ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Podcast - Niall Horan!

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley had a chat with Niall Horan, discussing ChatGPT, Golf, & of course, his new Album! Niall Horan's third solo album "The Show" releasing June 9th!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Hello, we're joined by Niall Horan. Hello. Hi guys. Hi. How are you? Good, how are you? Good, thank you very much.

We're just, we're concerned with the Kiwi accent, which can be a little bit of a barrier, but we know you've worked with a friend of the show. Joel Little. Joel Little. So Kiwi accent shouldn't be a problem. No, I'm still struggling with it. He's got a proper accent, but I still struggle with it.

Like, I can't. I feel like I'm a guy that can do accents, but New Zealand is not one. Oh, can you do accents? What's your best accent you can do? Probably Australian, and that's why I struggle with New Zealand. Oh, give us a little Aussie. Give us a little Aussie, Mike, because that would be sick.

Hello? Hello? Just leave it there. Let's not get into it. Oh, give us a little Aussie. Give us a little Aussie, Mike, because that would be sick. Hello? Why? Just leave it there. Let's not get into it. Let's not piss anyone off. Yeah, that's fair. I was trying to think how you could just slightly evolve this trip

because we're close. We're similar, but I can see if you've got one, the next is hard. Yeah, well, you're just going to have to come here to learn it even better. That's true. That's the next. I do these interviews, and then the next time I see you, I'll probably be in the country. Is that on the cards at all for you to come and visit us?

Well, that's the idea at some point. I'm trying to stick some sort of a tour together at the moment, and then when I know what that's going to look like, then we'll have a better idea, and then I'll let you know. Lovely. I like that. That's a good arrangement. How far ahead do you have to plan?

I mean, tours are a big thing, but how far ahead is your schedule kind of spoken for you? Oh, I've got a fair idea of what I'll be doing next Christmas. Is it Christmas? Because that kind of comes around once a year. I've pretty much got that sort of scheduled for the rest of my life, I reckon. Yeah, I know. Our schedules are always... You have to book in venues and doing all that kind of thing and travel plans.

You have to have a fair idea of what you're going to do. Now, I'm wondering, you've written a few songs, like we said, with Joel. Is there any, like, for example, lately we've been playing here on the show with ChatGPT. Have you had a play with this, this artificial intelligence thing? No, is this the songwriting thing? Well, no, that's what I was just about to say.

It can do anything. Like, when we were waiting in the Zoom waiting room, I like write me five potential questions for nile horan and it wrote me like five questions yeah i think it's crazy we're all out of a job we're screwing ourselves out of any all of the jobs what did the robots about now that he had beautiful dulcet tones and a sharp wit well yeah because i was like give me an introduction to introduce me and it said um uh he's a singer songwriter an all-around awesome guy who's known for his amazing voice and down-to-earth personality. I'm talking about the one and only Niall Horan. Oh, my God.

That's a robot. That's better than anything you would have said about me. I also don't mean to panic you, but I've just said write me a Niall Horan song, and it's writing me one. That could put me on the job. Bring in the guitar. Bring in the guitar. Bring in the guitar. Chorus, because every time I close my eyes, I see your face and all your lies. I try to run, but I can't hide from the pain that's still inside.

Very rhymey, isn't it? Yeah, it's a bit. You can't have every line rhyme. It's not Dr. Seuss. No, no, no. Hey, Niall, I saw recently You took to the stage Of your mate

Lewis Capaldi Jumped on stage with him Yeah He was He was playing a show I'm in Augusta right now For the Masters Golf Tournament And I went down to Atlanta

A couple of nights ago To watch his show And I was stood side stage And the sound isn't great Like you can't When you're stood side stage You can't really hear much But he

I think someone handed him Their phone to do a be real. And he was asking, well, I could see him. He was gone and I could only see his mouth. And I was going, what? And then I ended up going on to stage to do some,

being some girl, be real. That's a hell of a be real. Oh my God. I know everyone's like This is me in bed And the other one's My feet in bed

And then you're in someone's That's a win See you're in Augusta For the golf masters Do you like a bit of golf? Oh do I what? Yeah but ask AI Do I like golf

Okay But you're cool and young That doesn't make any sense. Get out of here. Get out of here. Do you get one of the like golf carts every time or do you walk all the holes?

I've got a bad knee at the moment so I've been doing a bit of carting around but I usually try and get my steps in, you know, healthy lifestyle and all that good stuff. Is it your meniscus? Because I've done my meniscus at the moment. Oh no've got all sorts of issues i've torn my patella tendon

which is the one that keeps your kneecap in place oh yuck oh no he's got a floating kneecap oh god i literally have a floating kneecap currently so that's interesting okay nile horan is a big fan of golf he's quite vocal about his passion for the sport and has even organized his own celebrity golf tournament, the Horan and Rose Gala, in partnership with pro golfer Justin Rose. There's your answer. Jesus, it knows everything.

So we don't need to have jobs to interview Niall, who doesn't need to have a job because the AI can just write his songs and then AI can write our questions. Yeah, basically. We're all going to be sat at home soon. I mean, I'd love to for a week, but I do need some money. What are we going to do? I don't know.

I don't know. Golf? Golf. Because I can't play golf yet, can it, AI? No, I can't. A winner works that out. Niall, you've got a lot of famous friends. I have another golf question.

Oh, no, we can't linger on golf. No, no, let's linger on golf. Have you ever had a lot of famous friends. No, I have another golf question. Oh, no, we can't linger on golf. No, no, we can't linger on golf. Have you ever had a hole-in-one? No, I've been very close a couple of times, but I've never had one. Okay, are you good at mini-putt? Because that's angles. No, I'm awful at it. Okay.

Horrific. He plays the real golf. The real golf. He plays gentleman's golf. Okay. Those are my golf questions. I'm done. Golf questions done.

No, you've got lots of famous friends, Lewis Capaldi being one of them. But do you guys, does the old One Direction gang have a group chat that's still buzzing? Group chat's not great, but the individual, everyone in the individual messages is good. Yeah, it's still a constant flow. A constant flow. A constant flow of individual messages.

Probably not as constant as our one. But it's gone from being like, we're the hottest young boy band to, I've got a floating kneecap, someone else is like, I've got a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all getting older. I'm at the golf thing. It's gone from sexy young hot chat to sort of like middle-aged

middle-aged dude chat pretty quick. Can we ask about your, before we let you go, can we ask you about your new album? What can you tell us about it? Well, it's got a Kiwi producer, as you said. He's actually, he just texted me. Can you tell him, can you just tell him, technically he still owns Vaughan and Xbox on a technicality.

And Vaughan says, you owe him. Because he was like, I tell you what, rather than give you an Xbox, I'll give it to a children's hospital. And at the time I was like, okay, but now I'm kind of like, I tell you what, rather than give you an Xbox, I'll give it to a children's hospital. And at the time, I was like, okay, but now I'm kind of like, you know. He's brought this up every time. He did the right thing. Yeah.

He did. He did. But your album is out in June. What can we expect? Bangers? Ballads? I'm hoping for bangers and ballads. Bangers and ballads.

That's the hope no and it's it's a record that was it's definitely probably the more mature one that I've made

probably because I'm a little bit older I think Joel brought some of his greatness to it I think you can hear

you know what you know about Joel little songs you can hear in this he's brought a lot of my stuff and my general writing to like you know to another level with with the way he produces and the kind of guy he is so yeah no it's it's an album i'm really proud of it it obviously took a bit took a bit longer to make because new zealand was uh the last country on

the planet to open its doors so it took a little bit longer probably would have liked but um worth the wait i hope so did you record any of it here in joel's studio in new zealand or because i read joshua you guys did some recording in joshua tree it turns out that joel actually lives around the corner like when he's in la he has a house and he lives around the corner from me weirdly enough and we didn't get to do anything in new zealand just because by the time the lockdown was finished we like was it was hard to get in and out. So I think if there's an X record to do in the next couple of years or whatever, I don't know when that is. But yeah, I would love to come down.

Yeah. Play a little. And you can't even do the accent, so you couldn't fake and tell customs that you were from here. No, you couldn't. You can only do the Australian accent. I'd get away with that. I wouldn't get away with it. Yeah.

Oh, brilliant. Well, thanks so much for joining us. The album is the show and it's out June 9th. Niall Horan, thank you. Thank you very much and I'll see you soon. Did Joel message back? Tell him he can pray from my cold, dead hands. Yes!

Oh. Who did you tell me you were? Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey, guys, I reckon that was my tum tums That was my tum tum tums Hey guys I reckon That was the most fun I've ever had on a show Ah

Not for me Vaughan Oh no Nowhere even close Nowhere even close Nowhere even close You haven't been here long Have you

No I haven't No Well if you were listening And you had fun Why don't you give us A little review and a rating ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley