ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 7th August 2024

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Attenzione Pickpocket!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bitter Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe The perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bitter Pod I got a message yesterday because a friend of mine in America Who's this friend? Well, you don't know them Fuck you

You're a slut Is it Uncle Sam? Are you friends with Uncle Sam again? He's gonna take you to war The brat continues. I remember you. I'm in the brat winter. He had been asking me, because obviously I've travelled a bit, he was asking me for a ton of advice.

He was like, I'm going to go to Europe. I've just seen you were there. I'm going on my first trip. And had a bunch of questions. So has he never travelled? Like, travelled around America. What's a kilometre? What is the Celsius shit you ever

yourself have been? What's a plane? Just like best ways to book flights and trains and you know what's better in Europe. And it is like quite daunting the first European trip. Because a lot of people will just do a Kentucky and it's taken care of. You just get to the city and you're with them.

First couple of trips you kind of go pretty obvious. Yeah. Also, do you know what? I'm 34 and I've never booked myself a big flight. Until, did you just book your last flight? No, when I got my mum to do it.

I get scared. What? Are you kidding me? I love it. I love booking travel so much. I get so scared that I'm going to screw it up in some way.

I'm going to stuff it up or i'm not booking the right or the best flight and my mum's like you she travels like every year she she's so good at it i love it i'm always just like mum here's my card yeah and that's why i loved giving him advice i just love all of this i love giving my friends travel advice and then so it just has a sidebar 70 of the the New Zealand population has a passport. And America, because I wondered, because I was like, you always hear that Americans, you know, don't travel outside of America much. Why would you?

It's the greatest country in the world. 43% have a passport. 52% do not. The rest are unsure or prefer not to say in the... Do you have a passport? I don't really know. I don't really know. I don't want to tell you.

I'd rather not say. Adults under 30 are more likely than older Americans to have a current passport, 53%. Yeah, my and Pa are going overseas. They just don't travel that much, so that's why I was getting all these questions. And anyway, yesterday, I get a message. Did you put him back?

I get a message from him. So I got pickpocketed and all my credit cards and all my cards are gone. I was like, no. That's why you have a flesh-colored money belt strapped across your stomach. This is my baby. I can't get up under there. Can't get in there, can you, without me noticing? Well, no, I said that's why, and you probably don't want to hear this advice now,

but that's why you leave some cards at the hotel. Oh, yeah, for sure. I always take a couple of cards and then sometimes i'll toggle them off you know and be like i'll turn that one off because you can get temporary holds on them and oh yeah that's a good idea yeah we're about to this happen in london london well because heaps of friends in london say you scampi little pet pocket i'm just a chimney sweep yeah because i said oh god you're around corner. Show you on your way. Oops, he left it there. See you later. He messaged me before. He said the people

that stole the cards had tried to use them but they'd been blocked already. But apparently friends in London said a lot of people just swipe phones. That's the big thing in London. That's why you've got to have the blocker, little sleeve in your money belt that also has a built-in blocker

in it for your phone across your stomach yeah it is embarrassing look i i never used it when when i went away on that last trip and aaron made me take one but i have traveled before with a money belt and it's so embarrassing when you're in a shop just lifting up your shirt i know and walking around everywhere with just like three thousand dollars cash strapped to you like the first time we went travelling oh we'd not travelled

much yeah no idea and we went to Thailand and Sharda and I had the money belt on she's like how's the money belt

I was like it's still there it's still there it's still there and you take all the money yeah so you got like three k it's changed so much now because you can

have your debit cards like the wise cards and stuff so good for travel. Yeah. Even like back then when you went to Thailand, that was all. You just had to have cash, eh? Yeah. I had lots of cash.

That was in 2005 after the tsunami. No one wanted, like there was just no credit card. Like hotels and stuff you'd pay for before you went online. Yeah. Or the credit card when you checked in, but no one else was accepting cards. But I've never been pickpocketed. I've never had that. I have in Wellington, New Zealand.

What? That was it. Yeah, I remember I was walking down Courtney Place. Drunk or sober? No, no, no, just like middle of the day. One of the very rare walks down Courtney Place sober. Yeah. And I was in the middle of the day

and I remember like a really busy bit and feeling a little tussle and I had like a side satchel at the time. And I remember feeling a little like Russell, and me being like, what the hell was that? And then just like getting further down the street and pausing and being like, hang on, and I went in my bag and my whole wallet was gone. Wow.

That's why, you know, we talked on the Big Pond this week about my, how I bought four pairs of the same shorts. It's because I got the zips. Great for the zipper. So good for trap, because you can pick pockets getting your zip. Not without you being like, get your hands off my zips. Yeah. That's why I'm saying it's good stuff.

Have you ever pickpocketed when you've been overseas? Never gone neither. Crazy. Pickpocketed somebody else. I was just saying. Okay, do you know what? It is something that it would be cool to learn how to do that and picking a lock. Well, producer Shannon's boyfriend, the magician mentalist, he knows how to pickpocket

and he does like the stealing watches and stuff, eh? Yeah. Yeah, he stole Matty McLean's watch. Yeah. Was Matty wearing a long-sleeved shirt? No. And you can say in the video like how he does it. There's no trickery. You're just fully taking their watch off their arm. Because he's touching you in other places at the same time.

Like there's kind of a finger up your ass. Do not touch stuff. And all you're thinking is a finger up the arse and so you're just like and all you're thinking is a finger up your arse and then you don't notice that your watch is gone. Keep the watch you know if I'm getting a finger up the arse that's yours that's my way of saying thank you He did it on that Nigel Ladder show

and he stole people's ties He steals people's ties Belts was another one that's insane. How do you steal someone's belt? I would notice in a heartbeat. He was dressed as a mic tech and he was fitting them for a microphone and he just was undressing them.

I'd be pretty pissed off if I was at TVNZ doing something and they fitted you out for a mic and then you're like, actually that motherfucker took my wallet. He handed them back a box with all their stuff in it. He's like, here's your watch, here's your tie, here's your belt, here's everything. Wild. Well, people are out there not doing it for entertainment.

No, they're doing it to take your money and your credit cards. Goodness me. Watch your wallets. Watch your wallies.