ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 11th January 2024

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley spills the beans on her On-Air Highlight of 2023, surprise surprise it's Momoa related!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod and during the break we've decided we're each going to take a moment to pick our favourite bit, favourite moment of the year Yes on the radio show Yes, and mine was easy Mine was easy Meeting and interviewing Jason Momoa

and sitting on his, unfortunately not his face. Unfortunately not his face, his lap. Big day on Saturday, wasn't it? Now I have to say, so many people have been so excited for me because we posted the video of you guys basically surprising me on Thursday to tell me that I wasn't interviewing Jason,

in which I had a full meltdown, somewhat of a panic attack, screamed no for a long time, and then booked a hair appointment. Thank God I did. It was commented upon. Anyway, and so many people have just been messaging saying, like, good luck, you've got this, you've got this, to the point where I did. I felt a bit of pressure for the people. They wanted so badly for me to achieve. So on Saturday when we met up,

knowing that I was about to interview Jason, I was so nervous. Like not sort of me being like, he, he, he, entertaining nervous, authentically sitting in the corner, drinking a glass of Prosecco, not talking to anyone nervous. Now at that stage, you'd already had two shots of tequila.

Two shots of tequila, and I had a Prosecco at the holding area, I guess, because this is my first ever in-person press junket. I've never done one before. There are weird, there are, yeah, for people who see them on television but don't know the behind the scenes of them, it's weird. And we haven't done them for a while because of COVID. It's all been over Zoom lately, which is great because it doesn't involve flying to Sydney for five minutes.

But you basically go in a room with all the other media and you're called in one by one. You pretty much get five minutes, super tight turnaround. They video it, they do the audio, and then they're like, we'll send it to you. So you marched in, you've got it to you. So you marched in. You've got little to no time to build a rapport. So in a day,

they could have done a hundred interviews. Yeah. They crank through them. They go through them. Like he'd already done a morning of Zoom. So the media all over the world.

And you're only promised five minutes and they're there all day. So you just think how many five minutes you can fit in. And if you get to the point where you're being told

to wrap it up but the person you're interviewing is the one that keeps talking you're like this is good this is going well this is going well they want to keep talking

but it's always quite hard and nobody likes doing these things no and I have been given like the stars that you see they're a little bit

dead behind the eyes a lot of the time because they're just tired they don't want to be there but it's cool when you get an up andand-comer who's excited to be there. Yes. Or someone who's generally loves the project. Yeah.

Well, I had sort of been given a slight, because they don't tell you even what order, and I kept saying it. Vaughan, I was like, why won't they tell me? Why won't they tell me? And everyone's like, I don't know. Sometimes they change the order. Make an excuse and say, well, I've got to go earlier

and all this kind of stuff. And then a couple of people started getting plucked. It was like War of the Worlds. The big hand came down and plucked you out and you were like, ah! And then I was just sitting in the corner absolutely stewing and brewing, kept catching Karwin's eye across the room

and she was giving me reassuring sort of nods and shenan. I was quivering and then we just heard Hayley and I was like, oh my God, genuinely nervous. Like all of my charm, all of my professionalism, all of my humour just felt like it went goodbye and left me as like a little shell of a person. So we saw you getting into the elevator to go up to wherever they were doing this. Yes. And you were excited?

Yeah, I was. And there was a beautiful, lovely man called Paul, who was a security guard standing outside the room that he was in. And someone was in there before me. And he said, oh, I've just been given a bit of a word that he's a bit tired. He's been, he was out with Bloody Tyke the night before. So I think he was probably a bit dusty, but more so he'd been on Zoom all morning. So the general vibe was that he was feeling a bit flat. Yep. And then the person came out before me

and I was like, now's my time. And then someone else came out and they said, he just wants to have a quick break. So I was like, man, this dude is over it. Yeah. So I get myself up, the door open and they said, and I walked on in and did my interview. Hi.

Hi. Welcome. Pleasure, Jason. Pleasure. How are you? I'm really well. I like your boots. Thanks, man.

I like your hemp sneakers. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I follow you on the gram. If I seem a little nervous, this is actually my first press junket. Really? Yeah, my first ever. Wow. Yeah, and I've had two shots of tequila and a glass of Prosecco downstairs.

She's ready. She's ready. I love it. Jason, I I've had two shots of tequila and a glass of Prosecco downstairs. She's ready. She's ready. I love it. Jason, I saw your film yesterday. Congratulations. Thank you. I feel like maybe some people like myself would think that Fast and Furious franchise was not for me. I'm not the target audience, maybe.

Right. But now you're in it. I feel quite targeted, to be fair. Like directly, quite immediately targeted. I loved your character, the fashion, darling. The darling. The fashion, the nails, everything. Did you have much...

That's my girl. Oh, yeah, you did the nails? Did you have much input with the clothes that you wore? Because I loved it. Yeah, it's actually, I pulled that outfit from my costume designer, who was my last movie, Trish Somerville. It was a woman's outfit. And then I took it and I wanted to make this bigger.

Yeah. And it was fabulous. But I just wanted to use, I thought it would be, pastels are just so welcoming and inviting. Yeah. Not scary. So if I had met the devil or something that was completely evil and it was not scary. I could approach it. Yeah.

And all of a sudden it got me. And then you're like, oh, shit. No, I'm in trouble. And so I wanted to make something that... Softens. It just... Yeah, they didn't take it too seriously. And then when they got in close to it, it was the scariest thing that, you know,

it was obsessed with you. But this is what I love, is that you don't take it too seriously. Like, I feel like with a lot of your characters, right, you're an evil bastard, Jason, in this film. You're so mean. I know. You're so mean.

I know. But you've got such a great sense of humour. I'm a comedian as well, by the way. I've actually put two tickets on the door for my comedy show tonight. I know you've got the premiere, but I'll just give you the flyer. It's just, that's me tonight. It's sold out, but I can make space for Jason. Oh, look at that.

Yeah. There's just two tickets under your name, under the door at Q Theatre. You can come. I love it. Congratulations. Yes, start with the premiere. It's going to be boring.

Now, look, let me just refer to my notes. My first junket. Now, obviously, I watched the film, and I can't help but think about the backstory of the people whose lives are ruined by the cars that sort of pummel through their businesses and I sort of wondered if maybe we could do like a

spin off film, you and I we play like a, because I'm an actor I went to drama school, three years we're like an Italian couple and our business has been destroyed by the fast very fast and actually quite furious cars that drive through our shop and we've got to rebuild our shop and our business has been destroyed by the fast, very fast and actually quite furious cars that drive through our shop.

And we're going to rebuild our shop and our marriage at the same time. I'm in. Are you in? I'm f***ing in. My darling, the shop is ruined. My darling, the shop is ruined. What are we going to do, my love? What are we going to do, my love? And I'm pregnant. We should make more. Yes, we should make more babies.

Yes, we should make more babies Yeah, we should make more babies But we've got no money income How are we going to raise the baby? It doesn't matter We have sex We will eat each other Yes Okay

For story writers It's out of the question It does You're so talented I'm obviously extremely talented You're also very talented It's too much talent We don't even need a script

We don't It's an improv film I think like a pencil mustache. Yeah, like the dirtiest little. Yes, right on the lip. On me or you? On me. Okay, on you.

I'll go clean. I'll go clean shaven. You go clean. Yeah. Okay. Let's dye your hair dark black. Yes. Dark black.

Okay. No. I like where it's at. Okay, you're like, where's it? It's not that tight yet. I think you're kind of just perfect the way you are. Oh my God, I think you're perfect. Let's do this.

This camera, this is a red. Can we get a lapel mic on me, please? My darling, my darling. My darling. I'm going to work on it. One last question I just want to ask you. I know you're looking for a New Zealand citizenship at the moment. I want to live here.

I haven't actually tried to get one yet, but I need to do that once I'm not working all the time. There's a real quick way around it, Jason. This engagement ring does not have a wedding ring with it, so it could be quite easy. If this is your first time, give me a hug.

This is the best. Thank you, Jason. You're welcome. But seriously, I would happily marry you. I'm going to sit on that one okay and I

won't sit on you can I get a photo yes right here yes I'll even take it oh my god yes oh my god

you are the man thank you so much thank you so much absolute pleasure good luck tonight I'll see you at my comedy show tonight. Don't say good luck, just be there. Wonderful.

Bye. Bye. Honestly. And I won't sit on you. I was going to say. No, the worst part of the whole thing is we have no money. What will we eat? We will eat each other.

That's it. And when you see the video the look in his eye we will eat each other. Oh my god. So the video is being edited and it will be out tonight. The look on his face

you can see him turn right? Some of the rustling you hear like at one point he says because I told him it's my first in person to press junk and he says you're doing great and gives me a hug.

The last bit of rustling is when I said no I won't sit on you and then he said and then I said can I have a photo and then he slaps his knee and I sit on his knee and I like clasp onto him and then just like throw him the phone

like he has to now take the photo oh my god wow even listen to it back I mean you can hear it at the start Like he has to now take the photo. Oh my God. Wow. Even listen to it back. I mean, you can hear at the start. I'm so nervous. I'm talking like a million miles an hour.

I know you're talking so fast. Breathing halfway through. Words are. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. So this happens. It doesn't end there, people.

It doesn't end there. I feel dizzy again. This doesn't happen. You come into the room, right? They close the door and like the security guard's just there. Yeah. And whoever's going in next. And I felt dizzy again. This doesn't happen. You come out of the room right, they close the door and like the security guard is just there and whoever's going in next and I was just like and I like powered through them and the poor group that was next was like

oh my god, like they must be trying to think what, was it good, was it bad? And I just get into the lift like oh my god and I come down and Shannon and Carwin are there like oh my god and I think we down and Shannon and Carl were there like, oh, my God. And I think we filmed my reaction and I was coming out to meet you guys and I just like fell to the floor with adrenaline.

In front of an old man who was like, are you okay? No, I'm not. Anyway, straight after this, right, we had a little chat. And I just said like, what a day. And I just left on such a high high and I had to head straight to the theater because I was doing a double show on Saturday walk walk walk and I was like I'm too up I am too up and I was walking past a bar and I was like I'm just gonna go in and have another drink I just need to like go and have a prosecco yeah so I like turn into this bar and then my phone was like, ding. And then it said, Jason Momoa tagged you in a story.

And I was like, what? I've got the story here. Do you want to, this is, how many million followers does he have? 17.1. 17.2. This was literally, I would say like four minutes after I left the room. All right, Hayley. I'm doing my fast ex right now.

Hayley just left the room. Unbelievable. Her first interview ever. I couldn't stop laughing. She has a comedy show going on. There it is. Check her out. Check her out on Instagram.

Laughed my ass off. True talent. And I can't make it tonight, baby, because I got to go to the premiere. Baby! Baby! I know you left a ticket for me, and I hope to see you soon. I have to head up and shoot Cor Mandel this week, so I won't be able to make your play. But I want to see your comedy show.

He called you baby. Oh, he called me baby. He called you baby. Like, I die. I die. I know. We immediately, because I saw this pop up and we just all went

into a six-way group chat. My phone was like, and the six of us were like, what? Just screaming. What? Just going, oh my God.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Ailey. Play ZM. Wow. I mean, Wow I mean you could hear The desperation in your voice How high was my voice at the end Yeah I know I was super good

Like I don't get thrown very easily And I knew he was in the country And I had said to the boys And I don't know if I'd said this On air or not I said please like I know it'd be a cool fun radio bit to like spring you know he walks into the studio or something and I'm feeling a bit raggedy I said please don't do that to me and you promised me that even if we were gonna um have him in as a surprise that Vaughn was gonna

give me a little signal yeah to look nice on that day. And in the end, that wasn't how it went. I still got surprised. And I totally had no idea that that was happening until the day before. I surprised you on air. Yes. Because you were away, weren't you? You were sick.

You had COVID. You had your mid-year. You always get your mid-year man flu. Dude. Remember that? I mean, I need a year this year. I just decided why not. Yeah.

And you were just... Beside myself. And then I remember before the interview, all the media were at the Hotel Hyatt in Auckland. If we shared this, that we were there with a whole bunch of media people from our company, other companies and everything. And you would take turns.

Like the movie person would take you up in the elevator don't tell you the order you're just sitting there waiting and me and a couple of other broadcasters um ordered a glass of wine do you remember this yeah and then the organizers for the press junket came over and told us off because they said you can get a tea and coffee or whatever on their on their tab they just didn't want to be but i paid we paid for the wine. Carwin paid for the wine. But I think they thought that we got wine on their tab. Heaven forbid they should shout someone a drink when they've given up their Saturday

to come and promote their movie though. Yeah. Heaven forbid. Heaven forbid. And then I went up into the outside the hotel room and there was this really nice security guard and I was pacing like I was so so nervous

and it's funny listening to it back because oh my god you can hear it it's almost embarrassing you sound like you're on some kind of drug like

and then I stand on his knee but you know I love that moment obviously very much and I watch it at least once a day yeah but for me

if I can have two moments if I have the floor yeah you may and I know you hate it when a woman speaks for too long but I can have two moments, if I have the floor. Yeah, you may. And I know you hate it when a woman speaks for too long, but I'm going to keep going for a little bit because my other favourite moment was prepping for that interview in which producer Gerard played Jason Momoa. Over the weekend, the leather jacket's coming on.

I just realised I have my leather jacket here, so I'm going to just pop that on. Well, over the weekend, you are interviewing a Hollywood heartthrob, the star of the new movie Fast X. He's in New Zealand at the moment filming... Vin Diesel. It's not...

I'm literally choking with nerves. I could handle an interview with Vin Diesel. I could handle an interview with Jason Statham. I could handle an interview with Vin Diesel. I could handle an interview with Jason Statham. I could handle an interview with Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah. I don't know how I'm going to go interviewing Jason Momoa tomorrow. I mean, we all saw you break down yesterday at the news. I've got to try my mouth.

Are you going to have a bottle of water with you just in case? Are you going to take your water bottle? Well, I thought about, we had some intel that Jason Momoa is a Guinness drinker and I love a Guinness. You love a Guinness, yeah. So I thought I could take in a couple of cans of Guinness. I don't know if they'll let you do that. It's kind of product placement. But I'm a rule breaker and that's also what he'll like about me.

You know what I mean? We thought we would mock up the interview set. Yes. We've got the Fast X logo there behind it. It's hand-drawn. Yes. We don't have a poster. Well, it's very well done, actually. Very well done. And in place of Jason Momoa is producer Jared. Aloha.

That was good. That was good. And just a reminder, producer Jared, in your own person as Jared, how tall are you again? Like half the size. Five, seven, yeah. Because I didn't know, but he's nearly two metres tall. He's 1.93 metres tall.

Wow. Wow, I didn't even have to Google that, I know it. Yeah. So we're not going to worry about producer Jared answering the questions. We just want to hear the questions. It's just so you have someone to look at. Yeah, totally. But feel free to like prof, because Jared's an actor as well.

So, you know, he knows. I mean, he didn't go to drama school, but you just follow my lead. I think you did the Kristen play, didn't you? Yep. Yeah. What was the play your year? The main one was

Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh, who did you play? I was Peter, the denier. Oh, that's a good role. Is it? That's a good role. Okay, well, you're an acting royalty here.

I think I need to practice the walk-in as well. I think you walk in. So Jason's there. He'll be sitting there with all the movie people, and they'll be like, okay, Hayley, and I'll play the role of the people running the interview. What's that look for, Jared?

I'm just hoisting the girls up. You just adjusted. Okay, wow. I will play the role of the people running. I'm strict on time. You'll have five minutes. Okay, Hayley, if you'll come in now, Jason's ready for you. I don't want to. I'm scared.

The clock is ticking. Show to Jason. Aloha. Aloha. My name's Hayley Sproul. I'm from ZDM. How are you? Yeah, good. Nice to meet you. So nice to meet you too. You look great, by the way. Oh, you look great. You look so great.

What is it about me that you think looks great? Oh, wow. It's just got to be the face, you know. It's a moneymaker. Okay, we're short on time. Can I call you Jace? Oh, yeah, of course. Oh, my God.

He's got an accent and everything. Okay, Jace, let's talk about the movie. Fast X is out. Speaking of Xs, Lisa, is she out of the scene completely? Yeah. Yeah, okay. I mean, I'm sorry sorry for your divorce but I know you still remain close but that's good to know and in terms of the scene has anyone popped back in to that scene not at the moment wow oh my god that's crazy so I'll just take this stupid ring off um okay so in your movie i hear that you wanted to match your nail polish to uh the color that was your car i'm speaking of nail polish you feel free to grab my hand do

you like mine oh wow and no ring amazing wow subtle see that one there's very sparkly wow yeah thank you it's like glittery this sort of looks like the shoes from Wizard of Oz. Now, you've got quite a famous scar on your face, on your eyebrow. Yeah. And I've got quite a famous scar. I'm quite a big deal in New Zealand. I don't want to freak you out. I've got quite a famous scar on my cheek, as you can see.

I just wanted to know who had the most brutal story. So you start. Well, I got hit in the face with a pint glass, 140 stitches. God, he's doing so well. How many stitches? 140. Wow, okay. Okay, when I was a toddler, my brother was playing golf and I stood behind him and he accidentally

sort of hit me a little bit in the face of the golf club. But I was smaller. Can I just ask you, do you keep the questions about the movie and his time in New Zealand please? Yeah, absolutely Oh no Okay, so I just have some images

I just have some images I want to show you This is my partner, Aaron Oh wow, he's a stallion He's known as New Zealand's Jason Momoa In fact, when he was in China people got lots of photos with him and they kept yelling at him, Aquaman, Aquaman Oh wow, he's a stallion. Yeah, he's known as New Zealand's Jason Momoa. In fact, when he was in China, people got lots of photos with him and they kept yelling at him, Aquaman, Aquaman. I can see that.

He's six foot six, so slightly taller than you. Do you reckon he could take him out? Yep, it'd be a hard fight, but yeah. Okay, that's good. I've also decided to show him a photo of Aaron in chaps holding a weed whacker I don't know if you showing him a photo of your partner is a good idea Now I know

I recently learnt I don't know if you can tell but I'm 1% Hawaiian Aloha I just wondered if maybe we should do like a ancestry thing first or like just to make sure we're do like an ancestry thing first or like, you know, like just to make sure.

We're not related. We're not related. Or if we are related, like probably wouldn't be that bad. How am I going for time? I just wanted to show you. You've hit your. No, sorry. I just have a couple more.

You've got one minute. You've got one minute. I just wanted to show you. I've got a video. Sorry. I'm just scrolling through. That's me doing pull-ups, but you don't need to look at that. Impressive.

Yeah, I know. I mean, I'm quite light, so it's easier. This is me, because you're a gym bra, this is me hip thrusting 100 kgs. Oh, wow. So I'm just doing eight reps. That's two. You can see on my back's not throwing.

Three. Four. Look, one, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five on the plates. Four, five. So that's my hip. Up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. So I've hit eight reps there.

You can't show him a video of you doing hip thrusts. But it's 100 kgs. It's my PB. Would you like to see the results of the hip thrusts. But it's 100 kgs, it's my PB. Would you like to see the results of the hip thrusts? Okay. Okay, one last thing. One last thing. Last question, please.

Look, I know that you, in the movie, I'll go back to the movie and I do apologise. Yeah, fast X. Person. In the movie, you do a lot of impressive stunts.

Yeah, yeah. Have you ever seen anything as impressive as my marching team at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo doing a backwards crossover impressive stunts. Yeah, yeah. Have you ever seen anything as impressive as my marching team at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo doing a backwards crossover? So here we are. We've just formed here. That's me at the front.

See, we're going backwards. We can't see each other, Jason. We're miles apart. And here we go. Look at that interlocking. Backwards, we can't see a thing. Oh, wow. And this is a sport?

Yes. Good. It is. And that's all the time we've got. Thank you. Can I just get a quick photo? No, no photos. Sorry, I just want to grab a quick little

selfie. No, no photos. Okay, thank you so much Jason. A pleasure to meet you. A pleasure to meet you. Oh, sorry, I've just dropped my room card on the floor. Oh my god, it's so weird. Do you want to pick that up? Oh, they give you two, so it doesn't matter. A pleasure to meet you, Jase

Lovely to meet you Thank you Okay, there wasn't a lot of talk about the movie there Okay, thank you, thank you, JP That was really good acting, actually, on your behalf It was actually surprising As a producer, as a, sorry, as Jason, producer Jared How did, did you feel awkward at all?

Jason didn't feel awkward, Jared felt awkward Do you know what? Did you feel awkward at all? Jason didn't feel awkward. Jarrod felt awkward. Do you know what? Also, I didn't get to drop my room key for the real Jason, unfortunately. Do you know what, though? Producer Jarrod did such a good job. I mean, we were just like, usually I think if Vaughn was here, we were like, Vaughn will do it, but then you were still sick and we were like, Jarrod will do it.

And, oh, my God, after that, Aaron, who was a senior acting tutor at the New Zealand National Drama School, said, oh my God, Jared's such a great performer. He did such an awesome job. Well, he went to an elite private school and was part of their theatre club. Yeah, he was. You were Sweeney Todd, weren't you? You were Sweeney Todd.

No, I was Peter from Jesus Christ Superstar. Yeah, it's a big role. That's one of the disciples yep the denier technically but you did such a good job in there

and now anytime I see anytime I see Jason on social media he always says like aloha and all I hear is

Jared saying aloha I love that so much and it was such a quality bit of radio and Vaughn wasn't here yeah it was almost like we didn't need.

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Because Jared just, like that, he stepped up. Yeah, it's nice. Almost like we didn't need. Because I'm dying. So it's nice to know that it'll carry on. Shit, well, we'll be sweet.

You get your yearly man flu. I think you'll be fine. So we left the hotel. I'm getting back to the actual Jason interview. We left the hotel. And then that's when you got the notification. And we all just were like, Pride of Gypsies tagged you in a story.

So Pride of Gypsies is his Instagram handle, Jason's. Yeah. And I was up, eh? Like the adrenaline was up and I was about to head to the theater to do my show. And yeah,

my phone went like ding. And I was like, I beg your pardon. Pride of Gypsies has shared you in a story. And I clicked it, and he had gone on and said, like, oh, my God, just met Hayley Sproul, like, greatest interview ever, and go and see her show, and he, like, held up my flyer and, like, tagged me in it.

And then, like, I group called the group, and we just went, like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Everyone jumped on being like, wait, what, what? And then I was so hyped up from him tagging me in a post that I pulled into a bar and I had a little Prosecco and some dumplings. What am I? How many people have asked if you slept together

since that interview? So many. So many. So many people. Because you've had a few DMs, like just friendly, purely platonic Friendly back and forth Yeah

And Yeah Every time people are like Did you do it? Because the whole time We've talked about it He's my past car Are you allowed to say

You went to a party You went to a party He was there I went to a party He was there Yeah That's all I'll say That's all you'll say

Yeah No I didn't sleep with Jason But more I wish Oh I wish I wish. Oh, I wish. I wish I could. Okay. But I did not.