Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 09 - Mike Hosking, Synchronised Answering, Iso-Legends

Episode Date: April 9, 2020

Where are you listening to us right now?NewstalkZB's Mike Hosking calls inOur new game Synchronised AnsweringWhat's that in your pocket Ben?Hollie Smith called inWe reward another Iso-LegendSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the ISO Luncheon! Please welcome your hosts, it's Jono and Ben! It is the ISO Luncheon, Jono and Ben with you on the hits, day four of our show today. Yeah, welcome to the podcast on iHeartRadio, number one on the charts, blowing up the iHeartCharts. Are we? Are we? I haven't looked at the iHeartCharts. You can't just say number one on the charts uh blowing up the iHeartCharts are we are we i haven't looked at the iHeartCharts you can't just say number one on the charts yeah very good Conan O'Brien they've got Will Ferrell you know they've got a lot of great podcasts yeah i didn't say where we were i said we're storming up what did i say we're number one on the charts you clearly said that i apologize i

take back everything we are heading into a long weekend in New Zealand you know of course Easter uh the Prime Minister saying stay home have a have a staycation. Although on the TVNZ graphics yesterday, when they put her words on the screen, it said, have a steak Asian, which was interesting. Was it like saying, have a steak Asian flavoured? Or was it like, have a steak Asian? I don't know. It depends what tone you're saying it in, isn't it? I don't know. But I looked online.

It's a lovely dish with rice, with steak, and a lovely sauce. So there you go. But I'm sure there's more than one Asian steak dish. I mean, you've got your black bean beefs and you've got your... Oh, so maybe you have one of those dishes. You can't just be one. You've just got one. Lazy.

You've just got the recipe for one. These are things we can discuss afterwards. On the podcast this afternoon, we catch up with Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB. He hates every minute of it. He does. Holly Smith Singer. She was probably indifferent about every minute of it.

Yeah, and we reward someone. A really nice moment today. Someone who's doing some great work for New Zealand, helping us get through these tough times. So enjoy. Jono and Ben's ISO luncheon. All the hits. Don't do this. Right now, 0800 the hits. 0800 843 4487. Who is listening to this? What are you doing? I want to know what you're doing. Like, are you shaving a cat?

Oh no,, no. Hopefully not. Hopefully not. Oh, g'day, guys. Barry here, just in the middle of shaving my cat. I've done all the other jobs in the house, but it was time to get that cat finally shaved. No, okay. Are we going to throw it out there? Are you rolling cigars with the Mexican cartel leader? I don't know. I'm just throwing out these wild options. Maybe a good example? Do you think anyone's listening to this right now? I don't know. Well, have we got any phone?

Anyone phoning through? We have. Okay. Hello, line one. This is a security guard. G'day, guys. How are you going? G'day, guys.

A sprightly security guard. Are you keeping the place secure? Of course I am. I'm very, very hard at work at the moment. But you guys do nothing. You just wander around looking. What did I say? Do nothing. No, do nothing. Just wander around looking at their phones. But then obviously if someone's in there, that's when it really starts.

How often does that happen, mate? You can say about once a month I have to do something. Hey, we're only doing a one-hour show a day. I can't throw stones. Hey, thank you so much for listening. What have you seen as a security guard? I had a very, very bizarre one a couple of days ago. I can't throw stones. Thank you so much. What have you seen as a security guard? I had a very, very bizarre one

a couple of days ago. I just started my shift at about 7am and was sitting there doing nothing and I look out the window and a guy completely stark naked

jogging past wearing gloves and a face mask and absolutely nothing else. It's quite a safe, staying safe. I think a flashing pest is considered an essential service, aren't they? We can't do without them.

He did look good. He did. Well, you'd have to. To have the confidence to run with nothing else but a mask and gloves on. Full confidence that you don't want to get corona. Hey, thank you so much for calling. You stay safe, all right? Line two.

Chris. Chris is with us on 0800 The Hits. Chris, what are you doing? Where are you listening from? Cool. I'm at work actually at the moment, boys. Busy shipping out face masks that we're trying our best to keep busy with. But I must admit, the cat I shaved yesterday, before I came to work today,

I was up to counting the cornflakes. Counting the cornflakes. That was the next job. He's got a freshly shaven cat. His cornflakes are all counted. cornflakes and not lifting them. Counting the cornflakes. That was the next job. There we go. He's got a freshly shaven cap. His cornflakes are all counted. Cornflakes are counted. And now back to some form of work, eh?

Because it's been pretty difficult with lockdown and not being able to do what we normally do. So we got into the face mask business. Oh, so you just started making face masks. Are they selling all right? Yeah, they are, actually. I'll tell you what happened.

Three weeks ago, we thought, yep, we're going to need to make new face masks. And there's people sort of asking us, what are you doing? What are you up to? Can you turn your machinists into face masks? You know, manufacturers. So we designed face masks. And then they went on Trade Me. And then they went out to a few distributors that were asking.

And I think we're at just over 1,000 results right now. Good on you. Where can people get them from, Chris? Well, we actually just launched a brand. We realised that they're not just face masks, they're actually comments from people. They're kind of like a new item of clothing you want to have with you or wear around the place.

So we've come up with a brand called Kind Face. Kind Face? Not chuck it on your face or something? No, Kind Face is where we're at. Kind Face, you know, look after your community. That's nice. Look after the manufacturers and look after our team here who obviously wanted to keep working and earn some money

and put food on the table. Good on you, Chris. Well, thank you very much. Yeah, no, no, loving it. Thank you. Kind Face, have a look at them on Trade Me, get yourself a mask. We're going to go to Elsie. Elsie's online for a welcome.

Elsie. Thank you, guys. Nice to be talking or listening to you while we're working away at home. What do you do? I work for Spark. Oh, good on you. Yeah. And so we're, of course, part of us are essential service,

so we're busying away here. Oh, we'll go without phones. We wouldn't be talking to you right now. There's a fun fact. Hey, well, keep up your good work. Thank you very much for keeping the telecommunications lines alive. Hey, my Wi-Fi, I'm having a few issues. Can I bring that up with you now,

or should we deal with that off air? No, you can deal with it off air. Okay, all right. I've got a couple of little things. I'm sure she loves hearing that from people. She brings up where she works. Thanks, Elsie. Have a wonderful isolation period.

Thank you. Thanks, guys. Great listening to you. No, thank you for listening. We're very desperate. And the final caller. Hello, The Hits. What are you doing?

Where are you listening from? Is that me? I don't know. You know more than I do. what are you doing? Where are you listening from? Is that me? I don't know. You know more than I do. What are you doing? I'm working from home, kind of, and I'm in Wellington. Well, don't be too vague because I don't want any more information. The Iso Luncheon with Jono and Ben on The Hits.

We're trying to catch up with famous New Zealanders who are also in isolation like everyone, want to see how they're coping at the moment. And're trying to catch up with our famous New Zealanders who are also in isolation like everyone, want to see how they're coping at the moment. And this next guest I don't think he really wants to come on to the show. Did he agree to this? I don't know, but we're going to cold call him I feel like management forced him to do this

Yeah, we're going to cold call Mike Hosking host of the Newstalk ZB Breakfast the Mike Hosking Breakfast and bully him, bully him on to the show Well I feel like, yeah, he's accepted our request. Apparently. So he knows this call's coming through. Apparently.

Hello. He's here. He's here. I'm here. It's on. It's on. It's on. It's our favourite talkback host, our favourite human being, actually, Mike Hosking.

Morning, fellas. Welcome to Howrick. Hang on. It's not Howrick yet. Welcome to the hits. Is it. It's not Howick yet. Welcome to the hits. Is it the hits? It is the hits. It's our 87th radio station we're working on.

Oh, fantastic. Right, you ready for a pop quiz? Okay. He's really flipped around. What's a pop quiz? Name me four tracks from Solid Gold Hits Volume 7, 1975. No, we're a lot more current than that. We're not playing coverage in Tom Jones.

When was the last time you listened to this? Honestly, tell me, when you just dropped the word Tom Jones, is that because you Googled them beforehand and thought I'd better look up some old artists so I know what I'm talking about? Michael, it's nice to have you join us on this. Did the management make you do this? It feels like something they would have done.

Of course they did. Of course they did. Management makes, whenever my golden rule is help nobody, be a friend to nobody, and love isolation, which is why I'm reveling in these circumstances. So I really, I mean, to be fair to you guys, you're two of my more favourite people in the world, very few favourites.

Oh, thank you, that's an honour. I'm almost happy to be here, but there was a tremendous amount of arm twisting to get me here today. Oh, we appreciate it. Can I ask you a question I've always wondered? Because you and your wife, Kate, you both come to work very early in the morning. What's your schedule like? Because what time do you go to bed? What time do you get up?

We go to bed at about 9 to 9.30, depending on the day. There is a session of Mad Passion for a period before we... Okay, sorry. That's also what I was wondering. That starts at 7.30 till 9.30. We go to bed at 9 or 9.30 and we get up at 2.30, so that's five hours. Which is not enough, and then we get into work by about 3 o'clock in the morning. Jeez, and do you have a snooze after the show?

Yeah, occasionally we have a snooze during the day depending on how tired we are. By the end of the week, you tend to be a bit tired and so, you know, you have a little bit of a catch-up. But I'm a believer in sleep being a bank and so we sleep well at the weekend and so suddenly you get, you know, seven or eight extra hours on the weekend

and that's basically a whole day's worth of sleep. And look at me, look at me. Hard to believe that I'm 55 years old. Most people think it's 45, if not lower. And so it's all about attitude. What an attitude. Mike, on a serious note too, I really, I think about the likes of yourself

and the other hosts on ZB. I think about our Prime Minister often, who are literally in the eye of this storm every day. Like, you can't get away from it. It's your job. Like you cope with it i'm riveling in it this is what we do this is the whole point of doing what we do it's about information and news and reading and learning and educating and if you can't enjoy uh and maybe that's not the right word but if you can't revel in it then what's the point why are you in the job i, but if you can't revel in it, then what's the point? Why are you in the job?

I mean, if I couldn't enjoy this period of time, I'd be on a washed-up breakfast show playing old records for three or four hours in the morning, and, you know, that'd be me. I can't help but feel there was a little bit of a passive-aggressive shout-out there. You're very said with love. We've got Mike Hosking with us, the host of the News Talk ZB Breakfast.

Now, Mike, I want to take you to task like you take politicians to task on your radio show. You do a segment on the Herald website, Mike's Minute. I watched five or six of them this morning. Not one was a minute. More like 245, upwards of three minutes. Why are you lying to the people, Mr Hosking? Well, the difficulty is it's driven by public demand. I started out at 60 seconds on a minute. I said initially, I said, let's

make it Mike's hour. We don't have the data space. And I said, all right, we'll call it a minute. And I started in a minute. And all the people did was say, no, Mike, more, more, more. I'm giving people what they want. Now, Mike, your Wikipedia page, which of course is not a very accurate thing at the best of times, but it says your name is Michael Noel James Hosking IV. Correct. Is that correct? That's quite correct.

This is the sort of research you've obviously, someone's told you to do research in your new role. And can I just give you a tip on interviewing people? If you keep raising the, now your Wikipedia page says, after about the 27th interview, they're going to go, anyway, but you are right, because my father, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather all had the same name. Why didn't you just roll with it as your name, like on radio?

Well, because the thing about it is I'm a man of the people and I'm a humble person, as you guys well know. Are you? And I just couldn't help but think that Michael Miller James Hosking IV might have sounded ever so slightly pretentious. It's the last thing he'd want, right? Call me Mike. Mike Hosking, it is good to catch up with you.

You stay safe in your bubble and we do mean this, you're doing a great job for New Zealand, providing them with great news and entertainment. No worries at all. You're on a desert island with Rod Stewart or Elton John, which is why. Michael Noel James Hosking IV. We are going to ignore that question

and ignore your constant digs about older artists. Take care of yourself. Jono and Ben's ISO luncheon on the hits. We're going to play a game now where we haven't actually ever played it before, so it's a bit of a road test. If it's a shambles, you can pin the blame squarely on Benjamin Ross, boys. This is synchronised answering, and it's basically very simple.

Producer Ju. Hello. Millennial Ju, Mill Ju, is going to ask us a question. We have three seconds to both answer the question. If we get the same answer at the same time, we win the prize. But at the moment, the caller has the prize, and we're going to bring on from the Waikato 11 year old Chloe

Welcome Chloe Hi. Oh you sound sprightly and you're looking at your whole life ahead of you Look at me, I'm all ambient eager What are you doing for lockdown Chloe? Um, sewing, running biking. Oh jeez you're very active. Sewing, running, you've done more things

in lockdown than I've done in my entire life. Alright, well, at the moment, Chloe, the $80 Hell Pizza voucher is all yours to spend after lockdown, but Jono and I could win that back by synchronising an answer, alright? Okay. Okay, you could have this all sewn up, Chloe. Let's find out. Alright. Thanks, Dad.

In three seconds, I want you to name me an animal that would live in a zoo. Emperor. Panda. Emperor. Panda. Tiger. Oh, so we didn't synchronise an answer. So at the moment, Chloe, that's yours.

Chloe, you can play as well. You jumped in there. You should let her play as well. Well, she can. She can chime in. I didn't say she couldn't. You were like, don't let the little girl play. This is our game.

This is our fun. Yeah. Okay, okay. We didn't synchronise the arts at the moment. How pizza vouchers all yours, Chloe? Okay. Name me a type of fruit. Banana.

Kumquat. Ah, okay. We did. Yeah, okay. I was thinking the most exotic thing. We took photos for the hits and there was that fruit. Yes.

That was the, yeah. Next one. All right. A Disney character. Ariel. Oh, we were close. That's how it works. We didn't synchronise an answer.

And Chloe, that hell pizza voucher's all yours, all right? Oh, thanks! Oh, they are so happy. Worth your whole life ahead of you. You young kids, get out of here. Go and have a great day. These two germs are the 0.1% hand sanitiser can't get rid of. Jono and Ben's Iso Luncheon.

On the hits. After we finished the show yesterday, I went home and had some lunch. Jeez, when I'm going home, I'm taking all of my clothes off before I walk in the house, like butt naked. It's like entering Karimuruma Prison. Give myself a check, make sure I'm not carrying anything. Be careful, right? You do, yeah. Wash and all that sort of stuff.

And we're being very careful at work because it's a privilege to get on the radio and talk to you guys. And so when I went home yesterday, I had some lunch and then I was like, oh, I'll go to the supermarket because that's the only place you can go. We needed some things. And I had a sandwich at home, grabbed a music bar. Because you don't know how long you're going to be waiting at the supermarket, right?

So you can eat lunch in the line. So I had a Muesli bar and an orange. I put an orange in my pocket and a Muesli bar. I'd eaten the Muesli bar by the time I got to the supermarket, but I forgot about the orange until I got into the supermarket. And I was standing by the oranges. I was like, uh-oh, I've got an orange in my pocket,

which is sticking out quite a lot. How did you fit an orange in your pocket? What sort of disturbed human being wand I've got an orange in my pocket, which is sticking out quite a lot. How did you fit an orange in your pocket? What sort of disturbed human being wanders around with an orange in their pocket? I had track pants on. So I put them on. She's like, jeez, that guy's got some kahunas. I might have an orange in both of my pockets.

So I had an orange, and then I got a bit worried because I was standing by the oranges, and I was like, uh-oh, I've got an orange in my pocket, but I brought that in to the supermarket. But at the moment, it probably doesn't look like I've got, I've taken one. So I got a little bit worried. So what did you do?

Well, I got worried and I took it out and put it at the bottom of the orange pile. So you've reversed shoplifting? Yeah, yeah. You've put it back? Because I tell you who needs to make some more money at the moment is the supermarkets. Yeah.

They'll be like, thanks, buddy. And did you pay yourself back at the self-service checkout? Well, no, then I walked down the next aisle and I was like oh that's good that's over then I went oh you're not meant

to touch the fruit and then put it and I was like oh god so I grabbed it and then put it in the bin but how did you know that was your orange

and I put it up in a place just next to the pile of oranges but I basically reversed shoplifted orange into the supermarket what were you worried about

like being court shoplifted an orange yeah and the repercussions of ending up on like the odd stuff section of The Herald? I don't know.

Low-level broadcaster and supermarket orange heist? The Iso Luncheon with Jono and Ben on the hits. Now since bursting onto the scene with the smash hit Bathe in the River,

she's... I'm gonna bathe in the river. Oh, thank you, Jono. You know, we can play a little bit of the hook, but anyway, it's probably better from you. She's become a legend of the New Zealand music scene,

although with the pollution in the rivers these days, I don't know how much bathing she's doing, but she's joining us on the phone from her bubble. It's Holly Smith. Hello. Welcome, Holly. I just recorded those BVs for your next performance, if you want to use them, mate.

I feel like we've done more than two skits using that song together already. Bathing in the river? Probably. We're probably just rehashing old stuff we've done more than two skits using that song together already. They've been, probably. We're probably just rehashing old stuff we've done with you, mate. That's what we're doing. We're just filling in time at the moment. We like recycling. Save the planet.

Hey, Holly, how have you been? How's isolation been for Holly Smith? I can't complain. You know, I'm in a nice spot, and it's just me and my partner and the dogs and the cats. So I'm getting out every day, running the dogs

and apart from that, just sticking in the bubble. A lot of people, you know, probably find this time, one of the good things about this time is people don't come over to your house unannounced, but you are bringing

the whole internet to your house tonight. Yeah. The whole internet. Inviting everyone. The cat videos. Anyone. You name it. The whole internet. Inviting everyone. The cat videos. You name it. The fails. The Tiger King memes. All those

people, they're coming over. It's going to be weird. I haven't done anything like it before. Really strange setting it all up. It's like, oh, I'm going to have a concert tonight. So that's Vodafone Lounge Jam. So you're going to have cameras in your lounge. You're going to be playing. Have you had to set up all the camera

angles and the set and the piano and stuff yourself? Kind of. We're just down in my studio here and then Waiere, he's a tech guru, genius guy. So he's been talking me through how to set everything up and between a laptop and a phone and a...

Just make sure you turn your mic on. Yeah. So that's happening at 7 o'clock tonight on Vodafone New Zealand's Facebook page, right? you know, a laptop and a phone and a... Just make sure you turn your mic on. Yeah. You're going to hear Will about it. We can't hear you, Holly. So that's happening at 7 o'clock tonight on Vodafone New Zealand's Facebook page, right? It is, and it's to support Music Helps, which is an organisation helping New Zealand musicians in need through this time.

So all my new stuff, so you can hear all of that and give me your kind opinions on how great it is. Holly Smith on the line. We're catching up with her in her bubble now. Holly, you've got a lot of tattoos, right? I've got a few, yeah. Jono as well. He's got a lot.

So I thought I'd just describe them over the phone and you rate them on just what you think they would be, not without seeing them, how I would describe them, all right? There we go. Okay. I didn't know about this, Holly. So on his chest.

Didn't Lord autograph you, tattoo you? Oh, that was me. Yeah, I've got a Lord tattoo. Yeah, signature on his chest. Didn't Lord autograph you, tattoo you? Oh, that was me. Yeah, I've got a Lord tattoo. Yeah, signature on my arm. But Jono on his chest has got a large tiger fighting a serpent snake. What do you give that one out of 10? Does he have a mullet? Does anyone have a mullet?

I'm not quite Joe Exotic. I haven't gone full-blown Joe Exotic yet. In that case, it's only like a four. Oh, a four? Okay. He's got a dog smoking a cigarette with a steak. Is it a steak or is it a hat? No, it's a hat, like a Peaky Blinders sort of hat.

Oh, a Peaky Blinders sort of hat. These are actual tattoos. Jono's got one. What do you give that one out of ten? Oh, I like dogs. I go six. Oh, six? It's a healthy reminder the dog should not be.

Is it a cigarette or a cigar? It's a healthy reminder the dog should not be. Is it a cigarette or a cigar? It's a cigarette. He's not that sophisticated. It's like in a British Bulldog having a cigarette. I'm imagining that picture of all the dogs playing poker. Yeah, it's kind of like that. Yeah, he's won the game. He's celebrating.

Would you like to pick one last tattoo, or do you want me to just scrub one more? Well, I don't know. This is a pure character assault that you launched on me so you can continue on. The last one is a ship, a big boat. Is it Captain Cook's ship? I'm not sure, but it's a big, like the Endeavour.

Where is it down? My guts. Your guts. Has it got pirates on it? Has it got pirates? No. No. It's a nice day, though. A couple of seagulls floating around got, pose? No. No. It's a nice day though.

A couple of seagulls floating around there, mate. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. She's not even given that a rating. Let's move on from this game. Holly Smith,

before we go, I just want to ask something. You're good mates with Taika Waititi, right? And you hung out with him when he was making Jojo Rabbit in Prague. How did that happen?

I decided, well, I didn't really travel outside of touring and we were in touch and I was like, hey, you still going to be in Prague? And he was like, yeah. I'm like, can I come stay? He's like, yeah. And so I went and did that. And it was a real choice.

It was a real thrill being on set. Was he dressed as Hitler the whole time you were staying with him? Not the whole time. I was on him? Yeah. Not the whole time. I was on the wrong set. Yeah, he didn't go. We were at home. I thought he was one of those method actors who never drop character. Yeah.

Tyka's turned into a real arsehole. It got weird, but yeah, it wasn't that weird. Hey, Holly, you're a lovely lady. Good human being. And you can catch Holly tonight. The Vodafone Lounge Jam streaming live from 7pm on the Vodafone New Zealand Facebook page. Good on you. Good luck sorting out the

mics and stuff on your computer, Holly. Yep, cheers, darlings. Alright, well, yeah, thanks everyone and hope to see you there. Jono and Ben's ISO luncheon. All the hits. We really do babble on the Facebook live, don't we? Jeez, we're talking some nonsense. We play a board game each Facebook Live

if you want to tune in. And today we're doing an emoji game. Yeah. It's quite fun. Yeah, we're just discussing what games we should do next week. And Speed Monopoly has been brought to the table there. Which is a 10-minute game of Monopoly.

Not what I thought it was. Because I was like, Ben, you need to go see your mate and we'll get into it. Now, we do like to leave the show on a bit of a nice note. After all the horrible things we've done over the last 55 minutes. The ISA legend, someone who's out there doing great work for New Zealand right now

and essential services. That's right. So we're going to call today's winner. If you'd like to nominate someone, you can just text it and their name, a little bit of detail about what they're doing. And, yeah, we could be calling them next week. With a $250 grab on voucher. Yeah, that's pretty sweet.

Hello? Is that Colleen? Speaking. Hey, it's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Hey, boys, where you been? Missed you guys. Oh, well, thank you. You'd be the only person.

We were having a discussion off here because Ben thought he recognised the name on the winner's sheet. Did we emcee your wedding? You did indeed. Hey! Now, to give you guys backstory, if you're going, well, how did they emcee your wedding?

Your husband now, Phil. Wonderful man. He was a long-time listener of our radio show, and he asked us to emcee. We'd never met him, but like 12 months before the wedding, and we couldn't say no. And it was an amazing day. We had such a great time.

It was an awesome day. It was definitely memorable and in some places unmemorable after a few beers. Oh, I can vouch for that. Slept all the way home on the Southern Motorway. But, Colleen, you've been nominated for the Isoledgend as part of our Isoluncheon by someone. And what do you do? Well, basically, I am a courier driver for

lab tests. Oh, you drop Ben's test results off quite often, don't you? Another positive, mate. She can't talk about that. Oh, good on you, and you're dropping off COVID tests and things like that? Yes, no, we collect from doctors, centres, obviously lab

test collections and COVID-19 testing stations and we transport it back to the lab so it can all get processed. Once Ben, you had your swab done, we came along and picked it all up. Good on you, Ben. Very important job that you're doing. I'm ignoring that, Colleen. Most people are trying to get away from it. We've got to drive to it

unfortunately. And I did hear the test is a little excruciating where they're jamming a metre long stick up your nose or something. Yeah, something like that. It goes all the way up and they've got all the processes in place and everything's all bagged up and safed and everything like that

so they're doing a real good job out there collecting the samples. They are. But it's all worth it in the long run. As a person transporting all of these samples around, do you have to get tested? No, we actually haven't been tested. Like I say, they've got all the processes and procedures

in place so that our safety is taken into priority as well. All the doctors and collection centres have got their processes that they're to follow and all of that, so everything is pretty much as safe as it can be. That's awesome. And it's the best thing, there's no one else on the road, You can run all the reds.

No. Speed down the wrong side of the motorway. The law stills will happen. I think it's a lawless society out there. I'm doing what I want out there. Colleen, thank you for what you're doing for New Zealand right now. A $250 Grab One voucher is all yours. You can spend that after lockdown on whatever you want, all right?

Oh, well, thank you guys so much for that. And just a big thank you to everybody out there in essential services doing what they've got to do not exactly you know everyone would love to be at home with their babies and everything like that and we've just got to do what we've got to do to get through it. And you are a bloody great New Zealander if I could steal

a phrase from a popular radio station Well said Colleen and all thanks to Grab One, your everyday essentials delivered today. That is our show. The Isoluncheon will be back on Tuesday. Enjoy your Easter. I don't know what you're up to.

Probably much of what you've been doing over the last 14 days. We're doing well as a country. We seem to be flattening the curve. Let's just stick with it. Thanks, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield. So inspirational. Every time I'm trying to pass on something, I'm like, you know, there'll be idiots trying to go up there. Hold on, I'm just looking here on your Wikipedia page.

Just looking at your Wikipedia page. There's nothing about you going to university and studying medicine. So I'm just wondering where you're getting all this confidence from. Just trying to pass on a message here right now. Give yourself a safe weekend, New Zealand. Have a nice Easter. Stay safe, stay sanitised. Good day.