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

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

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From the ZM Podcast Network, it's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And today it's a spillover podcast. It sure is. Because we had so many messages. Too many. Regarding our what did you star in as a kid? Yeah, so many of them. And also just a chance to roast Shannon some more because of that

incident. Of the farmer's measurement incident of 2000 and... I was going to say it wouldn't have ever been the 90s. Yeah, fine. Well, some messages in. I was in the number one. Yeah, fine. We're in the early 2000s. Well, some messages in. I was in the number one trending documentary on Netflix. They don't tell us what one.

What? They don't tell us what one. Making a murderer? Or what's his name? Killed him all, of course. Oh, the jinx. The jinx. I'll email saying, sorry, just saw this.

What documentary was that? What doco? I feel like when they message in, they should this. What documentary was it? What doco? I feel like when they message in, they should know. Wait, did they do a documentary, I don't know if it was on Netflix, about the New Zealand study? Was that on Netflix? No, that was just New Zealand. Right. I was in a pumpkin patch catalogue when I was five. Looking back at

the outfits, they were diabolical and the only good photo of me was after I'd thrown a massive tantrum because I didn't want to wear a cake backwards because i thought i'd look like a boy those shiny tear-filled eyes showed up amazing on camera oh wow yeah i was a bit of a child actress ads tv short film uh for the toronto film fest that film got shown oh my god oh la la when i was five i got asked to hold up a single flower for the What Now intro counting down from 10. Like the baby on the Nirvana cover, I never got paid. Damn you, Whitebait Studios.

Damn you. Damn you. Go hunting. Get your pay now. Yeah, I'd go Jason Gunner. Yeah, find Jason Gunn. The hunting gun. Or you owe me.

Yeah, I was holding a flower for the countdown from 10. How cool, though. You were doing the coolest kid in the show. That's cool. I would just rather flower for the countdown from 10. How cool, though. You were doing the coolest kid in the show. Yeah, that's cool. I would just rather be paid in the cool currency. In cool currency? Yeah. Hell yeah.

I was the finger-licking good kid for KFC in the 80s. Oh, wow. Pretty good when you're a kid. Not so much when you're a teenager. No. Yeah, the teasing's more ruthless at high school. My friend Tim, who you guys have met before, he was the face of Decker back in the 90s.

Tickety-cock, tickety-cock, tickety-cock. Ow, ow. And he's got one of these huge posters framed in his house with his face. Really?

Yeah, Decker. Was he even a kid? Yeah, he was a little kid. Little kid. I was the baby on the cough syrup box in the 1980s. What a cool claim to fame.

Well, cough syrup. And surely your mum would still have the box, right? Yeah, you'd keep one. As a memento. Oh, yeah, you would. My niece was a sunflower in an Anne Getty's calendar. Oh, that's pretty iconic. That's peak iconic fame, that is.

My brother was the face of the hunting and fishing kids pack twice. Oh, okay. That's pretty good. I was the Weet-Bix kid on the Weet-Bix box for the Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon. Oh, you must have been a muscular child. Yeah, you must have been ripped.

You must have been ripped. Yeah, you're doing all your sit-ups and stuff as a kid and they're like, we want you to represent the Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon. You're like, fuck yeah. Sprinkle some creatine

on your Weet-Bix and away you go. I was the face of Oscar Child Care. My mum was part of the Startup Committee, so I was using photos. For free, I'm guessing. I'm guessing it was free. My brother was in an ad for the Milky Bar Kid in the 1990. All three older sisters.

He's never lived it down. He had three older sisters. He never lived it down. What a loser. Do you think he was just Milky Bar Kid adjacent? It doesn't sound like he was the Milky Bar Kid. Oh, right. Like an extra in the ad.

Oh, right. He was just in there. Maybe he was the bad guy that the Milky Bar Kid shot. Milky Bar is not me. Did he shoot people? Surely we must be ready for a new Milky Bar Kid. No one's eating Milky Bars anymore. I don't think Milky Bars is one of the priority marketable.

You also don't have ads for solo chocolates. And you can't target kids with junk food ads anymore, can you? Oh, can you? Yeah. It could be like the Milky Bar MILF. Yeah. Yeah. The Milky Bars are on me.

They could be on her titties. The Milky Bars are on mummy. The Milky Titties. Yeah, yeah. The Milky Titties. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Yeah, I love. The Milky Tits are on me.

The Milky Tits are on me. Please don't sully our childhood. Boyuck. Yeah, I love. The milky tits are on me. The milky tits are on me. Please don't sully our childhood. Boy. Boy. But I would. Check out the milky tits on me. Yeah. Hayley.

Psyo, psyo. That's kind of hot. I like this now. I want a milky bar. I haven't had one for years. Stop it. That's all it took for me to meet my man celebrating for that velvety white chocolate. Yeah.

And some titties. A friend of mine was about Oh come on Oh come on Come on Fletch we all love titties On this show Don't be a prude

Don't be a prude Fletch You know we all love titties Do we? I love titties I'm a huge fan Carry on My puppy was on Taking on

On Shopping with Joe And a friend was an extra On Heavenly with Joe and a friend was an extra on Heavenly Creatures oh my friend actually played the rock

they put in the sock and beat the shit out of her mother with that she was a flawless rock that was my pet rock that transformation was amazing

yeah that was my pet rock great acting yeah she did really well and it was a slight change from reality because I think it was a brick wasn't it a brick and a sock

but they put a rock in a sock did work experience in sixth form with 3 News. Followed a reporter around for a couple of days. Had to pretend to be a customer buying a gollywog from Kukoldi's for a story about gollywogs being a racist present. Now, we just need somebody racist to buy this doll. And no one's buying the gollywog.

The shop's like, everyone loves the gollywogs, but no one will buy one on camera. So the sixth form kid's like, loves the gollywogs But no one will buy one on camera So the six-woman kid's like I'm a young racist Oh my So now you're in some kind of TV3 archive Yeah

Amazing Jesus Louisa Um I was scrolling through Facebook stories And my son popped up In a Toyota ad

For the field days I had no idea I can recognise him Because of the handmade jersey He was wearing Really grabbed my attention So that he Was at field days And must have taken a photo Yeah I played Jingle Bells I can recognize him because of the handmade jersey he was wearing. Really grabbed my attention. So he was at field days and must have taken a photo.

Yeah. I played Jingle Bells on the French horn on What Now? No big deal. I was on the front page of the Gisborne Herald building my sandcastle. Didn't lead to anything, but the bastards missed out on a lot of potential. I still got it. My granddad got his film developed in the 80s, and the person who developed it loved the photo he took of my my sister That he blew it up and used it in the window display

He can't do that And in the 80s maybe you could No just give it to them for free You would have got some photo developing for free Absolutely And given away that I was an Ann Getty's baby I was an Easter baby and a big egg Was everyone a fucking Ann Getty's baby I was an Easter baby and a big egg

was everyone a fucking Ann Getty's baby she went through so many babies God I obviously was not hot enough no I was a minger child we're just hearing from the ones that survived

yeah at nine I was on the packaging for thermal underwear that was sold exclusively at Decca oh shame absolutely humiliating that is so shame

yeah how much would you have to get paid to be on a pack of budget underwear? Probably not as much as you think. Like a supermarket pack of six. Rio bonds or something. Yeah, Rio. Rio seven pack.

Really not as much as you think. Yeah. Honestly, a lot of money for me. For budget undies. Yeah, a lot. I was in a holiday program at the local rec center and they had us do a photo shoot to promote their kids gym classes I was on the poster

and in the brochure payment after my mum was like hey this isn't on in the brochure lovely was a free 10 times swim pass

as payment so mum was like I guess it's better than nothing that tells me that your mum thought you were a bit of a minger

anyway she settled that low I was on Kidzone as a kid I had a little segment about myself. After it aired, I would get asked if I'd been on KidZone. People would stop me and say, were you on KidZone?

Tried to get a copy of it, but couldn't. Famous. Wow. Copy of KidZone. I was 16. I did Invisalign and my dentist orthodontist used my photos in their advertising. Never got paid, but now I'm 32. I still get free dental work. I reckon that's a win. What? Yes, it is. I'd be going twice a year

for the recommended amount of checkups if they were free. Yeah, that's good. Oh my God, that's amazing. Then, what else have we got here? God, there's a... Man, some people are in something. Now, Carwen's claiming she's been a model as well. Who's she? Yeah. What were you a model for? I will say

this is a bit more legit than Shannon's. Whoa. Yeah, I don't know, Shannon. Slander in the boots. Some guy sizing you up in a farmer's changing room was modelling. But anyway.

So my mum used to work at the National Aquarium in Hawke's Bay when I was a kid. And obviously a free perk of that was like... That's sick, eh? That's sick.

Yeah, it was pretty sick. I got to hang out with lots of the animals and one of the things that you used to be able to do there were they your friends the animals your friends i'm an only child okay the albatross and the whales are they your friends the penguins were a friend the penguins um but you used to be able to take a photo with the blue tongue skank and so i had one taken blue tongue sk. You can't call someone a blue-tongued skank. Shut up. That's quite rude.

Yeah. She's been eating car blueys and sucking dick. She's a blue-tongued skank. Blue-tongued skank. Car blueys, yum. Car bluey. Car bluey. Anyways, they used a photo of me on their advertising for years.

Like, I was, like, quite young. And as a teenager, the photo was still there of me. Really? Weird. Yeah. I reckon my mannequin's still there. I don't know if your mannequin ever existed, Shannon. I don't think it ever existed.

I don't think it did. And your mum's doubling down. She says it was legit. Yeah. The latest from Bev. She's like, no, this was a legit measuring for a mannequin. Yeah, I said I wasn't. And she said, I didn't leave you alone with him.

No. I just... I think I'm learning something about myself today. I was in a shower domain when I was five. If you ever go overseas and you need a taxi, some of them are not real. Do you mean they're fake taxis? Fake taxis, yeah. Really?

Tell me more. Some of them are fake. And how do you pay? The British one. And the guy will automatically ask you where you're going, love. Well, I'll tell him where I'm going. I don't know. I'm lost automatically ask you where you're going, love. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I'll tell him where I'm going. I don't know.

I'm lost. Where are you off to today, love? Yeah. That's what he says from the front. I want to go to a bar. I've just come out of a breakup, and I need a good night out. Yeah. I don't have any money to pay for the bar, for this trip. I forgot in my wallet.

There's all these mini documentaries online. You can watch them and just steer clear of that. Do I just search up fake taxi or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. It's a scam. It's a whole scam thing. Just be careful.

It's a scam depending on what you want out of the experience. For some people, it's not. It's not a scam. It's exactly what they came looking for. My husband was the face of tourism Fiji. He's very white. So that was an interesting move. Okay.

I went to school With a girl that was On short and straight She was the first victim Of the Ferndale Strangler Whoa That's the first Yeah That's exciting

That's okay I was in an American Anti-histamine ad That was filmed At Rambo's End We filmed on the Corkscrew section Of the rollercoaster

I had to do it So many times The rollercoaster Is now ruined for me Yeah That couple times What do you have to go around On the first time with a runny nose and sneezing? Maybe.

Next time you go around, you're all smiley and happy because you've taken a pill. Yeah. Damn, this rollercoaster is really getting up my nose. Yeah.