⚡MINI: Is This Adelaide's BIGGEST Freeloader??

What happens when you let someone take advantage of your kindness for too long? This podcast episode tackles the tricky situation of dealing with a freeloading family member.

Hayley and Max take calls to help listener Katie, whose sister has moved in with her rent-free for three months. An anonymous caller who proudly calls himself "Adelaide's number one freeloader" shares how he couch surfs at friends' places indefinitely without contributing or paying rent. The hosts are horrified and push back on his freeloading ways.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
What would you do if your sister who you love
so much, got divorced, has nowhere to live, moved in
with you, stayed for a month two months now it's
three months, and hasn't offered to pay any form of rent, contribute.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
To the food, shopping or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
What would you do?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
That's what Katie is facing at the moment, and we're
trying to help her out.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We've been trying to help You've all been calling in
thirty one O two three. We've got someone out who
is going to show you, we believe what the absolute
worst can happen is because all I can see on
my screen is a non freeloader, good morning and non
what do you do?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, so, guys, I absolutely love being freeloader. I think
I think it's actually great. I'll tell you why as well.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah please, Well, basically, because you know, Australia is pretty
hard Slutia sometimes.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know, I reckon you can get pretty far. Because
I've got this plan.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
You, I'm going to buy a house and I'm going
to do it in the next couple of years. So
what I do here is basically I stay at MAT's places.
I just told them that I'm waiting on the bond
for my new place so I could stay there. Then
they will go, oh yeah, do you want to go
with me or come here?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Borrow the car or borrow the car. It's free petrol.
Guys don't have to worry about filling up the tank.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
How long have you been doing this for?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
About you and a half now.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So you you don't have a permanent address, you bounce
between your mates couches, you don't have a car, you
use their car, and then you don't fill up the
petrol yep, easy peasy.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
And at what point do you leave where you're CouchSurfing?
Like do they tell you to leave and then you
just go somewhere else?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Sometimes Eve would be like that or just end up
in an argument.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I think the colts are after you right now.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Friendship, yeah, honestly, I just I just befriend them.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
I've lost a couple of mates through it.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
But to be honest, that's how you know who your
friends are any if they will help you.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Out taking advantage of them.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
But it's like it's things and roundabouts, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
There's no roundabout here. It's just you swings. There's no
roundabout in return.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah. But look when I when I get my place,
I will let people stay with.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Me, so I can I ask. But have you got
a lot of money in the bank?

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Yeah? So'tually done? Pretty good. I'm on sentilent here, so
I get money.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
For that, and then I also I work casually so
I can kind of I can boost up my payment.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Is this the thing?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Are you Adelaide's number one free loader?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah? That's me.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Do you ever feel guilty about this? Mate?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Not really?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Why would I because they are your mates and you
take advantage of them a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Match, But like, honestly, mate, like.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'm actually a great mate. Like if you if you
were my mate when we were hanging out, I'll be good.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I make you pretty good. I'll give it back another way. Yeah,
we'd be good.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
We'd be good until you said, can I sleep on
your couch and then never pay any rent and then
bug her off into the sunset and not feel the
diesel up in my car?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, but you put it that way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Wow, what do you think makes you a great mate, Anonymous,
that makes up for all of the mooching.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
I'm the guy that if you want to call me
at like three in the morning, say you've got a problem,
You've been kicked out of bar, something's gone wrong at home.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
You call me, I'll be there. I'm a shoulder. Yeah,
how are you going to get their mate?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're going to get in my car.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Sometimes I ride the scooters, those electric ones.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Just put me on the back of that.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's fine.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Maxis in Troy.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I'm going to go and pick him up on my
beam scooter. It's connected to his credit card. Anyone's like, god, wow.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
My girlfriend doesn't mind either.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Who is she sleeping this whole time?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
You have a girlfriend?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's not a turn on?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah, because I say, who's two nights a week?

Speaker 5 (04:05):
And then I go back to my other Mate's off
of you and you are setting a terrible example for
our people.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Get rid of you.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Turn him down.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Also, there's Timomy Sirrens in the background freaking me out,
setting a bad example. Children out there, don't be like Anonymous.