ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 6th February 2024

Episode Date: February 5, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan declined an invitation!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchbourne and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Grab any medium cafe hot coffee for just $4 only in the app M's Feb 9. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. This might surprise you. Out of the blue, this is a sort of relationship I have with Jesse Mulligan. International, this is Jesse Mulligan, a fellow radio host on the government radio station. Radio New Zealand.

My parents listen to that in the afternoons. They love it. Yeah, they do. My parents love a bit of Jesse because he talks slow. He's not talking a lot in the afternoons. He does, eh? He's got quite a pace. He's got a relaxed voice.

We wouldn't let him get a word in. And they don't laugh, do they? No, they're definitely not laughing out loud. They laugh like this. We wouldn't let him get a word in. And they don't laugh, do they? No, they're definitely not laughing out loud. They might have a chuckle. A chuckle. Would you describe that as a chuckle or a chortle? No, a chortle's more of a... Sometimes we scream.

We're quite opposite. But they're all over the show. They'll talk about Gaza and stuff, and then next it's like, when to plant your veggies. Which I know, I like hearing a bit more it's less depressing than the world's events this is the sort of

relationship I have with Jesse Mulligan every now and then we'll just message each other out of the blue with a weird request or thought

because I know that I've worked with Jesse a bit before and he always says give my love to the boys particularly Vaughn. He's a great man. He's a great man.

So dry and so funny. I've never had a bad time with him. But out of the blue, he'll be like, hey, I've got to review a restaurant. Do you want to come

and eat at this restaurant? Because this is his other job is he reviews all of the restaurants. I know. And I follow his guides. And I tell you what, it's lucky he's a thin man.

He's not one of those people that could get fat. Good metabolism. No, no, no. He cycles everywhere. Does he? He's a big cycler. But he eats a lot of posh food. Very nice food.

I think he's got a good metabolism. He took Josh Thompson and I out once, and we were just like, let's eat. Yeah. That's not pretty how it works. So last night, out of nowhere, I get this message. I haven't talked to him for a little while. Yeah. And he said, hey, do you want to join a tennis club

and be my tennis partner, my doubles partner? Dost thou play? I was like, at this age? On these knees? And he said, oh, I just really, I just was just like, who could be my tennis partner? And I just thought, I reckon Vaughan has played tennis. I have played tennis, but I was terrible at it.

Right. In school. 30 odd years ago. High school. And I only did it because my best friend at school, his dad loved tennis and was really good at it. Right. And so I just played because they always played.

Yeah. You do look like you could play or you should play. Golf is probably what I'm going to get into. Oh, yeah. I could see you cycling and golfing in your older age. I am keen. The only thing stopping me getting into cycling is how expensive

proper bikes are. Mine's the pain in the gooch region. I love slamming my gooch. You slam your gooch the first couple of rides. If anybody knew that eventually if you keep slamming your gooch pretty hard the pain would go away to be used for hours. Yeah, I know.

But any time I do a spin class, the next couple of days I'm always like, far out. No, you've got to keep going and then it stops. It's a hardening of the gooch. It's a hardening of the gooch area. Or a deadening of the nerves. Yeah, a deadening of it. A deadening of the nerves. It's just like, do you want to play tennis?

I was like, nah. I tried to get into it, do you remember? We bought rackets and we walked down to the local tennis thing. We're so bad. My dad's amazing. You've got to do pickleball. Pickleball. Maybe I'll get back to him and say, let's play pickleball.

I want to play pickleball. Pickleball's between tennis and squash. I loved squash. Used to play a bit of squash. Yeah, my dad's a squash player. But I'm always worried the ball's going to suck your eye out. Ball's going to suck your eye out. Our friend didn't, Simon, near break his back doing squash.

He chipped something, eh? He smashed into the wall. He smashed into the wall and did himself a serious... And then you just hear about men my age dropping dead playing squash. Yeah, my dad smashed out his front tooth with a squash racket. See, anti-squash, you're definitely better to stay at home and just overeat and drink a lot. I think so.

I think you drink yourself to oblivion. We've got a ping pong table. We've got a table tennis table for Christmas. Do you? Do you? Yeah, because you've got half Asian kids, so they think they're going to be good at ping pong. Whatcha, whatcha, whatcha, whatcha.

I tell you what, my father-in-law, who famously sits 20 hours a day like a tiger. No, like a lion. Like a lion. Lone lions sit for a long time. They do. They sleep and they sit. Absolutely like he said I'm very good at table tennis but he says that about everything. He was excuse my language. He was fucking good. Really? He was Asian. Yeah.

Top spins. All sorts of things like just pop it in the corner of the table. You should come around for it. I would love to. When Lulu our dog died. I don't want to talk about it. No, we won't. We had our first, and we're going to do it every summer. We have to have the Lulu Bell Memorial Cup. Okay.

Great. Shard 8 got very competitive and very serious, and she was the first inaugural winner. Yeah, I'd love to play. Because me and Aaron want to put a cover on our pool table, and then you can get those little clamp on nets. There you go. Good stuff. Easy done.

People of leisure. Easy done. So I'm not playing tennis but thank you very much for the invite. And there's apparently this club that's trying to get back out there. They've had a bit of a lull in numbers. They want to get some semi-C libs in there to boost up their reputation. Oh, nah.