ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 8th October 2023

Episode Date: October 7, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; "tech savvy" Producer Jared owes someone an apology!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And this is a chance for producer Jarrod to apologise. Hello. Hello. God, another apology. Is it for the midi?

No, this is to a lady I've never met. Oh no. The lady who fielded my course, my power and internet company. Oh. Uh-oh. Oh, my God. Sounds like sometimes, aren't they?

Sounds like somebody didn't reset their router and just called up and complained. Nope, nope. I did reset the router. So we moved. He's a tech guy. You'd hope he would go there first. Yeah, you would.

Yeah. So we moved on Saturday, but I was lucky enough to get into the property on Friday for just a little rearrange. And I had set it up so everything would be working on Friday, but I got there, there was no power, that was a five-hour phone call, very frustrating. Oh my God.

Don't they just leave it on in their name? Or no one's name like there's always power. There's always a bit of a luxury period of you've got to get it sorted out, but you'll have power until it is. Yeah, so that luxury period lapsed because the property had been vacant. Ah, gotcha. So I was really frustrated, and then I had to call them again the following day for internet problems

because my router wasn't connecting to the ONT, which is the optical network terminal. Oh yeah, the ONT. We had an ONT 300 in the past. We've had ONT 1s and 200s. It's a thing. Wait, what ONT do I have? I don't even know what my ONT is. I've got ONTs in hot pools.

Oh yeah. Does your ONT look like a little rectangle box with no aerial at the bottom? Is that the fibre one? That's me. Oh yeah, I've are so great Does your Ant look like a little rectangle box With no aerial at the bottom? Is that the fiber one? Yeah, that's me Oh yeah, I've got one of them That's a 100 or a 200

What's my Starlink? I don't think that's an Ant No, you don't have an Ant I'm Ant-less You're Ant-less I'm Ant-less Ant-no Ant-no

So I set up the router Plugged it in Or tried to plug it into the ONT Didn't fit. So, you know, Ethernet cables have that, like, port. Yeah, Cat5. Yeah. Oh, Cat6.

Cat6, RJ45. I just shot in the dark. I heard Cat5 as a port once. I was completely aghast. So I tried to plug that in, but it was too big for the port, which is a weird problem if you know anything about tech. Oh, fuck off. I've got a Model 100 or 200.

They're up to, like, look at all these flash ones. I've got the shit one. Ask for an upgrade. Ask for an upgrade. Yeah. I don't want a shit aunt. I've got the worst aunt you can have. Well, it's a great time to look for a new rental, by the way.

Man, that's embarrassing. Oh, what do you say? Oh, no, these are the, yeah, gotcha. Yep. Yep. Gotcha. Gotcha. What do you mean?

Gotcha. No, I thought you were actually talking about the type of router you had. Not the thing on the wall. It's the fiber. They're like when chorus just comes to your house and they're like, ah, fuck it, I don't know. Here. Nah. I know.

That's the aunt. That's the aunt. Those bastards drew a fricking cable through my 145-year-old weather boards in the front of our house. Yeah. Well, where did you want them to go weather boards in the front of our house. Yeah. Where did you want them to go? Not at the front of my house. Ask. It's the money shop. Ask. They didn't ask. Aaron just came out and was like oh fuck.

Yeah up the side of the house mate. When they were doing this all over the country installing fibre. There still is an Instagram or Facebook page called Chorus's Shit Installs. Now if you're an overseas listener, Chorus is, like, they own the lines? Or they're contracted to install the fiber and, you know, keep an eye on lines and stuff.

So your aunt's, you've got the aunt's aunt's. Yeah, the aunt's aunt's is an aunt's aunt's thing. Yeah. And cut to Monday, still no internet. Very angry JP because Soapy's coming out in a few days. He loves his internet. He's had to wank the old school way over the weekend. Memories.

Memories and magazines. The former residents left behind a real old Playboy, so that got him. So I called up the ISP, Internet Service Provider. Thank you. Did you tell them you've got a fancy aunt? Yeah, I told him. Because I work in tech, I kind of know the terminology.

So I wasn't waiting for a tutorial. I was straight in there. I was very terse with Jasmine. I said, look, Jasmine, I've tried everything. Nothing's working. You guys haven't supplied the right cable. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't often do that because I'm quite a timid lad.

So that was a big move for me. Cut to two hours later. I get on the phone with someone else. Oh, no. I just hadn't plugged the cable in. Sharon. So you just not plugged it in. And you just, I would guess, 30 seconds ago,

tops claim to work in tech. Classic boomer move there. Yeah. Oh, my God. I'm embarrassed to know you at this point. So wait, once you plug the cable into your oont, you're good to go. It took two seconds and I was online.

Sorry, Jasmine. I'm really sorry. I won't be terse ever again. I won't apologize with which the terse nature I spoke to F affected this week. No, what did you do? I shan't apologise. Far too long a story.

Really? With legal issues pending. Oh, wow. Nothing to do with just with other people. The whole, just an entire situation. Oh, wow. That could be a whole True Crime podcast series by the sound of it. Yeah, absolutely.

She's all go.