Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - December 18 - PM Jacinda Ardern, Jono's Worst Of The Year, Who Has Had The Best Year?
Episode Date: December 17, 2020It's our last show & podcast of the year!!! We will be back Jan 18th. But today for our final hoorah of 2020 we had Jacinda Ardern join us! And we made her do *another* novelty pop quiz, this time to ...see whether she'd remember the biggest moments in her year. We also touched on Jono's worst moments of 2020 and my god we will be surprised if he's allowed back next year after some of the shockers he's had! We also wanted to end the year on a positive note and we found out from you guys why this year has been a great one despite the pandemic. It was nice hearing all your lovely stories. And that's us over and out! Have a great Christmas everyone and a safe New Year. We'll see you in 2021!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Feliz Navidad, my dear friend, Feliz Navidad.
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas, everyone.
You can't say it now, I mean. It's a week away from Christmas.
Yeah, why have you been a bit anxious about saying it?
Oh, you don't want to go too early.
And then the other thing that I often wonder about is how long...
You've been relentlessly saying it on the radio.
What's the issue with saying Merry Christmas on the podcast?
Yeah, I know.
I don't know.
For some reason the podcast, different people on the podcast.
A better class of person?
Yeah, I wouldn't say better class, but just, you know, they've got...
A more discerning listener?
Yeah.
But also I find when you come back in the new year,
how long do you keep saying happy new year till?
Like if I haven't seen you and it's March...
Well, then I'm justified in wishing you a happy new year?
But it feels a bit weird.
You're like, mate, that was two months ago.
Yeah, but we haven't seen each other.
So it's...
Have I last seen you in 2020
and the first time I see you in 2021 is mid-March yeah yeah i can never you what about september 30th yeah okay okay
but odd odd yeah oh it would feel weird but i'm still legally allowed to say it to you
okay you know in the realms of social law big show today it was show and jeez, we went out on a banger.
We could have phoned it in.
Literally could have phoned it in
from home,
but we came into the studio,
we recorded it into microphones
and it went out on the radio.
We had Jacinda,
I think you would get
that breakdown of radio
if I'm clear.
Jacinda Ardern,
Prime Minister,
joined us.
We love a little game
with Jacinda.
She's like,
oh, you guys and your games.
And we did it one on one today. Again, she tolerates us. She's like, oh, you guys and your games. And we did another one today.
Again, she tolerates us.
She comes in.
She knows what she's getting when she's coming in here.
A little bit of wacky radio-ness.
And then we send her on her way.
Although she was telling you off about a present you bought your wife.
She did.
A highly publicised present that we keep to ourselves.
But she's suffered the same fate.
Yeah, but in her case, it almost felt like it was okay.
She was like, oh, it's practical.
Mine was practical.
We'll let you decide for yourself when you hear this.
Yeah, because I thought, I don't like to bring it up now
because we've brought it up so many times.
My present.
But then I was like, well, she's talking about it.
Out of anyone, she will understand this.
And she was like, oh, no, no.
Yeah, she looked down on you,
but she had received the same level of present.
Anyway, well, Jacinda Ardern and Sole Mio,
a wonderful operatic trio.
Lovable gentlemen, join us on the program as well.
Listen, good luck to you.
Have a great Christmas.
Have a great new year.
We will catch you back in 2021.
All going well.
Pending contract negotiations.
Ben, bring a representative.
Oh, really? Yeah, no no it's not looking good for you
I'll be back in 2021
we'll see how you go
John O'Brien breakfast
returning next year
two dads just trying to fill some air time
some may say it's pointless
but the main thing is
it fills in some air time for us
that is the main thing
John O'Brien breakfast on the hits
our final show of 2020
and it's great to have
the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
join us in the studio. Thanks for coming in
Jacinda, we appreciate it. Nice to see you.
So you were just on the phone outside
and you were like, I was just in the phone call and you were like
don't worry it was just the Deputy Prime Minister
on the phone. You should never hang up from the Deputy Prime Minister
in favour of us. Well I feel a little bad
because he interrupted another interview so I was calling
him back and then I just cut him off.
Did you just hang up on him? No, no, no.
He has no need to be rude. Do you need us to call him back now and you just cut him off. Did you just hang up on him? No, no, no, no. It's a bad lie. There's no need to be rude.
Do you need us to call him back now
and you can finish the conversation on air?
We'll have a three-piece conversation eventually.
You've had a big week of phone calls.
The Queen.
You've spoken to the Queen.
That's pretty awesome.
Do you know what's really lovely?
So that's the second time this year
we've had a conversation
because she just wanted to check in on New Zealand.
It was, yeah, it was really lovely
just wanting to know how everyone is.
That's very cool.
Does she text you before she's going to call
or is she just like your grandmother,
just phones and you're sort of stuck in a conversation?
You definitely do get warnings.
Yeah, right.
Yep.
Which is good because I always need to go
and double check what the right way to refer
to different members of the royal household are.
Because you don't want to like check you
because you clear your voicemail once every six months and then you're like,
oh, I missed a message from the Queen in
March.
That would definitely be awkward.
Can I just say, Jacinda, you probably don't remember,
a couple of months ago, I was
in an Uber leaving the domestic airport.
No, I remember. You waved furiously
at me. Was it a furious wave?
It was a high energy wave.
It was doing that. I imagine
he was doing that. It's me!
That's the way.
And you're in the car next to us and the Uber
driver was like,
that's why she is the greatest Prime
Minister in the world. Because she
was waving back. And then you waved again because
she's still in the car. She's like, look, and she's remembered
my Uber. She is the greatest world
leader ever. This is why she's the greatest. The whole way home, he was, she made that guy's day. I was like, look, and she's remembered my Uber. She is the greatest world leader ever. This is why she's the greatest the whole way home.
He was, geez, you made that guy's day.
I was having a few problems with the windows.
Oh, were you trying to wind down?
I was trying to wind down, which, of course,
no one in the car is ever keen that I do.
I think they kitty lock them so that I don't hang out the window too often.
If you had wound down the window, he would have driven off the road.
Now, Christmas time, back to Morrinsville, is it?
Is that the plan?
Yes, yeah.
So I'll be back with my folks here for Christmas
and we kind of alternate.
So this year's Morrinsville's year.
Oh, awesome.
I heard, I was reading the other day
that you kind of ruined a Christmas
for some friends of yours in the UK once
by making them go.
I guess I did.
Spend their Christmas day doing something.
In service.
Yeah, which is nice.
A lovely thing you were doing.
What did you make them do?
Oh, I don't know.
I just, I thought it would be nice
if we went to the local council there
and organised a Christmas for people
who didn't have family to spend it with.
And so we thought it'd be nice to go down
and help out, cook, serve.
But there was just this group of really angry older people
who gave my flatmates particularly a very hard time.
And so by the end of it, they were looking very downcast.
They're just being abused by elderly people.
They basically got abused by older people.
Why were they so disgruntled, this group?
I just think years of being curmudgeonly just really just came to a head on Christmas Day.
They took it out on your friends. For some reason
I don't know whether those thick Kiwi
accents were too much for them but yeah
so I remember it was a very quiet
walk home because there was no
trains and it was cold.
This is Christmas Day.
This is Christmas Day. Oh my gosh. Yeah no no I dragged
them down there on Christmas Day. Yeah.
And I was also reading about Christmas Day you made my gosh. Yeah, no, no. I dragged them down there on Christmas Day. Yeah. And I was also reading about Christmas Day.
You made Clark some fishing kit one year as well.
I did.
Yeah, yeah.
You actually made this?
Oh, well, no.
Well, made.
I ordered some fishing kit and then had his Fish of the Day logos put on them.
Oh, wow.
I thought that was amazing.
That's a lovely touch.
Was he into it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I bought my wife some clothes over the past and she hasn't worn it.
I was thinking the other day,
I was like, she's never worn that.
Well, that was quite early on
and I hadn't quite worked out.
But Clark, it's got to be practical.
Now I should have picked this up from the birthday
where he gave me a half brush and shovel.
He gave you a half brush and shovel?
Correct.
Not even a full brush.
No, a half brush and shovel.
He wrote a nice message on the inside of the shovel.
Were you in the market for a half brush and shovel?
Did you need one?
I did need one.
How do you dig his way out of that?
With the half brush and shovel.
There were other gifts.
But this is the kind of,
Clark, practical gifts are his favourite gifts.
Because he knows they're going to get used I understand. Ben fell into the same
trap. He gave Amanda, his
wife, a whole bunch of other presents but in amongst them was
a frying pan that she said she wanted.
We'd been to the store and she'd gone, oh we need one
like this, this is great. And I remember that.
No, no, no.
Practical, practical.
That means next time you're out at the shops, pick one up
it doesn't mean wrap it up and pretend that it's there.
It was one of the few.
Okay, that makes sense.
Thank you, Prime Minister.
Now, before you go,
we just want to see
how much of the year
of your year you remember.
You cannot go past
the pop quiz, can you guys?
I know, we love it.
I hate them.
This is all about you.
This is about you.
But it doesn't matter.
I hate them even more
when they're about me.
You're going to have to
put the headphones on.
I'm sorry, Prime Minister.
Okay, so in September 2020 this year,
you were interrupted during a live cross on TV in Dunedin.
Yes.
By what?
Actually, there were multiple things.
A clock.
Yep.
Seagulls.
Well, that's all we thought there was.
Have a listen.
Because we're running a government referendum here,
the seagulls are really taking you on.
You're lucky that you didn't get the bells.
Oh.
That's comedic timing.
It was.
It was beautiful.
There was also another earthquake that happened during a live cross as well.
There was, yeah.
You've had a few things happen during live crosses.
All right.
How did you react to the news that New Zealand had zero cases of COVID-19
for the first time in June?
What did you say?
I did a little dance.
I did a little dance.
What was the little dance?
I'm not going to make you do it.
It was the kind of dance that you do with a toddler.
So I did a little dance.
Oh, lovely.
It's kind of one of those squat down kind of jigs.
Okay.
I don't know if you'll know this
because you're so modest.
In 2020, what place did you place on Forbes' list
of the most powerful woman in the world?
What number?
It was 30-something.
Yeah, it was 30-something.
It's 32.
32?
Now, when you have a discussion with Clark, too...
I felt like they really robbed the Queen on that list.
Oh, the Queen?
Oh, she was...
I know, that didn't feel quite right.
No, yeah. But when you're in a discussion
with Clark, you're like, well, are you going to have
a confrontation with the 32nd most powerful
woman on the face of the earth?
Because you're not going to win.
He was not
moved by that. He was like,
30.
He wasn't impressed by 30. Actually, speaking
of Clark, you came in here on the day before election,
the two of you, and we talked to you,
and you were having a marital discussion about something
that Clark wanted to do on election day.
Do you remember what it was?
You're asking me if I remember an argument I had with my partner
three months ago.
Do you guys remember?
This is really drilling down on your relationship, isn't it? What did he want to do? Do you guys remember? This is really drilling down on your relationship, isn't it?
What did he want to do?
Look, I actually can't remember,
but I imagine it would have been fishing.
You've got it right.
So you brought up before about needing to supply some fish.
Is that what you...
Yes, yeah.
We may or may not have been having an argument
about whether or not...
Can you go fishing on election day?
...on election day,
it would be an appropriate use of Clark's time to go fishing.
Do you know what her response was?
If you get up at five in the morning, you can sleep on the couch.
You're nodding away?
Yeah.
Did he go fishing?
On election day, no.
No.
Oh, good.
You're a smart play, Clark.
Yeah.
And finally, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,
how much does she remember of the year?
You got a present from Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB the other day.
I think it was a Mickey Mouse
toy that had Niamh's name on it.
But when you opened it up, you thought it might have been something
else. Do you remember what you thought it might have been?
Well, I thought that
the other gift he gave me, a face
mask, was something else.
I did not mistake.
I thought the
face mask was a G-string.
I did not mistake Mickey Mouse for a G-string.
Sorry, I got my facts wrong, but you were right, a G-string.
I have to admit, when I first opened it,
I briefly worried that it was a G-string.
Weird gift from Mike Hoskey if that was what...
Yeah, that's what I said.
I thought, okay, we've gone too far.
We've gone too...
Hey, Jacinda Ardern, congratulations on everything that you
do for this country. Yeah, we really appreciate everything you do for
New Zealand and navigating us through this year. It's been
such a tough year for so many New Zealanders, but
so nice to have you and Ashley and everyone in charge.
Oh, as we've constantly
said though, we could have said anything
that we liked if the country wasn't
with us on getting through,
you know, we wouldn't be where we are now. So my
thanks to everyone. You all deserve a holiday.
And do you feel positive about 2020
with the things on the horizon?
Yeah, look, there are still going to be tough moments,
but there's a path.
And I think everyone can see that light now.
We know it's just going to take a bit of time,
but even just having that light at the end of the tunnel
makes such a difference.
Oh, have a great Christmas.
You deserve it.
And hopefully we'll catch up with you on your new year
for another pop quiz.
See you next year.
Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information.
Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
It is our last show of the year.
And we normally look back at Jono's worst moments of the week.
But because it's our last show, we thought we'd look back at Jono's worst moments of the year.
Ben Boyce Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's worst moments of the year. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Pryor's worst moments of the week.
You know, not once, not once have we gone into your worst moments.
We brush over those, ignore those, don't we?
There's so many, so many bad moments from Jono Pryor
and we're going to reflect on some of them now.
One of my favourite moments was when he came in
and he claimed that you could type with your eyes closed.
It was an unfound arrogance.
I was like, I've been typing so
long for 20 years that I can type
anything with my eyes closed. Have a listen to this.
So you tell me what to type and I'll have my eyes
closed. It's a fun game.
And we'll see how I go.
My name is Jono.
My name is
Jono.
And I am bald. And I am bald.
And I am bald.
Okay, I'll push start.
Are we ready to go, Juju?
Yeah.
My B-A-N-W-A-H-E-B-B equals S-U-N-V-K-S.
There we go.
Yeah, okay.
Didn't quite work out.
So listen, from that day forward, I've been typing with my eyes open.
Yeah, there's been a lot of slander towards all sorts of people
and unnecessary slander towards the great Gary McCormick.
So we want to do a little radio experiment.
You know, this is a fun radio experiment.
Like, you know, can Gary McCormick make it through another show?
Oh, stop getting beef with Gary McCormick.
The answer is yes, he can.
I think you're not going to start beef with Gary McCoy? The answer's yes, he can. I think you're not going to start beef
with Gary McCoy.
It's not beef, it's saying he's good enough to make it through.
Oh, there was more slander.
Sir Tom Moore, who was the
lovable old chap who walked around and raised
all those millions for charity over lockdown.
Captain Sir Tom
Moore, he said that he would be
keen to play James Bond in the next...
Oh, jeez. James Bond
to die another day.
No.
Good on him.
He's done some great stuff, but he moved
it aggravatingly.
Don't double down on it.
One thing in radio,
the key is just using words.
It's a word game. Just saying things
that make sense and sometimes they didn't happen from you.
I got to talking to a police officer yesterday.
And a wild, what do they call them?
Oh, geez, I don't know.
I'm trying to think of the word.
I'll tell you what, Juliet, you play a song and I'll try.
Cop? Cop?
No, not a wild cop.
But, you know, what are they?
They're stories, but they're not.
I'll give you a few moments to work out what you're going to talk about next.
It is the hits.
There are so much more.
I'm going to choose two more.
What about this one?
A little unintentional sexism.
An astronaut in space has voted from space, an early vote.
How cool is that?
Everyone would know how he's voted, though.
She, mate.
Mormon can be your sexist.
Or we can go to space.
Are they allowed in space now?
Naughty.
Who let them in space?
They're not meant to be downstairs preparing meals for the astronauts.
No, not a day.
I'm not coming back next year, am I?
No, definitely not.
And we're going to end on this one.
When we're talking about, I was talking about my gum
and my love of gum
and fresh breath
and I also carry around
and have done
for probably five or six years
I have gum
I've been carrying around
honestly five or six years
I would buy a few packets a week
and I would have that
it's kind of like a little
just to freshen up my breath
I tell you what
Ben Boyce has the freshest breath
in New Zealand
he blows me to sleep
sometimes
with him
okay let's not talk about that you never want to talk about that do you breath in New Zealand. He blows me to sleep sometimes.
Okay.
Let's not talk about that.
Oh, you never want to talk about that, do you?
He got a great fresh breath
and that's,
why am I wrapping up
my worst?
You wrap it up.
Don't you check it out.
You wrap it up.
I'm wrapping up
my own worst bits.
And that was
Jono Pryor's
worst of the year.
From stealing
Mike Hosking's car
to stealing
the hearts of New Zealand.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's breakfast
on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. Now my mum, actually speaking and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Actual hearts being not bestowed.
Now, my mum, actually speaking of hanging out,
was hanging out on the weekend.
She was on her way back up north and popped in for a night.
Oh, Jenny Boyce.
Now, is this the same Jenny Boyce
that you refuse to communicate with for 12 months?
I'm just not good at communicating
because I do so much of it on a daily basis on the radio, you know?
Your only level of communication is when you call her for a radio stunt.
And she has to listen to our podcast to get updates of what's happening in your life.
Do you know what she did?
She was driving around the South Island and she drove for about eight hours.
I think it was like a four-hour trip, one way and a four-hour back.
And she said the radio wasn't working in her car,
but she had her phone plugged into a little power pack and on the seat next to her she had the podcast,
the Jonathan Ben podcast.
Listened to eight hours of the Jonathan Ben podcast.
She binge listens to eight hours.
She's like, I heard so much about your life and oh, this is,
I was like, oh.
Oh my God, I can't stand eight hours of it.
I can't even stand three hours of us every day.
It's like mum's so positive, she's always chipping in with positive,
like thumbs up comments on the internet and all sorts.
You don't even answer your phone when she calls and I have audio evidence to back this up She's always chipping in with positive thumbs up comments on the internet and all sorts.
You don't even answer your phone when she calls.
And I have audio evidence to back this up because you just let her go to voicemail.
This was a voicemail that Jenny Boyce left on Ben's phone.
You have a message received yesterday.
Oh, wow.
Guess who this is?
This is somebody called Jennifer.
Perhaps it's your mother.
And who hasn't heard from her beautiful son for a long time.
So, hopefully you're relaxing and having a lovely day.
And maybe we can catch up when you've got five minutes.
Even a minute.
Even a minute.
Okay.
Lots of love.
Bye.
Even a minute.
Oh, no. When you've got five,
oh, no, you probably don't have five,
but even a minute.
She's great.
She's up the weekend.
But one thing,
and now I've said she's great and wonderful,
one thing that was,
she's just constantly,
she's so happy,
which is great,
but just singing.
One of these people just singing.
I don't think she knows she's singing.
She's just constantly just singing away
and just doing her thing,
which is great.
But then I was standing next to her
while she was doing the ironing and for 45 minutes, she was just singing away. I got a thing, which is great. But then I was standing next to her while she was doing the ironing
and for 45 minutes she was just singing away.
I got a little bit of it recorded.
La, la, la, la, la.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Wow.
Wow.
There you go, yeah.
It's like you're living with a musical.
Oh, yeah.
It's like Harry Poppins or something like that.
Don't be fooled by the rocks she's got.
She's still Jenny from the block.
She's made it through to my boot camp.
Actually, speaking of mums,
one of the funniest things that I think we did this year
was call your parents.
They got a new phone, your mum Annie and your dad John.
They got a new phone and they were quite nervous about Siri.
Yeah, they were.
Well, they upgraded from your stock standard champagne petrol station burner phone
and they went up a couple of levels to an iPhone,
which they're still coming to terms with.
And they didn't trust Siri and you knew this.
So you had the thing on your computer when you type in
and it sounds like a computer voice saying stuff back.
And we were playing that through the phone to them as Siri,
and it was a lot of fun for us.
Hello.
Hello, Annie Catherine Pryor.
This is Siri, the audio communication facility from Apple.inc.
How are you doing today?
If you want to know how we're doing,
put on a human voice, Siri. We don't want you to ring us again. What do you want, Siri?
We are calling to see how you are enjoying your new Apple iPhone from apple.inc.
Do not call again. How do we stop you?
How do you stop?
John boy Hello
John boy
I love that moment when Jono's mum realised what was going on
We've actually got the full video of that on the Hits Breakfast on our Instagram page
If you want to go check it out
Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hits Breakfast on our Instagram page if you want to go check it out. Ben and Jono call this show
Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits.
The Hits. Now Soul and Mio
are incredible, incredible voices.
And it's so awesome to have them touring
over summer and it's also awesome to have them
in the same building as us. They do a breakfast
show on another radio station, Flavour, here
in the building and they join us in the studio.
Great to have you guys here.
Thanks for having us in your luscious studio, guys.
You guys have a beautiful studio.
And we're just like down the hall at the back by the toilets.
But you guys are nice.
Well, you guys are on a breakfast show.
You just popped across from your Flavour breakfast show right now to do this.
So I appreciate you guys taking a quick time out.
It's great to have you guys in the building.
Thanks for having us.
It is.
You guys, I like it because when you walk around the building,
you can hear you all singing.
It's wonderful
the most bizarre thing
happened here
that I've had so far
I was in the toilets
the other week
and I was
you know as you do
I was just singing
in the toilets
taking a
doing a thing
the standing one
I was having a sing
I came out of the toilets
and there was a
group of people
and they started
clapping for me
oh because they were like
finally he's done.
Finally.
It's been three hours.
Their prostate's flaring up.
Now, you guys are about to play 10 shows around the country,
perform end of February, basically all over New Zealand,
and then the final show at Spark Arena.
Very exciting to get on the road again.
And a bit apprehensive, to be honest.
I don't know, there's something about it because remember and then the final show at Spark Arena. Very exciting to get on the road again. And a bit apprehensive, to be honest. Oh, really?
I don't know.
There's something about it because remember when we were going to do the Spark show
on August the 13th,
we were gunning for it.
Everything was great.
Everything was fine.
And then two days before that,
the country went on lockdown.
So we're kind of in this state
that we're like, we're so happy to go tour.
But at the same time,
we don't know what's going to happen.
Until you're on that stage.
Yeah, exactly. did we interviewed you ahead of uh the announcement
about the spark show yeah that's right that's right and so awesome we can just replay that
let's play that last chat we had thanks for coming in guys
i got solomia with us uh just announcing a tour which is going to be taking place, 10 shows from the end of February going everywhere.
Ben Boyce, his mum Jenny Boyce.
Oh yeah, you've seen my mum last time.
She loves you guys.
We've been answering machine.
You guys get on really well.
I mean, you're family, right?
You get on really well,
but we want to mix things up today, all right?
Things might get personal because on the count of three,
I want you guys to say the name of the person
that you think would answer this question correctly. Okay okay so if we say most annoying to tour with
out of the three of you you're gonna say one of the one other person's name okay
one two three Moses
I was thinking I'm gonna, but my mouth said Moses.
I don't know what happened.
There was like some sort of brain aneurysm.
I'm annoying myself onto it.
Who takes the longest to get ready before going on stage?
One, two, three.
Amitai.
Amitai.
Amitai.
Amitai.
I was going to say Moses.
Yeah, no, actually, it's out of us two.
Okay.
I love it how we're driving a wedge
between the most loved trio in New Zealand.
That's what we're trying to do.
I turn the screws.
Okay.
Okay, so, Olivia,
who's most likely to be late?
One, two, three.
I'm excited.
Yeah, notorious.
How far are you running
sort of 15 minutes behind schedule all the time?
Come on, see, that's on a good day.
That's on a good day.
How far, though?
These guys will start the show,
just the two of them. Oh, really? In two of them I'll just rock on up and be like
Hey guys, how's it going?
What song are we up to guys?
What are you guys up to tonight?
We're in half time
We're doing a concert
Get on stage boy
Sorry the food was too good
And I don't think any of you guys
Fit this last question
But we're going to say it anyway
Biggest diva on the count of three
One, two, three
Penis It's definitely penis you guys fit this last question, but we're going to say it anyway. Biggest diva on the count of three. One, two, three.
Penny.
It's definitely Penny.
I said white M&M's.
Very funny.
We've got Solo Mio with us now, boys.
Obviously, this year hasn't panned out how it started.
I mean, in January,
who would have thought you'd be hosting a radio show every morning? Not us.
Geez, definitely not us.
That's for sure.
What are you wanting for the New Year's?
I just want the borders to be open.
Well, you've had a bit of trouble with that, obviously, being overseas, you know, trying
to come back to New Zealand.
You were in Germany and they all got shut down, the production.
They got shut down, like, immediately, midway through rehearsal.
And they just said, yeah, everyone can go home.
And of course, if those guys in Europe, they can just catch a train home.
And I'm the only international guy. And I was like, oh, just gonna fly home back to new zealand nope the voucher system was like hell no so how long had you been in germany before it went
into lockdown i was in there for about three and a half weeks so not long at all yeah yeah not long
at all so i was like i flew all the way there the three and a half weeks worth of rehearsal and i
then came back home and then you were kind of stuck
in sort of limbo in London
not knowing when you could come back, right?
I was.
And it was because people,
they didn't have the system
quite sorted out at the time
and people were booking loads of rooms
just in case they were flying home.
So this is the ticketing.
So what happens when you need
to book a ticket home
or part of this quarantine system?
Yeah, and this is what they need to fix
and I don't know if they've fixed it
but just as long as you have a flight,
you could book a room and there's no cost to it.
And so people were creating loads of profiles,
like 18 profiles and booking multiple rooms
because it didn't cost them.
And so they could have their choice of hotel.
Yes.
So how I got home was that I asked someone,
I said, are you actually flying home?
And they said, oh no, I'm not.
You can take it.
Oh, seriously?
Yeah, so if the rooms are booked,
then you can't come into the country
because you can't be quarantined.
But the rooms might be empty.
The rooms will be empty.
They won't be used.
Oh, wow.
That's a little bit of a flaw in the system.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You must have been a London guy.
What?
I was like, what's going on?
There goes Soleimia with us.
Hey, now, boys, you're wonderful at singing.
Now, Ash Thomas, who reads news on the show,
she has written a 12 Days of Christmas thing
that we'd love you to have a look at.
All right.
We'll go line for line?
Yeah, okay, fine.
Here's Soleimio.
The fifth one and the final one together.
Fantastic.
This is live rehearsing going on here.
The 12 Days of Christmas, the 2020 version. Here go you choose the key you go on the 12th
on the 12th day of christmas 2020 said to me 12 ashley bloomfields. Eleven elbow sneezes. Ten Zoom calls.
Nine left for Megan and Harry.
Eight stoners crying.
Seven panic buys.
Six Trump court cases.
Five donor kings.
Four drinking problems.
Three face masks.
Two separate lockdowns.
And a COVID-19 vaccine.
Oh, wow.
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
Drop the mic.
They're done.
They're going to race back to their show.
I will drop the mic, but it's attached.
Yeah, go see us.
Solomio.
Ten shows nationwide from the end of February,
starting the tour in Havelock North North before finishing in Hamilton in March.
They're going North Island, South Island.
There you go.
Some of your best boys.
Want more Jono and Ben?
You can catch up with the boys anytime.
Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.
2020 is going to go down as a pretty surreal year for the world,
and that's to put it lightly.
It's been a terrible year.
Many people affected not only by the virus,
but also how that's been health-wise,
also financially as well.
We really do feel for those people.
It's been a shocking year on many fronts,
backs and sides and underneaths, all over.
All over it's been a shocking year.
But I mean, if you take out the pandemic,
the economic downturn,
the complete unsettled climate in America,
it's not been a bad year.
If you take that stuff away.
You ain't got much left out there, yeah.
But we started here at The Hits this year,
pretty surreal time to start at The Hits.
And during lockdown, we started on The Breakfast Show,
which was great in some ways because management were not here,
so we kind of flew under the radar.
Oh, completely.
For two months, we flew under the radar.
And another positive too, you could park anywhere in town
and not get ticketed.
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah.
Ben left his car in the middle of the Southern Motorway one day.
But we've had a lot of fun this year doing this show,
waking up with you guys every morning.
It has been a real privilege to come to work each day.
And we've tried to be a show that, you know,
while all this horrible stuff's going on, not to ignore it,
but also just to try and to bring some other, you know,
some positivity and some fun every morning.
That's been the goal.
That's right.
And one of my highlights, one of my big memories of the year, Ben Boyce,
was tricking you in, workplace bullying you.
Many times.
Many times.
Many, many, many times.
So many great workplace bullying moments.
Which one have you picked out?
It's why I come to work, to bully Ben through a microphone.
That's what you get paid to do.
Yeah, if we didn't have microphones in front of our faces,
I'd be in HR every day.
But thankfully, we do.
It was when you thought you were talking to Donald Trump.
Now, we had pranked you into thinking that we'd phoned the White House
and through a series of lies that I had told people on the phone
who were all actors,
you believed we were in a conversation.
And it came out of the blue as well too for me
because we were ringing about something else and then
suddenly, so I had no time to sort of formulate
it in my head whether this was true or not.
This is President Trump.
Who is this? Where are you going?
This line should not
be open. This is a breach of
national security. If you hack this line in any way, this This is a breach of national security.
If you hack this line in any way,
this line is being monitored by quite a few people.
So if you could just kindly identify yourself.
Oh, look, we're from a radio station in New Zealand.
We don't want to cause a...
We want a call with a prime minister.
I don't know. I don't know.
Oh, he was amazing there, Guy.
He was, yeah.
John DiDomenico.
He's going to be out of work now, though, isn't he?
Yeah, Trump impersonator.
World's premier Trump impersonator.
Maybe he can impersonate Biden.
Oh, yeah, true.
Yeah, just a guy who's lost his marbles
and can't tell the difference between his wife and his sister.
We've done a lot of fun stuff this year, though, looking back.
24 hours of Zoom.
Remember we did that?
We went on Zoom for pretty much 24 hours.
That was a long time ago.
We tried to get the hole-in-one in Taupo.
We had a virtual wine-drinking session
with Sarah Jessica Parker, but something else
that I remember fondly was when we
towed Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB
his car, and that was a lot of fun.
Hello, Mike.
G'day, mate.
More importantly,
is that it?
Is it keyless going?
I don't know if it's keyless.
Have you filled the tank up?
Doesn't need premium either.
91's fine.
We replaced his fancy car, didn't we?
His fancy Jaguar with a rusty red old Labour supporter car.
Yeah.
So we thought we'd try and end the year on some positivity.
Why did you have a good year?
What was the best bit from year?
A positive thing that happened.
Maybe you got married.
Maybe you had a child.
Yeah, maybe you got married to the love of your life.
Maybe you got divorced from the person who you thought was going to be the love of your life.
Yeah.
And that was a good thing.
Yeah, what was the one thing that you were like,
that was really cool that that happened this year.
We've got some Hell Pizza vouchers to give away.
We're clearing out the prize cupboard.
So give us a call 0800 THE HITS
and tell us why 2020 has been in some some way, a good year for you.
Let's focus on the positive.
Come on here, brag about your good year,
and let's start it off with Kennedy.
Welcome from Morrinsville.
Morning, Kennedy.
Hi, how are you?
It's been a good year, 2020, for you?
It has been.
Okay, all right.
We'll take your word for it.
Have a good day.
What was the one thing, if we're looking for a positive from 2020,
what was the one thing that stands out?
Well, I ended last year as kitchen assistant
and started this year as kitchen manager,
so job promotion.
Oh, nice.
Do you go Ramsey on it in the kitchen?
Do you get aggressive with the staff,
start throwing pots at them?
No, I don't.
When do you build up to that?
What year is that?
When does that happen?
2021.
Yeah, gotcha.
Do you know why?
Do you understand why Ramsey would be so unreasonably angry?
I don't know.
No.
He's probably very hungry or something.
Yeah.
Oh, hangry.
People get hangry, don't they?
Yeah, I don't know why you just can't have a calm, cool, collected chef
who manages the team appropriately and respects his employees.
But anyway, good on you.
You keep cooking and have a wonderful Christmas, Kennedy.
Thank you, you too.
Cheers.
I'll send you out some hell pizza as well.
Hold the line, my friend.
Tee Kofada, Melissa, you're on the air.
New Zealand's breakfast is with you.
Why was it a good year for you, 2020?
June, the last lockdown, Level 4 lockdown,
I found out
I was 15 weeks pregnant
and I had my baby boy
in October.
Oh my God,
she pulled a human being
from outside of her insides.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Oh,
what's the boy's name?
His name's Hudson.
Oh,
I love it.
You could have called him
Lockie for lockdown.
No,
no,
no,
no.
Did you think about
any of those sorts of names
that,
you know, maybe summed up the year like Lockie and stuff like that? No, no, no, no. Did you think about any of those sorts of names that, you know,
maybe summed up the year, like Lockie and stuff like that?
No, it was always Hudson from the start.
As soon as we found out it was a boy.
It was never going to be beautiful baby COVID-19.
No, no, no, for good reason.
I imagine there was a lot of lockdown pregnancies.
Oh.
Nine months from lockdown there's going to be.
And maybe potentially divorces,
but we're not focusing on the negative,
are we?
No, no, positive, positive.
Melissa, thank you for listening.
Have a wonderful Christmas
and New Year, okay?
Thank you, you too.
All the best.
Let's go to Leanne Taranaki.
Nice this morning, Leanne.
Yeah, beautiful.
Oh, good on you.
It's been a good year for you,
they tell us.
It's been great.
What happened?
Both my husband and I were essential workers,
so we got to still get out and about and do things for other people.
What were you doing?
Working at the hospital.
Oh, you were the heroes of 2020.
And my husband was a rubbish truck driver,
picking up all those grotty tissues
Outside Ben's place?
Sorry about those
Yeah, the wheelie bit blew over in the wind
And it got everywhere
It was a heck of a day
It was quite runny nose, wasn't it?
It was very runny nose, yeah
It was the time of year
It was the time of year
Oh, hey Leanne, thank you.
And thanks to your husband as well for all the hard work you've done.
Yeah, and all the essential workers around New Zealand.
We really do appreciate it.
Yeah, but I'm just zeroing in on Leanne and her husband.
I'd like to say, Leanne, but say everyone for what you do.
And still people are doing every day as well.
Going to hotels, working at hotels.
They have people with COVID in them, working in hospitals.
It's amazing what people do for New Zealand.
Yeah, we spoke to a lady during lockdown who was a nurse
who had to move in to the retirement village.
They didn't want to risk her coming in and out.
So she actually stopped living at home and moved in for eight weeks.
So it's incredible the sacrifice many of you people have made.
So thank you, Leanne.
Thank you very much.
Hold the line.
We're going to send you guys out some hell pizza,
all you guys that phoned up before.
Next on the show, Sole Mio.
Love Sole Mio.
They're going to be joining us very shortly.
I tell you what, if you were to pick three of New Zealand's favourite sons,
it would be Sole Mio.
But then you'd probably, if you were to form a family,
you might add Stan Walker in there.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe a Lord, a Benny.
Rich McCaw.
Yeah, Hilary Barry would be the mother.
Oh, yeah.
I would be the father.
Which?
What do you mean?
You're not in the family, mate.
I'm probably in New Zealand's family.
I promoted myself.
I'm probably like the pest of a cousin who's in prison
that the family wants to ignore.
Yeah, exactly.
No one wants you part of it.
What ever happened to the cousin?
I don't want to happen to him.
Committed some terrible crimes.
We won't see him for six to eight years.
We're proud of New Zealand.
Woo!
Go New Zealand!
If only New Zealand was proud of that.
Jono and Ben.
New Zealand's breakfast.
On the hits.
Jono and Ben.
Merry Zoommas.
Yes, thanks very much to themarket.com.
We've been doing this all week.
We have organised some special one-on-one time over Zoom
with Santa Claus himself for some deserving Kiwi kids.
And we've been travelling around with a wee surprises, popping up in some elf costumes that Santa's left us.
So how it works is Santa's on Zoom with the kid and then we pop up at their door with the elf costume and a present for them.
Yeah, it's an unusual sight, isn't it?
Do we have to hand those elf costumes back?
Because mine definitely needs to go to the dry cleaners before we do. But we've given away so much
stuff thanks to themarket.com to all of these kids who are so
astounded when they've just been talking to Santa, asked for what they
want for Christmas, then it turns up at the doorstep. We've given away monster trucks, Nintendo
Switches. We gave young Joshua enough Nerf guns to defend
our country if we ever find ourselves in the middle of the war.
We'll just turn to Joshua, and he can shoot our enemies with Nerf bullets.
And yesterday we met a very special young kid, Antonio, who's just eight years old.
He started to get bad headaches a few months ago, and his symptoms worsened.
And then it was revealed he had a cancerous tumour in his brain.
So he's now in Auckland with his family.
They've been going through treatment and living at Ronald McDonald House
as he makes his recovery through that.
Which is such a fantastic facility, Ronald McDonald House, when you go there.
For all the kids who have had operations in the hospital, Auckland Hospital Starship,
they get to stay there and live in and go through their treatment.
While in a comfortable environment.
And these poor people, again, we mentioned yesterday,
have had their lives turned upside down.
Oh, such a brave little boy, an amazing family
who are getting through this together.
And yesterday, Antonio had a Zoom video call with Santa.
Here's what happened.
Hello, Antonio.
Hello.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
You've been a very brave boy, haven't you?
Did you get some bravery beads?
Yeah.
How many have you got?
30.
My elves tell me you're a big fan of dinosaurs.
Yeah, I like dinosaurs.
Yeah.
And what do you want for Christmas this year?
Two packets of chocolate frogs and one dinosaur.
Well, I've got a few very special elves who are waiting with a very special surprise.
So that's when we knocked on the door at Ronald McDonald's house.
Not Ronald McDonald's house, not his actual house.
Oh, no.
Yeah, you've got to leave your big shoes at the door when you go to Ronald McDonald's house.
This is the Ronald McDonald house.
Yeah, sorry.
We're going to Ronald McDonald's house next week.
Oh, he's got that big Christmas party.
Yeah, he's got a party.
So all the gang are going to be there.
Hamburglar and all the troops.
But then we knocked on the door
and we surprised Antonio and his family
with some gifts from Santa in the market.com.
Hello.
Hello, mate.
Antonio.
How you doing?
Come on in.
Hey, Antonio.
Nice to meet you, buddy.
We're Alf, Jono and Ben.
How are you?
Jono, Ben.
Yeah.
How are you Antonio?
I think I saw you on TV.
Oh TV, you'd be the only one.
So we'll take that my friend.
Now this was the thing that Santa said to bring along.
Two packets of Frodo frogs and a T-Rex.
And you wanted a T-Rex?
Is that what you're after?
Right.
Oh, no worries, buddy.
He was such a little sweetheart, wasn't he?
And we actually, we didn't just come from the dentist.
We had masks on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it was so amazing to meet Antonio and his family.
Really deserving kid.
And thanks, of course, to themarket.com for making this whole thing happen.
You can get, it's giftmas every day at themarket.com, over 2 million
products, free shipping, free
returns available too, head to themarket.com
it's a heck of a website. Yeah and if you want to
meet Antonio for yourself, we'll get that
video up after 9 o'clock on social
Paid to talk words and stuff into
a microphone, it's New Zealand's
breakfast, Jono and Ben
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Here's a bulletin of stories
about how rich, famous people
are going to have a far better Christmas
than the rest of us.
Juliet, come in with some spy.
So Tina Fey went on Jimmy Fallon
and explained that during lockdown
she was staying at a little place
by the Hudson River
which is a river
that runs through
New York State.
Filthy river.
Filthy river.
Is it?
Yeah, you wouldn't want
to go swimming in there.
Oh, but she realised
that she saved a guy's life
while she was staying here
and that's what happened.
I was standing outside
and we were looking down
at the Hudson River
from where we are.
It's so pretty
and I heard something going uh help help and it i was like
is that help or or a bird so we called the cops cop comes we hear it again help so the cops take
off and then we found out like a couple hours later that it was a guy who flipped a kayak in
the hudson are you floating north in the Hudson in just, like, no oar.
And they found him, like, a mile north.
And he still doesn't know that it was Tina Fey that actually called the po-po.
Wow.
To save him.
Imagine watching that, and you'd be like, that was me.
I think the Hudson's like, you can just dump anything in the Hudson, can't you?
Well, I don't think you can.
Legally, you can, but there's been a lot of stuff dumped in there.
Anything you can. Washing machines, cars, bodies, whatever. You can just throw it in the Hudson car, yeah. Well, I don't think you... Legally, yeah, but there's been a lot of stuff done to me. Anything you can do.
Washing machines, cars, bodies,
whatever, you can just
throw it in the Hudson.
That was the river
that a plane landed on.
Remember we had to do
that emergency landing
right in the middle of New York?
It was the Hudson River.
Oh, wow, I remember that.
Yeah, Tom Hanks flew the plane
and he landed it safely.
Yeah, no, in the movie.
He wasn't the pilot in real life, but yeah.
But the same guy got stranded on the island with the ball?
Same guy, but yeah, actor.
Did he get stranded on the...
Yeah, not real life.
And he also ran for a long time across America?
Yeah, again, not real life.
He's led a hell of a life, Tom.
When you think about it, that was his real life.
You're like, wow, he's done some stuff.
And George Clooney has sort of defended Tom Cruise's viral yelling episode.
Tyrate, they're calling it, aren't they?
Oh, I love a tyrate.
When he yelled at some of the crew.
And, you know, you kind of think, we were talking about this yesterday,
to give it context, he's put a lot of his own money,
invested hundreds of thousands of dollars towards trying to make this film set safe.
There's a lot of protocol they probably talk to about every day.
A lot of ghost protocol on site.
Oh, that's good.
Mission Impossible ghost protocol.
Mission Impossible COVID protocol, I think, is the name of the new Mission Impossible movie.
But two crew members were standing close together.
Maybe he came on a bit strong with his message.
Yeah, if you missed it, this is what will happen.
You're the gold standard.
You're back here in Hollywood making movies right now because of us.
We are creating thousands of jobs, you f***ing a**hole.
I don't ever want to see it again.
Kevin quite strong.
And then someone doubled down and had the gall to release the audio.
Yeah, I know, that's scary.
I think about four or five people have now quit Mission Impossible since that.
Apparently it's been quite a tense set anyway.
Yes, yeah.
It was probably something that was brewing, I imagine.
But George Clooney has said that he didn't necessarily overreact
because COVID is such a big issue.
But if it was him telling people off,
he probably wouldn't have done it to that extent.
But it's hard because Tom is in a position
of power
but then you're just
trying to keep people safe
so you know
sit down
let's have an espresso
let's just talk about this
talk about what you did
I'll cut your hair
with this weird device
that I've been
all of a sudden
promoting over the last
couple of weeks
hey nice work Drew
great episode of Spy
the last one for the year
oh yeah
great great
we'll see you at the
Spy Rat Party real Kiwi blokes with Soy Lattes Drew, great episode of Spy, the last one for the year. Oh, yeah, it is, isn't it? Oh, yeah, well, great, great. We'll see you at the Spy wrap party.
Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.
Mmm.
Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
Yesterday on the 3pm Pick Up,
a great show with Laura McGoldrick and Estelle.
They debuted their Christmas song
and they got everyone from the hits
to sing a couple of lines of Mariah Carey's
All I Want for Christmas.
And there were some amazing singers at the hits.
No one told us this when we started.
They weren't like, because it would have really turned me off coming to the station.
They're like, hey, John and Ben, just so you know,
everyone who works here could have been in Destiny's Child.
Oh, that's...
I can't even say Destiny's Child.
Because I'm nervous, because I know what you're about to play.
Oh, yeah, so it starts with some amazing singing at the top of the song.
You might have heard it yesterday.
And then we were meant to come in about three or four lines into it.
Have a listen to the start with what starts just incredible.
And I don't want a lot for Christmas.
I mean, this is this.
There is just one thing I need.
It's incredible.
I mean, Mariah Carey would be.
I don't care about the presents. So that's beautiful. Yeah, Laura Mariah Carey would be...
Jesus.
Yeah, Laura, you've got to stay out where you're at.
And then Anika Moore comes in.
Oh, my God.
And we know Jono's on the way.
Jono's the next line after this amazing line. Why don't you come after those three?
Listen to this.
And then, hello, here comes Johnno Pryor.
All right, thanks, Nick and Moore.
I'll take it from here, shall I, mate?
Really? You?
Into the big guns.
Here we go.
I don't want a lot for Christmas.
There is just one thing I need.
Is it a singing coach?
Because that's what you need
Underneath the Christmas tree
Okay, that's enough of that.
So, apologies.
Listen, what I lack in singing ability, I make up for in gusto.
You really brought the song down.
Yeah, I'd definitely be, you know, like,
oh, look at this idiot on X Factor or something.
I'd get mocked out of the hall by Simon Cowell.
Oh, such a good song apart from us.
You're here to get
on 3pm pick up.
What?
Edit us out.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember recording it.
I said to Aaron,
our production engineer,
I was like,
mate, what are you doing?
Why are you doing this?
You're punishing us.
You're punishing the audience.
Broadcasting live
and mostly awake.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's breakfast.
On the hits.
Scrolling through your feed.
This is what Mike McRoberts would be doing if he wasn't successful in his chosen field.
It's Benjamin Boyce with a very early news bulletin.
Well, I'm going to throw it over to you this morning for a little bit
because the Shortland Street cliffhanger was on last night,
the final episode of Shortland Street for this year.
There was a hotly anticipated episode
because things go wrong in
Ferndale and last night
you watched a little bit at a very strange
end of the night. Yeah, it was an unusual setting
because my wife Jennifer, she
because I go to bed before Jen obviously because I get up
before her but when she comes to bed she turns
the TV on just to put herself to sleep
so the TV's playing like it's a soundtrack
to our evening's slumber
and so I woke up at about 2.15 a.m.
And there must be a replay of Shortland Street on in the middle of the night
for insomniacs or low-level radio hosts who can't sleep.
And it was the finale.
And, oh, jeez, I was hooked.
I watched quite a lot of it.
I sat up in the middle of the night and started watching it.
Yeah, it was wild.
Chris Warner got shot.
Oh, really?
He was talking to dead people that were in his past.
Yeah, I saw that a couple of nights ago.
I was saying to you, we had friends over,
and I watched the end of it before Dog Almighty,
and I didn't realise he was talking to dead people.
I was just like, that was an unusual ending to the show.
I'm having a conversation with someone.
Where was the drama there?
And they were like, no, that was his son who's no longer there.
Yeah, he's slowly unravelling.
Phoenix died of a drug overdose.
His son, yeah.
You don't watch the show,
you just don't, you know,
you get these sort of subtleties.
If you just tune into the radio now
and you're like,
his son died of an overdose,
he's now talking to old people.
He was on a beach,
he got shot.
You'd be like,
what are they talking,
what is this programme?
Wild show.
Who else?
Oh, the old,
the receptionist.
No, I mean, as in like, oh, the old receptionist. No, I mean, as in like, oh, the old receptionist.
Oh, right.
Not as in the old.
Yeah, gotcha.
I see.
I forget her name, but she had a lesbian kiss with the actor Teresa Healy.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who's on there as someone's mother.
And then the guy she was dating, he came and had a heart attack when he saw them kissing.
Oh, so that was another one of the big moments from Short Street.
Yeah, so I think he's gone.
He's no longer with us, RIP.
Oh, really?
That lesbian kiss was too much for him.
Oh, gee.
And then what else happened?
I'm just trying to remember.
Well, it's hard.
Dude, I was watching it in the middle of the night.
Jono's very vague recount of the Short Street.
There was something else.
Oh, Kuda, who we worked with.
Kuda Forrester.
I don't know her name on the show, but she's dating Damo.
Okay.
I'm kind of going between the actors' real names.
None of this is helping anyone.
I'm more confused before we start.
But she's dating Damo, and she went on a bit of a drink drive,
and she's wild.
She attacked Damo.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, she's driving while drunk.
The real person or the actor?
I think it's a documentary.
I think Kura, who we used to work with, has really
got off the rails.
That was the way of it on the final of Shortland Street.
And also yesterday, the yachting, the
America's Cup is back.
Team New Zealand won one race
and lost one. This is called the Christmas
Cup, which is kind of like the warm-ups of the whole thing.
American Magic, who is skippered by Dean Barker,
who we all remember from his Team New Zealand days,
they won both races yesterday,
but Team New Zealand, so there you go.
Very exciting.
But this means nothing.
Well, I'm sure it means something to someone.
It means something to someone somewhere.
But no, when I say that, it's like a practice.
Yeah, yeah, like a warm-up event.
Let's go out, chaps, and have a good old sail.
But here's what I was talking about before the show.
Do you think tactically all of the teams would be holding back just a little bit?
You don't want to play all your cards now.
Yeah.
In a race that means nothing to no one.
You're probably right.
Probably, yeah.
But I guess it's good to see the boats in the water.
Good to see lots of people.
Did you watch it?
Sitting along.
No, I didn't actually watch it yesterday,
but looking in the paper today in New Zealand here,
lots of people even in Devonport sitting on the grass watching the boats.
People down at the Viaduct in Auckland.
So it's great to see support, as you said, for a race that doesn't matter.
Can you watch it from land?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is really cool.
That's great.
Fantastic.
So there we go.
So we look forward to the America's Cup coming next year.
And that is some vague recollection of Shortland Street.
I'm sorry, that was shabby.
I apologise to Shortland Street.
And a little bit of America's Cup action as well,
scrolling through your feed this morning.
Want more Jono and Ben?
You can catch up with the boys anytime.
Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.
The A to Z of New Zealand.
Just before we get into the A to Z of New Zealand,
can I appreciate your Christmas jersey today, Ben?
That's good.
It looks hot, though.
It looks very wintery.
Yes, one of those things I've always wanted to own was a Christmas jumper,
and then I got one.
But, yeah, New Zealand, not always the right conditions for Christmas jumper.
No.
Well, they look great.
They're very hot.
But, yeah, it's okay first thing in the morning,
and when it cools off at night.
He's going to be sweating his way through the show.
I'm committed to it, so let's see how it goes.
And we are committed to the A to Z of New Zealand, phoning every town and city in Aotearoa.
Today we're heading up north.
I think we're heading up north.
And many of these places, we've called so many this year, they'll live on in our hearts forever.
Apart from the C's and D's, when we went through the C's, I can't remember many of those.
Bit of the E's, the F's, bit shaky on the F's as well, but a lot of them will live on
in our hearts forever.
And today we're going to head to Kauri.
I understand, Juju, we've got someone on the phone.
Yes, yeah, there they are.
Hello.
Hello, who's this?
Hello, who's this?
This is Jono and Ben.
And who's this?
Lynette.
Lynette, it's lovely to meet your voice.
I've spoken to a lot of voices over the years.
I tell you what, this is definitely in my top ten.
Oh, really?
Who's your preferred voice out of Ben and myself?
We're both quite nasal.
I've never heard you before.
Oh, okay.
We'll audition to you now, Lynette.
Hi, Lynette.
My name's Jono.
This is my voice.
And hi, Lynette. My name's Ben.. This is my voice. And hi, Lynette.
My name's Ben.
This is my voice.
Oh, that one sounds a bit better.
Oh, second one.
A bit smoother.
Oh, yeah.
How could I improve my voice?
Oh, I'm not sure.
Probably go through puberty.
This is a conversation for our radio bosses, not the A to Z.
But anyway, I'm glad we've gone there.
Listen, we're phoning everywhere in New Zealand,
Lynette. It's taking us a blimmin' long
time, as long as it takes for a coldie tree
to fully grow, I think. But you are...
But they're dying, aren't they? You're in coldie.
Yes. Whereabouts is it?
It's north of Whangarei.
North of Whangarei? I see you're
heading right up north.
I've never heard of it.
You're not far from Whangarei, haven't you? No. And what do you north. I've never heard of it. You're not far from Longray, haven't you?
No.
And what do you do?
I'm a rural delivery contractor.
Oh, right.
So you, as a rural delivery contractor,
do you chuck stuff over the fence
or you have to drive up the driveways?
I have to drive up the driveways.
You know what couriers have?
Wonderful cardiovascular systems.
I carry a defibrillator in case I haven't.
Because you haven't, just in the odd case that you get a little wheezy.
Okay, well, it's good to know there's that option there.
Yeah, yeah.
And how long have you lived up in Gahakauri?
All my life.
All right.
And you've never been anywhere else?
No. You've never anywhere else? No.
You've never left there?
No.
I mean, you probably left there to do your courier run,
but you have never lived anywhere else?
No, I haven't.
What's so good about it?
What do you love about the place?
The best place in New Zealand.
No more follow-up questions for me on that one.
I'm just going to take your word for it.
I'm just going to take your word for it.
Yeah.
How many people live there?
Well, I've got nearly 1,000 customers, probably.
But it says the total population is 300.
I don't just do carry.
Oh, you do all sorts, all over the place.
Wow, that's awesome.
It does have a population of 1,700 people.
Oh, okay.
You must be right.
Couriers, there's a lot of faith placed in couriers
because you probably know what certain products are in certain packages, don't you? Probably, okay. You must be right. Couriers, there's a lot of faith placed in couriers because you probably know what certain products are
in certain packages, don't you?
Probably, yeah.
Like when Ben's special package is coming from Bolivia.
Here we go.
Here we go.
This is a stitch-up.
This courier knows what's happening,
but he turns a blind eye.
No, it's not true.
It's fine.
Whatever you do is fine.
It's a side hustle.
This is not true.
Anyway, anyway.
Hey, listen, Lenny, lovely to meet you.
Over the course of this phone call,
has my voice become more...
Impressive.
Yeah, have you become accustomed more to it?
I think so, yeah, yeah.
Okay, it's slowly warmed on you.
Yeah, okay.
I'm trying to be a little more husky and sexy.
Yeah, I was trying to be more like...
We're both trying to out-sexy each other.
All right, Lynette.
Yeah, we're good.
We'll see you later, eh?
Yeah, all right.
Nice talking to you.
Actually, while you're there, can we get you to do a quick ad?
An ad.
Welcome to the beautiful, tranquil...
Oh, so we've written half of it.
You just fill in the blanks.
So that's where you'd say, Cody, on to the next one.
When you come to visit, you simply must check out the...
Beaches. Beaches.
Beaches!
And as the locals always say...
G'day.
If you haven't visited this beautiful location, it will have you saying...
G'day.
And once you've said that, this special place of paradise will have you uttering more words like...
You're welcome back.
Welcome back.
And once those words have left your mouth, believe it or not, further words will fall
from your mouth.
Good to see you again.
Good to see you again.
But be sure to pop in so the locals can tell you the town slogan.
I don't know what that is.
Why don't you just say g'day?
G'day to Tanny Far Country.
G'day.
G'day.
Hey, Lenny, it's lovely to talk with you.
You have a wonderful Christmas and drive safe, okay?
You too, you too.
Add these two men together
and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal dad.
The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.
The Black Caps cricketcaps cricket team,
they start a series against Pakistan tonight
with a 2020 game at Eden Park.
But you also know her from presenting Lotto for many years as well.
Sonia Gray, she's doing cricket, she's doing Lotto,
and it's great to have her in the studio.
Lovely to see you, Sonia.
Lovely to see you too.
Now, the Lotto lady for many years, you've been called that,
but now you're the Spark Sport cricket lady as well. Yes, the Lotto Lady, for many years you've been called that,
but now you're the Spark Sport Cricket Lady as well.
Yes.
I think it's a natural career progression because I've been ball calling for 15 years at Lotto.
It makes perfect sense.
People are like, what would the Lotto Lady know about cricket?
I'm like, hello.
See, because you are a huge fan of cricket.
This is a love of yours, a passion.
Happy place. So it's awesome
that you're doing this. I don't really mean that because you're the
perfect person for this role, you know. Thank you, Ben.
The only thing I'm gutted about because we'd often go to the cricket
games together. Yeah, yeah. We're a team.
I was team captain of our
Ben and I's little squad that went. Who's your captain
now? No, I don't know. You're a bit useless
now, aren't you? No, I haven't appointed a new captain.
You don't want to be the team captain because that's when
you pay. You normally pay for the tickets.
You're like, hey, you need to put through the transfer,
the $33 into my account.
And you don't want to be that person.
So that's why I don't want to be team captain.
And people aren't good at transferring money into accounts, aren't they?
Yes.
But they appreciate the effort you've gone to as team captain.
Oh, they totally do, yeah.
They say, well, we'll buy you a beer, and that beer never comes.
Transfer the $33. Transfer the money for the ticket through my account, yeah. They say, well, we'll buy you a beer, and that beer never comes. Transfer the $33.
Transfer the money for the ticket
to a three-day-buy account, yeah.
That's nice you've got a little crew.
So now I saw him on the cricket.
He was on the TV.
Did he get on the TV?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my God, Ben.
I got a TV.
That might get discovered.
Your mum texts me.
She's like, I want a photo, a screenshot.
You're on TV?
I'm like, yeah, okay.
Well, I've been on TV before,
but that's lovely.
She got excited. I'm not as a drunken cricket supporter. Well, you're on TV. I'm like, yeah, okay, well, I've been on TV before, but that's lovely. She got excited. But not as a drunken cricket
supporter.
Well, you love your cricket. I do.
I remember after the World Cup, when we lost
that game, that game that
was a draw and it kept going against
England. You went for a walk at whatever
time of the week. Oh, yeah, in my black caps
pyjamas. I still got a bit of PTSD
from that, actually. The World Cup
final. You watched it. You did watch it
didn't you? No, I wasn't.
Are you that guy?
I'm just like, I like it
but I'm not part
of a team who has to transfer money.
If I stumble across it, I'll watch it.
Yeah, I got you. You might read a couple
of first line of an article and go
oh, Cain Williamson had a baby or something.
And also, as a lotto representative, I'dson had a baby or something. Yeah. And also,
as a lotto representative,
I'd like to discuss
something with you.
Okay.
There's a new advertising
campaign on TV
which I've,
off air,
have had a major bugbear with.
Ben and me have been
going back and forth on this.
I don't know why
this is such a big thing
in your life,
but anyway.
So the wonderful commercial
where there's the
airline steward,
she flies to,
it looks like Bangkok,
Thailand,
and she's on the back of a scooter
scooter slides out from underneath her
she has an accident. She's a
cast and comes back
She's lost the ticket right? Doesn't have the ticket
I know, worst nightmare isn't it?
But then the nurse who then cuts off the cast
reveals that the ticket
was put in there by the other nurse
in Thailand. Can I just make a point Jono
I think everyone listening has seen the ad.
But I'm really proud of you for spending two minutes
of this precious time explaining it point by point.
Carry on.
I find it better when it's just spoken about.
You said cricket was boring.
Jeez.
Now there's a follow-up ad.
Commentary on the ad.
Now here's where my problem comes in.
Okay.
So the follow-up ad is, I found my lot. Now, here's where my problem comes in. Okay. So the follow-up ad is,
I found my lotto ticket party,
which is fine.
Yeah, great.
So they're all enjoying the fruits of her win,
which are great.
But then it cuts to the nurse in Thailand.
She opens her locker
and she's received a card from the lady.
Now, the lady's a freaking millionaire.
She's just sent her a thank you card.
We don't know that.
This is my point.
She doesn't open the card.
So your thoughts on this as a lot of representatives.
Well, I think the great thing, thank you.
Can I just start by saying I haven't seen the ad yet.
Oh, you haven't seen it?
No, I haven't.
I've been very busy.
I don't need to see it.
I can skip the whole thing.
Painting pictures with words.
Yeah.
The great thing about these ads or that campaign is there's a lot of questions
and you get to make the decisions.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's a smart answer.
It is.
I just came up with that right now.
So Ben can be happy in the knowledge
that she put some cash inside the card.
Yeah.
And I can be disgruntled in the knowledge
that she just received a thank you card.
Well, yeah, but if you won Lotto,
you won $10 million, let's say,
would you feel pressure to give to all those people
that have done great things?
It's the thing.
It's put in the cast.
They put the ticket in the cast.
And how much is enough?
Yeah.
You know?
And we've got Sonia Gray with us, Spark Sport Cricket.
Yeah.
Now, before you go, I've Googled some cricket jokes about cricket
from the internet.
You're already head dropped, so here we go.
Here we go.
But there's also a cricket, the already head drop. So here we go. So but there's also a cricket
the insect sounds. So if
a joke goes badly you would play you've got
I think you've got it there on the on you normally
hear this. So that's like
a significant
signifies a bad joke right. The cricket
sound effects. So I'm going to read these jokes and you can tell
me as a cricket commentator if you
if it deserves a cricket sound
effect of the insect or you actually found this quite funny as a cricket commentator, if it deserves a cricket sound effect, the insect, or you actually found this quite funny
as a cricket fan.
Okay.
All right.
So a friend of mine is a retired cricket umpire.
He doesn't lift a finger now.
I quite like it.
I quite like it.
No cricket sound effect.
Quite like it.
I won't laugh,
but I quite like it.
Generally, if you like.
Anyway, they're not my jokes.
I've Googled these.
What's the difference?
But they could be, Ben.
This has got your...
This has got these...
That first one had you written all over it.
This is his brand.
What's the difference between a poor cricketer and Cinderella?
Cinderella knew when to leave the ball.
Oh, no, that's cricket.
No.
Okay.
Who won when the pencil cricket club played the pen cricket club?
Neither.
It was a draw.
Oh, that's terrible.
Okay.
That's terrible.
Cricket jokes with Sonia Gray.
I saw a series of insects dancing on a sports field.
It was a cricket ball.
Oh, they're just getting worse.
You started well and now it's just...
Your test audience is not going well.
Okay, and finally,
I kept wondering why the cricket ball Was getting bigger and bigger
Then it hit me
That's not bad
Yes
Very good
Save the best for last
That was tense for a while there
Sonia Gray always lovely
Hanging out with you
And if you want to catch
The Black Caps taking on Pakistan tonight
The first 2020 game in the park
Tune in at 6.30
I'll be there
Yeah yeah nah
Yeah nah Yeah nah The home of yeah nah She. Tune in at 6.30, I'll be there. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah.
Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah.
She'll be right in at the end of the day.
Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
My wife, she's been tolerating me for
many years. And an ongoing
issue in our relationship is
room temperature. Right.
Now, any advice, Juliet,
I don't know if you plan to embark
on a long-term relationship
at some stage in your life.
Yes.
One bit of advice
is talk about what temperature you both like
because if you don't match up,
it's over, okay?
End it there and then.
Okay.
Because she runs,
she likes to run hot,
the air conditioning unit.
Right.
Whereas I'm pretty,
I'm pretty extreme with my atmospheric conditions. I like to be
cold, you know? So I like, I'm
sort of like to sit around if we're in a car, for
example. I like to be sort of
17.5, 18
degrees, you know, which I've just googled
which apparently 18.3 degrees is
the perfect temperature for a human being.
Oh, really? And she likes to sit 21,
22. Oh, she's in the tropics.
You get a bit dozy and sleepy in those conditions, right?
On a car.
Oh, then we're back and forth, and I'm trying to put it down,
and I get a frosty reception, not only from the air con unit,
from my wife as well.
And she's trying to put it up, and we can never meet.
And, like, I've tried to figure out what the happy medium is temperature was.
Somewhere in between those two, you'd think, right?
Yeah, and 20 is good.
But 20's not hot enough for her, and it's not cold enough for me.
But we both sit in disgruntled anger on 20 degrees.
Do you find that there's any windows opening in that situation?
Oh, boy.
But she comes into my car and she's controlling the temperature.
I don't touch the air con unit in her car.
Nothing would wind my dad up more than when you would open a window
in the back of the car and the air con's going
you've got to, it makes this noise
and I was always
like what noise until I started
driving a car, had kids and the kids
open the window, put the back window up
it really does hurt your ears
I don't know why that happens
for years I've been like there's
no noise, what are you talking about old man
and I'm like oh jeez when you're. What are you talking about, old man? And I'm like, oh, jeez.
Tell you what, when you're up the front, you feel that noise.
I know.
What is it about?
Everyone knows that noise.
Yeah, but when you're not driving the car, you've got your window.
Shut up at the front.
I want some air back here.
Nothing could wind up up.
So the air con's on.
All we want is a window.
It's not both at the same time.
But kids don't like just air con.
Kids want windows blast open for some reason.
And you're not experiencing the full force of the air con as a kids don't like just air con. Kids want windows blast open for some reason. And you're not experiencing
the full force of the air con as a kid
because you're in the back. You know, the parents
are sitting out there and it's like, ah, it's great for us
but you're like, I'm sweltering back out.
We've got a dog, we've got all the camping
stuff, it's so hot.
Yeah, kids need to, you start
to appreciate air conditioning the older you get,
don't you? It's not a thing up until
the front. You get the full blast of it. I don't even think I appreciate air conditioning the older you get, don't you? Yeah. It's not a thing up until... And you're up the front. You get the full blast of it.
I don't even think
I appreciate air conditioning
at age 20.
Sort of in my...
When you hit your 30s,
you really...
Well, jeez,
listen to us, eh?
We've just spoken
for three and a half minutes
about air conditioning.
Oh, God.
Last show of the year,
ladies and gentlemen.
Time for us to wrap things up.
To everyone pulling a sickie today,
you're not fooling anyone.
Jono and Ben,
breakfast on the hits.
Bye.
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Now, from the world of celebrity,
with an update about the movers and
shakers, and the only thing not moving and shaking
are their faces, generally.
Come on in, Juju, a spy.
Evil, no, I'll drop it.
Ellen DeGeneres.
You guys are mocking. I know you don't mean that, but she's got COVID at the moment. Yeah, I'll drop it. Ellen DeGeneres. You guys are mocking.
I know you don't mean that,
but she's got COVID at the moment.
Yeah, no, she does.
Now we need to back off because she's got COVID.
Show your true feelings, Samoza.
So she's given an update on her health
since she did contract COVID-19.
Just saying thank you to all the well-wishers out there.
I appreciate it very much.
I'm feeling 100%.
I feel really good.
One thing that they don't tell you is you get somehow excruciating back pain.
Didn't know that that was a symptom, but I talked to some other people.
Back pain.
Who knew?
How come?
Bad.
So that's a wee update that she posted all to her fans.
She sounds quite congested, doesn't she?
And a little short of breath.
She does.
Like she's got
blocked nose kind of thing.
But I mean,
you expect that,
don't you?
And then she played
a game of,
then she's like,
we're going to play
a game of Connect Four
with her partner
Portia de Rossi.
Yeah.
And probably cheated,
knowing Alan.
Probably cheated.
I don't know how
you cheat at Connect Four.
Just put them all in a row.
Yeah.
I like Connect Four. I haven't played Connect Four in ages. We've put them all in a row Yeah I like Connect 4 I can play Connect 4 at home
Yeah, it's got
You've got to concentrate
That's the thing
I play it with the kids at home
You've got to
Because as soon as you
One little slip up
You're like
You can't pull it back
It's like chess for munters
Isn't it really?
Yeah
Connect 4
Yeah, an easy man's chess
They used to have a travel pack
Which was really inconvenient
It would be tiny Yeah, it was tiny And you'd lose all the pieces And travel pack, which was really inconvenient. Oh, it would be tiny.
Yeah, it was tiny, and you'd lose all the pieces,
and you'd try and play in the car, and you'd get cast.
It's not a game you want to play travelling, is it?
It was a travel set.
It was like, play this in your car, and you're like,
oh, getting quite queasy on these windy roads.
Yeah, and Sir Paul McCartney,
he has talked about the pros of wearing a face mask,
and obviously it helps prevent particles getting spat everywhere.
Yeah.
But he says he likes wearing it for the reason that he can go anywhere, anytime and do whatever he wants.
And people don't really recognise him.
Because if you've got the mask on, if you've got sunnies on, if you've got a big hat on, no one can really recognise you.
And I imagine for someone like that, every time he steps out, he would get recognised.
Yeah.
Sir Paul McCartney.
Yeah.
I remember I was at the Countdown and I had a mask on and a hat on.
This was in the peak of COVID.
And all I had was a supermarket trolley just full of Heinekens.
Yeah, someone was like, oh, is that John O'Neill?
No, it's not John.
I can't tell if it's John O'Neill.
Yeah, because you're wearing a mask.
Then they looked at the shopping trolley and they're like, oh, yeah, that's John O'Neill. Yeah, if it's Jono or not. Yeah, because you're wearing a mask. Then they looked at the shopping trolley
and they're like, oh yeah, that's Jono.
Yeah, and then Hamish, who you sit with,
he texted me 10 minutes later,
he's like, I just saw you at the supermarket
with Heinekens.
And I was like, well, that is bleak.
The mask was meant to hide my alcohol problem.
Court, court.
You need the full caboodle.
I saw a photo, I think it was of a model, Gigi Hadid,
and it was paparazzi of her in New York.
And I'm like, you can't even tell that's her
because she had a massive wide-brimmed hat on
and sunglasses and a mask.
It's like, that could be anyone.
I imagine it's quite freeing for a lot of those celebrities.
Yeah, they wouldn't be able to do that normally, would they?
No, you're right.
Yeah, and that inspired my friends.
For more, you can check out the hits.co.nz.
Thanks, Gigi.
We apologise in advance.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
I'm sorry to rope you into this.
Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono Juju. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.
Jono and Penn.
Breakfast on the heads.
The heads.
The heads.
We're going to end our show with a pretty awesome prize.
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And you can win one of those with our Merry Quizmas right now. I've never deserves a good hair day, as they say. And you can win one of those with our Merry
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but in the same brief, you've never had a bad hair day.
You're consistent.
It's just there. It's just a head.
You kind of grew it out. Just a big head.
That was a disaster.
Bring that back. It looked a little bit like Krusty the Clown.
You know, Krusty the Clown gets this sort of
you know, it just sort of gets those
little bits. Like if you kept growing it, it would look kind of like that.
Like it was sort of, yeah.
Oh, wow, really?
You know, but it could have.
And when I started to check out a lot, I'm just going to let it grow
and almost look like a deranged Jack Nicholson.
Yeah, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
But let's go to Hannah because we're not here to talk about my lack of hair.
We're here to talk about your wonderful hair, Hannah.
How was it this morning? Oh, my God.
I'm actually a bit of a frizzball this morning.
I've just had a blow-dry of my own.
Well, you would need
this GHD product, that's for sure.
I actually do, but I
also love it for my mum.
More so than me this
Christmas, so that's who I'm aiming
for today. Someone's after a free Christmas present
and we will help you out.
Someone hasn't bought one four days before Christmas.
I think that's what it comes down to.
You need three out of five Christmas questions.
You need to get them correct.
First question.
In the song, The 12 Days of Christmas,
what was given on day five?
Was it five golden rings, five golden arches,
or five skinny mobile phone rings?
Five, what was the first?
Five golden rings, five golden arches,
or five skinny mobile phone rings?
I'll give you a clue.
You don't need to think this long about it.
Five golden rings. Three.
Yes!
Oh, my God.
Why did that have to take so long, Hannah?
I haven't sung it since I was five.
Fair enough.
It's stressing me out.
Okay, we're going to go with another song.
In the other song, what are they referring to when they say it's the most wonderful time of the year?
Is it the end of the financial year?
Is it Movember?
Or is it Christmas?
Please don't take as long to think about this.
That was easy.
That was Christmas.
Yeah.
Two from two.
You just need one more and you've got that Christmas present for mum.
The main character in the movie Home Alone, who got stuck at home alone,
was the character's name Kelvin Davis, Kenny Powers, or Kevin McAllister?
Kevin.
Yay.
There you go.
You've got those GHD.
That GHD.
Well done. Merry Christmas, mum. Thanks, those GHD. That GHD. Well done.
Merry Christmas, Mum. Thanks, guys.
Thanks so much. What a wonderful year.
Good on you. Hey, thank you, Hannah. A little hairy to start with,
my corner phrase with the GHD hair straighteners, but you pulled through in the end.
You go and look after yourself. Thank you so much for listening
to the show, Hannah. You too.
Of course, the GHD is the ideal
Christmas present for those who deserve
good hair days. You can get the full range online or in a salon right now.
Well, that's us for the year.
Thank you so much for listening to the show.
We do really appreciate it.
As Ben said earlier in the program, it's an honour for us to wake up and spout off our cobs gobble down a microphone to you every morning.
And thank you for choosing us.
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we apologise sincerely.
Yeah, a lot of people
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and you're like,
oh, sorry about that.
Yeah, not by choice.
Yeah.
Yeah, not by choice.
People go,
I listened to your show
and you're like,
oh, thank you.
They didn't say it was good.
That's another way.
Yeah.
I listened to your show
and it's just because
they got it on at work.
You know, those sorts of things.
To those people as well,
we apologise,
but to those who choose
to listen, thank you.
Have a Merry Christmas
and we can't wait
to hang out with you guys
in 2021. Be safe. We'll see you then. Have a Merry Christmas and we can't wait to hang out with you guys in 2021.
Be safe. We'll see you then.