And before that, I think they had some kind of satellite internet rigged up with the neighbors. Everyone in the subdivision. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shot it to a high point on a hill. Yeah, something like that. So they had a landline. That's what my parents have got. Yes. For internet. They had a landline. They've still got a landline and I always ring it because, you know, someone will be in the house and hear it.

Mum puts herself in in the pantry to charge it. Doesn't take it with her because that's what parents do. Of course they do. Or leaves it in her room. You're going to need to carry it. that with you now. Yeah, I know. But they saw,

they don't need it. No. Well, my mom kept it because my nan, who passed away, that was how she got in touch with mum.

Yeah. She'd ring on the landline. Oh, so now Nan's did. But Nan, actually said when Nan goes will be getting rid of the landline.

How much do they cost? I don't know what a current landline costs. I don't know what a current landline costs. Yes. And then you could get naked. Yes. And then everyone just got fiber. Then you could get a phone through the fiber.

Yes. What? Tripped down memory lane. I mean, you know what? It's kind of sad. That's been my home phone number my entire life. Yeah, I remember my parents moved and my childhood phone number just got...

They didn't take it with them. They didn't take them with them. They didn't move. It's got a new one. It's RIP 793. Oh, RIP. RIP. RIP.

Yeah. Do you produce a girl, remember when you had to push a button to make a call? Like, thank you for assuming that I'm so young. But yes, we're not that young. Right. So you had landlines. Yeah. Yeah, I had a curly cord and stuff, but then pretty quick we got a wireless.

Yeah, we had a wireless, yeah, pretty early on. Yeah, we had both. It was from the warehouse, so you could kind of got a bit fuzzy by the washing line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and sometimes you could pick up the neighbours' conversation if they were on their uni den and you were on your uni den. We had both. The curly one, like, plugged into the wall was in my mum's bedroom because, like, it's Hawkspay Earthquakes.

Yeah. She was always worried that the power would go out there, no phone. A phone in the bedroom. Yeah, have you ever been to a hotel and sent a phone next to the toilet in the bathroom? Yes, but like what are they for? It's weird, like, what's that for? Hello, room service, I need more toilet paper. Or I'd like to order some fries?

In my apartment, there's a landline. And I've never used... No, that's an intercom to get in for the door. I don't know. No, it's like a ring, ring. Like, you would think it's an intercom. Ring ring. Yeah, like a phone.

It's a landline, though. Like a curly cord. And I picked it up the day I moved in, made a weird noise that I hadn't really heard before. Also, I put it back, and I've never tried using it. It's got numbers, like a phone phone. I'm pretty sure that's the intercom to get into the apartment. I don't think you can, there's no intercom to let people in. Like, when you come to the apartment.

It sounds like they had the best intentions to put it in an intercom. Yeah, and then it hasn't happened. There's no way to buzz someone in. This is, like, how kids, like, Shannon was just doing it, putting her fingers up to her face in the shape of a phone. Kids do it as a palm because they're so used to iPhone. Yeah, that's yucker. Yeah.

Like, call me, and like, call me, like, you do. kind of mouthing to a friend while you walk away and you hold a palm up to your hand. Yeah, my partner's nephew is like three and he'd put a palm up to his hand. And I was like, what? That's crazy. You put the shaker up to you. No, you don't. Because a shunker doesn't, it's a palm now.

It's like an iPhone. It looks like a phone. Yeah. So this will blow your mind going back a little bit further. The New Zealand Post Office ran the entire telephone network and up until 1987 when it was split off into a state-owned enterprise telecom New Zealand. You had to hire your phone. the physical phone from the post office.

That feels like a weird crossover. And it was a dollar or something a month. I don't know why it would have cost. I remember at least you can find your own phone. Phone and post is two very different things. Stick to your name. Post. But the post, it was a communication service.

They would have run the back in the day. Did they run the country? Like that's like two of the biggest things. It was owned by the government. It was a government back in the day when the government owned all these things. So they were listening. Oh yeah. Well, they could.

They could. So you legally. couldn't own your own phone you had to lease it and it was a revenue stream for the government as well you'd be able to get the money in 1987 it ended okay that's crazy so next time someone um old says to you oh not like the good old days you can say like when the communists ran the phone company yeah when everything was far more like communism than it is now is that what you're trying to say well you had to lease your telephone from the man at the post office that's why all the phones look the same yeah so what is it now just ringing your parents on

their cell phone yeah amazing which is my preferred way to Yeah, same. Anyway, because they're always out and about. Or mom might be down the washing line. I said, you've got to start taking it down the washing line. She'd have a phone. She'd have to have a phone. Like, Annabella, you've been down the washing line.

She's like, yeah, I just heard the phone rang. Take it. Tell her to take the phone. Yeah. I know. She's going to take a, she's going to, she should get a holster. She should get the little, um, when you go for a run and you wear that sweaty condensating band.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're about yucky. Yeah. Yeah, she could just have one of those. They tell her they get one of those old mates love a leather or a faux leather case on their belt. Holster. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Get one of those. And that's my sister said, next stop, getting you off the sky dish. I know, my mum will not. I'm like, it's all on neon mum.

I'm like, it's all on the streaming servers. She's like, no, no, no. I'm like. They like the remote. They love the remote. They like the remote.

It's crazy. It took them 20 years to get used to that remote. Yeah, they love rain fade. They love, they love atmospheric conditions. Yeah. interfering with their super rugby match.