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

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan has a PSA about some new rules... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your podcasts The ZM Podcast Network Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod Let me tell you about something that I experienced. Just fix your biceps at us, please. I'm just having a stretch.

I'm just really popping the biceps. Remember you used to do that thing? I hate it. Oh, yuck. He pops them one by one and I hate it. I can't do that. Neither. I don't know how you do that.

It's weird. Just stop it. Move it. It makes Hayley feel funny. It makes me feel funny and uncomfortable. It's a weird thing and you look at me with this big dumb grin on your face this is for people who listen to the podcast

who live in Auckland and those outside of Auckland might find this interesting but there's been a change to the council laws regarding alcohol purchasing of course for those that drink in moderation okay point we joke about moderation, but...

Well, I'm not joking. It's actually fucked. Okay. The moderation thing. It's actually fucked. It's actually fucked. It's actually fucked. We're talking, right?

But it's actually fucked. They're fucking with the moderation. A lot's changed, but in the supermarket, the posters have gone up saying that alcohol sales are cut off from a certain time, 9 o'clock. Alcohol stores across the board from December 6th have to be shut by 9. And did it used to be 11?

Used to be 11. Yeah. So the guy, okay, so backstory. We were busy. There might be some people who listen to the podcast who purchased candles off my daughters, and thank you very much for purchasing the candles. We were busy getting that all packed. Yeah, I didn't. Those kids get enough from me.

Yeah, absolutely. What the fuck did they get from you? Absolutely nothing. Unless you've written them into your will finally. Well, maybe I have. That would be lovely. Your excuse to remind candles if they're in your will. And you're also barren and childless.

I am barren and childless. You should write them into your will. They don't want what I have. They need to get something. I am going to support. Just start from saying, Auntie Hayley, piss on the hedge. Yeah, exactly.

And I'm going to support. And they're not fuck off till three in the morning. I'm probably going to easily let it go, though. I will be supporting your daughters through their self-discovery journeys as they become teenagers. That's where I'm stepping into their lives. It'll be amazing.

I told you, for August, I've got a whole bag of my old goth clothes, and she will find her way there. I see it in her eyes. She'll love it. So we were busy, and we were doing that, and so dinner, it kind of got late, and I was like, I'll just go get fish and chips. I rang ahead, ordered some fish and chips. I want fish and chips.

They said 10 minutes, as classically every time. I love it. Even if it's 15 or 5, 10 minute. It's 10 minute. So I go down there immediately and I get there and I walk in 10 minutes after and they're like, oh, it's not quite ready. Yeah, because you fucking lied to me, bitch. Okay, sweet. You didn't even stop and think about how long it's actually going to take.

I had a thirst. And one thing I like to do is when I drive down to get takeaways and they're not ready, I'll grab a single beer and just sit outside and have a beer. Yeah, nice. And watch cars and just be basically what my granddad did, except he never drank a drop on his life, apparently. Just kill 10 minutes. Just kill 10 minutes. 10 minutes. 10 more minutes with a beer. So I went into the

alcohol store next door, and I went up to the fridge. The alcohol store. The boo shop. Yeah, yeah, right. The liquor store. The liquor, the bottler. The off-license, if you're in England. The shop of alcohol. And I went up to the fridge. The alcohol store. The booze shop. Yeah, right, the liquor store. The liquor, the Bottle-O, the off-license if you're in England. The shop of alcohol. And I went to the fridge where the single beers are, and it said, due to new council laws, you can no longer buy one can, two can minimum purchase.

And I was like, they've got that around the wrong way, haven't they? Yeah, because you want people to drink less. Yeah, on the fly. Yes. Because if you're grabbing a box of beers or a six pack, you're going somewhere. Yeah. But if you're just grabbing two beers. You're having it then and there.

So I grabbed two beers and went up to the counter and I said to the guy, two beers. And I said, what's the deal with the two beer thing? Or is it one beer? Yeah. And he's like, no, no, no. The council's changed the rules. You can no longer purchase a single alcohol serving. Why?

Because they sell cans of like Cody's or it could be a premix. And some of those can be like 8%, right? Or it could be canned wine. They had some European beers in there. You know how Belgians really crank up the alcohol in their beers? They do 12% of the time. The big beers, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like drinking a bottle of wine out of a can.

I know. And it tastes insane. In moderation, of course. In moderation, of course. So I said, what's the deal? And he's like, well, the idea is to crack down on people doing it tough, living on the streets, because he said, we were told, and this is, I'm just parroting what he told me.

We were told it's to discourage them sitting down, begging for money, getting enough money for one beer, going and getting a beer, coming out, beginning the process again, and then getting another, go and get another can and doing it one at a time. And I said, but they're just going to encourage them to get two cans instead. And then drink them in quick succession as well. Now you've got two beers, you're going to down them both at the same time. That doesn't make any fucking sense at all.

At all, right? No. And he's like, I said, that's unusual because I would have thought it would have been better to be like one beer at a time, guys. So the idea is that you can't afford two beers. The idea is that you're priced out of being able to afford two beers, but all I thought was if you planned right, it would be a longer start to the day. Yeah.

Longer start to the day, but then you've got two beers. Then you've got two beers. But one's going to go cold, so you've got to find somewhere to keep it cold. Yeah. But then you'll slowly get through them or hammer them quick because you don't want them to get cold. More of a buzz. And then be on more of a begging mission to get money and then hit back for two more beers. So what did you do with your second beer?

I took it home and put it in the fridge. For another day. It's nice. I've got it for another day. Yeah. But I just thought that was a weird rule. Yeah. Yeah.

I could see if a liquor store did it. But we don't want you coming in as much. Yeah, yeah. Like a personal health risk. Yeah, we don't want you in and out all day to take it with. Two beers, depending on the beer or what you're buying, could also take you over the limit. Yeah, totally.

As well, because it's then making people have two on them. Yeah, so if you're going, yeah, I'm going to kill some time, I'll just grab a beer. Now you've got two, you have your one, and you're like, oh, God, it was delicious. Still not as wild as when I was driving in Italy and pulled into the servo and they sell single beers in the fridge. I was like, that seems wrong. But it wasn't that long ago

that we sold beers at you know, like Fix and stuff that used to be sort of petrol station adjacent. Did they sell beers? Yeah, they used to sell beers when I was like 18. Yeah, the Caltex Marts. I never remember them. No, I never remember that.

I never remember. It might have been a Wellington council thing. Because there was like a fix on the corner and that's where we used to go and get wine and beer and all sorts. Or it didn't happen in the Waikato. To only have a sip

and then go home. Of course, in moderation. But I just thought that was an interesting weird rule. And also he told me they're shutting at nine because in the city

the nine to 11 is a dead spot before people come into the city to go to clubs where they might be like, let's grab a beer for the walk down Queen Street. Yeah, right. Or two beers for the walk down Queen Street.

And he said, but that only happens again after 11, but that's kind of when they had to shut anyway. So he's like, it's this people that are like, we don't want to stay open for two hours for nothing. Can you change the rules? Right. That was his take. I was like, I don't know about that one.

How long were the fish and chips though? After this half an hour chat with the guy at the bookstore, I went there and they were cold. And did they say, I told you 10 minutes? Yeah, I told you 10 minutes. I told you 10 minutes.

I came at 10 minutes. You weren't done. We said you had 10 more minutes. You were over 20 minutes. It's on you, you dickhead.