ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - August 8th 2025

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Gen Z are eating like old people Chat GPT told to stop breaking people up Top 6 things are ANZ Prime Ministers can do together Gay Airport SLP - Do you track your friends locations Fletch got to choose his hold music French trend for house buying Dacre Montgomery IV What went wrong in the surgery? Good Charlotte IV Fletch and Hayley have had enough Fact of the day Are you secretly loadedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network This is Fletchwan and Haley's Big Pod Thanks to animates Making Happy Happen for Pets ZM's Flethorn and Haley Thank you Bryn Good morning, welcome to the show Fletch Fawn and Haley with Haley today

from our Tōonga studio Kiyara, Kiyoara, from Mount Munganui actually Right, you're actually down for a What are you down for a workshop up with your church in Bethlehem this weekend. That's right, yeah, we just, this weekend was a great weekend to connect with Christ, and so I came down early. They love a mega church in the Bay of Plenio.

No, silly billies. No, I did a gig last night at Tour to the Street in Mount Manganui. Very fun, and tonight I'm in Hamilton, so that's fun. Okay, getting around the country. Don't say that I'm getting around. That's slut shaming me, actually. I just said you've got a lot of comedy gigs. It's fantastic.

Oh, okay, comedy gigs. the public. Yeah, I'm picking up what you're putting down. Okay, thank you. The top six coming up are the New Zealand and the Australian Prime Minister will meet in Queensland. They're going to be hanging out together? Bromance.

It is a bromance, isn't it? Top six things these bros can do in Queenstown. We'll give you another chance as well on the show this morning to go in the draw. To get to Europe, thanks to Macona with our World Tour. Plus, on the show today, joining us after 8 o'clock, not only is it a Friday flashback from Good Charlotte, but we are joined in Hale.

is so excited. Emo Haley is so excited about this. By literally, literally beside myself. Yeah. By a good Charlotte. By a good Charlotte. Which one have we got? Benji or Joel. We've got Charlotte. We've got Charlotte. We've got Charlotte. We've got Charlotte. Okay.

Goodest of all. No, it's Benji, isn't it? No, it's Joel. No, it's Joel. He's the one that's married to Nicole. Nicole. Nicole. Ritchie. Yes. Yeah. Don't you know, that's the least interesting thing about him, though. As a die-hard, good Charlotte

fan, I have loved them since I was, Yeah, 13 years old. Not only that. God, we've got big guests on the show today. Yeah. To joining us. Daker Montgomery, if you watch Stranger Things, he was Billy in season two and three before he met an ultimately grizzly demise.

Yeah. One of the grisliest deaths of Stranger Things like bad guys, I think. Well, he's been filming a movie in New Zealand. Yeah. Which is like starting screening now. Because I didn't even know this. And it's weird because as soon as anyone has a light connection to New Zealand, we lay acclaim. Yeah, his parents and family are from New Zealand.

Yeah, yeah, he's like half Aussie, half Kiwi. Yeah, with a bit of Canadian in the mix? About 20 past seven, he's in studio with us. This isn't a Zoom call. He's in studio with us. He's a little cutie-petit. So we'll chat to him around 720 this morning. Play Z-M's, Flashborn and Haley.

Now, Fletch, I reckon you're going to love this, actually. You're going to be on board with the Generation Zetas on this. Because what time did you eat dinner last night? Oh, I was a little bit late last night. What was that? 4.30. You are insane. I didn't eat till like eight.

Granted, that was a late one. I tried to eat around six. But eight. Yeah, I mean, I go to bed at 7.45. Yeah. And I know why. It's because you need to get some slack. Also, I don't want any talk of food today.

I'm near my mouth right now. Oh, I'm so safe. So I have my shoulder operation today. I'm not allowed to eat any food. Yikes. Why didn't you take today off and then sleep through the hunger? Well, I would have been awake anyway. I was like, well, I think I woke up at like 4 o'clock.

So, yeah, I'm going to be grumpy. And then I keep forgetting, like, I just got my coffee cup, and I was like, oh, I can't have that. Yeah. Okay, well, this. Where can you have water? Is that it? You can have water. I can have water until eight.

Right. Yeah. And then I was like, well, maybe I can just have a cheeky burger. And then I, like, Googled what happens. Yeah. And the reason why you're not allowed to eat before. surgery. Why?

You choke on your... You choke on your vomit and die. Yeah, it can go into your lungs or something, can it, can't it? Yeah. Yeah, can we not be dying? Because I feel weird about the way that we left things yesterday, actually, Fletch. I've been reflecting on them. What, when you dropped me off and drove to Tohunga?

Yeah, so I dropped you off at your house and we were like, okay, bye. And then I was like, is that the last time? You know, I never got to tell them all the things. Well, what Haley actually said to me was, what can I have when you die? Well, it's good to check these things. Vaughan and I might want some of the same things. I said maybe the cat. You can have the cat.

And then I said that's a burden to me. Yeah. I just said help yourself. Vaughn's got a key. Just go and help yourself. Oh, okay. Let's hear that, Vaughnay. Anyway, I'm a shotgun, the bar cart.

Anyway, the reason I'm talking about why you were eating, I mean, you eat dinner exceptionally early. But Gen Zs are eating like senior citizens and are having dinner increasingly earlier and earlier. And this is based on, like, bookings. so if they were going out to dinner. Right, because I'm based it on the fact that it's good for your body to have a long period of not eating. Shut up.

And like eating right before bed is bad. So like that's why I'll get it out early. Totally. No, these is the eating between, when they're making reservations in restaurants, early reservations are up 25%. Right, right. And early for them means 5pm, 6pm. Oh, that's good. That's perfect.

That's when I like to have dinner. That's a nice time to go to a restaurant. And also first, like, what are those early booking, first table or whatever? First table. Like, those are the kind of bookings that you can get, like, half-price stuff. If people don't know it, there's first table and you can go on. And if you get a booking at like an unpopular time, say, like, between five and six, you can sometimes get it like 50% off.

Yeah. It's the same. So that's the idea of happy hours at restaurants say it's to get you in to eat and drink when they're not busy, but they're there anyway. And then you get boozed and you start ordering more drinks and more food. And then it's 11 o'clock at night And it's a Wednesday. Yeah. So they're saying a lot of it's to do with seeking control over their day.

So they've grown up in a weird sort of time of instability with COVID and whatnot, that they want to have a bit of a structured routine. And eating early allows them to have more space in their afternoon. You know, space in their evening to do other things. Yeah, I like that. I'm all for it. Basically like you, like get the eating out of the way. way and then you've got the rest of the night

to just digest and do what you want to do. See, I like cramming in a dinner, I'll say 9pm in bed 920 and just be digesting horizontally. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but in digestion. Does it work horizontally? Carb heavy.

Yeah, carb heavy and maybe an acidic beverage to go with. Yeah, nice. And I like it to sort of boil so it kind of feels like it's coming up into your chest. And then come into work and be like, God, I hardly slept last night, I couldn't sleep. Hardly to say, I've got bloated, I've got stomach issues, and oh, it's just sort of feeling very good. I feel a bit slugger. Yeah, that's how I do it.

Play ZDM's, Fletch, Vaughan and Haley. Well, news from our chat GPT overlords, open AI, chat GPT will now not tell people to break up with their partner. Oh, yeah, because people were using it, A, like plugging in information about their relationship and then saying, should I leave? Yeah, like, I can't decide. Help me. Despite saying that you're not happy.

I mean, if you're asking, it's like asking, you know, is it racist? If you're asking. It probably is. Should I say this? Unless you preface before you say it, I don't want to be racist, but. Yeah, I'm not, no, I'm not racist, but. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to be racist.

Also sounds like you really want to be racist. Yeah. I don't want to be racist. Boy, do I want to be racist? But that's kind of, I guess, yeah. Also kind of bad, right? Like, what if you're putting in, like, something into chat GPT and it's all bad stuff

and chat GPT is like, yeah, I don't know. Just take some time to think about it. Hang in there, pal. Hang in there. But it's more that it should be like, I can't make this decision. You know, it shouldn't, it should be neutral. I'm not a human.

It's got to come from you. Yeah. Because they'll get on your, and they'll get on your side immediately. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It might be a case of, it's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.

Do you know what I mean? Well, it's also one of the new changes that they're bringing in is, going to force people to take breaks from long chatbot sessions um because people are just spending all day chatting chatting but no but that's good because it gives some people company that they might not be able to have otherwise get outside get some vitamin d yeah have a conversation in the mirror or i like to do sometimes yeah all with real people right because where there was it wasn't that where there was an article we talked about recently and it was from new zealand that young new zealanders

were increasingly replacing real-life connections with AI ones. Yeah, all over the world this is happening, yeah. I get it. Like, it's good company if you can't get it. They say it's good for the elderly, you know, if they want to have a young. Yeah, because otherwise they're waiting at home for their kids to visit and no one's coming, are they? They never had kids.

You know what I mean? Like me, I'll be sitting there like, where's my daughter? And they'll be like, Miss Sproul, Miss Sproul, you never had one. She's not coming because you never... And you'll be like, but who is that young woman? woman and they were like well this bro that was your lover

yeah and you're like oh yes how did I back me one of those God how old is she you are 100% going to be the talk of the rest home oh my God

I want to be rich that is rich coming from this guy this guy who's actually looking after himself and we'll live to a long can we be in the same living facility

that would be so fun I want to have want to be head to toe, including facial tattoos, and I want to have bright orange hair. And I would love to have a young lesbian lover. And I know that she's taking me for my money, but that's absolutely fun. You don't care. You don't care.

I don't have kids. I've got your money, Fletch. You think it's like, you're so delirious. You think I'm your wife. Oh, it'll be great. I love this. It's going to be good times ahead. Play. Zems. Fletch Forne and Haley. I don't know why this is in the news again. I think people are just still uncomfortable.

and not happy about this. There is an airport in India. Gaya Airport, G-A-Y-A. But it's... Gaya, I would say that. Would you say that? Okay. Well, I don't... Probably like Gaza.

G-A-G-A-A-G-A-Y-A. So it's, you know, it's been an airport for a very long time, but the three-letter code for this airport is G-A-Y. And people... Gay- Airport. People arrive in their bagtacket. all say gay and they're just like and and so they've tried to change it a lot and it's just no one's changing it because they're like that's your airport po it's also just get over it

you're like get over it and people like making yourself look like a damned fool yes i mean it is india not known for its um you know open-mindedness but if i was the gay airport i would i'd embrace gay airport and make everything like rainbows and have like um share playing when they walk in. Yeah. So the people that dish out the airport codes I-A, that's the International Air Transport Association. They're in charge of doing this all

over the world and they say that once you've got your airport code, it's very rare that you can change it. Maybe if there was an air safety problem. Yeah. Like saying the code on the airways was similar to something else, I don't know. But yeah, so they're stuck with it.

Is there anywhere in New Zealand that has a name that could lend itself? Because I think We'd happily take a gay airport, wouldn't we? We'd make a thing out of it, and people would protest it, and then they'd paint a rainbow thing in. Brian Tarmic, you would have something to say about it, wouldn't you? No, but there are around the world funny airport codes. Oh, go on.

Here we go. Here we go. Pooh. Where's that? That's in Brazil. It's a regional airport. Pocos de Caldera. I'd love to fly into poo. And then, so somebody's also worked out.

there are some funny regions you can fly from and too. Like, they'd never have flights between them, but you could fly... From poo to bum. You could fly to sod to off. Sod off. Sod off. You could fly from D-I-K to H-E-D.

Yeah, dick-ed. I mean, you'd never actually be able to fly there because it's a domestic route from Alaska. Says who, to... I mean, yeah. You could also fly from fat to bum. Fat bum. You could fly from poo to pie. Pooh pie.

Because there's an airport called Pi. You could fly from Madrid. Mad to Git. Yeah. Mad Git. In Tanzania. Yeah, bloodier mad git. Yeah, so those are kind of a few.

There's bog. That's Bogota in Colombia. Nob. N-O-B, because it's only ever three letters, eh? Yeah, it's only ever three. There's also a K-O-K. Oh, no, sorry, a C-O-K. Oh, yeah.

A C-O-K airport. There's a Pai. There's a F-U-K in Japan. It's a third, the third busiest, it is Fukuoka. Okay. Airport. It's the third busiest airport in Japan. So you'd land and your bag tag would say, with the,

Imagine if there was an airport, that was Y-O-U. And then you'd land. you were flying from FUQ to YOU. Is there an airport, YOU? Measure your bag's turning up and it's fork. You... No, there's not.

There we go. Let's start an airport called YOU. What is Vancouver? Oh, it's V. Yeah. No, there's a airport that has a Y something. Anyway. Okay.

It reminded me of the gay airport of when New Zealand number plates rolled around to GAY. And I googled it and I found the 2011 story where Robert imported a BMW 316. Oh, posh, nice, posh. Robert. And it came with the number plate, Gay 692. Oh, that's so good. I mean, how good is that?

You didn't have to pay for a personalised plate. Yeah, I know. I picked it up Tuesday, says Robert, in 2011. I've already had people pointing and laughing at me. I'm definitely not homophobic. I just want another plate. Did he end up getting another plate or I'd love to know The headline is whatever they're fancy

Drivers obliged to live with GAY Right so they wouldn't change it for you You'd have to get a personalised plate if you wanted to change it I guess Yeah I would embrace it again Apparently NZTA at the time said The numbers could be changed to something less suggested than 69 At no cost but changing the letters would be a different story

Yeah right I mean you've got a personalised plate there I'd love to know Yeah I'd love to know all these years later what he did I'd put little bumper stickers like rainbow flags again He googled on plates.com.com.com. Which is where you got your personalised plates at the time to see if you could get Gay 69 as a personalised plate.

And they said, oh, we can't sell that one. But then they said that's because Gay 69 was also a plate. Oh, okay, right. So there's some kind of old car out there with Gay 69. Amazing. How did they let that through? Oh, it's so good. That's brilliant.

It's good stuff. they did skip because then they said what other three-letter combinations were skipped by N-Z-T-A. Yeah. F-A-G. Oh, yeah. They skipped that. F-K-N. Yeah. They were skipped due to potential offensiveness, but gay was not considered offensive.

Of course it's not. No. Yeah. What are the plates up to now? What was your the Mustang's R-C-C-C? What are they going to do when they get to late Zeta? We're going to have another one. I'm really, to be honest, I think about it too much. that's on my mind

once a week at least what are we going to do next obviously go to four letters yeah maybe because the combination there's going to be so many more combinations available when you start using letters or just bigger number plates

you know how like in overseas I won't stand for it Europe it's like the whole back of the car yeah yeah that's yuck that's an heck any more than six yuck play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley

play ZM's Blechborn and Haley Let's find Haley Silly little pole Silly little pole It is so silly, silly, silly That a silly little pole Silly little pole

Silly little pole Silly little pole Silly little pole Kiyoda And good morning Welcome to Silly Little Paul Today we ask Do you have your friends

location on your phone Like your fine friends or What's that Life 3C? 60? Is that the one that works on everything, eh? Yeah. That's how you can be friends with an Android user, yuck, and see where they are, even though you don't really care.

Yuck, because they're a second class. Oh, why don't you get a green text from them? Do you have your friends? I've got you on mine, and I haven't had your life for four days. Yeah, I think you've got to reset on. You've frozen. But it's open, it's on, and I'm sharing my locale. What's he hiding?

He's at home. Is he hiding? Yeah. Yeah, what have you been hiding? Today, from yesterday in America, Instagram users, and I'm sure this will be rolled out around the world. Because there is already a way that you can share your location or you can tag yourself somewhere on Instagram now,

but this is going to move to much like Find Friends or, you know, it'll be live tracking. Because do you remember when Snapchat did that, when everyone was on Snapchat and then suddenly you could see where they were? And they see their little emoji. Yeah, you had to turn it off. And everyone was like, oh, we can see where celebrities live. And everyone's like, oh, okay, turn that off.

Turn that off, just for friends. Turn that off. I freaked out for a minute when I opened Find Friends just now and reset. Can you see me now? I've done a hard reset. Let me have to look home. And then I saw how far away Haley was and I panicked. Yeah, well, yeah, you're in our Tohunga Studio today.

So, Snapchat, sorry, Instagram is saying it's going to be a way to coordinate meetups with friends, explore local hotspots, yada, yada, yada. you'll be able to click the map and see where your friends are. I like it when friends are traveling. Like I've got Dr. Shorty on here. You're like, ooh. Like how exciting?

Yeah. 14,000 kilometres away somewhere. Do you have Dr. Shawnee on Fine Friends? Yeah. He's on Fletcher's as well. How many people do you have? I've got like you guys and my kids. Eight.

Got my bestie, my mum and dad. Couple of mates in there. You too? Yeah, Alice, our friend Alice. She's in Low Burn right now. What? You've got Alice on Fine Friends? Mike on Farnference?

Yeah. Yeah. It's great because then I can just be like, oh, well, I don't need to, I won't invite them to something today because I can see that Mike's in Havelock North. Oh, he loves Havelock North. He loves Havelock North.

I like when I put up at yours fletch and you come downstairs. And I'm like, how did he know? He's been tracking me? Yeah, if Haley's pick him out, I'll just follow on the map. You know, that's handy. That's really cool. It's so good.

Do you have your friend's location on your phone? We asked you. And 76% of you said no. 24% of you said yes. I used to be so against this. So against. it's it's safe it's safety for me

Haymish okay here we go Hamish Hamish used to but I kept sending them screenshots of their location asking what you're doing I don't think they're like that nope

that's a piece of privilege or you go places and get questions from your friends what are you doing there yeah who are you with that's what I'm saying

Hamish is on the other end of it yeah okay but you just who do you know if you're venturing into a sex dungeon I would say leave five friends on

or you see all your friends without you somewhere. Oh my God, imagine it up and you see a cluster. Yeah, you're angry because you definitely wouldn't have gone, but you would like to have been invited. You would have liked to have been invited, exactly. They live far away, so it's nice to know what each other's up to. It makes them feel closer in my heart, says Katie.

Oh. Talley. Tally. I like that. Is it sure for something, do you think? Talley. Like the Talley. Like the fishing people.

Boom. Talley's. That's T-L-L-E-S. And the P-L-S. She's a single girl who are going on dates and we want to make sure she's safe and we're living in another country where we don't know too many people.

Yeah, that's good. That's good, that's good, yeah. That's good, yeah. That's good, telly. Dan, my sister shared hers once when I was babysitting to show my nephew where she was and she just never stopped. Yeah, yeah. I've done that before.

We'll, like, say we're at a big concert and then you're like, hey, let's do share location and then you just kept each other on. You never turn it off. And then you get to the concert and you can't even load anything. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I really want to, but I think they'll think I think I'm weird, which is probably true, says Steph. Okay. Neve, the Prime Minister's daughter. Welcome. Who loves the show. She's fantastic.

Yeah. I think I'd get too obsessed and then get jealous if they spent more time with someone else than not me. Lollolololololol. They did so many loals. Okay. Yeah, right. I was kind of hiding the crazy and the issues there.

Yeah. Allison says, I don't even have my husband's location. No friends. But it's good in the, you know, when to have things, you know, if you were cooking dinner and they were going to be home or, you know, whatever? I have my bestie slash twin sister to stalker London location in Euro Travels, says roof. Oh, yep, nice. Samantha, got to have friends that span past my partner and even then I don't have his location on me.

He has mine for safety reasons as I like to tramp and go on morning walks in the dark. But can you have someone, but they can't have you? Either on the two-way street. Yeah, you could. You could do that. Our friend James in London's at Sainsbury's. Oh, that's nice. He'll probably be getting some biscuits.

Oh, wait, no, I've got Sanisbury's confused with where this one. That's a supermarket. Yeah, I'm going to ask him. I'm going to say, are you getting some biscuits? Some minty biscuits. It looks to me like my mum's at the local pizza place in her small village in Italy. Oh, is she? Yeah, because she's not at home.

My mom has an off-brand phone, so I can't add off. Don't she, what do you mean, an off-brand? Oh, like a, okay. Like a plump. Is it an op-o? Is that a great op-o? Oh, yeah, opo. Those are good, I think those are good.

Great cameras. Yeah, no, they are. Great cameras on the opo. I have no ones. Should I? I don't really care where anybody is. Says Bronn.

That's okay, Braun, you don't have to. Brooklyn, it helps us find each other easily when we're meeting up, helps to know their ETA somewhere and also just serves as a sense of comfort in times of loneliness and anxiety.

Oh, it's nice to sort of feel your mates out there. And Natasha said, I love watching my live Sims move around the world. It is a bit like that, isn't it? Collection of friends. Oh, look at them. Just had a message from our friend James.

No, he's at top. Odds' house, that must be next to the supermarket. Is it Todd's always, I love to Todd and James. Oh, it's an apartment above a supermarket. That would be handy. That would be so handy. Would it be noisy? No, it would be bad though.

Imagine if they were all chocolates and biscuits on the ground floor of your house. Yeah. A $3 stress relief is just a few steps away. Exactly. Well, we asked you, hey, buddy, you've got your friends on Friends location on Fine Friends or an app of the like. And 24% of you said yes. Play. Ron and Haley

Yesterday, on hold to the bank, the ANS, the ANZ, the first time I've ever experienced this. I don't know you were an ANZ boy. He dabbles. I dabble, I dabble. Yeah, I'm an ANZ.

I'm an A&Z. I've been a Westpac. I've been a TSP back in the day. Yeah, I'll get around the banks. Oh, you remember how distrodo I was when the National Bank killed the horse. Yeah, and then they put it down, and then they'd burn it.

Everybody could hear the gunshot go off. It was awful. Echoed through the financial sector. The most brutal bank merger in history, that? Yeah, yeah, it was. Just for the horse killing. Yeah. No, so I was on hold and that gives you options.

And I was like, what? It said press one for Kiwi music. Press 3 for classical music. Oh, no, press 2 for the Kiwi. Silence. What? No, it's one for classical, two for Kiwi, three for classical.

Three for silence. Yeah, I've had this menu. I've had this menu. Have you had this menu? No? No, I'm with a different. It wasn't even a bank that I did. I think it was an insurance company.

Oh my God. It's like, it is life changing. I went silence. Because God bless him, he's a national treasure, but I don't. Dave Dolbin, please. Well, and you just don't. Brooke Fraser. Just leave me alone.

Yeah. But like, I went silence. There would know, we're going to answer your call in four minutes. I hate. We're going to answer your call in three minutes. Your call is. important to us. We value.

No, that all of our customer service of representatives are busy, but we'll be with you shortly. But I was just like doing some work on my laptop and I was like, this is perfect. Silence. Can you change your mind mid and be like, I actually

do feel like a little bit of a Nika Moore, you know? No, no. I don't know. I mean, maybe you could press your destiny, you're locked you know, lock in. I did think about classical. classical is better than the annoying part is when it's music

and it goes to that annoying pre-recorded message of we will be with you shortly and it always goes click and you're like oh here we go yeah and it's not it's just another message all of our customer service representatives are busy yeah

you'd be very good at that voice if you should give a job I'm doing that yeah yeah I would be actually I'd like to do it and then I could be like would you like me in a character and then you could choose

oh no you'd put people like instead of you know asking what music they want to listen to would you like the voice on the phone to be one a Turkish rug merchant two

Arnold Schwarzenegger yeah three a very offensive Irish lepricorn character or four your sassy best friend I mean it might pass the time on hold but I honestly

I think more companies should do this because it was nice to have a choice can I make some suggestions like so they've got classical Kiwi or silence like where's the representation can we have a heavy metal option

can we have A rap option. No, do you know what? I don't think that, because the options were Kiwi and classical or silence. They don't want to agitate people. Heavy music.

Yeah, aggressive. And you're never ringing up just for a chat to be like, how's your day? You're ringing up to be like, I'm complaining about something or I'm waiting for something or something's wrong

or I need your help. My card's been hacked or whatever. You're right. And heavy metal music is just going to wind you up. Rage against the machines. Yeah. If you, I won't do what you tell me.

And then Jenny's like, hello, welcome to the bank. It's Jenny speaking. I've just been learning about how the financial system needs to be crumbled, Jenny. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. Listen to this headline. This would pull me in. Dream Paris Apartments for sale at bargain prices.

The catch, someone must die. Fantastic. Okay, great. You've got me for at least three episodes of a... limited series. Of a limited series, right? So this is a house buying trend in France. It is called, it's called like Viaga Libre.

Right. Viaga meaning like life duration. I thought it was a stiffy pill. Right. No. Viagra. Viagra. Is that.

So Viaga Libre, it's a French real estate term used when a property sale is sold by an elderly person. to a buyer at a very, very marked down price, the only catch is the buyer cannot occupy the home for their desires until that person dies. This is wild. It's effectively a reverse mortgage, because people do this with the bank, okay?

The bank gives them money for their house. Yes. And when they... My grandparents did it, and they lived for too long. Oh, no. Yeah, see, this is a problem. Yeah. So, yeah, basically, yes.

It is similar to a reverse mortgage. So they sell the house to this person for a cheap price, but they get to live there, and then when they died, then it becomes the buyers. But the catch being, a lot of people are buying these houses, these Viaga Libre deals, and then the people just aren't carking it, you know? And then you're sort of there with your family,

kind of ready to move into Paris apartment. But what did you do with a reverse mortgage? Like, what did your grandparents do when they're like, oh, we're still alive, and we've spent all the money? Yeah, I can't even remember how it worked. How does a reverse mortgage work? But basically, at the end, it was like, we're going, rather than paying this mortgage, you get a reverse mortgage. I can't even remember. But basically, at the end, there was no equity in the house.

Right, right, and it just gets sold, and the bank has it. Well, no, banks are very thoughtful people. They surely would have said, ah, yes. You're an old man, you're an old man in a lifelong customer. I'll be sure to be kind. But, okay, so say you're in France and Paris and you buy an apartment from an old person. Yeah.

Push them down the stairs. Like, do you start paying the more? Like, would you have to buy outright in cash or would you pay the mortgage? No, I don't imagine you'd pay them a mortgage payment. Like, you could be effectively like paying them $500 a week. Yep. No, that doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Because they're getting a big load of money, aren't they? And it would be the bank, wouldn't it? be the bank that's, oh, look, I don't imagine you were paying it off, but you were paying them instead of the bank, because I didn't hear any involvement of banks. So, okay, I'm trying to figure this out, because it's actually really complicated. So the property is sold. This is why we don't work in banking. This is, yeah, no, because I just say, well, why don't we just do that? Well, that's wildly illegal. And I'll say, says who, and they'll like, everyone.

So a real estate arrangement where a buyer purchases a property from a seller, usually elderly, It makes regular payments to the seller for the rest of their life. So basically, that Ken sells his place to you, Vaugh, the young person. Oh, thank you very much. You're welcome. I just felt like boosting you up today. So Ken has sold you this property. Thank you, Ken.

To you. You would then give him small regular payments until he dies. So he gets to live. You're buying them out A little bit by a little bit Yeah, right So Ken gets his $500 a week from Vaughan He lives a nice life

Do you get to meet this person Like I'd love to turn up And they're on the durries and the you know And the booze And then you're just saying durries and booze To hurry up the process of death And your acquisition of Ken's delightful Parisian apartment I thought Kim was already smoking

I don't want to turn up Oh he's French of course he smokes And you know you're buying some apartment or some 70 Ordon they're doing Pilates and they're eating you know, smoothies and a kai bottle, what is it, that thing? Chair, Chia, A-Chai bowls or A-C-A-I-H-A-I-R-C-A-I-R-C-A-I-R-C-E-C-A-C-C-B. You know, and they're healthy, it's like they're going to live to 100. Nah.

You never get that a problem. It's always them ones that drop unexpectedly. Right. It's the ones that smoke dairies and drink too much piss. That live to their hundies. Yeah. Well, either way. By the way, I've used chat GP-T and I'm still trying to figure out how a reverse mortgage works in New Zealand.

Yeah, don't. It's not. It's not. It's not for us, babe, it's not for us. It's not for us. But this is the thing, reverse mortgages available in New Zealand to people over the age of 60, so we're living so much longer. Do you know what I mean?

Oh, yeah, you can easily burn through the cash. But I mean, yeah, right. A puff of V's just turned up for Haley. Apparently she's talked too much finance, bro, and now she has to. You just tried to understand finance and now you... Oh my gosh, my shorts just turned into chinos. Oh, no. Play Z-M's Fletchhorn and Haley.

We're joined in studio. by the start of the horror film. Horror, thriller, Up the Hill. Dakey Montgomery, hello. Hey, how you doing? Went up the hill. Went up the hill. Went up the hill.

You're thinking of running up the hill for good reason. Stranger things, Tyne. So, went up the hill, your character's name's Jack. And the other lead character's name is Jill. Yeah. Nursery rhyme. Went up the hill. Yeah, no, it's interesting because I was saying to someone the other day, the nursery rhyme never got mentioned in the rehearsal of the film

in terms of pertaining directly to my camera. I played two characters in the film and it's come up a lot in the press for the film because obviously everyone links it but it's funny in terms of the process of making the movie it largely doesn't have a lot to do with the storyline but it was on purpose

it is on purpose they do go up the hill wild coincidence I know yeah the writer's like oh my gosh they do go up the hill at the end of the film together spoiler right to get a pail of water filmed in remote South Ireland New Zealand famous for its hills

lots of hills lots of shit all the things yeah we shot about an hour and a half outside of Christchurch in a place called Flock Hill estate near Arthur's Pass yeah oh nice nice but I said to someone the other day I felt like Shelley Duval in The Shining you know

that by the end of the film we've been living in this sort of cyclical thing of like going down the hill to my little shack and then coming up the hill to shoot the movie because the whole film is shot on location there's no soundstage or film studio days it was a really special experience

So does that mean you get to stay, you're staying with family while you're back here? Yeah, I'm staying with my nan. Oh, which is really special. And we flew in the night before last from Queenstown. And she'd invited about 20 cousins around. Oh, my gosh, that's nice. What does she cook? What's Nans?

I was just going to ask, what's Nand making? Lamb shoulder and terramis. Oh, that's combination. Man's lamb. It's beautiful. But it was just, it's just nice to see her because even though I live, relatively geographically close in Australia it's it's you know

it's nice to be able to see family especially family is getting older yeah um and be back in Auckland but I actually haven't been in the CBD since oh it's rubber shah it's really took on to the dogs actually look there's so many new buildings some of new infrastructure and stuff around but um we're getting a tunnel we're getting a tunnel for the train I heard take are we're getting a tunnel

you'll appreciate it in 20 years we got a light rail in Sydney and it took us all a couple years but it's the best thing that ever happened After strange things that people get quite surprised that you're a Kiwi-Ozzi cross? I feel like American... Well, it's not a dog breed. He is.

He is. You can see it on his eyes. My mum's Canadian as well. Yeah, well, that's the hind legs. He's a Kelper Hunterway. I'm a Commonwealth hybrid. But anyway, yeah, it's nice though living in Australia and having that as a home base because it's a lot more chill.

Like people are more chill around the whole stranger thing stuff and kind of having a career where you're in the public eye it's culturally we don't like we won't interrupt you or you're having dinner or yeah yeah yeah just look at you and whisper about you and then yeah yeah

there's the guy there's the guy what do they get for strange things yeah yeah where's he from he's aged a bit he's put on 10 kilos but uh but anyway it's yeah it's it's I'm like really lucky to have that combo of A and Z for sure yeah awesome well can we talk a little bit of Stranger thing

yeah of course go for it My daughter's here, and she's a massive Stranger Things fan, so she's skipped a little bit of school to come and meet you. Yeah. We will have to get a note from you to give to the teachers. Yeah, definitely. Can you write a note? To whom it may concern?

Yeah. How, like, obviously a career-changing role, any idea, how massive it was going to be? I mean, because you came in in season two. Yeah. So any idea, like, season one was massive, but any idea, you know, your character would have such a major part to play in? Yeah, so when I came on board,

I was part of another sort of film that was hopefully going to become franchised and we negotiated instead of doing all of the seasons that were to be for Stranger Things to do a two-season deal instead because I thought a shorter run might truncate my storyline, I might get a better story arc and that happened into the creator's credit

they gave me a better story arc. Anyway, it was, I mean, how many households have Netflix accounts like 300 million households? One or two, yeah. It's pretty full on. Yeah. And that's honestly why I've kind of taken the line.

like five or six years off because I lost my anonymity overnight. Yeah, yeah, totally. And that scared the hell out of me because I didn't get into the industry to become famous or make money or I'd do anything. I just tend to explore my demons and my ghosts in the South Island and New Zealand and eat a lot of terramisu endlessly throughout my life. That's my life purpose. But anyway, so it was full on.

But in terms of shooting it, awesome. Like, such an amazing experience to be a part of such a big set. and to play such an awesome role in that world because there aren't many things in the 21st century that are kind of like it and have that kind of following Oh insanely so Yeah and because of that obviously the production value on You know actually filming it is reflected in that

You know when you're there there there's so much money involved in making it It's such a huge engine and machine Yeah With a lot of expectation behind it But surprisingly when you're in the bubble making it You're just doing it And it's not like even the creators aren't going Oh my God we've got to fulfill this this

and this because they're creating the IP for the first time ever. No one's going, oh well, Star Wars film happened 20, a Stranger Things film happened 20 years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's kind of a lot of room to play and it really did set me up to be able to take a few years off and to be able to green light

independent film. Because isn't it amazing, like in, I mean, Australia's got a bit more money, but in New Zealand, we make films on a shoestring budget and they are world class. You know, you don't always need a ton of money to make great art. Well, went up the hills of great example, you know, of

a film that was made independently. Sorry, I'm like slowly, put him away from Stangler. What does August want to know? She took the morning off school. Did you like season two or season three better and stranger things? I like that. She took a moment to center. Yeah, I really like it. It was good. Straight in the eyes.

I want to panic as a child. Season three, because of the scene in the mall with Millie, with 11, you know, again, it was just the size, the scale. So usually, like, for people who don't know, there's like 70, 80, 90, maybe 100, crew on set and that that whole sequence at the end of season three there was 1,200 crew like four four split well so that's the fun little little stories that um they call it craft

services for you guys probably but anyway there's craft services which is like one of a better word is like the snacks on set and there's this famous company that did all of the Avengers films their craft services and usually craft services is like a little foldout table with a Yeah, tristle. Yeah. Like each thing on, it's like 2,000 calories, right? You're just in the middle of the night kind of shooting, just like, whatever. I love M&M.

Anyway, the point is, this thing was like, because of the size of the crew, they have, like, this huge truck, like, that is full of disco balls and has, like, music video clips playing on all of these TVs on the walls. And there's just hundreds of drawers of, like, all one is just all bubble gum and chewing gum. One is all mints, one's all like... So, like, sour-patch kind of vibe. It's everything. And so it's a pretty awesome...

Like a lolly truck. But your character was like the ripped hot. This is what I'm saying. I'm on a path to destroy my body with the best sweet food I can find. So you go from all this amazing catering on stranger things in a lolly truck. What happens when you're in the middle of Canterbury? Are you like, where's my chair with my name on it? And where's the lolly truck?

You know what was actually insane is the best. The best catering I've ever had anywhere was on, in the South Island. Wow, there you go. Kiwi Hospitality. And they made Tiramisu on the last day. Yeah, nice. They know. They know what day could like.

That's awesome. It was great experience. And so was shooting strange things. I don't know. Hopefully I gave you a good little, is there anything else you want to ask? I feel like you've taken there. Is that a good answer? I just want you to feel like it was worth it.

And you didn't go to your friends in an hour. Because she's missing. That guy was talking about ghosts and trauma. She's complex childhood trauma. Yeah. He's missing very important math skills right now. She'll need later in life at school. You have on her times tables with her.

Well, this is part of the international, the NZ film festival, right? So this is premiering tonight, which is exciting. The movie is particularly special because, you know, the director is from Christchurch originally. I think he is the next great or tour filmmaker from A&Z, definitely. There's no doubt in my mind. That's exciting. I think he's a great filmmaker. And there's an actor in this movie called Arlese.

I know Alow Green. I know Alow well. Yeah. So he's incredible. Amazing actor. He's amazing. And so I'm directing my first film. We start in about eight weeks. And I was chasing Arlo the whole time since we basically wrap this movie. And he's going to come and play the other male lead in the film in about three months. And I just reckon he's the greatest, like, actor that will come out of this country and Australia in the next two decades. Wow. That's crazy. Actually, which drums, we haven't seen me perform yet. Heyley used to be an actor. Used to be.

Yeah, well, radio is a form of performance. I went too hard and fast in there. I should have waited. I love it. After Hayley's fell, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, after. I'll send you my sizzle reel. Yeah, yeah.

Thank you so much. Can't wait to see the film. Awesome to chat. Appreciate it. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Haley. We have Joel from Good Charlotte joining us just after 8 this morning. And I'm going to be cool. Do you know what I mean?

I'm just going to like, that's not even a big deal to me. Emo, Haley. who listened to them since I was a young, young teenager. Yep, Emo Haley, very excited. Now, today is the date. By the way, this is classic Fletch. He's sick, he won't take a sick day. He has surgery.

He books it for after work on a Friday, so he's got the best chance of getting to work on Monday, not a single day of work. No, I just, Friday is the best day to have a surgery. He's mad. No, go Monday, have a week. Well, so I'm not going to take, why would I take this morning off? I'm working now.

I'm fine. I'm not sick. But you've got sick days that you never use. I don't use sick days. Can I have yours? No. We only get five sick days and they don't carry over. Gimmie! Is that enough? I love it that you were literally getting cut open. This week I had a mild panic and I couldn't sleep and so I took the next day off.

Do you know what I mean? I'm like willy-nilly with these sick days. I'm going to take them all. Yeah. No, I'll take them if I need them. I don't need a sick day. You're getting surgery on your shoulder. I'm starting to get quite grumpy too. I'm not being bloody playing with yourself too much.

Haley, laugh too. It's weird if I'm the only one laughing. There's low-hanging fruit, bro. That was just. How long do you think it's going to be? Do you have to slung? My arm will be in a sling. How long do you think it will be

from when you venture outside to the first person go, play with yourself too much? I guarantee it'll be within the first day. It's going to be within the first day. There's a guy with an arm injury. It's moments. Yeah, someone's going to be like,

yeah, because I am right-handed. No, but I'm grumpy because they're nil by mouth. I'm not allowed to eat. I'm so. hungry. He's a hungry boy. People don't actually really see how much you eat during the show. I would eat a lot.

He's a grazer. He's a grazing. He's constantly grazing. So cool. Yeah. So you're going into surgery and do you know, we did originally have an idea where we were going to give you a bit of a living funeral because, you know, you never know. Even though you're very fit and healthy and it's actually

not that sort of invasive. Yep. But instead, I wasn't in the emotional headspace to I don't even have a fake funeral for you it could have been Oh he was like if they lost my friend It could be a straw

Like even just thinking about our wife without you I know Oh I can't have it right now That's really nice That's nice But so instead of that Because we're all two volns to think of you guys Way too vulnerable

We wanted to do a phoner with our beautiful listeners To support you as you go into surgery today Right And we wanted to ask our listeners What went wrong in the surgery Just so that you Wait Do you know it's weird this week?

So many people have said to me, are you like, okay? I'm like, what do you mean? Like, you're getting surgery. I'm like, so? Like, there's risks. Of course there is, but there's risks when you get in a plane or you drive on the motorway or... I know, but specifically, I want to target the fact that you're going under the knife

and under anesthesia today and ask our listeners what went wrong in the surgery. Oh, God, why are we doing this? And it could, maybe it was afterwards and you realize there's like... Now I'm going to be panicked. Yeah, yeah, that wrong arm. Took the wrong arm. We've done this before and people are like... Because there have been cases where they've operated on the wrong area.

But don't they vivid you now? I'm going to say before you go under, make sure they vivid you pretty hard. Mind you, mind you. If you came out with boobs, I wouldn't be angry. Would you let me touch them? Would you let me touch them? Please, can we squeeze them? I'm going to touch fake boobs.

0,800 ZM. Did you go in for shoulder surgery and end up with boobs? Same sort of area. Same sort of geographically. I mean, it's on a front-ish, I guess. Yeah, yeah, okay. Right. Okay, so your idea is to scare me.

Are they starting already? Please no. I went in for D&C. What's that? No. Dungeons and cats. Hey. Stop it.

I really had to stop myself for saying something incredibly filthy there. I did something, but I got a ruptured uterus and bowel and Oh, Jesus. Could rupture your bow hon. Not necessarily directly from surgery. I was in hospital last week, from being on codeine after surgery, I got so constipated I had to go to the hospital and have an enema.

Oh, no, I don't want that. Sounds horrible. It sounds horrible. It's like, how do I get one of those? So, dilation and curitage as a D&C, it's a cervix. The stretch and sweep, basically, when you're trying to give birth. And they just ruptured the uterus.

Awesome. Oh, okay, great. This is just what I need before surgery, guys. This is what we want to know this morning. Ahead of Fletcher's surgery today, what went wrong in your surgery? Oh, 800,000. Give us a call. Texted at 9-696. Great friends I've got here, guys.

Really great friends. Before my surgery today, Vaughan, you and Haley have decided to take calls when did the surgery go wrong. That's right. Now, I do want to just quickly say, we've got my. eye on the text machine here, I did very much get the meaning of DNC wrong and my apologies on that, because I thought it was something very different. But we have lots of messages

coming in about surgeries gone wrong to send you off into your surgery with, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't even worried about this. No. Yeah, because I was just like, well, they just do their job. They'll be great. I don't want you to worry. But Marianne, what happened?

Oh gosh. I was hit by a car and then I went into surgery. That's a bad start Hayley laughed I'm sorry love Mary Ann I'm so sorry When you got hit by the car Did a shoe come off?

Oh God A few things did I broke my leg And then But when I was in surgery And they were doing a tibial rotting Which is a rod down the lower left hand side of my leg

The anaesthetic didn't work And so I was aware When they were doing the operation and then I was trying to cry, I was trying to raise a hand, I was trying to do anything to let them know that I could hear and feel everything they were doing. I could sort of lock to the body when that happened. Oh my God.

Oh, my God. You read about that. And then another one, yeah, sort of like a cat with nine lives. I had another operation this year and on another, on a different leg, and my heart stopped during the operation. Oh, my God, Mary. We're so lucky to have you with her. We're lucky to have you here, aren't we?

Oh, absolutely, team. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, okay. Well, thanks for that. Good luck. Yeah, no, thanks. Yeah, no thanks. This is great.

I love this. Can I read out a message that I've just seen Fletch? Yeah. It said, I just watched a whole video about surgery statistics, and they say never have surgery on a Friday. Good luck. I've heard that before because somebody said that when you booked it out. Yeah, yeah, the doctor's when I hit power in where it was.

To be honest, it was the only way, only one that's available for Friday. So that's just like. Nicole messages on Instagram saying they put a drug into me that was meant to paralyze me for two minutes. They ended up doing it for over two hours. They were panicking. Two hours late. I think they must have got a decimal point wrong there.

Alana, surgery was fine. Yeah. It wasn't until five weeks later that my liver started failing due to the anesthetic that they used in a reaction of my body. Whoa. Okay. Amanda, what happened? Hi, good morning.

Good morning. Good morning. I went in. for to just have some endometriosis removed and I was supposed to be an hour's surgery they ended up cutting right through my ureter, chopped my kidney off and they ended up having to bring in

another surgeon to put a sedent in to reattap my kidney I ended up being in surgery for five and a half hours in hospital for 10 days why are we telling me these stories I am wondering now why did we do this? Why didn't we do this? Oh my God

how do you cut through someone one's urethra when you're just trying to get some... Well, it's lopping off a kidney that had me. Well, the endo was on my kidney. It was sort of around my kidney. So they were like, we'll just get rid of the whole thing. Wow, okay, goodness, mate. Amanda, thanks for this.

This is filling me. You're very welcome. Good luck to today. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. A lot of confidence. I like that people are taking, loving, saying these stories. Winding me up on the day.

During the C-section, I was internally electrocuted by the anesthesiastias. Twice. How? What was he rocking around? It's like a... It's like a real life game of operation. Yeah. Except your nose doesn't go read.

It just shocks you. It shocks you in the heart. Okay, we'll keep your stories coming in. Or don't. The surgeon left her jewelry on and my mum nearly died from the bacteria that she contracted from it. A-i! We're talking about surgeries and what went wrong. Not at all.

Maybe we should have done surgeries and how wonderful was your post-life. Post-surgery life. Yeah. Rather than when did you almost die. Bad friends. Bad friends. I have surgery today. It does.

Yeah. Okay, cool. I woke up halfway through a hip replacement to hear him banging in the... Don't even read that out. Don't read that out. Don't read that thing. Don't do that thing. Many years ago, this is the one I just mentioned before, and I have to read it out while he's choking.

Okay. Many years ago, my mum had a major ulcer operation. They tied the wrong tubes. Her tummy used to swell that much. It looked like she was pregnant. Jesus. What they'd done is they'd actually blocked her bowels. They cut her back open to realize their mistake.

And while they were in there, they found a pair of scissors that left inside of her. Like big scissors. Mum's sewing scissors. Don't use paper. Don't you use my sewing scissors in your bowel operations. You're blunt in them, and they won't cut the material like I like it.

Oh my God. Don't they count all the scissors after the operation? I would have thought they would have run a little. would have thought they would. A little head count on all their equipment. Imagine if it was your scissors and you're like, oh my God, everyone's got their scissors. Because your name's engraved on the scissors, you're like, you're not my scissors. And they've just stitched him up. I reckon I'd stay quiet too probably.

We need to get those over and I've got my scissors. Yeah. This is making my spine crawl a little bit. Yeah. Well, you, this was your, both of your idea. Creaky Galien Louise is messaged in. Oh, yeah. If you're a new listening to the show, Creaky Galian is one of our favorites.

She gets out of bed and she cracks like a galleon. Yeah. A galleon is an old wooden ship. Maybe she needs a surgery. Well, she's had one. She said, Fletch, you've got the best attitude as someone who's recently had a seven and a half hour operation. Just remember, all you have to do is lie there.

But at the end, also tell them your pain's worse than it is because otherwise they'll just give you panadol and later when the pain's bad, you'll wish you had. That's a great tip, actually. How's your pain on a scale of 1 to 10? 12. 25. 12.

My friend, Vourns also at 12. I figure to have some sleepy pills. That'll be great. Heyley, oh sorry, are we doing 12s? I'm at a 12. I'm at 12. I'm at 12. In fact, can we give you a little list? No.

Of pills to get us while you're in there? No. Oh, come on. There's signs about you to at the doctors in the waiting room. You know, I've had a sore bag. All I would like would be more than five hours sleep. You know, I know. He says as he drinks his fourth coffee of the morning

and definitely has the jitters and should have eaten something earlier and has a weird headache that seems to be sort of centrally located. It might be tumor. You're spiraling. A friend, I can hear it, you're spirally. Someone hold me. Someone went in, that's going to be Fletcher's job. Someone went in for a boob job and woke up halfway through, said owl, and then they

realized and they knocked her back out. Ow! By punching her in the face? I'd be saying more than ow. Bang. That is wild. Ow. Play Zem's Fletchhorn and Haley.

Play ZM's Fletchborn and Haley. ID Flashback. Well, a special Friday flashback today because good Charlotte have new music. And when this interview came through, young emo Haley Sprow, the ghost of young emo Haley Sprow got very excited. Like genuinely to my, I love talking to anyone, but genuinely to my core, I'm a good Charlotte fan through and through. I just, I love them.

We would have interviewed and hung out with them over the years. Many times. Yeah, a few times. Many times, yeah. Yeah. Great, they're lovely guys. Yeah. Great live. Great live.

They loved New Zealand. Well, New Zealand was one of their first... New Zealand and Australia, they always held in such high regard because of their early success here. Yes. It was a great little market for them. However, it's surprising. This song only peaked at 27 in the New Zealand charts when it was released in 2003. Is it their biggest Spotify streamer?

Yes. Okay. Here's the interesting fact. Okay. This is a pure coincidence. This week, freaky a Friday. came out. Yes.

This song was originally written for the original Freaky Friday movie, but never made the soundtrack. Huh. This song were about to wait. Interesting. He wrote this for, so imagine now when you're listening to it. It was part of the Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, 2003 movie. Okay.

Freaky Friday. And then if you watch Freaky Earth Friday this weekend, think of it again. And then think of me, and I'll be thinking of you. And how we were thinking. And it's a full moon tonight, and we all look at the same moon. and I love you. Sure. The song is the anthem

from the album The Young and the Hopeless. Ladies and gentlemen, please, enjoy Friday Flashback. Good Charlotte and Joel from Good Charlotte is in with us next on the show, ZM. It's a new day. It's a radical.

It's your Friday flashback on ZM, Fletch, Vaughn and Haley. It is not often that I get a bit nervous and flustered when we're going to interview people, but I feel this way now, elder emo, the fact that I am talking to Joel Madden from Good Charlotte. I am, I'm like a bit, a bit beside myself.

No, you're not. No, you're not. Joel, can I, I don't know if you're going to be able to see this. I'm going to hold up a photo of me in 2004 on my way to the Good Charlotte concert in Wellington, New Zealand. Get out of here. Oh, my God. Go back. Back a little bit for reflection. Look at that.

Can you see that? that's sweet so what you can't see is that my friend amelia wanted to have benjie's makeup on my friend maria no pitcher had your yeah my friend maria had yours and i went with billy because that's my sorry job but that's who i had the crush on was billy yeah

billy's a sweet good looking dead you don't need to tell me that joel i know so um love you to talk to you and yeah a very surreal moment for me but I'm excited because new music from Good Charlotte after seven years? Yeah, it's been a while. So this came about because you guys had, you were asked to play a little private party, right?

Hotel DeCap and then that's why the DuCAP you have called the album that which is coming out. I'm so nervous. And just breathe, a couple of deep breaths. But it made you realize, like, we love this and we've got to do more, right? Yeah, it was,

I mean, we all have families and stuff and you get, we're all in on our families and being dads and all that. And, you know, we, but we did. We went and played my sister, my little

sister's wedding. Actually, my sister-in-law, my wife's little sister, Sophia. We went and played her wedding, and it was very special because she grew up on our band and her husband grew up on our band. And so they asked us to play and it was really sweet and it was really beautiful to be a part of that but also a

big deal for me because I you know this is someone I love I've been in her life since she was little is very important moment for all of us in our family and such a big deal for us and to go and be a part of that special moment and as a band to go and play and to have the guys show up and it was such a fun, perfect, beautiful night. And we were all having such a good time. And we were, we like jokingly said, we should do another album. And then we all kind of like, yeah, maybe we should do another album. And then that's where it started, the conversation.

And the conversation didn't stop after that. And then the album was born. And we couldn't call it Hotel DuCap for all kinds of probably legal reasons, but also like, good Charlotte, we're not really, like a Hotel DuCap house band, but we killed that show, I promise you that. It was the best wedding after party ever. I promise you, we made sure of it. The whole band showed up and we put on a good show. It was like we put a lot of effort into it and making it a great show and we had so much fun and it was a perfect night. And so we thought, oh, Motel DuCap, that sounds a little more like

Charlie. Your vibe. And then the record was born and here we are. Now I'm talking to you guys here in New Zealand, which is one of our favorite places in the world. And we're just so happy we could make a record we love so much. And it was born out of such a special moment. And here we are.

Can I ask, because you were technically a wedding band on this night, did you have to play Wonderwall and Wagon Wheel? Like, was that sort of part of the contract? Classic wedding hits. No. No, I wish we actually, we probably should have, but now we just played good Charlotte songs. That's all we have. That's all we have in the repertoire.

Thank God. Because I do see you've got some gigs coming up. You're playing around America, a few gigs in Brazil. Are there any plans to come to New Zealand on the back of this record? Please. We know that New Zealand and Australia have a special place in your heart. Yes. Yeah, we're planning right now.

We're putting together. I mean, we're going for it with this record. We're going to do a world tour, and we're going to do the whole, we're going to go everywhere. So, obviously, New Zealand and Australia are the first place, actually, that Good Charlotte ever was, what I would say, truly, like, a big band. It was the first time we were faced by, like, a lot of people. So that's always on the, yeah, that's always, like, that's such, it's such an important place to us. And we're definitely coming. So we're planning the tour now and trying to figure out.

I got to get my eye line already. The legs off of the world for. Yeah. I'm going to do Billy's makeup again. I remember I had it like that and I did it under the eyes and I pulled down like that and it was perfect. I nailed it. Yeah, he's kind of messed it up. I'm just thinking it's 21 years since that concert.

Like, I'm a dad, you're a dad. Maybe we have it a little earlier. Oh, shut up. A little earlier in the night. For God's sake. And then I went in bed by 8.309 home. Yeah. Rested.

Yeah. Maybe. That's not really like rock and roll of you I want to ask you as such a huge good Charlotte fan for so many years, do you have a favorite album? Mine's Chronicles of Life and Death just because I was 14, it was like the perfect time for me. What's your favorite?

I think Good Morning Revival is probably still my favorite. I've got a soft spot in my heart for that record. I really love it. This record's pretty good, guys. I'm not going to lie. Okay. Hotel de Capp is pretty good. It's a banger.

You were like teased us with two songs, Rejects and Stepper, which I agree. Super cool, super like, it just feels to me like good Charlotte true to form, you know? Like we're rocking out, we've got a good amount of rage, but we're just going to enjoy them all day long, which I love. And the whole album's out today, which is so exciting and honestly. Yeah, we know what we do and we know who we are and we took our time making a record we love, but like it's a good Charlotte record through and through. Amazing. Honestly, I'm so excited. I was just going to say,

do you reckon Emily Strange still makes clothes? You know, I could get the striped top again and then I'd dye my hair black, even though that took years to get out. Yeah, that never comes out. It doesn't come out. Mine just fell out after I died at black. Yeah.

Well, can you personally, from me, from Haley Sproul, please give Billy my love in particular, but love to all the band and the family, but if, you know, I don't know what he's doing, but if he sees me in the crowd, he's the love of my life. and Joel, good Charlotte, thank you so much. I'll see him tomorrow. I'm seeing Billy tomorrow.

That's crazy. What? That's crazy. You're seeing him tomorrow. And that's when they decided not to come to New Zealand. They were like avoid avoid. The New Zealand leave. Hey, thanks for taking the time to chat to us and hopefully we'll see you soon. Thanks guys. We'll see you soon. Thank you, mate. Thank you so much.

Cheers, thank you. Thank you, guys. Fletch born in Haley. Just a couple of minutes. A brand new Ed Sharon song to play you as well. Oh, exciting. So I just want to talk about something that Fletch and I have had enough of. And this came up yesterday when I was dropping Fletch back to his house

because I'm a really good friend. And there's this bit where you come around just before you sort of turn down and there's a pedestrian crossing. And there was, someone was crossing from one side, right? Nice and clear. Right? And they came up to the cross. They didn't dilly-delly.

They didn't dilly-dally. They were aware of their surroundings. And because they didn't dilly-dally, I stopped for them and therefore did not kill them. Right? That was nice of you. Thank you. What a good human she is not running, not killing people. So nice.

So this woman crosses in front of us, and that's fine. And then sort of meandering from the other side was this other person who it wasn't clear if they were intending to cross and therefore I would stay put and thus further delay our days, Fletch and the reason they didn't notice me and go, oh, and make a decision is because they were on their phone.

Nose buried. Yeah, kind of just like really dilly-dallying. Like, was he going to cross the road or was he going to just keep walking up that way? Dillie-dally, yes. You didn't even know really what he was doing. Looking down, had not noticed us, which is unacceptable.

Give him a beep. Yeah, but then it was called. He was kind of too close that if you'd just gone, if he'd stepped out, you'd give him the most. No, it would have been too close. Big fan of the horn. Huge fan of the horn. For everything.

For all occasions. Yeah, but it just, Snap to attention, sir. And Haley and I would just like, okay, what was up with that? Get off your phone on pedestrian crossings. Like, I get it. Do you remember, did you guys get taught this at school that when you cross a pedestrian crossing and you're on your bike, you have to get off, walk it across?

Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah. That was always the safety thing. because if you just fly across on your bike, you're going too fast. And a car's not going to be able to stop if they're going 50k an hour. Is that why? Yeah, right. That was why. I think that's just where we got taught it.

So I think we need to start teaching people that as you approach a pedestrian crossing, you've got to get your nose out of your phone. It was just intolerable. And I was like, what? Like, mine just time abundant. Yeah, I mean, it didn't cost us. Five seconds of our day, 10, maybe. Yeah, but we've seen sliding doors in that five seconds, you know.

Yeah, we could have made. we could have, maybe I just missed that guy from Daily Bread. You know? Actually, we've had a cease and desist. Had we? Stop hitting on people, Haley. You messaged their official Instagram account asking about a hot guy that worked there and they were like, leave it with us and then they didn't get back to you.

Yeah, take the hint. I'd probably take the hint on that one. Or give them another nudge. No, I would. Listen, all give them a nudge. Anyway, I just, you've got to look up. But I also can't 100% say we're saying, certainty that I haven't been that person that's

gone up to a pedestrian crossing on my phone? Oh no, no, no, darling, darling, it's fine when we do it. I'm just having a moat about when other people do it. Oh, wait, so it's okay if you do it. Oh, I'm sorry if that's not coming across. You're sorry, no, no, no, no, no, it's other people. Other people. Did I not say, it's Haley the hypocrite?

That's sort of what, that's my name. Yeah, okay, great. Play ZM's flesh for one and Haley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do All right, fact of the day has been a linguistic oddities this week. The English teachers are throffing it. Are they?

I've heard from so many English teachers. So many. And I've been heard from a couple of teachers. You saw that text yesterday. They've been DMing me. Okay. And I can't show you my girlfriend. She lives in another country.

But, um. What? I'll show you the DMs from all these teachers, but they live in another country. Yeah, but she's a model. But they're real, but they're real. Yeah, of course they're. I don't feel like it's real, yeah.

It's like, okay, so he's had like two messages from teachers. Yeah, he's like, all these teachers sliding into the years. And then that text message yesterday, someone was a, like, specialist than they hadn't heard of the Janus. Was it Janus? Yeah. All right, quick recap of the things we've learned this week. I'm not even going to quiz Fletch today because he's about to have surgery and I don't,

and he's nil by mouth, so he'll probably be real grumpy. rip your head off. Yeah. Monday, we learn about pangrams, which are sentences that contain every letter of the English alphabet.

Choose what. This is so hungry. Well, that's not my fault. It's your fault for bowling cricket balls too fast, isn't it? I haven't played cricket for years. Yeah, but didn't the doctor say

that's what calls the arm issues? Oh, I don't know. You're bowling, swimming, jimbing. It's just... It doesn't see you're trying to not die early and it buggers your shoulder

and just, I'm just so close to giving up. Um, anyway, you. Hey. Tuesday, we learn about anodromes, which are a word that makes a different word when it's spelt backwood. Wednesday, we learn about Janus words, which were automatic antonyms, such as to dust, could mean to remove dust or to add dust.

Thursday, we learn about isograms, which are long words where no repeating letters happen, and today we're learning about capitinums. Okay. Capitinum. Is a word that changes its meaning and sometimes pronunciation when the first leader is capitalized. Oh, phalanjis.

Why did you know? So you go phalanjiz, and if it's got a capital, you go phalanjis. Yes, yeah. For example, turkey, small tea, funny bird, big tea, scary country. Why is turkey scary? Oh, I thought it was scary. But it's not set differently. Turkey rules.

No, I'd love to go to Turkey. I'd love to go to Turkey too and come back with hair plugs and deny I went there for hair plugs. Yeah, same. I come back with some perky titties under the gym. China, Big C, yeah, is the country. Little C, porcelain dishware. I think he said it was said differently. Well, I'm getting to some examples of that.

Jaina, that's the country. Polish. Polish with a little P is to make something shiny. Polish with a big P is the country. Yeah, it means you're from the country. Yeah, right. Another one, reading, if you were to read, that would be the act of interpreting text with a little R.

But if it was a big hour, it would be pronounced Reading, and it would be a town in England. Yeah. Reading Cinema's Wellington. It'd be cinemas, yeah. Where I patched Ben McNulty at the back. Oh, maybe to... McNolty. I'll live out the full name. Oh, is that too much, was it?

McNulty, that's a strong Irish name. Did you see any of the movie? McNulty's the guy from the wire. I know. Did you see any of the movie? The movie was Princess Diaries. Yeah, the Princess Diaries. Well, they're Anne Hathaway.

Yeah. It's actually Annie Hathaway because it's... You capitalise. You capitalise. You capitalise. Most of the other examples are names that also mean other things like Bill, for example, would be an invoice or a bird bee. But also a man's name. Yeah, nice.

So that's fun. We're all having pretty good. Aren't we learning? Okay. So some examples of it changed in the pronunciation. Job would be a work task and a small J. But Job is the name. Job.

Job. Jube. Jube. Lead with a capital. It would be you're the lead. You are the lead person. Lead is a metal. Yeah.

When you spell it with a little L. A bass is a low musical tone. Wait, but if you... And a bass is a type of fish. Wait, if you were writing, Vaughn is the lead in the new play... Yeah. That's not what that is. You wouldn't capitalize that L.

If it was the start of a sentence. You're wrong. Same if the bass, if the bass fish played the bass guitar. Yeah. Right. Oh, so it would, if the program came out, but it was a program and it was like, lead, Vaughan Smith. Yeah, lead, is he made of a shiny metal?

But you wouldn't, yeah, okay. Is he, is he Polish? No, he's just, okay. He's been polished. Well, today's fact of the day. Is that capitums are a word that changes its meaning and sometimes pronunciation when the first letter is capitalized. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I do do do do do do to do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.

I want to send you off into your surgery actually now with a nicer phoner than we did earlier in the show. Yeah, when did the surgery go wrong? Yeah, that was a bit mean. No more of those stories. What you love is a juicy Friday phoneer where we get a little bit of gossip. He loves nothing more. Juice. He loves a juicy Friday.

Now, I want to know, are you secretly loaded? Or did you discover that someone close in your life was secretly loaded? Like, just someone you work with that just packs their lunch every day, never goes out for the sushi of the day, never buys coffee. Totally. And you just realize that they're worth like $24 million. And that's how, you know, they just skipped sushi and now they got $24 million. You just try money away whilly-nilly on sushi. It's that easy.

It's a secret of success. Yeah. Yes. So someone was sharing on Reddit, my favorite website, that they have been with their girlfriend for six years, and they are thinking of proposing, but they're trying to, they're asking, what is the best time to bring up that I am loaded with cash?

He, the girlfriend knows that he's a humble teacher, has a humble teacher's salary, but he comes from a profoundly rich family. Yeah. Like he has a. inherited wealth that will very soon be his to the tune of um tens of millions of pounds oh my god okay well firstly i would say to this man get a pre-nup and she would like of course i would ho you're a teacher and then tell her yeah oh i don't know how pre-ups work is that can you not

disclose everything it depends how long they've been staying together also inherited money is different Yeah, yeah, totally. It depends, all kinds of rules and stuff around that. But obviously, like, they're planning and getting married. But I like, I like that because you know that she's into him not for the money. But this is his concern is, if I tell her, is it going to change that I come from this extreme wealth? Like, is that going to be? But wouldn't you know, like, you meet the parents and, you know, they land in their helicopter.

They're in a castle. Yeah, they're in a castle or something like that. They live kind of by humble means. I think that they're kind of, you know, the money's just sitting there to be used. Carwin raises a good point. He's been lying their whole relationship. Oh, yeah, see, that's also another trigger point, isn't it?

I didn't even think about that. Well, that's a thing. Like, if you've been with someone long enough that they think, I'll propose and she'll say yes. Yeah. Then you're at a pretty serious point in the relationship, and you just don't know his financial situation. That's so, that's true.

I just feel like, people marry drug dealers, Carlin. And they don't know. And they don't know. It turns out this guy was dealing. drugs. Yeah, this is true. Okay, well, this is what we want to know this morning. 0-800-diles at M. 9-696. Maybe this is you or someone you know. And obviously you can be anonymous if you want to text and call. Are you secretly loaded or did you discover someone was? Because I can totally get why you wouldn't tell people you had money. It just a whole world of problems. It would

change everything. Yeah. Maybe one lot of. Maybe one lot of. Yeah. And you know, the person you work with, you'd be like, well, why aren't you shouting the coffees? You're worth $10 million. Yeah. Because it's your turn. You can get my iced oat latte. Yeah. Okay, 0800,000 M is in 9-696, text in.

Are you secretly loaded or know someone who was? Oh, there are some juicy messages coming, and we want to know if you're secretly rich or secretly loaded, because the teacher is asking anonymously, it worth tens of millions of pounds. Yes. He wants to propose Yeah, and at what point Should I tell my future fiancé

That I come from extreme wealth And she just thinks he's a teacher You know, a humble teacher A humble teacher and a humble teacher salary There's a lot of messages And no one wants to talk And I knew this It would be anonymous phoner basically

That's all right, that's okay I have $100,000 in savings In a house that I own That I don't tell people that I own I tell them I rent it What? Because then people would think about You treat you differently If you've got $100,000 in savings,

unless you're offsetting your mortgage, safe to assume your mortgage free as well? Yeah, maybe, yeah. Hot play, man. Yeah, good stuff. Hot play. Imagine not owning the bank. Oh, my money.

Oh, my God. Don't think about it, don't think about it. Don't think about it. We are about to inherit $200,000 from my husband's great auntie, who we didn't even know existed. She died three years ago, and they've been trying to track him down. We told no one, what a dream come true. That would be amazing.

Is he a Nigerian prince? You know that relative? You didn't know. you had, here's $200,000. Yeah. Oh, my God. I want that. I want that.

I want that. Yeah. Man, 200,000, she didn't even know he's existed. So it's, oh, oh, furthermore, it's on his dad's side, but most of them are dead. And his mum and his four sisters know nothing. Wait, so he's got four sisters. I'm going to get a slice of this $200,000 apart. I'd contest the will.

I'd contest the will. No, again, that's why they're not saying anything. I'll contest the will. Keep your text coming in. So, we'll get to more of them next. 9-696-0-0-800, Darsat-M. Are you secretly loaded? We've got some people storing crypto even, Fletch.

Now, Vaughn't shut down his laptop prematurely. Yeah, I've got to open it back up for the text machine, don't I? Okay, I'll start. I got excited. I got excited and shut it down. Let me stay anonymous. I'm 18. Loaded and 18.

I started trading at a young age, and I secretly have $100,000 in crypto and over $20,000 towards side hustles and car sales. Wow. That's amazing. At 18, I was like a loser. But you would never. It's about that $110,000 cryptos tomorrow it could be worth $2.

And then the day after it might be worth $8 million. Yes, it's true. You just even know. Such a stable investment. Yeah. So we've had another follow-up from the person who's inheriting the $200,000 from the Auntie they didn't even know existed. We thought it was a scam when they first got in touch with us.

You would though, eh? Yeah. We thought it was a scam. Where did it go? God, damn. You want $200,000. Oh, yeah. I want $200,000.

Yeah, we thought it was a scam when they first contact that I suppose it just came out of the blue and it just was an auntie had never heard of and everything. I recently won just under $40,000 on Lotto and it's been so hard keeping it quiet. Life is certainly a lot easier and it's made such a difference to my immediate family. Pure financial freedom rules. Wow, that's awesome.

Wow. So you just wouldn't tell anyone. I wouldn't tell anyone. I'd tell you about because it'd be gone by the end of the week. $40,000 wouldn't even touch the sides. I had a friend that said that their family was in farming. You know, a number of family of farmers. Never thought twice about it.

After a few years, they invited us to the farm. It was a 30-minute drive from the front gate to the driveway, had its own petrol pump, airstrip and a quarry. What? Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're rich. It probably means their mortgage to the hilt and their rates bills through the roof, and the cost and expenses of running a farm's nuts.

They do own a huge asset, but it's comfortable. I then asked, how long would it take to walk to the boundary? And they said, two days if you took your time. They under station. They rich. They rich. They rich. They rich.

I mean, they've got their petrol station. They rich. Somebody said, Uno card, reverse. What about the other way around? I owe hundreds of thousands of dollars. They reversed. They reimbursed our phone.

Do you know what? Hundreds of thousands of dollars? That's rookie numbers, babe. Yeah. Come back to us with another zero here. Turn in next week. How many comments are you got? Yeah.

Turn in next week where we do the phone and topic, how much in debt are you? That'll be fun for a Monday, won't it? Yeah, good, fun. I'm an early childhood education. I work with a woman who was loaded, but like most of us in early childhood education, she loves the job and knows the importance of it.

I even knew she was loaded until she bought a new house and invited us all around and it was a mansion. Wow. I'm going to inherit $350,000 at the age of 23, WTF do I do OMG? You need to talk to like a financial advisor and someone wise, not your friends. No.

And invest that money and use it wisely. Not someone who's involved in a multi-level marketing scheme. And you need to do, that's not investing money. That's signing it. Set yourself up, whether you've got a chance to set yourself up there. I've got a great thing to invest in. She is an up-and-coming comedian. And she really, she's the whole world in front of her.

She just needs financial backing to just live a nice life. Right. And it's sort of not a sugar daddy. I was going to say sugar daddy. I was going to say sugar daddy. Right. Okay. Haley sprawlinvestments.com is the website there.

if you'd like to invest. Jamesbrownfismus.com. Yep. Lovely. Any more? Or shall we punch out there? Well, by punching out, you would have just punched out.

You sort of don't announce a punch out. You don't want a couple of arms and a hours from me? Well, I just stumble my way through the text machine to find a couple of freshies. I'll give you a couple of... My kids don't know yet that they're beneficiaries of a family trust worth millions. I live a normal life.

I work and save it stuff, but have a seven-figure trust fund used for investments. Wow. I love these. How do you tap into the trust fund? Because you could die in it. That person who just messaged in, what if they could hit by a bus?

And they never got to do all the cool stuff that they always dream they're going to do with that trust fund money. Yeah, but heaven is really fun as well. It's not millions of dollars trust fund fun fun. It can be. I think how would be the trust fund fund? You're certainly not going to be there to find out, that's for sure. Oh, and you, where will you be?

Where will you be? I'll be right there next to you. Oh, I'm busting for a ways after that point. I'll tell you. What? You are allowed to listen to it while you're weeks. There's no rules on when and where you're allowed to listen to a podcast. It just says here I'm busting for a wheeze.

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