Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -3rd November, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Is Vaughan officially the cool Dad??

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Zidium podcast network. It's Fleechborn and Hayley's a
little bit of pod.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Welcome to a little bit of pod.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
People with children and secondary school and primary to a
certain extent. Well know, they are industrial action happening here
in Alo in New Zealand. Some strikes by the teachers unions.
There is there are unless your children are private.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I've seen it.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
I seen these.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, they've been they've been striking.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
They done all day.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
These hoodlams around the city are the hoodlands in the city,
school aged hoodlums.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I know.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I made the mistake of going into a mall and
I was.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Like, a this hoodlams everywhere?

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Hoodlams.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Hood shouldn't you be in school? And I'm like this
striking and drinking action. And a lot of the teachers
did the long weekend last weekend, didn't they.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Teachers only day strike, teachers only day Tuesday. And that's
great planning from the teachers after them on the teachers.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
But made the best of a bad situation.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I did a lunchtime pick up because it was a
half day strike the other day. Also, they change all
this strikes. They're rolling some days it's all of them.
Some days it's just a year at a time. Some
days it's a half day, keeping in mind, keeping you
on your toe.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Parents must hate this, but I'm all for the teachers.
That's what They're not paid enough to deal with these
ship bag kids.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's why my girls were asking, like, why what's the
deal with strikes, because it's it rules, we're getting time
off school. I said, no, it's like inconvenience everybody. Really,
So you're like, just give the teachers what they want,
or you start hating teachers.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Basically you fall fin categories.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
But I was on lunchtime pack up at a half
day strike and Andy said, can we get Popeye's chicken?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've never had it.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Someone else was telling me about Popeyees the other day,
saying that they've got the best chips.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
The chips come here at the Cajun seasoning.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh you bnadas with a chicken salt on the KFC chips. Yeah,
this is Cajun season. This is next to very lovely
preseason chippies.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, because American.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, it's when did it come to New Zealand. It's
been very recently.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Not many of them, Yeah, there's only a few around.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I've only just because they looked at New Zealand and
they were like, ah, yes, a small market with multiple
ways of getting fried chicken. What we need is the
other way to get fried chicken. West and South Auckland
are always first for these new.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Toy toy tucking and knee.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
No. I was on the north Shore. Oh really yeah, okay,
I know back can be surprised.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh yeah, there's one on the on one on the shore.
One on the shore.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I was giving some other kids are from an area
ride home too, and he's like, can we get Popeyes?
And I was like yeah, and we went in and
I didn't even think about it. I was like, well,
you guys just order on the little machine and I
would just tap my card at the end.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Shouting wait, shout the parload of kids. Really, buddy Bang
was a person.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh my god, my parents would never have done if
I'd been like, can we have Popeyes or takeaways?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Like no, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
You can make a sandwich when you get home, ham
and the fridge. Not paying for these kids?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
No, can I ask what it costs sixty five dollars ship?
While man, I remember my parents ship the bed once
when we went out for like a special occasion. And
we went out and just got takeaways and it was
something like twenty five dollars like it was the nineties.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, time ago.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
But yeah, I was like, did they think you were
the ship?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah yeah yeaheah, because I.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Could back out once I got to that. I could
have been like, I'll cancel the order. Kids, not too
much back in the car, take your homemade swiches.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
When you give the.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Thirteen year olds to past your foss cards and chipping
everybody chip chipping, you can what a cool dad.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Just started a precedent now that.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, you're gonna have to say no next time and
then drop the other kids home and then take your
one kid to get pomped.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I'm not going all the way back. You know,
a costume in the fueld, you know, make a sandwich
at home.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, make a sandwich and plenty of sandwiches in the
free You can make.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Fried chicken at home. This fruit in the bowl, yeah,
clean water in the tap. Oh yeah, children in Africa
as well. Yeah, only bored people get bored. Yeah that's right.
It was a good one. Yeah, someone to cry about.
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. We used to walk
to school every day.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, I didn't even have shoes.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah what would what? My father would have kicked me
in the ass for that.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love saying that you.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Want a clipper, don't drop up on you bottom lip.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
That was.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Good fun.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I want a cool dad.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, cool dad is sixty bucks down.